altitude of 12,120 feet (3,694 metres). The New York Times reported that playwright J. M. Barrie – creator of Peter Pan – confidentially donated $50,000 (about £10,000) to polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's proposed Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The Abitibi Power and Paper Company, a Quebec forest products business, was incorporated under the Dominion Companies Act, in order to raise adequate capital for its plant and operations and to transfer its head office to Montreal. The Pantages Playhouse Theatre officially opened in Winnipeg as a vaudevillian theater, and would host famous guests including Harry Houdini, Laurel and Hardy and Buster Keaton. The theater was eventually purchased by the city after its last vaudeville show in 1923 where it would be home to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet until 1967. The theater was restored in recent years and continues to be a live event venue in Winnipeg. Born: Ernest Tubb, American country singer and songwriter, known for songs such as "Blue Christmas" and "Walking the Floor Over You", in Crisp, Texas (d. 1984); Thanat Khoman, Thai politician, Foreign Minister from 1959 to 1971, and Deputy Prime Minister from 1980 to 1982, in Bangkok (d. 2016); Bill Veeck, American sports executive, owner of the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox from 1946 to 1980, in Chicago (d. 1986) Died: Bart van Hove, Dutch sculptor, sculpted the statue of St. Nicolas on top of the Basilica of Saint Nicholas in Amsterdam (b. 1850) February 10, 1914 (Tuesday) The cabinet under Swedish Prime Minister Karl Staaff resigned in light of King Gustaf refusing stop speaking out against the government's defense policy, even though it was in violation of Sweden's constitution: "I will not deprive myself the right to speak without restraint to the Swedish people.". Colombia held the first direct presidential elections since 1860, José Vicente Concha of the Colombian Conservative Party winning in a landslide against Nicolás Esguerra of the Liberal-Republican Party with 89 per cent of the vote. He would take office of the President in August. Ongoing large-scale demonstrations in Tokyo against the Yamamoto Gonnohyōe administration turned violent, following weeks of news coverage of major corruption in the Japanese navy coinciding with news that naval expansion had eaten up most of the budget, resulting in proposed tax increases. Mary Pickford's name was displayed for the first time on movie marquees above the film's title for Hearts Adrift. British author Thomas Hardy,