V
PRINCE GEORGE CITIZF*
VOL.
8   No.   24.
Until
Prince George Will Provide for Auto Tourists
,   rCt.  influx   I�   Expected  Thi*  Surrf-n,er   With   Opening   of   Highway to Que�nel.
Temporary     Auto     Camp     Probable the Volume of Travel Is Ascertained.
I meeting of the members of
branch of the Cariboo auto. tssociation and of the city iras held in the city hall on afternoon   to   consider    the
of an auto camp for the nee of the tourists who   are
to visit Prince George in mbers when the highway to is opened for traffic early in ner.
Pyne was voted to the chair ined    the    purpose    of    the He    explained   the   head-
of the Cariboo automobile m were at Quesnel. The 'rince  George interested   in
had joined it as they were it would be better to halve ig association, representing
province north of Ashcroft, umber of weaker organtfza-hc one-association idea was out very well, however, as irs were prepared  to recog-1
t;t'ographical advantages of j eorge,  and  to  arrange   for rig of the annual meeting in \
M'LEODS   PROPOSAL  CALLS FOR OPERATING SHIPS ON
PACIFIC   AND   ATLANTIC
PRINCE   GEORGE.   B.C.,   THURSDAY,   APRIL  16,   1925."
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FIVK CENTS.
Mc-
govera-mer scr-that of-e terse ri, of � teamers ii'.ce Rupert, Atlantic
London,     April   15.�Donald Leod's offer to the Canadian ment, to establish a ten-stea vice for �100,( 00 less than fered by Sir V/illiam  1 vides for the  operation from Vancouver and  P; as well  as  from   Gartadian   aua�wt ports,  and  for the calling at United jArUtide SUites   ports    when   necessary.     Mc-Leod is said  to have   spent   several years of h.v- life on the Pacific
Briand Failed when Socialists Refused Support
pro- j Paul   Painleve   Reported   on   Monday
 Hi
 p
 Inability  to Form  Government.
coast.
AGAINST COMPULSORY
ORDERS  IN   DISPUTES
Washington. April 14.�The United States supreme court has decided that compulsory orders in industrial disputcn are unconstitutional: In a case before it the court has decided that state industrial lejrisnltion prescribing the number of hours, and legislation requiring the payment of time and one-half for overtime aro also  unconstitutional.
it
"meeting had  been  called  for
: :   ?e of taking steps to secure
to-eamp for the convenience of
;    �  number   of   tourists   who
u\i  "isit  the  city   when  the  high-
necting Quesnel and  Prince
� is made ready for traffic this]
.   H-. had talked with numcr-
ple   who   made   use   of    ajto
and  had  come to the conclu-!
�  y Acre a very important fac-1 the tourist busino.s-.    A good
camp would draw tourists   and j
� them to remain for a number!
laj  ,  while    a   notoriously   poor!
ip would cause them to give   the J
tii n in which it was maintained a!
herth.    A number of local mo- j
- had given the matter of secur-i
i do liable auto camp consider-e investigation.    He might inform
meeting that a group composed Alex. Moffat, I/*B. Baird, Alder-n Patterson and himself had gone r the available sites and had come;
the    conclusion    the    Connaught i site   would   be   the   best.      He j
I:  '.ike an expression of opinion,; said, ami those present proceeded j give ii to him. \lderman   Lambert    wa"s    not    in or   of   Connaught   Park.     In    his nion it would be a difficult place
auto drivers to reach. It would t a lot of money to put it in � :�'�. and the stores of the city re not sufficiently accessible from
He thought a suitable site might secured along Queen street, or in i lower section of the  Connaught
�   area along Patricia avenue. Alderman   Taylor   did   not   think
y   much  of   the    Lambert    idea.
ade   ua>   an   important  considera-
in conection with an auto park.
!   travelling all   day  in  the  sun
rist; would   not   relish   being
i  while  he was in a  rest camp.
latight Park had the shade, and
e put into commission with a
�'ill  expenditure.
Alex.   Moffat   and   J.   H.   Johnson
put   in   a   boost   for   the   Con-
*   Park   site,   but   John    Gait, the banker's caution, refused to
into   the    Connaught    wagon.
ought   it  would    be    a   Tather
hing to first catch the tourist
�   expenditures were  made   on
camp.    It was admitted the
'   Park site   would   require
rible in the way of expendi-
He would favor a more mod-
rramme.        Accommodation
�   secured   for   the    present
it a much lesser expense, and
;nce   justified   the   greater
-  r      lt <-*onnaught Park or some
,,!         could be taken up.
�      r  A1 ward  did   not favor  the
""   Park   site.     There    wore actions.    The  first  was   the t   expense.     This   was   not _         "-able   but  with   h'mself   it �� 'i a very serious objection, is the cost of the approach Tfi".-,J'd    '  t^ie   cost  of   necessary ite        '    *n<^    ^e     providing    of '  light services.    The  ?ec-"-i'in was more serious.   The ;;       ; 4ne   Property   of   all    the *n tn tu   nce. George.   ^ wa� n�t a residents   interested    in to pre-empt the park for Sea  to  the  exclusion    of ients.    It was suggest-be room for an auto park  at  the  same not   appear  to    be The  tourist   traffic ,        -  grow, and he was S!ze on7h       ^   despite   ita  apparent or Sv^ I e maP. Aere were bat four on the top of the Con's reservation which could _� r<>r park or camping par-*&e  mayor had  no  alterna-Coatlnued on j�f* 5)
Collapse of Big Ford Company's Dam Spells Ruin
Seven   Mile*   of    Huron    River    Inundated   Wlhen   Storage   Dam   of Motor  Company   Break*
Pclice   Got    Warning   to   Farmers   in
Time   to   Prevent   Any   Lots
Human   Life.
Detroit, April 14�Scores of people are homeless and seven miles of the valley of the Huron river, between Fiat Rock., and Lake Erie, have been submerged by the bursting of t*ie dam at Flat Rock which was used by the Ford Motor company for storage purposes. Some five thousand acres have been flooded, the water being twelve feet deep in some places and reported as steadily  rising.
So far as has been  learned  there was no loss of life     Most of the in-habi*;mts were warned of their danger   by   members   of   the     Michigan state police,  who rode through    the valley telling of impending disaster, and  who later  resorted to boats and i succeeded     in      ferrying      residents! front     their     flooded     premises     tl> places of safety.
easter ball op mkbekah jx>ix;k 1-kovkd great. success monday evening
Briand,    Who    Wai Time*   Premier,   Unable Mend   the   Breach.
Eight
Paris. April 14.� Aristuio Briand, who for eight times lias filled' the-office of premier of France, has cK1-cided it will b'a impossible for him to form a ministry in succession to that of Edouard Harriott. President Dommargue,    after    canvassing   the
ituation very can-full- decided on Sunday to call upon Paul Painleve to form a government. This action was taken in the hope that Painleve would be able to command tho support of the greater part of the for-, mer Herriott majority. Painleve, after sounding out various factions, found that he would have slight chance of carrying on for any length of time, and declined the honor.
It. was after Painleve had reported his inability to form a governmet that the president asked Premier Briand to become head of the government once more. The failure of Briand did not occasion much sup-rise as it was anticipated he would .be unable to command the support of the Socialists in the chamber. There is great uneasiness over the financial situation, and fear is felt in several quarters l\hnt unless ne-censary legislation c:in be secured within a short time there will be a number of resignations from the directorate of the Bank of France. Should any .of the director" hand in
 leir resignations it would msiko the situation   more   grave.
PRINCE RUPERT CONSIDERS  <*
POWER  DEVELOPMENT TO  x
COST HALF A MILLIO>
Prince Rupert, April 15.�The city council is considering the plan of A. C. R. Yuill for improvements to be made to the Woodworth Lake water ystem which would give the city an additional thousand horsepower for industrial purposes. The cost is given at $449,300,                     f'f
CANADIAN  NATIONAL
DEFICIT   IS   $54,860,419
Oit.iwji. April 16.�Taking the fixed ch.irjres into account the Can-adinn National last year hnd a deficit of $54,860,419, which wrh $:?,-162,74-1 greater than the deficit for the previous year, according to the report tabled in the house of commons. Despite a shrinkage in the business of tho government lines of $17.f>17.:uV\ due to a general business depression, the company succeeded in showing a net operating profit of ?17,244,251.
Settlement May Be in Sight in Miners' Strike
Premier   Armstrong,   of   Nova   Scotia,
Is  Hopeful That  Solution  Is
Corning.
Ponition    of    the    Miner*    Hai     Been
Desporntc  in  Absence  of  Strike
Benefits.
Paris, April 16.�It was announced officially this afternoon that Paul Painlevc, president of the chamber of deputies, has accepted the task of forming a ministry and that he has a fair prospect of succefft. Leaders of the Socialist party are Raid to have agreed to permit members of their party to accept office under him.
 Ahvard's Hurried Trip Starts Guessing
Admirer*   of    Chief   Magistrate   Hint
at  Oran$>   Blossoms  at   the
Other  End.
Federal   Politics   and   Municipal   Police   the   Motive*   Suggested   by Others.
The annual ball Riven under the auspices of the Uebekah Lodge. No. '.14, which was held in the Ritts-Kifer liall on Monday evening waH one of the moat enjoyable Riven in this city Upwards of 150 c.oubIch attended. The hall was tastefully decorated by the ladies, under the supervision of Cyril Dupre, and presented a cheerful appearance. The music was of the best, and the same could be said of the supper which was provided by the Rebekahfl. That the company enjoyed Itaelf may be gathered from the circumstance/that the dancing was continued until close upon four o'clock in the morning.
Date Now Fixed for Byelection in Grand Forks
PHIL H. SMITH, STORMY
PBTBBIi.OP  VKTOIU.A TAKB8 HIS OWN
 IAFV.
Phil R. Smlt!:. the Victoria employing printer, and for many years prominent in Victoria politics as a Socialist and Labor leader, took hia life early on Thursday morning. Smith asphyxiated himself with gas from a ranpe jpt. He left no message as to tho immediate cause of his suicide. He was onp of the most  radical of Victoria Labor men.
Halifax, April 15.�Progress is i believed to have been made today | toward a settlement of the strike. which has been in existence for several weeks between the British Km-pire Stool corporation and its 12,0.00 employees, in a conference which was held by Premier Armstrong, W. A. McLurg, vice-president <>f the corporation, and Jno, L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America'. Premier Armstrong  (�lined to make a statemont ;it tho close uf the conference, n? he considered the time wns not ripe. He appealed tn \w confident a r.�;ttlo-mei't of the atrikp is in ?nclit.
The present trouble is but the culmination of a scries of unfavorable working conditions extending over a period of years. The British Knipire corporation, which operates all of the fifteen collieries in the district, iu sorts it cannot hope fr� compete with the output, of West Virginia mines unless its miners will consent to a reduction of ten per cent in their Wage scale. Ever since the wnr. conditions In the Cape Breton field have been growing steadily ! worse. The company hup millions of I dollars tied up in plant, the greater i part of which has been idle since the war.     At   the   moment   there   is    one I
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Victoria,   April    14.�The    official   nting  on  an   order  of  rails    fr00 per annum for police scrvicCi This would include the enforcement of all dominion and provincial statutes, as Well as the municipal bylaws, and in addition, to the $500 the fines would iro i into the consolidated revenue of the I province. The city wuld also pay the I cost of n part of the keep of prisoners, if not  all.
While   the   plan   would   involve    n ' metistiTe of surrender on thij part of the''-� municipal  authority,   there   are I quite n number who nrn in favor of it.    The present system calls for too much  overlapping  on    the   part   of municipal,   provincial   and   dominion : police, nnd the city proportion of the government liquor profits is in  constant   dnnger since  any timp  the  nt-toTney-geiiernJ   is  not  satisfied    with j the  manner  In   which  the  liquor act is being enforced he enn send  in hifi operatives   and   billet  them   on    the city's liquor pro/its.
 BDMONTON   1,M>   HAD Hid   VAHT  FV   IIE8CUE  OF
RAMSAY   MACDONALD
ENDORSED   BY   LABOR
Glucrjtter. April 1-1.�At a meeting of the Labor party held here a resolution was passed congratulatine: the recent Labor government npon its achievements in the field of social le�nslation   during   the   term   of   its
from one to two          s e              g
was thought possible. The election is made necessary by the death of .John McKie, Conservative " memberj who was on his way to take his seat, for the first time when he was killfd with Peter Vcregin, the Ooukhobor learlor. in the Farron explosion. In the by-election the Liberals will run Donald McPherson, and the Conser- vativc-s Dr. C. M Kingston, the pio- neer physician of tho district. Both  candidates are popular. J. G, Tur-sreon, provincinl organizer for the  I.ibcrfil party, k expected back from Ottawa a< once to tnko charge of  the campaign. f'i the general election thr Conservative had ,i good jority in  a  sm�ll  vote.
miners    ordered
maintenance   men   out  of  thp  mines. J This made it bad for the. miners and j their   families,  as  it  was a  violation of the rules-   t>1    thf    United     Mine Workers organization.     It  prevented j t^em  from drawing any strike benefit, and thf result has r^cn thpy havp ! h�-'�"n   upon   the   verge   of   starvation i for a number of weeks
SrfiRprt. the British officer who was seriously wounded in the rescue of Mtimtaz BpRurn. the Indian dancing Kir!, which is said to have, stirrpfl India morn thnn r.ny other occurrence in many years, is a former resident of � Rdmonton. Lieut. Seagert was brought up on a farm fl short, distance out of Rdmon-
CANADIAN  COAL   MINERS  IN CROWS'  NF.ST  DISTRICT WITHDRAW  FROM  UNION
U
aotoi
their
q    FLEET  SAILS  FOR -ATTACK   UPON   HAWAIIAN5
San Francisco. April 15.�The lar^st fleet ever concentrated under th?United States f>.*v steamed out of the Golden Gate for its imaginary Stuck upon the Hawaiian ���<*�; Thtre were 127 vessels in the fleet and   it  made  a   naval  procession   35
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WHO DESIGNED
LethWridfJ el? hold wl Worker
cr\  upon   the what  i.s know disr.rict.   in   Al Inmbia,   ha^  b
A ;-ril   1 i � The   strnn-h     the     United     Mine f America hnve maintnin-
tndustry
ns   the   Crows'  ? tin  nnd   Britrsh n   broken.     The ii izntion   ffrrced n high that the to give an
DELAY  FAVORS  CANADA
IN   NEGOTIATIONS   FOR
SHIPPING   SUBSIDY'
The F'etersen shipping subsidy '� proposals of the government mny 'undergo a great many changes be-i fore they are carrier! into effect. Sir i Wiiiliam Petersen is now on his way j to Ottawa to discuss details and ; guarantees, but before he could arrive Donald McLeod, of London, ; England, mftde an offer to the gov-! ernment to provide a t^n-stenmer Mine service for half n million dollars Mess than the government is proposing to pay to thp PeteTsen compnny.
tended th" public schoo He saw service in the world war nnd IateT-decided to stay with thp army life. Up and a number of brother officers were returning from Bom-bny golf links when they came upon thp pnrfy which had attacked the Indian dancing eirl and her consort. Th-p officers bad nothing hut their golf clubs, hut fhey used them with such effect that they put the nssas-pins to rout. Seagert was picked up unconscious, but he'had a strangle hold upon one of the attacking pnrty who wn<5 arrested. It's a long wn.v from pitching hay on an Alberta fnrm to rescuing dancing girls in Bombny,  but these things happen.
in j There is still thp proposal, to put the vessels of the (rovernrnent's merchant marine fleet into the Atlantic trade, to be disposed of.
Co-
in-
a
op-ul-
 s     MQ               DEAD
 April   IS-�The  death is
2 ^BV
or homeless earnajre, *�J*
known      The   first  Haynes Known.                   394   and
 w^s  machine  waa the
 Hayn�� was
erators were r-m �_- -- �-- - � timatum to the men that they must a lowor �'�ge ccale or the >s would be closed. So des-n*�rafp had the situation become for SS^operators that the railways found it cheaper to bring theu- coal from United States points than use he product of the .local mines. The majority of the miners have de-,   withdraw   from   the   in-
COUT3C
JI4 the Crowa' Nest r in operation ag�uin of a few d*y�.
 dl**l=t  in    the
ONE THOUSAND SETTLERS FOR  DOMINION  REACHED
HALIFAX LAST \MEEK
Halifax, April 14.�Fully one thousand settlers for the Dominion arrived at this patrt during the past week. For the most part they are destined for the prairies.
CARD OP THANKS.
Mrs, Reginald Jobson, of Chief Lake, desires to express her appreciation, of the kindnesn and evidences of sympathy extended to her by many friends in Prince George and Chief Lake during her recent bereavement.
LONDON  VARNISH  FACTORY MADE BIG BLAZE ON THE FAMOUS OLD KENT ROAD
London. April 15.�All South Kensington was illuminated last night by one of the largest fires seen here in recent years. A varnish factory near the Old Kent Road was the ori-ein of the fire which extended to adjoining oil stores and a waste papeT depot. Several firemen were overcome by the smoke.
TEACHERS'   CONFEDERATION
OF B. C. NOW IN SESSION
Penticton, April 15.�Three hundred delegates to the convention of the B. C. Teacherh' Federation are in session at this city in their sixth annual convention.
FIRE �N C. P. R. LINER
MONTLAURIER  YESTERDAY
Liverpool, ApriM5�A severe fire has broken out in the third-class accommodation of the C.P.R' liner Mntlaurier. The fire is still burning-and the damage is estimated at $650,000.