t ,'today at 60o. i Trelle's wheat was a Reward strain of the Marquis type, the heaviest sample ever exhibited at the show, weighing 67.5 to the United States bushel. Trelle won the same prize in 1928. Today's victory marks the sixth time In 10 years that the coveted award has been given to a Canadian entrant. Brother of Ocean Falls Woman Dies Of War Injuries Stanley V. Mosdell, who went overseas with the 131st Battalion in 1016, died last week in Shaugh-nessy Military Hospital. Vancouver. He was 33 years of age and had been In ill health since the war. Deceased was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mosdell of New Westminster and the brother of Mrs. P. Oxenbury of Ocean Falls: COPIES ALL SOLI) OF niO EDITION Owing to the unprecedented demand for copies of the big special edition of the Dally News Issued yesterday, the whole of the 5,500 copies lias been cleaned out. It Is realized that a number of people who counted on getting copies but who did not ect quickly will be disappointed, but the management did not expect .rvv the .. demand would have 1 . - UCCH OU gicui,. MIGRATION Canadian Communities Not Affected By Movement of DoukhoJ bors to Mexico NELSON, Dec. 3: The proposed settlement of a section of Northern Mexico by DouWtobors doea nojtff feet members of the Christian Com munlty of Universal Brotherhood In British Columbia, Alberta or Saskatchewan, according to J. P Ishukln, second vice-president of j the community. Shukln said that, as far as he knew, negotiations were being carried I ' on with a view to obtaining a home for 20,000 Doukhobors still in Russia. PRINCE JOHN WAS AGROUND VANCOUVER, Dec. 3: The Canadian National steamer Prince John went aground on the Cana dian National pier fill yesterday .while arriving from Prince Rupert and was held there for three hours. She was the third vessel to get caught on the IIU jrttbin .the lastf few daj's. . n TV reace Kiver Many People r 1 f (j0 Uverseas Today Good Example of Business Steamship Agents Are Doing This Winter There Is a large exodus of people from this district this fall to the Old Country and Atlantic steamship agents here are exceptionally busy. Today George Nordman and Victor Angavo of Anyox left by train for New York where on December 13 they will embark, on the White Star liner Majestic for Helslngfors, Finland. Also leaving on today's train were John Thony and Hugo Rltter of Premier and Otto BlatUer of Prince Rupert who will sail from New York aboard the North German Lloyd liner Europa on December 16 for Basle, Swltierland. Yesterday afternoon A. C. Pover of Premier sailed on the Catala for Vancouver en route to St. John, N.B., where he wll lembark on the N.B.. where he will embark on the cerhber 16 for a trip to his home near Liverpool, England. CANADIAN NATIONAL UY. OFFICIALS ARRIVED TODAY "Hi iitl B. T. Chappell, general superintendent of the Canadian National Railways for British Columbia; S. Morrison, chief engineer, and C. J. Quantlc, master mechanic for British Columbia, arrived in the city on' the Prince Oeorge today from Vancouver In the course of an official tour and will proceed East from here. Message of Tomorrow's Tides December 4, 1930 he GOLF! GOLF! High 0.23 a.m. 18.2 ft. mmm 12.09 p.m. 21.06 It. Lc J 6.06 a.m. 8.5 It. 0 18.57 n.m. an it Sunken Gardens NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH. COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER . . VVT tl C, - i - : PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1930 pkice five cent I WCM TO FA t TE OF RENAHAN UNITED Rancher Near Ketchikan Heard Whirr of Airplane Engine and a Loud Crash Close To His Home Search Now Turns Northward As Result of Report; Thousand Dollars Reward Posted For Sam Clerf, Dead or Alive KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Dec. 3: Hopes of finding Pilot Rr,bin Renahan and two companions, who have been miss-in? since October 28, were revived late Tuesday when Wills Folkes, a rancher, reported hearing a plane crash in the darkness about a month ago. Folkes, who came to mar-M. here Tuesday, learned for the first time that the air- - BENNETT I FEATURED IIU Kcply to Thomas Gets Prominent Position In London Newspapers ! ' NDON. Dec. 3: The statement i ! :nier R. B. Bennett of Canada, ' -ing Rt. Hon. J. 11. Thomas. s 'i. !.,ry for the Dominions, ob-uujrd a trading position - Iff the " "f the morning newspapers of L luion with the excepUon of the D-'iA Herald. T'." News-Chronicle said that Mr. Ti uuis was shown the statement . i j. marked: "Oh, I did not know iiniK about that I shall be In-' : d to study the statement but - i ; ' hen I can make no comment." Mr Thomas yesterday, however, did not propose to make a 'ii Daily Telegraph declares " ' Mr Thomas and his cabinet f uuos should consider gravely . 1 1 mediately the question of his r i il position as a member of .ibinet. Deputy Minister Of Fisheries Is Visitor to City W A Found, deputy minister of 1 s. Ottawa, arrived in the ' ii the Prince George this ' I' from Vancouver, being ' " meet the fishermen of the ' t und hoflr LhMr views on 1 ! ! ins In-Mr. affecting the fishing Found opened a public ' at 2 o'clock this afternoon ' Moose Hall with a number of "wn in attendance. Mi Found expects to bo able to imorrow night on the Prince i ' on his return to Vancouver. CAR!) OF THANKS Mi Holland and family of Port 'on wish to thank their friends for the kind expres-of sympathy shown them In recent bereavement. "KITIS!! GOVT IS LOOKING INTO SALE j ur lAtVAIJIAN Hllfci I LONDON. Dec. 3: The Brl- ' !i government has already 'minted an enquiry and will immediately Investigate' all fnrthods hv whlrh the Rale Of C anadian wheat In Oreat Brl- riln caji do accomplished on a- ":lDrbcni hnl kjiIH Men J. H. : homas, secretary for the Do- minions, In reply to a question " tho House of Commons ye- i rday. ' " STATES nen were m Using. He said that the whirr of a plane's motor as it pas sed over his ranch on Qravlna Island, less than fifteen miles northwest -of here, was followed by a loud crash. The cutter Cygan left early today to patrol the waters about the island. SEATTLE. Dec. 3: The porting of a $1,000 reward for the finding of Samuel Clerf, Seattle mining man. lost with Pilot Robin Renahan, or his body was announced by W. W. Comnor, president of the Seattle chapter of the National Aeronautic snort fnBafv m.mtho I MISTAKEN FOR DEER Benny Cromp Fortunately Escaped U'itli Minor Injuries On Sun-Sunday Morning last Benny Cromp received flesh wounds between the elbow and the shoulder on his left arm on Sunday morning whn he was shot in mistake for a deer by Tom Kelsey in a hunting accident in the vicinity of Tucks Inlet. Fortunately enough. Cramp's Injuries are slight requiring only dressing by a doctor but not hospital treatment. According to Information In h hands of tpe police, Tfem Kelsey, in company with his father, left here at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon and anchored for the night In Tucks Inlet. Sunday morning they went Into the woods to engage In hunting. Kelsey, Jr . carrying a 30-30 rifle. About 9 o'clock in the morning, he heard a cracking noise In the bush from 50 to 75 yards away. He saw what he believed to be a deer's horns and fired. He immediately heard a shout and ran at once to the scene and was shocked to find that he had shot Cromp. EvidenUy what Kelsey had thought were a deer's horns were Cromp's hands. Kelsey Immediately took Cromp to the beach and rushed him to town where he was treated by Dr. W. T. Kergin. ; Kelsey and Cromp were members of separate hunting parties. , hat. nrnmn was SO silently hurt. Under such clrcum- ,,), Ba,nv have boen killed or bauly injured. Cromp, who l Hfty years of . age and, an. employee of the dry dock, was alone at the time. His com panions on the hunting trip were Bill Smith ana uave Mcrenie. Kelsey. who Is 20 years of age. was also alone In the bush at the time. VANCOUVER WHEAT n v- a. iTn-iArtt VANCOUVflv UWi Tc minted on the local exenange - GOVERNMENT FEELING FINANCIAL PINCH RAILWAY IN PEACE I I Early Completion of Dawson Creek Line Depends on Weather j I EDMONTON. Dec. 3: The opening of the Northern Alberta Railway extension from Hythe to Dawson Creek, B.C., by the end of December If weather conditions permit. Is ex-: pec ted by John Callaghan. general i manager, who has returned here! from an Inspection trip In the north ' country Qmdin hu hr, inin!. i ted and about M mil of tmrk lav. ! - lng remain to be finished The 15-mile extension on the north side of the Peace River, from Falrvlew to Hlnes Creek, will" likely Ik nnanxi tnr MrviM h " L "LL' "irJIiw. H.Malkm .anEx.Mayor Louis Hlnes Creek mains to be done is surfacing. The official Inspection of the Railway ffriJ p18"..8?11 spector, tcompanv will be given authority iolatiHMe line In oper-1 aUon for passenger and freight ser-Tice.ffr1 i)V"i : About 200 men are working on the Hjrthe-Dawson Creek extension, on which a number of bridges are to be built. Olven good weather, the line will be completed Into the Dawson Creek terminal by the end of the year. To Prevent Duplication There was a somewhat lengthy meeting of the city council last nigh, t. for the.prlmopurpose of try ing to prevent overlapping of tne acUvtties of the provlnqlal and city work and Uius see that all unemployed, so far as possible, get an even break, complaints naa oeen made that men who had been let out from the highway gang at Cloyah Bay at once applied for city relief. To avoid this a system of col laboration has been arranged so that those In charge will be kept informed all the time as to what other work men have been given. Hie council also decided to ask employers to, as far as possible, give consideration to the married men in Uielr employ when reducing their staffs or putting men on part time. While there Is no Intention to seem to be Interfering with the business of others the suggestion Is made that all employers in the city may do something to help out the pres ent crisis. Vancouver Harbor Chairman Is Here Sam McCIay in City This Afternoon En Route to Stewart on Mining Business Sam McClay, chairman of the Vancouver board of harbor commis sioners, Is a passenger aboard the' IPrlnco George today bound for -j . , ... . ... . . i c Anvrr wnrra 1 1 r- will 9.11111(1 .1 1 1 " I 11 I aays in imuuig m- 1 1. teres ts. CHILDREN WALK OUT Doukhobor Youths Object to Union Jack in School Pine Threat Brings Them to Time NELSON, t)ec. 3: Doukhobor children in school at Glade, apparently acting under the influence of agitators, left their classroom in a body yesterday wjhen their teacher, Miss Helen Lentanan, refused their demands that the Union Jack In I the room be removed. They returned within a few hours after their parents had been Informed that they would be subject to fines if they did not observe the school laws. IS STRAIGHT . CONTEST NOW , , Fletcher Leaves Vancouver Mayor- Ur F,Sht t0. Malkin and Taylor VANCOUVER, Dee. 3: T. W. ."etcher has withdrawn from the I Vancouver mayoralty race, leaving ' t a stralehi conteit between Mavor . . . m 11 f Herman Irelle 01 Wins World Wheat Championship For Second Time Chicago Show CHICAGO, Dec. 3: Herman Trelle of Wembley, Alta., today kept the wheat championship of North America in Canada by winning first place in the wheat sweepstakes at the International Livestock Exposition with a sample of hard red spring wheat. The sample won over Durum of George Avery of Kelso, Sask., who won the reserve championship, o i u rill it I iLUii uuffgredd Is Not Very Cheerful Sites Unemployment and Drought Relief as Major Prob- Icms Pacini; Country May Be WASHINGTON, Dec. 3: President Hoover set unem-1 ployment and drought relief at the top of the program he recommended yesterday in his message to Congress. To accelerate federal construction in the next six months he requested an emergency appropriation of up to $150,000,-000. He estimated that this year's deficit would reach $180,000,000. The president said: K I cannot emphasize too strongly the absolute necessity to defer any other plans for an Increase In gov- j eminent expenditures." I A surplus of only $30,000,000 is in sight for 1932, the president warned. Even with a discontinuance of the one per cent tax reduction on incomes, rigid economy was declared necessary to avoid an increase in taxes. ARE AFTER BLIND PIGS I I i Southern Interior Raids Indicate that New Liquor Board Is :Going to be Vljilant VICTORIA, Dec. 3 Thirteen liquor raids were carried out overj "it's a great country." the week-end by the provincial : As an earnest of his faith In it he police, six In Nelson, five In Kam-'staked himself a homestead whll loops and one each In Revedstoke , up there. and Enderby. The owners are all! being charged with keeping liquor OimD DIV for sale and the cases will be IJlOrlUl KlA heard Immediately. The raids are taken to Indicate mai tne uovernmeni uquor Act 18 going lo c sincuy eniorcea un- der tne new ,io.ur board. MERCHANTS' MEETING Stores to Remain Open Before Christmas in Evenings Will Close Christmas and Boxing Day The Prince Rupert Retail Merchants' Association, at its regular monthly dinner last evening in the Boston Cafe, decided that stores of the city may be permitted to keep open, if they wish to do so, until 10 o'clock each evening from December 22 to Christmas Eve. In addition to Christmas Day! stores will remain closed all Boxing Day, the day after Christmas. Bert Morgan and C. G. Minns were named representatives of the association to the central gymnasium committee. A surplus of $39.50 on the Irecent Prosperity Week drawing wai reported. ' ( Bert Morgan, president, -'tiWir In thfe chair and there were 1 ' 'abblft twenty-five members present. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL On a charge of false pretences In connection with Issuing alleged bogus checks. John Haas was commit ted for trial by Magistrate McCly-mont In city police court this President Increase of Taxation Necessary Opportunities In Peace River Vancouver Man Well Pleased With Country After Trip of Two Months John Hockln of Vancouver has returned to his home after a two impnUw'w-trtp. throughi thc Peace RJjer country. He says: "It's the place of opportunity for those who understand pioneer towns and new lands and all It needs Is a coast outlet I saw great crops and some fine catUe. Much of the land is covered with light pop lar not too hard to clear and In some places there are heavier woods. Prairie chicken, rabbits, moose, grouse and fish are nlcntl- ful. KLu 1 iJ IVlUivEi Believed to Have at Least Four Ribs Broken and Will Be In Hospital For Several Weeks Although he Is suffering consid erable pain from Injuries sustained last Sunday evening when he was ! knocked down by an automobile, I Bishop G. A. Rix spent a somewhat j more restful night last night. It has not yet been possible, to make an x-ray examination but it Is be-, lleved that Bishop Rix has at least, four broken ribs. He will be In hos- pltal for several weeks It Is likely. The Weather Dead Tree Point, coudy, south east gale, barometer 29.C8, tern-perature44, sea rough. Langara Overcast, easterly, sea calm. .. Triple Island Rain, strong south east, rough sea? Piln.ce Rupert Rain, south' cast gale, Baraometer 20.69, sea rough. HOUSE OF LORDS , DErLORES ACTION ,i, OF LABOR GOVT !!, . - LONDON. Dec. 3: The House of Lords yesterday car- rled a motion of Lord Hall- sham's deploring the Labor government's refusal to the advances of the Dominion pre- mlers toward closer Imperial fiscal relations. The vote was T4 to 10. n ii I? It