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Escaped Convict Caught By Fox Ever since women first discovered that furs can be decorative as well as comforting in cold weather, certain fur-bearing animals have become increasingly valuable. Like dogs, they have their day; chinchilla or sable or silver fox may be the fashion of the moment. Just now a very small, semi-aquatic, stoat-like creature called a mink is all the rage -- among those who can afford it. All such animals, however, are continually in demand, and in most of the regions where they flourish they are carefully preserved in their wild state. They may be trapped only at certain seasons of the year. It was in 1934 that James Lawrence Fahey, a Canadian, living at Jasper, a town in Alberta at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, succumbed to temptation while on holiday. He trapped a silver fox out of season -- presumably by chance, but he tried to get away with it. Perhaps he thought it would be a nice gift for Mrs. Fahey. A game warden caught him in the act and, the Canadian fur industry being important and powerful, he was treated like ahy common poacher and handed over to the police. He was, in fact, a much respected man in Jasper, where he had lived for twenty years, developing a flourishing business as a building contractor. A small fine accordingly, soon settled the matter. It seems very doubtful if he gave any thought to the possible effect of that incident upon the past. But the silver fox was an instrument of fate: a relentless, machinery had been set in motion. Because Canada and the United States share an immensely long frontier, which criminals on the run can cross with ease, the police of the two countries work in close co-operation. In both the fingerprint system is far more extensively employed than is the case in Europe. Once Fahey was under arrest, his fingerprints were taken as a matter of routine. They were then sent to the International Bureau of Identity at Ottawa. From Ottawa, in spite of the trifling nature of the offence, a copy was forwarded to the Identification Division of the F.B.I, at Washington. At Washington more IAST TRY - By an ironic twist, this pretty girl stands between o convicted killer and the electric chair. She's attorney Lois Lanker, appointed by the National Legal Aid Society to take the final plea of Clevelander Walter J. Byomin, 42, to the U.S. Supreme Court. Byomin has been sentenced to death for the murder of a Wellington, Ohio policeman in 1957. machinery went automatically to work, classifying and comparing in a collection of prints running into millions. The result astonished even the hard-boiled officials of the F.B.I. For Mr. Fahey's prints had been on record in the United States longbefore the F.B.I, came into existence. The trial went backtwenty-five years. In May, 1909 the eastbound Overland Mail of the Union Pacific Railroad was held up and robbed. The robbers, a gang of five did not get away with much money, but the Overland Mail was a crack train, and the outrage caused a sensation. Before the creation of the F.B.I, there was no national police system in the country, and the State forces varied greatly in efficiency; the railway company therefore called in Pinkerton's Detective Agency, then at the height of its fame. Within a few months Pinker-ton's operatives, working with sheriffs and other law officers, ran down all five members of the gang in three different states -- Nebraska, Colorado and Idaho. In September, 1909, all five were sentenced at the Omaha District Court to life imprisonment in the huge penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In April, 1910, the entire gang broke out of prison. Their method will probably remain unique. Seizing a small locomotive used within the walls of Leavenworth, they drove it through a pair of steel gates and then for six miles across country. Soon after they were forced to abandon it, four of the fugitives were recaptured. The fifth, a man named Fred Grigware, And now, a quarter of a century later, the fingerprints of the respectable Mr. Fahey, of Jasper, Alberta, were identified as those of the missing Fred Grigware. At the request of the United States authorities, Fahey was taken into custody, to the astonishment and dismay of all in Jasper. Fahey, or Grigware, it was pointed out, had led a examplary life as a Canadian citizen for twenty years. He had done much good in Jasper. He had a Canadian wife and three children who had never heard of the Overland Mail. It was surely a case for letting bygones be bygones. It is pleasant to record that the United States Attorney-General agreed with this view. He felt that "no good purpose would be served" by raking up so old a story, and extradition proceedings were dropped. Mr. Fahey was left in peace with his family. Rats Trap Rat All the capital cities ol the world have an underworld. Beneath the streets there is another city, a network of tunnels, avenues and by-ways, forming the sewers. The sewers do not often come into the news, but some time ago an old man was found trapped in a sewer under the main square of Catania, in Sicily. Afraid to cross the square owing to traffic, he went underground --and nearly died! In 19th century Paris the police were loking for a murderer who smashed the heads of his victims with a hammer and, after robbing them, cut up their bodies When his house was raided there was no sign of him, but there was an open trap-door tn the basement. The gendarmes went down, and found themselves in the vast sewer system ol Paris. In the distance was the sound of squeaky uproar, where squadrons of huge rats, disturbed by the murderer, voiced their protest. By following this noise tbe police ran their quarry down. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Equality 4. In this way 12. Anecdotage republic 5. Trespasser 7. Frosted 8. Adjust again I. Public notic* I. Ripple^ 4. Nephew of ?! Whistle 9. Flood 1. Olden times t. Of life Z. Chemical 4. Smallest portion of DOWN ioWa 1. Two of a kind 22. Cong 2. English 25. Sun i *. Ri q 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 .0 ||| 12 13 < 15 18 2! 22 23 ■:- 26 28 :1 30 32 33 34 15 37 iS 3? 40 41 ; 42 m 45 1 49 50 53 . 54 55 56 57 58 St 40 61 AMwer elsewhree on this page EQUINE TREATMENT - Mrs. Eaton Chalkley (Susan Hayward) of Carrollton Ga., went all the way to Hollywood to shoe a horse, Tom, for a scene in the motion picture "Woman Obsessed." Susan will have plenty of demand for her services among ths horses on her 300-acre farm in rural Georgia. THEFACM FRONT Of interest to tomato growers and home gardeners across Canada, is the recent announcement that several new tomato varities developed at the Experimental Farm, Summerland, B.C., are being released for limited trial in 1959. These varieties are the first introductions resulting from an extensive tomato breeding program initiated at Summerland in 1953, as a co-operative project in which Mr. L. G. Denby has directed the breeding work and Mr. G. E. Woolliams has conducted the disease screening Through their combined efforts, these new tomato varities have th unique characteristic of being the first tomatoes. (Sejzeloped in Canadia which are": •corfipletely resistant to existing 'strains of Verticillium wilt.' -tf" Jfc In a recent interview, Mr. Denby stated that the new varieties have evidenced considerable promise under Okanagan conditions. Bred primarily for Verticillium resistance, earliness, and fine fruit quality, the plants are of the self-pruning or bush type, and are not designed for staking. In recent trials at Summer-land, they successfully met every expectation; however, Mr. Denby hastened to point out that this is no reason to expect that they will prove to be outstanding under very different climatic and soil conditions in other parts of Canada. Several acres of the new introductions will be planted commercially in 1959, and grower reaction will determine the steps to be taken in the final selection before the varieties are named. Major changes in Record of Performance for purebred swine to make the tests mare useful have been announced by officials of the Canada Department of Agriculture. Headlining the changes is the removal of qualifying standards fo" sows and boars, which were based on carcass desirability only. Reducing the emphasis on carcass score should result in more attention to the economically-important factors of feed utilization and age for weight. The term "qualified for advanced registry" will be discontinued. In its place, an average will be provided for each station or province for; (1) Age for weight; (2) Carcass score; and (3) Feed utilization. Deciding the merits of a breeding pig will be left to the judgment of the individual farmer or breeder. The department will limit its part to providing the facts brought out by the tests. Changes in the system of carcass scoring are designed to place still greater emhpasis on desirable leanness. To do this, certain factors, such as type and balance, will be dropped and points for area of loin and low back fat will be increased. In a move to get a more direct representation of breeders on its advisory board, the department is asking each test station committee to appoint a breeder representative to the board. It will also include representatives of national breeder organizations. The changes will be applied to animals tested with groups farrowed after Jan. 1 this year. Up to 110,000,000 pounds of Canadian dry skimmed milk will be used this year. D. B. Good-willie, dairy merchandising expert, has predicted. He told the Canadian Milk Powder Manufacturers' Association in Toronto that 100,000,00 pounds were used in 1958 -- or ten per cent more than ever before. At the same time, stocks at the firsit of this year were the highest on record. He noted that 1958 production was a record 186,000,000 pounds, four times greater than just seven years ago, due to the growth of whole milk creameries, price, and increased milk production. Because of new plants and capacity or over capacity operations, quality last year was the poorest since 1951. However, experts of almost 50,000,000 pounds were highest On record. World prices today are from eight to 10 cents -- somewhat higher than a year ago. The Agricultural Stabilization Board bought about 100,000„000 pounds of powdered milk in 1958, about 75 per cent beng spray process. All of it came from Ontario and Quebec. The Board is still being offered several cars a week, but purchases are currently running •about half a year ago at this time. Careful Of Those Hitch-Hikers! There are still vast areas of America and seasons of the year in still others where one does not pass up a roadside figure gesturing his request to be picked up by the oncoming motorist. His is just as likely to be a real need as simply a money-saving hope. And there are innocent "thumbers" too: the soldier or sailor or the college boy headed home for a brief "liberty" or a week-end holiday from classes. But the very definitely non-. innocent have been spoiling it for the innocent. And more and more the motorist is having to consider the risks -- to balance them against his natural impulse to be generous, perhaps his desire for company if on a long drive alone. For, says the American Automobile Association, "two out ot five thumbs raised to beg a ride have their prints on file with the police." And it has gone on record nationally to outlaw the practice. Furthermore, the AAA warns, in many states a hitchhiker becomes legally a guest rider who can sue his host for damages should he be injured in an accident. "Thumbing" is already illegal in 22 states; it is against military regulations for servicemen, and it is forbidden on a number of turnpikes. Here is another instance where burgeoning populations and the greater mobility of people makes it likely that those one encounters are strangers -- unless proved otherwise. It doesn't mean that helpfulness and neighborliness must disappear. It does mean that, more and more, they must be partners to discretion -- An Editorial in The Christian Science Monitor LESSON "Well, how did you like my speech?" asked the after-lunch orator. "The end was really good, wasn't it?" "Oh, yes, very good; but it came too late." By Rev R B Warren, B.A., B.O. Forgiveness Through the Cross Luke 23: 18-49 Memory Selection: Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. Luke 23:34. Of the seven sayings of Jesus on the cross, the first two are words of forgiveness. For those who crucified Him, He prayed. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." To the plea of the penitent thief who just a little time before had railed on him, He said, "Today thou shalt be with me in paradise. In New Zealand while the Lord's Supper was being celebrated, a native arose and returned to his seat, but later knelt again. He said, "When I went to the table I did not know whom I would have to kneel beside, when suddenly I saw by my side the man who, a few years before, slew my father and drank his blood, and whom I then devoted to death. "Imagine what I felt when I suddenly found him by my side. A rush of feeling came over me that I could not endure, and I went back to my seat. But when I got there I saw the upper sanctuary and the Great Supper, and I thought I heard a voice saying, 'By this shall men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another.' That overpowered me. I at once seemed to see another vision of a cross with a man nailed to it, and I heard Him say: 'Father forgive them for they know not what they do.' Then I returned to the altar." Jesus said, "If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." Matthew 6:15. Yet how many there are in this so-called Christian land who do not forgive. It may be within the immediate family or the larger family of the community. This one thing is clear: in the heart where there is not a complete forgiveness toward all, there is not* forgiveness from God. No church ordinance or any degree of works in the church will bring God's forgiveness until we are ready, by the gpace of God, to forgive everyone. When God's love fills us, it overflows through us to our fellow men. ^_ "O love of God, how rich and pure, How measureless and strong; It shall forevermore endure. The saints' and angels' song." A diamond is one of the hardest substances known to man, and particularly hard to get back. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 3TNTiyiS|3|A|qms|A|V|n nvaifl i xglADvTa ISSUE 12 -- 1959 JET AGE COMES TO SARDINIA - Carrying of her ancestors, an elderly woman of Sa home on the Mediterranean island The ai momannu, where they come from bases in firing over a NATO range on Sardinia. from the well in the centuries-old manner watches Canadian jets take off near her are at the RCAF's Air Weapons Unit in Deci-:ntal Europe to practice gunnery and rocket