mm,1' ^'- *' »f*-ii«uwfi)jppiip^ , IBRAF.Y IA, B.C. Sunderland and Aberdeen j Win at Soccer —Pa&tiEi£ht I 47? Toronto Leafs Lose Third Straight Game —Pa$e Ten VOLUMI 34 FIVE CINTg A COPY NELSON. BRITIIH COLUMBIA. CANADA-MONDAY MORNINQ. NOVEMBER 25.1931 NUMBER 131 WAR LOOMS IF OIL EMBARGO ORDERED BLASTWRECKS C.N.R. STATION RETURNS $20 AND PURSE; REWARD TO GIRL TOTALS 25c Llttli Molly Thlel, 12. Is wondering If honesty diyi. Of count •he knowe It doei. In th* Iona run, beciuse ihe h*i been properly brought uo. but lhe hid I ______ dliiooointn-ent Fridiy. She found • * pure* containing over 120 In Tonic nr Pinch Ga. Is —"h! '* ■*•• « oM(i tont. too. I unit, oy rintn -OU** 10 th. rtturned It to tht owntr-*nd received * reward of 29 cent*. 8h* ll t daughter of Mr*. H. 0. Thill. Autonomy Proclaimed in Large B;™S. Part Northern China in a Coup Sions Blamed for the Sudbury Blast GAS IS USED TO LIGHT COACHES ANTI-REDS ARE NONEWJFROM WCONTROLOF HOPEISECTOR China Clipper, Transpacific Ship, Shown Inside Oat Dead Man Was Sitting Radio Messaaes to the ^"^ ^-itQ.tors Next to Tank; Two Ka __'__. r^9"!?-. Seize Buildings In Others Hurt Base Ship Cease After 8 Hours Tientsin SUDBURY, Ont. Nov. 24 (CP). —Blowing out on* end of thi Cinidlin Nitlonil nllwiy itation hir* tonight, • tank of pinch gu exploded, killing John R. Jonei, night telegnoh ooeritor, and Injuring two other men. Fir* whloh followed th* txploiion tutted the station. Robert Brown, * leweler, formerly of Toronto, luffered • frac- tur* to on* leg. Colin Collini, hli assistant, wu burned on hli floe tnd body. Brown add Collini were en tht ptitform after hiving brought iomi parcel* down te th* tnln whloh left for Toronto *t 9_» p.m. Th* axploilon occurred at 9:30^ Jonei, the operator, who w * i NSW YORK, Nov. it (CP)^- Llncoln Ellaworth, who with Pilot Herbert Holllck-Kenyon of Winnipeg itarted Siturdiy from Dun- de* Island on * flight icroaa th* antarctic continent to Rom see, remained out of communication with th* base ehlo Wyatt Eire tonight, (coording to idvicei to the New York Times and th* North American Newspaper Alliance. Th* alienee ef the plane'i wire- lee* wai not vet causing anxiety. It waa rtported, but plmi wer* being mad* to lay down denote for search parti** if- nothing I* heird ihortly. The last word from the plane came at 11:09 ajn. K.S.T, Saturday, eight hours after the noted Canadian VIRTUAL MARTIAL LAW RULES CITY Chinese Claim That Japanese Behind the Trouble .« ye.'™ 3_, wuW'eVted fjj-r had sent the "hU,■ St«" tw on duty until mdnight He came on the third «ttmrt to Complete diwn early, however, and waa sit- ^e hazardous night -tWjallm. It tin* In the vard office of the station, read: Still clear, no wind. a"few%«7from th. larg.'tanVoi -M. >r£Me_*^ *"" _» ^^^'iSltoWw ^-7 SSs-te^Sbtol fr t 34, ______ hour flight and were equipped with Fire Chief William Andrewi found jn tmer »^ «W«J* JJj a can which had contained oil be- « *° had J1*0"* Provision* to lut lide the remaim of an oxygen tank. ''K,'.".!. ,'k.i, ,m_, .♦_-,„ aln<_ *.. _ia h. h_ii»v_d th-i'n-ivr/m Unk Thli wu their third *ttempt itnct i Rear Admiral bis* *t Little America. line the remaim oi *n oxygen una. -ev- "-•-•--. ... . •Me said he believed the*oxygen tank ™» wu their_ third muit have developed * leak and Wednesday to fly to , the oxygen coming in contact with 5*char? B* Byrdi b the oil caused ipontaneoua combustion. The fire which followed il believed to have heated the tank Df patch gu to the exploding point. ' Smoke Claims U J. SKRETIY Uderly Man FOR SANCTIONS Checkers Being Moved Put Country Into War-Coughlin DETROIT. Nov. 34 (AP).-Rev. Chirlei E. Coughlin, who turned the fire of hii national union for social Justice on the Roosevelt administration'! recovery policies a week ago, charged ln in address today .the United Statei had mad* * leml-iecret pact with the League ot Natlorli ln 1933 to lupport unction*. . An outspoken foe of United Statei adherence to the league, Father Coughlin declared hli remark* on the atml-iecret egreement were probably "new*" to most of hii listeners. He characterized it u an effort to "entangle u* ln uie ic- tlvitle* pf the League of Nations" and declared .the agreement wu made by Norman Davis, a European observer tor the Rooeevelt administration. Th* priest aoerted the purported igreement wai t factor in England'! declilon to Impose unctioni againit Italy, "Move by move, uld Tather Coughlin, "the checker* »re being played which will force ui Into th* comer of an Inevitable w*r." G. P. Gevatkoff Found Dead When Floor Is Ignited PEIPINQ. Nov.24 (API—Autonomy wu grocl*lm*d tonight fer I Urge sector of northern Chin* In I sudden cout bv Yin Ju-King, •dmlnlitritlvi commlteloner ef the demilitarized xone. Yin, who ll on the frlmdileit tirms with th* Japan*** military, •nnonced, th* Rengo (Jioineie) newe agency reoorted. that th* new government would call Itself thi "Eut Hopei Antl-Communlit Autnomoua Council" and would control 39 oountiei In Hopei orov- Ine* which *r* dtmllltarlied under th* Tinoku true* of IMS and tubseguent igraamente. Hli proclamation wld the new government would be Inaugurated Monday with Tungchow, 30 mile* eut of Pelping, u the capital Yln'i proclamation pledged hit government to recognize the trov- ereignty of Ninkint but It Warned tt would allow no interference with loctl affair*. TtlNTHN." (APl-Serlo.t tut le Tientsin milt igltatort nlclpil building*. - Thi agltatori, whe tailed thim- •alvaa th* "Hop*, ttlf-preeerv*- Utn *rmy," misted effort* of ■uthorltlei to drlv* them from building* housing th* tax eotlec- tion bur*** *nd hlghtr court. Polio*, however, *uoc**d*d In France Behind Move by Britain; Peace Rumors Heard ETHIOPIA CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTORY Oil Embargo Means War Declares Mussolini By th* Cinidlin Prat* Britain ind Franc* w*r» rolli- biy undentood lut night to hav* decided to recommend postponement of I meeting ef th* League of Natloni' unctioni gommlttee scheduled for next Frldiy, which wn to hivt eonaldired adding oil, oo*l and Iron to th* Hit of key Jiroduct* In tht tmbirgo agilnst taly. led to th* hop* In peace negotiitlom 1 and Ethiopia m*y •n poitponement reached In Parle at ween Premier Laval Ambteatdor Sir George Clerk. Canada proposed th* addition of oil, coal *nd Iran to th* embargo and th* unction* committee ipprovtd th* plan In principle. SSf" "' B __-S-E_V_^^a__-_aE___---e_^ i^iaht'Chlht Clippie _ bralt* autone- il mu- ClMt Ch>p» Ihi-a in (rlglit. .. «_ EMBARGO MEANS WAR Premier Muitollnl. according to Parli ntwiptptri, uld Imposition of an oil *mb*rgo would lud to I war. ' IUlian* did not btlltvt an actuil ■ •mbargo igilnst ihlpmtnta of til • to Italy would b* detl«r*d by th* j (Contlnutd on Pag* Tan) B Two Men Gel Few -**— . • ■|M^HHMHH9lV_r_P__r^t_V '_")__"_**' I ,h,w ■■■• c"o****'. Inild* ant) out whleh from eooaar Irttta. ihould mik* I* Ihtttn reidy for tht takttff of lti flrot flight, November 32, from th* rigulir transpacific trips merely t leisurely excursion for adv!n- Catl'ornli te tht orient, a —era mitter ef 9090 miles. Photoi,Ibove I turoua trivellert. Th* ihlp li it Midway Island now. Months for M NOT A NICE CHAP TO HAVE AROUND TORT WILLIAM. Nov. 24'(CP).- Feter Ntckollchuk had a nice itove ln hli home Steve Kahan uw lt whil* viiiting and, he said tn court, "We needed It in our house." He wu given one month's luspended lentence. ■ . Smoke trom t mouldering floor ln * room where he wu -deeping muffed out the life of G. P. Gev*t- koff, 84-ye«r-old Doukhobor re*i- dent near Brilliant early Saturday morning. . _ It wu tbout 4 ijh. when villager* icrosi the liver from Brilliant, where the cabin U located, noUced the fire and lounded a wirntng. Mr. Gevatkoff* aon George »nd Sam Stoochnoff carried the m*n from the imouldering building but he wu de»d when they retched him. Cause of death wu found to be asphyxiation by Coroner Dr. H. H. MacKemie of Nel*on. who wu taken to Brilliant by Constable R. H. Macintosh of tha provincial police, and an enquiry wu held Saturday by the doctor and by Constable George MacAndrew! of Castlegar.- The imill room where Gevatkoff lav asleep became tilled with smoke when floor boardi under a legless heater started to smoulder. The stove ut ln • shallow box of und and presumably became overheated to Ignite the board* beneath. nine years for ' killing Wife MINNEDOSA. Man. Nov. 34 (CP). —Convicted on a reduced charge of manslaughter as a result of the murder of his wife, Maria, lut June 4. Harry Norquay, Elphlnitone, Man., Indian, wu sentenced to nine yean Imprisonment here. (Contlnutd en Pag* Ttn) New Search ior Missing Airman Plane Crash Reported on Border of Siam and Malay Senator Charles Murphy Who Sal al Laurier's Council Table Is Dead w— '..*' .:*",). mil Christmas Vntll Leg Broken Last May Leads to Death at Age of 72 OTTAWA, Nov. 34 (CP)-Sen.tor Charle* Murphy, * political power ln Can-da for 25 years, one of the rapidly dwindling group ot men who ut around the council table with Sir Wilfrid Laurier, died here today. He wu 73. A former secretary ot itate *nd , postmuter-general, h« wu appointed to the lenate ln 1925 »nd hi* death create* tha first vacancy there llnce the King government came back to power. Senator Murphy broke t let lut May while on • trip to New York tnd thu led eventually to hi* death. A bachelor, he li lurvlved by three brother!. P. H. Murphy of the Ottawa Improvement commission; John Murphy, tn engineer of the (Continued on Patt Ttn) SINGAPORE, Nov. 34 (AP). - Fresh report* that Sir Chirles Kingsford-Smitl-'i plan* wu ieen crashing ln th* lunglei of Slim lent the Royil Air fore* on * renewed search today for the Australian pilot and hi* co-flier, Tom Petliy- brdlge. Native* of the vlllige of SetuL Slam, near Perils, reported witnessing the crack-up. Ine ie*rch will be concentrated on the border of Slim *nd Malaya. Another search 1* In progreu on Siyer liltnd. off the Siamese coasL for the flieri who vanished two weeki ago attempting tn England- to-Australia flight They were lut •een over the Bay of Bengal ln a itorm. ' ■__ t • Captain Huuey, eomminder ot t plane which flew over Sayer Island, uid he taw footprint* on tha und. The Strait* Steamship compiny ordered the steamship Mating to lend Undlng p*rties to the islind. BULGARS HAVE NEW PREMIER SOFIA Bulgaria, Nov. 14 (AP>- Georg* Kosseivanoff, former minliter of foreign affain, became th* new premier of Bulgaria yesterday ln another of the lightnini political upset* chiracterUtic of Bulguitn politic*. . ^ Little Political Activity, Ottowa Prtmltr King Exptcttd to Return Latter Part of This Wetk . . f OTTAWA, Nov. 34 (CP)-Qulet prevailed on th* lurfic* ot governmental activitlei during the put week in marked contrast to the iwlft lequenc* of major development* which featured the tint thre* weeki of th* new administration. Sine* tht publication last Monday of tbe Canada-United Statei reciprocal trade agreement, tnd the extension * few dayi Uter of th* Canada-New Zealand trade agreement then have been no Important innonnrements. Prim* Minister Msekemle King, vicitlonlng *t Georgl* seaside resort, wu expected to return th* latter put ot thit wtek. POLICE PARTY TOABURGLARY National Guard and Civilian Also Are Crime Partners SIATTL-, Nov. 34 (AP)-PolIce Chief WillUm B. Klrtley prised forward today hi* Investigation into two burglane* which he blamed upon' ilx policemen, a nitlonil guard lergenit tnd * civilian held in the city 1*11 on open charge*. Mayor Charlei L. Smith Joined Klrtley ln cirrying on the inquiry. Two of the officen, Klrtley uld, have confuted to braking Into the Bltckstock- Lumber - company'! warehouse tnd hauling *w*y In t police prowler car *n. a national guard truck no leu than $1500 worth of good*. The guardsmen and civilian have contested to participating ln the burlarles, the chief P*rt of the itolen goodi wat recovered in raldfon nome* of two of th* men held *nd another lot wm reported iclzed at Everett, 30 milei north of Seittle. Thoie under »rrest are: George A. Adams, police telephone operator; P*trolmen C. F. Buchanin, Cirl Bailey, H. B. Nelton, R. C McWade and W. H. Volt; Sergt T. J Lee, caretaker ot the national guard armory, and Charle* Octov* Marchand, a rancher, living .north ot th! city. Bailey Nelson, Lee and Marchand made complete confessions to the bur.lirlei, Klrtley laid. Adam! tnd McWide idmltted possession ot itolen goods, the chief said, and Volt* and Buchanan flatly denied til charge*. , Alaska n Pioneer It Dead ANCHORAGE. Al*«k», Nov. 34 (AP).—Jack Kinnalev. 81, known •a "* directory of ploneen," died S»ti-rd»T In * hoipital »fter I pro- loneed lllnes*. _•__ . Klnnaley cam* to Aliskt before the gold itampede »nd «u credited with being on* of three men who dl-covered the Circle City gold min* ia 189S. SNOW IN EASTERN U.S. Poisoning Kills Her ot Age 115 BELLO HARIZONTS, Bruit, Nov. 34 (AP).—Grand mothtrly Euflislm Mirl*. who claimed ihe wai 115 yean old, bakid a caki for h*r birthday, cutting It uo for hir gnndchlldrtn • ind tr**t- • Grandchildren and leaving nont for heraelf. Thit night iht dltd. Ntxt diy flvt tf htr descend- into, ringing from SS down to •Ix yur* of ana. dltd of oolaonln*. Markets at a Glance iy Tht Canadian Prat* . Toronto *nd Montreal—Industrial Itocki higher, Toronto mine*—Unch«nged. . / New York — Stock* narrowly higher. Winnipeg-Wheat % to H cent higher. ______ London—B»r illver lower; other metali unchanged. New York-Bir' illver, tin, lead and zinc unchanged; export copper higher. Montretl—Silver unchanged. New York-Cotton unch»nged: rubber and coffee higher; lugu lower. New York-Canadian -dollar up 1-33 to 99 1-1S. ARMED DISORDERS IN SO. AMERICA RIO DE JANEIRO. Nov. 34 (AP) —Unconfirmed report! reached Rlt dt Jinelro todiy of armed dleorden In tht northatsttrn ititei or Rle Qrtndi do Norta and Aliaou. . Th* mwepiptr Carrtlo da Manha carried unverified reoort* ef "grive eventi" In thl two itatei and uld police, army and navy forces were creoand to ict _.„__ SMOKJt CLAIMS ETAOINN CLIPPER SHIP AT MIDWAY ISLE AFTER A 1323-MILE OCEAN HOP Stokes and * Lowe Plead Guilty in Nelson B.C. FLAGS AT HALF-MAST FOR ■" EARUJELUCOE Frank U>wt tnd Theodore Stoke*, ' . of Vanccwver. iraeared befwe lfcr .- **' -iitrate Wllliin Brtwn in-ewPOUtt Ship Taxies 4500 Feet Z%^^^'^l\W^ Before It Takes to Air theft They bird ■ VICTORIA, Nov. 34 (CP).-ri**- on public building* ln Britiih Cor lumbl* will be flown *t half-mast Monday In memory of the late r_rl Jelllcoe, It wu uinounced from the provincial aecretary'i office yesterday. The great hero of Jutland will .be buried that day and *11 over the Empire hi* memory will be honored. Frid»y morning. Boundary (hecks ire Forgeries Muriel A. Brown.Is Arrested at Vancouver MIDWAY ISLANDS. Nov. 34. (VI* Pin Amtrlctn Alrwiyt radio) (AP)/-Th* Chin* cllootr brought It* *lr mill through from Honolulu todiy to thtt* tiny mid- Pacific Itlindt, htlfwiy point ef an SOOO-mll* rout* th* wiplint il Inaugurating bttwttn California and Manila, Th* ileek 25-ton flying bolt •lighted her* tt 2:01 p.m. (t*01 p.m._EJ.T.). ifter oov*rln» th* 1323 mllu from Honolulu In •llahtly undir nlnt hours, an av- •rag* cf •bout 147 mllu tn hour. Twenty-one penon* were *bo*rd t mlm ^fair u the iky liner. It ilso cjrried 1700 poundi of mail and nipplie* for wiy point*. Twelve of thoie tboird were Put- American Almrtyi employee! bound for Iiland buei along th* new ocean air route which extendi from Alameda. Cslif^to th* Philippine Capital. Nine men are ln the crew. Clear, aunny weather prevailed guilty tot chi wert each given four monthi libor. Lowe tnd Stoke* had itolen » trunk from the *nnory on Vlctorlt itreet occupied by th* department of nitlonil defence, had cirried It to their room* where • number ot go- blinki, «nd were I— _ . . back when they were ctught by Sergeant Robert Harshaw and Con- itable H. E. O. Penny about 1 o'clock HUGE POOL FOR WINNIPEG WINNIPEG, Mm, Nov. 34 (CP). —Wlnnipeg'i S»turd»y night will be a mas* »ffair If a propoul of the public park* bo»rd It *pproved. • Construction ot *n open-eir iwta- ming pool to tccommodtte MOO txthen it one time is favored. Airplane Used in Mine Rescue Work for the flight u the China clipper, _i,r- -et before rising from placed I M"u_ei"A7Brown"wa--rr_tedSat- _"_,«_.«.««_.•' Honolulu *ga_i*t * tfter , meroy fHfht VANCO' womm . Nov. 34 (CP),-A ZV_\*> „„„ . . ■ „• WINNIPEa, Nov. 34 "? puuuu* »»««•■< northern onttno miner* wtr» givingVr name ui Mill Sxled I500 '.e,,,_be".re rl,ln*. 'rom P1"*1 ta ho»»'*u* cot» *'?, ton„1*h. I Brown wai irrated Sat- ""_.w,tw »' Honolulu tgilntt t foer * mercy flight by Pilot Piul urday on t charge of dealing in for- •err after police had Investigate it KL. . Dtvoud of Canadian Airways, Ltd. mllet NIW YORK, Nov. 34 (AP).-The season'* first hetvy inowfill tonight left from one to five lnche* of Ice, mow ina ilush ln the tutern United Statei. , Numeroui traffic eccldent*. moitly of t minor niture, wert reported u automobile* ikidded over Ice- cotted hlghwtyi. "PLIASS LIAVfTHS 'U' OUT" SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. J4 (AP) —When Don Juan of Borbon, ion of former King Alfonso ot Spain, passed through here en route to Hollywood, he tmlllngly tdmon- lihed newsmen: "Plets* leavt the V out: It'i ipelled B-o-r-b-o-n and hat nothing to do wtth whisky." Six Arrested in Attempt to Loot Jewel Concern NEW YORK, Nov. 34