faol nvo Tnc.iar news THE DAILY NEWS. PRINCE RUPERT BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Every Afternoon, Except Sunday, by Prince Ttaport Dally News. Limited. Third Avenue . , -H. F..PULLEH r r ManaglngEditor SUBSCRIPTION RATES A.... : Good Citizen 4. The Sun Life has a Big Stake in the life of Canada, where It milnUlnt 29 bunches. It hn 5,000 employees, h pays annually in taxes over 5600,000. It has invested over $200,000,000 in Canadian enterprises alone. I j Canadians have a Big Stake in the Sun Life Last year it paid to Canadian policyholders or their dependants over $21,000,000. During this generation it will pay to Canadians or their dependants more than $900,000,000. Every beneficiary under a Sun Life policy relieves society o a possible claimant for public relief Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada HaadOfficai MONTREAL S. J. (Sam) JABOUR Prince Rupert, B.C. Northern . Representative CUM SUN LIFE Phone G45 Office No. 14, Smith Block EVIDENCE LACKING i Police Find it Difficult to Link Up Suicide of Violet Sharpe ind ' Lindbergh Abduction City delrveryVtymatUjr carrier, pearly period, paM In tdrahce 5:00 PrODC 3.t OcftU EiTld For lesser periods, paid In advance per week By mall to all parts of Northern and Central British 'Columbia, paid In advance for yearly period . 3.00 -New Jersey State Police J)eny Girl By mail to all other parts of British Columbia, the British Em- i Vas Harried to Death DAILY EDITION Member ot Audit Bureau of Circulations ! TRENTON. NJ., June 14: police " have been forced to admit thateVi- , . dence linking the suicide of Violet Tnesaay. 3tmel. tS? sharpe. maid in the household of Mrs. Dwlght Mbrrow, with the ab- UNITED STATES NOMINATIONS dUct,on and mn f Cnarles Aus- Today the Republican National convention is being held tSL'S: . T"V hng. eeplte the Identification by i ci j. j? i.i i - in the United States for the purpose ot choosing a candi- the maid from rogues' gallery pic-date for the election to be held in November. Hoover is tares just before she died of -Emest likely to be renominated but that does not seem so import- Brinkert as being the man with ant as the Democratic choice which will be made soon. It whom she had been on the night -of seems to be a foregone conclusion that the Republicans cSutS will be defeated and that the Democrats will administer Mlnrt "Ernie -mmer" had been the affairs of the country for a period. wm mum shape on the night in Governor Roosevelt is the favorite for the Democratic Q.waon. position but Al Smith is still prominently spoken of. A Brutasfli being iieid by the dozen other candidates are in the field, any of which may T? ,i , , . . A , . , ' , , r has been corroboTnrted and it now be the selection Also there the as a compromise. is possi- appeaw thftt he flotnlng t0 d0 bility of a comparatively unknown person being brought wrai the .crime. forward at the last moment. A new bulletin, issued yesterday Canada -will watch the nominations and elections in the bv the New Jer8ev tate voiice, in-neighboring republic with much interest. In fact theS tha toSiTstJf"or f world is waiting for the elections to be held so that inter- 2?. 5 S national affairs may return to normal. ipse of the police theory that j "guilty knowledge" had -caused the FINAL DISPLAY :solclde of Violet Sharpe. On Thursday of this week the Manual Training and Do-L! f lr;Nnf: . . n . J , . , - , , , . i ... wie police that t It was he and not mesne science departments ot tne schools will sing their Ernest Brinkert ex-convict, who .wan songs. They will make their final demonstrations to was out with miss sharpe on the the public of what they have been able to do for the young "taht ot the kidnapping, people under their care. rhe case ot Mlss sharpe wore an The young folks have been making extra efforts this atf,?? .f8 denied accusations that year and j i-i the display l of iv their work l- is expected -lit to be un- narried ner to death they c'narge bad usually interesting. We commend this effort to the people was voiced indignantly in the Eng-nf the city so that when the question of re-establishing the h press. There .was never any departments comes before them they will be in a position P""e brought upon her. the po- to judge of what is being done. lice state. Senator Indignant WASHINGTON. DC, June 14 Senator E. L. Htehrds or New York announced yesterday that he would demand an investigation Into the "blundering methods" of the New Jersey State police which he declared had resulted in the "wteide of Violet Sharpe, maid In the household of Mrs. Dwlght Morrow. Suspicion had killed Wlss Sharpe, Richards declared. Business Bad So i Is Going Mining J. II. Eastman Tells Edmonton Newspaper of Reason For Aerial Prospecting .Expedition j "In Detroit business conditions are very bad," said J. 11. Eastman, leader of an aerial prospecting expedition which Is now in this district, lo the "Edmonton Journal while In the Alberta raprtal. "So a few of us who had a little money decided to try our luck at TJrospect-ing. "We have rnade careful plans following an Intensive study of the districts for which we are headed. Some of the party may remain In British Columbia if things work out Seattle Gets i Hot Weather I'ujet Sound City Swelters Unfler Blistering Sun 89 Degrees Reached SEATTLE, June 14: Seattle's first heat wave of the summer at- tained sweltering proportions at the i week-end when the thermometer registered a new high for the year J of '89 degrees and did not descend 1 below 64 during an entire 24 .hours. Continuation of the hot weather Is i predicted by the Weather Man. Action Started By Seattle City Against Railway SEATTLE, June 14 Mayor John F. Dore launched an action against the Rainier Valley Railway yesterday for $18,000 owned Tjy the company to three city departments. orjg SEt YOU TOC. MY AOWCt THATS A RWSO WASH I CAN TtU. BY THC WHITCNESS WHITcNtaS (Continued from page one) : 1 A T"l 11.. T- ( . A. . andlyou talked lo Ivarson and Bes ner and gave me away." Putting the gun to Swanson's forehead, VOollf RIGHT1 AND ITS WOKDtR- 1 7 rui FOR C010URID THINGS. TOO - MEN ADMIRED HER THE MOMENT THEY SAW HER AT LAST HER NEW SISTE R-N-LAW FRANKLY TOLD HER HOW SHE WAS OFFENDING mm AND HOW EASILY LIFEBUOY WOULD CORRECT HER FAULT ALFRED SWANSON CIIAKGES HANS BERQUIST WITH FORCING HIM AT POINT OF GUN ; TO SEIZE LIQUOR as we hope. We will await advlcel board and tnat tne veel Wft over from persons Interested 4n the expedition in Detroit before making the flight to 'Oreat Bear Lake," "he said. BUT IT WAS THE SAME 5 OLD STORYl THEY CALLED J ONCE-THEN DRIFTED AWAY NOW SHE IS HAPPILY MARRIED. ITHANHS TO LIFEBUOY SURe PROTECTION B.O. IS NO LONGER A PROBLEM .11 i A ' i I to prolong the agony but go ahead and shoot. Then Berqutat pointed the gun at hts own head, finally, Berqultt pat the gun away and went to sleep. Later S wanton suggested thati was uii a. uuiiiL. rinaiiv. f"rniJiL i on board among whom wprq Emfl jjusiiosD aim unarne cawaras. Later Swanson and Berquist came on Into Prince Rupert and near Berquist said, according to the Catey Point Berquist threw the five STTECP5 (DY R) RyQdDRiDDAV CAVogkt, i -i i - i . VWR6VP6 . I Our HOW s7y J YOUS ONLY Z KHOW W ) JSuJSriSL P Tmwthv NEXT WASHDAY thanrs to sinso N V THIS ISTHt FIRST -v 7 MONDAY iVt HAD FRCEl Vim a icn& timcx' Try this safe, hard-wof er loop for ",,,,cr nej-wghter colours IMAGINE clothri g;tting white tnd Vn M. without dingrr of colouri running 'n r,ht SOT " f the theW.thatdoit-.hick '.mr.l tinT " UnntT. Tmte i I' at muck Wj. r.m foriluhwah.ng.too. lttheBKipkig" ..... LMIITIIt, WftoMjQ Millions use Rins me nnd the police boat had gone show that the liouor It'i o'ntubVathef-qndJ TINAllY SHE WAS THE ONLY CIRL IN HER CROWD NOT MARRIED DON'T RISK "B.O." THE uktwi hint of "B.0 " -V rutnt girl'i chirm, man'i attr -lt'lioriijr u be guilty And not km we quickhr set ued to n ever-prrx PUjSAfc! Wuh ind-hathe ha buoy for txtra proirction. It r ' JtJriusfrt--ndt"il.Q."iltiti I ant, hygienic crm fht vuiithrt .. . tell you Lifebuoy puritn. Errrr night, mawige Ufe-buoy i creamy lather into the ikin. llten rinar. Your compieuon will frethen and glow with healthy beauty, tarn aaaraaat lixma 1-,UT a. r out to search for him. : lea: ' Swanson made tt clear that his Inspector Miedonnic rtatement had been made voluntary that evidence had brm !"!'' lly and without duress. . show that rhe liquor h ir! t: Olier llrsner that the liquor at Wales Island bc- 'onjred to him ot that he knew any- loading, Swanson could tell by the ; On rrrtvfng at the island, Ber-1 "thlng about 11 DQ",st w not In waterune that there was feur to qtrtet shouted to the caretaker thai lour and a half tons deadweight on they had a cargo of liquor on board and that tie (8wanson had nad Ioaded' nothing to do with taking it. After Swanson remonstrated at the a wtrfle, after Berqulat had assured boat being overloaded but Berquist the caretaker that there was no howed nlm the gun and he -was harm In It and that he would give Biraio. to reiuse to ao anytnmg. The him some clothes If he helped to boat was so overloaded that crater unload the liquor, they proceeded to was coming in through the rudder tke the liquor ashore. Swanson pipe and on the pilot hou?e floor, handed the sacks out and Berquist Swanson suggested that they pro- and the caretaker took them ashore ceed by Emma Passage where the .Then they stacked the seeks of 11-water would be smoother. There- quor In a feed house. After a while, after Swanson had to pump con- Berquist and the caretaker toolc a tlnuously seven hours to keep the load of the liquor-filled sacks away boat afloat. Finally, Berquist stop- somewhere else. Berquist had said ped the boat and threw out the an- j that he Intended to take five or six chor. They were in "Ood's Pocket" , sacks Into Prince Rupert to sell lo south of Dundas Island. Durmg -the la Chinaman as he needed a little run down from Wales Island their ready cash. dinghy had bren lost. Swanson was i Swanson asked Berquist what tie, soalted to the skin with oil and was going to say when he saw Bes-! water .ner. Berquist replied that "I can Life Threatened j talk to Besner,' 'adding that he was, It was hero, according to the prepared to shoot it out with him statement, that Berquist turned on If necessary. Meantime, the gasboat nson and said: "You dlrtjrjon! jo----. 1 hdilt all plannedutt Nnnt noma nistttr rtrl t V vn 1 wham Mfjui. WAIIIC Ctauilg WIUI DCVUUI JiiCtl Ills Besner6i employ at the time although he had been for some vears before this time In the ser-'4ee of the Consolidated when Tie nad handled liquor, .caching It around on various Islands outside if here. The business of the Consolidated was to sell liquor on the water to residents of other countries which was legal as far as this wuntry was concerned. Besner had no Idea who the Wales Island liquor "he longed to. It might have belonged u Berquist for all he knew. Vlkmar Swanson, the caretaker at Kinahan Island, known as "The Kid," was the next witness, lie told how Swanson and Berquist had ar rived at the island at 4 p.m. on May u ana now ne had helped to unload the liquor. He thought there had been about 150 sacks with posslblyl a coupie or ciozen bottles In each sack. Swanson and Bcroulst had told him to log the arrival ot the! boat at Kinahan Island as 0 a.m. oh Sunday. Dhmissal IsAkedv. a- At the conclusion of thls evidence,' which Inspector Maedonald intl-' mated was all the crown proposed' wj oner, at tnis time, L. W. Patmore. statement, "You will never get back or six sacks of liquor into the har-1 counsel for Berquist and Swanson, w ruuee uuperi again, iou win dot -aiier owanson naa reiusea to jasKca lor dismissal tf the charges, never get out of here in your life, take the boat Into shore to let the There had been no ahiitH f . J If It comes to the worst, I can bump Jlquoroff. Swanson let Berquist off kind to indicate the ownership of myself off;' Finally, after pleading at the C. N. It. plledriver at the end the liquor or that It had been stolen. .stolen. The hearing was ad", imc; u:.- -went elf in the rowboat and, after i1 nouW 0,11 down t0 Kinahan When Oiler Besner took the stand 20 thb afternoon. a while, shouted, after which Swan- Isknd and Berqulat then started;" a crown witness. T. W. Brown. son took the Myfanwy Into shore, (the baat again. With the boaton- counsel, asked lor protection of; Derqulst said that some one had1 tlnuin to leak, the pump failed and :ine c0""- Aftr some discussion. been there before them but came to Swanton was forced to bale Out con- ilnspector Maedonald. who Cpnduc- the boat with several bottles of j tlnually until they got to Kinahan ted CM 'or the crown, Intima-Scotch, vermuth and wine. The 11- Island. A string Berqnlgt to give a 1ld tn1 nc Intended to ask Besner -quor was lying on the shore near ' hand at the bmltne. Swanson then on,v a 'ew questions and had Inten- the water. They had a few drinks took the wlieel and steered the boat flwl 10 aPPy himself for protection nnd then they started to work load-; for the gap between the Klnatmn i l0T Besner as a crown witness. Be lng the liquor on board the My- Islands. fanwy. The liquor was all in sacks and, by the time they had finished i Ifnloadrd Cargo jner flatly denied the suggestion District News BURNS LAKE . Angus Melnnl. Labor M larhamerrt tor Vancouv pected to pay a visa t" B this week. He wfll be ui: by his bride, the former Mi Woodsworth, daughter i Woodsworth. Labor M P ; nlpeg. Over a ton of first cla IsgolngtoM-asteonthr V ' farm at Francois Lake be u jrower Is unable to find u n Cecil 8ttle visited Ittro ! day and -showed tliernovti) , The Covered Wagon." Olof Hanson, M. P for R!:? and Mrs. Hanson passed I Si SMITHERS Pnv Short has been elected pru dent ot the 'Smlthers Uncmpio' S. F:.f here last Monday on their w c from Ottawa where Mr Har :n " A number of ihelr friends w hand as the train passed ti: to -extend them a welcome tin Tlie shrub known qjj the CM :e yltcx tree Is being grown win ' siderable success In tills disnu. Association with H. Peterson m ' " pnnpv A m.illntf of the a.v.0CU- tlon last Monday night in the ! Anp- Itnll ...nn nrlHrPHSPfl by MOfl with Berquist to-let him (Swanson) of the ocean clock and proceeded up For aU the court knew the liquor Burns secretary of the provmci-1' get taclc to Mnce Rupert alive, to his own moorings whqre he j might have belonged to Berquist.1' association Joe Kelly of P"11 u Swanaon had liald to Berquist not .learned that he was believed miss- It was necessary for the crown to pert was also a speaker.