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Vol, XXIII, No. 204.

 

 

 

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NORTHERN AND CENTERS ree COLUMBIA’S NEWSPAPER

 

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Tomorrow’s Tides

Thursday, September 1 ,1932

 

High: sce oe 1:19 a.m. 21.7 ft.
13:47 p.m. 20.9 ft.
BOW os aoa 7:43 am. 18 ft.
19:56 pam. 3.7 ft.

 

 

 

PRICE: FIVE CENTS

 

 

 
 

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Benefit For Canadian
Industry Anticipated
Following Conference

Trade Agreements Recently Reached at Ottawa Thor-
oughly Gone Into at Vancouver Meeting—Intelligent
Development of Markets Also Needed

 

 

VANCOUVER, Aug. 31:—A marked improvement in
Canadian lumber sales throughout the Empire was tore- |
vast after British Columbia lumbermen concluded an all-|

 

day session yesterday at which they studied the Imperial
economic conference agreements and heard a committee
report on an intervie w with Premier R. B. Bennett on
“%jumber marketing. The govern- |

|ments of Canada and the United |

LANDINGS Kingdom were confident that agree-
|seenees reached at the Imperial con- |

ference would meet with the re-|

HEAVIER |: que < Canadian lumbermen, said |

Donald, chairman of the|

| mé an po nsion committee of the |
Arrivals of Halibut For August This | british

Columbia Lumber Manu- |

Year Exceed Those in Same facturers’ Association.” It must be
Month Last Year remembered, however,” he stated,

ny i“that these agreements must be

Halibut landings at the port. of
Prince Rupert for the month of;
August this year totalled 2,456,300
pounds as compared with 2.301.000

{followed up with. intelligent-de-
velopment of markets if we are to
derive the full benefit of them,”

pounds in the same month last|

re ‘HELD BY
American landings for id

this year amounted to 1,21 800}

pounds as against 1,382,000 pounds} WEATHER

in August, 1931. The Canadian land-|
ings for this August aggregated
634,500 pounds, showing a falling}
off from 919,000 pounds in the same
month last fear

Halibut Landings

Summary
233,500 pounds, 3c and} a.m.
| bad weather,

rrr |

Capt. Von Gronau Makes Landing |

at Kanaga Island Enroute
to Attu

 

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| TOKYO, Aug. 31:—Capt. Wolf- |
gang von Grease, German world
flyer, and his three companions |
were compelled to alight at Kan-
aga Island in the Aleutians at 11
Tokyo time on account of
it was stated in a

 

American
2c to 4.5c and 2c

Canadian—34,000 pounds, 4.5c} radio message from von Gronau

and 3c and 5.5c and 3c which was picked up by Osschisi
American radio station at Hokkaido.

Radio, 44,000, Atlin, 3c and 2c Von Gronau, who left Dutch

Thor, 30,000, Cold Storage, 3c and| Harbor yesterday, plans to re-

2c sume the flight to Attu, at th

Arctic, 34,000, Booth, 3.5c and 2c | western tip of the

Majestic, 34,000, Cold Storage,| ands, tomorrow.
3.5¢ and 2c coe ai: meee
|
|

Bonanza, 15,000, Royal, 4.5¢ and}
. OF
salut ry

Bravo, 10,000, Cold Storage

4c
and. 2c K!
Pacific, 4.2c and}

Aleutian Isl-

Zarembo, 12,000,
2c.

Reliance, 10,000, Cold Storage, | Assistant Commissioner Dunwoody
4.2c and 2c j

and Inspector F, Cruickshank
Oceanic, 14,000, and Friendly, |

Forced to Lay Off
12,000, Atlin, 4.4c and 2c ie

Glacier, 10,500, Pacific 4.4c and VICTORIA, Aug. 31 W. T. Dun-
2c | woody, Vancouver assistant com-
Charlotte, 4,500, and Cora, 3,500,| missioner of provincial police, has
Cold Storage, 4c and 2¢ been granted three months’ sick
Canadian lieave and Inspector Forbes Cruick-
Southend, 25,000, Cold Storage,|-pank of Nelson will also be absent
5.5¢ and 3c for some time on. account of ill-

Capella, 9,000, Atlin, 4.5c and 8¢. | health, it is announced hete:
ne Inspector John Macdonald of

Prince Rupert replaces Inspector
PS Cruickshank at Nelson

Prince Rupert to fill the tempor

wry vacancies have not yet bee

Appointments in Vancouver anc
mat le

 

iS COMMITTED ON
ASS. AUL TG HARGE

—_—

Many Local People Were Able to
Witness Astral Phenomenon—
Almost Half Obscured

The eclipse of the sun was plainly eof assaulting Lee
visible for well over half an hour in| On @ ee on Comox Ave-
Prince Rupert around and after inc ag 1" » with intent to
10:30 this morning. Clouds cleared nue &@ Tew jou bodily injury,
away from the sphere for a suffi- | cause ror was committed
cient time to allow the phenomenon |C harles McGreg , ig Sones
to be observed by use of smoked fo! trial by Jusiics ol , cout yes-
glasses and other means. Many lo-|H. Munro In city as aoan
cal persons saw the eclipse which afvernou”

f » Judge F. McB. Young
for a time, obscured almost half the ances ais elects,
eurtace of the sun

grievous

terday
appeat before
in County Court

}
/

lka Packing
iThe cannery’s
. only

still

| Fishing

 

BRAZILIAN TROOPS VIEW CAPTURED TRENCH
Rare picture of feedral Brazilian troops and a war correspondent (at

trench shortly
typical of the warfare along

after its capture from rebel traops

Advised That He Could
Not Stand Strain Now,
Airman Will Sail Hise

Announcement Made By Amy Johnson in London is Con-|are getting by,

firmed By Her Husband

in Sydney—Would Need

Three or Four Weeks’ Rest

 

SYDNEY, N.S., Aug.

news given out by his wife,

Atlantic Ocean. He leaves by plane tomorrow for Quebec |

whence he will sail on Septen

 

POOR RUN

OF PINKS

| Fishing on Massett Inlet This Year

Very Disappointing
August 31—The run of
in Massett Inlet ha
so far this season been one of the
known, Only one cannery
is operating, the plant of the Noot-
Company at Massett
pack amounts to
5,000 cases and the
pearance of the fish has
most discouraging to fishermen
and people of the vicinity
Trollers at Seven Mile Point are
doing, fairly well on. cohoes
and the price continues to be al
most forty cents per fish The
trolling fleet reports schools of

MASSETT
pink salmon

poorest

proved

/numpbacks outside the Inlet and
jthe seine
| that
| pinks, such as occurred two years
jago, which
j}make up some of the lost time

fishermen are
there will be a late

hoping
run of
will enable them to
Three seine boats and two pack-
ers employed by the Canadian
Company arrived during
the week intending to carry fish
from Massett Inlet to the Skeena
River. E, Richardson, Dominion
Fisheries Inspector, received word
from the Fisheries Department
that the former ruling that fish

‘were not to be taken from the In

let to the mainland unless cleaned
still stands and the seine
were forced to leave.

31:—Capt.
young British trans-Atlantic aviator,

% Col

non-ap- |

today

recently. This
a widely scattered front in
batants. Censorship has closed up the

typ?
which cons

Amy Johnson, in London that}
hé has abandoned his plans for a return flight across the|¥*S “*Y and it looked for a time as

iber 3 for England.
Freeman O'Neil

Mollison is staying here,

with whom |

sald he|orowth and the

 

left), inspecting a mountain
of concealed trench, or nest, is
lerable damage resulted to com-
news.

OAT CROP
IMPROVING

Interior Farmers Will Find Them-
selves With Plenty of Feed as
Result of Late Rains

 

| Farmers of the interior are adopt-
ing themselves to conditions and
according to D.
Sutherland, district agriculturalist,
with headquarters at Smithers, who
returned home this morning after
devoting some time to the fair and

James A. Mollison,| the remainder meeting the business] Frank Kenny and Johnny Saunders |
confirmed | people of the city.

The early part of the summer

if there would be no crops. Then}
came the rain, too late to save the
| hay crop, which is light, but the
jcoarse grains © made wonderful
crop of oats is

could not recommend the flyer con- heavy in many cases, so heavy that

tinuing his
least three
lowing his
in connection
crossing

In making the

sea journey
or four weeks’ rest

with the

the abandonment of the flight in
London, Amy Johnson said: “He
wants to do the best he can for

British aviation and he
to return home by boat
in aviation -wtuld consider
foolish if he started his

flight immediately.”

WEATHER REPORT

Deac Trev Point—Raining,
southeast wind; barometer,
temperature, 56; heavy chop

Triple Island Part
strong southeast wind;
erly swell

Card of Thanks

Guy
|Miss Salome Wesley desire to
nowledge with deep

doctors

without at

fol-

recent trying experience
western

announcement of

has agreed
Everyone

him

return

fresh
29.88;

cloudy
heavy west-|

Those who sent flowers were Mr

and Mrs, M. J. Dougherty, Mr. and
Mrs, B. J. Bacon, Mr, and Mrs. Mark
and Mrs, J, Clausen,
and family, Beynon

Edgar, Mr
F. White
Musgrave families, The Ivy

| ily

boats Port Sirapson and the Wesley fam-

some of the crops will not ripen. It!
will be cut for fodder.

In the Vanderhoof district the
price
have allowed the calves to run with
the cows instead of milking. This
has lowered the

creamery but was the best way out|

of a rather difficult situation.

|
Marketing the crop is one of the}

things in which Mr. Sutherland is
inerested and he has been looking
into that while in the city.

 

 

‘Chinaman From
Naas River Is

Dead In City

Jung Day Lin, Chinaman, who|

| was brought to the city yesterday |

jafternoon on the Catala from a
|Naas River cannery for treatment
lat the Prince Rupert General Hos-

A. Wesley and family and|pital, died in the institution today.
ack-
appreciation
the beautiful floral tributes and ex-
pressions of sympathy particularly
to the hospital nursing staff and

He was 57 vears of age and his home
was in Vancouver,

Funeral arrangements are in the
hands of Haynor Bros.

Sadia E. M

Mrs.|afternoon to Anyox where he will)
and |spend the next couple of weeks, An- |
Juild, | yox and Alice Arm having ®een tem-

jurisdiction

 

of cream being low farmers}

output of the,

Letes Oo, M. I. of
Stewart arrived in the city on the
Catala yesterday afternoon and will
proceed on the Prince Rupert this

yorarily added to his eccleeiaatical|

Arial Exhibition Gets Of to
Good Start; Official Opening
And Attractions Draw Crowd

 

In spite of unfavorable weatier conditions, Prince Ru-
pert’s annual exhibition got away to a splendid start last
evening. There was a large gathering at the Exhibition
Hall to witness the official opening by Mayor Cyril H.
Orme and to view the exhibits and enjoy the vaudeville
program.

ihe formal opening ceremonies*
were quite brief. F. E. Wermig, pre-| numerous fine exhibits, some of
sident of the Fair Board, presided| which are quite unique.

‘and welcomed all visitors and; Terrace exhibits, as usual, pre-
guests to the Exhibition. j|dominate in the vegetable display.

In formally opening the Exhibi-: Off to one corner is the display of
tion, Mayor Orme referred to the! indiin produce and handicraft
importance of this annual event in| which is quite up to standard al-
he life of this community and con- | though possibly not as large as us-
' gratulated the Fair Board for its en-| ual,
terprise in connection with this' The fancy work exhibits are to be
year’s show. |found in their usual place, the la-

Following the opening, some Continued on Page 3.
talent exclusively this year.

Meet This Month
sable direction-of Robert Greenfield. | eet : -
inception and it made a splendid! Canada will be held at the local ex-

ram included Joe Arseneau and ; biological board, will attend this
tle tap dancers; Joe Slaggard with |

chose to stroll around the hall and _—

view the exhibits while many took Bi ] ° al d

keen enjoyment out of the vaude- DIO ogic r
During the evening’s ed

there were numerous selections by|

Splendid progress has been made! The regular semi-annual meeting

by this organization during the/|of the Pacific sub-executive com-

impression in a diversified reper-|perimental station September 14

toire of numbers last night. jand 15. It is expected that J. J.

Sam Joy with a banjo, singing and | meeting, It is also hoped that Dr.

step dancing act; Misses Joyce Gaw-'J. p. McMurrich, chairman of the

his one-man band; Misses Betty

Brown, Marie Boulter and Clara FINES ARE

Dahl, with another acceptable tap!

dancing number, and Billy Stuart, | STILL LOW

 

 

ville program which features local | 'C itt t
ommittee Here to
the Moose Legion Band. under the |
comparatively brief time since its|mittee of the Biological Board of
Others contributing to the pro-! Cowie, secretary-treasurer of the
thorne and Mary Davies, dainty lit- | poard, may attend.

 

with saxophone selections. The
most of these acts will be repeated |
tonight. |Revenue Collected Through City

Much interest was also taken in| Police Court Away Down From

the comic wrestling and barrel box- | Last Year

ing. Jimmy Kelly and Slim Yager | eet

were the gladiators in the wrestling.| Fines collected through the me-
In the barrell boxing, Murray beat / ium of city police court during the
Roma and Currie beat Smith in the |month of August this year totalled
100-pound class while, in the 125- | $386 as compared with $806.25 in
jpoane class, Antonelli beat Fong/the same month last year. So far
and Chenoski beat Eckert, Final|this year fines have aggregated
bouts will be staged tonight |$1792 as against $3930 in the first

Bill Stone was master of cere-|@ight months of 1931.

monies for the vaudeville program. 4
1 @Oe0Oee9 00?
Inspecting Exhibits \¢
| Those who took the time to in-|# FIRST TOUCH OF
spect the various exhibits found) FROST ON PRAIRIE
\apoet to command their interest |* —

 

 

 

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Speaking generally, the exhibits}# EDMONTON, Aug. 31:—The
jare not as numerous as usual this|* first touch of frost of the fall
year. Yet they depict outstanding was recorded this morning
achievements and talents in the when local thermometers re-
various displays. Downstairs are ‘+ gistered one degree below
be found the vegetable, flower, etc freezing point. Weather for
displays. The flowers in the show harvesting is generally splen-
nlainly show the effects of the un- did,

favorable weather of the last sum-
mer but. in spite of this, there are} “*#@#¢#¢4¢404¢40444 4

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Today’s Fair Program

6:15 P.M.—Lacrosse, Aiyansh vs. Prince Rupert.
8 P.M.—Vaudeville,

Today is Children’s Day both afternoon and evening. All chil-
dren frée.

I

Thursday — Citizens’ Day

1:30 P.M.—-Baseball and Field Sports. Moose Legion Band in at-
tendance.

| 4:30 P.M.—-Lacrosse, Aiyansh vs. Prince Rupert,

6:15 P.M.—Five-a-Side Football competition,

8 P.M.—Vaudeville in Exhibition Building.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

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