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CHOP SUEY — CHOW MEIN
Chinese Dishes Our Specialty

Open 6 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Fhone 5219 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.

Waston Island
Terrace

Millar Bay
Port Fdwards

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Phone 6116
Any Place — Any Time

CIGAR STORE BILLIARD HALL
715-2nd Ave. West Prince Rupert, B.C.

THE VARIETY STORE |

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PRINCE RUPERT B.C.

GORDON & ANDERSON

LIMITED
Everything for the Home
Frigidaires, Duo-Therm Heaters, Kroehler
Furniture
Westinghouse Appliances and Complete
Household Hardware.
Phone 3014 3rd Avenue West
PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.

RECORDS

FURNITURE
RCA Victor Radio

Genuine Native Souvenirs

McRAE BROS. LTD.

Prince Rupert, B.C.

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REAL ESTATE - RENTALS
GENERAL INSURANCE

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PRINCE RUPERT

T.M.C. TRANSPORTATION
SYSTEM LTD.
Operating Prince Rupert City Bus Service

Cedar Kindling
Messenger Service

Coal - Trucking -
Insured Carriers

Phones: 6216 - 5332

Qnd Ave. & 2nd S$}. Prince Rupert, B.C.

G. P. Tinker & Co. Ltd.

With Compliments

DOMINION MINERS AND
PROSPECTORS CLUB

PRINCE RUPERT B.C.

TWENTY-SEVENTH EDITION

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THE SHOULDER STRAP

POLICING BRITISH COLUMBIA
TWENTY-SEVENTH EDITION

OCTOBER, 1955

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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The Mad Trapper Fu 1 By Philips Godselite7/
Giiromoails aime! “Winete Giclees a 16
Reflecting leicensesstoreNigint Satet ye eee eee ee 17
Iistoryasm Greatest: INODDCL asset = ier ene ee ee 18

_...._ By Tom Merriman 20

______ By Gertrude Armstrong 26

Secret Societies Eker
Murder Wirral in Eigh Society=_2s= a

RCM: (CGrrclkes JEsxtitortiiein IRAOKOE es 30
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Ganadorsebivine: llorsemen ees ten eee ee By James Hornick 35
RC IMD: elites Gia, Waitin Diag 42
Chuter Ede Doubts Guilt of Condemned Man___-------------__------------------- 43
Mass Psychology Helps Crime Wave._..-------_---------------------- 44
Fines By the Instalment Plan —_-__---------------------_-------—---------—- 45
Grateful Bank Thanks Mountie Dog ____-_------------------------------------------- 47
Rrohibreseistols torG@utby Griineisen By H.E. Wilson 48
Compulsion Seen as Drug Cure______----------------------------- 50
Vancouver Mounties Hold Double Celebration_____________--------------------_---- Dal
Today’s Bank Robber More Polite ____.--------------------__--------------------— END
Bagley and Faweett at Powell River____------------__ By Insp. G. H. Clark 55
It Happened in Vancouver_______---------------—-------------- By Hilda Flinton 62
Cst. Hutchison Ends 33 Years’ Service.___------------------------------------------ 64
Death Penalty No Deterrent________-_----------------—-----_--------- 64
Camera Catches Offenders.__.:.----------------------— == 65
Canada’s Most Wanted Criminals___----------_-_-------------------___-------------—- 66
Re @IVINP fee eou th: VV Of kame ee 69
Victorians Favor Hanging_--____-___---_---___------___---__- By Bruce Lowther 72
Chief Blackstock Receives Award ___.....-----------------------------------=-=-----— 73
Police Chiefs Favor Capital Punishment ___--------------------------------------- 74
@hime sBusters an ee By G. E. Mortimer 75

RU Gu BP» Promotions is ae 80

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