Tomorrows Tides he Wml 141 Capitol II h 7:50 am. 18.1 ft. TAXI 21:15 pjn. 15 JS It. 1:10 am. 0.4 ft. I w 15:35 p.m. 7.1 ft. Macey's Coffc6 House NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER v xxvm ... No. 11. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1939. PRICE: 5 CENTS Jape Preparations siaae icr uccuon 01 Sew Pope rareiia i Acung Canadai Official Regrets r '.!E Fib 11. CP After hav- "I ! IT ! ttuthorlUcs said they be admitted to the Bas- i morrow. - . the death of the Pope. E i-mto Pacelli. Pontifical r State, to acting head - r n m CathoHe Church ,(Uon of a new Pope v; tested to be carried out te of Cardinals which. cooitoU of seventy m all parts of the ' election is by secret a twivtWrds ma)ortty After each vote, the I irned and. when a se-been ttnaUy reached, g irted by the sending plume of smoke aerrUan Cardinals Leave r:K Feb. lt.-Cardlnal .nnpil of Boston. Car-' ET Mundeletn of Chicago . D J. D-3Uthrtv of .i ailed trore New Yorlr uplessis And lPnniirn lurn Differ LSUlCt lllffpr mm mr. IN STATE APPeal Uenlec Brags Over Hainan Seizure riorlda Supreme Court Refuses To' Take Action In Kidnap-Murder Case TALLAHASSE. Florida, Feb. 11. The Florida Sunrnm fVmrt vm. r - ' ' i- it,. ,ncr ,cwu u m Urday denied the appeal of - n.iipfl the body of the late franklin Pearce McCall against a r - XI wm reverently re- dfath tence for the kMnap-oday to St Peter Cathed- murder of youne jimmy Cash. . it will lie In Ute until : next Wednesday. ! T -yt't body vu borne to St.' . EuMiica w solemn proces JSrrSW Germany Is Laughed At LONDON. Feb. 11 - A suggestion from Oermany that the Reich may claim ten billion dollars damages at compensation for her colonies having been taken away from her after the Great War is greeted with laughter and ridicule In Britain. BRITAIN IS 1 ALL READY Sir Samuel JUare Tells of Greatly Increased Air Strength To Stand By France I Italian Hntr Rex for PLYMOUTH. Eng.. Feb. 11: -v as mmbeV of the Sir Samuel Hoare. Secretary of ' J? of Cardinals they state for Home Affairs, speaking " in the election of a here last night, declared that mlH-r - .owing Ue dth yes- tary airplane production of Bri- XI Cardinal O Con- tain had increased so raptor irr from Naasau In since last fall that this count r ubwe he had been was now capable of meeting any . catch the Rex. foes friun the air on equal terms . . . Sir Samuel reiterated that one lanada Regrets q( emnUlll, principle of Bil " V F' o 11; CP Prime forelgn policy would be to W m Lyon Mackenzie tl up France in any difficult! a message to the Va- ith ,wrMors over wssosslon of -Ming Canada's official Rer territorte tie death of the Pope X. '. paying tribute to the Pi'Il f l r The message u read Jury Ullt ir xs! df commons yesterday J. , 1! Ernest Upolnte. minis- Jn jyieXlC0 Corruption Case BET. fb. 11: ,CP-Prcm-'Cnrrnpr (JoVemOr i Ol 111CI VJU V CI e Deploys has dlsassocl-1 Of Texas Named jjiti which has been Issued M. F. Hepburn of On-J , i po not now tne same views JtmM y Alrf(J ,s choice P aiicr Hepburn." Duplessls IUI1 n M icier uebec Lumber 'tiMallon To Re Rmueht In At 'resent Session of House It Is Announred Q' EUEC Feb. 11: CP) - An- ''"mrnt was made In tlie :"brr Legislature yesterday that ; a' ion would be Introduced at lS prspnt spslcin tn aid the j ui vsu ays v r- . - - - -uv.. - " - Inlands -Rtrnnir annihpaAt to winds or moderate calcs with DORS hl . .j pom aim. President Roosevelt for reme Court Bench Sup- - i t ntt-TtrTrHP Vu- Merlro. Fe- "-The Jury to tU! out in the iipuutll of tventy.five persons, some government officials, who are i; Premier Says His Views on charged with misappropriation of Imperialism Are Not Same as Works Progress Administration Thoe of Ontario Chief funds. WASillNOTON, D. C. Feb. 11-Formcr Oovernor James V. Allred has been nominated to the Uni ted States Supreme Court bench by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Action by Congress In" connection with the nomination has been deferred until Monday. Maternal Payments In Alberta Planned Grants of $15 to be Made to Mothers in Needy Circumstances Under New Legislation EDMONTON. Feb. 11: (CP) A Maternal Welfare Act to be Intro duccd at the present session of the Legislature will provide for grants of sis in emectant mothers In (needy clrcumstancds. MUCH GOLD Labor Exploited PASSING OF IS SHIPPED ArmyCharged D0UK CHIEp Yellow Metal To Value of 600,-, 000 Shipped From Britain To New York I NEW YORK. Feb. 11: CP)-Huge shipments of gold from Great Britain to the United States are causing speculation In Wall Street circle. More than 690,000-000 of the yellow metal hat mounted up. It is supposedly being held as a reserve for purchase ol food and supplies in case of need. Bulletins CREW IN VANCOUVER VANCOUVER Crew of seven ol the Seattle to Alaska bound freighter Ruth C. which sank in Johnston Straits on Thursday, arrived here aboard a coasting vessel. The crew had made Roek Ray in a life boat after the sinking which was due to cargo shifting. The Ruth C. was laden with much needed food supplies for Alaska. ALnERTA TOWN'S IT RE BIG VALLEY. Alberta Three buildings were destroyed in the business section of this town yes FIRE IN VICKSBURG VICKSBl'RG, Mississippi. Feb. 1 1 Damage estimated at 000 was done when a basement gas explosion raud the destruction of three business buildings here yesterday. KILLED IN SKIDDING VANCOUVER William Henry Marrh as drowned last night when his car slipped over a bridge, overturning into a ditch. Poor visibility due to snow was the cause of the accident. TRAIL WINS AGAIN ZURICH Trail Smoke Eaters defeated Switzerland ? to 0 in the ord amateur hockey championships yesterday. United States won one to nil over I Homes Undermined But They Remain Warnings Given to Occupants of Dwellings at Glare Bay, Nova Scotia, Disregarded GLACE BAY, Neva Scotia, Feb. 11: tCP Twelve families continue to cling to their dwellings here I. O. Makes Complaints In Connection With West Point Military Academy NEWARK. New Jersey. Feb. I,: (CP (The Committee on Industrial Organization charged yesterday that laundry and mess hall employees at West Point Military Academy were being overworked and underpaid. Children From Down Under To p jr tw occurred, however, before the wife. oee iviH Here: motnr nd chfct f Doakho- . VICTORIA. Feb. 11 iCP Some fifty school children from Australia and New Zea- land may come to Victoria at the end of May on the occas- icn of the vtat here of King George and Queen Elizabeth, it extended by Arthur Inspector of high schools. terday. Almost the entire popu- lation turned out to fight the . . b"!l:M brie,de- Hartiord Concern JICIMC9 ijp. To Supply Engines no..- Royal Air Force HARTFORD. Connecticut. Feb. 11:- The United Aircraft Corpora -tion here has received the contract from the British government for 250 Wasp airplane engines and parts for the Royal Air Force. The contract figure is $1500,000. Gerard Named To Commission Appointed To Body Dealing With Questions Between Great Britain and United SUtes Germany President Franklin D. Roosevelt to iSon Born in Berlin to Prince Louis Uie International commission Ferdinand Mother and Child nic lormea aiwr me ureal Doing Well Wa" to handle questions arislnj between Great Britain and the ' United States. BERLIN, Feb. 11: (CPt The former Kaiser of Germany, William Hoheiuollern. now living In exile Of I in Holland, became a greatgrand father today with the birth of a son to Prince Louis Ferdinand. Mother and child were reported to be doing well. TANKER IS BROKEN UP Lightburne is Total Loss off Rugged Block Island Crew Rescued By Coastguards BLOCK ISLAND. New York, Feb. 11: CP HflYlne abandoned their Peter Veregin II Dies In Saskatoon Following Operation Two Weeks Ago Stormy Career Served Two Jail Terms and Narrowly Warded Off Deportation SASKATOON. Feb. U: CP-Peter Veregin. aged 53. Canadian Doukhobor leader, died here dur ing the night following an opera tion nerfnrmcd performed about about bor colony from Grand Forks could reaeh the bedside. Veren himself had formerly lived in British Columbia but more recently had made his home in Kamsaek. Saskatchewan Prter PeUovitcta Verarsns career as spiritual head of lSjOQO Doukhobor colonist' In Panama -va I to suggested by Hon. Dr. G. M. tempeaiuoug. H? served two tall Weir, minister of education. efitence. one for perjury and the The invitation will be officially nh-r to- 8-uK and narrowly Sullivan. warded off two deportation a;- tempU. He tendered and withdrew his resignation as leader. Born at Biturski. Russia, March 11. 18S6 he came to Canada in 1927 to srrceed his father. Peler Lerdly'. Veiwvtn. hieh of car near Farron. B. C Ta'l and powerful of physique, young Peter launched a program cf education and culture for th colonies scattered through the west. It va di.leaaing to younger members of the Christian .Oan.-unltv of Universal Brotherhood They formed a left wins known a the "Sons of Freedom," and the leader laid at their door reaoonsi-bllity for the burnlne of schools and churches and nude parades in protest against taxation and educational measures Resignation of Socialist Premier ' and His Ministry j I I BRUSSELS. Feb. 11: CP Fol- ' lowing a Parliamentary crisis. Senators Are Now cued last night by United States WASHINGTON, D.C.. Feb. 11. coastguard vessels before she began The edict of secrecy on dellbera- Tokio Press Asserts Value of Hong Kong Is Almost Eliminated Great Britain and France Silent Following Latest Nipponese Coup Against Which Warning Had Been Issued TOKYO, February 11: (CP) The Japanese press boasted today that occupation of Hainan Island strikes a a fortntehi hlnvv nt l.rpnf Rritmn s far pa5TPrn ripfpnrp Rvstpm with ago. shortly before he died h!s tne strategic value of Hong Kong almost eliminated. No -LtTo5:; official action has yet, apparently, been .taken sinccthe Xrew On Fort As a result ot the mazing of t special transportation arrange- ments with the Canadian Na- tional Railways tor the taking v of the men out to work in the morning and returning with them in the evening, the Nor- them Construction Co. and J. W. Stewart Ltd: and the E. J. Britain and France which last fall had warned Japan against interfering with it. Work Here To I COLD SNAP Be Increased I IS ENDED Temperatures Above Freezing on Coast and Above Zero in interior Snow Followed by Rain The cold wave was broken during the night with coastal temperatures rising above freezing and the Interior lifting above zero for the first time In four days. Y ester- 2nT OUt toe work ot Kn- Prince Rupert tamed to rain last n wh "JJ. rZnll " "ruction of fortification, at night it was unsettled this aftef- myrterioar explosion on a railway Former Kaiser Now Washington, d. c Feb. n: Belgian Cabinet James W. Gerard, war time am- - , Great Grandfather J has "JL"111 been appointed f'fif 1 by Is forced 1 (Jut f t Barrett Point, at the entrance noon. of Prince Rupert Harbor, has snow fell for six hours in Van-been enabled to double Its couver last night but turned to working force to about ninety rain, covering the streets with slush, men. The reason the crew had Todays weather reports are a ' not been larger already was that there was no housing ac- coinodaUon on the job except i for about forty. The general f intention is to keen the single ' men in the Billmor camp while the married men will live at their homes In town. Veregin decreed banishment for these "renegades." as he termed them, and Immediately became in- Pynrncc Niilari volved In dtomites over community JllLCOO llUl all rrooerty shares awarded those ex- rr 1 jut i ep pelled. Incendiarism and nude clKCS lfl3.ll 1 0 (Continued on Page Four) . rs lAloclro Kninfc JUNEAU. Feb. 11 The coastguard cutter Spencer is on Its' way U ( Caat1a on4 11-411 tab to uuu Ul Alaska (wmw u n j , follows: Prince Rupert "Heavy ram, southeast wind. 34 mSis per hour; barometer. 29.12; temperature, 3C: sea rough.. Triple Island Light, rain, southeast wind. 22 miles per hour; sea moderately rough Langara Island Light rain, southwest wind, 36 miles per hour; barometer, 21.00; temperature. 42; sea moderately rough. Dead Tree Point Light rain, calm: barometer, 29.09; temperature. 39: moderate swelL Bull Harbor Heavy rain, southeast wind, 25 milss per hour; barometer, 29.73; temperature, 34: sea rough. . Alert Bay Light sleet, south-'east wind, 25 miles per hour; ba rometer. 29.73; temperature, 31: sea rough. , Estevan Raining, southeast anTceSain 7 ba- Parliamentary Crisis Results In .. . .. . I, meter, 29.82. the suspension of regular steamer' " 7" J u.. " s .wind, eight miles pet, hour; baro- services due to the masters and' " r mates' strike. Mall for Fairbanks. . , . will be taken there by plane. The Canadian steamer Princess Norah, i Premier Paul Soaak and his cab-! arriving this week, brought the flrst 'inet resigned, the resignation being mall southeastern Alaska has re-accepted by King Leopold. There ceived in ten days. For Ketchikan is no indication yet as to who may alone the vessel brought 190 sacks. I succeed the Socialist Spaak as j Unless there is a settlement of the Premier. i strike meantime, there will be no J more mall for Alaska until the next Canadian boat ten days hence. Allowed To Talk North Dakota I Town Has Fire grounded ship which stranded off Edict of Secrecy Raised from Delib-rugged Block Island yesterday' erations ot United States Mill-while enroute to Providence, cap-j tary Committee Deliberations tain of the tanker Lightburne and nine members of the crew were res-1 Entire Business Block at Hillsboro, below Is Destroyed In 33 Below j Weather although warned that bootleg coal' to break up In rough seas. Sixteen tlons ot the Senate military affairs was done yesterday by fire which; wind, 1 miles per hour; barometer, 29.98. Prince George Cloudy, southwest wind, 10 miles per hourj barometer. 29.66. Terrace Snowing, strong north east wind, 8. 'f Alyansh Snowing, windy, 10. Alice Arm Snowing, heavy north wind, 16. j Anyox Showing, calm, 12. Stewart Snowing calm, 10. j Hazelton Snowing, north wind, '3. Smlthers Snowing, calm, 2 Burns Lake Snowing, calm, 3 m Rutland Packing 11: Damage estimated at $100,000 Kloril- Ic KlirnpH A ' Mil W AW VUt l&VU mining operations below them may I sailors had been removed earlier committee has been raised. The destroyed a diock ot ounaings m( cause their houses to drop Into the from the Lightburne which had press and public are not being ad-'the main section of this town. KELOWNA, Feb. 11: CP The ornnnd The digging Is going on' sent out S.O.S. messaces. The cap- mltted to the sessions of the com- Thirty-five below temperature, a , packing plant at Rutland, five miles onlv elchteen feet below the sur-i tain and officers had insisted on mlttee but senators themselves are .stiff north wind and deep snow-. east of here, was destroyed by fire J . ! .... - ........... i i jitfi...u 4U t..t. . --.J .rl 1 J face on which the houses are located. Forty persona occupy the dwellings. r - remaining aboard until ail nope oiinow being permitiea to ten aooui amis raiunm um,iu jciruaj. iuc.mc wusra ojr saving the UG-foot vessel had-ven- what Is going on so long as mill- f firemen hi handling the con- stove overheating In keeping the Htaed. tary secrets are not disclosed. 1 f lagration. premises warm.