Mailt TOMORROW'S - Tinr - Boston Grill Friday, September 2V ''o UKOE CABARET High 8:58 a.m. 16.5 I Vi. 8peUl Dinners Thurvliyt md Sturdj Dancing Every Saturday Night, to 12 20:43 pjn. 18.9 ft. Dnc Hall for Hlr Low 2:14 ajn. 5.8 ft. to Accommodation fur Private Faxtle 14:27 pjn. 10.0 ft. ....... phone m NORTIIERN AND CENTRAL BRITISII COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Vol; XXr, No. -224; PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, SEPT. 26, 1929 PRICE FIVe'ceNTS Bank of England Rate Goes Up to Protect Gold Which Has Been Gradually Drifting From London LONDON, Sept. 28. Directors of............... the Bank of England today raised tne nann rote i- trum a2 hacu In February, 1929. The step has been taken In order to protect the bank's gold stock, and Is due to the continued outflow of gold, which this week totalled 3,000,000 pounds sterling, and which, since the beginning of the year totalled 21,-000,000 pounds. Business experts say today's rise will be a handicap to trade and Industry, but the authorities think It 13 necessary to attract to London some of the gold which has been drifting away. One of the wildest scrambles In many years followed the announcement as messengers rushed to inform their offices of the action of the bank. Mrs. Pantages Is Guilty of Manslaughter ! Convicted in Connection With ' nralh of Jananese Gardener In June LOS ANOELES. Sept 26:-Mrs. lots Pantages, wife of Alex. Pantages. who recently sold his theatrical business for $13,000,000. was convicted of manslaughter last night In connection with the death of Juro Rokvmoto. a Japanese gardener, following a collision between their automobiles on June 16. Mrs. Pantages collapsed as the verdict was read. She was granted her freedom on a $50,000 bond pending the pronouncement of sentence tomorrow afternoon. The penalty of manslaughter In California is from one to ten years Imprisonment. 3 Crew ofDomira Are Leaving Her MIAMI. Fla- Sept. 26. A mes-sane from the British freighter Do-mira. aground at Abaco Island, in the Bahamas, today said the crew was abandoning the ship In lifeboats, but the captain, radio operator and one other were staying aboard, SEINER WAS DRIFTING Georee II. of Port Simpson Sent Out SOS Call That Engines Kronen Down SKIDEOATE, Sept. 26.-The I (slna Knit n&nrff TV (if POlt OlIuP- Eon sent out an SOS call and was drifting around Hecate trau iui four days with engines broken down. . .. Constable Martin of Quen Charlotte City, on hearing of the distress call, went out at once with the seiner Cobey, but could find ni if the George n. Boats have been asked to Iook out for the missing seiner. Dogfish Buying Plant Is Busy SKIDEOATE. Sept 26. The Bushby dogfish buying station here Is being kept very busy and the fishermen who are engaged In supplying It are all doing well er.e-Capt. Art Oswald, "who Is representing the Prince Rupert concern, is working day and night. Russian Plane Weather-Bound DUTOH HARBOR. , Unalaska. Kept. 28. Unfavorable weather today again forced four Russian aviators, flying from Moscow to New York, to postpone their start for Seward, on the Alaskan mainland. Provincial cvntjihle Andrew Grant, transferred from Massett to the cltv detachment here, arrived in the city on the Prince Charles this morning from the lilmj. .!,. ,,n Vila new niltleS. being accompanied by Mrs. Grant one! fnmtUp That tfllCft UD M4ivt laiwu. ssv.r residenrr. residence nn on Elehth Elehth Avenue Avenue East East in the house formerly occupied by SNOWDEN ACTING ENGLISH I'UEMIEIt MACDONALD AWAY -r LONDON, Sept. 26: Right Hon. Philip Snowden, chan- cellor of the exchequer, will be acting premier for the next few weeks following the departure of Premier Mac- donald Saturday for the Unl- ted States. LOCAL MAN IS WANTED Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church Keeks Services of Minuter Now Here VANCOUVER. Sept. 26: The congregation of Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church last evening extended a unanimous call to -vi. owymwn, now reirev lng in the Presbyterian Church at Prince Rupert, to be their pas tor -roe can win be presented to the Presbytery at Westminster next Tuesday. MURDER CASE BEING HEARD True nill Returned by Grand Jury Yesterday Afternoon Against C. N. R. Section Hand A true bill was returned by the trrand lury at the susreme court ar - Stee 7iwrttay trhomT In the ease of stepnan lioijKovic. wno charged with the muroer oi uimi- tar Smllericn at uorreeri on juiy 14 last. This rntfrnmg a beMt Jury was selected to hearth ee, "which is proceeding today:1 Ife h Expected It will take up tnwt- to-the -court's time today and a Yerdfct is anticipated by thi3 evening. A. M. Johnson. K.C.. is acting as crown prosecutor, while L. W. Patmore is de fending. The grand Jury, ftn aptlon of enurt this mom. in. ' nt out to consider the bill ft the case of j David Jones ox amimecs, wno is charged with manslaughter. In case a true bill 1 returned, it Is expect-d th case will be proceeded with tomorrow. EXTENSION PLANNED WOMEN'S INSTITUTES VICTORIA. Sept. 26 Nine districts In British Columbia have designated by Minister of Agriculture Atkinson for the formatton'of women's Institute, mcy xnciuue the Bulkley vauey aisincv C0H0ESRUN SKIDEGATE Number of I'rlnre Rupert Boats Trolling at me uar. Seining Poor SKIDKGATF, Sept. 26: Coho trolling at Skldegatc bar Imu commenced with a fair run and quite row Prince Runert boats are there. The price paid is 68 cente by the Canadian i-ian 'u Q4 ro tra C.n The high boat among the trailers t.ht year Is the Iceland, John Eyolfsen, . , , . , Seining "conUnues to be poor in all Island waters and It Is understood the seiners are not making expenses, Lougheed Will Visit Rupert Minister of Public Works to.Make Tour of iNorHiern British Columbia Son VICTORIA. Sept. 26. Minister pf Lands Burden and Minister of Public Works Loufheed leave early In the coming month for northern British Columbia on business in connection with their respective will visit Prince jvji. . l l.rlltlan.. uuesnvi uu umbuw la. "" j, Uie mlnuder of pablle r tT- ...nrum works wotm will win WTO w LO tor IrSWtVB i u,w iVULTOitk k- "Zi.JUut Prinze neore. and"other placeT' SEARCH FOR AVIATORS No Word of Missing Party Now for Two Weeks; Eight Men in Two Planes WINNIPEG, Sept. 26. From the mighty Mackenzie to the broad stretches of the Hudson's Bay and from Bathurst Inlet to Lake Athabasca, fearless aviators are conducting a hunt for eight comrades who are missing In two planes, one of the Dominion Explorers Company and the other a Western Canada Airways. They have not been heard from for two weeks. The party Includes Col. C. D. II. McAlplne. president of the Dominion Explorers. TAILSMEN CHOSEN II. B. Rochester, J. J. Judge, F. W ChnnrtW J J Hvan W. H rMfPallum. H. M. Lambe, A. J. Colllson, G. H. Munro, Earl Bar-rie. R. E. Benson and Thomas Balllnger were summoned yesterday as tailsmen to the petit Jury panel at the Supreme Court Assizes session. JUDGE IS HARD ON JURYMEN Number Who Asked For Exemption Refused at Court of Assize When the jury list was called yesterdiv afternoon at the amlv court. Mr. Justice W A. Macdonald was very critical of the excuses presented for non-attendance. He re fused to allow trivial reasons fir absence and ordered several to b there In the morning who thought they ought to be allowed to u Several of those summoned were members of the civil service and therefore not eligible and others vern owt. of the country. Howard Rteen claimed exemDtlon as bcirrc -a 'mall driven but this was nt -Al lowed, as It was shown he was a mall contractor and not .a member of the civil service. J. W. Turner of Smithers stated that he hid forty teres of wheat In the field ,rtmH for threonine and it was hi to get the thresher. He wanted to get away to attend to his work, ire vac ordered to attend this morn ing, as the train did not leave until 11:30, and the court met at 10. A number of new talesmen were sum- moned to fill the vacant places. D0UKS DRAW SIX MONTHS Nine Sons of Freedom Leaders Sent Down By Magistrate Cartmel! at Nelson NEL80N Sept. 26: Nine Douk hobor leaders, convicted Tuesday on charges of obstructing police officers in the execution of their duties, were sentenced ' today by Magistrate Cartmell to six months' imprisonment each at Pkalht with hard labor. - STOCK QUOTATIONS (Cnurtnr S. D. John ton Cte. ) Amulet. 3.25. NIL Mandy. 58. 60. Paleonbrldge 9.95. 10.00. HolMnger. 5.70. 5 85. Hudson Bay. 1700. 17.10. International Nickel. 58.75, Nil Lakeshore, 20.90. 21.75. Mining Corooratlqn, 3.95, 4.00.' Mclntyre. 14.00. Nil. Nlplsslng. 2.35. 2.40. Noranda. 56.00. 57.00. Abana. 1.G7, 1.69. Sherritt Gordon. 0.35. 8.40. Treadwell Yukon. 8.00, Nil. Ventures. 6.50. 6.60. Home OH. 18.10, 18.25. Teck Hughes. 5.45, 350. A. McNaughton Died On Islands Was Pioneer Who r.me From East ern Canada 20 ears Ago SKIDEOATE. 'Sent. 26, At the Queen Charlotte City hospital one of the pioneers of the Islands in the person of A. McNaughton passed away and was buried at the cemetery nearby. Mr. McNaughton came to the Islands from eastern Canada and had been here for about twenty years. MEET IN VERNON NANAIMO. Sept. 26: The con vention of the B. C. School Trus eee' Association concluded ves.'waa called from Smithers to Dor terday. to meet in Vernon next year. WARNINjGTO CHINA GIVEN Russia Will Invade Country If Raids On Her Citizens Continue MOSCOW, Sept. 26,-Thc Russian government last night sent a firm warning to China through the German foreign office that the Red army would immediately and decisively take action against any further Chinese attacks and raids on the Russian population along the Manchurian frontier. IS LOOKING I FOR TIMBER icw Yi Mao Feminine Stands On Skldegate Inlet and Reported to Have Bought u SKIDEOATE. Sept. 20: M. M. Barnsf ield of New 1 York, who Is accompanied by h.is secretary. Is looKing over various stands of timber around Skldegatc Inlet If Mr. Birnsfleld finds what he s lonun for he will put In a sawmill at once. hi1 JPfLlh?LS rl rTv v? nthTf nHvS255iI Rav f.Ve miles h south of Skldegate inin- " .. . . . . ! 'rancis Bowser TV J 17 Died. VanCOUVer SM.,vif i wutu L ' VANCOUVER. Sept. 28. Francis Bowser, a pioneer-in the bulWIng ' T' nd Pnint Orey and a brother of W: Ji. Bowser former premier of. British1! Columbia died ere.aed 7L He was born near textwi. NJ1. . . vHalf oi Wheat Frora v Alberta Is Now Rolling To -rotareiS Elevator WI?NII?EGlSfrnfJ. 26. Prince Rupert is getting i practically onc-haIf;of thc grain from the northern districts of Alberta, reports of the present grain movement show. On Tuesday, for instance, 217 of 575 cars which were reported in transit over Canadian National lines for the Pacific ccast were billed for Prince Kupcrt. The grain is being placed for storage in the government elevator at the terminal. Murder Trial Opens Dying Mans . . Whether or not a statement , , purported . to . , nave been made by Dimitar Smilevich knife wounds at Uorreen on July 14 tnat biepnan doijko-vac, accused of murder, . had been . his assailtant was with - Mil 1 J 1 the sudden and hope'ess expectation oi ueatn ana, tnere-fore, admissable as evidence before the jury was a point pf difference between crown counse', A. M. Johnson, K.C., and defence counsel, L. w. ratmore, at me opening of the trial at the supreme'- " court assizes here this morning. Mr. gave much detailed evidence of Johnson contendedthat it was ad- thscenc f crlme. g mlssable and Mr. Patmore that it dence Patricn jata that deceased was not. While evidence on this and accsed nad at first been good point was being taken to establish friends but later various grlev-Its admlssablllty. the Jury was ex- ances nad artsen and they spoke eluded from the courtroom. Mr. to other only when neces- Justlcc W. A. Macdonald, presiding i sarv jt was suggested that some ludge, siatea mai ne wouin wvc uu decision on the point after having had time to think it over. The chief witness at this morning's session was John Patrlch. fellow Jugo-Slav section hand of areused and deceased at Dorreen. He told how they had been cut- ting hav that morning and of be ing called to me siauun on account of Smilevich having been stabbed. The deceased had told hlra, witness said, that Boljkovac had "cut out all his stomach with a big knife." If not at the time he said that, at least a short time later, deceased had come to the realization that he was about to die. There was much evidence of a more or less sordid character on this point. The first witness was Provln- clay Constable G. A. Wyman, who reen and who had taken charge I of the body and exhibits. Wyman L0WRATES ON WHEAT Ships Can Be Chartered At About Nineteen Shillings a Ton to 4. 4.) VICTORIA, Sept. 2C: "An In-United Kingdom ! nate love of order, a first rate ef- VANCOUVER, Sept. 20. The western route should benefit this year from the low freight rates at present existing between this coast and United Kingdom. The present rate is 19 shillings a ton, as compared with 27 to 32 shillings of past seasons. The low rates offered are partly the result of the small shipments being sent from Canada to the world markets and the desire of owners to secure cargoes. It is understood that this year there would be no quibbling over a differential for the port of Prince Rupert as had been done in the past. Shipowners want the cargoes TRUE BILL IN SMITHERS CASE David Lewis Jones Indicted on Manslaughter Charge of Assizes The Grand Jury at the Supreme Court Assizes this morning hr0UBnt m a true bm agalnst ,fvr' Twis Jones of Smithers on a charge of manslaughter. Af ter delivering its bill and stating that it did not desire to carry out Inspection of public buMdings the Grand Jury was excused from lurther ... attendance . at . the Assizes . i nless , called upon. John R R. Mitch- M1, ell was foreman of the Grand Jury. , )V VANCOUVER WHEAT . -c VANCOUVER. Sept. 26: Wheat v;as Quoted on the local exchange Jaday at $1.42V4. North- Here, Say Reports Today; Declaration Admissibility Questioned shortly before he died from 0f these grievances may nave Deen imaginary on the part of Bolj kovac. Mrs. Stoynoff. wife of the section foreman at Dorreen. and Stanley Stoynoff, his son. also gave evidence on the point of the dvlnir declaration. They agreed that deceased naa saia accused was responsible for the assault with the knife. They also agreed that deceased had , said he was rnlnir tn die. S. E. Raymer of Vancouver is!" nation nation wi oetirxr a infAmrcter in the ease. i Commonwealth. The Jurv consists of: W. J. E. Barrle, foreman, James Proctor, Charles Wilson, Arthur White, A. J. Colllson, Howard Steen, O. II. Munro. John P. Hunt, John Thompson. F. J. Williams, J. J! Tudge and J. T. Balllnger. The morning session started shortly after 10 o'clock and con Inued until 1 o'clock when ad 'ournment was made until 2:15. this afternoon. Empire Defies All Attempts at Logical Analysis, Yet It Works, Justice Murphy Says Iii Speech HIGHER SALARY FOR SIR HENRY sclousness Is aroused, a congenial OTTAWA RUMOR ; Incapacity to recognize defeat, i much less acknowledge It, a pas- . OTTAWA. Sept. 26; The -rUion for Individual liberty, a spirit Evening Citizen yesterday of compromise, a broad tolerance, said: "Ten thousand dollars above all a militant sense of fair a year increase in the salary j play these are some of the na- of Sir Uenr Thornton is ru- tional attributes that have pro- mored in official circles." duced that strange amorphous Heretofore the president thing, that mass of con trad le-?- has been paid 165,000 a year 'ions the British Empire." said ' pi in $13,000 as an expense Mr. Justice Murphy, in an out-V account. It is understood Sir standing address at the annual Henry will get at least $75,000 banquet of the North Saanlch ' and the same allowance for Service Club. It was a scholarly expenses. .contribution to a great Imperial I subject lORTHBC POWER NOWiavSaaSsjS' Company Will Take Over Prince Rupert Section of Power Corporation VANCOUVER. Sept. 25. A special despatch to the Financial News ro:n Montreal says: A new organization has been add-id to the "power" group In Canada, cnown , ? as "Northern wortnern British oriusn ij crmm- ttm Per Company, Limited." This ompany has been organized to ake over and develop certain prop erties in northern British Columbia that have been acquired recently by Power Corporation 1 of Canada, of which it wllLbeaisubsldlary. The properties: M present , held Include the municipal nowex plant ofPrince Rupert, which was taken over in March last' and has a hydroelectric Installation of 1125 Icva. and a leased steam plant with a insists of the international icc trie Comcany. which one rates Stewart. B.C., and Hyder, B.C., and also In this group serve about 400 1 customers and it 11 expected that some time their market will be greaUy Increased by the develop? I . ment of the mineralized area that!. extends over the greater part of Prince Rupert A Citizens May See northern British Columbia to the : Machine on Moscow-New borders of the Yukon. rk night A new power development Is tak-; . . lng place near Prince RUpert; where While the iUnerary does not ap-a nlant Is under construction that Raftf'y call for a stop here it wiU add about 6000 h.p. to the, In-- S 'HWM5 "iat, he Russian " sUHed capacity of northern British fdt Soviets on a Columbia Power This will not be "J", sMsacw p " ,Yrk. ready, however, until a couple W overhead here lie. Th. rw rnmn.nv hn ni.n 80 Vit local residents may catch n reserve sevenl power '-sites that can be developed when required to, an extent of 30,000 horsepower. D0UKH0B0RS MOVED AWAY . . : r ; over an eastward route In a to Former Lumber Camp From icr than alr .-cison in iimric ui Police HKLSON. Sept. 26. Two hundred and fifty -Doukhobors men, women and children, confined In i r.ne :.ne provmciai urovmciai jau jan nere nere since since iasi iat Saturday, were transported by the nrovincial police to Porto Rico yes- Depredations Reported At Terrace terday. It is the former Christian and Thieves Abo Blamed Community lumber camp, 15 miles - from here. The place has been of- TERRACE, Sept. 26. Several or-fered to the Doukhobors by Peter 1 chard owners have reported having Veregln as a permanent habitat. , fruit robbed lately, in some in BANQUET TO MR. MARLER Canadian Flrt Minister to Japan Ilonorrd at Toklo Last Evening TOKIO. Rent. 26: The Canadian Awr.tnt.ion In Japan, last nleht at Its first nubile function bannueltrd Hon. Herbert Marler. Canada's first, minister to Japan, and ths legation Uff. The guests 'ncluded the British ambassarod; Mr. Tokugawa. the Japanese minister to Canada: the American Charges d'affaires. Japanese officials-and others. In an address Mr. Marler spoke of the great proeress of Canada within tne uruisn ONLY ONE BOAT IN WITH HALIBUT TODAY Only one boat came with halibut today for the morning sale. It was the Oslo with 11.000 Dounds. which disposed of her catch to Atlin Fisheries at 13.5c and 9c. flclency once the national con- or the Empire His Lordship .said: "It defies all attempts at jiwikiu uiiuij'j.ii. waii, ior instance, can be more anomalous than for a single sovereign political entity to be reDresented at equal rank and all exercising equal hazily differential powers? Yet, the Empire works, and works successfully. Nay, it does more. It plucks at the heart Strings of its far-flung peoples and -ts their inmost souls vl bratlng with such mystic, ' haunting me'odles of love lor Itself as a political Institution that it has bc-XMne Impregnable to external attack. "Because of Its surface contradictions its enemies expected It to break to pieces at their first onslaught. Instead, to their utter amazement and consternation, they found themselves confronted St a solid phalanx of Its cmbat-ed citizenry from every clime, and of every race, civilization, color and religion enthusiastically ready to die and who did.. In fact, die by the million that the Empire might live." sRUSS PLANE MAYPASS e TfPlane wa" niVh?rfr?S?eAJ VJU" Jj5 KAWr WV W Mi Seward and- then to Sitka and Seattle. The plane should be able to make the 700-mlle flight from Sitka to Seattle without stop. The four Russian flyers aboard the -plane are the first aviators ever to conquer the Pacific Ocean Bears Break Down Trees in Orchard stances large quantities or. bow apples and plums having been taken. In most tattaneec the thieves have been two-legged ones, although bears and cattle have made some depredations. One tree about sixteen years old on George Little's ranch at the river was practically broken to bits recently by a bear. Mr. Edy, who lives in ths Home of James Nelson, northwest Of town, shot and killed a black bear from his upstairs window the other' night. Grain Movement Gradually Grows Nearly Four Hundred TVirload Now On Way Here, With 235Oht'l Railway Division' m Movement of grain from the prairies to Prince Rupert Is gradually increasing, total loadings being reported this morning at 37.1 "ars. On the territory west of Red Sjj aujos sib Jiairj uotpunr sstj carloads bound here. BIRTH NOTICE A son was bom to Mr. and Mrs. Dave Eastman. 1027 Tenth Av-nue. at the Prince Rupert Oen-ral Hospital, September 20. i I