c :i f r hours unless dama- 3 ; but It was believed would have blown her '3 ,::n lx t position reported t kz. .aid the plane was 1. j 1:: winds. nni iwn I Jill .Hill 500 MILES Youlbs e I I'rlnrc Rupert In -rwrreie monmcn uaiioc Mme. They paddled :f '.hn way but obtained rides few rnllr Out of the total of 615 miles they say paddird at least five hundred i., to adventures qn the thry aid the closest call had was crossing Queen :l!tt Sound. It took them two to make the crossing and, uau naif way way across, across, a a storm Siorm May's Baseball National League. .'s. 1; Boston, 2. Ja87 4; Philadelphia, 5. Telve Innings). J!W8. 7: Brooklyn, 0. lnclnatl,4; New York, 5. 1 American i.... it ftf vo do played as URhi.v: ',Laa on Sunday, Here in connection with the tak lng back oi the local grain elevator had It under lease for several tears. R. Hethertngton "of ForC I William, general manager of Ca- .ng two or thrre nadlan government elevators, and ' wo college youths, Joseph Bennett, Pacific coast su- .-; Bill Rcnwick, 18. of elevators, .arrived from Vancouver y plan to leave1 on the Prince George this afternoon .itiviivn - a r ? . hn urn,, fr Knil! fl . i 1. n tVila Mmn at Tn port and in which the; 'or a.nur to Juneau, Alaska, i- r rtr TfinH thmI -.3 boy, left Seattle Juni the future of the local house following Its abandonment by the pool. FOUND WAR NOT SO BAD Calgary Veteran Refused Shot At Revoltcr During Visit To Spain CALGARY. July 2: (CP)-Ba"k home after a trip to Spain, Co-tain H. O. Scott told members of th tne r.anad uanaaiuu an v.H corps associuuuu on a snecial pass In University' Pe..v GREEK REVOLT CRUSHED J ATHENS A revolt i.salnst Re- j glma General Metaxas, Greek dictator, was apparently quickly crushed today. The Governor of Crete, where the uprising broke out, cabled etaxas that order had been restored. PATTULLO IN SEATTLE SEATTLE Premier T. D. Pat-tullo of British Columbia arrived in Seattle yesterday and was a guest of honor at the Northwest Potlatch Festival today. by the Canadian government from! I n.hllll, f, l Tom uaiiioniia tr.B Alberta Wheat Pool which hasi 1 EVACUATE HANKOW HANKOW With the Japanese drive up the Yangste River continuing steadily, foreigners are now being advised to leave this provisional capital of China. FIRE SITUATION VANCOUVER-The British Columbia forest fire situation appears more serious again today. On Vancouver Island wind has Increased and humidity is higher Flames are nnce again spreading toward Forbidden Plateau before a westerly wind and the settlement of Hevan is threatened. At Copper Mointain all employees of the Granby Company are re, the mine being Mad- i 6-3, 6-2. wnaaa musi now wn, near . insurgent-besieged wiijr City o i rmitn nr matrlirs which rid, Captain Scott was as uj- . .- ------ J is considered almost Impossible. loyalist troops If he would like take a shot at tne reoeis. ujju.i u..5u - his refusal, the machine-gunner Ul da in the doubles this afternoon co a burst a the enemy 200 yards, and the two remaining singles I will be played tomorrow. away rwaln Scott said tne opanisi. , - milder sort of war was "a much thing" than the Great War. There were n0 24-hour artillery barrages laid down before an Infantry at-nrir Poison cas evidently had not People Everybody was fine to been used and Barcelona, most r we went." I heavily snciica oi opnn" py uld they obtained some of !ls nothing like Yprcs was after the I formation about the routo.last war. , , f "cttyLowman. whn was hrr "War has not progressed In hor- ycaf They met C. V. Evitt and'rlblcness during the past 20 years i' ""nuaie ana, on arrival and the scaie oi fccicm-u f ur Evltt placed his boat at1 In the Spanish war than In the f "Peal of tho lads as a place Great War," he said. "Germany Se until they left. land Italy are using the war t .. I..- ,V.lnv hilt It r iS Still ICSl Will maw.." - unproven that a single atr-raW winn out an entire city as alarmist writers wouia nave iu world believe." EYE TROUBL! KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 29.-(CP)-Reports from Richmond dls trlrt nf Jamaica say a' strange ma inHv has made its appearance there. Revere pains ANOTHER CLASH TOKYO. Japanese and Soviet border patrols fought aEaln for an hour today at .Mount Chang-kufeng, scene of the. recent frontier dispute. The Soviet patrol later withdrew to Siberian" L! RA.iV J VICTORIA) B C Today's Weather Tomorrow's Tides She muim prince Ruperts-Showery, north High 3:12 a.m. 21.6 It. ..-a' two miles per hour; baro-?nns 15:46 p.m. 21.2 It. r it (falllne): temperature. Low 9:35 ajn. 1.6 It. 22:00 pjn. 3.9 It. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER XXVII No. 175, PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1938 PRICE: 5 CENTS ?ii Clipper Lost In Pacific Ocean s fe idespread oearch Instituted For Plane Missing Near Manila i . Cltittc Arn ' hrnu n I n f n I limcf Iwr ICiir l lrmrr i i 1 1 t - - - - - - o "J n Machine wiucii uroppeu uui oi aignt isctwcen IMullipine Islands And Guam - ANILA, July 29. (CP) An intensive search on' and ea was ordered tonight for the Pan-American! vnv Hawaii Clinner which has disanneared with fif- A men on a flight from Guam to Manila. Seven planes, , navv ships, six submarines and an Army transport e thrown into the hunt for the great flying boat which i heJ from mid-air in the course of a 1600-mile hop. t r ii: : wab built to Iloat on - TRANSFER ELEVATOR Manager oi Government Elevators Here Today with Wheat Pool Superintendent BULLETINS VALUE OF "' MINING IS CLARIFIED Howard T. Mitchell Shows Picture! And Tells Story of Mining History of British Columbia ! In Attractive Form j : There was a good attendance of members of the Prince Rupert Chamber of Commerce and theli friends at the City Hall last evening to hear an address by Howard T. Mitchell, editor Df the Financial News and chairman of the mining bureau of the Vancouver Board of Trade, who showed a scries of moving pictures taken by himself, making a complete panorama of the mining Industry or British Columbia "and the oil fields of Alberta. Mr. Mitchell accom panied the pictures wltqa running 1 (Continued on Page 2.) ! EXCHANGE 1 GREETINGS Exchange of Messages Between j Heads of British, and ' ( Canadian Air Lines LONDON, July 29. An exchange :of friendly greetings between thgf 'airman bfTmpeflai' Alr'ayi" and INSURGENTS FALLING BACK the chief executive of Trans-Cana-BARCELONA Insurgent forces . da Air Lines was effected on corn-are still falling back before the .' plction by the seaplane Mercury continued loyalist offensive in j of her first round trip voyage from the vicinity of the Ebro River. Foynes to Montreal and from Mont- j real to Southampton. Sir John C. W. GRAND COULEE FIRE (Keith, chairman of Imperial Air- GRAM) COULEE. A block of (frame buildings was destroyed j by a 5100,000 fire here yesterday, j The wife of the mayor was burn- j cd. to death as she slept. CIIILCOTIN PIONEER DIES VICTORIA Archibald McAu-Icy 5, pioneer rancher of the Chilrotin district, died here yesterday. Fifty-one years a resident of British Columbia, he was born in Ireland. A widow and two daughters survive. CANADIANS BEATEN MONTREAL-rCanada lost both tways Limited, Airway Terminus, London, has written to S.J. Hunger-ford, pre4ident of Trans-Canada Air Lines, in Montreal, in these terms: i "Dear Mr. Hungerford; ' "As the present flight of Mercury from Great Britain to America Is to be the forerunner of regular services In which your company will co-operate, I am sending you this letter of greeting and good wishes. "I look forward to the establishment of regular services In the near future and to closer association with yourself and with Tran-Canada Airways." Hungerford's Reply I Hungerford wrote a letter which was carried by the Mercury when the seaplane left Bouchervllle saying: "Dear Sir John; "I appreciate very much your kind message of greetlnR3'sentF6' me by Captain Donald Bennett of the Mercury. The remarkable nonstop flight of the ship from Foynes to Montreal represents another stage In the development of Tran-Atlantlc air transport and. as president otiTraiis-Cariada Air Lines, this successful achievement was particularly gratifying to me as an Indication that our joint -services may before long aid In extending the Empires, air communications. SEEK CANADIAN PLANES FOR BRITAIN These three prominent British aviation authorities make LONDON, July 29: (CP) The British government regards the bombing of the British freighter Dellwyn in Gandia on July 21 as deliberate, R. M. A. Butler VESSEL HAD up. along with an air ministry olflclil. a mission which arrived in Canada today to negotiate for m inufacture of heavy bombing airplanes in the omlniori. The s-.ep is taken, it was indicated, with concurrence, of. the JJoinlnlon government and, marks Britain's most -determined effort to bolster her aerial construction campaign with overseas assistance. The mission is headed by Sir Hardman Lever (circle , former financial secretary to the treas-my and includes Sir Edward Ellington (left), commander-in-chief of the R. A. F. and Fresjerlzk Handley-Page (lower right), world famous designer and ,bulld"r. The training of Royal Air Force fliers in Canada is also bcKng taken up. BOMBS ARE DELIBERATE This Is View of Attack Upon Freighter Dellwyn In Gandla Port House Is Recessed ITELLS OF ' NEW CURE To Rotary Club That Devil's Club Treatment for Diabetes Is Not Yet Proven Indications Good . Explains How It Was Stumbled Upon by Local Practitioner And Experimental Work ; Since Then ) "1 have had about five hundred communications in regard to the experiments Dr. Large and I have been conducting Into the possible development of a cure for diabetes from the root of the devil's club " Dr. H. N. Brocklesby told the Prince Rupert Rotary Club at its weekly luncheon yesterday afternoon. "Some of these have been from Eastern Canada, United States, (West Indies, Europe and many .other parts of the world. I was sorry publicity was given to what '.we are doing as it places us on Ithe spot. We had no Intention of giving it to the public yet. We sent the result of our findings to the t Medical Society and they decided j to have it published in the Medical 1 Journal and from it the Canadian Press sent It to all parts of the world. We considered it premature publication and the results have-caused us a lot of worry." j Dr. Brocklesby said in his add-(ress that the great feature of the substance on which they were working was that it was taken through 'the mouth whereas insulin had to be injected into the blood. On the other hand while the acljion of ln-1 sulln was very rapid the new substance was very slow. I The sDeaker told how Dr. Laree Of CJl? k T I had come to him in October 1934 VLUuIj VA.LL -uite exclted- He he had a patient in the hospital who was Princess Charlotte Here Today, evidently (suffering fom diabetes Carries Marks of Big Pier I). Fire and who knew It and had been keeping herself alive by taking an With a capacity list of passengers infusion of the root of the devil's consisting almost entirely of round club, a plant that grows in the trip tourists, C. P. R. steamer Prin- husband of the woman had a bro- cess Charlotte, Capt. William Pal- thcr in Japan who was a doctor mer. arrived in port at 8:30 this and-this doctor had told oi a piam morning from Vancouver and sailed of a similar species In Japan used Parliamentary Under Secretary ; a COUDie 0f hours later for Skag- for a similar purpose and had sug of State, told the House of Com- ; way and otner Alaska points gested he try this related species. mons toaay. it me government s i wnence snc whj return here next To this Japanese doctor reauy De- opening singles in the American , I" "Ply to Sir John Reith, Mr. view is confirmed, it wilr request Wedncsdav afternoon southbound, longed the credit of the discovery, X' -tennU nlav vcsterdv to Ja (nail rocky island. The said of firing . machine gun at the, P-n. - J - they would strongly advise' Spanish rebels. f ciilnat trylnc to make the jin a canoe It was -a pleasant p jaunt when the sea was tih but every afternoon dur-pe weather the wind whipped pounh sea to make travelling fst impossible. The result was ! had to &.i mnst. nf thplr lliir mornlnirq lC litODDcd off nt mnsl nf IhK f'lOUEr, and nnv nln rut BU JOG Wlthmit taia Bill. "Part of the fr ure of the trip was In meet beaten fsi nn. I ll'll.nn C t Secretary Ickes Is Coming West Member of United Slates Cabinet To Visit Alaska Next wcck WASHINGTON, D. C, July 29:-Sccrctary of the Interior Harold Ickes and his young bride left last night for the west and will sail from Seattle August 3 for Alaska. Secretary w 11 in the cyesiThc riumDCr OI prujeuva in nmo ,iu cause tears to now .um .... eA Alaska High tlnuaiiy. u s saiu, 'way with a branch to Juneau. has been found. It Is cratlfvlnz to us here to be Is rising on the cqast and the weather Is somewhat unsettled in the northern districts while over the Interior It Is fair and quite warm. Prince Rupert and Queen Chai- lottc Islands Moderate to fresh a commission now being former1 to investigate such cases to examine the attack. During the debate on the Dell-wyn's bombing, it was revealed that a British destroyer stood by while bombs were being dropped but did not return the fire because it was instructed to protect British shipping only outside territorial waters. Later the House recessed until November 1, the feeling being that the international situation was less serious than at any time during the past year owing to a general conciliatory attitude among the nations. able to co-operate with the Imperial Ponnol Qnlmntl Air Service in the establishment of VcUllICU UlUlUUlI heartily reciprocate your greetings' J'J LOWer Weather forecast General Synopsis The pressure' Production For Trcscnt Season To Date Is Stilt Below Previous Years south winds, shifting to southwest, a decrease of 36,960 cases over thnj (cloudy and cooler with occasional light rains West' Coast of Vancouver Islaii'l Fresh southwest winds, mostly cloudy and cool with showers. . corresponding period in the four JIHI VJ VIV. . The sockeye pack has dropped 18,270 cases from the total of 169, There were 207 passengers In all If It was a discovery. aboard the Princess Charlotte. Dr. Brocklesby said he agreed None disembarked at this port, two with Dr. Large to go to work on going north from here. , the suggested medicine In his The Princess Charlotte had a spare time and see If they could narrow escape from destruction In isolate it In its pure state. They the big Pier D fire at Vancouver were still working on it when the Wednesday afternoon. She was immature publicity caused such a moored near the point of outbreak stlr. and the most of the crew were I Nature of Diabetes ashore. The vessel was "saved by! The speaker explained that dla-the action of Captain, Thomas Rip- betes was caused by the lack of a pon, Marine Superintendent of the substance secreted by the pancreas company, who dashed from hi3 . a Ksat of which the body was office to the bridge and moved unabie to assimilate sugar and fats her to Pier H. completely burned up. The Princess Charlotte showed ;whpn lnsuim was injected, the signs of scorching on her star-1 paticnt was given a new lease of board side, paint being blistered Ufe and lt kept a great many peo-off. Some 100 tons of freight which , . a.,v. about thelr ordmary she was to have taken to Skagway occupations. The disagreeable feaT, was destroyed with the pier. J .,ipn .,,. with some sensitive and 57. scattered 526 cases In 1934. Springs are of!i53. Halibut Sales American Canadian Capclla I, 18,000, Cold Storage, VANCOUVER. July 29: (CP) -'6.8c and 5c. British Columbia's canned salmon I Terrace Cloudy, calm, tempera-pack this year so far totals 204,812 ture. 58. cases, according to the fifth week-1 Aiyansh Cloudy, calm, 54. ly fisheries bulletin today. This is Alice Arm Part cloudy, calm Anypx Cloudy, calm, 53. Stewart Cloudy, calm, 58. Harelton Cloudy, calm, 53. Smlthers Slightly cloudy, calm, , ., j 1380 cases from the 1034 aggregate,. ' Burns Lake -Cloudy, calm, 55 women, was that lt had to be injected with a hypodermic needle. To some patients this was a tragedy. , Thp tu-n pvnerlmenters first read Alkl. ,10,000, Cold Storage, 7.7c I everythlng they could ,lnd on the 6C. M.Klftf oKirl tVinn cat fi ii,rt flnrl they also consulted with other doc- tors. In so far as they had discovered, the new substance seemed to be effective on the subjects on which It had been tried. The work was being continued by some doctors In Toronto with whom arrangements had been made. Mbst of the substances so far found that seemed to relieve dia betes had a bad effect on other organs. So far they were led to (Continued on Page 2.)