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VOL. XLVI, No. 202

 

 

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~ Bandits:
Rob

Hold Up Crew,

Flee With Cash |

. WOODSTOCK, Ont.
(CP)—Three armed ban-
dits held up. a. Canadian
National Railways’ mail
car crew on a moving
train between Woodstock
and Ingersoll carly today
and escaped with an unde-
termined amount of cash
when. the train stopped at
Ingersoll.
i The bandits are believed to
have boarded the traln dressed
as railway employees at Wood-
stock, 22 miles east of London.
During the seven-mile trip to
: Ingersoll they appeared wearing
? masks, held the eight-man mail
car crew at gunpoint and smash-
ed open a mail bag.

The crew was locked:
washroom before the
alighted from the train.
: - Postal investigators, CNR po-
a lice and Ontario Provincial Po-

lice met the train at London and
“Sogan their investigation.

: Postal authorities could give
oP no immediate estimate of loss.
Police in Ingersoll said the
robbery was not discovered un-
til the train reached Dorchester,
midway between Ingersoll and
London, and it was two hours
after the robbery when they
y were notified.
! The train was the CNR’s No.
9, a passenger train carrying 15
or 16 cars from Toronto to
Windsor. ;
A CNR spokesman said the
gunmen boarded the mail car
during the . train’s |.

 

 

 

in oe ATE wer CE

in a
robbers

FOE eR MRE” poe .

| « |The car's doors were barricaded
e and the mail ransacked,

He said the: robbers jumped
off the train during its two-
minute stop at Ingersoll 10 min-
utes later. The crew freed them-
selves and pulled the train's
emergency cord just after leav-

i. dng Ingersoll.
“. After a brief stop the train
. << proceeded to Dorchester, making
‘ ‘an unscheduled stop at 5:05 a.m,
| The CNR dispatcher at Hamil-
.ton was phoned and he notified
authorities at London.
The train was delayed half an
‘hour in London while the mail
was transferred to’ another car.

‘Two Pilots
- Killed
In Crash

HALIFAX (@.—A United States
exchange pilot, his radio out of
‘order, and apparently unaware a
volley of danger flares being
4. fired hy the control tower,
i © Provght his Banshee jet alreraft

‘down ona busy runway Tuesday
- and crashed Into a moving Av-
Pe eneger patrol plane. The pilots
, Sof both planes died,
The pilot of the propeller-
driven Avenger was 8ub-Lt, Jue
 Yinn George Freeman 21, of Bat-
at -tersea, Qnt, a member of the
oy, WWingston reserve unit, one of
“ol five reserve units now training
am here, Tho Banshee pilot was
 Tleut, tdward i. Tracinskti, 20,
 Marbford, Conn,

The Banshee, nwotwin-fet all-
"weather fahter purehased by
ithe Canadian Navy last year,
ippronehed the airport as reo-
" man and two other Avenger ple
| | Tots wore moving along a runway
‘for np formation takeoff,

' “ The control towor was unable
3 tfo make contact with tha Bane

My if ‘shee and when tt began making
a rll Nn appronch tow runway at
A,  Miaht angles to the one being

“used by the Avenger, a lower op-
“orntor fred a volley of rod dan-
gor flares, he pilot appnrently
Wh missed them and hla alveraft Wit
fn ve tho Avenger ab tho runway in-
en i. borsae ton,

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fan, toe Fees 14 ar weNe remem ee eRe eeS

| -ORMES—

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EAST MEETS WEST .

SIN CEYLON—Pretty kusima Goon-
etilleke, office secretary, ‘illustrates progress of women in Cey-
lon as she takes her motor scooter to work, Traditionally garbed
in her everyday sari, she presents striking contrast between old
and the new. Road sign in background is in Sinhalese and Eng-
lish, both of which are widely spoken in Ceylon.

of

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“NOT APPROPRIATE”

 

13-minute:
stop at: :Woodstock~ vat, 4:13am,

 

Quebec Premier Refuses
To Mix in Gaspe Strike

OTTAWA (ff — Labor chief Claude Jodoin said today Premier
Duplessis of Quebec has refused to intervene in the turbulent
strike at Gaspe Copper Mines Limited in Murdochvile, Quebec.

The Canadian Labor Congress
president _ spoke to reporters
just before opening talks with

Prime Minister Diefenbaker in.
the hope of getting the federal,
government's ‘help to bring dis-{

putants into some form of nego: “he replied. “The "workers: can’t.

~ Stee : tan Felene:

tiationsis-sre.

Mr, Jodoin,: who: ‘at one time
had joined the picket line at
Murdochville, had conferred

with Mr. Duplessis last week in
the hope of getting provincial
government intervention in the
fight between management and
a steelworkers’ union local, |
“I received a Ietter from him
today. saying he felt it was not
an appropriate time to inter-
vene,” Mr. Jodoin said. “Mr, Du-
plessis stated that since spirits
were high on all sides, he did
not believe there is any chance
of co-operation at this time.”

Speeder Fined

J. &.. Furness, 1532 Overlook,
was fined $25 with nan. alterna-
tive of 14 days in fall when Mag-
istrate E. 'T. Applewhaite found
him guilty in city police court
this morning on a charge of ex-
ceeding the speed limit on a
highway,

The case had been remanded
until today after Furness plead-
ed not guilty to the charge Aug-
ust’ 10.

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Remanded until later today
was C. HW, Borge, 728 Fraser
Strect, who pleaded not rullty

on a speeding charge.

LONDON (hy. Governor-Gen-
eral Massey took the boat train
at Euston Station today on his
way home to Canada after a 53-
day visit in Burope,

He ts travelling on the ner
Sylvanin to Quebee City, then
flying directly to Ottawa,

Lust weok Mnascy visited the
Kdinburgh fostival and went
backstage to talk with Lois Mar.
shall, the Torontd soprano whose
singing js lavishly praised ina
notice published by the Daily
Mall,

CITY CORONER

the 1,000,000-member ‘labor con-

 

 

Of Jobless | |
Up Over'56 |

Situation
Improving

Prince Rupert’s »em-
ployment picture is ‘far
from bright but shows im-
provement over previous
months, A: E. Boyle, act-
ing manager of the local
branch of the National
Employment Service, said

today.

Currently there are 388 appli«
cations on file (279 male, 89 fe-

 

 

Reporters asked ‘the head of

gress whether he agreed with
Mr.-Duplessis’ views: .
“I don’t agree with that idea,”

male) as compared with 467 ap-

127 female). In June, 539 appli--
cants were registered.

contained only 172 applications.

“Wet weather has’ slowed
down all forestry operations and
sawmills, which accounts for the}
fact that most of the applica-|
tions come from the outer areas,”
Mr. Boyl said.

“The fish, processing plants
are also slack and very little ac-
tivity in this industry is expect-
ed during the winter months,
unless the Queen Charlotte Is-
lands fishing picks up consider-
ably.”

employment -when.. various..con-

 

negutiate with-themselves;iI “am:
still] asking ofr: ‘intervention as
soon as possible.”

attain full capacity, Mr. Boyle
said.

 

Service. Club

Members

Urged To Support Drive

Members of city service clubs, associations and organizations

were asked to get in touch with
sure that: they were lined up to

The Red Cross is staging a
“Flying” blood donor clinic in
the Civic Centre from .2 p.m. to
4 p.m. and from 6:30 p.m, to 9
p.m, Friday,

»Rotary club members are asked
to phone president Robert Mc
Kay; Gyro Club members, Emile
Blain; Kinsmen Club, R.W.Long:
Chamber of Commerce, J. D.
MeRae; and Junior Chamber of
Commerce, F. E. Dowdle.

Prince Rupert’s quota is 400
pints,

EL P. O'Neal, secrelary-treas-
urer of the Prince Rupert La-
bor Counell said today that the
clly's 1,700 - member labor
group had endorsed the blood
donor cline and had pledged
to support it,

Pledge cards are In cireulation
among all affillate unions, Mr.
O'Neal sald, He sald he expect-
ed that response from labor
proups to be quite favorable,

Also” fledging support Mr.
Laurie sald is the United Fisher~

men and Allied Workers Unlon
(Ind)

 

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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (1) —
Foreign Minister Andret Gro-
myko will hoad the Soviet de-
legation to the United Nations
General Assembly sosston open-
Ing September 37, Informed
quarters said Tuesday night.

BACK ON JOB

AFTER HEART ATTACK IN EAST

City Coroney George J, Dawes was back an the job toduy,
somewhat shaky after recdver Ing from a heart attack while
attending a eonvention In Londen, Ont,

Mr. Dawes, Prince Rupert ropresentitive fo the Sovereign

Grand Priory of

the Knlghts Tomplar annual convention

curly th August, collapsed at the convention banquet and hid
to be rushed to the London Ontario General Hospital, So acuto
was his condition that the ambulaneo bad to slop en route
while Mr, Dawes was given oxygen, Ho spent three days in an’

oxyren font, Mr. Dawes anid,

Wis daughtor, Miss Naney Dawos of Salt Like Clty, Utah,

was loented in Denver,
hocalde, '

Colorndea and flow to her father's

Mr. Dawes, who was pist-provincial prior in tha Kalghts
Tomplar, retirned home vostorday and ns he pute it “la suit.
getting around and taking’ tt ‘onay.” Ho has an Inquost

gchodulod far tomorrow,

 

their presidents today and make
be a blood donor Friday.

(CC Logger
Hurt at Work

VANCOUVER ()—A 43-year
old logger was flown here
Tuesday after suffering ser-
ious head injuries while work-
ing in the logging grounds of
Columbia Cellulose Co, about
15. miles from Terrace. .

The logger, Peter LeCour
was unconscious when he ar-
rived and was taken to hospi-
tal. Fellow workers believe he
was hit on the head by a log,

 

plications last month (340 male)}

Last year at this time the file

All laborers on file should find.

struction projects and road work 1 ae,

 

kitten in West Richland, Wash.,

‘ NORTH SURREY, B.C.

special prices.

ecutive | ‘vice- -president of’ the:
provincial government's Pacific
Great Eastern Railyway, has
been sold low-price shares by
the Fort St. John Petroleum
Company and received the most
recent block in January, 1956.

The CCF leader made similar
accusations Friday and Mr.
Gunderson commented: “Stra-
chan must be crazy.”

Mr. Strachan said Monday the
last block consisted of 9,928 or-
dinary shares sold to Mr. Gun-
derson at 15 .cents each and
now worth $6 each. He said if
Mr. Gunderson denied this, it
could only mean the company
has filed false information.

Fabulous fortunes are being
made which can only be paid
through exorbitant prices charg-
ed to consumers for natural
gas, gasoline and oil, the CCF
leader said . . '

Mr. Gunderson, who is tour-
ing the PGE line in the Cariboo
with Premier Bennett and mem-
bers of the cabinet, was not
available for comment, Refer-
ring to Mr, Strachan’s carlicr
charges last week, he said:
“We's having a great dream,
that boy,”

 

 

RIG BROTHER — A real sourpuss where ¢ ogs are concerned,
illie the wildcat acts as a géntle wzrotector to this “other”

2 Kelly W. Ham. Only 15 months old, Willie already weighs 14

"pounds, and though he has a hatred for all canines, he happily °
Shares his new home with a mama cat and a litter of kittens. ‘

STRACHAN HAVING DREAM

Gunderson Denies Claim:

Of Big Oil Stock Deal —

® — CCF leader Robert Strachan
of: British Columbia Monday repeated charges that ‘Einar. Gundet-
san, former B.C. finance minister, has _

age ssaid Mr, Gunderson, now,

where he’s house pet. of Sgt.

‘Mrs. Nina Lund.

| been performed on the first two

bodies tomorrow and adjourn.

 

pecelved oil shares at

 

 

De-Citig espn crger Resident.
E City ‘Man’ —" ‘Sought at Home

Arthur Kemp
Dies in Regina

Arthur Kemp, former Prince
Rupert district freight agent for
Canadian National Railways,
died suddenly last night at his
home in Regina, Sask., at the
age of 53, it was learned here
from a.CNR official in Vancou-
ver,

Mr. Kemp was born at Ilke-
ston, England, and educated in
Vancouver, B.C. He joined the
CNR in 1921 as a stenographer
in the foreign
Vancouver. He subsequently held
various clerical positions until
appointed chief clerk In 1927,

He was transferred to Shang-
hal, China, as travelling freight
agent in 1929 and went to Mon-
treal In 1980, serving in many
capacities untll 1939 when he
was appointed export and import
frelght agent in Vancouver,

In 1953 he became = district

| frelght agent In Prince Rupert,

which position he held for three
years. After serving for a short
period in) Winnipeg as. district
freleht ngent, he
post in Regina as division freight
agent In August 1056.

 

 

Parla! Montinartre, I's ae good
artistic ondonvora,

 

LOWER ASIN Bi yu w'?—-Cublam ja ono of tho variations
of modem art, but this sidewalls hrttat with the cool Yul
Brynner halrco yooma to be mora Intboroested In Joo cubes than
In cublatic designs, Ho ta wielding tho brush for art's ante in

plage to got one's foot wot in

Confidential and tho movie In-

 

y

Mr. Kemp is survived by his
wife,
ters, Karen, 20, and Hilary, 16.

Funeral arrangements ara in

charge of Contre ond Hanna
Funeral Home, Vancouver,

TRIAL IN HOME STRETCH

freight office,|}|

assumed his],

Audrey, and two daugh-|

‘Salmon-Egg

is veported as a type of foo

residence Monday.

Dead are: Miss Lucinda: Wes-
ley, 36 and Mrs. Anne Boser, 34,
both of 1649. Sécond. Avenue.
Both’ women were employees of
Oceanside Cannery... Third vic-
tim. is: the 60-year old mother,

RCMF said autopsies - have

victims and food: samples have
been. sent to the RCYP labora-
tory in Regina for analysis.

Coroner George J. Dawes -has
ordered a joint inquest: for Sep-
tember 5. Jury will view the

The mother and ‘one daughter
were rushed from home to hos-
pital yesterday morning and the
other daughter later in the af-
ternoon. Miss Wesley died about
7 p.m. last night and Mrs. Boser
later in the evening. Mrs. Lund
died about 1:30 this. afternoon.:

FIRST TIME HERE .
One of the attending physic-
ians said he believed the pois-
oning was botulism, the first re-
ported case of this in Prince
Rupert.

RCMP have launched an in-
vestigation into the case.

Miss Wesley is: survived by a

PRICE FIVE CENTS

 

Meal”

Fatal To Family

- Three Prince Rupert, women are dead from what
d poisoning, after they ate |
a meal including home-canned salmon eggs at their

 

Boy Suffers.
Injury
From Mower

A ten-year-old. boy: is
reported i in good condition.
in hospital today follow:
ing a freak accident whic

occurred yesterday after.
noon when Columbia. Cel-
lulose Company caretaker
Clifford: Taylor was mow-.

 

_ Peter Homenuk, son of Mr.:
and Mrs. Wiliam Homenuk of.
2129 Graham Avenue was watch~<

when he slipped on the rolling
grounds, and his foot. fell ‘into
the. power mower,. cutting. ‘Sev-
eral. toes...

 

cousin Mrs. Brown and Mrs.
Boser by or 4 husband Walter in
Terrace. . ..

“Minneapolis

 

‘Minneapolis police are try-
ing to locate a.resident of the
United States city believed
travelling in this area. There
is an emergency in his family.

Bruce Cook; believed driving
a lavender-colored Chevrolet
Station. wagon, licence 8F6447,—
is urged to communicate with
St. Sgt. J. W. Todd, NCO of
Prince Rupert City RCMP de-
tachment.

St. Sgt. Todd received a wire
‘from Milton: E. Winslow, su-
perintendent of police, Min-
neapolis, Minn.

 

Five Days
More Fishing
Set in Area 3A

Area 3A will remain open for
halibut fishing at Jeast until
September 21, five days later
than earlier expected, the In-
ternational Pacifie Wallbut
comission in Seattle reported
today In actelegram to thelr
local agent KE, Victor Whiting.

The delayed closure was
forced by “extremely slow"
landings, Mr, Whiting said,
Season quota is $0,000,000
pounds of halibut. On August
5, 23,562,000 pounds had been
landed,

 

‘

” Mrs. Homenuk said ‘today. that
the shrieks. of their. other. two
children Jan, 7° and ° Jill» 5,

brought her rushing out of: ‘the
She then: made:.a tourni- -

‘house.’
quet. from .a-. dish-towel and
rushed the injured but complete-
Jly..calm, pand—br, re,

hospital.

An immediate. operation.

wired back on.:
‘Mrs. Homenuk said . her son
has still not uttered a cry. /
“It was a terrifying expérience,
but could have been “worse,” she
said. |

Collision
Damage
Extensive

 

tween two vehicles .on Highway
29 halfway between Galloway

at 9.30 p.m. last night, sent one
man to hospital and caused ex-
tensive. damage to both cars,
RCMP at Port Edward reported
this morning,
In good condition in Prince
Rupert General Hospital:
George Rolph, about 32, of the
Savoy Hotel, Prince Rupert. He
suffercd facial lacerations,
Driver of the other vehicle,
Patrick Joseph Mullin, 25, also
of Prince Rupert, was not ad-
mitted to hospital, There were
only the two drivers involved,
RCMP report the aceldent: oc-
curred when one vehicle crossed
over the centre linc. There was
no indication of excessive speed,
the polHce said,

 

Magazine Editorial Quashed

LOS ANGELES (4) -~ The long
trial of Confidential magazine
on eniminal libel charges started
down the home stretch today,
vs dofence lawyer Arthur J,
Crowley anid he will wind up
hia case by Friday, The trial js
in recoss Thursday,

Prosecutor Willtam ob. Rita
sud his rebuttal tostimony will
be completed noxt weok,

Mounwhilo, In Moxieo Clty, of-
flelals satd aetress Francesen do
Seaffa, who figured In testimony
oarly In‘ the trial, thas been
found ina suburban hideout, Sho
was given 73 hours to lenve
Moxico, Miss do Scaftn dropped
fram alght cartier this month,

The clofenva cnse moved ‘lo-
ward anand Tyorday with na
lawyer's Loxthnony that ho stop.
ped aw proposed wrt botweon

duatry,

 

Albert Do Stefuna, a Inwyer

for Confidentlal magnatne, sald
he rejected an editorial written
by former editor Howard Rush-
more about a reported “movio
Industry war chost to fight Con-
ficdontial.”

De Stefano snid the editorial
was ontitled “Hollywood Against

Confident”

"TY told Robort Harrison (pub-
shor of Confidontlal and
Rushmore T didn't. think we
should taeklo the movie colony
because It's too big,” Do Stefano
tostifiod, "XZ sald ag bly as you
aro In the publishing buainess,
you are not blg onough to tight
Hollywood, ‘Thoy'll run you out
of bustnoss,”

Tho oditorlal was nover pub»
lished,

De Atofano sald ho refusod to
give approval for stories Ruste
more wanted to publlah about
Marilyn Monroo and Mra, lene
nor Roosovell, Wo sald nolthor

was authonticated.

The balnpee of Tucsday's ten
timony was almed at rofuting.
producer Paul Gregory's charge
that Mra, Marjorie Meade, one
of the dofendants, tried to
blackmall him,

Grogory, tostifying’ for the
prosecution oariior in the trial,
sald Mrs, Meade summonod him
to a Hollywood bar tho aftore
noon of Septomber 16, 1088,. to
dixcuss' a “acandaloualy injuries
ous' ‘story about himsolf, Ohare
les Laughton, War Lincheater
and Robort Mitchum,

Grogory sald Mra, Moada
told him tho story would not
bo publlahod if he soouRh ht off
the writor's commitment for wee
twoon $800 nic $1,000." Te sald |
ho did not pay hor and the Wory
was not publlahod, -

Mrs, Mondo toatiflod she was
having linch and shopping with
a friond durlng the time Gre
sald sho waa talking with Ht

 

 

A near-head on collision be-

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4

Rapids bridge and Port Edward...

ing his parent’s lawn, — at = o

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ing Mr. Taylor mow the lawn |:

place, in which: three toes’ were

 

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