Today's Weather prtnee Rupert Cloudy, light northerly wind; barometer, 30.04; temperature, 35; sea smooth. Vol. XXV. No. 3, NEW mm PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1935 Succumbs To Sea's Mi.,.nj ihe olazlng ss. Ontario, a ext inguish the lire In her hold in Prince Three Times As 1933; Islands Active a . i InklilTlMI 1 I I ! I J Eil 1 1 ll ALiU : , Col. and Mrs. Linuoergn .Appear as, Witnesses Against Man Who Is Accused of Slaying Their Baby Touching Scene Mother Identifies Garment In Which She Last Saw Child Alive Defence Promises Surprise FLEMINGTON, UJ.. Jan 4: (CP) Col. Charles A. Lindbergh today identl fled Bruno Richard Haupt- mann as the man whose voice he heard In a immx cemetery when he paid through Dr. J. F. (Jafsie) Condon, the $50,000 ransom In a vain effort to get back his kidnapped baby. vMnB,;.mrrtr f Mh rh, The log scale in Prince Rupert forestry district for the year 1934 totalled 135,907,361 board feet as compared with 56,106,234 board feet in 1933, according to a summary of official renorts of the Forest Branch. The increased pro- lor in me emargea output) james Mitchell, president of the logging camps for coast pulp j British Columbia Teachers Federa-mllls . J tion. addressed the teachers of the t. TinTRI A WW city and surrundlng district at a H A I I Y I Yi A lM IM i meeting yesterday afternoon In the . duction was largely accounted of Queen Charlotte Island and export. Further expansion a of producUon Is anticipated nextjj year. nreiaratlons for it being al- rraay uuuci The scale for December this year totalled 4.479.319 board feet as com pared with 328,158 board feet In the same month last rear. Scaling fi gures per varieties this December and last were as follows: 1934 1933 B.F. B.F. Douglas Fir 141.741 Cedar 484,405 77,448 Spruce 2,183.123 110,947 Hemlock 1.314,467 66,558 Balsam 312,763 73,021 Jackplne 42,850 184 Totals 4.479,349 328.158 Forest Products nutnut of Doles and piles In the Interior this December was light at , oniy 3.ouo iineui a,. w was cedar, as compared with 148,190 lineal feet In December 1933. There was an increase, however, In output of tics which numbered 2.644 Jackplne) In December 1934 as against 190 In December 1933. Twenty-one cords Corns Ol of wood woou was nwnwiu recorded this Dc v rember as compared with 365 cords Vancouver Wheat VANCOUVER. Jan. 4: CP- -Wheat was quoted at 73Hic on the innl PVflMimo .... vrsterrl.iv. . un iUbai w.. j - from Wednesday. Today's price was 78,c. BAR SILVER ,.1. i i NEW YORK. Jan. 4: (CP- Bar silver closed at 44c per ounce on the local metal market yesterday. down ! be from Wednesday. There was no change today. Th"e " doubt tn both!be Augustus Lindbergh -o- Jr.. faced the fathcrand mother of his alleged fYil tnH Mr I.lnrihroh annpnrpri ! as witnesses. ' j Mra. LlRdbergh was fighting back a garment In which ch Vinrt last a garmetn In wnleh she had last seen her baby alive. I Col. Lindbergh also identified I . , , ... t . i " l"oua " "uPiUl" s in th Bronx, New York, as part of i . the mnsom money which had been paid for the return of he child. DiirltMy ...... thft ftmircft nf . hn trill ....... ! W VU."V U I Mrs. Lindbergh sat four rows behind ' Hauptmann in the courtroom. It was indicated by the defence that they would show who It was who actually killed the baby. Worst Enemy coastwise steamer. after she proved fruitless. SPEAKS TO TEACHERS James It. Mitchell Addresses Local Pedagogues At the invitation of the Prince Rupert Teachers' Association, Commodore Cafe. W. W. C. O'Neill presided and Uiere were more than thirty teachers present Mr. Mitchell gave a resume of the work of the federation and the enu meratlon of the varied activities of the federation in Its attempt to fur ther the educaUonal progress of the province was little short of a revela tion. The relationships exisUng between the Department of Education, Its officers, the boards of school trustees, the Inspectors and the federaUon, as the mouthpiece of the teachers of the province, were very happy and a complete agreement was easily reached when the problems were discussed so that the pupils should have the best that could be offered. In the work of the future. Mr. Mitchell referred to education week,, ruary. A Dominion-wide scheme aims at putting before the public I the objects of education and the ans by which that objective may .nrt nf thp nmthv nf manv ma"y npnnlp LJ' "f., P?! knowledge of what may and what ls be,n r' ,c4Jr l ul """M ccorc,ed the speaker on motion .of A. Sutton, J. S. Wilson and School Inspector T. W. Hall. WEATHER REPORT Terrace Cloudy, cairn. 14. Anyox Cloudy, calm, 25. ' Stewart Cloudy, calm, 16. Hazelton Cloudy, calm; 6 Smlthers Part cloudy, calm. cold. Burns Lake-Dutl, calm, 2'betow. Tomorrow's Tides High Low IN STATES POLICE INVESTIGATION IN VANCOUVER NOW UNDER WAY President Roosevelt Would Embark On Big Employment Project Favors Taking Workless Off Dole and Occupying Them Iti Clearing Slums of Country and Other Useful Undertakings . WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 1: (CP) A now and greatly enlarged plan of work relief was proposed bv President Franklin I). Roosevelt to Congress today. Without estimating the cost or giving much detail, the President declared that, instead of continuing outright doles, the government should put 3,500,000 unemployed men to work clearing slums and on other public works. Today's Stocks tUsurls. 3 O. Johaio r. Vancouver Alexandria, .01. Bay-view, .01. B C Nickel, Jl. Bit Missouri. JO. Brtdtan, 24Q. Dralorne. ll.CQ. U. R X. Gold, JO, Cariboo. 1.43. Df nlonfc, .40. Dunwell. .10. Grgia River, .00 fc. C',ronda. JO. Oi.ider Creek. J)4. C range. .22. llrrrule. .01',. Indian. .01. Mlnto. JO. Meridian. .10. Morning Star, .11. National Silver. .04. Noble Five .07 V. Tend Oreille. .50. rortr Idaho. .08Vfc. rrcmler. 1.63. Reward .04. Reno. 1J1. Silver fjrwt, .01 . Salmon Oold, .11. Taylor Bridge. XI. Wayside. .09 V. Whitewater. .04 V. Waverly Tangier. .004. United Empire, .09. Toronto Central Patricia. 1.17. Chlbougamau, .00. Lee Oold, .04. Oranada. .15. Inter. Nlekcl, 23.87. Macas&i, 2.69. Noranda, 35.00. 8herrltt. .67. 81co. 2.65. Venture. 1.03. Lake Maron, .04V. Teck Hughes, 4.00. 8udbury Basin. 1.50. Columatlo. .09. Smelter Odd, .15. Can. Malartlc, .71. Little Long Lac, 7.15. Astoria Rouyn, .024-Stadacona, .17 ft. Maple Leaf, .11. Fickle Crow. 2.31. Man. ii Eastern, .10. s" Anlonlo. 4.80. Sylvanltc, 2.50. RWEF WORK PLAN BENNETT IS CRITICIZED Attorney General of Ontario Perceives Governmental "Iron Heel" In lliuinrss TORONTO. Jan. 4: (CD The proposal of rrime Minister It. n. Bennett In his radio address Wednesday nitht for the regulation of business In Canada vas characterized last nlnht by Hon. A. W. Roebuck, attorney jeneral of Ontario, -application the as an of Iron heel in business matters." Addressing Toronto Liberals at m testimonial dinner. Mr. Roebuck declared that the federal tovern-menl has not learned that Interference from Ottawa means "killed business, killed railways and unemployment but now proposes to Intensify the dominance of government over private affairs." GRAIN SHIP HAS SAILED Itrllhh freighter Itradburn Leaves Today With Pull Cargo For U. K. or Continent The British freighter Bradburn. having loaded a full cargo of grain from the Alberta Wheat Pool's local elevator for delivery to the United Kingdom or Continent, sailed at 1 fiViMif (hit aiurnoon. one i ua uwn . . T.H.vMrvAnnrifi ff.u job ws done in londlnr the veel. !pourlnc of grain was completed 'yesterday afternoon and this morn- ing wa apent in bagging grain and other flnlahlng toucne. The Bradburn was piloted out to Triple Island by Capt. C. W. Wear-mouth of Vancouver who will sail tonight on his return souUi. Word was received at the elevator offices today confirming previous nHvlrp that the British freighter I Vancouver City would be here on 'January 17 to load a full carRO for ! the United Kingdom or Continent. Thirtv-one carloads of new gralr . William Patmorc. son of L. W. which arrived earlier In the cck ratmore from the prolries arc now being tn-Prlncr, of this city, sailed by tho the levator Son c oefcruc last nkht to resume loaded Into his studies at the University of Brl- eighty more cars are expectea to Ush Columbia In Vancouver after arrive over the coming week-end living spent the Christmas and Joseph Bennett. Pac flc Coast New Year holiday season at his superintendent of Alberta .jf home here i Tool elevators, who was here in con- !ncctlon with the loading of the George Miller, deputy collector of Bradburn. sailed by the Prince to last night on his return customs. Skagway. was here thh.Oeoriee morning ehroute to Seattle, ! Vancouver. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Another Steamer An aerial view in Bo; ',cm haib had bn beacheo. when effort . Log Scale For 1934 Rupert Nearly Great as Reorganizing of City Hall Service Planned By Mayor McGeer Tay-Of r System of Protection Has tteen Public Scandal In Southern City, New Chief Magistrate Says Some Officers Ashamed to Wear Uniforms "VANCOUVER, Jan. 4: (CP) Investigation of the conduct of several suspended police officials commenced today in camera and it is reported Mayor G. G. McGeer intends immediate action in reorganizing the City Hall service. Discussing police conditions, Mayor McGeer said: "The fact that there was, as between the police administration and the underworld, a system rvT"1 l rrtv r fT ; of organized protection based upon ir4Arlp j wnat 14 known as the 'pay-off sys- U Lif 1 IX Jx item became a matter of common ! gossip and public scandaL Many frTT"! H I II If I I ll i members of the uniformed police Dr. James L. Hughes of Toronto i Dies Was Brother of Late j Sir Sam Hushes TORONTO Jan. 4: (CP) James Laug'hiin Hughes" LL.D.. widely knowrrthroughout'Canadi'antf the United States for his extensive knowledge of child phycriology. died here yesterday at the age of eighty-eight years. Oldest brother of the late General Sir Sam Hughes, Canada's minister of militia and defence during the Great War, he was a school instructor In Toronto for forty years. Many educaUonal reforms were Instituted during his twenty-eight year regime as chief inspector and executive head of Toronto's public schools. Oldest son of an Irish school teacher of Huguenot descent in the then "backwoods" of Durham County, Ont., "James L." was one of a family of ten brothers and sisters, several of whom became prominent in the history of the Dominion. Included among the younger brothers n addition to the late Sir Sam Hughes, Canada's war-tlmc minister of National Defence, were Brlg.-General St. Pierre Hughes, former ly Superintendent of Penitentiaries and the late Colonel John Hughes. Malor-General Garnet B. Hughes is a nephew. James L. shared the difficulties of the pioneers and endured the harsh discipline of the primitive schools of his time. As a child he inwardly rebelled and In later years he declared his "educaUonal creed" always had been "there are no bad boys." He urged "comradeship" of teachers and children "Instead of the devilish system of cor- inoral punishment." Through his , cafeer as senlQr offlcer of the Toronto public school system his methods reflected his belief In the need of disciplinary reform. Close association and better understanding among teachers and Continued on Pace 2 GAS POISON ;Two Men Asnhyxiatcd in Canary J And Two Women In Critical i Condition CALGARY. Jan. 4: CP--Harry Whcatley and Private Thomas Hall of ihe ordnance corps were found dead In Wheatieys cottage here 'yesterda-f as a result of gas poisun-lng and Mrs. Whcatley and an un identified woman are in hospital in a serious condition. ..130 jun. 19 A It. 13107 pjn. 23.1 It. . 7:13 a.m. 7.6 ft. 19:58 pxa. 0.9 ft PRIC: FIVE CENT a have declared to me that conditions jwere so disgraceful that they were ashamed to wear their uniforms on the street." Mayor McGeer added that he had arranged for complete co-operation between federal, provincial arid city : police in. .maintaining lawr and order. BRUINS IN LEAD NOW Victory Over Canadiens Last Night Gave Boston Edge Over Chicago In Hockey Standing MONTREAL, Jan. 4: CP Bos- . ' ton Bruins moved into the leader- ihlp of the American Division of ; the National Hockey League last night by virtue of a close victory . over the Canadiens here. The Bruins displaced the Chicago Black Hawks who had an open date. The fast-moving Montreal Maroons, who are now actually begin, ning to threaten the supremacy of the Toronto Maple Leafs In the International Division, scored stiJJ. another victory, this time a shutout at the expense of the long-suffering Eagles at St. Louis. Last night's scores were as follows: . ' Boston 2, Canadiens 1. Detroit 2. New York Rangers 3. Montreal 3, St. Louis 0. SKAGWAY -STREET CAR" AND ITS PICTURESQUE 1 OWNER TO MAKE TOUR The Skagway "street car." ancient and unique motor bus, which is known to all northern tourists, was here this morning aboard the steamer Princess Norah on the way to Vancouver whence it will start on a tour of the United States de- signed as a tourist attraction publicity stunt Rigged up Inside the windows of the "street : car" were masks representing some of the figures of the Gold Rush days Including such notorious characters as "Soapy" Smith. They presented' a very picturesque appearance. Taking the vehicle south for the tour Is Martin Itjen, its owner, himself a Skagway pioneer, who is as well known and as picturesque as the old bus Itself.