TOMORROW'S TIDES Wednesday, July 31 High 9:21 a.ir 15.9 ft. 21:21 p.m 20.0 ft. Low 3:03 a.m. 5.7 ft. 14:53 p.m. 8.5 ft. KING BETTER; MUST REMAIN ENDURANCE FLIGHT STILL IS GOING ON ; T LOUIS. Julv SO The mon oplane Robin had been -up 413 Jiurs at noon today. The pilots did not reply to the note by the "Tornorof tho flight, Mr. Robertson. ( ailing them down. LOUIS, July 30 In a message dropped hero at noon today, Ins endurance fliers said they w ' aid land when the gas gives rut Tiic present supply will last un'i) about 10 p.m.. experts FATHER DRUMMOND , DIED YESTERDAY At Smith's Inlet the total catch was 11,897 cases, of which ll.lfMH were sockeye . This makes a total pack to date of 178,745. DELEGATES TO CONVENTION Most of Them Will Arrive on Trnin Tomorrow Afternoon The delegates to the fisheries convention which opens here Thursday morning are xjected; to arrive tomorrow? 'Willi? fcome.; will ... undoubtedly come in oi the '. 1... 11.. Asked to Decorate 'n appreciation of the Fisheries Convention being held lure this week, citizens of Prince Rupert are nsked to decorate their Premises and fly as many flags ns possible. The Fisheries Committee L;cut. R. J. Gardner, top, and Lieut. K. W. Mi'T, below, were the two survivors of the British submarine 11-47 that sank with crew of 22 after collision with the 1,-12 while returning from manoeuvres in the Irish Sea off Pembroke, Wales. RUSSO-CiflNA SITUATION No Negotiation So Far Between Two Countries View to Settlement LONDON, July 80. Pros-pects for n peaceful solution of ' the difficulties !etween China and Soviet Russia seem-ed flight today. All reports of negotiations under way appeared to have proven false. China was reported to be very anxious to negotiate a settlement of the problem arising out of her seliure of the Chinese Eastern Railway and is confident of an agreement if Russia would realize her mistake in propagandizing China. There was no indication, however, that Russia would recognize such boat tomorrow morning, urn mo- rinTTIfiff PAn .tinulil he here on the train' KlI 1 lH It 1 1 lc GUELPII. Jiilw !M.!f Pnthpr! t- h. nft.rnnAn. nrrlvlntf at I1U 1 lUll 1 VIl J-nu'3 Drummond, S.J., wldely3;30. Jiown as a lecturer and writer Jt has been suggested that a "'pu yesterday afternoon. He was Lon,i crowd might assemble at 81 vcan of age. I the station to greet the visitor. LargeNumber Being Prepared Tor Overseas Life In Training Camps OTTAWA, July 30. Britain is frying to send Canada only the "highest type of settlers. Dr. J. II. King, minister of health and pensions, slated on his return from overseas. The training camps are educating applicants for bntta lions of immigrants for the,Do-tnininn Thousand are preparing to coma to this country, he said. EMIGRATION CHEST CLINIC WAS HELD IN PRINCERUPERT Dr. A. S. Lamb, travelling provincial health officer and tuber-eolosis specialist' held a chest clinic in Prince 'Rupert on Friday and Saturday, July 26 and 27. About 30 cases were examined and X-ray pictures taken where necessary. With funds obtained by th-sale of the Christmas Seal, the Tranquille Tubcrcolosis Society has purchased a portable X-ray and put on a public-health nurs' to assist Dr. Lamb in his wort All expenses incurred in the um of the X-ray andl1,fey the nurse are paid by the Tranquille Tubcrcolosis Society. A clinic was also held at Ocean Falls and ajcJinJo. is now being held at ArtfoxV' v IS DISMISSED FROM SERVICE Spanish Airman Who to Cross Atlantic Rebuked Boston Grill LARGE CAIUKKT Special Dinner Thursdays and Saturdays Danring Firry Saturday Night, 9 to U Dance Ball for Hlx Accommodation for Private Parties X NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER PHONE 4S7 VoL XX, No. 175. I'UINCE RUI'ERT, ILC, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1929 pntng five cf.kth f Naval Conference Proceeding in London Regard to Proposal to Reduce British and U. S. Navies LONDON, July 30. The first lord of the admiralty, Oaved from Crash Hon. A. V. Alexander, has joined the discussions pro- cccding between Rt. Hon . J . Ramsay Macdonald, prime minister of Great Britain, and General Dawes, United States ambassador to JJntain, and Ambassador .Gibson, representing United States in Paris, with a view to reaching an agreement on the problem of naval armament reduction. An official communique says "substantial progress was made toward an agreement." Comment in London newspapers with respect to the conference leans toward the belief that the cruiser strength will not "be the only naval armament reduction The Express is of the opinion that battleships, destroyer and ubmarines will also be affected. The conference,, which is one of the most important ever he'd, is proceeding at No. 1 Downing Street. Salmon Run is Back to Normal This Year and Canners are Well Pleased With Result of Catch The salmon run this year is a pretty clear indication vat last year's failure was due to some purely local cause urd v.a.1 no indication of a general falling off in the supp y n t he northern district . This year the run is back to normal and the canners are very well satisfied with the re-?u!fi obtained so far. This week the run is continuing both on the Skeena and Naas rivers, the catches averaeim' about thirty sockeyes and from fifty to one hundred pinks Id the boat . Sockeye fishing will close on both the Skeena and Naas on August 16 and at Smith's Inlet, where tlie catch hat been poor, tho season for sockeyes closes at the end of I his week. Several stream. in the Naas area have been closed this year altogether as they had been depleted. LONDON LONGER 91,206 esses, made up of: Soes i eye. 49,809; springs. 4218; cohoes, LONDON. July 30. An official H.oJIl; pink. 22,815; and chums, n from Buckingham Palace 333 aid there had teen further The ct,ch on t,le NaM up to the ;rmcnt in the Kin' condi- end of ,Mt wwk w 17188 CMeN It stated that the condition ; of whkh Bodu9 we., 12fM8; v? King had improved during ,n(? m. cohoei 188. pnkg, M week and that the doctors m2 and chumt m I 2 " "f ?rJ. rJf. f NiO.. of 'which 67.738 art .ock - UU1.1I II 1U Ul'miUg VI 3 cavity ia more advanced. HEATWAVE ISGENERAL Covers Practically Whole Continent and Is Scorching Crops WINNIPEG, July 30. Inten.se heat still smothers the prairies and has gripped the entire United States as well as the Canadian provinces in a suffocating hold. High temperature is reported everywhere and no relief is in sight for the scorching crops. The menace is No Casualties When Cutter Rams Liner W '" '"I " - lL-j i nTn'i iff" irr - i i inTiTrC'Y l'' ifVi n i n Th" coaKt I'ner Prince Geor e is shown above limping into port at Boston after her era. h 53 miles off phore in the early mor in,? foif with tho constgui-rd patrol oat Agassiz. Below are seen some of the 249 passengers who were rescutd anr! safely fr xt" ii; small bortts to the Agassix and the cutter Mojave. The Agastiz ahown at right, with slove-in bow, at the Charleston Navy Yard, after the collision. MAKING SURVEY OFTHEROCKIESI Party of Geologists Exploring in Jasper and MownTKobsori Hi JASPER, July 30. To begin a painstaking scientific survey of' the Canadian Rockies in Jasper National Pak and the Mount Rob-son region, a party of distinguish- Sees Advantage to Prince sRupert From Development Of the Port of Stewart North to See Fast Growth in Near Future Is Opinion of hditor of financial News of Vancouver That the remarkable development 'hat has occurred in the northern areas of Canada from Quebec to Alberta ed geologists, headed by Dr. L. W .'nr;nrr vvont voava fronMnrr n now imnofno tr nrnsnoi-ih. Collet, head of the depa tment of " ""i- -t""! , Attempted oology in the University of Gen-1n eastern Canadian cities, is at last becoming evident in SIR HENRY WILL VISIT RUPERT NEXT MONTH! F. G.a Dawson, returned yesterday from the east after attending n meeting of the Canadian National Railway directors at Montreal, lie says that Sir Henry expects to visit Prince Rupert toward the end of August. Mr. Dawson reports crop prospects on the prairie poor, a fact which will reflect somewhat on the lumber business in llrlllsh cva, ana proiessor oi curopean vuiuiuuit uuu bnuu Atniw ttujn.it cnuu-u uvuvni. geology at Harvard University, directly from this economic fact, is the opinion expressed Madrid, July 30. Major Ra- Ieft JasPr Park thi morn-;by Howard T. Mitchell, publisher of The Financial News -non Francoi. the Spanish airman Jn foL,.?f:h,on,?s' t,;er,Sn1arlnf of Western Canada, Vancouver, who passed through vho made an unsuccessful at- R'ver. Fiddle Creek and Brule. pr;nr. Tnnort vesterrlnv nn his wav to Stowart. tiuj v 1,1 IV Is 1(1 til. Ulvd II nuv. 0 iia w vnn -J f L - . IL. th? Ath."Kr A4UKa.n v.ii IfnflA... I ii h.rJS Atr ..111 veek with hi. plane and com- move their Camp to Barglake and JJJ" Raway Com-anions, has been dismissed from to Moosepass tn the Robson coun- th.ough its mining sub-he Spanish air service for actio try, returning to Jasper, by way of flidia'ryi "the Consolidated Mining 'ailed derogatory to Spain's air Robson and exploring e western Smelting Qp., to interest itself, restige. He made the Atlantic section of the park geologically in the opening up of a new trans- i iop in defiance of purported gov- for the first time. They will portation route and a new mining, .-nmoni nnininn and nwl an stndv the atructum of the moun- and agricultural region in the. Itnlnn nl.inn ant Krpnph weathpr tain and make comoarisona with north, said Mr eports. the Alps ! "Undoubtedly the most important event in the north in British Sloop Betty and Billie Seized by Coast Guard : Crew Arrested FERNANDINA, Fla., July 30. Another Uritish vessel has been seized by the United States for contravention of the international law in connection with liquor smuggling. Coastguardsmcn today started unloading 2500 cases of liquors valued at $150,000 from aboard the seized vessel, the British sloop Hetty and Billie, which was taken off Fcrnandina Bar. The crew 'of three men who were alward the sloop at the time of the seizure arc under arrest. The Betty and Billie is from Nassau in the Bahama Islands. BENNETT AT BRITANNIA Mitchell. BY-ELECTIONS IN THE EAST ! "I have heard expressed some Conservative and Two Liberals ' misgivings, both in Vancouver and i Elected Yesterday by Large P nice Rupert, as to the eirect or i Majorities the new development on the busi- of these ports. This view is! . . . difficult ne-.- to understand, for we! ..,, TT AWA, , July T ( 80 In the by-could not get less trade from this election yesterday Dr. William great northern territory than we S. Murphy, independent Conserva-have today and any development tive, was elected over the official that mar occur there by reason of candidate. Thomas A. Thompson, more adequate transpo-talion fa-. Conservative, in Lanark, cilitie must inevitably bring new, LaWrenc, A. Wilson, Liberal. busiHMi to both Prince Rupert !W8 e,ected oyer the ln4tpendent and ancouver. Liberals in VaudrwH. Soulanges, Three Pacific Ports and Elieo Bertrand, Liberal, was "When we remember that the elected over the independent Lib-geography of Western Canada has erais in Prescott. The successful decreed that all the traffic orlgl- candidates won by large majori-nating in a ter.itory greater than ties. (ContimiM) un Pm 81 I FRENCHHOUSE MEETS AGAIN TOURING PEACE RIVER COUNTRY ! EDMONTON. July 30. Premier Brownlee and Dr. R. C. PARIS, July 80 The French Wallace, president of Alberta parliament will convene tomorrow University, left for a two weeks to hear the program speech of the toir 0f ine Peace River country new government of Aristlde yesterday, travelling by train, air-Drlandpimroicr It-is Iho satn..Iunn?nl,temot,j-Tml boat. -They- Jgove nment minus Raymond Poln- wju COver territory from Fort BRITANNIA MINS, July 80 care, which veteran of war day pjtigerald to Great Slave Lake and After addressing an audience at steered past many difficulties hen to Lake Athabaskn, scouting Britannia Bench yesterday after- during tho past eight months. the country's resources. noon in which he pleaded for an! The radical soclallsU have an , enlightened public opinion in nounced their intention of contln- EXPLOSION IN SILESIA dealing with questions of the mo- uing opposition to the government.! mcnt to the country. Hon. R. It. WALDENBURG. Silesia, July Bennett spoke here ast night and1 PRICE OF WHEAT 30.-An explosion of undeter- the mined cause killed 23 miners and emphasUed necessity of Can- ada manufacturing her own raw' VANCOUVER. July 30. -The Injured many others last night In materials If she were to remain Jn- Irice ot whoat l""1 t0(,a' on Friedenhoff nung mine, near In dependent economically. I the exchange was s,i.oo i-i. m i aernernauorii