TRINCERUPERT | THE PACIFIC pORT OF aewices- THE DAILY NEWS | GRUNTY GRUNDY SAYS: All the admirers of Fenimore Cooper's stories are going down to ON. R com iTY OF PROJECT FROM The Daily News 24 That the determined not the bay canal until} construction ree somercial fea- was made commission oject, hert Rogers in a the horse to- Rogers went into} After point e expenditures the channel j ad ip mn. ig ease system OBT. ROGERS SAYS. NOTHING» WILL BE DO MISSION OF BUSINESS MEN DECIDE ON FEAMBI COMMERCIAL STANDPO! depth | the G. T. P. wharf tomorrow to see the mayor come home with Bowser’s scalp hanging from his hip pocket. . PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS iil. MACKENZIE DENIES CHARGE AGAINST C.N.R. ‘ndiR Drm. ms view that anthing remained except to find out the possibilities of the from an engineering This is highly desir- undertaking the doubts as to the of the set rest to named consist of business men who give their iIwhose recommendation he enidoreet the Ble proposed lroute | standpoint. able before | work, and all icommercial feasibility be al be Cae The will wills nal should commission and ae free the agrees | rvices | gov- Lo may unreservedly accept no matter what they | be. % fernment LL HAVE MONOPOLY ON LAKE SHAWATLANS y One Power Boat Will Be Allowed on the Lake for Traffic \. Swanson offered to 1 the city to carry freight across in his power is received several d formal tenders for rhe city nended that hired at a price ther boat be en- only per allowed why allowed. not inted to know ild be M ind—There ess Tor M We have mtrol 1s two. water we of all the thought the the that water cits poses vhis with wonld It boat ply- while the water. Gd he had on to find out ition men would i their freight the tender would freight. agreed 1 tl there freight lv one iat was Ae hat only nens Gibbons Won on Points Che Daily News Feb, 24.—-Mike Paul out- Brooklyn Brooklyn easily of in loy ! bout TO a tae Extraordinary ! Bix-ree! All Feature Program at the WESTHOLME OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT Headed by Tha ‘he great three-reei ‘houser Feature “ CARMEN 9 With *“PPropriate music Orchestra by the BRITISH GAZETTE The Great Refined Comedy “A MIGHTY ATOM" funniest Keystone Comedy ®ver shown here Pn ; 4E WOULD A-HUNTING @o” Two shows An ‘only, at 7 p.m. and oS p.m, Prices of admission: Lower floor two rows baloony, 260; ) Children, 100, And ftipgt Gallery, 15 ak tote FOI I I SEVERAL PETITIONS TO CITY ALDERMEN Numerous Requests for Sundry Considerations From the Council a number to most of from pro- The of little them last them went whence they viding they The B. C, gineers stated local branch city council had handed bul into committee, later ost. things up evening, will issue are not | Union of Steam En- they y had a in Prince Rupert and asked the same consider tion for their members as given the International union, They recommended the appoint- nov by ] aiso ment of Mr. Valentine as engi- neer of the pump at Shawatlans, he being a member of their union. It was turned over to the board of works. The Rupert Marine and Tron works asked a reduction in the electric power rate from 9 cents 6 cents, pointing out that it was as low as 2 cents in Van- couver and local people could not compete with Vancouver products at the prices paid here. Ten others signed the petition. Some of them use power and others want to. The request was turned over to the light and power committee. H Ek. Gampp asked again about the four-foot walk which he petitioned for some time ago. He is ready to build, He and some others asked for a _ half- inch water main in section eight These were left to the board of works Ald. Maitland said the former petition was under the Local Improvement Act, and ap- city is not prepared local improve- parently the to proceed with yet ment work STEFANSSON IS SAFE SAYS DEPUTY MINISTER Has Received Further Details From Arctic Expedition Which Say Karluk Is All Right The Special to Daily News Ottawa, Feb. 24.—Further de- tails from Stefansson, the Arctic and his ship the Karluk G, J. Des- explorer, have been received by deputy minister of naval affairs. The details assure the leputy minister that the Karluk and all on board her are safe on the ship, which is probably ice blocked on North Beechy Point, They may not get to Herschel Island, Prince Patriek ITslands, until next summer, barats, Give Prisoners Exercise The city medic al health offi- cer in his monthly report to the had city council stated that he been oalled in to treat a num- ber of prisoners in jail and at- tributed their complaints to lack of exercise. He suggested they be given work. His report show- ed twelve births during January and no deaths. | DOG RACE RUN FROM "DPA ENTOMBED WHOLE WEEK DUG OUT STILL ALIVE Miner Given ‘Up as Dead Was Found Alive and Will Fully Recover Special to The Daily News Seattle, Feb. 24.—-Mike Davas- onick, one of the two coal min- entombed in the cave-in at the Cannon mine, Pacific Coast Coal company, a week ago, was given up Yesterday he rescued although he weakened by lack of ers as dead. wus alive, was terribly food. The mine physicians say there is every prospect of his recovering normal strength TWELVE STATION MEN DREW LOTS FOR JOBS Only Six Winners and Six Blanks —Price Has Not Yet Been Fixed I'welve representatives a dozen station gangs who were selected as good men g the city work, met up tn the en- gineer’s office at noon today. There were twelve tickets put in a box; six of them were number ed and six were blank. The man who drew a number got that’sta- yee OME TO SOLOMON . VE 'G/ . Two Hunde Fifty Animals Ue Pires andicap Won he on id Hall me, Alask Feb, 21.—The ae Gr ¢ e given by the "Mo se, finishing | reemeition, the zes for whieh | three silver cups donated by citizens, was by Burgh and Hall’s team Earl Modini was second and Bill Allan was third. Twenty teams in a!! were en- tered. The total number. of dogs participating was 250 John Johnson’s team was a pretty sight, mntmbering thirty Siberian hounds A dainty ban- quet was given the racers and lady passengers by local Mvuose it Solomon. The Log Cabin Club will con- test the order of the _ federal court compelling Sunday clos- ing. kL kT. ] {ON. WALTER LONS IN THE BRITISH HOUSE WANT FREE WATER Horticultural Society Send Dele- gation to Make Modest De- mand of Council tion on the Shawatlans pipe trench excavation. The six lucky ones were: Station 1—Errick Carlson Station 2—J. Lindquist. Station 3—M. Couture. Station 4—Falconer Keith Station 5—Win. McLean. Station 6—Victor Essen The price per yard for this ex-| eavation work has not yet been] fixed and as the'late policy of} rush has been changed to one of| marking time, the price will not} be fixed just yet. It is intended | now to take the station men out to look at the jobs they drew and ask them how much they want If the price can be agreed upon the job will go, if not—we the committee has not got that far vel. Sewer for Borden St. The city health committee has recommended a private sewer to be built on Borden street and Fifth Avenue. The drainage for these is now running down the hill to Fraser Street The sewer is to empty into the BRighth St. sewer at the foot of the hill, As the city has no money the lot owner will have to pay the whole cost as a private enterprise. It is estimated to cost about $2000, instructed The city council has the city engineer to get out plans for the board of works St, Redraw s Church has been granted permission to build a sidewalk and steps up the hill in rear of the church from Third Avenue. This is to accommo- date the congregation living down town, j Pantorium Pioneer Cleaners, A committee of four repre senting the Prince Rupert Hor- | iticultural s was the first business on the program at the ‘ity council last evening. They were Provincial Horticulturist lomlinson, Secretary Harris, D. G, Stewart and M. M, Stephens The latter addressed the coun- cil first, telling of the object of the society in encouraging the improvement of city properties by making lawns and gardens. |°! They are a young society with a|™ big ‘program ahead of them this year. They cannot manage all of it and request the council to assist them by giving free water for sprinkling lawns and by pur- chasing a stump puller which the city will need on its own prop- erty and which citizens might rent from the city for use in fix- ing up private properties Mr. -Tomlinson said he ex- pected the society would get aid from the government when thes were a little older. In the mean- time a $200 stump puller would be a very serviceable machine for the citizens who have shown a great deal of interest in the society's work. The acting mayor thought the request reasonable and mention ed that the cily would need the clear the ceme- Che city engineer stump puller t tery property. would recomme! d the free use of water for lawns rp . rhe request, went into the hands of a committee. Tacoma Team Ready Special to The Daily News Tacoma, Feb, 24,—Tronman McGinnity, manager of the Ta coma team in the Northwestern league, has announeed the names already 1914 signed up for He said contraets for more men are out. This ment makes the lineup Tacoma team complete, exceptionally of Some Phene 4 See our show windows. AND STUMP PULLER of 27 players who have eontracts the sea of five state- the fine bar- gains at Cameron's discount sale. 3otf HAVE BIG CONTRACT ON FRASER RIVER Former City ‘Rnelness with | Partner Are Undertaking Big Work in Southern B. C. Mahlon Colonel Davis, who was Prince Rupert's first city engineer, will shortly be engaged upon a big work in the south. His firm, Messrs. Davis & Leslie, have been entrusted with the laying out of the North Fraser harbor. Both Colonel Davis and Majo1 Leslie have had wide experience in engineering large railway and harbor undertakings, and Major Leslie was for some years Do- minion government engineer on j}the Grand Trunk Pacific in }northern British Columbia. The firm have been appointed for 3ritish Co- llumbia of the well known English | harbor Douglas | Fox and GREENHORN FIGHTER OUTFOUGHT VETERAN California Kid Proves to Be a Wonder With His Right and Left Swings | representatives engineers, Sir partners, The Unionist challenge. In the —_——— house of commons last week Special to The Daily News Walter Long challenged As- San Francisco, Feb, 24.,—Billy quith to go to the country on|Murray of Sacramento, a green- the home rule-issue, and Mr.|horn fighter, fresh from the pre- Austen Chamberlain declared|liminary ranks, defeated the vet- that there could be no settle-|}eran Leo Houck of Philadelphia ment without the exclusion ofjin fourteen rounds of what was Ulster. to be a twenty-round bout. Houck stood helpless in his cor- ner ‘sagging against the ropes, dazed by the volley of right and left swings on his Jaw, when the referee gave the decision. Water Good, Milk Just Passed medical health eported to the city he had analyzed and found it espect The milk ust passed of the ) spare. The eity offi- council the city pure in every in the require- with noth- sold the bylaw, inveatiantion on Vadso Wreck | Following instructions from Ottawa an investigation was held in Vaneouver on Friday on he wreck of the steamer Vadso the Union line, which was jwrecked on February 3rd, near | Nasoga gulf. The marine court }was under Capt. MePherson and itwo nautical Capt. Riehardson and officers f the ship were wit- The yet given. CITY LIGHT AND PHONE ARE MAKING MONEY assessors all the called verdict has not 0 as Both Departments Yield Big Profits by Charging Big Rates The monthly report from the city electrical engineer and tele- phone superintendent shows the cily lighting plant to have net earnings for the month of Janu- ary of $2,750.77. During the same period the telephone de- partment showed a net revenue of $1,371.38. This profit amounts to more than the total operating expenses for the month, which were $1,313.62. Thus, had the consumer paid only half the price there would still have been enough revenue to pay operating expenses, In the telephone department the net profit is fifty per cent of the expenditures, so that if a re- duction of one-third in price was the department could. still iis way. made pas G. Johnston, man- Inverness cannery: M. Christian and W. L. Howell started out for Inverness can- nery last evening, but came ‘back on account of the storm. Messrs, R, izer of the OVE RNMENT WANTS TO SEND THOMPSON UP AGAIN-COMMISSION ON GEORGIAN BAY CANAL EORGIAN BAY CANAL MUST BE REPORTED ON BY COMMISSION PUBLIC MONEY DID NOT GO INTO PRIVATE COMPANIES OF RY. KINGS SIR WILLIAM MACKENZIE ISSUES PUBLIC STATEMENT CON- CERNING CHARGES AGAINST C. N. R. AND ITS MIS- APPROPRIATION OF PUBLIC AID Special to The Daily News offers an explanation, stating Ottawa, Feb. 24.—Sir William that he gives official figures Mackensie has issued ° @ state }stomele He makes a general te ae tha GoM. Wi oe statement that there have been TAP, Meer te N+ M SYS) niaced, on the statute books of tem and its relation to the publiel@gnada many millions in cash assistance it has received. The|subsidies and that the C. N. R. statement conmences dealing|has earned millions of dollars cn with the charges that the C. N. R.|bond guarantees which never system has been subsidized in|progressed any further than the excess of its legitimate require-|original authorizing legislation. ments, and that the money voted|He emphatically denies that any by parliament has been diverted|money ever found its way into to Messrs. Mackenzie, Mann &/the private enterprises of Mac- company’s private purposes. He|kenzie and Mann. et WILL THOMPSON COME AGAIN TO REPORT ONHYDRO ELECTRIC? RUMOR HAS IT THAT THE 4E PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT WANTS DETAILED PLANS AND ESTIMATES OR THEY WILL NOT COME THROUGH WITH LOAN EXTENSION Acting Mayor Last evening out knowing where the money is Morrissey stated that no news}/¢oming from, : The fact that the provincial from the mayor had been receiv- government wants to see the ed concerning. the business of the} i .timates before they will sanc- city which he went upon. Yet}tion any deal would indicate that there is a persistent rumor inj|the motion _.presented by seme municipal circles that intima-|of the aldermen a week ago to tion has come from Victoria that|have complete estimates before the government will not listen to}any work was started, was a rea- the city’s proposition until com-|sonable proposition. However, plete plans’ of the undertaking|/having turne ddown this motion have been made and detajled es-|at the council board the majority timates submitted to Victoria. could not with grace accept it Col. Thompson, the engineer|from the government. who reported on this scheme of As the question stands now, the city’s three years ago, has|the hydro-electric proposition lately become an officer of the|will mark time until the mayor provincial government on _ a/returns, and it is almost certain $10,000 salary It it said the]}the aldermen will oppose Mr. premier wants to send him up/]Thompson coming here again. here again to report on the There was a secret session of scheme. This proposition, how-|the city council last evening ever, does not meet wih thelafter the regular meeting and it approval of some of the alder-jis thought that this was the sub- men, who want to go ahead with-'ject discussed. a Fined $3 Each for Gambling court Cigars at Weigh Scales coal dealers want to weigh coal at the city scales Some local The police was crowded again this morning with Greeks|pyt no one is in charge of the and Montenegrins looking for ajscales and the fees are not suf- decision in the Two Star hotel|fieent to pay for a scale master, gambling case. The city purchasing agent was Mr. Patmore had the case in|asked to report on the question hand for the defence. He en-|to the city council and he has deavored to show that the bench suggested that the weigh scales had no authority to aceepf, an|house be enlarged and the city admission from the prisoners as|grant free light, rent and tele- a plea of guilty, but was unsuc-}phone to someone to open a Ci- cessful in convincing Magistrate|gar and news-stand there and Carss. attend to the scales. The city is In view of all the cireum-j|to get a percentage of the scales stances, a small fine of $3 and|fees. It was left to the Board of costs was imposed on each of}|Works to report on. the 34 prisoners—with promise ee of better things if they appear in Keep your eye on Port Edward, court again on a similar charge. 39-tf a 7 aa a SaaS ABBR OGOURIO OOOO OOOO ORO ARI RIE MAJESTIC THEATRE TO-NIGHT SPECIAL --- Extra Freres Grand Spectacular Photoplay “ROMEO AND JULIET” Special Grand Opera ‘selectiong will be played during this SOOO fg pag a Extra Pathe in two parts film by the orchestra. “THE MOUNTAIN WIFE”—Drama. “SCROGGINS, THE OFFICIAL CENSOR’’—Comedy. Don't miss the great fight between Jack Johnson vs. Flynn This great fight is shown in detail; also Johnson's train- ing quarters, Only official pictures, A special price of 25c and 10c has been arranged so that all may attend. “Pictures shown Monday and Tuesday. PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIAAIAAAIISAAAASISISISAASISASISISAAACSC III III IRI II IAD IODA ATA IIA AAAS A SARA SA AAAAIS