HP IGHNCE KUr EAL eed be bab ae .) Thursday, August 23, 1906 at on eee etme ert on tidepenaer dally newspaper devoved to tne upbuilding of Prince Rupert eye and Northern and Central British. Columbia, “Member of.Canadian Press—Audit Bureau. of, Circulations — , fea Canadian ‘Daily Newspaper Association. : Published, ” The Prince Rupert Dally: News Limited ote ode F, MAGOR, President ; ‘ -“Subseription Rates: “Per ‘Month, 76c; per, year, $8.00 By. ‘carrler—-Per .week,'25¢; per nidnth, $1.00; per year, 610. 00 8 second” elnss: mail by the Post Office . pee Ottawa Signs of Eléction: Interest Wy culty. of measuring: the public mood at ion time ‘is veflected here. in the Prince Rie ct with the. surprisingly large yegistration 2 Considering the circumstances of this one would n not bopre any great eels af a a tight sontest, ‘Still a third is that: this i is an election’ ‘which: has been called ny major issue to be decided. of importance, hasha opened which ealls | f: confidence: by. the people. : ‘There is a question of whether the government | is overreaching s fin micial’ ‘policy, there’ has been. strange ) overnment leaders over the case of This one . clearly. ated as a ‘yeasonabl y se- mging the life of the government, 2 Just . that point which. is prompting cpected “Tf. the reaction of this ay-be to prove t that it is more than . a suit, ‘that the i incre ase. in 1 popule | mt for some increase in the, number of are ee are e other: Factors involved. The y. provide more e excitement than we had . oe ee ee PRP SUI POP” / . major . |year’s situation of a ) vbeane ‘nusieal: formulas into aa bushels of wheat still on’ hand a between Waterways, —- 0 4 i ~ river e ve I brain’ known: as. Datatron,. One of these a terme ne sonstitute, ¢ Northern’ Transportation's 4 D: tatron | is going ‘to start’ spilling out tunes at |disposal ‘problem. But: being |Southern terminal, and Lake i te of 1,000 an hour, the scientist hopes, And eee ee et vexhang Aine in the short summer the|| 8 if. robot lives up to expectations, go what? He'll |the market for a new crop ° ;water level here 1s so low that), A b d thi t Tj P: Alle be d so serious an, extent, if this ithe shallow-draft tugs and barg-| ii ih pe cong nothing that lin Fan Auey hasn’t been do- year’s. wheat is of high milling es barely clear the river bottom. |! u ng for years—except that the human:tunesmiths |qualtty.. Furthermore,” the re: eet native Oa a enays | rave béen. hammering out words to gO with the musi- {quirements of wheat for feed 0 10 make the job sound easy. 5 purposes are climbing to new! « # eal. notes,” ‘records as demand for -meat!,, All you have to oe Seve the io “gelndeed, the denizens of the Alley are now a long climbs, The outlook Is, In shor! ‘channel it,” he said with a grin. 4 ak that the new wheat should find “Navigation is of little use here 5 jump ahead of Datatron, Since the advent of rock- | ready markel and that pro- unless you run into smoke or u oe and-roll, ; they have been able to put the production of | disposal of surplus stocks an fog on lo wet your master vs : oe jpnular music on an almost fully, ‘auitomatic basis; )hand. The over al effect of this | ticket.” “ rospect cou e almost unpre- | -——-—-- a a os 1" instead of producing 1,000 tunes an hour, they pro- |Pedented returns over the nex! | u : duce 1,000 titles for the same tune, thus: demonsty at. |12 months for the Canadian Civic Centre ts i ing. ohee elie the superiority of thie human mind )™2eet fermen Z ack-Pot DISCONTINUED COLORS IN KEM TONE ~ " over any machine, "FATAL NAILS J | -P a ; m4 ve “og, ‘GISBORNE, N. Z. @— John K N [ nN fake sian sii rR Satara Night, re le sonia: i... - BINGO ql EM GLOW ~ A D GI OWING ENAMELS | : é peta ne flere ss ol} anis ¥ 100 Saeko Plus BP a BUT Fe ty | : ne iA mide an: | a i Aacto AL th _ dtead of stitchéd on, He war ‘ spec era soll EM abi nn “ee ' , electrocuted while using a port-. Wei ‘wihio” Night ta’ = Sh op ‘ar y Fo or The e ‘Bes t Se acti / on ew : iAP Purp and Timer . Model ” DELUXE oe mod na "WASHER Eilon sped drain EXO (ily as AMlustrated Washer Timer, / $199.50 REDUCED TO ‘ Direct drive balls wo i - \ bearing mechane | | Full glen pore » lor , . ‘ \ 6 1 colaln tubs 06 min. washing ‘ actlon, economic news in the capita: these days is the word. that the “Buy. British” campaign is be- ginning to pay off at long last. the ‘first half. of the’ year Brit- ‘ish exports to Canada zoomed a sensational 47 per cent. Trade and Commerce furthermore, that they still are continuing: to climb. Kingdom Elmore Philpott | On Holidays OTTAWA DIARY About . the most . interesting Latest statistics show , that in circles state, The .development is. one of importance. It means that the problem of United scarcity of dollars with which to purchase Can- adian’ wheat and other com- modities is well on the way to a satisfactory solution, British commodity exports to this mar- ket, together with the earnings of British shipping, insurance. banking, and other services used by Canadians, soon *will create a sufficient pool :of Canadian dollars in the, Old. ‘Country to} finance purchase: ‘from Canada on ‘the’ stale” that. Canadiar: exporting interests require, At: the: same time at which the-increase in British. exports to Canada is reported, word also comes .. of . another important’ development in the world: wheat picture which. is.no less con- structive from the ‘Canadian point of view: It seems that last world wheat surplus. in all. grades has chariged sharply. Now there is a relatively tight supply situ-, ation in respect ‘to the top grad- es which. are bought for bread purposes by the United Kingdom lan, ails ein nn OF Riverboat. By DAVID OANCIA , Canadian Press Staff, Writer YELLOWKNIFE, NWT. (CP) —Breakup in the northern rivers and lakes-i ern Transportation Co. Ltd. to start its anmial race against time, which ends-only when the ice becomes too heavy to.buek in the late. autumn, in-up to five ‘months of: ice-"- free navigation the men of this company, major transport oper- ator on the Mackenzie River sys- tem, must see that. all of the scattered settlements and ‘min- ing camps have the. supplies they ordered the year before. Twenty-four hours a day, sev- |: en days a week in this Land of the Midnight Sun the diesel tugs push the loaded barges north- ward and bring them south for reloading. There’s too much at stake to interrupt the race. Miss hauling in supplies to any settlement and the result could be disastrous, Carefully- -planned programs could be délayed. At worst, it could mean the supplies ‘which make life .possible. in ‘this remote area would run out: “Working — the ‘boats on. the’ 2,400-mile river and lake system is no job for greenhorns, \.Sign up for any job, be it. deckhand, |¥ pilot or skipper, and you ‘ve sign- off. In this part of the country working it. able to tell by surface where the water is safe and deep. and. other large importing coun - tries. . This is a change which is a major interest to. Cariada, Fr while we hold the. major world carry-over. of some half-billion bushels, most of this wheat. ir now below the top grades requir- carry-over;. which js still great- | er than ours.but also of consid- erably lower quality, is even less significant’ for bread purposes. years, provided only .that the! oe wheat...measures up to bread | quality. . ‘So far the - indications on. this‘ score are favorable. It'is true that the half-billion decided, able ‘electric saw, If it hadn't {been for’ the nails, have been Insulated, an Inquest he would "Move out of the channel even a + few feet, and your boat may|’ grind to a stop on the sandbars or crash into the jagged bould- ers in rocky rapids. Capt. William Bromley of Vic- |. i toria, veteran Of 30 years on the ‘the other new. tugs, could be a ‘Yukon River system, spent more ed for bread.-The United States | han a month in the wheelhouse of his boat, his eyes: glued to the surface of the water to Ic tn the the channel, before he took, ‘wheel, - “y) AS * ~ skip] er of the Peate ; “he Ti other words, the sales pros- shuttles . barges on the Slave pect ahead of the Canadian crop River between the mouth of the): now: riperfing., is brighter than | athabasca, and Fort Fitzgerald, has. been ‘the case for several/at the southern end of, the 25- imile Smith- Fitzgerald . portage. TICKLISH., ROUTE the Mackenzie system is the 190 As Low as $2.00 for the ' Evening. . -MONDAY, AUGUST: on 8: 00 rm, \\ MONTREAL for weck-enda wastire YOu safeguard yo & hotter p doors of a 3 and know you have the utmost nol add this to your list of “thi minute pac kings Don't Maa An Hour sos of this precious Bie ve, NOP pa Creat a aub with the) youngsters and , book up the aunahinel Do a ib joyously a knowing (hate in the twinkle of 0 Binile—you nourghing bowl of the’ funed rAjoy there lash few holidays, tvely day, Uo used to elit on the belly inside neswhging ancl ae throw .it to (he an ant pushes round tht top af (he ¢ and round he gars with all of wa _emdlawa it comes! Ta BROCIY, Junt mB doors locked?" 'T huts a normal question lo ask * father just before the family ‘goca away on holiday aco for them ia bebind the steolstrong | can rent a Rot M Safely Deposit Box for lesa than two cents a ilny nhout this sure, lowscoat protection well alewd of frensiod last woeerecoeecnon ein gorve your hungry family a LIPTON SOUPS, So quick to prepare! So fresh flavored) (All the vegetables taste. gurdensfresh na thoy burguon under (he boiling water) So satis wing ~= with a coffee fluver, Tf yon haven't tried sendwich or a eulid, Lay in Inatanb Chase & “Sanborn recently supply, ni'lady, of Tipton Tomato do gob a i this vory. day--andl Vegetable Unions Reef Noolley — give yourself and your family the and Chicken: Noadla—and relly Sill A Now Velek? Soom to ua iv that our hnedgia ta Teaming new tricks or ta to pick ups Now he pleka the bell of keeping lin ao happy and heallliyhu's no trouble to ue at all! Just § Dard" ANI tha windowa: and . ' “Au ot Jonger, His busy “yep,” may res bat are inere locks enough to r jowelry or valunble papers? Surely ANK OF MONTREAL vaultl You protection from fire, ar theft, Why nga ta do” tadny or tomorrow? See Hlera'a A Promtan a0 Toate which lus, all, the’ precious — coffer fnver of freshly» made roffea—Tt's the promise fram. Chuva & Sune horn, Thawte experta knaw colfen == and hack of thoir knowledge tin! nourly 100 years of volfen exports eee, Look through the "window!" on tha jar of ENSTAN'T CHASH & SANBORN COPD to tha rich eaffea color thab means rin) Pr rinfuetion of really deletions teflon in an instant] tap of hin euge and, after wetting all HIN: pick off the fulaide bel ee Ke Ane a to throw It aff, Round datehing ab him, (hen ine NA UL AlesVEEDING D WT tint's 7 * ago, was a river pilot and this ed away the five-day week, the eight-hour day, regular hours, | comfortable living and even days running the river boats is a highly specialized business, one that can be learned only by Few markers show the location of the shifting ‘channel in ‘the muddy rivers—a man must be signs mile section of the ‘Athabasca jy et tet annie teeta sonar 10 b's webrmn atmay oestemen vente # 168- Hour Work Week Let Employees s the signal for the North- ‘Capt. Billy is: skipper of the Radium Miner, one of three 180- ton tugs built this year to bolster Northern Transportation’s fleet. iThe boat has a draft of 28 inch- ‘es and can-handle three barges lcarrying 1,000 to 1,500 tons a trip. :He .comes from a family of river men, His father worked the old. paddlewheelers which sup- plied the northern trading posts after the turn of the century. His brother, who died two years year his son, Bill Jr., got his first ob as a pilot after four years as a deckhand. |. This husky, greying man re- called with pride the day he passed ‘the. examination ‘for his ‘master’s certificate in 1948, 24)| years after he got his first job las a deckhand ° on the old stern- wheelers. : Besides being in top “physical ‘eondition to get the certificate a man must have served 48 months, ‘afloat and must. know without hesitation the’ rules of the, road, how to handle boats and equip- ment, navigation and seaman- ship. “Life seldom gets monotonous for the crew of nine or 10 on each of the tugs. For practically the entire summer the lives of these men are a series of six- hour watches and six- “hour oft periods. HEARTY YMEALS. ‘ Meals, plenty of good, solid food, are served at 5:30 am, noon and 5:30 p.m., and the cof- fee pot is always on the stove. : The galley on the Miner, as on and airy, has built-in cupboards, ai gleaming refrigerator an d freezer and modern, oil- burning range. The Jaundry room is Jequipped with an automatic ‘washer and dryer and there’s al- ways & large supply of hot water. -But the transportation com- pany realizes it takes more than housewife's dream. It’s spacious | MONKEY BUSINESS NEW YORK if—Joe, Central | Pa 18-year-old chimpanzee, is a veteran cigar smoker, but-he's ‘never had to buy one yet, For the elght years-since he acquir- led the habit, he's been supplied First ‘with the best brands by zoa/man navy, dled ‘here yesterday.' checked, and found the yellow visitors, He was 77 yet u's old, ‘German Raider Dies ROSENHEIM, Germany (A) ~ Nikolaus, Count of Dohna, one|when they saw yello ion the most successful surface! pain falling_-they Ihocewlared raider commanders during the was radio-attive fal i World War for the Ger- & fall-out ftom t