hn SAY ~ He DAILY NEWS , \ GRUNTY GRUNDY SAYS: Rupert's feading Paper If the big tmperial oll com= OLE» ELIABLE ALive ing ovoant the ‘ona Feet? kind . ‘aio will be a steady customer. L. V., No. 148 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1944. PRICE FIVE CENTS ene ene a Eee SAXE, OF COLLIER, PARTIALLY REPSPONSIBLE FOR WRECK DISASTER--RETURN OF PROSPERITY PRINCE RUPERT'S PROGRESS JUSTIFIESFAITH IN FUTURE | CAPT, STORK IN REMINISCENT MOOD REFERS TO OLD Time CONDITIONS IN CITY IN COMPARISON WITH TODAY— SPLENDID ADDRESS AT B, OF T. LUNCHEON Feed, Stork nd was the | i we have our permanent f honor at the Board ! juarters and a live commissione wheon todey and deliv.|iIn the gathering today there are iddress, Capt. Stor} lig ny of the’ old faces and the real oldtimers and lever case those men are bette; spoke today in a remin-[off. Prince Rupert gas been good od there was none bet » them. ed to speak on old time Local | ple are not so well han he, i qualified t ndge of the future of in opening that were i is those who come to us to pass a ve pert- | fron tside and they are all stone in our history, We j enthusiastic eaking with the past and | Looking bat over the last six conditions end about ears, hows we can see great upon the ways of a mod_/|developa s and it is folly to It was theref f gv) think th hat progress will-stop. refer ihe past Sa Fra s Portland, Seattle irs ago business s di ind Va rare great cities plank stre and Lit he te nals of done whe ba t The te is of have g ded sia ere i int be a village. mobiles Wh ha ali these advan- ‘ nte po s was/|tlages the spirit of our 1 by the ld S.8S. Hazel-j1 I that will make Rupert a e have steel rails and/e il cars li g, Capt. Stork com- d of Trade vas an|} nn Messrs Munro and fac I 1 th early | Rochester the fine new Prince 1k the place of a Cit Ruy H |, It was in every way i did excellent work in|worthy of a great city and it was g the franchises of thela f gl ite to the faith of Poday the Board has expand. | those pioneers, IMPERIAL OIL STORAGE TANKS TO BE ERECTED IMMEDIATELY VICE-PRESIDENT STILLMAN AND ENGNEER MONTGOMERY HERE TODAY—CONTRACT FOR GRADING IS LET— TANKS READY iN SARNIA, ONTARIO \ Preside Si s S bled ] erial O { pa j @ oO . ; f; M : iy g his B t the w It I nu t i stat f he I mpiet I When the Pris R ; rh s are i le fuel oil will wee tupe ‘ fig et by Mr. Woodland, the| 2° Stored in the big tanks and the G, T. P, boats and engines will resentat . i lraw th supply from this Stillman says work ¢ th ‘ 1 for the big plant he Mrs. Stillman accompanies her l immediately. The Beers sband here rhey are regis Lid., have the contra ered at the Prince Rupert, and vork. Mr. Beers ! eave again Monday morning. nection with his cor i drydoc K, te atin at . th ss ‘a The Empress Hays 1 whe , : ‘ The next great roduction of everal acres leased f I p hy Players Company will will be five tanks ill rh Vicar of Wakefield.’ ! lifferent ela s of oil, | These splendid pictures will be big tanks will be 115 feet a the Empress next Monday eter, rhe material i | lay it fora COU UII OULU AREA ALEC AE EaR aR aE aE a aE The Empress Theatre . TO-NIGHT . “The Flying Circus”’ A THRILLING SPECTACULAR FEATURE IN 3 REELS This ts a wonderful picture and entirely out of the usual run, The rescue of a young girl from a burning buiiding by the Tight Rope Walker is thrilling, but the performers second feat is simply marvelous, He walks up a tight rope fastened to the ground at one end and to the tower of a tall building at the other, There are many other features that stamp this as a picture of most extraordinary merit, 4-- Four Great Comedies --4 The comedy portion of our tonight’s program is particu- larly attractive, They are as follows:— “THE TRIALS OF A RENT COLLECTOR,” a 2.. “THE MASCOT.” 3, “LEOS’ VACATION,” 4. “MR, BINK'’S GOUTY TOE.” Admission: 15 Cents Children: 10 Cents SEE EEE EEE EAE EERE EEE REE ERE ERR ERE RE RAH ED 2001111 II II II SIDI SII SAIS IIS ISSISIS ISIS IA. ;a One x G r Pi ees | eet a | jee a | | 'k, Set BEER ai hee we Where the Official Enquiry Into tt land Is Be THE QUEBEC COURT HOUSE ie Wreck of the Empress of Ire- Held ing KEKE ERE RHR KE HE e * . GRANITE * * sia | * Granite of best quality #| * and thoroughly tested for *} * sale, Cut stone or crushed ¥| * rock in quantities, * | . NEIL J, McLEOD, # | * Telephone: Green 217 ¥ * tf * ~ * oe ee el BOXING BOUT WILL BE SPLENDID EXHIBITION Chet Neff and Rough House Burns Will Draw Big Crowd on Tuesday Night The boxing bout between Chet Neff and Rough House Burns h has ed for the ning of June 30th, will un-| loubtedly be the exhibition | that has yet be led off in Rupert and the sports are resery ng seats in ant pation of a splendid exhibit f boxing. Both Burns and Net! are excep- tionally clever in the class and the winner will challenge for the lightweight championship of Can- j ada Neff will \ egin his first work out in the ciiz tonight with Monte Label and many be out to s him up, Burns has already won many supporters in the city and they willing to back him liberally o win The bout will be held in the Westholme on Tuesday evening ind the prometers are passing the tip to get your seat early, Want to Furnish Free Beer The manager of the Prince Ru- has received a com- munication from Mr, Post, rep resenting the Vancouver brewery, asking for a space of 250 square feet in the exhibition hall for dis- pert fair n play purposes, Mr, Post is will- ing to make What would un doubtedly be a popular attraction by offering to give away free beer, but the management is a little dubious about granting such a concession, They fear the offer would detract from the educa- nal feature of the exhibition, Lots of Sockeye Outside Yesterday and last night there was good sockeye fishing outside the Skeena and nearly all the boats averaged 100, which is catch for so early in the One seine last night got a bigger than the biggest haul of last year. So far the fish are all the river, River big season, catch outside Bptist Church Morning worship and Sunday School, if a.m,; evening wors!}.ip, 7:30. The will “The Seeking Savior” morning, Pastor speak on in the and on “Canadian Op portunities and Responsibilities,” SOOO IN A a Se in the evening. You are welcome, ee early in the morning on July ist to for the parade, badges 148-149 receive their KKK KKH HHH HHH HH * NOTICE * eicicngaetl * The Canadian Fraternity * rooms will be officially open- * ed on June 29, Members are * requested to be on hand * * * . * * KR HH HHH HK RATE WAR. ON SKEENA ON PRICE OF SOCKEYES Rupert Cannery Buying From Boats Supplied by Skeena Canneries The Skeena River canners are having quite a fight with the Prince Rupert cannery over the j independent fishermen, The can- ners have an organization which includes all the Ganneries but the Rupert one, and they have an agreement. to pay 15 cents to in- dependent fishermen for sockeye salmon. The independent fish- ermen are all parceled out among the Skeena River canneries and the Rupert cannery has very few regular fishermen, They biry their fish from the independent fishermen who are beats and nets belonging to Skeena can- heries, using ys zo cents They are paying a fish for sockeyes. It is said yesterday one Skeena cannery took the boat and gear away from two white fishermen for selling to thé Rupert canne and others are being warned, The Skeena canneries, it ry is un tood derstood, are making overtures to the Rupert cannery to settle the rate war by allowing a number of boats to fish for Rupert can nery regularly. Dynamite Accident Paddy Creagh, who the Hazelton District met with a painful accident Thursday, He was thawing powder at noon and in manner of the sticks of dynamite was overlook ed when he took the round out of the tunnel, Coming back at sup- he built a fire and was bending over ithe stove putting on potatoes when there was a terri- tle which tore oul end of the cabin and loosened up the country in general, Creagh’s injuries consisted of two shatter- ed fingers, Is Starting a tunnel on Brian Boru Group, some one per time explosion face scorched and cut and body bruised. How he escap- ed with his life is a mystery, His wounds were Dr, Wrinch, dressed by Chaleopyrite, Silver Pick Bonded W. F. Brewer, of Hazelton, bas taken a bond on the Si * Piek, a promising galena property on Ning Mile Mountain. The claim which is located a mil« ia half from the Silver Cup, i be de veloped this season, ‘The own ers are Ben Peterson 1 Sperry Cline, The priee has ot been made public, SONS OF ENGLAND Second League Match Between Soccer Teams Proved Good Game The second game in the City tup Compet nm, between the Sons of England and the Callies was played off on the Drydock ,@rounds last night, when the large gathering of spectators jcoals | Martin, who made the walk from the city had the pleasure of witnessing a rather struggle, The game was by no means so on the night, the Englishmen putting up stiff opposition to the Callies who however managed to four in the first half through Macdonald, Mellravey, Abbott and by which they led at half time, In the second portion, play was fairly although the Eng- lishmen tried desperately to bet- ter their position. This they ul- timately did, through Hardy, but shortly afterwards Macdonald and scored a fifth Callies, With no the final whistle went with the Callies winning a od game by five goals to one, The following were the teams:- Sons of England: Hutchinson, Bell and Kelsey; Shrubsall, Tink- er and Kelf; Hardy, Schoffield, Davis, Kemp and Craig. Callies: Gilmour;. Williseroft and W. R. Martin; Kelly, Abbott and Mcllrayey;. Gray, Stewart: Macdonald, A, Martin and Murray. Mr. A. Holmberg discharged his duties referee in a capable manner, interesting one-sided as previous score score quiet, through for the scoring, went point more BELIEVES OPENING OF GT.P. ABOUT AUG. 15 Coliingwood Schreiber and R. B, Kelliher Make Official Tour of Road “IT believe the official opening of the Grand Trunk Pacifie will be about August 15th,” said Mr. Collingwood Schreiber, Chief En- of the Dominion of Can- ada, who is here, accompanied by RB. B. Kelliher, Chief Engineer of the G, TP. Mr. Schreiber thinks the Duke of Connaught will drive the gwold- en spike, but if he cannot per- form the ceremony it is probable sorden will do it. Schreiber has just made through trip -over the road and is pleased with its con- eineer that Premier Mr his first struction, The shoe-flies around (he uncompleted cuts in the in- terior are now being removed and gangs are busy all along the line between Priestly and Fort George ballasting the road bed, Mr. Schreiber is accompanied by his wife Their party le¢ves today for the south, YESTERDAY'S BASERALL American Boston, 2; New Detroit, 1; Chicago, Washington, 9; Philadelphia, 0 forfeited), Cieveland, 0; St. Louis, Washington, 5; Philadelphia, 6, York, 9 1, 9 National New York, 8; Boston, Philedalphia, 4 St. Louis, 3; Chicago, 6; New York, Chicago, .4; innings; called darkness), i a. ; Brooklyn, 7, Pittsburg, 3, Cincinanti, 2, 10; Boston, &, Cincinnati, 0, account (7 of Coast Oakland, 4; Sacramenio, 9, Venice, 3; San Francisco, 2. Portland, 0; Los Angeles, 44, Northwestern Seattle, 5; Portland, 4. Victoria, 0; Spokane, 4. Vancouver, 3; Tacoma, 0. CALLIES DEFEATED | TENDENCY OF EVIDENCY IS AGAINST COLLIER STORSTAD (Special to The Daily News) Quebec, June 27. wheel was first put to port and| ported helm took her into the sta- | he had the when steerage way, his address responsible for the disaster and helm. He reasoned that (Special to The Daily News) Ottawa, June 27.—Morley Don- of the crops. the harvest in the West will be eonsiderably larger than last and declares that: with a bountiful harvest will come im- provement in-trade conditions throughout the country, year VESSEL PUT HARD TO PORT WHEN STARBOARD—THIRD OFFICER OF STORSTAD SAID TO BE THE GUILTY PARTY . |to cause the wound from which -Because the |the Empress sank, asked the commission to find the| personal responsibility for testimony of the crew of ‘he Stor- | disaster during the hearing was stad was inaccurate when they|made when Aspinal held that the claimed the collier answered the | third officer, Saxe, not being au- the | thorized and who took the col- changed course of the vessel on/lier’s wheel from the helmsman MORLEY DONALDSON PREDICTS — EARLY RETURN OF PROSPERITY IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN Aspinall argued that to find the Empress starboarded helm would ficer in charge put it hard to port Ibe to charge Kendall with per- jury. Butler Aspinall in the course of| Kendall telling a deliberate lie to the commission | when contended that the Storstad was | death. He scoffed at the idea of he only recently faced The first definite suggestion of the portd helm took her into the sta_|and put her hard aport was the tionary liner with sufficient speed culprit in the case. BOUNTIFUL HARVEST PROMISED FOR THIS YEAR—FREIGHT SERVICE TO RUPERT SOON—LIMITED PASSEN- GER SERVICE TILL NEXT YEAR About the middle or end of Au- wust the G, T. P, line to Prince aldson brings encouraging news|Kupert from Winnipeg will be- He prediets that|gin to operate a thorough freight service, In the meantime an early limited passengep service through te the Pacific terminal point will be put on and a first class passenger service will be operated next spring. Great Game July 1st The management of the base- baH team are arranging to give] the best game on July ist that] has yet been seen in Prince Rup- ert. Ketchikan claims to have a classy ball team and they are coming down with a bunch of rooters to help them win, The Rupert team has been strength-/} ened and the boys are putting in m good practice every evening in preparation for the big holiday game, “Mickey” Howell, of Stewart, is one of the new recruits. He has come down to the hub as the mining town is dead, and he wants to get into the ball game. He was out to. parctice last night. Kicks on Small Berry Boxes H, D, Larhart, of Remo, up the a protest to the society about the competition the up river straw- berry growers have to meet on the Rupert market, He says the Rupert merchants buy false bottom boxes of berries at $2.50 a crate and sell them at $6 fo $8, while-up river growers haye to furnish a full quart bex makes agricultural Skeena, under Canadian law and get no more for it than the United States grower, He wants to see a Rupert market without eom- mission merchants, Prominent Liberal 11! (Sperial to The Daily News) Moncton, N.B., June 27,—Hon, H, R. Emmerson is reported to be brighter and resting easily, on SOCIAL DANCE Will Be Held inf the ST. ANDREW’S HALL Tuesday, June 30 Night Before Dominion Day Splendid Music will be fur- nished and a good time is assured all who attend GT. P. PAYMASTER VISITS PRINCE RUPERT Will Make Monthly Trip Between Edmonton and the Terminal Port J. C, Hill, the G, T. P, pay- master, was in the city yesterday having come through in his car from Winnipeg with the pay checks, This was the second passenger train to come through, Mr, Hill said he was surprised at the built up appearance and size of the city which he had the pleasure of visiting for the first time. For the present time Mr, Hill will probably make monthly trips from Edmonton to Rupert, but a little later the pay office staff will probably be located in Rupert. This morning Mr. Hill and sey- eral officials who accompanied him, left on the Prince Rupert for the south, while the car will be sent back over the line to Ed- monton, While you wait shoe repairing. . German's, opposite postoffice. . 139-tf. GREAT COMEDY PROGRAM At the WESTHOLM TMG 1, WEEKLY GAZETTE . 2,.HOW FILMY WON HIS BRIDE.— Fine Than- hauser Comedy, 3.TWO REEL WESTERN FEATURE : “In the Cow Country.” 4,O0UR MUTUAL GIRL.— ' Seventh Instalment, 5. BUNNY BUYS A HAREM. —Side-splitting Bunny Comedy, 4 Pantorium Pioneer Cleaners Tickets: - Gents, $1,00 Phone A, ii Admission 106 and 160 3 iy REE SPST eS ae Re. ae) tet le TY an