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NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’S NEWSPAPER

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. MONDAY, ‘MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1932

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SAMUEL’S RESIGNATION IS BEING TAKEN FOR GRANTED

Indian Nediousbiat Leader Is
Fating Again Following Terms

Of Voting Pact Being Adopted

 

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Reports from Hollywood indicate

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Matchmakers Are
Wagging Tongues

Significance Seen in Visit of Prince

of Wales to Swedish Royal
Palace

The impenc
of Wales

LONDON, Sept

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ing visit of the Prince
the Royal Palace of Sweden has set
tongues of Europ matchmakers
to wagging again, They see here an
opportunity for the world’s most
eligible bachelor” to pré his suit
with the beautiful 22-yeal old
Princess Ingrid of Sweaen

The Prince is making a tour of
Scandinavian countri having

gone primarily to open the Copen-

hagen British Industries

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BIG VICTORY FOR :
ROOSEVELT SEEN

NEW YORK, Sept. 26:—-In a
statement issued from Demo
cratic sidential campaign
headquarters here at the week-
end, the
accorded
dential candidate
tory of the
predicted for Governor Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt on November
8,

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presi
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a Democratic
in the

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United States was

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Received With Great Rejoicing—“Gandhi Week” to
Be Observed—India Office Issues Statement

 

|news of London’s Agreement With Compromise Plan
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POONA, India, Sept. 26: —Inspired by the news that the
British government had approved most of the compromise

elections, Mahatma

 

tive Power For Canadian Na-
tional, Dies in Winnipeg

 

Sept. 26-A. H.
general superintendent of
motive power and car equipment for
Canadian National Railways,
died here Sunday night, being the
victim of a sudden heart attack. He

jwas 64 years of age

Mr. Eager, who died at his resi-
dence here, was born at Waterloo,
Que., and entered railway service in

1885. Up to 1893 he was machinist
apprentice with the Southeastern
Railway and the Canadian Pacific
Railway at Farnham, Que. His first
promotion came when he was ap-
pointed locomotive foreman at
Farnham, in 1899. Two years later
he was transferred to Megantic,
Que., and from there he came to
Western Canada in 1903, as general
foreman for the Canadian Pacific
at Cranbrook, B.C. In 1906 he went
to Calgary, and later was trans-
ferred to Kenora, Ont., as district
master mechanic. He returned later
to Calgary as locomotive foreman
Joined Canadian Northern

In May, 1910, he entered the ser-
vice of the Canadian Northern
Railway at Wianipeg, as superinten-
dent of shops. In 1915 he became
assistant superintendent of rolling
stock which position he held until
late in 1918 when he was promoted
superintendent for
the western lines. In 1923 he was
placed in full charge of the motive
power and car equipment of the
railways, western division, and has
held that position since

Mr. Eager took a special interest
in the apprentices in the shops and
did much to make the apprentice-
ship system successful Besides be-
ing a prominent railway man, he
was active in fraternal and service
organizations, being a member of
ithe Scottish rite Masons and the
|Rotary Club, Mr Eager is survived
by his widow, a step-daughter, Miss
Betty Rose Parr Eager, and one
sister, Mrs. R. F, Shaw, of Waterloo,
Que. The body will be forwarded to
Waterloo for burial

Might ( ‘orrupt_
Cc anadian Morals
OTTAWA, Se ot 26 Bools3) pro-
hibited entry into Canada include
No Bed of Her Own” by Val Lew-
Six AM.” by Maxwell Boden-
“Husbands and Lovers”
lie J, Swabacher Periodicals
disallowed are “La Paree
Storie Paris Magazine” “Brevi-
ties’ and a Slovakian publication
the name of whic h translated into
“Daily Equality of

ton

heim
by Les
recent!)

and

English 1}
People

broke his “death fast” of protest at 5
|afternoon after having taken no solid food for six days

PASSING OF
RAILWAYMAN

| A. H, Eager, Superintendent of Mo-

|

| WINNIPEG,
| Eager,

alan on the privileges of Indian untouchables in the legis-
\lative
| leader,

Gandhi, Hindu nationalist

o'clock this

“and five hours.

The news from London met with
great rejoicing. At Simla, the halls
of the legislative assembly echoea
with loud cheers and a similar

states.
ient of the Indian nationalist con-

a “Gandhi Week” beginning tomor-
row and ending on the Mahatma’s
birthday on October 2.
should be devoted, he said, to the
removal of caste discrimination
against the untouchables.

Gandhi had a bad night last
nighé and physicians gaid this
morning that his vitality was lower
than at any time since he began
the fast.

It'was aboul 4:15 p.m. when news
was hrought to Gandhi of London's
agceptance of the compromise
agreement. He was too weak
his wife had to lift him up on his
cot and prop his
the official document. When he had
finished, he lifted his head, smiled
and murmured to his doctor: “This
will be acceptable” and then sank}
back with a low moan

London Satisfied

LONDON, Sept. 26:—A statement
was issued by Indian Office today
announcing agreement with the

in India on electoral matters. The
statement said that the government
had learned of the compromise
“with satisfaction.’

“The government will recommend |
to Parliament in due course,” said|
the statement, “the adoption of the
clauses of the agreement
with representation in
legislatures in India. It added, how-
ever, that the cabinet noted the
agreement reached in India cov-
ered certain questions outside the
recent award.

Trains to Leave
Here Earlier For

East Next Month

a change in the time-table of the
Canadian National Railways pas-
senger train from here for the east,
effective October 3. Instead of leav-
ing at 10:30 Monday, Wednesday}

same mornings in order to connect
with the Vancouver - Montreal
train. The westbound train will

continue to arrive here Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday nights at
9 o'clock,

VANCOUVER WHEAT

VANCOUVER, Sept.
was quoted at 48'4c
exchange today.

26:—Wheat
on the local

 

scene took place in the council of
Raja Gopa Charier, acting presi- |

gress, announced the observance of |

The week)

and |

back while he read |

compromise plan of Hindu leaders,

dealing |
provincial

Official announcement is made of;

and Friday mornings for the east, |
this train will leave at 9:30 on the}

 

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HS Free Trade Liberals
_ | Expected To Leave
|| Gov’t On Wednesday

King George Cuts Short Holiday Trip to Scotland so ast
Be in London Following Crucial Meeting of
Administration This Week

 

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Looking just ?fke a flying bec.
BEE-GEE plane banks to start
at the national air show. He av

he last lap of the 100-mile race
raged 252 miles an hour in his
bumble-bee craft

Practically No Hope Now Held Ou
For Safety of Japanese
Goedwill Flyers

‘artel Major James “Doolittie’s

 

NOME, Sept. 26:—With many

 

TERRACE

DROWNING GRAIN BOAT

Man Believed to Have Lost Life
Near Skeena Bridge
TERRACE, Sept. What ap-
pears to have been a drowning fa-
tality occurred near the Skeena
| River bridge some days ago. One}
man, coming in September 7
| doing some days’ work away from
camp, missed his partner,
|Roy Mitchell, who had apparently
igone to the river with a piece of
drift net to fish for salmon. Mit-
chell’s lantern, his pipe and net
j}were found on the river bank but
ithe man was nowhere to be seen, It
| is to be supposed the mystery will mY
| cleared up before long
| eaitonell hailed from Canterbury,
|New South Wales Australia, and|
had been here only a short time. He
was on relief

DIES FROM
PARACHUTE

 

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Charles Winters of Wilkie
His First Leap From Airplane
and it Proves Fatal
SASKATOON, Sept. 26:—Cnharle
Winters of Wilkie, a student para
chute Jumper, was killed yesterday
at North Battleford when his para-
chute failed to open and he fell to
|the ground. He had leaped from a
plane at a®*height of 2000 feet. It

vee his first jump.

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INSIST GERMANY
SEEKS STRENGTH
GRAMAT, France, Sept. 26:
Premier Edouard Herriot de
clared in a public address yes-
terday that military experts of
unquestionable authority in-
sist that Germany is seeking
sufficient military stren¢th to
defeat “with one thrust the

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7 from;a full cargo of grain from the Al-|
|berta Wheat Pool’s local elevator,
Alfred

Takes , Thompson,

| Hospital, was held yesterday after-

j}Harry Ormiston, C. W. Homer and
‘@rpeereee eee © © @ 41G. A. Woodland.

~~ | hours having now passed since
| their fuel supply would have be-
1 Y come exhausted, chances for the
safety of three Japanese flyers in
the light Junkers airplane of the
Hichi Shimbun newspaper of
Tokyo, which became missing on
; Saturday during a hop from Sa-
mushiro Beach, Japan, to Nome
in the course of a projected good-
; will flight to San Francisco, are
believed today to be very remote.
Heavy storms had come up
over the Bering Sea and North
Pacific at the week-end since the
plane's take-off and it is now all
but conceded that the ship came
down on the windswept and foggy
waters and that her crew have
perished.

Dutch Steamer Flensburg dinnetea!
to Arrive Any Day Now

From Orient |

There was no definite report this;

morning of the Dutch steamer|

Flensburg, which is coming to load |

LONDON, Sept. 26:—King George will cut short his
holiday in Seotland and will return to London Friday, it
was announced today. His arrival will follow Wednesdeas
crucial cabinet meeting when the tariff agreements made
at the recent Imperial economic conference in Ottawa will
come up for final discussion. It is now taken for granted

¥in political circles that Sir Herbert

Samuel and his Free Trade Liberal

PL AN E IS colleagues in the cabinet will resigh
because of their opposition to these

. agreements.
GIVEN UP oo erect
| Steamer Catala

Has Trouble; Is

Late in Arriving

On account of having developed
boiler trouble which delayed her
departure from Vancouver until
late Saturday, Union steamer Ca-
| tala, Capt. A. E, Dickson, ordin=
arily due here Sunday evening
from the south, is some thirty
hours late ana is expected to ar-
rive at midnight tonight. The ves-
sel will continue her regular voyage
north from here, making all sche-
duled calls, but, on her return to-
Vancouver, will be withdrawn from ;
service to undergo annual overhaul *
for which she was to have been:
taken off the run shortly in any?
case. The steamer Cardena will:
come north on the Catala’s run:
next Sunday while the Venture will?
take the run of the Cardena, being:

although the vessel is expected any |

 

 

the 1932 grain crop startirig to roll| The plane had not been auth- |due here Friday night from the
to Prince Rupert from the prairies} ©®tically reported since five hours south. 7
although it is expected to commence| 4fter the take-off on Saturday v
coming soon. when it was 750 miles northeast

of Tokyo.

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‘Rabies Prevalent

Halibut Landings _

Summary

 

day now
There is no indication ag yet of
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1S BURIED

American—124,500 pounds, 17.6¢
N SUNDAY land 3c to 8.4c and 3c.
0 Around Seattle Canadian—26,500 pounds, 5.9¢
| land 3c.
American
Funeral of Late Mrs. Isaac Thomp-| Jogs Must Be Eitner Muzzled or| Seymour, 32,000, Cold Storage, $0
son Held Yesterday—Many Of- Have Vaccination Tag, land 30. -

fer Tributes of Respect.

Authorities Rule

SEATTLE, Sept. 26:—The health
‘department of King County has is-
sued an order that no dogs shall be
jpermitted to run at large unless
| they are muzzled or bear a tag cer- Canadian
| tifying that they have been vac-| Toodie, 10,000, and Helen II, 16,-
cinated with anti-rabies serum. Re- |500, Cold Storage, 5.9c and 3c.

cent prevalence of rabies in the
county actuated the authorities to}
| make the edict. |

Mitkof, 50,000, Atlin, 7.9¢c and 3c.= x
Bonanza, 23,000, Royal, 8.4c and*

 

The funeral of the late Mrs. Isaac 3c
for 24 years a resident}
of the Queen Charlotte Islands, |
whose death occurred last Friday

night in the Prince Rupert Gener al|

 

Restitution, 12,000, and Condor,
17,500, Pacific, 7.6c and 3c.

|noon, Many friends, particularly of |
lthe early days in various parts of |
ithe province, assembled to pay their
final tributes of respect to the me-
mory of deceased. Many beautiful
floral tributes testified to the es- | HALIFAX HALIBUT PRICES
teem in which she was held.
The service at the chapel of the

 

Card of Thanks

To those who sent flowers, and,
- to those who in other thoughtfaF
A Halifax paper which has just ways showed thelr sympathy im

 

 

 

B.C, Undertakers was conducted by come to hand quates halibut prices }my recent bereavement, I convey
Rev. W. D. Grant Hollingworth pas- there on September 16 at 17%c and |my sincere thanks

tor of First Presbyterian Church. 9%: A. J. WILDS.*~
W. Vaughan Davies presided at the ies
organ to accompany the hymns >
which were

“Abide With Me” and
“Lead Kindly Light.” ‘

A MEETING OF

Following the service, interment ° ° o.. % i
was made in Fawvew comer. Prince Rupert Liberal Association |
deceased being laid alongside her
about a year and a half ago, Pall- Will Be Held at Metropole Hall
husband, whose death occurred

Tonight, September 26, 8 p.m.

For the purpose of electing delegates to the forthcoming conven-
tion at Vancouver.

bearers were Mayor C. H. Orme, J.
Fred Ritchie, Freq Cameron, Capt.

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