Save Money Boston Grill 1 The cheapest way to buy the d. 7 News U to subscribe by ;be rear and have It delivered amy :;; address Of course you in subscribe lor m shorter period, jui phone 98 snd hsve it de-re -rd todsy XVII . No 20li ANTI - 1ff 0 1." I. The Letter Box THE C ATA LA CONTRAl T m . I.;ii!y News: ,!' attention has juat lumen n to the article in your 1mu December I t, headed "The uia I iaseo," which I must any -ut as unfriendly and dia-r'.cous a reference to an old mute association with l'riace vt us it could possibly be. " I'niuii Steamship Company gnrn generous and regular r io i'rince Ruert, and we . : always appreciated the rttla-wh.ch have existed In-lween .niany and its nortneru pa-'J tie principal objection we However, to the ait.uk uhicb r. .fit? upon the Union Steam 1 'impany as tne owners of - a. alii, is that it i.- entirely u : on ignorance of the real .instances, and to t.'ii extern ::t:':dlcssly misleading, Tr S.S. Cutal a wu- technically d"tied by the ou tiers and the . of abandonment has neer c-n relinquished Mid will re ' ui.til the vessel ii res:-ivi: i. The responsibility, K.ere M'i the rcpaii i of the -in; c. entirely with the I'mlei - who. of course, have ui 'jr :ioned right U take u.l'. u ajr. l the lowest possible T3toration. The owners ai in a nominal caput i' t.i, fiple who pay are trie pr decide. i lieials of the Pr.t, , r y l)ock were most an . tcr und made a e. a- t" to secure the job. a") I : sitively that there su- ' 2 tacking on their pur; in v.,. f ' di uvor excepting the matter ..: " i against which there was u -'! "or offer and which was there 'ure accepted as a Clatter -..i l.usi nrs. H will be evident ;o any reasonable citizen of Prince Rupert that no sentiment prevails in these matters and they can only be dealt with on a strict business basis. I hope, therefore, you will accept our assurance that tiiere way no deliberate attempt is take buai-ni s away from Prince Rupert and that you wHI feel called upon to at least represent the matter in a fair and equitable light, both in justice to the officers of the Prince Rupert Dry Dock and the owners of the Catala. Yours truly, HAROLD BROWN. General Manager. I nion Steamship Co. of British Columbia, Ltd. KINGOFHOUSE D AVIDiS DEAD Body U-fl In Bed in Hope That he Would Rise After Three Days J1ATTON HAIlDOn. Mich . Dec. 19. Benjamin Pumell. Kin of the House : David died Just Friday morning but "till In the bed where he died. The belief thst he would rise again to nicir days kept the colony Irom an-"omiting his death. POINTGREYTO JOINVANCOUVER VANCOUVER. Dec 19-JVtnt Orey vted Saturday almost three to one 2038 to 768 in laror of amalgamation 'th Vancouver and South Vancouver ' union to bewme eeotlve Jaru. o 1 192B. followlni the paasiu o- ' "tiling legMatton. This will tntx " 1 215,000 people Advertise la The DaBy News ,5 V Northern and 55. ''l. - 'e . i? ; . h COLD PRINCE i SNAP IN Suspected Communists at Executed for and Thousands Leave Protection of British Law Soviet vice-consul killed and other Russians ordered to leave Shanehai: Exodus ! 0 ' reported from Shantung province CANTON, December 19. Six being Communists were executed in vice-consul was also executed. A virtual migration of Chinese to tile iMsarby British island of Hong Konjr is under way. The number Who have left the Cantor area is estimated 2'w.ooo. SilNiHAl. December 13. The Nanking Nationalist government hat notified approximately 100 ierson in the Russian settlement '( lea. imni. diately. The consular group are virtually pris sionera. It not being couilistrsd sale tar ILaVLi'wflaVi'ilvvSBv HssaVs ' X HaxJwLV dsaBaBaK mBKBStaBa'isaLsHBsB S1U IKKPKWfK HIIj.IAM-TAVI.OU Oeuerni M:-..ltn : '-he B.u.H of I ILVIVt; TO MEXICO TO VIIT lid! SON Mils. I.IMMlLlKill (111.. DETROIT. Dec. . Kvangellne Uudbergb bopped off M paaasnger on the first lap of a flight to Mexlca where she piauH to apend Chrtotmaa with her son. the famous aviator She arrived later at Indlanapoll.. R. B. BENNETT ARRIVES BACK FROM ENGLAND MONTREAL. Dec. 19 - R B Bennett, whu arrived at Halifax over the weekend after a trip to England on private buslmas and rest, arrived her. today Mr Bennett denied a st-ry thpt he had travelled liicognl.o as R. B Parker. FOUND NO TRACE OF MISSING STEAMER IVRT ARTHUR. Dei 19 The steamer Islet Prince returned Saturday reporting no Usee of the steamer Kamloops which i euppoted to have foundered during a recent storm. VANCOUVER KXCHANCE Bid. Asked Big Missouri 294 Coast ooyfMr ........ w ," (Mirk Province WV, 094 Dunwell 16 Oladstone -06 MVt Independence iwue 06 f L and L -09 Leadsmltl. 04 :XK!v Jim 4 26 W.',M 2W 14 B..:.uio:.. "f'- 6U gttlvrrsiF.itb - ' Surf Ir.i-t I hundred Chinese suspected of i one group here. The Sovie them to leave the coniular hetKkjuar- U;r 86INAKFU. 8hntung China, Dee. 19. Wh' lerale badltry military oprewton .mi depredations are cs using an enor-c;. ex idus of people from 6hantung u. Uanri.urla It Is estimated that a million people left this year. It Is pa Mule i travel for days over a farmer a.ti fanning district without seeing a i.uman beuis HUNTING FOR THE SLAYER Man Who Killed Los Angeles Girl Being Sought Eagerly by Everyone I OS ANOELE6. Dee. 19. In the greatest man hunt ever known, the fiendish slayer of Marian Parker la sought. A letter from the kidnapper and stayer threatens the twin sister Marjorie of the same fate. Fifty ttiausand dollars reward has been raised wy otUecaa. the contributions coming tram children's banks and millionaires' fund. - The Vfit of, the human brute, where the git)' was murdered Is believed to have besfr In the fashionable residential distrust where bloodstains are thought to ten the tale of crime. MINER CAUGHT IN SNOWSLIDE 8TEWART. Dec 19 William FHUer. 54. one ot the best known miners and prospectors of the province, was caught by a snow slide Saturday on the Porter Idaho trail. It Is believed Impossible that be has escaped death. QUESTION OF COOKS IN LUMBER CAMPS AND THE EIGHT HOUR DAY VICTORIA. Dec 19 Allen Thrasher. a lumber operator in the Prince George district, it Is said, will ask the Privy Council for the right of appeal against the decision of the appeal court that the Minimum Wage Act applies to cooks la lumber oamps. On the other hand the board may appeal the decision it Judge Oayley In Vancouver who ruled ghat the act did not apply to dish- tgfheft siidimllar employees. KILLED COASTING AT POWELL RIVER PEW EU RIVER. eDc. IB. The six year eld son of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace I McDonald wss killed Baturday when run over while coasting by a motor car siage. That makes the third coasting 'a-Kllty in the week. WEATIIEK IlKltlKT. Pi luce Rupert Clear calm: tempera- Mete PRINCE RUPERT Central British Columbia's Newspaper RUPERT. B.C.. AIQNDAY. DECEMBER 19. lfiL'7 MOVE ENGLAND IN THIRTY-TWO YEARS Canton ROBBED PRESBYTERHN CH'JRCH THIS MORNING OF $300 AT :7ANC0U t ER VANCOUVER. Doe IB. Using a churge ot eapteqsw. whirh demolished :! .:e tid wrssswed the utflcr at Uie r!r -i Pri'byterisa Chun .. wtle-blaweis oMaJned at least 3O0 earl; ihls mom- Gruesome Act Los Angeles Arch Fiend Saturday Night LOS ANGELES, December l'J With arms and legs cul off. wire wound around the neck cutting deep into the flesh und thrust through; the eyelids, disembowelled, and with the cavity filled with rags, the body of Marian Parker, twelve years of age, was tossed out of antqmobile before the father, Perry . JtL,. Parker, a Dank official, Saturday night after he had paid the abductor StrfjOO oa the promiae-thuthisdaughter.wlio.had.. been kidnapped Thursday, would be restbred to him. BOSTON LOST. ! TO CANADIENSi Score of Five to One Against Bos-tun Bruins in Saturday's Hockey Match MONTREAL. Dec. 19. The Boston defence was no match for the speedy work of Msreno. Osgee ad Jollat of the Oanadlenc who scat the puck Into the net live times In their game Saturday while their opponent scored only one. This was their sixth straight vic tory. Ottawa tightened theUr grip on second place in a hard-fought vtetcry over Mon treal Maroons In their Saturday night game. Pittsburg Is still without a victory this season but got their third tie yester-1 day wben playing against Detroit in a three to three game. Ahe latter going into first place In the American section, one point ahead of the New York Rangen. Detroit beat . Toronto Saturday in an overtime match. The Americans dropped to third In the International section -by their defeat yesterday by Chlcagj being beaten two to one. following are the scores: s.m now iM Boston 1. Oanadtens S. Montreal 0. Ottawa I. Detroit 1, Toronto 0. Chicago S. Pittsburg 2. M'MlAV tlAMl.S Pittsburg 3. Detroit 3. ' New York Americans 2, Chicago 0. O. A. Woodland, looal agent tor the Imperial Oil Co.. returned to the city 3D the Camosun last night Irom a trip to Bella Bella on company business. Young Canadian MIS vinckvt iir;iii;nr u, niitr Trc- ilu.iLl'Cal EUROPE GETS ZERO FROST London Six Above and France Still Colder in Some Parts of Country 1.0MION, Dee. 1. The Itrltlih l-le are today In the grip of the nildrht weather experienced therein 32 J earn, w ith the people engaged In winter fcport. l-omloii s the mlricfct pLire with the thermometer M uliotr r.rro today. Plumber are luiy repairing friren and broken water plfie aftrr HM hour of frot. PARIS. Dee, 10. I ranee Is e-prrlriirlng bitterly cold weather ti. l.iv. the thermometer going at low u r.rro at Mime puintn. It I the most fceicre fnmt in fllteen yenrs. Ixen of elderly jierMiiis are re-jMirleU falling, dead or lielng herlolisly frost blttrii. THIRMF GIRLSBURIED QUEBEC. Dec. 19 Funeral services for C6 girl victims of the Hospice 8t. Charles fire, were held yesterday, all being burled In the same plot in St. Charles cemetery. I.OCHIKK KILLED VANCOUVER, Dec. 19 Dan Walland, yean 01 age, a logger employed at a camp at Stillwater. 90 miles nortta of here, was killed Saturday wben be was struck by falling trees. War Veteran Knocked Unconscious by Bear .JhenHad Leg and Foot Burned CORDOVA. December 19.After lying for more ;tnan k' month in a cabin in the wilds of the interior of Alaska with one leg burned off nearly to the knee and the other foot badly burned, Nick Raworth, a young Canadian war veteran, was taken to Kennecott Hospital here and it is said he may live. Raworth was attacked on November 3 by a bear, which, after killing his dog, knocked Raworth unconscious. When he recovered the legs were badly burned, indicating he had previously regained consciousness and built a fire, though he had no recollection of It. In intense agony he crawled fifteen miles to the cabin where he lay eek after week scarcely able to secure food and water. He wa- f'tund bv u,v. Indian. Three Grain Ships Here and Another Wednesday Keeping Elevator Busy Swedish Freighter Sydland Will Largest Wheat Vessel The "K" Line freighter, Ohio JIaru, Capt. Murata, Priuee Rupert's seventh grain ship of the season, arrived in port at 1.20 ye terday afternoon from Muroran, Japan, and tied up at the ocean dock where she is now being lined preparatory to going on berth at the Alberta Wheat Pool's Prince Rupert elevator to load a full cargo oi grain for the United Kingdom or Continent. Other than encountering a good deal of stormy weather, the Ohio Maru had an uneventful passage from Muroran which port she left on November 29. The vessel was originally going to Vancouver to load but was diverted to Prince Rupert when off Cape Flattery. She picked up her pilot, Capt. II. L. Roberaon, at Neah Bay, Capt. Roberson coming on here with the vessel. The Ohio Maru, which was fumigated - '.jst Irish t. la a typical Japanese freight er, iter tonnage li 4364 and she car- r.es a crow of thlrty-.lx men. Her port cf registry is Kobe. The arrival of the Ohio Maru makes , tivrze grain ships In the harbor today ' the others being the British freighters Alnderby and Sheaf Mount, both of i which are loading at the elevator. Trouble on Uie railway line has been sUlsatvtir akln'iinli sevf wVlsva fvnm iK I Dralrieavta Prlnte Ruiert Nonehs at- 1 4vd5iic 'frlirnjiDjg -Three j rhundredcarf werereported, iartoioi that it has plenty of grain on hand to handle all the boats now In. It ts expected that the Alnderby will be crmpleted loading and ready to sail tcmorrow morning. The Sheaf Mount should get away . Friday morning. The eighth ship of the season here Is announced to be the Swedish freighter Sydland which Is expected from the Old Country Wednesday morning. This vesiel ts .understood to be already lined , and will load a full cargo for the ; United Kingdom or Continent. The Sydland will be the first Swedish grain I boat to visit Prince Rupert anl. Incidentally, the largest wheat vessel the port has had. She was built at Sun derland. England, in 1920. her port of registry Is Oothenberg and she Is 431 feet long with tonnage of 6,500. She is oming via the inside passage from Van- c uver. NAVAL CONFERENCE FAILURE SAID TO BE A DEPLORABLE BLUNDER NEW YORK. Dec. 19 Failure of the naval conference was characterized as a deplorable British blunder by Viscount Rothermere in a cabled despatch to the Sunday Pictorial. London. The Viscount, who is now here, lays the chief blame upon Sir Austin Chamberlain. THREATENS FIGHT AGAINST GOVERNMENT VANCOUVER. Dec. 19 W. H. Ham-mood. Ash croft potato grower, states' that unless the government compile with his demands for the removal of vegetables frum the provisions of the Marketing Control Act, he wUl organize a political opposition in the Kamloops riding and endeavor to pursuade the independent Liberals to take the field against the government. MAN AND WOMAN ARE SENTENCED TO HANG VAtiLEYFIELD. Quebec. Dec. 19. George and Doris Mbcdonald were found guUty Saturday of the murder of Ade Jam .HSKicnard. a Lachlne taxi driver, and are sentenced to hang on March 23. Joe jury recommended the woman to mercy. NAXOOSE SKIPPER DEAD VANCOUVER Dec. 19. -CapUiu Wai ter Verge, a veteran Canadian Pacific shipmaster on the British Columbia coast, died sxiddenlv Saturday on TJie U'J Naiuooe ..h.-.i: !ie cyaunutidcSL Large Upstair Dining Hall, with newly laid dancing floor, for hire. NEW SODA FOUNTAIN. The latest and best for the least Phone 457. Price Five 1jv.j lie Eighth Ship of Season and Port lias Had o 1'ar RAILWAY LINE TIED UP TODAY Snowslides Between Amsbury and Skeena City Hoped to be Cleared up This After noon Owing to a number of snowslldes, ones, between Skeena City and Amsbury, traffic on the Canadian National Railways to Prince Rupert was again, tied up this morning with considerable uncertainty prevailing as to when it might be resumed, although at the superintendent's office. It was hoped that the trouble would be cleared up this afternoon and the trains moving again. Full crews have been working on the slide since the end of the week, -assecger train No. 5, due at 3J0 yesterday afternoon from the East, was not txpected to arrive before this afternoon and No. 6, scheduled to go out at 11 jo this morning. Is being held here untu the line la clear. At noon tt was stated at the railway offices that No. S would not arrive before 5 o'clock this afternoon. It not being certain that she would be in even then. SUB. SINKS JX ALIVE Feared That Men Cannot be Rescued From Vessel Now Under Water PROV1NCETOWN. Mass.. Dec. 19. Submarine OXS-4 was rammed and sunk by a destroyer near here yesterday afternoon In 200 feet of water. Four hours afterwards no trace of the 43 members of the crew could be found. A furious gale Is blowing1 today making rescue work Impossible. Six men are known to be alive 1n the torpedo room thrjugh Morse hammer tappings. There ts faint hope of rescue. The men oannot live longer than Wednesdsy. It te thought, and It la impossible to raise the sub. before that time. JAPS ARRESTED MURDER CHARGE VANCOUVER. Dec i9.The mystery shrouding the disappearance ot Isaku Nlahimura, 82 years of age. '4i6mi Japanese from bis home here Vj bJ.JcM 13 last n believed by the police "5 Thsvl been celared up with the arTest jjnnday af Etsugl Mori! of Vancouver, who is charged with the murder et Nashlmura. Four other Japanese are held for investigation. The police theory tends to the belief :hat Nashimura was murdered as be left his home and the body weighted and thrown into the rraser River. So air the body has not been recovered. Ctsugi in toe police court today was remanded for a week and S. Takanaahl, alw arrested tor the aams crime, vu