Today's
Weather
Tomorrow's
Tides
prince
Rupert
Overcast,
misty,
Wednesday,
June
29,
1932
southwest
wind,
seven
miles
per
mmm
High
0:40
&m.
15.1
It.
22:26
pjn.
18.6
It.
hour
barometer.
30.00;
temperature
57;
sea
smooth.
Low
L.
4:30
ajn.
6.6
ft
15:56
pjn.
9.9
It.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
VoL
XXIII
No.
150.
TUESDA
JUNE
1932
PEICE:
FIVE
CENTS
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
Y,
28,
CONVENTION
TALKS
UNEMPLOYMENT
''BIGGEST
GOLD
LEDGE
IN
WORLD"
IS
'
REPORTED
FOUND
-
Town
&.Z&rdova
Is
Stirred
Renorts
Of
Two
Prospectors
Claims
Staked
on
Copper
River
Railway
Where
Breaking
Glacier
Washed
Away
Mountainside
300
Million
Tons
of
$300
Ore
in
Sight
mRDOVA
Alnakn
.Tlinp
9R-
CnrAnva
hna
haan
atir-
red
by
reports
of
Fred
Johanson
and
E.
E.
Smith
that
they
have
discovered
the
"biggest
ledge
of
gold
in
the
world."
TV
two
men
have
staked
twenty-two
claims
near
Mile
41
on
the
Copper
River
Railway
where
the
recent
breaking
of
a
huge
glacier
washed
away
the
entire
side
of
a
Tr
f
ro
is
said
to
be
300
million
tons
of
ore
in
sight
with
:
r-.
;,
-
running
$300
per
ton.
RESULTS
AT
WIMBLEDON
iidnev
II.
Wood.
Last
Year's
Champion,
Eliminated
By
Jap
Vines,
Crawford,
Austin
Win
WIMBLEDON,
wig..
June
:
I
rth
Vines
of
thr
United
States
6
:
'ed
Enrique
Mnier.
Spain.
6-2.
6-2
in
the
quarter-finals
of
B"
'
h
men's
tennis
play
today
Satch.
Japan,
defeats
Slri-rn
B
Wood.
United
Slates,
the
de-?
!
iiiiR
champion,
7-5.
7-5.
2-6.
6
4
.T.-ic
Crawford.
Australian
ace,
r
c
to
brilliant
heights
to
defeat
Frr-I
Perry.
England's
star.
7-5.
8-6,
J
a
8-6.
H
W
"Bunny"
Auatin.
England,
tied
Frank
8hlelda,
United
!'
-.c-
6-!.
9-7,
5-7.
6-1.
NO
RELIEF
AT
T0PLEY
Interior
Community
Boasts
Enviable
Record
in
These
Hard
Times
T'lpLEY.
June
18
This
district
r.
ll.e
main
line
of
the
Canadian
Na'
lonal
Railway
between
Smithers
and
Burns
Late
which
include
V
settlements
of
Topley.
Foreat-fi.li'
and
Perow
boaaU
the
fact
Mutt,
to
date,
despite
two
years
of
ii
presalon.
not
a
single
dollar
has
bwn
paid
out
to
Its
clttaens
on
dl-r--t
relief.
Nor
has
a
dollar
been
a
kod
for
'rorn
either
federal
or
pt
'Vtnclal
authorities
Almost
every
householder
owns
a
tow.
a
few
hens
and.
perhaps,
a
pin
There
are
fish
in
the
lakes
and
streams
and
wild
meat
in
the
'Bv
fvmtwYln
our
resources
and
exercising
frugality,
we
have
managed
so
far,"
declared
a
leading
citizen
recently
"and
we
are
hoping
that
our
record,
which
we
thing
la
unique
In
Canada,
will
remain
unbroken."
BURIED
YESTERDAY
The
funeral
of
the
late
Mrs.
Ell
abeth
Williams,
whose
death
occurred
last
Friday
morning
at
the
home
of
her
daughter.
Mrs.
John
Olsen
Dunsmulr
Street,
took
place
lew
Cemetery.
Rev.
W.
u.
oran
Oram
Hollingworth,
pastor
of
First
Fres
byterlan
Churoh,
officiated
MILK
FOR
flclary.
CHILDREN
Women's
Labor
League
to
Present
Demand
to
City
Council
At
a
regular
meeting
of
tiie
Wo
Labor
League
held
last
night.
it
wms
unanimously
decided
that
the
city
council
be
written,
demand
ing
fresh
milk
for
the
small
children
of
unemployed
who
are
in
receipt
of
relief.
During
the
lively
discussion
that
arose
out
of
this
motion
It
was
Minted
out
by
several
of
the
mem-
ben
that
fresh
mUk
is
essential
in
the
casta
of
children
who
are
being
fed
bv
bottle,
and
canned
milk
had
not
the
same
quality,
losing
some
of
its
body
In
the
process
of
can
nini.
Oreat
interest
was
shown
In
the
present
crisis
by
the
30
members
nrasent
and
'various
suggestions
were
made
whereby
the
suffering
of
the
unemployed
could
be
alleviated
but
owing
to
the
lateness
of
the
hour,
these
could
not
be
thoroughly
dealt
with
and
were
left
over
until
the
next
meeting.
Thr
tone
of
the
meeting
as
a
tirhni
showed
that
women
of
the
city
were
beginning
to
realise
the
nMMitv
of
the
working
class
wo
men.
as
well
as
the
men.
organli-
tng.
District
Engineer
Gwyer
Visits
Fort
St.
John
in
Peace
FORT
ST.
JOHN.
June
28
W
K
Owyer.
district
engineer
for
the
provincial
department
of
public
works,
was
in
Fort
St.
John
recently
on
an
inspection
tour
of
the
district.
He
spent
considerable
time
In
examining
the
possibilities
of
the
proposed
Hope
road.
Real-
dents
here
are
noping
ior
in
connection
with
this
roaa.
Doheny
Had
pel
of
the
B.
C.
Undertakers
to
Fair-,
wW
was
Big
Estate
Jil
Magnate
Left
Fortune
of
$14,
000,000
to
Ills
Wife
Under
Terms
of
Will
NEW
YORK.
June
28
-.-Edward
.
r
oil
magnate,
whose
filed
lor
prooavc
"i
nrint
week-end.
left
an
eawve
"
wrr,v
v
bene-
......
.j,,,
nle
!
OOO.OOO
wun
in
'u""
IS
LAID
AT
REST
Many
Attend
Obsequies
For
Late
C.
A.
Kirkendall
This
Afternoon
Under
the
auspices
of
Tslmpsean
LodgeF
U
A.
M-,
of
which
de
ceased
was
an
officer,
the
funeral
if
the
late
Claude
A.
Kirkendall.
lo-
al
manager
of
th'e
Booth
Fisheries
Co.,
whose-
death
occurred
on
Sun-
lay
morning,
took
place
this
after
noon..
Followine
a
Masonic
service
In
the
Temple
on
Sixth
Avenue,
members
of
the
craft
paraded
to
First
Presbyterian
Church
where
the
service
was
conducted
by
the
pastor.
Rev.
W.
D.
Grant
Hollingworth.
In
ad
dition
to
the
Masons,
members
of
the
Gyro
Club
and
of
the
staff
of
the
Booth
Fisheries
attended
in
a
body.
The
church
was
crowded
with
those
desirious
of
paying
tribute
of
respect
and
sympathy.
The
pastor
spoke
appropriately
to
the
occasion.
Mrs.
J.
H.
McLeod
sang
O
Love
That
Wilt
Not
Let
Me
Go."
Hymns
were
"Nearer
My
God
to
Thee"
and
"Abide
With
Me."
William
Crutckshank.
president
of
the
Oyro
Club,
and
L.
W.
Waugh.
nast
president
acted
as
ushers.
FoUowinE
the
church
service,
the
Masonic
Lodge
took
charge
and
there
was
a
Drocesslon
from
the
church
to
the
corner
of
Third
Ai
enue
and
McBride
Street
whete
-rs
were
taken
to
Falrview
Ceme
tery.
A
long
concourse
followed
the
cortege
to
the
final
resting
place.
J.
J.
Little,
senior
warden
oi
Tslmpsean
Lodge,
was
In
charge
of
the
burial
service
In
the
absence
from
the
city
of
the
worshipful
master,
Frank
Dibb.
There
were
the
usual
rites
of
the
craft
at
the
ce
metery.
I.
Pallbearers
represented
the
Ma-icnlc
Order,
the
Gyro
Club,
the
Ro-try
Club
and
the
Prince
Rupert
Hherlea
Association.
They
were
W.
Birch.
C.
H.
El
kins.
H.
F.
Wearmouth.
C.
E.
Starr.
C.
C.
Mills
nd
J.
L.
Lee.
RAILWAY
REVENUE
Gross
Receipts
Are
Much
Lower
But
Operating
Expenses
Cut
uown
MONTREAL,
June
28:-In
spite
if
a
large
falling
off
in
gross
receipts,
the
Canadian
National
Railways
in
May.
1OT2
had
net
revenue,
after
the
payment
of
operating
ex-
iiensea,
of
$?31.TOl.oo.
an
increase
of
$281,105.
or
60.
as
compared
with
May
of
last
year.
The
cross
revenues
m
May.
iw
were
Sll.688.354.
a
decrease
of
$3.-
918.278
from
the
1931
figures.
Oper
attng
expenses
were,
however,
re
riuced
bv
$4,209,378.
being
$10,954
559
In
My.
1032
as
compared
wltn
$15,103,937
In
May.
1831.
The
ODeratlng
ratio,
that
Is,
the
mtio
of
exDenses
to
gross
earnings.
ot.74
as
compared
with
97.18
In
May.
1931.
J
During
the
first
five
months
or
the
present
year
the
Canadian
Na
tional
Railways
nas
naa
gross
revenues
of
$57,750,742
as
compared
with
$7339396
in
1931.
a
decrease
i0f
$1588,654.
This
falling
oil
m
traffic
has
been
met
by
operating
economies
totalling
$15,035,431
in
the
five
monllis
as
compared
wun
the
same
period
of
1931.
The
railway
to
the
end
oi
May
ha
had
a
net
revenue
for
iva
oi
ii
iRnsia.
the
operating
ratio
for
the
five
months
of
this
year
being
9795
as
compared
wun
mm
in
the
first
five
months
of
1931.
California's
Girl
Sprinter
rhe
gal
among
glads
is
Evelyn
F
urtsch.
one
of
California's
best
sprinters,
who
hopes
to
do
big
things
at
the
summer
games.
The
gladolus.
by
the
way.
is
the
official
Hower
of
the
Olympiad.
Municipalities
Union
Makes
Suggestions
In
Dealing
With
Idle
Whole
Matter
is
Declared
to
Be
Federal
Obligation
Di-
.
.
mm
m
x
1
J
rect
Keliel
is
uisapprovea
maintenance
of
Camps
Urged
NELSON,
June
28:
After
a
preamble
setting
out
the
condition
of
unemployment,
the
Union
of
British
Columbia
Municipalities
convention
today
passed
a
resolution
stating
that
the
whole
matter
of
unemployment
is
a
federal
obligation,
disapproving
the
system
of
direct
relief,
urging
that
camps
for
single
men
be
maintained
open
as
at
present
and
that,
where
a
municipality
is
financially
unable
to
continue
direct
relief,
the
provincial
government
take
control
and
handle
this
particular
portion
of
municipal
government.
M'GUIRE
RESIGNS
Deal
in
Connection
With
Woodbine
Gold
Mining
Co.
Has
Fallen
Through,
It
Is
Announced
Negotiations
between
Woodbine
Oold
Mining
Co.
Ltd.
and
Missouri
Ridge
Oold
Mines
Ltd.
of
Ontario
In
connection
with
the
Woodbine
nroDerty
In
the
Portland
Canal
district
have
been
unsuccessful,
according
to
Hugh
McOulre,
managing
director
of
Woodbine,
who
PATIENTS
SAVED
WHEN
ALASKA
HOSPITAL
BURNS
KANAKANAK.
Alaska,
June
28:
Fire
of
undetermined
or-
lgln
destroyed
the
government
1
hospital
here
and
three
ad-
lointn?
bulldinas
yesterday.
There
wreno
casualties.
Eieh-
teen
patlenta
were
saved.
pasted
through
through
the
city
a
lew
days
ago
enroute
from
Van
couver
to
Stewart.
In
view
of
recent
differences
among
shareholders
of
the
com
pany,
Mr.
McOulre
Intimate
that
he
has
decided
to
resign
as
active
head
of
the
company
although
he
will
continue
to
remain
on
the
board
of
directors
until
compan
affairs
have
been
cleaned
up
These
differences
had
an
adversi
effect
upon
the
recent
negotla
tlons,
Mr.
McOulre
suggests.
The
proposed
Investigation
of
Woodbine
affairs,
Alexander
Henderson.
K.C..
of
Vancouver
says,
will
go
back
for
several
years
WEATHER
REPORT
Dead
Tree
Point
Overcast,
light
wutheast
wind:
barometer,
29.94;
temperature,
54;
light
swell.
Triple
Island
Cloudy,
light
sou
therly
wind;
sea
moderate.
VANCOUVER
WHEAT
People
of
Burns
Lake
and
Vanderhoof
Optimistic
In
Regard
to
Mining
Industry
(By
C.
M.
Irvine)
BURNS
LAKE,
June
28:
Lack
of
rain
in
the
interior
around
the
vicinity
of
Burns
Lake
and
Vanderhoof
is
causing
great
harm
to
the
crops
this
year.
The
soil
is
very
dry
and
even
the
garden
plants
are
being
spoiled
by
lack
of
moisture.
There
are
a
great
many
forest
fires
this
year
and
seem-
Ingly.
very
little
effort
Is
being
made
to
stop
them.
Along
some
of
mw
pnrrif
tn
the
roads
that
once
were
pretty
HI
HI
I
1
1
I
ftl
drives
can
now
be
seen
only
large
stretches
of
blackened
timber.
The
tourist
season
Is
Just
starting
now
at
Burns
Lake.
Many
cars
of
tourists,
both
from
Eastern
Canada
and
the
United
States,
pass
through
here
during
the
summer.
Some
sto
j
only
for
repairs
while
others
spend
the.
night
One
of
the
popular
drives
taken
out
of
Burns
Lake
is
to
Francois
and
Oots
Lakes
where
beautiful
scenery,
combined
with
a
good
fishing
and
hunting
country,
makes
a
great
'
place
for
the
people
of
the
east
and
States
to
visit.
Aerial
Base
An
Interesting
feature
of
Bums
Lake
ii
the
fact
that
it
Is
the
base
rat
one
Canadian
Airways-plane
and
one
Consolidated
Mining
as
smelting
Co.
plane.
These
planes
will
be
working
out
of
here
all
summer.
B.
A.
Smith,
well
known
Burns
Lake
resident,
has
men
at
work
now
building
a
third
log
cabin
on
the
shore
of
Bums
Lake
near
the
air
plane
landing.
Two
of
these
cabins
have
already
been
completed
and
ire
occuDled
by
the
pilots
of
the
plane
and
their
families.
Mr.
Smith
claims
that
these
cabins
are
being
rented
as
fast
as
he
can
put
them
up
and
that
he
intends
continuing
building.
The
Canadian
Airways
plane
Is
used
to
carry
both
supplies
and
men
to
and
from
the
Mcconneii
tree
mining
property.
Work
In
this
min
ing
district
has
been
In
progress
Vnce
last
February
and
there
are
some
52
men
on
the
payroll
with
more
going
In
all
the
time.
It
is
believed
that
two
more
Ca
nadian
Airways
planes
will
be
ar
riving
shortly
to
assist
in
this
work.
which
would
seem
to
indicate
uiai
something
worth
while
is
going
on.
John
L.
Loveseth.
one
of
the
op
erators
at
McConnell
Creek,
who
has
been
on
a
business
trip
to
Edmonton,
passed
through
Burns
Lake
Friday
returning
to
the
property
Dy
way
of
Fort
St.
James.
Vanderhoof
Also
Interested
Peonle
of
Vanderhoof
are
also
greatly
Interested
In
mining
-
actl
ARE
HELD
Joseph
Jean
Retains
Malsonneuva
Federal
Seat
For
Liberals-Jones
Re-elected
in
Royal
MONTREAL,
June
28:
Joseph
can
retained
the
riding
of
Malson
euve
for
the
Liberals
in
Monday's
ty-election
to
the
House
of
Com-ions.
He
was
elected
to
succeed,
he
late'
Clement
RobitalUe
by
a
ajority
of
approximately
1000
aver
Jean
Fateux,
Conservative.
Three
other
candidates
a
Labor-
itee,
an
Independent
Liberal
and
a
Socialist
lost
their
deposits.
SUSSEX.
N-B-JW'HoS.
George
Jones,
Conservative,
was
returned
to
the
House
of
Commons
y
a
majority
of
588
votes
in
yei-.
terday's
by-elecuon
in
Royal
orer
his
Liberal
opponent.
Donald
White.
The
by-election
was
necessitated
by
he
resignation
of
Jones
from
tne
House
of
Commons
last
April
under
i
technicality
in
the
House
of
Commons
Act.
STRIKE
IS
EXTENDED
Spring
Salmon
Fishermen
Cease
Operations
on
Skeena
and
Naat
In
Sympathy
With
The
second
week
of
the
sockeye
fishing
season
on
the
Skeena
and
Naas
Rivers
in
the
Prince
Rupert
41s4rlet
sees
the
entire
salmon
fish
ing
fleet
tied
up
and
the
canneries
idle
for
lack
of
fish.
Salmon
gill-
netters,
who
have
been
holding
out
tor
30c
per
fish.
Instead
of
27
Ifcc
as
offered
by
the
canners.
have
now
-alsed
their
demand
to
40c
per
fish
in
dhave
been
Joined
In
"striking"
by
the
spring
salmon
fishermen.
A
few
seiners
are
operating
in
he
Lowe
Inlet
area
and
elsewhere
a
the
southern
part
of
the
district
while
WIUW
UUlCr
others
are
ItlV
tied
UTAl
up
UU
"4
in
JIM
viUes
this
year,
and
many
men
nave
wlth
the
giunetters.
.on.
intn
Into
Slate
Clofo
(7rnlr
Creek
nn
on
Manson
Manson
...
...
.,
.
rone
Creek
property
It
Is
understood
that
managers
of
the
HIV
Skeena
URCVlin
River
.,.
canneries
..a.vvw
are
to
ww
l
Kvral
par
loads
of
macnlnery
mh
a
mMtln
in
Prinee
Runert
to
ire
now
going
In.
making
ready
for
discuss
the
situation.
operations.
The
Consolidated
Company,
together
with
the
provincial
govern
ment,
is
working
on
a
miy-iiuy
basis
building
a
road
of
approxi
mately
forty
miles
Journey
up
the
road
which
now
runs
as
far
as
Nation
River,
with
Manson
Creek,
in
order
to
get
the
machinery
through.
The
people
on
the
whole
are
very
,
optimistic
in
regard
to
the
mining
activities
in
this
part
of
the
coun
try.
NO
FISH
SALE
TODAY
)EATH
OF
CHAPLAIN
Father
Frances
B.
Dudley
Dies
In
New
York
Was
Overseas
With
VS.
Fithtlnr
Sixty-Ninth
,
1
4
NEW
YORK.
June
28
Father
Francis
B.
Dudley,
aged
61,
one
ot
the
beat
known
chaplains
In
France
with
the
United
States
fnrrp
in
the
Oreat
War.
died
on
.
There
was
no
sale
of
halibut
on
Sunday
In
St.
Vincent's
Hospital
the
local
fish
exchange
this
morn-
re.
Dudley,
who
went
ov
VANCOUVER.
June
28:
-
Wheat
,
lcan
Leviathan
with
32.000
pounds
Ninth,
was
decorated
by
both
the
was
quoted
at
SIVkc
on
the
local
which
is
holding
over
until
tomor-United
States
and
French
govern-exchange
today.
row.
,menU.