ininns
lost
In
the
northland
irlng
a
third
Soviet
transPolar
tight
to
the
United
States,
Her-
xt
llollick-Kenyon,
noted
Can
PRCOW
flier,
said
here
he
had
ac
1
ptfd
the
offer
of
an
airplane
cm
Sir
Hubert
Wllkins,
famous
Mar
explorer,
and
would
begin
Strirrh
for
the
sir
Russians.
IWi
8UII)lv
for
t.'i
diivs.
slpen-
ba("
a
tent,
a
portahle
radio
a
rubber
float.
At
Juneau,
nor
John
W.
Trav
said
he
informed
bv
the
State
I)c-
htment
that
the
Sovh
t
jroveni-
(rl
liar
rrimralpft
nld
in
Hip
ntinuintr
the
quest
northward
uaa
miormea
nim
inai
11
was
Per"
ment
dead
had
reacliett
me
inous-
m
Fmrbanks
in
the
belief
that
Iecu?
'?na,
COn""lU.'
atT
.
...
...
.
t0ViPt
airmen
!-,.,
!,..
have
l.nf..,
been
appoint,
uiacn.
u
wiu
oujivuii:
t
series
OI
Iiua
un
uwier
rev;
mav
Sirr
down
not
so
very
hr
Irth
of
Fnlrlianlcs.
Mpnntinie.
Soviet
government
has
order-n
aerial
spnrrti
in
1m
insti-
vi
from
the
scientific
camp
at
;frh
Pole.
ordinK
to
speculation
at
scw
In
official
nuartcrs.
the
tMi)K
plann
mnv
have
been
''
down
u-IMi
icni
wincr
Pin
the
Arrtip
Court.
Halibut
Sales
Canadian
Johanna,
G.000,
Cold
Storage,
11.2c
and
8c.
CLIITKK
OVKIl
ATLANTIC
"n
to
Un.
K'l.-ur
vni'ir
a.i
17.
I
pmaviK
from
Kdmonton
yes-
to
Knglond.
With
a
Fa
rehlld
nlwnp
to
P
in
tho
comnanlnnj
Tliv
will
.
ordinate
with
Jimmy
Mattern,
''ratlin?
frnTYi
t;-,..
"l
.
othVr
wh
Ai.
Tn:u
uttawa
uns
ffi?'nK
eight
Russian
palnes.
Wi
UP
BPnnl.
i
fdv
w"s
spurreu
yesier-
i?
will,
reports
from
the.
Soviet
Spagay
at
Wnatitmrt
jwlan
government
radio
sUtion
S
TkUtpk
In
Rll.Pl-ln
ln,l
ntnltuA
8'gnalg
of
a
weak
and
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mornlnir.
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Mm.
4i.
t..
Plane."
onl.0n
Canadian
Signal
Tbo
The
Relief
Grant
t
VICTORIA
August
17:
The
British
Columbia
government
has
been
advised
from
Ottawa
that
Its
monthly
relief
grants
ar
to
be
reduced
from
$150,-
000
to
$120,000.
Hon
George
S.
Pearson,
minister
or
iaoor,
saia
yesterday
that
this
might
prove
embarrassing
to
this
pro-
vlnce
hi
view
of
the
Influx
of
people
to
British
Columbia
from
prairie
drought
areas,
tors
as
well
as
on
the
two
fronts
has
caused
heavy
losses
on
both
sides
of
the
Spanish
civil
war
but
resulted
in
no
signifirant
gains
over
the
week-end.
Loyalists
suffered
a
severe
setback
in
the
second
day
of
their
offensive
on
thiv
Guadalaraj.i
front,
Madrid
admitted.
After
a
column
captured
Lopera,
strategi
cally
important,
village
north
ot
Guadalajara,
slrong
reinlorce-
lober
r
i?.ii
...i
,.
.
m,
it,
la
ments
forced
the
Madrid
army
to
Ifrn
Canniiu-
rti
i.ta
.....!
i
n
in
.n,i
withdraw
thanic
rinmt.i
ti..i.
..i..,t
'
!...
ub.aii,,ii
ni.i,tl
Lopera
in
Jaen
Jaen
t
rovince
l.mi..
Hiittnf
Tnfl
ti
KTrt
1f)lu
tflJVUIl
Ivl'UllWM
U
ilU
'Hill
D
hat-
Land
in
bitter
fighting
in
which
the
'government
and
insurgent
troops
alternately
prevailed.
It
has
changed
hands
.twice
but
the
insurgent
victors
were
reported
to
have
found
their
position
untcn
able
and
to
be
moving
out
of
the
southern
dity.
Meanwhile
at
Gibraltar
British
Authorities
ordered
the
ronsuhr
offices
there
of
the
Spanish
In
surgent
regime
to
close
its
doort
because
the
consulate
has
been
issuing
allegedly
unauthorized
passports.
'
Insurgent
troops
pushed
into
the
northern
manufacturing
city
of
Uclnosa
in
a
terrific
battle
with
retreating
government
troops,
insurgent
advices
sale'.
The
rebels
reported
the
capture
of
nn
entire
battalion
and
said
that
fivo
government
battalions
had
fled.
1
UBRAPY
Today's
(I
AM.)
Weather
Tomorrow's
Tides
Prince
Rupert
Cloudy,
northwest
wind,
two
miles
per
hour;
High
11:28
a.m.
18.5
ft.
barometer,
30.18
(steady);
temperature,
23:10
p.m.
18.7
It.
5?;
sea
smooth.
Low
5;
14
a.m.
6.0
It.
17:11
p.m.
9.3
ft,
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
No.
191
XXVfr,
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
TUESDAY,
AUGUST
17,
1937.
PRICE:
5
CENTS
I
I
"
1
1
H
I
treets
Red
With
Blood
L..-
LIERS
A
still
m
Further
Word
of
Urmen
After
inree
Ua.
Widespread
Search
Instituted
Canadians
Help
Randall
Arrives
at
Aklavik
To
Co-operate
in
(Juest
KEN
YON
JOINS
HUNT
ITORONTO,
August
17:
(Can-
iun
Press)
As
planes
of
Rus-
United
States
and
Canada
litrd
In
northern
areas
today
resume
the
tearch
for
Sigis-lind
Levaneffsky
and
five
com-
SUSPECT
SABOTAGE
WHEN
100
KILLED
IN
INDIAN
TUAIN
WRECK
achieved
prominence
as
volunteers
are
shown
aiding
injured
persons
beneath
the
wrecked
coaches
of
the
I
t
r
I
A
I
i.
i
.
.
i
l
l
j
.
.
tor
Lincoln
Ellsworth's
Ant-
runjau-oaicuua
express
auer
me
irain
nau
piungeu.
over
un
embankment
near
raiua,
ttic
rincdltlon
in
1931
which
inuia,
Killing
over
iuu
anu
injuring
cju
persons,
ine
a
sasier,
me
worn
in
jinoian
he
far
north,
today
directed
aerial
search
over
the
frozen
ra
and
ice
floes
of
the
Arc
C!rcle
for
Sigismund
Levan-
y.
isttA
Russian
flier,
and
companions
who
are
long
1
I
J
i
rl
I
..il.
.
'it.
i
in,
...l
rauroau
nisiory,
was
caut.eu
oy
a
lorn-un
ran.
Aumonues
are
conuuciing
an.
lines
AIREANKS,
Aug.
17:
CP
Crcrcon,
famed
mercy
filer
NEW
JUDGE
APPROVED
ligation
nuo
rumors
oi
sauoiage.
SANTANDER
NEAR
FALL
'raw
on
u
tran-iolar
flight'
United
States
Senate
Judiciary
insurgents
Expert
to
Take
niicayan
Mr::nw
to
the
United
Committee
Sunnorts
Nomination
te"
No
definite
word
had,
of
Alabaman
e
from
the
Russians
since'
a.m
I'
S.T..
Saturday,
when
I
WASHINGTON.
DC.
Aueust
17:
s
Signal
Corns
station
ot
(Canadian
Press)
The
United
ichorflge
picked
up
weak
sig-
states
Senate
Judiciary
committee
which
said
"no
bearings
yesterday
aDDroved
the
nomination
tnuble.
with
wave-band
"
f
Senator
Hueo
Dlack.
Alabama
t
fa;
he
first
word
from
the
Democrat,
to
the
Supreme
Court
ol
V
in
28
hours
mid
it
was
a
n,
trnitoH
Ktntrs
Capital
Within
a
Week
Claim
Desist
vc
Vistories
Bitter
Fighting
Conflict
Continues
Without
L
Up
in
Various
Parts
of
War-torn
Spain
V
V
w
wv
wvutnv
lUt)
Certaintv
that
thp
l)laflG
Atll..K
ArlmlntptMilnn
on
J
.
-
down
hundreds
of
miles
piirenlly
commandcd
the
vote
to
Generalissimo
Francisco
Franco's
any
outpost.
Advices
from
rnnflrm
him.
the
Senate
had
open-
i
.
,.,.,
0.
,t
l:.
-
.
IfKIUIia
lUMKVU
uuilioi,
iunuii(,
i
ine
iiicrs
nnu
j
nn
innnlrv
Into
the
Qualifications
defences
,if
today
,i..
,
ouuuiiiutrr
uciculcs
of
the
51-year-old
Alabaman
for
fivo
direction
and
insurgent
lac-
,
service
on
the
Supreme
Court.
Itidans
predicted
the
fall
of
the
I
The
Senate
Judiciary
sub-corn-
niscayau
capital
within
a
week.
mlttee
swlttly
approved
the
nomln-
A
dispatch
from
the
insurgent
ation
of
Senator
Dlack.
It
acted
sjti,.
said
'that
seven
government
!
only
minutes
after
President
Roose-.battalions
had
been
trapped
by
;vclt
told
a
press
conference
that;
Franco's
fast-moving
offensive,
'"kan
commercial
i.lanes.
are
AUorney
O1
ln
naa,,and
that
he
number
of
govern-
BETTY
IS
GOING
ON
'
Girl
Canoeist
Passe$Wales,
HUnri
Safely
on
Way.
to
Ketchikan
Betty
Lowman
of
Anacortes,
Washington,
hi
the
course
of
her
solo
canoe
trip
from
Seattle
to
Alaska,
arrived
safely
at
Wales
Island
on
Saturday'
from
Port
Simpson
and
left
on
Sunday
In
continuation
of
the
trip
to
Ketchikan,
planning
one
stop
between
Wales
Island
to
Ketchikan.
Word
of
Miss
Lowman's
progress
was
brought
here
by
the
steamer
Catala
this
morning
on
her
arrival
from
Wales
Island
enroute
to
Late
Telegraphs
WALLACE
BADLY
BEATEN
CHICAGO
Gcorgle
Salvadore,
Houston,
Texas,
stored
a
clean-cut
decision
over
Gordon
Wallace,
Vanouver,
in
ten
rounds
here
last
night.
Salvador's
infighting
overcame
Wallace's
long
looping
lefts.
Salvadore
weighed
141
pounds;
Wallace,
115.
CANNERYMAN
DIES
VANCOUVER
Angus
James
Hugh
McMillan,
52,
born
at
Sea
Island,
veteran
canneryman,
died
yesterday.
MINERS
ASPHYXIATED
GOLDEN
The
bodies
of
two
miners
Lloyd
Larabee,
43,
and
William
Hanson,
17,
were
found
at
the
bottom
of
the
shaft
in
the
Splllimacheen
mine
near
here.
They
had
been
asphyxiated.
HALIBUT
BOATS
SEIZED
PORTLAND
Four
halibut
boats
Enterprise,
Martha,
Saga
and
Wenlerstad
have
been
seized
by
Collector
of
Customs
Miller
here
on
allegation
ot
violation
of
the
International
regulations
prohibiting
fishing
south
ot
Cape
Spencer
after
July
28.
Catches,
aggregating
7800
pounds,
have
also
been
seized
from
the
Portland
Fish
Co..
which
Is
also
subject
to
prosecution.
HAK
SILVER
NEW
YORK:
(CP)
Bar
all-
vcr
was
unchanged
at..44c
-per
fine
ounce
on
the
New
York
metal
market
today.
Wide
Areas
In
Heart
Of
Great
Seaport
Wrecked
By
Air
Bombs;
Thousands
Of
People
Are
Dead
OTTAWA
QUASHES
Aberliart
Government
Kefuses
to
itieet
Request
of
Premier
King
OTTAWA,
August
17:
(Cana-nian
Press)
f
ollowing
a
session
ol
the
federal
leuera.cao.
cabinet
ie,
tins
alter-
Jioth
Sides
Claim
to
Have
Inflicted
Heavy
Losses
on
the
Other
Japan
is
Now
on
Full
Wartime
Basis
NANKING,
August
17:
(Canadian
Press)
The
leg-isiative
Yuan,
executive
of
the
Chinese
government,
today
decreed
national
mobilization.
Details
of
the
emergency
measure
were
not
immediately
disclosed.
SHANGHAI,
Aucrust
17:
(Canadian
Press)
Both
sides
claimed
that,
air
squadrons
had
inflicted
heavy
'
losses
th
fch
j
th
Tannnpfi1
waTAPIi
pu;n.
noon
to
consiuer
ine
reiusai
01
-
-
j,v"""
v"-
premier
wiliiam
Aoexhart
of
ai-
pse
bombing
planes
wrecked
wide
areas
in
the
heart
of
beta
to
co-operate
in
sending
Alberta
statutes
in
regard
to
banking
to
Supreme
Court
for
a
test
of
constitutionality,
the
Dominion
government
announced
early
this
evening
that
Hit
prairie
province's
bank
legislation,
passed
at
the
recent
session
of
the
legislature,
had
been
disallowed.
This
drastic
power
of
federal
veto
over
provincial
enactments
is
not
often
exercised.
This
is
the
first
time
since
1931.
No
appeal
is
possible
from
such
disallowance.
CO-OPERATION
REFUSED
EDMONTON,
August
17:
Following
a
meeting
of
the
cabinet
yesterday,
Premier
William
Aberhart
last
night
saw
the
reply
of
the
Alberta
goTt
rnment
to
Prime
Minister
William
Lyon
Mackenzie
King,
asking
co-operation
in
referring
new
Social
Credit
legislation
regarding
banks
to
the
Supreme
Court
of
Canada
for
test
of
validity
and
that
the
province
refrain
temporarily
from
enforcing
the
legislation,
was
ready
to
be
transmitted
to
Ottawa.
Premier
Aberhart,
disclosing
the
nature
of
the
reply,
made
the
statement:
"We
are
compelled
by
mandate
of
our
people
to
proceed
witli
enforcing
our
legislation."
NO
TRACE
0FB0DY
No
Success
in
Efforts
to
Recover
Remains
of
Ernest
Roberts
From
Skeena
Slough
Police
have
had
no
success
so
far
hi
their
efforts
by
dragging
and,
other
means
to
recover
the
body
of
Ernest
Roberts,
Port
Esslngton
Indian,
who
lost
his
life
by
drowning
Shanghai
while
attempting
to
sink
Japanese
gunboats
in
.
,
r
I
...iiv.
ivuu
Tuuuiti.Lia
oaiu
biiai
THOROUGH
PROBE
ON
Royal
Commission
on
Dominion-Provincial
Finances
to
Start
Work
Soon
j
j
Saturday
night
when
he
fell
over-)
Chairman
of
Royal
Commission
board
In
the
Skeena
Slough
near
on
Dominion-provincial
relations,
Dominion
Rock
from
the
stern
of
-
-
a
fishing
boat
in
which
he
and
lnlon-provinclal
financial
relations.
friends
were
bound
for
Port
Essing.
ton
after
a
visit
In
Prince
Rupert.
Companions
of
Roberts
on
the
boat
were
Fred
Benson,
Dorreen
Roberts,
sister
of
deceased,
Irene
Wesley
and
a
small
child.
Dorreen
was
steering
the
boat
at
the
time.
jThe
child
was
the
only
member
of
.
the
party
to
see
Roberts
fall
over-'
board.
HLs
hat
had
blown
off
his
head
and
It
was
when
he
attempted
to
snatch
at
it
that
he
fell
in.
According
to
the
police,
there
Is
Is
believed
to
have
been
liquor
on
the
boat
when
it
left
Prince
Rupert
early
In
the
evening.
Today's
Weather
Terrace
Cloudy,
calm,
temperature,
GO.
Alyansh
Cloudy,
calm,
6G.
Alice
Arm
Light
fog,
C8.
Stewart
Cloudy,
calm,
56.
Hazelton
Part
cloudy,
calm.
57.
Smlthers
Part
cloudy,
calm,
60.
I
Tonight's
train.'due
from
tho
Burns
Lake
Part
cloudy,
calm,
East
at
10:45,
was
reported
this
55.
morning
to
be"
on
lime.
one
bomb
alone
killed
upwards
to
a
thousand
persons
In
the
Thibet
Road
area
where
bodies
were
scattered
on
the
sidewalk
seven
feet
apart.
Raining
down
through
clouds
and
fog,
the
high
explosives
ripped
up
pavements,
sewers
and
water
mains,
smashed
buildings
and
killed
hundreds
in
the
vicinity
of
the
main
hotels
In
the
centre
of
the
city.
The
U.
8.
Cruiser
Augusta
arrived
and
anchored
In
the
lower
OTTAWA,
August
17:
(Canadian
reaches
of
the
Whangpoo
River.
Press)
Preparations
for
the
first
Parts
of
the
city
were
plunged
Into
thorough-going
review
of
Canadian
darkness
when
bombs
broke
elec-constitutional
and
governmental
trie
leads.
Streets
where
the
aerial
machinery
since
Confederation
bombs
fell
literally
ran
rivers
of
went
ahead.todayJollQwlng
the
ap-
bloQtL.Eires-spread.northward
from
.
pointment
aVthe
end
of
the
week
Nanking
Road,
destroying
scores
of
of
the
Royal
Commission
on
Dom-
wholesale
houses,
some
of
them
Japanese
owned.
Hon.N.W.RoweIl
Japanese
warships
early
today
had
resumed
heavy
shelling
of
Poo-chung.
Shell
splinters
spray
peaceful
foreign
home
areas
with
death
by
day
and
great
guns
were
still
roaring
out
terror
tonight
for
the
Chinese-Japanese
battlefield
of
Shanghai.
One
hundred
thousand
men
fight
to
a
goal
which
none
can
foresee.
Fires
ring
the
city.
Concession
police
are
unable
to
leam
tne
numoer
of
dead,
and
injured
but
it
is
estimated
that
fitty
persons,
all
Chinese,
were
added
to-uay
to
the
list
ot
thousands
already
killed
In
the
five-day
siege.
business
of
the
metropolis
Is
ut-
terly
collapsed.
Mote
than
two
thousand
British
and
American
women
and
children
have
fled
from
Shanghai,
running
down
the
Whangpoo
River
to
waiting
liners
under
blazing
guns
of
the
Japanese
fleet.
i
At
dusk
tonight
guns
of
Japanese
waiships
In
the
river
began
a
ter-ntic
bombardment.
.
linconflrmed
reports
say
that
I
Chinese
forces
have
penetrated
the
;
Japanese
advance
positions
In
some
places
near
the
city.
The
committee,
which
will
meet
at
international
settlement
author-an
early
date
for
organization
pur-
iti-es
have
proclaimed
strict
mea-poses,
consists,
as
announced
yest-
sures
to
maintain
order
and
pro-erday.
of
the
following:
tect
life
and
property.
Strict
cur-
Chlef
Justice
Newton
Rowell
of
few
is
being
enforced,
the
Ontario
Supreme
Court,
chair-1
Many
foreign
homes
are
virtually
man.
without
food.
Mr.
Justice
Thlbadeau
Rlnfret
of
a
daring
exploit
yesterday
was
the
Dominion
Supreme
Court,
Ot-
that
of
Chinese
in
a
speedboat,
rlg-tawa.
ged
up
with
torpedoes,
who
attack-
Johri
W.
Dafoe.
president
and
ed-
ed
the
Japanese
flagship
Idzumo
ltor
of
the
Winnipeg
Free
Press.
!
ancj
compelled
it
to
retire.
Robert
A.
MacKay,
professor
of
shanghai
and
its
3,500,000
Chin-government
at
Dalhousle
Unlver-
ese
and
foreign
inhabitants
have
slty,
Halifax.
,
been
virtually
plunged
into
general
Pror.
II.
F.
Angus.
University
of
'
hostilities.
Japanese
blue
Jackets
British
Columbia,
Vancouver.
I
stm
face
machine
guns
wheeled
ln-
The
central
purpose
of
the
Com-
position
at
the
Chinese
north
rail,
mission,
It
is
announced,
Is
"to
pro-
way
station,
vide
for
the
re-examlnatlon
of
the;
economic
ajnd
financial
basis
of
I
Doomed
to
Tragedy
Confederation
and
of
the
dlstrlbu-!
Shell!
Ire
and
flames
have
now
tlon
of
legislative
powers
In
the
'
left
this
city
seemingly
Irretrievably
light
of
economic
'and
social
de-
doomed
to
the
principal
role
In
velopments
of
the
last
sixty
years."
1937's
bloody
chapter
of
the
Slno-Japanese
tragedy.
Hostilities
be
tween
Japanese
bluejackets
and
China's
army
regulars
flared
from
Shanghai
proper
all
along
the
ten
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