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(across
from
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DAY
and
NIGHT
SERVICE
a
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lilt
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and
Ken
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Most
Published
at
Canada's
Strategic
Pacific
Port
XXXV,
No.
79.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
WEDNESDAY.
APRIL
3,
1940
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
NCE
KUrtKT
IS
NWONED
ONE
OF
SPYING
O
BRITISH
COLUMBIA
(iiiry
On
nonage
Is
Vlllii
West
1
K.
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r
visrpri
L
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,
rercsitu
in
I.
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110
tpiou-n
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ligation
may
to
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Columbia
soaK
it
was
fore-
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v
j
i
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i
ii
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1
11
rovince
will
be
ijombrd
spc?';
as
'oy
rings
arc
to
have
existed
both
on
i
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Liiiuiii
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i
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uia
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,
supply
depots
at
Prince
:
.
the
Alaska
Highway
and
movements
ION-WIDE
IKE
VOTE
Dhertor
Says
They
Have
to
lie
Resorted
T
R7T
UfAtJir"
rinf
-wide
strike
votes
are
prc-
la.
ajil
major
unions
af-
prophecy
was
made
in
;ht
by
the
national
dlr-
nrUni.
.Ill
1
ln
demand
for
wage
ln-
Mlllartl
declared
that
the
can
no
longer
deal
with
Pill
ask
the
steel
employ
er
wage
Increases
direct-
irking
For
prld
Peace
"h
Sec
Four
Towers
I
'"fiire
As
Solution
ai"
Not
So
Sure
m
(Pi
French
officials
lprecicd
confidence
that
Kaicmatc
among
Russia,
l
and
the
United
states
writing
the
European
peace
pcan
be
broken
by
a
four-f
meeting
of
forcisn
inln-
.
t
Hie
French
niumnr
.
t.n
r
-
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-
fiiMng
on
such
a
merlins
Nit
the
scheduled
onenlnz
C
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tnlto
I.,
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vu.iko
iu
i
ciu.i
uii
I'lOlitlvc
British
nml
Am.
source
lu
London,
how-
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little
hone
of
a
com.
Pon
the
issues
llll1(l2
T?ll-
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f'uuilies
llr-r
peace
settle-
demands.
ULD
AID
PAILOVIC
PIIINQTON
-
Tim
TT.iU,!
ate
department
has
rc-aVrof31avla
I
l
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f,
;
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personnel
to
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tia)
for
treason,
me
P
State
mile
to
Yugoslavia
pout
.that
Mihallovlch
.
help'
fllllPrl
An.
inri
"uc
aunng
ine
10
jas
Instrumental
In
the
mny
United
States
Local
TAo
s
nrsday
April
4,
1940
2:38
22.8
feet
15:09
21.2
feet
8:59
1.7
feet
21:00
4.3
feet
Sutletita
DAYLIGHT
SAVINGS
TORONTO
Daylight
savins;
will
go
into
effect
in
Toronto,
Ottawa
and
Montreal
April
38
at
he
.same
time
as
it
starts
in
a
number
of
stales.
Daylight
saving
is
a
matter
for
local
derision.
The
Canadian
government
has
made
no
statement
as
u
reinstating
it
generally
in
the
Dominion.
KII.LKI)
ifi
VANCOUVER
VANCOUVER
An
unidentified
man
was
killed
when
struck
by
a
shunting
train
at
(lie
foot
of
Campbell
Ave.
this
morning.
AIOIOTOV
UNDERSTANDS"
TEHRAN
At
a
recent
cocktail
patty
in
.Moscow,
Foreign
Commissar
Mololov
slapped
thi;
Iranian
foreign
minister
on
the
back
and
assured
him
that
he
(Mnlotov)
knew
more
about
world
and
Iranian
problems
than
.Mackenzie
King
of
Canada
who
had
come
to
the
aid
of
Kevin
or
Great
Britain.
The
incident
was
disclosed
here.
DELAYED
AT
SKAGWAY
SKAGWAY
C.P.R.
steamer
Princess
Norah,
on
a
voyage
to
Alaska,
has
been
delayed
here
by
a
longshoreman's
strike.
BLAME
IS
ADMITTED
NUFRNBERO,
t
-Field
Mar
shal
Wilhelm
Kcltcl
testified
to
day
at
the
International
war
crimes
tribunal
that
many
orders
issued
under
his
name
"rcprcs-crtcd
deviations
from
cxlstln;
International
law"
and
that
It
was
his
duty
"to
take
the
responsibility
for
what
I
have
dons
even
if
ft
has
been
done
wronj."
The
former
chief
of
German
high
command,
one
of
22
leading
Germans
on
trial
as
war
criminals,
told
the
tribunal:
"I
am
grateful
to
have
the
opportunity
here
and
before
the
German
people
o
give
an
account
of
these
things.
For
all
officers
subordinate
to
me
I
assume
responsibility
Insofar
as
It
Is
based
on
moral
and
legal
principles."
PEACE
RIVER
MUST
ASSURE
BIG
TRAFFIC
OTTAWA-
Minister
of
Transport
Chcvrlcr
told
the
House
!
of
Commons
yesterday
that
building
of
a
Pacific
Coast
railway
outlet
for
the
Peace
River
district
would
not
be
practicable
until
a
million
tons
of
traffic
annually
was
assured.
TOOK
PART
IN
NETWORK
OTTAWA,
?'-
Edward
Mazer-all,
"admitted"
his
part
In
what
has
been
called
the
Ruslsan
network
of
agents
In
testimony
before
the
Royal
Commission
on
espionage,
crown
counsel
disclosed
today
at
Mazcrall's
pre-
,
llmlnary
hearing
on
charges
of
coniinunlratins
secret
Information
t0
Russia.
The
hearing
was
adjourned
to
next
Tuesday,
Mazcrall,
aged
30.
Is
a
former
National
Research
Council
engineer.
He
faces
charges
under
the
Official
Secrets
Act.
City's
Water
Is
Still
Chlorinated
Chlorlnation
of
Prince
Rupert's
water
twpply
Is
still
continuing
in
spite
of
announcement
by
Ottawa
two
weeks
ago
that
It
would
be
discontinued
by
the
army
on
March
31.
No
word
was
available
here
today
as
to
when
the
wartime
health
safeguard
would
be
stopped.
.WES
-
cOAST
TWICE
A
DAY
MAIL
VANCOUVER
The
postal
department
at
Ottawa
has
ordered
resumption
of
twice-a-day
mail
delivery
service
April
15
but
the
local
superintendent
of
postal
services
says
it
will
be
two
mcnths
before
it
can
be
J
put
into
cffnt
here.
1
HIGHWAY
TURN
I'D
OVER
1
IVII1TFHOKSE
Rather
elaborate
'crrmrn!cs
In
;i
clearing
;
two
mile-;
from
here
marked
I
tile
official
turning
over
today
of
the
Alaska
Highway
by
1
the
United
States
to
Canada.
PROTEST
TO
RAILWAYS
OTTAWA
The
Canadian
I-cgion
has
protested
to
the
federal
government
and
Ihc
two
railway
companies
at
the
laving
off
of
employees
at
a
time
when
necessary
post-war
work
sheuld
be
carried
on.
CITIZENSHIP
BILL
OTTAWA
In
tle
Dominion
Parliament
last
night,
Stale
Secretary
Martin
defined
the
ney
Citizenship
Bill
as
an
Act
of
Faith
in
ourselves
and
our
countries.
The
Bill
which
would
establish
a
definite
Canadian
citizenship
now
is
up
for
second
reading.
VICTORIA
KEEPS
CHLORINA
TI
ON
VICTORIA.
S;
-CUy,jroiyjciL.
decided
to
continue
cholorina-tlon
of
the
city's
water
supply
following
a
report
from
the
re
tiring
medical
health
officer,
Dr.
Richard
Fclton.
Tests
over
the
last
two
years.
Felton
said,
showed
contamination
above
minimum
health
standards.
Cholrlnaiion
by
the
government
came
to
an
end
at
midnight,
March
31.
CANADA-MEXICO
SHIPPING
PACT
MEXICO
CITY
Q
Canadian
Ambassador
Hugh
Kecnlcyside
told
the
Associated
Press
yesterday
that
negotiations
are
undo
way
between
Canada
and
Mexico
for
"most
favored
nation'
navigation
treaty.
The
treaty
will
be
the
last
of
a
three-point
program
being
de
veloped
between
Canada
and
fvlin
tn
nvmiirt
niiltnrnl
nnri
commercial
relationships.
Essentially
It
will
provide
comparable
port
and
handling
facilities
for
fhlps
flying
Mexican
and
Canadian
flags.
EDUCATION
IN
AVIARY
Training
of
homing
pigeons
starts
when
they
are
about
four
weeks
old.
1
F.
I.
Ker,
vice-president
and
managing
director
of
the
Hamilton
Spectator,
who
is
first
vice-president
of
the
Canadian
Press,
Canada's
national
news-gathering
organization.
He
was
elected
president,
of
Canadian
Press
at
Toronto
today
In
succession
to
Senator
W.
A,
Buchanan,
publisher
of
the
Lcthbridse
Herald.
WAVE
VICTIMS
NOW
NUMBER
93
Millions
of
Dollars
Damage
Involved
in
Submarine
j
Disturbances
1IILO,
Hawaii.
(fc-Thc
death
toll
In
the
eastern
Pacific's
worst
s?!sm!c
wave
disaster
reached
105
today
and
a
United
State
nov.il
officer
estimated
that
the
lo.s
of
life
In
Hllo,
chief
target,
of
the
bollin?
seas,
miht
tota'
j
300.
At
least
130
arc
dead
or
'niu-'fl
I"
the
Hawaiian
Ilnr1s
IViinae.c
from
the
ilcial
wave
ran
'
Into
milllorM
of
dollar
Tm
thousnrd
neonle
are
without
shelter.
At?tc
or
empTpnv
b'pn
detarpd
and
thr
n
i"
poVcin?.
The
ubmarinc
earthquake
sent
slant,
swells
fann'ne
out
'rom
the
North
Pacific
at
"00
to
TiOQ
nil'es
an
hour
raH
M-'
'nv
Readies
on
Hawaii,
the
Aleutian';
and
California
were
lashed
by
-nvs
fr-m
10
to
100
feet
h!.ih.
niie
wnvr
a,,nn'',rtlv.
did
j
h'f.
the
Rriti'h
Columbia
or
,
Wp.sliiinton
State
coasts.
Tsr
j
avov
nbile
In
South
America
fc't.
he
r-!snle
wave.
The
dea'h
toll
is
made
up
of
82
nn
he
Hawaiian
fsiani.
10
a
ih"
Scotch
Caoe
lialithcu.se
at
Tinimak
In
the
AWut'nn.
and
nn?
in
California.
Many
are
misjin?;
in
Hawaii.
LUNAN
IS
TO
BE
COMMITTED
j
Alleged
Head
of
Russian
Spy
Ring
in
Canada
Going
to
Higher
Court
OTTAWA
The
a;;eged
head
"f
one
part
of
the
Russian
spy
'ins
I"
the
Dominion
is
due
to
bicommittcd
for
trial
this
afternoon.
He
is
Capt.
David
Lunan
whoso
preliminary
bearln?
wil'
end.
roday.
YesUtday.
Magistrate
Strike
told
Capt.
Lunan,
one
fimS
member
of
the
Canadian
Inforf
mation
Service,
that
he
is
satisfied
that
a
prima
facie
case
for
commltal
has
been
established.
DEFERS
DECISION
IN
BOYER
CASE
MONTREAL
Q
Judge
Rene
Thebcrge
yesterday
postponed
until
next
Monday
his
decision
on
whether
or
not
he
will
order
Dr.
Raymdnd
Boyer
to
make
voluntary
statements
before
his
court.
Boyer,
former
McGlll
university
professor
and
member
of
the
National
Research
Council
staff.
Is
charged
under
the
Official
Secrets
Act
with
conspiracy
and
with
communicating
Information
to
Russia.
NEW
GLIDER
FEAT
MADE
Launched
and
Successfully
Picked
Up
North
or
Arctic
Circle
NORMAN
WELLS.
Northwest
Territories
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
officials
believe
they
made
aviation
history
over
the
weekend.
That
wi's
when
n
glider
was
launched
with
supplies
for
the
Muskox
Expedition
north
of
th?
Arctic
Circle
and
then
picked
up
successfully.
:r
Force
officials
believe
this
Is
the
first
time
such
a
feat
Ins
been
accomplish-
j
cd
north
of
the
Arctic
Circle.
!The
glider
drop
and
pick-up
1
was
made
to
carry
a
complete
engine
and
transmission
to
re-'
pair
n
snowmobile
of
the
Muskox
ground
force
during
a
stop-over
at
Coppermine.
CAMERON
BILL
SECOND
READING
VICTORIA,
h-
A
bill
to
amend
the
Public
Schools
Act
along
lines
suggested
by
the
Cameron
educational
report
passed
Its
second
reading
in
the
provincial
legislature
after
a
brief
debate.
Opposition
Leader
Harold
Winch
said
that
the
bill
was
so
confused
as
to
call
for
rowrltlng
of
the
whole
act.
He
.said
that
the
present
act
contains
185
sections
and
that
the
bill
to
amend
the
act
has
20
sections.
Education
Minister
Weir
said
that
the
bill
Ls
one
of
the
most
Important
pieces
of
legislation
ever
presented
before
the
provincial
legislature
Iran
A
With
Uncon
grees
ditiona
Sh
elve
-
t
ESCAPED
GERMAN
WAR
PRISONERS
HEAD
BACK
TO
MONTEITH,
ONT.
Nine
escaped
S
German
prisoners
of
war
had
-were
put
on
board
a
train
lor
tne
civilian
intei
nmeni
camp
at
muhvchu,
uhi..,
uuu
iguard
from
the
Canadian
Provost
Corps.
Four
of
the
prisoners
were
apprehended
in
a
boot-flegger's
house
In
Cooksville,
Ont.,
and
five
others
arrested
in
Toronto,
Out.,
while
heading
f
for
a
dance.
Photo
shows
some
of
the
prisoners
on
the,,
train.
All
of
the
prisoners
were
!
merchant
seamen
and
In
Canada
for
four
years.
R.CAt.P.
are
conducting
a
probe
Into
their,
social
activities.
Some
of
the
prisoners
are
reported
to
have
taken
trips
without
being
detected.
HOMMAIS
EXECUTED
Japanese
General
Fails
Before
American
Firing
Squad
MANILA
Lieut.
Gen.
Homma,
the
Japanese
military
commander
who
ordered
the
death
march
of
Bataan
and
condoned
atro
cities,
was
executed
by
an
Am
erican
firing
squad
yesterday.
CANADIAN
COAL
ORDERS.LIFTED
OTTAWA
It
was
announced
this
week
In
Ottawa
that
18
coal
orders
have
teen
lifted.
The
most
Important
orders
to
be
cancelled,
as
far
as
the
householder
is
concerned,
are
those
requiring
residents
of
Ontario,
Quebec
and
the
maritime
.provinces,
to
take
part
of
their
deliveries
In
substitute
coal.
Dealers
may
now
guarantee
future
delivery
of
coal
or
coke
at
the
prevailing
prfce.
WHAT
NATIONAL
HARBORS
SPEND
"When
the
federal
government,
and
don't
forget
it
'is
we
the
taxpayers,
who
are
footing
the
bill,
has
such
a
stake
In
other
harbors,
Is
it
surprising
that
nothing
is
done
to
develop
or
encourage
traffic
through
Prince
Rupert?"
asked
A.
D.
Rltchls
in
advocating
inclusion
!
of
Prince
Rupert
under
the
National
Harbor
Board
aegis
a
i
Monday
night's
mee;:ng
of
the
Prince
Rupert
Chamber
of
Commerce.
"I
say
we
will
never
get
anywhere
until
we
too
come
under
the
National
Harbor
Board."
Mr.
Ritchie
save
figures
as
follows
which
the
record
showed
had
brcn
spent
on
pert
development
by
the
National
Harbor
Board:
Vancouver
$21,000,000
Churchill
13.000,000
Colbome
2,000,000
1
Montreal
73.009,000
!
Quebec
'.
29,000,000
Chlcoutlml-
4.000,000
Saint
John
24,000.000
Halifax
28,000,000
ROUSING
ROPE
1
The
hemp
leaf
Is
used
as
an
in-1
toxicant
In
India,
and
is
known
i
as
bhang
ussia
To
ly
their
apparent
free-and-easy
eils
-
r
-
Approved
Ontario
Legislature
Puts
Measure
Through,
Protests
Notwithstanding
TORONTO
The
Ontario
Legislature
has
given
the
"go-ahead"
to
the
Drew
government's
new
liquor
bill.
The
bill,
which
would
permit
cocktail
lounges
on
a
limited
scale,
hasdrawn
sharp
protest
from
temperance
forces
who
yesterday
staged
a
demonstration
In
Queen's
Park
Itself.
Fifteen
hundred
persons
paraded
to
the
Parliament
Buildings,
singing
such
hymns
as
"Fight
the
Good
Fight"
and
"Onward
Christian
Soldiers."
At
Queen's
Park,
they
demanded
'Bring
out
the
Premier!"
Meanwhile
within
the
House
a
Liberal
amendment
which
would
have
deferred
consideration
of
the
bill
was
defeated
61
to
20
while
the
bill
Itself
was
given
second
reading
by
similar
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Soviet
Withdraws
By
Sixth
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of
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The
trial
of
three
former
members
of
the
German
Army
for
killing
an
unknown
Canadian
airman
was
re
sumed
yesterday
before
a
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
War
Crimes
court.
The
accused
are
Robert
Holger.
Wilhelm
Ossenback
and
Walter
Welgal.
The
prosecution
will
attempt
to
prove
that
the
former
German
soldiers
in
March,
1945,
took
a
wounded
flier,
wh0
had
parachuted
from
his
aircraft,
to
a
forest
and
shot
him.
Josef
Caspers,
former
German
soldier
and
sole
witness
in
the
war
crimes
trial
of
three
former
German
soldiers,
testified
today
that
he
was
present
at
Nazi
headquarters
at
Opladen
in
the
Ruhr
when
three
ICA.F.
pris
-
oners
were
taken
away
singly
and
shot.
Olof
Hanson,
president
of
the
Hanson
Timber
&
Lumber
Co..
travelled
from
Smithers
to
Ter-
race
on
yesterday's
train.
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of
M
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May
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of
Cr
isis
Security
Council
Adjourns
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Iran
offered
today
to
let
the
United
Nations
security
council
shelve
the
Iran
ease
temporarily
providing
Russia
will
give
assurances
that
Russian
troops
will
b?
withdrawn
from
Iran
unconditionally
by
May
6.
The
.council,
having
received
last-jniriute
replies
from
both
Russia
and
Iran
to
Its
inquiries
of
last
Friday
on
the
state
of
negotiation
between
them,
then
adjourned
until
tomorrow.
Russia
said
her
troops
withdrawals
from
Iran
vcre
not
con
ditional
on
other
negotiations
with
Iran
over
such
matters
os
oil
and
the
like.
Soviet
Ambas
sador
Andrei
Giomyko
told
the
council
that
Red
Army
troops
will
be
out
of
Iran
within
a
month
and
a
half.
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"fioy-
cott
of
the
Iranian
discussion
by
not
actually
attending
the
meeting.
Iran
advised
the
council
that
negotiations
had
failed,
that
Russian
Interference
in
Iranian
affairs
had
continued,
that
Russia
had
made
demands
parallel
with
her
troops
withdrawals
but
that,
above
all,
Iran
wanted
a
peaceful,
friendly
settlement
of
the
situation.
Iran's
offer
to
shelve
the
caso
temporarily
was
possibly
the
break
that
everybody
had
been
working
for.
There
were
no
immediate
optimistic
predictions
but,
as
the
session
broke
up,
the
atmosphere
seemed
to
be
distinctly
hopeful.
There
is
room
for
optimism,
in
dispatches
from
Iran
saying
that
(Red
Army
troops
are
speeding
:
their
departure
from
that
coun
try.
In
a
last-minute
conference,
American
Secretary
of-
State
James
F.
Byrnes
met
last
night
in
New
York
with
Sir
Alexandr
!
Cadogan,
British
delegate
to
the
I
security
council
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AT
CANADIAN
CEREMONY
The
above
photograph,
taken
from
a
rooftop,
shows
guard
of
honor
and
huge
crowds
gathered
at
the
military
ceremony
before
their
excellencies
left
Canada.
The
governor-general,
the
Earl
or
Athlone,
and
Princess
Alice
were
greeted
at
the
National
War
Memorial
by
Prime
Minister
Mackenzie
King.
Performing
his
last
ofticlal
act
In
Canada
as
the
king's
representative,
his
excellency
placed
a
wreath
on
the
memorial
honoring
Canada's
war
dead
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