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9 10 THE PROVINCE, Friday, Aug. 23, 1957 POLICE OFFICER CONCILIATES B.C. ROAD REPORT I tk He befriends the lost Visitor charged with robbing another traveler 'A Winnipeg man charged with strongarmirig another visitor and stealing his suitcase Thursday was remanded for a week when he appeared in police court. Steve KoBdryiyn. 41, is charged with robbing George Edward Lott, 28, who had just arrived here from Niagara Falls, Ont.

VICTORIA (CP) Road report! for Aug. 22: TRANS CANADA Victoria Naaaim Good, construction work, rough areas. Fraser Caiya Fair, rough sections GIBSONS POWELL RIVER Good, construction at Gibsons and Earls Cove. SOUTH TRANS PROVINCIAL Cascade Rasslaad Fair to Crrstoa Gatfell Crafcrak-Feraie Owtnest Fair to good, construction in some areas. CARIBOO Caribo Highway Generally good.

Hart Highway Generally good. OKANAGAN KAMLOOPS Nth Thompsoa Good Kanv loops to Vavenby; rough sections to Albreda, minor delays, construction areas. their relatives and friends without keeping in contact by letter or telephone. "Then, 'when the relatives try and find them, they hit a dead end. That's where 1 come in." AND.

WHAT HAPPENS when Det Smith goes to work? All police forces across Canada are alerted to watch for a missing person. Det. Smith meanwhile i good. because the writer hadn't included enough detail about his uncle. More than 50 per cent of the letters he receives, however, are answered with positive results.

HE SCREENS every case on its individual merits and, recently, when a woman asked him to find her husband, who had left her last May, he was about to decline. He thought she was laying the groundwork for divorce action. She wasn't, and she pleaded her only motive was reconciliation. So Det. Smith went to work and found the man.

Why are people reported missing? "Because they drift away from By BOB PORTER Province Staff Reporter William Duncan Smith is a detective who hasn't arrested a criminal in five years. Instead of taking people to jail, his job is uniting them with their families or friends. He considers this one of the most. rewarding tasks in a policeman's career. The sympathetic 51-year-old detective is head of the city police missing persons bureau.

HE SEARCHES for more than 1,400 persons a year, and in the past three years has located almost 4,000 wanderers. This year he's found 560 missing I searches city directories, telephone books, crime files and hotel registers. Hell check, the city "Around The World In 80 Days" Wiiiner of 5 persons. He expects to turn up as many more before the end of December. He also answers letters of inquiry from nearly all countries morgue and hospitals, too, if necessary.

If he finds the missing person as is usually the case, he enjoys setting up a reunion. "THAT'S MY GREATEST pleasure I like people, and I like to see them happy," said Det. Smith. Missing youngsters under 10 years of age get top priority in his department. And most teenagers who go astray are at the bottom of his list.

'Tve found most teenagers who run away come from families without a sense of spiritual values without core, so you can't really blame them for leaving," he said. Hear Victor Young's award winning musical score directly from the soundtrack of the film in stupendous hi-fidelity fin the world, including those be hind the Iron Curtain. "ONE LETTER came from Sweden, and the writer asked me to locate his uncle, who had come to Canada in 1903 to work in the woods," Det. Smith said in recalling difficult cases. This one was too tough for him B.C.

berries test case appealed on DECCA RECORDS a Aen World or Sound DL 9046 One 1 2 inch Long Play $5.60 Available at all record shops Youth chased at 100 mph admits theft An 18-year-old Victoria youth, arrested after a 100-mile-an-hour chase by police early Thursday, pleaded guilty to car theft in police court. DET. Wm. Duncan Smith friend of the missing CRANBROOK Peter James Sherstobitoff of Creston was found guilty of infraction of provincial marketing act July 17. This was for transporting eight lugs of cherries and two boxes Arthur Spedding, who explained of apples with the intention ot selling them personally in Alberta.

He was fined $25 and costs were ITS MRS. CLARK GABLE THE FIRST, aged 72. One strange outcome of the "Confidential" libel action was to reveal the presence of Josephine Dillon, the first Mrs. Gable, a drama coach. A story in the scandal sheet, she said, "wiped her out completely." As a result, she is living on her $49 monthly social security payments and occasional fees from students.

set at $72. Or in default two months in jail. His counsel, Lieut. his actions as "just Was remanded to Friday for sentence by Magistrate Oscar Orr. James McFarlan, 21, of 1862 Charles, charged with Spedding, No price boosf for Inland's gas consumers Inland Natural Gas Company Ltd.

said in statement there will be no upward trend in the price of natural gas to its consumers. The company said its contracts are based on a stabilized price effective for 20 years. Companies supplying gas to nearby United States areas recently proposed price increases. Col. V.

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Chess News Prosecutor Al Mackoff said po lice chased a tar stolen from Charles Christian, 1111 Marine, West Vancouver, along Kingsway at to 100 miles an hour, CHESS NEWS By FRANK FILLER Province Chess Editor AUGUST 24. 1957 Problem No. 849 By C. MANSFIELD, England Amer. Chess Bull, 19S The chase ended when the car failed to make a turn at Twenty.

second and Maxwell and crashed into a fence. the East Kootenay Berry Association and the case is expected to be a test of the validity of provincial regulations regarding marketing of fruit independently by grower through any other agency than B.C. Tree Fruits Limited outside nis own immediate aea. He was 'harged July 17 on tU highway near here when he was operating a truck in an easterly direction, then was. similarly charged under the -ame circumstances luly 23.

This second charge has nov been withdrawn by the Crown. Counsel for the prosecution was D. C. Filmore of Kelowna, representing B.C. Tree Fruits Limited.

an equivalent percentage basis. Rate of play: 10 seconds per move. Entries to be sent or handed to Grnrtje Bryant, secretary of the organizing committee (co 1337 The Crescent, Vancouver). B.C. SPEED CHAMPIONSHIP The B.C.

Speed Championship, with ten entries, played at Vancouver C.C., 1173 West Broadway, was won Aug. 18 bv Walter Jur-sevskis, North Burnaby, with 7-2. Frank May, Vancouver, won second prize, with 6'4-2H. KaJ Nielsen scored a creditable 5tj-34 to place third. The 4-player minor section was won by, Cyril Bryner, of L'BC faculty, who scored John A.

MrCharles (tournament director I and Leonard Rooza tied for second prize, each 3-3, Rooza (Vancouver) winning the playoft. i Boy, logger in hospital A child and a logger flown here after upcoast accidents are recovering in Vancouver General Hospital. The boy, six-year-old Kenneth Nissila, was flown by the RCAF son and 8 i mm mm mft mm mm mm from Holberg, at the north end of Vancouver Island, after he feu WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP William Lombard; (U.S.) won the 1937 World Junior Champion 20 feet from the porch of his home onto rocks. Four, die when plane crashes ship, played Aug. 3-Augrt7 in To ronto, scoring a perieci u-u.

Gerusel (W. Germany) was runner-up with 9-2, and A. K. Jongsma (Holland) came third with S'i-2'i. He is in fairly good condition, with severe head injuries.

Thomas Gee, about 30, is In satisfactory condition with a skull fracture and back injuries. He was hit by a falling tree near NEW YORK-(AP) A twin-engined coast guaKd amphibious plane crashed and burned Thursday on takeoff from Floyd Bennett Field. Four of the six airmen were killed. I i 1 ie ouir guesft toft The Proviimce mm son mmi White mates In two moves Problem No. 54ft (Bealel.

Key: No solution. Published as received, but unsound after 1.B-B6 (composer's intention), 1. S-K1. SOLUTIONS Problem No. 547 R.

E. Bureess, E. J. J. Hall, Mrs.

Mary HaiAkes, S. Murnhv. H. S. Nichofson, H.

E. 'Bella Coola. The other scores were: V. Sellma-nov (USSR i. 8-3: R.

Cardoso (Philippines), 6H-4Vi; R. Hallerod (Sweden), 5-6; Francois Jobln (Canada Quebec), 414-61i; Jorge Aldrete (Mexico), 4-7; T. Makel-ainen (Finland), B. Rabl- nowltz (S. Africa), 2i-8; I.

M. Bahgat (Kgvpt). 2-9: and Peter Bates (Canada Toronto), lH-94. ITEMS The first game of the two-game match between Frank R. Anderson of Toronto and Elod Macskasv.

i ALIEtTA DISTILLIIS ITO. py City Chess Club, will be played at 7 p.m. Sunday, Sent. 1, at the City Chess Club, 833 Hornby, and the second game will be played at 2 nm Monday. Sent.

2. at the Van Riley and Mrs. Erlka White. Problem No. 54S J.

R. Jennl. J. Keith. H.

M. McGalre. E. Murphy, g. G.

Trumpler, R. Tuyttens and W. Boulton. CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP Last-minute entries: Paul Valto-Bli of Hamilton, who won the Canadian Championship In Vancouver In 1951, and Howard Rid-out, Agasslz, runner-up In the 1957 B.C. Championship.

There are now ten entries Instead of eight, and two extra rounds will have to be added to the previous schedule. Rate of play: 40 moves In two and one-half hours. The banquet at Hotel Devonshire Ss now set for 7 p.m. (formerly 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug.

31. Donations to the Canadian Chess couver Chess Club, 1173 West Broadway U.S. Western Open tournament. VANCOUVER MOUNTIES vs PORTLAND BEAVERS held In Milwaukee with 123 entries, was won by Byrne, who outplaved Larry Evans, the runner-up. Hans Berliner, Samuel Popel and Povllas Tautvalsas tied for third to fifth places, and Junior champion Bobby Fischer was sixth.

Tnonntn AralfB Tin ft Jose Championship 1957 Fund are ac- Mexlran championship. Javier Qul- Vnnwlpriperi with thanks rnz nlacert second, and the defend treasurer, W. T. Money, 4H28 West This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Uqoor Control Board or th Gorernmentof British Columbia ing title-holder, I. Raul Reza, came Second Avenue, as follows: i 1 I CI ltl VI sixtn.

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Other entries Xor the speed event (maximum en-try to be a total of 18 players), who must also be domiciled in Canada, will be accepted at the discretion of the tournament com-Bilttee. Entrv fee for speed event: 53. Boys and girls! If you are 14 years of age or under, you can be our guest at the big Pacific Coast League baseball game between Vancouver Mounties and Portland Beavers on Wednesday night, Sept. 11. Here's all you have to do.

Fill in the coupon below and send it to The Province Father and Son Night, The Province, Victory Square, Vancouver. You will receive a numbered ticket. Then all you have to do is get Dad out of that easy chair or away from the TV set and have him take you to Capilano Stadium on the night of Sept. 11. Dad buys a ticket (general admission, pavilion or bleachers) and you both go in together and sit together and have the time of your lives.

Be sure that your ticket is torn in half at the entrance and be sure to hold on to your stub, because later in the evening there will be a draw. The holders of the 24 lucky tickets will each receive a baseball autographed by the Mounties Pacific Coast League Baseball team. Remember, if you have brothers, each boy needs a ticket. Make sure each sends a coupon. The early birds get the numbered tickets.

So hurry and make sure you're going to be on deck for The Province Father and Son Night ot Capilano Stadium on Sept. 11. MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY Closing date for entries: 10 p.m., Aug. 29. Prizes: Custody of Abe Hellman trophy; also cash prizes consistlns of the total of the entry fees If sixteen entries, first prize will be $24; second, $16; and third.

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