ee == | ORMES-— bean, held on a charge of rape, ‘was his only cscape. - cers slipped out of the bush and - krvested blm as he hiked along Daily Delivery eo DIAL 215] DRUGS VOL, XLV, No, 119 Tet yee PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1956 Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port— And Key to the Great Northwest _ es - PRICE FIVE CENTS — NICS CORDOVA, shown above, is one of four ships of the 12ih Canadian Escort squadron which will be artiving here Friday. The others are the HMCS Oshawa, Brockville and Djzby. Officers and men of the squadron will be among those attending the Joint Reserves Forces ball to be held al HMCS Chatham drill hall. They will Join with members of the Royal Can- -adian Engineers recruiting team under the command of Lt. Col, H. D. Berry which with the RCE band arrives here Thursday for a three day visit. The 18-plece dance secllon of: the _Engineers band will play for the ball, : B. C. NEWS ROUNDUP | Graham Goes Police Nab Fugitive duietly fter Week-Long Hunt / Salons VANCOUVER @—Robert: Gra- ‘ham, 24, was hanged at Oakalla ~ BRISC Q) (CP)—A desper ‘ate fugitive pursued by: prison farm early today for the a huge armed posse was captured here Sunday in an “August, 1955, murder of Harold ‘Willlam Holman, 3. ambush on his last path to freedom, | Graham was convieled Dee.! Arrested without a struggle by ' “-~ 48 The jury deliberated only $5 -{wo..ROMP officers was Jack jgceing boom Friday after try- “minutes and made no recom- Norman Curtis, 33. Since Bis ing to “pick a fight.” mendation for merey, escape a, week ago from the ee An appeal was cdismiseed last Cranbrook Jail where he had = yANCOUVER @ -- Negolia-'Mareh by the ! tions will continue Tuesday In,Ccurt af Appeai. ne. an effort to settle a dispute be-' Hig last chance for tite WRE CPR main line north of here. tween pipeline companies and lost. when the federal cabinet Boxed In by high mountains to- members of local 168 of the Tun- moue no move on an appeal the cast and west, and with a) ne, and Rockworkers Union. ‘for clemency, huge pose of poiice and armed; Representatives of the Inter- ' Graham and Holman. were ranchers pehind him, the line national Hod Carriers, Building © Involved in a- ‘fight outside Two offi-.and Common Laborers’ union,’ Kitsilano district restaurant. ‘Parent organization of. the re-/ Evidence was that Holman died]! bellfous local, announced plans after Graham kicked him several | for the talks, ; ‘times in the head. Carl Berg, senior Canadian! Graham walked to the gallows official of the iaborers, sald “we quietly. He spoke to.no one. The -are very close to agreement with trap was sprung at 12:07 a.m, the companies on a satisfactory and he was pronounced dead contract.” ML 12:18, nee tp ere ere emma ceria 19 Firemen ‘Hurt as Fire. Sweeps Shelter Beit ish Columbia he. tad been fleeing for the CPR line near here. QUESNEL, B.C, @—Four ebll- dren from Narcosli, 20 miles south of here, have been admit- ted to hospital suffering from what was diagnoscd as typhoid fever, lar, WOM. the C VANCOUVER “t — Two areas. in the Grenter Vancouver dis- trict are suffering from a water shortiige, Most. serious ts (he situalicn: in the Strawberry Hil and: Whalley district to the south,, across the Fraser river from New aie Westiniister, VANCOUVER The Bitty ‘Phe water supply for this dive Columbia Knights of Columbus, triet was shut off at noon rie cof control deep in Brown, director of the Cariboo health unit at Prinee George, las been called In to cheek on the source, The four children are believed to have been using the same wiler supply, at their aaal couvention Vere day. Eve ry olher day for aw eek unde rrround air rald shelter! i mlssing B mun cxceny il is believed | mark of 397, adopted a resohition to provide jt hay been cut off about 5 pam, sent 19 fremen to hospital early che is a faller schokuships for. young men ‘today, Most were suffering from: A plancload of passengers sludylig priesthood. NELSON i. “Bride and road heat or smoke prostration, and: The Knights, at dhe doth an rinap convention, were bord: Ubat the project Tins been put into, operalion and: vegbstered under the Soelelies Act, in the west Kuotenays tine. The sheller 150 feeb below the weekend when hot weathersent streets of London now ds used. flooding ereeks on a further as a troop transit centre, Mors! -tampare. ‘Ahnn §0 soldiers ran for thelr, highway oat Yahk and Moyle’ sending smoke and flame bil- was covered by water from lowing through the liatricate, high-running erecks. The Koot- network of tunnels, enay dake ferry crossing was’ ‘The enuse of the fre was nob! discontinued Hera se of flood determined immediately, It burn- ins, ed through the night and a fire. A section of GPR rack 100 department of felol sald {t might! “feet fram the rallway depot here: ba “some time” before the blaze: JORDAN RIVER, BC, & Frank Muller of Jordan River has veer remanded to Vietoria | RCMP court afler appearing in: Hoobe cour ola eharee of dis charms a Trearm with baton to entse bodHy harm, Agile, a retired: logger, ds ae. cused OF firing a lal of shot gun bullets wt four men on it Young Girl Bookkeeper Causes Downfall Of Million-Dollar Female “Robin Hood” whe touk care of i} blind alates young girl whe Bae whit book. kaew, an her mogeat bungalow, heophag was all about may fave On Dee 1d they swooped | Hub when sho cans before the pren the duwntall of Minnie down Ina surprke eheek on Novlolk Corporaéfon Court, Monin, te million-dollar em Commonwealth and fond: the stile’ Atlerney Linwood ‘Tabb Hezgler, Whores say, firm's finanees in sueh disareny deseribed her as “one of the The Steyeareold -plister with Lhint the company went under, Mast generous people with other tne kind heark pleaded: putty The shortages totalled nearly peoples money" who ever came Monday fo taking §1Quuiig $3,000,000, ‘before tha bar of Juatlee, ml ' , from the Gar mvenwealth Hnild= Chen, gradually, the Surge i ACES 120-YEAN SENT NOT! y jon Assorlationo story ot Miss Mangum was une oo” ue ‘ ing nl boon uflan af Nor f John Harbison, a ehter exams folk over a eyear pertod, folded 1 eon , As aasistant secretiryetronsure Te wens the story of i woman then bud Merleted. het a Mise Manan handled the Who started at the bottom and oneemin ‘ulate nnd loan Wes who Worked ber way lo the top ae ihe if Hon" wl Non 4do author of card S000-n-yenr executive of one ol nent on A ver vie No The Invest flrs of ies Kind ni permitted ier to host (ies vi Wis oe A Robert G. Camron, wile ofa sal was the story of b wont: velatives. who know nothing of ng stationed we the big naval who contributed generously (0 hay qetivitles, mae here, Mes, Canmén, 2 had Shureh nnd ehartiy, who was eo i ae sommed to have worked at at bulldiag aad loan president of her Sunday shoul nndyanee i elodant af when firm i her home fawn of Waa Class for 12 years, who chartered Mowie’s \ the nuditora would be around buses to Inke Klds lo the beach, keen, to cheek, but whare she got her Prom the: an he UO ike. WEATHER Information was waknown, the way Mle: “uu june he Cloudy, A few showers today) dudge Lawreneo Wnlloek des nee mu oni sit WHY and Wednesday, Lilt change ferred passing senteneo Monday "nt Ff We wert | th wn at iy yraperatiee, Winds southers pending i probablonary report, site anu tats \ rt ‘ed og ® oreastonnlly renehing a0 In hash week Miss Mangum got. 10 He a bend WOVE exponed areas, ‘The low tonight yeans for lylng to tho state's A ntanlaR UPeOTTTE ene’ Wnd Meh Wednesday ab Port banking regulatory ageney, She Fifteen minutes: Tater Mes. inrdy: 4h ane ad, Bandaplt and could gob 10 years under the cura wan eH of Joh Bue: Pence Tupert 45 and 36, mprbeceloment runvletton, che Cottonwood creek, ‘under control, NORMOLK, Vi ute A bright she told the auditors al she tw woo and Liked to bite 4 How Chee svaleqy weeouneins Lost Beplamber she hired: Mes, ‘Missing -|From Camp Logger Weather Spoils Fishing, Holiday There were no fatal acci- dents in the Prince Ru- nert district over the holi- day weekend although RC MP here reported a logger was missing at Khutzey- matcen, 25 miles north of Prince ‘Rupert, Wind and rain, however, spoll- ed the Victoria Day weekend for most holidayers and all but pre- vented slight catches for the op- ening of the halibut fishing sca- son, Most boats ' were forced to keep to. camps and harbors and the haltbutter Ati is reported to have lost her rudder off Bonilla island. The vessel was picked | up Sunday by Armour Salyage's ; San Juan Prince, skippered by; Capt. R. B. Green and towed to; McLean's Shipyards for repairs. ;. Only halibut catches reported | made in the city totalled 200) pounds taken to the Prinee Ru- | ert Fishermen's Co - Operative| tae Epes, Appogiation... Sone. However, reports from couth- ern points say that 25,000 pounds of halibut were sold at Seattle and 30,000 pounds at Astoria al a price of 32 cents for mediums, ! RCMP arc investigating a a te-| wort that a Jogger for the Jenner | ; ind Johansen Logging Camp oi Xhutzeymateen inlet has aa The southern Grans-provinelai ives when the fire broke aut, | rovered by the swirling water af could be brought completely | ‘Man Fined $25 inissing since 4 p.m, Saturday. ! : ‘One officer was flown up to the soap Sunday and two others lefts Charles Lewis, 1+ “year-old son of Mr, 'H, Lewis, 112 First Avenue Last, today aboard the Forestry De- ‘partment yesse] Salt, Mist for the: camp. Poor radio communica- | LONDON tA Sire raging out ‘tons prevented police here from! field of nine a wartime learning Identification of the: competitors with a total points ; en poute from Terrace to Prince washouts blocked travel routes only one was sertously Injured, ‘Rupert by chartered bus recely- ed oa shaking up when the! vehicle was in collision wilh the eastbound passenger traln ata ‘Jevel crossing, Glass on the door and right- ‘Hand windshield of the bus was ‘eracked when iL came into con- tael. “e the rear car of the tran, Is reported, The bus went throveh nv eheekerbourd highway slgn marking the cor- ner but no one was hurt in the ‘aceldent, vos eee See oe ema ef a NE POU PEN Be ie me On Theft Count Frank Kirby, 34, of (250 Cark avenue pleaded guilty through Heourh (his morming to a charge of bheft of goads under gai and wis Clnved $25 and costs by acting pollee Magtatrite & 2, Johnston, or in default of payment sone “et to serve one monty in all. Kirby waa charged with tak. Ing two bed sheets (vam the Wostholme Rooms Sunday, pole oh PEE: grades,” | COMPETITION ¢ CLOSE « ~ Charles Lewis Winner couse} A. Truce Brown i pollee: len sald, ' FROM H-BOMB. Tho captain of the i-ton of 1,000 miles, lo bo Hirintess, FINAR M, GUNDERSOS, executive vice- -president’ and ge onerii’ (3 manager of the Pacific Great Eastern’ Railway,.: receives‘a ship ment of three new locomotives. The balance ofan. order of. eight will be arriving within the: next few weeks. Bigger and. more powerful than previous models, and. ‘are powerful” enough ‘to these produce. 1,600 horsepower, | weigh 120 tons. This equipment is helping to: make the PGE. |. the most modern railway in North America.. The locomotives i made: ‘in Montreal, can. be used as. sihgie handle In ICs’ Safe Top teen-age'driver in In at Rupert Lewis placed = first Prince Tolal possible § marks were 500, suming a close : ‘second to Lewis was Morris: Dean with a toval or 395, He Is: the son of Mr. and) Mrs. G. J.) Walk ey, 122 Second Avenue : Vest. Third place spot was retained | by Tony Toth, son of Mr, and | Mrs, A. Toth, 500 Ninth Aycnue West, whose tolal score was 339, Runners-up ino the first an- nual Junior Chamber of Com- meree National Teen-age Safe Driving Roadea were: Jim Are senenu--a38, Stan Flelding--336, Don Haudensehild—31l, Doug Slack--29], Angus McCracken 258 and 1d Tureatle~234, Lewls, as first place cantest- ant, will travel vw Vancouver this weekend to represent Prinee Rupert dn the reglonal semi-finals on May 26 at the Seaforth Armouries. The ste- cessful semi-finalist will then no to the nathoual finals in Ole tawo duly 7 Among the prizes in the Nu- tonal competition is ao $1000 vendenle scholarship, Reglotal compelltions are under the eos sponsorship of — Tmyperlal Ol) Limited, while the natlonal ran off 18 cassponsared by the All- Canada Insurange Federation, In distelel competition in JAPANESE FISHBOAT SAFE TEST FALL-OUT. TORYO (Roulersi—A Japanese fishing bout, reported to have bean escorted out of the danger avon shortly before Monday's Amerlean hydrogen bomb test at Bikint atoll, radioed today that sho wie out of danger wad the crow sale, Hoko Maru sald he new was boul VO miles north of the danger area, whieh had a radtis Japrdiese ship owners and seamen's unions contiived mennwhtle to advise ships lo leave areas where radioactivity Is doteeted, and to refrain from using sen water for washing, Shipping offlelals at Osaka, West Japan, said about 20 Japanese freighters ave elther in the aren affected by fall aut now, or expeet fo sal) through (in the next week, Thro conteal meteorologien! observatory hero sald radloe vellve falleant from the bomb ts mented fo reach dapan Wednesday or ‘Thisday, bal dt espeets the radioaetive ash ‘race look second ty Roadeo Prince Ruper t and distr ict and Mrs, ee ror ee eam ny eevee gente eee terse — Prince Rupert Saturday between the three top Prine: Rupert ‘euntestants and the top three ‘from Terrace, first place spot was earned by Charles Lewis (39)), while chuck Walker (386) and Nell Thomas (368) of. Ter- and — third iplaces respectively, Runners-up were: Art Kerr, Terrace (366), Mortis Dean (339) and Tony Toth - (322), While first pluce fn the Ter- race-Rupert competition was won by Prince Rupert, thee tatal points team standings showed Terrace with 1120, and Prinee Rupert, 1052, Contestants will be guests of the Juntor Chamber of Com- meree al the club's regular din- ner necting May 28 at the Com- nodore enfe, ee amhnipehareaiaicnddhente snantastatitenmend tetdanaaatbemaed Telegraphers, Rangers Fight Brush Blaze EDMONTON (- A) plueky ‘Aroup of telegraphors and forest rangers cheeked a brush blaze Lat surrounded a tiny settles ment Monday In tho Peace River strict of northern Alborta, ‘The fra was one of 60 raghig out of control In the province, Throughout tho doy three telegraphors and 18 provincial firefighters tuught to provont the flro from destroying the Northwest Communication Sya- tem tolegraph repeater station at Little Smoky River, 250 miles northwesl of Edmonton, The wiyes and children ef the company employees were eynaue ated by oar to nonrby Valleys view, 67 millos onal of Grande PYratele, whilo a helteapter stood hy to tnke off the men, Tho telegraph station, on top af a bil ty Nghtly-wooded brush country, was saved by a sudden drop In the wind toward night: fall and by burning the groumid between the slvon and the aulvanelng fire, | “lway. car sunday, near the shore of. Dutch Jake. The car-ran: down: a “slope: and |} ‘hit the boy-in the back, He was dragged. 30 - fect, 4o the ‘edge: of (he lake and run over by the car. William, Hodson, 75, died.in-a two-alarm. blaze. Jn Vancouver Sunday, The: fire, destroyed a two-storey building In the skid road district, Franels . Daniels, 92, owas drowned Friday night ab Dunean on Vancouver Island, police, said | when he walked into the “water to: cool off on the hottest day of the year, His body -was: yecovertd fully clothed, The brakes on: a car owned: ‘byt b | Alfred Jones of Louis creck. fail- |S! ‘led while the vehicle was-parked: peed winniped Fwhen-tw Awlr trainers collided... Last ‘year: 74.’Can during the* Victoria’ Day" end.: Thirty” died. in: tr were drowned, three:bu 10 dled“in ‘other aecidel Roster weokend, 6 40 died, 14 wore injured: in a fire Monday. al ashotel: near. herp crowded : WINNIPEG Q—~A wind fanned ‘fire roared through a two-storey car repair shop In the big Fort tlonal Rallways tn south: Win- ‘ylpog Monday night doing dame age Initially esimated at. $300,- 000, Howover, John githofland, ahop superintendent, sald re- placement cost of tho shop, tts oquipment and faciities and the 30 cars doxtroyed tn It would: run to $2,000,000, The rallway! apOROsMON who Jeave the $500,000 Magure anid the “Tbullding was Valued ob $300,000, Offleluls said thoy bellevo the flvo started whon ‘a Ughtoing holt struck a powor cable serve Ing the plant, Thro. porsons autfored bums whilo fighting the fre but none was Injured seriously; Nobody was In the shop at tho time be» cause of the Victorian Day holl- day, Tho shop normally employs 300 mon, TUREATEUNED SIX TOMS ONR fire Inspdetor — W Wright anid an investigation tne Lo tho twoealarin fire, which love allod the alyop fy 40 minutos, would bo oponod today, Tho blaze, punctured by ex- plostons of paint and ncotylone gis, throntoned for n tine to aprond to a row of six huwses abrool, Fanning the flames on the outside was nh sllff northwost wind with gusty up to 0 miles Ww hour, SAVE 90 CANS In the hour) of tho 6-blovk Mort ‘Damag e Set at $ Rouge-yards of the Canadian Na-1’ facing the shop noroas a narrow |, The S0-yonr-old car show wus) with Whitsun | holiday: “maker Rougo ‘yard ‘and “ sald the nearby: toi Ne on fire, Cyan Serena erent ’ Bush Funeral Set. fanorow In Vancouver tomorrow. i =Vaneouver at 1190 whio dled In Princo Ruport Odie oval Hospital, May Wy oo 2 Puy Woll-known in. Voncouvor,. yours, Mn Dush: was, asslstint branch at tho time of his death, Te hed boon employed. on’ tha Smithers division for : Vie. _ Dnt threo yours, ros Born in Loydoan,- England, Att, 1920 nnd wis’ promoted’to’ patrol: gorgennt ab Winnipeg i" vinuury 1950, He wig promoted to ngslyt- later, flo ty survived by his widow,” Violot at home In Pelneo nuperti’ two sons, Frodorlok nnd Thargld and a daughtor, Kathleen, | Sl, Andrew's Angllean Cathedral May Procktoroffielnting, . , Contes, and ehnrg o of Vancouver: arranges monty, Interment will bo: Ws tlOvenn Viow Comotary, aK ‘i mM : ai epenint agont for tha Canadign : National: Rallways Investigation ~ HANNOVER, "West: “Germany : a (Reuters)—Six persons died arid Mann. nro. i Momortal sorvicos wore held yl 1%, with Canon Bash; - Fynoral: sorvlecs, Will bo ‘eld os pan, for Hidney Vranely Bushy 81, | whoro.he was staliondd for MONY .&. - Bush entored ONR gorvica I ant epeolnl ngont threo ‘yous ae