Today's Weather (8 A.M.) Prince Rupert Fair, easterly wind, 12 miles per hour; barometer, 29.80; slight sea. SERMON TO FISHERMEN Irr. C. I). Clarke Advances His Views Prior to Departure Of Fleet iThere was a service in First tied Church last night designed Ipcclally for fishermen on the eve ; fcs departure 'of "the" halibut H Icr if j season's work on the ph. In spite of all the other pgs tSu might be envisioned, H-i w still the basic Industry ffcL- Rupert. Rev. ,C. D. Clarke, P f- or declared. The welfare I' ttii industry and of the flsher- p war therefore, a matter ph should be given first con flation Mr Clarke cited as an lustration of how the fisheries p overlooked the fact that, of 1 the organizations which had pra called upon to be represented meeting to raise funds for the lew hospital, the fishermen's union W been omitted. ! After asserting that the fisher- pn were In a lamentable nosltlon F'ng to exploitation both In the IL .ii ' wer of outfitting and selling of w product. Mr. Clarke declared . at he felt the Gospel of Jesus be well applied to the fish-H Industry of today. He declared PO'iCy Of fatalkmthnt. nf Inst. Mtlng until thlnes irnf rtfprn.t N being in line with the teach- t'OrJciUS Nnr U9l nilornollcm fhe att'tude that the government r uieooay else would come along thin . for themselves. Mr. Clarke r".nccd co-operation as a means I r1?, mhmen doing something hiV E elr own PitIon. Mr I Clarke urepri hniiHin Mm i asIIa tAltf nnt t Vi o rpur rtf rl rr--lv.l at Mcetilie SatUf- PPle when thev '" could V.UU1U do UU ths! UlC '.lav Nicht-Ncxt Relief Dis- burscments Awaited Reports of activity in with Uie strike of city relief uwtlrtlante wllfl h-lVC rCIUSCa Ir. ' ;w do justly, love mercy work for their relief until certain "U Walk hnmkl 111. , . ...... .1 U., miirlr k iuve "j wiin uoa. "inou rinmnnns wnicn nicy - thy God and thy neigh- !are met were presented at a meet. as thv-self " Tim irn... f!i i m, PannHLin Labor De- "an Personality should alwav fr-nro isrue Hall Saturday night ; rpsnnt.j . . - ! ... ... t. v-n-u, inmict.rv chr.nii ovicf tv.,. cfwto prvmmittee ana n w. J U.U bAHVI v) V . V. 1 "lan 9nH .a . ... . . . I m nnrfr1 flor. JBut i, an Ior industry, grievance romraiiw.c lalviiu usl work out your own F'WtlOn, No r.nB ...111 .1 . Charles Mattson. being checked up. The program of research work to be undertaken by halibut handling companies in collaboration with members of the scientific staff of the Prince Rupert Fisheries Experimental Station this year with a view to Improving the quality of fresh, and frozen halibut when It reaches the markets will be divided as follows: First, storage and trartsportat-Won of fish from the grounds tt shore. Second, handling and freezing of fish ascordlne to the latest shar? freezing methods. Third, storage of frozen fish un til the time of shipment. Fourth, transportation of flsh across the continent In refriger ator cars In which the overhead refrigeration principle will be undoubtedly of great value Fifth, transAt'antlc shipment of fish, an alternative to which has been suggested by shipping from the Pacific Coast via Panama In connection with stowage and transportation of fish from grounds to shore, use of modified holds for better storage will be further gone into as well as the use of antiseptic Ice to keep down bacterial growth until the fish can be -frozen: - In regard to handling and freez ing of fish after it is landed, prompt handling will be concentrated upon and the temperature and rate of freezing gone Into. As for storage, hdvlce will be given as -to the best methods of piling to avoid dehydration, newly developed types of glazing will tc worked upon, properties of glaze? from the mechanical standpoint will be studied and bacteriological as "dry Ice") and sealed metal units containing chemical solu tions which freeze to lower tem peratures. In connection with the whole campaign, efforts will be made by means of handling fish under par alleling conditions at the Prince Rupert fitatlon, to check up where' Improvements are most noticeable. The members of the staff of the Prince Rupert station whose services will be used In connection with the campaign will be Dr. Neal Carter, Dr. H. N. Brocklesoy, Dr, R H. Bedford, Dr. L. F. Pug-sley, Dr. W. A. Rlddell and O. C. Young. Weather Forecast (Furnished through the courtesy o .he Dominion Meteorological Bureau a Victoria arwj Prince Uupert. This tor cast la compiled from observations t- aid iiiri p P. Murphy Mum hv was was in m uie cuait "z,"J'''''."""w:y-r .M r--- i nour uv-nuu vuuiug o pju, tomorrow t . and -j there was a fair folr ; aiM?naa.uv-w, Generai Synopsis Moderate dis nuat m CO-onornlnn onrl Fnrfhrr nriranizauon oi wc u"-" ifiirhanre nnw nnrthwarrt nff Onppn arer,f u10mlc welfare will take ployed is being proceeded with i charlotte ,isiands. Weather has The' " lThe slrlke continues and there en generally falr and mlld ln 'tlon V?4 a 60od slzed congre-'wlll likely be no new developments Bmsh Columbla he wf, service. A feature of In connection with the dispute un- prlnce Rupert District and Queen he j,m was Pial singing by til next Monday wnen uw .- -ni?r ChIr which has hn i lief disbursements are due. Gn;y,N' R- Redman-the! " ityofS, parture from the Peoria Arrest 'nom wasrpfprro .- ancouuer Wheat SCOUVER March 8: ,CP- Charlotte Islands Strong easterly winds, not quite so mild and becoming showery at night. LEGION BILLIARDS Tr.i v:J ;r George Cripps defeated S. D. Willi '""""-Macdonald 150 to 103 ln the final ... n- An ar- of the Canadian Legion billiard PEORIA. 111.. 8s,7rS" "f handicap Sunday. Macdonald had lca' was niinfo. 11. i ... m. boy, one semi-nnai wnue uripps won rZ1 from Frank Warne 150 to 115 in "lancet Hnt, j Fingerprints the other semi-final. and chemical changes taking place ! both in flesh and oil during storage will be observed. In the matter of refrigerator -ar shipment, Instead of using lco md salt in the bunkers, It may become necessary to use other re frigeration principles not yet ap wen toThe boaU from - T 1 7 ... ... lynllrl rolid carbon carbon ri dioxide He Ihptlfvr (better Vnnan known which they were picked up by tne President Coolidge. Later a coastguard vessel beached the tanker for salvage. Workless Strike Here is Still On ,oVir ClAL LIBRARY I VICTORIA, B.C. mmln PRINCE KUPEHT FREE Staff Sergeant G. 'H. Green- wood shows that Prince Ru- pert has been remarkably free of serious automobile accl- dents in recent years. During the three years 1934, 1935 and 1936 there were only 94 minor accidents. Involving damage of less than.- $25, and 24 In which there was over $25 da- mage. During the three years there were but twelve injuries in car accidents. Tpere have been no motorvehicle fatalities here since 1927. i Late Telegraphs 4 1 OF BAD ACCIDENTS AS RESULT OF DRIVING ! GERMAN CONSUL DIES OTTAWA Ludwlg Kempff, aged 64, German consul general for Canada, died here a week after an appendicitis operation. MOKE AUIO STRIKES FLINT, Mich. A strike closed ihree divisions of the Chevrolet .Motor Co. plant toiay. Employees left without disorder and the management announced the divisions would be closed pending settlement of differences with the United AutbmblMieVWbfkers of America. At Detroit there is a sltdown strike at the Hudson Motor Car Co. plant. NELSON TAKES TITLE NELSON Nelson Maple Leafs took the British Columbia senior amateur hockey championship Saturday night by defeating Vancouver Canadians by a score of 10 to 2 for the second straight win. Nelson had won the first game 5 to 1 so demonstrated its superiority without dispute. TWO KILLED IN OCEAN GENOA, Italy Unconfirmed reports here yesterday said that one passenger and one member of the crew of the Italian liner Rex had been killed as a result of a severe storm in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores. Many others were said to have sustained injuries. SEA BISCUIT WINNER SANTA ANITA Sea Biscuit, second to Roscmont in the rich Santa Anita Handicap a week ago, won the $10,000 San Juan Capistrano Handicap big closing race at Santa Anita on Saturday. Grand Manitou was second and Special Agent, belonging to Major Austin C. Taylor of Vancouver, third. Aged Native Passes Away James Starr, Father of Mrs. ward Gamble, Dies at Kitkatla Ed- Word was brought to the city Saturday afternoon of the death at Kitkatla at 3:30 that morning of James Starr, father of Mrs. Edward Gamble. The late Chief Starr hailed from Bella Bella but had been living for the past four years at Kitkatla with hit daughter. He was eighty-seven years of age. The funeral will take place at Kitkatla today" with Rev. G. H. Goodread, the Anglican missionary, officiating. Edward Gamble and Henry Brown arrived ln Prince Rupert Saturday afternoon aboard the Norma G to make funeral uur- chases and left Sunday .return to Kitkatla. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MQNDAY, MARCH 8, 1937 PLAY FOR POSITION A compilation prepared byjMaroons and Maple Leafs Botn Win Saturday Games Are Now on Even Terms SATURDAY'S SCORES Canadiens 1, Toronto 3. New York Americans 3, Montreal 4. SUNDAY'S SCORES Americans 3, Detroit 1. Boston 1, New York Rangers 0. Toronto 2, Chicago 2 (overtime). TORONTO, March 8: With To .onto Maple Leafs defeating Mon treat Canadiens 3 to 1 at Toronto Montreal, Saturday night's play in the National Hockey League wav confined to teams of the International section. With the Canadiens, apparently, safely established ln first place and the Americans as firmly entrenched ln the cellar, Interest continues to centre In the Tomorrow's Tides High 10:55 a.m. 19.0 ft. Q 23:46 p.m. 18.4 ft. Low ?.. , 4;55 a.m. 8.9 ft. 17:31 p.m. 5.0 ft. f RICE: S CENT WISH SHIP IS BOMBED IN BISCA Y Sisters Withdraw 3ffer To Build $200,000 Hospital In Prince Rupert at Present The offer of the Sisters of St. Ann to build and operate hospital costing not less than $200,000 in Prince Rupert as been withdrawn. The following explanatory letter has pen sent to the city commissioner and the chairman of lie hospital board by Patmore & Fulton : "We beg to advise you that by telegram received this loming from the Mother bupenor of the bisters of St. nat Victoria we have been asked and officially .author-(1 to advise you that, in view of the very acrimonious ropaganda now being carried on against the Sisters of t. Ann's offer to build an up-to-date hospital at Prince upert, the institution in question is obliged to withdraw its offer. "The Sisters of St. Ann never undertake to build a hospital in any place unless they are welcomed by the reat majority of the people oi the community. We are istructed to say that this was a condition sine qua non f the offer in question." COLLISION AT 'FRISCO President Coolidge and Oil Tanker Both Badly Damaged In Crash in Golden Gate SAN FRANCISCO, March 8: The big liner President Coolidge, outbound for Honolulu and the Orient with seven' hundred passengers on board, and. the tanker Frank II. Buck were In collision early Saturday afternoon In the Oolden Gate during fog. Both vessels sustained considerable damage in the bow-on crash. There was no loss of life. The President Coolidge sustained a gaping holt In her bow and had to return to her dock. It will be probably ten days or two weeks before repairs can be completed. The passengers will be transferred to another vessel, being given the option of going via Vancouver or waiting here for a sailing at the week-end. The tanker got the worst of the collision. She showed signs of sink- PROGRAM DETAILS How Efforts Will be Made to Improve Quality of Prince Rupert Halibut For Markets Destroyers are Rushed To Point Where Vessel Reports Being Shelled Meanwhile Spanish Civil War Centres on Madrid With Renewed Insurgent Offensive Anticipated March 13 Mentioned as New Patrol Date LONDON, March 8: (CP) Four British destroyers were rushing at forced draft today through the Bay of Biscay to a point where a vessel believed to have been the British motorship Adda sent out an "S.O.S.." renortinir nd Montreal Maroons winnine tnat she had been bombed and was sinkinir. One version over New York Americans 4 to 3 at of the "S.O.S." said the ship reported she was being raked struggle of the Maroons and the Twcnty.one Passenge jviapie L,eai5 ior arcona pusiuun honors. With both teams winning thair games Saturday night, the Maroons still had their one point lead over the Maple Leafs until last night when the Maple. Leafs, ACCIDENT WITH BUS rs .Narrowly Escape Death When Machine Plunges Into Okanagan Lake KELOWNA, March 8: (CP) by virtue of a draw with Chicago Twenty-one passengers aboard Black Hawks, got on even terms. Kelowna to Summerland bound minutes and five seconds of the( Vancouver Clear, north wind, 4 overtime, Harvey Jackson scored, miles per hour; barometer, 29.96. with the assistance of Jimmy Fow- Prince George Calm, clear, baler and Syl Apps, Fowler made the rometer, 30.04. Leafs victory decisive when, with; Triple Island Cloudy, east two minutes to go, he rapped ln a northeast wind, 6 miles per hour, long shot which deflected off sea smooth. Cude's arm Into the goal. I Langara Island Overcast, east In the Maroons-Americans game wind, 30 miles per hour; barometer, at Montreal, the count was one-all 29.55; temperature, 43; moderate at the end of the first period, and rough sea. 2 to' 1 for the Americans at the end of the second. In the third, the Maroons scored three and the Americans but one for a final count of 4 to 3 In favor of the Gorman aggregation. Prominent Calgary Laborite is Dead John O'Sulllvan, of Late a Com munlst, Dies in Alberta City CALGARY, March 8: John O'Sulllvan, long prominent in the labor movement ln Calgary and more recently a Communist, died yesterday following an operation. on their IIe was an electrician and sixty ' years of age. y;' Dead Tree Point Cloudy, calm, barometer. 29.66; temperature, 45; moderate swell. Tennis Players Out as Winter ? from fore to aft by fire from an "unidentified warship." The "S.O.-S." was received both by Lloyds, great marine underwriters, and by Croix de Hlns Olrohde, wireless station in France. The bay area Is a hotbed of Spanish sea and air warfare. Centre On Madrid MADRID, March : (CP) Gov ernment shells pounded down a forty-yard stretch of the Cllnco Hospital, Insurgent stronghold at the very door of Madrid. Some of - the Insurgent garilson were repor-a ted caught In the collapse. It was reported at the week-end A five minute overtime period Greyhound' bus narrowly, escaped that 100 Britons had been killed was lequlred to settle the Issue In death at 5:30 Saturday evening and 300 Injured so far In the Span- Saturday. night's, game at . .the when the big machine plunged 15 Ish civil war vt- ur.""--" Maple Leaf Gardens between thc'feei over an embankment off 'the """ WIth'Hhe'oblecflve Vf-Tapturing' Maple Leafs and the Canadiens. road Into Okanagan Lake. All in or completely encircling Madrid, With the" goal tenders Walter the bus were hurt but none cri- the insurgents are believed to be Boda of the Maple Leafs and Wllf tlcally. completing preparations for the Curde of the Canadiens both do- The accident followed on the greatest offensive on all fronts so Ing wondeful saving, having pre- sudden application of the brakes far in the civil war. The govern-vented time after time what seem- to avoid a bump In the road. Only ment was reported yesterday to ed almost certain counting the resourcefulness of the driver, have ordered all Its forces to be chances, there was no scoring un- Michael Murphy, In landing the bus prepared for such an offensive. For til late ln the third period when in shallow water, saved the pas- four months now the Insurgents Charlie Conacher slashed ln a sengers from death or more ser- have been at the gates of the capl-blazing drive to the top, left hand lous Injury. As it was ten of them tal but have been unable to over-corner which Ciide did not even j sustained Injuries, lacerations and come the stubborn government see. It was the great Conacher's shaking up which necessitated resistance. first goal since the Injury which . treatment In hospitals at Summer- General Francisco Franco, chief kept him out of the game for so land and Pentlcton. One of the of the Insurgent forces, was repor- x long. He was unassisted. With less! Injured was L. B. Boggs, principal ted yesterday to have given orders than three minutes to go, the ' of Pentlcton High School and an- that all loyalists carrying arms Maple Leafs left Haines uncovered other Kenneth Caple, Summerland should be shot on sight. Foreigners and he took advantage of the High School principal. These and will be allowed to give up their situation to even it up for the other teachers were returning arms and surrender. Canadiens, Mantha getting the as-J from a federation meeting at Date For Bio C k d e slst. Both teams then tried des-1 Kelowna. None were very seriously ... . a. . , perately for the winning counter! Injured although the driver sus- , LONDON, March 8 .-March 3 but the regulation time ended Inl talned five broken ribs and a frac- has en fro1pfd4Ua8 ne ncwtidal'; AAt. nm,i., , a a 'iirrf for the start of the International the start of the overtime period, Conacher was awarded a penalty shot when tripped by McKenzIe but was unable to take advantage of It. With the Canadiens one man short after the banishment of Mckenzie, the Maple Leafs put on a Today's Weather (Ouvci'iuueiu lelcgruprui) Victoria Clear, north wind, 24 miles per hour; barometer, 29.90. Estevan Cloudy, southeast wind, four-man power play and, In two i 8 miles per hour; barometer, 29.74, non-intervention blockade on movement of fighting forces or materials Into Spain. The patrol was postponed from Saturday when It was originally scheduled to have begun. Volunteers Being Added to Staff Of Local Fire Dep't Following the example of certa'n other cities ln the Interests of better fire protection, City Commissioner W. J. Alder has decided to lugment the staff of the city fire department here with & certain number of volunteers ln addition to the present regular paid staff. The volunteers would be, given free lodgings at the Fire Hall and remuneration for such Ume as they Leaves Rupert .were at work on fires and ln prac ' Itlce. High winds or gales predicted In fttttst mantl,.. InM.n.ta na V, 1 0 ! Ui.4l.tUI ttCttkllCl lUICttMlO AUl biliO district at the week-end did not materialize. Instead, Sunday was Notice a mild, hazy day with not a breath I of wind, The heavy snow which! Is hereby given that the meet-Uttered the ground and streets this ling of the Prince Rupert General time last week Is now entirely gone. Hospital Association called for the as a result of the week of mUd evening of Monday, March 8th. ot weather and spring appears to be ,8 p.m. Is cancelled, Ihe 'offer sub-definitely ln the air. The first ten-jmltted by the Sisters, of ,8t. Ann, nls players of the season were out which the mectlng;was called to yesterday. consider having been withdrawn.