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VICTORJ4
B.C.
Today's
Weather
Tomorrow's
Tides
She
Prince
Rupert-Overcast,
lleht
High
8:03
ajn.
1U4
ft.
southeast
wind;
temperature,
Jfc
18:57
pjn.
19D
It
barometer.
30.01
Low
,
0:07
a.xa.
65
ft.
12:17
pin.
5.3
It.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
Vol.
XXIV
.
143.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
SATURDAY,
JUNE
22,
1935
PRICE:
5
CENTS
-"
Hon.
.
.
Steven
Zofes
WWi
f
Liberals
in
House
of
Commons
For
First
Time
and
Caused
Sensation
WILL
WORK
FOR
PEACE
Hrltain
and
France
Are
United
tor
Same
Objeet
Premier
Laval
Announced
Today
PARIS,
June
22:
An
aree-ment
that
llritain
and
France
mill
work
toiether
In
united
front
for
peace
was
announced
today
by
Premier
Laval
at
the
conclu-lon
of
ronversations
with
Capt.
Anthony
Men,
Gold
Mining
On
Ncchako
River
What
Mar
Prove
to
be
Important
Dredting
Industry
Under
Way
.Near
Prince
(Seorie
PRINCE
OBOROR
June
22
Tiirr
ma
v
h
Ihr
twain
nine
of
)
Itreat
gold
dredging
industry
In
'he
actlTtttes
of
Uw
Nechako
Oold
Limited
which
have
been
under
way
for
t
past
two
months
on
Uh
Ncchako
River
opposite
Ml-wotth
station
on
the
C
-N
R
The
ompany
management
thought
It
would
be
ready
to
set
its
big
goki-washlng
plant
in
operation
and
had
Issued
an
InrtUUon
to
the
members
of
the
Prtnee
George
Board
of
Trade
to
visit
the
plant
and
see
what
wis
going
on.
It
was
In
response
to
this
invtuuon
that
President
Oeo.
B
Williams
and
A
B,
Moffat.
Brno
Parker.
R.
A.
Renwtck.
M.
C
Wiggins.
Barle
Ful-mer
W
L
Armstrong.
Harry
Bow-1
man
E
H.
Burden.
Alf
Holmwood,
ames
Scott
and
M
8
Calne
paid
a
t
stt
to
Uv
scene
of
operations.
Ttv
company
sent
x
big
river
boat
S'Tos
to
ferry
the
visitors
over
the
.'wlluftowing
Ntcruko.
and
a
'
uple
of
hours
wer
spent
In
lookup
over
the
machinery
and
the
i.vri
bench
where
a
start
Is
to
be
made
In
determining
the
accuracy
f
the
bench
testings,
and
the
ef-firlcury
of
the
company's
gW-
washlnir
nlant
in
the
recovery
of
cold
values
LOANS
FOR
ricurDiwnWiif"ire'
wnin
meant
nvinc
riUJlLtiVUlLin
OTTAWA,
June
22
The
govern
ment
is
considering
an
amend
ment
to
the
farm
loan
act
to
per-(
mlt
fishermen
to
obtain
loans
on
boats
and
gear.
SILVER
PRICE
NEW
YORK.
June
22:
There
was
no
change
in
the
price
of
silver
today
It
still
sLandlne
at
72c.
OTTAWA,
June
22:
(CP)
Hon.
II.
II.
Stevens
lined
up
with
the
Liberals
and
Progressives
for
the
first
time
in
the
House
of
Commons
last
night
when
he
voted
against
Premier
Bennett
and
the
Conservatives.
By
a
vote
of
35
to
18
the
House
in
committee
threw
out
the
hill
sponsored
by
George
Cootc,
U.
F.
A.
member
for
MacLeod,
to
reduce
to
six
percent
the
interest
on
mortgages.
.Mr.
Stevens
was
the
only
bolter
from
the
Conservative
party
and
his
lining
up
with
the
opposition
caused
quite
a
sensation
in
the
House.
i
4
I'KINCi:
ItUPEKT
TO
4-1
HAVE
A
PHYSICAL
HECRUATION
CENTRE
4-
4-
Prince
Rupert
is
to
have
a
physical
recreation
centre
In
the
autumn
if
the
plans
of
4-
Hon.
Dr.
O.
M.
Weir
and
other
members
of
the
Paltullo
ad-
ministration
are
carried
out.
The
minister
announced
this
in
his
address
in
the
City
Hall
last
night.
He
did
not
ela-
borate
on
the
plans
but
he
told
how
a
lew
experimental
centres
had
beer,
established
and
how
successful
they
had
been.
There
had
followed
an
4
Increasing
demand
for
exten-
skm
of
the
work
throughout
the
provtnee.
Women
Needed
To
Make
Laws
TORONTO.
June
22
CPi
Be-'
cause
she
had
seen
so
many
worth-'
while
measures,
nurtured
and
dc-l
veloped
by
women's
organizations,
kept
from
fruition
because
of
the.
need
of
a
champion
in
the
legis-j
la
lure.
Mrs.
Paul
Smith
of
Van-'
couver
decided
to
see
them
through
herself.
She
entered
the
political
arena
and
was
elected
to
the
British
Columbia
legislature
In
1933.
then
Its
only
woman
member.
As
first
vice-president
of
the
National
Council
of
Women,
Mrs.
Smith
said
in
an
interview:
"It
seemed
In
women's
organiza
tions
we
worked
up
to
a
certain
.point
and
then
we
had
to
depend
on
someone
to
take
it
Into
the
ing
some
man
of
the
worthiness
of
our
cause."
she
said,
explaining
uie
reason
fsr
her
entering
public
life.
Whether
you
want
new
legisla
tion
or
an
amendment
or
change
In
existing
legislation,
you
have
to
have
someone
Introduce
it.
and
if
you
canont
convince
a
member
to
sponsor
it,
your
work
Is
lost.
So
we
thought
we
should
have
one
of
i
ourselves
in
the
legislature
to
ao
this
for
us
Premier
Bennett
Called
a
Liar
As
He
Tells
Relief
Camp
Men
To
Go
Back
and
Wait
For
Jobs
OTTAWA,
June
22:
Kight
representatives
of
British
Columbia
relief
camp
strikers
encamped
at
Keginn
were
told
by
Prime
Minister
Bennett
today
that
their
"six
demands"
would
not
lie
complied
with
and
that
they
could
go
back
to
the
camps
and
doing,
the
opportunity
of
securing
await,
as
others
were
employment.
.
Arthur
Kvans,
leader
of
the
'delegation,
af
cr
a
hot
exchange
with
the
Prime
Minister
in
which
the
strike
leader
repeatedly
called
Mr.
Wcn""'
was
told
to
take
back
to
his
fol
lowers
I
c
,
tlwi
ion
would
maintain
law
and
order.
that
the
government
The
hearing
broke
up
in
some
disorder.
Today's
Stocks
(OcrurtMT
B
D,
John
ton
Co.)
Vancouver
B.
C.
Nickel.
.28.
Big
Missouri,
.65.
Bradlan.
2.00.
Bralome,
5
00.
B.
It
Cons.,
.03.
r,.
"
B.
R.
X.
Oold,
JOm.
Cariboo
Quartz,
1.16.
,
.
Dentonia.
.35.
Dun
well.
.04
Vi-Oeorgta
River,
.00.
Golconda,
22.
Indian.
.01.
Mlnto.
.09.
Meridian.
.05.
Morning
8tar.
.0414.
National
Silver,
03Vfe.
Noble
Five.
Pend
Oreille.
.55.
Porter
Idaho,
.10.
;
:
i
!
Premier.
1.68.
Quesnel
Quartz.
.10.
Reeves
McDonald.
.10.
-ft
'
Reno.
1.43.
Silver
Crest.
.00.
Salmon
Oold,
.12ft.
Taylor
Bridge.
.15.
Wayside.
.14V'.
Whitewater.
.07
ft.
Waverly
Tangier.
XWi.
United
Empire,
.044.
Toronto
Central
Patricia,
1.69.
Chlbougamau,
.20ft.
Lee
Oold.
.04
ft.
Oranada.
.27.
Inter.
Nickel,
27.75.
Macassa.
1.70.
v
Noranda.
38.90.
8herritt
Oordon,
.53.
Siscoe,
2.64.
Ventures.
.82
ft.
Lake
Maron,
.03.
r
Teck
Hughes,
4.10.
Sudbury
Basin.
1.35.
Columario.
.02?i.
Smelter
Oold.
.05
ft.
Can.
Malartic.
.65.
Utile
Long
Lac.
5.00.
Astoria
Rouyn,
.04.
Stadacona.
.21ft.
Maple
Leaf.
.04ft.
Pickle
Crow.
2.47.
McKenzle
Red
Lake.
L22.
Ood's
Lake,
1.66.
Bturgeon
River
Oold.
.79.
Red
Lake
Oold
Shore,
.34ft.
San
Antonio,
3.65.
Can.
Pac.
Railway,
10.75.
Ford
A.
26.00.
Imperial
Oil.
20.00.
Cons.
Smelters,
169.00.
D.
C.
Pioneer,
9.65.
Falconbrldge.
3.73.
;
Hollinger.
15.00.
Lake
Shore,
51.25.
-
Royalite,
24.00.
NEW
WESTMINSTER
PORT
MUST
BE
OPEN
4
SAYS
MAYOR
HUME
4-
NEW
WESTMINSTER,
June
22:
Some
two
thousand
clti-
'
zens
at
a
mass
meeting
here
last
night
which
Included
4-
three
hundred
striking
long-
shoremen,
were
told
by
Mayor
4
F.
J.
Hume
that
the
port
must
4
be
opened
if
New
Westminster
4-
is
to
avoid
further
loss
In
busl-
4-
uess
revenues.
4v
I
4
4-
IRELAND
AND
BRITAIN
TO
BE
RECONCILED
'
!
4-
DUBLIN,
Julie
2:
-States-
men
of
the
Irish
Free
State
and
Oreat
Britain
are
prepar-
ing
lor
a
formal
reconciliation
it
was
Indicated
today
in
hhjh
government
quarters.
WILL
END
TRADING
IN
WINNIPEG.
Grain
Exchange
Will
End
Abruptly
When
Bennett
Grain
Board
Legislation
Passes
j
In!
OTTAWA.
June
21:
Trading
wheat
on
the
Winnipeg
Grain
Ex-!
change.
It
Is
reported,
will
come
to
j
an
abrupt
halt
once
the
Bennett!
government's
grain
board
legislation
Is
enacted,
according
to
Intimation
given
durlrg
the
proceed
ings
of
the
special
committee
of
the
House
of
Commons
which
is
considering
the
legislation.
Price
of
Salmon
Set
For
Season
by
Various
B.
C.
Organizations
Price
to.bc
Paid
For
Sockeye,
45c;
Cohoc,
20c;
Pinks,
31c;
Each
and
Others
Accordingly
Following
....
,,
Jiong
iSegouatipns
,
.j
VANCOUVER,
June
22:
After
several
tveeks
of
negotiations
in
connection
with
raw
salmon
prices
in
District
No.
2
for
1935
fishing
season,
the
following
schedule
has
been
agreed
to
between
the
British
Columbia
Fishermen's
Protective
Association,
the
Upper
Fraser
Fishermen's
Protective
Association,
the
Amalgamated
Japanese
.............
I
4-
NO
MASS
MEETINGS
on.
parades
will
itE
!
iiFin
iv
vAvrnnvFR
1
4"
VANCOUVER,
June
22:
Chief
of
Police
Foster
has
for-
1
bidden
mass
meetings
and
parades
in
connection
with
the
longshoremen's
strike.
The
men
had
planned
a
mass
4
meeting
in
the
Arena
tomor-
row.
Forty-Five
Years
For
Waley
Who
Admitted
Kidnapping
Young
Geo.
Weyerhauser
Wife
Margaret
May
Get
Lenient
Treatment
as
Judge
Refuses
Her
Plea
of
Guilty
and
Changes
it
to
"Not
Guilty"
TACOMA,
Wash.,
June
22:
Harmon
Waley,
24
years!
of
age,
was
yesterday
sentenced
to
45
years
at
McNeil
Island
Penitentiarv
after
nlendintr
truiltv
on
all
counts
of
.an
indictment
for
kidnapping
George
Weyerhauser,
nine
;
years
of
age
Margaret
Waley
.wife
of
George
also
plead-
ed
guilty
but
federal
Judge
Cussman
set
aside
her
plea
when
her
attorney
and
Waley
botwc
stated
she
knew
nothing
of
the
i
kidnapping
until
the
boy
had
been!
held
several
days.
4
me
juage
mis
morning
cnangea
if
Mrs.
Waley's
plea
to
"Not
guilty"
and
on
Monday
the
trial
date
will
be
set.
!
:i
Vancouver
Wheat
i
I
VANCOUVER,
June
22:
(CP)
i
Wheat
was
quoted
cn
the
exchange
U
4
,
here
today
at
79Jbc.
Ax,
PRESIDENT
FAVOR
OF
HIGHWAY
Suggests
Changes
in
Proposed
Law
and
Hints
That
Money
Might
be
Available
WASHINGTON,
June
22:
(CP)
Presidential
approval
of
the
proposed
Alaskan
highway
was
received
today
by
Delegate
DI-mond
of
Alaska
in
a
letter
from
the
White
House.
The
President's
letter
said
that
Mr.
Roosevelt
favored
construction
of
the
highwar
and
made
several
suggestions
for
changes
in
the
bill
authorizing
such
construction,
to
now
in
rnmmittee
of
the
House.
A
similar
bill
has
already
passed
the
Senate.
The
requesls
of
the
President
were
interpreted
to
mean
that
it
construction
were
started
soon
the
money
might
be
obtained
from
the
Public
Works
fund.
I
Fishermen's
Association
and
the
United
Fishermen's
Federal
Union
of
British
Columbia:
aovReye.
w
per
iuu.
eatcyv.
vm
the
Naas
River.
Skcena
River,
Rlv
ers
inlet
ana
smitns
iniet
wnere
sockeye
five
pounds
or
less
are
toi
be
taken
two
for
one.
i
Cohoe
and
steelheads,
20c
per
fish.
Pinks,
3
c.
Chums.
5c.
Red
springs
over
12
pounds,
50c.
Red
springs,
12
pounds
or
less,
25c.
Jack
springs
and
white
springs,
5c
each.
at
Tacoma
Recently
Halibut
Arrivals
American
Westfjord.
10.000.
7.5c
and
5.5c,
Cold
Storage.
Canadian
Fannie
F.,
4,000.
5.5c
and
5c,
At-lin
Fisheries.
Balsac,
19.000,
5.5c
and
5c,
Cold
Storage.
Helen
II,
.
19.000,
5.6c
and
5c,
At-lin
Fisheries.
Hon.
Dr.
Weir
A
ppeals
For
Co-operation
in
Education
and
Health
Aim
of
Minister
to
Substitute
Knowledge
For
Opinions
Efforts
to
Promote
Happiness
Through
department
Over
Which
He
Presides
Asking
the
co-operation
of
party
or
section
in
his
work
of
educational
improvement
and
public
health-extension,
Dr.
G.
M.
Weir,
provincial
secretary
and
minister
of
education,
laid
before
an
interested
gathering
of
Prince
Rupert
people
last
night
in
the
City
Hall
some
of
the
work
present
Government
ana
also
en-
umerated
the
problems
that
had
be
tackled
as
humanitarian
measures
designed
to
increase
the
happiness
of
the
people.
The
Doctor
is
a
good
speaker
and
for
an
hour
and
a-half
he
talked
and
gave
the
audience
facts
and
figures
in
an
Interesting
way.
In
cidentally
he
told
some
of
the
dlf-
j
'iculttes
of
administration
of
whlcti
the
ordinary
citizen
knows
littlp
:
He
told
of
one
prominent
radio
speaker
who
had
come
to
the
government
with
three
proposals,
one
of
which
was
illegal,
another
unconstitutional
and
trie
thlra
unethical.
All
sorts
of
proposals
were
made.
The
speaker
suggested
that
vnat
was
needed
today
was
clarity
of.
thought,
saneness
of
Judgment
and
a
plentitude
of
knowledge.
Op
moos
were
being
built
on
prejudice
and
lack
of
knowledge.
Opin
ions
were
substituted
for
facts.
However,
he
was
not
disillusioned.
He
drew
attention
to
the
fact
that
ninety
years
ago
there
were
live
political
parties
in
Canada
ana
the
land
was
in
a
ferment.
These
had
gradually
,
resolvetj
-,j.htmselves.intn
two.
One
hundred
years
-ago
there
was
greater
chaos
than
was
seen
here
today
and
the
country
came
out
of
it
all
right.
People
must
not
expect
to
find
the
New
Jerusalem
overnight.
Happiness,
he
suggested
was
a
product
of
the
human
soul.
He
quoted
President
Beatty.
re
cently
chosen
head
of
the
McGlll
University,
who
stated
that
all
their
troubles
could
have
been
avoided
U
they
had
thought
more
of
happiness
and
less
of
money.
The
speaker
mentioned
that
the
matter
of
health
was
under
Pro-
vtnc'al
control
and
yet
a
number
of
the
problems
were
national
They
were
spending
a
million
dol
lars
a
year
at
Essondale.
many
of
the
paUents
at
the
Institution
b3-ing
the
product
of
venereal
dis
ease.
War
was
being
declared
on
tuberculosis
by
his
department
and
!
ment
correspondence
couses,
espe-the
money
had
already
been
voted
j
daily
In
the
relief
camps.
Even
in
to
erect
another
sanitarium
fori
normal
times
there
were
always
treatment
of
patients
in
the
early
permanent
or
seasonal
unemploy-stages.
Health
was
as
great
an
as-
j
ed.
This
made
it
necessary
that
set
as
education.
Both
were
essen-1
adult
education
should
be
a
per-tlal.
He
mentioned
the
co-opera-
manent
feature
of
Oovernment
tlon
being
given
by
the
Canadian
j
work.
He
spoke
of
the
failure
of
Medical
Association
whose
declared
i
the
present
school
trustee
system
purpose
was
to
make
available
to
'under
which
trustees
were
influen-every
Canadan
the
fullest
service
Iced
by
trivial
local
prejudices
es-
was
possible
to
give
irrespective
&
ability
to
pay.
Dr.
Weir
spoke
of
the
fact
that
75
per
cent
of
rij?pmdents
suffered
from
some
Illness
and
that
illness
was
the
cause
of
37
per
cent
of
de-
pendency.
He
urged
that
it
was
(better
to
spend
money
on
preven-
assauTwas
chronics.
An
bem?
made
on
tuberculosis
and
also
on
cancer.
This
was
humanitarian
;ork-
hacl
also
reorganized
Tmore
iSvTLf
aTthl
same
time
had
reduced
the
cost.
i
Showing
how
national
Is
the
pro
blem
of
health
the
speaker
sald
I
the
province
was
spending
$700,000
a
year
treating
patients
coming
to
I
B.C.
from
other
provinces.
The
pro-!
blem
was
a
federal
one
as
well
as
provincial.
Banish
Fear
of
Illness
Dr.
Weir
mentioned
how
serious
was
the
matter
of
tuberculosis
among
the
natives
of
this
province
While
the
Indians
were
only
three
per
cent
of
the
population
It
was
people
of
every
creed,
race,
that
had
been
done
bv
the
Visiting
Here
j
BB
RE
iH
Hon
Dr
O
M.
Wetr.
provincial
secretary
and
minister
of
education
will
leave
for
interior
on
Monday.
this
direction.
British
Columbia
had
no
supply
of
radium
for
the
treatment
of
cancer
whereas
poor
dried
-out
Saskatchewan
had
attacked
cancer
in
that
way.
It
was
the
aim
to
banish
fear
of
Illness
so
that
men
and
women
would
not
fear
to
go
to
a
medical
man
because
he
could
not
pay.
To
overcome
this
they
were
planning
a
hospital
and
sickness
insurance
plan
and
were
asking
the
coopsra-Uon
of
all
sections
of
the
commu-
nity
to
make
it
a
success.
A
draft
bill
had
been
sent
out
and
suggestions
asked.
It
was
the
wish
of
the
Oovernment
to
have
all
sections
and
groups
protected.
Turning
again
to
education,
the
speaker
defended
the
Increased
grant
to
the
university.
He
told
of
the
Increasing
use
of
the
Govern-
;
peclally
in
the
rural
communities,
IThey
were
planning
changes
along
Une
and
also
changes
in
the
(Continued
from
page
2)
ODD
VISITOR
LAST
NIGHT
Skunk
Was
Guest
at
Local
Hotel
For
One
Night
and
Visit
Was
Enjoyed
It
is
not
often
that
a
skunk
Is
a
welcome
guest
but
there
was
one
last
night
at
the
Prince
Rupert
Hotel
and
all
admired
the
beast
and
wished
it
to
stay.
The
skunk
was
a
tiny
creature
brought
In
by
Mr.
and
Mrs.
H.
A.
MacDonald
of
Tul-sequah
by
airplane
from
the
south
and
was
on
its
way
to
the
wilds
of
the
Taku
mining
country.
It
has
to
be
fed
on
milk
and
is
one
of
the
prettiest
pets
imaginable.
It
is
the
mascot
of
the
plane
which
arrived
last
evening
and
left
this
morning
among
them
that
35
per
cent
of
j
for
Tulsequah
where
the
plane
will
the
deaths
from
tuberculosis
came.j
be
located
for
the
summer.
It
is
the
.
Cony,
15,500.
6.2c
and
5c,
Cold
i
A
doctor
was
to
be
appointed
to
:
property
of
the
Taku
Transporta-Storage.
have
charge
of
prevention
work
in
tlon
Company.