Haseball (lame loday bcherdel Unable to Hold Americans NEW YORK, October 4. Crippled but still playing . 1 .impionsnip baseball, New York Yankees made their hit count today and defeated St. Louis Cardinals 4 to 1 in the opening game of the World Series before a record- . i 1 f ! ! - 1 1 -. ii. i - 1 i nr- rr tin -Hiving crowu unomciany esiimaieu at o,uuu persons. Wait- Hoyt, the Yankees' pitching ace, was in wonderful i i in. holding St. Louis to three scattered hits of which j iiia Bottomley, Cardinel fielder, secured two one ! ". i.'iii a homer. Bill Scherdel, who started for the Cards, 1 ii i Johnston, who relieved him in the eighth, permitted ' i- Yankees seven hits including a homer in the fourth ! .'.lucsel with Rabe Ruth on bases. i Score by innings: 1 ' 2 l.ouirt i 0 0 D . York .... X i J a i TRAIN CRASH I IN ONTARIO i CIMt Freight Derailed and Struck C.N.IL Passenger at Aldershot, Near I-ondon j SEVERAL ARE INJURED 1 1 A M I I.TON, Oct 4. Five we seriously and twelre inly when tight cars of a ' i I'adffic wejtbound freight ii- railed and crahed Into a 1 i aiiau National oassenger train i "ii Hamilton and London, near! M.i. rshot, at 8.06 a.m. today. All t ' injured wart In one coach 1 Ii was struck In the middle. Tin- injured include: Rev. Dr. M 'iicKor. pastor of St. Andrew's ni d Church, London, who has nactured skull and internal In- nis imd whose condition is iisj(i,-i-ed s-rave: Miss Ilatel ! ii'impson, Toronto nurse, who! ' - a broken arm and was badly up; Mrs. Kathleen Ward. W niiiipcK. who hfts a fractured ' nl I ami broken jaw and whose "inlft ion is believed to be seri- -: William Ward, Winnipeg, her '! t m I . who suffered severe cuts 1 I shock, and Geraldlne Ward, ir five-year-old daughter, who 1 " iM'd alight Injuries. FIRE DESTROYS IRISH ESTATE iislle of Viscount Lnscellcs In (iHlway. Ireland, Victim of . Mysterious liln.c I'OUTUMNA, County Galway, '"land, Oct. 4. Portuma Castle, lu re elaborate arrangements had '" ' ii made for the approaching viMt of the owner, Viscount Las " Hi s, and Princess Mary, was "estroyed by fire last night. The muni portion of the castle had 1 "''" burned In 1021. Twenty-five ,I,I,H of hay on another Irish Free s'nie estate where the couple had i 'liiiiicd a visit was also burned " ' "iKht. The visit may be post- ELECTION Louis In Diamond Classic Was Also Factor in Opening 3 4 6 j 0 0 l ! O 0 1 t ai 2 : o o .1 1 l LIE GIVEN TO POOLEYCHARGE Minister of National Revenue Flails Attorney General For Unwarranted Attack UNQUALIFIED DENIALS Department Has Always Endeavored to Co-operate With Provinces, Declare Eulcr OTTAWA, Oct 4. Hon. W. D. Euler. minister ot national revenue today issued a statement oeaC.rf with charges reported to have been made by Hon. Ft. II. Pooley, attorney general for British Columbia, against the department. Mr. Euler declared that his department had attempted in all sincerity to co-operate with the provinces in the enforcement of their liquor laws and that in not a single instance had licenses for breweries or distilleries been granted when the provinces were opposed to them. The minister dealt specifically with the shipment of a carload of whiskey from the distillery of Oooderham & Worts, of which. according to news reports. .ir. Pooley made special mention. "The charge that the uomin- lon government is deliberately vinlntlnir Its own law for the benefit of the liquor . Interests f Is u iH.rlv untrue" declared -r- Euler. "Such a statement shows n nruii lack of knowledge Of me true situation and a quite appar ent disinclination to accept "ur offer, of r,operation. I cannot believe that Mr. roomy made smh a charge. , "If the British Columbia attorney general had any fault to find with the department of national revenue, It would have been fairer for him to address the complaints to tho department rather than to the press." Hubert C. McDonald has been transferred from the local unit ot A . Hn area 1 I U T- the ll.C.N.V.K. to uie ju,. ndlnn Navy and l now stationed at b'.siuimalt. PRINCE AIR TEST OF BIG ZEPPELIN Travelled 1800 Miles at Average of More Than 52 Miles an Hour in Trials IIKHL1N. Oct. I.-An air test of the dirigible (Iraf Zeppelin before its transatlantic flleht was completed yesterday when it returned to its hangar at Frledrlchshafen after .'11' 2 hours In the air. The bis ship , completed about 1800 miles at ; .. eraw of more than 52 I miles an hour carrying 70 persons. NATIONALIZATION-OP BANK OF ENGLAND IS APPROVED BY LABOR BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 4. Thi Labor party conference today ap proved the special committee's report on the pro denr of banking and currency, including the recommendation that the Bank of England be nationalized. DKKHY HOUSE WINS NEWMARKET Eng.. Oct. 4. Lord Derby's Tobaggon won the Jockey Club Stakes today. Bonny Boy was second and Baralong, third. died"ieach other's arms Live Wire Touched Mnn's Wrist and Wife Tried to Pull Him Away RECEIVED FULL SHOCK Neighbors Watched Tragedy Follow Cureless Attempt to He-move Discarded Wire SUDBURY. Oct. 4. Frank Ger-vaerts and his wife met death by electrocution in front of his home here last night while neighbors looked helplessly on. ' The man was attempting to remove a piece of discarded radio aerial wire from a power line carrying four thousand volts. He used a mop and broom handle for the task when the end of the wire flew up, touching his wrist. His wife immediately caught hold o.f him and she too received the full voltage and they died in each other's arms. RESCUE FROM BURNING SHIP NEW YORK, Oct. 4. Twenty- seven men, members of the crew o fthe trawler Fillet were rescued from their boats 70 miles off Montauk Point yesterday by the steamer America. The Fillet hud caught fire nml the crew left in the lifeboat. CLASSIFIED HABIT Boston Grill Everyone read the Ctaasltled Ada ii LARUE CAUAKKT If you loae, ftdvcrtlne for It. Special Dinners Thursdays aad If you find, locate the owner. Saturdays need, advertiae for It Dancln evrry Saturday nlihi Whatever you from 9 to It. PRINCE RUPERT Oanre Hall for Hire. (It.t TUB CI.ASSIUKI) IIADIT. Accomodation for Prlvae rartlee Northern and Central British Columbia's Newspaper Phone 457 t ' --! x i XVIII-, No. 233. 4 . yanks Wat LABOR Waite Hoyt Pitches New York To Easy 4 to 1 Victory Over St. Hilling of Ruth and Mcuscl RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1928 ORLD SE OGRAM MADE PUBLIC IN ENGLAND SIR HENRY THORNTON who was interviewed today while visiting in Paris. PROMINENT CLERGYMAN HOPES GOD WILL PRESERVE UNIiED Sl'A'IES FROM , CANADIAN S.S1EM HANDLING LIQUOR FAIMiO, North Dakota, September I. A hope "that Cod may preserve the United States from the Canadian system of handling intoxicating liquor" was expresssed at the annual conference of North Dakota ministers and laymen by Rev. R. C. Endicott, of Saskatoon, secretary of the missionary and maintenance fund of the United Church of Canada. "We have more bootleggers than you have. The situation is all had and getting worse. Canadian brewers are continually reaching out to break down restrictions. Don't let them fool you," Mr. Endicott said. Three Perished In Edmonton Fire Last Night When Blaze Swept Through Stanley Block EDMONTON, October 4. A fire which swept through the Stanley Block early last night took toll of three lives, wiping out the little family of Steve Ghtissch, 28 years of age, a cook who had rooms in the building. Gluisch was taken from the block terribly burned and died en route to the hospital while the bodies of his wife, Nancy, 24 years of age, and his four-year-old daughter were discovered on the floor of their apartment when the firemen were finally able to penetrate the smoke choked rooms. 11 IS peiieveq wmi me ucau muii was struck down by falling debris and trapped In the hallway while attempting to reach his wife and child. Three firemen were overcome by smoke In fighting tho blaze and are being treated in the hospital. Two roomers, Ernest Beglcy and a man named Kosliska, were also slightly injured. There were about thirty jeople in tho building when the, fire broke out. till AIf4rihV filled with excelsior in the basement and roared up the stairway cutting off the occupants of the front rooms. The Gluisch family were trapned in room eleven on the third floor. The .block Is a three storey I structure, half of which is ofj MISSION CITY. Oct. 4.-Ios-frame. The building is veneered I eph Gnglardi, a logger, eighteen with brick and contained a large years of age, was instantly killed number of rooms. I when struck by a nng. Election Program Of British Labor Party Public Ownership of Coal Alines, Transportation, Power, Agricultural Land and Life Insurance is Demand 1 BIRMINGHAM, Eng., October 4. The election program of the Labor party made public at the annual con-lerence of the party yesterday favors public ownership of coal mines, transportation facilities, power, agricultural lands and life insurance. The program was introduced by Right Hon. J. Rarrr- . say Macdonald in the form of a fifty-page booklet prepared by the executive, committee and circulated among the delegates. It also sets forth that the Trades Union Act should be repealed. The banks must consider the interests of the nation as a whole and not the interests of financiers, the booklet said. The minimum wage must be effective. The booklet said that there could be no equality between capital and labor while the owners formed one class and labor another class. DOCKERS TO WORK AGAIN Australian Stevedores Conclude Strike After Arbitration Goes Aganst Titem ADELAIDE, Australia. October 4. Striking waterside workers today decided to resume work under the award of an arbitration court which provides for morning and afternoon engagements of dock laborers by shipowners. The strike started when the dockers held out for only a morning pick-up. YOUNG HUNTER IN THE CITY Lad Nine Years of Age Shot Moose in Alaska and Returned Home This Way A day or two ago there passed through the city unannounced a big game hunter of repute. It was Eric Fisher Wood, the nine year old son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Wood of Philadelphia, who arrived here on the City of Anacor-tes with his parents en route home from Alaska. The party had been hunting in Western Alastca and the little lad had killed his own mooc with a single rifle shot and also brought down a bear. 0- arrival at Ketchikan the boat was chartered which brought them here and they proceeded east Sy train. Mrs. Wood Also took part in the hunt and got a fine bighorn ram, h moose and a black bear. FUNERAL NOTICE Affile funeral of the late George I oJborne will take place oh Saturday at 2.30 from the chapel ot the B. C. Undertakers, where services will be conducted by Rev. Canon Rushbrook. Judge C. D. Macaulay of the Yukon and Mrs. Macaulay were passengers aboard the Princess Louise yesterday afternoon bound from Dawson to Vancouver where they will . spend the winter. Price five Cents ISIR HENRY IS : EDUCATING THE FRENCH PEOPLE Thornton Telling Them About Canada and Her Potentialities While in That Country PARIS, Oct. 4. Sir Henry Thornton found everywhere in Europe a desire to enter into relations with Canada, he stated in an interview with the Canadian Press after he had addressed the Canadian section of the British Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Sir Henry said that before embarking on his European trip he had four definite object in mind, emigration, traffic, money and brains and in addition investigation of mechanical devices. He said he found certain influential people who had no idea of the potentialities of Canada. "1 have given them some ideaa about Canadian potentialities. We want everything we can get from them, money, men and brains. Sir Henry said. GONE TO VISIT GEORGIA MINE Newton llurdirk and Party Here Yesterday and Will Remain at Stewart Newton T. Burdick, with a party of friends, arrived om the steamer Prince Rupert yesterday on their way north to Georgia River, Portland Canal. The psrty, all of whom are large shareholders in the Georgia River Gold Mines, left for the north last night, and will attend several days at the mine and at Stewart before returning south. Other members of the party are Major Cobitt of Vancouver, a member of the firm of Whittier. ltalg & Co. Ltd.; Gordon Strickland of Seattle, and J. C. Hogg, managing director of the well known bond house of J. C. Hogg & Co. Ltd. Vancouver. Mr. Hogg is accompanied by hia wife who will remain over iu Prince Rupert for a few days.