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Pag* Two\nmom, ' '\" '-\u25a0\u2014\n4%\nCalvary Stampeders Beat Cats\nto Win Western Title\nVOLUME 38\n*tf*W a*'\nPage Seven\nFIVE CENT8 PER COPY\nBRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA-TUESDAY MORNINQ, APRIL 1\u00ab. 1940\nNORWAY ANNo\nNUMBER 309\nCAPTURE OF NARVIK\nRUMANIA BANS WHEAT\nEXPORTS TO GERMANY\nNorwegians Shoot\nDown German Plane\nLONDON, April 13 (CP). - A\nNorwegian patrol shot down a\n\u25a0 German plane (lying low over\nHamar, 60 miles North of Oslo,\ntonight as it was attempting to\nmachine gun detachments of\nnewly-enlisted recruits, Reuters\nNews Agency reported.\n1000 HOMELESS\nIN ALBERTA AS\nFLOODS SPREAD\nIce Crushes Homes,\nBams, Snaps Off\nPoles, Trees\nDRUMHELLER, Alta., April 15\n(CP), \u2014 The flood-iwept Drum-j\nheller Valley, with a thousand,\npenona homeless In eight towns,\npinned IU hope for relief from\nrampaging rivers and creeks tonight on continued cooler weather.\nMeanwhile, the Provincial Government announced it would iss*'e\nemergency relief to those forced\nlrom their homes by the flood.\nThe worst flood since 1915 saw\nwaters of the Red Deer River and\nRosebud Creeks rise in some places\n'15 feet, with huge cakes of ice\nrising over the banks, crushing\nhomes, barns and stables, and snapping off poles and trees. Hard hit\nin the Valley were Drumheller,\nNorth Drumheller. Parkdalo, East\nCoulee. Lehigh, Wayne, Rosebud\nind Newcastle.\nElsewhere In the Province,\nfloods forced families to flee from\nhomes in Innisfail and Carbon,\nwhile Red Deer and Gleichen\nwere also hit by high water but\nnone was forced to move. Hope\nin the flooded areas is that the\nblanket* of snow still lie on the\ncool weather continues, for deep\nAlberta Prairies and a sudden\nthaw will increase the depth of\ncreeks and rivers. The\nwas \"fair and mild.\"\nBan Includes Other Buyers; Dpnube River\nPolice Strengthened; Rumania Need\nfor Oil Precedes Other Orders\nSHORT INTERRUPTION BLOW TO NAZIS\nBy DANIEL DE LUCE \u2014 Associated Pren Staff Writer\nBUCHAREST, April 15 (AP). \u2014 Rumania tonight\nj banned temporarily all exports of wheat to Germany and other\n! foreign buyers and at the same time strengthened her Danube\n[River Police to protect the Reich's vital shipping from any\npossible attempt at sabotage.\nOfficials said wheat exports would be discontinued at\nleast until after this year's harvest, which, it was estimated,\n.vould be insufficient to meet Rumania's own needs..\nSimultaneously the Government Economic Council announced that measures had been taken to \"assure adequate\nreserves of oil, coal and wood for Rumania's army and railroads.\nRumania's military and\ntransport requirements for petroleum are to take precedence\nover deliveries abroad, but officials indicated later these\nwere expected to be filled\nwithout serious interruption.\nIn oil circles lt was understood\nthe Government would demand a\nlarger share in the production of\nthe foreign-owned oil companies.\nRumanian officials hastened td\nclarify the Economic Council's de-\nVMgel* today'jTnkinj7wo\"GermanicUlo,n\u00ab which Germans first feared\nseaplanes and inflicting heavy | *ould block at least temporarily.\ndamage on hangars, runways and\nTwo Nazi Planes\nSunk, Airdrome\nHit by British\nLONDON, April 15 (CP),\u2014British Blenheim bombers, flying\nthrough a blinding snowstorm,\nroared for the sixth time over Sta\nNazis Demand Right to \"Protect\" Entire Danube River\nSharper control of Danube shipping by the Rumanian Government followed German demand*! for\nthc right to send gunboats for \"protection\" in Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania.\nBritish Open Land, Sea, Air\nOffensive on Norwegian Soil\nNorwegian Troops\nJoined by British\nand New Artillery\nPilots Grounded by Lack of Planes Attached\nto British Units; Troops Ordered to\nCooperate Fully With Allies\nSWEDEN REQUISITIONS ITS PETROLEUM\nSTOCKHOLM, April 15 (AP). (By Radio) \u2014 Norwegian military headquarters tonight announced the recapture\nof Narvik, Arctic ore port, with the aid of British naval units\nand said British marines and soldiers had landed at several\nNorwegian coastal points with new light artillery and complete equipment. t\nThese units have been joined by the Norwegians, the\nNorwegian command said, and a \"great number\" of Norwegian pilots, who have been grounded by a lack of warplanes\nhave been attached to British naval units as a result of the\ndelivery of British planes.\nMore than 200 families,\ning appToximatoly 1000 persons,\nleft their homes in the Red Deer\nValley before the rising water and\nthc onrushing ice floes. Hardest hit\nwas Newcastle, lying iu the Red\nsupply depots in the key port seized by the Nazis when they invaded Norway.\nThe raiders turned machine-\nguns on the German seaplanes at\ntheir mooring posts and the Royal\nAir Force men \"saw them founder,\" it was stated.\nStavanger, it was explained, has\nbeen the principal objective of the\nR. A. F. bombers to prevent it from\nbeing used as a German base of attack on British shipping and communications.\nIt was still dark when the planes\ncircled the airfield. Greeted by a\nforecast' storm of anti-aircraft fire, orange\nI and blue searchlights, and star\n, [shells, planes of the coast command\ns* \u25a0 reported they bombed the airdrome\nwith \"heavy high explosives'' and\nraked the ground defences with\nbursts of machine-gun fire.\nOne pilot laconically reported see\nTRANSPORT BURNS\nThe air arm of thc Royal Navy\nmaintained Iti offemlve againit\nNazi ihipping It wat reported 15\nplanet iet fire to a transport at\nGerman-occupied Bergen, lank a\n\u25a0 mall supply boat and machine-\ngunned and tet aflame an anchored flying boat there.\nIt wai considered here that\neven a temporary Interruption In\nthe flow of oil to Germany would\nbe a heavy blow to her. The Reich\nDeer Flats a few miles down the, ing the \"'sudden red glow\" of a bij\nRed Deer River frnm Drumheller 'explosion. It was beljeved a gasg\nThere, 75 families fled as tho line dump had blown up.\nwater invaded three-quarters of the\ntown, The evacuated families, totalling nearly 400 persons, are liv-1\ning in the Social Cred:t Hall, the\nUnited Church Mission and friends\nwhose homes are out of the danger j\narea.\nEarly todav, the Red Deer River, j\nslightly swollen hitherto, suddenly\ncame down in full flood, rising 15\nfeet within an hour. lis waters!\nflooded North Drumheller and' One of the young pilots who took\nParkda1 , just outside the town, part in last night's raid said:\nSeveral houses were lifted from \"The air was simply alive with r\ntheir foundations as ice buffeted blue and orange searchlights, rock-'?ounCil Und?r.Pr?.mier Georges Ta\nets, and shells which burst into\ngmups of four bluish-white stars.\nTroops Are Landed at\nSeveral Points in\nNorway\nNAVY AND PLANES\nCONTINUE ATTACK\nBy J. F. 8ANDER80N\nCanadian Pren Staff Writer\nLONDON, April 15 (CP.*Cable)\n-Brltlih troopi hurriedly itreng\nthened their position! on Norwe\ngiin toll tonight at the Allies\nopened their firit combined land,\n\u25a0ea and air offemlve of the war,\nThe War Office offered no more\nnewi than a bare bulletin Iiiued\njointly with the Admiralty, announcing to the world that Britiih forcet \"have now landed at\nleveral polnti In Norway.\" But\nthoie who read it km4 that It\nwai the prelude to an intemive\ncampaign to wreit Norwegian\nbaiei from the German Invaden.\nAs If to Indicate that the air arm\nwas right with the Royal Navy I\nand the troop?, the Air Ministry\nannounced shortly after the issu-\n. ing of the War-Admiraty bulletin\nb^'^ended to spud more than j t^t tno Royal Air Force had again\nbombarded the Southwestern Norwegian port of Stavanger.\nthe flow of oil to the Reich.\nOfficials said assurance of army\nand railroad oil reserves was a\nmatter which could quickly be arranged between the Government\nand the producers. Rumania's output is much larger than her internal\nconsumption.\nThey said the Council's action,\ntherefore, could not be interpreted as interference with exports of oil to Germany.\nThe action came on the heels of\nthe establishment by Rumania of\na strict control Hf traffic on the\nvital Danube waterway, a move\nregarded by some sources as an\neffort to eliminate any possible\npretext for Germany to send\narmed forces into the neutral Bal\nkans countries to prevent what\nthe Nazis term \"British sabotage.\"\nAn authoritative source said the\nban on oil exports was Rumania's\none way to force foreign-owned oil\n! companies to fill Rumanian army\nreservoirs quickly. The greater per*\ncentage of Rumania's oil companies\nare foreign owned, largely by British and French.\n1,000,000 toni monthly up the\nDanube to make up for transport\ndifficulties experienced during\nthe Winter monthi.\nThe decree banning exports, is-\nued by the Government Economic !\nAlong with the reported troop\nmovements, meagre reports and\nterse communiques filtered into\nLondon indicating that Britain's\naircraft and naval might were\ncontinuing their relentless pounding of the German bases and lines\nof communications which stretch\nSouthward over the Allied-mincci\nBaltic.\nThe news that the Britons are ar-\nving ln Norway, where no Sieg-\n.ied or Maginot Lines offer projection or refuge, drew the expressed belief from neutral military experts that the first step had\nbeen taken ln a \"full dress\" campaign to wresi Norway from the invaders, and at the same time safeguard Britain from German forays\n\u2022vhlch could be launched from nal-\niral sea and air bases such as\n'rondheim.\nNeutral tourcei alio tald they\nbelieved troopi had been landed\nat Namoioi and Andalmei ai well\nai at Narvik,\nOne neutral military man ol\nconsiderable staff experience In\nthe First Great War said he believed Narvik repreiented an Isolated problem ai the \"Northern\ngateway to Sweden\" tnd the principal Western ore port.\nHe said he did not believe the\nBritish forces would do mnre than\nhold the town and surrounding\ncountry and patrol the railroad leading toward Lulea, Swedish ore port\non the Gulf of Bothnia.\nNamosos and Andalsnes, about 100\nmiles respectively North and South\nof Trondheim on the Western coast\noffer an opportunity for operations\non a great scope, he said, Each is\na railhead and each forms a valuable take-off spot for simultaneous\nblows against German-occupied\nTrondheim.\nSuch a \"pincer movement could\nbe accompanied by a naval blockade at the mouth of Trondheim\nFjord and guerrilla attacks by the\nNorwegians on the railroad running\n| into Trondheim.\nTRANSPORTS SUNK\nThe navy, the Admiralty announced, torpedoed and lank two\nj German transport!, bringing to 26\nj the num\\:r of Nazi transport and\nsupply ships reported sunk, captured and scuttled within t week.\nI The Admiralty also said German\nconvoy transports had been at\nJacked in the Skagerrak and that\nfour torpedoes had \"found their\nI mark.\" However, it did not sav\n! whether alt of the torpedoes hit one\n, ship or separate vessels or how\nmuch damage had heen done.\nI The Ministry of Food said today\n.that rationing would not be inten-\n| sified because of the loss of Danish\ni bacon, butter and eggs.\n| A Ministry official said there were\n; supplies in cold storage which rc-\n, lieved anxiety for the immediate\n' future but hinted that \"if the posi-\n! tion becomes less favorable ra-\nI tioning may have to be adjusted.\"\n| Conferences with Britain's Balkans Ministers who were summoned\ni home by the Foreign Secretary,\n1 Viscount Halifax, ended today. It\nwas believed in diplomatic circles\ni that the envoys would return soon\n; t' their posts.\nthem.\nCanoes, boats find horses were\npressed into service U> rescue\ntarescu, voided all wheat contracts!\nj until further notice because of prospects of a crop failure. Foreign de- '\nhousehold belonging,. Parkdale was -\/o^b^bTrigh! on the\" Ur'ttt\"! \"\"\"'\"f \u00b0' \"f \"\"^\"S C0,I.,nd' W\u00b0\"A\nr\u201es\u201eA t^.rr, ih\u201e\\\u201efin.;Bn \u201e,\u201e n\u00ab\u00bb. u l were stopped until adequate reserves\nsaved from the buffeting ice floes\nby a large iron guardrail along the\nriver bank\nLower Drumheller suffered as\nwell, water invading basements and\nyards. Ice snapped off trees and\ntelephone poles. Huge cakes of ice\n'were deposited in residential areas.\nFarther downstream, the flood\nhit Newcastle, By boat, canoe and\nhorse-drawn buggies the residents\nevacuated their homes.\nA small railroad bridge over a\nbranch of the creek at Bain tree,\n40 miles South of Drumheller and\nabout 60 miles East of Calgary, was\nwiped out by flood waters, cutting\nrail communication between Calgary and Drumheller for six hours.\nAir Training Field\nPlanned for Indian\nReservation Protested\nBRANTFORD, Ont., April 15 (CP) !\n\u2014William Smith, app* lined spokes- j\nman by other Six Nations Indians,\nsaid today lie h s pr tested to lhe\ndepartment of National Defence, ihe ,\nDepartment of Justice and the De- I\npartment of Ind.an Affairs against!\na plan for csiabiifiimen! rt ..ii ,nr !\ntraining f>.d < n V\" S.x Nati-ns'\nreservation near here.\nSmith said the Dominion C. v- j\nernment seeks several hundred\nacres of land for use in connecti n I\nwith the Commonwealth Air Training plan nt a rental of $3 an acre '\nfor the duration of the war and\nfor three years afterward, at lhe\nrnd of which it would be i (-turned to the Indians.\nThe Indians' argument is not!\nagainst the air training plan but!\nagainst the Hnldlmand treaty which\nset aside 1,000.000 acres of land for\nthe Indians, Smith s \"id. declaring\nthat \u25a0 nly 49.000 acres still belongs\nto thrm.\nMy rear gunner sprayed buheti . are assured for the army and rail-\ndown the beam of one blue pencil roacis. Of all Rumania's foreign buy-\nwarchligMjvhich P^ed^us up. The j erS| Germany was by far the hardest\nhit. The Reich had expected to ob-\nlight went out at once and remained\nout\nPorts Not Taken\nby British More\nImportant-Nazis\nBy LOU13 LOCHNER\n(Anociated Pren Staff Writer)\nBERLIN. April 15 (API-German officialdom r nsolcd Itself\ntomght over admitted reverses at\nNarvik by insisting that other\nNorwegian ports were more important ; nil by hinting at possible events elsewhere in Eur' pe.\nThe Germans acknowledged\nthat Great Britain had hemmed\nNarvik, Norway's Northern iron-\nshippmg port, inside a tight ,\nbl rkade but they claimed !:ut,mnl\nno British forces had landed at\ntiny Norwegirn points Germans\nhad reached first.\ntain a major share of the Rumanian\nwheat surplus which normally is\n1,000,000 tons.\nlt was said that army mobilizations which kept hundreds of thousands of peasants from the farms,\ncoupled with severe Winter and\nSpring floods, had threatened to cut\nthe wheat harvest below t h c\namount Rumania needs for her\nown consumption,\nThe iharper control of Danube\n\u2022hipping followed i threat by Germany to tend gunboati down the\nriver. A Government spokesman,\nsaying a control system had been\nworked out with ether Danubian\nneutrals, announced river patrols\nhad been organized \"to maintain\npeace and order on the Danube.'\nFire Insurance\nRate Reduction\nPromised Trail\nTRAIL, B. C, April lJ-That\nF. F- Dowling, Chief Engineer of\nthe B. C. Fire Insurance Underwriters Association, had definitely\npromised the city a reduction in\nfire insurance ratea was reported\nto the Council Monday night by\nAid. William Thomson, Chairman\nof the Fire, Water and Light Committee, who had interviewed Mr.\nDowling after hc recently made an\ninspection and ronducted pressure\ntests of the City waterworks system. The cut was being made in\nview of the city's waterworks ex-\nThis was taken here to mean that | ten-sion program, completed thia\nYugoslavia, Bulgaria and Hungary l Spring.\neach would undertake stricter! Alderman Thomson stated that a\nguarding of its stretch of the river. 1 reduction equal to that which was\n 1 forthcoming would be made at a\nThe oil embargo will rut off al- later date when the City saw fit to\nmost one-third of Germany's nor-1 pass a bylaw providing for more\nutsidc oil supply, United Stales up to date fire fightin\nstatistical said. Experts also '\u25a0However,\" suggest\nO'Sullivan Jailed a\nMonth for Theft 65\nCents' Worth Goods\nPleading guilty to theft of goods\nvalued at 65 cents from the F. W.\nWoolworth Company Ltd., store,\nBaker Street, Patrick O'Sullivan\nwas sentenced to serve one month I\nIn the Provincial Jail when he j\nappeared before Police Magls-1\ntrate William Brown In Police\nCourt Monday.\nO'Sullivan was arrested about\n4;W Saturday afternoon In the\nstore by Constable R. R. House\nof the City Police. He was ac i\ncused of picking up several packages of face creams, fingernail,\npolish and poliih removtr.\n.ting equipment.\nsied am. Thom-\nPrecipitation Above\nNormal on Prairies\nTORONTO, April \\* iCP\u00bb Pren-\npltntion since April 1 ha* hern well\nabove noinrl \u25a0 ver the ginin region*\nof Alberla and Southern sections of\nSaskatchewan nnd Manitoba it w.i\u00ab\nreported tonight in the sfaj-nn .\u00ab\nfirst weekly report of Ihe Dummi H\nMcteoioli'gical Service.\n! The German press seconds the\nthesis that Bergen and Trondheim\n'ate betler suited to Germany's\nneeds. Thus the Hamburg Nrem-\ndenblatt observes:\n\"All German plans against the\nI British Isles ran, henceforth, pro-\n\u25a0 ceed fn in the fact that Gerfrun\n! forces, hy their courageous roup\n1 d'etat, liberated themselves from\nencirclement in the N rth Sea and\nadvanced to bases lying on the open\nAliunde In tiie same latitude as the\nNorthern tip of the British Isles.\"\n| This tfiins to support what is\nj generally nimnred\u2014that Germany\n' intends to attack Britain in thc\nNorlh. chiefly by air\n\"Inasmuch as German siralrgy is\nbuilt \u25a0 n the greatest use of the air\nfnire,\" the Hamburg newspaper\ncontinued, \"this tremendous expansion f German air bises toward the\nNorth and appreciably closer I.i\nthe British coast is {.if great importance for events lhat are to\ni follow \"\nviewed the halting of wheat exports\nas n serious blow to the Reich\nGermany used 54.fKXl.000 barrels\nof oil nnd iasoline in 1M9. Of this\namount. 34,000,000 barrels were\nimnorted.\nRumania shipped tt.000,000 barrels\nto Germany last year and contracted to sell the Reicb 11,000,000\nbarrels In 1940.\nMinister Appeals to\nNorwegians to Fight\nLONDON. April 13 \nday in Sloane Memorial Hospital\nafter an explcsion of the anesthe'ic\ngas which was being used to put her\nIn a coma for a minor operation.\nAnsistant Medical Examiner Rav*\nm nd R Miles reported \u00bbfl*r an\nautopsy that Mrs. Sutphen had died\nof a ruptured windpipe.\nThe explosion-apparently caused\nby a italic spark Miles said-occur\nred after the patient had been put\ninto a coma with cyloprupane ga*.\nRequests for Aid\nin Canadian War\nEfforts Pour in\nBy ANQRE CARISSE\nCanadian Pre,, Staff Writer\nOTTAWA, April 15 (CD. - As\nfar as the technical section of tiie\nVoluntary Service Registration\nBoard is concerned, the \"Spring offensive\" long-forecast in thc war\nbetween Germany and the Allies,\nhas arrived on Canada's home\nfront.\nIt came in the form of a deluge\nof requests from Canadian industry\nand science for help in furtherance\nof the Dominion's war effort.\nUp to the end of December last.\nonly two requests for specialists\nhad been made to tiie hoard, but\nsince then requests have reached of-\nficial.s at tile average rate of two\na day.\nMore than 1200 names have been\nsubmitted to those desiring men\nversed in certain technical Knowledge. Most requests were for me-\nrhanical and electrir.il engineers, a\nfew civil engineers, airplane inspectors and specialized men nnd\nskilled tradesmen to help in the\nconstruction of airports and other\nbuildings.\nCreated five months ago to help\nCanadians on the home front the\ntechnical section is headed by Dr\n11, M Tory. President of the Rnyal\nSociety of Canada and former head\nof the National Research Council\nof Canada.\nDr, Tory has listed the qualifications of more than 10.000 technicians and skilled tradesmen and\nan equal number of engineers.\nCOAST TUC RUNS ASHORE\nVANCOUVER. April 15 iCPl-\nSalvage boats left here today to aid\nthe tugboat Prospective No 2 rf the\nM, R. Cliff nnd I) C Mills Towing\nCompany, which is sslirre on Gregory Island, near Ktngcome Inlet\nThe tug. which left here n few\ndays ag\u201e just after being overhauled and inspected, hit a rock Sunday m* rning and was beached.\nAt the same time a Government statement broadcast\nover stations still controlled by\nit, declared:\n\"We arc continuing to fight. We\nhave received assurances of military assistance from the Allied\npowers. We are confident that in\ncooperation with these countries\nwe shall win back Norway ior the\nNorwegian people,\"\nThli itatement, referring to\nwhat It described ai the bombing\nof defencelen village! where King\nHaakon hai been itaying, added:\n\"Henceforth we mean to keep\nthe place of our headquarter! ie-\ncret.\"\nThe Norwegian Command ordered\nNorwegian officers \"to cooperate to\nthe fullest extent with their French\nand British Allies in effectively1,\ndealing a crushing blow to German\nforces occupying | the cities and\ntowns oi Norway.\"\nReuters News Agency reported\nthat the Germans withdrew along\ni the railroad toward the Swcdisn\niron mining town of Kimna and\nwere regarded a.s in a difficult position, with Norwegian troops man-\n1 oeuvr.ng to surround them.\nI The agency said there were con- *\nsiderablc Norwegian forces in thc\nvicinity, and that part of Narvuc\nwas being occupied by British blue-\n'. jackets under the muzzles of their\nnaval guns.\nThe three armies \"must coordinate their operations in such a man-\ni ner as to make them act as ont,'\nthe Command declared in urging\nits officers to \"consult liberally\n! wfth French and English Commanders so as to avoid friction and\nblunders.\"\n\u2022\u25a0Numerous and well armed\"\nGerman forces, it was added, make\nit necessary that Norwegian Commander-, not undertake \"any rash\nactions.\"\nThe armv communique gave no\ndetails of the battle at Narvik,.and\nfailed to state whether any Germans there were taken prisoner or\nin what direction they had retreated, i\nIt said the British naval forces,\nhowever, had been lying outside\nNarvik harbor waiting for the Norwegian forcu to organize properly\nin order to deal a decisive blow\nNeutral Sweden took precautions\ntoday to avoid being involved in\nthe war now underway on Norway.,\nsoil and against any possible surprise invasion of its own territory.\nThe Government requisitioned\nall petroleum products. Includinn\nmotor oili and gaiollne in the\nkingdom. A Itate of air preparedness wai ordered effective at noon\nTueiday in Swedish Provinces\nbordering on Norway and in parti\nof Southern and Western Sweden\nni well.\nLIGHTHOUSES DARK\nThe German radio broadcast \u00bb\nwarning that all lighthouses and\nsignal fires on Sweden's S mthern\ncoast had been extinguished. There\nwas considerable speculation in\nBerlin diplomatic circles which said\nsuch a precaution would be taken\nonly under extraordinary circumstances.\nAn official Norwegian statement\nreceived here today said that Norway's troops are ready to attack\nGerm,in f tccs driven ':\"> m u -\ntains North and West of Narv.k by\nBritish warships whose guns now\ncommand that Aictic port\nSwedish news agencies reported\nnothing was to bo seen of teg f.n-s\nreported raging in Narvik after the\nBritish landing there. Norwegian\nreports received here said Britisi\naerial bombing \"f Narvik had don,*\ncomparatively little damage.\nA Norwegian army communique\nsaid Cerman troops were inrnolrd\nNorth and West of Narvik nnd weir\n1 nr no condition to make stout rr\nIsistance \"after their hasty retreat\n! from that ore-shipping port whir'.i\nthey seized last Tuesday morning\nGerman reports from 0-1\". received in Be.lin during the day. rom\n1 cd Gorman ( irres in S mthern Norway had taken Son Norwegian pr ,*\u2022\noners and seized piwder and mm.\ntions plan'-, seven cannon and Ihe *\nquanlitii.\" ol small arms in raptui- , ron-iou*\nIng Honrfnss llvalshon and Kongs- nm nm\nberg, towns North and Southwest I 60 deg;\n'of Oslo. I degrees.\nBELGIUM CALLS\nUP MORE MEN\nIN PREPARATION\nConcentration Camp\nSet for Suspect\nAliens\nCABINET MEETS\nBRUSSELS, April 15 (CP.-Ha-\nvast \u2014 Belgium called a new\nclass to the colors tonight ahortly\nafter announcing a concentration\ncamp would be established for\nsuspect aliens in Western\nFlanders.\nThe class of 1940. due to come\nup for training July 1, was called\n24 months early in new preparedness moves by the Cabinet\nLeopold, King of the Belgians,\nreceived Premier Hubert Pierlot\nearly in the day. Later the Belgian Cabinet met, discussing foreign affairs and measures for\ninternal safety. Establishment ol\na concentration camp for suspect\naliens at Ruysselcde was announced immediately after the\nmeeting.\nBelgian anti-aircraft batterlei\nat Liege opened up against an\nunidentified foreign plane which\nsucceeded in making its escape.\nIt was learned here that German\nand Belgian negotiations had\nreached an agreement in principle\nfor trade measures covering the\nnext three months. The agreement\nwould fix Belgian imports of Reich\ncoal at 110,0(10 tons monthly, about\n611 per cent of the pre-war figure.\nA Dutch infantry sergeant and\nhis 17-year-old fiancee were ar-\nres'ed on charges of espionage at\nGouda bv Netherlands authorlttos\nand imprisoned at Rotterdam, after\nthe homes of thcir parents had been\nsearched.\nThe tiny Duchy of Luxembourg\nlhared the nervcuineil of the two\nlarger lowland countriei. Extraordinary police precaution! were,\nordered during the day,\nIn the cities of Luxembourg and\nF.icli civic guards recently created\nhy Grand Ducal decree began to\nfunction as supplementary night\nguards for public buildings.\nThere are massive German forces\nconcentrated on the Luxembourg\nand Dutch borders.\nWeajtii\nl-S\u00a3\nNELSON\nTrail\nVictoria -\nNanaimo\nVane niver\nKamloops\nI'r i-.re (', *\nE-'evan I\nI':,nre Hn\nAin\nlira -n\nMin\n. 33\n. 4(1\n. 44\nMax,\n6.1\n60\n57\nSi\nVer\nKel\nGra\nKi\nCri\nOil\nEd\nS\nMo,\nI'M\nVI. \u25a0\nForce.]\nNor'hwc\nW\n-.ft\n1 F\nCnrrei\nJaw\nAlbei\nTKAII II (' . Apt.'\n-.0 - IPS '.,' P H 1 1\nMo\n62\n61\n54\n:ia\n.16\n:n\n10\n47\nFtesh\nnot\nThe\nwas\nis and live in,n.mum 40\n 1\n\u25a0\n\u25a0\u2014\u2014\nPAGB TWO\nlo Guard Allied\nInterests, Iceland\nBy J, F. SANDER80N\nCanadian Pr\u00abn Staff Writer\nLONDON, April IS (CP Cable).-\nBritain lias taken ateps to safeguard\nAllied interests ln Iceland, strategic\nUland In the Arctic which could be\nused as a naval base to command\nthe North Atlantic sea lanes, it was\nlearned tonight.\nIt is presumed that the British\nGovernment haa warned Iceland ot\nits dangerous position aa a result of\nGerman occupation ot Denmark and\nbecause of its inability to protect\nitself and safeguard Its neutrality.\nIceland, the wbrld's oldest democ\nracy, and Denmark are bound to\ngether by common allegiance to\nKing Christian.\nAt the moment, it ia learned,\nthere is no plan to occupy Iceland\nsuch as was done with the Faroe\nIslands \u2014 the little group of Danish Islands between the Shetlands\nand Iceland\u2014but steps have been\ntaken to see that Germany docs\nnot use the rocky, barren shores\nol Iceland aa a submarine base or\na sheltered preserve for marauding surface raiders.\nThere is a disposition here to regard Greenland as within the Canadian sphere erf influence and leave\nto Ottawa any action to guard Allied Interests in that Danish possession.\nGreenland, although of minor\nstrategic importance to Germany in\ncomparison with Iceland, has great\neconomic value because it possesses\n60 per cent ol the world supply of\ncryolite, essential mineral in manufacture ol aluminum.\n-NELSON DAILY NEWS, NELSON, B. C.-TUESDAY MORNINQ. APRIL 16. 1940-\nNorwegum Cities Scenes of intense Warfare\nSeven German destroyers were sunk in the Norwegian port of Narvik, lelt, by the- British fleet Saturday. The capital of Norway, Oslo', centre, ls ln the hands of the Germans, as is the city of Bergen, right.\n(amps Melt as\nAid Sent Norway\nLONDON, April IB (Tuesday) -\n'(CP.-Cable) \u2014 The Daily Herald\nsaid today that \"military camps in\nEngland disappeared overnight\" aa\nthe men who occupied them were\n\u25a0hifted suddenly to ports and moved\n\u2022wiftly across Northern waters lo\nthe battlefields of Norway.\nDescribing the transportation of\nthe new British Expeditionary Force\ntnd its supplies The Herald said:\n\"Ship* of all kindi, crammed\nwith men, munition* and stores\nare steaming across the North Sea\non the way to strengthen Britain's\nnew expeditionary force In\nNorway.\n'Tor houra yesterday trains\nloaded with essential supplies rumbled into British ports. In one town\ncrowds of holiday makers watched\ncommandeered pleasure steamships\nchug their way to and from ships.\n\"For days past boats have been\narriving in this and other ports\npressed into service. . . The outstanding feature of the operation is\nthe organization which has enabled\ntroops to move almost unnoticed\nfrom all parts of Britain to the\nporta of embarkation.\"\nThe Daily Express said that thc\ntroopi were equipped with leather\nJerkins and fur helmets.\nThe Times, discussing the achievement editorially, said that the landing of troops within seven days of\nthe German assault on Norway was\nremar kable when account was\ntaken of the preparations which had\nto be made and the distance which\nhad to be travelled.\nIncrease Sales Tax\nRumored, McDonald\nTells Trail Council\nTRAIL, B.C., April 15-As he had\nheard that there soon would b\u00ab an\nincrease in sales tax, Aid. P. R. McDonald suggested to the City Council Monday night that it would make\na saving by purchasing supplies\nat the present time. No action was\ntaken.\nCyclists Hear\nOfficers Upon\nTraffic Rules\nForty members of the Nelson Outdoor and Cycle Club, including the\ngirls' branch and others interested\nin traffic regulations, heard Constable R. A. Lees of the B. C. Police\nHighway Patrol and Constable\nGeorge Fisher of the City Police\ngive talks on safety regulations,\nespecially those pertaining to cyclists, at the Cathedral Hall Monday night.\nConstable Lees said that at present Nelson was as bad aB any place\nin B. C. for traffic infractions, and\nhe would like to have the cooperation of the cyclists in improving the\nsituation. He explained the various\ntraffic signals, and among the\n\"don'ts\" he advised were not to\ndrive three or four abreast, not to\ncarry parcels and not to ride except\nwith both hands on the hande-bar.\nHe believed that the club would\nbe a great help in setting examples\nfor other bicycle riders in Nelson.\nIn regard to lights, he said that\neach bicycle should have a light\nthat could be seen for three-quarters of a block, with a reflector on\nthe back and a 12-Inch white painted\nstrip on the rear fender. He in\nformed his listeners that a new rule\nthat pedestrians had to walk on\nthe left hand side of the highway\nto face on-coming traffic, also ap-\nplied to cyclists when they were\nwalking up a hill pushing their\nbikes.\nConstable Fisher said that if thc\ncyclist's light burned out, he should\nwalk home with his mount. If an\naccident was to happen to a club\nmember, it could spoil the reputation of the entire club. He also advised regular adjustment of brakes.\nHe said he would like to see the\norganlration of a school traffic patrol, the cyclists also being able ;o\ntake part, and he explained how\nsuch a set-up would work.\nAnnable-Warfield General Land Tax\nHalved; Installation of New Services\nlo Proceed; Hendricks Is Reelected\nPower Rate Trail's\nWater Pumps Is .65\nCents Kilowatt Hour\nTRAIL, B. C, April 15\u2014Confirmation of power rates for operation of\nthe East Trail water system pump*.,\nas outlined by the West Kootenay\nPower & Light Company, was given\nthe City Council at its meeting Monday night, The rate is .85 cents per\nkilowatt hour with a minimum\nmonthly charge of $200.\n\"We needn't worry about the minimum,\" pointed out Mayor Herbert\nClark, \"the cost of power in March\nwas $331.\"\nVancouver Beats\nMagrath Hoopers\nMAGRATH, Alta., April 15 (CP)\n\u2014Vancouver Maple Leafs defeated Magrath Lions 56-44 here tonight in the first of their two-\ngame total-point senior men's k,\nter-provincial basketball playoff\nseries.\nThe second game will be played\nhere Wednesday night with the\nwinner advancing against the\nManitoba champions. Winnipeg\nSt, Andrews, in the Western Canada finals.\nFinancial Position of\nDistrict Is Strong\nSays Woodford\nTRAIL, B. C., April 15 - Belief\nthat the Annable-Warfield Waterworks and Sewerage District would\nbe able to resume construction\nwork as soon as the services of the\nengineer could again be obtained,\nwhich was expected to be early in\nMay; and that the work would be\ncompleted within the appropriation\nwas expressed by R. S- Woodford.\nChairman, in presenting the trustees' report to the annual meeting\nof the District at the Italo Canadese\nHall Monday night.\n\"The financial position of the\nDistrict is very satisfactory,\" he\nsaid, \"there being a revenue surplus of $1000.\n\"We have seen the way clear to\nreduce the general tax on parcels\nof land from $2 last year to $1. We\nwant to keep our financial position\nas strong as possible until we see\nNAZI PARACHUTISTS\nTRY TO CUT RAILS TO\nHALT BRITISH TROOPS\nGOETEBORG, Sweden, April 15\n(CP-Havas)\u2014German commanders\nbelieve British warships are concentrated at Aandalsnes, 100 miles\nSouthwest of Trondheim, and Nazi\nparachutists are trying to cripple\nrailway communications between\nAandalsnes and the Norwegian interior, dispatches reaching here tonight sn id.\nIt was reported that German parachutists dropped in the Dombos\narea were immediately killed or\ncaptured by Norwegian forces.\nThe. number of German ships In\nthis Southern Swedish port has :n-\ncreased from 18 to 24 within the last\nfew days, it was learned tonight.\nKootenay Dokkies\nSay Farewell to\nA. L Young, Trail\nTRAIL, B. C. April 15 - A. L.\n(Al) Young, 77, a resident ol Trail\nfor 43 years, was tendered a farewell banquet by the Kootenay Auxiliary Temple 62, Dramatic Order\nhow well the ncw construction is Knights of Khoransan, in lhe Crown\ngoing to pay for itself.\" he said. ; Point Hotel Blue Room Mcnd.iy\nThe District obtained a loan of\nMrs. Fuller ol\nBurton Dies, 11\nbeen a resident of B. C for 21\nyears. She is survived by her husband and three sons and two daughters. Mr. and Mrs Fuller celebrated\ntheir golden wedding anniversary-\nlast November 5,\nThe funeral was held at Burton\nB. C. Plumbing Cr Heating Co ' M\u00b0nd\u00ab.v- Interment was in the\n* i Catholic Cemetery at Burton.\nPlumbing\nREPAIRS md ALTERATIONS\nNAKUSP. B C - The death oc\ncurred Friday at the Arrow Lake.\nHospital of Mrs. J. Fuller of Burton\nBorn 77 years ago at Rustico, Prince cubic yard of sand or one gailon of\nEdward Island, Mrs. Fuller has chemical extinguisher\nFire Prevention\nRules Tightened\nVICTORIA, April 15 (CP)-Regu-\nlations to prevent forest fires were\nstrengthened by government order today in anticipation cf thc\nopening of the official fire season\non May 1.\nA new rule applies specifically\nto campers and others who make\nfires in the woods. Fires must be 'o-\ncated at least 10 feet from every log\nor stump cr extending tree. All inflammable debris and materia!\ndown to mineral earth must be dug\naway within a distance of three fee*.\nfrom the edge of the fire.\nLogging locomotives, tractors and\nother internal combustion equipment used in the woods must carry special fire-fighting equipment\nunder the new rules. Locomotives\nmust have six 10-quart buckets\nfilled with water, six shovels, three\naxes and three mattocks. Internal\ncombustion machines must have a\n45-gallon drum of water and\n144.000 at 2 per cent from the Federal Government to carry out its\nconstruction program.\n\"Paying off the loan depends on\neverybody connecting with thc services,\" Mr* Woodford stated. He anticipated that many would do so\nevening. Twenty Dokkies were in\nattendance.\nMr. Young who leaves shortly for\nKingston. N.S.. has been a member of the order for 19 years, He\nis a veteran of the Boer War and\nFirst World War.\nIn presenting a pipe and p<\"uch\nMrs. Wall Borne\nInstitute Torch\nRound Ihe World\nMrs, Alfred Watt, M, A\u201e O, B. E\u201e\nwho is to speak in Nelson thu\nweek, Is the former British Columbia woman who took the Women's\nInstitute idea to Britain, saw it attain enormous success there, personally played a strenuous part\nthroughout the Great War, and later\nplayed a leading part in bringing\nabout the international organization\nwhich she now heads.\nFounding the British Women's organization, on Institute lines, in\n1915, Mrs. Watt became chief organizer of the Women's Section of\nthe Board of Agriculture for the\nwar period, and used the new or\nganlzation to help increase and\nconserve thc food supply, it acting as the war services organization in the country districts. The\nnew Institutes became an integral\npart of Britain's rural social and\nBUTLER OF KASLO IS\nNAVY BOXING WINNER\nKASLO, B. C.-Mr. and Mrs. P\nButler received word recently, that\ntheir son \"Danny\" had successfully\ndefended the Navy in the annual\nboxing tourney held at Esquinult\nwhen he was -declared champion\nand was presented with the trophy\nIn his letter Dan stated that the\n700 spectators there were many\nnotables ameng them being Lieut,\nGovernor Hamber.\n\"I Haven't Got\nNothing lo Eat\"\nClaims Trailllo\nUnwilling Ask Relief,\nSeeks Work With\nthe City\nTRAIL, B. C, April 15\u2014\"I haven't\neconomic order',\"and their \"number J Sot nothing to eat. What are you\ntoday is nearly 6000, S\u2122\"\u00ab to do?\"\nMrs. Watt also carried the In-! Th^was the terse question aub\nstitute torch to Holland and Ceylon. j mllle\/ t0 . \u2022?\u00ab J\"'1. &*> Council\nand addressed the rural women's. MondaJ' \"'IS1-* by.Gluiep* Pacifici,\nthis year He pointed out that no on befi*,lf of the Dokkies, J. AM\nI\nUNDERWOOD\nTYPEWRITERS\ntundltrand Adding Machines\nOFFICE SUPPLIES\nUnderwood Elliott Fliher Ltd.\n536 Ward 8L Phona M\nCleanup Week April\n22 to 27 for Trail\nTRAIL. B. C, April H-The recommendation of Fire Chief A. A.\nMacDonald that \"Cleanup Week\" oc\nI conducted ln the City April 22 to 27.\nwas accepted by the Cily Council\n' Monday night.\nGuide for Travellers\nPioneer Dies\nal New Denver\nNEW DENVER, B. C.-John R.\nPorter, aged 63 yean, died suddenly at his home here Saturday night,\ndropping dead on his porch. H:s\ndeath came as a shock ts he was\nworking in his garden during the\nafternoon. Mr. Porter has resided\nhere for 30 years. Surviving him :;.\none son. Barney of Calgary and\none brother and two sisters in England.' His wife died several years\nagu His son will arrive here for\nthe funeral \"rue-day from St. Stephens Anglican Church.\nattempt would be made this y\nto assesj for the cost of sewer installation as work had not been\ncompleted.\nNew services provided by the\nDistrict in the past year included\nstreet lights and garbage removal\nin the Warfield area. These were\n. available to other parts should a pe-\nj tition for them be presented. Ar\norganized volunteer fire brigade\ni was organized in the upper sec-\n[ tions and would be extended to\n: lower Annable when the water in-\n* stallation was completed.\nRobert Hendricks, whose term of\noffice as Trustee expired coincidcn-\ntally with the hold-ng of ihe meet-\n. ing, was-reelected. The third Trustee is D* B- Merry.\nQuisling Resigns\nOslo Government\nOSLO. April 13 (AP), \u2014The Oslo\nGerman-controlled broadcasting station tonight reported that Major\nVidkun Quisling has resigned as the\nPrime Minister of the puppet Government he set up after the German invasion and had been replaced by Provincial Governor In-\ngolf Elster Christensen.\nQuisling was made Chief of Demobilization (presumably of the\nNorwegian forces in German-occupied territory).\nThe radio station announced a\nGovernmental Committee had been\nappointed to take the lead in ad-\nmi n i s t e r 1 n g German-occupied\ndistricts.\nIt was announced representatives\nof this committee had been received\nby German authorities to whom they\ndeclared their loyal attitude.\nBorn in 1872, Christensen is a former Captain in the Norwegian\narmy. H** was Minister of Justice\nin 1921, Defence Minister in 1926-2H\nand Is an officer of the Legion of\nHonor\nKinnon, who had known Al for\n36 years, reviewed some of their\nearly days in Trail. He recalled\norganizations in Australia, New Zea\nland, the United States, Palestine,\nEire, Northern Ireland and 11 countries of Continental Europe,\ni On the suggestion of and with\nthe active help of the late Marchioness of Aberdeen, whose home\nwas in Canada for nearly 40 years,\nMrs. Watt formed the Associated\nCountry Women of the World, be-\nwho said he had been unemployed\nfor five months. He Ls married and\nna.s one child\nHe was told there was no work to\nbe given anyone. Aid. P. R. McDon\naid felt that the City surely could\nfind at least two days work a week\nfor him.\nAid. Charles Catalano told the\nCouncil that he had endeavored to\ncoming its first President, and still \\ persuade Mr. Pacifici to approach\nthe Provincial Relief Officer but\nhe had refused.as he had the idea\nholding that office, Among honors\nbestowed on Mrs. Watt are the Order of the British Empire, the Mc-1 that if he accepted relief he would\n, dalle des Agrlcultcurs de la France, i be unable to obtain employment\nthat Al was cne of his star firemen j the Belgian Order of Merit and the | later.\nwhen he was fire chief in Trail's. French Order of Merit. She has\nearly days, and related many hu- j represented both the British Gov\nmorons incidents of that period\nMr. Young wculd be leaving\nmany friends in Trail, Thomas Nixon, Chairman, said, but in Nova\nScotia he would be again with relatives and meeting new friends.\n\"Our loss will be their gain,\" he\nsaid.\nProposing the toast to an \"esteemed pioneer\", Harry White, who h>(.\nknown Mr. Young throughout hi?\nresidence here, said he was one ot\nthe real pioneers\u2014\"a prospector,\nminer, rancher and an all-round\nNo. 1 citizen\", such an occasion, hr\nsaid, brought a little tug at he\nheart, but it did not have to be a\nsad rccasion. Trail friends wen\ngenuinely regretful to see him\nleave but at the same time wished\nhim health and the best things of\nlife in his later years.\nJohn Balfour spoke of the goodwill of Trail youth and children\nthat Mr. Young wculd take with\nhim. Mr. Young for many years\nwas caretaker at the Trail High\nSchfol and in his close contact\nwith the pupils he had gained their\nrespect and friendship. He was sure\nthat 99'A per cent of these youths\nwished him well.\n\"A square shooter, and from the\norder's point of view a real Dokkio,\"\nwas the manner in -which J. D.\nSouthworth referred to him,\nEdward Hardy, on behalf of\nKnights ct Pythias Lodge No. 23,\nwished Mr, Young godspeed and\nhappiness.\nMr. Young expressed profound\npleasure over the felicitations tendered him and said that he would\nmiss Trail and the Rocky Mountains.\nI Aid. M. L. Brother* pointed out\nthat he would receive more od r\nJOw&hlmQjt\nTHE WORLD'S FINEST\nCHESTERFIELDS\nPhone 653\n441 Baker St.\nernment and the British Columbia lief than he would working orfly\nGovernment at international con-; two days a week.\ngreases. She arranged and presided; Mr, Pacifici stated he was a vet-\nover four such conferences of Coun- eran of the First Great War and I\ntry Women, at Vienna, Stockholm, Alderman Catalano pointed out to\nWashington and London. Under her the Council that for that reason he\nPresidency there have been kept' felt he should be given preference\ntogether in friendly intercourse 100 over others in getting City work,\nnationally or provmcinlly organ-* Mayor Herbert Clark stated those\nlied bodies of Ciip'ry Women, ail working three or four days a week\non the model of the Canadian \u25a0 were \"hardly getting by\" and could\nInstitutes. j not see how the Council could help\nShe is in Canada on a holiday i Pacifici if he would not approach\nfollowing the great international ' the Relief Officer.\nrural conference at London, and is j After much discussion, actio* was\n.\nBen Whiteside, Mrs. M. Williams\nand Mrs. P. Hutchinson; Mrs. J.\nH. Chapman, Mn. Con Cummins\nand Mrs. D. Halhed; Mrs. Jack Annable, Mrs. Josle Riley and Mrs.\nW. H. Jones.\nThe schedule follows;\nApril 17\u20147:80 p.m. Annable vs\nWhiteside.\n8:30 p.m.\u2014Chapman vs Edwards.\nApril 24\u20147:30 p.m. Chapman vs\nWhiteside.\n8:30 p.m.\u2014Annable vs Edwards.\nMay 1\u20147:30 p.m. Chapman vi Annable.\n8:30 p.m.\u2014Edwards vs Whiteside.\nWESTERN FRONT\nACTIVITY EASES\nPARIS, April 15 ^AP).\u2014Reinforced French parties fought two engagements with German troops near\nLuxembourg and farther East at\nthe edge of the Palatinate forest on\nthe Western front today.\nThe results of the two encounters\nin widely separated sectors were\nnot given in the brief communique\nof the High Command, which indicated, however, that the pace of\nhostilities had slackened somewhat\nfrom that of the two previous days.\nThe communique spoke of the encounters as \"sharp local engagements.\"\nThe French said this morning\nthat on the Alsatian sector they\nsucceeded in opening a hole in German entanglements for a brief clash,\nand that they then withdrew after\ninflicting casualties.\nThe Germans were said to have\nbeen repulsed by machine guns\nWest of the Vosges Mountains.\nRUPTURED?\nEXPERT TRUSS FITTING\nSince 1916\nSchindler Artificial\nLimb & Trusi Co.\n407 Sprague, Spokane, Wn.\nDO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE ?\u00ab\nnever dreamed 9 Fontiac would\nbe priced so low!''\nNELSON'S LEADING HOTELS\nHume Hotel Nelson, B.C.\nGEORGE BENWELL, Proprietor,\nSAMPLE ROOMS EXCELLENT DINING ROOM\nEuropean Plan. SI SO Up\nHUME (i S Robertson, Alex\nThorpe, W. Ci. Hunt. Nanaimo, 11 F\nWin; ,:. Gray Clerk. (I, ,-,*,, lll.nl-\nworth. Victor.*. It N Klg.ir Roy\nW Krrlfv. H. J Noble, A .1 Noble.\nK (1 Hi-lines, I) A lli.inmei, Hob\nert Kennedy, W. M Gardiner, 1, S I Cal\nMcKinnon, Vancouver; W F. Keyi\nNew Westminster, W. It Aluei.\nProcter; It PI Ajkcy, Trail; il\nSleedman 11 M Coursey, Medicine\nHat; George W. Ilurk, Mr and Mrs\nII A Stockton, II Tewksbun\n8ary\nSouth Slocan\nSOUTH SLOCAN. B C.-Mr. and\nMrs. William L. Neily, who have\nbeen residents here for a year, left\nfor the Pioneer Gold Mines, where\nMr. Neily has been given an ap-\npoinlment. They will accompany\nMiss Joyce Neily, Mr Neily* sister\ntheir gue.st for several weeks, on\nher return tn F-^rt Steele and visit\nrelitlvei there fnr a frw days prior\nto having fnr their destination.\nMis, G, C Cobb is visiting he:\nson-in-law nnd daughter, Mr and\nMrs J II Taylor, rt Vancouver.\nMiss Jessie Grayson of NMsOn is\nsncnriinji a few days hrre with Mri\nF. H Rmsel.\nMrs. W A, MacCabe, Commissioner of Girl Guides, visited K\u00ab*lo.\nMrs W. Lister and infant daunh-\nter havr rrturnrd fr-m Knotrnay\nI.flkr General Hospital, Nels n.\nMr and Mrs C. Lequrrrux and\nfamily nf Nrlson have come to rnukr\nthrir heme hrrr\nKINGSGATE\nKINGSGATE. B C. - Jim Moi-\nsop, who has been relieving Inspector in Charge on the Canadian Immigration since the transfer of S E\nGunn last September, leaves this\nNegus Again Head\nSoftball at Trail\nTRAIL, B C, April 15-Tom Negus waa reelected President of the\nTrail Amateur Softball Association\nat its annual general meeting in Uie\n.. Mfmnnnl Hal! M-indav night. Other\n^-ekfor Winnipeg. Hli place will officers fIwMod foHow; Cas Jon\u201e\nbe takrn by A. Jankirchz also of\nVANCOUVER, B. C, HOTELS\nYOUR VANCOUVER HOME'1\nLDufferin Hotel\n?O0 S\u00abymour 8t. Vmcouvtr, B.C,\nNewly renovated through\nout. PhonM and elevator\nA PATTERSON\nt'-denun. Alia , V\nlate >f\ni : etin _\nSPOKANE, WASH., HOTELS\nWhen in SPOKANE You Will Enjoy Staying it thr\nHotel VOLNEY\n\u25a0110 Rivenide\nAv-sntie\nOpposite\nPaulien Bldg.\nEVERY COURTESY SHOWN OUR CANADIAN GUESTS\nNEWS OF THE DAY\nWANTED - YOUNG MAN TO\nwork nn dairy alsn man experienced in dairy work, able to drive\ntruck. Must br RtHxi milker, Apply\nUnx 17\u00bbH Daily News.\nI MOV OF 18. STRONG. WILLING\nI ahlo to milk, two years' exprnrnre\n! mi small uenrral ranch, require*\ni position to (In chores nr ranc'i\nI work m return fur board and\nj small wage. K. V. Lymbery,\nGray Crcehj_B. C\n[he Winnipeg office.\nMr and Mrs. p M- Crawford had\nas guests Mr tnd Mrs W. H. Weaver, Jr, of Seattle, Wash Mr. and\nMrs. Weaver were accompanied hy\nthrir two daiflthtrft Annette and\nDiseree, and R K. Hatch of Spokane\nMax Welton visited it BelUn,\nWash\nMrs. W. E. Miller [ins returned\nhome frnm Lewistnn\nRill Miller and his wife spent the\nweekend at the ranch aftrr returning fn\u00bbm California.\nMrs H M Prurion of Moyir\nvisited hrr daughter, Mri. Harry\nHogg at Kingsgate. She waj accompanied by hrr niter Mrs. Herman\nPeterson of Yahk Thr occasion was\nthe eleventh birthday of Jean Hogg.\nMrs Tommy Half and Mrs. Albert\nCartrr visited In Cranbrook.\nTONI BAKER PRESIDENT\nFERNIE BASEBALL CLUB\nFERNIE. B C. - Tom Baker was\n\u25a0elected President of the Fernie\nBaseball Club at the annual meeting Other officers elected wrrr;\nHon President, H P. Wilson, Hon\nVice- Pres ident, J. Skill mg, Secretary, Ray Harrington; Treasurer,\nHector Finrillo Executive Committer, Jim Megalr, Dominie Citra. Wil\nfrrd Parsons and (Iin Prtrrs Thr\nrlub will again enter the Crows Nest\nPass Bate he 11 Lenoir this season\nVice-President; Len Hornett, Secretary; and Tim Miller, Treasurer.\nThe executive committee will consist of the managers of the teams\nentered in the League.\nT-m Miller, Treasurer, reported\nthat there was a cash balance of\n$\u202212 with which to start the season.\nSix teams participated in the 19rw\nloop and the feeling of the meeting\nwas that there would be an equal\nnumber for 1940\nTrams and thrir respective players must br registered not later than\nApril 2fl and no additional players\nmay be registered afler June 30. it\nwas drcidrd It was proposed to begin the League play early in May\nWhilr there was smnc discussion\nrt reducing tho number of players\non a t**am tn 10, it wss deeidrd to\nfirst obtain views of other associations In thr Kootenays before taking\nany a-ction.\nBlue Devils Wont\nGames at Toronto\nTOHONTO. April 15 ).- Man-\nafter Doc Ames ot the Klrkland I>kf\n111vin Pfvllj, I'nninipntinE on a re-\npori Montreal Is trying lo flet soni\"\nof the Allan Cup final* for Montreal, said thi* tran, preferred to\nplav all the final games in Toronto.\nAmes added the learn \"naturally\nwill abide without protest Willi\nwhatever nillnK the Canadian Ami\nWAI.TON-ON-TIIAMKK. England teur Hockey Aasocinlion makes\"\ntCI'i A Wallon housewife showed j \"My underst\u00bbndin| was thai if an\na I glit during a blackout ll turned Ontario team rearhol the finals, Ihe\nout lo he a fire in a diutbin, but entire series would be played ,n\nshe was fined 5s i>l,10) Juit the , Toronto. Aa \u2022 body we prefer lhe\n\"'\u25a0\"' lu^ULin.^'\nV^OU'RE due for a money-making\ndiscovery when you step into a\nPontiac showroom to get a closer look at\nthose dynamic beauties so many people are\ntalking .ili,un'\nYou'll discover that prices start uith lhe\nlowest! You'll see thc brilliant array of\n19*10 Pontiacs \u2014 lluifty Sixes \u2014 stunning\nEights\u2014great big cars with wide scats and\n5 HEW SERIES , v brilliant\nNEW MODELS - Pontine \"Arrow\"\nSix (Standard and Dt Lux*) \u2022\nPontiac \" Special\" Six \u2022 Pontiac\n\"D* Luxi\" Six > Pontiac \"Dt Lux\u00ab\"\nEight * Pontiac \"Torpodo\" Eight.\nlong wheelbases\u2014luxurious in everything\nbut cost! You'll take a ride \u2014 find that\nPontiac behaves like a thoroughbred with\nits amazing riding qualities and flashing\nengine performance!\nThat's why there's a real thrill in the figures on the price tags. When you can buy\nso much car for so little money \u2014 there's\nno time to lose! Better get the facts today.\nrOR PRIDE AND PERFORMANCE\nSKY CHIEF AUTO SERVICE\nROSCOE & FOURNIER\nPontiac Dealers for Nelson and District\n206 Baker St.\nNelson, B.C.\nPhone 122\n \u2014-\u2014-\u2014\u2014\nIP'\n\u2014\n-NELSON DAILY NEWS. NELSON, B. C.\n-TU18DAY MORNINQ, APRIL 19, 1940-\nPAQI TOR\nTODAY'S News Pictures\nDesperate Norwegians Gamely Battling German Invaders\nTaken completely by surprise by the Nazi attack on their country, the Norwegian army was forced to give ground in strategic centre*\n\u2022 long the Norwegian coast. The Norse army quirkly rallied and is\ngiving the Nazis stiff opposition. An artillery detachment is shown,\ntop left, on the move during recent manoeuvres. Thought to be helpless against the might or the German navy, Norwegian warships are\nshown top right, on patrol off Bergen. They have given a splendid account of themselves. Machine-gunners such as these, bo Kern left, are\nengaging the German land forces. A battery of Norwegian howitzer*\nare shown, bottom right, being wheeled into position along the Norwegian coast, These guns were credited with -sinking the German\ncruisers Gniesenau, Bluecher and Karlsruhe.\nLeads Royal Navy Two German Cruisers Destroyed on Norwegian Coast\nHere is Veteran General 0 0.\nThornell, chief of stall of the Swe.\ndish army, nn whose shoulders Germany has admitted that the cruisers Bluech- nf Norway The Bluecher, 10.000 tons, was corn-\nrests thi* responsioilily of defend- ...... \u201e , P!(\".od las! Align-,! Tlir Kerlsiuhe, 6000 ions, car\ning Sweden. rr 'rd Karlsruhe were sunk fighting off the coast ,-iod a m,w 0, 571 m 11Qrma, 01wrat,0IUi\nTwo British Destroyers Lost\nNorwegian Premier Carries on\nitoiN*-**11\nH99\nW J*\"U-\n,; ^j. mi; ^wmmiiftm\n\u25a0 .->*,*.\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0. \u00abftj>\n\\?~^-f '\u25a0\"\u25a0\u25a0 \"-\u25a0\nNYGAABDSVOLD\nr\"i*,i-.g ''\u25a0\" - va, \u2022\u2022 ' * N.uTlk I'j* rd, live Mulish destroyers en-\ngaged six (ho man di.-.i ,\u25a0\u25a0\u2022\u25a0\u25a0 \u201ef the 1,1'\u25a0' ',[\"\u2022 :\u25a0\u25a0 ,, spo-clarlllar battle,\na-- ,i,l :,g r. .in .,: * \u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0'.-. ,-\u2022 niadr hv Prim.- Minislet Chamhi-rla'-i\nIr, \"v II*. is,* ,.( ( ,n *i* **,* One Onna- w.irsh.p was destroyed, three 1 >'-***! \"\u25a0 N,ir cla.nr l'n' V hiluii Quisling. Norwegian Fascist lead-\nnl'.-ns ,e: afir,\u25a0 .-uri seven s ipph r.I -.[,.* wn** sin'-t 11 M S Hunter, top, ft lias foimed a ne- U\"vi*rnrne,il -o replace that of 1'ioin'cr ,1o.\n\u201e:,, > link -nel II M S Hi\"' |,,tCmi in oh,r,* ,m<| -vn-, k- -1 hanii Nygaards-ol.l, Hi* N; ,;iiiii I; v.,Id (iovrrnmriii is shll funrlioii-\ndu* \"I; thr ,>,;, \u25a0>. \u2022\u201e\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 I mc, 30,1 1.' I \"\u2022:\u2022\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 !\u2022\u25a0', ,* V,- ,,f(|,o,1 *.' ' .\".*,* :;\u25a0;, |] I 0 \u25a0', \u25a0*! |lim*||l,\nSeeing It Through Our Windows 1\n^~ .a.\nOf Interest to note is the fact that your Nelson \"Bay\" Store has again been fh\nsuccessful in winning \"First Award\" for the best \"Bay\" window displays this season it;\nThis was made possible by the splendid work and cooperation of \"Bay\" staffs, \u00a3\ntogether with the fact of having the right merchandise \u2014 at the right time \u2014 with il*\nmany items available at the \"Bay\" only. U;\n|\nYOU SAVE EVERY DAY AT THE \"BAY'\n<;\nSEE IT THROUGH OUR WINDOWS\nWEEKLY FEATURES\n$\n'Bay' Quality WORK CLOTHES\n\"BAYCRAFT\" WORK SHIRTS\nThis garment embodies all the features of a\nhigher price garment. Carefully tailored from\na well designed and roomy pattern, to give\nthe utmost in style and fit. Made from cotton\nchambray for all-around wear. Five button\nfront with two breast pockets. Colors are fast,\nand shrinkage small. (M 1Q\nSizes 14 to \\1Vi tPl.l-J\nBLUE DENIM PANTS\nHere's our hard wearing work pant. Blue denim, red\nbacks, double sewn and rivetlcd at point C| ^Bf\nof strain. Sizes 30 to 44 V*\u00ab\/3\n9-INCH OIL TANNED\nWORK BOOTS\nBuilt by Leekie for British Columbia workmen.\nForm fitting at back and\nhigh arch \"Skookum\" last.\nPlain toe style, fiz ng.\nI to 11 -. V0'\"\nBIB OVERALLS\n8 oz. pre-shrunk blue denim bib\noveralls\u2014high backs with strong\nattached braces. Double sewn\nthroughout. Roomy cut, has a full\nBet of good pockets.\nSizes 36 to 46. ...:\t\n$1.95\nWOOL WORK SOCKS\nPure wool all grey work socks reinforced at heel and toe, with long\nankle. Knit from soft *3Qf*\nwool yarns. Pair ..._ Oifr\n\"BAYCRAFT\"\nWORK BOOTS\nSuper work boot* for strenuou*\nwear. Built to exacting specifications they will always give satisfactory service. Black retan uppers,\nplain or toe cap styles, solid leather\nsoles and rivetted shanks. 03 QC\nSizes 6 to 11 _ - V>73\n$\n*I2\nUi\n%\nWEEKLY SALE FEATURE\nGreat SALE of HOME EROCKS\nBuying in conjunction with our larger stores, we have been fortunate In securing\nfor Nelson a wonderful group of new home frocks at sensational prices. Bold,\nprinted designs in up-to-the-minute styles. Pleated all-around. Swing and flared\nmodels. These are shown in 3 price groups in sizes from 14 to 44. Specially priced\nGROUP 2\nEach\nGROUP 3\nEach\nn\n.99\nSTORE HOURS \u00a3\nMon. Tue. Thur. Frl.\n9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.\nWedneiday\n9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon . ,\nSaturday 7K\n9:06 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. 'oil\nI\n:\u00bb;:cf.:m::4::c*:\u00bb^\nRotary Will Elect\nTwo Delegates for\nInternational Meet\nTwo delegates to thc Rotary District conference at Portland, Ore,\nApril 21, 22 and 23 would be elected hy the Nelson Rotary Club, lt\nwas decided at, the Clubs luncheon\nat the Hume Hotel Monday. Secretary A. A. Perrier reported that\nconference fees had been forward-\ned.\nSuggested division ot District 101,\nin which Nelson is situated, will\nbe one of the matters dealt w.th.\nIt was loft with the directors to dij-\ncuss matters with whicli the delegates would have to deal.\nAn acr-unl lrom the Vancouver\nGeneral Hcspital for $57 for care cl\na girl was also referred to tiie directors, this being one nf the Club'i\nundertakings in the field ot crippled children service.\nGrand Forks Cars\nLight Field When\nPlane in Trouble\nCRAND f ORKS, B.C., April 15\n(CP)\u2014Citizens of Grand Forks\nwere called on last night lo supply additional light at the Civic\nAirport when it was thought a\nWest-bound Trans-Canada Air\nLines might have to make a.i\nemergency landing.\nDoiens of automobiles were\nsummoned In the (ipld and turned un then* headlights as the\nplane elided overhead Willi Its\ngasoline sector valve stuck. However, Ihe valve was fixed in midair and lhe transport proceeded\n, n schedule I\" Vancouver.\nTCA officials al Vancouver\nsaid the call lor additional lighting was '-purely precautionary.\"\nReports Heard al\nCreston Red Cross\nCRESTON, DC. April 15 \u2014 A\nrepresentative gathering nf workers turned out (\"r tin* April me, 1-\ning of Creston Red Cross at headquarters Thursday afternoon, wii.i\nPresident Mrs. Allan J. Gilroy in\nthc chair.\nThe meeting heard a report of\nproceedings of the c nvention ol\nB.C. Red Cross branches at Vancouver in March by Mrs R. Stevens,\na former resident and member now\nliving in Vancouver, who represented lhe branch at the two-day\nsession. Secretary Mrs. K C Murrell also gave a resume of proceedings from the official rrpvit \u25a0( the\nconvention.\nThere was a letter from head-\nquarters concerning some change*\nin work plans For Ihe dam*, committee, Mis H M Telford reported\nIhr village was letting the soiicl>\nhave the use of Pal k Pavilion I i\n$10 There was a contesl for some\ngladioli bulbs, donated hy Mis,\nJames Cook, which were uon n\\\nMrs, W. It Long\nFor the work committee Mrs. H\nK. Legg reported making a third\nshipment of supplies In the 1 l\nwere six pajamas, 32 pneumonia\njackets, 12 touch, 12 kh.iki handkerchiefs. 12 gauze handkerchief.*\n40 sweaters, seven Balaclava-, Ou\npairs socks. 12 lee bug covers, nine\nscarves and Iwo pair wristlets.\nRotary to Arrange\nWelcome for Trail\nClub Annual Visit\nArrangements for the annual visit\nof the Trail Rotary Club to Nelson\nwere turned over to the Club Service Committee, headed hy II. W.\nRobertson, when thc Nelson Cluh\nmil at luncheon al thc Hume Hold\nMonday, It had been proposed tc\nmake the visit a joint ladies' night,\nwhen Rotary-Annes would be present.\nII D Dawson, a new member,\nwas added to the Club Service\nCommillee.\nUnited Church to\nAsk for $1,526,\nBOYS BADLY BURNED\nCALGARY. Apnl 15 K'l'i -Kenneth Robinson, 14. is in hospital today suffering from extensive burns\nlo face, hands and upper part of the\nbody. His brother, Tom, is recovering at home. The burns resulted\nwhen an old motor which Ihe bovs\nwere cleaning with gasoline in their\nback yard exploded.\nASSEMBLIES FORBIDDEN\nBY LUXEMBOURG POLICE\nLUXEMBOURG, April 15 \u25a0 !\nTho municipality of Luxemburg\ntoday published a police rule for- i\nbidding more than three persons it i\nassemble iti public places after |\nnightfall, action usuall) taken v hen \u25a0\nauthorities expect trouble,\n-$W.et\nGraham Crackers or Sweet Wafers\nTea\nHAM LOAF\nIngredients: one pound smoked\nham (ground), one and one-half\npounds of freeh pork (ground), two\n*ggs. two cups com flake?, one and\none-fourth cups sweet milk, two\nteaspoons meat sauce.\nMix thoroughly, form ln loaf and\n\u2022ear. Basle every 15 minutes with\none-half cup brown augar, one-half\ncup weak vinegar, one-half cup of\nwater and one tablespoon mustard.\nBake two and one-half hours at 325\ndegrees f,\nGRAPE-APPLE SHERBET\nOne cup granulated sugar, one\ncup grape Juice, one-fourth cup of'\nlemon juice, one and one-half cups,\norange juice, one-eighth lenspoon!\nMlt, two cup\u00ab unsweetened strained1\napplesauce.\nAdd sugar to fruit juices, stirring!\nuntil dissolved. Add the salt and\napplesauce nnd stir well. Pour into!\nfreezing tray of automatic refrig- i\nera tor with control at coldest set-1\nting. Freeze until set. stirring every I\n30 minutes until the mixture will\nhold its shape.\nCELERY VICTOR\nlhe six hearts of celery, ono clove '\ngarlic, one small bay leaf, teaspoon\nchopped capers, six peppercorns,\none tablespoon chnppe-d pimiento,\nthree-fourths cup olive oil. one cup\nwhite wine vinegar, one tablespoon\nchopped parsley and mie-half teaipoon salt\nTrim celery hearts to a length ot\nsix inches. Boil in .tailed water\nuntil tender. Drain and. if large,1\ncut lengthwise into quarter*.; otherwise into halves. Lay celery in a flat,\nenamelled or glass dish; mix lightly1\ncondiments, herbs, vinegar and oil1\nPlace in a ct*\u00bb] place but nut m ,\ntb-e rrfi gerator, a* thi*- will caire\noil to congeal Baste celery with I\nsauce occasionally fnr 24 hours, then\nplace on lettuce in a salad plate and\naervt with a spoonful of the dressing.\nMINCED CHILI CON CARNE\nOne and one-foarth pounds of\nground beef, tablespoon fat, *one\nchopped onion, one clove garlic.\ntablespoon flour, one pound dry\nfrijoles m one child or the oth..\nthere were scores of inquiries which\nto this observer, had no relation at\nall to things present. But there was I tho^gh^drsUntlactoV'whisuTrtoTd\na reason. Nothing merely happens; | me it was 8 o'clock,\nsomething is the cause. The things | I tried to guess why I had been\nwhich pop into tbe head rt a little, kidnapped, and what my captor in-\nchild, not unlike the things which ; tended to do with me.\ns, have had a source] The usual aim of kidnapping was\nruled out. Certainly I wasn't ueing\ni held for ransom. I had no money\nIhese little children s minds were ; and no relatives. And, besides, the\nworking last. The mother helped ! big boatman who knocked me out\nto keep them working. As she satisfied their curiosity they became\nwere getting\nNo formal\nhich\niue to\nprincipals _.\nployed, an effort will be made to' morc curious. They\novercome this by efforts undertake ' int-'1!(,ctual training.\nby the teacher and pupila. i education will they ever get w\nWest Creston and Huacroft w111 b-\nter further renovation should be\nprovided. Much of the repair work\ncould be undcrta\/en at a modest\ncost a\u00bb it c uld be done bv the\nSupervising Janitor, R R. R.-e'buck\nin the Summer vacation. Trustees\nwere well pleased with the way the\njanitor work was being attended to\nat the several schools\nHer vrice and face betrayed enjoyment and the children looked\ntirely satisfied. Her speech was\nbeautiful, with clear, soft, mellow\ntones, most uf which I could hear\ntwo chairs away, above the clatter\nof lhe speeding train. Each word\nwas uttered distinctly and her Eng-\nlishuas the very best.\nstation. As I neared the d.or, tiie\nmother was on her knees helping\nthe smaller lad find a penny he hni\ndropped, at the ssme time quietly\nanswering his latest question.\nWhat a wonderful mother that\nwoman ti'.\nRobson Institute\nHears About U.B.C.\nLeadership School\nROBSON. B. C.-At a general\n, meeting of the Robson W- men's In-\n. stitute at the home of Mrs. H. R,\nFoxlee. at which 20 members were\npresent, and Mrs. Duncan Carter\nwas in the chair. It was decided to\nwrite Dr. Shrum of the Department\nj of University Extension. U.B.C,\nthanking him for the opportunity (\nj given district young people to al- j self? Anyway, the more yi\ntend the leadership school at Van- ; him about his English, the l\u2122\n'oouver and the rural occupational\nschool held in Robson.\nA donation of S3 was voted lo the\nj Vancouver branch of the Salva-\n: lion Army.\nThe Red Cross Committee an-\n. nounced it was endeavoring lo ar-\ni unge a concert to raise fund* The\nSOLVING PARENT PROBLEMS\nQ. The English of my 10-year-\nold boy is bad. He uses all the slang ,\nlie hears on lhe radio and screen ' hadn't he left my lying there? .\ninstead of uhat we try to teach him., The answer seemed to be lhat\nA. He is at the age when slang j he was afraid I had recognized\nand bad grammar are very attrac- him. He didn't want to be linked\ntive to him. He talks as his play- I with murder; and to prevent me\nmates talk. Why n