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THE DAILY NEWS

Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist

 

    

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vol. 1, NO BY

PRINCE RUPERT, B. 6., MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1942.

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DEBATE ON THE NAVAL BILL

TO TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY

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SECOND READING OF BORDEN’S POLICY WILL TAKE PLACE

THIS WEEK—LAURIER TO RESPOND--FOSTER AND
CLARK TO PARTICIPATE IN DEBATE.

sy il to Daily News
Dee 8 rhe prob
a that the debate
i oposal will not be
' i th until Thursdas
ce t Borden will move
As eading of the bill and
: \\ Laurier will outline
] wy m regara
ter I f Cana
| pire
I Foster Ww
Sir Wilfrid, and it ts under
: h he second speuke I
Libera side will be ¢ M
from Red Dee

spoken this sess

Work Commences

rhis ' “ ay
ge th i i the
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VAs ¢ ‘ | der the ipe
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Pantorium Pioneer Cleaners

Phone 4

 

CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE

MOVES TO THE NEW BUILDING

PIONEER FINANCIAL INSTITUTION OF PRINCE RUPERT IN-

STALLED IN NEW OFFICES ON SECOND AVENUE-—EXCEL-
LENT ACCOMMODATION FOR THE CLERKS.

upon clos re
day on Sa da i

he Canadian Ba
irted to i the

heir old qua
of Third stree mad
5 ie to the palatia
. just
Prinee R
all

and

ipert ¢ ib
ogethet sith
the
| : with
’ emoving he vas
‘ pedimenta that #

wecessary ad

the

i modern bank
e being the fix
have been m use il

sw be used in ft

}

- he imtention bene il

stant date, to replas
han entirely new set

Bank of

tself

Commerce ea
the

-  beme

the p

Rupert, i hay
shed itself in an up

cComnpodious ira

i the G 1 P. ress
hear of was

is Knoxville,

1907

what thie

ears ! i
which

xinal building,

almost histori
first ha
hard
place amongsl
At the

Knoxville

att sed as the city
thany a

- Look the
eer city

the fall

titnie

fathers,
of

i

express |

a wil he}

fought |

1 - i =
| has Messrs
I hi & Ag i
“ ’ b hy
Mel whiecl he
iL pres i i !
ind Mee
rhe B ( ilwavs
n Is and pos
i us inecia “ s
inv ¢ he D I mad
his \ Pri Ruper .
excey The hought!
ss and dera ! h
! ind welfare f the men
~ ! h if! finds amy
atic tt S| lid a
i odat | ded ! h
py part of th w i ding
is g qual s th bank
) Large i drooms
spa s dming ind a the
‘ urs {! = ha g | make
ip th st coml t ind evel
Xt vus bachelor de a are to
be found, and the boys are not
acking their appreciation of
lithe many good things’that fa
heir lot
This neg a 10 \
vervihing was read ! the
susiness { h day po the
pe wing opel he doors of the
ew building and a large crowd
f customers and others \ sited
he bank to express their admit
ati and ongratulations ipon
the atest addition to our eivic
growth

 

BILL TO BE INTRODUCED IN

COMMONS TO FORBID SOCCER

ONLY SOLDIERS OR SAILORS TO BE ALLOWED TO PLAY

FOOTBALL IS THE INTENTION OF MEN WHO
FRAME BILL.

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London, Dee, 7,—Colonel Ford

~ f the National Reserve Sale.

' ! ehgaged, in conjunetion rhe ladies of the Presbyterian
th members of Parliament,|/Chureh will hold th sal
framing @ bill forbidding the Work, home cooking and cand
, & of football except by | the ehureh hall Weduesday alte

Who have rendered or who. noon, December 41th A lars
“Ye bound themselves to render assortment of plain and fancy a
‘ tin military service to thell | ticles will be on sale After
Lay for the suppression of tea will be served and a tiusica
ball have already figured in|programme has been arranged
el Sh histopy By an act of|for the evening to commence
rp Il football was prohib-|g.i5 An admission fee of
being one of the pastimes! will be charged for the evenins
‘POUSIDle for the decadence of ORB 201
oe In the reign of Richard
ilar statute was enacted
nd Henry VIII, Flizabeth and the New Fruits and new shell nuts
= Seorges also made laws|for Xmas, al Stalker & Wells

‘Wainat football

 

| Phones 187 and 430

2891 |

|
Kimer, the infant son of aed LARGER QUARTERS during each day the entire bus
ind Mrs. George A, Sweet is | —-- pene of the cits dea ith . well ap
|S. Harrison & Co. Moved into! pointed and spacious main ofiice
aroun a — So New Offices on Third land two other private ones the
ig. Yesterday slight hopes | Avenue firm will have ample accommo
entertained for his recoy — dation for condueting the large
bul today his condition Messrs. 8. Harrison & Cr the | business that hy their. energy
ewhat improved lwell known real estate and fisea}| and enterprise, is increasing ra.
| |pidly in common with the grow-
aan: | hee jagents, are busy today wetting | iy of Prince Rupert Besides
oe jsettled down in their fine new of-|their large city real estate busi-
,000 shares of the Graham | piees tn the Mirde ‘building. Thelhees thew ane dele uaenes f00 Bhs
jIisiand Oi] Fields, Ltd., at 5e per Hlocation is one of the best in the! Stewart Land Company, and the
share Apply P. O, Box 818 wits being right opposite the/fiseal agents for the Port Ed-

280 | Post Office, around which pivets| ward Townsite Co

 

 

Vancouver, Dec. 9 Although |
the local police department, as-
sisted by the C. P. BR. constables
have been combing the districts
adjoining the C. P. R. right-of
vay for trace of the bandit whi
held up the observat 1 car of
he ¢ Pp. KR. Imperial Limited at

17:45 on Saturday ening, ne
Isuceess has so far crowned their
I fforts

Up t noon today absoiutely

ne ace of the holdup man had

Gold and Jewels

The

successfully

been obtained boldness of

the robber in plan-
ning and carrying out a crime of

this kind leads the police to be-

lieve that they have to deal with
a nexperienced |highwayman. In
consequence of} this, more than
ordinary methods are being
adopted to capture him, if he is
still in hiding tm the city, and a}
special search is being instituted
for his apprehension, if he has
succeeded in. eséaping to the ad-

joining districts

RAILWAY COMPANY OFFERS BIG REWARD
FOR CAPTURE OF VANCOUVER DESPERADO

Police of City and Railway Company Search for Man Who Robbed
Train in Vancouver Yard Limits and Got Away With $300 in

In order to stimulate” the
search the Canadian Pacifie Rail-
;}way Company have offered 8500

reward for his capture

The crime was committed
; within the railway yards of Van-
;couver, and the highwayman
dropped off the train at Barnet
and succeeded in getting away
jinto the thick bushes near the
i track He collected money and
jewellery to the value of over
| 8300,

 

. 4
Ottawa, Dec. 9 In its applica. |
dior o Parliament for an exten-
sion of time in which to complete
ts railway from Hudson Bay to
the Pacific Coast, the Hudsons
Bay Railway outlines its course

through British Columbia
Starting from a point neal
Killsquit, at the head of Deaa)
Bella Coola, it will

Channel, o1

in a no direction

rtheasterly

run

Lack of Apprentices.

Adelaide, Australia, Dee Al
the interstate conference of mas
ter printers held in Adelaide re~

cently the dearth of apprentices
at considerable

\ Queensland represen-

was discussed
length

tative maintained that the dearth

was largely due to the desire to
protect the tvade unionists, The
young workers get no chance of

learning a trade, with the resull
that it is necessary to import the}

majority of skilled workers.

 

Russia Buys Coal.
Petersburg, Dee. 7.-—-Owing
to the searcity of Russian
and the consequent rise in prices,
the Russian minister of commun-
ications has bought foreign coal
for use on the state railways.

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coal

 

 

Actress Dies.
New York, Dee, 7.—-Prominent
lin Washington society during the
idministration of Grover Cleve.
Miss Lancing Rowan, ac-
ess, and niece of former Secre-
ry of the Treasury Lyman Gage,
ad an operation

neuritis

jland

following

 

Arson Trust Found.

BELLA COOLAT0 BE THE TERMINUS
OF TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAY ssw noman carve scnsune

HUDSON BAY LINE HAS TWO ROUTES THROUGH BRITISH CO-
LUMBIA, BUT BOTH HAVE BELLA COOLA AS TERMINUS—
ms APPLICATION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME.

to a near Eleateho
Lake,

direction

point atl ol
northeasterly
of the
Nechaco Rivers

thenee in a
the

Upper and Lowe

by valleys

and Carp Lake to a point at or
near Fort MeLeod,
Anot@er route’may be by the

(Bella Coola Valley in an easterly

Hirection to Puntz Lake, thence
én a northeasterly direction by
Nazzeo River to a point at or
near Fort George

ALLEGED THAT GYPSIES STOLE

|ARCHBISHOP CASEY WAS |
INSTALLED YESTERDAY

Takes Charge of Vancouver
See Vesterday.

Vancouver, Dee. 9 With the

jimpressivé ceremony and solemn
lrites of the Roman , Catholie
Church, His Grace Most Rev,
Timothy Casey, the new arch-

bishop of the Metropolitan See of
Vancouver, Arch.
bishop MeNeil, was yesterday in-
stalled at the Church of the Holy

successol lo

 

Rosary.

See A. W. Edge Co. for wall
paper. Low prices to make room|
for new spring stock 285-tf |

CHILD FROM NEW WESTMINSTER

LITTLE GIRL DISAPPEARS FROM ROYAL CITY SHORTLY AFTER
NOMADS VISIT THAT PLACE—-TRACED TO NELSON—
TRAIL LOST AT SPOKANE.

Nelson, Chief of
lice Devitt has received a tele-
Mr. Peter Mitchell of
New Westminster stating that he
believes his daughter has been
kidnapped by a band of Gypsies
recently in Nelson and asking him
to hold the band, No particulars

Dec. 7. Po.

gram from

 

name is Raneo, were in Nelson

and one of the
convieted of theft con.
with fortune telling and
was released on suspended sen-

last week
was

nection

Women
mn

tence after refuhding the money
stolen, Soon after the band left
by a Great

Northern train for
Spokane. °

 

 

as to the age or appearance of
the girl are given, . Before coming to Nelson the
The Gypsies, whose tribe's} band had been in Trail, where one
of the women was in trouble
sme . ==Ilwith the police and was released
on suspended sentence
Suggestions for — ND
Oregon Town Wrecked.
Christmas Gifts Pendleton, Ore, Dee 7
JEWELRY Pendleton, is repairing the dam
STERLING SILVER age done by a terrific windstorm
our eee which lasted an hour and para-
TOILET SETS lyzed telephone, telegraph and
light serviee, County Treasurer
LEATHER GOODS G. W. Bradley was badly hurt
COPPER when a window sash was blown
eeabtaas out in the court house, falling on
We Carry a Large Assortment him, Several stitehes were re

of These Lines

WARK’S
3rd Ave. Jewellers Box 76

 

Madison, Wis., Dee, 7 State
} Marshall Purtall insisted
he has uncovered an “arson
which has destroyed #1,.
) worth of property, War-
have been issued for the
val alleged offenders,
| wind it through a Daily News
lowant Ad.”

 

quired to dress the wounds
Big reductions in wal! paper
See A. W. Edge Co, 2nd Avenue
285.10!

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Subseribe for the Daily News.

 

fed visit,
}some friends to celebrate the an-
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jcame
iwhole bunch of you got quaran-
|tined together for smallpox, what

RAIN ROBBER HOLDS UP TRAIN IN VANCOUVER YARDS—GETS AWAY WITH LARGE SUM
YOUNG MAN LOST ACROSS BAY

AND FRIENDS FEAR FOR HIM

J. ANDERSON BECOMES SEPARATED FROM HIS COMPANIONS
AND DOES NOT RETURN AT TIME APPOINTED—SEARCH
PARTY LEFT THIS MORNING TO LOOK FOR HIM.

Much
the

felt

friends

anxiety 18 amongst
numerous
of J.

and

and ac-

quaintances Anderson, the

well known popular young

man who drives a delivery wagon
the Pioneer Laundry.

that

for It ap-

pears together with two
companions he went on a hunt-
ing expedition yesterday morning
across the harbor. [sh
ner he got separated from the
others and did not return to the
boat at the hour they had agreed
upon to return home.

His two chums waited anxious-

for him until after midnight,

seme man-

ly

 

 

shouting and firing off their
rifles in the hope of locating him.
The latter then returned = to
Prince Rupert, and it is beyond
a question that Anderson was
forced to spend the night wander-
ing around im the woods.

This morning a party went off
again in launch to
search for him, and it is earnest-
ly hoped that they will find him
safe and sound and none the
worse for his outing. Young
Anderson, who has been a resi-
dent of this city for a number
of years, was married in the early
part of the summer.

a gasoline

 

BROADWAY’S GREATEST SUCCESS
WILL BE SHOWN THIS EVENING

GRIFFITH STOCK COMPANY TO

PRESENT “SEVEN DAYS,” THE

GREATEST COMEDY OF THE AGE, AT THE

aunt buys you a handsome house

in New York, and keeps it up
luxuriously, beeause she thinks
a wife is the blessing of the

gods. But suppose your wife has
hf nasty temper, and divoreed you
you fat; and sup-

because were

pose your rich aunt thought di-
vorce the crime of crimes, and
only supplied you with money
because you pleased her, with

your supposedly happy domesti-
city, you'd keep your divorce a
secret from your aunt, wouldn't
you? Especially as auntie never
visits. Sure you would,

But suppose your aunt did

decide to pay you an unannounc-

and should cateh you

holding a dinned party with
of divoree. And
suppose your divoreed wife came
in unexpectedly thinking you
were ill, and suppose you tried
to palm off a girl friend on
auntie as your wife, and suppose
girl friend's
the

niversary your

sweetheart
and the

own

on scene,

 

Buffalo, N. Y., Dee. 7
Hickey,
Joseph

J. Frank

murderer of
the 7-year-old
Lackawanna boy, and of Michael
Kruck, the New York
and the slayer of Edward Morey
he killed
him

confessed

Josephs,
newsboy,
whom

of Lowell,” Mass.,

accidentally by giving

in a drink of

an
overdose of poison
whisky, was identified by Gordon
Titton, the 8-year-ol companion
of the Josephs bey, as the man
who, an October 12, 4914, the day

the Josephs boy was murdered,
bought them candy
“That's the man right there,”

feried the Titton boy as he pointed
to Hickey, lined up with several
jother prisoners. “He bought me
the lemon suckers and the rest

 

of the eandy for Joey.”

LITTLE BOY IDENTIFIES
WHO CONFESSED BY POST CARD

HICKEY, THE CHILD MURDERER, IS IDENTIFIED BY LITTLE
TOT WHO WAS WITH JOSEPHS AT TIME OF KILL-
ING—FIRST MURDER PROVED.

WESTHOLME TONIGHT.

Suppose you had been brought| would you do? Probably just
up in idleness by a rich aunt and| What Jim Wilson does a the
| great farce comedy “Seven Days,”
taught noo harder taber than 7

: . ; which will hold the boards at the
painting pictures that won't sell. Westholme tonight, and which
Suppose you had taken unto promises to be the best show yet
yourself a wife for whieh said|given by the popular Griffith

Stock Company.
Christmas Number.

Through the courtesy of Cap-
tain Tutte of the local organiza-
tion of the Salvation Army we are
indebted for a copy of the Army's
official journal, the War Cry.”
Published in Toronto by the Sal-
vation Army printing house, it
reflects the greatest credit upon
all departments, editorial, pie-
torial and printorial. It contains
a number of splendid illustra-
tions, including two fine portraits
of the past and present leaders
of this remarkable religious or-
ganization.

 

 

A sale of work will be held by
the ladies of the Anglican Church
in the church hall, Centre St., on
Tuesday, Dec. 10th, afternoon
and evening. Mother Goose will
be there to attend to the children.
There will be stalls of faney
work, home produce, candy, tea,
ete. Admission free. 285-289

—eereeenngresnenangemanpeaanns

Presents for everyone—large
variety to choose from. Wal-
lace’s. 288.289

 
  

MAN

 

Hickey displayed no concern
when the boy pointed him out,

Lowell, Mass., Dee. 7.—Ed-
ward Morey died on September 4,
1883, in a drug store here under
circumstances which agree to
those related by Hickey at Buf-

falo. At the time of Morey's
death there was no suspicion
jethrat he had been poisoned and

death was attributed to apoplexy,

ad

Toy and crockery department
now ready for business, Wal-
lace’s, 288.280

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“Sevent Days” and every day a
seream, Tonight at the West.
holme Opera House. Popular
prices, 25e, 35¢ and 50c, 289.90

 

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