‘Ss %, Pr oo s Today’s Weather Prince Rupert southeast wind; temperature, 55; sea smooth, Raining, lig barometer, 29.90; NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’S NEWSPAPER | he Daily News (=~ Tomorrow's Tides Wednesday, August 31, 1932 Vol. XXIII, No. 203 a PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1932 pe High 0:39 am. 21.0 ft. 13:16 p.m. 19.9 ft.- 7:10 am, 24 ft. ™“ 19:20 pm. 5.0 ft. ia —<—— ——————— nn cna PRICE: FIVE CENTS Drastic Recommendations In d To Administration Of British Columbia Affairs Regar FIGHT FOR NOMINATION i Governor Stirling of Texas Has Slight Lead Over “Ma” Kennedy With Many Points to Report SAN ANTONIO, Texa Aug. 30 Governor Stirlu was reported last night to be leading “Ma” Kennedy by a scant 3429 votes in the neck and neck Democratic gubernatorial fight in the state of Texa With many points yet to report, the is sue is still very much in doubt CASEY IS SATISFIED City Engineer Good Complimented Upon Manner of Carrying Out Tarviaing of Streets In the course of a discussion at last night’s meeti f the city council, Ald. ¢ ev stated that he wished to compliment Mr. Good the “ell " city engineer, up the excellent nanner in wi york of 1 tarviaing the n idamized streets of the city had been carried ou thi ear. It wa \ { inion that, never before, had work been carried I yre satisfa tory manne! na it W is desire to conrratulat {r. Goo th sults which had been obtained FAMILY IN AIR AGAIN Flying Hutchinsons Took off This Morning From Anticosti For Labrador PORT MENIER, An ti Isla Aug. 30 The flying Hut family hopped off in then pl ian plane “City of Richmona 4 o'clock this morning for Hopedai +10 Labrador, on the next leg of then proposed flight from New York Europe over the northern rout’ HEAT WAVE IN CHICAGO Thermometer Reading of 93 Repor ted Yesterday in Windy City— Many Prostrations CHICAGO, Aug. 30:—A new heat wave has struck the city of Chicago with many prostrations reported The highest thermometer reading yesterday was 93, four degrees be jow the maximum of the July heat vave ‘ | WHOLE DEPARTMENTS WOULD BE ABOLISHED, | TRANSFERRED OR MERGED—CURTAILMENT OF FREE EDUCATION [IS ADVOCATED, ALSO CUTTING OF LEGISLATURE AND. CABINET NUMBER. Wholesale Dismissals and Wage Cutting in Services Proposed WITHDRAWAL OF ASSISTANCE TO NORMAL SCHOOLS, SALE OR ABANDONMENT OF PACI- FIS GREAT EASTERN AND UNIVERSITY ECON- | OMIES ARE AMONG RECOMMENDATIONS. VICTORIA, Aug. 30:—Slashing of the government service, abolition of whole departments and removal of others from provincial to federal control, including polic- ing and the fisheries, curtailment of free education and reduction of the number of seats in the legislature to ap- proximately half their number are recommended in the report of the Kidd committee on governmental admin- istration which was issued to the public today. Headed by George Kidd, Vancouver business man and chartered accountant, the voluntary committee urges sal- ary reductions in a wholesale manner, dismissal of civil servants to the extent of fifty percent in some depart- ments and formation of a committee to handle the unem- ployment situation without making any suggestions for alleviation of the jobless problem. The committee recommends repeal of the minimum wage law, curtailment of public expenditure by $6,000,- 000, reduction of the seats in the legislature from 48 to 28 and number of cabinet posts to six, abolition of the de- partments of lands, agriculture and mines as separate or- ganizations and the grouping of these services under a department of natural resources, merging of the depart- ments of education, provincial secretary and social ser- vices under a minister of social services, complete elimina- tion of the departments of labor and fisheries with the work of the former being distributed among other de- partments and control of the fisheries to be handed to the Dominion government, policing of the province by federal police and abandonment of the *acific Great Eastern Railway unless sale is made in nine months, ~~ Aiso urged are changes in the liquor control ware- houses and reduction by twenty percent of all salaries of staff under the Liquor Control Board, withdrawal of all vovernment assistance from normal schools and placing of entire costs of maintenance and interest charges on huildings on the students, drastic curtailment of the costs of the University of British Columbia and possible clos- ing of the institution, charge of educational fees against all children attending school after their thirteenth year and reduction of teachers’ salaries by twenty-five per- cent, : ; ‘ The committee would eliminate provincial marketing efforts for agriculture and lumber, would stop all public works with the exception of maintenance of essential roads, would reduce the public ferry services and would stop government assistance in the construction of min- ine roads, trails and bridges and would curtail the depart- ental technical services, It would also end government m : tar . to farmers’ and women’s institutes, assistance **+e+ +e ¢70¢9040¢44 4 SOME 140,000 WEAVERS + ARE OUT ON STRIKE #! ested * MANCHESTER, Eng., Aug. + 30:—Andrew Neysmith, leader #, of the Weavers’ Union, estima- *| ted yesterday that 140,000 men #! had walked out in the Lanca- #| shire cotton weavers’ strike. # There are few signs of an im- #| mediate settlement of the dif- +) ferences which brought abouc #) the strike. + a +t eee eee e eee 4) Lelia Hyams | PASSING OF - SHINGLEMAN. ' Late Robert McNair Was Long Pro- | minent in Vancouver Industry «bbe teeeeeoteeeoet VANCOUVER, Aug. 30:—Roberi McNair, aged 75, a leading figure in ‘the British Columbia shingle indus- try, died last night. He was born in| |New Brunswick and came here in }1891. | Head of the Robert McNai: Shingle Co., the late Mr. McNair was | iborn at Jacquet River, Restigouchs | ‘County, New Brunswick, June 29, | 1858, and was educated in the pub-! \lic schools of Restigouche Co. He en- | \tered the lumber business at an-ear- | ily age near his home village under |name of McNair Bros. and moved to |British Columbia forty years ago,}| forming the Hastings Shingle Mill- | ing Co., later founding the Robert| McNair Shingle Shingle Co. He was} ilso a director of the MeNair-Fra- “——— |.er Lumber Co. and the Hastings’ Shingle Manufacturing Co. He was member of the executive board of Westminster Hall and the Central City Mission Ltd., being an active | Presbyterian The late Mr. McNair married An- i nie MeKinnon of Shannonvale, N.B.,' They had two sons and MAKERS OF |c%umen** BAD MONEY Free Books For Relief Children Are Being Sought Royal ; officers} At the suggestion of Ald James | » on Horn-! Black, the city council decided last by irrested William MclIll-|night to take up with the school bride ana William Richardson ind | board the possibility of some plan n with counterfeiting | bei A “Red Headed Woman” in a linen suit, is Leila Hyams his sh It i t off with polka-dotted scarf ina beret Counterfeiting Ring Uncovered in Vancouver Yesterday and Two Men Are Arrested JRRESTED,. August 30 Canadian Mounted Police rd iided a hou larged arrived at whereby free school A large number of spurious fifty] sox. might be providedyfor chil- cent coir ind a counterfeiting|4ren of people on relief. It was felt scized. The coins wet hat, unde conditions, it made in Of] would be impossible in many cases paris moulds, babbit metal being) toy parents to -provide their chil- used, and then touched up deli-|dren with the necessary books, cately with very fine files ; slavabiedts Halibut Landings Yesterday's raid is believed by: plant were present apparently plaster | ' | the: police to have uncovered the| headquarters of a counterfeiting ring which has been flooding thi ' : ' ' American ecti j tne co r rit spur . o Sectior ! - y "¢ + pu Viola, 6,000, Royal, 7e and 3c mus fifty cent pleces or some aor — BOCES 7 Canadian months When charged later in city po- lice court with counterfeiting, Mc Iiibriae .and Richardson pleaded guilty and were remanded until today for sentence Ingrid H., 14,000, 68c and 3c Cold Storage, VANCOUVER WHEAT ' 7 VANCOUVER,. Aug. 30:--Wheat was quoted at 534c on the local exchange today, | FALSE PRETENCES Pleading guilty to a charge of ob- taining relief under false pretences, ns Leonard Griffiths was given one| LONDON, Aug 29:—-The Liberal year’s suspended sentence in city|and Labor press is continuing to police court Saturday afternoon criticize the Ottawa Conference. STILL CRITICIZING | | St. John later with the intention of ;}down undamaged at Coxheath, a | few miles from this city, late in the MOLLISON HITS FOG Thick Weather Hampers Airman’s| Lord Bessborough Officiates at Op- Plans For Return Flight ening of Vancouver Exhibi- °: Across Atlantic GOVERNOR _ ON COAST HALIFAX, Aug. 30:—Thick fog! VANCOUVER, Aug. 30—His Ex- conditions along the Atlantic coast! cellency the Earl. of BeeSborough;, greatly hampered the first stages | Governor-General of Canada, pay- xf Capt. James A. Mollison’s pro-|ing his first visit to the Pacific sosed return flight from United|Coast as viceroy, accompanied by States to England. Instead of befng| Lady Bessborough and ‘suite, ar-< ible to make from New York to|rived here yesterday morning from fiarbor Grace, Nfld., in one jump|Jasper Park, ; is he had planned, the fog forced} The Governor-Geneal officially Mollison to alight on Sunday after-| opened the annual Vancouver Ex- nvon on a field 18 miles from St.| “ibition yesterday afternoon. Juhn, N.B., after he had missed the} = ——-———— St. John airport because of the fog. ic was near Neirepe that he landed. MISSING Fiying into St. John from Neirepe yesterday, Mollison took off from ON GULF Grave Fears Entertained For Safety of Four Men and Two Youths Near Vancouver reaching Sydney, Cape Breton, if not Harbor Grace. Once again fog hindered his plans and, failing to locate the airport here, after circ- ling over the city for an hour in the fog, he finally brought his plane VANCOUVER, Aug. 30: — Fout men and two youths are still miss- ing following a brisk southwester which swept the Gulf of Georgia ind Howe Sound on Sunday. A 16- foot launch, in which Howard John- }Sston, aged 31, Henry Hughes, 28, Serre? Bob Wilson and Bill Cummings eet out from Vancouver Saturday night, }was found adrift in Howe Soun Eclipse of Sun was found sri in Howe Souniagy Tomorrow Morn ™*"< > capt. 3. 8. Boden. Tiga afternoon Mollison planned to leave today for Harbor Grace whence it is his intention to hop off for Croydon, England s a possibility that the men meg -— | have left the boat May Be Seen in Prince Rupert ue} ‘rouble developed: Conditions Faveratile | Fred Gillespie, aged 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Gillespie, Van- ‘ouver, and George Olson, 21, of the sun here tomorrow morning be- Hopkins Landing, have Ops been cations Sik @’elaaile auth: woods While | 8°¢” since they left Hopkins Land- not much more than half the sun’s | "8 in & cance on Sunday light will be blotted out here, there | will be a total eclipse in Easte = HOPE iS — Canada. Should it be a clear day} % ; many will be interested to note the GIVEN UP rather unusual phenomena, } ie | ° a 1 Richard Dix to | Only Relatives and Friends Still Be- lieve There May Be Chance For Become Father . NEW YORK, Aug. 30 Lee and Bochkon Noted Screen Actor Admits to Re- | latives and porters That Visit From Stork hope for the safety of Clyde Lee and Expected in His House John Bochkon, who have not been -- reported since they hopped off on LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30:—-Rich- | Thursday of last week from Harbor rd Dix, noted screen actor, admit-|Grace, Nfld., for Oslo, Norway. terday that he The only remaining hope for the expects to become a father soon. A/ eafety of the flyers now is that they visit from the stork is expected mo- *\ay have been picked up by a shi mentarily, not equipped with wireless. ; when engine There will be a partial eclipse of Only re-' friends still cling to ed to reporters ye Today’s Fair Program 6:15 P.M.—-Football, Gilhuly Cup final, Regiment vs. Merchants. - 8 P.M.—Opening of Exhibition by Mayor C, H, Orme. 8:15 P.M.—Vaudeville, seven big acts, program of high standard.’ Wednesday 2 P.M..-Baseball, Port Essington vs, Old Empress. 6:15 P.M.—Lacrosse, Aiyansh vs. Prince Rupert. 8 P.M.—Vaudeville Wednesday is Children’s Day both afternoon and evening. All, children free. Exhibition Building is open each day from 1 p.m."to midnight. The Elks have charge of the carnival attractions on the outside of the building i tion Monday Afternoon », es