TOMORROW'S TIDES Thursday, March '20, "30. High 5.02 a.r ft. 18.10 p. Low ston Yesterday 11 KA.I Jlj . 23.44'P V . Vol. XXI., No. 66. "' ' GREAT uiuisu poiiucs losi more man a statesman In the death of the 'Earl of Balfour. A personality of peculiar aloofness and detachment, he had become an Institution, though it is possible the full story of his ser- j vices to the British Empire will' never be written. The author of "A Defence of Philosophic Doubt," "The Founda-; tion of Belief," Theism and Humanism," was not a man who depended on publicity, transparent cleverness or political skill for hto subtle hold on the public. He was credited with never reading a newspaper, on the principle that If there was any-1 thing trap3rtant-someone would tell j him about It, while if there Was not i a newspaper was a superfluity 81-, milarly, he cared nothing for the recording of his own doings and achievements. It is for this reason that many of his works may go un chronicled. Few statesmen- wno have been Prime Minister and have suffered a crushing political defeat can reappear casually and Balfour was j essentially casual m me arena is years later, and still draw a crowded house. The late Earl of Oxford nnri Acrmlth vnrv much of the ROAD VOTE FOR NORTH Prince Rupert Allotted $27,000 For Highways By Minister of Public Works TWO FLIERS ARE KILLED Great Statesman Earl Balfour died today in statesman, left office and was do- .caught In the Liberal avalanche of featcd during the World War. re- 1903, and had to find hU way back turning after only a short interval to the House of Commons via a nonenlty specially-vacated seat In the City to find himself a political devoid of all Influence in an as- of London, sembly where for so long he had ( Deplte this, whenever in 1911 he held a foremost place. Balfour, on chose to give an account of his the other hand, after representing stewardship as the chief British re-East Manchester for 21 years, was presentatlve at the League of Na- Uons he was always listened to with close attention and real plea he was a member, a, figure that finally rose slowlyas though unwillingly disturbed to the height of Its long legs, and in a few minute was sitting gloriously on the political fence with expectant friends and foes alike confounded. Hlchwftv maintenance estimates as In the days of the Tanii iteiorm brought down In the legislature last joontrovetty, or was sticking darU week by Hon. N. S. Lougheed, mln- 0f incisive eloquence Into the sen-lster of finance, Include the follow- .sltlve skins of his challengers, lng appropriations for northern ! A nephew of Lord Salisbury. Bal-ridlngs: four was once characterised as "an Prince Rupert $27,000, 'aristocrat who entered parliament Atlln $32,000. to protect the privileges of his Mackenzie $39,000. caste and to taste the Joys of Intel Skeena $55,000, lectual 'mastery Philosopher, , as Omlneca $75,000. j well M statesman, it haa been .said Fort Oeorge $81,000. 0f him that "he was never so hap- The largest vote In the province py aJ wnen discussing some hew went to Kaslo-Slocan riding which gueM at the nature of matter or the received $90,000. I nature of the soul., He was better 'known for most of hit life as plain I Bight Hon. Arthur Jamas Balfour (he did not racers a. ..tllle until 19221. . ; it , As First' Lord .of thff! Admiralty i In h roalltlon wox-cabinet UM5rjUS) secretary 1916-19), head Fatal Crash of ronto-Montreal Foreigr Air Mall Plane Nr Klnr- Of tne umi - - Ict.t. (I9i7t. Dritlsh delegate to lv, vpmailles Peace Conference of the British delega- "ontl KINGSTON, March 19:-' fW. Henrv HlmnnMii nllot. and P. TXO- tion W me - bins, oms, radio raaio operator, operator, both ooui 01 of Mpnt armament conference 1921), and -- hollum dellbera- to lmporta ....... . ,nnn 1 - rr, . - w- 1 nir tinnaiiMU uuy wnen a lurunw-jviumicu. e sj,,hnStlnn Rome. mail plane crashed on the shore of Drusseu ; (continued on p.u,e two.. Long Lake, 30 miles north of here. ' , LIBERAL ACTION Help LAnoniTESr LOlfppN!Marth 10:-Mucrf political pressure on the gov ernment of Rt. Hon. J. Ram- say MacDonald was relieved yesterday by the decision of the Liberal parliamentary SEATTLE, March 19: The steamship Chief Capilano was boarded and seized by Deputy United States Marshal A. B. McDonald in the Straits of Juan de Fuca today on an order growing out of the loss of the steamer Chief Ma-quilla which foundered off the Aleutian Islands in De- cember, 1928. The vessel was halted by the coastguard after being forced across the international boundary into American waters by adverse currents as she steamed down the strait from Vancouver, B.C., her home port, laden with Canadian wheat. The Chief Capilano is owned by the Canadian-American Shipping Co. which also owned the Chief Maquilla. Dent & Russell Inc. of Portland, shippers, have been attempting to collect $20,000 for loss of cargo on the The possibhties of international complications between sure. There was a faacination about. Cana(a anf tne United States loomed over the seizure, . the lounging, langudf gure slttlngju , 'rpfi ' g Marihal E: p nppn. whn ,1; rhAn unoerturMa inrousn siasning ui- .-. . . . " tacks on the government of which tlOll, SaiU FORMER EP. PASSES OUT Itcv. Frank It, Staecy, Retired Methodist Clergyman, Dies at Chllliwack VANCOUVER, March 19: Rev. Frank B. Stacey, former member of parliament for the Froser Valley as a Union government supporter, died at Chllliwack yesterday at the age of 74. He was a former Methodist Church minister and retired to fruit farming at Chllliwack 19 years ago. : : HOLD CLASSES IN MINERALOGY AND J. T. Mandy, resident engln- ... 1 t .. . 1 , iv cei, lias uteiveu wuru mat t George E. Winkler, mining en- glneer, will be here Monday to hold a course of classes on mineralogy and geology of particular value to prospec- tors. Particulars of this course will be advertised later. w MANY HURT INDIA RIOT Disorder Occurred When Mayor of Calcutta Was fieingr Tried For Sedition RANGOON, Burma, March 19: ' More than one hundred persons,! including thirty police officers, were injured in a disturbance out 1 NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1H30 Earl Balfour Is Dead At Age of Eighty-Two After Lengthy Illness Held Many Important Public Offices In Great Britain Up to Premiership His Loss Mourned Throughout the Empire WORKING, Surrey, England, March 19: The Earl of Balfour, veteran British statesman and former Prime Minister, died at 8:45 this morning at the home of his brother, the Hon. Gerald Balfour, in his eighty-second year. He had been ill for a long time with laryngitis. His death removes one of the most noted British parliament tarians of the day. He was also known as an author on philosophical and political matters. He was knighted in 1922 and awarded an Earldom the same year. GOOBFIND ; HI,; ! -.iff STIKINE Discovery of Copper, Gold and Silver Ore Near Telegraph Creek Announced VANCOUVER, March 19: News of the discovery of a large and apparently valuable deposit of copper with good values in gold and smaller values in silver near Telegraph Creek on the Stiklne River was made public yesterday by the discoverer, Arthur Skelhorne, mining engineer. Last summer Mr. Skelhorne headed a large party of prospectors which went into the Stikine River area seeking minerals for the Mining Corpora tion of Canada. PLAYOFFS IN HOCKEY Place Series at Montreal Tomorrow NEW YORK, March 19: As a result of last night's games, Chi- cago Blackhawks will meet Mon treal Canadlens in second place play-offs of the National Hockey League and New York Rangers will meet Ottawa Senators In third place play-offs. Boston Bruins and Montreal Maroons have already captured first places and will start a series New Ambassador Reaches New York party to abstain from voting side the courtroom when J. N. Sen-; NEW YORK, March 19: Sir Boston Grill LA HOB CABARET Bpecltl Dinner Thursday! ind Bturdi' Pnlnc EfT7 Saturday Nljht, I to It Dane HaJJ (or Hlr AoomadUona for PmaU Partlea PHONE 4S7 ST A TESMAN PAS PRICE FIVE CENTS HAS GREAT AERIAL SERVICE AMBITIONS Work on Continuation of Road From Present End About to Be Started By Public Works Dept. Grading of the approach to the Gallojby Rapids bridge from the present end of the Kaien Island Highway, a distance of about 700 feet,- isfabout to be commenced by the provincial department of Dublic works and a camp to house the twenty' pr twenty-five men who will be employed on this job is now being established. Surveys of the Galloway Rapids bHdge lure no-been completed and the survey party is now beyond Cloyah Bay laying out the route for continuation of the road. Everything is in readiness for construction of the road beyond the island to start once the necessary funds, which have been promised by the minister of public works for this year, become United Transferred I. A. Mcpherson moved to R-gln from 8afeafonn in C.N.R. service. International Complications Losmms Result of Seizmeriof anadian ShiD in Fuca Straits it iPfi akes Charge of Vancouver ano on Claim of $20,000 ainst Owners u France Would Cover Half The World With Air Transport Lines Wants to Have Full Share of Peace Time Traffic and to Train Reserve of Wartime Pilots PARIS, March 19 .-France seeks to spread a spider's . eb of air lines over half the globe. She wants a full share if peace time aerial traffic and she wants to train a great -ocic yji yui nine unuw, riuiicB aisu uesires to reacn out her long material aerial arms to the colonies, across the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and some day into the Pacific. Just as she wants her navy on the seven seas she ,-ants her airplanes flying in the air lanes that lead to very spot where France's 60,000,000 colonials live. French airplanes fly now to Great Britain. Poland, all of Southern and Eastern Europe, toS- Africa and South America. Already that only l.g hauls will be proflt- c ..I cub u bsuu ame ior soni? ume. it 13 said that jna pioneer work is being done to have regular mall service to Indo- Ictters are written during the day and, should be transported by night China and Madagascar. The radial ! and aa France can be traversed In lines of a big part of the aerial web a very few hours there Is lltUe ad-already are woven. . vantage in sending by air what Laurent Eynac, minister of air, j trains will deliver by breakfast, has divided the work into three . zones, the North African and South I American service, the European and the Asiatic. He hopes some day. to organize three state-controlled companies to co-ordinate the many private concerns now fighting for business. This is the scheme for postal and commercial service. M. Eynac as minister of air, con trols aviation for the army and navy. Three-fourths of his budget of $120,000,000 goes for military work. He 1$ organizing training schools, research laboratories, searching for the best types of war aircraft and seeking safety for his pilots. But he Is ' frowning upon trans-Atlantic and other stunt flights. Military Problems The merchant service, it is agreed by the government experts, will solve many military problems and furnish an army of fliers, needing little exercise to put them in trim when the guns begin to roar. It Is M. Eynac's theory that some tune scon there will be a sort of division of commercial air spoils, and France wants to be ready to claim her share of the flying trade over world routes. "We shall not be able to trade on plans and theories; we must have actual air trade In existence to jus tify our demand for control of cer- ALSO IN GEOLOGY Jtain routes." he say,. mi mioon ,o statt Two-thirds of the mall between France and French Africa Is carried by plane now and the mail service from Paris to Rio Janlero is on a six-day basis Instead of nearly three weeks by boat. Postal service with all the capitals of Europe as far as Istanbul Is growing and before long It Is hoped Indo-Chlna v "! c linked with Paris by regular planes, as well as Madagascar ano Ihs French oolonte? of Wost Africa. France is well aided by her ge r.raphlcal sit la tion." says Emman In Montreal tomorrow. The Raneers utl Chaumle chief of the comtner and the Senators will also open on cial section of the air ministry. By Thursday at Ottawa while the Ca- that that he he means means that that French French terrl- terrl- nadlens and Blackhawks' will start ry Is spotted along many of the , 54, Drobable probable great great air air routes routes of of the the at al , ... . . .. . I -l a. Mat world. And he would build more airfields, light more lanes, establish more and better wireless and weather posts to make the lanes over France and French colonies the most desirable routes for foreign planes to take. All these International roads, the on certain amendments to 4s gupta, mayor of Calcutta, was be- Ronald Lindsay, newly appointed ' ministry contends, must be bound the Coal Bill which are to jlng tried for sedition growing out British ambassador to the" United together by a French domestic ser-come up shortly. ot utterances in support of the States, and Lady Lindsay arrived vice, Intended primarily to make Gandhi campaign. The military aboard the Aquitanla in New York connections between International j dispersed the crowds, f last night. lines. For France herself, it is felt SERVICE HELD THIS MORNING Brief Obsequies For Late J. XV. Scott Prior to Sending Remains to Toronto For Burial Relatives and intimate friends of the family attended a brief private funeral service in the chapel of the B. C. Undertakers at 11:30 this morning prior to the remains of the late Joseph W. Scott, pioneer businessman, who died Monday afternoon, being placed on the east-bound train for delivery to Weston, a suburb of Toronto, where interment will be made In the family plot. Very Rev. James B. Gibson, dean of St. Andrew's Anglican Cathedral, officiated and spoke words of respect for deceased and comfort for the bereaved family. W. Vaughan Davtea presided at the organ for the hymns. Pallbearers, to the train were Mayor C. H. Orme. AW. J. II. Pills.-burv. Dr. Ei S. Talt, H. F. McLod, D. J. Matheson, Thomas Trotler, W. O. Fulton and D. G. Stewart. The remains arc being accompanied east by the widow and de ceased's younger son, Douglas Scott. Two Electric Employees Die James O. Bancroft and D. A. Strat- ton Killed In Vancouver Yesterday VANCOUVER. March 19-Two B. O. Electric employees were killed j yeettrday. James O. Bancroft, aged 42, lost his life in the premature explo sion cf blasting powder near Ed- mrnd while- D. A. Stratton, aged was Kinca by a falling plank conpany Headquarters on Car- FISH SALES Summary American 23,000 pounds, a 'id 5c. Can Jdlan None. American Sunset. 17.500. and Condor, 500, Pacific, 12c. and 5c. Vit