4 4. I I. t g "'Will ; Was "I' III! i Ii' !...! II... diiv - iMiifvi in. ii ii i ;,(". jii ' i lf would like lo , Tii' II ill ' Chapter lOlii; Ii m raised money in C'TY 0F PRINCE RUPERT. PUBLIC MEETING ; I'lilihr ineclini; will ... ! 'In. (lily Han,,,, 7"'. I he ;tOII, day id ' h p.,,,. i ;. quPMtiuiiH iTgunllng , " r,s"'l.' in.luslry in ''I" '"'' and also n.a. ,'" 'injr to t1P jpA liirg,. ulltMidmici? '"'lUCsl.,. s M. NHW'TO.Xy Miiyoi' on I'DII ILAM), April S. lour persons are dead and one is in- jured probably fatally, us u irsiill id a fin wliieli swept the frafhe apurlinetil huildiiiv here early 1oIh. The dead are Cluru Short, 2(1 er of agr, a wall- ri'ss; Iteriiiee Krasier, 21'; K. Siillivnii. .;t, lahonr; Mr. Law, (. who was blind. Mrs. Law was iiijuri.nl ami is moI especleil lo recover. Tiie flames raged more than un hour before firemen were able lo enter ami search for the bodies. Most of the victims were appajeiitly Iraiiped in their rooms in I he lli'iidriek apart ments. EXPLODED CAUSING SEVERE INJURIES Victoria Lady Lost Her Life from Burns Resulting from Fire YK'.TIUIIA. April 2U. Following; the explosion of a washinu machine in a liatlirooiu yesterday. Mrs. Norman Martin was surrounded by flame wldrli resulted in burns thai later ' procd fa! Hi. The rxplosiou was heard for blocks and destroyed the walls of the room. MENTAL PAtFeNT llie ward In, ' ipr.p I -. ..., ii. . . , n i riant niiiaii..!is onservauve member tor Victoria. IS.L. Draws Or in.i'H' JllsiUC (lit;, g tic i. ire this can lie If - iiri-ostiry In provide' i In- Hirpoe Ami w.. of gelling this ' Attention to Naval Preparations on Pacific ""m ui1'jrkci l (IITAWA, April 21). Tlial Canada should prepare fur vim art? nilemshl. ,0,j!r hostilities un Hit Pacific (asl was urged by ll"n. Simon he people an opitor-' j-Vu'tT former' Tolmie, Conservative organizer and mini-hr h. '-- i mm nsis nit ik -, I In- , agriculture in .Mrtghcn governmenl, who i ai h of Hie bank inriu II i: in il... n, ,.r r.,.i,,,..,,v ili Daily .Vow,, (K-j r. -'olmie stressed Hie importance of (lie Amrriean and 'lunations for I In i .Imh.iiii'o' u.n:ii i t-i i i-n i i , mi ih. i r;.- u...i it... ....i.i; j.c acknowledged ' column eaeli illung Hud ti ap-ordinstry person child. Ustiallx 'I eliildren are i lew are not and arcd for. At pre-iiiwhcrc to put 'hex iimy have the i : to recover. ndi'ed dollars i ni spmrtpfrrer Hi ,' zz hoped a few days' fii anil raised. REMEDY FOR HARD TIES IMop Richardson of New Brunswick Suggests Reduction In Standard or Living 11 "N X II.. April 'I f v-i Dial ir the a iant of livin?. nl ' Iimiiji,. reineinber. '''"liinl. was reliiceil s iiefore the war 1 -Hllpumllvely lil-ui' ni' iiai-i) times." tie l 'i . J A. Ilicliardson n ni rhurffp to the 1 tilanil Hynod of w yeslenlay. GRADS WINNERS OVER TORONTO Crack Edmonton Basketball Team Had no Difficulty With Hebrew Girls J;"MTiiN. A,.j sw. . ,,. ' NV "ini'u 's Hebrew Anxu- K' Miall li-aiu of To '" tnaleli fur (he lld-"iiii'ieinl (innls in the slop MM'ii.s last nblil. ' wun 1H (o one. Tln I- llli V I lL.. ..I......' FIVE VICTIMS Four Dead and One Not Expected to Recover as Result of Injuries ( ENDS HIS LIFE NFAV WKSTMI.NSTKIt, April U. - Vt. Ilaiily. n patient in the Ksson.lale menial nospnai, I'liHled the K"anls yeslenlay and ii tiiiiL.-ir in front of a rail- .mv I ruin, lie was instantly killed. BASEBALL American SI. l.oui , Del 'oi' Cleveland a, Chicago 2 Washington SI. Hoslon U J'hllnilelpliia-New York, a ill. National Philailelphia 7. New York 5 Chicago a. Cincinnati 1). hrooklyn-Ho.'don, rain. Pittsburg 7, St. Louis .T. Advertise In Hie Daily News STOCK MARKET I LC. Silver (Irauby Ilurelloii Cold . Cobalt Surf Inlet pun well , I.. i L. Glacier Daly-Alaska ... Howe Sotind v Premier Selkirk Hid. I.MK I a.OU .01 Vi -.05 Vt a.'.Hi .2U represenls Vic .-..j . ........ j-.., . . t ... ., . . . . , , . . i 111(1, IIV ll,lllllf II. these preparations to Canada, lie argued Unit Canada should be in a position to maintain neutrality and .-he. eould only do dial ' if flie were prepared. A present su- was helpless, and in event of i war lietwiTii iln other nation sin- would be at the' merry of PORTLAND FIREC::: MANNA WINNER 2000 GUINEAS XKW MAIIKIIT. April 2V. Manna, a romparative outsider, won the Two Thousand (iooieas Slaki' today. SI. Ihran was second, anil Dojali, tliird, 1 liirleeu horses ran. Manna's lime, which is re-pardeil as an judical ion of form of Derby entrants, was one minute and 2-5 seconds for the mile race. ZANNI STARTS FLIGHT SOON One Convoy Ship Has Left Seattle and the Other Will bo Going Shortly SKATTLK, April 21. The lliylil around llie.worbl of Major Pedro L. .anni, Argenlini! avia tor, will be resumed from Tokio on .May in, announces raineio D. Murphy, Zanui's ailvaueu agcjil, who will sail from Van couver by Hie Kuiprcss or Itussia on Friday lor Yokohama. The hi? Imbrecaria id the Inrerna-lioiinl Towing f.o.'s (Vancouver) Heel leH here on Monday with supplies or i lie niyiii along uie Kurjlc and Aleutian Ishiuds. The vessel is proceeding direct lo Japan as will also the lu? Canada, leaving in n few days. Asked. I.Hi .01 14 .(Ml 1.50 .2.V .'Il 1K.0O 2..'I0 2.10 .05 '4 .05 ONLY ONE ARRIVAL Tbe only halibut boat olferlug at Hie Fisli Kxcbange this morn ing was the Canadian schooner Ingred II., which sold H.OOO pounds, lo the Itoyal I'ish Co. at !'.7c and 3c. BOSTON GRILL 2b Large Upstair Dining Hall, with nrwly laid dancing Servw'4 floor fur hire. Suitable for invwhere at Anytime. dances, banquets and wedding Royal Hotel, 3rd Ava. parties. Si.nd ana in ak PRINCE RUPERT For rats, apply to Hoslon KIATT VIDECK, Prop I Grill, Third Ave. Northern and Central British Columbia's Newspaper Phone 457. XY N. 101 .1'JllXCK JILI'KUT, MX WEDNESDAY, Al'HIL 2'J, Wo. Vtrdif' ClrcuUllon 153S Strtil SiIm 393 PRICE FIVE CENTS. ivuniiu uhuliu iiliLii m wnui via LiiivlhJ ROBBER WHO GOT AWAY WITH SWAG INl922 1 CONVICTED IN VANCOUVER editorial I Urges That Canada be CHILDREN'S WARD A 'II it 111 i' K ii w aid is needed ii , hospital and I lie ; Prepared to Maintain Neutrality in Wartime H PsE;-. cdMKHBHH&K'BPK' V j I'o" aiise lie i fond or music, a player-piano w as included in (he .special eipiipmenl oT II. .M.S. Ileptilse. Hie vessfl on winch Hie l'nure id Wales is making bis home on Jijs African and South American lour Progressive Member Urges Tax on Bachelors of Country: Would Also Raise Money from Luxurjes OTTAWA, April llev. A. .1. Lewis, I'resiiyleria'i miti- isler and Progressive member for Swift Current raihor rlarlled Hie House if Commons yesterday by advocating a lax on bucbe for one means r adding lu Hie n'venue.-or, UitvcuiHilrv-JiiKli'i" ui uu- sjuir unit; iiiuuriug liiei oiiiiatlUg Oi lllf cuillliry WiUl- oiil recourse lo iiiiiuigratiou. lie look n genlle slap at Higlit Hon. A. C. .Mackenzie King, preniter, who lie thought was celling a bad example lo Hie nation by rernaiiiiiig single. Hut buchelortlorit was not Hie only lliing .Mr. Lewis! wauled to lax. Hockey lie-kels he sing- I - J led out as being .suitable for an; f a mutual liad insurairco com- i i i : i I onpos,. .,si. n.urs rame iinuer pauy in .Saskatchewan, trustee his ban. I as did luxuries g.-iicr-,' (Jr die school boaiil. ami a. man ally, iiicltiilin radio eipiipment. The Saskatchewan member also took a pot shol at what be thought was one of Hie extrava-J the gospel and a legislator, Mr. Lewis is secretary and manager of affairs at ' home. He made quite an impression here and il is possible dial there will lie a lace to cover throughout Hie ganccs of llie jiresenl govern-eouiiliy on the pari of the mcnl. He suggested thai there j inch. were loo many (iovcrnment i . , motor cars in use for which tlov BIRTH. people had to pay. I There-was born this morning Hesidcs being a minister of! at the Cencral Hospital, a son lo Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sevenlli Avenue. Police Convinced by Photograph; ingle Miller. Something Will Break Very Soon in Janet Smilh Case Victoria Official Declares Special lo Daily News YICTOHIA, April -'0. "Something is coming in the .lane. Snijlh tvie." This was the significant slaleinenl made by a well infoniicd orficial at the Parliament Huildiiigs today. It is staled ttal the provincial police or Allorney (renernl .Malison will shortly break silence in connection willi the inves tigations into llm ease which have, been going on for some time. Uie JaleH startling development has been the disappearance and rumored abduction uT Wong Foon Sing, the Chinese liouse- boy ami ehieT witness in the ease. Searching for Chinese Houstboy held by Captors to make him talk VANCUl Vl'lt, April 2U, The prov iucial police are lliui ouglily convinced since llie publication of the picture of Wong Foon Sing Ihat the Chinese lioiiseboy is alive and is held pris oner in the hope, or making him confess. Conferences, are being held willi Hie Allorney tleneral following his I rri Vi d home from the scene of the Oraml I'orks-Creenwood election. lit the meunlime Hie police are living lo locale (ho mis iug Cliinumuii. ' 't he police believe that Hie abductors ul Wong are mil meet ing willi success In their efforts lo make him tell what, he knows of Hie slaying of .land Smith in the Itaker homo al Shuughnessy lleiglils. It is nearly a month since the boy disappeared ami he has apparently supplied his euplors. with little information of valuu so fiir. One Vancouver efflerr says lie thinks IT Wong was going to talk he would hav done so ere this. In the meantime interest i Hie ease is kept aliviu by, Hit weekly bulletins ami appeals ior money (orontinui lo maintain Hie t'hiuitmau in captivity. Thompson Found Guilty of Payroll Robbery in Vancouver end of 1922 Now being Tried wuh Frank Depmlo on Charge of Robbing Capitol Theatre in 1923 YANCOLN KU, April 2'J. C. C. Thompson, alias "Teir Hollywood was found guilly by a jury at Hie nsize.s here yesterday on a charge of being implicaled in Hie Ci'ly Hall piirmf robbery uu September -', I'J22, when approxniialely -IW.VMIO was stolen in one of Hie must seiisulional IioltIiiis in ihe history oi" Vancouver. Sentence will be pioiiouiiccd later. At Hie time he heurd the verdict, Thompson was again in llie prisoner's box in roiiiiccliuii willi a tbarge or robbing the" Capilol Tliealre here February l'.t, 102:'., when ygJlHl was stolen. j ". . -I oil 11 HoweU. who willi Thonip-. i sun and Frank Del'aulo were be-! iug tried on Hie tlieatre'cllargc, ! was rautei a stay of proceed-1 ings and liberated. Hie case against Hie other two proceed-: 4' 4- l 4-44.4-4 .r.-r.' OTTAWA RIDEAUS ).. BEAT"VANCOUVER VANCOLVKil, April i"J. Tiie Ottawa Hiu'eaus won Hit? first of a two game series against Vancouver Varsity last night fur the Canadian basketball championship. The score was 2 to 18. The win of Hie easterners was due lo ellioietil .shooting. The second game will lie on Thursday. EXPLOSION IN BOSTON MALD11N, Mass., April 21). l ; RUBBER PLANT: THREE ARE BELIEVED KILLED 11 1 e death list resulting from an explosion in the plant or the Hoslon Itiibber Co. today may reach three. Two employees ale missing and a third is dyitu in the hospital. SUPERINTENDENT LEAVES MONDAY Mr. and Mrs. Macpherson Will be Missed In the City: Go to Saskatoon On Monday next Mr. and Mrs. A. Macpherson of this city leave lor Saskatoon where- Mr. Macpherson will be stationed in similar position to that which he holds here, that of railway superintendent. The call lo move came rather suddenly although il was not wholly unex pected. TJie linal wire was re reived late, yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Macpherson dropped in late al llie Itadminton Club dance last night where re grets were everywhere expresseii al the fact that they were leaving thu city and especially was it regretted that Mrs. Macpherson would not be with Hie club anj more, an organization that she had dune so much lo popularize The superintendent has been a man of action rather than ol words here and both he and Mrs. Macpherson will bu missed in the community. FISHERMAN WAS DROWNED WHEN BOAT CAPSIZED Went to Tend Net When Acsident "r" Happened va1i?;ne"Disap- '" pearcd John Lar.sen, a Nnrvviviuii rishetimaii, was driiwntui yester day ircar Point Lainbcrl on llie Skeena Ilivrt", according in word received here this iiinining by the I'rbvincial 1'olice. lit: was working wiin Joim .onirjon. u counlryinaii, aifiTwenl out In a skiff lo tend Ihprfijl.; The.sKirr; was o.verlurii("(l 'Snif In Was'-' thrown into the river and sank before his coniiauion CLHild reach him. " Larsen was 32 ears of ay2 and came here from Norwaya only a year ago. - CITY OF SOFIA ! PANIC STRICKEN Fighting Between Troops and; Communists Renewed Casualties Heavy ItO.MK, April 2'J.--Softn de- spatclies nmurl renewed fighting id Hulgarian troops and Communists. The casualty list is not known but it Is believed to be heavy. The population oT SoHii is panic stricken because of in termittent muffled explus'ons. All Klreet iraffie is stopped. DROPPED DEAD ON VICTORIA GOLF LINKS John Savannah, Photographer, Was Resident of City For Many Years YICTOIIIA, April 2D. - -. Joluf Savannah, pioneer plmtographef, dropped dead while playing golf here yesterday. Hp has been u resident id Victoria since the early eighties. CANADIAN CLUB LUNCHEON lu honor of CJias. D. Huberts, poet and author, Hoslon Hall, Thursday. April 30, I p.ni. 'Tickets $1.00 at Onncs Ltd. or Ceo. Hill'it store. 4444444444444 4 4 4 4 4 4 4