Seamen's
Strike
On
Great
Lakes
Would
Tie
Up
200
Ships
and
feet
3900
Men
TOUONTp,
Sept.
25:
The
CV
nlian
Seatnen's
Union,
affiliated
'ith
the
American
Federation
of
kbor,
ig
threatening
a
strike
nt
Tuesday
which
would
tic
up
2H)
ships
and
affect
S900
crew1
members.
Football
Season
Opens
In
States
University
of
California
at
Lot
Angeles
Defeats
University
Of
Oregon
LOS
ANGELES,
Sept.
25:
1"
'lie
opening'
conference
footb-iH
Um
hern
vnatontau-
aftemoon
University
of
California
defcatei
wnversity
of
Oregon
2C
lo
W
re
a
crowd
of
30.000
fans.
Foot
MH
throughout
the
country
BttJ
under
way
this
week-end.
Vancoui.tr
Wheal
VANCOUVER.
Sent.
25:
(CP)
"heat
dropped
to
$1.20
Pr
usliei
nn
the,
Vancouver
market
)'Mterday,
HA
It
SILVER
NLw
YORK:
1CP)'
Bar
was
unchanged
at
4484c
ounce
on
the
New
York
market
today.
-
.
Heavy
Jan
Losses
0
In
Northern
Chhngsi
Province
AmMtinl.l
unrl
VnflnnnUKt.
fntrpat
rnnfiiclns
at
CheefoT
was
ou.ly
damaged
by
a
bomb
yester-
In
Shanghai
the
cholera
situation
is
becoming
ever
more
serious
and
an
acute
food
shortage
is
also
developing.
Weather
Forecast
young
PF?OV!rC.IAL
Weather
LIBRARY
Today's
Tomorrow's
Tides
(I
AM.)-
Prince
Rupert
-
Heavy
rain,
mtlk
High.
r.
5:21
a.m.
17.3
ft.
southeast
wind,
six
miles
per
hour;
17:15
p.m.
18,3
ft.
barometer,
30.28
(steady);
sea
Low
.
11:07
a.m.
8.3
ft.
smooth.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
XXVI.,
No.
224.
Vol.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER
25,
1937,
PUICE:
5
CENTS
taljvs
Massacred
By
Ethiopians
"
:
'
'
O...
.
iTQT
THEY'RE
SIDE
BY
SIDE
IN
PEACE
OR
WAR
nnAI
T1
A
HP
1
L
k
a
a
i
VOTING
MONDAY
The
ratepayers
of
the
city
and
license
holders
will
be
empowered
to
vote
on
Monday,
on
a
.referendum
as
to
whether
certain
concessions
shall
be
made
to
the
person
or
company
erecting
and
operating
a
pulp
mill
In
the
city.
H
does
not
bind
the
c
Uy
to
ahy-
al..
hut
It
rinr
rmnfiwrr
It
to
UUlg
M
-
"
'
"
entrr
Into
an
agreement,
which
will
have
to
be
legalized
by.
the
joTcrnment
at
Victoria.
He
believe
that
Prince
Rupert
has
everjthlne
to
fain
and.
noth.
thinr
to
lose
by
entering
into
snc'h
an
atreement
for
that
reason
we
urge
that
the.
ratepayers
vote
In
favor
of
rrant-Inj
the
concessions.
We,
heed
Industries
and
need
them
badiy.
It
seems
quite
unnecessary-
to,
five
reasons
why
It
.would
be
wise
to
jitt
concessions
of
this
kind.
A
company
locatinf
outside
the
ri(
rould
ret
a
free
site'
and
nothlnj
to
pay
but
provincial
ind
Domlnlqn
taxes.
Therf
.would
be
no
municipal,
chance?
or
restrictions
and,
in
addition
to
that,
It
could
operate
Its
own
townsite.
By
buildini
In
the
city
It
does
wt
have
to
worry
about
housing
mplojees.
In
this
ease
the
.rall-
I-
1JI
li..
.ll.'.nJ
iiia
Ilj
a
prvtiumt
iuo
u
twanv
will
pipe
water
for
Its-
Kit
It
also
pays
a
definite
rate
fhies
for
a
term
of
years.
1
pulp
mill
in
the
city
would
provide
work
for
a
great
many
people
and
would
put
new
lue
Into
the
place.
It
would
enable
a
great
many
things
lo
be
done
which
cannot
be
done
today.
It
would
provide
work
for.
longshoremen
and
bring
shipping
to
the
port
which
does
not
come
now.
It
would
give
the
city
better
business
and
better
business
places,
improved
streets
and
add
to
our
prestige,
hastening
the
time
when
we
can
have
our
highway
completed
and
In
every
way
make
life
more
Interesting.
It
is
always
.more
pleasant
to
live
In
a
place
that
Is
making
pro-tress
than
In
one
that
Is
standing
still.
BOMBING
British
Ambassador
Makes
Rep-rcsentations
to
Japan
Forces
Unite
Communists
and
Nationalists
Unite
for
Big
Victory
Ovei
1
Invaders
LONDON.
Sept.
25:
(CP)
Sir
Robert
Craigie,
British
ambassa
dor
to
Japan,
was
instructed
to
make
strong
representations
to
the
Japanese
against
bombing
ol
.'nun-military
objectives
by
the
Japapese
air
force
in
China.
Premier
Neville
Chamberlain
and
Foreign
Secretary
Anthony
Eden
both
expressed
their
disapproval
yesterday
of
the
horror
of
the
Japanese
attacks
upon
Chi
nese
cities
with
their
defenceless
populations.
Eighty
Japanese
war
planes
bombed
Nanking
twice
again
today
for
seven
hours
in
all.
Their
principal
objective
was,
apparently,
the
city's
million
dollar
electric
power
plant
which
was
reduced
lo.
a
shell,
the
waterworks
being
also
put
out
of
commission
I
The
destruction
was
the
heaviest
yet
wrought
in
the
series
of
air
raids.
tass
of
life
was
extensive,
officials
estimating
the
casualties
at
about!
wo
hundred.
No
foreigners
were
reported
killed.
American
residents
of
Hie
cltS"
have
taken
refuse'
atrtho
errff
,
bassy,
i
!
Twp
government
hospitals
fly
ing
Red
Cross:
flags
'were
struck
by
bomb
hut
not
seridusly
damaged,.
.Shanghai.
Canton,
Hankow,
Wuhan,
Wuchang
and
Hang.
yang
cities
were
all
revisited
by
air
raiders
but
without
telling
effecl.
In
Chinese
quarters
it
is
saiil
that
at
least
seven
hundred
civil-
?!n.
were
killed
and
as
many
in-
'ured
in
air
raids
In
the
angate
valley.
.$Chance.ilojaMolfi
of
ttfliarfce
with.
ltafy
and
Japan,durintf
afrpeech
at
the
Nai
party
congress'
at
Nuremberg,
Germany,
was
just,
ranother
log
tossed
into
the
European
fire
bvx..
Heie
the
two
dictators,
of
Germany
and
Italy
are
pictured
when
they
met
sometime
;
ago
for
a
series
of
treaty
talks.
Hitler
and
Mussolini
are
now
jneeting
again,
this
time
on
German
soil
to
deal
with
the
Sino-Japanese
and
the
Spanish
wars.
.
.
-
ITALY
TO
KEEP
OUT
More
To
Volunteers
to
he
Help
Insurgents
Sent
were
reported
today
to
have
join-'
M
.
ih.
further
Italian
volunteers
will
be
signal
vie
Pd
forces
to
score
a
ton-
over
the
ir.vaders.
three
sent
to
assist
the
insurgent.,
tho'ufnnd
Japanese
being
killed
Italy
has
officially
advised
Great
and
two
thousand
taken
prisoner
1I5r',,nin',
,
,
.
.
The
Uritish
government
has
re-5,n,
At
Nanking
President
Chiang'
Horlaro.)
last
w.
that
fu?ed
a
request
of
General
Iran-Chinn
would
flKht
the
Japanese
cisco
Franco
Spanish
leader,
h-
end.
that
his
const
s
oe
r:ois..eu.
Af,
u
ngffression
K,'cs'
o
u....
ve-y
o....
Fresh
activity
by
loyalist
for-
Ul
"I
Villi"'
'T'n
-
-
,
,
,
,
hr'nes
marking
the
birthplace
of
ces
in
southern
Spain
is
reported.
sen-
CORNER
IS
BROKEN
UP
Emergency
Action
Taken
In
Chicago
to
End
Deadlock
In
Corn
Market
Mussolini
On
German
Visit
Italian
Premier
Arrives
in
Munich
Today
and
is
Met
Uy
Hitler
MUNICH,
Germany,
Sept.-35:
On
his
goodwill
visit
to
Germany,
Premier
Benito
Mussolini
arrived
here
today
and
was
met
by
Chancellor
Adolf
Hitler.
They
will
proceed
to
Berlin
on
Monday.
The
question
of
withdrawal
of
active
support
of
the
insurgent
cause
in
Spain
is
expected
to
be
discussed
by
the
two
dictators
Hitler
and
Mussolini,
the
mili
tary
heads
of
rearmed
Germary
j
and
Italy,
stood
together
touay
,
on
the
rev'ewing
stand'
to
wat"h,
-rack
troops
of
Germany's
newj
army
parade.
Chancellor
Hitlei
produly
displayed
to
Premier
Mus-j
solini
ten
thousand
picked
troops
j
goose-stepping
by
the
platform
'n(
full
field
equipment.
It
is
the
second
time
In
the'
Irourse
of
their
spectacular
ca-
CHICAGO,
Sept.
2o:
(CP)
ireers
lhnt
jiu.MoHnl
and
Hitler,
cii.iiishrt
t.hrmiffh
the
court?
of
Tliriu'lnru
nf
the
Chicago
Wheat
v
.
.
.
""irr
n,,r
.t
"
-
.
.
...
,
"".wi
:
.
vtet-ind
ro
tou
ti:
Board
ot
iraae
invmeu
erafr..waIlng
thc
result
of
their
ren-
i
u
ccxnpiifd
from
obversaiions
ta-
gency
powers
today
to
suspend
,
dezvou,f
k,n
at
a
am.
txiy
na
cover,
.r
t
j
September
t-orn
ana
.,
....
..rinH
mi
no
8
n.m.
tomorrow),
r""1"
.
..
.
.
.
(K.u.
,
.
o
-
r
mnrlfpt
I
l-afl
OCk
UClWt'CIi
Prince
Rupert
and
Queen
Char-
traders.
The
board
ordered
settle-lotte
Islands
Moderate
to
fresh
mcn
0
a
0,ien
contracts
at
a
winds,
mostly
easterly
and
south-
prici.
0f
$1.10'
per
bushel.
erly,
cloudy
and
cool
with
showers
Tis
action
averted
a
threaten
today
and
Sunday.
Social
Crediter
Has
Appeared
In
Ontario
Election
TOKONTO,
Sept.
25:
The
first
Social
Credit
candidate
ha3
nuidp
his
atipearance
in
the
tnrlo
ireneral
election,
On-
;cd
Breeze
wh'ch
developed
when
10
IIlHKe
UtIIH
Iiw
ill
miui
uuiivc
j
with
contracts.
Halibut
Sales
Canadian
Dovre
B.,
24,000,
offered
8c
and
6c,
holding
over
until
Monday.
Volunteer
Aid
Is
Commended
:
"
!"
.
MlnWcr
of
Agriculture
Aoprtci-
r""
:"T.V..
..J,"
'7.
alive
of
Iloln
for
Drought
Sufferers
OTTAWA,
Sent.
25:
Hon.
J.
!
G.
Gardiner.
Minister
of
Ajrrf-
;
culture,
appealed
to
volunteer
'aid
organizat'ons
yesterday
to
continue
Iheir
work
of
providing
relief
for
prairie
drought
suf
ferers,
supplementing
the
efforts
MONTHRAL
FEELS
WAKE
,of
the
!!!!t;
MONTREAL.
Sept.
25:
A
Mrs.
Angus
Currie
will
board
I
French-Canadian
having
entered
slight
earthquake
shook
was
left
the
steamer
Cardena
this
after-1
the
field
in
East
Oltawu
under
In
"certain
parts
of
Montreal
yes-'noon
ut
Ciaxton
for
Vancouver!
the
banner
of
that
party.
leida.
when-
ehe
will
spend,
the
winter.
REVOLT
AT
ALCATRAZ
One
Hundred
Convicts
In
Solitary
Confinement
at
Uncle
Sam's
"Devil's
Island"
;
SAN
FRANCISCO,
Sept.
25:
One
hundred
convicts
at
Alcatraz
Island
prison
wers
In
solitary
confinement
last
nl?ht
following
an
eyldently
planned
revolt
during
the
day.
The
warden
was
In
the
prison
hospital
suffering
from
cuts
sustained
from
a
broken
bottle
but
his
condition
Is
notorious,
Senator
Logans
Case
Adjourned
One
Week's
Reman
i
of
Prosecution
for
False
Pretences
In
Connection
with
Reparations
Collection
'
OTTAWA,
Septt.
25!
The
cast
of
Senator
Hance
J..
Logan,
charged
wih
false
pretences
in
connection
with
the
delivery
of
reparations
o
Cirt.
Freeman
IWfield
for
the
loss
of
.the
schooner
Gypsum
Queen
during
tit"
rtvent
War,
has
been
adjoined
for
nn
week.
The
senator
is
out
on
ball.
SPOUT
MARKET
IN
,
BIG
BREAK
Worst;
Day
in
New
York
Yesterday
Since
Before
Depression
I
1
NEW
YORK,.
Sept.
25:
The
New
York
Stock
Exchange
had
Its
worst
break
yesterday
since
the
depression
started.
Many
issues
plunged
to
hew
low
levels
for
the
year.
The
industrial
average
was
off:
6.60;
rails,
1.48,
and
utilities,
off
1.04.
Prospect-
of
continuation
of
New
Deal
policies
Is
held
responsible
for
the
slump.
TODAY'S
STOCKS
I
Courtesy
S.
L.
JohtuUiO
uo.)
Vancouver
Stocks
B.
C.
Nickel,
.11.
Big
Missouri,
.41.
Bralorne,
7.25.
B.
R.
Cor..,
.032-Aztec,
.07.
,
'
:
Cariboo
Quartz,
1.40.
Dentonla,
.12.
Dunwell.
.02'4.
Oolconda,
.05V4.
'
Mlnto.
.082.
Meridian.
.01.
Fairview
Alam.,
.04
y2.
Noble
Five,
.05.
Pend
Oellle,
2.60.
Pioneer,
3.25.
Porter
Idaho,
.04.
Premier,
2.07.
Reeves
McDonald,
.60.
.
Reno,
.75.
Relief
Arlington,
.16.
.
Reward,
.06Vi.
Salmon
Gold,
.05.
Hedley
Amal.,
.06.
Premlefr.
Border,
.01
V2.
Sllbak
Premier,
1.75.
Congress,
.02.
Home
Gold,
.0178.
Grandvlew.
.14.
Indian,
01
Vz.
Quatslno
Copper,
.03.
Quesnelle
Quartz,
.08.
Whitewater,
.08
V2.
Oils
-,
,i
A.
P.
Con.,
.26Vi.
Calmont,
.33.
C,
&
E..
163
Freehold,
.054.
McDougal
Segur,
.15.
Okalta,
.85.
Pacalta,
.14.
Home
Oil.
1.10.
United,
.14
Y2.
Weymarn,
.04
i
r
lyiakaie
vjarrison
And
Civil
Population
Slain
By
Tribesmen
Northern
Abyssinian
Town
Which
Was
Scene
of
Heavy
Fight
in
1935
is
Scene
of
Serious
Outbreak.
According
to
Report
NEW
YORK,
Sept.
25:
(CP)--The
Herald
Tribune,
in
a
copyright
London
dispatch
today,
said
it
was
learned
from
an
unimpeachable
source
that
the
entire
Italian
garrison
and
Italian
civil
population
of
the
northern
Ethiopian
town
of
Makale
had
been
massacred
by
tribesmen.
Makale
was
the
scene
of
heavy
fighting
in
the
Ethiopian
BULLETINS
STRANGLED
TO
DEATH
VICTORIA
Mrs.
Helen
Smith,
61-year-old
widow,
was
murdered
by
strangulation
last
Monday
night
after
she
had
been
criminally
assaulted
by
an
unknown
person
or
persons,
a
coroner's
jury
has
decided
following
inquest.
The
woman's
body
was
found
In
a
vacant
lot
early
Tuesday.
INCREASE
BANK
TAX
EDMONTON
A
resolution
denying:
federal
right
of
disallowance
of
provincial
legislation
and
expressing
determination
to
enforce
recently
disallowed
legislation
was
hejore
the
special
session
of
the
Alberta
"Legislature
today
with
notice
of
a
bill
to
Increase
taxation
on
banks
and
bring
an
estlntated
$2,000,000
more
revenue
to
the
provincial
treasury.
Introduction
of
a
resolution
and
notice
of
Increased
taxation
on
banks
came
last
night
at
the
close
of
the
first
day.
The
House
campaign
and
was
captured
oy
tne
Italians
on
November
8,
1935,
Of
ficial
Itajian,
French
or
British
sources
are
unable
to
confirm
or
deny
the
report.
stands
adjourned
until
Monday
.Workers
of
America,
called
a.
afternoon.
I
Tennessee
Votes
To
Remain
Dry
Dries
Have
Crushing
Victory
Over
Wets
in
Referendum
On
Repeal
in
Southern
States
NASHVILLE.
Tenn.,
Sent.
25;
The
Dries
won
a
crushing
victory
over
the
Wets
in
the
refer-
Today's
Baseball
American
League
New
York,
5;
Boston.
2.
Philadelphia,
3;
Washington,
5.
Detroit.
Cleveland
postponed.
National
League
Brooklyn,
3;
New
York.
7.
Borton.
2;
Philadelphia,
1.
Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati
postponed.
Second
Narrows
Bridge
Struck
rtiirrnril
Tnlet
was
struck
bVi
a
i
LABOR
IN
ONTARIO
IS
SPLIT
0hawa
jS.trtke,.
Brought
Unlcn
Methods
Into
Politics
As
Major
Question
Stirring
Up
Both
Parties)
,
TORONTO,
Sept.
25:
(CP)
When
Premier
Mitchell
F.
Hepburn
declared
'war'
On
John
L.
Lewis
last
April,
a
rnajor
Issue
In
Ontario
politics
wa3
born.
Lewis
has
never
set
foot
in
Ontario
but
the
head
of
the
Committee
for
Industrial
Organizationthe
C.
I.
O.
is
a
big
figure,
if
a
personally
inactive
one,
in
Ihe
province's
general
elect'on
(campaign.
'
The
Lewis
C.
I.
O.,
through
Us
,
affiliated
United
Automobile
sirme
in
ine
ueuerui
i.uuiors,
of
Canada
plant
at
Oshawa
in
April.
Premier
Hepburn
has
.
fought
the
Lewis
organization
ever
since.
Now
the
labor
Issue,
is
being
carried
to
the
voters
in
the
October
6
general
elec?
tion.
Already
it
has
caused
politi-.
cal
splits
and
obscured
hitherto
well-defined
newspaper
political
sympathies.
Two
Hepburn
cabinet
ministers
resigned,
on
the
Premier's
request,
before
trie
Oshawa
strike
was
settled.
But
iendum
in
this
state
on
the
ques-
both
are
running
for
re-election
tion
of
repeal.
as
Liberals.
!
The
Ontario
government
leader
stepped
into
the
fray
againstthe
absent
Lewis
by
organizing
a
special
police
force
to
prevent
disorder
at
Oshawa.
He
declared
'the
chief
issue
was
not
wages
1
but
whether
agitators,
"who
have
brought
our
neighboring
country
;
Into
a
state
of
anarchy,"
were
to
attain
their
goal
of
"smashing
'our
export
business."
Later
the
premier
lengthened,
his
objective
to
the
"protection:
I
of
the
tVAv
pnveloOM
of
PnnnHinn
workers
from
racketeers
across
the
line.''
He
called
for
a
unlt-d
front
against
"Lewis
and
com."
munism."
On
the
ground
they
were
out
VAvrntrvrrt
5Pnt
5'
The
of
svmPatny
with
his
strike
thur
Roebuck
and
using
boonv
.of
Jogs
S
TcMt
A,
CThe
e
but
no
damage,,
done
to
were
written
structure;
4
vl
Labor
Minister
resignathri3
promptly.
Mr.
Roebuck
wrote
that
the
SHOULD
HAVE
LIT
MATCH
.Oshawa
workers
had
a
legal
and
I
moral
right
to
organize
in
any
WARSAW
POLAND,
Sept.
25
1
union
they
chose.
The
govern-A
man
in
Poland
has
made
his
meat
should
be
Impartial.
Mr,
107th
attempt
at
suicide.
This
Croll
penned
similar
sentiments
llmo
he
dranw
miHrt
nf
PARo-'and
added
that
his
own
place
line
hut
once
again
his
purpose
!was
"marching
with
the
workers
was
frustrated.
'
(Continued
on
Page
Four).