Weather
Forecast
Prince
Rupert
and
Queen
Charlotte
Island!
Moderate
wuthwes,'
winds,
mostly
fair
and
somewhat
warmer.
Voi
XXIX
.
No.
1W
en
British
Sub
J
Sinks
Nazi
t
Troopship
;
4
I
LONDON.
June
28:
(CP)
.
The
British
Admiralty
today
,
announced
thai
the
lubmar-
:
Ine
Tetrarh
had
torpedoed
t
and
sunk
a
deeply
Men
Ger-
'
4
man
transport
of
8.000
tons
4
off
the
south
coast
of
Nor-
'
wy
The
announcement
said
!
that
the
Tetrath.
a
new
type
i
4
of
submarine
of
15t5
ttmi.
,
was
counter-atteked,
by
Nazi
torncdo
boats
and
planes
but
s
t
leaped
WILLKIEIS
1
CANDIDATE
New
York
Utilities
Executive
and
Political
Miracle
Man
is
Choice
of
O.O.P.
PHILADELPHIA.
June
28:
"CD-Wendell
L.
Wlllkle.
political
miracle-,
man,
who
has
never
held
an
clee-tire
office,
stampeded
the
Rcpubll-1
can
national
convention
early
Friday
into
his
nomination
as
Its
1940
presidential
candidate
on
the
sixth
ballot.
I
The
Indiana-born
utilities
exe-j
cutlve.
who
has
fought
the
New
Deal
for
several
years,
surged
into
ARE
MADE
SLAVES
LONDON
The
London
Daily
Express
reports
that
100,000
men
from
Belgium
anil
Holland
have
been
sent
to
the
Ruhr
anil
Rhine-land
to
do
heavy
manual
labor,
y
ithdrew
and
released
his
dele-
nnntVi
U00U1-
gates.
1
..
v.
..nrt
r
iu
nmreed
al
Halibut
Sales
Summary
age.
Scllta,
11,500.
American
83.000
pounds,
9c
and
the
convention
with
105
votes
7
o
to
9.6c
and
7.5c
the
first
ballot
and
gained
by
bl
Canadian
63.000
pounds,
9c
and
lumps
on
succeeding
roll
calls
un-
7c
to
9
7C
an
7C.
Ill
his
nomination
on
the
sixth
with
mPriran
998
of
the
1000
delegate
It
was
at
-
Vfll
of
Sen-,
FrUco,
MOO.
9.4c
and
7.5c
Royal.
1
:05
a.m.
that
the
strength
9.4c
and
7.5c
Pa-
Onah,
15,000.
ator
Robert
Tatt
of
Ohio
was
thrown
to
Wllkie
to
make
the
nom-
cific.
Ination
all
but
unanimous
after
a
Onah.
ie.uuu,
keen
fight
between
Wlllkle.
a
cure,
and
District
Attorney
Thomas
E.'
l'loneer
Malgwyn
C.
Ford,
able-bodied
seaman,
700
McBride
Street,
is
the
first
Prince
Rupert
man
to
give
his
life
on
active
service
overseas
in
this
war.
The
casualty
list
of
H.M.C.S.
Eraser,
sunk
in
a
collision
off
Bordeaux,
France,
contains
his
name
as
being
lost.
Relatives
here
have
been
advised.
Ford
leaves
a
widow
who
was
formerly
Viola
Carr,
the
daughter
of
Mrs.
Carr
of
McBride
Street.
The
widow
is
not
al
present
in
Prince
Rupert.
Announcement
of
the
sinking
of
H.M.C.S.
Eraser
was
made
in
the
House
of
Commons
today
by
Prime
Minister
William
Lyon
Mackenzie
King.
He
said
that
the
lass
was
due
to
a
collision
off
Bordeaux
at
the
mouth
of
the
Gironde
River,
France.
He
gave
no
details
of
the
operations
but
said
the
loss
occurred
"in
face
of
the
enemy."
One
hundred
and
fifteen
members
of
the
crcv
were
rescued
and
forty-five
arc
dead
or
-missing.'
The
next
of
kin
of
the
dead
or
missing
have
been
informed
by
the
Department
of
National
Defence.
Most
of
the
lost
were
from
British
Columbia,
It
is
thought
possible
that
other
Prince
Rupert
men
have
been
on
II.M.C.S.
Eraser
but,
if
they
were,
they
arc
evidently
safe
for
only
the
one
Prince
Rupert
casualty
is
listed.
The
Eraser
had
a
displacement
of
1353
tons
and
was
built
in
1931,
being
bought
by
the
Canadian
government
in
1937.
She
was
well
known
in
Prince
Rupert.
A
visit
was
paid
to
Uiis
port
by
the
Eraser
on
the
occasion
of
the
visit
of
the
Governor
General,
the
late
Lord
Twcedsmuir,
three
years
ago.
9.4c
and
7.5c,
Pa-
III.
19.000,
9c
and
7.5c,
Dewey
of
New
York.
Two
de
legates
won
pa
did
not
vote
on
the
final
ballot.
vuun,
Wlllkle
ran
third
at
the
start
to'-Thomas
B.
Dewey
and
Senator
Rob-!
Pierce,
ert
Taft
but
he
quickly
passed
bote
"v
and
then
he
and
Taft
left
Dewey
so'
far
behind
during
the
fifth
ballot
that
iav
the
uic
new
New
Yotk
uu"-
district
attorney
14,000,
9.6c
and
7.5c,
12,000,
9.2c
and
7.5c,
I
Lively,
12.000.
9.2c
and
7.5c.
Kaicn,
Canadian
14,000.
9.7c
and
7c,
At-
ing
to
choose
a
vlce-prcsidcnuai
.
i3(ooo.
9c
and
7c,
At-
runnlng
mate
for
Wlllkle,
posslbllt
ties
Including
Senator
Talt,
senator
Arthur
II.
Vandenbcrg
of
Michigan.
Senator
Arthur
Capper
of
Kansas,
Governor
John
Brlckcr
of
Ohio,
Qovernor
Robert
E.
Baldwin
of
Connecticut.
Governor
Robert
L.
Carr
or
Colorado,
Governor
Harold
Stassen
of
Minnesota.
Senators)
Hanford
Macnlder
and
Charles
L.
McNary
today
removed
themselves
as
vlce-prcsldentlal
passlbllltles.
lln.
Cape
Rtinrnire.
Race,
7.500."
9c
and
.7c,
Embla,
17,000.
9.3c
and
7c,
Stor
9.6c
and
7c,
Royal.
Weather
Forecast
General
Synopsis-
The
pressure
1.
Mn
ntt
the
umisn
wuim
SERVICE
MEETING
Those
Worklnir
for
Troops
Here
Are
Still
Striving
to
Make
Efforts
As
Efficient
as
Possible
I
Ways
and
means
of
raising
funds
for
auxiliary
services
on
behalf
of
men
in
uniform
in
this
area
occupied
a
meeting
last
night
of
the
coordinating
council
representing
the
various
organizations
which
are
Interesting
themselves
in
this
work.
The
work
of
the
recently
establish
ed
dry
canteen
was
specifically
discussed
In
this
connection.
In
regard
to
the
making
of
ap
peals
It
was
felt
that
every
effort
should
be
made
to
prevent
overlap
ping
of
effort.
The
various
organizations
will
be
canvassed
as
to
their
plans
for
the
making
of
appeals
for
public
support.
Approval
was
ex
pressed
of
any
steps
which
could
bo
taken
to
prevent
such
overlapping
of
appeals
on
behalf
of
those.
In
the
navy,
army
and
air
force.
As
far
as
the
dry
canteen
Is
con
cerned
there
Is
already
an
open'
subscription
list
at
the
canteen.
Rev.
(Captain)
R.
C.
II.
Durnford,
area
chaplain,
presided
at
last
night's
meeting
and
Imperial
Order,
Daughters
of
the
Empire,
Canadian
Legion
Women's
Auxiliary.
Order
of
the
Eastern
Star,
Prince
Rupert
v,t
hut
low
over
California.
The
Gyro
Club,
Loyal
Order
of
Moose.
CUtUSI,
.
...
J
I
T.JI..
XT
T
..........
weather
has
been
rair
wim
vraiige
uiimca,
avj
suc
u-i.nrrntures
throughout
this-men's
Auxiliary,
Canadian
Club,
WUH.
..
.
province.
,
West
Coast
of
Vancouver
Island-Moderate-
west
northwest
wmds,
fair
and
slightly
warmer,
Dry
Canteen,
Oddfellows,
Rebekahs,
and
the
churches
were
represented.
It
was
pointed
out
that
representa
Uvea
of
any
groups
or
organizations
AMENDMENT
IS
SOUGHT
British
Government
Being
Asked
To
Authorize
Unemployment
Insurance
In
Canada
OTTAWA.
June
27:
CP
The
Senate
adopted,
a
resolution
thai
PriMth
Parliament
be
petitioned
to
agree
on
an
amendment
to
the
British
North
America
Act
to
permit
of
the
'establishment
of
a
nation-wide
unemployment
insurance
plan.
Thy
resolution,
previously
passed
by
the
Hous?
of
Commons,
carried
without
record-
edrote.
TODAY'S
Vancouver
Big
Missouri,
.05.
Bralorne,
7.65.
Cariboo
Quartz,
1.61.
Dentonla,
.01
V4.
Falrvlew,
.00.
.
Oold
Belt.
.15J.
Hedley
Mascot,
.33.
'
Mtnto,
.014.
Pend
Oreille.
1.40,
Pioneer.
1.45.
Premier,
.75.
Privateer.
.39.
Reno,
.12.
Relief
Arlington.
.04Ji.
Cariboo
Hudson,
.02
Si.
Salmon
Gold,
.03.
Sheep
Creek,
.78.
Oils
A.
P.
Con.,
.10,
'
Calmont,
20.
C.
St
IL,
155.
Freehold,
.02.
Home,
1.51.
Pacalta,
.03.
Royal
Can.,
.14.
Okalta,
.65.
Mercury,
.04.
Prairie
Royalties,
.14.
Toronto
Aldermac,
.13.
Beattle,
.80.
Central
Pat.,
1.48:
Cons.
Smelters,
31.50.
East
Malartlc,
2.15.
,
Fernland,
.02.
Francoeur,
.24.
Gods
Lake,
56.
Hardrock,
.56.
Int.
Nickel,
32.50.
Kerr
Addison,
1.60.
Little
Long
Lrw7
1.35.
McLeod
Cockshutt,
1.05.
Madsen
Red
Lake,
.26.
McKenzle
Red
Lake,'
.88.
Moneta,
.41.
Noranda,
43.50.
Pickle
Crow,
2.18.
Preston
East.
Dome,
1.39.
San
Antonla,
1.35.
Sherrlt
Gordon,
.52.
Ucht,
.30.
Bouscadlllac,
.03.
Mosher.
.02
Vi.
Oklend,
.03'a.
Smelters
Gold,
.OOtf.
Dominion
Bridge,,
24.50.
desirous
of
helping
In
the
work
would
be
welcomed.
The
first
Tuesday
of
each
month
was
fixed
for
regular
meetings
of
the
co-ordinating
committee.
PROVlftCfAL
LIBRARY
VlCTOHlA,
B.C.
I
Tomorrows
Tides
S.1-S
VOKTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
FRIDAY,
JUNE
28,
1940.
By
IIAIIOLI)
FAIR
Canadian
Pren
Staff
Writer
1
LMOON.
June
23:
(CP)
Prime
Minister
Churchill
and
Admiral
of'
the
Fleet
Sir
Roger
Keyes
have
a$k-ed
the
British
neople
to
isuspend
Judgment
on
King
Leopold
of
the
Belgian?
for
the
surrender
that
threatened
the
Allied
forces
In
F!andf
rs
with
extinction
Jbut
ODln-
to
an
astonished
world,
an
obsession
High
Low
.
8:48
am
14.9
ft
V
21:10
pjn.
17.9
ft
2:32
a.m.
8.0
It,
J
14:10
pjn.
8.5
ft
I
I
PRICE:
i
CENTS
alkan
Flare-up
Is
Seen
Local
Man
Loses
His
Malgwyn
Ford
Is
Lost
When
Canadian
Destroyer
Is
Sunk
Off
Gironde
River
In
France
II.M.C.S.
PHASER
(JOES
TO
BOTTOM
NEAR
DEAUX
FOLLOWING
COLLISION
"IN
"IN
FACE
OF
ENEMY"
BOR-
I
"
I
A
D
Tl
Y
Lire
in
cwonssia
iy
w
m
SYRIA
IS
PEACEFUL
Hostilities
Reported
By
French
Commander-in-Chief
To
Have
Ceased
JERUSALEM,
June
28:
(CP)
Oeneral
Eugene
.
Mlttelhauser,
French
commander
In
the
Near
East,
announces
the
cessation
of
hostilities
In
Syria.
Official
London
sources
said
this
was
not
officially
confirmed.
JUDGING
LEOPOLD
Opinion
of
Britain
Against
Who
Capitulated
Bessarabia
As
Well
As
Bukowina
Section
Kinc
Turkey,
Deeply
Concerned
Over
Latest
Developments
and
in
rear
of
Uaadaneiies
AiiacK,
sinps
Fleet
For
Action
lon
his
pretty
well
solidified
against
BUCHAREST,
June
28:
(CP)
Following
a
dramatic
him.
appeal
for
help
from
King
Carol
to
Chancellor
Adolf
Hit-
The
reason
he
capitulated
when
krt
strong
contingents
of
Soviet
mechanized
troops
XSJSfi-S
rnarehed
unopposed
into
four
Roumanian
cities
at
dawn
tan
have
access
to
now
secret
in-
today.
It
was
not
clear
whether
Carol
had
appealed
for
formation
but
already
various
direct
aid
or
asked
Hitler
to
use
his
influence
to
temper
theorlev
manv
th'-i
r-f-hd,
h"ve
be?n
advanced.
Most
fantastic
wa
that
of
a
writer
of
a
letter
o
the
tabloid
Dally
Mirror.
He
said
h
real
King
Leopold
died
In
the
'535
automobile
accident
that
killed
Queen
Astrid
and
th
Oermin
tunn.
who
engineered
the
crash,
subtUtuted
a
double.
Reports
Df
rls
or,
the
intrigues
of
beautiful
German
baroness.
The
M"ul
of
Donegal.
Sunday
Dls-iwtch
columnist,
said
th?-Oestapnr
last
no
time
In
watching
for
the
r?rchoWleaI
moment
and
person
to
alleviate
the
young
king's
loneliness
after
his
queen's
death.
The
xame-
story
was
circulating
In
Fn
two
months
ago.
Elsewhere
one
hears
reports
that
th
king'
opposition
to
extension
of
the
Masinot
Line
to
the
coasi
was
German
-
inspired.
Hannen
Swa'.fer,
Dally
Herald
columnist
said
the
storv
oerslsts.
uncontra
dieted,
that
Leslie
Hore-Bellsha.
former
British
war
minister,
wanted
to
build
the
extension
during
the
winter,
using
thousands
of
Britain'
unemployed
builders,
but
Leopold
objected,
saying
he
would
regard
It
as
"an
unfriendly
act-Diplomat's
View
Analyzing
the
situation
In
The
Times.
Sir
Robert
Clive.
British
ambassador
to
Belgium
from
1937
to
1939,
wrote
of
a
melancholy,
imperious
hot-tempered
monarch.
The
king
always
gave
him
the
Impression
"of
a
very
sad
man."
"I
have
never
seen
him
laugh,"
Sir
Robert
wrote.
"I
doubt
If
he
ever
has
laughed
since
the
tragic
death
of
his
consort
By
nature
morbid
and
Introspective,
at
the
'
same
time
very
obsUnate
and
autocratic,
yet
with
an
Intense
love
.of
his
country,
he
is
today
really
an
object
of
pity."
1
Sir
Robert
said
the
king's
chief
confidante
In
the
last
two
years
was
'
General
van
Overstraeten.
head
of
the
Ecole
Milltaire
and
his
principal
aide-de-camp.
The
general
I
"was
notoriously
anti-French
and
shared
to
the
full
the
king's
policy
of
peace
at
any
price."
The
diplomat
conceded
the
king
was
ardently
patrloUc
but,
while
he
was
not
pro-German,
"he
certainly
was
not
pro-French."
He
believed
Leopold's
"so-called
policy
of
Independence,
which
he
announced
HUNGARY
MAKES
DEMAND
BUCHAREST,
June
28:
(CP)
The
Roumanian
press
gives
front
page
position
to
a
dispatch
stating
that
Budapest
diplomatic
circles
say
Hungarian
government
demanding
a
protectorate
over
Ukrainian
elements
of
the
Ruthenia
district
of
Hungary,
formerly
eastern
Bulletins
DEMILITARIZE
ISLANDS
LONDON
The
Home
Office
announces
it
has
decided
to
demilitarize
the
Channel
Islands
near
the-French
coast
and'
all
armed
forces
and
equipment1,
hare
been
withdrawn.
EXTENSIVE
RAIDS
LONDON
The
Air
-Ministry
reports
extensire
activity
against
German
objectives
:
across
the
English
Channel,
along
the
coasts
of
Scandinavia
and
the
Netherlands
and
over
Denmark
and
North
Germany.
Nine
British
planes
failed
to
return.
LOCAL
O.MAN
ARRESTED
CLOVERDALE
Mrs.
Anna
Louise
Imelman,
53,
former
Prince
Rupert
hotel
operator,
was
arrested
at
the
international
border
yesterday
and
charged
with
attempting
to
export
money
from
Canada
without
a
licence
from
the
Foreign
Exchange
Control
Board.
The
authorities
said
she
had
sold
a
hotel
recently
and
was
enroute
to
join
her
husband
in
JAPAN
TO
RESIST
TOKYO
Japan
will
resist
Interference
with
the
status
quo
of
the
Orient
by
either
Great
Britain
or
Germany,
it
is
announced
by
Foreign
Minister
Arita.
No
invasion
is
contemplated
by
Japan,
the
only
aim.
being
to
prevent
shipment
of
materials
to
China.
Japan's
policy
is
non-intervention
in
European
war.
Russian
demands.
The
occupation
was
bloodless,
Roumanian
troops
withdrawing
without
resistance
except
for
a
few
minor
clashes
where
the
Roumanian
troops
had
not
yet
received
Instructions.
Cities
occupied
were
Cernautl,
Tighina,
Chls-tnau
and
Cetatea-Alba.
Reports
in
diplomatic
circles
said
that
Carol
was
willing
to
negotiate
jrlth
Bulgaria
and
Hungary
on
their
demands
but
was
determined
to
resist
with
force
any
attempts
to
re
peat
the
Russian
procedure.
Soviet
radio
at
Moscow
announced
that
Roumanla
had
agreed
to
Russian
demands
tor
tnusfer
of
Bessarabia
and
northern
Bikowlna,
to
the
Soviet
There
would
be
occupation
first
and
discussion
of
details
later
was
Moscow's
answer
to
Carol
for
a
delay
of
the
ultimatum
deadline.
The
Turkish
fleet,
fully
fuelled.
loaded
with
munitions
and
stripped
for
action,
moved
Into
the
Black
Sea
today.
Turkey
Is
said
to
feel
deep
concern
over
Russia's
demands
on
Roumania
which
are
reported
to
have
Included
naval
bases
on
the
Black
Sea
and
Danube
River
In
ad-
i
ditlon
to
territory.
A
move
on
the'j
Dardanelles
by
Russia
Is
now
said
to
be
feared
by
Turkey.
Possibility
of
a
split
by
Russia
from
the
Rome-Berlin
axis
and
"a
general
flare-up
In
the
Balkans
la
seen
as
a
result
of
the
Russian
in-
the
United
States.
It
is
alleged
'vaslonof
Rejsnrnhln
an
n
itnnHn
,
she
had
$1560
concealed
in
ber
,
complicated
by
a
Hungarian
mdTC
person.
(
r
or
Transylvania
and
Bulcarlan
tpr.
MORE
AIR
RAIDS
LONDON
For
the
fifth
straight
night
Nazi
bombers
visited
the
British
Isles
but
anti-aircraft
fire
and
pursuit
planes
rendered
their
raids
abortive.
Off
the
southeast
coast
there
were
fierce
battles.
No
serious
damage
was
'
done.
ritqrlal
demands
as
well.
It
had
not
been
bargained
upon
that
Russia
should
move
to
dominate
the
Black
Sea
and
the
Dardanelles
which
would
be
the
ca.
if
the
Soviet
should
also
proceed
against
'Bulgaria
and
Greece.
JuioSlavIa
J
may
also
become
deeply
involved.
Italy
and
Germany,
it
Is
believed,
are
desirous
of
preventing
the
spread
of
war
to
the
Balkans.
AIRDROMES
ARE
RAIDED
Rotterdam,
Cologne
and
Dortmund
Among
Points
Visited
By
Royal
Air
Force
that
In
this
unv
nlnn
u,m
-
'
LONDON,
June
27,
(CP)
The
able
to
save
Belgium
from
the
hor-
no
staff
conversations
with
the
AW
Ministry
announces
that
the
rors
of
war."
That
policy
was
to
lies
ry
n
Wfdncsday
renounce
Anglo-French
guarantees'
-when
last
October,
after
the
mbd
Qma"
Jdrm"
a
of
npicri-.n
na,,rflm
.
t,i.j
t
,;Waalhaven
near
Rotterdam,
at
fair
Robert
felt
this
obsession
strutted
aealn
to
raise
the
aues
made
the
king
blind
to
other
con-
tlon
(of
staff
talks)
the
king
re-
slderatlons.
The
fiction
had
to
be
acted
violently
and
returned
anj
maintained
that
Belgium
was
as
angry
refusal
to
the
British
pro-'
liable
to
attack
from
the
French
a3
posal."
Sir
Robert
wrote.
'Through
j
rum
me
uerman
siae.
no
details
his
blindness
to
see
tne
danger
ana
east
of
Essen.
NEVILLE
CHAMBERLAIN
LONDON
The
Press
Assocla-
of
the
Belgian
defence
plans
could
his
obstinate
refusal
to
discuss
it,
J
tlon
says
that
be
given
to
the
British
or
French
King
Leopold
must
bear
the
chief'
Neville
Former
Premier
Chamb
Chamberlain
nsiiirr
it
a"
for
fear
of
infringing
the
policy
of
responsibility
for
the
predrht
trag-
no
peace
move
or
does
he
lnt4
absolute
neutrality.
There
could
be
edy."
to
resign
from!
the
government.