:i U which shook an maia '.V uiiav with disastrous result. F m uie foothills of the lllma-, in Nifrthwn IndU came rc-"I entire village being demand laid In shamble 1th e . hi.uMnd person dead, more i iu- injured and lens. If not - "i.u .if thousand horaelee. A ittirtal estimate butt night a. rvi' Unwae resulting from the '! IMF lOlHI UWU ill WIICI "f India at 124 but It appears in that, by the time the check inj.i. ir. the mortal toll will be i) in rxrfM of Ihts figure. Fruit Growers Of rv .1 in uutiooKror T coniuiencc mat, every PCVn rOVinCC bitting; l,y the time the fresh fitiViintr Konsnn owns on Annnil (nntrnllon In hrloutu rrrildrnt llnprn to See Full Unity KfXOWNA. Jan. 17 The annua!, p -iiha of the British Columbia Ft -tin Growers' Association got un-, ('"! way here yesterday. The pre-1 i' n' In his opening address, said '?mt he hoped to see the day In the tr future when all agricultural crvjhltutlons of the province would, h" tinlled so that they could speak' i'li full authority on behalf of h" farmers. j Today's Weather Terrace Snowing, calm, 28. Atyunsh- finowlntr. calm, 26. llazclton -Cloudy, calm, 22. Fmllhris-Cloudy. calm, colder. Ilurn.H Lnke-Cloudy. calm, 17. (Stewart-Snowing, calm, 30. March 1 this year, frozen stocks will have been cleaned up. This will create a healthy situation and, as a consequence, everyone identified with the industry is more hopeful." VANCOUVER. Jan. 17: CP She Halibut Good I "There is a much more optimistic tone in tlii-c;mt in. regard tolhe- fishing industry, states John Dybhavn who returned to the city on the Prince Rupert this morning from a trip to Eastern Canada and the United States. "There is Vancouver Wheat , Wheat was quoted at Mc on the local exchange yeaterday. NF.W YOKK SILVER Pattullo Requests Revision Of Liquor Duty, Taking Over P. G. E., Better B. C. Deal OTTAWA, Jan. 17: (CP) Unemployment relief and nil associated phases of this social problem promise to he the main theme of the Dominion-provincial conference which opened behind closed doors here today. The nine provinces are well represented but British Columbia has the largest delegation. Premier Pattullo of British Columbia placed three additional items on the agenda moving for a revision of the excise and customs taxes on linuor, abolition of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway by tlio Canadian National and appointment of a Koyal Commission to inquire into the fairness of treatment of British Columbia as compared with that accorded other provinces at the hands of successive Dominion governments. town from Vancouver on one of his periodical business visits here. These people had originally lnten- ico to ultimately locate such a plant In the Interior, probably along the lower Skeena Valley, but they have now decided that Prince Rupert presents a much more stra tegic site In view of the easy accessibility to the Interior timber, the ease with which waterborne shipments may be made front here and otiier'advantagex 'Nothmf de-' finite has yet been settled upon, of course, negotiations being still In progress. Mr. Besner brings reports confirming the great revival in the( logging Industry all along the Bri-j tlsh Columbia coast. Within the past few weeks no less than, two thousand loggers have left for various camps to go to work. It Is estimated. Before so very many weeks. It is expected that no less (than one thousand loggers will be n the payrolls of the reopening Queen Charlotte Island camps alone. There Is a definite Improvement In all lines of Industry, reports Mr. Besner, and everyone Is looklnf forward to a real good year In 1931 Sixty-Five Below Recorded In Fairbanks, Alaska 80 Above in Los Angeles Kanalmo, 52 above. LONDON, Jan. 17: Australian und South African gold stocks made substantial gains in yesterday's trading in London undoubtedly in response to President Roosevelt's gold program In the United States. Funeral Notice I Gold Stocks In I London Reacting j To American Plan The funeral of the late E. II. Mortimer will take place Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock from St. Andrew's Cathedral. No flowers by request. Today's Weather Tomorrow's Tides Prince Rupert 8now ssualli. High 3:22 ajn. 21.6 ft Vi-M southeast wind; ba-ometer, 15:15 pjn. 22.0 ft. Low 9:24 ajn. 5J3 It. 29.00; temperature, 35; v ")ppy. A 21:46 p.m. 2.0 It. , NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER V-.1 XXV No. 14, PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDN ESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1934 PRICE FIVE CENTB NEW MEREST IN LOCAL PULP MILL ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED FOR COLD STORAGE PLANT Eastern Owners of Timber In This District Are Negotiating for Establishment of Plant Here MANY DEAD IN TREMOR Site in Prince Rupert Felt to be More Advantageous Than Interior Outlook For Project Bright Again (ireat Revival in lagging Industry Eastern interests which hold extensive timber limits in the KiUuimkalum area and also on the Naas River are in Eitimtt Vary in itfjarti to Low in communication with F. L. Buckley at present regarding iiuiun rirthquake j,c eKia,iishment of a juilp mill at Prince Rupert and pros-t. j. 17 n pects for the Iwal project appear to be brighter at present v Mil varied wklefy mti nigni -. v - - - fti-l to the lots of life and 4 Tragic Scene Aftermath of Wreck In the mortuary ciiapel. imprw sed in t.V raiird station at Lagny, France, row n :jw oi wane coilins mer, tne gaze of President Le Brun of France t leading), and other officials, when they cme to mourn the victims of the most horrible train crash that France has ever known. A blanket fog, and frail wooden cars, caused the snuffing out of 175 lives, and the Injuring of more than 100 more, when the -jrack Paris-Btrasburg filer, travelling at 65 miles an hour, crash id Into and plowed through the frail bodies of the coaches of the Paris-Nancy Express. Both trains were crowded with holiday seekers. t Many Drowned Af P 1.1' W...lL I is Mm&rv.v T LOiainnorin C iLi SINGAPORE, Jan. W arminOOUtn! 17: (CP) One hundred 1 nnd fifr.v-slx Chinese 1 trving to smuggle them- ' selves into Singapore were drowned yester- Anv whpn an overloaded According to radio weather re- iunk sank near Cheri- r lion ' . .u- . mi run thfi storm. alX- 63 below, and the warmest. Los An geles with 80 above. Dawson repor- j ted 56 below. SeatUe and PorUand, 56 above, and San Francisco and teen survivors were WILL VISIT AUSTRALIA Staff Sergeant and ; EXPIRES ON SHIP Minister of Fisheries For Newfoundland Dies While on Way To Canada For Treatment ST. JOHN'S, Nfld.. Jan. 17: En-route to Canada for the purppse of receiving treatment at the hands of specialists. Dr. John Stnne, minister of fisheries for Newfoundland, was found dead yesterday in his ports last night, there was a varla-1 finn .Tnvsi Twentv-eieht cabin aboard the steamer Balle Isle, NEW YORK, Jan. 17: (CPt-ll- Hon of 145 degrees In temperature U 0ners (lje( 0f Sllffoca- according to wireless advices closed at 44&c per ounce on between Fairbanks, Alaska, coldest . . , J" celved here. t Officials Here t In Connection i With Ship Job Work On Waterfront Project To Commence In Very Near Future Dispatch From Vancouver Bears Out Announcement Made Here Couple of Weeks Ago By 31. P. McCaffery VANCOUVER, Jan. 17: (CP) M. P. McCaffery announced here today that financial arrangements had been completed for the construction of a cold storage plant in connection with an ice-making plant which he has already installed at Prince Rupert. Work on the new project wih commence within a few weeks. The above dispatch is in line with an announcement made two or' three weeks ago by Mr. McCaffery j to the Dally News. Local halibut! boat owners and fishermen have agreed to become interested in the project and have placed a co-operative fund- at Mr. McCaffery's disposal Mr. McCaffery is at pre sent in Vancouver on business in connection with the undertaking. - -' ' - PLANT IS REOPENING Reduction of Herring to Be Resumed at Tucks Inlet Thomas Anderson, manager of the Tucks Inlet reduction plant here for Nelson Bros. Fisheries Limited, arrived in the city on the Prince Rupert this morning from Vancouver and will be immediately starting preparations for the reopening of the local plant on reduction of herring, the run of which is expected to commence by the middle of next month. Both herring meaf and oil will be produced, the narket for these commodities being considerably improved. It will be the first time in two or three years that' the local plant has operated on herring. VESSEL IN I DISTRESS YOKOHAMA, Japan. Jan. 17: ReDortins that she was leaking badly, the British freighter Cape Here in connection wltn the re-. Cornwall, with crew of forty on pair Job at the local dry dock on board, was sending out distress slg-the steamer Prince George follow- nals from off the Japanese coast j ing her recent stranding near An- last night. Rescue vessels were be- yox. Thomas Louden, superinten- ing rushed to her assistance but Youngest Son of King and Queen dent of Canadian National Steam- fears were expressed that the ves- Will Go "Down Under" Late This Year LONDON, Jan. 17--Frlncc George, youngest son of King George and Queen Mary, will pay a visit to Australia late this year, it was announced, yesterday. - ships. Vancouver; Albert Farrow, sel may have met witn aisasier, steamboat inspector, and S. F. Boo- nothing having been heard since mer. Lloyds surveyor, arrived in the the, original wireless messages city on the Prince Rupert thH which said water was entering the morning from Vancouver. They ex ' engine room. Dect to return south on the same The Cape Cornwall cleared from BOAT WAS DESERTED Fears Entertained, For Safety of Master and Cook of Fishing Vessel on West Coast VICTORIA, Jan. 16: (CP) The provincial police cruiser P. M. L. .7 .eft Victoria this morning for Mai-parti Inlet on the West Coast Of Vancouver Island where the fishin? boat Restless has been found anchored about a mile and a half off shore with no sign of the master, Emil Coleman, or crew. The boat was half filled with water and loaded guns were found on deck. Stale food found in the cabin indicated that the vessel had been deserted for about a fortnight. The Restless was" found by the 1 United States halibut boat Eclipse which advised the steamer Princess Maqulnna which In turn wirelessed the Department of Marine here. TO ATTEND PARLIAMENT I Olot Hanson. MJ. For Skeena, anj , Mrs. Hanson Leaving City Today For Ottawa Olof Hanson, MP. for Skeena, and Mrs. Hanson are leaving on this afternoon's train for Ottawa where Mr. Hanson will attend the, I session of Parliament opening to-! wards the end of next week. British Ship Cape Cornwall, Bound Mr. Hanson, who expects to b$ From Vancouver to Shanghai, away for the better part of six Leaking Badly i months, states that he has a bud- ! get of many matters to take up af fecting almost every department In the government structure. The large riding of Skeena takes in an ever increasing variety of steamer tomorrow night Vancouver on December 28 for along the beaches of Kodlak Tho Prini. Rnnprt thl momlna shanchal with three million feet Island In the sorlntr were aft- I also brought north five steel work of lumber and 2000 tons of wheat. nounced yesterday by Oeorge : r hn win hp pmnlovpd on tfw Her nmltlon Is estimated to be 3000 Strand, veteran gold miner. He Mrs. Alex prince George Job. miles due west of Vancouver. HfnXfnlll M-Hrt hiVA ViAAn ir1MnulnfT BLACK SAM) GOLD .MINING TO RESUME ON KODIAK ISLAND . SEWARD. Alaska, Jan. 16. CPi Plans for resumption of black sand mining for gold said that gold bearing cm- t bankments there averaged as In Vancouver and Victoria for thei Miss Florence Smith, who ha? N. M. McLean. Seal Covo boat high as $15 per cubic yard In past monhreturncd Jo the city been on a vacation trip to Vancou- builder, returned to the city on the values. from the south on the Prince Ru-i ver and Victoria, Returned home on Prince Rupert tills morning from a ' pert thPralng. the Prince Rupert this morning. brief business trip to Vancouver. v 4 4, 4