It 1 lleut. '-niK,ira. who has rereivad lUcnrr lor the attempted nation of President-elect n of Um United States ! ' wounding of four per- 'i Miami, Florida, is shown ' he appeared as a soldier In Italy's army. Vancouver Wheat NcoUVER. Feb. 27: -Wheat ' (1 txl.y on the local grain 'f at 45'jC. Pioneer of B. C. Dies at Vancouver VANCOUVER. FVb 27 John Robert Klna:. prominent pioneer figure In mining, fishing and lumbering Indus tries of the coast is dead here aged 80. Ill.l AT VANCOtlvr.R VANCOUVER, Feb. 17 Archibald McDonald, eighty-eight years old, is dead here. He was a member for the Provincial Legislature for Lai-looot district for twenty years. Meeting This Week to Bring Back W. J. Bowser Into Political Life And Launch New Political Party VICTORIA, Fob. 27: The first step in the long-heral-!' 1 Movement to bring back W. J. Bowser, K.C., into Hri-f i h ( olumbia politics as head of a party consisting of both Cons native and Liboral elements, will get undor way at mas meeting to bo hold here next Thursday, it is an-ii 'Vtn -ed. l,t'ier meetings will follow on the mainland including w v i i x Vancouver about a week later. Mr. Howser has remained silent but it is stated he 'will ' " present at Thursdays mooting. , , , , , , , In the meantimo Promior Tolmie is stated by his frionda he tretting ready to doal firmly with any rebels in his " understood that G. A. Wnlkom, M.LA. has notified 'ivmier that ho wishes to be considered an indopen- Tomorrow's THes t it Monday, February 27 High 3:28.0 ,... She mmm The New Chevrolet .. Will be Low :53 ajn. "fV on Display at 21:53 p.m. v?V; Kaien Motors Show Room NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER All Cordially Invited Phone 52 vtf ,?? XXIV 48. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1933 PREVENT ARMS SHIPMENTS TO ORIENT LEGISLATURE AT VICTORIA TO DISCUSS INTEREST RATES Arms Shipments to Japan or China Are Prohibited and Other Nations To Follow Suit It Is Expected Almost Lynched lssV r kdsB Trance Expresses Readiness to Agree -te Embargo Pro-vided Britain and United States Do Same United-States is Watching and Waiting LONDON Feb. 27:-From today the government of! me uiiuw lunguom win issue no permits for shipment of anna or ammunition from United Kingdom to either Ja-pan or China. Existing contracts will be allowed to stand hut after that all shipments will be stopped. WASHINGTON. Feb. 27:-Co-operation of the United KSUtei with an advisory committee RELIANCE IS MISSING Halibut Vrtcl Left Here Friday lor Ketthlkan and lias Not. Vet Arritrd Search ibclnrrmadc for" Ihe halibut boat Reliance which left here on Friday afternoon for Ketchikan and )t nt yet rra- hed port. Woid to that effect Mas received today hv Consul Woodward in a wiree inemaic from Ihe I'. S. roaslguard Alrrt. It we m that the Reliance, which h a four-man boat skip-ncicd by Captain Call Wend-helm and registered at Kctrhi-kan, left here Friday alttrnoon alter felling her calth here. She was latt keen off Green loland and lnce then no word of her has been rreelved. The llellanre It, also left the Mine alternnon but it Is not thought that that ran be the boat niilng. crated by the League of Nation to follow ManChurtan develop-menu u announced today by the state department. PARIS. Fee 37 France is ready to participate In any arms em- bargo by the League of National lor the Par Bast provided Oreat, umain and United Stales also partdpate. it was learned today in hash Government ctrdes. Edmonton Man is On Directorate of P. George Mines EDMONTON', Feb. 27: II. O Creel man of Edmonton has been reelected a director of the Prince Oeorje Gold Mine Ltd., in which a number of Bdmonton professional aad businessmen are interested. The else lion took place at Calgary where the annual meeting of Ute company km held, and other officers of the company are: J. McCa fiery, presi dent: O. II. Cloakey. vice-president; J. W. Mitchell, secretary-treasurer. R. Spooner on the board of dlrrc-and R. J. Dick. A. Z. Illcks and II. tors. The company's holdings are in Carx district of British Columbia and are situated about 15 miles south of Prince Oeortr on the Fra-aer Rrter. It is stated that they show atfiu of producing good gold returns with development, which Is being proceeded with. Halibut Arrivals American Bad to, H,m. 4Je and 1c. Cold Storaft, upertor, 18.000. 4.4c and Sc. Pacific. Neptune, 14,800, 44c and Sc. Pa-cific. Taknah. ,&eo, 4e and Se, Atlln. Oarland, UftOQ, 4c and 3c, Pacific. Preemont, 14,000. 45c and 2c. Royal. Unorasc, 8,000. 4.Gc and 3c, Cold Storage. Reform, 8.000, 4.5c and 3c, Royal. Suome, 600, 4.8c and 2c, Cold Storage, Canadian Takia, 32,000, 3ic and 3c, Qoki Storage. Prasperlty A 3,000, 35c and 2c, Cold Storage. Pa lander, 3.500. 3.Gc and 3c. Atlln. A) If My, 2,000, 3.6c and id. Cold Storage, . HANKER RKSKiNS NEW YORK. Feb. 37:-Vs a result of erlUeism levelled at him, Charles D. Mitchell has resigned as preal- dent0r the National City Dank. mm Sir Malcolm Campbell and the "Bluebird". Speed 1 With soundj While Sir Malcolm Campbell tuned up the -Bluebird" for his recent crack at the speed marc. tne Daytona Bugle corps serenaac hun with another tune. Sir Malcolm broke his previous record by trave ling at 273.366 miles an hour. NEW .MEM I!Klt.S OF roosevflt cabinet IIAV HYDE PAR President- a BERN NAMED rCr I.Y.. Wb. Xl IjSecft YtooaavgH an- K'in'"Utu'ppuii4iRciA ol 4- Henry Wallace of Iowa as 8c- 4 eretary of AgrirulUire and James Farley of New York as Postmaster Ocneral in the new United States cabinet. 4 4 , 4 4, Western Canada Is Considering "Scrip" Money WINNIPKO. Feb. 27 Scrip as a panacea for economic Ills Is on trial in Western Canada. Already suc plan. Committees have been struck to investigate Its value and make re commendations for its use. Last year Raymond Issued $10,000 in scrip to pay civic employees It was used to purchase goods and waa redeemable at the town hall in taxes or cash. At the end of the financial year all scrip was redeemed with less than $100 worth exchanged for cash. Similar schemes arc being studied ! bertft. Saskatchewan and Manitoba Oouncilmen of Begin a and Prince1 1 Albert. In Saskatchewan, have be- fore tliem proposals for a scrip Issue to aid in municipal financing The plan is receiving attention In Vancouver. Edmonton and Wlnni-! peg. I Railway Agent is Dead at Vancouver VANCOUVER, Feb. 27:-Bdward J. Furr, general agent for the White Pass and Yukon route Is dead here. He wot 44 years of age. Funeral Notice Tie funeral of the late Mrs. Annie MeNaughton will take ptare tomorrow at 2 pin. from the par- .'lors of the RC Undertakers. Proposal is Made to Cut Interest Rates on ' Government Bonds .Votice of Motion For Resolution to Conic Before Provincial Legislature in Nenr Future Given Today VICTORIA, Feb. 27:-E. C. Carson, Conservative member for Lillooet, giwe notice today that he will move a resolution in the Legislature asking the House to propose a nation-wide writing down of interest rates on all govern-mcnt bonds, federal, provincial and municipal. : j,. The legislature has no power to deal with this matter 'Spent Night Out I In a Snowstorm cessful in many small communities. . the test Is arousing considerable in- j PIIUKNIX, Aria.. Feb. 27: -Four terest In large centres. students who were lost when climb - Encouraged by the success at- j tng the mountain a few miles from tatned by Raymond. Alia., In the 'here were caught in a snowstorm use of scrip as a medium of ex-1 and spent the night in the open, change leading cities In the four 'Robert Saunders is dead and the western provinces are studying the 1 other three are In hospital. Ford to Rescue It.mks or Detroit Will Be Reopened As Result of Action of .Motor King DETROIT. Mich, Feb. 27: -Henry Ford has placed a substantial sum at the service of the banks which ...ill . k I a a T ? 1 by cities in British Columbl A.-'-,, ; ,.ontroli;- ln7est in tw new banks here. EXCHANGE IS HARMFUL TO CANADIANS Alberta's Minister of Agriculture Shows How Primary Producers Are Hurl by Adverse Kate BDMONTON. Feb. 87 Claiming that exchange was working to the detriment of the Canadian primary producer and that If Canada could get the advantages of exchange resulting from the Imperial Conference, there would be a tremendous market opened up In Great Britain, Hon. Oeoflge Hoadley, minister of agriculture and health, In (Continued on Page 3) except hi an advisory capacity-but I bring It officially to the attention of the Bennett government No Reduction Western Rate On the Railway JAPANESE MAKE GOOD PROGRESS Officers of Army Say They Will Reach Jehol by March 10 at Present Rate ""' CHINCHOW. Manchuria. Feb. 27: Encouraged by the rapid sweep of divisions under Lieutenant Generals Yoshikazu Nishl and Masoayemon Sakamoto and Major General Ken-nosike Mogls' cavalry brigade, Japanese officers said today they will occupy Jehol by March 10. VEREGIN IS i ILL TODAY Doukbobor Leader Free Sfsn But Is Now Ftthtmr Sickness in East Before Returning HALIFAX, Feb, 27: Victorious n his legal battle against deportation to Russia, Peter Veregln today Is , flahUnap Illness that necea&ttated delay Of his return' to the Do'uk- j hobof colonies In Western Canada, I His back Is said to be covered with J sores resulting from frost bites re-ceived while serving his term In prison at Prince Albert. Was Drowned Powell River toWJOi RIVER, Feb. 27-Fred Anderson. 45 years of age, was' a resolution coming from it wuid dfbwhed and his son Harold had a narrow escape off Powell River last Wednesday when their small boat capsized in Malasplna Straits. Today's Weather Prince Rupert Snowing, light, easterly wind; barometer. 296;" temperature, 38; smooth sea. . I Langara Overcast, light easterly OTTAWA. Feb. 27: The House of wind, moderate sea Commons on Thursday defeated the Triple Island-Overcast, light bill to reduce the freight rates mov- northwest wind, light swell, ing westward from Uie prairie, re- Dead Tree Point Part cloudy, fusing second reading of the bill on light southeast wind; barometer, a vote of 97 to 5. 1 29.73; temperature. 38; choppy sea. Activity on Gold Properties in Smithers District is in Line With General Revival in Dominion SMITHEHS, Feb. 27:A. F. Verner and F. L Owens of San Francisco spent the past week in the district looking for information about gold, and other mineral deposits. They intend to return later with an examining engineer and Uikp over and develop properties". Iast season they, took up valuable placer wound in the McConnell Creoih areas and Intend to carry on work there. -They predict a large Influx! ., .,. , " ' " of seekers after gold properties to ?d Jwo m"" froa .1.1. -...I-.. "Lake Kathlyn station on the Cana- Lodt gold deposits on Hudson Bay Mountain, immediately adjoining Smithers. gained their Interest. Several of these are favorably reported on by Government Engineer Douglas Lay in the official bulletin of last year: "Lode gold deposits of British Columbia " Mr. Verner and Mr. Owens were particularly Interested to learn of the enterprise of Smithers people In seeking to develop the Jessie Oold Mines, their own property at their very doorstep. Olacler Gulch gold-bismuth deposit, with sensationally high values dlan National Railways, wtll also b examined. The tunnel on the Free Gold. Group, Dome Mountain, east of Telkw. which is a free milling gold property owned by DaWne Oold Mines Ltd., a private company, U going steadily ahead under Ute au perviatoo of R. W. Wilson of Vancouver .-When the cross-cut now being run reaches the veins shown up by surface work last summer, probably about the end of March, drift will ba run to explore these