HEPBURN CABINET TO BE SWORN IN FINAL Winnipeg Wheat EDITION l&ttty\xt\tiQZ Herald October close 118J/» VOL. XXX.—No. 255. LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1937 14 PAGES JAP PLANES BOMB BRITISH STAFF CARS Probably Six U.S. CONSUL-GENERAL IS SLAIN Flag-Draped New Faces In Shot Fatally At Mussolini Salutes Nanking Is Cars Gunned; GovtJLineup Beirut, Syria On Parade In His Honor No One Is Hurt Neither Faulkner Nor Mar­ Bombed By shall Will Go Back In­ British Sources R e c eive Stepping From Car DEFEATS ROWE to Cabinet Jap Planes News of Attack With Jas. Theodore Marriner, 45, Grave Concern U.F.O. AND LABOR SUCCEEDS SINCLAIR Victim of Assassin's TO BE REPRESENTED? Spectacular Dog Fights Wit­ FOREIGN SETTLEMENT Bullets TORONTO, Oct. 12.— (CP.) — nessed as Huge Bombs AGAIN ENDANGERED Premier Mitchell Hepburn's new Ontario cabinet, including at ARMENIAN HELD Dropped SHANGHAI, Oct. 12.—</P)— leo.it six members of the old AS TRIGGER-MAN Three automobiles belonging to government and probably six ITALIAN AIRMEN the British embassy were ma­ new ministers, will be sworn in chine-gunned today by two BEIRUT, Syria, Oct. 12— UP)) — squadrons of Japanese war- tonight at government house by James Theodore Tilarriner, Unit­ STILL IN CHINA Lieutenant-Governor Herbert A. planes. None of the occupants ed States consul-general for was injured. Bruce. NANKING, Oct. 12.—<7P)—A French-mandated Syria, was The staff cars in which S. S. Keeps Lineup Dark fleet of 24 Japanese warplanes slain here today. The killer was Murray, the assistant air attache The premier, returning to his bombed the Chinese capital to­ identified by police as an Ar­ of the British embassy was rid­ Queen's Park office today for the day. Two of the Japanese craft menian. ing with several other Britons, first time since his Liberal govern­ were brought d.own. Police said Marriner was shot were, attacked by the raiding ment was returned to power in last One of' the Japanese planes fatally when he stepped from Japanese planes near Minghong, Wednesday's general election, an­ his automobile. The consul- crashed headlong into the cen­ 14 miles south of Shanghai, nounced the swearing In would take general's chauffeur captured the tre of the city after a spectacu­ about 4 p.m. place tonight but refused to make lar dugfight with a Chinese pur­ assassin. Flag-Draped known the cabinet lineup. suit plane. Visa Refused Although the three motor cars It was understood, however, that The first reports of authorities The Japanese Invaders were carried the Union Jack, the British the two ministers beaten In the said the gunman was incensed be­ greeted with an anti-aircraft officials said, the Japanese warplanes election would be left out. They are cause the consul-general had refus­ barrage as they swooped down continued their machine gunning af­ Hon. J. A. Faulkner, minister of ed to grant him a visa to enter on the arsenal, dropping the ter the occupants jumped from tho health, and Hon. Duncan Marshall, DR. L. J. SIMPSON the United States. They said Mar­ heaviest bombs they have yet machines and sought cover. minister of agriculture. Minister of education in the Hep­ riner had given insanity in the Ar­ used in a raid on Nanking. The British asserted . the cars Whether the only minister with­ burn cabinet who defeated Hon. Earl menian's family as the grounds for could have been identified easily out portfolio In the former govern­ Rowe leader of the Ontario Con­ the refusal. and added there was no doubt the ment, Hon. C. W. Cox of Port Ar­ FIVE PLANES DOWNED servative party, in his own riding, GORDON C0NANT, K.C. Marriner was on his way to the attacking planes were Japanese. thur, would be reappointed was not Simcoe centre. Out of the 13,708 Former Crown attorney for On­ With Murray and the other known. consulate-general from his moun­ NANKING, Oct. 12.—<JF)— votes cast in the riding. Dr. Simp­ tario County and Liberal candidate tain home in Broummana, outside Britons In the automobiles, British Most authoritative cabinet fore­ Five Japanese planes were son had a lead of over 1,100 over his in that riding, who was elected to Beirut, when he was attacked. officials stated, was a Soviet em­ cast, recognizing the possibility that brought down today during opponent. Dr. Simpson is under­ succeed W. E. N. Sinclair, former bassy secretary named Shahoff. He last-minute changes might be made Marriner, 45, was a native of Port­ air raids on the Chinese capi­ stood to be retaining his portfolio in Liberal leader. Considerable inter­ had been picked up ten minutes be­ this afternoon, was considered to be land, Me. He left Paris March 26, tal and nearby cities, the the new Hepburn cabinet. est was attached to the riding bo- fore the attack, when his car the following: 1936, for the Syrian post. He had Chinese announced. cause It was in Oshawa, the only broke down. Tentative Cabinet been consul of the United States city In the riding, where the Gen­ Herbert Phillips, British consul- Prime minister and provincial embassy at the French capital since eral Motors strike, which split the Take Up Battle general,' said an immediate investi­ treasurer—Mr. Hepburn. April. 1931. Hepburn cabinet, took place last Chinese pursuit planes immedi­ gation had been ordered although Attorney-general—Hon. T. B. Mc- spring. (Nineteen-year record in the state H. 8. Higinbotham ately took to the air and engaged no details of theassault had yet Questen, Hamllton-Wentworth, who department included such positions the Japanese Bombers. At once, been received by his office. wu minister of highways In the as chief of Its western Europe divi­ three Japanese fighters swooped The embassy staff cars were en last cabinet. sion. He entered the diplomatic down from a great height in an service as third secretary of the Is Dead In Guelph route to Shanghai from Nanking on Provincial secretary and minister attempt to protect the bombers. the same highway on which two of game and fisheries—Hon. Harry American legation at Stockholm. They engaged in fierce dogfights' Japanese pianes recently seriously C. Nixon. Brant, for a second term. (Marriner was unmarried He re­ GUELPH,. Ont., Oct. 12.— (C. injured the British ambassador to Constitution ceived a bachelor of arts degree from One Chinese pursuit ship was P.)—Henry B. Higinbotham. 68, Minister of mines—Hon. Paul struck but managed to make thp China by bombing and machine Leduc, Ottawa East, for a second Dartmouth University in \914, took retired Sun Life Insurance Com­ airfield safely. Other Chinese planes gunning the automobile in which he term. his master's degree at Harvard the pany executive and one of battled with a fast Japanese ob­ was making a similar journey. Minister of lands and forests— following year, and three years later Hand aloft in the traditional Fascist salute, Premier Benito Guelph's raoflt prominent men, servation plane that looped, dived British sources received the news Hon. Peter Heenan, Kenora, for a the degree of doctor of philosophy.) Mussolini, Rome end of the "Rome-Berlin Axis," Is pictured beside died in hospital Monday after Is Big Issue and side-slipped in an effort to es­ a heart attack. of the episode with the gravest con­ second term. Realm Leader Adolf Hitler, of Germany, as they reviewed the colorful cape. It was struck in a vital spot, cern in view of the previous attack Minister of health—Hon. L. J. Nazi parade that was staged at Munich, Germany, in honor of the however, and plummeted into the on Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugges- Simpson, Slmcoe East, for a second Italian dictator's visit to Germany. The late Henry B. Higinbotham Declares Lieutenant-Gover­ heart of Nanking. sen, the ambassador. was a member of the well-known (Continued On Page T7/0) Transfer Gandier The Japanese bombers, the larg­ The British consul-general im­ nor Assuming More family which for nearly 50 years mediately communicated with the COMMUNIST PARTY est yet seen here, flew at an altitude played a great part In the develop­ Power Than the of 6,000 feet in perfect formation. ment of Lethbridge. John D. Hig­ (Continued on Page Three.) To Principalship They headed over the length of the inbotham, brother of the late Henry Consider Boycott King PROTESTS ARREST OF city and dropped their bombs over B. Higinbotham, came to Fort Mac- the south city, most important area leod from Guelph, Ont., in 1884 and Mosley Is Hurt Against Japan CALGARY, Oct. 12.— (CP.) — of the capital. to Lethbridge in 1885, opening the Opinion the lieutenant-governor Of Vermilion S A UNWIN AND POWELL Arsenal Hit first drug store south of Calgary. of Alberta had "assumed more By Flying Brick; OTTAWA, CHX 12—«B—Organiza­ Great columns of dense smoke He remained in business here until authority than any of his su­ tion of a boycott against Japan for outside the south city indicated the he sold his drug business a few Fascists Protest its aggressive action in China will periors" was expressed by Pre­ Former Principal Goes to Say Many People Turning airdrome and arsenal had probably years ago and retired to the east mier William Aberhart here on been hit. One Japanese pursuit ship J. D. Higinbotham was followed to be considered at a meeting here Fri­ .LONDON, Oct. 12—(C.p.-Havas)— Sunday. Edmonton Take Over Against Govt, on Free Lethbridge by his brother, E. N. day or Saturday of the steering HANDS OFF The British union of Fascists an­ Sneaking at the Calgary Pro­ (Continued on page throe.) Higinbotham, postmaster here for committee of the League of Na­ Youth Training nounced today a vigorous protest phetic Bible Institute, the pre­ Press Issue many years, now.