FACE TWO The Daily News . PRINCE RUPERT BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Every Afternoon, Except Sunday, by Prince Rupert Daily News, Limited, Third Avenue ., ,, H. F. PULLEN Managing-Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail to all other parts of British Columbia, the British Empire and United States, paid lr. advance, per year 6.00 By mail to all other countries, per year . 7-60 Transient display advertising, per inch, per insertion 1.40 imaginary lines. And Manitoba and North Dakota arei far more homogeneous in the general occupation, char acter, and speech of their inhabitants than are North Da kota and Louisiana. Canada snnnlips n Int. nf thino-s up tioorl hnrl wa ounnltr FOREIGN CAPITAL Attracted To British Columbia's! Mines by Stock Exchange Recent publication by the Department of Mines of the "Prelim inary Review of Mining Operations Classified advertising, per insertion, per word .02 j the Vancouver Stock Exchange, this Legal notices, each insertion, per agate line 15 Institution has played an Important Transient advertising on front page, per Inch 2.80 1 part In the creation of this inten- Local readers, per insertion, per line ....... ... .2 i slve mining activity. City delivery, by mail or carrier, yearly period, paid In advance '$5.00! The government's report states For lesser period, paid in advance, per month . .. 50! that the last three years had been By mail to all parts of Northern and Central British Columbia. paid;in a'dvance for yearly period 3.00 Or four months for n , 1.00 Contract rates on application. Advertising and Circulation Telephone 93 Editor and Reporters' Telephone 66 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations DAILV EDITION Tuesday, January 21, 1930 ANNEXING UNITED STATES SUGGESTED characterised by inU'iisive and a lot of things Canada needs. The boundary lines between V US dam up a natural flow of Wealth from both sides. Each mer, Is alive today because he waved country no doubt is poorer because of this tariff boundanOhis arms and ies almost lnces- just as Illinois and Indiana would probably be poorer if I antiyfor seventeen hours while he there were a tariff boundary between them. Form of Government Waving Arms blizzard. In Snowdrift Randall had been working all day in the woods and came out to find suited for us to join. Their provinces and our states are huge snowdrifts, it was about 5 ciuseiy aKin in cnaracier. J o'clock in the afternoon and Ran- We could have our winter capital at Washington and du was alredy ry and un-our summer one at Ottawa, which would be a great im- fifBd.yrom h1J0"g day'8 work ,n tne mtense coId. ut he plunged nrnvempnt. nvpr trtinn-Q na tW nvn wnol! terrible p ace m summer. break hl3 way t0 the housep ine vasnmgton oaseoail team could be transferred to progressed but a few feet before Ottawa and play in far more enjoyable surroundings than falling 1x1 a heaP-10 weak t0 rise those they have to put up with at present. i88aln- , . There are plenty of reasons, economic and otherwise, LuSjSSfdiy u?f.T?dST why all the territory north of the Rio Grande on this cSTiSS? o dth Mi 1,uum uc umier me same government. 1 ireeung, he began writhing and ji course, it is aiiiicuit to see now such a union is tn lwls"ns n oody, waving take place but it is also difficult to project one's imagina- f nZ klckln hu feet 1,1 a" a tion rive hundred years into the future ivitW -ihw. ! sumdnt .circ.uUc,n his arms ttempt In his terrify -belonging to one nation ratherthan touS" H iSSr.S .uw.U ICUIiV UI11V UVO UOllIlCni fllllerpnPPC nt O nn. Kanda 1 Stl 1 wn kicking n vlnUnt.. sequence between Canada and the United States, and one ly " hta wan'ne trengtn would ih m internal matters the degree of oca self-government i: n,riy rpenier, a neign- We believe this should ho allmvPfl a lUe . . - w,41 f in uoii aaa, and we believe , it would bp n hlps&ln fT ?f if Worn nv tended to the United StntL b CA W& offer that as our opinion. Sorfte will susnect no dnubt that. MAni T v-uiiaiHuwunui amendments and f indeed we are. In this particular regard we think the government of Canada is superior to ours. Empire Question There is then the question of Great Britain. As a matter of fact, the connection there is now largely patriotic. The Canadians govern themselves to virtually as great an extent as do we. Thoy exchange ministers with foreign countries and even levy tariffs oh British-made products. To all intents and purposes Canada is How a nation independent of Great Britain. It may be so even in foreign atlairs, tor the Canadians have direct representation with foreign governments and do not need to act through the British government. .., , . , ,b It is hard to foresee what the future will bring in this respect, but the shiftings of political gravity may produce some day some form of alliance of English-speaking peoples as a matter of self-protection. ?!1u0li1ithat,.(,?y ,ever come ifc wouW bt "atural to expect that the political centre of gravitythe capital or capitalswould be on this side of the ocean. We each play a part in the scheme of the universe cenvl,f only the part of' theorrible example. I bor, passed near him and thought he saw something floundering in the snow but did not Investigate. Returning three hours later ho again noticed the dlsurbance and found Randall on the verge of unconsciousness. The aged farmer was taken to a hospital, where he quickly rallied. His hands were the only part of his body which suffered from frost. Smothering Spells Couldn't Walk Far Gasped For Breath Mrt. T. W. Both, Kelown, B.C., w 1 1 it e : ' For owr t Tear I vu troubled with - jcri.- .. Mfc, at, it wm Impossible tni i w!k, eren Hort diittncA, on aecount of htTiig to gup for b. nth. "A. friend told m to try which I did, and in a ihort tim in iniirU u-tttt. "1 yan now recommend them to iftrjtmt." f Prica, 50. a box at all drnggliti and Araleri, or mailed direct on neeipt of priea by The T. MUburn Co- Limited, ' forontoOntw- rnFv,0An-t NEWS Tuofiday, January ?t Sport Chat Line-ups for tonight's Billiard League .fixture between the Canadian Legion and Grotto will be as follows: S. P. McMordle (Canadian Le- for 1929" indicates the world-wide , Blon' vs. w. j. weison turouoj. Interest in British Columbia min- i F- ftf vs. James Andrews, lng enterprises. According to1 Marcus Andrews vs. George Charles Q. Pennock.. president of i Waugh. u. f. muter vs. J. itmman. J. W. Scott vs. M. M. McLachlan. Official American League fielding records for the 1929 season show that the champion Philadelphia team tied with St. Louis for first widespread development of mineral! place In team fielding at .975 with properties and exploration for new 15634 accepted chances for the A's prospects. The net result was that 'and 5971 for St. Louis. That rare led the third basemen again with a mark of .978. having but 11 errors while making 221 putouts and 270 assists. Kamm was In 27 double plays and completed a triple play by pulling the hidden ball trick for the third time in his major league career. Shortstops were far below par, with Joe Boley the best of a mediocre field. The Philadelphia veteran was In only 88 games but strangely enough reached his best form late In the season and played brilliantly in the world series. His record of 161 putouts, 229 assists and IS errors in 88 games for an average of .9C3 with 50 double plays was five points better than that of Leo Durocher, who had 197 putouts, 299 assists, 22 errors and 59 double plays for an average of .958 in 93 games. Al Simmons and Fred Schulte tied for outfieldlng honors with averages of .989. Thirteen pitchers who were In 24 or more games went through the season with perfect records. Fred Marberry had 50 chances In 49 games, Otorge Wal-berg 60 In 40 games' and Lloyd Brown 51 In 40 games. Harold Ruel led the catchers with .990 for 63 games, but Gordon Cochrane, who played in 135 games and handled 749 chances for an average of .983, was unanimously chosen as the outstanding receiver of the year. Joe Judge played through 80 consecutive games without an error and Simmons 99 games. J. T. Zachary, the Yankees' veteran southpaw who has seen service with Washington and St. Louis as well as New York, led the American League pitchers both In percentage of games won and In lowest average of earned runs per game. Zachary worked in 26 games, seven of them complete, pitched' 120 Innings allowing 43 runs ) el' which 33 were earned for an average of 2.47 per nine-inning game and won twelve straight games. Robert M. Orove was second with 2.82 earned runs with 20 victories and six defeats in 275 innings distributed through 42 games of which 21 were complete contests. Edwin A. Rommel was the only other hurler who held opponents to less than three earned runs per game. Rommel was employed mostly as relief man working in 32 games in which he hurled 114 Innings. Twelve games were won and only two lost with an earn ed run average of 2.84. Rommel pitched four complete games. Orove fanned the most batters, 170, Earn shaw was second with 149 strike outs and Pipgras third with 125, Earnshaw gave 125 bases on balls In 225 innings and Charlie Ruffing 118 in 244 rounds. Sam drey worked 305 Innings and -23 of his 43 games were complete. Alphonse Thomas of the White ox pitched 24' complete fames' j6iit of 36 in which he appeared and was sixth In earned runs with 3.19 per game. There were no no-hlt games and but four one-hit contests, Walberg, Faber. Wells and Pipgras turning In one game each. Alvln Crowder hurled three two-hit games and one four-hit performance. Howard Ehmke pitched but 55 lnninss and two complete games, of which one was a two-hit exhibition and the other a four-hit game. Zachary won 12 consecutive games and Ruf- f ing lost the same number without a break. Al Thomas pitched nine onsecutlve complete games and his buddy, Ted Lyons, hurled a 21-round contest on May 24 against Detroit, the longest game of the season. In this game Uhle pitched 20 innings. Irving Hadley was relieved in twelve! consecutive games which he started. Al Simmons, anchor man on the probably a dozen important profit- and spectacular feature a triple jwas second with 126 bases on balls able producing mines would be I play was executed five times dur- brought into existence. ing the season. New York made Mining has an invested capital in two and Chicago, Detroit and St. British Columbia of $120,000,000, ! Louis one each. Cleveland, leader making it the third ranking Indus-! In double plays in 1928 with 187. try. In 1928 $70,030,970 was pro-1 repeated this year with a total of world champion Athletics, added j one more honor to his heavy total tor the year, by leading the American League "Runs Batted In" list. , Simmons accounted for 157 of the. 901 runs credited to the Mackmen, while Ruth, playing eight games' less than Simmons, was responsible for 154 of the Yankees' tallies. Max Bishop became so particular about! what he swung at, opposing pitch- j crs grew weary oi seeing nimi around the plate and passed him to first 128 times In 129 games. Blue in 151 games, while Gehrig with 122 and Foxx with 103 were the others who were awarded more than 100 free tickets. Babe Ruth, who has been honored for years with more than 100 bases per sea- duced from British Columbia mines, i only 162. On July 12 In the first son anj holds the record with 170, $1200.000 paid out in dividends, game, St. Louis made five double accepted but 72 in 135 games. Joe and $30,000,000 in wages. In the ' plays against Philadelphia and on sewell tied his own world's record of past twenty years 'mines of this : September 4, received the same j four strikeouts in 152 games, while province produced $800,000,000 In treatment from Chicago. Joe Judge A yea or two ago this paper suggested that Canada j nZT2 establishment m un. might some day annex the United States. The suggestion ! Mr. Pennock states, the Vancouver was received here with a certain amount of levity. Now,' stock Exchange has been a focal however, a United States publication witH a larire circula-' Pint tor mining activity. Through played 142 games for Washington at first base and was offered 1417 chances, of which he accepted 1411 (1323 putouts and 88 assists) for an average of .996. Charlie Gehringer tifin repeats the Riifrfrestinn nnrl tmps intn rnWrWnhle rip-: engineers and financial experts had 404 putouts and 501 assists and empked "y stock exchange mem- but 23 errors in 154 games for a tail in rpfrard tn it "Lihprtv" in its TnniHK'95 lau inregaiatoic. uoeriy in its Janimij t issue sajs snv- bers data on compante6 and de imark of m John Hodapp of It seems to be pretty generally agreed and understood reiopment of properties has been Cleveland played 72 games at see-that the United States not only should not, but never will, I made available to the investor, ond with an average of .977. Geh-annex Canada. I Stock quotations, flashed by ticker ringer participated in 93 double Perhans our schools dn not hrnadpflKtflswirlplvn a tlipv!10 Montreal, New York and other j plays and Hodapp 32. Willi? Kamm might the fact that we have tried twice to take Canada-, SIiSS once during the Revolution and once during the war of j in b. c mining activities. The 1812 and failed both times. Well, twice is enough. It is! numerous services to the investing fortunate no doubt that we did fail, and we are not going 'public maintained by the exchange to try again have stimulated the flow of for- However," if we are not going to annex Canada why S Lapit!1r!fc! th"! pfyed afblf wouldn't it be a good thing for Canada to annex us? Thewlffi SoZcT development are a number of things to be said in favor of union. ! This continent is a natural integer. The boundaries be-! V l A L. tween the United States and Canada are for the most part1-ePl "VC Oj Cochrane whiffed only eight times; In 135 games and Sam Rice nine In 150. Young Jimmy Foxx struck out 70 times trying for home runs, two more than Gehrig, who had 68 and : ten more than Ruth, who this year fanned but 60 times. I A copy of an interesting spe-i cdal issue of the Ottawa (Ontario) Dally Times which was published! on January 11 tn connection with the opening of a new arena at the eastern automobile town has reached this office. The sports of hockey and skating are, of course, featured in the special 13-page Mction and there are some very attractive article dealing with winter sports, past and preeent. The new Qhawa arena boasts the largest iee sheet of any in Ontario. It has accomodation for 3.760 people. Killam and Strane, small towns near Edmonton, Alta., have woman's curling clubs. The Killam women curlers met and reorgan ised shortly before Christmas when skips were drawn for the reason's play. There are four rinks this winter and possibly there will be still more before the season Is much further advanced. There Is talk of a bonspiel being held be tween the women curlers of Kll lam and the women curlers of Strome. Death has claimed two notable English cricketers in C. I. Thornton, the most tremendous batsman tn the history of the game, and Wills Cuttell. the first player to make 1,000 and take 100 wickets in a season. Mr. Thorn ton first attracted attention when playing as a substitute in a match hn. knocked the ball out of the enclosure 13 times during an in nlngs. scoring 188 In two hours. He played for Cambridge against Oxford four times, being captain In 1872. Though in his eightieth year he retained his Interest in the game. Willis Cuttell was a leading Lancashire cricketer of 30 years ago. He was both a bowling and batUng mainstay. On giving up county cricket, Cuttel was appointed coach at Rugby School. He later became a first-class county umpire, his active connection with the game ending in 1938. CASEYS STILL LEADING CRIB Orangemen and Oddfellows Tied For Second Place Now Prince Rupert Crlbbage League results last night: I. O. O. F., 16, Eagles 11. Orotto 20, New Empress 7. C.N.R.A., 18, Cold Storage 9. P. R. Hotel 14. Moose 13. Seal Cove Sawmill 10, Opera tors 17. Orange Lodge 14, K. of C, 13. League Standing M. 6. W. L. P. K. of Columbus 3 81 48 33 48 Orange Lodge -2 81 46 35 46 I. O. O. F. 3 81 46 35 46 Moose 2 81 44 37 44 Seal Cove Sawmill 3 81 41 40 41 Operators 3 81 41 40 41 C. N. R. A 2 81 41 40 41 Orotto - -.3 81 41 40 41 P. Rupert Hotel 3 81 39 42 39 Cold Storage Eagles CALMONT OILS, LIMITED Watch this Space for' a very important 400 LANCASTER RLIJG. CHURCH MEETING First Presbyterian Church Successful Year in 1)29 Despite market fluctuation of its stock, Oalmont Oils, Limited, is quietly and effort tively developing its propert y in Turner Valley. Over onernillioa dollars have been expended in equipment and drilling, and some of the wells, immediately adjacent to Home Oils producing-wells are getting close to the limestone where production b being secured. We Advise the Purchase of Calmont Oils Quaker Finance Corporation Ltd. Had The annual congregational meeting of First Presbyterian Church was held last evening, when the following officers for the year were elected: Congregational secretary--W. W. C. O Nein. Board of managers T. MeCly- trustees was left in the hands of the board of managers. After a brief devotional service conducted by Rev. Thomas McCon- sum of $1471.53 being received. Of i CALGARY cal, intellectual and social side r life. Boy Scouts Ben Ferguson, leader of thr & Scouts, reported for this depai . . : and told of the successful am: , fuj work being carried on b. boys under his charge. Mrs. Robert Cameron pr s. r. 4 reports from the Missionary s , 'v and Mission" Band. These an- v new organizations which arc f v utmost Importance in the lif f .? church. The former is for du, !, and the latter for boys and t; .rounder 12. Both are growini .-.a oom win ran urn mission a; mont, D. McKemle. L. W. Patmore, , which Is the very fife blood f t J. Oreer, J. W. McKlnley. E. J. Smltji, S. Massey. W. W. C. O'Neill. A. Mc-Kensle, J. Hadden, Mrs. J. M. Simpson. Mrs. W. L. Sandison. Session J. W. McKlnley, Rev. Thomas McConnell (moderator. Additional members of session will be elected later by the con gregation. The appointment of, congregational treasurer and llvlng and active church. Mrs. McRobbie reported nu: V Cradle Roll department of the P .n day School contained the iuir f 40 children, A special vote of thanks . s uncorded to the Ladles' Aid ' ? !'s great work and assistance T were also voted to all office workers whose united effort J made the past year's work so cessful. During the meeting regrc expressed at the death of F O J . nell the. meeting elected Thomas jsorL Mr Dawson had My b nX' . , a liberal supporter of the The various 1U department of he Lnd wlM al be counlcd $ Tm? 'T ,wh5cJv to help when difficulties . showed that during the past year jnnancial or otherwise. IK: he church made splendid progress Lerved on the board of mnn n every one of its spheres of activ- j ,or ,7 yeart and at the Ume , y ,, , .death was a member of the o Rev. Thomas McConnell present- 0j trustees ed the report of the session. During !,. th vr'tc.ni.)u-n k Refreshments were served were received Into full communion I "1 of the Wnen s Aux.lury at the close of the with the church. Mr. McConnell ! "wttag. stressed the urgency of Increasing' th uulnn ha lha ..J .1 la- ' nation of new elders. Ladles' Aid , Mrs. Sandlson presented reports' Man in the Moon from the Ladles' Aid. The various! . 1"t " activities, of this organization and!1 tn wife should be a nan' : lt auxiliary groups resulted In ai Tnen the man should draw a this amount, $1138 had been given to the financial board of the church. The president. Mrs. D. C. Stuart, gave a cordial Invitation to all ladies connected with the church to join and assist this vigor ous organization In Its SDlendld work for the church. The report of the Sunday School, presented by E. J. Smith, showed that this most Important department was in a very flourishing condition. There are at Dresent slx- ger And end the feud by harems with a rope; But a man will never nag Though he's married to a hat-So his wife will never mimler him. I hope. Tho foregoing verse Is publish today Just to show the kind of doggeral corerspondents should not send us. We hate te rel publication but this one Is ratDT too raw. It's all right to mak teen teachers and 190 scholars en-' rnymes of that kind but when rolled. During the year the Sun-) written they should be put in U) aay benool handed to the financial siove for immediate consumption. ooara or the church $100. Three or four additional teachers are urgent ly needed to cope with the increasing enrollment of scholars. The treasurer's report on the financial condition of the church, presented by A. McKenzle, was the most gratifying one that has been received during the past few years. Frorn this report It Is evident that, with the continued co-operation of every church department and the loyal support of all members and adherents, the outlook for the future, as far as finance Is concerned, will be very bright Indeed. Mrs. J. Oreer and Miss Annie Walker presented most interesting reports on the work carried on by the Canadian Olrls in Training. 3 81 34 47 34 This group, composed of 27 girls, 3 81 34 47 34 held 33 meetings, at which training . . . . . t AS MA m -A.' a New Empress 2 81 30 51 30 was received in the spiritual; physi- The mayor and aldermen are doing their first swearing this afternoon. They will probably swear a great deal more before the year ends. Usually the girls that dress "fit to kill" are the same ones that cook that way. ( I like a girl to dress Even In time of stress, For much depends on how a lass may look, But of much greater import. To the lad who comes to court, Is the fact that she can wash a dish and cook. Jake says that a gunner In the navy ought to be clever at shelling peas.