...i. ...I T1ilr flpptinaf Inn jnrsc u-" - Railway Terminals lerror-itd Chinese Seeking Refuge Chiang's Appeal lirts Britain anil United States rspon-sibility London Accepts Apology JPAN TALKS PEACE ARIS. October 28: (CP) ffmj disposed to accept fcndlj conversations with Great fcain and the United Stales bint toward eventual rcstop loii of pear bctwrejn Japan b China, a high Japanese au- witr said tonight. ttfOHAI, Oct. 28: (CP) Ten "jitinucs high In the inter as the Japanese tr,il'.:ttlement kc 'heir occupation of North .bi railway terminals. The him ast night took possession 1 ftt Soochow Creek railway Lf. voting the Chinese across Sf.Tft feTt.ize-1 Chinese from burning ml are seeking refuge In other p of Shanghai, Ill dawn British troops, guarding II settlements western boundary, pned barbed wire gates, permltt- several thousand refugees to Iter the settlement. British troops and United States arinej offered tonlcht to aid in m withdrawal of a Chlnerc bat- flon capped by Japanese, in or- to cno the menace of stray but-is falliir' in the international !T itlemcnt with its thousands of Kljners The offer was refused. British officers disclosed thatl ialor-Gcirral A p. D. Telfcr- pollc commander of the British tfcea and a grpup nf officers had ISfti endangered when a Japanese irk fired in their dlrecion as hey fliched refugees evacuating across Mhow Cnek h a statement nt. Nniiltlne. Gen- pi Chiang kal Shek, Premier of Ema, dcr.li.red tha responsibility ted With Orrnt. RrUnln nnH Un- i States to uphold the nlne-pow- J Ouu. M.IVLViil VIIUIVU. - Mai Integrity which he asserted Japanese were violating. Chl- P'itary situation at Shanghai as Pr as the Chinese were concerned i"t discounted Its effect upon the P'Wai Dosltion. B AlKlliitrv Afrrnlffl LONDON rvt 9a irni r.'nrpl5n Rcretary Anthony mv Eden kHpii announced announced the House. ANX'ouvcn CATTLE MARKET IS DULL VANent TVtrt) r..i on, itq.. ir,m. , - - wtv, ia, 1 lie van- ;. cattle market was dull vest? I Employment Still Gains OTTAWA. Oct. 28: (CP) Industrial employment in Can- ada was on the upgrade in Oc- tober. according to returns to the Dominion Bureau of Sta- tlstics from over ten thousand reporting firms. The aggrc- t gate payroll was 1,197.647 per- sons as compared with 1,171, 298 in September. LIFE LOSS IS ELEVEN Toll of Explosion in Alaska Mine Is Greater Than at First Believed ANCllOKAOE, Alaska, Oct. 23 (CP) Bodies of eleven men up to last night had been brought hero from the Evan Jones' coal mine sixty miles north of ' Anchorage, where an explosion had occurred The fate of three others Is still unknown. Four managed to escape with their lives. -- BIG CASE IN COURT Action of Jack. Lambert vs. John Clausen Over Sale of Fisli One of Largest Here In Years One of the largest County Court actions which has been handled here for years is that of Jack Lambert vs. John Clausen involving a plaim for $862 in a dispute over a fish sale which took place In lflb. The case started hearing this morn ing. T. W. Brown is acting for nlalntlff and L. W. Patmore K.u for defendent. Montreal Man Wins $148,000 In Hospital Sweep MONTREAL.. Oct. 28: (CP) II W. I. Shepherd of Montreal, holder f Trich Ttnsiiltal Sweepstake on Punch, winner of the Cesarwltch Stakes yesterday, receives $148,000 ... m the House of Commons las-t night I f if f k PQ1 lint 1011 S Jiat tlin T1..1II..I. sh government i hadi1 i nit rr Wruwvn margin lraumg tie Mtnr.tr . 11.. I ..1 Wfte at Shanghai on Sunday when! ' ' R'tlcman W McQowan of the Royal R-;1" "Hies was killed. McOow R family would be compensated, ISaPt. Eden said. The Forcltm Scc- K;lafy &hso informed the House that lie I'WnnU WOlllft na,.. .. 1 . , rt I r, -I . i!vi.rvf Hoard ot unncu Slates Clamps Down New Requirements - r .i on. FISH CO-OP (CP) - 1 . t n ......... .n ln Yl VPKt.P Irwllls delrrrnltoit I.. 4I. l..n.nr.urer .... rl.inrn rlrnstlc 11CW rC r --n-.iJH iaj line IIUU Jivn. Oay tlillll't" " piference at Urussels on Batuf- guations In regard, to margin p Cheer greeted Capt. Eden as; trading. The margin requirement PI' ' Mdre-sed 9((lfr,....j II.. I. . , ... f..-l fmni nftv npr- is reauccu " - IN SESSION1: Semi-Annual Meeting of Prince Ru-pert Association Held Activities Reported Upon The semi-annual meeting of the Prince Rupert Fishemen's Co-op erative Association was held in the C.C.F. Hall this week to receive the report of the directors as to the season's operations. J. Saldan was chairman ot the meeting and Jack Deanc secretary. A resolution was passed to contact the other Co-operatives on the Pacific Coast In order to secure their support to request the proper authorities to refuse to issue permits to Indians to fisli in the creeks for their own use until after the close of the salmon fishing reason. A resolution was also passed urs- lii!? the Department of Fisheries to pass regulations making It illegal! to offer for sale spring salmon un der twenty-six Inches In length. An interesting feature in con nection with the work of the Cooperative Association was a visit of two of the directors of the Scot r tish Co-operative Wholesale Society during the past summer. They were particularly interested in the pro du,ctlon ot canned salmon ,as meir Association purchased $5,000,000 worth of Canadian products annually. This was the first season that the Association had its own two pack ers In operation The Azurite car ried 449.841 pounds of nsn during the season and the Ogden carried 610.594 pounds. All fish and goods carried by the packers during the season was covered by insurance but there was no loss of any kind for the entire season The Azurite I now owned outripht by the As sociation, and a substantial amount paid bn the Ogden. Doth packers operated at a profit. Much Fish liaiMiieci The sum of $112,722.26 was paid out to the fishermen during the season and the sales of fish amoun ted to over $160,000. These figures are onlv tentative and a fuller de tailed report will be completed Dy the end of the year when au me -ippnimt. hnvp been audited. There .V.Vv,..-v I was a payroll of $10,549 during the year and substantial amounw have been paid to the government in taxes and compensation. Tn the operation of the camps, stores to the value of $33,135 were purchased, and sales amounted to $37,101. , , , Two new members were ciecico. on the Board of Directors to replace two of the members who had resigned. The newly elected members were Stanley BJornson ana Anion Uerg. a resolution was passed to apousn proxy votln? from the rules of the Association. Ingenious Method Of Rescuing Cat ! Feline, Trapped lor ugmccr Months in Quarry, r many extricated by Royal Humane Society cent and, on short selling, it will muUJF(jRD, Eng., Oct. 28: (CP) be necessary in future to put mH . cat( whlch had bccl trapped fifty percent of the value. Jn a miarry 0n the moors neat prn for clchtecn months and BIRTH NOTICE kept alive by food and which Willi II was wtw v J PROVINCIAL LIBRARV VICTORIA. b.C Todays Weather Tomorrow's Tides ( A.M.) She High 9:47 a.m. 19.3 ft. prlncc 4 Palnluc - snuth- r 22:15 p.m. 18.2 ft. ..i wind. 12 miles per hour; bar- Low 3:16 a.m. 6.7 ft. t,P 29 30 15ieauy;, w;iuiuiv 16:08 p.m. 7.2 ft. .. -i .i t a . . awuc"""" ; sea NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER No. 251 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1937. PRICE: 5 CENTS o. Floods Occur Down Coast ippon B ANGHAI TENSION IS HIGH w -4 YA K oikes Gesture Of Silence To Be General I OTTAWA. Oct. 23: I CP) Dominion, provincial and municipal authorities are to be asked to co-operate In bring- lng about a suspension of all vehicular traffic for two min- utes at 11 o'clock on the morn- ing of Remembrance Day, Nov- ember 11. in connection with the observance of, a nation- ' wide two minute silence in memory of the, war dead. 4 REFUGEES ARE SAVED Three Hundred Staryln; Span'anh From (iijon Landed at Bordeaux It I Windsors Are 32 IS ,-vcnty-nlne head JTlwas orn "S' "e'l llun. So- , ,t was announced here Leaving Soon I PARIS. Oct. 28: (CP) The Duke ani Duchess of Windsor will salt November 6 for the i wnfpr belnc lowered to it, was fin-, United States and are due to " t ... ' . , In... I,., . hr 41o pf. J. n v-l , a t.t XTpii, VnrW nit NYwpni- ot II, n Prtnrp 11.11- n V raiSCU yuaniu "J -" onnc m nvn r.',.. i-nces were: steers, yeiu . .ii.. ti f ,m v pnimht m n vxc prrinv t PcaCC Pacific Great Eastern MUCH WORK BEING DONE One Hundred and Fifty-Two Pro- 1 jeets in Canaila Under Dominion' Provincial Co-operation OTTAWA. Oct. 23: (CD -A sur vey vestcrda" bv the Department. of Mines and Resources rcvealco that 152 construction projects an. under way in Canada undor Dominion-provincial co-operation. Th'. tome majority' of these nrc min- Ins road schemes although then. pre also other projects. So fa this year $1,500,000 has been con trlbu'fd by the Dominion government with the provinces puttlm ui half as much. Landing fields at Mayo. Whltehorsc and Dawson in the Yukon arc Included in tin projects. Today' Weather novprniiKn'. "lgrtn Tilolc Island Overcast, rain; miles off the Bpaplcoast tol-lcalm; barometer 2t).52;teinperaT, lowing evacuation, iney nau ocen ture, ti, muuciaie sweu. without food for five days and ! Bull Harbor Low clouds, south- had very little water. PARLEY IS NEAR BREAK ' American Labor Conference Almost Collapses Adjourned for Week WASHINGTON, DC, Oct. 28: (CP; The peace conference between the American Federation of Labor and the Committee on In dustrial Organization was near col lapse last night as each side rejected proposals of the other. The conference has been adjourned until Thursday. TROOP TRAIN KILLS MANY Plowed fnlo Crown at Yokohama Twenty-four Lose Lives YOKOHAMA, Japan. Oct. 28: (CP) Twenty-four persons were killed and twenty-six Injured when a trooo train plowed Into a crowd of people who were farcwelling departing soldiers on another track here. KKVISIT1NO TERRACE TERRACE, Oct. 28: C. C. Pierre, who was an early resident of Ter race, having come here first twen-tv-ilx years ugo, is revisiting Ter race. He notes a great change and improvement. Mr. Pierre was at one time superintendent of George Little's sawmill. west wind, three miles per hour; barometer. 29.58; temperature, 46; "ivy .swell. Alert Bay Part cloudy, ltaht westerly wind; barometer, 29.70; mperature, 41; sea smooth. Erevan Clear, westerly wind. fourteen miles per hour; barometer. 29,58. Vancouver Cloudy, northeast wind, four miles per hour; barometer, 29.58. Victoria Raining, westerly wind, 24 miles per hour; barometer, 29.60. Prince George Fair, southeast wind, four miles per hour; barometer. 29.58. Terrace Rain, calm, 40. Alyansh Rain, calm, 38. Alice Arm Raining, windy. 42 Anyox Cloudy, heavy wind, 39 Stewart Cloudy, south wind. 40 Hazelton Cloudy, calm, 39. Smithers Clear, calm. 39. Burns Lake Bright, stiff cast wind. 34. New Light Plant At Port Simpson Machine Arrives from England Expected to be in Operation Next Month PORT SIMPSON, Oct. 28: The new electric light plant for Installation at Port Simpson has arrived from England. It has a 38 h.p. Lister diesel engine. Pole for the new electric light system of the village are being brought in and It is expected the plant will be ready to operate about November 10. Vancoutur Wheat VANCOUVER. Oct. 28: (CP) Wheat was trading at $1.297'e on the Vancouver market yesterday, dropping to $1.29 today. JJAK SILVER kvav YORK: (CP) Bar nil. ver was unchanged at-443,4C per fine ounce on the New York met- il market today; Railway Bridge Is Out Britannia Is Powerless Howe Sound Communities Isolated by High Water After Two Days ot Torrential itain uauway service Into Vancouver Interrupted VANCOUVER,- Oct. 28: (CP) Two days of rain that swelled streams on the westerly slope of the Coast Range today ripped out a Pacific Great Eastern Railway bridge, isolated communities inland f rom.Squamish at the. hf-Hf nf Hiiwfi Sound and delaved Canadian National and Pacific trains due here this morning. Another . . : wasii-vuu FIVE DIE IN BLAST Explosion Aboard Dutch Tanker Off South Coast of England SOUTHAMPTON, England, Oct. 28: (CP) Five members of the 1 I 1 1 1 . . I crew were Kuiea ana several hijuicu i i .'-outhwest wind, tlxteen miles perl the Dutch tanker Magara off the .. BORDEAUX. France. Oct. 23 ! hour; sea choppy. J south coast of England. The ves- CP The T.riHxh str-Hmr RouUi-1 Langara Island Part cloudy.Jsel was bound from Houston, Texas, nmnton reached Bordeaux last, west souvnwe&t, wuu. vwciivjr-mc , MiBiauu, night with three hundred refugees miles per hour; naromcier. zj.jo.i . . . A C ultnnn I i i L n 4 ..A e-rr J irom Oijon, spam, wno naa occn , itmpeiavurc, w, a t,iwFtj. Pnlnt Part cloudV. remuvtu iiuui amitiu oim- wvu - . - I - MBV nf Tl I FT I Ml' PLEA FOR GERMANY ROME Premier Benito Mussolini, celebrating the fifteenthi anniversary of the Fascist march on Rome, declared today, that it is necessary that Germany be restored the colonies she lost during the war and be given back her place in the African sun. DAMASCUS WATERSPOUT DAMASCUS, Syria Over one hundred persons were killed today when a huge waterspout engulfed Dmelr village. i KIM I r I IN A I FRANCO'S NAVAL BASE PALMA. Mallorca General Francisco Franco, Spanish insurgent dictator, today designated this strategic Raleric Island port as his principal naval base and announced a blockade of the Spanish eastern coast from the French frontier to Almeria. EYSTON IS FAST BONNEVILLE. Utah Capt. George Eystou, British auto racer, drove his big raclny car at 309 miles an hour today but mechanical trouble forced cancellation of an official assault on the world's land speed record of 301 miles per hour. SNOW ON MOUNT MORSE There was snow well down on1 Mount Morse today following heavy precipitation last night which took the form of rain on the lower levels. VISITORS IN SIMPSON PORT SIMPSON. Oct. 28: There Capt. J. R. Elfert, harbor master, have been several visitors In Port will open his annual winter school Simpson from New Metiaicatia, ai of navigation next Monday. aska, during the last few days. on the mountainside alone Howe Sound cut the 34,000 volt power line to Britannia mine and left he copper property without powdr. Repair crews worked to restore service. FAITH IS ESSENTIAL as a result of an explosion aboard rrogreivc ..u i.v.uu. ! ..!4Iao T1mc Ultimo Pfoni PATTULLO IS DOCTOR Honorary Degree Conferred by University of British Columbia Yesterday III UI1A klVJ M v-v vVJ"i- Are Optimistic, Speaker Tells Gyro Club "Faith In one's own community, Is ; essential to the development ot the community." declared Rev. w. u. Grant . Holllngworth, ..pastor of First' Presbyterian Church, "Who spoke to the Prince Rupert Gyro Club. at luncheon yesterday, giving impressions of a year's travels throughout the province .of Brit ish Columbia. Communities which re progressive and prosperous, M: Holllngworth had, found, were lioie wlio:e people were optimistic .VJi. 2: JSfi d-d had faith in their communities cciver the honorary degree of Doc-, Mr. Holllngworth, 1Iltlpwnrth' tnr of Laws and Letters from the University of British Columbia, despite the fact that his iubject was rather a large - one to confine to a twenty-minute talk, spoke Interestingly and cover ed a good deal of ground. British , olumbia was Indeed a land of mountains, lakes and rivers. One had but to travel extensively In the province to realize the problems and the difficulties which faced a government. Everywhere roads were needed and each community believed its requirement of the prime Importance. The fact that the great bulk of. the population was situated in one small corner of the province around Vancouver and Victoria also, of necessity, must have its effect. The speaker referred to the versatility of the province from an Industrial standpoint. The fur Industry, fishing, lumbering and ag riculture had In their turn occupied the centre of the stage. Now it was mining which was In the limelight. Mr. Holllngworth then proceeded to give Impressions of the Bridge River country a rough and rugged deep valley with towering mountains. Pioneer and Bralorne, both established producers, were the outstanding mines. Mr. Hojl'-lngworth also referred to the Gran-by Co.'s important operation at Copper Mountain. Here was an unusually pleasant location on the verv ton of a mountain from which one could see with an unobstructed view for miles around Doukhobor Problem The Doukhobor problem In the Kootenays was also referred to by the speaker While the Doukhobor? had been zulltv of some sabotage. ! there was a tendency to blame them for everythlnK along this line that happened The speaker told of some Continued on Page Four BRANTFORD, Ont., Oct. 28: (CP) What appeared to be a mass theft of motor cars was nothing more than a prank. Parked cars had, been pushed, In some cases, a block or two away.