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31,
1931
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XXII.
No.
253.
V
CABINET
CONSTRUCTION
IS
TWO
SOUTHERN
YOUTHS
DEAD
AS
CHOOSING
CABINET
Blf
Conservative
Majority
Makes
Matters
More
Complicated
for
Tremier
MacDoiiald
LONDON,
Oct.
30.
The
task
of
pn
m
ior
Jame
Ramsay
MacDon-ajn
in
selecting
hit
permanent
cabin"
promises
to
be
no
easy
task.
The
matter
to
all
the
more
compll-(
i-.
ti
because
of
the
overwhelming
m-Ji'irity
which
the
Conservative
p.rv
had
In
the
general
election
i
n
Tuesday.
It'
Hon.
Stanley
Daldwin.
Con-
r
i'ivp
leader
and
former
Prern-,f
will,
of
course,
be
Premier
Mac-r
m
.iM's
chief
adviser
In
choosing
lubinrt
timber.
rn-micr
MacDonald
went
to
his
'
mii
rv
home
at
Chequers
today
for
:
.
vuek-end.
planning
to
return
to
n
Sunday
night.
iblnet
will
meet
again
Tues-n-1
Parliament
will
assemble
inir
day.
LIBERALS
WINSEAT
Interne;
s
Seat
in
Scotland
Add
Another
Hiding
to
Support
of
National
Government
I
'
iNDON.
Oct.
30.
Inverness
in
Scotland
reported
Its
gen-
er.i
lection
result
today
in
favor
Nationalist
Liberals,
thus
In-'imhr
the
seatage
of
government
ipivirters
to
552.
Including
67
for
i'
National
Liberal.
The
majority
!he
National
Government
ovot-
i'
Opposition
now
stands
at
492.
The
results
for
London
Unlver-ii.
(I
two
combined
English
unl-:
ities
may
not
be
known
for
'lays.
FORTUNE
IS
VERY
LARGE
Thomas
,.
Edison
Left
Estate
Of
$13,000,000.
Most
of
Which
does
to
Two
Sons
W!-;kt
ORANGE.
NJ..
Oct.
30.
"
will
of
Um
lata
Thomas
Alva
Em
"ii.
great
American
Inventor.
tiled
for
probate
yesterday.
He
let!
an
estate
aggregating
about
SI..
ooo.ooo
in
value,
the
bulk
ot
w
hi
i
was
bequeathed
to
his
two
Charles
and
Theodore.
Halibut
Landings
American
Eureka.
500,
Cold
Storage,
8c
and
Canadian
Ivllle.
25.000.
and
Canrlla
I.
13.-
Onri
"ffcred
7.8c
and
4c;
Atll.
1.200.
ffi
i
rd
7.5e
nnrl
t:
Knlpn
flfinn
nf-
"i
8c
and
4c;
Rose
Bplt,
12.000.
oft
rea
7.8c
and
4c.
all
holding
over.
f
WHEAT
GAINS
ANOTHER
TWO
CENTS
IN
PRICE
VANCOUVER,
Oct.
30:
Con-
'mulng
Its
spectacular
upward
niovement,
wheat
gained
over
''
centt
since
yesterday
and
was
quoted
at
CCo
on
the
local
'
xehange
today,
TELLS
ABOUT
CALGARY
OIL
Ilise
and
Fall
of
Turner
Valley
Subject
of
Address
to
Rotary
Club
Yesterday
A
Romantic
Story
Two
Booms
Followed
By
Crash
That
Seems
Like
End
of
Industry
in
Southern
Alberta
An
Intensely
interesting
address
was
given
yesterday
afternoon
at
the
weekly
luncheon
ot
the
Prince
Rupert
Rotary
Club,
George
Munro
presiding,
the
speaker
being
Rev.
W
D.
Grant
Holllngsworth.
and
the
subject
"The
Rise
and
Fall
of
the
Turner
Valley."
Mr.
Holllngsworth
sketched
in
an
interesting
manner
the
history
of
the
discovery
of
oil
in
the
valley
and
told
of
the
two
booms
which
had
re
sulted,
one
in
1914
when
the
discovery
well.
Dlngman
Number
1.
was
biought
in
with
a
moderate
amount
of
crude
oil.
Telling
of
this
boom
the
speaker
said:
'A
Yukon
nloneer
said
that
Daw
son
City
In
the
flourishing
days
of
21
wasouewnomparecLwlth
CgarTThtIWie
dlysT
Every
man.
woman
and
child
wanted
to
invest
in
oil.
Oil
companies
sprang
up
over
night."
Owing
to
the
war
little
was
done
for
several
years
until
1924
when
Royallte
Number
4
In
the
Turner
Valley
blew
in
with
such
a
crasn
that
the
eyes
of
the
world
were
turned
to
Turner
Valley
in
earnest
This
v.
ell
reached
limestone
be
neath
formations
hitherto
explored
and
at
3740
feet
struck
a
flow
of
wet
gas
amounting
to
twenty-one
and
a
half
million
cubic
feet
per
day.
irom
which
eventually
over
600
barrels
of
naptha
per
day
were
obtained.
From
that
day
to
this
the
well
has
been
a
steady
producer.
"One
may
easily
imagine
tne
iorce
with
which
such
a
well
would
blow
in.
as
it
is
termed,
when
this
well
became
Ignited
Immediately
after
striking
the
tremendous
flow
and
cast
flames
several
hundred
feet
in
th
air
for
several
weeks
before
it
was
finally
brought
under
control.
When
a
well
blow
in
there
is
always
a
orent
dancer
of
fire
stones,
per
haps,
the
drilling
tools
themselves
are
blown
Into
the
air.
ana
u
mey
strike
any
solid
substance
such
as
the
derrick,
and
create
a
spark,
the
result
is
a
huge
flame
which
ordinary
fire
fighting
apparatus
cannot
cope
with
at
all.
Live
steam
is
about
the
only
successful
way
of
combatting
the
flames.
It
is
because
of
this
that
the
visitor
and
the
workman
alike
are
compelled
to
obey
very
de
finitely
the
law
about
"No
bmoiung
in
or
around
the
valley
except
in
a
dwelling
house.
"The
tremendous
pressure
oiew
out
the
one-inch
steel
drilling
cable
like
a
twine
thread.
Following
thU
great
well
a
great
many
more
wells
and
companies
entered
the
area.
n
to?o
one
company
alone,
the
Royallte
Oil
Co..
a
subsidiary
of
the
Imperial
OH
CO.,
naa
it
producing
more
than
1100
barrels
of
crude
oil
and
naptha
every
day.
i.i..
.nnni
tin
everywhere.
New
companies
were
formed
with
strange
names.
Stocks
were
sold
at
high
prices.
.
.
.
I
can
remember,
saiu
llngsworth.
"in
1928-29
seeing
peo
ple
standing
outsiae
oroKc.-sv
I
1ft
onH
12
TOWS
QCTU.
Micro
w
-
their
orders
on
slips
of
papers,
at
taching
money
or
cheques
.
and
throwing
this
communication
over
the
heads
of
those
In
front
of
them
and
the
clerks
picking
these
up
an
dthrowlng
them
into
already
(Continued
on
Page
Four
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
PRINCE
RUPERT,
Hard
to
Get
This
IHIBJF
V
sssssssssssssssflsssssssV
N.iw
i..f
ii
(..
A;
u.
;,
tvi'Is!
ipnifn
"
football
team,
poses
with
:ht:
bu-
b
s.
.-r--
'"v
of
United
States
Navy
before
Navy's
football
te.nii
t
ccki-'d
t'uivn.Mty
of
Maryland.
Washington.
D.
C.
DEATH
OF
Henry
A.
StolUe
Died
Suddenly
at
His
Home
In
Vancouver
Today
VANCOUVER.
Oct.
30:
Henry
A.
3toltte.
well
known
Vancouver
lum-serman
and
shingle
manufacturer,
lied
suddenly
today.
Ford
Motor
Co.
Cuts
Its
Wages
Reduction
in
Pay
ot
$1.00
a
Day
All
Hound
If
Announced
by
Big
Auto
Firm
DETROIT,
Oct.
30.
The
Ford
Motor
Oo.
yesterday
announced
an
all
round
cut
In
pay
of
$1
for
all
smployees
yesterday.
The
minimum
wage
of
the
plant
has
been
reduced
from
$7.
instituted
two
years
ago,
back
to
$6.
Standing
of
Parties
After
Tuesday's
British
Election
Nationalist
Government
Consorvntivos
472
Nationalist
Labor
.
.
18
National
Liberal
...
67
.
Total
v.
552
012
out
of
015
B.C.,
FRIDAY,
OCTOBER
30,
Team's
Goat
IS
CHOSEN
MAGISTRATE
W.
M.
McKay
Succeeds
Henp
Shaw
on
Police
Court
Bench
In
Vancouver
VICTORIA.
Oct.
30.
W.
M.
Mc
Kay,
since
1919
prosecutor
in
Van
couver
police
court,
has
been
ap
pointed
police
magistrate
and
judge
in
Juvenile
court,
succeedln
the
late
Magistrate
Henry
C.
Shaw
who
died
recently.
Today's
Weather
Prtne
Rupert
Overcast,
light
southeast
wind:
barometer,
30.00;
temperature,
48:
sea
smooth.
Langara
Island
Raining,
light
southeast
wind;
sea
calm.
Dead
Tree
Point
Cloudy,
fresh
MHitheaat
wind;
barometer,
29.92;
temperature.
46;
sea
choppy.
Opposition
Georgian
Liberals
.
.
5
Labor
50
Independents
,
5
Mosloy
New
Party.
.
0
Communists
.......
0
Total
GO
seats
reported.
1931
RESULT
TERRACE
INQUEST
Fire
Tragedy
Probed
by
Coroner's
Jury
on
Wednesday
MANY
WITNESSES
.Mrs.
Cauthers
and
Baby
Came
to
Death
by
Suffocation
TERRACE,
Oct.
30.
Will
Robinson,
Coroner,
held
an
Inquest
into
the
deaths
of
Frames
Beatrice
Cauthers.
aged
20,
wife
of
Charle-
ton
Cauthers,
and
her
one
year
old
baby.
Ronald
James,
on
wednes-.
day
night
In
the
Blue
Room
of
the
Legion
Hall.
Staff-Sergt.
Alex.
Mc
Neill,
Provincial
Police,
was
in
charge
of
the
proceedings.
Charleton
Cauthers
testified
that
on
Tuesday
morning
he
ro3e
late
and
had
not
time
to
get
any
breakfast.
He
went
to
work
at
the
mill
The
next
thing
he
knew
was
when
someone
shouted
"fire."
H
tried
to
get
Into
the
house,
but
could
not
and
he
then
went
to
Mrs.
Wilkinson's
and
had
stayed
there
since.
There
were
four
rooms
n
the
house,
all
on
one
floor
and
wcrexlts.
Thaadofeened-to
the
living
room.
There
were
two
vtoves
In
the
house
the
kitchen
-tove
and
a
heater,
the
latter
be-ng
in
the
living
room.
Both
were
connected
to
one
outlet.
There
wai
no
fire
In
either
when
he
got
up
and
he
did
not
light
one.
He
generally
did
so,
but
he
had
slept
in
and
hadn't
time
to
do
so.
He
wen:
to
work
at
7.25
and
left
his
wife
ind
baby
In
the
house.
The
baby
was
one
year
old
on
the
day
the
tire
occurred.
Both
his
wife
and
he
baby
were
in
bed
when
he
left
His
wife
was
awake.
He
had
spoken
o
her.
There
was
Insurance
on
the
house
and
furniture
$330
on
each
He
left
the
reservoir
and
one
pall-.ul
of
water
In
the
house.
When
he
got
to
the
house
he
did
not
call
o
his
wife
but
tried
to
get
In
both
t
the
door
and
the
window
anc"
ailed.
He
then
asked
Mr.
Wilkin-on
if
his
(witness')
wife
was
out
-nd
he
replied
"No."
In
reply
to
Bert-McNeill
wltne'-aid
there
were
times
when
hi-vlfe
was
not
well,
but
she
was
not
subject
to
fainting
spells.
Miss
Emily
Fagan,
wife
of
O.
J.
Fagan.
and
sister
of
Mrs.
Cauthers
said
she
lived
across
the
street
from
her
sister.
She
was
getting
breakfast
between
8
30
and
3
o'clock
on
the
morning
In
question
when
she
noticed
a
lot
or
smoke
in
front
of
Cauther's
house.
It
was
coming
from
the
top
ot
the
front
part
of
the
house.
She
ran
over
and
opened
the
front
door
bu.
could
not
get
in
owing
to
the
flames
and
she
then
tried
to
get
into
the
windows.
She
called
U
her
sister
several
times,
but
got
no
answer.
She
broke
the
window
anc
called
again
but
still
got
no
answer
and
could
not
see
anything
for
smoke.
There
was
no
one
else
I
around
at
the
time
and
she
wen.
over
to
her
father's
nearby.
Slu
called
her
mother
and
father
and
they
came
out
and
tried
to
get
into
the
house
but
could
not.
-
Her
father
got
part
way
In
the
back
door
but
had
to
turn
back.
Witness
then
went
to
the
mill
to
get
Cau
thers.
When
she
got
back
everybody
was
over
there
and
there
was
nothing
she
could
do.
The
babys
health
was
good,
but
her
sister's
was
not
so
good.
She
was
not
sub-
Ject
to
fainting
spells.
Witness
hadjfaclng
northerly
and
the
other
su-
seen
deceased
Just
before
supper
time
on
the
day
before
the
fire.
In
reply
to
the
Coroner,
witness
Continued
on
page
2
DISCUSSED
OF
GUN
Cliff
o
rd
Jones
and
His
Comrade,
Albert
Walker,
Fooled
With
Guns-Dead
Eighteen-Year
Old
,Boys
Had
Been
Lifelong
Friends
Their
Guns
Believed
to
Have
Discharged
Accidentally
at
Same
Time
NEW
WESTMINSTER.
Albert
Walker,
18-year
old
Burnaby
youths,
died
on
Thurs
day
as
a
result
of
shotgun
wounds
received
while
hunting
near
here
on
Wednesday.
Jones
is
reported
to
have
told
his
father
during
a
period
of
consciousness
that
he
and
his
lifelong
chum
had
been
fooling
and
it
is
believed
that
both
1
1
t
lit
.11
!
meir
guns
aiscnarged
accidentally
at
tne
same
time.
The
boys
had
been
fond
of
wrestling
together.
They
were
found
Wednesday
evening
by
a
motorist
on
the
roadside
mortally
wounded.
BIG
BOOM
IN
WHEAT
Winnipeg
Grain
Exchange
Has
Bullish
Ssession
and
Prices
Go
to
High
Point
WINNIPEG,
Oct.
30:
Enthusiastic
investment
buying
broke
loose
on
the
Winnipeg
Grain
Exchange
today
and
In
the
most
bullish
session
of
many
months
prices
a
climbed
to
highest
points
since
last
June.
Prices
at
the
close
showed
net
advances
ot
2Vc
to
2Hc,
final
quotations
being
well
down
from
the
day's
high
marks.
England
Using
Danish
Butter
hundreds
ot
Tons
ot
Dairy
Products
From
European
Country
Are
Used
Weekly
HULL.
Eng..
Oct.
30:
Hundreds
of
tons
of
Danish
bacon,
butter,
cheese
and
eggs
are
being
distribu
ted
weekly
to
cities
In
Northern
Eng-
iand
and
Wales
from
this
port
in
competition
with
British
produce.
More
than
500
tons
ot
Danish
ba-;on
alone
is
distributed
every
week
from
the
quayside
here,
where
a
Danish
bacon
ship
unloads
its
cargo
regularly
on
Monday.
A
small
fleet
ot
lighters
go
out
Monday
and
Thursday
to
meet
large
vessels
arriving
from
Denmark
with
other
produce.
The
imported
produce
must
all
be
plainly
labelled
as
from
Denmark
and
appeals
are
being
made
to
housewives
not
to
buy
produce
bearing
the
foreign
brand
mark.
NEW
FOG
ALARM
AT
DRYAD
POINT
The
Department
ot
Marine
ad
vises
mariners
that
a
new
fog
alarm
has
been
installed
at
Dryad
Point
Light
Station.
Lama
Passage,
re-1
placing
the
former
hand
horn.
j
The
duplex
horns
are
located
at
the
apex
ot
the
root
ot
a
small
build-
ing
In
front
ot
the
tower,
one
hom
:
uieny.
The
horns
will
give
a
two-second,
blast
every
f
If
Iteen
seconds
in
both
!
directions
simultaneously.
PRICE:
FIVE
CEN13
WOUNDS
Oct.
30:
Clifford
Jones
and
HOOVER
IS
INDIGNANT
Demands
Apology
from
President
ot
American
Navy
League
&
WASHINOTON,
DC.
Oct
30.-Charging
the
Navy
League
ot
the
United
States
with
"dismal
ignorance"
of
the
country's
naval
affairs.
President
Herbert
Hoover,
in
public
statement
yesterday,
de-'
mandea
an
apology
from
William
Howard
Gardiner,
for
statements
made
by
him.
in
public
on
Wednesday.
President
Hoover
accused
the
Navy
League
of
Instituting
a
campaign
of
misinformation
in
order
to
Interfere
with
the
administration's
efforts
toward
the
end
of
naval
economy.
RELIEF
HAS
BEEN
GIVEN,
Salvation
Army
Has
Distributed
1000
Garments;
Among
600
People
During
the
months
ot
July,
August
and
September,
It
has
been
the
pleasure
of
Captain
Steele,
btr
the
Salvation
Army,
through
the
goodness
of
Prince
Ruyert
people
to
see
men,
women
and
children.
who
were
in
need
ot
clothing
and
other
necessities
ot
lite,
amply
sup
plied.
During
these
months,
approxi
mately
600
men,
women
and
child
ren
have
received
around
1000
garments
and
also
beds,
bedding,
carpets
and
food,
at
the
Salvation
Army.
IS
AGREEABLE
TO
NAVAL
HOLIDAY
WASHINOTON.
DC
Oct.
30.
Announcement
was
made
yes-
terday
that
the
united
States
naci
agreed
to
a
proposal
ot
the
League
ot
Nations
for
con-
dltlonal
suspension
ot
all
war-
shin
construction.
Other
naval
building
powers
would
f
have
to
comply
with
the
same
agreement
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