AUSTRIA
ROWC
TO
HITLER
T
X
Weather
To
morrow
s
Tides
Pilni
"loudy.
southeast
mmln
High
10:17
a.m.
19.8
It.
hour;
barom-
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4.1
ft.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
Vci
XXVII
No.
59.
Schuschnigg
Resigns
With
Prayer
That
God
Help
His
Country;
Nazis
In
Control
ITALKS
ARE
:
FRUITLESS
:
iBrilish-rirrman
Negotiations
May
Not
He
Continued
Now
Uiblrontrop
Leaves
LONDON,
March
11:
(CI')
No
announcement
was
made
follow-inf
a
two-hour
discussion
nt
the
Foreign
office
yesterday
between
Lord
Halifax,
British
foreign
sec-rttarjr,
and
Joachim
von
ltlb-
btntrop,
German
foreign
mini-i
stcr,
The
talks
were,
however.
ttld
to
be
inconclusive
and
the
(ivernmtnt
is
understood
to
be-
i
beve
that
the
time
is
not
right
to
,
i
wntinue
negotiations.
Throughout
the
conference
a
nwd
of
anti-German
demon-
status
hovered
outside
the
For-ci(Dtt(ice.
increasing
in
number
r
from
thirty
to
five
hundred.
I'm
Illbbentrop
.cut
short
his
rit
to
London,
being
failed
back
lo
Btrlin
today
on
account
of
the
Austrian
crisis.
FINAL
VOTE
OF
PARDON
California
State
Assembly
Pretty
Evtnb
Divided
Upon
Question
of
Freeing
Tom
Mooney
SACRAMENTO,
Cal..
March
11:
'CP'
Final
count
in
the
California
M
State
Assemblv
mi
Hip
resolution
-iicJ)
would
call
upon
Governor
I
frank
P
Merriam
to
grant
a
full'
pardyn
w
Tom
Mooney
lias
beeni
d'errcj
until
today.
Moonr-
appeared
before
the
As-I
scmbly
iin
person
yesterday
and
sade
an
impassioned
plea
for
a
Pardon
from
hU
sentence
of
life
-
i.
u
resuu
or
tne
lino
preparedness
Day
rioting
in
San
Francisco.
The
vtrst
vote
was
37
to
33
In
'avor
ot
the
pardon.
A
later
vote
s
39
to
35.
The
Assembly,
consisting
of
80
mpmhnre
thprn
must.
fbe
fr'one
votes
If
Mooney
Is
to
pl
the
resolution
passed
In
his
fa-
,ur
it-
is
expected
to
poll
the
remaining
six
members
of
the
Assembly
today
CHECKUP
ON
BANKS
,,iletl
Slates
Financial
Institutions
""ig
Called
Upon
to
Kcvcal
Their
Condition
Washington,
d,
c
March
11
w
'
-The
United
States
Comp-I
or
Currency
Issued
a
call
iwterday
for
the
condition
ot
all
national
banks
at
the
close
of
bus-
"'ess
on
Monday,
March
7.
The
'Weral
Reserve
Board
Issued
a
slm-"ar
call
to
member
state
banks.
Card
of
Thanks
hland
Mrs'
Thr
SclvlK
wish
tot
TU.I
"J
IUIV.1Y
llUVVtlO
111
v"r
r
rpopn
recent
i
J.
.
.
.
i
i
thanks
to
all!
Army
More
Attractive
I
LONDON.
March
11:
(CP)
'
Introducing
British
Army
es-
Irllilt
VVvJ
111
AAWUOl.
u
vvut"
mons,
War
Secretary
Hore-Bel-
isha
announced
concessions
to
officers
and
men
of
the
regular
army
costing
$8,040,000
during
the
coming
fiscal
year.
The
concessions
will
make
army
life
more
attractive.
BULLETINS
FOR
FORTIFICATIONS
The
Department
ot
National
Defense
has
called
for
tenders
from
local
contractors
for
the
clearing
of
a
23acre
site
at
Barrett
Point
just
beyond
Kain
station
and
an
11-acre
site
at
Frederick
Point
on
Digby
Island.
The
sites
are
at
the
entrance
of
Prince
Ilupert
Harbor.
They
are
to
be
thoroughly
cleared
and
grubbed.
The
specifications
do
not
say
so
but
it
is
understood
the
work
is
to
be
carried
out
as
part
of
the
toast
defense
fortification
program.
DEATH
SENTENCES
ASKED
MOSCOW
Death
sentences
for
nineteen
of
twenty-one
defendants
in
the
Soviet's
greatest
blood
purge
trial
was
demanded
today
by
Prosecutor
Andrei
Vish-insky
at
'the
end
of
a
bitter
sum-,
matlon
of
the
government's
treason
and
other
charges.
The
only
two
whom
the
prosecutor
asked
be
spared
from
death
were
the
once
esteemed
Soviet
diplomat,
Christian
Kavovsky,
and
S.
A.
Bcssanoff,
former
Russian
trade
delegate,
for
whom
Vishinksy
demanded
twenty-five
years'
imprisonment.
NEW
MOUNTED
HEAD
OTTAWA
Col.
S.
T.
Wood
has
been
appointed.
Commissioner
of
the
Koyal
Canadian
Mounted
Po
lice
succeeding
the
late
Sir
James
MacUrien,
the
Department
of
Justice
announces.
Col.
Wood,
who
some
years
ago
was
inspector
in
charge
at
Prince
Ilupert,
lias
been
acting
commissioner
for
some
months
during
the
illness
of
Sir
James
who
died
last
Saturday.
VANCOUVER
ADOPTS
BUDGET
VANCOUVER
The
Vancouver
city
council
yesterday
adopted
the
budget
for
the
year.
The
deficiency
In
revenue
over
-
....wiitnrr
was
main;
up
creasing
the
milt
rate
to
the
legal
limit
of
48.C,
which
is
expected
to
yield
$186,000
additional
rev-enue;
reducing
the
tax
rebate
from
eight
to
six
per
cent
which
willbrimr
$183,000;
ncrcaslng
trades
license
fees
to
raise
$20
000
$200,000
from
sinking
and
diverting
fund
to
current
account.
.
.
I
I
HIM
I
I
li
mmert
aSt
mgi"
turn
to
Vancouver.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
FRIDAY,
MARCH
11,
1938..
Postponement
of
Independence
Plebiscite
Set
For
Next
Sunday
Preceded
Chancellor's
Action
in
Quitting
Aged
Dr.
Endcr
to
Succeed
Him
Nazif
ication
Peacefully
Or
With
Blood
Already''
Reich
Forces
Have
Is
German
Edict
Crossed
Border
at
Passau
(CP)
Chancellor
Kurt
von
With
Retreat
Before
Them
Italy
Refusing
to
Support
Independence
VIENNA,
March
11:
Schuschnigg
of
Austria
has
howed
to
Chancellor
Adolf
Hitler
of
Italy.
He
has
resigned
after
announcing
postponement
of
the
plebiscite
on
Austrian
independence
which
was
to
have
been
held
on
Sunday.
Government
police
and
military
forces
have
been
withdrawn,
leaving
downtown
Vienna
almost
entirely
in
Nazi
possession.
German
troops
arc
moving
into
Austria,
having
crossed
the
border
at
Passau.
The-.intcntion
isi-evident-ly,
to
Nazify
Austria
without
further
delay.
The
government
announced
tonight
that
the
plebiscite
on
Austrian
independence
had
been
postponed.
The
announcement
followed
reports
that
German
and
Austrian
Nazis
had
exerted
powerful
pressure
to
avert
the
referendum
which
Chancellor
von
Schuschnigg
had
called
for
Sunday.
It
came
as
Austria
was
assuming
the
aspect
of
an
armed
camp
with
clashes
in
many
cities
between
Nazis
and
Fatherland
Front
supporters
of
Schuschnigg's
fight
for
independence.
Announcement
of
the
postponement
brought
on
a
great
outburst
of
Nazi
enthusiasm
in
Vienna.
.
Almost
immediately
police
and
military
forces,
assembled
with
a
view
to
invoking
martial
law,
were
withdrawn.
During
the
morning
reports
that
Schuschnigg
had
resigned
were
denied
officially
by
President
Miklas
but
tonight
the
resignation
was
reported
definitely
by
Ha-vas
(French)
News
Agency
to
have
been
made.
This
was
later
confirmed
in
diplomatic
quarters.
At
the
same
time
the
Austrian
government
press
bureau
announced
that
German
troops
had
crossed
the
border
at
Passau,
Austrian
troops
being
ordered
to
fall
back
without
resistance.
Shortly
after,
Chancellor
von
Schuschnigg
went
on
the
air
to
announce
that
Germany
had
presented
an
ultimatum
demanding
reorganization
of
the
Austrian
government.
At
the
end
of
his
announcement
von
Schuschnigg
said:
"I
say
good-bye
with
the
wish
that
God
protect
Austria."
Arthur
Seysz-Inquart,
Austrian
minister
of
the
interior
and
close
friend
of
Chancellor
Hitler
of
Germany,
is
reported
to
have
presented
a
demand
"like
an
ultimatum"
for
cancellation
or
postponement
of
the
referendum.
Meantime
German
troops
manoeuvred
in
southern
Germany,
Munich
reports
said,
and
the
citizenry
was
nervous,
expecting
"something
to
happen."
Nazi
leaders
in
Berlin
said
Germany
would
not
use
force
but
that
it
was
up
to
von
Schuschnigg
to
determine
whether
Austria
would
be
Nazified
peacefully
or
with
bloodshed.
The
resignation
of
Schuschnigg
was
regarded
as
a
natural
consequence
of
the
postponement
of
the
plebiscite
on
the
question
of
"Shall
Austria
be
independent?"
Von
Schuschnigg
will,
it
is
said,
be
succeeded
in
the
chancellorship
by
Dr.
Otto
Endcr,
elderly
lawyer
and
legislator,
moderate
anti-Nazi
and
Chancellor
in
the
prc-Dolfuss
era.
Reports
to
this
effect
have
not
yet
been
confirmed.
wi,.w
win
itniv
n?
High
officials
at
the
French
foreign
office
in
Paris
declared
today
that
Italy
had
refused
to
join
France
and
Great.
Britain
in
any
action
whatsoever
to
defend
Austrian
independence.
(Earlier
News
on
the
Austrian
Situation
Will
Be
Found
on
Page
3)
OYSTERS
ON
B.C.
COAST
Dr.
C.
It.
Elsey
Tells
of
Work
Being
none
in
South
in
Scientific
Fertilization
of
Shell
Fish
Herring
Are
Studied
Vancouver
Island
Pilchard
Are
Grown
Up
Sardines
of
Call'
fornia
Coast
I.ocal
Oyster
Bed
Interesting
There
are
great
opportunities
for
he
development
of
shellfish
Industries
on
this
coast,
according
o
Dr.
C.
R.
Elsey.
head
of
the
scientific
research
department
of
the
B.
C.
Packers,
who
was
li
rharge
of
the
Investlcatlon
lntoj
ie
shellfish
possibilities
at
the
rifina
.
rr
ti
TJo
tr
VtrlrwTif'l
1
eta
Tmn
'
i
-b-v.
i
for
a
number
of
years.
He
dls-
icussed
the
subject
at
tne
result
.
'ecmy
luncneon
01
ine
rriucu
nu-
'Tt
Rotary
Club
yesterday.
Dr
!
Kiscy
made
soeclal
reference
to
breeding
of
oysters
on
this
coast
Present
at
the
luncheon
as
visitors
-c
Dr
J
I.
Puisley.
Dr.
J.
C.
S.
D"nn
of
Massctt.
H
W.
Birch
Di
,J.
P
Cade
and
Dr.
R.
G.
Large.
1
Dr.
Elsey.
who
described
himself
,
ps
th?
director
of
new
nrojects
fo
,
the
B.
C.
Packers,
said
he
had
!m!"lp
a
specialty
of
the
study
of
shellfish.
He
said
he
was
gather
I
'n?
Information
from
the
local
'fisheries
experimental
station
He;
nought
the
people
of
Prince
Ru-
.
rierf
were
verVfortunate''ln"'liavlh3'"
ri?ht
here
such
a
fund
of
lnfor-
j
matlon
In
regard
to
the
sea
life
I
on
the
coast.
In
Vancouver,
when
1
they
wanted
this
information,
thev
.
had
to
wrltte
to
Prince
Rupert
for'
lt.
At
Nanaimo
the
work
was
to
study
the
life
histories
of
the
various
species
of
fish
whereas
at
Prince
Rupert
they
studied
the
utilization
of
fish
products.
At
present
the
Nanaimo
station
was
i
Continued
on
uaee
three)
CONVICT
IS
RECAPTURED
One
of
Three
Men
in
Manltola
Prison
Break
Taken
in
Bush,
Suffering
From
Injuries
STONY
MOUNTAIN,
Man.,
Mar.
11:
(CP)
Jack
Hllderman,
one
of
three
convicts
who
made
their
escape
from
Stony
Mountain
Penitentiary,
was
recaptured
yesterday
In
the
bush
within
a
mile
and
a
half
of
the
prison.
He
was
suffer
ing
from
injuries
sustained
when;
he
Jumped
from
the
prison
wall.
Search
for
the
other
two
men
j
Arthur
Wurch
and
Frank
Shura
!
continues.
!
iCarcross
Plane
I
Forced
Down
Frank
Burton
located
at
Wolf
Lake
Where
He
Made
Forced
,
1!
I,'!..!..-.
i.,t
T...I.V
.
I
miming
1
ijmi;
ru
CARCROSS,
March
11:
CP)
-
Frank
Burton,
missing
Carcross1
flier,
was
located
yesterday
on
Wolf
Lake
where
he
had
been
forced;
down
with
his
plane.
He
was
lo-i
cated
by
an
Edmonton-Whltehorsc
mall
plane.
Burton
ls
uninjured
but
his
plane
ls
slightly
damaged.
He
ls
expected
to
fly
out
to
Car-:
cross
today.
Officials
of
the
Northern
Airways
confirmed
the
safety
of
the
plane
at
Wol
Lake
which
Is
north
0
the
,
Yukon
boundary.
It
had
been
forced
down
by
bad
weather.
It
carried,
freight
only
In
the
service
out
of
the
base
here
to
Northern
British
Columbia,
JAPANESE
DIVISION
Cabinet
Split
Over
General
obilha
tion
Lunghai
Railway
Paralyzed
TOKYO.
March
11:
(CP)
It
was
freely
reported
in
Tokyo
last
night
that
a
split
had
occurred
in
the
Japanase
cabinet
over
the
question
of
general
mobilization.
War
Minister
Hiro-ta
is
said
to
be
opposed
to
the
proposal
of
a
Supreme
Council.
Meanwhile
Japanese
military
authorities
claim
that
they
have
now
been
successful
in
paralyz-in-
the
Lumhai
Railway
line
in
fhina.
having
blasted
miles
of
pnr.
and
destroyed
equipment
and
shops.
The
Chinese
are
be-
,
steadi,'
forced
back
towards
ankow
lt
ls
asserted.
.
...
Qn
tnft
0(ncr
nana
tne
vtH
clatm
to
have
lnnicted
hayv
,0SSM
)y
artillery
on
thf
ja,)anese
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I
Gruesome
Discovery
Made
in
Lava-
Tory
Aboard
Towboat
at
Ocean
Falls
At
2:15
yesterday
afternoon,
according
to
advices
received
at
divisional
headquarters
of
the
provincial
police
here,
the
body
of
a
man
named
James
Larson
was
found
with
the
top
of
his
head
blown
off
In
the
lavatory
aboard
the
Pacific
Mills
tugboat
Kwatna
moored
at
the
townslte
float
at
Ocean
Falls.
Over
the
body
was
found
a
double-barrelled
shotgun.
It
was,
apparently,
a
case
of
sui
cide.
Inquiry
is
being
held
today
by
Coroner
G.
H.
Hill
of
Ocean
Falls.
WHITNEY
INDICTED
Former
Prominent
New
York
Stock
Broker
Charged
With
Grand
Larceny
$10,000
Bail
NEW
YORK,
March
11:
(CP)
Richard
Whitney,
president
of
the
bankrupt
brokerage
firm
of
Richard
Whitney
&
Co.
and
former
presi
dent
of
the
New
York
Stock
Exchange,
was
IndlctecLby
trri
county,
grand
Jury
yesterday
on
three
counts
of
grand
larceny
and
has
1
been,
released
on-
$10,000
bail.,
-
The
charges
against
Whitney
are
a
sequel
to
the
collapse
of
his
company
earlier
in
the
week
and
arise
directly
out
of
alleged
mishandling
of
a
trust
fund
of
more
than
$100,-
C00
from
the
estate
of
his
father-in-law,
the
late
George
Shelton.
in
which
the
beneficiaries
were
Whitney's
wife
and
sister-in-law.
Whitney,
a
co-trustee
of
the
estate,
Is
alleged
to
have
used
the
securities
In
a
vain
effort
to
prevent
the
failure
of
his
company.
PREMIER
IS
DIPLOMATIC
Correspondence
Between
Major
C.
II.
Douilas
and
Prime
Minister
Mackenzie
King
Made
Public
LONDON,
March
11:
(CP)
Major
C.
H.
Douglas,
father
of
the
Social
Credit
plan,
yesterday
made
public
correspondence
he
had
had
with
Prime
Minister
William
Lyon
Mackenzie
King
In
regard
to
the
case
ci
George
F.
Powell,
British
Social
Credit
expert,
who
is
now
in
prison
in
Alberta
for
defamatory
libel.
Douglas
asked
Mackenzie
King
If
he
would
be
risking
detention
should
he
himself
visit
Canada,
to
which
the
Canadian
Premier
to-plied
that
he
presumed
Ma)of
Douglas
did
not
contemplate
a
breach
of
the
Criminal
Code
of
Canada.
I
New
Cabinet
Is
Not
Yet
Formed
Communists
and
Socialists
Confer
On
Filtering
Blum's
Coalition
Government
TAR1S.
March
11:
1
CP
t
For
mer
Premier
Leon
Blum,
up
to
to-day.
had
not
completed
the
tasj
of
forming
a
new
coalition
govern
iment
for
France.
Communists
and
on
the
question
of
entering
the
cabinet.
Their
final
answer
Is
expected
today.
LONDON
GOLD
PKICK
P-r,
.LONDON,
March
11:
(CP)
The
met-1
London
price
of
bar
gold
was
down
3c
yesterday
to
$34.98,