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PRINCE GEORGE,   BRITISH COLUMBIA,  WEDNjjAY, JUNE 8,   1960
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BRUTALITY
BURNS LAKE (Special) � Cyril Shel'ford (MiLA-Omlneca) feels the recent investigation' into alleged iroU'Sih-ihandling of two Ir.'.liai:-; \v}.'.!i_ beingscrested by HC\PP "did not el^ar u.p the major ipototfe of issue."
Mi1. Shelford told a Citizen cor-respondt'n't he was "dissatisfied" with a I'Lj.orL lie ha.I received from the Aitwuy-Cc.ncral'j de-))ii!'.m :.:. subsequent tu uhe in-vestigejJon.
"'Mie report," Mr. Shelford s::id, "indicates . . . lack of un-dc istund'jti,' of the main points to '].;_� investigated . . ."
The MI,A claimed X~.ays taken at I!; .: i Lake < if one of Uhe men dyad, shown nega'tivo, but on ar-miva1! 7ii 'Pnin'ce George, the prisoner was round to have five cracked and broken rite.
Result 1 of v'.v:- investigation, which was called for by Mr. Sheiiford, were released 'from Victoria last week and absolved �the police o'f any wrongHlo'ing in connection wi'Mi the incident.
PEACE, PNR
Jobless Picture
PC's Sweep
ELECTION OF OFFICERS highlighted the second day of the two-day 32nd annual B.C. Elks conference here Tuesday. William Cousins, left, of New Westminster was elected secretary-treasurer. Next to him is E. G.
Freeman of Edrt William, Ont., Grand Exalted Ruler of Canada; Doug Moore of Kamloops, named new president; and Art Dodsworth of Powell River, outgoing president.               �Hal Vandervoort photo
ACCUSED TESTIFIES
II. 15. KING, Prince George lawyer, was elected chancellor fit the Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Cariboo in Kani-loo'ps Tuesday; Sixty-twp d1 '� -� gates cf, ifiKtv'd tue meeting under Chairman lit. Rev. R. S. Dean, Bishop of Cariboo. Rev. Nelson Atkinson of Mer-ritt was elected clerical secretary.
Sunny, except cloudy this afternoon with widely scattered showers. Mainly cloudy tomorrow. Little change" in temperature, li.i-Tlii winds. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Quesncl, �10 and G8; Prince George and Sinithers, -10 and (in.
Peace  Itivcr llogioii
Cloudy and cool with a few showers, clearing this evening. Sunny with cloudy periods tomorrow, a little warmer. Winds northwest \~> today, light tonight and Thursday. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Grande Prairie, 40 and 05.
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Thieves Take Tools
Julian Muller told police tools valued at S27 were stolen from his home Tuesday on the Van-derhoof Highway.
RCMP said three men were scon entering the house around (i p.m.
QUESNEL (Special)�An Indian accused of the murder of his half-brother following a home-brew party Nov. 2!) testified he couldn't remember what happened that night because he was drunk.
Francis Billy, 20. testified before Mr. Justice .;. O. Wilson and an all-male Assize Court jury. He i.s charged  with  the
knife-slaying of Felix Hilly, 30, on the Chezacu't Indian Re.serve 80 miles southwest of here.
Pi'an'cis said he didn't know if Tie had killed Felix. However, he had not seen him for a long time before the party and had wanted to see him because he liked him. HLIMOKSTITIOX
Indian superstition came into
LOCAL CONTRACTOR
Wage Hikes Must Stop
VANCOUVER  set June 21 as the date for public hearings into plans ifor a railway to the Yukon border.
Dr. Henry !�'. Angus, commission chairman said the application 'for hearings from 'Pacific Northern Railway Corn)pany was received Tuesday. R included detailed plansifor the line, which will run 700 miles 'from tihe neighborhood of Prince George in north-central B.C. 'to the Yukon border.
The railway 'i-= seeking a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the commission, a requisite before it. can seek government 'licencing.
'Pacific Northern has officially only uniil June :so >to start construction under an agreement signed in 1957 between the B.C. government and ih'tevests of Swedish financier Axel W'enner-
CilTll.
A syndicate df five fir.u-' iv\i-p'oses to bui'ld the $250,000,000 railway which would connect with tihe 'inovincially-owned Pacific Great Eastern Railway at Summit Lake, near Prince George.
the case through a number witnesses.
On Monday Bobby Hilly, lather of both the deceased and accused, told of burning the furniture from the cabin where Felix returned to die after being stabbed, so that his spirit roil Id not walk.
Frank Shillaker, a white man who operates a trading post at Ch'ezacut, said the Chezacut people still believe and practice pagan rites. He spoke of Bobby Billy's father, a medicine man known as Lame- Bill.
Sbillaker JLOW of a time when, a number of forest fires were burning in the hills nearby. Lame Mill came to his trading post and tnld him lie had put a bear's head in the creek. He said he would pronounce certain words and the rain would start al a certain hour. I Mi: IIAIXS C.\MN
Shillaker said that the rain did start. In fact, he said. Lame Hill was worried about Stopping it because he couldn't find the bear's head.
Veronica Billy, wife of the deceased, told of ine two men Wing outside the cabin. She said she was going to follow them out a few minutes later when
lix opened the door and came back in.
She said Felix stnted: "A fellow stabbed me with a knife. Take the knife away from him."
Behind Felix she saw Francis standing "about three feet away" with a knife in bis left hand.
Francis dropped the knife and Veronica picked ii up. put it in her pckel and later gave it to RCMP, she said.
The trial continues today.
TB Vans Test 8,000 In  Prince George
More than 8,000 persons have, so far, been tested in "Operation Doorstep," the anti-tuberculosis program presently being conducted in Prince George.
One person has been confirmed as having active TB while 70 others have been referred for further examination, Dr. C. C. McLean, the survey's medical director, said today.
R. J. Hunter, coordinator of the program, said public participation is continuing at a "better than average" level. Some 28 volunteer organizations, including 500 individuals are assisting in the campaign.
The two Christmas Seal vans will continue to travel from block to block here until June 28.
HALIFAX (CP)�--A strengthened Progressive Conservative government was returned to power in Nova Scotia Tuesday in a provincial election that brought personal defeat to Liberal leader Henry Hicks.
It was an easy victory for 46-year-old Premier Robert L. Stan-field. He had called for a mandate to carry Nova Scotia's case to the July federal-provincial conference at Ottawa next month. All his cabinet ministers were re-elected.
The  result compared Die last election:
PRIME MINISTER John Dirt-enbakev was criticized in the House of Commons Tuesday for alleged backing of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The prime minister strongly denied charges he was pushing the (PR cause (Story, Page 3).
OTTAWA (CP) � The fire in a shed housing a nucleir-a>rined Bom arc anti-aircraft, missile on a New Jersey base was expected to touch o-fif sharp opposition questioning in tihe Canadian Commons today.
The five released a small amoiuvi of raiMa'iion at McGulre Air Force lia.-e, Uhe United States An- Force reported.
'I*ai;> Deliver, Liberal defence critic, said Tuesday nig)ht the incident points uip Uhe need for a complete investigation into Canadian- American 'plans to store nuclear -warheads for .the Bomarc in Canada.
Government    officials    ilook
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Prog. Con................. '11   24
Liberals ...................... 15   IK
CCP  ............................   1     1
Total   ....................... 43   43
Preliminary figures iiulicat-alinost 87 i>vv cent of about 400,(100 eligible voters used their franchise.
In contrast to Mr. Stan field, who had the biggest margin of any candidate, former premier Hicks ttost his Annapolis East seat to Progressive Conservative Hanson T. Dowell, a lawyer and former Canadian Amateur Hockey Association president, by 11 votes. CONSIDERS FUTUkE
Mr. Hicks, Liberal party chieftain since he won rhe leadership after the death of Premier Angus L. Maedonald in 195 1, said he will consider his political future after a weekend rest. It is believed he may resign as Liberal leader. Tuesday night Mr. Hicks said the result of a recount "will decide my immediate political career."
Premier Sta'nfield, who fought the campaign chiefly on the 3'/6-year record of his government and the relationship between Progressive Conservative governments in Halifax and Ottawa, said tho government will "strive our hardest for the advancement of I he Nova Scotia people." CCF '"SURPRISBD"
CVF Leader Michael MaeDon-ald, the only one of a record 34 CCF candidates to be elected, said he is surprised bis party didn't do better. Twenty-nine CCF nominees lost, their �100 deposits when they failed to get half as many votes as their winning opponents.
The Canadian Press reported one hour and 19 minutes after polls closed that re-election of Progressive Conservative government  was indicated.
Suds Foam to Record
LONDON (Reuters) � Last year was a thirsty year. H took 8,385,000,000 gallons of beer to slake the world's thirst.
The British Brewers Society reported today that never before had so much beer been needed to solve the dry throat problem.
Beer sold in the world last year totalled 431,-000.000 gallons more than in 1058.
Biggest increase was in the U.S.. where they drank 05,000,000 more gallons than in 1958.
But on a man-to-man basis, the Americans weren't in it. That's a title the Belgians have held for years. They guzzled beer, last year at a rate of 26 gallons per. person.
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WHEAT PROVINCE VOTING TODAY
REGINA (Clt � Premier Tommy Douglas went to the people of Saskatchewan today for the fifth time to seek a mandate for his CCF party's brand of socialism.
He bused his appeal on his government's record of 16 consecutive years of administration and a plan for compulsory, prepaid medical care.
His opposition plugged for private enterprise development and a better deal for agriculture.
There wore 221 candidates � full slates of 54 from each of the main parties plus three independents and two Communists. Seven women arc running.
CCF held 36 seats in the last legislature while the Liberals had 11 and Social Credit three.
Glowing reports of early starts on construction of the proposed Pacific Northern Railway and Peace River power development have flooded Prince George with in "alarming" number of jobless transients.
The influx, according to Vern Dallamore, regional social welfare administrator, has made the unemployment situation here "the worst it has ever been."
"We've had to give out two to three times as much money this year as we did during the comparable period last year," Mr. Dallamore said, "and eight limes as much as in 1958."
Mr. Dallamore said the large increase in welfare payments was due to single transients coming into this area in large numbers hoping for work on the proposed railway or Peace River Power development.
"The same situation occurred prior to construction of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway and the gas pipeline," he said, "but not nearly as bad."
"It's safe to say that we're going to have greater numbers of people seeking assistance all through the summer than we've ever had before," he predicted.
Mr. Dallamore said the majority of unemployed seeking welfare assistance are casual or unskilled laborers.
"Beginning of construction on the new railway might help out considerably," he remarked.
Mr. Dallamore said slackness in the lumber industry, due to the wet weather, has put many lumber workers out' of jobs.
Local National Employment Service Manager P. (J. Simpson said the situation at the local Unemployment Insurance Commission office is a little brighter than it has been.
He said the number of claims the office is paying is decreasing. "Welfare problem is due to the influx of transients," he said, "most of whom have exhausted their VIC benefits." "the number of people seeking aid in obtaining jobs is higher now than it was during this time last year."
Mr. Simpson said 2,949 had asked the local National Employment Office for aid in getting jobs as compared with 3,057 last year. However last year's figure included the former branch office in Quesncl, now a separate office.
He said the situation would improve once road restrictions were removed. Dry weather would also help out, he .said.
The situation is expected to improve within the next two or three weeks, he said, although transients arc still arriving in the area following rumors of major construction projects.
The local UIC office paid out $297,420 in benefit payments during May.
Poug Moore of Kamloops was elected (presidervt of the 11.('.. Rlkrt Association here Tuesday, siicceding Art Dodsworth of 'Powell River.
Other officers elected were Wiiliam Tnonvpson, Vancouver, fii'cit vice -ipresrideri't; William Adolph, Cariboo, second vice-president; Ken RiJey, Nanaimo, tihird vice - president; William Cousins, New Westminster, .secretary treasurer.
Sc/cn Jensen, Vancouver, RalpHi (Jimdcivcn, Prince George, George Henry, Vemon. Art Bless, PerKiibton and Cecil Wright, Victoria, were elected to minor offices.
GOKDON Sl.Ml'SON
. . . transients
Prince George Case Before Supreme in
Mr. Justice Taschercau said Tuesday during a hearing in Ottawa of a Prince George case, that jails would be emptied if drunkenness as a defence is carried too far.
He said in the Supreme Court of Canada that G5 per cent of all criminal offences are clue to drunkenness.   , TOO DRUNK
Mr. Justice Taschercau made the comments during a hearing of a Prince George case in which the court will rule on whether a person can be too drunk to form an intent to commit rob-,bcry wHh violence. The court' reserved decision.
The attorney-general of B.C. appealed to the court against lower B.C. court decisions upholding drunkenness as a defence in a case here.
Baptistc Roosevelt William George of the Stoncy Creek Indian reserve near Vanderhoof, was charged Feb. 15, 1959, with robbing Nicholas Avcrgis of $22 and assaulting him in the victim's home on Third. HOSPITALIZE!)
At the 25-year-old Indian's trial in County Court here, it was testified that the 84-ycar-old victim of the assault was so badly injured he was in hospital for a month. He was acquitted.
George was acquitted by the B.C. Supreme Court which found that he was too incapacitated by liquor to form an intent to corn-mil robbery. The court also said that it followed that George was equally incapable of forming an intent to commit assault.
The B.C. Supreme Court's decision was upheld by the B.C. Court of Appeal Dec. 10, 1959.
,1. J. Urie of Ottawa, counsel for British Columbia, argued that evidence of drunkenness falling short of insanity was not a sufficient defence to acquit George.
He also said that if there could have been no conviction for robbery George should have been convicted of assault. DUUNK DKIVER
Mr. Justice Taschereau said a person charged with drunken driving could plead that he was so drunk he could not form an intent to drive. Would that be a defence against drunken driving he asked?
Peter Ncqcombe, counsel for George, said the lower courts took proper recognition of the defence of drunkenness, he said. They decided correctly, lie said, that George was so drunk that he was unable to form an intent to commit either the robbery or the assault.
 OF DEATH UNKNOWN
Found in Small Trunk
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officials said k)fi:iV a Harbor Grace, X;;!fl WQvnan bciieves the body ofa young Woman found in.,a t.rui* in an Argcniia, Nfld., railway 'of the peroxide blonde woma� failed to disclose the cause oflc "
Harbur tlrace  is  about  63
miles west of Argcniia, a United Slates naval base.
The woman, a peroxide blonde in her 20s. was described by RCMP as five feet 1'^ inches tall and weighing about 115 pounds. She wore blue denim jeans and a blue denim shirt. She wore no stockings and no shoes.
The body was discovered. by Argentia railway agent Thomas Donovan, a 15-year veteran railroader who said a pile of blankets and clothing covered the body.
Mr. Donovan said he opened the trunk, marked "fragile-han-
dle with care" when he detected an unpleasant odor, lie said there was no such person in Argentia as "Mrs. Williams," to whom the trunk was addressed.
Shipped from Toronto by mail May 4, the trunk arrived at Argentia, a naval base about 90 miles from here, May 14, by CNR coastal boat from North Sydney, N.S. It was shipped collect with a price tag of $17.68 and weighed out at 170 pounds.
Meanwhile, inspector D. O. Bartram of RCMP headquarters here said Toronto police have taken over investigation of the case.
Donovan said the CNR usually keeps baggage for six months, then opens it and auctions the contents if the ownership cannot be determined.
"I opened it because of the awful smell," he said.
There were some blood stains on the trunk and the girl's clothing was damp, Donovan said.
Donovan was with two other men when he bent over the four-foot trunk at. the dimly-lighted Argentia express office.
'Take a look at this," he exclaimed with an oath when, ho took the blanket oil.