itreises
in
Imposts
on
Beer,
Whiskey,
Tobacco,
Supar,
Wines,
Death
Duties,
Income
Surtaxes
and
Excess
Profits
LONDON,
September
27:
(CP)
Britons
are
faced
ritli
the
heaviest
taxes
they
have
ever
known
in
war
or
ace
fo
meet
an
estimated
minimum
of
2f000,0wf000
tutla.7
in
the
present
financial
year
for
the
country's
war
ffort,
sir
John
bimon,
Chancellor
of
the
Exchequer.
rim
..ngi
In
the
pound.
The
nlmi'
ends
March
31.
lit
the
ht.s
time
the
Chancellor
trd
direct
tax
Increases
all
i
the
.
..e
on
beer,
whiskey.
to-i
in
wine,
death
duties,
rat
'n
surtaxes
and
excess
I
ix
waj
untouched.
'
ffrarrere
sacrifices
the
heav-
:C
the
direct
taxpayer
of
lies'-
has
ever
hid
to
bear".
tfclirrd
by
the
Chancellor
to
I
a;
a
nheme
which
called
netritmtlon
to
wurTTpenses
of
everv
kind
and
He
added
-However
ser
if
f
zr
ial
problems
may
be.
I'
ir
j;
problems
which
eon-
'
Ofrcarr
are
Infinitely
grcat-
"eased
taxes
will
Droduce
pxr.m
tuis
year
and
226.000.-'
K.t
".:;
fiscal
year,
the
ttT'.t.
t
c
limated.
That
It
will
I'ltrr
f
being
a
"oar
as
you
8Tf!
r
jr-ellor
told
of
the
In-
nied
r
f
war
material.
Var
tpi
irl
t:r
raft
cost
many
times.
tjtr
daring
the
last
war.
The
'
'
"
'ting
the
men
and
p"!
K.ew
in
the
field
was
In-1
n&
1
all
department
the
i
1.1.1
f
i
trrr.T.mt
was
determined
to
tthe
a
minimum
and
to;
ftfr
r"
exreutv
war
nrnfltsl
!
turnskins
a
treat
effort
but'
M
b
look
to
the
future
as
well
I
we
prejenf
It
was
budgeting
three,
year
war
i
Phe
cr.'j
nblertlon
made
hv
the.
ireup
to
the
budget
was
the,
ROJECTILES"
IN
BELGIUM
Attidtnt
M.i.in.
ot
n.iz-h
T'oopi
On
Horder
Denied
SJRO88ELS.
September
27:
(CT
7VUr
Dlt)
Will.,
frnm
nirmin
EU-ircraf.
guns
are
rennrtrd
to
Eu
lllfn
ln
Dl8an
territory
a
"wae
the
frontier
yesterday.
u
believed,
however
tn
have
!a
mtrelv
lnrlHn(ll
a.rtal
r;6t
operations
on
the
nearby
Belgian
government
official-
L...
rf
130118
of
German
forces
mg
alonir
h
n.iun
tn.l
.
..V
UMKI.1I
VII
j
Gun
Practise
practise
will
be
carried
"urn
Harrett
Hock
be-I
"n
the
hours
of
3
p.m.
and
P-m.
September
27
and
28.
J
ot
lire,
between
North
f
chael
hiand
and
Genn
Is-
"u
u
rantfn
tin
i
mfwi
1
War
News
I
DOCTOtlS
WOULD
IIKLr
TOIIONTO
The
Canadian
.Mrdirat
AttocUUon
ha
otfertd
to
set
up
a
national
tooxratlTe
medical
committee
to
atiht
the
Dominion
government
both
in
military
and
induttrial
actlvlet
of
the
war.
AMERICAN
NKLTKAUTY
PANAMA
Under
Secretary
of
I
PROVKN
lAL
L1BRAPV
L1BRAPY
J
ygrOR1A,
B.Cj
Tides
Weather
Forecast
k
A
&
6
M
am.
20.0
It.
Prince
Rupert
and
Queen
Char-lotte
p.m.
20J"
It.
Islands
Fresh
to
strong
4-
i.m.
5.1
5.1
ft
ft.
northwest
winds,
shifting
to
west.
L3W
Cloudy
and
cool
with
occasional
4
J
ft.
showers.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
IXXVIH
NO
"PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBE
R
27,
1939.
PRICE:
CENTS
ig
War
Bill
Is
Facing
Britons
eaviest
Taxes
Yet
Portions
of
Wcstwall
Are
Wiped
Out
Are
Imposed;
Income
Tax
Over
One-Third
KEEP
PEACE
IN
BALKANS
iresented
his
first
budget
in
the
House
of
Commons
to-i1
wwphed
by
the,
organua-
1!
.
rc-scd
the
standard
In-
i
.
cat
Ux
tt'!
for
the
next
full
year
tlTper
tnl
of
the
total
Income
Iwta
ings
six
pence
In
the
tvA-
r
an
Increase
of
Just
ten
-tn'
Frr
the
remainder
of
the
tv
t-i
"
jr:cn?
rale
U
35
per
cent
Italy
Working
On
Flan
To
Keep
5
Southeastern
Europe
Out
of
War
2
Some
Disturbing
Factors
jg
ROME.
September
27:
CP
ig
Italy
Is
believed
to
be
endeavour-,
g
Ing
to
negotiate
an
agreement
g
which
would
preserve
the
status
o
quo
of
the
Mediterranean
Sea
and.
2
at
the
same
time,
keep
the
war
P
from
spreading
Into,
southeast
5
turopc.
mis.
n
is
iu;;wcu,
iiu-siu
a
tlon
of
the
Balkan
nations
Tur-
6
key.
Oreece.
Jugoslavia.
Bulgaria
g
and
Roumanla
in
a
peace
union
g
under
the
eacle
eve
of
Russia
and
o
Italy.
However,
there
are
obvious
ob
stacles
In
the
way
of
such
a
up.
Nazi
Oermany
Is
known
to
de-tire
free
access
to
the
Balkans.
Concern
Is
expressed
at
the
Vatican
that
Russia
may
desire
to
assert
the
role
of
protector
of
the
may
cherish
the
old
Russian
dream
lot
control
of
the
Dardanelles.
Hitler
Back
From
Poland
State
Sumner
Welle.
Prtented
,
LIK
.
Bept
27
-A
ccompanled
an
Jntra.Amrrifan
neutrality
by
hh
ltaff
chinwBAr
-Adolf
Hit-program
to
the
ran-Amerkan
,ff
ntuTXttd
u,
Berlln
TMterday
Confertnte
here.
It
wt.uld
ban
lfrom
poUnd
ll(tw
ionR
uer
Fue-bellierent
submarines
from
Am-
hnr
vm
remaln
nere
lt
not
known.
erican
ports
and
would
prevent
...
now
busY
COnferrln
with
his
kerchlng
of
ships
waters.
m
American
.rfinr.
t
u
nou
errveted
he
will
WHOLE
FAMILY
ENLISTS
GRANDE
PRAIRIE
Wesley
and
Albert
Beamish
have
left
for
Edmontrn
to
enlist
In
the
war.
Two
other
brothers
are
leaving
within
a
few
days.
PUBLISH
BLACKLIST
OTTAWA
The
Dominion
gov-ernmnt
will
publish
a
"blacklist"
of
218
firms
with
German
connections
which
Canadians
will
be
expected
not
to
patronlie
during
the
war.
EMBARGO
SUGGESTED
WASHINGTON
In
view
of
this
nation's
own
needs,
President
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt
yesterday
urged
owners
of
commercial
stock
of
rubber,
iron,
manganese,
tin,
chrome,
pigskin
and
other
war
materials
to
retrain
from
exporting
them
at
this
time.
He
hoped
that
the
warning
would
be
heeded
and
that
It
would
not
be
necessary
to
enact
embargo
TURKEY
AND
RUSSIA
MOSCOW
The
Turkish
foreign
minister
conferred
today
with
President
Kalinin
and
Premler-Fnreltn
Commissar
Molotoff.
Yesterday
the
Turkish
envoy
J
lunched
at
the
Kremlin.
MILITARY
PACT
.
TOKYO
The
Tokyo
newspaper
Asahl
says
that
'a
new
phase
of
the
European
war
will
be
started
with
the
espected
signing
of
a
j
military
pact
between
Germany
j
and
Russia.
This,
It
Is
suggested,
"I
is
the
purpose
of
the
visit
of
For-
eign
Minister
Joachim
von
Rib-
bentrop
to
Moscow,
WAS
GERMAN
PLANE
AMSTERDAM
The
pilot
of
the
Royal
Dutch
Air
Lines
plane,
which
was
fired
upon
yesterday
while
on
a
flight
from
iimmo
m
Amsterdam,
has
definitely
Identified
the
attacking
plane
as
having
been
a
German.
Fifteen
bullets
were
fired
at
the
Dutch
plane
which
was
clearly
marked
as
to
Its
.nationality.
One
passenger
was
killed.
devote
most
of
his
attention
to
the
western
front
The
Chancellor
Is
said
to
be
very
Irritated
over
the
British
naval
blockade
PATTULL0
IS
SILENT
Haf
Nothing
Yet
To
Say
About
Cabinet
Reorganisation
VICTORIA,
September
27:
CCP
Premier
T.
D.
Pattullo
has
no
announcement
yet
to
make
regard-
ng
cabinet
reorganization
follow-'ng
the
appointment
of
his
minis
ter
of
public
works,
Hon.
F.
M
McPherson.
to
the
board
ot
trans
port
commissioners.
There
will
have
to
be
a
by-elecUon
In
Cran-
brook.
which
was
Mr.
McPherson's
seat
tn
Uie
legislature
OOOOOOOODODOOOaOOOOOOOOOOOOODOOODOOOOOOOOOOOOCl
ooooooe
o
o
o
o
set-ro
O
a
u
o
o
o
German
Air
Squadron
Attacks
British
War
Ships;
Two
Are
Dropped
LONDON,
Sept
27:
TCP)
Rt
Hon.
Winston
Churchill,
First
Lord
of
the
Admiralty,
announced
in
the
House
bf
Commons
today
that
a
squadron
of
British
warships
had
been
attacked
in
the
North
Sea
yesterday
ly
twenty
German
planes
but
none
of
the
naval
units,
had
been
hit.
Churchilf-said
:
"No
British
casualties
are
re-
came
down
and
we
sent
destroyers
to
collect
her
and
her
crew
of
four
who
were
brought
m
as
prisoners.
The
First
Lord
of
the
Admiralty
said
that
Sir
Charles
Forbes,
commander-in-chief
of
the
Home-Fleet,
had
wirelessed
thus:
"Yesterday
afternoon
in
the
middle
of
the
North
Sea
a
squadron
of
British
capital
ships,
together
with
an
aircraft
carrier,
cruisers
and
destroyers,
was
attacked
by
about
twenty
German
aircraft.
No
British
ships
were
hit
and
there
were
no
British
casualties
incurred."
s
o
a
a
o
a
o
g
D
O
O
Berlin
reports
claimed
an
attack
on
a
warship
g
was
successiui.
o
The
battle
took
place
in
the
North
Sea
about
150
miles
off
the
coast
of
Norway.
WARSAW
TOOK
HIS
BERLIN,
Sept.
27--iThe
German
high
command
reported
"Warsaw
has
capitulated
unconditionally."
adding
"The
handing
orer
of
the
city
will
probably
occur
on
September
59."
The
announcement
came
several
hours
after
an
earlier
communique
declaring
that
the
Warsaw
defenders
under
a
thrust
from
a
German
assault
begun
yesterday
had
offered
this
morning
to
surrender.
The
German
announcement
came
at
the
end
of
the
twentieth
dayof
the
Warsaw
seige.
As
late
as
S:45
pjn.
(5:15
PST)
a
Warsaw
radio
was
heard
In
Budapest,
the
announcers
declaring
the
city
was
still
holding
out
and
would
resist
to
the
last.
ii
FALLEN
OWN
LIFE
Expected
City
Will
Be
Handed
Over,
Bod)
of
Alleged
Killer
of
Tommy
on
Friday,
Berlin
Reports
and
.Matilda
Danes
Ls
Found
at
Haielton
Divisional
headquarters
of
the
provincial
police
were
advised
late
yesterday
afternoon
of
the
finding
ot
the
body
ot
Walter
Oungoat,
Hazelton
Indian,
a
few
miles
away
from
the
Hazelton
reservation
which
was
the
scene
of
the
double
murder
on
Sunday
of
Tommy
and
Matilda
Danes.
Gungoat
was
the
suspect
In
the
case
for
whom
the
rallce
had
been
searching.
He
Is
Vlleved
to
have
taken
his
own
life.
The
triple
tragedy
was
the
result
Carter
if
a
drinking
quarrel.
Police
state
of
Smlthers.
FRENCH
BREAK
THROUGH
SIEGFRIED
LINE;
FIRST
1
TIME
SINCE
WAR
BEGAN
D
D
g
Germans
Reply
With
Furious
Counter-Offensive
Light
8
1
Artillery
Proved
Effective
Yesterday,
Causing
St
Heavy
Casualties
Reich
Tanks
Fail
g
I
PARIS,
September
27:
(CP)
Early
today
French
Dl
0'
artillery
were
reported
to
have
blasted
their
first
breach
o,
in
Germany's
Siegfried
Line
on
the
western
front
near
g
Saarbruecken
which
is
now
in
allied
control.
The
Ger-
ported
hut
orfe
German
flying
boat
was
shot
down
oimans
then
launched
a
furious
counter-offensive
along
and
another
damaged.
Another
German
aircraft
olthe
entire
frontier
Bulletins
HIS
XECK
SAVED
TORONTO
Four
days
before
he
was
to
have
been
hanged
for
the
murded
of
James
Windsor.
Toronto
bookmaker,
the
Ontario
Court
of
Appeal
granted
a
new
trial
in
the
case
of
Donald
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SABOTAGE
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'
.
,
.1.1
against
the
companies
are
suggested.
Word
of
the
sinking
of
a
third
tug
at
Campbell
River
was
brought
here
yesterday.
FIRST
SNOW
OF
SEASON
TORONTO
Eastern
Canada
had
its
first
snow
of
the
season
yesterday.
Belleville
had
a
Hurry,
the
earliest
on
record
ln
the
memory
of
local
people.
Spring-hill,
Nora
Soctia,
also'
reports
snow.
Aged
Senator
Seriously
111
Glass,
Aged
With
Bronchial
Trouble
that
there
were
two
eye-witnesses
-it
Oungoafs
killing
of
the
man
and
I
WASHINGTON,
TURKEY'S
'FLYING
AMAZON
ONLY
WOMAN
TO
HOLD
AIR
FORCE
TITLE
as
they
endeavoured
to
mend
the
D.C..
Sept.
27.
woman.
The
body
of
Oungoat
was
;
Senator
Carter
Glass
of
West
Vlr-
found
by
a
provlncla
police
patrol
headed
by'Constable
Andrew
Grant
Turkey
s
"Hying
Amazon,"
Flight
Lieutenant
Sablha
Queen
en,
the
only
woman
m
we
worm
10
uiu
r
IK
army
air
force
of
a
nation,
Is
shown
at
the
left,
as
she
checks
her
observations
after
a
reconnaissance
flight
Miss
.Ouekchen,
adopted
daughter
of
the
late
President
Kemal
Ataturk
of
Turkey,
at
23
has
participated
tn
actual
warfare
and
is
said
to
have
taken
Dart
ln
the
recent
bombing
of
rebel
tribesmen
ln
Turkey
when
several
tribes
were
completely
wiped
out.
The
youthful
mivi.11
....
.
...
1
mnnivr
AH
Tiirlrov
I.
nrmifl
fiver
1.
.1,
at
he
rioht
in.snectinff
tne
armament
or
her
neniinz
aerooiane
outuw
iuuu.in.
....
v
-
-
-O"
-
-
-
-k
-
----w
IO
dliu
w
i-
v
ik-
A
Wv
of
the
girl
who
wears
the
Diamond
Air
Force
Medal
for
"conspicuous
gallantry.'
and
how
handles
all
types
or
aeroplanes.
She
was
trained
in
tht
army
air
force
school
gap
which
had
been
shattered
in
the
line.
French
oiftpost
troops,
armed
with
light
automatic
rifles
and
machine
guns,
supported
by
fire
of
light
field
artillery,
drore
back
a
rierce
German
thrust
In
the
centre
of
the
western
front
yesterday
and
i
inflicted
extremely
heavy
casual-i
ties
upon
the
enemy.
J
Earlier
in
the
day
the
Germans
J
started
a
tank
attack
against
the
French
lines
but
found
anti-tank
I
guns
of
the
French
too
effective
land
desisted.
!
French
Infantry
moved
up
furth-let
Jtoward
the
West
Wall
under
'tha'
protection
of
the
artillery
bar
rage.
.in
i.i
-t-
lcc
arc
.
inroimiiiMi
-iicscu
v
.
.
"
-
r
x
,
-
"T""
'-f
n.m
trSrSZZiitkn
ith
h
i
Tyferhead
Trench"
nd"Germin'
I
sinking
of
thriee
tugboats
at
log-
war
planes
clashed
but
the
French
ging
camps
up
the
coast.
Grudges
held
their
own
despite
superior
numbers.
SHIPS
TO
BE
ARMED
i
I
Another
MeasurefTo
Protect
Bri-I
tish
Vessels
From
German
Submarine
Attacks
LONDON,
September
27:
(CP)
'In
the
course
of
his
report
to'
the
I
House
of
Commons
yesterday
on
British
Navy
war
acUvities,
Rt.
'Hon.
Winston
Churchill,
First
Lord
lot
the
Admiralty,
Intimated
that
.British
merchant
ships
were
being
81,
Stricken
-.-j
tn
,u
hra
nf
nh-
marine
attack
and
augment
the
convoy
system
which
was
already
working
effecUvely.
No
Oerman
submarine
activity
glnla.
vigorous
81-year-old
oppon-
whatsoever
was
reported
yesterday
ent
of
the
New
Deal,
ls
seriously
111
(following
a
weekend
during
which
here
with
bronchial
trouble.
ltwo
Swedish
and
two
Finnish
ships
were
sunk,
leading
to
vigorous
protests
by
those
countries
and
the
threat
by
Sweden
to
cut
off
Iron
ore
to
Oermany
which
derives
seventy-per
cent
of
Its
supply
from.
Sweden.
Berlin
reports
said
that
Vice-chancellor
Ooerlng
was
furious
over
the
sinking
of
the
Swedish
ships
and
was
in
dispute
with
the
ad-
mlral-ln-chlef
of
the
German
navy
over
the
mateer.
WHAT
NEXT
I
IN
MOSCOW?
'Three
Possible
Developments
From
Visit
of
Von
Ribbentrop
MOSCOW,
Sept.
27:
Three,
possible
developments
are
speculated
upon
In
connection
with
the
visit
here
of
German
Foreign
Minister
Ribbentrop
who
arrived
today:
1.
Signing
of
a
GermanSoviet
military
agreement.
2.
Formation
of
a
Balkan-Near
Eastern
bloc
under
guidance
of
Turkey
and
Russia.
3.
A
joint
.German-Soviet
request
that
Turkey
act
as
intermediary
in
attempts
to
negotiate
peace
in
western
Europe.