t, Prince Rupcr . ri.;t wind; ba pewture, 63; t , :;,u 'Hill I SS - V si. XXII . No. II J fl Today' I ither light south 30.26; tcm- k and Brldesvllle district destroyed crops, cattle i number of ranches. nv m e w r a port landing. Ere the ship had come alongside, however, hundreds of spectators naa gauirrcu vu wo wharf in the fine, sunny weather to witness the operation of tying up i -i.. 1 AtNimlnitlrtn and make a superncmi ci........v.. of the ship which appears to be one of the best Kepi arm nww kind of cralt wnicn c here. . The first person w go v hA ! mm. SDOoner, wife oi D. 8. 0.. In eem- Capt. E. J. Bpooner mand of ine cruiser. dlately was escorted to her husband's quarters on the quarter necK r. .i Mvnr J. II. Plllsbury went aboard to pay his respect, on behalf of the city, and Capt. Spooner. Accompanying tnc acting mayor on board "eV; O. A. Rlx D.D.. uwnop m v---- Inspector James M. Tupper, officer commanding. Royal Canadian it - (Continued on page inn- INITALY Chancellor Bruenlng and Other Officials Go to Rome For Conference ROME. Aug. 6: The Fascist metropolitan press was preparing the people yesterday to give a cordial welcome to Chancellor Bruenlng and other German officials who arrived here today to confer with Italian government on matters affect ing the two countries. Vancouver Wheat VANCOUVER. Auk. 6: Wheat was auoted at 49c on the local exchange today. II. M. S. DRAGON IS ' - OPEN TO PUBLIC 4 It was announced this morn- ing that II. M. S. Dragon, which arrived yesterday afternoon A fnr n f Ur.H.iv vUlt In thin tmrt 4 w. m.v J - - -, - will be open each afternoon during her stay from 4:30 to 8 ' o'clock for public Inspection. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1931 BULKLEY VALLEY BASEBALL TEAM AND ANYOX SOCCER ELEVEN COMING FOR FAIR Greenville Native Band and Prince Kupcrt Boys' Band Engaged, Also Girl Acrobat and Contortionist From Vancouver The Fair Board, at a meeting last night, decided to bring in an all-star baseball team representative of the Bulkley Valley and a football team from Anyox to play series of games with local talent during Fair Week. These will be the principal features of the sports program in connection vith the Exhibition and it is to be fairly ex- pected that they should prove fine attractions. Both the visiting base- sporUj and attractions corn-ball and football aggregations are mltte aiked t0 bring In estt-expected to bring considerable matea of the cost of permanent crowds of supporters with them to the city booths for the outside concession The board decided to engage the aires. The meeting was presided over by Greenville native band and the h. f. aiassey, chairman Prince Rupert uoys uana to pro- board, vide music during the fair. A girl acrub.it and contortionist from Vancouver who has been well recommended. of the TRAIN LATE AGAIN rwlntr in 11 nnntln'uatlon of slide also to be engaged. jmj near Tcte juane Cache. The contest in connection with ' today's train from the east, due at the Los Angclei Beautequest Is 1:30 this afternoon, is seven hours shaping up well and the candidates late so will not be in until 8:30 this will soon be In the field. evening. Twenty Thousand Doukhobors To Migrate Soon to Western Canada From Home in Russia WINNIPEG, Aug. 6: Peter Veregin, British Columbia Duukhobor leader, stated here last night that more than twenty thousand Doukhobors would soon migrate from Russia to Western Canada. veregin said that all requirements of the immigration authorities in connection with the migration would be met and the immigrants would be taken care of by their own people. PT. BARROW NEXT JUMP Lindberghs Face 500-Mile Flight From Aklavik Into Alaska AKLAVIK, N.W.T.. August 6 -Col. and Mr. Charles A. Lindbergh were planning to hop off today on the 500-mile hop from here to Point Barrow, northermost white settlement of Alaska In continuation of their Washington to Tokyo flight. Stormy weather, however, held the famous American flying couple from starting on the hop to Point Barrow. TWO DEAD IN WRECK Bad Smash-Up 'Near Yuma, Arizona, Yesterday Screen Actors Were On Train YUMA, Arizona. August 8 Two of eighteen persons who were in jured in a Southern Pacific train wreck near here yesterday hav died. The two dead men were bot.n members of the train crew. Among the passengers aboard the wrecked train were Edmunl Lowe and Warner Baxter, famous screen actors, who were on their way back from location to HELD BY Boardman and Polando Unable Yesterday to Take-off From Istanbul for Calcutta ISTANBUL, Turkey. August 6-Russell Boardman and John Pol ando, the American flyers who set a new long distance flight record last week In their jump froti New York to Istanbul, were prevented by unfavorable weather from taking off for Asia. They are planning a non-stop flight frort here to Calcutta. Tomorrow's Tides Friday, August 7, 1931 High 7:3 a.m. 14:1 ft. 19:33 p.m. 17:2 It. Low 1:15 a.m. 7:9 ft. 12:44 pjn. 9:6 f'.. PRICE FIVE CENTS ESOLUTIOm PASSED AT BURNS LAKE AMY JOHNSON LANDS AT TOKYO, SETTING NEW RECORD Early Completion of Highway From Prince Rupert and Rail Outlet For Peace Are Urged Many Matters of Importance Taken Up at Associated Boards Meet Agriculture and Public Works Are Among Subjects Bl'RNS LAKE, Aug. G: The Associated Boards of Trade of Central British Columbia in convention here, pre-idnl over by Vice-President A. M. Ruddy, and with F. A. Mat hoson of Prince George acting as secretary, yesterday afternoon passed ten resolutions. They asked for extension of the scope of the illustration stations in Central British Columbia, to Include feeding and WINNIPEG ROBBERY Bank In Prairie City is Held Up and $2000 Taken By Bandits VTTWIPEO, dlu held up H-i Dank of Canada at Mountain A'.' miic and McGregor Street ye-tri'iiv. escaping with $2000. 'ii ' two men believed to have bo unrated the hold-up were ar- care of livestock, that the railway be atked to cut a reasonable number of ties giving preference to actual settlers for the work, that the highway through Central British Columbia be gravelled and straightened to enable tourists to travel It with safety in wet weather, that the highway through to the coast at Prince Rupert be completed at the II A ltl . I lUt tU. A110 fl- TSvn han- icameafc ixksouhc uiuiucui umv wio the-brancb- ot-lhelPTO.1?? w"? " this morning, was recovered. Clark Trial Considerable dispose oi revenea tanas to sewers at actual value, Uie distance from communication to be one of the factors In computing values, and jthat the $2.50 minimum price be j eliminated, that a game reserve be established In the Whltesall coun try southward from Francois Lake, that the Pacific railway outlet to the Peace River country be asked for at once, that land appraisal ' An work, be continued until the whole kP UUIIliJ Ulliof the Bulkley and Nechaoo Valleys be covered and that an unemploy- relief be established on No Sensational Evidence Yesterday ment camp ",c "-c ui " lMU v In ltrlr f Atiornev on Murder Charge i na Crossing and Usk to connect up ! the highway at once to Terrace. tr,, ir,M .. .T.nnJ The delegate were banqueted ' , Mdon copied the d;y Ut evening and o fleers were to be Elected thU morning when it was , uv in the trial of David h ii' who Is charged with the mur- JJd and deliver an address. Pt . t Herbert Spencer and Charles ; uiurd There was no testimony. Afterwards the delegates will be f n .uional nature. ! taken on a tour of the Lakes coun- 1 ' rial Is proceeding. I try to the south. H. M. S. Dragon Arrives on Time Yesterday For Five-Day Visit To This Port; Large Crowd Out 13 v the appointed time of 4:30 yesterday afternoon the inek. crev 1 irht cruiser H. M. S. Dragon of the American v, v T.ir. r. i e d,to! Mnvu hml rnmn nlnnp- Halibut Landings s i 2.8 urn J American " n. 40.000, Pacific, 5.0c and 3c. tiill. 11.500, Booth, 7.7c and 3c. Canadian 1 ipsett, 14,000, Storage 0.1c and 1 ' Beatrice, 4,000, Atlin, 6.1c w. B 0,500, Booth, 0.1c and. 3c. FOREST FHIKS OAUSF. HEAVY LOSS IN SOUTH T lttTf rKT m titirt 'LIVER, Aug. 6: Forest at Camp McKlnney, Rock AUSTRALIA-ENGLAND ' FLIGHT RECORD HAS 4. ' AGAIN BEEN BEATEN LONDON, Aug. 6: J. A. Mil- lison landed at Pevensky near. Eastbourne today, breaking the Australia to England flight record of ten days and twenty- three hours of C. W. A. Scott. RACE ON PACIFIC Pant born and llerndon to Try Non-Stop Tokyo-Seattle Hop; Board man and. Poland?- .j. ".May Try Too C NEW YORK, Aug. 6: A trans-Pacific air rare seems imminent, possibly within the next week or so. It was announced here yesterday that Hugh llerndon and Clyde Pangborn, at present in Khabaravosk, Russia, after having given up an attempt to beat the world girdling record of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, will pro-reed to Japan, and attempt from there a non-stop flight from Tokyo to Seattle. It is also possible that Russell Boardman and John Polando, who flew non-stop last week from New York to Istanbul, Turkey, to set a new long-distance record, may enter the Pacific race. TOKYO, Aug. 6: Hugh Hern-don and Clyde Pangborn landed here this morning from Khabaravosk, Russia. Don Moyte and C. A. Allen also arrived by boat from the United States, making a non-stop Pacitic race from here to Seattle probable as each group plans such a flight. GERMANY Lindberghs Detained, Rough Weather ! DV,V,VL P:v1 VU,nv ft: J islslsg gsissfglgsgsgsgsgsgsgsgsHBia h" Colonel Charles Lindbergh and Mrs Lindbergh are shown in front of their aeroplane just before they took off from North Beach Airport. LI., cn route to Washington, on first leg 6f their 7,100-mlle Jaunt to Tokio, Japan. They intended to continue-their night on to Point Barrow today but were help up by -weather London to Jap Capital Flight in Ten Days Beat Former Fast Time of Sciji Yoshihara She and Her Mechanic Get Big Welcome in Japanese Capital TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 6: Amy Johnson landed at Ta-chikawa aerodrome at 5:17 this afternoon, concluding a flight from London in ten and a half days and beating by a few hours the eleven-day light plane record between the two cities of Seiji Yoshihara, the Japanese flyer. Miss Johnson' last hop was from Seoul, Korea. Japanese and British officials ANOTHER OCEAN FLIGHT NOW mark, had landed' yesterday afternoon1 tnOreenlahd. . A 1 greeted Miss Johnson and her com- ON 1 COPENHAGEN, Aug. 6 No- tlflcatlon was received here yesterday that Parker D. Cra- mer, American, aviator, on a flight from New York to Den- panlon, C. S. Humphries, mechanic, at the conclusion of their fine flight. CHINA HAS BIG FLOOD Thousands Are Dead in Valley of Yantste River Which Has Reached Record Height HANKOW, China. Aug. 6: Pitiful stories of death and destruction have been received here as a result of floods in the Yangste River valley In Central China. Thousands are dead as the riveV has risen to record high levels, flooding vast stretches of the country. NAVAL DAY AT ROTARY Naval and Military Guests Capt, E. J. Spooner D.S.O. is Speaker Capt. E. J. Spooner DS.O. of II. M. S. Dragon was the speaker at the regular weekly luncheon of the Prince 'Rupert Club In the Commodore Cafe today. Quests at the luncheon also Included Brigadier General J. Sutherland Brown C. M. D.S O., general officer commanding military district No. 11, Work Point Barracks. Esqulmalt, who Is making the cruise north on the Dragon, and officers of the light cruiser and of the local unit of the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve. President George H. Munro was In the chair. Portland Milk War Is Ended City Dealers Agree to Pay Producers 44c Per Quart PORTLAND. Aug. 6.-Portland's milk war came to a conclusion yesterday when city milk dealers agreed to raise the price for the producers from 3c to 4c per quart. WEATHER NEWSPAPER MAN DEAD R. Edward Gosnell Also Held Important Posts in Provincial Government Service . VANCOUVER, Aug. 8:-R. Edward Oosnell, aged 71, prominent British Columbia newspaperman and until a tew months ago secretary of the British Columbia Forest Commission and provincial government archivist, died here last night. ii 231