eathenjioiiecast prince RuPert and Queen chr Jot Islands- Moderate to fresh loutheast wind, mostly cloudy and mild with rain. NO. 257. 91 r w. i r . Pii enant James Bryant ieils idin, .f ,tVr" ...I Mrs. H. R, Frost)-$75.25, x:T'?::il, Z Subscription lists completed ce he docs It I usually get 7 Pd results. I have great hopes of being 1 iTiV . . i i . . i ' ""j tuun iu) taxe wis The captain said he should 10W In s -. j . w ays- inosc icw Zlrt about WP but I am stUl 'or 11 If I irnt. t.h pmirsA .-"j mean a miioh hvtfo- frh i now have and something I want to do. I want to get .-t WI )IVUU UUd'ki Ui Wf. That couraft m!tv irlve II TK. . fiance, in the meantime "a lust lie around, which is w f Ulng' lt Blvcs me a in "wee ffnf P, i write letters, shirt v nnrt wn1. 4311 Picked ito nlav for this J?alnat another team Urat .viunn ttuu - - my some badminton." utii. in d n ah i rT i ii . . ... VF. - -'"i'cio ii mil iioiii. WU SOmo llArnnnnl mat "iia nifinij -r, 1 WftMH aval Volunteer Itcserve, liS"15 .lhat y should not 4oin. w J 4 Paucity. They were cdiiiI1T uul worlc and pubuc ,ZTS did not. ,lri- in Ar de- H.i. lT(A1l Whof 4Vi,. jij r.,- six R n ffnwre showed Uiat, as H. officers received Coa"nued on Page Two LAVAL ALL Of War Experiences? I nst Slim I J A II J WW WtUjl In Action; Fine British Spirit Belief That Democracy is " In Modern World by firms and offices within city $614.85. Subscription lists completed by outlying companies and individuals $346.50. Sundries $199.30. FOR HITLER Vice-Premler of France ueciart, lcr Pierre Laval, before an ... -ii iirtif Hitler oi Germany, told an Associated Press reporter that he believed democracy dead and ne i i, world is m h. ,w... f.it.ire would try to stake tuu on collaboration with Nazi oet my . ,nnlPnt At Vichy the retain b0"""",". announced today it ld approved unanimously results of Vice-Premier Laval's recent ff0 J? on details Paris with German officials of Vichy Prance's "collaboration" with the Axis. t iWILL MARK ARMISTICE Annual nbttmnr, tn h Tari-ifd 7rTr I 0u' on November 11, Featuring At the regular wecKiy luncheon ot the Prince Runert. ie rarade and service 1-1 Tl 1 J XT . . ' !..,! fiinm n f nvmov mamKo nf 1,,V. T J..i Final details of arrangements are i,vr. f tsiooHou n-a ""o jonnsion m.u.. vu- oiucer com . J . Ik -.lU. MHJ ; (h batteries away for ator-. Yesterday we had the hull III UP UL)LKU. llAidLY A. HdVC i.iirii irn 1 1: iiri mi m e: w u i ia i i ajr uOTk is done and I am : 1 ends until my shlo Is re- isloned or some, jojhr Job m nn I pannot affrrri lpavB kj case but will probably wre ror a week or d i Trntr I have other hopes. -4; I had a talllc with.1 the ot this ba, told him my j.cnTwm 4 mi a eiran it it t-o PROVINCIAL LIBRARY, VICTORIA, B.C. ! Tomorrow's TI3es mmm CHILDREN REMOVED Seventy Per Cent of Youngsters Taken From London to Country clrculated reports that Rt. Hon. I gate to the diesel supersuomanne, Neville Chamberlain ls on his way to California in the hope oi regaining his health brought from the former Prime Minister's secretary today the assertion that "he has not left this country and has no lnten- tlon of doing so." lOCTOBER ! WAS WET I Dampest Month Prince Rupert Has I Had This Year uiue ounu.i.c October was the wettest month Prince Rupert has had this year, the precipitation amounting to 9.77 lncheS- eord-lwho look like sweeps snine, uiuy ' tn ArtivltlM ed. cv, far this vear nrecipimuu" - M - - When he had more time Capt. Curry made some study of the development of the man-of-war, beginning with the canoe and com-i Ing down past Efhelred (nicknamed the Unready), William the Can- queror ana nis Aiorai ana ir.c battle of La Rochelle where the Spaniards first used guns aboard ship, firing stones. Capt. Curry recalls with amusement the remark of Lord Melville. First Lord ln 1828. When steam wus Introduced Into H.M.S. Monkey, the First Lord averred: "The Intro ductlon of steam is calculated to strike a fatal blow to the naval supremacy of the Empire." Sir George Cockburn of White House-burning fame was also loud in his complaints against steam vessels with their "dirty decks and captains has amounted to 68.93 inches inj While this sort of conversation ls rannert compared with 88.57 Inches In the first ten month3 of 1939. The sunsnine cai vw date has amounted to 869.1 hours I ing. He Is apparently a sort of gen as against 773,7 hours in me cor- paris, Nov. i: -"SXt,? thU In erview nfKr xl-HS ft follOWS: Maximum barometer reading at sea level, 30.21 on October 1. Minimum barometer reading, 29.-332 on October 24. Maximum temperature, 62 on Oc- Inhir R and 19. Minimum temperature, 39 on Oc tober 13 and 31. Mean temperature, 49.7. preclnatlon, 9.77 Inches. Bright sunshine, 38.3 hours. Maximum wind velocity, easterly, 32 miles per hour, October 24. going on Capt. Curry ls answering h'alf-a-,dozen telephone calls, re assuring, ordering .cniaing, suggesi- eral clearing sianuu needed constructor, co-ordlnator, trouble-shooter-at-large calm, with the mind working meticulously yet with seafaring vigor, as a captain on the poop, waiting and at the right moment saying "You may fire when readv." It's a sort of old navy quality. Capt. Curry was born ln 1889. His father was a clergyman but lt was foreordained that this Curry would follow the sea. He had four years ln the Royal Naval Engineering-Col lege and then spent two years with the White Star Line. On the formation of the Royal NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1940 , ""-J 10-J1 Inlvnol 4n,IUn, if . L i .1 ,. 1 i -1 J-l. i.1 low iimiMuuci uvumiviu v. manning Hnnre KUDerL area, win rvrivpr nr mnrnv rn;ir nr a npv wnan fir iirviiiirk. i ih 'i s wnicn-1669 were lor Jl or more. b. narade marshal, assisted bv D. ,.o11 A recapitulation of the amounts 0 Borland, president of the Can- f. Navv- pnmnppr.in-plnpf Whon nil tank is rermh an l S engmeer-m-Clliei. When an Oil tank IS lequir-foiiows: collected by Individual teams ls as adlan Leglon as honorary parade W.avX, -marshaii Major j.d. Home, of fi-ed at Esquimalt, or a couple of mine sweepers at Business Section cer commanding, Second Battalion, Halifax, OP there 8 a suspicion of sabotage, who S to get O. A. Bryant and W. R. McAfee- Canadian Scottish, will act as ad- and who's to fix? Capt. Curry. This captain is a tall sygi.su. JUhaiih. lutant. wwuiiwwiiMvi Commander Geollrey Bor- heavy-boned utaij-uviuu man uihii with . , , a ruday O. C. Young (captain) and Mrs. , , . . . . . ri nnj I ff 1 c T nroon L 1 I I I I M I at He u-as nleased to know $347.20. Ul-UU i agree this is a good slap Mrs. J. Lockle, Miss M. McLachlan, tte back, After reading the I Miss K. Cameron $252.75. I sure agreed. It was most Mrs. D. Miller (captain) and Mrs. u i f mj jue Mini tun nniwi r.m. . wiHNi.MUr' hiiu na. uiibu KW Si n &T.r VvmlA Ntim 4Ka 1 TT DC f -iu wivnc uunil Miv i ,u ;f tripping xne ffear oi ' course. Grind SrnUmin "My captain is a grand man, at I n wvui a great sense IL K. Yamanaka and M. Moch- Ida $68.00. Members Chinese Patriotic Association $176.95. Members No. 2 District Flsncr- ... i A A men's Association jud.su. or, Me vrrr. Massett Red woss comminee was ngnt. .rt,, .i r .i t ttii in 1911 in Lime iui uic lauivus nau- fax explosion and stayed with "the College as it moved to Kingston and Esquimalt. Then he went back to sea. He spent two years in H.M.C.S. Patriot and one year in H.M.S. Wanderer. He was engineer officer in both ships. I Tip to landlubbers: Never say engineer officer ON a ship. It's IN.1 Engineer at Esquimalt and the next year went to England to bring out H.M.C.S. Vancouver. He took up his duties as Chief Engineer at Esquimalt upon his return and was later transferred to a similar post at Halifax. For a short time he was aboard H.M.C.S. Saguenay as engineer officer and on January 1, 1 m , mawia f ftttlnrn (tI rt Ftt High Low , 2:50 a.m. 21.6 ft. 14:40 pjn. 23.1 ft. . 8:46 ajn. 5.4 ft. 21:21 pjn. 1.1 ft. PRICE: I CENTS Italian Attack Is Launched WA?JTurley ls Study'ms IS WAVED w C-. wL Wendell Willkie Sees Penalty of Re Electing President Roosevelt BALTIMORE, Nov. 1. Wendell Willkie. Republican candidate for errecmcu : h1""- nearine completion for the local ob- LONDON. Nov. 1-tlt. Hon. Mai-1 President, of the United States, de vy ar orcuauon w itn Russia, Tis Stated nt JameSryani, tuminanuing Ollicer OI il.M.b. Wasp, servance of Remembrance Day com- colm MacDonald, minister of healtn, clared here that United States entry (Wool, Aro fnnf iniiino- Stnhhnm Resistance to II Duce's DC iiai ii "w --- mwiiviauiig uie wwemy-secona an- announces wiai aimusi seventy jci i hho me war wuum ue me ucaivj "Another Week cone by and What a Week! Full of nlversary of the Armistice which cent of London's children in the ! of supporting President Franklin D. .lament, troubles and hones! Last Fridav T rnnrln rlio ended the First Great War. The hard-hit areas have been removed Roosevelt for re-election at the AUHImw.., ----- M. - J , . , . . . ... . . . ,. i trip In my iasi muwr srup th machine gun fire' and then u SftflHnir nf the nort n- ,C 4iM -v rtth an awful clat- running on me otner en- Ulttl - uj4l n nrmn1t nvArhaitl tie fIgUlC3. AiltVU WUIfc OUtliCUl Monday ro now I have no ship. ; OVER $5000 IS REALIZED usual memorial service will be held to the country. All told, 563,000 1 at the Cenotaph on the Monday children have been removed from morning with Rt. Rev. O. A. Rlx evacuation areas In London, some DD., Bishop of Caledonia, offlciat- 279,000 remaining. Ing, assisted by Rev. J. C. Jackson, chaplain of the Canadian Legion. ' I Preceding the cenotaph service there will be a representative par- Dr.e 'or Jled Cr.? ,n !U"ds. W" consUtlng of veterans and ex- Ilichly Successful, a Statement of Proceeds Shows As a result of the second national service men, overseas nursing sisters, members of the Canadian Legion Defence Corps, Women's Aux- . .. . .. i i ii " , uiiuj uj v,v luvai f'-irtotc nnv Snnte nirl murine ' .... .-j fitr. .. me uiu ui w,nw uu ucm irau- ordpr, and soe et. es. details carrv- : a l;uia i ii a i i rrt Siturday and Sunday last my . - Ing wreathes and flowers, naval, .,.,ii.ten. treasurer of the local branch mimarv and air for units, the annamenf and all gear from ""," whole being interspersed witn ine rtetian.se Monday we moved ;r:;7;r;:..V; C.M,r,j; W M.inu "5U ers .t- j I i ncu m won wiiELiiviu auu MnH anrt nlnore I.1PI1T. JVI !S. II. l i in in n pdpc no rM utj a inini i i. m. -v a rt forthcoming election. "If you re-elect him. you may well expect war by April 1941." declared Willkie. Canada s War Chiefs ENGINEER CAPT. A. D. M. CURRY Engineer-in-Chief Royal Canadian Navy By KKN CLAkK, Canadian Press Staff Writer 'Copyright. 1910. by The Canadian Press) When the Royal Canadian Navy needs a new des- Increased Assault Ankara and Moscow More Friendly BELGRADE, November 1: (CP) Italian troops supported by heavy mountain artillery and warplanes were reported to haVe launched a "major attack on Greek positions in ancient Pisoderia Pass at the northern end of the Albanian frontier today. The drive, apparently, had as its immediate objective the Greek city of Phlorina, RAIDS ARE LIGHTENING ON LONDON Qnly Small Numbers of Enemy Planes Now Coming Over British Capital FOURTEEN PLANES DOWN LONDON, Nov. 1: (CP) Eight German planes and six British have been destroyed in air fighting today with two British pilots safe. LONDON, LONDON Nov. NOV 1: 1 7 about thirty miles from tne iron- ;ier, which Is a strategic traffic centre. The Greeks are resisting stubbornly and effectively. Great Britain was reported authoritatively yesterday to have landed troops on strategic Greek Islands as mountain troops fought to stem the Italians pounding on the northwest. Reports from the war front indicated that the Greeks were continuing to hold their own. A com- Jmunlque said that the Greeks in 'teplrus sector on the southern end of the Albanian border had kept the Italians in check all day yesterday after "slight withdrawal of advance sections according to pre-arranged plan." At Ankara, the eanltal of Turkev. (president Inonu Informed the Na- (CP) IUtl Axisltlonal AXIS 1 tiuilni Assembly uociuviv today lAJUav that Ulab Turkey A.UIHCV I i I imp a ii 11 j. ,y Mr n .t .. i n.... , rAMnin. nr in. n n . tt. HHnM&H .-mmm ma i . . . t i v. . : i i : . v i 111. niiviiw mill. 1 1 r w . . . .- lit. i. . . . , .. . . . . t-". $673.50. - ' night Lieutenant M. M. Doyle, looks like one. out of doors directing war commissioned engineer sub- Merse..side and other poinU by studying the situation in the Medi- jonn uyonavn ana u. a. urma- Royal Canadian Air Force, will be operations, indoors poring over 'leuienani w me oia namoow at d a llgh(. toda London, after a fterranean ,in collabdratlon with $603.50 tfamea Clark and Peter Lakie $217J00. Residential Sections Mrs. T. Boulter and Mrs. T. PrJMt $128.00. commanding officers of tnese two blue prints. Only of late has ne rorismuum. comparatively quiet night, under-1 Great Britain. Observers .thought unlU respectively. fdund It necessary to use spectacle I" Lieut. Curry was In the wet Uq alarms bef()re noon but the key to':,tilj decision lay in the George W. Cripps is chairman of iot reading. ;Niobe and in 1913-after service In bQth wee brJef and Brltlsh fgilters President's statement that Turkey'3 the Canadian Legion Remembrance HAI- fhtps Agamemnon and Colos- relaions with Russia "are tak-Day HU MaJestyV ships are.. nothing , each ase were reported have now observance committee. new ln the Curry iamUy alth0Ugh ; s"srhe0was trred to the staff tumed back attacklng planes. In a ing a friendly turn" after passing , . 01 the canaaian wavai 001- . . . Ryal through critical at the time , stage ,,nlrip.rln!, nnrt nf tt is a .ilsht KPV.rnI hnmhs u.Pre drcm. a the spare time I now have on R- Murray, Mrs. M. Lamb, Mrs. H. V. H 1X1 .1 A ftl I I . . . .. . . . ... n ni.i.... i t m m M . u.ltA . V.W...ltl..IV.V.V till. to course to the ch ef of sUIfrsJ-JO-au. r, xou snouia nave seen mis. u. u. lk-iuui xaymi mho. t .i he said: 'We dont often i $278.75. ; compliments but I think Mrs. P. Cartwright (captain) and. Former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has no Intention of Leaving LONDON, Nov. l: (CP)-Wldely variation from the strict line. The le8e at Halifax. He served there ped Qn tfae capitals outsklrts. Pf the Finnish-Russian war. He captain's great grandfather, his ; "nU1 1915 and the" wenft. to),H-M,5; Nazi air attacks on Great Britain reiterated that Turkey will fight in- oranrtfathpr anrt his unrip wpip in ' Vengeance, operating orr tne east vpctprf,9V .PPP pnr,finPn tn Lwlated stantly if attacked and declared is jcoast of Africaand i"thM remained loyal to ! the Royal Navy. His brother a , . mh ah-. 1 In wa,.. .nW ,n ,A I rt I I n rt v captain on the retired list, now actively employed ln the Woolwich arsenal, and his nephew Is In the Royal Navy's air arm. Capt. Curry hopes his son, in school now, will be in the navy within a year and thus the family line will run down through the British tradition from the blown fri- During the night the friendships and obligations, same tactics continued annoying raids by small numbers of planes. LOG SCALE Capt. Curry says you are ON board Production For 1940 to Date a ship but you serve IN It. He points out you don't live ON a house. Later Duties After serving in the Wanderer, Capt. Curry was an assistant to the KEEPING UP Keeping Substantially Ahead of Year Ago comparison: Oct. 1940 Board it. Fir 876,001 ln-Chlef of the navy, a post he has '" ; 7aZl ..: 4,973,688 held ever since. Capt. Curry Is responsible for the construction of shlps and the main tenance and repair of all' water-borne craft. In this connection his duties have enlarged themselves during the past year to embrace not 13 vessels, but 130, and during the next year his ships will Increase by another 100. He ls also responsible for all works projects, maintenance and Nazis On March Bucharest unofficial reports say 'fast German troop trains have passed through Rumania's western province of Banat presumably east- bound and a, heavy movement of German war supplies Is reported on the Timlscara - Brasov railway. .These military resources of the Nazis are supposedly for use In the is, Balkan theatre of war. Also from Bucharest came word 'today that German circles in Ru-j mania claimed negotiations lor a new russo - German agreement Log scaling ln Prince Rupert for- chlenv concerned with knottV Bal runt rv.i,. f tii itnATe t-auy uwmu iui 'w"wi VA wv kan nnri Near East nroDiems are Dockyard at Chatham. England, ' "j . f year "X? under way. and then went to the Royal Navallf board d 'f as f4 l "e !p ! h' ' College at Greenwich to take a sen- "m?h 1 r O i ior officer's technical course. .1 S. ".f.llsiniTlS Atlfl ExCKfi In 1927 he was appointed Chief "rA J as against 114,985,058 board fe2t in KgYeniie IS lllffner the corresponding month last year. The scale per species this October J Qe fniinws fieures for the eamel Customs and excise revenue at month last year being shown for the port of Prince Rupert for the Cedar Balsam 1,675,484 Hemlock 6,435,260 Jackplne 105,603 41.168 Totals 28,042,731 16,991,707 Forest Products I Forest products poles and piling for this October totalled 163,659 lineal feet as compared with 500,416 lineal feet in the same month last year. This brought the total for 1940 to date to 1,684,646 lineal reet rTiTr oTbun ,.Xa ,h -h of ii ,W during the corresponding period buildings. The Jobs must have been less complicated In the days of Ethel-red but the King's man then could hardly have been steadier In ap- jpcarance, speecn ana action man Continued on Page Two last year. The poles and piling for this October consisted of 169,407 lineal feet cedar and 252 lineal feet miscellaneous. The tie pount this October was 1550 pieces, all Jackplne, while 38 cords of wood were scaled this month of October this year totalled Oct.. 1939 $22,250.93 as compared with $9,-Board Ft. 801.48 in the same month last year, 895,914 bringing the total for 1940 Jto date 9,723,286 to $188,073.63 ln comparison with L863!l63 $94,054.93 ln the first ten months 120,575 of 1939. 4,347.601 1 BRITAIN GETS SIGHT WASHINGTON Great Britain will receive the crack new United States bomb sight and every other military resource that United States can give her for' her war machinery, it 1 officially announced. The new; bomb sights will be shipped in separate parts and are made so that they can be easily destroyed should a plane crash or fait Into enemy hands. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Watts returned to the city ori the Princess Adelaide from a brief trip, to Vancouver, , i'f