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 TUGBOAT SABOTAGE a000000000000000900O0Oa0000a00O00000OO0O00OO000000Oi ' . , .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.