L-.f; 4 w : it ' ) ' it PA02 FOUR. THtf DAIE7 NEWS MAYOR TELLS Insist on "GRANT'S For Sale al Vendor BEST or PROCURABLE" direct from ".Mall OruVr The Qf , '" llnt." Llauor Control Board, Victoria, B.C. News of the Sport World ABOUT CITY AMERICANS i MOVE AHEAD! Defeated Montreal Canadlens In Tightly Contested National League Hockey Game NEW YORK. Jan. 8: The Montreal Canadiens were displaced from secend place In the international division of the National Hockey League last night by the New York Americans who defeated themJ one to nil here in a keenly contested game. Boston Bruins made it a tie with Chicago Black Hawks for second place In the Americans division when they played a scoreless draw with Detroit Falcons. The lowly Montreal Maroons inflicted a 4 to 3 defeat on the fast-moving New York Rangers at Montreal In a hotly contested Hockey Standings International Division W. D. L. Toronto 9 5 7 Americans 1 6 9 Canadlens 8 3 10 Maroons 6 3 12 . American Division Rangers 13 5 4 Chicago 7 7 6 Boston 7 7 5 Detroit 6 4 11 SAVE MONEY! "Roll Your Own" with ZIG-ZAG CIGARETTE PAPERS Kara McRAE BROS., LTD. p. 23 20 19 15 WHIST PLAY LAST NIGHT Second Half of Season Opercd With Five Games Whist League results last night were as follows: MusketecTi, 7; Sons of 'Norway 2. I.Q.O.F., 6; Totem Park, 3. Fish Packers, 5; Seal Cove, 4. Empress. 5; Legion 4. 120 Leaf Book-5c The original automatic book. On leafatatime. Nowite. 1201eaveSc Demand ZIG-ZAG refuse imitations , Hotel Arrivals New Royal Hotel THE HOTEL WORTH WHILE Hot & Cold water: Steam Heat 75c. PER DAY AND LP J. Zarelll Trlrphone tSI J. Jones, Vaneouver. Typewriters FOR RENT Call or Phone 6 Wc Carry a Representative Stock of Popular Car Parts For Prompt Efficient Service Phone 566 RUPERT MOTORS Oarage tc Service Station Mint Calls 161 SPORT CHAT 31 ' Englishmen are still talking about 21 the sensational scoring of Don 21 Bradman, the young Australian 16 cricketer, at Melbourne a few days 'ago. He and W. M. Woodful together added 274 to the score against ! South Africa before they parted tcompany. Previously the record was held by Woodful and Mr. Cartney when in 1926 they scored together 235. Dr. Alexander Alekhirle, world's chess champion, will leave Paris early this year on a voyage round tto world to study the game In many countries, "ftie most interesting part of his trip, says Dr. Alek-hine, will be India, which he believes is the home of chess and where he hopes to make discoveries as to the origin of the game. He will visit Egypt, Palestine, Syria, India, Indo-Chlna, China, Japan and North America. i JEWELERS i HAVE LEAD i Four Out of Five Junior League I Billlaid Games Were Prayed Last Niht As a result of the playing of four out of five games In last night's Junior Billiard League fixture between League of Nations and Jewelers, the latter are leading by an aggregate score of 722 to 719. Individual scores were as follows: 1 Frank Aid ridge (League of Nations), 163; John Bulger (Jewelers. . 200. : Earl Bait, 185; L. Raabe, 200. Roy Fong, 171: J. SAUnders, 200, Prlmo Vaceher 200; A. Strachan. 122. Benny Wendle and Blliy Stewart will play tonight. Alameda Will Be Probably Junked Alt Bids For Repairs Exceeded In-j sured Yalue of Vessel SEATTLE, Jan. 8: Bids for repairing the steamer Alameda of the Alatka Steamship Co., were opened Tuesday morning at the offices of the company, and as all the bids exceeded the Insured value of the vessel, $500,000. it Is believed the , vessel will be sold by the underwriters and scrapped. - Four Pacific Coast shipyards sab Shipbuilding Co.. San Francisco, $648,500 It Is estimated that about 2C per cent, of licensed pilots In Eng land are women, with the number! Annual Waiter's Race in Miami Move fast and become head waiter. In this annual waiters race in Miami the lad that romps home first becomes head man around the premises. But hurdling with a tray is not so easy. CULBERTSO.V LEAD IS FURTHER CUT NEW YORK, Jan. 8: The ' lead of Ely Culbertson in the r contract bridge marathon with Sidney Lenz was further cut to 8.770 points last night. The rate In the Bols. de Saint Cloud. Paris. She ran away from about flty others BASKETBALL January 8 mltted bids 'for repairing the A"W-H Panthers v. ?. N. -R meda. as follows: Todd Dry Docks. Inc.. Seattle, $590,000; Smith Valley Iron Works, Portland, $598,000; Moore Dry Dock Co., Oakland. $659,000; Bethlehem Amazons vs. Cardinals. League of Nations vs. Japanese January 12 33 Taxi vs. O. N. R. Tuxts vs. Merchants. Comets vs. Amazons. Rovers vs. Japanese Assn. January 15 Panthtrs vs?,32 Taxi. High School vs. Merchants. Cardinals vs. Comets. League Of Nations vs. Scouts. Perfect Hand Dealt contest is to be brought to a Dr. R. S. Sinclair became the first close tonight by playing the re- j reported person In the world to Ave., Friday night, with Mrs. Doug las as his partner. Cards for the second hand of the evening were "made" by Mr. Douglas, cut by Mrs. I Sinclair and dealt by Mrs. Douglas. When his turn was reached Dr. i Sinclair, who received 13 spades, declared af'grand slam hi spades and threw In his hand. :L0G SCALE DECREASED Production For 1931 91.8lt.212 B.F. As Against 13S.0S.;?9 B.F. in Year Previous j Timber scaling in Prince Rupert forestry district fur the year 1931 totalled 91,834.212 board feet as compared with 138,025.729 board feet In 1980, it Is shown by a com-nllatlon of official figures. For the month of December 1931 the scale amounted to 521.133 board feet as against 2811.742 board feet In December. 1930. Following was the log scale per varieties in December 1930. figures for 1931 being also given for 1931 1930 B.F. B.F. Douglas Fir . 46,943 P0.251 Cedar 96.759 037.252 Spruce . 210.459 1,409.431 Hemlock 106.109 541.657 Balsam 61,792 131,713 Jackplne . 286 Miscellaneous . 1,147 Totals 521.122 2311,742 l Forest Products ! Lineal feet of poles, piling, etc. produced in December 1931 amoun-1 ted to 31,635 feet cedar as compared ; with 68,466- feet In December 1930 lanrl 1 127 Urinal fpcf Vimlrvlr as Mile. Renee Amandon u chn- ieorflpam, wlth 2iooo lineal feet In plon of the recent cross country th(ime m0lUn 0, the Mt vlous. The total for December 1931 was .32,762 lineal feet as compared with 71,366 lineal feet in December, 1930. Cordwood was cut In December. 1931 to the amount of 114 cords as compared with 493 cords In Decern-1 ber, 1930. Hewn ties for December,' 1931 niimhnrMi 5 409 nlpi-M I lark. pirie) as against 21,039 pieces in December, 1930. CRIBBAGE January 11 Swifts vs. Elks. I. O. O. Fvt, Seal Cove. Eagles vs. Moose. P. R Hotel vsi Grotto. Musketeers vsK. C. Gives Address at Meeting: of Rotary Club on Local Conditions "It is no use denying that conditions In the city are bad bu', they are not half as bad as some people teem to hope they are, "di clared Mayor Orme in an addreu to the Prince Rupert Rotary Club at Its weekly luncheon in the . Commodore Cafe yesterday. j The mayor told a story to 11- j lustrate how pondering on the badness of the times affected people. According to the story there was a man about to commit suicide by Jumping into the river. Another mar saw what he was abou' to do and suggested that he com and talk it over. They diseussexi, j the bad times which was the cause of the attempted suicide and then both Jumped Irto the river, i "The best thing about the may- holes as the season advanced and I lit became necessary to find work j for those who had no other mean of support." ! The Mayor went on to say that the city owed the bank $165,000 of $103,000 was covered by de- In Edmonton Bridge t whleh i i unsold. The city couneil . , , , i i iiuu oevn umq mere wouia oe a JvAtTIP oanic af" ai new ni PW Ypaitllgood icais. market for bonds lr the fall nd u waj not untu tate lo Sep, jtember that it became evident EDMONTON, Jan. 8: -Opening, there would be no sale for, them the new year with a grand slam, j except -it a big discount. The sum ' mainlng six rubbers. catch a perfect bridge hand In 1932. iand Dominion Governments woulo Dr. Sinclair was playing at the ! take up $47,500. . borne of Walter Douglas, 11015 85. in 1931 $15,000 had been paid French Runner of $49,000 had been spnt on street grading of which the provincial out In direct relief and exchange on debenture payments In New York had cost $10,000. This was $25,000 that had not been figured on. Government Bonds During the year the Govern ment grants had been well up lo EM TO si core ii PURE WHISKY RICHEST IN FINEST HIGHLAND MALT BEST PROCURABLE ButtiM ta4 luanatmt t Willum Gram 4 Son Limltnt GlrnfcMMi M Btlvrni-RUfilivrt DiKtlllrrin, liu. Iowa 4 G1ro, Scotland. Tin's advt rti-rmcnt i- nut puMNhe'l r (htmyt-t l t! Control I'.u.ird or the ( "luvenuncnt of British Cuhm permanent Job," said the Mayor "The city has had a hard row ;o the estimates but it was announ- Dominion Governim-i. jhoe this year, Just as has every :ed that the school grant would be something to relieve 'other municipality. We thought at cut eight per ceit this year. Col be very difficult for jthe beginning of the year we lection of taxes had brouglr. take care of the reh would reduce the city's Indebted-'eighty per cent, and an extra five The sum of $39,000 w 'ness but the nlan was shot full of per cent, on arrears. This was a essary to complete all good showing but he was fearful work that had been st. for thcv coming year. Many smH The Mayor said ho taxpayers had been getting only pessimist. He would d.. enough to eat and had run bills well as possible, kepp w with the merchants. trust in God. The Mayor expressed himself as opposed to a drastic cut In the assessments. It would destroy con fidence in the city and would do no good. No one could say today Just what were proper values tn the city. ELECTION 1 INTERES Outside of the fixed charges, the MJ c , B ,nn, t0 11a hmb 11 IUa . W aUii ii at .jvn 'l Bvr-j ,n ,.H , SoMn(j li(v trnment had been gradually re- dueed dulrsg the part four or trvf SEATTLE Jan 8 T During the cowing the .srs. year here acUvlty jnt no., trietest would be neces- economy tkm yoim fof lhf , r be balanced dWatet have fMed notio DeaHng with the unemployed si.- (or tnp ma.. nation. Mr. Orme went Into some; detail teltt-f about the average' -amlngs under the unemployment More passengers are iheme. The ctty council was w: more freight and mai; a blame for the present situation m the Vntted' States n ' d he was still hopeful that the the combined airlines : EROEMCI You can cnll the doctor at '1 u. m. but you cannot possibly gel IIemiesy Three Star Brandy at that hour bo . KEEP IT HANDY! lEttNESSt tCS8K3l HENNESS BRANDY BOTTLED AT COGNAC, FRANCE cocnac : P 'it. This dvertl,menUa.not publlshsd or displayed bthe Uquor Control Hoard or by tfie (iovernm-nt of British Columbia