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NORTHERN
AND
CENTRArtlUTISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
Vol.
XXVI.,
No.
262.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER
10,
1937.
PRICE:
5
CENTS
Ramsay
MacDonald
Passes
At
er
-
BV
Budget
Is
Brought
Down
TodaylFamous
Famous
Stat
No
Ih-jse
In
Taxes
This
Year,
Fi
inance
M
"
"
Surplus
For
Next
Fiscal
Year
inio
account
ucnei
anu
VICTORIA,
Nov.
10:
(CP)-Hon.
John
Hart,
minister
of
finance,
told,
the
Legislature
today
that
he
had
budgeted
for
a
surnlus
of
$80,182
in
the
fispnl
way
Win.
nine
next
March
31.
The
budget
does
not.
however.
Sro
-
vide
for
unemployment
I
i
relief
i.
p
expenditures
t,
or
complete
'
.
sinking
fund
allotments.
Estimated
revenue
for
the
vear!
-
4s
Convicted
in
of
ft
all
EDMONTON,
-Joseph
II.
Uhwln
Social
Credit
member
of
the
Legislature
for
Edson,
was
today
convicted
by
a
Jury
in
Supreme
Court
of
Alberta
of
publishing
defamatory
libel
knowing
It
to
be
fale
He
was
remanded
for
sentence
until
Friday.
The
slx-man
Jury
recommended
lenicn-c"
Ball
wast
continued
until
arraignment
for
sentence.
The
charge
arose
out
of
the
publication
of
the
booklet
"Bankers'
Tnad'cs"
In
which
nine
Edmonton
men
were
named.
i
NEW
ACT
INVOKED
MONTREAL,
Nov.
10:
(CP)
The
Union
of
Civil
Liberties
will
"ght
the
Quebec
padlock
law.
passed
at
the
last
session
of
the
kpislaturc
to
stop
the
dissemination
of
Communist
propaganda
In
Quebec
The
law
was
Invoked
for
the
first
time
yesterday
when
the
Police
visited
the
office
of
a
Montreal
weekly
publication
and
closed
It
down
as
being
employed
In
the
dk-icmination
of
Communist
propaganda,
Its
records
and
book
numbers
were
seized.
Schacht
Anxious
To
Quit
Office
Wishes
lo
he
Relieved
so
That
Ccncrat
Goering
May
Have
Free
Hand
UFRUN,
Nov.
lo:
Dr.
HJalmar
Schacht,
who
Is
continuing
as
act-nc
minister
of
economics
after
navlng
been
asked
to
reconsider
resignation,
says
that
hci
v',;hes
to
relinquish
the
office
dc-
f,"llcly
so
that
General
Herman
v'on
Ooerlng
may
have
a
complete-1
lv
free
hand
with
his
four-yeur
Plan,
,
.
Announces
inister
Hart
is
Anticipated,
Not
TakinirlclBn
Secretary
Anthony
Eden
of
rart
or
Sinking
Funds
.
$28,065,341
and
expenditures
035,158.
There
will
be
no
Increase
taxation.
Mr.
Hart
expressed
'hope
that
a
large
part,
If
not
all,
of
direct
relief
costs
would
be
paid
out
of
surplus
provided
by
current
revenues.
Capital
borrowings,
the
minister
finance
said,
would
be
confined
mainly
to
works
projects
In
connec
tion
with
unemployment
relief
as
proceeds
from
former
borrowings
would
be
ample
to
cover
practically
J
other
contemplated
capital
expenditures.
Economic
conditions
do
not
per
mit
further
municipal
laid
during
the
forthcomlnE
fiscal
year,
the
main
reason
beln
the
large
cost-nf
unemployment
relief,
Mr.
Hart
said,
Estimated
revenue
Is
$1,590,000
over
the
current
year's
estimate
but
Is
approximately
the
same
as
actual
collections
for
the
past
fiscal
year
which
exceeded
the
collections.
I
Total
estimated
expenditures
exceeded
by
$659,871
aggregate
expenditure.
in
the
current
year.
The
net
acot
of
me
province
on
'Mrsr
1
last
was
given
as
$151,-162,657,
an
Increase
of
$5,547,738
over
the
same,
time
last
year
Surplui
of
assets
over
liabilities
wa
S18.18n.236
at
March
31,
1937.
an
Increase
of
$1,485,983
from
the
ame
date
last
year
The
1938-39
estimates
Include
a
new
appropriation
of
$217,564
fo-thc
proposed
new
Department
of
Trade
and
Industry.
The
sinking
fund
at
October
1
this
year
Is
$1,324,198
over
last
year
but
appropriations
are
$12,434,120
In
arrears.
EDITORIAL
REMEMBRANCE
DAY
Wc
strongly
urge
as
many
as
possible
to
turn
out
tomorrow
to
take
part
in
the
brief
Remembrance
Day
service
at
the
Cenotaph
to
show
to
our
fellows
and
the
world
that
wc
have
not
forgotten
the
men
who
died
or
who
fought
d
rc
still
with
us.
It
is
very
little
for
us
to
do
for
such
an
occasion.
Many
will
go
there
and
pray
that
Canada
may
never
again
be
involved
in
any
armed
conflict.
NO
PAPER
TOMORROW
TT
Tomorrow,
being
Remembrance
Day
and
u
general
holiday,
there
will
be
no
Issue
of
the
Dally
News.
The
next
regular
edition
will
be
Friday
afternoon.
EDEN
HAS
I
NEW
PLAN
T00FFER
Returns
From
London
to
Nine
Tower
Conference
in
Brussels
BRUSSELS.
Nov.
0:
(CP)
For
Great
Britain
returned
to
the
nine-power
conference
yesterday
with,
according
to
report,
a
new
plan
for
the
settling
of
the
Slno-
Japanese
conflict.
The
plan,
is
said
to
be
based
on
the
original
idea
ILX!
juiimm.
ouuil
unci
ailivill,
captain
Eden
was
in
conference
with
Norman
Davis,
head
of
the
States
delegation.
The
con-
ierence
wnicn
is
now
awaiting
a
reply
from
Japan
to
a
second
Invitation
to
enter
peace
nepotto-tlons,
was
to
meet
again
today
after
adjourning
from
yesterday.
Shanghai
Was
Costly
SHANGHAI,
Nov.
10:
(CP)
The
Battle
of
Shanghai,
it
1
ststimatcd,
cost
the
Chinese
300,000
dead
.and
"ounded
while
Japanese
casualties
fotal1ed
125.000.
The
cost
to
the
In-
adprs
of
capturing
the
city
was
$600,000,000
while
the
defense
cost
""hina
$250,000,000.
Desnlte
a
merciless,
poundln?
from
artillery,
both
onlahd.
and
i
air,
six
thousand
Chinese
soldiers
j
who
barricaded
themselves
In
thtj
Nantao
quarter
alter
tne
surrender
of
Shanghai
vowing
to
fight
to
the
death
were
still
holding
out
early
today
although
their
ranks
were
believed
to
be
greatly
thinned.
Japanese
reinforcements
were
'amUi
on
th
south
and
north
shores
of
IlaiiTchow
Bay
('
for
what
mav
become
a
ma
lor
-
MaH
Nanking,
the
capital.
Chinese
feared
the
re'nforce-menls
nilihl
.iMack
Hangchow
as
the
first
step
in
the
drive
now
that
Shanghai
is
In
Japanese
hands
except
for
the
remnant
of
the
Chin"-
nrmv
treated
to
Nanlao
native
quar-ts
.
vest
eM
"ir
tional
settlement
and
French
concession.
Fears
Entertained
TORONTO,
Nov.
10:
ICP
sar
are
entertained
for
the
safety
if
five
missionaries
of
the
Unttei
'hurch
of
Canada
four
fron,
Toronto
and
one
from
Winnipeg-following
the
capture
of
Taiyucn-
u,
capital
of
Shansl
Province,
by
i
the
Japanese.
Tokyo
Says
Safe
TOKYO,
Nov.
10:
(CP)
Twenty-six
foreigners,
Including
eight
Bri
tish
missionaries1
of
the
Baptist
Church,
were
found
In
iyueniu
capital
of
Shansl
Province,
on
..s
capture
by
the
Japanese
forces,
it
was
officially
reported
here
yesterday.
All
are
safe.
Boycott
Is
UrgeC
OTTAWA,
Nov.
10:
(CP)
Vis
count
Cecil
of
Chelwood.
one
of
Orcat
Britain's
stoutest
champions
of
the
League
of
Nations
and
Its
Convenant.
sneaking
here,
urged
an
economic
boycott
of
Japan.
If
the
nations
would
cease
shipping)
war
materials
to
Japan
and
would
discontinue
buying
her
products,
the
present
conflict
would
soon
end.
he
declared.
Viscount
Cecil
also
made
a
similar
nlca
with
a
view
to
bringing
about
peace
In
Spain.
WINNIPEG
WHEAT
PRICE
WINNIPEG,
Nov.
10:
The
Win
nlpcg
wheat
nrlce
has
been
firmer
r
the
nast
few
days.
November,
at
l.lia4
Monday,
closed
at
$1,13
yesterday:
FAMOUS
ARTIST
DIES
SANTA
BARBARA,
Nov.
10:
Colin
Campbell
Cooper,
famous
artist,
Is
dead
here.
Former
Premier
Dies
lit.
Hon.
J.
Ramsay
MacDonald,
as
firmed
air
traveller.
Ills
son,
BULLETINS
FOOTBALL
DRAW
ABERDEEN
Ireland
and
Scotland
each
netted
a
point
in
the
international
soccer
tournament
today,
playing
to
a
one
all
draw.
The
Scots
scored
a
goal
in
the
second
half
after
the
Irish
had
tallied
fifteen
minutes
from
the
start.
TREATY
WITH
STATES
LONDON
Premier
Neville
Chamberlain,
speaking
at
the
inauguration
of
the
new
Lord
Mayor
of
London
at
the
Guildhall
last
night,
expressed
confidence
that
desnlte
difficulties,
a
trade
treaty
would
be
reached
with
the
United
States.
He
said
that
United
States
co-operation
was
essential
lo
the
success
of
the
nine-power
ronference.
The
government
was
determined
lo
have
better
rcla-
1
tions
with
Italy
and
Germany,
by
i
informal
negotiation
rather
than
1
by
public
de?paration,
the
Prime
Mlnisted
declared.
I
JEWS
MURDERED
.
JERUSALEM
Five
young
Jews,
working
in
a
quarry
near
here,
were
ambushed
and
slain
yesterday,
supposedly
by
Arabs.
PLOT
ON
STALIN
MOSCOW
Ten
terrorists
have
been
sentenced
to
execution
for
plotting
to
assassinate
Dictator
Joseph
Stalin.
NEW
SPEED
LIMIT
VICTORIA
Attorney
General
,
Gordon
Wistner
announces
that
I
legislation
will
be
introduced
providing
for
a
thirty-mile
an
hour
speed
limit
in
British
Columbia
Youth
Training
Plan
In
Quebec
QUE13EC,
Nov.
10:
The
Quebec
govcrnment
is
putting
two
thous-
and
unemployed
youths
In
train-
lug
tor
useful
employment
suggested
by
the
picture,
was
a
cori
Malcolm,
is
seen;
with
hlnw,
SOLDIERS
READY
AT
FRONTIER
Tokyo
Charges
Russia
with
Fan-
ing
Anti-Japanism
TOKYO,
Nov.
10:
(CP)
The
newspaper
Hochl
reports
that
the
Soviet
has
extended
the
term
of
service
for
Siberian
soldiers
and
Is
rushing
others
to
the
area
around
the
Manchukuan
frontier
as
"railway
employees."
A
dispatch
to
the
newspaper
As-ahi
from
Moscow
says
that
the
.Soviet
is
fanning
antl-Japanlsm
by
slogans
and
resolutions.
INSURGENT
OFFENSIVE
General
Franco
Is
Expected
To
Launch
Movement
lo
Cut
Off
Barcelona
From
Rest
of
Spain
MADRID,
Nov.
10:
(CP)
General
Francisco
Franco
Is
now
believed
to
be
about
to
start
a
maj
ior
offensive
on
the
Aragon
front
with
a
view
to
cutting
off
Barcelona
from
the
rest
of
loyalist
Snaln
bpam
with
wnn
a
an
insurgent
.Must
fc
line
through
to
lh.
coMtN.nJ
force
arc
expected
to
co-operate
with
the
land
attack.
Labor
Peace
Parley
Has
Adjourned
WASHINGTON,
D.C.,
N
ov.
10:
iCP
With
no
definite
agreement
yet
reached
although
progress
has
been
made
during
the
past
three
I
weeks,
the
peace
conference
be-
tween
the
American
Federation
of
Labor
and
the
Committee
on
In-
dustrlnl
OrEanlzation
adjourned
yesterday
until
November
18
Sea
Statesman
Great
Britain
Dies;
Premier
Three
Times
Rose
From
Depths
of
Obscurity,
Through
Poverty,
Ridicule
and
Calumny,
to
Become
One
of
Greatest
'
Statesmen
of
His
Day
LONDON,
Nov.
10:
(CP)
Rt.
Hon.
James
Ramsay
MacDonald,
former
Prime
Minister
of
Great
Britain,
died
rom
a
heart
attack
at
v
o
clock
last
night
aboard
the
liner
Reina
del
Pacifico
on
which
South
America
for
the
benefit
ed
last
Thursday.
He
had
been
failing
for
some
time
but
here
was
no
idea
that
the
end
was
o
near
and
the
Empire
was
shock-
d
by
the
news
of
his
passing.
He
was
seventy-one
years
of
age.
In
the
summer
of
1927
he
visited
Drlnn.
Ditna.t
In
fV,A
m,c-A
r
f
'
our
of
Canada.
First
Information
of
the
states-
nan's
death
was
received
In
Eng-
j
j
and
In
a
message
from
Mrs.
A.
McKlnnon
(Sheila),
the
former,
Prime
Minister's
daughter,
who
was
tcclimpanylng
him.
She
sent
a'
telegram
to
her
husband.
The
old-J
i
Hampstead
home
where
Mr.
Mac-1
Donald
had
been
living
quietly
i
.
,
,
.,
.
.
t
unce
nis
reuremcm
irom
uie
gov-i
ernment
last
spring.
Hon.
Mal
colm
MacDonald,
elder
son
and
Sec-
rctary
of
State
for
the
Dominions
In
he
present
'government
,
was
at
Brussels
attending1
the
nine-power
conference.
The
younger
son,
Al-
Ister,
was
on
a
motor
trip
to
North
em
England
and
Scotland.
The
body
will
be
taken
from
the
Reina
del
Pacifico
on
Its
arrival
at
Hamilton,
Bermuda,
and
returned
to
England
by
the
first
steamer.
All
parties
and
leaders
Joined
In
paying
tribute
to
Mr.
MacDonald
as
soon
as
they
received
word
of
his
death.
Political
differences
were
universally
sunk
as
the
Empire
mourned
one
of
her
greatest
statesmen
of
modern
times.
Prime
Minister
Neville
Chamber
lain
received
word
of
Mr.
MacDon-
aid's
death
at
the
Oulldhall
where
he
was
attending
the
banquet
of
red
from
entering
the
United
Installation
of
the
new
Lord
Mayor
states
by
Immigration
comralsslon-f
London.
It
was
at
this
same
ers
who
heard
her
case
at
Sills
Is-athering
that
MacDonald
collaps-
land.
They
refused
the
woman
erT-'d
Just
a
year
ago.
Mr.
Chamber-
try
on
tlje
grounds
of
"moral
tur-laln
expressed
"deep
sorrow."
'pltude."
From
every
part
of
the
Empire
Mile.
Fontagnes
has
appealed
to
also
came
tributes
as
well
as
from
Secretary
of
Labor
Perklfts
forja
abroad.
reversal
of
the
order
of
the
ImmT-
President
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt
j
graetlon
authorities.
If
this
is
re-pf
the
United
States
said:
"He
was
fused
she
will
have
to
return
to
France
aboard
the
liner
Normandie
a
great
leader,
a
sound
statesman
and
a
loyal
friend."
j1
today.
Mantlme
she
Is
de-
talnd
aboard
the
ship
on
which
Prlme
Minister
William
Lyon
Mackenzie
King
of
Canada
declared
:she
arrlj;ed.
of
the
most1
Mlle-
Fontagnes
had
come
here
to
"his
career
was
one
outstanding
of
modern
times."
1
1111
a
New
York
nlSht
club
eiW
James
Ramsay
MacDonald
man;
.of
destiny
of
the
British
Labor,
movement,
was
probably
one
or
the
select
few
who
will
be
remembered
when
the
ages
have
selected
the
igniflcant
from
the
Insignificant
of
hlr.
time.
From
obscurity
and
c
h,
g
t
AxamltA
JJ
Sca
flsWng
-
.
i
village
of
tM.,aw,nilfh
Lossiemouth
n
on
Mrav
Moray
A
Firth;
to
become
thrice
prime
minister
of
Great
Britain,
director
of
the
home
government
of
a
worldwide
empire,
His
first
cabinet
was
formed
in
1924,
his
second
In
1929
!
and
his
third
In
1931.
The
world
felt
his
Influence
as
an
outstanding
statesman,
a
work-
'
er
for
the
common
weal,
a
crusader.
for
enduring
peace
and
dlsarma-
ment
after
the
cataclysm
or
the
world-war'.
His
career"
was
unique
In
British
history.
No
prime
minister
before,
tlally
to
the
Chinese
defense
him
had
been
born
Into
such
pov-
erty.
None
had
ever
entered
the
historic
portals
of
No.
10
Downing
.
(Continued
on
page
five)
he
was
bound
for
a
trip
to
of
his
health.
He
had
sail
1
.
"
vr(
ft
I
I
wfl
m
I
V
VATAJ-J
M.VJ
WRECKED
Entire
Waterfront
of
Far
I
ortherg
Alaska
Port
Swtfpt
Away
By
t
Ternlic
Storm
NOME,
Nov.
10:
(CP)
The
entire
waterfront
of
the
ea;t
end
of
Nome
was
wrecked
and
nearly
all
buildings
swept
away
by
a
ter
rific
storm
last
night
and
today.
,
.
.
,
iiie
toss
is
nuinivcu
at
.
more
than
$125,000
as
a
result
of
the
waves
pounding
Ih.
'
The
Lincoln
Hotel,
one
of
the
city's
largestwas
ordered
vacated
'
through
fears,.as-a
result
of
the
-foundations
being
undermined"
by
j
water.
f
It
was
the
worst
storm
since;
the
,
tiday
wave
of
1913.
BARRED
BY
UNCLE
SAM
Magda
de
Fontagnes,
Whose
Varne
Is
Linked
With
Mussolini's,
Charged
With
Moral
Turpitude
NEW
YORK,
Nov.
10:
(CP)
Magda
de
Fontagnes
has
been
bari
Fontagnes
stm
under
.
d
d
sentence
from
Parls
t
for
shootlng
Count
charlcs
rt
ruamh,n
fnmi,r
vmrh
Am.
bassador
to
Italy,
whom,
she
said,
had
ended
her
romance
with
Pre
mler
Benito
Mussolini.
-
I
Sweep
Money
I
I
Sent
To
Chjia
I
A
local
Chinaman
who
won
a
fairly
substantial
sweepstake
prize
last
week
Immediately
sent
half
of
the
money
to
China
to
help
In
fighting
the
1
:war
against
Japan.
Local
Chin-
ese
are
contributing
suvstan-
fund
as
are
their
countrymen
elsewhere
In
this
country,
!