PROVINCIAL
LIBRARY
VICTORIA,
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ards
-
Fresh
to
strong
t.
winds,
mostly
cloudy
becoming
unsettled
at
XXHX
No.
103.
1
r
1
W'
o
UAllu.
ii'.
area'
wndlngs
Rases
Bombed
V
NORWAY
NOT
CLEAR
and
that
in
Norway
urre
was
no
dental
claims
that
Dom-
rn
important
Junc-
Oslo-Trondhetm
rail-,
captured
by
the)
V.
'
.it
the
situation
ini
t
i
admittedly
sert-I
ft,
the
Nails,
it
Is
not
as
they
claim,
if
the
railway
line
-
idhelm.
Indeed.
Al-
and
bombings
be-.
ring
German
lines
hrtr
positions
dtf-
m
Stockholm
says
r.s
have
been
driv-
that
.here
have
succe
sse
i
around
::
as
southeast
of.
i
that
the
prions
plight
at
I
announced
to-
'hrrf
Orrman
planes
.
have
been
shot
if
heavy
concentra-rrur,
aircraft
at
all
he
raid
were
re-
reports
that
an
Al-m
Hartvlk
resulted
urtion
of
a
Oennan
mme
there
as
well
as
:.
t
eleven
German
uTial
bombings
con-a
in
the
Namo
area
T
Nive
damage
has
been
A
E:
tish
destroyer
is
said
i
brT.
sunk,
blowing
up
ftf-l
'.
hit
on
the
stern.
h
naval
craft
are
also
I
hlU.
these
including
l
14
t
kSIVV
SW.
LUlehammer
there
are
t.
have
.
been
wholesale
bv
the
Norwcgltttw
with
apturtng
large
quan-
shting
equipment
in-
uitions.
machine
guns
that
Royal
Air
Force
ad
sunk
a
German
Oslofjord
and
that
fur-
mj?
was
taking
place
in
'''vrar.k.
NEW
YORK
WHEAT
NEW
YORK,
May
l.-New
York
hr
rrineu
wen.
Tic
to
1rC
lower
'
day
with
September
closing
v
ocv
Is
Back
From
Western
Front
LONDON.
May
1:
(CP)
"on
Norman
Rogers,
Cana-
whirlwind
trip
to
France
in-
"udlng
the
western
front.
The
trip
gave
him
an
insight
lie.
3
what
he
termed
the
"Al-
V
i
,i
'
.
-
.
uiuruugn
aim
rcuusiic
t
ffparatlons
ahead
for
the
task
OS.
and
uUllties.
2a.-
Bulletins
NO
"OAS"
ELECTION
VI
CTO
It
I
A
Premier
T.
I).
Tat-tullo
said
today
that
no
election
would
be
called
on
the
cat
issue.
He
li
aUo
reported
to
have
rejected
the
proposal
for
a
72
hour
truce.
Meanwhile
Dr.
W.
A.
Car-rothers
wired
Mayor
Lyle
Telford
of
Vancouver
permission
to
truck
in
gas
from
the
United
States
to
be
sold
by
private
Vancouver
retailers.
The
retailers
are
putting
up
the
cash
to
brine
it
In
from
a
Seattle
firm.
MAY
DAY
IN
MOSCOW
MOSCOWDefence
Commissar
Yoroshltov,
addressing
a
huge
May
Day
Catherine
in
the
Red
Square
today,
expressed
satis-
rln
Itial
Until
Iran
tint
In
-
R
.yal
Atr
Free
hadi
lrd
In
the
European
war.
Die-wes
at
SUranger
I
Joseph
SU!!n
was
amonc
h
In
attendance
There
was
AH-1
r
Norway
and
oXniion
of
mlll-The
T"
ark
last
ntcht.
(Mac;
oommunhjtse'
UrT
mishl-
Br
ush
planes
hadl
T
MAI
TiLlHltAl.
STOCKHOLM
Come
what
may,
Sweden
Intends
to
maintain
Its
neutrality,
declared
Premier
Per
Albln
Hansson
In
a
May
Day
speech
today.
dli
minister
of
national
de-
frTice
flew
back
to
London
3i
'oduv
after
eomDletlne
a
TODAY'S
STOCKS
(Onurwvv
B
O
Johrwrfoo
Oa.1
Vancouver
Big
Mfewourt.
.09.
Bralorne.
10.40.
Cariboo
Quart.
2.60.
Dentosffa,
.014.
Falrvkw.
.01.
Gold
Beit.
.24.
Hedley
Masct.
.43.
Mlnto.
JKL
Noble
Five,
.00.
Pacific
Nickel.
.08,
Pend
Orielle,
1.75.
Pioneer,
250.
Premier.
117.
Privateer.
37.
,
Reno.
X.
Rdtef
Arlington.
.-03.
Salmon
Oold.
.03.
,
-Sheep
Creek,
1.07.
Cariboo
Hudson,
.03
Oils
A.
P.
Con.,
.14.
Calmont,
9.
C.
ti
E,
1.90.
Freehold,
.02
Home,'
2.45.
Pacalta,
.04.
Royal
Can-
.18.
Okalta,
1.1P.
Mercury.06.
Prairie
Royalties,
.17.
Toronto
Aldcrmac,
.25.
Beattlc,
1.05.
Central
Pat-
2.15.
Cons.
Smelters,
40.00.
East
Malartlc,
3.45.
Fcrnland,
.03.
Francoeur,
.43.
Gods
Lake,
.42.
Hardrock,
1.00.
Int.
Nickel,
38.00.
Kerr
Addison,
2.43.
Little
Long
Lac,
2.60.
McLeod
Cockshutt,
1.86.
Madscn
Red
Lake,
.41.
McKenzle
Red
Lake,
1.35.
Moneta,
.67.
Noranda,
68.00.
Pickle
Crow,
3.00.
Preston
East
Dome,
2.11.
San
Antonio,
2.30.
Shcrrltt
Gordon,
.88.
.
Uchl,
.CO
Bouscadlllac,
,03Vi.
X
Nazi
Bomber
Brought
Down
In
Essex
Town
Of
Clacton;
Crew
And
Civilians
Killed
LONDON,
May
1:
(CP)
Crash
of
a
German
bomber
shot
down
bv
anti-aircraft
guns
and
explosion
of
its
deadly
load
of
mines
and
bombs,
at
the
east
coast
resort
town
of
Clacton-on-Sea
today
killed
the
Nazi
crew
of
five
and
caused
England's
first
civilian
air
raid
casualties
three
dead
and
morfe
than
one
hundred
injured.
The
explosion
destroyed
three
houses,
damaged
fifty
others
and
left
a-
huge
crater
in
a
residential
district
street
Marauding
German
planes
also
visited
the
Hull
district
at
the
mouth
of
the
Humber
River
yesterday
but
were
chased
out
to
sea
where
machine
gun
fire
was
later
heard.
WILL
MAKE
!
WEATHER
STATEMENT;
IMPROVED
Chamberlain
To
Talk
About
Nor-I
way
Tomorrow
Criticisms
.
Are
Heard
LONDON.
May
1:
tCP
Prime
Minister
Neville
Chamberlain
today
informed
the
House
of
Com
merit
on
the
Nrwestaa
situation
hoUr
in
the
same
month
last
year.
temomw.
Last
night,
speaking
at
Edinburgh.
Sir
Archibald
Sinclair,
Lib-.oral
leader,
demanded
a
oational
inquest
ioto
the
war
effort.
If
the
government
had
muddled
the
Nor-
The"
nrectoltariOrraiB-AnrU'was
9.65
-1
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITIS
H
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
WEDNESDAY,
MAY
1,
1940.
C0NNAUGHT
N0WJINETY
Canada's
Popular
Governor-General
At
Opening
of
Great
War
Spent
Day
Quietly
By
PAT
USSIIER
Canadian
.Press
Staff
Writer
LONDON.
May
1:
(CP)
The
Duke
of
Cannaught.
knowrt
br-mghout
Canada
for
his
long
and
close
connection
with
the
Dominion,
was
90
today.
He
spent
the
day
quietly
at
home
like
most
oth
er
days
There
were
many
messajes
congratulation,
and
visits
trier.
83,
is
the
Duke's
sister.
Despite
his
age,
the
Duke
continues
to
take
a
keen
interest
in
Canadian
affairs
and
particularly
in
the
Canadian
Active
Service
Force
training
in
England.
He
was
the
popular
governor-general
of
Canada
at
the
outbreak
of
the
First
Oreat
War.
Appointed
in
1911
he
was
to
have
been
succeeded
in
1914
Month
of
April
Continues
Good
by
the
Earl
of
Athlone.
the
present
Record
Being
Set
Up
So
Far
in
governor
-
general
desi-nate,
but
1910
the
Duke's
term
was
extended
till
;
1916
and
the
Earl
Joined
the
3n-
There
was
more
sunshine
and
less
tifh
forces
in
France.
In
1916
the
rain
than
usual
during
this
April
In
Duke
of
Connnut
:ht
was
ucc'-l
Prince
Rupert
The
sunshine
total-
Ottawa
by
the
Duke
of
Devon-
mons
that
be
will
make
a
state-
led
993
hours
as
compared
with
61.6
shire.
wegUan
campaign,
then
Parlla-
ht
precipitation
this
year
to
date
era1
Andrew
McNaughton,
general
ment
must
act
"objectively,
fear-
k
26J1
inches
as
against
40.42
inch-
officer
commanding.
Subsequently
tessly
and
resolutely
Neutral
na-itlons.
Sinclair
suggested,
were
be-'coming
doubtful
about
the
effec-ittwness
of
the
British
war
effort
i
and
might
"clunb
'
Oennan
band
wagon
"Nothing
less
than
the
greatest
effort
of
the
British
people
will
defeat
Nazi
Germany."
declared
papers
criticised
the
Prime
Minis
ter
yesterday
for
falling
to
make
'a
statement
on
Norway.
1
1
I
tliis
1
Weather
Forecast
General
Synopsis
The
pressure
continues
low
west
of
Vancouver
iT.innrt
nnd
is
relatively
low
over
Idaho.
The
weather
has
been
cool
'throughout
British
Columbia
and
'rain
is
reported
in
the
southern
'districts.
'
West
Coast
of
Vancouver
Island
Strong
southeast
t0
south
winds,
cloudy
and
mild
with
occasional
rains.
BAR
GOLD
LONDON,
tCP)
The
Montreal
nrirn
of
bar
cold
on
me
nunuou
market
was
unchanged
today
at
$37.54
per
fine
ounce.
Mosher,
.07.
Oklend,
.06Vi.
Smelters
Gold,
.01.
Dominion
Bridge,
35.00.
m
In
the
porresDondlne
nerlod
last
he
was
host
at
a
luncheon
to
Gen-
year
eral
McNaughton
and
two
of
his
The
April
weather
summary,
as
senior
brigadiers.
nnnimrt
thi
momlnir
bv
S.
G.
For
months
the
Duke
of
Con-
aboard
the
Meliori
Dominion
meteorologist,
naught
was
in
poor
health
and
un-
Dtgby
Island,
was
as
follows:
able
to
leave
nis
nouse
at
nagsnoi
Maximum
barometer
reading
at
Park,
Surrey.
On
the
occasion
of
sea
level.
30.404
on
April
21.
the
visit
to
the
CAST,
he
could
Minimum
barometer
reading,
not
leave
nis
car.
oui
vf
Dominions
Secretary
Anthony
Eden
j
29
625
on
Aprll
28
today.
-.Notmng
us
M)
De
gameaj
Maxlmum
temperature.
69
Dy
wuniUJ
ininung.
uur
recourses
Aprjj
22
are
better
but
there
must
be
ef-
Mlnlmum
temperature.
32
on
Ap
Jfortr
Time
is
on
our
side
but
itlrll
j
must
be
saddled.'
j
Mean
temperature,
47
J.
j
Hie
Dally
IaU
and
other
news-
j
ToUl
preclpitati0n.
9.65
inches.
Total
sunshine.
99.3
hours.
Maximum
wind
velocity,
easterly.
46
miles
per
hour.
April
16.
Log
Scaling
In
This
District
Shows
Large
Increase;
Spruce
Output
Is
Tremendously
Higher
Log
scalings
in
Prince
Rupert
for
the
month
of
April
vpar
amounted
to
the
high
total
of
8,101,486
board
feet
as
compared
with
2,536,031
board
feet
in
the
same
month
last
year
and
the
aggregate
for
1940
to
date
bounded
uu
to
11,965,077
board
feet
as
against
3,969,316
board
if
ci.
ill
me
lust
IUUUUU
VI
1939.
There
was
an
increase
of
almost
100
per
cent
in
the
scale
of
spruce
while
the
hemlock
scale
was
more
was
as
follows:
Fir,
22,491
board
feet.
Spruce,
3,168,187
board
feet.
Cedar,
299,199
board
feet.
Hemlock,
4,325,241
board
feet.
Jackplne,
286,358
board
feet.
The
production
of
poles
and
pll
lng
In
the
interior
thls'ADril
am
rendition
has
shown
marsea
provement.
Friends
and
members
of
his
household
have
been
Impress
ed
by
his
vigor.
During
Easter
week
he
walked
dally
in
the
grounds
at
Basshot
Park.
To
aid
his
hearing,
the
Duke
has
SEEDING
IS
A
.
,
,
.
i
man
declared
today.
He
said
the
.PPtehenaton
wa,
due
tothe
Senior
tleWm
T1Br
indies
in
camparison
with
11.43
ish
Empire,
the
Duke
drove
to
Al-
Inches
In
April
1939.
The
unshlne
--rhot
f
fays
after
the
arriv-
so
far
this
year
aggregates
289.2
al
of
the
first
Canadian
contingent
hours
compared
with
206.6
hours
in
to
see
their
parade
grounds
and
the
firt
four
months
of
1939
while
hirracks
and
to
meet
Major-Oen-
VERY
EARLY
Finished
Olof
Hanson,
MJ.
for
Skeena,
arrived
in
the
city
on
last
night's
train
from
Smithers
and
will
be
here
until
Friday
when
he
will
re
1
feet
hemlock
as
compared
wltn
seeding
is
well
unaer
way,
inune
9.180
lineal
feet
in
April
1939.
Bulkley
Valley
now,
a
good
fleai
01
Ties
counted
this
Aprll
number-
j
grain
having
been
sown
last
week.
ed
11,485
pieces
which
was
an
in-1
This
Is
earlier
than
In
many
years.
crease
over
1,752
pieces
In
the
same
The
spring
drive
of
poles
from
month
last
year.
Skeena
River
camps
to
the
boom-
The
cordwood
scale
this
April
was
lng
ground
at
Nash
was
success-
115
cords
as
compared
with
67
in
fully
completed
on
Saturday,
Mr.
the
same
month
last
year.
Hanson
reports.
ment
and
diplomatic
circles
in
Home
rather
than
to
specific
farts.
Meantime,
"precautions,
which
it
was
authoritatively
announced
yesterday
in
London
were
being
taken
by
Great
Britain
were
later
learned
to
include
naval
pr-oaredness.
Brithh
shinuinr
has
been
ordered
diverted
from
the
Mediterranean,
passeneer
and
freight
vrr
br:nr
instructed
to
proceed
via
Cape
of
Good
Hope.
Halibut
Sales
American
Tordenskjold,
39,000,
9.3c
and
7c,
Storage.
a
sneclal
listening
apparatus
at
his
Booth.
tjectra.
40,000.
9.3c
and
7c.
dinner
table.
Not
long
ago
a
inena
Reliance
I,
14,000,
9.3c
and
7c,
noticed
that
the
Duke
was
Joining
pacific.
in
the
conversation,
missing
noth-
Remos,
7,000,
93c
and
7c,
Pa-lug
that
was
said,
although
he
was-
cifte.
n't
using
the
apparatus.
,
Ranler
II,
7.000,
9.6c
.
and
7c,
"Clearly,
sir,
you
can
hear
pi:-
Booth.
fecUy
well
when
you
wish,"
he
re-
Serious,
13,000,
9.3c
and
7c,
At-marked.
lin.
Storage.
Embla,
17,000.
9c
and
6.5c,
Pa
cific.
L.
R
5,000.
9c
and
6.5c,
Atlin.
Bu,k,ey
"j
Mm
Rio
Rlta
5000
910
and
6
5c
At
than
three
Umes
greater
than
ln
AprU
1939.
The
scaling
per
species
this
April
Hanson
Spring
Pole
Drive
Tugwell.
38,000.
95c
and
63c,
Edmunds
&
Walker.
ZOUAVE
CASUALTY
PARIS.
May
1:
(CP
Bobble
Tomorrow's
Tides
High
10:18
ajn.
16.9
ft.
22:42
pjn.
185
ft.
Low
4:15
rsa.
8.0
It
16:21
pjn.
7.1
Xt.
PRICE:
i
CENTS
Says
Not
Planning
For
War
Dull
Trading
In
New
York
One
of
Quietest
Days
of
Year
on
Stock
Market
Yesterday
"
Th,ir'
NEW
YORK.
May
1-Yesterday's
Cain
To
Be
ii.,iHin
Wlnr
Their
swrton,
of
iJaMeroui
1
r
YorkUock
t
To
Be
iu
Dangerous
Exchange.
Transaction,
totalled
5M000
h"
The
industrial
av-
(,C
....iy
i
i
i
irpi
v,r
Th
i.re
closlnc
was
148
43
tin
-02-
v
,
,
n
nnruinMn
an.
"
v
'
r
'
I
r
u.sh
troops
hare
"re
I
-
Oertnan
adrances
j
rails.
30
65.
off
10,
up
.12
ssurance
is
uiven
By
Premier
Mussolini
To
United
States
Envoy
William
Phillips
Conferred
With
II
Duce
This
Morning
to
Receive
First
Hand
Information
on
Position
of
Affairs
ROME.
Mav
1:
(CP)
United
States
Ambassador
of'
William
Phillips
was
understood
today
to
have
been
as-
from
sured
bv
Premier
Benito
Mussolini
that
no
war
move
is
members
of
the
Royal
Family.
His
contemplated
by
Italy
at
present-
Mr.
Phillips
conferred
Royal
Highnev
is
the
k
n
treat
u
jj
rjuce
this
morning
to
receive
first
hand
informa-unde
and
if
the
sole
surviving
son
1
,
,
pog;ti0n
in
view
of
disquietening
reports.
"u"
u
of
Queen
Victoria.
Princess
Bea-
v
todav
0Ahe
Wian
ITALY
IS
ALARMING
Great
Britain
Considers
Mediterranean
Situation
Serious
Enough
To
Divert
Shipping
PARIS,
May
1:
CP)
The
Italian
attitude
toward
the
Allies
"has
become
definitely
al-armlnc"
in
the
last
two
days,
a
French
Foreign
Ministry
spokes-
cr
net
I
aiiTivsjJiicic;
in
(viuir
liner
Rex
from
Naples
on
schedule
for
New
York
was
taken
as
an
indication
by
some
that
Italy
planned
no
immediate
change
In
its
policy
of
non-belligerency.
Meantime
Pope
Pius
is
known
to
be
making
special
efforts
to
,
keep
Italy
at.
peace
and
to
pre-j
vent
the
spreading
of
war.
One
of
the
disturbing
reports
has
been
in
regard
to
heavy
ltal-1
ian
troop
movements
towards
the
Yugo-SIav
frontier.
'
"It
is
not
neutral
but
an
ally
of
Germany'
was
the
statement
last
night
of
Yirginio
Gayda.
IN
FAVOR
OF
TRUCE
Statement
is
Made
on
Behalf
of
Oil
Companies
NO
FEDERAL
ACTION
OTTAWA,
May
1:
(CP)
Hon.
Norman
McLarty.
minister
of
labor,
indicated
today
that
the
Dominion
government
does
not
intend
to
intervene
in
the
dispute
between
the
British
Columbia
government
and
major
oil
companies.
"It
is
purely
a
provincial
matter,
he
said.
"The
Supreme
Court
has
upheld
the
legality
of
the
board's
price
fixing
powers."
VANCOUVER,
May
1.
Complete
endorsement
of
the
proposal
made
by
the
Vancouver
Retail
Merchants
AssociaUon
that
there
should
be
a
,
truce
in
the
gasoline
sales
deadlock
was
given
by
R.
M.
Pldgeon
speaking
this
morning
on
behalf
of
the
oil
companies.
Mr.
Pidgeon
suggested,
however,
that
the
truce
need
not
be
limited
to
seventy-two
hours
as
far
as
the
oil
companies
are
con-
"You
and
I
understand
each
Otti-
Pierce,
14,000,
9.1c
and
7c,
Stor-:
cerned
but
could
go
on
while
the
er
much
too
well,
my
friend,
was
age.
1
parties
arrive
at
a
mutually
satis-
'
the
smiling
reply.
Canadian
factory
solution.
The
Duchess
of
Connaught
died
Clipper
11,
17,000,
9.4c
and
65c,'
"As
a
matter
of
fact,"
Mr.
Pid-
in
1917.
,
Storage.
geon
said,
"what
the
Retail
Mer-
'
Borgund,
8.500,
9.2c
and
6.5c.
I
chants
Association
and
the
Down-
I
Edmunds
&
Walker.
"
town
Merchants
Association
are
I
Finella,
16,000,
8.9c
and
6.5c,
At-.
asking
of
the
government
is
exactly
lin.
.
what
the
oil
companies
ask.
The
Dovre
B.,
21,000,
9c
and
63c,
companies
are
prepared
to
resume
deliveries
at
once,
provided
they
do
not
have
to
accept
the
principle
and
.
the
losses
incidental
to
selling,
for
'an
indefinite
period
at
the
lowest
price
level
on
the
entire
Pacific
I
Coast.
"The
retail
merchants
of
all
I
people
should
sympathize
with
our
present
position
for,
if
we
can
oe
.arbitrarily
ordered
to
sell
at
a
'ruinous
loss
by
unscientific
action
of
a
government
board,
so
can
an
u
.
Altatlnn
rinf
hrniifht
f
mm
Tunis
n..
..kii.
hnnravai-
turn
to
Smithers.
leaving
there
next
Zouave
soldiers.
'this
wlth
a
reglment
of
,
nc
f
gettinK
deadlock
to
attend
the
session
of
.
Tuesday
een
Babble
was
acUve
uA',,,.6
nnnant
to
everv-
i
Parliament
opening
at
the
ounted
to
64,002
lineal
feet
62.815,
of
the
month.
lineal
feet
cedar
and
1,187
lineal
..!
Mr.
Hanson
.
reports
that
sa
crop
t
tnlrirtlal
.....
-
-ri
in
carrying
despatches
at
the
front
one
and
we
jpe
that
the
retail
I
until
a
German
bullet
picked
him
merchants
of
Vancouver
will
pre-
.
vail
upon
the
government
to
accept
the
proposal
which
their
organiza-C.
L.
Gibson
of
the
Forest
Branch'
tlons
have
made."
Is
leaving
on
tonfght's
train
for
Smithers
to
take
over
the
duties
of,
I.
Martin,
forest
ranger,
who
has
NEW
YORK
COPPER
been
transferred
to
the
Peace
River
NEW
YORK,
May
1.
Copper
was
district.
Mrs.
Gibson
is
leaving
a
off
.01c
yesterday
with
September"
week
later
to
Join
her
husband.
I
closing
at
10.12c
per
pound.