Today's
Weather
(8
AJW.)
Prince
Rupert
Overcast,
south-eaily
wind,
5
miles
per
hour;
barometer,
30.10
(steady);
temperature,
38;
sea
smooth,
Vol
XVVI
.
No.
95.
POLICE
PREPARE
FOR
CORONATION;
WARN
SUSPICIOUS
PERSONS
London
to
Have
20,000
Men
8the
ables
and
Directing
Traffic
in
Merry
and
Hectic
May
12
Throngs
LONDON,
April
23:
(CP)
The
thousands
thronging
to
London
from
all
parts
of
the
world
for
the
Coronation
of
King
George
and
Queen
Elizabeth
next
month
will
undoubtedly
include
many
questionable
characters.
Police
have
long
been
making
careful
preparation
for
their
reception.
Sir
Philip
Game,
chief
commissioner
of
the
me
tropolitan
force
ana
nis
sian
oi-flcers
at
Scotland
Yard
have
been
busy
with
traffic
and
other
preparations
for
at
least
12
months.
All
holiday
leave
for
the
police
will
be
stopped
for
practically
the
whole
of
May
Every
fit
man
of
the
20.000
comprising
the
great
peace-keeping
army
will
be
on
duty
in
his
particular
capacity.
Control
of
the
traffic
and
crowds
Is
the
biggest
Job.
The
force
will
be
guided
to
a
great
extent
by
the
exncrlences
at
the
funeral
of
Oeorge
V
last
year.
The
Coronation
procession
will
traverse
a
good
part
of
the
route
taken
on
that
occasion
so
the
pollre
already
know
CnntlniiPrt
nn
nnef
three)
LABORITE
CRITICAL
A.
V.
Alexander
Pays
Ills
Respects
To
.Seville
Cliambcilain
In
Candid
Way
LONDON,
April
23:
(CP-Rt.
Hon
A.
V.
Alexander,
who
was
FU.
i
Lord
of
the
Admiralty
In
the
last.
Labor
government,
declared
I
in
the
House
of
Commons
during
I'm
budget
debate
yesterday
that,
wh
hi
Rt.
Hon.
Neville
Chamberlain
a
cca-.rrd
to
be
Chancellor
of
the
Exchequer,
he
would
leave
behind
him
six
unbalanced
budgets.
Mr
Chamberlain,
declared
Mr.
Alexander,
had
piled
up
arrears
In
debt
contributions
to
the
United
Stu("s
and
he
was
leaving
to
his
successor
arrears
of
157,000,000,
Mr
Alexander
sooke
of
leading
New
York
business
men
as
saying
to
him
that
they,
resented
the
cold
callous
way
in
which
the
American
debt
question
had
been
treated.
Instead
of
being
frugal,"
Alex-1
"u
t
saia,
-me
unanceuor
nas,
.
been
using
ordinary
reserves
of
J
peace
and
now
has
nothing
to
fall
------
oai:k
on
to
meet
his
preparations
vr
war.
Windsor
Getting
1M
.
t
..
1
Ureal
LetterS
I'Onilon
Publication
Expresses
Fear
In
View
of
Missives
Received
Ily
Former
Monarch
LONDON,
April
23:
Cavalcade
yesterday
expressed
alarm
at
numerous
threatening
letters
which
have
been
received
by
the
Duke
of
Windsor,
the
former
King
Edward
VIII,
since
going
into
exile
In
Austria.
NO
BEER
BY
GLASS
HARRIERE.
April
23:
Tills
s'nall
community
in
the
Kamloops!
district.
In
a
special
plebiscite,;
voted
against
sale
of
beer
by
the,
"".
me
vote
ms
34
for
tn
31
,
"
-
-
against.
RAR
SILVER
.
s
NEW
YORK,
April
23fCPj-Bar
fl'vcr
was
selling
at
4434c
per
funce
on
the
Ncw
York
metal
mar-ket
yesterday.
"
on
Duly
Tagging
Undesir
PREPARE
TO
0RK
Road
Camp
Construction
at
Taylor
Lake
on
Skeena
Highway
Is
Started
In
preparation
for
an
early
resumption
of
the
continuation
of
construction
of
the
Skeena
River
highway,
work
of
erecting
camps
at
Taylor
Lake,
a'distance
of
ten
miles
from
the
city
limits,
commenced
yesterday.
Accommodation
is
being;
provided
for
seventy-five
to
eighty
men.
Definite
instructions
to
the
extent
and
details
of
local
road
under
.the
.governments,
new
and
enlarged
program
of
.
highway
construction
arc
now
being;
.awaited
at
.local
offices
of'
the
provincial
department
of
public
works.
.
i!,
l;
v'
Forty-Seven
Are
Drowned
in
Fierce
Sakhalien
Storm
TOKYO,
April
23:
Forty-seven
fishermen
arc
reported
drowned
a?
result
of
a
fierce
storm
off
Sakhalien
Island.
Franco-British
Defence
Plans
Change
Heine
Discussed
In
View
Of
Ncw
ItcUlan
Policy
Eden
To
Visit
Brussels
LONDON
April
23:
A
revision
Qf
FranC0.British
defence
plans
Is
ol,PVf,rt
to
be
under
consideration
in
yicw
of
tne
ncw
Belgian
foreign
.
.nOllCy
"
who
told
tnc
nousc
0f
Commons
yesterday
that
the
new
policy
would
not
relieve
Belgium
of
her
obligations
under
the
League
of
Nations,
will
go
to
Brussels
at
the
Pnri
of
the
week
to
comer
wim
Premier
Paul
van
Zeeland.
Round
World
Mail
on
Way
t
Honolulu
From
V
1
1
i
v
j
i'
-
-
Alameda
How
Letters
Will
Travel
ALAMEDA,
April
23:-The
Pan-(
American
Airways
big
flying
boat;
China
Clipper
arrived
at
nonoiuiu'
yesterday
from
Alameda
on
Its
way
to
Manila
with
1100
pounds
of
round
the
world
man.
ai
Manna
mil
will
be
trahsferred
to
the
Uma
Kong
Clipper
for
delivery
to
ng
Kong
where
It
will
be
taken
u..
tmnn
a
AlrwaVS
maciillic
iu
II,
Hll
llltVV.
,
-
a
un..4
1
Freldrichshafen
ano
put
uuunu
I;...
jluiw.
tiinHrnhure
for
trans
-
WIG
UUIB'U"-
.
....
uort
across
the
Atlantic
ana
oacis
to
the
United
States.
...i.impp
Anrll
23:
(CP)
M,.,t
tra'dlnz
at
$1.28o
on
the
Vancouver
miirket
ye.sircmy.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BtflTISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
FRIDAY,
APRIL
Balanced
Budget
In
Edmonton;
Tax
Rate
is
54
Miiu
EDMONTON,
April
23:
Balancing
the
civic
budget
for
the
first
time
In
nine
years,
the
Edmonton
city
council
has
set
the
tax
rate
for
the
year
at
54
mills.
TALKING
OF
1
1
CONFERENCE::
MUIA
M
e
Willi.,
..
rartl.
-
filiate
in
Merlins-
if
Rrnsnn.
'
able
Chance
For
Success
1
LONDON,
April
23:
(CP)
Answering
a
question
In
the
House
of
Commons
yesterday.
Prime
Minister
Stanley
Baldwin
said
that.
Great
Britain
was
willing
to
participate
in
a
new
world
economic
conference
providing
a
compre-
ihemlve
Investigation
Indicated
It
was
likely
to
succeed
and
that
adequate
preparation
was
made
for
it.
On
Monday
in
Berlin
Chancellor
Adolf
Hitler
had
told
George
Lans-bury.
British
Labor
leader,
that
the
Reich
would
be
"very
willing"
to
attend
an
International
conference
for
economic
co-ooeration
and
mutual
understanding
If
the
head
of
a
major
power
called
It.
AGREEMENT
IN
STRIKE
Tie-up
of
Oshawa'
Plant
Expected
'To
End
Monday
Compromise
',
;,.
,
,ts
.Basis
of-
Settlement
TORONTO,
April
23:
After
a
four-hour
session
in
the
office
of
Premier
Mitchell
Hepburn
with
representatives
of
the
Committee
for
Industrial
Organization
banned
at
the
Insistence
of
the
Premier,
a
tentative
agreement
was
reached
wlilch
It
Is
confidently
expected
.vlll
end
the
strike
in
the
General
Motors
of
Canada
plant
at
Oshawa.
Present
at
the
conference
were
representatives
of
the
company
and
of
the
local
unions.
Terms
of
the
tentative
agreement
were
not
announced
but
it
Is
reported
that
a
compromise
was
reached
on
the
subject
of
union
recognition,
increased
wages
and
revision
of
the
working
schedules.
The
agreement
must
be
approved
by
the
union
members
and,
while
there
may
be
some
opposition
from
those
holding
out
for
C.
I,
O.
re
cognition,
It
Is
predicted
that
It
will
be
adopted
by
a
substantial
margin.
Hugh
Thompson
left
To
ronto
by
plane
for
Oshawa
to
pre-.snt
the
terms
to
the
workers
there.
The
expectation
now
Is
that
.the
3700
workers
may
resume
their
work
at
Oshawa
next
Monday.
Trouble
in
States
JANESVILLE.
Wis..
April
231
(CP
I
Twenty-seven
hundred
General
Motors
employees
were
thrown
Into
Idleness
today
when
a
group
of
union
workers
on
the
frame
line
in
the
Chevrolet
Motor
Co.
refused
to
work.
Victim
of
Hit
And
Run
Driver
!
Willlam
Wallace,
Found
Lying
On
North
Vancouver
Road,
Dies
Qn
Way
lo
nospta
NORTH
VANCOUVER,
April
23:
.,,
ivm.c
mc
.
iwmuis
.
.
at
.
.
riiim
i,i-n
i
hp
uivpn
T
n
nnvp
i
,
been
responsible
for
the
death
...
,
l
f
lirHlln
euj
jcsiciuujr
ihuuih
u
nuii
-
,
Wallace,
rouna
lying
on
me
roaa
'at
2:15
a.m.
bv
Fred
C.
Aubrey,
Vancouver
lawyer.
Wallace
died
while
being
taken
to
the
North
vHiuuuver
hu.-hjiuu.
,
m.
1
ime
to
,
m
Llean
Up
Gambling
In
:
fm
1
J.
utOCK""Jr
63XSOI1
NEW
WESTMINSTER,
April
23:
"It
fs
time
the
Vancou-
ver
mining
stock
situation
was
cleaned
"up,"
declared
Hon.
George
S.
Pearson,
minister
of
mines.
In
speaking
here.
He
scathingly
(denounced
stock
gambling
activities
and.
ex-
J".
4
clsm
directed
against
the
gov-
i
ernment
in.
connection
with
'
the
matter,
(particularly
crltl-
clsm
which
had
been
emanat-
'
Ins
from
a
Vancouver
news
papermah
which
he
declared
to
be
most
Unfair
and
preju
diced.
;
.
i
,
Will
Have
To
Be
Kicked
Out
Says
Aberhari
EDMONTON,';
April
23:
Premie:
William
Aberhart
declared
ysster-
.day
that
he
Intended
to
stay
In
cf-
flee
as
head
of
the
Alberta
government
until
he
was
"kicked
out."
That
was
the
oply
way
he
could
be
removed,
he
said.
There
would
be
no
polite
'h'otei
room
reslanatlon"
for
him,
Mr.
Aberhart
said.
Halibut
Sales
Summary
American
12,000
pound's,
7c
and
6c.
Canadian
41,700
pounds,
6.3c
nd
5c
to
6.7c
and
5c.
American
Pierce,
12,000,
Cold
Storage,
7c
md
6c.
Canadian
Margaret
I,
6,000.
Booth,
6.3c
and
5c.
Cape
Spsnccr,
10,000,
Pacific,
6.5c
and
5c.
Oslo,
14,000,
Cold
Storage,
6.7c
and
5c,
Balsac.
7,500,
Atlln,
6.6c
and
5c.
Nornen,
4,200,
Atlln,
6.4c
and
5c.
Wheat
Board
In
Ottawa
Session
Under
Arrest
Checking
up
on
Prairie
Wheat
Pools
in
Grain
Markets
CALGARY,
April
23:
The
Tur-geon
grain
commission
Is
now
sitting
In
Calgary.
At
yesterday's
session
of
the
board
futures
operations
of
the
prairie
wheat
pools
were
under
discussion.
CANADIAN
GOLD
PRICE
'
"Divine"
had
told
his
followers
MONTREAL,
April
23:
The
Ca-
that
he.
would
turn
himself
lnvls-nadlan
gold
price
yesterday
was
jWe
before
submitting
himself
to
$34.67
per
fine
ounce.
i
arrest.
DOLLAR
IN
NEW
YORK
:The!
NEW
YORK.
April
23
Canadian
dollar
was
trading
at
a
premium
of
3-16c
on
the
New
York
foreign
exchange
market
yesterday.
Telephone
Rate
In
Vancouver
Is
Not
Being
Cut
VANCOUVER,
April
23:
An-made
nouncemcnt
was
yesterday
lU.t
Mm
n
...
n.
Tolonhnm,
nn
l-.--.rl
wmt-iuv
w.
.niuvm.
vu,
uu
rciusea
vo
reuueu
.
me
nave
raie
telephone
charge
In
Vancouver.
A
special
meeting
of
the
Vancouver
CUy
Council
Is
called
for
today
to
wuotuu
n..v..iu.uu
hvj-i.
23,
1937
Saskatchewan
Pool
Head
Is
Dead
in
South
VANCOUVER,
April
23:
(CP)
.
.
T
r
T-.
M
1
-
1
1
T"
1
n
Li.
Vs.
DlUUUlCbt,
1C31UC1II.
Ui
IVlgUlU
and
Prcs,dent
of
tne
Saskatchewan
Wheat
Pool,
died
in
hospital
here
last
night.
MUSSOLINI
IN
PARLEY
Confers
With
Chancellor
Kurt
Von
Schuschnig;
of
Austria
In
Venice
Venice,
April
23:-Premier
Ben-
:ito
Muslim
.of
Italy
and
chan-;
ccllor
Kurt
von
Schuschnigg
of
Austria
were
In
conference
here
'yesterday.
The
restoration
of
the
monarchy
to
Austria
was
one
of
the
matters
dlscused,
Premier
Mussolini
Is
reported
to
have
ad
vised
Schuschnigg
that
he
did
not
consider
the
time
ripe
for
the
placing
of
Archduke
Otto
on
the
Austrian
throne,
admitting,
however,
na'
was
a
domestic
question
which
only
Austria
had
the
right
to
decide.
Schuschnigg
is
said
to
have
advised
Muollnl
that
he
was
not
de'irom
of
a
rjact
with
Osrmany
and
Italy
although
he
had
no
de-
slre
antagonizing
either.
i
1
yvv-v
tw
TjkTTj
f
ri
8
11
V
IS
M
ARRESTEDI
Leader,'
of;
'"Strange
Religious
Cult
Dragged
From
Basement
Of
"lieaven"
MILFORD,
Connecticut,
April
j23:
(CP)
"Father
Divine."
negro
loader
of
the
strange
religious
cult,
for
wnoin
pouu
nave
betn
seeking
for
some
time,
was
finally
taken
into
custody
yesterday.
He
was
dragged
from
a
hiding
place
In
the
basement
of
his.
home
here
which
he
called.
"Heaven."
"Divine"
Is
booked
on
a
charge
of
felonious
assault.
Hailem's
sepia
tinctured
"God"
was
In
Jail
in
New
York
today
after
having
been
brought
back
from
the
segment
of
his
"Kingdom"
in
MlUord,
Conn.
Outside
police
headquarters
milled
hundreds
of
negroes
as
"Divine"
was
being
.nought
in
at
New
York,
Patrolmen
watched
from
vantage
points,
"I
am
very
tired,"
"Divine"
mumbled
on
the
automobile
trip
from
here
to
New
York
as
detec
tives
plied
him
with
questions
about
the
beating
and
stabbing
of
a
process
server
who
attempted
to
hand
the
cult
leader
a
summons
in
a
civil
suit
at
the
evangelist's
main
"heaven"
Monday
night.
Meanwhile
troubles
accumulated.
"Faithful
Mary,"
whom
"Divine"
.
desreibed
as
his
"so-called
wife,"
i
had
announced
"He
ain't
God.
He's
just
a
damned
man."
Returning
To
Federal
Force
Vancouver
City
Police
to
Lose
Superintendent
Herbert
Darling
This
June
VANCOUVER,
April
23:
Superintendent
Herbert
Darling,
loaned
by
the
Royal
Canadian
Mounted
Police
to
head
the
criminal
investigation
department
of
the
Vancouver
city
police
since
1935,
will
be
returning
to
the
federal
department
In
June
of
this
year,
the
Vancouver
police
commission
was
ad-vlied
yesterday.
Tomorrow's
Tides
High
Low
OF
DOUKS
IS
SUGGEST
Wave
of
Illness
And
Death
Among
Members
0
Sect
Being
Probed
Exact
Nature
of
Illness
Not
Yet
Determined
Pending
Laboratory
Tests
Investigation
Is
Being
Pushed
NELSON,
April
23:
(CP)
Medical
men
of
this
West
Kootenay
centre
today
awaited
laboratory
tests
to
explain
the
death
in
hospital
here
of
one
Doukhobor
woman
ana
the
illness
of
three
other
stricken
with
an
unidentified
police
are
pushing
their
investigation
into
the
deaths
01
REBEL
FIRE
HAS
CEASED
Loyalists
Get
Range
of
Insurgents
And
Eleven-Day
Bombardment
Of
Madrid
Suddenly
Ends
MADRID,
April
23:
A
thunder
ous
government
artillery
assault
after
the
loyalists
had
found
the
position
of
the
rebel
gun
crews
yesterday
silenced
the
bombard
ment,
uihlnh
Vin
rnrVprl
Madrid
for
eleven
days.
The
insurgent
fire
'suddenly
ceased
as
shelter
was
Nought
by
the
men
of
the,
battery
--v
.
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V
.iY-I
i-ii-tr
ill
uoraooa
area
loyalist
uuaii.-
trymen
were
reported
to
have
made
important
advances
yesterday
un
1er
a
heavy
artillery
barrage.
Professional
Men
Are
Arrested
In
Jugo-Slav
Plot
BELGRADE,
April
23:
Several
iwyers,
physicians
and
nwspaper-nen
have
been
arrested
for
an
alleged
communistic
conspiracy
igalnst
the
Jugo-Slav
government.
Pooley
Regime
IsNow
Ended
E.
V.
Finland
Nominated
Conservative
Candidate
For
Esquimau
VICTORIA.
April
23:
E.
V.
Fin
'.and
was
yesterday
nominated
as
onervative
candidate
for
Esquimau
in
the
forthcoming
provincial
election.
R.
H
Pooley
K.C.,
former
attorney
general,
declined
to
stand
for
renomlnat'.on.
Between
Mr.
Pooley
and
his
father
before
him,
the
seat
had
been
held
traditionally
by
the
Pooley
family.
C;
E.
Whlt-j
ney-Grlfflth
was
last
night
noml-
natea
LiDerai
candidate
ior
t;squi
-
malt.
Dimond's
Plan
Is
Not
Favored
Men
on
Small
Fishing
Vessels
Not'
Likely
to
Get
Bcnclits
Of
Public
Health
Service
WASHINGTON,
D.C.,
April
23:
Authorities
here
do
not
look
with
favor
upon
the
proposal
of
Delegate
Anthony
Dlmond
of
Alaska
whereby
men
on
small
fishing
craft
would
be
brought
under
the
benefits
of
the
United
States
public
health
service.
At
present
the
ser
vice
is
available
only
to
men
on
0:15
am.
20.6
ft.
12:48
p.m.
19.1
ft.
6:46
a.m.
3.8
It.
18:50
p.m.
6.1
ft'
TUICE:
5
CENTS
of
her
compatriots
who
were
illness.
British
Columbia
two
otner
memDers
01
irre
nussian
religious
sect.
Poisoning
Is
suspec
ted.
The
stricken
Doukhobors,
three
from
Krcstova
and
one
from
Slo-cah
Park,
were
in
hospital
suffering,
from
what
authorities
said
appeared
to
be
poisoning.
Mrs.
Alex
Berlkoff,
one
of
them,
died
early
today.
GET
READY
FOR
VOTE
Returning
Of
ficec
Losing
no
Time
In'CietUnK
Local
Election
Machinery
Moving
.
W.
I).
Vance,
who
has
been
appointed
returning
officer
for
Prince
Rupert
In
the
forthcoming
provincial
election,
is
already
getting
organization
started
for
the
taking
of
the
poll.
Proclamations
will
go
forward
to
the
Queen
Charlotte
Islands
on
the
Prince
John
tonight
in
order
that
they
may
be
posted
in
sufficient
time
before
nomination
day.
There
are
a
number
of
new
polling,'
places
in
the
riding
this
election
at
points
where
industries
have
arisen
sinee
last
time
a
vote
was-
taken.
The
polling
places
for
this,
election
will
he
as
follows:
Cumshewa,
Digby
Island,
Goose!
Hay,
Ilaysport,
Humpback
la,'
Hutton
Island,
Inverness,
Jap
Inlet.
Lawn
Hill.
Lockpport,
Mas-set,
Murchison
Island,
North
Island,
Oceanic,
Oona
River.
(Island,
Port
Clements,
Port
Simpson,
Prince
Uuperl,
Queen
Char-'otte
City.
Sandsnft.
Skidega'fo,
Squadaree,
Surinyside,
Surf
Poinii,
TIell.
Wark
Channel
and
Zayas
Island.
Three
Point
Grey
Members
Will
Run
.i)r
o,
m
Weir,
S.
S.
McKccn
And
Robert
Wilkinson
Again
Candidates
VANCOUVER,
April
23:
(CP)
:'
Hon'
Dr.
G.
M.
Weir,
S.
S.
McKepn
and
Robert
Wilkinson,
who
were
members
of
the
last
Legislature,
were
Wednesday
night
renominated
wcrai
canamaics
ior
Vancouver
Point
Grey
In
the
forthcoming
pro
vincial
election.
Opposition
To
Kenney
Seems
Uncertain
Now
TKIWACK,
April
2:J:
Del,
gates
to
the
nominating
convention
of
the
Liberal
party
went
to
llazelton
on
Wednesday
eve-
njn,,.,
train.
'So
far
there
does
vessels
of
five
tonspr
over.
Dlmond
nol
Hmn
t()
i,e
much
prospect
of
would
allow
boats
of
less
than
five
ny
candidate
to
represent
tl'o
tons
to
come
In.
The
authorities
other
parties
against
K.
T.
Ken-here
do
not
favor
the
idea,
feeling
neVi
One
or
two
names
have
been
that
the
benefits
to
be
derived
mentioned
In
connection
with
lh
would
hardly
warrant
the
cost
Cj
C.
C.
but
there
Is
nothing
cer-which
would
be
Involved.
i
tain
ubout
U.