PACE EIGHT .THE DAILY NEWS eoooooMOooaooaoooooooooowoootrocHjoooooa T j i 8 A f" f ff To Suit All Purse, for All Members of the Family I Jewelry Diamonds Hatches Clocks Silverware Ilcllowraare flatware Ladies Handbags Vantty Cases Billfolds Tobacco Touches Uaega;c Curios All kind of lamps and shades Fountain fens and Pencils Writing Cases Brief Cases Pipes Cigarette Boxes Smoking Standi Umbrellas Military Sets Dresser Sets Manicure Sets Desk Sets Popular "books Including The Exile, Of Mice and Men. Little Caesar, Michael Strogoff. The Lone Wolf, The Broad Highway, The Winning of Barbara Worth, Floating Peril, Resurrection River Westerns. Mysteries. Thrillers. Adventure iand Ilbmance 9 ew Novels By Masefleld, Farnol, Hill, Spring, Blake, Kreys. Hughes. La Roche, Jacobs, Hichens. Olbbs, Mason, Deeping and many others Give a Book for Christmas New Books arc Always Appreciated Dr. Jackson's ROMAN MEAL BREAD Robertson's White And Raisin Bread M 3 for 25c 3 Cakes Shortbread For 25c Flemish Beauty Pears OSTp AOs Per doz Cookfiig Applcs- 25c Large Grapefruit APn 0 for A Hot Time Is What You Want This Winter You can get It by using our famous L'dsnn, Bulkley Valley or Narialnio-Wellington Coal. PRINCE RUPERT FEED CO. Phones 58 or 558 .wcx r?--v. & 1 Ih. Plum Pudding CAp in bowl 2 lb. Plum Pudding ft 4 (1( m bowl tj)JL.UU 3 lb. Plum Pudding Q-f Sfi A.'iU In bowl Copelands Fruit Market Phone 872 FULL DLLlVliKY NATIONAL MOTOR SERVICE TIUKD AVLNUIs EAST Phone Ki:i) 392 INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS I1ILLMAN CAUS STAND Altl) OIL PRODUCTS Prompt and Efficient Service If you lose unythin, advertise for it. Indian Moccasins Si Slippers (All Sizes) Bridge Accessories riayinc Cards - Fine China Dinner are Pottery , Cut Glass IF" i Crystal . Glassware. Brassware Copperware v. g Novelties and Hundreds of Small Articles Too Numerous and Varied to Mention S g Visit Our Basement Store! p MAX HEILBRONER I S Diamond Specialist g a oocHoo&ocKaoooooDaDaoaoooooaoDaooooooooDoaocDaao0OOOO0OooooaoDoaooaDooooncK3aooo Publishers Keprmts at only 75c each fi LEGION IS IN SESSION Report Ireenled on Interview With Provincial Government The Prince Rupert branch of th Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League last evening in regular monthly meeting with President Jack Freece in the by Oppenhclm, Mundy, Brand. Scott. WaytieNWril. llrwoln. $J chair and a good turn-out of mem Bellah, Heeding Mowery nnd many others. '.5c eath a for $2.00 jfo ers- Correspondence from the Provln - -u Important Books For Christmas Giving " Canadian Mosaic Gibbon $3.50 The Horse and Uuggy Doctor Hertzlcr J3.0D Windsor Tapestry- Mackenzie S3.5 Madame Curie Eve Curie .... 54-00 T. C. Lawrence Liddell Hart $2.50 Seven Pillars of Wisdom Lawrence $IJin Guns or Butler Lockhart $125 . Let's See if the World is Kouurt -MieiuUt W.&6 The Bounty Trilogy Nordhoffe and Hall $2.25 Lbten the Wind Lindbergh $255 cial Command told of the inter view between the provincial cxe $J unemployed single ex-service men. U The Legion also presented a reso-jfc lutlon regarding provincial sweep-KJ stakes. The Legion has asked that all 3 goods manufactured for the visit of fJ the King and Queen to Canada next Q year should nlalnly show the coun-$J try of origin and also that, where fa possible, such goods might be man-fir ufactured In the VetCraft and Red is 9 Cross workshops In Canada. BIG CROP IS MIXED BLESSING J -utlve of the Canadian Legion and'part 0f the area received normal $J At this meeting the cabinet, with jfe Premier T. D. Pattullo presiding, jfjj was presented with the views of the i-2 Canadian Lesion on the question ot Bumper Yields in Most Producine Countries Made for Poor ... . Market By FRANK FLAHERTY (Canadian Press Staff Writer) OTTAWA. Dec. 15 CP Thf wheat problem, never absent fron, the minds of Ottawa cabinet .nlnlsteriurlng the past eight vcars, assumed a new form In 1938 For the first time It became dl-recti v related to governmental fl rancc with the prospect ot a wheat board deficit estimated various!; tin to $50,030,000. Thl arise? from the fact western wheat growers receive a fixed min mum price or 80 cents per bushel basis No. 1 northern at Fort Wll-'lam. and the market price during -nost of the autumn was abou' from 15 to SO cents less. The Canadian wheat board must buy all wheat offemd on the bash "f 80 cents and sell on the oner orld markets at the prevailln "rlcc The difference must be mad' in out of the federal treasury. In former year? the problem wa nore one for farmers and westerr Tonomy In Reneral than for tbr Homlnlon government They were wars of either short crops or low rices or tjth Tills yer the crof. -nn nf norme' he, 321,000,009 bu -hels fortje tliree prairie provln . but the oricf? is low and It to he Dominion treasury which mut benr the loss The vast drought area In southern and central Saskatchewan -nuthern Alberta and southwestert Manitoba where crop failures have been the ordr fo several years disappeared ui 1038. The greatei the cabinet Of British Columbia, rains and nrndueed a emn. Bnnu drought was experieneed farthei north. But bumper crops were the order in nearly all wheatproduelne having the Dominion government countries and as the 1938 harvest 01 nmvlri on pwinnmlp allnwunrp irir advanced prices declined Early in August under the wheat board act the government set CO cents as thr price the board should pay farm ers for their crop. Profit Certificates In addition, the farmers received participation certificate entitling them to share In the board's pro fits. If any? Unless prices Improve I during the winter the board will I have a loss which has been estl Arrangements were made for the 'mated as hph as $50,000,000. Pre Christmas dinner for ex-scnrlce men and also for hampers for families where needed. Applications for regular member ship from N. Bokshytz, Andrew O. MacDonald and H. L. Landry were! approved. Reports of the troop committee of the Legion Troop of Boy Scouts indicated that the troop gave every prospect of living up to the highest Ideals of the Scout movement. The members are taking a keen inter est in the troop and are looking forward to paying a visit at an early date to see the boys in action, The Boys' Club wlll.be supplied wjth a photograph of His Majesty Twenty -Five Years Ago rDecember IS, 1913 j j As soon as the heavy snowfalls j are over and the crust permits travelling by dog team, several! parties will be leaving Stewart to prospect for placer In the country j 'about eighty miles northwest of .Meziadln Lake. That is considered a very promising, gold Held. J. O. Johnston. WPlI known nin neer or the Queen Charlotte Islands, has left for Toronto, New York and London -to arrange for( the financing of developing 0f oil and coal ground. on the northeast; of Graham Island. j NEW ROYAL HOTEL J Zarelll Proprietor "A HOME AWAY FROM HOME" Rates $1.00 up 90 Rooms Hot St Cold Water Prince Rupert, B.C Phone 281 P.O. Box 100 mler John Bracken of Manitoba placed it at $40,000,000. The high fixed price tended to speed up deliveries of wheat from. the farms to the elevators and early in November approximate! 80 per cent of the crop had left For Christmas Order 1 BLACK WHITE ! txci DISTILLED, BLENDED AND BOTTLED IN SCOTLAND 2G2 oz.$i25 10 oz. $1.85 the farms. Exports during the first three months of the crop year. August. September and October were brisk, particularly In October iggregatlng 46,500,000 bushels. The carryover at the start of the crop year, August 1. was small 23.000,- At November 1. taking 1O3.000.-000 bushels as domestic require ments for seed and consumption he Dominion bureau of statistics estimated Canada still had avail able for export 319.000,000 busheto. Tills compared with 88.000.000 nishels at the same time In 1937 'ollowing the small crop of that ear. Should exports continue at he ane rate as In the first three nonth of the crop year a total trwt for the eroo year of some-hlng over 150.000.000 is indicated This weuld leave a carryovei nto the new crop vear as of Jul) U. 1939. of approximately 100lw9.-M bushels While this would b 'nnsMerably less than In preceed-ng veare when difficulty was encountered tn fbyUiw markets for 'he Canadian surplus. Carl Srhretder and Ivor Enhind Appeared in clto- mike oourt yes-rdav on vagrancy charges and we each given one day's lmprk- $ H if hi 5 8 Scarves B , Cloinot, A LiiJi mlxrtlK nwi ki I lot (Hiillnhcd UkjU.iud hf ihf Liquor Ooniro) U nl ur br u.- o-wwniivmt of " Lttttoh Coliuobla I i What Good Is A Jeweler's Guarantee ? Quite a lot wr think of ours. So much that we are anxious to make good anything we sell which does not please you. We have a wonderful variety of new goods this year and hope you will give tin a call for your Christmas presents. Give Churchill Top Book Honor Noted Statesman Writer Awarded Gold Medal for Life of Ancestor LONDON. Dec. 15: iCP Winston Churchill, reputed to have earned a small fortune for his lit?- erary works and article on cur 'rent political affairs, has been I awarded a gold medal for his latest f k.,.b Htl.-HKnrminh' ltl t 1 1 m nn4 Times." Britain's noted statesman shared this honor with three other auth-' ors whose works were adjudged "the most outstanding" during the past year by a Jury of distinguished writers. The medals, awarded by the London Sunday. Times, wrre presented after thousands of books had been reviewed at the National Book Fair. Mr. Churchill's study of the life of his grandfather, the seventh Duke ot Marlborough, was plated j first among the year's output ot , biographies Other awards In their respective categories, were: Belles-lettres - "Daylight and Smart and serviceable . . Tartsnt, brushed wools, fine wools, silk and wools and pure llk ... In ks-tonal boiinrs . . . 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