5 TAXI Boston Grill and Ambulance Service Anywhere at Anytime .t II. M If Stand! nxcnange nunuing MATT VI DECK. rcce.ved at .quarters last night of Ksmlojps yesterday of , i. operator at Smltbers. Mitchell, who was some-yc .rs of age. had been :ne and was removed ago to Kamloops. Ills scat at the end. a pioneer of the BuU- r having been lit the .rgraph servloe In and i for some eighteen or e formerly of the loe :rca relieving at Smlthers a.e Mr Mitchell's Illness sue at the post, pending 1 a pcrmsnent appoint NfF. ffiORGR AND COLONISTS I- I'l.AV ON I'ClllW AM" SATI U-V IX I'UOVIMIM. IXTI.HMi:- "int: ii.av-oi ys viItokia ii:am IIIIAT Mil III I. LSTOKE Feb. 34. The Victoria l ,air rhamntona. defeated L I ' Kootcnay champs, In the Inter- T.ie t ore was three to two after c: ?d The ColonlsU will rv 1 ins si a niiii UUIVjLi ULiUIYULi GOES TO FINAL ' IKOtlVclAI, IXTF.RMF.IHATi: HOCKEY l'I.AY-01 F UtHT NIGHT r.lif IM r ts a -. . . . 4 xwiuev mil iiiccb ill i"'' "Way and BAturday for the Inter- n 1. h 1 niiiinni nil 1 1 n 1 1 . a iii.hii .1 run 11 nil 1. SIGNED BY PRESIDENT . iHiuus ior Lonsiruciiuu u" :ilment of Filiicnilonftt Faclll- Mrs In ,l.iku viiukb ycsieruay signed a bui u u linu 11 in isna inr 1 nn A. ikiiii territory, -As hi NELSON. Feb. S:. There will be no beer partora In Nelson. By a vote of 733 to 635. the cltleena yesterdsy disapproved of the Idea of havtltg the bevrrage sold by the glass. The majority against, however, was a great decline from the dry margin recorded In the plebiscite In June 1934. at the general election of 578 TRADING IN GRAIN BY THE CALENDAR .iiiuiliiii: i 17 ij 1.1. iiij i iv run . i.iiiiir f j ji iiiui" mi m iiii uuiaiaau kiang where Northern Army is making r. w . ... - 1 i I; final stand against Cantonese II ANNUAL February 21. The general strike of Chlnouc : which, at its height, involved more than one hundred thous-:c ; s and caused some forty of its fomentors to be beheaded, i, .1 r.-i c ff this afternoon by the General Labor Union. General . i hang, officer in charge of Shanghai defence, issued a pro-n urging all workers to return to their posts without fear, j '""at executions were at an end. Conditions showed rapid i ir vement and it is expected that the city will be back T.sl cn rriaay. foreign oillciais expressed the bellet that half dosn airplanes housed within - Ikan -tst. kllMSisul saMatftM K at A I l- -H. A - .,Kln una kHaillnA THRKS KKY MAN IS DEAD nun mhhi viit as umw t vu saga msi m 1 ill w 1 liiu uiaviuaiv vm uimuiii t been vascuted behind defence enclosures 1 from Its sides. in addition to l hone who had been publicly beheaded In the city streets. OIquletlng reports are reaching the city from Sunkiang. twenty-elght miles south of Shanghai, where the northern army has taken a position for Its las: stand against the approaching Canton- IVM MIT4 III 1.1. (iOVMCVMKNT It was teoartrd thst the norther- LLi.i.iiM-ii iM t.iiiiim it ners were looting places mere sna insi Itllloil I UK MAV UAi:-. many soldiers hsd ben executed by r.'KS . .... i their wn leader In n effort to ttaln. CIIICAOO. reb. 24 Trading in grain "by the calendar" la no superstttutlon with some of the men who stand dally In the wheat pit. even though It Is wolfed at by many. Many grain speculators admit carrying for quick reference a printed card known as the "calendar" or "the voice from the tomb." which tells the dstes when, in pit tradition, grain can be bought or sold most advantageously. One big grain company has gone so far as to circularize clients calling attention to a certain day as the calendar time to Of r;p here on rtlday and sell wheat. ..., The reputed author of the calendar K glials to count t, the late Henry A. Driver, leng a 1 1 mi , T, rx nil icceaful member of the board of trade. The acoffera aay factors have altered so Itreally that the "voice" Is behind the times. LABOR CAPTURES SEAT FROM CONSERVATIVES llrllMi llj-ilnllon In Wormier Yrslrr- iMy lleiillrd In Victory lir . it. Vtrlhxk LONDON. Feb. 24.-AV. W. Wcllock. Laborlte. captured Stourbridge division In Worcestershire from the conserva .k... m vesterdsVs by-election by 1 ,.i,nv nf three thousand. The Liberal candidate was far oenma. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT MEASURE IS VETOED PIERRE. S.D.. Feb. 24, With the atatement mat "six thousand years of civilization has reached a higher plane than approval of legalized murder. Governor Duclow vetoed the capital punishment bill PAd by the South Dakota legislature. - . 1 ' Advertise la the Dally Nsws. . ; Machine guns would be sltustrd on T the tall, aides and rudder bases of the 1 vast bag. and Inside the ahlp would be isctllties I or noustcg (our la six 1 planes which could be launched as re- . quired, from any location In the air. l The plans contemplate a structure . built on a multiple, tnstesd " single ITALIAN ADVENTURERS AIR PLANNED l(Ttl;Kl IIV OHIO roiCI'OltATION AS MCINSTCK liltHTLlMJ U1TII AKMAMKNT AKRON. Ohio. Feb. 34. The Shen-andoah's succesr as queen of the air Is pictured by engineers and artists of the OocxJjear-Zpfrflln corporation as a smcr rnonatrr van- feet long. wiu. The dirigible would hare a gas capacity of O00.000 fret, almost three times that of the Shenandoah, which was 6 feet long and held 2.115.000 cubic feet of gas. When the new ship U built It will present an almost unbroken tin; of shining surtsce' The control csrs would bo built in. to leateo air resistance. The power ears, too, vu!d the housed within the framewsyX., wtfh, only ,yf vraptl . Uth discipline and face the Cantonese ,t pro'ectioi. The ' propeners would oorernmrai advance. k built in tUtlng anna which could be NCIXIN l A.UXT ii:i:k salk UV (iut turned In a ninety degree angle to , help force the shtp up. down or for- Keel, ana wun special ring giracra ao that failure of one part of the hull would not endanger the ship, Power would be obtslned from 4800-horse power engines, capable of producing nlnety-mlle-an-hour speed. The cruising radius Vrould be 9,000 to 8,000 miles without unloading. Cspt. E. Lebmann, administrative ex pert of the former Zeppelin works at Krlcdrlchshafcn. Germany, heads the staff bf designers. Dr. Karl Arnsteln. who waa chief engineer of the Zeppelin company, and a small group of experts also have Joined the staff. TO EXPLORE ORINOCO M.H( lie l.lrtii mid IIU ('iiiiiihiiiIuiim Outlining In London for Thrre-Yriir Trip LONDON. Feb. 24. The Marquis de Llcto, a young Italian, and three other adventurous Italians, one of whom has been In London buying equipment, are about to start 13,000 mile voyage In a 12,-ton fishing boat for explore the Upper Orinoco River the big South American river which runs through Vcnetucla and cruise around both ahores of ths Atlantic Ocean. Ervln Pflster, the sec ond In command, said they were going to explore the unknown upper reaches of the Magdalena and Orinoco Rivers, and a photographic survey would be made. After exploring the Orinoco' they proose to proceed by way of the west Indies and New Y'crk In Labrador, Greenland and Iceland. From Iceland they will aall for Norway and Denmark and thence to London, returning to Rome through the French canals. They expect to be away about three years. KILLS PHYSICIAN BECAUSE HIS SON DID NOT RECOVER NEW YORK CITY'. Feb. 24, Frank Caruso has confessed that he killed Dr. Casper Pendola after his six-year-old son, who had been treated by the doctor, died. Caruso arrived two hours after the denth of the child and laughed when told . tlia news. He than stabbed the ilootor with a butcher knife. PORTLAND. Oregon sage recelred here by PRINCE RUPERT Northern and Central British Columbia's Newspaper PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1927 Circulation 1495 .MOOIIK. roiOl- VIVII. tVAIM AKE IX (EXTKAI. A.MKIl- Alt. I.OHT, HIT If A MK(tlTATi:s IKtll!K Fe"j. 34. A me- the Federal Tele graph CO. reported tliat the mstorship mm: pkuteltion oi' isniriMi UVKS EXPLANATION MADE pAduilrai Peary hsd tajken the captain ' ,.N(; s Mlx , TANT,KS NOT ana crew oi iwciuj-ckoi men oit inc Miry E Moore alter I the vessel had foundered near Eandli 'when It struck IHANOH ATTITIDE KESPECTIXd MO.MtOi: POCTIIIXK la attempting to cro the bar. The - Admiral Peary piekej kip two life boat . ioc go.- eruuj.. ... rrc.ucj w c-.u . .u:. contalnltig the 39 mef. The Macre was Dlfcj un Inside a w r.icaraia as a place oi reiuge jor Brlllsn In the civil breakwater where It . Impossible f;r i"JecU endanjered other ships to enur oh sccount of the," " w" ""7 " unuiuallr heav sci.l The Ruth Alex- e despatch of the cruiser. It U utder ander made several attempts to reach the stricken vessel but; was unable to battle the waves. The wrecked ship iras bound from Sin Francisco to Bandsn and struck at the entrance to the CoqulUe River ab?ut a mile off ah.re. It was a steel vessel of 1.784 grass tors and was formerly the Grace D.itlar Cspt. Rveutlid lous commsnded her. OF HIS WORK TO ST UEXCII IIEN HO.VIIS OF SU i'atiiv iietivi:i:. f AXAUA AXI f.MTEll JT.TK-i M HIS TAK : YORK, Feb. l. To rrn;then I lie bond nf )mpathy between IIU Mjjrl)'t olilrot Ii-liihilitil and lt invrrnnirnt and the IMNiple f jour grnit Itupulillc." Thus Hon. Vlixrnt Ma-f). Cmi.idljiii mill-llrr to Ua-lilnetoii. Miinmrd up hl nillon to the I'nlted Mstr In a ierfli before the PHsrlm's Mrlrty here' lat nl;lit. It was lil.i f lrt iubllr Jil(lrr In the t'liltrd Mtatrs klnre lie aiumeil lilt office In till country. lo:d. d- es not Indicate departure from the fundamental British policy in Central Aaierlta n.r d-es It chmte the at-:ltude tiward the Monroe doctrine. JiLVNAOUA. FcS. 24. The Ajisrlcan legation and the gcrrernment has been .'cirmally advbd through, the British charge !-re thnt Great Britain la com-.'Clled, thaugh It Is reluctant to do so. to send a warship to the coast of Nlcar-' gut. This. It la explained. Is due to he abrcn-c cf ua:arr.t (rem the two jovernments thst British Uvea and prafrty will be protected. GIANT NEGRO IS . UNDER SUSPICION OF BEING KILLER Continuation of Present Tactics Will Result in Relations Being Broken Off, Protest Threatens LONDON, viet government Sales 487 r aicr reople that. If they put up money. he w-ould have Mr. Pooley stop any In- LECllsLATl'KE GETS REPORT OF CO.M-f th Pilmer ecntracts be- MITTtE OX MEKVILLE CHAIUiE for the public accounts committee." Accepting Mr. Pooley denial that he knew Olbbsna,' Dr. Sutherland said: "1 -r did not put you dbwn as the jiort oil VICTORIA, Feb. 24,-No evidence a. inanto .ha anithln,Jto, o. .Xtt)i. AiStW 'S.!S,1- '"S.W tne. deal Uke that." - - lallcgatlcri lhat 8167,000'of puoUc mansy j had disappeared durUig the construction . j.j.j.j.j.A 4. . ! of MervUle soldier settlemeat. the spe- ...,K ,...,, ,h. taiiCAuu, reD. is. inai jemes toy- : 4. ner. giant aesrj grave robber and can-. 4. MIAXIillAI MltlKE vlet. may have been Toledo bugger cf j 4. women, and may know about the torso of a woman fount In South Bend, Indiana, are theories of officers who are Investigating the finding cf four women's skulls In a Roys! Oak, Michigan, I2si-dense. "The ne?n admits he owned the trunk In which the skulls were found, but denied knowing anything about the skulls. In letters which he smuggled to his sister he urged her to get the trunk and alluded to" "something else" which would make him "through foraver." IIEIXO CtLLt:l OFF SHANGHAI. Feb. 24. The Shanghai General Labor Cnlcn announced todajr that It was taking steps to call of! the 1 BtrtVr hert which has nr 1 EM IS FINED FOR BEING DRUNK 111 l.lltle Time fust Ixinl Fort) Milllingo I "Fillies' lluolmml February February 21 21. Great Uritain .yesterday sent the So-! nduct the Eir, of Nortne,k a strongly worded protest against the "continuation i40 gniuings Bnd cosu by ttv the Nort lirsk dirt's LONDON. Feb. 34. After pleading guilty to Intoxication and disorderly Marl- of notoriously unsatisfactory relations between the British and So-(borough police court magistrate. viet governments. The note protests against the continuous breach Lord Northcst, who received a great of solemn engagements" between the two governments and also I deal of publicity in 1933 when he mar- against the Bolshevist propaganda against Britain in China, Persia Iried a -Follies" gin, Jessica Brown, and elsewhere, particularly in England during the general strike of n New York, was arrcstel on a street 1!)2G. It warns that the continuance of such acts will sooner or later!"1 cnPany w" r-"a- render the inevitable severing of diplomatic relations. The note.j wno " 1 rr nnri ntnfinff harl a roused the at which is a document of two thousand present rulers of the Soviet persist In , . nnllml who diteovtna relations will be possible as long aa the Ing world revolution. Well Known Halibut Schooner Scandia is Total Loss After Striking Rock Nearby Kodiak they had uprooted a lamppost. LAST RITES FOR LATE CHARLES HUNTER ARE HELD THIS AFTERNOON Large Upstair Dining Hall, with newly laid dancing fioor, for hire. NEW SODA FOUNTAIN. The latest and best for the, least. Phone 457. Price Five Onts AFTlwnn mi a wrr wwr m fmf ffinf tsm UUmtK ItlAKbLb HI biilHlKLAlW m m m ib to -. ik ' i cwaraiirmrBi- aw m r m - am m aa r i a a- - r m w m a in e i s f i inn Hi'i' frf tf I I W 171 l f II f IMP I f Iff I llf 11 ffflM VI llIM I ff f I lM fffll I Wff ff ill f A A Ui V f l7 t AJ. W X aW tVJM. M V V M-T U IT 11 W W M M M M 1117 V VJ 7 IJIll liriJUZ U it - - " V SB as a- V V BT V HI W WW MM M g WJI IW p ' bb- a-' B , I'i . Ol I . I onaiuons at Shane hai Are Rapidly Returning to Normal Following Strike's Cessation . J? f I ' f TT1fT Jk T Trim T "V 1 VESSFX SINKS SENDING SHIP OREGON COAST TO NICARAGUA STEAMER MARY II. I ISI.V GRACE IKILB CKEW IS Allegation Made That Pooley's Friend Asked Contractors for Bribe INVESTIGATION TO HE MADE I1Y PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE OF LEGISLATURE CONSERVATIVE LEADER DENIES IT VICTORIA, February 21. Investigation of a charge made by Hon. Dr. W. H. Sutherland, minister of public works, i;hat a man introducing himself as a friend of R. H. Pooley, Conservative house leader, had attempted to blackmail the Vancouver contracting firm of Palmer & Co. was ordered by the public accounts committee of the Legislature yesterday as soon as it was made. Mr. Pooley denied all knowledge of "his friend" wtiose name was given as Gibbons. If possible, the said Gibbons and officials of the Palmer Company will be brought to Victoria today for examination. Before the committee which Is Investl- " jatlsg the awarding of highway con- Tll & HPIAM tracts. Dr. Sutherland charged: "There ft! 1 1 TAT L U JVJ f 1 ft I If IftJ Is a lot of blackmail going cn now aid lJ f J J LU Ik L IVJ l this man In the case I am dealing with ' now went to the Palmer office two or three weeks ago and aald he was a great 1 friend of Mr. Pooley. He told the Pal- 1 FOR ALLEGATION IJit'OSMltLE FOR MONEY" TO DISAPPEAR sj- 1 bt,'iUUlistt;c siwti iuiHgi "-' 4. ' charges reported to the Legislature on 4. Wednesday afternoon. On the contrary. the committee declared, the evidence showed that It was Impossible for any 4. of the fusds to have disappeared. The ! committee report said that the evl-4. 1 dence showed that the statements made j, ! In the House by W. A. MicKcazIe. Ccntervatlve member for Slmllkamecn. resulted in thirty or more be- headings and the suspension of work by more than 100.000 as fined had been based an a memo. amalgamation TO BE EFFECTED VANCOl VER CITY. POINT II KEY AND SOt Til VANf Ol'VER WILL 1SE MERGED ON JAM AHV 1 13J9 VANCOUVER, Feb. 34. Fixing January 1. 1929. as the date for the effecting of amalgamation of Vancouver city. Pclnt Grey and South Vancouver, the Joint committee set annexation terms at a meeting here yesterday and recommended that Immediate action be taken to cecure legislation authorizing tne fusion. 1 KIDNAPPED BY BANDITS, BANK MANAGER FORCED TO OPEN SAFE TO THEM DETROIT. Mich.. Feb. 34 Kidnapped while walking to work, Frank J. Pierce, manager of a branch of the Plymouth United Savings bank, was forced to wait until the automatic time lock in vault was released and then assisted a Many friends and associates gathered bandit to carry 83425 to a waiting au-at the B.C. Undertakers' chapel this ! tomobllc, he reported to police today, afternoon to bay 'their last tributes of 'A woman waited, outside In (he . respect to the late Charles Hunter. The machine. SEATTLE, February 24. Six scientists of the International aervtce was conducted by Rev. w. J. ' After carrying the money to the auto- Fisheries Commission and the crew of nine aboard the vessel had j Seeds of the First Presbyterlsn -Church 1 m0blle. Pierce said, he was forced Into n narrow escape when the halibut schooner Scandia struck a reef , and w. vaughan Davies presided at the and sank fourteen miles from Kodiak this morning. Capt. Ole organ, interment was in rairview cem- Hvatum wirelessed that'hls ship had struck and was sinking rapidly ter- The Pi oesrers were aeorge ..nrl n f1l f Vn,1lnb fl-V. lnt. t fh rniP Nln nf waugn. jonn K.eny ana jame. Hurray. UIIU a V V. V J 4 4svaausw. IIOII UVU It' II VIIV W v aieaaw w those on board had taken to small boats while six, who remained aboard, were picked up just before the Scandia disappeared. many years successful operations with The Scandia, second American halt-lher. Since the close of the 1936 hall but boat to be lost by sinking after! but fishing' season she has been under striking a rock In the brief space since charter to tl International Fisheries the opening of the 1S37 season, was Commission and made at least three the largest boat of the Pacific Coast halibut fishing fleet. Built and registered In Seattle, the vessel waa' about ninety feet long with registered ton-nng of 79. She waa powered with a 130 hp. Bollnder delsel engine and regularly carried a crew of, seventeen' men, her capacity being for close to Innftnn nnunrii f?ntftin m u..hiM 'l her owner and "kipper, anrt has had round trips from Seattle to-the Yakatat fishing grounds. She was about to return to Seattle to outfit preparatory to resuming halibut fishing. The Scandia was well known tn Prlnco Rupert Harbor, having mostly landed her catches here. An easy way to make a friend Is tell souiiMue he works too hard representing the Longshoremen" Union: Robert Hanna pf the Trades and Labor Council, and Thomas Flnriegan and Dan McLennan, personal friends of tlcceased' TijMfiitjyMiifq : 1 ; VANCOUVER EXCHANGE Wheat Dunwell . .-. . Olacler Oranby . . . . Indian . ... Marmot' ... Sliver Crest Surf Inlet Richmond Bid. 141', 1.33 .10?i -38.00 .07 v; .10 .07 .00 .14S Asked 1.33 "ft 38.00 ,07 .13 .07 Vi .OU, the machine, carried to the country, and released In a barn on an untenanted farm, where he was told to wait IS minutes. ANOTHER VICTORY FOR ST. GODDARD Winner f The Pit Derby Capture Honors in 120 Mile (urbre Inter-mittonul Rare QUEBEC. Feb. 34. Emit St. Ooddsrd of The Pas, winner of The Pas dog derby, won the Quebec 130 miles International Derby, his elapsed time over the three days when he finished the final lap yesterday being It houra, thirty-seven minutes 'and' thirty-five -13H second. v. ...