Tomor(owls Tides Vol XXVK. NO, 300. 1 9t. HEW V ATL'W A 1 OF TARIFF '-ae effective on Sunday. An . I a .. i . i . I & ..11 riinntr nir in nacniMS npnn. l.MnpMll n M The removal of the three per- iX'7 effected until It ha been, a . - li 4 .ll.. 111 . ?tib,7 b m connection with con- Tr i r ri WAS HEAVY iiniai rotiai ,i wmtni inn Yuletlde Etlmaied to Hate Been Larcett on Record OTTAWA, Dec 2: CP--Early ti raics oy ohicwis o i-uv O. ". ucparimenx mairair vnav. Cir-aan Chrutmas mall thu year si; t-.B heaviest on record but it; it, lur.ajea wim protnpuie ano . i Joseph F llanna, S3 Years a Resident of Province, Panes In Vancouver VANCOUVER. Dee. 27: CP-Jrph F Hanna. one of British C.:mbia.s pioneers, died in Van-c -vrr Chrutmas Day. He had liv ed in British Columbia fifty-five ;,tii and at one time operated a i.isr. j.1 in Vlrtorla. First Ice Of Season Comes To Essington Fir t ice of the season Is reported today in the Skeena River be- jtween Haysport and Port Esslng-i r J a renort belnK received in me, c"y this morning to the effect f-at it was quite hasardous for wrall boats. It is mottly drift Ice timing down the river. RAIN BOMBS ON CAPITAL Jpanee Continue Their Straflns of Southern China Cities HONG KONO. Dec. 28: (CP One hundred houses were demolish-(d when Japanese air raiders rained projectiles on the city of Kwllin. capital of Kwansl Province in Southern China. Salvation Army Present Standing The standing of the Salvation Army Christmas Cheer Fund to date folows: Tviously acknowledged .... $527.05 Forbes Lrc ... 3.75 3- Cook 2.00 Bulletins SEALING SKIPPER I) IKS Trade VICIOHIA . Capt. laaac A. c,,dlin American Ajrec, . . . . ' Gould. Dioneer tcaiinr ikinoer of . i nmri inio i uric .itii - ' Week ' Vlc,0rla' difd )eterday at aie of ninety-two years. OTTAWA, Dec. 28: CP- The di tr.d the United Stales, which' the CHURCH IS BURNED VICIOItIA Sparks falling on the roof from a chimney caused fire which destroyed a Quatsino church on Chrhtmas night CHECK FOR ALBERTA EDMONTON Hon. Solon Low, provincial treasurer, announces receipt of a check for (685,000 from the federal overnment, be-Ing payment on subsidies which usually does not arrive until January 1. ALHLKTA LEGISLATURE EDMONTON The nest session of the Alberta UtMature has been called for February 9.. the official proclamation having been Issued yesterday. . TUNISIAN INDEPENDENCE ROME The Kascht press indicates that Premier Mussolini may ask Prance to trint Independence to Tunisia rather than cede it to Italy. The plan would undoubtedly Involve a provision for Italian control as there are 90,000 Italians there. SILVER THAW IN SOUTH VANCOUVER A silver thaw In the Eraser Valley east' of here cr. n mere w- iw nu ctptti hljhway traf(ic Jemp rrra (he Unite Kingdom onp ij :,r.vd" i -ma . .p D i L P.l l: t n v i noneer i etiu I por- one and telegraph communication when both lines and poles were ripped down by he. The damage is now- mostly repaired. MANY MINERS ENTOMBED KIIIKLAND LAKE More than one hundred miners are dieting from both ends of a slope on the Lake Shore mine in an attempt to rescue two men who were trapped more than 2,100 feet underground following an air esplwtion last nighL The rescuers were reported to be about forty feet from the entombed men at noon today. There is no way of knowing whether the unidentilied miners i arc dead or alive. FOUR YOUNG PEOPLE LOST VANCOUVER The police here have been asked to search for four Vancouver young people who have been missing since Monday on a fifty-mile automobile trip to Harrison Hot Springs in the Eraser Valley. The four are Herbert Frew, his sister, Violet, Rusel Harris and Doris Fos-Dtcent. There is a possibility that the small automobile is snowbound. TODAY'S WEATHER DEFRAUD of the Investigation. Canada's Iloyal Guests Prince Rupert Scattered clouds,! However Triple Island-Part cloudy, north-'Their Majesties arc averse to In a .iJ .1.1.4 I,.. I runl ni, ha milW ltin I.POPS casi wina, cigiu uims per iiuur, .u,..b ..v ly wind, 24 miles per hour; barom- etcr, 29.92; temperature, 24; sea moderately rough. Dead Tree Point Snowing, strong easterly wind; barometer, 29.87; temperature, 27; sea rough. Bull Harbor Part cloudy, wester ly wind, four miles per hour; barometer, 29.94; temperature, 29; DJIBOUTI BY MAIL' RESTLESS Officials of Continental Credit Cor. poration of Winchester, Indiana, Are Convicted INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 28: (CP) A federal jury today convicted five officers of the Continental Credit Corporation of Winchester, Indiana, and associated firms of using the . tiHitkj c frontiers of French Somalilan Somaliland business houses and individuals approximately $1,200,000. FIVE JAPS BEING HELD Japanese Girl Was Burned to Death In Furnace But Mny Have neen Suicide VANCOUVER. Dec. 28. Five Japanese, friends and relatives oi Emlko Yamada, are held for Investigation as the Dolice tried to he exact number r hat were enroute, determine whether Emico was ths. Mend colonies. victim of a slayer or if she com- " mltted suicide. Ht-r body was found i D - !l T A in the small furnace of the family . IXdilWdj 1 UiiiiCl home yesterday. it TL The autopsy report said she was Loll-DSe! 1 nlftY' htirnrf in rirath hut it U not rfplpr- JT J mined whether It was a case of sul- Klin eA ftt murder Th Irl was alive 11111 but possibly unconscious when the I I ie Lose Lives southeastern Korea. TO MAKE CHANGES IN PRINCESSES' ROUTINE WHILE PARENTS AWAY Royal Daughters Will Stay at Home While King and Queen Tour Canada Next Summer 1 i i -i . Margaret Rose ' iieht rhon i sary for princess izaoetn as neir- - : , . ? . . ngiu cnop. .over some of th task nf trn n na I ....FiimiMivn T r rn inmnp i - - Langara Island-Snowing, easier- presumptive to the throne, light swell. Alert Bay Snowing, light wind; barometer, 30.12; temperature, 31; sea smooth. Estcvan Cloudy, calm; barom eter. 29.94 ithp llttlp nnn't clnnclln Urx From her earliest years Princes IV" Vr-t t h " h"'. ...w- v m w . ass V U fc I, I4 LiiiDet,' as s ic oi.ee their relationship 1U UCl JlUlllUI,l., II4W uiib",vu ... appearing before the public. Whenever the royal family drives out her curly head Is prominent In the window of the car with smiles and waves for the crowd. One of the earliest stories told' nf her describes how she was once I t ...114, rn.ll f.l.n in tVial piuyillK in oiiiuh intiiu ill wis . garden of 145 Piccadilly, residence ( I i Irl i YpAl rQCPC V1U 1 ccu 1 adCd of her mother and father as Duke and Duchess of York. The llttlo princess noted a group of spec- is a standing (Continued on Page Tim) Vancouver Busy In Shipping As Victoria Fair, northerly wind, 10 tators peering through the rail- VANCOUVER, Dec. 28: (CP) miles per hour; barometer, 29.94. Vancouver Cloudy, calm; barometer, 29.94. Prince George Clear, northerly wind, four miles per hour; barometer, 30.44. lngs and presently she stopped the The end of the year finds a score game. She led her friend to the of dcepsea ships berthed In Van-railings and presented her to tin couvcr with offshore trade both crowd. "Tills is Mabel," she SiMd. In and outbound active. Canadians Princess Elizabeth early lmpi?- have been strong; on Imports of sed her family with her hljh rtlslns and currants this year. 141 Capitol TAXI High 6:22 a.m. 18.2 ft. Low 18:35 p.m. 10 0 It. 12:40 Jm. 8.5 ft. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MUTISM COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1938. Spanh Rebels Continuing The French Dress and oublic wrt born in the slums of Newcastle In ncllned to regard the Italian cam- 1856, trampsd to London as a lad. palgn for Djibouti as a bluff and ran away to sea, served ten years flames enveloped her. TOKYO, Dec 28: CP TRAINING Receive Instruction drugged In San Francisco and velt yesterday announced a plan "shanghled" to Singapore, and whereby twenty thousand Ameri-1 later returned to England as a can college students each year will liery labor agitator. receive training in flying as a mea- The lord chamberlain's depart- sure of the United States protecting ment. Lh censors of dress at pai- itself against the general mllitarl- ace functions, was much disturbed zatlon of other nations. The scheme ont King George, revealing one of ! OI an ocean Uip ana an uivrouuc- ,.,.- "a . MUIia . ad . nientv plenty plenty -ii pranrlmnlhrr D.in Vlrtnrio Bl,-,5 kumuiw uunmcu. " .. , ..vUi.u. lion to ineir jmjp wealth the Inclusion of the; ""- 'wa'3 ui e Breei-. In - r MAaJ. u-l .l 4 1 Hill. 1 southwest wind, two miles per hour; young princesses In a formal lour, - - 31 came a dockworker and helped to barometer. 29.98 (falling); temper- of the kind presents practical au- . f iT- tound the dockers' trade union of ature, 13; sea smooth. . 4 1.. ..Kiln If le t,nriaptnnn ..v itvi, J . ht(t4Ut I 1 . . licultles whllg had seven Returning to Liverpool he be- mute ii uuuv.owvu . .,... . which ne was general sccreiarv I After Princess Trades Union Head Is to fit younz men for civilian fly- ALIA LAUK, U.M.. UCC. 28: rp, t. 1 r. a i j .r iwu agtu iiitrii, iiic:5w m.xiiuiiu uiv siait ui uiu jAiug um ulcii v-tnaua tlsh realm came from such humble and George Trites , crashed through t spring Will mean making domestic' re-arrangements at surroundings or lived so close to the ice as they dragged a sled over liuckmeham Palace. Not the least of them will concern realities. the frozen lake and were both 'J . . . the two young princesses, hlizabeth and Margaret, who then -twill be aged 13 and S1 respectively. The two little girls, who are great devotees of their public, probably will be somewhat forlorn both at the, six weeks' absence of their par- sPlts and vivacity combined with ents and at missing the experience'8 strength of will that may be tnhprltArl inherited frrsm from hi her v. creat-creat bl,...-b. r?rt.ivr4t. At eight he worked "half-time" drowned a week ago. It was learned in a glass works for two shillings here today. and six pence a week, a trifle more than a dime a day. When 16 he left home In search of work to help his widowed mother who Premier Bracken children. He went to Will PaV VlQlf " 111 1 a 1 10U of adventure J Macey's Coffee House G 7,000 Prisoners square PRICE: & CENTS ains !LLJlnsur9ents Claim To I LYDUIU 1 Ho II k A I ITTQT lMfYW Slr JamM ston j Awar M J UOi VJ TT Liverpool at Ate of Eighty-Two Nothing Official About Italian. ' LIVERPOOL. Dec. 28: CP Sirj Military .Movements Around James Sexton, veteran labor lead- nave maae Advances Further In Battle Somallland ler, is dead here. He was eighty-, pahris. DecTccp.-Ti.ere to'lTi.? Thousand Square Kilometres of Territory Taken no official confirmation, it was an-' in a weather-beaten sray feltl miu onirai iimus, jiany villages ana : IT..":.:. ; l : IZri rX nounced last night, of the reported hat. a muffler around his neck V ' " "I:;,.': massin? of ItaUan troops on the H-e an English laborer and his as everyday clothes wrinkled and HFVnAVn' Pr.m.Cn.n! vrf,- n uoo. part of a campaign which It was worn. "Jlmmie" Sexton, the Liver-! rp TZf 7 't U v ' thought might threaten Djibouti pool dock workers' member 0f par-' P) Insurgent armies are reported to be continuing which has an important position on Ilament. went to Buckingham Pal- th-eir drive into Catalonia on all fronts along a Seventy- the Red sea in relation to Ethiopia, ace on February 24, 1931. to be five mile line between Tremp and Ribarroja on the Ebro The Ministry of the Colonies an- dubbed Sir James Sexton by King River. Insurgent newspapers claim that the Sl'x-daV old nounced today that a detachment Oronje. . nffpnsivp rmirrl TaM-iJna on,l Dnl u iir,it jf Senegalese troops had been sent In this dress, and with his ter- to strengthen Djibouti garrison at ribly scarfed face, the result of the request of Governor General being caught in a ship's derrick Hubert Deschamps to "assist In many years before, he looked any-maintaining order" amid reports thing but the conventional palace if Italian troops concentrating visitor in tall hat and morning near the French Somaliland port dress. Colonial authorities d(d not know The dignity 0f knighthood welgh- - - r ; terranean has resulted In the cap WASHINGTON. D. C. Dee. 28: have confidence in French ability on windjammers after having been tCP President Franklin D. Roose- ture of more than one thousand square kilometres of territory, at 'least sixteen towns and scores of prvrj jr vmages ana seven thousand pns-hl IK Li I K onerS- Ftcsh galns are "Ported, Vl nil! PKTlPflallv tmithAoO nt InrMo In. of Senegalese ed lightly on this veteran of the President Rooeveit Announce, Plan S haTal bJeTedTjSS bCCn PUCed at 230 British labor movement who was Whereby Coile5e Students Will miles. Plans are reported to be still proceeding to remove the government capital from Barcelona to a more secure place In the south. SOUTH HAS SNOWSTORM -'J?;?;?:- ""f Wgr busahnrtifr - reirrofr 'of tv0 Feef , Fser VaIIey Bloekt' .u.r Minn, -iuuu.c as nc came ana trained men and machines which Roads Verr Cold on Prairie Thirty- sent h,m awar with a knighthood tt0uld be readily adaotabie for the Those held are not under susdIc- nine workmen have been killed In ,0 round out one the most pic- service of the country In the event Ion. the poiice officers said, but are the collapse of a railway tunnel at tesque and picaresque careers or 0f war. VANCOUVER Dec 28- (CP) A merely held pending the completion . Kelsho In Hokudo Province of anv member of parliament. Disclosure by the President of twenty-f our hour snowstnrm in the i.iir. riiir t nu -jfc, r n rr r.M i . . . . . . . . . . - - - ki mp comDieiion oi nis mans rn nnenTilHn3, t-'il lnilC!ltlon mpted communication and tranl-flfteen shillings a week, said the of the chief executive's determin- , .v.. , new knight. Proud of Distinction But he was proud of the die tlnction as being recognition not only from the labor view, but for general public utility, of the service he had rendered through many years, particularly in the port of Liverpool, "In lifting the bottom da? out of the slough of despond." Son of emigrants who fled from Ireland's great famine. Sir James was born In poverty and to ad venture. rcw Few knights iiiigiiut ui of the uie Bri- on- in the ranks of world air powers. THIN ICE: TWO DROWN Pair of Old Men Perish on Alta Lake in Squamish District jwi kauuu ociuvw Ull iilC 1UVSC1 auon to Keep uniiea biaies nign mainland. After an all night snow- fall, there was two feet of snow on the ground In the Fraser Valley yesterday and snow plows wer$ pressed Into service In the effort to keep roads open. From the prairies extremely cold weather was reported yesterday with the thermometer dropping to 38 below zero at Edmonton. In Ontario and Quebec blizzards are reported. heavy NEW MILL STARTS UP Reward Mining Co. Resumes Grinding of Ore on Porcher Island 53 Employed Head of Manitoba Government to The new mill of the Reward Mln-Address Edmonton Chamber of , ing Co. Ltd. on Porcher Island has Commerce started grinding ore. This mill, a i plant of between" fifty and seventy- for more than forty years In that EDMONTON, Dec. 28: (CP) ve tons daily capacity, replaces capacity he waged many a dough- Premier John Bracken of Manitoba one which was destroyed by fire a ty fight for better conditions and has accepted an invitation to ad- year ago ana is situatea at a more he was a prominent figure along dress the Edmonton Chamber of advantageous location on tlde-with Havelock Wilson and Tom Commerce on January 17. water. There are at present fifty- Mann In the seamen's and "ve men employed at the property ers big strike in 1911, which cul-1. ." . , " , " ""' and there Is enough ore broken for mlnated in "Bloody Sunday.- . J? thand writing and as a year's operation. In 1918 he was elected to par-'' F? Uament from St. Helens, a Liver- u1u'","m u , waMonal lyrical outbursts In pool suburb where he passed his a nhiirth h cohoiiff saln of genial satire Some of his he possessed. He lost his seat Oc-lplay f,ch,ev regular theatrical! k. ion .i u i.i production. He was a widower' vvhw ui, ii, niicii uic law, r La4 . ....... .. .. for mnnv vpnrs nHtnmif rhllHrpn Loses His Life ty was shattered in the record . , " "i ! - t . . breaking election that endorsed ArdlC Area 8real "e. because he was ai-i "naUonal Ramsay MacDonalds cabinet." made up of members of s, lrled, b 9m?n and fhP fhr. minr i ls maignauon. iiut ne was wun- Ornithologist ;out malice In his vehement wrath j CHURCHILL, Man., Dec. 28: 'against social wrongs and lnequall-; (CP)silence cloakinz the Arctic He was president of the Trades ties of fate. was broken yesterday with word union wngress, tne urmsn cquiv- "it any oi the dockers think alent of the American Federation that by accepting a title I became of Labor. In 1903, and a member 'respectable.' I would tell them that R. J. Bray, 28-year-old or nithologist with a British-Canadian Arctic expedition, was drowned of Its general council after 1923. that I accepted the honor because, ;hen a small boat was crushed by In leisure moments Sexton tried jit was a tribute to them, he said. Jan ice pack last September. V