Sails Todays Weather Tomorrow's Tides - me Prince Rupert-Clear, light northerly High 3:00 ajn. 19.2 ft. wind; barometer, 29.80; temperature. 14:34 p.m. 20.6 ft. 23; sea smooth. Low 8:43 ajn. 8.5 ft. 21:19 pjn. 3.3 ft. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Vol, o PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1934 muck; five cents TWO HIGHWAY INCLUDED IN local Lady Included In King's Honor List At New Year's Season Miss R. M. Davie Becomes Empire Chief Justices Teliicr Raised LONDON, Jan. 2i (CP) Two Canadian were raised t) knighthood by His Majesty the King in the New Year's, Day honor list. They were Hon. Lyman P. Duff, Chief , Ju tice of the Supreme Court of Canada, and Hon. Joseph i Matthias Tellier, Chief .Justice of the Quebec King's Courl. IJfiitii Many other Canadians received various honors. ?- - Commanders of the Order of the BUILDING A OTP Yrr A ri Members of the Order of the A 1 A. I Y lurX T A K luh EP'" include MIm R. M. Da-urU TM 0 Pflnc Ruperf t0T cduea- rfrmiU in 1951 Here Atcregaled Ke.m !.tion Hall Was I'rinripal Item I! aiding pJftirTfiT-WW iiT'tnTnrtor.eCTIrfri(ntrpert'dU. . f rrrnee Rupert during the, Met. live two women having been r iwi represented a total va- Instrumental in founding the f.f tw in as eomaarcd wlUi I Home. Vtjr years she was a school M-W In 1911 The chief building 5 ti of the last year here was :.o , omnlMlkxi of tin? Cfcnadlan Le- t . .. building on Third Avenue, i Miss Nancy Dunn of Sunset Prairie nursing duty In the Peace River pt.-mii for which was taken out Inlr &p'.rmbr. boosting the bulMing for that month to $11,500. Ti ' next heaviest building month 1MJ w July when permits ag- it trie $6540 were taken out Monthly building values for the I" t year were as follows, figures f"i' If 32 also being shown for com-patison. 1933 1032 J,.tni;ry ... $ 200 $ 2335 February 1,530 10.035 M.irni 2Mi 12,005 April 500 1.025 May 2,535 3.0&5 June 225 O05 July 6,510 10.U0 August 2.207 2.450 8rpt4mbcr 11.500 2,435 October 9G0 1.585 Nnvi'inber 275 276 i Un ember 1.0GO 1.724 Touts $30,177 (54,230, December I.M Tin- list of building permits Miru in December, 1933 was ns ioi- luws Mow Hull. Tlilrtl Avenue, inov ini; partition. JC0. 11 I.untl. repairs. Tenth Avenue mid llacjn Street, $350. Joe Brown, alterations to store, Third Avenue. $C00. George Rosin, ihlngllng walls, Ninth Avenue tost, $50. l01!(J I RI.7.EI.I. TAKES ANNUAL NEW YEAR DAY I'LUNGK DESPITE COED 4 lite cult! snap did not tlctcr Doug Frimll from having hU nttntml New Ycnr's Day swim In ilto hnrbor yesterday nl- thouch he did not tnrrv lonu ... . ... ; .. . L i inn wnicr wnicn regtsicrcn 31 above. It was n case of In nnd out In nhnrt order for It wn the coldest of many New Year's Inys on which Doug ha es- Bayed the plunge. He went In at 4'3n iyi frnm tlif Prlnnn A I.DU Will. IIUIII Mil- IIIIIVC Uuiwrt Rowing ti Yacht Club floats. ' CANMIANS ARE Member of Order of British Lyman Duff and Joseph to Knighthood HrtUsh Empire include Miss Laura j Holland of Vancouver for develop-I ing outpott welfare service. tlonal rork in the Skeena dUtrlct' of Northern British Columbia. For , many years Miac Davie labored i with the late MIm Wet In mis-1 Isionary work among the Indians trustee at Prince Rupert Others becoming members of the Order of the Drlttsh Empire include Block of BrlUsh Columbia and Miss M. W Lawson of Victoria on re-Urement from a lifetime of community work Tlie full honors list Includes fin-new peers, four baronets an twenty-eight knights. CALIFORNIA ! HAS FLOODS Thirty Knann Dead in Drluge Many .MKoIiik Millions of Dollars Parnate I.OS AM5EI.ES, Jan. 2: (CD Thirty prn.oni were known to be dead, nlnttrcn ere mining. Itun-ilrrd Injured anil millions of dol-lars prrperty danute done at the turn f the New Year this week as a result of the most devastat ' I ne floods' Southern California has experlenerd in many years fol-luulnc rainfall of delute proportions, no less than twelve Inches of rain or more having fallen in the foothill srctlon around Eos Alleles williin twenlj-four hours ending 10 o'clock Monday morning. Relief operations have been instituted among thousands who have been rendered homeless by the mighty flow of water flooding lowlands and valleys and In the relieving of distress generally. LESS FfiST LAST YEAR I .. .... ... niMn .Tolal iiamage i" At Compared With $!5fi(i In Year Previous During the year 1933 there was n,i climated total damage by fire ... M.mort nf $23,090.75 as 1 111 IIIIIVW w compared with $45,208 in 1032. it ! was announced today by Fire Chief ' i Mnrrinon. The damage for the Continued on Page 2 As Taximen Riot in the "City of Brotherly Love" Two views of the riot in Philadc.ph-a w'icn rxiklig Uxi driv - ' a. hca wltb ncr.-.strikiTS. At top, a battling cabby is taken into t us xiy by ptiicr below fir- nrn cxUi uishuig one of the scor of Uxu fired by the rioters. COLDEST IN FIVE YEARS Thermometer Descends to Eight Above at Digby Island Frigidity Is Getural The coldest weather In Prince Rupert In five years was recorded at o'clock Sunday mornhig when the official meteorological thermo- meter at Digby Island descended to eight above zero which was the; lowest mark during the New Year's week-end cold snap. The last oeca- slon on which It was so cold was January 28. 1920. when the thermo meter descended to eight above zero. On New Year's Day it was- milder wltlirdoudy skies and a light fall of fine snow. It was raining to day with decidedly warmer tern . peraturc. j The cold wave In Northern un i tlsh Columbia and the Yukon con-. Unurd over the week-end. the cold- ?st point, according to the Govern ment Telegruplw, being Port Sel- merce for the year 1934. tliere b-klrk. Yukon, which recorded 78 de- ng no other nominations. C. V. Ev-grces below icro. itt is the new vice-president., Olof From all parts of the country came reports of continuation of Uic cold wave at the week-end. Boston at Saturday liad Its coldest day In 10 years wWlc In New York It whs colder Uian it had been for 13 years. j 1 Milder In Interior .iLHnM nmrllnratlon of wen- ther conditions in the Interior was inHirAirM hv tlic dallv weather re- iiort of the Government Tele- graphs lotlay. Hums Lake being the only iwlnt to show a sub-zero rend- lug. The report was as follows: Terrace- Snowing, strong north ml..ri 4 nhnve. - ( Alyansh-Llght snow, cwlm, 2 ba- low. ! Anyox -Light snow, calm. 10 above. Stewart Dry snow, calm. 1 above. t Haze ton-Rowing, calm, (. Smlthers-CJoudy, cast wind, . cold Burns Lake East wind, 15 below.. PROVINCIAL WORKS PROGRAM endurance flyers come down saturday : MIAMI. Fla Jan. 2: Mrs. Frances Marsalls and Miss Helen Richey completed their record breaking endurance 4 flight for women Saturday when they came down after be- ing aloft for 238 hours. They , had established a new record ' Thursday night. e ! , ' HEAD OF CHAMBER John DyMiavn Named President of Chamber of Commerce C. V. Evitt, Vice-President ! John Dybhavn has been elected by acclamation as president of the Prince Rupert Clumber of Cnm- Hanson. MP. for Skeena. Ins been re-elected honorary president and i Arthur Drooksbank. secretary-' treasurer. i Ftillowlng are nominations for Ilf lKt8 the council: W. J. Alder. Capt. W. V. Armour. W. M. niackslock. O. A. Bryant. Theo Col- laft. W. E. Drake. Frank Dibb. C. V. Evitt. W. O. Fulton. J. T. Harvey. ' Max Hellbroner. J. J. Little. O. W Laidler. IV H. Mnacy. R. K. Moore C. G. Minns. V. A. MacCallum. W R. MeAfec. M. P. McCaffery. Thomas, McCtymont, Thomas McMeekln. O ' W. Nlckerson. Col. J. W. Nlcholls, C. II. UniiP, ll. Pulicn. I UllCIl, 8 t. HI. I'arKCr, J, II. Pillsbury. P. M. Ray. W. H. Tobey. G. P. Tinker and G. A. Woodland, Nominations closed today and the corner of First Avenue and Eighth ralleh Into my liands. Tills govern-I election will take place at the an- Street. A frozen water pic was be- Intent wants tho sympathetic sup-8 nual meeting Friday night. j Ing thawecr'fn the latter building t port of all the people and I think MIm A.D.Crukrkshank, librarian, walls catchfitgjflrej The fire depart- ting It In other parts of the pro-d to the city on the Catala ment was called and soon had the vlncc. Let me assure you that I will returned Sunday evening from a brief trip to Vancouver. MADE KNIGHTS HAS NASAL INFECTION Premier I'attullo in Hospital Here and Departure Fcr East Postponed Suffering from a slight nasal infection which he developed on the boat while coming north. Premier T. D. rattullo, following his arrival in the city from Victoria on the steamer Catala Sunday evening, entered the Prince Rupert General Hospital for treatment. He was still a patient in the institution last night, having postponed from Jast evening until tomorrow- his departure for Ottawa tn attend the conference of premiers. The Premier's condition h distinctly Improved,'' it was announced last night by Dr. W. T. Kergin, who is attending Mr. rattullo, "and hr will he able to travel Wednesday." "The Premier Is a little belter," it was slated this afternoon by Dr. W. T. Kergin. "He will remain in hospital until he leaves for Ottawa which he expects will be tomorrow afternoon." Buildings Damaged r p. j mier nucr predicted. prrnicicn. Already Aircnny there mere were wciu D V l ire 011 uUndSV manv evidences of returning pros-j pcrlty both in the United States and "f W" (hcasinned Hy names l srnrr of l h Avenue And Klghlh Mrret vintage of sonic tt'1" -Tt by, Insurance, was donety an at 2:15, noon Sunday In the w.;w between j the Commercial Hotel and a dwell-'pllsh ing owned by D. Zarclll and occu-, pled by Peter Wlngham at the I..-. the frameconStructlon v . ,1 l. between -1 . the v. . flames txUngulfhed but not before some damage was done. Premier Pattullo Is i Accorded Reception By His Constituents Prime Minister of Drilish Columbia Hopeful of Success at Ottawa Contcrencc Addresses Informal Welcome Catliering on Arrival From Victoria Koitoratintr the intention of the new provincial goverri-; ment to embark unon an extensive "work and wages" program providing the necessary financing can be arranged as a result of the forthcoming Dominion-provincial conference at Ottawa. Premier T. D. Pattuljo. sueaking le-foro a gatherinir of local citizens in Ihe smoking room of the steamer Catala Sunday evening"'! - . following his arrival from Victoria for the city of Prince Rupert, my enroute to Ottawa, announced that home riding." the provincial public works depart-, Congratulations Extended , ment had already laid out a pro- j There were about fifty rcpresen- gram of work for the province taUve citizens present at the re- whlch included continuation of the ceptlon to Mr. Pattullo which took Skcena River Highway. Mr. Pattullo place aboard the steamer. Many had, ' Intimated, however, that he wished left other New Year's Eve actlvl-!to receive advice while here a to to join In the welcome to the whether or not local people con-! Premier whose first visli. it wa here 4detTdthe -present e-OT!-betagftaceriwnVt followed on the road construction levaUon to the Premiership. the most advantageous. As far as! T. H. Johnson, president of the he was personally concerned, he Prince Rupert Chamber of Com- sald, he believed a route via the"rcc- presided and. In brief but i canneries to be the best and had ! appropriate remarks,, congratulated advocated this in the past. ' never been contended that a large program of "work and wages f 1 would entirely meet the existing .situation of unemployment and ; economic ills but he most certainly was of the opinion that It would help a great deal In remedying matters, particularly If useful work were carried out as It was Intended to do. Mr. Pattullo stated that he was .ery hopeful of beneficial results from the forthcoming conference In Ottawa. The government of British i Columbia Intended to urge the use jf the national credit In under-1 takings to bring about an Improvement in the economic situation. The Premier said that he wished to give Premier Bennett credit for having shown every possible con-sldcraUon for British Columbia's convenience in connection with the inter - governmental conference which had now been set to open January 17. Premier Pattullo declared that there was no question of the fact lhat "we are coming to a new stale of affairs." He referred to the new and great change Uat was being bronchi about by President Roosevelt's program In the United States. "Possibly many of us do no realize the Importance of these changes." Mr. Pattullo said. Thi Roosevelt program could not be a failure, the British Columbia Pre Canada. "Let mc say that I am fully appreciative of the debt of gratitude I owe Ihe people of Prince Rupert for their loyalty and their support of the past seventeen years," said the Premier. "Without your help I would not have been able to accom- wltil little I may have dene or to have achieved tuch pojltlon or measure of authority as may have I that I can tell j-ou that we are get do In the future, ns I have always striven to do In the past, all I can Mr- Pattullo upon having become premier ana assured nun or mc """nued loyalty of the people of Pnce Rupert. It was the first time hat 1 nra mn d become ; Premier of thU and Prince proyhice PrUd lts,mtmbcr should be chosen for such honor and responsibility. Local people", were confident that Mr. Pattullo would carry on the high office with : dignity and effectiveness and that : he would take care'of the interests of this Tiding to the best of his abll- ' ity with due regard to the claims j of the other parts of the province. ! Continued on Page Fsur) i FINE LIST LAST year: Tolice Court Kcvcnne For 1933 Was. 13,261, lss Than Half of Year Previous rr . jr City police court fines collected In Prince Rupert In December 1933- totalled $133 as compared with $2 585 In December 1932. bringing the: total of fines collected for the year, to $3 261 as ompared with $4,8 & in the previous twelve-month. In sfi Individual months 6f 1933 FebnT-r ary. June, July, 'AuguM, September and November fines showed an Increase In comparlloh with the year previous, . 2 fines month bjmolith 'in 1033 and 1932 were a? follows: , 1933 1932 ...$ 5 $ 235' L- 145 25 ... 70 52" ... 105, 180" ... 55, 175 ... 210 145 ... 383 12k, ... 'COS 388 ... 35 270 (15 155 .... 105 35 .... 135 2.585.- February March .... April ...... May June July September October JHovember December Totals $2,261 $4,818 Wheat Prices VANCOUVER, Jan. 2: Wheat-was quoted here today at 61c 1 n