malned.
Today's
Weather
DEFICIT
0FP.G.E.
Lots
on
Operation
of
Line
last
Year
Was
$65,180,
rrrmler
Tolmle
Announces
t
VtCTOniA.
March
19:
The
entwine
deficit
of
the
Pacific
Great
Ea
it
ru
Railway
last
year
was
$65,-780
Premier
S.
F.
Tohnle
informed
the
Legislature
yesterday.
IURTII
A
on
was
born
at
the
Prince
Rupert
General
Hospital
on
March
17
in
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Angus
Currie
of
Ckixton.
Uproar
Breaks
Out
in
Relief
Investigating
Committee
as
Deputy
Minister
Criticized
VICTORIA,
March
19:
There
was
plenty
more
fireworks
yesterday
in
the
special
committee
of
the
.Legislature
investigating
unemployment
relief
matters
in
British
Columbia.
The
session
was
featured
by
open
criticism
by
M.
T.
McGeogh,
assistant
to
the
federal
director
of
relief
for
British
Columbia,
of
Patrick
Philip,
deputy
min-
fctcr
of
public
works
for
British
Co-
;
"
lumbla.
in
the
matter
of
conduct
of
!
,
iil
1
A
unemployment
relief
work.
H
JJ.
1
Wlffff
lYl.L.A.
With
all
due
resDect
tothe
chair-
i
00
man.
II.
D.
Twlgg.
Mr.
McOcogh
as-
;
sorted
that
It
was
none
of
the
com-
1
mlttce's
business
what
his
occupa-;
.Ion
was
before
assuming
his
pre-;fnt
position
In
the
federal
govern-mcnt's
service.
I
do
not
think
It
is
any
of
your
business."
Mr.
McOeogh
Informed
J
A.
Clark,
counsel
for
the
committee,
when
questioned
as
to
his
qualification
for
his
position
as
Dominion
relief
director.
"You
will
not
Set
the
Information
from
me.
I
am
responsible
to
the
Dominion
only
and,
If
they
are
satisfied
with
me.
Wat's
all."
T.
II.
Kirk,
Conservative.
Vancouver,
backed
up
the
stand
of
Mr.
McOcogh.
asserting
that
it
was
his
policy
to
give
every
one
a
squnre
deal.
Whin
t
rvpnttiiiin
i.ihprjl
lea
der,
ventured
to
point
out
that
it
was
the
government
and
not
Mr.
,
McOcoch
who
was
on
trial,
the
1
chairman
chairman
threatened
threatened
to
to
have
have
him
him!
!
removed
for
hnpertinencc.
A
verbal
battle
ensued
between
Mr.
Pattullo
and
Mr.
Twlgg
but
the
former
re-
HARTLEY
INFIELD
Canarihn-Born
Governor
of
Washington
Chooses
to
Run
Again
OLYMPIA.
March
19
Governor
Roland
II.
Hartley.
Canadian-born
fovtmor
of
Washington.
Intimate
that
he
will
be
a
candidate
for
re
flection
as
chief
executive
of
the
state
NO
HSU
SALE
There
was
no
sale
of
halibut
on
the
local
fish
exchange
this
morning.
The
only
boat
In
was
the
Canadian
vessel
Royal
III
which
chose
to
hold
over
with
a
catch
of
'38O0
pounds
rather
than
accept
a
bid
of
4.1c
and
2c.
Chairman
of
uncmp
mni.ivment
'J
relief
v.hicn
1
investigating
committee
providing
sensations
at
B.
C.
Legls
tavutv
w
-
-
-
Tomorrow's
Tides
Sunday,
March
20
Prince
Rupert
Rainlne.
llcrtit
High
11:54
ajn.
20:9
ft.
nnihurf'Kt.
wind
hfirnmftfai
on.oo.
V
temperature,
43;
sea
smooth.
V
Low
5:53
a.m.
6:8
ft.
18:21
pjn.
2:9
ft
i
y
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
Vol.
XXIII.,
No.
66.
v
VaSs
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.d,
SATURDAY,
MARCH
19,
1932
PRICE:
FIVE
CENTS'
CAMBRIDGE
WINS
BOAT
RACE
TODAY
iMSTIGAflonNfol'ROVINCIAL
FINANCES
DEMANDED
Cantabs
Defeat
Oxford
By
Five
Boat
Lengths
In
Annual
Oar
Classic
Victors
Had
Things
in
Hand
All
the
Time
and
Came
Through
With
Expected
Win
Time
Slow
in
Nineteen
Minutes,
Eleven
Seconds
I'UTNEY-ON-THAMES,
March
19:
Cambridge
University
defeated
Oxford
by
five
lengths
in
the
annual
eight-oared
race
today
over
a
four-mile
course.
The
distance
was
covered
in
the
slow
time
of
nineteen
minutes,
eleven
seconds.
The
Cantabs
had
the
race
in
hand
all
the
way
and
came
through
winners
as
thye
had
been
expected
to
do,
A
good
deal
less
interest
than
usual
was
taken
in
the
event
this
year.
Attempting
Stevedores
tolled
all
day
Sunday,
Februry
23,
irijadia?
foreign
1
erchandise
at
the
London
docks
In
an
effort
to
escape
the
new
dJty
Imposed
by
the
National
gov.rnaienl.
Tinned
mUk
is
being
hurried
ashore
from
a
barge.
I
SEAT
BILL
READY
NOW
Government
Prepared
to
Spring
Redistribution,
It
Is
Said
Humored
Changes
VICTORIA,
March
19:
It
Is
reported
in
political
quarters
here
that
the
government
had
its
Redistribution
nill
ready
to
present
to
the
Legislature.
Although
the
secrets
contained
therein
were,
apparently,
being
guarded
very
closely,
It
was
understood
that
the
membership
of
the
House,
now
totalling
48,
would
be
reduced
by
four
as
a
result
of
the
changes
to
be
made.
Nanaimo
and
Albernl
seats,
both
held
by
Liberals,
will
be
combined
into
one,
It
is
rumored.
Either
Skeena
or
Omlneca,
both
Liberal,
will
be
eliminated.
Re-velstoke
and
Columbia,
both
with
Liberal
members,
would
be
amalgamated.
Present
Conservative
representation
would
be
interfered
with
only
in
Victoria
where
It
is
said
four
seats
will
be
cut
to
three.
PATTULLO
CRITICAL
Increased
Taxes
Due
to
Tolniie
Regime's
Extravagance,
He
Asserts
Resources
Were
Flagrantly
Dissipated,
1
lie
Declares
I
VICTORIA.
March
19
Specltl-I
accusations
that
estimates
of
rev
1
enue
and
expenditure
contained
in
ithe
budget
of
Hon.
J.
W.
Jones
'minister
cf
finance,
were,
to
say
at
least,
misleading,
were
voiced
by
T
D.
Pattullo.
leader
of
the
liberal
0000511101
as
continued
th;
budget
debate
In
the
Legislature
'
yesterday.
1
increase
of
taxes
which
had
been
Imposed
by
the
budget
had
been
due
to
the
extravagance
of
:
ihn
TnimiA
irnvprnment
durlnz
Uie
last
four
years,
'Mr.
Pattullo
asserted,
charging
the
administration
with
having
deliberately
and
flagrantly
dissipated
the
resources
of
the
provinces
at
a
time
when
1'
should
have
been
conserving
them
most
diligently.
All
singers
can
croon,
but
no
urooner
can
sing.
To
Escape
New
Duty
Imposed
T.
D.
Pattullo
1
!
Urnes
B.
C
economic
conference
to
help
in
depression.
VANCOUVER
WHEAT
VANCOUVER,
March
19:-
Wheat
was
quoiea
ai
59c
on
tne
local
cx-
change
today.
DOUK
GIRL
...WILL
DIE
Tolly
Fainoff
Fatally
Burned
When
Lighting
Fire
in
Teacher's
Quarters
of
Kootenay
School
:
NELSON.
Marc
19:PplJV
FalrK
1
off.
a
Doukhobbr
school
girt'
was
fatally
burned
and
Vera
Proden-koff,
her
companion,
was
seriously
burned
when
a
can
of
kerosene
exploded
while
they
were
JighUng
a
fire
In
the
teacher's
quarters
of
the
Doukhobor
school
at
Kononoe
yesterday.
Departing
Public
Works
Engineer
is
Honored
in
Peace
FORT
ST.
JOHN.
March
19
Re-piesentatives
of
the
Fort
St.
John
Board
of
Trade
presented
Major
J.
Johnstone,
district
engineer,
who
has
been
transferred
south
with
an
embroidered
buckskin
coat
as
a
token
of
appreciation
for
the
interest
he
has
taken
in
the
welfare
of
the
district.
Major
Johnstone's
successor
as
district
engineer
for
the
Peace
River
Block
Is
W.
K.
'
Owyer,
formerly
of
Prince
Rupert.
Municipal
Delegation
Goes
To
Victoria
With
Ultimatum
To
Hand
Finance
Minister
NEW
WESTMINSTER,
March
19:
Bearing
an
ultimatum
in
protest
at
the
burdens
imposed
upon
the
municipalities
by
the
province
under
the
budget
of
Hon.
J.
W.
Jones,
minister
of
finance,
introduced
in
the
Legislature
this
week,
a
large
delegation
representing
the
Union
of
British
Columbia
Municipalities
left
last
night
for
Victoria.
Among
other
things,
the
municipalities
threaten
to
repudiate
their
bonded
'indebtedness
and
throw
the
whole
burden
on
the
government
if
some
relief
from
the
budget
provisions
is
not
accorded.
Decision
to
send
the
delegation
was
made
at
meetings
here
of
the
Union
of
British
Columbia
Municipalities
and
Fraser
Valley
Reeves
Association
following
introduction
of
the
budget.
Eighty
percent
of
the
municipalities
of
the
province
are
declared
to
have
ben;
represented
at
the
meetings.-
Non-Partizan
Probe
of
i
!
Fiscal
Matters
Urged
By
Vancouver
Meeting
!
Resolution
Passed
Unanimously
by
Six
Hundred
Prominent
Southern
Businessmen
Yesterday
Moved
by
,
Tisdall,
Former
Conservative
Member
VANCOUVER,
March
18:
Nearly
six
hundred
businessmen
of
Vancouver
and
district,
meeting
here
at
a
joint
luncheon
in
the
Vancouver
Hotel
yesterday
under
the
joint
auspices
of
all
the
city's
service
clubs,
endorsed
a
proposal
for
a
non-partizan
commission
whose
members
would
be
unpaid
to
inquire
into
British
Columbia's
financial
position
and
recommend
means
of
re-
lteving
the
ever-Increasing
burden
Tst
ittait
of
taxation
borne
by
the
public.
After
hearing
an
address
by
George
E.
Kldd,
former
president
of
the
.British
Columbia
Electric
Co.,
a
resolution
along
these
lines
was
moved
by
Charles
E.
Tisdall,
former
mayor
and
former
Conservative
I
member
of
the
legislature
for
Vancouver,
seconded
by
J.
E.
Arm
strong,
president
of
the
United
Farmers
of
British
Columbia,
and
car
ried
-unanimously
by
the.
me
LANDED
AT
NEW
YORK
Passengers
and
Crew
of
Prince
David
Brought
From
Bermuda;
Inquiry
at
Hamilton
NEW
YORK,
March
19:
All
the
passengers
and
most
of
the
members
of
the
crew
of
the
Canadian
National
Steamships
steamer
Prince
David,
which
was
wrecked
last
Sunday
on
a
coral
reef
near
St.
George's,
Bermuda,
were
landed
here
yesterday.
Capt.
C.
W.
MacKay
and
a
few
of
the
officers
and
crew
remained
at
Hamilton,
Bermuda,
where
an
inquiry
into
the
stranding
will
be
conducted.
The
party
landing
here
brought
word
that
the
ship,
awash
to
her
upper
decks,
was
gradually
being
pounded
to
pieces
on
the
exposed
reef.
There
is
no
chance
of
salving
the
vessel.
Word
has
been
received
here
that
a
number
of
steamship
men
well
known
locally
were
among
the
crew
of
the
Prince
David.
These
Included
A.
11.
Robson,
regularly
purser
on
the
Prince
George,
and
G.
C.
Foote,
assistant
purser
on
local
boats,
and
J.
Webb,
chief
steward
last
year
of
the
Prince
Henry.
Robson
and
Foote
were
both
wireless
operators
on
the
Prince
David.
Wheat
Price
Takes
Crash
Report
From
United
States
Sent
Winnipeg
Futures
Into
Spin
Yesterday
WINNIPEG.
MareJp
Reacting
to
reports
that
the
United
States
Farm
Board
was"
planning
to
take
up
surplus
of-
wheat
in
United
States
for
export
to
European
countries,
wheat
prices
went
Inti
a
spin
on
the
local
market
yesterday,
futures
crashing
downward
from
17rC.
to
28c
May
closed
at
628c.
July
at
64
'gc
and
October
at
65iic.
INU
WUKU
OF
BABY
Missing
Servant
Pair
Found
at
Bryn
Mawr
But
Deny
Any
Knowledge
of
Kidnapping
SiIQNJi'few..Jirsey
March
19
Two
servants,
a
man
and
a
woman,
who
disappeared
Irom
the-household
of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
C.
L
Llghtfoot
of
Franklin
Park,.
New
Jersey,
on
Jlirch
J,
the
daft
tlii-
lowing
the
kidnapping
ot
trie
Lirjdi
bergh
baby
jand
for
wiom
the
police
have
since
been
searching,
were
located
yesterday
employed
at
a
fashionable
home
In
Bryn
Mawr,
Pennsylvania.
On
bclmj
luestloned,
both
denied
any
know-'edge
of
the
whereabouts
of
tha
".hild
01
of
having
had
anything
to
do
with
the
abduction.
There
were
no
new
developments
In
connection
with
the
search,
it
was
stated
by
the
authorities
last
night.
NEW
BLOOD
FOR
AIMEE
TranfuUon
Administered
for
Fa.
mous
Evangelist
and
Her
Condition
is
Improved
LOS
ANGELES,
March
19
Condition
of
Almee
Semple
McPher-son
Hutton,
noted
evangelist,
waj
reported
last
night
as
being
satisfactory
following
a
blood
transfusion
Wednesday.
Lester
J.
May.
m
assistant
secretary
of
the
Y.M.O.
A.
gave
blood
for
Mrs.
Hutton.
Physicians
of
the
evangelist
stated
that
she
had
never
fully
recovered
from
a
nervous
breakdown
a
year
ago.
ALL
INCOME
EARNERS
MUST
FILE
RETURNS
VICTORIA,
March
19:
Ev-.4
ery
person
with
an
income
In
British
Columbia
will
have
to
fill
out
an
income
tax
return
this
year,
it
was
stated
at
th
finance
department
yesterday,
before
filing!
the
returns,
however,
it
was
suggested,
that
Income
earners
wait
until
full
;
details
of
the
new
Income
tax
as
provided
for
in
the
budget
introduced
this
week,
arc
announced
In
an
official
advertisement
to
be
published
shortly
In
all
newspapers
of
the
province.
r
it
i
It