% Today's Weather Ye * » Tomorrow's Tides seas r oY : : Thursday, September 8, 1932 | Prince Rupert—Raining, calm: High , . 153 am. 15.2 ft barometer, 29.90; temperature, j ; 19:26 p.m. 18.1 ft. | 53: sea smooth. my BME sictde: ctdstictlnaun 1:02 am. 529 ft. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA‘'S NEWSPAPER a) PRINCE RUPER, B.C, WEDNESDAY, SE PTEMBER re 1932 2, Vol. XXIII., No. 208. 12:56 pm. 10.2 ft. PRICE: FIVE CENTS a | —~e = 3 = | > | Ss <= Si = S| | Cay |: iw, 1S =| ay Sk ‘e>ne a | Ss TS \3 iS ee lta i/s| =— oalition Principle is r Adopted by Premier | After Consideration ae Favors Union SAYS HE REALIZES TREND OF POPULAR OPINION IS IN FAVOR OF THIS POLICY—WILL BE LIKE NEW BRITISH GOVERNMENT—ASKS THAT SAC- RIFICE BE MADE. ‘Speculation Is Rife as to Personnel of Government WELLS GRAY, DONAGHY, M’FARLANE AND FAR-. RIS MENTIONED AS TO LIBERAL POSSIBILITIES —LOUGHEED, HOWE AND ATKINSON TO DROP OUT. | VICTORIA, Sept. 7:—Premier S. F. Tolmie, Conser- | vative Premier of British Columbia, today made a state- | ment favoring the establishment of a “Union” govern- ment in the province. The Premier, in his statement, said: “Realizing that the trend of thought throughout the premier ‘Tolmie who announces , World is that governments should include those men who, w line of policy in regard to | regardless of other considerations, appear to be able to erning of British Columbia. | render best service to the state, I have, after careful con- | sideration and discussion with many responsible citizens of the province, decided to accept that principle. PRESIDENT “My statement, which will shortly be issued, will in- | t's all right if you can get into the right fiesta, For instance, clude a clause favoring the establishment of a union gov- here Anita Deardorf (good old Spanish name) at Santa Barbara, OF MEXICO : ernment composed of such men, along the lines of the Calif, fiesta, which was undoubtedly a grade A fiesta. | national government in England, as the best method of | — - stone | meeting present conditions. e . Ortez Rubio Quits and General | ‘6 a Rl ‘ » nallo P t Rodviiial is Eaetalied to le | I trust and believe that the men who are called upon | Fifty Railway Os S > > > » > * Ww Sancdeser to co-operate in this movement will be prepared to thro — aside personal ambition and will be ready, if necessary, | - MEXICO CITY, Sept. 7:—Fol- | #0 make some personal sacrifice and thus assure success | ave een 0 1S e 4 ,» sep i—_ © lowing the resignation on Satur- for British ¢ ‘olumbia.” ; day of President Ortez Rubio, | Speculation as to the personnel of the proposed new ° « General A, L, Rodrigues was 00 ministry brought in the names of W. J. Bowser and the | With View to Savin Sunday elected by congress and ! ' r Liberals: inaugurated as the new president followi Ing I . of Mexico, A. Wells Gray, New Westminster. Rubio, who has left for Hot Dugald Donaghy, Vancouver. | Economy Axe is Still Being Wielded Among Higher-Ups gp = ecpdboonige ne A. D. McFarlane, Victoria. of National System—Robert Lett is Among Latest treatment, declared that, while it J. W. deB. Farris, Vancouver. Officers to Retire vas true he had not been in good Who will leave the cabinet is also a matter of specula- | = os ee been tion but the names of Hon. N.S. Lougheed, Hon. 5. L. MON a \L, Sept. 7:—Retirement of eleven officers | rr ee Howe and Hon. William Atkinson are mentioned. lof the Canadian National Railways and the abolition of | fourteen yee il offices were announced today at head- ‘quarters of the system here, bringing the total of posts| abolished just recently in the interests of economy to fifty, | Robert C. W. Lett, superintendent of the natural resources e+e 4202¢00¢4474 KNOWS NO REASON FOR SUICIDE OF HUSBAND HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 7: Reduction In Number “BE Of Canadian National 3.22382 ot: | Board Members Likely?“ swiaew 0: * INCREASING RIO GRANDE post is abolished. = Rec] ALLOWANCE ONRAMPAGE tive, should have killed him- aan. *t nly can} Sider. Oo) SO ee ee ee ee stand it,’ officers quoted her . Q > e-| Reduction of Government Railway Directors From Pr as saying. Unemployed War Veterans to Be Damage of $2,000,000 Done and 10 sent Seventeen to Seven or Five Said to Be aG9'2:0'O OO 9:00 9 Paid Equal to Municipal Rate | Are Believed Dead as Result Favored By Probe a —— Where They Reside of Flood aL siginad HALIBUT LANDINGS abs a v ’ umber of air "ec-| CALGARY, Sept. 7:—-Unemployed! DEL RIO, Texas, Sept. 7: —The| ti re TAWA, Sept. 7:+-Reduction in oe : may be recom- Summary war veterans in Canada will have yeney wi ane * the rn Oehpde rs of the Canadian National Railways | Amorican—30,500 pounds, none yoir relief allowances increased to River are receding after a disas-| mended in the re port of the transport ition commission | .oi¢, conform with the rellef rate paid trous flood which it was estimated | Which has bee » ti the tr: nsporti ition situation} Canadian— 18,000 pounds, 4.5¢ did two million dollars damage and t een inve stige ving bn enecte id, w ill and 3 by the municipalities’ of which they | had probably taken ten lives, that ne anada for some time. The document, i! is eX] arly! Aianetined are residents |many peteons being missing. Tt isi he placed before the government on Sati irday or early| Tahoma, 20,000, and Happy, 10,- believed that some ten thousand Premier Bennett said last night} ne ct week, 500, holding over. : sa bie ‘persons were rendered homeless, Rumors are that the commission will likely recommend | » Canadian that he understood the pensions |" ne pel Rio section appeared to \ decrea 4 t] ; umber of member of the board from) Rose Spit, 18,000, Cold Storage, Cepartment at Ottawa had issued) pave been the most severely stricken ‘ ‘ase in the number ) 8 i , te has Diceea ee the present seventeen to seven or, probably, five. [en and 9, instructions to this effect, by the flood. Higher Prices and More Adios uate Earning Power Constitute Ses to Return of Prosperity in Province Wave of Optimism is Developing in Vancouver as Result of Conference, L. F. Champion Says in Address Before Local Gyro Club “There can be no return to prosperity in British Colum- hia until the earning power of people has been restored,” leclared L. F. Champion, field secretary of the B. C. Pro- duets Bureau of the Vancouver Board of Trade, in an im- pressive address before the Prince Rupert Gyro Club at ‘uncheor yesterday in the Commodore Cafe. “The present Iw prices are greatly to be “9 lored. The farmer is not receiv- | ng enough from his products to DEATH OF give him a living. Much the same is the situation in which other pro- iucers find themselves today. While | NOVELIST t may seem hard for me to Say to| you that you must pay more for the | irticles you buy, it is, nevertheless,| Late Sir Gilbert Parker Also Wog true that there will be no return to| Distinction as Statesman, Serv- normal times and general prosper- ! ing Country in Many Ways ity until such time as everyone who} pecihindes is producing and manufacturing is | making a fair profit,” | Bo C da Mr.“Champion, however, Struck | m in ana note of cheer when he declared that | a wave of optimism was developing |Most of Early "Books Were About ‘Sontinued on Page Two ) This Dominion—Travelled _—_—_-——_- | Extensively | ST. LEGER | LONDON, Sept. °7:—Sir Gilbert “4 |Parker, celebrated British novelist- RACE RUN statesman, died here yesterday at |the age of 69 following a heart at- agent tack on Sunday. G. T. Hibbard Wins First Prize in | Ajthough he achieved interna- Fair Board Sweepstake—W. _ tional fame as a novelist, the liter- Wallace, Second—F. E. lary career of Sir Gilbert Parker was Murphy, Third jsaid to have been somewhat dim- , ; med by his activity in politics. DONCASTER, Eng., Sept. 7:— | sir Gilbert travelled extensively The Aga Khan's Firdaussi, at 20 | jn Northern Canada and the South to 1 against, today won the clas- |seas and was an associate editor sic St. Leger Stakes for three-year | at sydney, Australia, four years be- olds. Dastur, also owned by the |fore going to London in the early Aga Khan, was second and Mrs. | 99's, He soon began to acquire a re- C. Rich’s Silvermere, third. Am- (Continued on page four.) ong the also-rans were such fa- mous horses as Orwell, Violator, Udaipur and April the Fifth. N r rth W her Word 0 rurther wor G. T. Hibbard of this city held Of G V ] Firdaussi in the Fair Board's | rain esse sweepstake on St. Leger, the drawing for which took place last Expectation Still is That Ship Will Friday night, and, therefore, wins | Be Here Around September first prize in the sweepstake. 10 or Later William Wallace, also of this | _ | city, held Dastur for second No further wor: hes been re: money while Silvermere was ‘ceived at local offices of the Al- drawn by F. E. Murphy who takes branch for Alberta and British Columbia, retires and his) berta Wheat Pool in regard to the third money, report that a ship may be here about September 10 to load a cargo Elderly Mani 1S ior grain for the Gree. wolthes has iny word been received as to when d D d . pee new season’s grain may start oun ea In rolling into the local house from Shack at Mine, the prairies, ne ee i WEATHER REPORT Divisional hes vdquarters of the} iprovincial police here have been; Dead Tree Point—Raining, calm; advised that James Holden Mc-! barometer, 29.88; temperature, 54; |Leod, elderly watchman at the Sil- ‘sea smooth ver Standard mine near Hazelton,| Triple Island—Overcast, calm; was recently found dead in his ca-|sea smooth bin at the mine, an inquiry which, Langara Island—Overcast, light | we as held establishing that death southeast wind; sea calm. | we as due to natural causes, McLeod we was last seen on August 27 and his|##*###4@¢@##@@@@® :dead body was found on August 29/|# * jby a caller, + PRAIRIE WHEAT CROP + McLeod, who was predeceased by # IS ESTIMATED AT OVER #@ his wife some time ago, had rela- |# FOUR HUNDRED MILLION # tives in Vancouver. \* e —— —___—__—— * WINNIPEG, Sept. 7:—West- @ FINED $100 i* ern Canada will produce 426,- # Clarance Watson, pleading guil-'# 813,000 bushels of wheat this @ + + + + + + * ty to a charge of supplying liquor year, according to the estimate # to Indians, was fined $100, with # of the Winnipeg Free Press. # \option of two months’ imprison-|# The Free Press crop estimate # }ment, by G. H. Munro and W. E. # is usually considered as accur- # Collison, justices of the peace. in # ate as any that is compiled, # city police court yesterday after- * noon, The fine was paid, e*te tee ee024¢700087 RES Se mie. : — nee ait’