BURNS LAKE HARDWARE & GARAGE LTD. J. S. BROWN, Manager Builders’ Supplies - Sporting Goods Harness - Furniture - Paints and Oils Camp and Miners’ Supplies, etc. Chevrolet and Oldsmobile Dealers BURNS LAKE British Columbia Central B.C. Lumbermen’s Co-operative Association Affiliated: British Columbia Co-operative Union * BURNS LAKE B.C. NEW OMINECA CAFE “A Good Place to Eat’’ * BURNS LAKE B.C. Central Stages VANDERHOOF TAXI * DAILY SERVING PRINCE GEORGE, VANDERHOOF and BURNS LAKE with CONNECTIONS FOR FORT ST. JAMES and NECHAKO. CONNECTING GREYHOUND AND AIR LINES * PAUL BORSUK HEAD OFFICE - VANDERHOOF, B.C. REID HOTEL ROOMS WITH PRIVATE BATH LINCOLN & CO. J. COUTURE, Mar. * VANDERHOOF STUBY’S Meat Market * FRESH MEATS - FISH VEGETABLES - BUTTER - EGGS * Fort St. John Page Fourteen they immediately ran his description through the file of known criminals. They found a description that fitted. The description of the man using Ralph Warren’s name fitted that of a petty thief named David Garrett. Still, the fact that two men looked alike did not prove that they were descriptions of the same man. Gar- rett’s fingerprints were pulled from the file by the Hollerith machine—a mechanical device which can choose the desired card from the thousands on file in a matter of seconds—and compared with the partial print taken from the liquor bottle. The identifica- tion was complete and an order was sent out to pick up David Garrett on three charges of theft in St. Boniface, Kingsville and Prescott. Garrett was eventually arrested by Provincial Police in Owen Sound and. received three years. Fingerprints Not Always Necessary It is not always necessary to have a set of fingerprints, or even a partial print, in order to make an identifica- tion. Michael McCollick found this out when he smashed a window to get into a Sudbury, Ont., warehouse. Mc- Collick was careful not to touch the window with his fingertips, and in this he was successful. However, the “C” Department investigators found something just as good. They found a palm print. The Identification ex- perts used the print to tag McCollick and he was arrested two days after his “perfect” crime that wasn’t perfect enough. Equally as proficient at making an identification as their brothers in the headquarters office, the men of the local Criminal Investigation Branches often resort to scientific methods to catch their quarry. Each CIB is equipped with a small laboratory and the equipment to take fingerprints and to develop latent prints. However, it is often the in- vestigator’s knowledge and quick thinking that solve the case rather than files or test-tubes. This happened in the case of a SPICER’S BAKERY Makers of “SWEET KRUST” and ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. WHOLE WHEAT BRE&SD * FORT ST. JOHN B.C. Dave’s Garage Ltd. MERCURY - LINCOLN - METEOR SALES and SERVICE J. I. CASE MACHINERY * Fort St. John grain theft in Saskatchewan. The thieves had used a truck to haul awa the grain, and had removed the danger of having the tire tracks idep- tified by committing the theft during a snow storm. By the time the thef{ was discovered the tracks had disap- peared under a blanket of new-fallen snow. Investigators from the local CIR office were stymied until one of the men hit on an idea. The investigator hitched a hose to the exhaust of the police patrol car and reved up the motor. Then he guided the free end of the hose over the spot where the truck had stood while it was being loaded. The hot air from the hose melted the snow. However, where the truck had stood its weight had com pressed the snow until it was solid as ice, and this remained after the snow had been melted off. A casi was made ‘of the tire track and used eventually, to identify the truck used in the theft. Preventive Services Another branch included within the orbit of the CIB is the Preventive Service, whose men situated in all ol the major cities from Victoria to Hali: fax, deal with matters pertaining tc smuggling and infractions of the customs laws. In their fight against organized crime the Preventive Service officers often call on the motor patrol of the Uniformed Land Force, the force’s various radio networks and, particu. larly in preventing smuggling, on the Aviation Section and the Marine Di- Vision. Radio, which has played a valuable part in the fight against all organized crime, has also been most useful in the war on smuggling ever since the first R.C.M.P. net was installed in Manitoba in 1940. At that time the net consisted simply of a specially built transmitter and twenty-three re- ceiver-equipped detachments as well as eleven radio-cars. In 1947 this radio net was converted to frequency modulation and_ ex- panded with base stations at Winni- peg, Brandon, Regina, Swift Current, Edmonton, Calgary, Lethbridge. The number of radio-equipped cars was increased to two-hundred and eigh- teen and smugglers began finding it extremely difficult to move contra- band over the western highways. Now the R.C.M.P. has a teletype SANDY’S MILK BAR HOME COOKING FULL COURSE MEALS * FORT ST. JOHN B.C. THE SHOULDER STRAP