. Tomorrows Tides ace Bulletins CONTRACT AWARDED LKhfll 4 Currle were today rdtd the contract by Djb- 1 Hanson for the erection new business block at the Ihcast corner or inira av- and f ifth Street at a flrure Irnlood to be approximately M, Work m stars ai once the building is to be com ri fcT Mir 31- K ""I b of I itrtte construction, single j TT un pailiai uawmrui. f tranti after completion will Flicidlan National Hallways iT.;rr and telegraph offices, j . . I . ic". J men I iwrnnninn nu ............ i Ut lames reaay-io-stear. 0CAL I.ADY RI.REAVLD tXCOtVIK David Meln- C father of Mrs. W. D. r r Rupert, died in rlij ktn TueMlay. M.W!r KING'S WAKNIKQ Mit t-Trlme Mlnhlcr W. t;l:; King last nicht t'7 sarned Parliament that r.'.t tscn be called upon to t-i Eire Important questions i ir referred to It yet as he 1 1' J I) the critical interna- j ii!athn, iiuutinnt: party rW. Hon W. D. Her-f rrr Canadian mlnUter nV: hir.-lon and brnther-ln- ( HL lion, It It. Bennett. ;hl announced a new de- fr:."T movement sreklnc to r.::e committees In every t't ronOturncy to endorse 'bi candidates and rally pro- fej in the nest election. He the motemenl's first Job IJ be to turn out nld-line t'ev IJheral and Cnnvrva- f-nd elect a people's partla- I I'UION DOLLAR RUDOirr f'MMI.v -r.rcat llrltaln's first "n dollar budet became a fly today when the air mln- snnonnced appropriations 'D.Cnfi.OOO, Air Secretary j?"-lt7 Wood at the same time l"ncint a home first line iv'ffnmh of 1750 pla nes. 'INCOt VI.R AIR CIUSII VNeoi'VLR-Onc of the R. A- I i new Hawker llurrl-r 'Uhters crashed and burn- hile takinr nff from Ses yi ir port here but Pilot f"t It, t Davis leaped out aped unhurt. The tilsne " the irouTid. It was one Planes which had been "hl out from ('.real nrltaln 'talloned at Calgary. feather Forecast :i "s Rupert and Queen Char- -2 Fresh southwest to I partly cloudy, some ' KAt rain. FAMILY BIVOUAC M1X)RD l''.nrr was -nf nnath. for nil riht and to prison for neglecting his the children Hi Duce Favors Older Senators She HALIFAX, .March 2: (CP) More than a score of portions were listed missing and believed dead after a holocaust which devoured the old Queen Hotel and Knawed a huge chunk out of Halifax's close built business section, causing damage estimated at $S0(),0D0. The exact toll of deaths and injuries is not yet estimated. Two bodies have been recovered and only forty-eight others of 117 persons who were in the big frame hostel have been accounted for. Of the 18 rescued and accounted for twenty arc in hospital, some seriously hurt. Police said the death toll might reach as high as thirty. Lambeth Walk Is Under Ban (Too Many Seeslnr Job and Ate to Students at Heidelberg Must lore' Re M Minimum CO Stvlnr Music nnur. Uar-h 2: t CP t -Premier HEIDELBERG. March 2: CP fnr House .most of 117 persons who were in hostelry Intent Statement ARE STILL UNACCOUNTED-SOME KNOWN """V1" to have been seriously injured i Features Evidence Aceused Purported to Said Shooting Should Have Taken Place 1 Years Ago Evidence of how Nick Sullkoskl. 38-year-old laborer, had entered the kitchen oi the Wetholmc rooming house here on Ptoruary By mutual arrangement. Mrs. Sulikoskl had obtained half Interest. 15 armed with a newly purchased go5n? hQrne ,oday rine aunea ae puu aw u uc, WA.niercepteu Dy Jack Rutter. a railway locomotive engine, causing the bullet to be discharged into the ceiling after which. In the course ol a struggle. Sullkoski seized a bread knife with which he slashed Rutter around the eyes before the melee was broken up by police officers was given at the preliminary hearing oi Suhico&l yesterday afternoon before Magistrate 1 nomas McUymont on a charge of ai.emplea mutder. avtuence was suso given as to how sbLkoskl, alter oelng placed under arrest and dtiiy warned, iua decUrcu.Uut "I .r' . j b . . i . i ... MtjoUnl intend to mak- the IU1- The Hetdelber Nut sUdtnt tend- tpUastpjftpJhe 5-4 it? It. .-Tl.f. . str nf thv rider er has ttken' stetK to orotert tMs shoak. Hate been snot a loof time mr-"mj " - " tail V ing of three boys and a girl in Sam-la. Ontario. In anrwer to a question hy Sr-!anf. Jarklln Rutter said he had teen In the hosll for the two weeks following the affair and was Wednesday!. Alex Neil McMillan was tn his room at the time. He beard a woman screaming and eanw out and went to the kitchen. Rutter was on the floor on his back. SuUkos-kl was standing near his head. "I thouaht he was attempting to kill him." said witnear who sw t knife on the floor. Witness tried tn null appointees 01 King vicwr wnmn- " mik. Possessing a spirit of cheer uel hereafter must be at least ou oance roust. -"- i i.vnt.ainMi no He has forbidden the DUytnz of iCoatUble W. many persons had been nominated "swing" music and the Lambeth Sulikckl's purported statement af AAA Capitol . 141 TAXI Macey's Coffee House 11:28 a.m. 20.0 ft. 5:20 a.m. 8.9 ft. 17:58 prn. - 2JB ft. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUSIBIA'S NEWSPAPER CVIII NO. 51. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1939 PRICE: 5 CENTS rum skUm Is Chosen As Next Pope ihirty Are Fctd To Have Lost Lives In Halifax Hotel Fire; $800,000 Damage Done pKSt iPontifical Secretarv To Be Concluded Tommorrow Qf State Succeeds To ' told of having purchased the West-Jack . . .. .. .. 4 r of At- . . Rutter Tells Slaglstrate , ,, ..... . .... i iJn holme D. Rooms five or stx years ago. Throne Of St. Peter She worked hard and got no fixed -wages. If she was able to make anything she kept It If she ran Will short, witnes? helped her out. He had known Sulkoskl and his wife Assume Title of Pius XII FirstTime in Three Hundred Years Choice Has Been Made So Speedily for pretty close to ten yean. He . had visited them at their on ,r VATICAN T CITY, itr,r March 2: (CP) Eugenio Cardinal Eleventh street. Rutter nid that Pacelli was today elected the 262nd Pope. The .new poh- he had a wife and famflv consist- tiff, whn was nnnnl sporptarv nf stnrA nnrW Pnno Piua YT succeeded to the Throne of St. Peter on his sixty-third birthda; . He will take the name of Pius XIII. The word DAWSON IS ' FINE TOWN Sulikoskl off Rutter but taw it was "Dawson Is no ghost town but little use. Sulikoskl had atd a veil equipped and modern little him: "What do you want heref. city with good streets, schools. Later he had heard w. owss. churches, electric liehts "sou . 1 should nave and telephones," Rev. Father E nut a bullet thrwh sd W m. LeRay. parish priest of the - Detente counsel objected to Roman Catholic Church in th; admteston of the statement famous oW Yukon mining- camp. In erWeSSlfiStah: ifeS4t1& TftePrlnee RafjerTGyrb Club si d the kitchen was m mn-h d s- at its regular weekly luncheon innncti u, i""" o.,r him!r j ihe evi4nce wder with furniture knocked over, yesteraay in a very interesting m TTTJl th -.r.; affrjv o Provincial ...1 It 11 looked i-v,wri t to uie like uv be h w. wa ; t-stn nln. - y 1 j riirrie nrfjjntod to Bouee his eves out. said witness 'UU1 "u that the age restriction was im- aiK ai an auuu auairsi ' considerations there as creed, poll- cess that attended every phase of Defence , counsel . R. . L. McLennan .,, 111V- way." "slthoiMth I could not see plainly on l"c "v1 mutual helpfulness plus denotes peace. He is an Ital ian. It was the first time in three hundred years, that agreement on a new Pope was reached on the conclave's first voting day. Cainilio Cardinal! Caccla-Domin- ioni made the announcement of the reople There Are All One Big. clecUon of the new Pope from the Happy Family With Real Com- balcony of St. Peter's. An immense munity Spirit Built on Ice crowd broke through a cordon of But Heart Is Warm .caribinleri and militiamen to swarm . ,up the broad steps of the Basilica. MAKE GOOD NAVAL-MEN- Local Boats and Crews Turned in Fine Showing: During: Month's Training: at Esquimau Highly enthusiastic over thesue- to down the Its oi can- ucn muwc ana uancw arr i,n ".17 It national de- posed keep Accused Accused's Statement statement 1 state of life or nationality. the new departure in dldate. t to German naUire and the National to the Maten nt being ad- s & & Senators In Italy are appointed &ociaiuu oenavior oi uerman. lu- u.. '1 ; ".7" . Consuble WUliam James Currle where all reached common ground, collector of customs, returned to by the King and the body Is more dents." or lew honorary, with only nominal legtslatlve powers. iu memoers raJA f Jn Smsfhc are appointed for life. 1 TODAY'S WEATHER Prince Rupert Overcast, fouth east wind, six miles per hour: bar .ometer. 29.80 uteadyi; tempera ture. 38: sea smooth. 1 vrinii. Island Cloudy, showers : southwest wind, thirty miles per hour: sea rough. , Langara Island-Breaking clouds, northwest wind. 20 mile per hour; barometer. 29.76; temperature. 37: ua moderately rough. , n.d Tree Point - Breaking ture 34. Alyansh Raining, calm, 33. Alice Arm Cloudy, calm. 35. Anyox-Llght rain, calm, 35. Stewart Lisht snow. calm. 31. Hazelton Snowing, calm, 31. Smlthcrs Part cloudy, calm, 24. Burns Lake Dull, calm, 20. LIFK BAN AT 71 " i 11UUV XSSI kIIIIUlU Made Profitable London Laborer Found It Good Stewart Woman Dies Suddenly nos oompese .1 told of the call to the Westhoime Those who had a Httle more than the city on the Princess Norah tills lng tne nature 01 a ponce wanims Rooms. RUttr was lying jn the they needed always tried to help morning from Esqufcnatt where he uui, w.c is"": iioor. bleeduiz lreeiv Irom tne lace. tha rhn hari 9 huia i Hi. ,,. k rnr tho nW month in irr ociBraui vu NlCt was Oenainz over Mm. AlSO rfnruliin hart nt Ywn fpH Pt .nntiutinn trith hi rtntlM n nav. handled the prosecution pointed in tne room were Mr Jennle Sull. Dawson lt had many othfr master ueutenUnt-commander of .out that the question or aamiss- koski M Heien WotoiU and p,aces bause or this attitude. 1 the fishermen's reserve unit of the .abUlty ol such a statement couw,Nell McMiIlan wno ap peared to be There was a community spirit Royal Canadian Navy. J.- 7 tr mg to keep Sulikaskl from at- there such as might well be ema-, Mr. McLeod speaks highly of the w Jt .n The hearing was adjourned until 1 ,,.,.in p..,..- Tri(, ff.rpre mn- ,,. nio .v, 1 ,a ; k t Picking Till Police Cauht lP the of the de- at Friday request ,taWe Terry stewarl wilh Father ulUf hls twenty loal mnned by n,, 1 sI7T- ence counsel who. referring to alrie, broke up the melee. Mrs. Sull- considerable interesting informa-icne hundred members of the. local I r ovnnv "PVJS"? La rni -l7 l oman; Mrs: Helen .VSoeniki' nowikaiki said someuimg about a gun tlon about the old camp. He to'd. fishing fleet during the month's uui.m ait-aCHlC. SnOWBiSlSgilUlierwm .. tnrtt ,n. nfM,.r ,W. hath. hnr h lfV artliallr- hllllt r,orf4 All or.lnv.rf nH rested on theft charges sounded ,t the time of the affair. Insisted like O. Henry but the 2t-year-o)d. that the crown should present thltte laoorcr swurc nuc auu ci-the preliminary nearing its pnnci- aence Dacicea mm up. ,pai material evidence. He said he used to go into Lon-, Attack Is Described don shops and ask for the parcels j Rutter. in his evidence, stated for Smith. Usually he received a that the .,me wa. ab0ut noon. clouds, snow, calm: barometer, rew wunout even Dcing assea u ne They wcre Just finishing lunch. The ,29.82; temperature. 33; light swell ; was Smith, He saved the surprise door was three or four inches open. ! null Hsrbor Breaking clouds, as to what he had acquired until he , ..n sh, u..r- hpard and showery: westerly wind: barometer arrived home and opened the Pr-'the door wa5 pushed opcn by the 29.94; temperature. 40; moderate eels. : barrel of a rifle. Witness was slt- ' swell. I Convicted tf the theft of a watch ,Ung on a chair about eight feet , Alert Bay- Overcast southeast and a pair of women's shoes, he f the door Nlck had the rifle wind. 20 miles per nour; oarumciv. . was ucu c and was carryin2 it low. it was 30.11: temperature. 39: light cnop. i' Estevan- Fair, northerly wind, six miles per hour; barometer. 30.04. ! Vlrlnrla Clear, southwest wind, Uh a Yukon Southern -iDhi.i.n miles ner hour: barometer trl mnlored ship which snnn ' Vancouver Cloudy, easterly wind, six miles per hour; barometer. 29.98. Prince Ocorge Cloudy, south-wci, wind, four miles per hour; , 1 barometer, 29.82. I I Terrace Cloudy, calm, tempera Judge he had no trouble the tlrst pointing Into the kitchen and he lime ana mj s onuumscuw iiwns u-orkin nt the mechanism again. with his right hand. room through the window of which on glacial ice which could he . entered fully into the spirit of the gun out Wit- reached by digging down through j thing and they proved themselves jness went down and got the gun. eight or ten feet of ground. As a I both adept and very responsive to I The officer then went on to tell of result, it was impossible to have the Instruction. There was whdle- Sullkoskl's statement, after being permanent stone or brick build- hearted response. fully warned by Sergeant Jackluv Ings. The shifting ice made il such naval men as Commander that "I Intended to shoot the .'necessary to renew the founda-l v. G. Brodeur, senior naval officer Then I was going to shoot myself. itlons of the frame buildings eveiy,at Esqulmalt, and Lieut Command The should have been shot four or five years, a Ion? time aeo." The rifle was The severe winter weather IS later found to contain an empty' apparently about the only thin? !n charge of the training of, the fishermen's reserve unit, were loud cartridge. There was a bullet hole -Father LeRay does not like about. m their praises, in the ceiling. - Dawson. Seventy below zero Inj j.n a competition for gunnery, Mr. McLennan asked that the winter is really cold, he thinks, capt. Axel Peterson and the boat statement purported to have been However, the people are prepared Artie I. captured a cup. made bv accused be stricken from for it. Buildings and houses are xhe period of instruction ended ithe record on the ground that ac-snug, tight and well heated. Hugeiast Saturday and the first boats Then he A did t h sufficient I stocks of wood fuel are laid in brought the weapon up to hUiknowledge Qi to understand every winter. Even the graves are shoulder, aiming, witness presumed, the nature and meaning of a warn-dug In the fall before the freeze-at his (Sulikoski's) wife. Rutter , Ud as lt would be Impossible to then moved over quickly and caus- ed the barrel to raise Just as the ! rifle discharged. Accused shook Remains of Mrs. Samuel McDonald his head, stared hard and seemed will Be Here Tonight on Way to ,surprisea mat Mrs. Sullkoskl was Vancouver j still there. "I closed with him and I caused him to drop the rifle," con- j Mrs. Samuel MacDonald, aged 40,' tlnued Rutter. In the course of the 'of Stewart has passed away there struggle that ensued, accused suddenly, the victim of heart dragged witness Into the kitchen trouble, according to word received and got a knife out of the pantry. 'In the CllJ. nc rvmaius win uc nunti mun uum m mc ivnnc ") y t'dlc them In the winter. The un- admlssablllty of the statement, even dei taker and the gravedlgger have if it was admitted In this court,' W estimate now many peopie wui could still be argued out In the die. The first snow comr.- earjy In hieher court September and sometimes it lasts In answer to the magistrate. Constable Currle said that the warning had been fully explained to Sulikoskl and he (Currle) was satisfied that accused understood It Jack McNulty told of Sulikoskl here aboard the Prince George this the blade and bent lt Accused comlng mto hls store at 11 '50 am 1 LeRay. Like anywhere else, evening on the way to Vancouver I made several vicious stabs and he on the day ln Questlon. Saying that me Deople there have to work and for interment. - "J"s he was going to camp and that he 1U1 " ?: RADIO BLAMED BRENTFORD. Ene.. March 2. ptiELMSFORD, Eng., March hlldr..n wrntv.,i, rchomr 71-vear old , (CP)-Radlo is a "very doubtful never threatened him before. Dur fmilv blvo,:'! v; . 'a blessing" according to the Bishop lng the struggle, witness could re- m I v.T-" . . " " """T'":"'"' " .r . f rhelmsford who blamed wire- Hi neht wm in a a field ncia and ana nea irom ariving ior mc ui F- - (,.,inn em I h m0lr Ven,C'e home problems to foreign politic member nothing havlnb been said either by accused or himself. Under cross-examination, witness into May. Dawson ln June, July! should be home today, Mr. MfLeod says. There will be some which will not be back until later. Hockey Scores Pacific Coast League Vancouver, 7; Seattle, 3. and August, however. Is a virtual! paradise with almost' perpetual' - sunshine. a community was able to do things. The palmy days of 1898. when .These were elements that were millions were made overnight, were .needed In good community build-gone and he believed forever, said ing. The speaker closed on a note txnausiea ne leu to tne iioor wuniwant-d a cood r,ne Sunk0skl Dur- ROia was no easy J0D' ine Iaincr Sulikoskl still with the knife, bend-ieto S"JS .!" J ma" had to use hU braln lng over him. Witness remembered 1 nnv n. ,nr. ft7 avlt, as well as his .brawn. 2:Jthe police arriving. Accused had rr VVkI ZV. Father LeRay urged his listeners oh k, ,, ... i mito be like the people of Dawson that people of this country should be thankful to be living ln a country like this when conditions were compared with those existing In other less blessed parts of the world, very good. President W. M. Watts was ln the chair and expressed the ap- nrwtaMnn nrwlntlnn Af tVitt ilnn anrt Itl uu ao FlCu II,. . . Bna.Ml onj Eeo ,n. hct :r'U mfnSs" SeTa of everything, try to be mutu-members to Father LeRay. Gust, About ten minutes later, a (Continued on Page Tico) ally helpful, try to be understand- were otan wanng oi vancouvet !lng That was the way ln which and Alex McRae of Prince Rupert.