for the Peace River Block

J. R. HARROD, President

DAWSON CREEK

DAWSON CREEK
CO-OPERATIVE SHIPPING
ASSOCIATION

Shippers of Livestock

HENRY McQUEEN, Secretary
ELGIN WILSON, Manager

British Columbia

CRIMINALS

—and Their Sidelines

“THERE no longer is ‘honor among
thieves,’ ”’ declares Captain William D.
Browne, chief of detectives of the Port-
land Bureau of Police, who rounds
out 30 years on the department
this month. “They no longer stick to a
trade,” Captain Browne says. “The
trend is toward diversification.”

Reminiscing, he commented: “Time
was when an experienced safecracker
did nothing else. He didn’t get in-
volved in other deeds. Nowadays
sidelines. You

they're picking up

Fort St. John Lumber
Co. Limited

Lumber Manufacturers
and Exporters

Head Office:
DAWSON CREEK, B.C.

Mills at:
Dawson Creek and
Fort St. John, B.C.

collar a safecracker and you also get
a pinball cheater and a dealer in
prostitutes.”

Captain Browne’s veteran detectives
agree with him that the ethics of
thievery indeed are on the down-
grade. They noted that the same man
often does holdups and burglaries or
recently has graduated from holdups
to burglaries to minimize the risk.

Bad checks and bunco gambits
seem to attract the same characters,
although the bunco man is considered
a notch higher in the “professional”
scale. And, detectives say. few good
bunco men retire. They “die with
their boots on.”

The “heavies’—holdup men, safe-
crackers, etc—seem to have a penchant
for shoplifting in old age. Some of
these, like salmon, are rounding out a
cycle in this depth. They are the ones
who get an early start on store
counters and moved on to heavier
work. Stealable cars and_ tavern
keepers’ money bags at closing time
often entice the same thief.

So the trend is cited and decried by
police who remember when. thieves
“honored” a code. Higher living costs
and more efficient police methods are

FULLY MODERN »

POUCE COUPE

HART HOTEL

E. H. Thorne and E. J. Rushfeldt, Proprietors

LICENSED PREMISES

Government Headquarters
for B.C. Peace River Block

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given as reasons for the trend toward
“jacks of all thievery,” according to

the detectives. * *

MARTIN’S

General Merchant

ROOMS » LUNCH COUNTER
B-A Gas and Oils

GROUNDBIRCH B.C.

Robert’s Cement Works

Manufacturers of
CEMENT BLOCKS, CULVERTS and
SEWER PIPES

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P.O. Box 1058 DAWSON CREEK, B.C.

J. G. Wilson Construction Ltd.

J. GORDON WILSON, Manager

Pipe Lines, Water and Sewer Lines,
Road Construction, Concrete Structures,

Land Clearing, Gas Lines, Grading,
Heavy Hauling.
FREIGHT DISTRIBUTION - STORAGE

Phone: Office 58 Dawson Creek, B.C.

Betty's Shady Brook Coffee Bar ... and Cabins

_ +... just 63 miles from Dawson Creek, and 194 miles from Prince George, this is one cf the nicest and most hospitable places on the
Highway. (I's the place that the A.A.A. of Washington boosted so highly after their “field-trip’’ through here.)

We serve very good food...

Clean rest rooms for tourist use.

Imperial "Esso’’ produc's are sold, and there’s a store

the management of Betty, Margaret,

P.O. Box 1691

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and specialize in ‘'Pies’’ of the mouth-watering variety. The Cabins have good furnishings .
rate beds, weed cooking stoves, dishes, Propane light and heating, and accommcdate up to five persons.

DAWSON CREEK

. . first-
They are spotlessly clean.

with a gocd stock cf foodstuffs, if you wish to do your own cooking. Under
Ella and Jim Allen, another nice family on the John Hart Highway.

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THE SHOULDER STRAP