Today’s Weather Che Daily News Tomorrow’s Tides - Saturday, September 10, 1932 Prince Rupert—Overcast, strong BUICK: :..segstiees nd 10:34 am. 16.9 ft. southeast wind; barometer, 30.22: 2%, 22:12 pm. 18.7 ft. temperature, 52; sea moderate. ee Gs how tie. 3:54am. 5.5 ft. } %, o 16:09 p.m. 10.0 At . ee : ey % NOR R EN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER kan ns eee, D % : Vol. XXIII., No. 210. OS otstagilee PRINCE RU P ERT, B.C, B. G., F RIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1 1982 PRICE: FIVE CENTS —————— ee Ke —— — CANA \DIAN AVIATOR em Activity Showing Real om Improvement in This District; EE ——EES SO heed Gathering of the SE Scale For Year Abreast 4 1931 With increases recorded steadily month by month of| late, the 1932 log seale in Prince Rupert forestry district: is now almost abreast of the production for 1931 up to a corresponding date, according to official figures of the Forest Branch. So far this year, the scale for the district now stands at 57,387,271 borird feet as compared with 57,- % 300,066 board feet in the first, eight | months of 1931. The scale for Aug-| ust this year was 18,644,036 board’ feet which is a healthy increase jover 15,736,826 board feet in the | jsame month last year. Per varieties, the scale for Aug- Some Months to Elapse Before New , ust this year was as follows, figures Inspector of Provincial Police No Appointment Until November ifor August 1931 being also given for fo , 4 Pare Here Will Be Named | comparison: Pega . ee — 1932 1931 ee Bs LAE’ According to Victoria newspapers, , B.F i ae , ye yf i & it has been intimated from provin-, Douglas Fir 183,198 | oe 3h A cial police headquarters in the ca-! Cedar 464,857 418,457 ; - ~) pital that the permanent appoint- | Spruce 9,167,667 8,940,408 | ee ment of a successor to Inspector | Hemlock 7,476,635 5,206,387 | ‘ John Macdonald, recently transfer- Balsam 1,532,002 866,440 | | red to Nelson, as inspector in charge Jack Pine 29,126 of “D” Division of the provincial | Miscellaneous 2,875 2,810) police with headquarters at Prince | ~~---~- nonaseilingl Rupert will not be made until No-; Totals 18,644,036 15,736,826 | ; i ; t} vember. Meantime, Staff Sergeant| The Barrymore clan had an ir formay gathering, for the christeni Alex McNeill is acting inspector. | Forest Products | son of John and Dolores, Father O'Shea, After lagging so far this year,| | production of forest products in the Barrymofe, Helene Costello (with Baby John) and Lionel ng of John Blyth Barrymore, Baby Ethel Dolores, Dolores.Costello Barrymore, John Barrymore are shown: jinterior is also beginning to show a} William Kerr of RING Flying Officer Gordon = Took His Plane in Air 22,000 Foot Height, Equalled Canadian Altitude Record Yesterday in Going Aloft With Sensitive Cosmic Ray Instruments of Dr. Robert Millikan CORMORANT LAKE, Man., Sept. 9:—Flying Officer _R. C. Gordon yesterday, in the interests of science, soared ‘to a height of 22,000 feet in an airplane, equalling the Ca- inadian altitude record, while sensitive electroscopes of IDr. Robert A. Millikan, world-famed physicist of Pasa- dena, Cal., recorded important information in connection with the nature of the cosmic ray. Dr. Millikan expressed ' pleasure at the resuit. LOYALTY TO DELEGATE _ NORTH B.C. WAS HERE Makes Plea For District En- | For Australia Passes Through davor as Well as Provincial | Here on His Way Home Hon. J. Hugh Cook, minister of trade and commerce for Australia and one of the. leaders of the Aus- Pride in Province Hazelton Passes: ‘duced as compared with 61,964 lin-| Resident of Interior Town For Up- wards of Twenty Years Dies at Age of Seventy-Seven HAZELTON, Sept. 9:—The neral of the late William Kerr twenty years or more a resident Hazelton, whose death occurred on Thursday of last week in the Ha- zelton Hospital where he had been a@ patient for some time, took place on Saturday morning from the Uni ted Church here with Rev. S. V. H Redman officiating Seventy-seven years late “Bill” Kerr in the early days Was a horse here. He well known to all was highly esteemed. It is not known whether or not there relatives in this country STOCKS IN SLUMP NOW Causes General fu- for of of age, the dealer was and ire any Break in Wheat Collapse—One of Most Active Sessions in Two Years | — | Influenced ibout five stocks in one NEW YORK 9 by an extreme break of dollars a bale on cotton slumped y« I Sept terday afternoo! of the most active sessions of the past two years. Net losses of from $1 to $3 were recorded by | aiding issues. beeeeceesooeen? definite improvement now. During this August 430,146 lineal | feet of poles and piling was pro- | Thirty-Seven Persons Lose Their. |Kaslo, addresses were given at Trail ¢'in the Okanagan he commenced a + # OLD GARAGE BUILDING + + DEMOLISHED BY GALE * + jesadibiigde ® The old Kalen Garage build- * # ing at the corner of Third AV + @ enue and Ninth Street was al- # # most demolished during the * # gale last night. The roof was * @ blown almost a hundred fee! # # away and. other debris went * # even further. Two of the walls * is # were about all that remained * # in position, Apparently, there * # was no other extensive damage * # in the city as a result of the * * gale. + * 1 ohPeteeoeeeeee er! eal feet in August 1931. The total | for this August consisted of 416,024) lineal feet cedar and 14,122 lineal feet hemlock In August this year 11,713 jack’ pine ties were scaled as compared | with a total of 42,897 ties in August | lust year - Cordwood for August this year|/Scenes of Horror After Catastrophe — Victims Seiake totalled 228 cords as against #44 Workers Going From Bronx to Construction of cords in August 1931 New Rikers Island Penitentiary PATTULLO IS TOURING Rapid Fire Organizing Trio Being NEW YORK, Sept. 9:—Thirty-seven bodies have been recovered, fifty persons are missing and practically all the remainder were injured when a 92-foot wooden ferry “Observation Ferry,” carrying 165 ironworkers from the Bronx to their new Rikers Island penitentiary in the East River was blown to bits by a boiler explosion this iobs on Carried Out By Liberal Leader morning. The steamer was about™ In Southern Interior 125 feet from the pier when there hospital, repeated over * 7 T jwas a terrific roar and the ferry id the boilers exploded,” NELSON, B.C pt. 9 idisappeared in a dense cloud of ,, he died of his iniuries Pattullo has been oad a vere I moke from which were catapulted at two workmen were tos+ the interior, gett = 1e oe he bodies and fragments of 7 bh Piste feet into the air and 2A the co I 1eC- , house in order for the coming } und wood lay on the roofs of buildings on tion. He has been attending lun- } When the smoke clear her fre . . . . , ne wa ront cheons anc dinners and party meet | was nothing left of the boat bu ings as many as | four addresses in two days At Nelson there was a large or- ganization meeting of Liberals, At and has delivered debris floating on the oily water Police, cial boats rushed to the sc coastguard and comme! ne WEATHER REPORT ing injured and transporting the that meeting Mr. Pattullo said he ating Of the viens to. shor Dead hile sence” Yaa had not received an official copy of} Priests came to the ferry hou ) wind: barometer, 30.06, | the Kidd report, it having been re- lteneathnat among rows of those ta-/ temperature, 54; light swell | fused by R. H. Pooley with the re- Sac eek Whe’ Gadel nah: adiuiel Re mark: “He had his nerve - | tering ai dea Eaek abn thaectiaea a 2 | amone F ae A Alexander Forsythe, captain and Langara Island—-Overcast, strong | ere gv ag aoe enbrook |CO-OWNEE of the boat, held und yuthwest wind: sea moderate | quest at a t | he delivered an address, he was| luncheon speaker at Creston and Saskatchewan Farmers Will Get Forty Million Dollars More For Crop This Year 7 WINNIPEG, Sept. 9:—Even at present low prices, Saskatchewan grain will bring in approximately $40,000,000 more than was available last year, Pre- mier J. T. M. Anderson of Saskatchewan stated here today. Last year’s crop ill be exceeded by 100,000,000 and Rossland, he attended a lun- cheon meeting at Grand Forks and eries of meetings at Penticton At every place the Liberal leader .s received with enthusiasm and the opinion was generally expres- eed everywhere that no matter what ubterfuge was used to divert the nublic mind from the main point at the people would insist on a ete change when the oppot tunity was given through a provin- 1] election sue comple cl Sept ~Wheat NCOU VER "e noted at 52¢ on a local ex- | bushels, Premier Anderson declared, ) hange today >. r « ss rs oon) Naas i. | the Lives When Ferry Steamer Blows Up in East River, At New York ‘MOLLISON WELCOMED Intrepid British Airman Given Great Reception on Return to London Today LONDON, Sept. 9:—Weeping skies but a cheering throng of more than 10,000 persons greeted Capt. James A. Mollison on his arrival at Waterloo Station yes- terday following his recent record- breaking flight westward across Atlantic Ocean, The crowd clogged up every avenue leading to the station and disrupted traffic as, in a carnival spirit, the people fought for van- tage points from which to obtain a glimpse of the hero of the mo- ment, Accompanied by his wife, the former Amy Johnson, famous British airwoman, the intrepid ecean flyer accepted the demon- stration with characteristic mo- desty. Meat Market Is Again Entered One Ham Last Night By Visiters to Jones’ Butcher Shop time in recent For weeks Market on Third Avenue the second parently get money Police are investigating the mat- ter and One Cheese Taken | William Jones’ Family Meat, was bro- | ken into during last night, One ham} and one cheese were taken and, ap- | no attempt was made to, L. F. Champion Says Already Bene- fits of Ottawa Imperial Con- ference Are Being Felt of pride in our own capabilities in this province and in Canada and the idea behind all we do is to pro- vide a greater field for employ- ment.” These were the words of L. F. Champion, field secretary of the B. C. Products Bureau of the Van- | couver Board of Trade, who addres- sed the Rotary Club yesterday at their regular weekly luncheon. Mr. Champion urged that the ople in this part of the country should concentrate on improving the industrial condition of North- “We are trying to Instil a feeling} ern British Columbia. It was very important to prevent sending money out of the district for things | that could be supplied at home. | just that much harder to get along | it home. Loyalty to local businesses ind local industries was an impor- tant step toward progress. Speaking of the recent Ottawa | conference Mr. Champion said it iset everyone thinking and the ef- fect was wonderful. Already there had been hundreds of inquiries as a result and these came from al- | most every part of the world, not naa from Empire countries. There | had particularly been inquiries in regard to possibilities of trade with New Zealand and South American countries. He looked for great re- sults from the conference While his bureau was formed to lInok after the interests of B. C. in- dustries, it also tried to keep busi- in Canada. turning it to East- jern Canada when the goods could be sunnlied in the province. He linstanred a case of supplying Ca- nadian tubricating oil in Vancou- | ver. This oil was not produced in B C. but he had been instrumental in getting it for a Canadian firm and he result had been very beneficial to the user | The speaker mentioned the huge | business in manufacturing fertilizer lat Trail. At one time the farmers on the U. S. side of the boundary sued the company for injuries from smoke. Now the company was sell- ing the smoke to the farmers in the form of fertilizer. The company |shipped an average of eight cars of lfertilizer daily to the adjoining ness | jnot jstate. It also made large shipments tralian delegation to the recent Em- pire economic conference in Ot- tawa, and Mrs. Cook arrived in the city on last night’s train from East- ern Canada and sailed on the steamer Prince Rupert for Van- couver, They will sail from Vang couver for Australia on the liner Aorangi next + PAUL BERN. TWO WIVES Mystifying Development Produced By Statement of Life In- surance Agent Suicide Verdict Sending money away was making it| | First Wife of Film Reeentive Undi- vorced, Declared to Be Living In Mental Sanitarium_ LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9:—“The coroner's jury yesterday found: that Pau! Bern, film executive and hus- band of Jean Harlow, screen actress, had died from “wounds self-inflic- ted with suicidal intent” but «with motive undetermined. Frank Webb, assistant “c@urity autopsy surgeon, testified that Bern, who was 42 years of age, had been (Continued on page four.) Halibut Landings iiiiide American — 34,000 pounds, «3.5¢ and 2c Canadian 24,000 pounds, 4.2¢ and 3c and 5.4c and 3c. American Nordic, 34,000, Cold Storage, 3.5¢ and 2c. Canadian Gony, 12,000, Cold Storage, 5.4e and 3c. Viking L,, 12,00, Atlin, 4.2c and 3e. regularly to the Orient. The bina concern with 4,000 employees ‘was a great benefit to British Columbia, Mr. Champion has been making personal calls on a great, many people and is always glad to givé information in regard to his de- partment either personally or * by letter A ‘ a Pye 2 Wak. ” a - a ; - ak —_ ad a ert be se ; CaS Ra cnes _ = i 4 le ——- ——— -