' r T omorrows Tides L Jr I -tfk t" f I ' t '.ft T .vlil No. 103. l;52 A ft. 8:28 a V 20:40 p.m e local improvement taxes " . s the flrt otnctal reco- i re hat ever been of the t -k. ' y the Cltr CoBjmlartoner' : Ate construction, together war main retmemnt, r which federal knn f' in vn otnM. -wtlil ji rorwtrtnllon wttl mm be' HEARING lS ; PROCEEDING" Dtpctta'l n fas of Harry nrldge' (oti Into Second Week EA.'i FRANCISCO. July 17:- Ex-C.T.-juut John Leech will re tar-. ., the wltneas stand tomor- r corning when the second wri of the Harry BrldjW de-pc.'.a'.on. hearing opens on Angel I: lid &3 the United States seeks to drpurt the Wt Coast C. I. O. elader to Australia on grounds tha" hi; is a Communist and that .!: rnmmimiti tvirtv advocates CTr hrow the government. Bi.dyes denle that he I a Com-fJi and hla defence Is attending to prove that the part foe; not advocate violent over-tv' w of the government. Leech testified last week that Brlrtgrj was active In the Com- tnunist- movement and was elected mrmbcr of the Communist Par- t? National Central Committee. Tomorrow defence attorneys arc txprrtd to produce an affidavit, igned by Leech, stating that he never :aw Bridges at a Communis tic meeting and that he did not brlleve the labor leader was s member of the party. Leech admitted la-st week that he had made such an affidavit but ald that he did so under threats from members of the party He Insisted that his testimony t the Urldgcs' hearing was th truth and nothing but the truth. Alaska .Cannery Strike Still On KETCHIKAN, July 17 With the ason's fish run now under way, the dispute between southeastern Alaska cannery workers of the Con Kress on Industrial Organization and the cannery operators Is still unsettled. Necotlatlons are nt a standstill, even on- the basis of re-dured demands by the union which he canncrs have refused to accept, and the picket lines have been ordered resumed. if. Great TRIESTE TO TODAY'S STOCKS (Court S. D. lottmUxx Oo.) Vancouver Dig MiSMxirt, .13. -Uralorne. II JO. Cariboo Quartz. 2.10. Dentonla, .05 Vj. Falrvlew. JOS. Oold Belt. .30. Hedley Mascot. J2. Mlnto. .014. Noble Five. .OlVj. Pend Orlelle, 1JJ. Pioneer. 2.45. Premier, 1.88. Privateer, 1J4. Reeves McDonald, .15. Reno, .4. Relief Arlington, .13. Reward, .0114. Balmon Oold, .08. Sheep Creek, 1.18. 1 Cariboo Hudson, .09 Ji. Hedley Amalg., .01. Oils A, P. Con., .15. Calmont, 31. C. it EL. 1.92. Fteehold, .02. Home, 2.12. Pacalta. .05. Royal Canadian, .19. Okalta, 1.00. Mercury, .05. Prulric Royalties, .211'. Toronto Aldermac, J0',. Brattle. 1.25. Central Pat.. 2.45. Cons. Smelters, 40.50. East Malartlc. 2.70. Fcniland. .03 i. Krancocur, .20. Oods Lake, .33. Hardrock, .96. Int. Nickel, .48i. Kerr Addison, 1.87. Little Long Lac. 2.75. McLcod Cockshutt, 1.95. Madaen Red Lake, .38. Moneta, 1.04. Noranda, 79.75. Plcklp Crow. 4.70. Preston E. Dome, 1.57. San Antonio, 1.67. Shcrrltt Oordon, 1.03 .Stadacona, 45. Uchl Oold, 1.20. Mosher, .11 i. Oklcnd. .074. Smelters Oold, .03. Dominion Drldse, 28.75. McKenzle Red Lake, 1.32. IIF.NLEV ENTRIES New PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT IS PAYING $40,000 NOW ON LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS fiood Mw Received By Commissioner This Morning- Will Assure IVew Morne and Hay treck UritiRcs At the City Hall at least it was not Blue Monday to-dav for on the cloak of the City Commissioner W. J. Alder was a letter which advised that the provincial government was pa ing a grant of $10,000 on account of local improve r?rv taxes, $80,000 in which the city has been claiming f r vi atv and which claim Premier ' T. D. Pattullo has con .-. Mioported. Even a far tirk iia Oliver government the been endeavouring to col- ir BE LEASED! '.tified and he Mtd thU hal pa) mart I at thta time I Important Deal Between Germanv 1 (. vnr oopoftune and would ! And Italy It Reported building of the new Hay Complete ! Morie Creek brtdfft at late A. L Carta then. xonrrnrecnt bridge hiTlnt '. of "r . in retard to tbe -unni-bridge, nteia for the are now betox nrepar- ROttE, July 17: Negotiations confirmed are reported to hare been virtu ally completed for a lease of th-Italian port of Trieste- on the Adriatic Sra by Germany A railroad will be built Into Hungary LONDON, July 17: (CP)- This noval Henley Regatta, which will mark the centenary of the EnRllsh water classic, lias attract ed a record number or i-'J en tries. TRUSTS TO found by a French trooper about a mile from the Shanhalkwan Barracks, where a Durham Infantry drtathment Is established. A Japanese sponsored Chinese newt pa per, meanwhile, reported that a Tienttln native "supreme anti-Brithh committee had ordered Chinese clerks, constables and pollre officers, emplorrd by the jpanee blockaded Brithh concession's municipal council to resign Immediately. Chinese refusing to obey would be regarded as criminals. SILENT ON DANZIO MITNICII Chancellor Hitler opened the German National Art Exhibition Sunday, with a fifteen minute addre, notable to a world watching the ten Danzig situation, because it contained no mention of the Free City or any other political question. How- I ever, the question of Danzig, which Hitler ha promised to return to Germany, was still to the forefront. HESSIAN RAIDS IISINKING Japanese mllitarv headquarters reported Russian warplane. oruji, a railway poi of Tsltshihar. on Sunday In a before dawn raid, in which seven person were Injured and two building destroyed. This is the third report wUhln a week of Soviet raid on railway centres and was the deepest the Soviet airmen have penetrated Into Manchoukuo territory since intermittent fighting started on the Outer Mongolian border May 11. ARE THESE BANDITS? CALOARV William Carter, 28, was arrested last night after Wil liam Senyk, 21, was shot and seriously wounded In an east end drinking party. Both Carter and Senyk are from Vancouver and police said that several bills found on Carter tallied with the description and numbers circulated after the Robson Street branch of the Dominion Bank of Canada In Vancouver was held up last week and robbed of $2700 by two armed men. One of two loaded guns found on Carter also tallied In description with a revolver stolen In the bank robbery, pollre stated. BE BUSTED Patent Laws Also Kecommended WASHINGTON, DC . July 17. The national monopoly Investigation committee has recommended drastic revision and strengthening of the patent and anti-trust laws as a means of preventing "a tena- 5c. CHICAGO, July 17: -The House Workers' Organizing urday from unexplained gunthot (Committee National Policy consld wounat received maay. jomnn-on, iihot In the abdomen, was NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BK1T1S II COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, JULY 17, 1939. Service To Be Commented Earlv In August, It Is Announced OTTAWA, July 17: CP Post- ivi9v riUA on Pr. I ma-ster General McLarty an- isldent Roosevelt to mediate the i iounced Saturday that the to- dispute between the union and th-jperial Airways will inaugurate I Armour and Company meat-pack- rejular trans-Atlantic air mall Ber ing firm. Ttce early in August. Skidegafe Inlet Sea Serpent Rears Ten Feet; Makes Noise Like Airplane; Tosses Seals From Skidegate Inlet, Queen Charlotte Islands, comes the latest sea serpent story. On several ac-a.iions lately an enormous marine monster ha been, seen, it is reported by fishermen from the entrance of Skidegatej Narrows. It is described as looking like a huge eel with long antennae on each side of its head which resembles that of a sea lion. The serpent isaid to have been seen rearing its head and body above water about ten feet When breathing on the surface it is said to make a noise like an airplane. The creature, dark brown in color, tosses seals into the air before eating them, it is reported by a Queen Charlotte Islands correspondent. TB LITTLE hOPE f OUR BOYS FOR MINERS: AND KETCH Rescue Workers Still Digging, Land's End of Marblehead, 3Iassa-However, In Kentucky Colliery I thussetts. Interesting Yachting 1 Visitor Here PROVIDENCE, Ky.. July 17: j Hope faded today for the safety of Bound for a summer cruise In nine men traoDed far beneath the Alaska waters as far north as Yak- tn an airugm cnaraocr, scaucu , salvage Co. wnere sne was me cen by rock and coal slides from the tre of much admiring interest. deadly gases that filter through a trim well kept vessel with racy most of the time In such a place. lne, the Land's End was built in They might have enough pure air 1935 and is registered out of Marble- to last unUl Tuesday. Halibut Sales I Summary I American 59500 pounds, and 5c to 8c and 5.5c. Canadian 6.5c and 5c to and 5c. American Klncflsher. 32.000, Royal, Tightening Up Of United stales and 55, 7.Cs .head, Mas-achussetts, She was (shipped west and the four youths joined her at Seattle to start oh ' their Pacific Coast adventure. Long ; distance sailing is nothing new for them. Indeed, that Is the way they 'are accustomed to spending each summer vacation. Last summer (they travelled half way up tne 7.4! coast of Labradore. They have also cruised In Newfoundland waters and have been a couple of times to 7.6c 'Bermuda, on one occasion particl-I paUng In the race of sailing vessels Pearl, 11,000, Booth. 8c and 5.5c' to that Island In which the Land's Revtlla, 12,000, Atlln, 7.9c and, End rmisnea sum. 5 . The Land's End Is equipped with Wabash, 4,500, Cold Storage, Bcja 20 h.p. four cylinder Gray gas and s 5r " I engine but it is seldom used as the Canadian jboys are out for sailing. Coming Viking I, 14,000, Royal, 7c and north from Seattle, for instance they used only six gallons oi gaso-i ency toward the concentration of Dovre ,B.. 20.000, AUln, 7c and line. They run both day and night ' control of the economic system In 5c. and their last stop before reaching fewer and fewer business execu- Balsac I, 17,000, Pacific, 6.8c and Prince Rupert was eunKinsop uaj. tives." 5c. Johnston Straits. A soutneasi wma The committee, headed by Sena-. Atll, 14,500, Booth, 6.6c and 5c.!much of the time helped to speea tor Joseph C. OManoney 01 wy- Ed. Llpselt, 11,500, racinc, e.ac them on tneir way. omlng. said It Is clear "that the fin- and 5c. The four youths aboard the anclal and other resources required North Forland, 4,000, Booth, 6.Cc Land's End are Henry uwmis ana for economic endeavor are be-, and 5c. ' Curtis Reld of New YorK ana Laury coming Increasingly difficult for Jupiter, 8,800, Pacific, 7.4c and Morgan and John Barker or Boston. h ordinary enterprises to obtain 5c. . and that concentration of econom-' Oulvlk, 14,500, Cold Storage, 6.7c Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Paalen and le uowcr and wealth Is accompan-imd 5c. Miss Eva Sulzex of Paris, France, led by Increasing unemployment and narrowing markets," The committee endorsed recom Relief, 19,000, Cold Storage, 6.7c artists and museum collectors and 5c. !who are spending the summer ln Domino II, 8.300, Oold Storage, I this district, arrived ln the city mendations of the Department of6.9c and 5c Commerce and the Department of! Southend, Justice regarding both patent and 7.1c and 5c. night on anti-trust laws. Tramp, 15,000, .Atlln, 7c and 5c. Queen Charlotte Islands, ( rican barbarous governments from carry- surface in the explosion-wrecked . utat and .... Icy Bay with . four - young, .1 traffic with powers at war and ban Duvln coal mine out rescue wor- Harvard students on ooara, one oi ers dug grimly through the debris- the season's Interesting yachting choked passages toward them. The craft was In port Saturday with the men were among 28 entombed 38-foot ketch Land's End of Boston, when an explosion of gas and dust The Land's End arrived on Satur-wrccked the mine Friday night :da morning from Seattle and con-Nlnetecn bodies have been found, tlnued north Sunday morning. , Mine officials said It was pos- while here the 38-foot vessel was sible that th nine men might be tied up at the floats of the Armour erants -Recipients Weather Forecast Prince Rupert and Queen Charlotte Islands Moderate to fresh southeast wind.?, mostly cloudy and cool with showers. PRICE: 5 CENTS Anglo -French Bases Bulletins Kdf To Mediate W ATLANTIC One To Be Established BRITISH rillVATi: KILLED TIENTSIN British military authorities reported Sunday that J. W. Tomlimon, prirate of the Durham light Infantry, died Sat Packing 'Dispute In Chicago AIR MAIL West Coast; Other on Aegean Coast Defences of Mediterranean to be Greatly Bolstered up as Result of Arrangements Which Have Been Quietly Carried Out PARIS, July 17. British and French general staffs, taking advantage of the temporary lull in European tension, have quietly arranged for two powerful r.ew air and naval bases in Africa and Asia Minor. One will be at Dakar, on the West Coast of Africa and the other at Tches-me, on the Aegean Coast just west of Smyrna. The staffs ; 1 have completed co-ordination of HTrtnrP i m their West African land, sea, and SIKSlVrS A I alr forces around Dakar. African U Xll-Uj i" 1 point nearest the Americas, and Ifll I A I I N'Pore-" The two powers have con-JL-kV liil JXW Cude1 an agreement with Turkey to rush construction of a formidable naval and air base at the tiny Conduct of Japan, Italy and Cer- fishing port of Tchesme to become many "Barbarous, Indefensible the main base in the Eastern Medi-and Inhuman" terranean for air and sea forces of the three powers. Tchesme lies at the extremity of WASHINGTON. D.C.. July 17. a mountainous peninsula which ex-Senator George W. Norrls of Ne-, tend- fifty miles Into the sea from braska has Joined President Roose- Smyrna and French technicians velt in his sirwsgle for neutrality Isay that physically Tchesme com-j legislation at this session of Con-'pares In trategic and defense possi- gress with a statement charging I bllltie with. Gibraltar. - that the conduct of Japan, Italy J Simultaneously with the devel-'and Germany Is "barbarous, lnde- opment of that new base, the r ilensible-and Inhumanr-He'sald the. Turks, with BrttUh ahd'FrThchTiJdr ,.Unlted States has a "moral and legal" right to take such action as 'would "prohibit or retard these also will build a powerful fortified line along the West Coast from Smyrna to Antalya to face the Dodecanese Islands and hold off lng on their inhuman warfare" and any possible Italian attempt to land recommended legislation which troops to force a wedge Into Asia would ban loans to any belllgerant Minor, require that American exports to belligerants be paid for In cash and J American . r a travel 1 on ships -1 I of U11l belllg niTMrv nrtn that title to such property pass be- IjlJ W II nr. A II fore leaving this country, prohibit American ships from engaging in 4 lllTnC,r1r,I Free Butter For Relief Charged as "Another Wise Guy "Trying Beer Hall Putsch" WEBSTER, Mass., July 17: Frit2 IKuhn, German - American .Bund leader, today was arrested on (drunkenness and profanity charges and accused of being "another wise guy who thought he could stage a beer hall putsch." Kuhn, accom- Local relief recipients, like those.,. . hv r t A Vn ln other parts of the country,. .,.. . . - th y.. B with their bi-monthly dole certl- of Agriculture. BAD FOREST Serious Northwest Fought By Thous ands of Men SEATTLE, July 17 sians in America, was released on flcates at the ena 01 iasi weeic. re-$51 ... h he aVd th Count celved special coupons for free lm d to ral5e between them ln which is behig butter dbtributedsmalI and chan ? t sIaiii rf rt en mln e nrfviiif inn ! ' which exists In Canada. With one pound of butter bought, It was-7TI7 fDfiDC oosslble to get another free, the P lllr. L,t.lJr kj ilmlt for single men being one. pound and for families three : 4 rp nnpnT) i T The certificates were redeemable In butter at the stores which are In turn reimbursed at the banks showery Weather Is, However, by arrangement of the Department Delaying Harvest Fruits In (CPl-Worstj-f--- forest fires on record were raging over the week-end ln many parts of the Pacific Northwest with thousands of men engaged ln fighting them. Snowqualmle- Pass and Mount Baker Park in Klam ath Reservation ln Oregon and ReddlAg, California, were among the areas affected. Llghtnln . rvsrtvi i oTflir rr rn ?siiirria.v n i . wv- - c , I the (Ires and Stone itKnn rt.u o ..aiiAri aHirHflvi'startcd some of Good Shape TERRACE. July 17. There Is a t fine crop of hay In the fields around L7IDL7C D A " 17 ! Terrate- Cutting began last week f livEiO i A VjUl but showery weather Is delaying the I harvesting. The spring and early summer Conflagrations In Pacific' has been warm and showery, there has been no hot weather. The local government weather observer reports the highest temperature up tn rfafu a Id dnrrM onlv A coudI In May and June local gardeners complained of cut worms which were more numerous than usual, resulting ln rescedlng some garden crops, carrots, cabbage, etc. The apple crop promises to bt the best ever. There Is an absence of tent caterpillar and the branch es are covered with' the young fruit. fruits aLso, cherries and 111 ill 111 CMlliVlt tMltUlVIMJ 1- 1 1 . , the Prince Charles for some were believed of Incendiary, plums are looking exceptionally origin. good.