VOL. PRINCE GEORGE CITIES THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1933 Joe Doncaster Pleads Guilty to . Other Charges Admits Robbing Burial Clothes from Three Other Bodies He Was Interring THREE YEARS ON EACH Police Are Now Looking for the Owners Numerous Articles Found at Doncaster's CANADIAN RAILWAY SHOPMEN AGREE ON WAGE REDUCTION Montreal, Dec. 5�An agreement has been reached between the shopmen and the Canadian railways under which \ Five Cent* LINDBERGHS SUCCEED IN MAKING HOP FROM AFRICA TO BRAZIL New York, Dec. 6�Colonel th shopmen agree to*accept a further j and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh LOS ANGELES LAWYERS DEMAND IMPEACHMENT OF GOVERNOR ROLPH Unemployment Insurance is Now Before Commons * one year, xms onngs the -----------------------'-----��----y '" I of Brooke Hart, and especially with tflie j -_, , , , ~---- _ into line with the men en- approximately sixteen hours \� ' action of Governor Rolph in condoning rieraided as Most Constructive Los Angeles, Dec. 4�The lawyers of Los Angeles are very outspoken in their denunciation of the action of I the San Jose mob in the lynching of i landed at Natal, Brazil, today in j n}eJ� m^n charged with the murder I gaged in the running trades, lihe five per cent reduction making a fifteen per cent reduction from the basic wage scale. ------------o�-------- The final chapter in Joe Doncas-tcr\3 exploits as a grave-robber was written in the county court on Saturday when he pleaded guilty to three additional charges, having been previously convicted and .sentenced to three years' imprisonment for the stealing of the burial clothes from the body of Mike Zuaven. Following Doncaster's first conviction the police j made a second search of the Doncaster t home, and gathered up a lot of stuff This Would which they have reason to believe had been stolen. This is now in the police office and an effort will be made to find the owners. The three additional bodies from which Doncaster admitted the removal of the clothes were those of Mike Co-grove, Henry Hech'ick and Chester Smedley, and on each charge he was sentenced to serve three years, the term to run concurrently with that of the sentence in the Zuaven case. After passing sentence Ju tuttson commented upon �!�)�� �the offence. He sa'd since disclosures had boon made robbing of the body of Mik residents of the city whose Thomas Refuses to be Drawn by Irish President They have adopted a I . r, t> i r> � � i I uie lyJH-mng. -uey nave aaopiea a ter taking ort at bathurst, British \ lesolution calUng upon the state leg- Informs House he Cannot Contemplate Severance of Tie to British Empire TPT^M Guinea, on a flight of 1875 miles across the Southern Atlan-tic. Colonel Lindbergh inform-ed press representatives he had averaged between 100 and \j? miles pet. hour on the flight.. Flying conditions were favorable and he had nothing in the way of a mishap. He said he would give a dr.y to Wature Legislation of Kind Submitted to Parliament O * IlOVlllCeS INSURANCE IS WIDENED Aid ! New Scale of Rates and Benefits Carries Assurance As To System's Solvency . London. Dec. 1�Sir Henry Be te'ton I yesterday moved the second reading in I the house of commons of the govevn- United States. Colonel Lindberg's time was a little more than two hours above that in which he estimated he would make thr? crossing. USE NATIONAL CREDIT be Fate of Irish Residents in Great Britain if Republic Created DISTRICT FARMERS DECIDE TO OPERATE AN OPEN MARKET London. Dec. 5�In the house of , , mmons today Hon. .J. H. Thomas, I �* Present at the meeting which was iofused to cre ary lor the c;:'. mons, drawn bv Pre ident do Valcra. of the Irish Free mate, as to what action the i he -------- Victoria, Dec. 5�The premiers of the There wore upwards of thirty farm- . provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia have join* hold in Prince George on Saturday to agreed to submit discuss the proposal that they should \ to Premier Bennett for the handling more statesmanlike measure of unemployment iclfef and is conceded to be the most constructive piece of lec-.isla- -------- i ticn of the kind ever presented n any This Should be Employed in j parliament. The marked improvement rv � d t r \V7 i c which has taken pk'co in the emvjlov- Financing Public Works for I ment situatUm wiroughout Great Britain during the past few months hr.s made it possible for the government to launch its new program with some assurance the situation will improve lather than become furthe- aggravated. The measure is based upon the *��*- Unemployment Relief representation Brtish government would take in event, of the government of the Free State decided to sever completely , . , the tie which binds it to the British -; iting-the empire. The secretary for '.he domin- operate an open market. The feeling of unemployment was largely in favor of the opening of I western province? relief -n the four I sumption the number of insured but This decision was! unemployed worker, will not exceed had been buried in the city cemetery [ge R >b-rayity of the first ions was answering a question raised in the by Sir Alfred Knox. Conservative. The Zuaven placing of this quest-Jon on the order >aper provoked a wide discussion as o what the Brifsh government might the market for three hours each Saturday, when the farmers make a point of this ci'y at the Heretofore they have ! Pattullo. made sales of their produce to local The premiers of the four provinces storekeepers, but the opinion prevailed � are asking that the federal government the outcome of the conference held in | -�3UU-uuu m a year, and that the em-instance of Premier i l'lov"' persons who are insured will number 12.000.000. The fscs these employed relative uneasv m e minds oi �e; at i;c-3' i the judge, lice ;.- that fered with coincidence he stealing iv < f Henry been rendered very fear that indignity had bet to their bodies, and he made neal to Dor.ra'ter to make a clean breast of all hk> activities to the police. .-o that if the four cases reprc � � � the sum of his offence t these residents might be Doncaster made no reply but the opinion of the p no o her bodies were inti A somewhat remarkable developed in the en -c of of the clothes-from the b< Hedrick. When Hedrick died he w without clothes in which he could be buried. The government regulations in connection with'thc burial of in-digents make provision for \he furnishing of the coffin, but none for the furnishing of burial clo'.hes; and Government Agent Milburn was forced to act on his own in'tiative. Among vhe properties which had come into his possession was an �unopened trunk. Tr had been tho property of a man who had been sen* to the hospital a* Es-'ondale several years bfore. and for which no enquiry had been made i" the meantime. The government agent decided to open the trunk and see if it held the Nclu'ion of his present problem. It did. In the trunk ra> a new blue mit. The moths had been busy in the folds of the. suit, taut for burial purposes it answered well and it was put to this purpose. Then came tho roincidence. A few days after the suit had been taken from the trunk its owner apepared in the government ascent's office and requeued delivery of his property. He had but recent'..1.' been discharged from Essondale. and intended to resume life's ac!i\ytie.< from the point where he had dro vi, -d 'iiom when sent to Esondjile. When be matter had been explained to him he accepted it in a reasonable manner. Tho suit was recovered by 'lip pol'ce in a shack in the cemetery \isra in connection with interments, and us identificaton by the undertaker was a .simple matter. 'MAKE THE BARBER" MUST FACE TRTA1. IN BRITISH COURT decide to do. The retaliatory measures )ffered open in such an event are very wide, an- reaching to the point of a decision they would be able to secure a greater turn-ever if they had the'r own market and residents of 'he city'could be induced to patronize it. In the end it was decided to rent the warehouse at the corner of'Fourth avenue and Dominion .street and give the plan a trial for a couple of weeks. The fir.st market will be held on Saturday, Decem- noon to 3 o'clock. vhich would treat all citizens of the Free State resident in Great Britain as aliens, with the forfeiture of their civil rights and making them subject .lo the immigration law.s. There is no I rTMAT nr^, tktt- tm -cr\r>^r question but that a decision of the j FINAL COUNT IN FORT people of the Irish Free State to sands of former Free State citizen- ' now resident in Great Britain and With em- rake over the care of all single unemployed men. and that it set up a public works program to be financed on the national credit, if necessary with an inflation of Canadian currency. The western premiers also a.s'; the federal levy persons will pay. plus (he,, upon their employers and the contr'butich, of the national exchequer will aggregate egi.goo.ooo. The bill contemplates �51.015.000 of this amount will be paid out in benefits to the unemployed and for the cast of the ! now schemes"for the training of work- government io arrange some plan tin- I ers out of employment. The cost of der which the public debts of the four I administration is. estimated at �4,100,-provinces can be carried at a lower]000' and there is aLso to be paid into ber 16th, and remain open from 12 j rate of interest than obtains at present, the treasury the sum of �5,500,000 an- and that the federal government facil- ! nually to amortize the debt con'racted i.ate borrowings by the provinces at bv Lh national scheme of unemployment insurance. I'., will be noted that the decision reached by the premiers-of the-four-proy'nees is in line with the views ex- systeni vpf unemployment insurance broke clown. That, the measure will commend itself to the members of 'he houso of commons goes without saying. The chief opposition is expre'ed from tha Labor party. leading� member., of pressed by Premier Pattullo during the I, wl?!cl? are definitely opposed to any an outcry against persons who had they would doubtless be given the op- por'.unhv of retaining their allegiance result was the increasin jority of H. G. Perry to 274; The revised figures follow, the first column . ,. crown before being forced back I showing the resident vote, tho second into the Free Stafe. However,-whatever- column the absentee vote and sthe effect the proclaiming or an Irish re-1 Third the total vote: _!tt y~t i-�_.____ 4 nnn in* 1"'7r*i 625 ! 310 W. F. Mahoney 1(59 23 I9:i C. P. Deykin Tot ate recent, provincial campaign, with a shift of responsibility from the proof the ma- |.vmc:al t0 the federal authority. the B 1383 558 . 292 1(59 91 2493 194 67 18 23 The delay in completing 307 the 96 2800 final count was occasioned by the wait for the ballot, box from the Pinlay Fork.s ?ay-| polling division, By reason of the presence of ice in the rivers the returning officer was forced to send the public might have upon residents of > H. G Perry Ir'sh Free S'>ate the discussion A. Sinclair made it elear the position of Free I R. W. Alward e nationals resident in Great tin would be an unenviable one. The reply of Hen. J. H Thomas.to ihe question of Sir Alfred Knox d's-cli r.\ nothing >.s to probable Rovern-mnv policy. Th" secretary for the dominicP/.) contented himself with ins ':; couid not contemplate the set-tins tip oi an Irish republ'c by President de Valera of the Free State. o------------- ties of travel which forced the pressing of the airplane into service prevented the voters from making their way to the polling station. When the j Finlay Forks box was opened there ! were but two ballots in it, both of which had bean cast for Alexander Sinclair, the C.C.F. candidate. In point of cost to 'he province they are doubtless the highest-priced ballots iii the Great Britain Indifferent to Fate of League Her Public Men Give no Heed to the Pleas That Support Be More Generous SHUN ENTANGLEMENTS measure of direct contributory insurance. They have been advancing tho argument the cost of unemployment insurance should be borne bv the state, which in turn should recoup itself with a special tax levy upon all profits, incomes and wages. By shifting the cosJ in this manner it ia argued the tax upon the employed person will be much lighter than under the three-way contributory system piopdsed by the bill. While the measure makes for solvency in unemployment insurance this in a measure k achieved by increasing the rates paid by employed persons and-decreasing the ra'c paid foi-unemployment. The bill continues to a certain extent the changes made in October 1931 when excessive unemployment threw an exceptionally heavy Exchange Shift Saves Dominion Twenty Millions ballots into Pinlay Forks by plane at ; Britain Not Prepared To Give, burden upon the national exchequer considerable expense, bui the difficul- c_,,,,r- - , n� ,,f P,� but as a result of this the framers ol Sanction 'to Use of Force Against Peace Violators With Dollar at Par in New York This Sum Will be Clipped off 1934 Payments HALT TO RISING TAXES Adverse Exchange Cost will not Have to be Budgeted in Municipalities election. WELLINGTON KERR GIVEN YEAR ON FALSE PRETENCE CONVICTION of I the bill were enabled to extend from j a period of twenty-six weeks to a full j year the relief payments with respect London. Doc. 12�If the League of j to unemployment with a Rood record ' Nations is really dying, as many of ; f6r work and payment of premiums i is friends are beginning to believe, ' while working. Another important ; the British government shows no .sif;n ! feature of the bill is that which ex-| of doing anything decisive to save it. | tende the measure of unemployment Plaintiff cries have been coming from insurance to a group estimated a* 4.-Geneva and Paris beggins; for one j 000 ooo who were not covered by the courageous word from London, only old measure. This group includes ag-one word to show that Great Britain rcultural laborers, domestic servant* stJill stands by the league, whatever and men in the white-colar jobs whose Germany may have done to it. or earnings do not exceed �5 per week. whatever Italy may do. But the en- i -------------*>-------------� couragement dees not come. ^' the monthly meeting of the men:- Judge Robertson on Wednesday sentenced Wellington Melville Kerr to The trouble is Great Britain has never shown a determination to use the machinery of Article 16, if that serve one year in the Oakalla prison ' extreme step should become necessary. farm following his conviction for ob- Washington. Dec. 4�Th Ottawa. D dollar has g York averag( Canadian ^]ym^ j men, of vhc Prince George She has never made the Wilsonian conception of a league to enforce peace 4-Since the Canadian paining money by false pretence. The a nromium in New \ false pretence consisted in the cashing an Integral part, of her policy bers of the local .branch of the Canadian Legion, which is to be held on the evening of Thursday. December 14th, arrangements will be made for the holding of the New Year's dance. It is desired that a full attendance of members be secured for the meeting. court decided today that John Factor, inysUf;ed Otr the subject of of Chicago, better known as "Jake me ih^n bo!om but trie une Barber" is to be extradited to Great . �ter wjth the business r il charges ot - ^ : For Britain to stand trial upon charges ot wnge.earner: jasiness is man than For the latter Britain to stand trial upon g Uh ^ wngeearner: fraud involving a huge sum of money. Uie preniium On the Canadian dollar Factor fought extradition in the .owe-. ^ the Unitctl states an mviung t d dision ho could no k> l hi purchases but it ne Factor fought extradition in th( court and won a decision ho could no' ^ te mnrke>j lor his purchases f th more ' of a cheque for $20 with the manage- hotel. which on presentation at the bank was found to be worthless. When the police back-tracked on Kerr's record they found him to be a very undesirable resident for the pro- Britain declined to use Article 1G in the case of Japan, and it is less than ever likely silo will bo willing to" use it in the case of Germany or any other but. if he court and won a decision h mnrkej lor his pu bo extradicted as the offence charged takps advantage of it, the Canadnr was not an offence under the law ot merCnant loses the business Tho date for tho trial of Andrew Miller, on a chai'ge of perjury, has been set for Tuesday, December 19th. country which may violate the peace I before Judge Robertson. Tho�perjury of the* world. i charge i-s based on evidence given by This reluctance to give power to the i Miller while on trial on the charge of vince. Through his fingerprints they | league is accompanied by widespread ! receiving money from a fire insurance traced convictions for theft and rob- doubt of its usefulness. Sir John Si- \ company by false pretence. mon. the British foreign secretary, is must ' bery in Ontario in 1916 and 1925. and the state of Illinois in Whith he had rch. on lne imposition of dump.4ig his home. Factor has been much in dujjos m united States exports tor ms 'flie public eye of la'e by reason ol protection. , himself and his son having been km- Canadian business men are napped by Chicago gangsters. j ;? JOHNSON SAYS LABOR PROGRAME WOULD BANKRUPT COUNTRY tetaj that the discounted dollar was ni? excellent thins for our trade wiMi ' Wh ihA States When dollar was worth SI.10 or $1.15 In 5J utd the Canadian dollar only 90 mus in the UniodStates.it asy and profitable for tho Am-?� buy here, and correspondingly *wo later convictions for thef in Sault 1 reported to have told a friend upon Ste. Marie and Sudbury. When confronted with his record Kerr admU'ed it. but claimed the conviction for | Europe will be negligible." He is only his return from Geneva that "within a year the league's influence over The Gcotgo street store of the Northern Hardware company is the mecca just new for all the boys and girls of the city who are window-shopping on robbery upoii which he had been .sen- I one WEshtagton. Doc 4�General John- ericanKid.3 � ' c nadian to bUy ��> i,nn/nfn,.vD4 nHm nistration. , unpiotitame un son, head of the N.R.A. administration issued a statement yesterday to the; inuii effect that the" 30-hour week with m- yit creasen payrolls as proposed by tne wui � Labor leaders would bankrupt-the-| many country. He further said it woiua of' hmvcver. tenced to two years' imprisonment, 1 who are far from enthusiastic over the had been a mistake and that it had j league a.s a weapon for peace, been upset. ; Kerr ar; ved in Prince Geory-1 about October 16th ivd made an appjirjuion *o Government Agent Milburn for relief. He was required to take the of several in the British cabinet the display of skiis. skates and coaster sleds which figure so largely in the juvenile conception of Christmas. physical examination for work in the relief camps and readily consented, being returned as physically fit. bodies i There was nd- accommodation in the ountry. He further throw go many companies out of pro-ductdon"that the unemployment situai Uian it tion would become even wor h been. Uian 0 exchange in the ira5t couple of j camp at the lime and Kerr was held Being In receipt of relief there Prime Minister MacDonald himself '_ known to be half-hear*ed in his ap- BANK OF TORONTO proval of the league, either as an i -V;t' i ODPNJ instrument for enforcing peace or as _i_i____ �_ CiN ^ an arena for settling international I AT BRTDGE RIVER difficulties. There is a story that two years ago Mr. MacDonald was the real author of the scheme to supplftnf the Vancouver. Dec. 5�The Bank of Toronto has decided to open a branch present league by another, d'ssociated j at Bridge River for the handling of from the Treaty of Versailles and shorn of all economic or military Can- was no excuse for his \a.\yse in the 1 sanctions. I kiting of the worthless cheque, but it This is not to say the league is the accounts of tho mining companies operating in that district. some $156 000,000 in the United State, (Continued on Page Six) looked so easy he Just couldn't resist tlie temptation. Terrace. Dec. 5�Fire destroyed the without Hs sincere defender? in this I lighting plant of the town last night. i (Continued on Page Six) gg p i Tlie loss is partly covered by insurance.