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THI PROVINCE, Friday, Sept. 1 3, 1 957 3 Mid East, Judicial system criticized Speaker hits A-G 'politics Is if safe? fy wj mill US. asucs Income tax case Wenner-(3ren firm in court WASHINGTON (AP) The United States tax court has upheld internal revenue service claims that Continental Trading of Mexico City, owes the government some $474,000 additional income tax for the years 1948-50. Continental trading is owned by Axel Wenner-Gren, Swedish international financier. shows however, that there are unguarded stretches to the driver's right where excessive speed means' disaster.

DANGER AWAITS the unwary driver on the Upper Levels Highway on the North Shore. Speed limits are clearly marked, and for much of the way a speed of 50 mph is permitted. Harry Cantlon's picture The company, filing U.S. taxi returns in those three years, de scribed itself as "a resident for eign corporation." It thus claim ed to be eligible for substantial tax discounts on dividends which it collected in the United States for Wenner-Gren. INTERNAL REVENUE con tended Continental was in fact a non-resident foreign corporation, whose U.S.

dividend collections were taxable at. the full rate. The tax court said Continental was incorporated in Panama in Beck's snubs Death-trap for reckless BUD ELSIE Province Staff Reporter A natural death-trap for reckless drivers that's the hew Upper Levels Highway. Thursday I travelled both ways along the 10-mile route between Taylor Way and Horseshoe Bay, keeping at the recommended speed, when possible. TACOMA, Wash.

(INS) Teamster boss Dave Beck pleaded innocent Thursday to a seven-count federal grand jury indictment charging that he owes $184,000 in taxes on undeclared income. Beck and three of the five ave siraeu Action sought WASHINGTON Israel Thursday appealed to the United States for a "crystal clear declaration that the American government will take action to oppose any aggression from any quarter in the Middle East. The appeal was made by Israeli ambassador Abba Eban during an hour and 20 -minute meeting with. Secretary of State Dulles. Eban, who returned a few days ago from Israel, also expressed his government's concern over American arms shipment to Jordan and other Arab countries as well as Soviet deliveries of weapons to Egypt and Syria.

EBAN appealed for an American program of econ omic assistance to the Mid dle East to counter the Communist threat with these words: "We believe the western powers would be better advised to strengthen the economic and social posi tion of the area rather than enter an arms race." Meanwhile, the V.S. accused Russia of a "blustering" attempt to frighten the fne world into abandoning its efforts to promote peace and tol-' the Soviet Union the manoeuvre will fail. The state department issued an official reply to Soviet Foreign Minister A. Gromyko's charge Tuesday that the U.S. had created a threat of aimed w-ck against Red-dominated Syria.

The department said: "THE SOVD3T denunciations of the past did not halt the quest for greater security in greater free dom. The present denunciation will not halt measures to provide security against Soviet communists." Gromyko claimed that Turkish troops were concentrating on the borders of Syria and that the west had created "political pressure and attempts to organize an economic blockade" of that country. He also charged that "a threat or armed intervention in the in ternal affairs of Syria is being created." Syrian plot in Iraq uncovered BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) Iraqi authorities said Thursday an anti-government plot with links in Syria has been exposed in Baghdad. Iraqi security police discovered a "secret organization plotting against the government and planning wide-scale political assassination," officials said. Five leading members of the organization have been arrested.

Iraqi security police maintained a careful check on the movements of members of the organization between Baghdad and the Syrian capital of Damascus, officials said. They raided homes of members and in one house found large quantities of arms and ammuni tion and "highly important" doc uments. like sixth and Eleventh the access roads are unpaved. One official said "we could have used another six weeks to finish it up." Here are some things motorists should watch for: I. For the first mile west from Taylor Way and the last half-mile into Horseshoe Bay the highway is three lanes.

The rest of the distance it is only two lanes. 2. There is a pedestrian 1 cross-walk at Eleventh Street, about a half mile west of Taylor Way. 3. Accesses at, (north side), Wildwood Lane, Queens, and the chairlift at Twenty-sixth; (south side), Eleventh, Fifteenth, Orchard Way (just west of Twenty-second, Twenty-sixth and Westrnount subdivision.

And remember that West Vancouver has only one ambulance, no hospital, and one cemetery. VICTORIA (CP) Canada's present judicial sys tem allows political friends of provincial governments to escape punishment while political enemies receive the full severity of the law, Professor Charles Burchill told the Victoria Rotary Club Thursday. He urged the establishment of federal district courts to step in when provincial attorneys-general refuse to lay criminal charges for political reasons. There is something evil, false and fundamentally ugly in a situation which increasingly makes it possible for people with the right political connections to escape punishment while people with the wrong political opinions suffer the full severity of the law." said the teacher of history and economics at Royal Roads tri-services college. "IN THE CASE of British Columbia the attorney general would appear to have weighed carefully the political damage that would result from prosecu tion against the claims of justice and to have decided his course on political rather than ethical grounds," he said.

He said an attorney-general was first of all a politician, a cabinet minister and a party leader. "As such, one of his first considerations is loyalty to his own party," he said. "He must protect and advance the interests of jts own supporters and embarrass and frustrate its opponents in order to secure the continued tenure of power by that party which he considers, with all its faults, to be the agency which can best govern the province." Under the federal criminal code bribery is a crime, he said. Anyone accused of this crime "is normally brought to trial." "But he can be brought to trial only if the attorney-general of the province authorizes a prose cution. As an illustration, he said, for mer Vancouvtr i Police Chief Walter Mulligan had never been brought to trial and his guilt or innocence remained a matter of conjecture.

"Similarly, I know nothing about the Sommers case," Prof Burchell said. "Hera a minister of the crown was formally charged with ac cepting bribes by a prominent lawyer. The case was investigated by the RCMP, whose report was, of course, not published. Mr Sommers denied all charges and sued Mr. Sturdy (the lawyer) for libel," he said.

(Former lands and forests min ister Robert E. Sommers, MLA for Rossland-Trail, is suing Van couver lawyer David Sturdy for slander for alleged statements that he accpted money in ex change for forest management licences.) Weatherman says It's fine There's a good chance the fine weather will continue over the weekend, says the weatherman: And if it does, there's an equally good chance Vancouver may chal lenge sunshine and temperature records for the month of September. A high of 69 was recorded at Vancouver Airport at 2 p.m. Thursday. There are storm systems out in the Pacific, but so far the high pressure area over this part of B.C.

hag been strong enough to throw them back. firm may enter a jet model in next year's race at Le Mans LUCY AND DESI anion? richest rich rich Amazes It'i hazardous. And what makes it worse, guard rails haven't yet been installed and likely won't be for several weeks. The highway will be opened to traffic Saturday. Thursday workers were putting up speed and directional signs and today a crew arrives from Hope to paint the white centre line, The speed limit has been changed since it was first announced Originally there Were to be three zones 30, 40 and 50 mph.

Now there are only two, 30 mph for the area from Tavlor Way to just east of Fif teenth, and 50 the remaining nine miles to the Bay 4 It's probably not impossible to roar over the nine miles at 50 but the odds of making it and staying alive are so slim only an idiot would try it. 1 Some curves are too tight to take at 45 and be in complete control of the car. I found 40 about the best average speed, though there is one straight away midway along the route that can be safely driven at 50. "Slowf signs stating recommended speeds are being put up it some spots. These speeds are not the "official legal limit, but If motorists obey them they won't have any trouble.

Guard" rails aro needed desperately. -At Nelson Creek, whsr sccnerjMs-magnifu-sent, there" is a sheer' drop of several hundred feet. There is no retaining barricade of any kind. I PMia demand and political pressure is probably forcing opening of the highway before it is ready. Blacktopping was finished only Wednesday and there is only a few hundred yards of Except at Twenty- ERNIE SHUTTLEWORTH escape Crane falls but man jumps clear A crane driver jumped 15 feet to safety a fraction of a second before his heavy crane toppled over a 30-foot drop at English Bay Thurs day afternoon.

Ernie Shuttleworth, 42, of 228 Fifth Avenue, Mission, was work ing on the site of an 18-storey apartment building at Morton and Denman. Driver of a bulldozer working below the crane Wilf Harris, 39, of 921 Whitchurch, North Van couver also had a narrow escape. He scrambled clear just as the heavy boom smashed into his driving seat. SHUTTLEWORTH'S fellow workers looked on helplessly as the giant crane groaned under the weight of a digger it was low ering into the lowest part of the working. "I felt the crane being pulled over slowly but thought it would ease back," Shuttleworth said.

"I HUNG ON to the last, and by then the crane was at such crazy angle that I had great difficulty squirming out." THE DRIVER'S cab on the crane was smashed and the dig ger and bulldozzer badly damaged. Shook Realty, which is build ing the block, expects work will not be held up. Within half an hour of the" accident a giant crane had been brought in to untangle the mess. charges in connection with $254,000 unreported 1951 federal Judge George Boldt. Those named in the conspiracy counts also pleaded innocent.

They are Dave Beck, son of the beleaguered labor chief Norman Gessert, Teamsters' general organizer, and Fred Verschueren, Teamsters' auditor. Asked who he thought would be the next Teamster president. Beck replied; "I certainly know, but I'm not going to say." HIS REPORTED choice, James Hoffa, Detroit, was opposed Thursday by Beck's home local in Seattle. Secretary-treasurer V. V.

Alex- androf of Local 566, Laundry and Dye Works Drivers Union, said: "Most of our members seemed to be definite in their thinking. The motion against Hoffa was made from the floor and the vote was pretty solid." Beck's union career began in Seattle's Local 566, which now embraces some 950 members. Beck long served as president of the local. MEANWHILE IN Detroit Hoffa denied reports he would of the race for president in order to keep his union in the AFL-CIO. He blamed the rumors on rival candidates for the $50,000 a year job and added: "So long as I'm alive, I will be a candidate for president in Miami Hoffa was unperturbed about an announcement Einar E.Mohn, teamster executive vice president, would be nominated for the presidency.

Mohn reportedly is backed by the Southern California council as a "favorite son." By Dr. Smith officially named as minister OTTAWA (CP) Prime Minister Diefenbaker Thursday named "Dri Sydney E. Smith, president of the 1947 to handle certain American investments of Wenner-Gren, in-including his substantial stock holdings in the Electrolux and Servel corporations. The company established its principal office in Mexico City and, according to the decision, used Reno, as its American address. WENNER-GREN, now 75, has had his headquarters in Mexico City for many years.

The court estimated his wealth at mora than a billion dollars. local Hoffa men indicted on conspiracy Beck's alleged cheating on 53 income appeared befor Millionaire reformer takes life NEW YORK (INS) Clendenin J. Ryan, multimillionaire government reformer, shot and killed himself Thursday in the same house where his father committed suicide 18 years ago. The 52-year-old financier and civic figure was found in the bathroom of his fashionable five-storey house just off Fifth Avenue on what is known as "millionaires' row." RYAN. AN HEIR to the $141,.

000,000 estate of his grandfather, the late Thomas Fortune Ryan, shot himself once in the head with a revolver as his lawyer waited in the living room to accompany him-Oi. a trip to Washington. Ryan served as secretary to New York's late Mayor Fiorello ana for many years had sought to focus attention on wqvU HIVWJ1 1 jit LCXiCJ ailU UliS" management of city government. One of his favorite targets was Tammany Hall, New York city's democratic organization. THE OUTSPOKEN financier had been a key figure in the 1949 wire tapping of former mayor William O'Dwyer's telephones at city hall.

TJ I 1 1 ii i ii on uau ueea in iaiung neaiin both physically and mentally. Close friends of the Ryans, who would have celebrated their twentieth anniversary on Nov. 9, said that Ryan had told them his domestic life was not tranquil. Dorothy Kilgallen show early in 1958. Those who've heard her tearing off torchy ballads at Beverly Hills parties report the voice is better ever Jane Kean has resumed her romance with ttt i it.

ucwgv uiwcn, nil. ui uie piu- ducers of "Mr. Wonderful" Sammy Kaye is on the verge of signing with ABC-TV for a band show in the Lawrence Welk groove. The best records in town these are the marvelous audition discs made by Jose Ferrer and his wife, also a singer, for "Captain's Paradise," the musical he'll stage this fall. (And star in, too, if the producers can persuade him) The hipsters are having fun planning the score for the upcoming Leraer-Loewe show about Sherlock Holmes.

They've tentatively titled it "My Fair and are compiling a repertoire of suitable songs. Including "On The Street Where You Probe," "I Could Have Sleuthed All Night" and "I've Grown Accustomed to the Chase." Logger's death due to fight ALERT BAY RCMP now believe a vicious fight may have preceded the death of a Vernon Lake logger Tuesday and the subsequent suicide of the camp cook. The cook, whose name has not yet been released, was found shot to death at the Canadian Forest Products camp at Vernon Lake, 40 miles southeast of here. Police said he had shot himself with a shotgun. Joseph L.

Somerville. 61, was found lying in a pool of blood in the camp's power house. Police now believe Somerville died from wounds received in a fight. A post mortem will be held to determine cause of his head in juries. U.S.

rejects reciprocal news swap GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) The United States Thursday rejected a Chinese Communist proposal for a reciprocal exchange of reporters between the two countries. Canada's external affairs Minister Davie Fulton assume full-time responsibility for the citizenship and immigration de partment, which he now administers on an acting -basis, the prime minister said Thursday: "THERE is no foundation for that in the slightest degree." The report would have had Solid' tor-General Leon Balcer assume the justice portfolio. SEEKS CANADA HE SAID STRASSER wanted to become the leading figure in the merged organization. Strasser and his elder brother, Gregor, were leaders of the "left wing" of the Nazi party in the years immediately preceding Hit ler's rise to power. In '1932, the brothers sought unsuccessfully to use the "Socialist" faction to stage an intra-party coup against the Hitler OTTO STRASSER fled to Czecho slovakia and became a bitter critic of the Nazi regime, which he believed had perverted the original natioral Socialist move ment He moved to Canada in 1940.

Gregor was murdered in the Roehm purge of June, 1934, AT THE END of the war, Stras ser began stubborn fight get back into th- German political arena. After the federal republic was established in 1949 he sued in West German courts for the right to return to the country of his birth. In 1953, the Adenauer government lost its last appeal to keep the former Nazi leader out Strasser staged the inaugural meeting o. his German Social Un ion in Mutenberg, Ba'aria, on June 17, 1959. About 400 persons turned out to hear him call for a re-united, neutral Germany or ganized internally along the lines of tb Fascist corporate state.

STRASSER FLOPS, VOICE OF BROADWAY The the simple life University of Toronto, ae minister. Dr. Smith will be sworn in at 10 a.m. today and immediately afterward will attend his first cabinet meeting where he will be introduced to his colleagues. MR.

DIEFENBAKER 'said he had no other announcements to make. To published speculation that a further change would see Justice TRIP TO it had not yet been decided whether he would be readmitted to the country which gave him haven at the outbreak of the Second World War. THE FORMER close associate of Adolf Hitler left his refuge at Paradise, Nova Scotia, in 1953 on bad terms with he Canadian gov ernment. In a book titled "Prisoner of Ottawa," he blamed the Canadian government for some of his difficulties in an eight-year fight to return to Germany. The German Social Union, tne neutralist right wing political party founded by Strasser.

fifteen months ago, is in a moribund state. It has no candidates for office in the national elections on Sunday. THE PARTY newspaper, Deutsche Freiheit, has not reached distributors in recent months. The party business manager. Wily Meyer, resigned a few days ago.

Informed sources saio Strasser's discouragement with the West German political situation followed an unsuccessful effort last spring to merge his splinter group with the German Reich party, a more firmly established right radical party. -Adolf von Thadden, an execu tive of the latter party, said the merger bid was refused "because we don't need any little kings." 1 RETURN By ARTHUR J. OLSEN New York Times BONN, Germany Otto Strasser, a power in the national socialist party 80 years ago, has conceded defeat in his attempt to rebuild a personal Fascist political movement in West Germany. Strasser, now 59, applied six weeks ago fnx an immigration visa to Canada. A Canadian embassy source said STRASSER 'Ik I RKO apparently decided to leave the music field to others.

They shuttered their New York firm last week in a flurry of pink slips Lucky Lnclano is rumored to be seriously ill and under constant medical treatment in Italy. Title songs for films are becoming so important these days that one major studio is offering a six-figure sum to Al Hlbbler, just for the relatively simple chore of vocalizing on the sound tracks of half a dozen movies during the next- year Merv Griffin and Chita Rivera have become a big romance, with Merv flying down to Washington to see her (she's there in "West Side and Chita tossing parties tor him after show time. It's becoming increasingly probable that Jackie Robinson will enter politics before long. His appointment to the Connecticut Parole Board Is being hailed as a splendid selection, and Jackie's associates report that recent talks with Vlce-e resi NEW YORK Lucy and Desi Arnaz, now regarded as among the rich-elf rich millionaires in show business, still like the simple life. They padded through Gristed e's the other night just like" any local and Mrs.

buying $40 worth of groceries to take back to their Hampshire House kitchen. The producers of "The Three Faces of Evs" were wise to stipulate that no one to be admitted during the last few minutes of the picture. They actually made that a condition of sale with each theatre, slated to show the film, and small wonder; the story builds to weird goosebumps climax, and to see the ending first would ruin the effect Insiders believe the Germans will be the first to put jet engine ear en the market. One dent Nixon made a tremendous impression on him. The current World Almanac will give Sophia Lore an attack of the vapors, at least.

It lists 1922 as the year of her birth, while her press releases says she's only 23 Jajme Mansfield's debut as a cafe performer at the Tropicana in Las Vegas will include the services of Gene Westss as straight man and writer. Gene (recently bounced from the cast of "Happy has written some Mansfield-Wesson material that Monte Proser thinks is hilarious. Everett Sloane has arrived at Schroon Lake to replace Lee J. Cobb ft the father in "Mar-jorie Mornlngstar." Cobb is said to have dropped out oyer "contract trouble" Scary statistics: the experts predict the sales of tranquilizers will top $200,000,000 this year Gertrude Nlesen, long absent from the New York scene, intends to resume her singing career on IV in the near future, and hopes to de a Broadway..