ata THE DAILY NEWS . THE DAILy NEws THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN Published Daily and Weekly Guaranteed Largest Circulation H. F. McRAB, EDITOR AND MANAGER HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, 3rd Ave, TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVER rates on application. BRITISH COLUMBIA Prince Rupert, B.C, Telephone 98. TISING—50 cents per inch. Gontract DAILY EDITION E D } It is difficult to insure the | | honest expenditure of public | money. The grafter and the | unscrupulous contractor are! to be found in all party organ. | izations. Many of them are adroit enough to be Liberals when the Liberals are in pow- er and Conservatives when the loaves and fishes are distribut- ed by a Tory government. The most serious feature of this bi- partisan rascality is that the unscrupulous contractor, re- membering the tricks that he has played in the past to se- eure a dishonest profit and hoping to practice like knavery in the future, is often in a po- tition to put in a lower bid than the man who wants to do hon- est work at a fair price. ee 6 From a certain Ontario town there has come to The Globe a letter respecting a public building now in process of con- struction, which cannot be published in the form in which it was written, because if the allegations contained in it are not provable it would be most improper to give the name of the contractor. It is charged that the contractor in this case, through connivance with the inspectors, has been able, where reinforcing of concrete called for expanding metal, to use instead a rusty fence; old iron in another case that flour. IT OR ROYAL Vancouver Nanaimo where 8-inch squa ee ao yin. Monday, January 4, 1945. I AL S§ re re timbers foe purlines were required in the specifications three 2-inch planks nailed together sufficed. Where til were to be used to i weeping and tar nsure free. e dom from damp both were omitted, and three coats of paint were cut to two. None of the furnaces use d, it is as- serted, will come up to the re- quirements of the specification. Copies of the letter contain- charges, of the of the writer of the ing these names cont with the ractor and letter have been sent to Sir Robert Borden and Sir Wifrid Lau by the fullest invest the facts be estab nothing short of a quiry by competent tisan investigators the need. rier. Only igation can lisher, and publie in- non-par- will meet If corrupt contrac- tors were taught that it does not pay to be crooked the mon- ey of the Dominion could be spent to far better Is it too much to advantage. hope that some day, under both Liberal and Conservative administra- tion, the people of Canada will get an for every honest dollar’s worth dollar spent upon public works ?—Globe. Every man has a past, although few care to use it in their bus- iness, The first revolver—the earih. gives employment to over one hundred workmen in British Co- lumbia. USE IT and ensure their jobs as well as your own. Quite apart from this argument— is a good it is sold by ali dealers with a money-back guarantee. Vancouver Milling & Grain Co, Ltd, New Westminster Victoria STANDARD —_—___— a GERMANY HAD INVADING TROOPS ON TRANSPORTS New York, Jan. 2,.—Donald Slingluff, of 17 Battle Place, who has large oil interests in Bel. gium, has returned from a two months’ business trip to Europe. “I money on a wager I made with an English friend that the Germans would capture Paris before November 14 on their sec- ond attempt,” Mr. Slingluff said. “This would have been accom plished if the Emperor had not decided to crush the British first by lost an invasion of England. “One of the directors of a big American oil company which has German affiliations told me just before I sailed on the Transyl- vania from Liverpool on Decem- ber 5 that he had spent two weeks in Hamburg, and had seen the soldiers with field gune on the transports in the Elbe. They have been ready since November 14, he told me, waiting for the opportu- nity to start for the English coast. The German government has taken practically everything in the harbor of Hamburg that could carry men and guns, my friend said. “I believe that the Germans will land in England within the next few days, but I do not think they will accomplish anything, as Kitchener has at least 500,000 trained men on hand. The en- tire coast line is protected with trenches and barbed wire entan- glements. “The educated classes realize the gravity of the situation, but the masses do not. They rely on the men at the front to beat the Germans and the navy to protect the coast. They enjoy the foot- ball matches, horse races, and music halls just the same, and enlistment is very slow. Officers told me in London that a Zeppe- lin raid might wake the working people up. The shelling of the seacoast towns recently may ac- complish something. England has been at the zenith too long for the good of the people. Ad “The more of Belgium are Capt. Ferdinand Pettit, who was the president of people hopeful. our oil Company at Antwerp be- fore the war started, told me that an army of 150,000 Belgians wil! take the field in March to drive the Germans out of Belgium. He gave an order for 200,000 pairs of shoes te a Boston firm the night before I left London.” DECLINES TO JOIN LATIN REPUBLICS London, Jan. 2.— The British ambassador at Washington has informed the Foreign Office that the United States has definitely declined to join the Latin-Ameri- can republics in their proposed Joint request that European bel- ligerents shall withdraw their warships from the coasts of the two Americas. Despite this action by the United States, the Foreign Office understands that the South American countries intend to make such a request on their own account and presume also to take joint action restricting facilities for belligerents obtaining coal and provisions in their ports. versity would do the nation good. |., Another Good I Sa ae ABUSE OF AMERICANS BY GERMAN PAPERS Their Motio: “The Dollar, Matter How You Get It, 80 Long as You Get It London, Jan. 4.—The Daily Ex- press commenting on the German newspaper attacks on the United States, says: “Berlin knows the hearts ave with the \freedom, and the knowledge has | jhad the usual Teutonic result of American soldiers of ifrantic abuse of the people who the | denounce atrocities jand the bombardment of unpro- Belgian i jtected towns and who irreverently ‘kulture.’ friendship laugh at German “Americans decline Rheims and that doorsteps their with the vandals of the their Louvain, and has Germany fawned on now is throwing stones at windows,” | The “There Daily Chronicle says is a growing uneasiness in Germany about the attitude of the United States. It filter through that the efforts of Count Bernstorff, Dr. Derr. burg, and Prof. Munsterberg have begins to von not been crowned with success and intelligent Americans find in- creasing diMiculty in accepting their presentment of the German In several influential Ger- the is evident to cease the unsuccess- idea, man newspapers disposition ful courting of the United States to let them the German people are not satisfied and know that with American views of neutrality “The Cologne Gazette prints an article by a Dr. Hexamer, a Ger- man-American, who tells his read- that he of America. He accuses the United ers is not proud States of praying on Sundays for peace and of supplying England and her allies with war materials on other days of the week. This he exclaims, is hypocrisy and would be more consistent were America to relinquish the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ and proud mot- to ‘E herself with a flag inscribed: ‘The Pluribus Unum’ and supply doliar, no matter how you get it, >» lone as you get it.’ Dr. he America, but he is just disgusted Hexamer says loves with a policy which allows Eng- land to lead the country by the nose and which allows England and then licks the hand that smites it.” to slap its face DENIES ABSURD STORY. Ambassador Puts Quietus on Yarn That Russia Will Sue for Peace. Washington, Feb. 2.—A state- ment having been sent wide- spread through the United States that Russia purposes ne- gotiations for peace with Ger- many independent of her Allies, France and England, and it hav- ing been suggested that Ambas- sador Bakhmeteff had knowledge of such an arrangement, the Rus- sian to the United States has not only issued a state. ment denying such a possibility, but has cabled to the foreign of- fice at Petrograd and received the following message from the Rus- Sian Minisier of Foreign Affairs: “Certainly please deny absolutely the absurd staLement.— (Signed Sazonoff.” ambassador CANADIAN NORTHERN TRACK NEARLY DONE Less Than 100 Miles Romain To Be Completed in British Columbia Vancouver, Jan, 4,—Less than 100 miles of track remains to be, laid to complete the rBilish Go lumbia divisions of the C. N. A stated at the chief engi this morning it was . } ir ’ neer's office Prac- Pointe East of Chi the For Full information and a h S.S. 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PESCOTT re ee hone 554 P () Box APERHANGIN(, AINTING OLISHING AND WALL TINTING tically all the structural work on the steel bridges from the present end of track, a few miles east of Lytton, to Kamloops has been completed, and the steel-laying gangs are rapidly lessening the gaps on that section A tempor ary structure has been built near Walhachin, over the Thompson river, to convey material pe’ lin the erection of the perman ‘nt bridge to be erected at that cross ing. he line has been laid from Kamloops to bridge 8, near Wal hachin, leaving about 58 miles to be laid to connect up the Por Man-Kamloops division The track has been laid north of Kam loops to Mile 128, is being bored where a tunnel The passage will tneen High rade AMERICAN TAILOR CUT PRICES — Call and Save Money ecorating a > 4 Martin Swanso Mel Second Avenue, near be 330 feet long and skirts a nar. row canyon colloquially known as Hell's Gate. The waters of the North Thompson river rush mad- ly through the narrow chasm, es pecially during the spring fresh | Office: Smith Bik., Third Avenue | ets. The line has been advanced from the eastern end of construc- tion 89 the Yellowhead A section of 40 to be to| link up the two ends of construc. | tion. The of the British Columbia sections of the Cc. N. R. year. One estimate a short time the | miles distant from Pass. laid miles remains completion entire is looked for early next ago mentioned February as date of the the last spike. srobable driving ' HUGE KAMLOOPS TROUT CAUGHT IN OKANAGAN Big Fellow Weighing 24 Pounds Taken by Hook and Line. 9 Mr. A A. G Bennett, of Okanagatl Mission. Kelowna, Jan made a remarkable catch a cou- ago, from the Mission. about a mile Trolling with ple of days a brass spoon, and using a four-| | teen-foot rod, he captured a tre. mendous trout of the variety known as “Kamloops,” which weighed a shade under twenty- four pounds, and measured three | and a half feet in length by twen- ty-three inches girth at its larg- est circumference. The of its head may be judged from the | fact that its spread of jaw was size Mr. Bennett is hav-| ing this fine specimen mounted. | In addition to the big fellow, he also caught half a dozen more or less big fellows, the largest of which weighed fifteen pounds. While larger fish than the twen- ty-four pounder have been cap- tured in Okanagan Lake—the rec. : ord is said to be thirty-two| pounds— it is doubtful if so many | large ones have been taken at | one time, and in this respect Mr. | Bennett's achievement is a no. | table one. } nine inches. 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