NORTHWEST
CONSTRUCTION LTD.

General Contractors

Repairs - Pile Driving

Marine Work, Breakwater and

Scow Construction
Industrial Construction
Hydro Plant Construction
Municipal Water Works
Bridges, Etc.

722 West 2nd Avenue

PRINCE RUPERT B.C.

With Compliments

DOMINION MINERS AND
PROSPECTORS CLUB

PRINCE RUPERT B.C.

67 TAXI

De Luxe Cars - Heated and Radio-Equipped
At Your Service Day and Night

ROSS BROTHERS
TAXI - CIGAR STORE - BILLIARD HALL
Second Avenue, opp. Prince Rupert Hotel

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.

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Bacon Fisheries
FRESH SMOKED AND SALTED FISH

Producers and Distributors of
Prince Rupert Seafood Products

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PRINCE RUPERT B.C.

G. P. Tinker & Co. Ltd.

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REAL ESTATE - RENTALS
GENERAL INSURANCE

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PRINCE RUPERT

Island Cleaning

and Pressing

Shirts Ironed
Pressing While You Wait

We Pick Up and Deliver

Authorized Flexform Shaping
Service for Ladies’ Dresses

Phone: Black 627

Corner 2nd Ave. and 7th St.
PRINCE RUPERT B.C.

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WOODBILT
PRODUCTS

W. TROJAHN, Proprietor

Custom-Built Furniture, Children’s Furni-
ture, Store Fixtures, Built-In Cupboards,
Show Cases, Windows, Doors,
Novelties, Toys

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P.O. Box 1599

and McBride S&t.
B.C.

Phone Blue 720

Corner First Ave.

PRINCE RUPERT

infra-red mounting—such as was
used against Japanese snipers—was a
particularly unpleasant explanation
why two Chicago policemen were
shot by bandits in pitch darkness.

Then there were the two youths
with home-made flame throwers who
surprised an Oregon shopkeeper with
a specimen jet on to his shop floor.
When the flames died down they
didn’t have to ask twice if he would
prefer a shot on his person or the
loss of his till contents.

In the Mediterranean a large ship
was recently boarded by six men
armed with Sten guns and grenades.
After imprisoning the officers in the
hold for a fortnight until they had
sold the cargo of American cigarettes,
they went off with the ship’s lifeboat,
and the cash and personal belongings
of the crew.

An even more enterprising exploit
recently discovered in France was the
building of a free brandy supply line
from a distillery to adjoining
premises.

A pump at the end of the pipe
enabled bottles to be filled freely.
They were then labelled, loaded on
to lorries, and smuggled across the
Belgian border.

From Greece there is a report of
the discovery of a “school for bur-
glary,” complete with workshop and
laboratory, and_ specialized courses
for safe-crackers, hotel thieves, etc.

And a Belgian contribution to the
“march of crime” is that of a convict
employed as prison electrician, who
gleaned enough parts to build a tele-
phone under his bed. He then con-
nected it to the outside line and en-
joyed free calls to friends outside
until other prisoners complained they
were being kept awake at night!

Criminals in Britain are not doing
so badly.

Recent highlights include use of a
tipper-lorry to ram a pay car; the
bomb demonstrations against the use
of the E.R.II inscription in Scotland
and the showing of the Coronation
films in Ireland; some highly skilled

SAVOY
HORE

Gerald Scheidel, Manager

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LICENSED PREMISES
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Telephone 37
P.O. Box 1397
Totem Park PRINCE RUPERT

safe blowings; and the sending of a
trinket box which fired a bullet at
the unlucky recipient.

And the London Insurance Insti-
tute’s crime study group recently re-
ported growing concern at the “most
ingenious ways of defeating security
systems .. . e.g., the use of pneumatic
drills to break down walls; power-
operated grabs to wrench grilles from
concrete settings; and vehicle-oper-
ated rams against gates and doors.”
All of which adds up to the conclu-
sion that collectively these develop-
ments are what a Trans-Atlantic com-
mentator calls “the teething capers of
a criminal program victualled by the
atomic age!”

We may not follow him into such
lyrical rhapsodies but we must agree
that they are pointers to the fact
that the ever increasing amount of
training in electronics, scientific in-
struments and explosives which is the
price of “peace,” is providing law-
breakers with new weapons and

ideas. *%* %&

GORDON & ANDERSON
LIMITED
Everything for the Home

Frigidaires, Duo-Therm Heaters, Kroehler
Furniture

Westinghouse Appliances and Complete
Household Hardware.

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.

BOOKS STATIONERY
RCA Victor Radio

Genuine Native Souvenirs

McRAE BROS. LTD.

Prince Rupert, B.C.

REX°GAFRE

Second Ave., Opp. Prince Rupert Hotel
CHOP SUEY — CHOW MEIN

Chinese Dishes Our Specialty
Open 6 a.m. to 2 a.m.

PHONE 173 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.

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