PAGE TWO The Daily News PKINCE UUl'KKT' BHlTlSH COLUMBIA Published Every Afternoon, Except Sunday, by Prince Rupert Daily Ntvs, Limited. Third Avenue H. F. PULLEN" - Managlnfidrtor ' 1 tHJBSGltf P1XON RATES' Br mail to All other parta of pritiiU) Cokmbla, the British Em pi re and Un'ted States, Mid It. dvace, per year By mail to all other oowriea. per year By mail to all parts of -Mortaern ad Central Brimti uoiuasDia, paid ir. advance Cor frad DAILY EDITION 6.00 7.50 For lesser period, paid Jft aavante, per month JO r r ii r 1 AA ur lour montns xor .v City delivery, by nuiil or carrier, yearly period, paid in advance $6.00 Transient advertising on front page, per inch 2.80 Local readers, per insertion, per line '. 2 Transient display advertising, per iaec, per insertion 1.40 Classified advertising, per insertion, per ward .02 Legal notices, each insertion, per agate line ..' .16 Advertising and Circulation Telephone 98 Editer and Reporters' Telephene S6 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Wedneadky Feb. 24. 1930 KNOCKING HABIT The reference to the proposed Knockers' Club seems to have struck a responsive chord among readers of this paper, judging from the number of congratulatory remarks heard both on the street and by people who have taken the trouble to phone or drop in and tell us how. much they ap iuwfl naou oi neglecting Business ana as a result nave been losing ground. They attribute their lack of success to anything but the real cause. So they adopt the other small town habit of knocking. We can assure anyone who thinks there is cleverness in Only a Telephone Cord --but! . JvJ2fi4fclH car and PJPrtlm were necessary to can it into eartE JSS the.f." corner'' of tn Elobe came (.Ilk and cotton wbSe the yielded up Its copper ore. Famous scientirf. endmen of renowS and workers skilled in their particular operations ha"aU coatonSutad to produce thwe connecting sinews of midern wmmuSieatioS In the 2J2FSatS?rtJsnt phP ttt Montreal ?he St coppe? JLo .ii!?We1 with"k nd cotton threads then twirted intocordTof the necessary sise and, passing throujh the most intricate machinery, is covered with a braided silk covering. Ail this must be done riKht, if the humble telephone cord is to carry tlw natioa conversations through SOLVE FATE EXPEDITION Government Secures Documents Which May Advance Franklin Search DTTAWA Fh 9S- For "over prove. Whether the club will be really organized or not,ued. in ism c&pta. we do not know. We hope it will and wish it every prosperity. After all knocking is largely a habit. Some people think CHntock found in tory Point, near angle of King William Island, a tne it a mark of distinction. Others hav got into the small printed 07whwal admiralty form TriC on the signatures of Captains Crosier and Fitsjames, the commanders vi the two ships, a few terse but very expressive sentences. These conveyed the information that Sir John Franklin had died June 11, : knocking that any fool ca do it and that it is a mark of a ! im7, that eight other officers on low degree or stientality. It is a habit that it would be well ! is men had died, ' that the ship T to get rid of at the earliest possible moment NO R003I HERE JUST NOW are informed that people are beginning to drop into Prince Rifpert from outside points in the hope that they may be able to get employment. That is a mistaken notion just now. It would be well to pi:ss the word around that there will be plenty of men for several months at any rate to handle the amount of work offered". The logging companies are getting their men from Vancouver m some in-stapces. While we expect everyone here will be able to Hvbrk before long, we should be sorry to see men brought 4$ from the south or east with the expectation of being able to secure employment. They will not find Prince Rupert a good place in which to loaf. han 18461 for Back River on the mainland. Although many other expeditions have sought for Franklin this Is the only record that has been found of the ill-fated party. Continual Patrol It has always been held by authorities on exploration that important records of the expedition must have been deposited by the survivors before the effort te reach rivlllcation bv vJkv ct tteek TMvm- THE DAILY NEWS PARITY IS APPROACHED Fleets of United States and Britain Approach Status Decided On In 193? BASIS OF UNDERSTANDING Feb 26: The official was begun; and that the most pro- i90 Dle6 engines of 54.-4 table place was in the grave of the .uuu siwwer ana a aewgnea leader. The Department of the In- Ped 26 knots. Her armament tartar would not at this late" date, oonl,t of six 11-lneh guns. , be Justified in equipping and send-'611 5.9-lnch guna, four 3-lnch! ing out an expedition to search for anti-aircraft guns, and four tor-the grave of Sir John Franklin but . I10 tube8- . i with the dlvelopment of Canada s I No Ncw Cruisers northland departmental officers No "w eraisers have been begun concerned with the care of the r.a- for navy since the last, tive return was Issued, but the United populatioB, are continually pa- trolling through ttiat portion of the sut" has begun 10. all of 10.000 ; wocM be tom; Fran- ne oI m tOBr- Arctic and it an lnexpen- , sive matter for them to devote a "" the Duplelx; and Italy. I wWch four ar d W000 1 little tune to searching for records which would be of the greatest cmrtng eight 8-inch guns, and, value to Caada, and to the Em- two 01 wrrytag eight, plre ThereforeTwhen a short ttoe ?un No cruisershave been j taW down uUel1 for JPa- ago. Hon Charles Stewart was ap- praised that documents were ln ex- j8totes tetal f"Plted istence which purported to give the tho a 8 reduction owing to ol tne crtain ' location of Franklin s grave, he di- ; P sVf -ected clas of the old armored and pro-; that the matter be carer ally mvestiga'.ed; aad as a result the MKa pum iv. and l&DG For some ywirs, the wipers and maps have been pur-, . " . I total was 36 ahina: the removal nf The papers consist of a lengthy e'e!:,l! brouBhtf mnxn-riit .nrnn.nMll bv maps man.:11 aDwn 01 lu ""l" prepared, many years ago. from, '.he statements of a member of the 1 expedition headed by the United ' iSute.s explorer. Charles F. Hall.' ; The expedition spent the period i from 186-: to I860 in the north en-1 ; 7uged ln the search for Franklin. I 'cording to the statement Hail's: I expedition broke tip in disorder lowing to internal troubles and on i (that account this valuable infor elation. Miss Oaskin is a graduate war vessels of the Omaha class, of 7, M0 tons, armed with 12 6-inch guns. The weakness of the Royal Navy in torpedo craft has been accentuated during the past year. The total of destroyers has declined irom 140 to 134, while that of the United States remains at 309, of which 61 are shown in the body of the return as "listed for disposal; tation was lost to the head of the H5?1 of JaPan ha". J1 mm expedition. TKIBUTES TO MUSES The nursing profession in the Maritimes was paid a high honor oy the appointment of Miss Bessie Uaskin, of Saint John, N.BM as a member of the executive of the Montreal Qraduate Nurses Asso- 101 to 106; and that of France from 54 to 58; the others powers remaining about the same. There is a net' gain of one ln the British total of' submarines, but it is still less than half that of the United States and 11 below that of Japan. A particularly large submarine program is being executed by France. Very little information 1s given ln the return concerning the particulars of new ships. In the flotilla of the Saint John Public Hospital i leader class, however. She has been following her nrofes-1 that H.M.8. Keith, laid it is shown slon in Montreal far the past five 1 1929 will be smaller and more light years. DDD or skin disorders An active fluid lliat washes into the sick tiNnufs. Clear stainless, its soothing elements penetrate. Itching stops on tin instant eruption disappear. The treatment has no rival. down in ly armed than the coarington or the previous year. This displacement is reduced from 1,520, to 1,330 tons, the horsepower from 30,000 lu 34,000, and the armament from five to three 4.7-inch guns. This move has an Interest connection with a possible agreement at the London Conference to reduce the size of ships. Similarly, in the list of submarines, it Is shown that of &e six authorised in the British program for beginning In 130 twork on which is at present im pended), two wfil be large vessels of 1.760 tons and four small ones l of 640 tens. Seme very large , marines are being built by the : United States. Japan and France, ; ticulatt in VL-s return, the French submarine-cruiser Burcrouf w4M not be as heavy as was formerly in- three-ma rtars of a century tbe;May "elp.Other Powers at Confer- dicated. Her displacement of 2.8M fate of Sir John Franklin, and of I the 128 officers and men of his ex- i peditioa, ha been wrapped in rays- rnce in Discussing rvi Strength n v i trv RvntK of the nant. few months ; L,ur-L'ONjr iHuan i-, r, rlco In h- h timv th.t that. aA- f.A. ' return leium 01 of fleets of the seven prin- tens is not much more than Use 2,760 tons of the United States V6 and V6. which carry two 6-tnch I guns eaah and six torpedo tubes. The naval forces of the Soviet ditional ltaht may be shed upon the ' dPal naval Pwers of the world 13 , Union continue to apear in the re- rioteu. nf tJit. hmie dvinture. bv u1 oy the First Lord or me AO-, tar thouirh there seems to be the aid of doessments and sketches '. miralty at a highly opportune time mucn doubt concerning some f which Hon. Charles Stewart. Mln-The return affords a hasls fPr un-,them, and it would evidently have later of the Interior, has acquired i dteetanding of the strengths of thelbeeTl userBj to haTe inrjrted for the use of toe department at-.""8 whlch flve fading pow-detaH, af tjH. post-war fleet of ter an investigation by O. S. Finnie. ier are now discussing in the naval Spaln ln whlch there has been a Director of the North West Torri- conference. distinct revlvs.; -during recent years, 1 The return shows Great Britain ; tories and Yukon Branch. w Sir John Franklins expedition : P1"11 while the United sailed into the Arctic in 1845 in the ;batUe-elsrs. He M Japan. wHh ra io two ships. Erebus and Terror. The ships were seen by a whaler noar J C8p 'U tnTentrance to Lancaster Bom, f, " ' show on July 26 in that year and frolTi f""1 wier constraetten anywhere that time neither the ships nor any the wold except a vessel for members of their crews were seen Haas and 10.000 "battiesh a p again by white men. In 1854 Or. The following lengths John Rae, an oficer of lUc Hudson's Oemany fe for vesscte Bay Company, found a band of Bs- re battle-cruisers, air-white xlmos who said they had seen'6 ,t-oarriers and cruisers. 20 men travelling southward along the shore of King William Is- ; dartroyers, 16 years; sub-land 12 Gthr vessels' 20 and that thfse men had all ; mA 4.1.1 .Vt - Mti4 Ka a calm at Vic- T i. V the northweat eons4dered 4n retatlen to weh mat- lere as tne sise oi snips, canDre oi ivns, &m, and other teeters of war-worthiness, eratser total, for in the Bntifh !thefe ships of the "C" eUss, smafl lightly armed vessels of pre-war or "arly war designs, built chiefly for North Sea work, and sometimes detcrtbed as gwniiea oestroyers. -inese have no contemporaries of similar deeign In other navies. On the . , j l , j j j other hand. Japan has 23 cruisers -fifl remainder of the expedition. 1 peraons in all. wJd rtirt the foJ- "y2 f ? " , . . M ,., ... knots designed speed, a rate of 'vAteti only two British cruisers. the Enterprise and Emerald, an: shown m the return to be capable. The list of battleships of the powers is similar to that of last year, construction in that class i having been suspended as a result of she Washington Treaty, exoept in the case of Germany, which is allowed to replace old battleships by new, so long as they conform to special limits. The ship now being batit is the ErsatE-Preussen, of 10.- NEDDEN OFF ! TO ENGLAND Well Known C.N.K. Skipper Leav-ins Saturday To Bring Out i New Ship ; Captain H. E. Nedd?n of the Ca-nadian National Steamships will leave Vancouver on Saturday en-route to the Old Country where he ! will remain until the comEVtionJ of two of the three new steamships being constructed for the Pacifir Coast service of the company. He, will take charge of one of the ships , nw coastal liner to this port via the Panama Canal. Three new steamships are being constructed at the yards of CamtaaL Laird and Company for tfee Canadian National Steamships. The first of these, sa. Prince Henry wiH go into the Alaska service out of Vancouver on July third. The second, as. Prince David, will inaugurate the new tri-city service between Vancouver, Victoria and Weedless PainT Some folks take pain for granted. They let a cold "run its course." They, wait for their headaches to "wear ot Meantime, they suffer unne -canary i UnnHsessuy. because there i; an antid! Asptria tablet always offer iraaedkte n&r irom various aches and pains we one hid to endure. " pun pemsa, consult your doctor as to its cause. Save yourself a lot of pain and disomfrt wuumkh iue many proven uses ul Aspirin. Atjuui im mijt. aiwbts ine same, stores with complete directions. SPIRIN Seattle on Joly 38th out of Vancouver The third, as. Prince Robert, will be delivered later in the summer. Captain Neddes. who Is well known ln coast shipping circles will be accompanied by Msk. Ned- TRAOCMARKma. den on the trip Halifax on Maf-ti Mc liner DorK not All dni(. They i te lu on tr ok advise thir to visit itrj and f rien Is; but I idrnr tr to live too near them -II 111 sw,t, asiA 1 5tsfc TV HE THOUGHT; M 'D. O." gives you dead tway. But, to be polite, HE SAID: "I can't guess who it is.7 "B.O." cheated Evelvn out of popularity .... until she discovered that perspirathn need never offend PtEITY, gay, marvelous dancer Evelyn should have been the hit of any party. But tin mn'tf Way? Everybody knew except Bvdjra. Luckily though, Evelyn's new sister-ia-law was mjr frank. There's no "B. O. " no body odor marring Eveiyo's attractiveness now. She was toU the easy way te keen perspiration odorless. What a giveaway "D. O." ill Trcach-crous Always betrayinc, but never warning the offender. Lifeb Don't be deceived. We can't tell when we are guilty because oor sense of smell bceemes daarJeneu to a sver-pFwcflt odor. But owes when wc don't seem to perspire, the pores give offal much as a quart of odor-causing waste daily., Play safe bathe with Lifebooy. I mild, antiseptic lather purifies pores deeply prevents embarrassing odor. Even removes the smell of cigarettes from the fingers. Skins, too, itav smooth, clearer with Lifebuoy. Health is safeguarded it ran ores germs. You'll love lifebuoy s pleasant txtra-tltan scent, which tells you it purifies, ytt qukHy vonisbu as you rinst. Adopt Lifebuoy today. Uver Broiler Cimlted, Toronto IMS uov HEALTH SOAP stops body odor Daily News Want Ads. Bring Quick Returns