VICTORIA,
B.C.
Today'
Weather
Tomorrow's
Tides
Prince
Rupcrtr-i'a,r
it
AM,)
northwest
WW
mmm
High
6:08
ajn.
16.9
ft.
'
wind;
barometer,
29.74.
(falling);
17:41
p.m.
16.9
ft.
temperature,
36?
sea
smooth.
Low
11:56
a.m.
10.1
ft.
.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
j
i
Vol.
XXVI..
No.
261,
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER
9,
1937.
PRICE:
5
CENTS.
Ck'ese
Have
Evacuated
Shanghai
NOT
NOT
KNOWm'HEN
KNOWVhen
ROAD
Rfun
':
:iAnMiiie
Conquest
Of
Ol
ftroat
Great
Pftrf
Port
Ic
Is
Maw
Now
TO
ALASKA
WILL
COME;
IS
HUGE
UNDERTAKING
Would
Provide
Motor
Highway
5790
Miles
From
Mexico
City
to
Fairbanks
Through
British
Columbia
.
VICTORIA,.
Nov.
9:
(CP)
Supporters
of
the
proposed
motor
highway;
through
British
Columbia
from
the
United
States
boundary
to
Alaska
have
studied
statements
by
two
political
leaders
and
have
decided
the
road
will
be
builtbut
they
still
cannot
tell
when.
i
.
.
.
,."lJV1
'dream
road"
from
the
far
north
to
Buenos
Aires
In
South
America-would
provide
a
continuous
5790-mllc
motor
road
from
Mexico
City
to
Fairbanks,
Alaska.
That
distance
Is
considerably
less
than;
half
the
total
mileage
of
the
completed
Pan-
!
It
American
Highway
Comment
favorable
to
construe-)
tion
of
the
United
States-Alaskan
j
swtl,.n
was
made
bv
President
on
Roosevelt
in
his
"good
will"
visit
to
Victoria
September
30.
The
president
said
he
thought
the
project
would
be
"advisable"
as
scon
as
governments
of
Canada
and
the
United
States
"find
It's
lime
to
do
It,
"Die
more
good
roads
there
are,
the
more
people
will
travel,"
he
said.
Lc;
than
a
month
later.
Premier
T
D.
Pattullo
of
British
Columbia
returned
to
the
Pacific
Coast
from
.Ottawa
and
Jlydc
Tark.
N.V.,
where
he
visited
the
president,
to
tell
in
terviewers:
"The
highway
will
definitely
come
Look
at
It
this
way
Alaska
and
the
Untied
States
are
two
neighbors,
and
the
only
"way
they
can
get
overland
contact
ls
:
thrruih
our
territory.'
Mi
Pattullo
Fald
there
was
"no-UHiij
definite"
to
report
on
the
project
however,
although
he
would
shortly
b?jrjn
actio"
to
work
out
"really
definite
progress."
Unancln;
Difficulty
Apparently
the
principal
delay
In
:!artin-
work
on
the
highway
lay
In
financing.
Engineers"
estimates
have
placed
the
cost
at
about
$12,-000,000
to
far
as
Canada
Is
concerned
$7,300,000
for
the
504
miles
let
to
be
built
in
British
Columbia,
and
$1,030,000
for'
the
Yukon
Territory:
130-mllc
.section.
Already
completed
In
the
Pan-.
American
highway
Is
a
completely-1
paved
roadway
from
Vancouver
to".
Mexico
City.
Another
832
miles,
for
the
mast
part
paved,
runs
froml
Vancouver
to
Hazclton.
on
the
Can-1
adlan
National
Railways
northern!
line
to
Prince
Rupert.
Prom
Hazclton
the
proposed
road
would"
run
northward
to.AUln,
then
across
the
Yukon
Territory
through
White
Horse
and
Dawson.
Part
of
the
remaining
371
miles
Uirouzh
Alaska
Territory
to
Fair
banks
has
been
built.
Opponents
of
the
scheme
claim
the
proposed
highway
would
be
primarily
an
American
military
road
and,
as
such,
should
not
be
permitted
by
Canada.
Suorters
say
constructiyn
of
the
road
would
provide
employment
for
thousands
for
at
least
five
years
provide
a
market
for
the
surplus
products
of
the
central
Interior
of
British
Columbia
and
open
up
the
mineral,
timber
and
agricultural
resources
of
the
nortliland.
South
of
Mexico
pity,
105
miles
to
Tehuacan
Is
now
passable
by
motor,
and
the
rest.of
the
road
U
Panama
will
probably
be
finished
soon.
Then
(here
Is
a
400-mlle
stretch
of
Junglo
and
mountain
to
the
Colombian
border
In
South
America.
In
South
America
South
America
has
considerable
sections
of
excellent
road,
but
there
arerouzhnnri
ruwnl
natches.
In
Peru
the
imvemmoHt.
laid
down
2000
miles,
of
good
road
from
the
northern
border
to
Chile.
.From
there
ty
Santiago
ln
Chile
motor-
v
iii
i-
p
.i
uiituniiJiutcu
puiuuii
ui
-
-
I
ists
can
travel
1577
miles
From
Santiago
a
highway
leads-eastwards
over
the
Andes
mountains,
but
the
heavy
snowfall
keep.'
closed
to
moror
traffic
In
the
winter.
AtMcndozaln
the
Argentine
this
road
Joins
the
Argentine
sec
Hon
of
the
highway
which
carried
for
850
miles
to
the
Southern
terminus
of
the
Pan-Amcrlcar
roadway,
Buenos
Aires.
I
CONDITIONS
IMPROVED
I
General
Business,
Building,
Car
Loadings.
Mineral
Production
And
Employment
All
Up
OTTAWA.
Nov.
0:.
CPt-
The
Dominion
Bureau
of
Statistics
v
j
reports
a
"marked
improvement"
In
Canadian
economic:
conditions
In
the
first
nine
months
of
this
year
is
Indicated
by
the
trend
of
major
factors.
The
index
of
the
physical
value
of
business
j
averages
121.8.
a
gain
of
10.8
percent
over
the
same
period
last
year.
The
construction
Industry
is
more
active.
Car
loading
shows
an
appreciable
Increase.
Mineral
prnrinrHnti
l
annul
fifteen
percent
ii
'
and
the
general
employ-miil
Increase
Is
9.7
percent
greater.
MOSCOW
CURIOUS
Waul
tn
Know
More
About
Anil-Communis!
Par
Nl
Directed
At
Russia,
Says
Rome
nOMM.
Nov.
9:
(CP)
The
Soviet
ambassador
has
asked
Itab
to
cxn'nln
tlii
antl-communlst
"act
which
Italy
signed
at
the
end
nf
inst.
week
with
Germany
and
Janan.
Russian
quarters
said
thc
....
.
.
i.-....
e::r"cten
moscvv
io
read,
kio
flip
aec.rd
and
hinted
tint
Rus
sian
oil
supplies
now
sent
to
Ital
mi?ht
be
stopped.
Meanwhile
the
Brltlsli
press
viewed
Italy's
adherence
to
the
t-.act
as
aimed
at
Great
Britain.
It
has
been
seml-offlclally
staled
hi
Rome
that
Hie
iintl-e.'immunlst
pnet.
does
not
constitute
n
mllltar
alliance
and
Is
not
directed
at
Russia
which
Is
"entitled
to
all
the
communism
It
wants
as
long
as
it
keeps
11
at
home."
To
Discuss
Part
PARIS,
Nov.
9:
(CP)
-Foreign
Minister
Yvon
Delbos
of
France
will
make
a
trip
to
Poland
and
other
central
European
countries
to
discuss
reuctlons
to
the
antl-communlst
pact
between
Italy.
Germany
and
Japan.
He
will
leave
soon
after
the
nine-power
confer
ence.
It
will
be
the
first
time
n
French
foreign
minister
has
made
such
a
trip
since
Anrll
1934.
Poland
Warned
WARSAW,
Nov.
9!
(CP)
The
Soviet
Union
lias
waniea
i'oiaim,as
uiuanu
v,oiim-iyuw
.m.,
that
It
would
consider
Warsaw's
ad-
irpitro
tn
tho
Ttnllnn-Jnnniiese-
liri
111(111
UIIVI
VSS
1
I
II
I
UIIIVIII
v
a
hostile
act,
toward
the
Soviet
;
Premier
King
Urges
Peace
t
OTTAWA.
Nov.
9:
(CP)
Speaking
yesterday
in
an
Arm-
Istlce
Day
message
to
the
people
of
Canada,
Prime
Mln-
later
William
Lyon
Mackenzie
Kin
appealed
for
the
develop-
mcnt
of
an
Interested
and
en-
v
lightened
public
opinion
in
Canada
on
matters
affecting
i'
lnle.Maiional
lilendshlp
and
'
goodwill.
He
made
a
plea
for
j
worm
peace,
declaring
mat
early
failure
of
efforts
to
effect
world
peace
would
be
fraught
with
possibilities
of
unparal-
lcled
disaster
to
mankind.
TAKES
NEW
YORK
POST
Dr.
lUtberl
Bedford
Leaving
Fisher
ies
Experimental
Station
to
Join
Service
of
Big
Fisheries
Company
Dr.
Robert
II.
Bedford,
for
clgnt
and
a.
half
years
bacteriologist
with
the
Prince
Rupert
Fisheries
Experi
mental
Station,
has
resigned
that
position
and
will
be
leaving
this
month
for
New
York
to
Join
the
scientific
staff
of
the
Atlantic
Coast
,
Fisheries
Corporation,
'one-of
the
largest
fish
companies
la
Uic
world.
Whljc
ini
prince
mipen,,iur.
uca-ford
lias
done
Important
scientific
work
of
a,
practical
nature,
more
particularly
with
the
preservation
nf
halibut
from
the
time
Is
Is
caught
at
"sea
until
It
Is
marketed.
On
the
basis
or
researcn
worn
ior
which
he
has
been
responsible,
a
number
of
practical
changes
have
been
made
In
handling
fish.
RATE
RAISE
PROTESTED
Provincial
Government
Takes
Exception
To
Advance
in
Auto
Freight
Charges
VICTORIA,
Nov.
9:
(CP)
Pre-
j
mlcr
T.
D.
Pattullo
announces
tha'
the
provincial
government
will
protc
i
against
an
Increase
In
railway
rates
on
automobiles
from
Eastern
Canada
to
the
Pacific
Coast.
It
Is
estimated
that
a
$500,-Tii
Increase
In
prices
will
be
Involved.
C.
H.
Otlalloran.
Vlctorl1.
barrister,
has
been
appointed
sne
cial
counsel
by
the
province
to
mpenr
before
the
Board
of
Rail
way
Commissioners
which
Is
mcct-
m
In
Vancouver
at
the
first
of
tills
week.
R0WE
IS
ELECTED
Ontario
Provincial
Conservative
Leader
Gels
Ills
Federal
Seal
Back
AIJJSTON.
Out..
Nov.
9:
(CP)
Hon.
Earl
Rowc,
Ontario
wm-
M
vr
leader,
was
elected
to
hc
House
of
Commons
for
Duf
frrin-Slmcoc
by
acclamation
when
nominations
for
the
by-election
to
he
held
November
15
closed
yestcr
dav.
Shortly
before
Ontario
'
general
provincial
election
early
las
month
Mr.
Rowc
resigned
to
con-
1
1
est
a
provincial
riding
In
which
I
he
was
defeated.
He
will
continue
Mrs.
R.
S.
Wood
sailed
this
ai
teinonn
on
the
Catala
for
a
trio
w
m
to
Vancouver.
Complete,
Bringing
To
Finish
Another
Phase
Of
Conflict
BULLETINS
JAPS
ON
KLSSlAN
FRONTIER
TOKYO,
Nov.
9:
(CP)
One
of
Japan
.
luost
powerful
armies
dc-n,i
,
,i
,ir,
.c
..uvi
.
frontier
of
Japanese
dominated
Maneiiou-
kuo
today
while
Japanese
and
nculial
observers
shared
almost
unanimous
belief
that
relations
between
Russia
and
Japan
were
Hearing
a
fracture.
'I
lie
strained
diploi
i-tic
.situation
and
per-
j
haps
the
massing
of
crack
Japan-
c.vc
troops
on
the
Manclioukuo
border
grew
from
the
recent
trcngtliruing
oi
the
Gcrm.an-Japancsc
atili-communism
front
with
the
entrance
of
Italy
and
the
friction
over
renewal
of
Soviet-granted
fishing
concessions.
(i
O
I.I)
LEAVING
GOTHAM
WASHINGTON
Secretary
nf
the
Treasury
Henry
Morgenlhau
announced
yesterday
that
a
ship
ment
of
$1050,000
of
gold
would
leave
New
York
on
Wednesday
for
Pari;
having
been
purchased
for
the
French
stabilization
fund.
Some
$12,500,000,000,
0r
over
half
of
the
world's
total,
has
been
on
hoard
in
the
United
Stales.
CONCLUDING
PACT
LONDON
Early
conclusion
of
the
trade
pact
between
Great
Britain
and
insurgent
Spain
is
expected,
Foreign
Secretary
Anthony
Eden
told
the
House
of
Commons
-yesterday.
The
arrangement,
Eden
made
it
clear,
does
not
recognize
the
Insurgents
as
a
government.
or
as
a
belligerent.
MINES
RESUME
WORK
DRUMIIELLER
Three
of
four
collieries
here
resumed
work
today
after
a
three-day
strike,
miners
have
agreed
to
negotiate
their
dispute
over
wages
and
timber
conditions
in
the
mines
throush
F.
E.
Harrison,
federal
fair
wage
officer
from
Vancouver.
TRAPPERS
PICKED
HP
KETCHIKAN
Three
trappers
James
McLean,
A.
L.
Billiard
and
O.
L.
Weeks
were
picked
up
and
brought
here
in
a
poor
physical
condition
by
the
coastguard
cutler
Alert
after
having
been
marooned
almost
entirely
without
food
at
Kcndrick
Bay
for
about
three
weeks.
A
boat
which
had
gone
to
get,
supplies
for
them
failed
to
get
hack
owing
to
bad
weather.
Two
of
the
men
were
picked
up
from
a
rowboal
and
the
third
from
the
shore.
STORMS
IN
ALBERTA
CLARESIIOLM.
Alberta
A
six-ly-milc
gale
near
here
yesterday
blew
down
telephone
poles.
There
was
a
dtiststorm
In
Letlihridgc
district.
At
Banff
two
Inches
of
snow
had
fallen
last
evening
and
It
was
till
falling.
GERMANS
IN
CHINA
TOKYO
Germany
is
to
send
representatives'
to
North
China
to
study
possibilities
ot
commercial
and
industrial
development
there
In
collaboration
with
Japan,
it
Is
reported
here.
VancrntLtX
Wheat
ER
Nov
9'
(CP)
Wheat
was
trading
at
$1.18
on
the
Vancouver
market
yesterday.
NATIVE
CITY
IS
FIRED
CEEDS
Metropolis
Entirely
Cut
Off
From
Rest
Of
Nation
GENERAL
CHIANG
KAI
SHEK
DISCOUNTS
IMPORTANCE
OF
LATEST
REVERSE,
DECLARING
MAIN
DEFENSES
ARE
AROUND
RIVER
TOKYO,
Nov.
!):
(CP)
-Japan's
answer
to
the
note
of
the
nine-power
conlerence
appealing
to
her
to
enter
negotiations
to
end
the
Sino-.Iapancsc
conflict
will
not
be
forthcoming
until
Friday,
it
is
announced.
SHANGHAI,
Nov.
9:
3ranghai
area
by
the
Chinese
turned
today
into
a
rout.Jern
As
.lananese
fiirhtlnir
planes
swarmed
overhead
with
na-!piei
pleted
val
craft
concentrated
in
the
Whangpoo
River
and
landl
forces
advancing
in
all
directions,
terrorized
refugees
fled
tv,
tlicm-rloi-
firimr
t
ho
lintlVfl
PlLV.flS
tnGV
lelt'.
lllUS
an-
other
phase
of
the"
Sinb-Japanese
conflict
comes,
tu
an
end
with
eon
-
quest
bringing
promise
of
peace
I4r
u
Zh'
PnV
to
JaPan
afler
NoVember
15
un-?he
of
"suicide
'
detachment
nf
ot
Ltropolls
"""s
a
devastated
after
the
ln
the
mean.
three-month
siege.
A
cordon
of
flve
thousand
men
continued
to
tgke
adequatc
steps
to
pre.
Japanese
troops
was
thrown
around
!tho
International
settlement
last
night
as'a
measure
of
protection
to
the
foreign
population
pending
or
ganlzation
after
the
occupation.
Shanghai
Tell
into
Japanese
hands
with
the
retreat
of
General
Chiang
Kal
Sliek's
Chinese
troops
who
had
held
out
eighty-eight
days
i'4ainsl
combined
Japanese
army,
navy
and
air
forces.
The
city
was
aileep
and
unaware
of
its
fate
when
shortly
after
midnight
the
Chinese
farces
began
an
orderly
and
quiet
.eli
eat
toward
their
"winter
line"
protecting
the
capital
of
Nanking.
The
withdrawal
enabled
Japan
to
place
a
steel
ring
around
China's
greatest
port,
cutting
off
the
metropolis
from
the
rest
of
the
nation
i
and
bottling
up
three
million
Chin
ese
residents,
millions
of
refugees
and
many
thousands
of
foreigners.
Railways
and
htghways
in
all
dir-
f
cctlons
are
cut
or
blocked
by
the(
Japanese,
leaving
only
a
few
for-;
eign
and
Japanese
vessels
as
sole
connection
with
the
outside
world.
While
the
loss
of
Shanghai
will
undoubtedly
affect
the
Chinese
morale
ut
least
temporarily.
Gener-alisdmo
Chiang
Kal
Shek
declared
that
the
Shanghai
operaUon
was
purely
local
and
did
not
form
a
vi
tal
part
of
the
chief
defenses
which
he
said
were
about
the
Yellow
River
region.
Foreign
observers
said
that
the
great
lesson
nf
the
Shanghai
war
was
that
poorly
equipped
but
numerically
superior
forces
had
little
chance
against
a
small,
well
mechanized
and
well
organized
army.
About
six
thousand
Clilne.se
soldiers
barricaded
themselves
ln
the
Nantao
area
adjoining
the
French
concession
and
declared
they
would
hold
out
to
the
death.
I
Nanking.
Next?
I
Meantime
the
conquest
of
North
China
by
the
Japanese
appears
to
continue.
Nanking,
the
Nationalist
papltaL
alone
.seems
well
protected
by
deeply
entrenched
Chinese
troops.
Whether
Japan
will
endeavour
to
capture
that
city
ap
pears
to
be
a
matter
of
conjecture.
Jananese
trooDS
formally
enter
-
ed
Talyuenfu,
capital"
of
Shansl
Province,
at
9:15
yesterday
morn-
lng.
it
was
announced
at
Tientsin,
I
Fighting
continued
In
the
.streets
AS
EVACUATION
PRO
TERROR-STRICKEN
PEOPLE
SEEK
JAPANESE
REPLY
ON
FRIDAY
YELLOW
,port
10
the
dePtment
by
Leo
D.
(CV
The
pvncimLifin
of
tl
)
1I1C
evacuation
OISUt.eo.
attache
of
the
Far
East-
.
...
i
h.
coiiitsu
uic
t..vW.
LHVinoiI
weaves
I
ancjr
BRUSSELS,
Nov.
9:
(CP)
For
eign
Commissar
Maxim
Lltvlnoff,!
Russian
delegate
to
the
Brussels
conference
seeking
to
end
the
Slno-
Japanes
war,
announced
suddenly
today
that
he
was
leaving
for
Mos
cow
tonight.
Lltvinoff's
departure
In
some
circles
Is
regarded
as
a
m-otcst
aealnst
a
move
he
thinks
Is
under
way
to
eliminate
Russia
from
major
conference
activities.'
Such
a
move
to
exclude
Russia
would
presumably
be
In
an
effort
to
placate
Japan.
ITALIANS
I
EVACUATE
a
Volunteers
Being
Removed
From
Spain
Under
Agreement
Between
Mussolini
and
Franco
LONDON,
Nov.
9:
(CP)
It
was
reported
here
yesterday
that
Italy
was
actively
withdrawing
its
legionairres
from
the
Spanish
civil
war
and
that
four
thousand
mercenaries
who
have
been
taking
parf
in
the
northern
campaign
with
General
Francisco
rr-n"'s
fnrres
had
sailed
from
Santandcr
for
home.
The
evacu-n'inn
n"
Dalian
volunteers
is
being
made,
it
Is
believed,
under
i
an
agreement
between
Premier
MMolini
and
Franco
prior
to
Hip
pnipos"
ulaclnr
f
neulral
observers
in
Spain
under
a
plan
of
the
non-intervention
committee
with
a
view
to
having
foreigners
withdrawn
from
the
support
of
both
sides.
General'
Franco
has
served
notice
iinmi
foreign
shipping
that
till
enlrj
lovalist
coast
in
the
'Mediterranean
Is
to
be
mined
In
carrying
out
Uie
Insurgent
blockade.
.
'
Card
of
Thanks
Mrs.
J.
Worobec
and
family
wish
to
thank
all
those
who
helped
and
sent
floral
tributes
and
for
sym-
pathy
received
in
their
recent
sad
bereavement.
FISHING
PROTEST
United
States
to
Make
Representations
to
Tokyo
on
Alaska.-;
Encroachment
WASHINGTON,
D.
C,
Nov.'
-9
(CP)
State
Department
officials
are
considering
the
dispatch
of
diplomatic
representations
to
the
Japanese
government
over
alleged
encroachment
of
Japanese
fishing
als
In
salmon
fishing
grounds
of
Bristol
Bay
In
Alaska.
i
Action
in
the
form
of
an
offU
c!al
United
States
protest
is
ex-'
pected
soon
on
the
basis
of
a
re-
division,
who
recently
com-
an
Investigation.
ra0o
J
9.
SSSi9
Maritime
Workers'
t.,h
Feeration
w
by
strike
and
picketing,
will
endeavor.'
to
prevent
shipment
of
all
goods'
(vent
japanese
encroachment
in-
lAtesJyi
.Alnslrri
flshrrlM.
it.
wn
mnri
known
yesterday.
THREE
IN
ELECTION
Bruce
McKelvIe
Nominated
Con-i
servativc
Candidate
for
Victoria
in
By-election
VICTORIA,
Nov.
9:
(CP)
A
three-way
contest
is
In
sight
for
the
Victoria
federal
by-election
caused
by
the
recent
death
of
tho
late
Hon.
Dr.
S.
F.
Tolmie.
It
will
be
the
second
time
since
the
present
government
was
elected
that
by-election
has
been
held
?or
the
Victoria
seat
and
the
fifteenTh
by-election
in
all
of
Canada
slttcp
that
time.
Tolmie
had
been
eleclSl
ln
a
close
contest
at
a
by-election
necessitated
by
the
death
soon
after
the
general
election
of
the
then
Conservative
member,
D.
B.
Plunkett.
Bruce
McKelvie.
Victoria
news
paperman,
has
been
nominajjrt.
Conservative
candidate
with
Prof.
J.
King
Gordon
Co-operative
Commonwealth
Federation
candidate,
and
R.
W.
Mayhew,
Liberal,
.already
ln
the
field.
?
Bruce
McKelvie
Is
a
former
editor
of
the
Prince
Rupert
Dally
News
and
for
some
years
has
been
news
editor
of
the
Victoria
Colons
1st.
k
Pound
Sterling
Is
Still
Rising
Closedat
$5.03
In
New
York
Ye-terday
and
is
Still
Going
Ahead
I
NEW
YORK.
Nov.
0:
(CP)
Having
crossed
the
$5
mark
at
the
week-end
for
the
first
time
since
September
1936,
the
British
pound
sterling
continues
Its
steady
ad-
vance
on
the
New
York
loreign
ex-
change
market
and
yesterday
cjos-
ed
at
S5.uj,
up
w
irom
eaiuraay
which
ln
turn
was
two
cents
ahead
of
Friday.