ve Today’s W eather Prince Rupert—Part cloudy, five mile westerly wind; barometer, 30.41; temperature, 56; sea smooth. Vol. XX411., No. 157. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’S NEWSPAPER PRINCE RUPERT, BOC,, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1932 PEEP PPO Oe TV COW TK Ew Ow ee OV TOY Che Daily News Tomorrow’s Tides Friday, July 8, 1932 RUN sas 3:44am. 198 ft. 16:8 pm. 188 ft. MOE a a 10:22 am. 3.0 ft. 22:41 pm. 68 ft. © mae nen e eee rs SEARCH FOR LIA | No Ex; »xtion Given For Unexss 1 Boost | In Motor Fuel Price Vlanagers of Oil Companies Can Give No Explanation of | Instructions—Some Dealers See Sequel to Increase In Tax By B. C. Government Mieaeanh | VANCOUVER, July 7:—The publie of British Colum-| hia received a jolt this morning by an unexpected advance | two cents per gallon in the price of gasoline. Advices ym Eastern Canada are to the effect that the advance is confined to British Columbia. Some dealers here hold the the rise is due tod the effort on the part of oil] i ies REMO IS | ° FERTILE Is First Agricultural Centre eal Canadian National East of Prince ee Bottom kel | Garden Vegetables and Small Fruit, | | i | | | ory that A ce nt addition tu fron orders irom SINKING OF = SUBMARINE French Undersea Craft Prome- thee Goes Down Teday With 66 Men on Board Particularly Strawberires, Do Well There PARIS, July 7:—The submarine French Promethee, with 66 men on board, sank off Cherbourg Harbor teday saved By C. Lindstrom As one travels east on ian National Railways from Prince} Remo is the | come vo the Cana- seven men were . : Rupert first agricul Lura tre one Included in the crew of the un craft and workers not permanently as- signed to the ship Remo i ne of the first settle ment ym the lower Skeena Rivet known as Bat dersea were 17 engineers having been first man’s Landing and later as Breken- rhe Promethee was one of the F ; ridge during the steamboat days newer submersibles completed in 19 j 201 j »;Remo now boasts a school and a "). She as 301 feet long ~~ . Farmer Institute there having office there since the LITTLE BOY etme 2c as sue ano he western end of Prince Rupert at th stern LOSES LIFE «: ee es of the Skeena al it the mouth ol the Zymacord River on the north} 18-Month Old Oddmund Hansen is| ae phe agricultural land i tI Drowned in Shallow Ditch Near river hotton lane consisting of| Hiome on Alfred Street sandy loam me Cen All garden vegetables and smal} nquest is to be held today be-| ¢-nits do exceedingly well. The land | eputy Coroner Lancaster INtO | being sub-irrigated, there is always eath of cighteen-month old plenty of moisture. Strawberries do und Hanser mall son of Mt exceptionally well. Apple and othe! Mi Hanson, Alfred Street, wh fruit trees also do well rowned yesterday when he ap The first planting of strawberrie kell Head first in! Give | in Remo was made in the fall of ‘ining about a foot of water 1906 from plants obtained from the lle playing near his home old Thornhill place at Little Can Supposedly about half an how! yon and were put into the ground {ler the tragedy occurred, the little when there was about an inch of| we sound in the ditch by now and they came throug! we cae who informed Mrs. J. K winter in fine shape. Remo as en lurray wh a turn, notified a ough snow to offset the wint lor. Life was extinct 01 Epa being common for potatoe to} the scene of Dr. W. T, Kergin lay in the ground all winter and} Funeral arrangements are in the | grow the following spring | hands of the B. C The little boy Uncertakers father is a fish rman aboard the American halibut VANCOUVER | PLANE BACK Newspaper Ship Flew From Mon- treal to Vancouver In Three Days’ Time boat Wave which is now in port After the opening of the inquest before Deputy Coroner A. J. Lan ister, the jury proceeded to view the body and = the Crowning WEATHER REPORT Dead Tree Part cloudy calm; barometer, 30.28; tempera scene of the | The plane | at Sea July 7 landed VANCOUVER ‘Vancouver Sun Pol ture, 58; sea smooth Island airport here at 1:10 yester day afternoon after completing 4 NO FISH SALE trans-Canada flight from Montreal } . There was no sale of halibut on|which was started by Pilots R. H the locul fish exchange today. Only | Storer and B. E Ronald on Monday two Canadian boats were in-—the | morning Helen IIT with 15,000 pounds and the} The plane stopped at Grant Rose Spit with 21,000 pounds Forks Tuesday night ’ ” "7 rere na en RIVER | PLA CER G OLD IN FULL § SWING Out For ’ \ Good Time? It’s not our idea of having a good time kee are hiking from China to India. We see them taking a breather near Yunnan, China along the old caravan but A. A. Lee of New York York and A. F. Kane of Milwau- route Preliminary Plans Made For Organization of Relief in | City; Committee Decided On Frank J. Mackenzie, PASSING OF PARTY MAN Former Tor Organizer For British Colum- Steps toward tl relief comn e establishment of a permanent public littee in Prince rth rt were taken at a meetin bia, iDes at New Westminster NEW WESTMINSTER, July 7 n the city council chamber last night of representati ives of | francis James Anderson Macken- . . : zie, aged 59, druggist and k various organized bodies sil societies of the city. After |“ °8° : hearing several speakers deal with the present situation | yajiey | Rock last night | ‘Dis ‘ussion as to funds now bein ro aud ' ired because ol held by local orgat itions for sucl | Representatives of Striking Fisher- | Ske ena isentatives of the ation might be sult of the meeting as regards distress among the unemp loved and suggest | Mpossible methods of relief, the} The late Mr. Mackenzie 1 welfart | pointed provincia! meeting decided to form ; felfari | rOvV BIG RUN committee of which Mayar C. H | Conservative party in 1931 yrme : em iG was named chairmaii and G | yng pro- minent resident of the lower Fraser died at his home at White was ap- organizer for the but re- C. Mitchell, secretary, the mayor tc | idd three further members to. the Passes Away ymin TI immediate task of = the committee will be to devise way I tow institution s Great Abundance of Salmon in tite ic it dealin? smen Chignik Area of Alaska Re- inated ta tite eondene Gam ported by Commissioner aceite aint nein deateces O'Malley # ete JUNEAU, July 7—Commission The meeting was presided over by ner Henry O’Malley of the Uni Mayor Cyril H. Orme and the cham ted States Bureau of Fisheries | was well 1 there being reports that Chignik is exper- ponse xy focal of! iencing the greatest salmon run mis in ol ther of assign on record ele es gathering The commercial pack, to date Bishop G. A. Rix, who was one of is 60,000 cases and the escape peaker i some such ot ment to the spawning grounds is nizatior i mmunity chest heavy The need for relief work today was ° Mr. O'Malley is on a tour of qual to that of t war and the; Frank Mackenzie, former M.L.A Alaska. lation was quite aS serious and Conservative organizer for Ald. Jam Black elaborated o1 British Columbia. he idea‘ of welf league montns agt p ects as a gymnasium BroUugny | Born in Kincardine, Ont core) ee ae from L. W 1, 1875, Mr. Mackenzie representec |. * ' Waugh t! the Gyro Club had it- | June 4 legislature | 90 elta in the provincial elf during the past Winter expen yn relief in buy for 11 years from 1909 ded the sum of $50 men and Cannery Interests ine. alot -» tor Meee rhe late Mr. Mackenzie came tc Getting Together Today British Columbia as a boy and wa : rae at he’ city migh jucated in the Victoria schools With the number of Indian gill pr ganyy ory ap steam e was a former president of the netters to abandon the strike!) ro ae . siesta - tiritish Columbia Pharmaceutical | whic h has been in progress on the Pe : ssociation and a former member Speakers iction of stressed the need f0! | »f the Delta school board kind and variou He entered politics in 19 striking whit deas were advanced. Among other | he fishermen and of the|%peakers were Ald. G. B. Casey, | for were scheduled|Frank Derry, Ald. S. D. Macdonald River for the past three steadily increasing some weeks repre e and Delta seat in the later, Japanese cannery interests Two years however, Ald. Collart, Ald. Casey, Ald. Rud derham, Ald, Macdonal’ and Al Black. Representatives of the Prince Rupert Unemployed Association were also present laughter, He made his home here arrived al as a re It was reported thi morning that 800 Indian gill-netters were now fishing on the Skeena Rive The average catch per boat yeste! The day was twenty fish VANCOUVER, July 8+ was quoted at 5144¢ | Exchange today meeting was In progress for about an hour and a half ‘ ad nr alee ae rent ill-health a few| April | O7 wher | was an unsuccessful candidate | Legislature, | he was} ‘o have a conference. on the Skeena Charles Chapman and Mrs, Rowe successful River today. It was hoped tha Members of the city council pre He is survived by his widow ‘(nee some common ground in the situ-| Sent were, in addition to the mayo! | Esther Edge), one son and one was an Anglican and /Arthur J VANC OUVER WHEAT Wheat Cc. 8 on the logal Shismareff, north of Nome, en Thirty-One Miners From Tulsequah Transported By Air Into New Field Party Headed By J. H. Eastman Beats “Stampede John” Stenbraten Into Scurvy Creek in Race Aboard Planes | JUNEAU, Alaska, July 7:—All but four of the party of ‘thirty-five miners destined for the Liard River district in Northern British Columbia in search of placer gold have left their base at Tulsequah and are now scattered between lake Atlin camp, Teslin Lake and Francis Lake. They were \all transported by planes. | vetroit prospector- flyers, led by® \4 H. Eastman, gained at least tem- . |porary control of the reported rich Prince of Wales jgold strike on Scurvy Creek on the i G és W ll jupper Liard River. Heir to British Throne Recovering | The Eastman party had its men picking at the coarse gold on the From Chill But Still in Bed ;creek while “Stampede John” Sten- \braten, veteran northern prospec- tor, was still stranded at Carcross. On Stenbraten’s arrival at Car- n jcross from Juneau he found the Ca- ee ae ne ; ales, who has been suffering nadian Airways Junkers plane, on trom a chill” tontinues” to” make iwhich he had intended ‘to fly ‘to good progress although he still re- 1 Se urvy Creek, tied up by charter mains abed | with Eastman while his own Am- erican pilot, Verne Gorst, was pre- | vented from doing commercial! fly- jing with his American plane in Can- ‘ada by international regulations. | ARE FINED Stenbraten, however, made other | arrangements for getting into the strike. The Eastman planes are Two Men Pleaded Guilty to Charge of Intimidation in Connection With Skeena River Strike The Prince of making their base at Atlin Many other prospectors are mak- ing frantic efforts to get planes in yrder to join in the rush for the Scurvy Creek gold Pee eee Pleading guilty to charges of in- jtimidation in connection with al- LESS SUN oo cutting of fishermen's nets during the gill-netters’ strike on the AND RAIN 22 River, Takeichi Uyeda and | Ushikiklu Mizobuchi, Japanese, be- ee te out ton t| fore Stipendiary Magistrate H. F Compared in Compilation of coca See npn Sgr yesterds erno e.6 ‘ Official 1 Reports sterday a noon, were each fin on ed $50 with option of three months’ So far this vear there has been |!™Prisonment. The fines were paid 198.6 hours of sunshine in Prince |!" Poth cases. The two accused as Rupert as compared with 408.2/ */80 ordered to pay for a $256 net. hours in the first six months of Snot ae, See Se fone Saaintelt bien thie quae end ita, also charged with intimidation Sadia = takai of 669% tates bs in the same connection, was brought reainat 80.87 ‘inched tn. the in from the Skeena River early this norning by Sergeant W. J. Service j;and Constable Robert Gibson of the provincial police and is appearing Magistrate MacLeod this af- ernoon for remand for eight days. same veriod of last year Details of June weather this year by R. G before | | | | ire announced as follows Dominion Emmerson, Digby Island | meteorologist High barometer reading at se: level, 30.26 on June 7 | Lowest barometer *reeeeeeeeeee BUCKLEY IS DUE FRIDAY reading at sea June 20 temperature 70 on llevel, 29.59 on Maximum | June 10 Minimum temperature 41 F. L. Buckley of Van- couver, promoter of the local pulp mill project, will arrive ‘n the city on the Prince George to- morrow morning from the south to ge into fur- ther details on the ground here in connec- tion with the important undertaking. It is un- derstood that some of Mr. Buckley’s associates in the project are also coming with him, The intention is still to get construction of the plant under way by the coming fal), it is stated. | Mean temperature, 52.8 Total precipitation, 4.8 inches Sunshine, 41.4 hours SHIPS ARE FROZEN IN Three Vessels Icebound North of Nome While On Their Way to | Kotzebue Sound ! SEATTLE, July 7—Word has been received here that the steamers Baldwin of the Arctic | Transport Corporation, the Derb lay of the Alaska Steamship Co land the four-masted sailing ship Holmes are ice-bound at er7e+ ¢ tt eeeeeeeoeerereerenererere ere eee ee ee eeeeeoeo eo eo eee eeeene eet ete e500 00407808 route to Kotsebue Sound CP OP OT OLE LE LALA LD AGE OL EE J a al q (,