—, Today’s Weather prince Rupert—Raining, south- eost wind, 16 miles; barometer, 30.04; temperature,'51; sea choppy. XXIII., No. 178, — - = YF ancouver Island Coal Town Swept on Sunday By $100,000 Outbreak remises and Stocks of Three Stores Destroyed While Stocks of Two Others Are Badly Damaged—Con- flagration Was on Commercial Street NANAIMO, Aug. 1:—Fire again swept through the isiness section of this city on Commercial Street sterday afternoon, doing damage which is estimated at (0,000. Premises and stocks of the Fashion Shoppe, Yale Store and Alex Good Furniture Co. were destroyed. e stocks of Powers & Doyle, haberdashers, and the Na- Hatters were badly damaged. ELLS Is Sere he eene nce + EXCEPTION BY CRITICAL: + andi # OTTAWA, August 1—South @ Africa takes marked exception hor Says King George Should’ @ to Great Britain's recent ot Have Taken Partin Forming # statement of preferences National Government # which have been granted by # the Mother Country to the Do- ee # minions. In a statement yes- NDON. Aug. 1:—Criticism of |# terday, South Africa declared K for the part he played in # that the primary function of of the National gov- | the Imperial economic confer- year was expressed # ence was to co-operate in ex- fternoon by H. G. Wells @ tending markets at Oxford Liberal |® *+e#teoeee0244¢4¢0484 The auditors re- riticism in dead silence K was so ill-advised as BY from his proper political neutrality and to lead} ent for cheese-paring r the faces of the needy t of the debt collector,” | urty said what ought to| Blast—-Store Fronts Blown aid about the King or Into Street le campaign of unin- ia a nomy which cast its) NEW YORK, Aug. 1 , ow over the closing |sion in the basement shvok the 42- 1931.” lstorey Ritz Towers Hotel on Park killing five firemen blowing out the fronts of stores and scattering a fortune in jewels in the | Avenue today, USTRALIAN street TEAM WINS Another fireman was so severely injured that he is expected to die Injured less seriously were 25 per- St . - Winnipeg. Cricket Team is | sons including two women and two Retired Easily by Antipodean ichildren Visitors i CARD OF THANKS ——= NNIPEG, Aug, 1 in cricketers x The touring defeated an The bans were retired for 138\ friends for the he Australians massing a to |¢f sympathy ana for the 367 runs for six wickets mirror-makers | to the everely penalized for reveal- | pert General e secrets of their trade kindness Venetian Hospital for *¢" SOUTH AFRICA ¢ ‘ene eee O64 * EXPLOSION iid, “ahd not a soul in| Five Firemen Killed in New York! An explo- family of the late Mrs. Mary Winnipeg team when the Reid desire to thank their many kind expressions many | floral tributes received during their - recent bereavement and especially nurses of the Prince Ru- their Hitler’s Push For Power In Germany Stopped; Got Little ‘More Than Third Sunday Vote BERLIN, Aug. 1 Adolf Hitler’s push for com- plete power in Germany was stopped today. The question following yesterday’s elections was whe- ther the present government under the Junker sol- dier, General von Schleicher, would continue or W hether Hitler could negotiate an alliance with For- mer Chancellor Heinrich Bruening. ‘ Hitler and his Nazi followers doubled their strength in the Reichstag as compared with four years ago but fell short of a clear majority, receiv- ing little more than one-third of the total vote. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER % pn _____* EE he Daily News 7 Tomorrow's Tides Tuesday, August 2, 1932 TERI tcicetoenneciieit 0:55 am, 208 ft, 13:50 p.m. 18.9 ft. 1.9 ft. 19:39 am. 68 ft. —-— PRINCE RUPERT, B. C5 MONDAY, AUGU ST 1, 1982 PRICE: FIVE CENTS ANOTHER BIG FIRE, VISITS NANAIMO ANADIANS MAKE | | GOOD SHOWING IN OLYMPIC GAMES Siiiedae Problem Solved Art for. ice wagon's sake. The housing problem at th j yeung Correthers. He says “paletie-a Y Is a f i there, to OVERTURES BY STATES Would Cut War Debts of Euro- pean Nations If They Reduce Armaments RAT) ik EAD IN TORONTO W. W. Evans, President of Canadian General Securities “Fatty” Arbuckle | Passed Away on Saturday WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. l:— It became known here at the week-end that United States had made overtures to France with a G is ‘ aie D view to arriving at some sort of H ; artl Meighe an arrangement whereby war ms oa nds, Gini debts to the United States would was 42 ve € ave be reduced in return for a reduc- tion of armaments on the part of France. Similar negotiations are about to be opened with Great Britain, it was announced. The United States government is preparing to accept an invita- tion to participate in the proposed international economic confer- ence at Geneva. HITLER IS) i er be ted by W r Bros er during NEAR SHOT 5 Se nt , f $ ), bringir Attempt Made in Berlin Saturday | , , Night to Assassinate German PIONEER OF ri ie provided Fascist Leader a Jn : r inch cars ( buildi for Mrs. Pete BERLIN, August 1-—-On the : CITY DEAD: k at 7 corner of Third Av ) | BUILDING — IN JULY Value Was $10,440, Making For Year to Date $45,770 Total of yesterday's general el Adolph Hitler, leader o! the Ger man Fascist party caped assassination Saturday nig! ; , = when he was fired upon a Morning at Hospital ghth Am rode through the streets of ene ; —_— j or Be ee gy ee city im an open car. The bullet} John Sunberg, : ee ee a es just missed the head of the Naz }of Sweden and r¢ ent of Princ to } : chief eS for 24 ye passed away | total valu Following the shooting attemp! lthis morning in the Prince Rupert - anti-Fascists attempted to ston |General Hospital. Deceased, who) « ek be6oeosoee was ¢ retired irpenter anda Hitler. ‘ 1 ( - P : . . ee ae | widower, was the father of Charles’ ponus ARMY HAS PE ae ©.¢ © 00:0: o) Sunhere, 315. Sixth AveE LT ¢ MADE NEW BIVOUAC . @| with whom he made his home. Mrs. | 4 7 + NATION-WIDE Lillian Detler of Edmonton is a\~ jJoOHNSTOWN. I iNohn Sunberg, Resident Here For ° ! : ‘ narrowly ¢ ¢ snedt 24 Years, Passed Away This \ MW i ro Street permit nsylvania + DEMONSTRATIONS daughter, There are no other re-| ayoyst 1 Driv out of > BEING PLANNED latives in this country. Deceased! ® wastineton b) he-« United le had lived in Canada for 36 years. |» staes Arm) the direction \@ NEW YORK, ae 1:—Carl Funeral arrangements are in the} of president Herbert |® Hacker, national secretary of #| hands of the B. C. Undertakers, + + + + ° Hoover + it the International Labor De- # — to + + + + + + * following the fatal riots last week in tl national capital over 4,000 bonus-seeking vet- erans made camp Saturday in SAN DIEGO, Aug. ! Two naval # a beautiful park four miles nd four others # from tl! y. The bonus a mass flight # army will continue its cam- airplanes here when * paign from ! the ¢ ‘ee eee 27 ¢¢4¢ 444 # fence League, announces that AVIATORS PERISHED . a nation-wide mass demon- *?++4 # stration is being organized to # protest against the “murder \° and terrorization” of bonus \* army veterans at Washington of ‘430 service . a Navy ship crashed with ¢e¢4¢4¢4040¢0¢444 4 4 4 4 coastguard cutter Talmora, aviators were killed a were injured during Se eeetetreereererere ere e * Duncan McNaughton of of Vancouver Is Winner Of Running High Jump First Time Since Revival of Olympiad That This Title Has Left United States—United States Wins Shot Put and Poland Ten Thousand Metres Run L ie ANGELES, Aug. 1:—Canada on Sunday won her ‘irst Clympie championship for 1932 when Duncan Me- Naughton of Vancouver defeated the pick of the world’s unning high jumpers to take first place with a jump of ‘ix feet, five and five-eighth inches. MeNaughton’s vie- tory was the outstanding feature of the first day’s pro- the Olympic Games were revived | that United States had not won the PAYING SIR high jump Pearson, Hamilton flash, and Har- | old Wright of Edmonton qualified | dath-to enter.the semi-finals to-| Retirin President of Canadian Na- Williams ran third in°éach of} tional to Receive $100,000, nd in two and Pearson second and -_——- ird | OTTAWA, Aug ra is it was the first time sincex' Percy Williams of Vancouver, Bert | HENRY OFF ieir heats of the 100 metres heats. Wright was placed sec- Ottawa Hears Phil Edwards of 1:—Sir Henry Montreal ran| Thornton will receive one payment é the first heat of the 800-| on retirement today as president of metre first trial as did Alex Wilson. |the Canadian National Railways, it n the 400-metre hurdles, Tom|was announced Saturday. It is un- Coulter of Winnipeg was eliminated, | derstood the board of directors has running fourth ldecided the amount of such pay- United States won the shot put| ment but no one here would deny or Olympic title when Leo Suxton of|confirm the report that it was New York tossed it 52 feet, six | $100, 000. hree-sixteenth inches. a in Kusocinski of Poland won the ten thousand metres in which Bric- HAS QUIT ker of Canada ran ninth. WEATHER REPORT HIS POST Raining, fresh |W. C. Muir Resigns as Head of C. N. Dead Tree Point— outheast wind; barometer, 30.00; | Express—Bellerose His iperature, 54; sea rough Successor Raining, light heast wind; sea moderate Langara Island—Raining, light therly wind; light swell Triple Island tt t MONTREAL, Aug. 1:—The resig- nation of W. C. Muir, general mana- ger of Canadian National Express, |effective today, is announced. G. E. {rs ’. S. Walton ana little| Bellerose, assistant general mana- aughter returned to the city on/ger, succeeds him ftex train from a visit The position of assistant general nanager will not be filled. THREE HUNDRED UNEMPLOYED MARCH ON OTTAWA; 1200 ARE EXPECTED BY NEXT WEEK-END OTTAWA, Aug. 1:—Travelling by automobile, freight car and on foot, a band of unemployed, estimated at be- tween 180 and 300, arrived in Ottawa over the week-end to attend the “Workers’ Economic Conference,” scheduled to begin today. Before the week is out, leaders of the movement declared, 1200 men will be in the Capital. A march on the Parliament Buil-* dings is planned for tomorrow when an,attempt will be made to see Pre- FIRE LOSS mier Bennett and present demands to him. These are said to include iS HI fey erry GHER one for non-contributory uwnem- ployment. insuranée for ¢ivijians and $1.10sim cash per day for un- employed war veterans Damage So Far This Year $40,648 nian As Against $1421 in Same Period of Last Year More Fire Alarms Are Turned In This’ Year Fire damage in Prince Rupert so far this year has amounted to $40,- Four fire alarms were turned into 648 as compared with $1421 in the the city fire department during the first seven months of last year. month of July this year as compared There was no fire damage in the with three alarms in the same j|city in July this year whereas last month last year. So far this year) year there was $33 loss. 44 alarms have been turned in as} ne compared with 37 in the first seven| Dr and Mrs. A, E, Perry and Miss months of 1931. There was no da-' Frances I, Wilkie of Port Simpson mage by fire during this July. ‘gg week-end visitors in the city, a Rees) ‘ ¢ ’ ]