— Brug: Store Hours Daily ftom 9 0, fn, till 9. p.m, oene ‘i “hed and Holidays af pat, till 7p, Deeth s Pharmacy. a Limited" me Orme Drugs Limited “ALTHOUGH IT MAY: seem 1 that United States vice- oresidént Richard M. Nixon Js: trying a tle amateur: African witcheraft by putting a hex on chief. Osae Dyan, the “V" sign ‘is | actilally a sign.of, respect he’s making during a visit-to the village of Aburi, Ghana, Nixon 1 and. ‘his wife,” Pat (visible in background, just beyond Nixon); , ‘ through the anelent village when they were in Ghana during the celebrations marking the emerg once of the former British colony known as the Gold Coast to a sovereign state. made a handshaking tour tee : ESCAPES. GALLOWS Mrs, ‘annie Mason-Ellis sald she talked over the case with two other nurses: Ty on, ithe rain. to: resort of. Eastbourne. * ( y bachelor doctor Jé accused of turning into a drug bddiekihnd. murdering in November, 1950. ~ She said under cross-examin- ation that they talked about “newspaper reports” of the af- falr again this morning on the train from Eastbourne to Lon- “dort, ‘désp|te_ police; warnings nol ‘to discuss tlie cages jit HAC ‘one point were you dis-' OUSIDE! the cupboard or: cabinet In: wilich: the drugs wore kept in tyedining: oon of! Mss Morrell’ 8 fe wo eeeetae ot pin ond me been ge ‘Po lice Resume -Séa Search earch for two brothers, pre- ae hy R. “By MachURKIN OS elONDON ( Reuters) —A middle-age nurse ad: initted’ today ‘she* discussed the Dy.: John Bodkin Adams murder trial although instructed not to do so. 4 ‘the'drug'cabinet? “Ddui't: you say house?” defence lawyer Geol- frey Lawrence’ asked, The nurse agreed the three did. Lawrence: asked’-her whether one. of the nurses this: morning oad’ remarked :to , angther. sabout}, that-or it will gel you into tronble.” Mrs, Mason- Ellis said she could not answer the question but, when pressed, sald: “Yes, I think orte of them did say that. Which one I can’t tell.” After testifying it was not she who said that, the nurse was asked who did. “Must I answer?” she asked Justice Sir -Patrick Devlin. The judge replied, she myst... “Then it was Miss Caratine Randadl;” she; replied... “CAN'T REMEMBER" ‘Questioned what it was she was told not to say, irs, Mason-Ellis paused and sald: “Really f can't remember because | was not ter- ribly Interested, if T may say so.” Lawrence snapped: “Mrs, Mn- son-Allis, this conversation took place only about two hours age. sumed drowned jn the vielnity of the Tree Nob Group of Islands, 90 miles west of Prince Rupert, : resumed this afternoon after: rough waters foreed police to| abandon dragging opergtions’ yesterday, RCMP hore sald to-! day, |. ‘Missing and belleved drowned afler heir small bont was swamped In rough waters Sun- day night are: Rober) and Sle-| phen Nelson, both of Motlakatla, The two men were returning fo thelr gillnettor after claim digging on ona of tho tsland peaches when the mishap occurred, hel’ cries for halp were beard by an unidentifled may who relnyod ‘ha Information to a passing fal packer who In turn notified poliea, °° Yosterdiy, hefora the sorely was digeontinned, police wore alced by beven fishing vessels, ‘Mother Fights "\ To Save : Doomed Tria, ' ny MIL HOUWU HC, 10) ave threo anol children ware bun Od, Vg. donth In a camp house 15 nog. north of thls Grrihoo dls. Wigt communtiy while. thelr million’ fousht la gob lito the eae Wo. revue Unen, . ne Miree childvon of Mr. and Mri. toonnrd Calla wore Cn h bY Linda, 4)-And Torry, a Thelt (bodies M4 0. rooovorad AT KON, carly Trioaday, Thoy. wore tn lo boda In ‘one of tha,bhrea rome, Mg, Giiloralth wag proventod by ay. Tnellan wonnnn from ollmb-: Ins window « to corlaln nh ‘glo WN Clnniog, provonte a ‘hor from, unig aint. dont ° adhe aad cee I Helen Stronach, another nurse, ‘Mason - Bilis’ ~i her... Sho whshed sho was dend Tam nob asking you lo remenm- ‘ber something that -happened six years ago, What was it you were talking about?" The witness ther pagreed thal. it was about where the drugs “were kept in Mrs, Morrell’s house. testified Tuesday that they wore in a docked enpbonrd, But Mrs. recollection was they were kept In a drawer, “There was no cuphoard and no key, the whole of (hat was wntrie, wasn't) 1?" Lawrence asked, "Yos, and that is why we dis- cussed It," Mrs, Mason-Bllis sald, READS ENTHY Lawrence sald that once while Adnms was on holiday the old lady was treated by nother doce tor, Picking up one of the lite rod loghooks on the case kept by the nurses, ho vend this ontry, rocorded by the witness: "Said J refused to look after and wished she know a doctor who would put her to. sleep for dyer, Labor apologized for the aforementioned.” Tho defence lawyer slowly re. ponted the. wordy “wlalled she wos dood... ." bub dropped this line of quoationing after sbroay- Ing ho frame of mind of Mrs, Morrell pefore hor doath, ° Adams looked = supremely confident, And sinos Buexday Might he wha asiured that even If convicted, he will not he hangod, Tho Wouse of Lords has given final prgange toa bill previously approved by tho tHoury of Con. to, corbin typos of murder, The Polxonors now are oxo 1 fron Inolude Whaile ollco’ or by. hanging ahioo Hing, am ne of -echools, mony to Alb. Who death nonalty Lie rir inval lot! Wino Trowo Anos algniture with maka It tho gallows, Murdora atill pune prlaan offlaors, RINng during tte ompla nt thoft ‘and kiting while (CF Opposes Exemption For School VICTORIA @:—The CCF went posed new Municipal act grant- ing exemptions — to private Party leader Rober Strachan wovanty today | as “the goverment struggled: :to halt siikes involving” 3,000,- 000 workers. | award this morning of atl per-cent wage increase by a gov- ‘ernment tribunal. acting ‘on a’). 10-per-cent. demand: from. the: $70,000-member: National on record Tuesday as being op? of Raliwaymen., posed to the section of the pra;|- said such. 9 principle ‘“shotld not bé included in the act.” _ He said’ the CCF feels that ‘parents who send their children to private: schools, VFepared - ta pay. all the neces- saty costs.” A Mr, Strachan: said’ that’ ‘while ‘he--approyes “the : Di): an ‘lieulenant-governor-In-council” districts. i ace Tenders Called For Waterworks Special to The Dally News — TELKWA—. Tenders for the construction o£ the proposed new waterworks. system at Tel- kwa have been. called, and; bids, elise’ ab 5 pam, “Mareh’ 97,7 vile lage clerk P. Pickering has an- nowneed, The project invalves installa- tion of approximately 13,000 lin- cal feet, four, six and eight inch water mains, and construction ofa pumping station, Plans enn be Inspected or ob- Engineering Services Ltd, West 12bh Avenue Vancouver. is required with each bid. eresres Fire j in Factory the matn plant of the Vancou- stream here Tuesday, Nanaimo gas system, vue was avaliable, The motors, worth about $13,000, ware not eh amostl parts, :He-also” ‘objadts” to: the “arbitrary: powers ‘taken by the in connection with improvement talned on deposit of $25 from the consulting engineers, Assoclated 2258 A certified cheque of bid bond vf 10 per cent of tender amount NANAIMO (h--A spark from a weldler's torch set off a fire in ver Island Gas Co, ab the mill The flames ale through card~ board enrtons holding 500 mo- ters for the soot-to-be-opened No aceurnte estimate of dam avert two other The rail threat followed Ae ‘Union leaders already. Had’ re. jected a’ three- -per-cent offer! from the British transport com- mission, which operates:.the ‘na- ting ed they would ‘call a walkout if a tionalized lines. They had warn-. the wage tribunal’s, award’ fell far short of. their ‘demands... “Union: / TAKING. though, alle ~ As union leaders met to éon- . leader * "Ray. Al “should be} - sider a strike. call, .a spokesman}: {termed the wage award’ “an af- front to Tailway m ern itty aoe. Ye "senting: nearly: 3,000,000 ‘facto select. ‘targels of “guerrilla’. strikes likely to culminate. in Britain’s worst industrial stop- page in a generation. F The leaders are members of the executive of the Confedér- ation of Shipbuilding and En- gineering Unions. They decided Tuesday on strike strategy. in support of a 10-per-cent wage demand, About 200,000 shipyard work- ers, who belong lo the {0 unions in the confederation, have been oly strike ‘since Saturday, ‘halt- ing construction or repair work on about 600 vessels. The confederation chiefs de- cided Tuesday that their mem- bers in) “engineering"”—miscel- lancous skilled and unskilled workers in (he manufacturing industry — will begin sporadic Saturday, to be followed April 6 by a mass strike, co aapendeneanetesaminmnenmnentamteaesanena end aed The Weather Cloudy with scattered showers mostly along the ‘mainiand, Hittle change In temperature, Wind westerly 20 Voday and variable 15 tomorrow, Low to- night and high Thursday at Port Hardy, Sandspit and Prince Rupert 36 and 45, a ceatheemeetahte hamateam tetmnmiementaaen tare aeneend ACTOR 1ilEROVING BANTA MONICA, Callf, uy — Actor Ronald Colman, 66, undar Wrealment for a lung Infection, continues to Improve, Bt John's Hospital reported, permitted to go hone at the ond all damaged, Rupert, Inches of snow, while 12, BA dear yoalaling or - avoleling irroaly CITY. SUNSHINE y. WELL ABOVE 34-YEAR AVERAGE Lots of sunshine, with less snow than usual, made February a faty woathor month for Pr Ineo of this week, IN FEBRUARY . Diaby Island radio station reports only 42 the sun shone for 61.6 how's, This was well abpve the avernge sunshine fyure for tho past 84 yours—B8 hours, Rainfall during tho month was 206 Inches, “glylng a total proelpitation of 8.88 Inchox, Num. hor of days with measurable proelpitation Wats + Highest fomporature recorded: wig 183 lo grocs on Kobvuar'y 18, Six days | lator’ the moreury . slumpod td 8,0 dogroos—tho lowest of tho monthy , ‘Moan maximum temperature wis 88,8, mean | “pinto: 28.4 for a; ‘monthly ‘moan gure a government to. mentary grant ea lent to. 75 per. workers gathered meanwhile to “ He may be Initiative and hard work kept the area under Skeena Health Unit out of the dental "doldrums last year, reports Dr, J. H, Smith, Unit Director, in his 1956 review, Ho says that In spite of the acute shorbage of dentists — only four for the unit's populas (ion of 25,000--the Community Proventive Dental Prince Rupert and Terrace con- tinued to operate, Clinics in "This Is a very commendable effort on the part of the den- we And committees of theso ¢ ies," he adds. De, Smith also praises, Solool Board’ 50 (Queen Chars lotle Islands) for rofusing to: depond on the slender chance hit wv dentist would he ‘supe plod. - "They wont nhend and hired n dontlst for a porlod during they, yonr at thelr awn expense to attend to tha dontal.neods of the school ehildren" snys ‘the roport. "I would like to conginte Wate the School Bonrd. for thls netlon, which. shows thelr gens wine dealt to Improve the howlth |! of tholrspnpilat Dr, Smith. slates that. every vffor) ta bolng: mace by tho Dl» viaton of Proventive Denti 1") Vielorin to supply substdlged dontista on provisions Heoneos |} for cortadn portods ench yonr to lxolnied conmmunttion, 4 Ho wdds, however, Ui bho shortage of dontlaty ta not to atvlotod to British Columbia, but ip caualng coneorn Woroughont Canad ce fae woes OMNIA: Mend U8; Navy. gky-| Tene banged Into the Phillp day north of tho ls min Bon to ind, ‘Made: by City "Prine Rupert dentists Dr. Alex Gray and Dr. H. W. McDonald today completed a: pre-fluoridation dental survey of 880 city pupils aged between six Dental Doldrums Avoided walkouts In selected plants on | Tiny my moylo: [Kine Novak:and. Rit, Hayworth, horror, Was} te and 1d-years. v0 & Their findings will be record: ed so that they ‘may be com- pared to the results of another check on children: of a similar age-group in about five or six years. The dentists hope to show that the condition of the children in the second survey—children who will have drunk only fluoridated wator—will be 50 por cent better than it is at present, Only children -who haye not been out of the district for longer than six months are clig- ible for the surveys, . In the Skeena Health Unit's 1956 report, Director Dr. J, H. Smith states “Those surveys are belng carricd out. so that the value of fluoridation will be ap- preciated through the dimin-|! ution In the amount of decay, Also, ib will servo as useful avl- dence to prosent to the municl- pality that the nancial expen: penditure hag boon, and |S, worthwhile." . All city, schools naye been visiled during tho. aurvoy, but tho bulk of the 380-childron cx« anuined were from Roosevelt Mark, Conrad and King Edward olomentary: schools, Se : Star’ Expecting TOLLYWOOD’ (NM. w=. Actrass Mlvabeth. "Taylor sand producer Miko Todd: oxpoct thotr first ehild dictnte November, Miss ‘Naylor hla Wo sons by hor prove lous’ buaband, qolor Michael Wilding, Sho’ and ‘Todd. wore married Pebruary, a in Acnptleo, Moxi0. a pe. Special To. The Daily OTPAWA—The contention by D,'B. Lew addition to lookout dutics performed by: ground crews, was vigorously denied . by:/ dricn Le. Francols, - assistant superintendent of the CPR's. Montreal: terminals’ before : the Royal Commission dealing with the fir The discussion occurred here} | Tuesday. during cross’ examina- tlon of Mr.-Le Fraricols. To substantiate his position that firemen should ‘not be re- moved from diesel yard. engines as proposed by the. Canadian Paelfle, Mr, Lewis asked Mr, Le. Francois repeatedly how a lookout could be kept’ on the opposite side of a cab from the engineer, If the engineer re- recelyed all his signals from a ground crew stationed on his own side of the movement, The wilness roplied that all such movements were “protec- tod in advance" by the ground erew who observed conditions on both sides of the track be- fore proceeding, and were kept under control. always by signals] , passed belween tho crow dirout to the onginoor in the. cab, Tho. ground crow, he malne tained, could position Lhomsolvug lop or'sidos. of cars, or on, tho] ground, that tho movement would bo made safely, Ro-oxnmination by 1,2. Sln- ofnir, goneral solicitor for tho OPR, further clarified: . hts polit by references, to operating yulos: that call-for the: notifier: o| ton of all porsons in and about railway cara and the clearing of ‘vohiclos from tho. path of flroman, |: Montreal _forminals, in auch q manner, elther on Una} neorg and yard on oy . “Issue, © cars” eee movement ‘bo begun. cone “. od Hike 2 in some. of tite, dustrial ‘Toph tions . ‘brought: to. the commiss. slons' attention, it was:the usual practice for-algnals to tp passtd to the engineer throfgh sthe...’ Thig:- was. denled cy Mr, Le. Franeols, who statedsho: knew of no such practice, ingpe Kitimat Block Cost rena ee At $283,000. Spodlal’ to, Tho Dully Nowa, RITIMAT--Tho ‘second: coms : morelal hlock'to be built in Kills mul's clly contre wil cost In the. veglon of $383,000, . Alumttivin Company ottleinis havo ropotts andor” Tor, th “aivgloesioruy, Masonry boullting glosed Tobtiy ary 27, i has: ‘Hoon, indtontod: Hh Qa contractor who has submitted (a: tender for: the catimatod..” will, probably: be awardod: Ul contragh, Wit: offigjals : havas Aiscloxad tha'name. ofthe, firm. Monsuring 00 by" 120 foot,; Mo now. block M: 9 bal’. soy gtores, vp “HowyWoon ‘Whe, INtule ‘dog! wit hig: koghor appotite, only days romoved from-oxoaution In n. dog pound will bo covalirrod With Frank Sinatra, Bnutty, a. Onlin: Won 1 $800=vetv00 ‘contract 40 appony tn tho; thovlo! Noralon of Pal Joys: 0 of Alabatt, The et wna ‘ = prowymedl oat, A Te “Wins Terrier Longer Life, Healthy y Appetite for K osher Foe ce in iho: Los Angolos ho vend of the: honglo and decided {to .. saute. Tho dog, alron y. ‘onto nto ek 0 ait days In. tho: pound, Would, havo |: hoon put-to. alogp “The sorlpt coils. play Sinnten's pet. and, eat th mame Ro of ko tho noxtiday, fora: dog’ ¢o tho: nan Bt Bott) ood. that)” Binnt