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Weather
Tomorrow's
Tides
1
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ajw.)
ii
High
2:45
a.m.
19.2'ft.
prince
Rupert
Raining,
southeast
14:15
p.m.
21.0
it.
27
miles
per
hour;
barometer
wind,
Low
8:35
a.m.
8.4
ft.
29.70;
temperature,
47;
sea
21:05
p.m.
3.5
ft.
rough.
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PRINCE
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B.C.,
SATURDAY,
DECEMBER
4,
1937.
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Brifeh
Railway
Track
it
d
r
Ai
r
r.
ucuigc
Lost
In
River
In
answer
o
questions
asked
by
l
I
Winch,
C.C.F.
member
for
Iwuty.
Premier
T.
D.
Pattullo
hu
informed
the
Legislature
that1
abort
forty-three
miles
of
single
mlny
track
belonging
to
the
Pa-eifx
Orpflt
Eastern
Railway
has
the
ftntvetimro
nf
their
rccommen
d&t.lnne
um
thif
InpnmC
tax
Should
-vsa
TT
MA
bMV
V'"""
be
collected
by
the
Dominion
government
only,
one
income
tax
return
to
be
made
out
and
not
two
or
three
as
a
present.
They
recom-nended
that
Indirect
taxation
by
the
provinces
should
be
ellmlnaica,
that
taxation
forms
should
be
simplified,
that
the
number
of
citizens
Paying
direct
taxes
should
be
Increased
to
that
more
people
bay
become
familiar
with
the
cost
of
government,
that
Indirect
taxes
ta.rr
should
creased
-w
so
that
more
-
Ship
Liberals
Revive
Old
Lower
Cost
Of
Living
Aim
Of
Sir
Archibald
Sinclair
And
Cohorts
Challenge
View
That
Wages
Arc
Going
Up
as
Fast
as
Prices
Would
Take
Tanlts
and
ijuoias
Off
People's
Food
i
HMnnM
TW
A-(C.P
Under
the
leadership
of
Sir
Archibald
Sinclair,
Opposition
Liberals
are
organizing
a
monster
petition
to
Parliament
protesting
at
the
high
cost
of
living.
Sir
Archibald
said
the
Liberals
were
demanding
that
the
"government
should
take
tariffs
and
quotas
off
the
neonle's
food."
He
said
the
Liberals
were
chal
lenging
the
view
that
wages
iwere
rising
as
quickly
as
prices.
Strange
Disease
Attacks
Infants
Ten
Are
Victims
of
Acute
Epidemic
Diarrhea
at
Chicago
Hospital
Within
Eleven'
Days
aitCAGCbrtembe-'-iCann"
rtian
Prfl
Physicians
and
scl
entlsts
are
waging
a
concerted
fisrht
atralnst
a
strange
disease
dlagnozed
as
enteritis
or
acute
cp-
ldemlc
diarrhea
which
has
causae
he
deaths
of
ten
babies
and
Imperilled
the
lives
of
eight
others
durinz
the
Dast
eleven
deys
in
the
tan
lost
by
erosion
of
the
Fraserj'nf
'
ants'
ward
River
at
Prince
Oeorge.
Hospital.
Chamber
Of
Commerce
Goes
On
Record
As
Favoring
Drastic
of
St.
Ellzabetns
Change
In
Government
Method
UV..1.1
m
Tn.,iiwrs1iin
nf
Loirislaturc
to
Sixteen
and
Take
Away
Most.
of
Powers
of
Provincial
Government
Owing
to
the
extremely
bad
weather
last
evening
the
attendance
at
the
mommy
lueuuiiB-
-
r,
lommerce
was
very
mente
in
the
service
of
the
commercial
interests
of
the
city,
In
spite
of
the
poor
attendance
the
thirteen
men
proceeded
to
try
to
upset
the
constitution
of
Canada
by
making
recommendations
to
the
-
:
.
Royal
Commission
on
Dominion-
led
fby
the
province
as
the
cost
in
provincial
relations
which,
If
ac-
collection
Is
out
of
all
proportion
to
ceoted.
would
nractlcally
abolish
the
amount
of
revenue
produced.
the
provincial
governments
of
the
Tne
committee
then
became
very
country
by
leaving
them
stranded
drastic
In
Its
recommendations
sug-
lth
almost
nothing
to
do.
gestlng
that
every
present
govern-
A
questlonalre
had
been
sent
the
mental
activity
except
agriculture,
Chamber
from
the
Canadian
mming
and
education
should
De
Chamber
of
Commerce
at
Montreal
confined
only
to
the
Federal
gov-asklng
an
expression
of
opinion
ernment
After
discussion
and
the
upon
a
number
of
questions
affect-
taking
of
a
vote,
education
was
ad-lng
government
with
a
view
to
ef-
dd
to
the
Federal
list
while
"tour-"clency
and
economy.
This
was
re-;
lsm
was
decided
to
be
a
provincial
ferred
to
the
Trade
and
Commerce
as
wen
as
Federal
matter
committee
for
recommendation
andi
,
tnen
to
the
cost
of
legis
lation,
it
was
recommended
that
the
number
of
legislators
should
be
re
duced,
making
the
provincial
con-,
stltuencies
correspond
with
the
boundaries
of
the
Federal
constituencies
This
was
adopted
but,
when
a
proposal
was
made
tnai
me
opiate
should
be
abolished
In
the
Interests
of
economy
and
efficiency,
a
vote
was
taken,
six
voting
for
abolition
and
seven
for
retaining
the
Senate.
of
the
rr,i,.
rrr-nmmcndatlons
1
1
IV
.
committee
were
adopted
with
the
m
.umam
mn
in
Lite
os
"
"
come
familiar
with
the
cost,
'
";T0ncd
menUonrt
a
and
the
Chamber
Is
now
government,
that
Indirect
axes
most
should
be
changed
to
direct
taxes
on
JorQ
proposed
In
and
collected
in
a
similar
manner
fjf
mBentaI
sy5tem
of
the
to
objected
me
B
the
gasoline
tax
They
to
tax
lev-(
country.
the
one
per
cent
Income
Cahan
Remanded
Until
Next
Week
Trial
of
a
Vancouver
Barristei,
Charged
With
Bank
Holdup
Next
Tuesday
VANCOUVER.
December
4
(Ca
nadlan
Press)
Charles
H.
Cahan
Vancouver
Stocks
B.
C.
Nickel,
.00
Vi.
Big
Missouri,
.36.
Bralome,
7.85.
Aztec,
.J7.
Caidoo
Quartz,
1.65.
Dentonla,
.11.
Oolconda,
.05.
Minto,
.03
Vi.
,
Falrview
Amal.,
.05.
Noble
Five?
.03.
i'
Pend
Oreille,
1.15.
...
Porter
Idaho.
03.
Premier,
1.88.
Reeves
McDonald,
.35.
Relief
Arlington,
.16.
Reward,
.06Vi.
''
Salmon
Gold.
.06.
HedleyAmaL-OS.'-4
Premier
Border,
.01.
Silbak
Premier,
1.85.
Congress,
.02.
Silver
Crest,
.03
",i.
Home
Gold.
.01
V4.
Grandvlew,
.08.
Quatslno
Copper,
.03.
Qucsnelle
Quartz,
.05.
Oils
A.
P.
Con.,
.34.
Calmont,
.58.
4
C.
it
E.,
2.92.
Freehold,
.08.
Hargal.
.28Vi.
McDougal
Segur,
.23.
Mercury,
.21.
Okalta,
1.55.
i
Pacalta,
.14
Vi.
Home
Oil.
1.45.
Riddled
By
Bullets
Battle
Cry
Fisheries
Session
In
Seattle
Is
On
Rehabilitation
and
Maintaining
of
Pacific
Coast
Halibut
Under
v
Discussion
SEATTLE.
December
4
(Cana
dian
Press)
The
session
of
thcln
jr.,
Vancouver
barrister
ana
son
oi
!temat.iona
nsneries
uommissiun
a
prominent
Montreal
family,
was;
here
to
discuss
with
fishermen
ana
yesterday
remanded
until
next
boat
owners
rehabilitation
ana
Thursday
for
hearing
on
a
charge
I
maintaining
of
the
naitout
inaus-
Vancouver
Stocks
j
Tax
Extension
I
tAiurlfcby
a.
1).
Juluidbuii
Ou.
Bill
Is
Passed
Measure
Giving
More
Time
To
Those
In
Arrears
Here
Given
Third
Reading
VICTORIA,
December
4
(Cana-dian
Press
)
f
The
Prince
Ru-'
pert.
Enabling
Act.
extending
the
period
forlpayment
of
tax
ar-
...
T.
.
1
,
third
reading
last
night.
'
i
Annual
Appeal
For
Funds
For
Salvation
Army
Christmas
Cheer
One
again
as
Christmas
approaches
we
look
around
and
find
that
there
may
be
some
people
who
are
not
in
a
position
to
enjoy
Christmas
as
they
should.
Some
of
these
people
will
be
cared
for
by
their
friends,
their-churches,
their
lodges,
or
their
neighbors,
but
even
then
there
are
still
some
who
would
not
e
able
to
join
in
the
happy
season
wholeheartedly
were
it
not
for
the
good
officers
of
the
Salvation
Army.
This
year
at
the
local
citadel
there
are
new
officers
with
new
enthusiasms
ready
to
take
up
the
work
where
the
others
left
off,
They
will
make
it
their
business
during
the
next
week
or
two
to
search
out
the
families
that
are
in
need,
regardless
of
religion,
and
will
see
that
they
are
given
those
Christmas
comforts
which
seem
necessary
to.
happiness
at
this
season
of
the
year.
To
do
this,
.they
need
money
and
they
appeal
to
all
who
are
abje
to
do
so
to
contribute
the
funds
to
make
it
possible?
They
are
offering
to
do
for
"us
that
which
we
are
unable
to
do
ourselves.
;
.-
Donations
of
money
dr
goods
willjbc
acknowledged
through
the
columns
of
this
newspaper.
.;'
BULLETINS
LAID
AT
KEST
The
funeral
of
the
late
Judah
Osborne,
halibut
fisherman
and
veteran
of
the
".ind.
Battalion
C.E.F.,
took
place
this
afternoon
from
the
chapel
of
the
B.
C.
Undertakers
to
Fairview
Cemetery
with
semi-military
honors
under
ausilee:
of
the
Deep
Sea
Fishermen's
Union
and
Canadian
Le
gion.
Rev.
E.
E.
Brandt,
pastor
)t
roDDery
witn
violence
in
con-nrv
uroceeum.
rm.ee
n.uWu-
-
1
,m
n.tUt
Church
murcn.
officia-
oiucia
.i
.....v,
tv,
v,ihi
f
.
Vnmv.r
and
Alaska
flshlne
n-tor
week.
ins
.
,
1
.'
OJELBOS
UtLUU9
IN
11
BERLIN,
ULHLUli
.
cltsfrom
U4U!
101)5456
cVvCroladFeign'
VancouLtr
Wheat
Tcfrace
Ralnrng,
calm,
temperature,
31.
'Alyansh
Snowing,
calm,
28
Alice
Arm
Snowing,
windy,
31.
Anyox
Snowing,
calm,
29.
Hazelton
Cloudy,
calm,
29.
Smlthers
Snowing,
calm,
26.
Bums
Lake
Snowing,
calm,
27.
Stewart
Ten.
'Inches'
dry
snow,
30,
Eleven
Home
Improvement
Loans
Here
Home
imnrovement
loans
in
Prtnr.p
Runert
have
numbered
ele-,
L
S
Hope,
assistant
district
for-lven
for
a
total
amount
of
$4,107.30
ester,
sailed
last
night
on
the
ss
-ccording
to
rsoorts
sent'
In
to
Ot-Princess
Adelaide
for
a
trip
to
tawa
by
lending
Institutions.
It
is
Ocean
Falls
on
official
business.
announced.
ed
at
the
organ
to
accompany
hymn-
which
were
"Lead
Kind-lv
Lithf
and
"Abide
With
Jle."
Interment
was
made
in
the
Returned
Soldiers'
plot.
The
Last
Post
was
sounded
by
Bugler
William
Itancc
BIG
STEAMER
STRANDED
SEATTLE
The
big
steamer
Yukon
ef
the
Alaska
Steamship
Co
line,
after
having
been
stranded
for
nine
hours
in
southeastern
Alaska
water",
was
able
to
proceed
undamaged
under
her
own
power,
according
to
advices
re
ceived
here
last
night.
Minister
Vvon
Delbos
arrived
here
yesterday
from
Frante
to
discuss
international
problems.
On
the
way
from
Paris
to
Warsaw
he
made
a
brief
stop
in
Berlin
where
he
was
met
by
Foreign
Minister
von
Neurath.
.MYSTIC
OF
TIBET
DIES
LONDON
Reuters
News
Agency
reports
that
Tanchen
Lama,
ranking
spiritual
ruler
of
Tibet,
is
dead
In
Western
China
after
thirteen
years
of
exile,
from
his
so-called
"forbidden
land."
He
fled
in
1924
from
the
mysterious
plateau
land
after
differences
with
his
secular
superior,
Dalai
Lama,
who
died
In
1933.
SWIMMERS
FOR
WEST
WINNIPEG
Manitoba's
challenge
to
the
British
Empire
Championships
trials
in
the
swimming
section
to
be
held
In
Vancouver
next
week
leave
for
the
Pacific
Coast
over
Canadian
National
lines
on
Sunday
morning,
arriving
In
Vancouver
Tuesday
morning
The
party
will
be
joined
In
Winnipeg
by
the
large
party
from
Toronto
TWO
FLIERS
KILLED
MIAMI,
Florida
Two
fire-
J
blackened
patches
of
debris
!
formed
mute
epitaphs
for
two
of
the
most
daring
air
race
pilots
of
the
United
States
as
Miami's
annual
air
show
entered
Its
second
day.
Late
yesterday
Rudy
Kling
of
Lcmont,
Illinois,
and
rrank
Haines
of
Detroit
were
killed
in
crashes,
apparently
caused
by
the
same
down
draft.
RECORD
SHORT
TORONTO
The
Legislature
of
Ontario
prorouged
yesterday
after
the
shortest
session
in
th
history
of
the
province.
It
lasted
only
four
hours
and
three
.bills
were
put
through.
FIVE
BURNED
TO
DEATH
KXMOTTK,
Quebec:
A
young
mother
and
four
children
were
burned
to
death
yesterday
In
a
fire
that
destroyed
a
farm
home.
The
dead
are
Mrs.
Henry
Mlron
and
children,
all
under
five
years
of
age.
Hie
husband,
brother
and
father
of
the
woman
jumped
to
safety.
Vessel
On
Mercy
Trip
From
Shanghai
Shot
on;
Japs
Insist
Their
Way
Insist
on
Freedom
In
International
Settlement
After
Foreign
Resistance
Nanking
is
Definitely
Threatened
'
SHANGHAI,
Dec.
4:
(CP)
The
British
steamship
Siushan
was
reported
today
to
have
been
riddled
with
bul-iets
from
an
undetermined
source
while
on
a
mission
of
mercy
to
Japanese-occupied
'lsungming
island
near
Shanghai.
The
vessel
was
attempting
to
rescue
nine
trench-Canadian
nuns
wno
nau
Deen
maruuneu
uh
mc
Wheat
Exports
This
Fall
Low
Less
Than
Half
of
amount
Sent
Out
of
Canada
Compared
With
Year
Ago
Accordtnc
to
a
bulletin
Issued
fc
the
federal
government,
there
is
a
marked
falline
off
In
export
clear
5
neps
of
wheat
from
Canadian
norts
this
tall,
the
figures
beln?
less
than
half
what
they
were
last
fall.
There
were
no
exports
irom
prinpp
RuDert
this
fall
whereas
last-y
eafSOz.Ol
3
bushels
-
went
out
of
here.
HEALTH
SCHEME
TORONTO:
The
Canadian
Medical
Association,
it
was
announced
here
yesterday
by
the
general
secretary,
Dr.
A.
D.
Kelly,
will
make
representations
to
I
he
Rowcll
Roal
Commission
on
Dominion
-
provincial
relations,
favoring
a
Dominion
-
wide
health
insurance
scheme.
Information
with
that
end
In
view
is
island
lor
inree
monms.
Among
those
on
board
the
296-ton
Siushan
were
Rev.
Adrian
Sansoucy,
French-
Canadian
missionary,
and
B.
Bootn-
by.
British
consular
official.
Boothbv
was
seeking
to
rescue
tne
nuns
but
his
efforts
were
frustrated
bv
machine-gunning!.
The
chief
officer,
a
Chinese,
was
killed.
Sev
eral
passengers
"and
a
sauor
were
hurt.
British
authorities
say
that
the
Japanese,
who
have
an
air
base
on
Tsungmlng
Island,
were
Informed
of
the
voyage
In
advance.
Tsungmlng
Is
In
the
moutn.
oi
tne
Yangste
River
estuary
between
Shanghai
and
the
China
Sea.
The
Japanese
have
demanded
freedom
to
enter
the
International
settlement
at
will
after
armed
forces
twice
encountered
foreign
re
sistance.
At
the
same
time
a
rep
resentative
of
the
Japanese
commander.
General
Iwane
Matsul,
demanded
that
settlement
police
pre-
bpnt
anv
reoitltion
of
the
victory
march
attack
on
Japanese
soldiers.
Japanese
authorities,
meanwniie,
report
their
forces
definitely
threatenine
Nanking,
evacuated
capital
of
Nationalist
China.
b'-.in
assembled.
The
Cana-
j
Japanese
airplanes
were
report-i
Medical
Association
reels
Pd
tndav
to
have
hnmbed
bomDea
the
tne
Han-,
nan-:
titan
that
it
Is
Inadvisable
for
the
var
ious
provinces
to
have
different
health
Insurance
schemes.
THREE
u
KILLED
...
ON
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ROAD
kow-Canton
Railway
by
which
Brl-;
tish
Charge
d'Affalres
R.
O.Howe
was
known
to
be
proceeding
to-;
vard
Hong
Kong.
There
was
no:
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tha
train'
indication,
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BRANTFORD,
ONT..
December
4
gjyjng
Howe
was
endangered,
i
Canadian
Press)
Mr.
and
Mrs
Jeter
Cook
and
their
twenty-six
car
old
son
were
killed
lnstantlj
'hursday
night
when
their
automobile
crashed
Into
a
truck.
Ernest
Unwln
sailed
this
morn
lng
on
the
Prince
John
for
a
visit,
to
Tlell,
Queen
Charlotte
Islands.
Veteran
Prospector
Of
Cassiar
Country,
In
Pitiful
Condition,
Rescued
By
Provincial
Police
Provincial
Constable
J.
Blakeston-Gray
and
an
Indian
guide
are
back
at
Telegraph
Creek,
according
to
a
re-uort
received
at
district
headquarters
here,
from
a
special
patrol
to
Goat
Mountain
of
Kehlechoa
River,
a
tributary
of
the
Stikine
above
Telegraph
Creek,
having
succeeded
in
bringing
out
Hugh
Ford,
61-year-old
trapper
and
prds-
pector,
original
discoverer
oi
piacer
'at
Oold
Pan
Creek,
who
had
been
1
mnnth.
Ford
1
wa-
found
to
be
In
a
deplorablet
months
ne
nad
condition
but
is
recovering
at
icic-oranh
Creek
from
the
hardship
and
3
I
.
privation
which
he
underwent,
ine
atrol
took
the
police
officer
ana
his
guide
twenty-five
days
and
they
travelled
406
miles
by
foot
ana
sev-
entv-three
miles
by
truck.
Their
Journey
was
through
country
whicn
has
been,
little
traversed
by
man.
On
receipt
of
reports
from
other
fleer
that
he
had
been
living
on
nothing
but
moose
meat
for
&lx
no
flour,
saltrj-
I
tea.
His
cloths
were
In
tatters
and
virtually
falling
off
him.
He
was
walking
around
In
six
Inches
of
snow
with
not
even
socks
on
his
feet.
His
only
shelter
was
a
rotten
fly
His
bedding
consisted
of
two
bid
blankets
and
he
also
had
a
wofri-out
rifle.
Ford
told
Constable
Bleakeston-Gray
that
he
had
thoueht
to
"tough
It
out"
until
somewhere
In
that
country
and
was,
Christmas,
having
become
much
in;
very
poorly
equipped,
the
police
01-
terestea
in
some
mining
fleer
and
the
native
set
out
in
quest
l
tnere.
11
was
eviuem,,
for
him.
Finally
at
timber
line
of
that,
had
ne
not
Deen
iounu,
.1
Goat
Mountain
they
heard
dogs
barking
and
it
was
there
that
they
located
Ford
In
a
small
draw.
He
was
in
a
pitiful
condition
and
a
veritable
"living
scarecrow"
the
officer's
report
says:
He
told
the
of-
would
have
soon
succumbed
to
privation
and
exposure
with
winter
coming
on.
Ford
has
been
in
the
Cassiar
country
since
1916.
He
is
not
unknown
In
Prince
Rupert.
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