f.F. MOVE 1 it m. ft IH f Commons last night j . adopted the resolution f r. . f. MacNeii, V.u.r. memocr t iurr. to refer the f 4J t ( c Whit i r From looking For Cope Plane Ski Party and Moats Jr KEA" Feb, 14: CT - Ham-1 t y snow and generally un-weather conditions, the - ' ' ir Pilot Len Cope and 1 rngers. who disappeared ? TUij inlet Sunday while on f from Ketchikan to Jun-1 " ' ues. P"- Ability is holding search-; raft down but a ski party ;' i''" for Douclas Island to i f here rospecting Party s Lost In Gulf VANCOUVER. Feb. 14: (CP) 4 h has been instituted for the Desecration At Church Evidently an act of desccra-Jion, black drapes at the entrance of the Church of Annunciation, havln.? heen nut un mourning for the late Pope liu: were found torn down uno.ay night. Complaint was 'iue 10 the authorities over jnc incident and Investigation 13 proceeding. rc AnnPTFn A,aska ShiP Gun Contract To Public Accounts Committee For Further Investigation r 7TAWA, Feb. 14: CP The :otriKe nnds . 4 SEATTLE, Feb. 14 CP 4 The ten-day strike of deck 4 officers that halted Alaska shipping and caused a food 4' shortage In the territory is 4 ended but grlerances which 4- which caused the walk -out Dren hare not yet been adjusted. gun contract to the pub- ,!.?. committee for fur- gation , , nf thf Mar Kelt rrjintu- iwed the defeat by a vote DII BILL I 10 29 of a Conservative mo-',ct the matter to a the whole House with a mudrlne cancellation. IS She INVALID 'he course of the debate. . H Cahan, Conservative Court itulet Interest Cut Meaoure for St. Lawrence-8t In Alberta Is Ultra Vires M i.treal. made an un I C.-mand for the reslgna- EDMONTON, Feb. 14: iCP-Ths I" l1 Mackenzie, mlr- supreme Court of Alberta yester- 3 :ial defence, whom he day ruled as ultra vires an act of ' as a -recalcitrant, de- the Legislature passed tn 1937 re- 1 incompetent" minister duclne the Interest on nrovlnelal keep the government bonds bv fifty percent The gov- f informed on the views frnmcnt Is now considering the -'departmental commit- judgment with a view to future x tl armament contract course of action. Hanson Thought n M P for Skeena. J Trt R R,,,lr i hl reputation for brief lVUOU IU UC UUIlL ! speeches when he r r i f l j the Bren contract dls- JH JJlgDY lSlSHlCl en days days of unneect- e to the ii'p i nnii in iMl l K I t-l I III 1 1 Ill taxpayers. hing Is stlly -nber declared. the CONTINUED Frederick Point to be Connected up With Marine Station Wharf I ' Contract has been awarded to O W Ntckerran and associates of this city by the Department of National Defence for a 4.000-foot roadway from Frederick Point to the marine station on Dlgby Island. The road Is to be built In connection with the fortifications to be put In on Frederick Point. BURIAL OF POPE PIUS : 223 manded Solemn Ceremonies Marked Final Interment of Pontiffs Remains In St. Peter's Tonight '! private rites which were broadcast 1 to the world. Only cardinals and high dlgna-torles were admitted to the final rites, the general public being excluded so as to prevent congestion. It Is estimated that half a million devout followers of the church viewed the remains as they lay In state before Interment. :cbrat Delta, with three men on rd missing for several days ...... 1 i::: (' utt TnA i.io.ri nnri 117. II ImfAlrn P-Pccting UhT I II 111 WVUIYC Padlock Law Dissemination of Communism Not To Be Permitted In Connection With Soldiers Welcome In Quebec MONTREAL, Feb. 14: (CP) - Authorities have issued warning that the Padlock Law will be Invoked If any attempt Is made to disseminate Communist propaganda In connection with the welcome or Canadian soldiers returning from the Spanish civil war. TonlghtV train, due from the East at 11 o'clock, is reported to be half an hour late. Dead iaiaHBapMMBBB HON, S. L. HOWE VANCOUVER Feb, 14 CP -Samuel Lyness Howe aged 74, former provincial secretary, minister, of mines and commissioner of fisheries in the Tolmle government, died last night. A native of Orey County. Ontario, he came to the coast in 1897 and invested $20,000 in downtown real estate from which he real-: Jied nearly $1,000,000 in 1923. One of his well known proper-i ties was the northwest corner of : Oranvllle and Georgia Streets. He was also an active sportsman and horseowrter and supplied the mount which the late Sir Arthur Currle rpde Jn. France through out the Oreat War. He was elected to the first Legislature in 1928 as member for Richmond -Point Orey. He was a druggist. : there while several small . I " r. u 14 w. CP--i rm Feb. VATICAN CITY. - w being used to nose Into' rr.d XI, nf TO T A P IIP bays In the hope thatPf K "n 1 U 1 IfU Ul """L. r ng shin may be found. Place. u.m8n T?- ntral ai ar 1 n vne 8 ru , ;3 ;t message by radio re-9l J from Pilot Cope on Sunday'or St. Peter's Cathedral. The trible wrapped in red wool, was i.- i hti m.ne irimr un'casket. :? r v., tm.t .w Hi..0n lowered with Impressive scml-; Soviet-Manchu SINGLE MEN i of the co-operation of private citizens' committee closely linked with in- Weather Forecast the Interior Prince Rupert and Queen Charlotte Islands - Moderate variable winds, part cloudy with not much) change In temperature, West Coast of Vancouver Island- Moderate south winds, cloudy and : Wolf Bounty Is Increased VICTORIA. Feb. 14: CP The timber wolf bounty In British Columbia hat been Increased from $10 to $15. it announced yesterday. This, it is hoped, will prove an Inducement to checking the 'n-rea?-ing menace of these animals. BALANCE OF TRADE DOWN Great Britain and United SUtes Were Principal Customers of Canada Last Year OTTAWA. Feb. 14: "CP Canada's favorable trade balance tor 1938 is placed at X279.0O0.OO0 as compared with $310,000300 in 1937. Cansda's two principal customers were Oreat Britain and United States. With Oreat Britain there was a balance of $244,000,000 In favor of Canada while with United States the Dominion had an adverse balance of $68.000 000. Washington fruit Going To Germany Barter Deal For Manufactured Goods From Reich Is Being Negotiated SEATTLE. Feb. 14: CP Under a barter arrangement being nego- tlated by a Washington co -opera - tlve organization. Washington fruit will bi shipped to Oermany In re- GlaSheS Attain 4. tum t0t erman manufactured TOKYO. Feb. 14 (CP der dashes between Soviet 1 Manchoukuoan troops were norted by Dome! News Agency while Parliament de- a stronger policy to- ward Russra. It was admitted that Manchoukouan forces 4- were being Increased. 4- Bor S: BUSINESS IS LOWER Fewer Tourists Visited Canada Last Year and Their Spendings were Less OTTAWA. Feb: 14 CP Can-' ada's tourist business showed a decrease last year, according to fig-: 1 u res Just Issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. The spendings tourists for the past year are es tlmated at $269,000,000 as comjiar with $290,000,000 In 1937. The number of tourists visiting the country last year was also lower j Arrangements Being Made to Pro-than the year previous. vide for Them After Camps are Closed This Spring VICTORIA. Feb. 14: tCPK-Wlth Germany Taking Canadian Apples dustrial Interests, the government Eight Thousand Barrels Being ' Is making arrangements to take Taken From Dominion By 1 - 1- care of single unemployed men; Reich when they are released from camps; this rorlne. It Is announced by Hon, OTTAWA, Feb. 14: (CP) Ca .George S. Pearson, minister of la- nada's apple crop will be pretty bor. 1 be Nova Scotia apples and 3,000 from British Columbia. General Synopsis i-ressure re- p . w mains high south of Vancouver Is- ft uriDDe In onrl low west of the Queen! Charlotte Islands. It has been Ehowfry on the British Columbia! coast and mild with some snow In, Montreal Bad Tomorrow's " res tA4 Capitol V A TAXI . . . trr v. ?; Macey'g Coffee House NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER JIXVIH No. 37. j PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1939. PRICE: 5 CENTS Franco Recognition Is Bulletins BONES DISINTEGRATING REGINA Rejina medical men do not hold out much hope for the recovery of an aged unidentified' man, probably about seventy years old, whose bones are disintegrating through lack of calcium. Had the eae been tak en In time, it might have been roid gland condition but now it Is believer" too late. The man is too old and weak to survive an operation even if he could be built up for it. RELIGIOUS DISORDERS CALCUTTA Serious disorders between Hindus and Moslems continue in various parts of In dia and Burma. Since it i estimated forty persons have been killed in clashes. Yesterday seven .were killed in a bomb explosion at Rangoon. ALBERTA SNOWFALL EDMONTON Hevr snowfalls have blocked Northern Alberta highways. The road .between Edmonton and Calgary is being kept open. ALBERTA PIONEER DIES PINCIIER CREEK Jimmy Whltford. relcrfrl pioneer of Southern Alberta, is dead here at the ate of eitht-tix. He guided the noted t-issjonarr. Father La-combe, into the country. . . .MUNICH VIOLATED LONDON Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, rave assuranre today that there would be a full Investieation of complaints that the option clause of the Munich atreement whereby anti-Nazis would be allowed to leave Sudetenland unmolested was being violated. ARRESTED FOR MURDER LONDON A youn; Irishman, Arthur James Mahoney, has been arrested on a charge of murdering Iris Keefe, known as the "Black Butterfly," who was found yesterday in her Mayfair apartment with a stiletto in her breast. Mahoney is said to have admitted the slayin; of the young woman because she tricked him out of his money. The theory persists, however, that the slaying might have had something to do with Irish Republican Army secrets. : Would Tighten Nursing Rules BOSTON. Feb. 14: (CP) Manda tory registration of all persons en mends that all nurse registries of well cleaned up by the shipment cmployment agencies be made sub-r of eight thousand barrels to Oer- th(j dose supervlslon and many. Five thousand barrels will regulation of the state Doara 01 registration of nurses. The commission study disclosed that under the present law theie are no requirements for the mandatory examination and reglstra- Evidence was produced before the commission or Instances "where totally unauaiified persons" have Some Schools Have As Many As been nursing seriously ill people. One -Third of Enrolment Away ) Another recommendation calls I for the licensing of a group of MONTREAL. Feb. 14: (CP) An nurses, referred to as attendants, epidemic of la grippe is general In heretofore unlicensed. This group. Montreal. Some schools report as the commission says, represents manv as one-third of their child- fhn uhn nri so-called unit-tier,! .U-BlUUllw" ww " " " - - ' ' - - - , Jmlld with some mist or light raln.lrcn absent through Illness. nurses. Deferred French Anti-Fascists Assert Influence On Daiadier Government possible to operate for a parathy- i Not Likely That Insurgent Ascendency Will Be Formally Acknowledged Until Negrin Resistance Has Finally OTTAWA. Feb. 14: CP Disappeared PA PTC Pnlimiomi 1 A ifV Tof ofn?riol nnnnoifinn of anti-Fascist ministers has compelled the government ' of France to delay formal recognition of the insurgent regime in Spain. In informed circles it is said that there ! will be no formal recognition of General Francisco Fran- Thursday co's regime as long as the loyalist government exists in t I Pipe Line To I Great Lakes t From Alberta RAILWAYS BUY MUCH Have i gaged in the nursing profession in .successruL I Massacnusseis ana legisiaiion cau- ., went on. Done Much To Canadian-Made Goods and Indirectly. Mr. on.v. .-v tJl rinfort nut th rnllvflTa the profession Is recommended ' . ; ? j a report filed in the legislature by a commission. The commission also recom plies In Canada meant annual employment for approximately , 245,000 persons. . . "If the Railways are to continue to spend money for materials and suDDlies. they must cam It" h money 1 gross) to Duy an - any iorm. ine ceierminaiiuii ox j Premier Negrin to fight to a finish 'has changed the picture. The( ' French cabinet considered the question of Insurgent recognition today and In London the British 'government will do likewise tomor- row. Meantime, the last loyalist troops tare now withdrawing from Catal- onla but In the south central por-4"!tlon the loyalist resistance Is be- 1 lng continued. 4 R. A. Brown, head of an Al- ' berta oil company, said here 4, t- yesterday that work on a pipe ITT CT I J1 C 4- Bne to convey Turner Valley J U O 1 1 Vi-4 4 oil to the Great. Lakes would 1 probably atarUd ibis -year. It , 'Will cost ,$J5,pefe&. I&ter: ! RESIGNS when world matkets art asrur- : ed. there may also be a pipe JLouis D. Brandeis 4- line to the Pacific Coast. of Supreme Court of United SUtes Leaves Bench at Age of Eighty-Two Years WASHINOTON, D. C, Feb. 14: CP 1 Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the Supreme Court of the United States announced his resignation yesterday. Eighty-two years of age he has been a member of the court since June 1, 1916. He was the first Jew ever to serve on the court. Ill-health and Foster advanced years are given as the. reason of the resignation although it ha been raid that Brandeis hnlght devote his closing years to MONTREAL, Feb. 14: Purchas- promoting the welfare of Jews. He lng materials and supplies to the was known as one of the "Liberal value of $117500.000 a year.'Ca- members of the bench. nadas two big railways are the largest buyers in Canada, occord-j . . lng to E. A. Bromley, assistant . to MlSSlOnariCS the vice-president, purchasing.' stores and steamships Department, n 11 J f( p.A Canadian National Railways, who 1VUUUCU JL IsdMl was the speaker at a meeting ol . the Canadian Railway Club heri Mr- and Mrs. ' Kinnaird of Suva last night. By far the greater bulk nad S521 Taken From Their of the money remained In this Motel Koom In Vancouver country, he said, "I do not Jhlnk any organization hat done as, VANCOUVER, Feb. 14: (CP) much to foster Canadian-made and Mrs j R- Kinnaird, misstate Commission Reports For goods as the railways of Canada, gionarles from Suva, were robbed More Regulation in Massachusetts They are constantly seeking to 0f 5521 which they had left in the . have Canadian manufacturers take bureau drawer of an hotel room up tne manuiaciure 01 arucwa nere that have otherwise to be Import ed and this action has been very TO FINANCE REFUGEES Authorized by Intergovernmental Committee LONDON, Feb. 14: (CP) The In order to earn enough ; Intergovernmental committee on re- or- fugees has authorized the estao- dinary coal scoop, the railways ln'llshment of a private lrttematlon- Canada have to haul one ton of ai corporation 10 unance a xive-frelght 95 miles; for a day coach yar $300,000,000 plan for the eml- Hon of toW -lies, and for a dining gratlon of German Jews. car, 8,337505 miles. If the railways are to prosper and distribute the vast sums of money I have mentioned, not only for purchases but also for wages, they must be Mr. Bromley closed with an ap HEADS PARK BOARDS BRANTFORD. Ont., Feb. 14: (CP) A. T. Whltaker, newspaperman, has started his third successive term as chairman of Brantford peal to business men to use the'rj Parks Board. He Is, also president Influence In every reasonable way, of the Ontario Parks Association toward, the end that the railways and a member of the Niagara Tarks would get a square deal Commission.