Today
s
Weather
-
M
prince
Rupert
Overcast,
light
northerly
win''
-nctcr,
30.03;
temperature,
li.
a
'o.
She
LlbrtAhY
VICTORIA,
B.C.
PUBLIC
WORKS
FOR
COLD
AT
STEWART
Record
Low
Temperature
Mark
Of
Nineteen
Below
Recorded
District
Still
Frigid
The
Government
Telegraphs'
I
dally
weather
report
today
recorded
t
a
new
low
temperature
mark
in
the
history
of
Stewart
of
19
degrees
below
zero.
Anyox
reported
six
below
while
sub-zero
temperature
continues
in
the
interior
with
Burns
Lake
showing
42
below.
It
was
overcast
and
starting
to
snow
In
Prmce
Rupert
this
morning
with
the
temperature
13
above
at
8
a.m.
Today's
district
weather
readings
were
as
follows:
Triple
Island
Overcast,
fresh
northerly
wind;
barometer,
30.05;
sea
choppy.
Langara
Island
Overcast,
fresh
easterly
wind,
sea
choppy,
very
cold.
Terrace
Clear,
calm,
1
below.
Anyox
Clear,
calm,
6
below.
Sfewart
Clear,
calm,
19
below.
Hazelton
Clear,
calm,
18
below.
Smlthers
Part
cloudy,
east
wind,
cold.
Burns
Lake
Clear,
calm,
42
below.
y
Rosswood
Clear,
calm,
11
below.
Alyansh
Clear,
calm,
11
below.
OWNERSHIP
BY
PUBLIC
18
a
I
N.
R.
Cannot
Escape
Its
Debts
$1
Idea
Scouted
by
Official
MONCTON,
N.B..
Feb.
18:
"There
Is
one
difference
between
public
and
private
ownership,"
said
S.
W.
Falrweather,
director
of
the
bureau
of
economics
of
the
Canadian
National
Railways,
yesterday
in
addressing
the
local
Rotary
Club.
"Private
ownership
can
draw
a
decently
carbollzed
sheet
of
bankruptcy
proceedings
over
its
mis
takes
and
start
afresh
with
the
nronertv
on
a
recaoltallzed
basis
s
with
past
mistakes
forgotten
and
i
forgiven
except
perhaps
by
the
in
but
also
suffer
for
the
sins
of
pre-
(
for
$1.00,
presumably
feeling
tnat.j
by
so
doing,
tne
country
woum
ue
better
off
financially.
Nothing
Is
further
from
the
truth.
I
have
'pointed
out
that
the
Canadian
National
has,
except
In
the
extreme
depths
of
the
depression,
never:
failed
to
make
some
return
upon
jits
Invested
capital.
The
property
might
be
disposed
of
for
$1.00
and
with
It
of
course
would
go
the
net
revenue
but
the,
disposal
of
the
property
In
this
manner
would
not
carry
with
It
relief
from
the
guar-
j
antees
which
the
people
of
Canada
gave
upon
the
bonds
in
the
hands
i
of
the
public
public
that
that
guarantee
guarantee
would
be
continued.
The
only
dif-
ference
would
be
that
bv
the
sale
of
the
nronertv
for
$1.00
the
neople
of
Canada
would
have
obligation
of
paying
under
the
nuarantec
with-
out
enioyin?
the
net
available
for
lnteret
which
has
been
as
hlgh
as
$45,000,000
In
a
single
year
more
than
sufficient
to
nav
all
interest
chames,
on
the
outstanding
bonds
for
the
system
at
that
time."
I
Tomorrow's
Tides
High
10:38
a.m.
19.5
ft.
23:49
p.m.
17.8
ft.
Low
4:27
a.m.
9.9
ft.
17:29
p.m.
4.5
ft.
7
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
XXV
No.
41.
Vol.
PRICE:
5
CENTS
HEA
VY
LOSSES
OPPOSEDJO
Canada
Cannot
Buy
Way
Out
of
Unemployment
It
is
Stated
by
Minister
Hon.
Norman
Rogers,
However,
Hopes
to
Sec
Abolished
This
Year
and
Long
Range
Policy
Take
Care
of
Single
Men
Instituted
OTTAWA,
Feb.
18:
(CP)
Canada
will
never
buy
its
way
out
of
unemployment,
Hon.
Norman
Rogers,
minister
of
labor,
told
the
House
of
Commons
yesterday
in
expressing
opposition
to
national
long
term
public
works
and
a
housing
program
designed
to
put
men
back
to
work.
At
the
same
time,
Mr.
Rogers
said
he
was
opposed
to
continuing
unemployment
relief
camps
and
hoped
to
see
the
last
man
leave
the
camps
this
year.
The
government
will
announce
later
its
long
range
policies
to
take
.care
of
homeless,
single
unemployed
VALUATIONS
ARE
LOWER
Both
land
and
Improvements
Are
Reduced
From
Last
Year
Taxable
land
in
the
city
of
Prince
.
Rupert
this
year,
following
the'
court
of
revision,
totals
$2,370,820
1
as
compared
with
$2,558,471
last
!
rar
The
decrease
Is
largely
due
to
j
reversions
of
land
during
the
past
year,
Taxable
Improvements
this
year
total
$3,600,910
In
comparison
with
M,830.C85,
the
decrease
being
largely
due
to
an
all-round
reduction
of
five
percent
In
valuations
from
last
year.
First
Newspaper
In
North
Was
At
Simpson,
'Tis
Said
The
first
newsnaDer
to
be
nub-
lished
in
thP
north
it.
u
s.ilri.
was
the
Port
Simnsnn
TiPmlrt
it
wns'
operated
by
the
natives
of
the
j
Islands,
the
first
having
arrived
re-jvestors
who
lost
their
shirts
In
the
neighboring
village
and
made
its
cently
from
the
Oregon
State
process.
The
Canadian
National,
first
appearance
on
September
27,1
Board
of
Forestry.
These
trees
j
however,
like
Christian
In
'Pil-1832.
The
next
northern
newspaper!
grow
to
the
great
height
of
250
feet,
j
grim's
Progress,'
must
bear
the
was
the
North
Star
published
at!
Douglas
fir
seedlings
from
Van-
(
burden
not
only
of
its
own
mistakes
wrangeli
by
Dr.
Sheldon
Jackson.
CHINAMAN'S
FUNERAL
The
funeral
of
Chan
Gin,
Chi
"esc
laundryman,
who
died
on
Frl-1
dy
last
at
the
Prince
Rupert
General
Hospital,
took
place
yesterday
afternoon
from
the
chapel
of
Hay-n
Bros.,
undertakers,
to
Falrvlcw
Cemetery.
Rites
were
conducted
by
countrymen
of
deceased
who
was
45
years
of
age
and
had
been
In
Canada
for
twenty
years.
He
had
been
'
hospital
a
week
before
he
died.
WICK
WORK
FOR
CLASSIFIED
ADV.
I.avt
rvi'vivn
4
A
lady
lost
her
watch
Satur-
day
she
advertised
It
In
the
Daily
News
yesterday
and,
as
i
result,
she
received
a
phone
tall
before
six
o'clock
saying
jt
was
found.
That
Is
the
way
"uuy
Ncws
ciassincd
adver
-
Uscmcnts
unit
x1
'
-
It
Camps
To
men,
Mr.
Rogers
said.
OUTBREAK
IN
SPAIN
Prison
Riots
General
Following
Victory
of
Extremists
In
National
Election
MADRID,
Spain,
Feb,
18:
(CP)
I'rison
riots
flared
across
Spain
today
in
the
wake
of
the
national
election
which
was
won
by
the
extremists
whose
principal
campaign
plank
was
amnesty
for
participants
in
the
1931
Socialist
rebellion.
A
number
Mere
killed
and
scores
were
wounded.
PLANTING
REDWOOD
Interesting
Forestry
Experiment
On
Islands
Douglas
Fir
Doing
Well
The
provincial
Forest
Branch
is
!
.
olantine
California
redwood
seed
lines
on
the
Queen
Charlotte'
couver
Island,
which
were
planted
some
years
ago
on
the
Islands,
(decessor
private
companies.
have
been
doing
splendidly.
It
Is;
"Some
have
said
they
would'
believed
that
Douglas
fir
will
grow
gladly
sell
the
Canadian
National
j
'equally
as
well
on
the
Queen
Char-
lottes
as
on
Vancouver
Island.
I
I
Maxim
Silencer
Inventor
Dead
Hiram
Percy
Was
.Member
of
Fam
ily
Prominently
Identified
!
With
Explosives
r
a
mMTA
Coin..
Feb.
18:
(CP)
n
Jv
Mnvim.
internatlon-
!allv
known
as
the
inventor
of
the
maxim
sut-uue.
.u.
I
son
of
Sir
Hiram
Stevens
Maxim,
I
Inventor
of
the
machine
gun
bear-llng
his
name,
died
here
yesterday
from
a
throat
Infection.
,
I
Vancouver
Wheat
,
VANCOUVER.
Feb.
18:
(CP)
...
nnntorf
nfc
81
tic
on
the
Vancouver
Exchange
today.
DENIED
BY
ETHIOPIA
:
UPRISING
I.V.r
r.AKM
I
J
EDMONTON,
Feb.
18:
(CP)
If
Social
Credit
fails
in
Alberta
an
uprising
of
forces,
which
have
been
held
in
check
so
far
only
by
hope
of
justice,
will
follow,
H.
E.
Wright,
Social
Credit,
member
for
Lethbridge,
declared
yesterday
in
addressing
the
Legislature
in
the
debate
in
reply
to
the
speech
from
the
throne.
.
GOVERNMENT
IS
UPHELD
United
States
Administration
Gets
At
Least
One
Break
From
Suprejtte.Court
WASHINGTON,
D.C..
Feb.
18:
(CPi
The
United
States
Supreme
Court
yesterday
upheld
the
government's
right
to
dispose
of
surplus
-.ower
from
dams
constructed
for
navigation,
control
purposes
or
as
national
defence
measure
in
an
to
1
decision
handed
down
in
the
test
of
Tennessee
Valley
authority
validity.
j
i
Retreat
of
Roman
j
Catholic
Clergy
Week's
Gathering
of
Priests
to
End
Tomorrow
.
w.
f
h
nomnn
PnthnHn
Church
ot
thfs
district
have
been
in
retreat
and
conference
here
during
the
past
week,
The
retreat
will
2nd
tomorrow
and
a
number
of
the
Interior
fathers
will
return
to
their
posts
on
the
evening
train.
In
addi
tion
to
Bishop
Bunoz
and
the
local
clergy,
those
in
attendance
have
been
Fathers
Godfrey
and
Grant
of
Smlthers,
Father
Tessler
of
Prince
George,
Father
Murle
of
Fort
St.
James,
Fathers
Rivet
and
Oulletts
of
Lejac
and
Father
Drean
of
Hag-
i
wllget.
Women's
World
Day
Of
Prayer
Will
He
!
Observed
In
City
A
meeting
was
held
yesterday
af
ternoon
In
First
United
Church
Parlors
or
ministers
wives,
salva
tion
Army
officers
and
presidents
of
all
Missionary
Societies
In
the
city
to
make
preparations
for
the
local
observance
of
the
Women's
World
Day
of
Prayer
which
will
be
held
on
February
28.v
DRAGGING
AT
COW
BAY
Dragging
operations
are
being
Instituted
at
Cow
Bay
this
after-
noon
in
the
possibility
of
Johnny
Larsen,
local
fisherman,
who
has
been
ml.'slng
since
February
6.
hav-
lng
fallen
overboard
from
his
boat
Shrimp
and
drowned.
1
BAR
SILVER
NEW
YORK,
Feb.
18:
(CP)
Bar
silver
continued
unchanged
at
443,4C
per
ounce
on
the
local
metal
mar-
"
ket
today,,
'
REUEF
HOOVER
IS
ENIGMATIC
Former
President
is
Hailed
Big
Riddle
of
U.
S.
Politics
No
Personal
Talk
Keeps
Nation
Guessing
on
His
Intentions
-in
Coming
Election
Campaign
PflRTI
AVn
rr
Vah
1fl-
T.-i
an
address
here,
Former
President
Herbert
Hoover,
while
admitting
no
personal
aspirations
ior
another
presidential
nomination
himself,
declared
that
he
would
flghs
the
New
Deal
to
the
very
end.
'.
The
"great
engineer,"
who
ro.1e
into
the
White
House
on
the
comparatively
placid
surge
of
1921,
has
bscome
the
"great
enigma"
in
the
political
'
whirlpool
of
1938
I
The
inscrutable
silence
of
Her
j
bert
Hoover
concerning
his
per-f
sonal
role
in
the
campaign
and
regarding
othsr
Republican
presidential
possibilities,
as
well
as
himself,
has
made
the
former
chief
executive
a
figure
of
pollti-
i
cal
-mystery.
to
politiclans-And-th
public
alike.
Gl'intly
outspoken
in
recurrent
1
Masts
at
administration
"regimentation"
and
"extravagance,"
Honver
has
kept
his
lips
tightly!
shut
when
It
came
either
to
public
discussion
of
a
possible
attempted
comeback
by
himself
or
to
his
at-
titude
toward
any
other
likely
candidates
for
"Grand
Old
Party"
standard-bearing
honors.
Political
Instability
Doubtless,
he
plays
his
semi-mysterious
part
in
the
battle
of
1936
with
few
if
any
Illusions
about
the
constancy
of
,the
elec
destiny.
Eight
years
ago
this
lsPrinS
-
he
was
riding
the
crest
of
political
popularity
on
his
way
to
a
virtually
uncontested
nomin-
ation
lor
tne
presidency
ana
a
subsequently
smashing
victory
over
his
Democratic
opponent,
Alfred
E.
Smith.
Seven
months
after
he
entert
1
the
White
House,
the
stock
market
bubble
burst
and
the
depresslca
was
underway.
Thus
i
began
began
the
the'--
i
.
political
for-;New
n.
Bishop
Is
In
his
sub
ebb
of
the
Hoover
tune
which
culminated
merslon
under
a
tidal
wave
of
electoral
votes
for
Roosevelt
In
i
1932.
Some
political
observers
hailed
the
Democratic
triumph
as
spell
ing
"the
end
of
Hoover."
But
others
Including
many
of
his
loyal
supporters
contended,
even
m
those
darkest
hours
for
the
G.O.P..
that
he
alone
qualified
as
the
'
party's
commander-in-chief
anc1
that
he
was
the
logical
man
to
re-
onrani7e
Republican
forces
and
lead
them
back
to
power.
So,
early
in
1935,
when
Mr.
Ho?
ver
returned
to
the
political
wari
with
a
"Republican
call
to
arms"
onrl
the
first
of
his
ble
bombard-
ments
of
the
Roosevelt
reglme,
h's
j
roie
in
the
1936
campaign
became
one
of
the
major
political
ques-
tlons.
Interest
In
the
"Hoover
mystery"
was
further
intensified
by
his
em-
ergencc
from
the
shadows
of
pol
ltlcal
defeat
and
retirement
as
a
"New
Hoover."
Buoyancy
of
man
ner
and
expression
had
replaced
was
wen
auenctea
notwithstanding
his
somewhat
sombre
gravity.
The
the
Intense
cold.
The
officers
for
Hoover
of
1935
and
1936
seemed
1936
were
elected.
The
new
presl-
to
smile
more
easily
and
to
wise-
dent
Is
W.
A.
Klrkpatrlck.
Floyd
crack
more
readily
And
naturally
Frank
was
chosen
secretary
and
than
the
worry-burdened
Hoover.Miss
J.
King,
treasurer.
An
Inter-
of
1931
and
1932,
or
even
the
Hoo
'
(Continued
on
Page
Four)
-
ar,
l'
Not
i
nous
anas
Being
jlam
Dubbed
False
by
Leader
More
Than
One
Hundred
Have
Been
Killed
Wounded
in
Skirmishes,
Declares
War
Minister
Mulughcta
ADDIS
ABABA,
Feb.
18:
(CP)
War
Minister
Ras
Mulugheta
today
telegraphed
the
Ethiopian
government
denying
Italian
claims
that
his
army
had
been
routed
in
a
six-day
battle
with
loss
of
more
than
twenty
thousand
men
south
of
Makale.
He
said
that
the
Ethiopians
had
not
suffered
more
than
one
hundred
killed
and
wounded
in
SKirmiSnes.
OVERTHROW
PRESIDENT
!
Exile
is
Recalled
to
Head
Para-guan
i
Government
Following
,
Battle
in
Capital
City
ASCUNCION,
Paraguay,
Feb.
18:
(CP)
Jungle
hardened
veterans
of
the
war
with
Bolivia
today
forced
President
Eusebio
Ayala
to
resign
and
set
up
a
j
provisional
government
under
'Cot
Kafart
Franco,
exiled
Paraguay
army
hero,
who
was
recalled
from
Buenos
Aires.
Such
was
the
climax
to
a
battle
I
between
military
and
loyal
police
'
which
raged
through
the
streets
of
the
capital
yesterday.
Second
United
Customs
Officer
Stationed
Here
Owing
to
the
recent
closing
of
the
United
States
consulate
here.
It
has
become
necessary
to
station
a
second
American
customs
officer
at
Prince
Rupert
and
George
Hartle
arrived
In
the
city
at
the
end
of
last
week
from
Seattle
to
take
up
duties
as
such.
Mr.
Hartle
is
accompanied
by
his
wife
and
they
are
taking
up
residence
In
the
Besner
Apartments.
Coming
in
June
Rev.
Father
J.
Coudert
of
Fort
Chippewyan,
who
has
been
appoin
ted
blshop-co-adjutor
for
the
dio
cese
of
Northern
British
Columbia
and
the
Yukon
with
right
of
suc
cession
under
Blshon
E.
M.
Bunoz
O.
M.
I.,
Is
not
expected
to
arrive
In
Prince
Rupert
before
June
to
assume
his
ecclesiastical
duties
here.
His
consecration
wilj
take
place
before
he
comes
here,
possibly
at
Edmonton.
Terrace
C.
C.
F.
In
Annual
Meeting
TERRACE,
Feb.
18:
The
Terrace
C.
C.
F.
members
held
their
annual
meeting
in
the
Oddfellows'
Hall
on
last
Wednesday
night.
The
meeting
(Csting
talk
ensued
on
the
subject
i
of
economic
planning.
,
And
COLD
SNAP
UNABATED
Death,
Suffering
and
Hardship
On
Prairies
and
in
Mid
West
Dispatches
from
the
prairies
and
Middle
West
of
the
United
States
tell
of
continued
cold
weather
there
with
attendant
deaths,
suffering
and
.
hardship.
"New
low
tempera-
ture
-marks
-liave,
been
recorded
wlth-more-
wow-althouglvan
abate
'ment
of
wind
has
eliminated
blizzards.
Devil's.
Lake,
-
North
Dakota,
.'recorded
46
below
zero
Saturday
night
which
was
a
new
record,
I
ll
r,
l
-
Prince
reported
50
below.
In
a
Montana
town
four
members
of
a
family
perished
either
from
being
burned
to
death
or
from
exposure
when
a
can
of
kero
sene,
being
used
In
an
endeavor
to
bolster
up
a
kitchen
fire
during
40
below
zero
weather
on
Saturday,
exploded.
A
fifth
member
of
the
family
Is
at
death's
door
in
hospital.
Continued
Cold
Felt
at
Terrace
Many
Koads
Impassable
on
Account
Of
Heavy
Snowfall
TERRACE,
Feb.
18:
Cold,
clear
weather
continues
at
Terrace.
N.
Sherwood,
who
keeps
weather
records
on
behalf
of
the
Dominion
government,
reports
a
minimum
of
eight
degrees
below
zero
mark.
The
snow,
which
had
fallen
In
a
gale
and
blizzard
a
week
previous,
has
blown
Into
all
low
spots
with
the
result
that
many
of
the
roads
are
"impassable
and
this
in
spite
of
the
regular
trips
being
made
by
the
public
works
snow
plough.
Wallace
And
Barney
Ross
Are
Signed'
VANCOUVER,
Feb.
18:
(CP)
Matchmaker
Jack
Allen
announced
today
that
he
had
signed
Barney
Ross,
world's
welterweight
champion,
and
Gordon
Wallace
of
Vancouver
for
a
ten-round
non-title
bout,
here
on
March
11.
'