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Cloudy, mild today and Friday. Some sunny periods today. Few showers Friday. Light winds. Low tonight, 35; high Friday, 45.

TODAY'S TIDES: High, 5:51 p.m., 13 feet Today's sunset: 5:12 p.m. FRIDAY'S TIDES: Low. 12:39 a.m., 2.4 feet; high, 7:31 a.m., 15.2 feet; low, 1:31 p.m, 7.8 feet; high, 6:50 p.m, 13 feet. confer ClOUBtf FINAL FOUNDED 188B VOL. LXVUI No.

104 TAtlow 7141 42 PAGES. VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, J9f tj 1 5 igf FRS7 TRAFFIC FLOWS OVER NEW GRANVILLE STREET SPAN TODAY approaches reaching out like tentacles at either end was officially opened today before a crowd of 5000. Trolley traffic will start over the new span Friday. This photo is suitable for keeping with. the picture published, in Wednesday's Sun of the old Granville span opening.

Aero Survey photo. Dwarfing all 'other crossings of False Creek, the new $16,000,000 Granville Street Bridge with its multiple iPiiiiii Math er's Thousamidls Nlew Opened Worker Snips Ribbon On Granville Bridge By BARRY BROADFOOT Sun Staff Reporter Vancouver spanned fog-shrouded False Creek with one giant stride at 11:27 a.m. today. While 5000 watched, a snip of I THREAT TO KILL QUEEN PROBED MELBOURNE, Feb. 4 (Reuters) Police are hunt-ing for the writer of a letter-threatening to assassinate Queen Elizabeth during her current tour of Australia.

South Australian police commissioner Ivor B. Green said the letter is being "viewed very seriously." The writer is believed to be a German immigrant. In the vords of Mayor Fred "As citizens of Vancou-' ver, we are entitled to crow a bit. "Granville Bridge is the most spectacular example of our efforts to meet the challenge of our growing problems." The official ceremony, beginning at 11:15 a.m. on the highest point of the 5000-foot span, went off without a hitch.

shears sliced a heavy, purple and gold ribbon and 10 years of planning, designing and construction of the $16,500,000 Granville Street Bridge became a reality. The shears were wielded by 49-year-old Charles Geisser, one of the hundreds of men who worked in every kind of weather to push the massive bridge across the False Creek channel. Nightcap By BARRY MATHER The ghost walks OTTAWA A sensational exhibition of psychic phenomena shocked this capital yesterday. As Senators' began preliminary discussioVis on whether to boost their pay by 40, 60 or 80, a ghostly figure, believed to be that of Jesse James, was seen in a Senate gallery. The apparition was observed by a Senate attendant and by two Senators who were awake at the time.

"There is no doubt' in my mind the figure was the shroud of Jesse Jarhes, the notorious bandit and highway robber," the attendant told re-reporters, with the ghost of a smile. was carrying his head in one hand and a gun in the other. When he heard them say they would take ten thousand dollars this time he let out a groan, I think of shame." He went away through the Senate gallery crying "Oh To Be Old Again!" A similar visitation, shook the Commons. As M.P.'s' assembled to vote themselves an extra $4000, the press gallery heard the sound of a running horse approaching. Looking out, three newsmen swore they saw the pale outline of a horseman come riding, come riding up to the Commons' They- were of one opinion the ghost was that of The Highwayman, from the poem by the same name.

Crowds Mass in Chilly Fog Only the weather refused to co-operate for the long-awaited event. A heavy low lying fog obscured the rest of the city from the high point of the bridge, i Burrard Bridge was a hazy outline to the west and the thousands of sp a shivered in the chilly Officer Dies, Women Faint Seeing Queen SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 4 (CP) A police inspector died on duty and many persons fainted as Queen Elizabeth rode through Sydney at the height of a summer heat wave. Some 60,000 tightly packed spectators saw the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh drive from Government House for the opening of the New South Wales state Parliament Police reinforcements were called out later when a crowd of 70,000 broke through barriers to see the Queen arrive for a women's luncheon. Police on motorcycles roared their engines along the edge of the crowd to clear the road for the royal car.

Police said they had never seen such crowds packed into one area before. A police inspector collapsed and died on MacQuarrie (Street. As early as 10:15 a.m., crowds began to press against the heavy ropes forming a corral in which the opening took place. When the main speeches were over, and the dedication pronounced by chaplain Rev. J.

W. Melvin, DD, the mayor called forth Geisser. Worker Snips Ribbon West Sixteenth, had a hand in placing every piece of steel. With him is Mayor Hume and standing to the right is John Oliver, city engineer. Bruce Moss photo.

Snipping of the ribbon' which officially opened the new span today was done by one of the men who was in on the construction, Charlie 1120 The ribbon was gold and purple- the official colors of the city and bore the inscription: "Presented by the City of Vancouver to Charles Geisser Please Turn to Page Two See "Thousands" Dressed in business suit and the silver "hard hat" he wore during months of construction, Geisser snipped the entwined ribbon and declared Canada's only eight-lane span officially open. KARACHI, Pakistan, 4 (Reuters) Harbor workers on strike for nine days have COLUMBUS, Feb. 4 (BUF) Police arrested Octave Champaign, 62, for being A GOOD. EVENING to everybody and especially to people who have a flat roof and a popular cat. voted to go back to work.

Big Sewage Bill TORONTO, Feb. 4 (CP) A firm of consulting engineers has recommended a program to give Metropolitan Toronto all the water and sewage facilities it will need in the next few decades. Hull Wins Replay LONDON, Feb. 4 (Reuters) Hull City beat Blackburn Rovers 2-1 in a Football Association Cup fourth round replay at Hull. Hull now will 'meet Tottenham Hotspur in the fifth round February 20 in Hull.

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