VOL. 9, No. 42.
PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN*
PRINCE  GEORGE,  B.C.,   THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1926.
Thirty Million Dollars Is Now Suggested Investment
FIVE CENTS.
Some sixty-five members of the board of trade attended the, luncheon on Friday to meet the pro^ moters of the pulp and paper mill and learn from them the progress which is being made toward the establishment of their industry. While the guests of the board did not feel equal to giving any assurance that a -tart would be made with their en. terprise within any fixed time, it was made reasonably sure that given a permanent supply of pulpwood the long-deferred pulp and paper mill will'soon become a realization.
The promoters said they had many bridges  to  cross since their  promotion scheme was taken under advisement.    There were many matters to adjust  with   the   provincial   government, and when these were arranged the  promoters  found  they  had  lost one of their number who had been counted  upon  tp  carry  a  considerable   part   of   the   financial   burden. This handicap  has   now   been   overcome  by  the   interesting  of    H.   G. Gundy, of Toronto, in their venture. The matter of railway rates is in a fair way to settlement, and the only fly in the promoters' ointment is the limber supply for their mill.    Originally they had figured on an investment of ten million dollars, and the provincial   government   had   worked nut  a  policy   of  ensuring  a  timber supply for thirty years.     It is now claimed that an expenditure' of thirty million   dollars   may   be    necessary, and that a thirty-year supply is   an insufficient   security   for   an   investment of this size, and nothing short of a permanent supply will meet the reauirements of the case.
confident a way would be found to extend it. and to co-operate in every way to bring about the establishment of the paper industry which had been waited for by the residents of Prince George for so many years.
McLean No Visionary. Angus McLean, the technical man of the promoters, and the manager of the pulp and paper mill at Bath-urst, N.B., was th'e first of the visitors called upon to address the gathering. He said he had little to say, as he gathered he had come to be regarded as the working member of the visiting trio. Since he had been in the district he appeared to have been elected by common consent to carry the pack and do the driving for the party. He would like to create the impression, however, that he and his associates were not coming into the district with purely selfish motives. Mr. Jones, as most of the company knew, was a large manufacturer of cement, and he thought in making the visit he had in mind the finding of a place at which he could employ a large quantity of cement in the building of a manufacturing plant. As for Mr. Gundy, he imagined his chief interest lay in finding a place in which he could safely invest his surplus funds. In a measure it would be up to the people of Prince George to see that neither of them got away. They would both do a lot of talking, but in the end he expected they would count upon him to do the work.
Mr. Jones would probably tell about some of the difficulties which confronted   the   project they  had  in
The question of mill supply is said i mind.    He would like to express his
to ba the sole remaining obstacle to the launching of what bids fair to becoming the most important individual enterprise in the province. The promoters are said to have a plan outlined which will ensure not only a continuous supply but will maintain the timber stands of the district as well. This is the matter which they propose to discuss with the members of the provincial government within the next two months and whether they proceed with the establishment of their pulp and paper plant turns altogether upon the success they meet with in their negotiations.
W. L. Armstrong, president of the board of trade, presided at the luncheon.     In  a  brief  manner  he   explained  the purpose  for which   the members had   been  called  together, and then  asked  Acting  Mayor  Patterson to extend an official welcome I to the guests of the board.    This be- J int? attended to, he called  upon  H. G.  Perry,   M.L.A.,  to   welcome    the visitors on behalf of the government and the speaking got under way. Perry   Pledget   Government.
H. G. Perry, M.L.A., said he would take up very little time as he was aware the members of the. board of trade were anxious to hear what Messrs. McLean, Jones and Gundy had to say in the way of an assurance that they were soon to see the establishment of the pulp and paper mill in this vicinity. The probability of the establishment of such an industry was a speculation which had tilled  the   minds   of  the   people    of
agreement with what had been said by Mr. Perry and Mr. Armstrong. with regard to the suitability and extent of the natural resources of the district as a source of supply for (Continued  on page  3.)
HON. J. H. THOMAS SAYS
BRITISH LABOR IS STILL
LOYAL TO THE CORE
Toronto, Sept. 1.�Hon. J. H. Thomas, secretary of the national railwaymen's union of Great Britain, speaking at the National exhibition here yesterday, declared that British labor is loyal to the core, and that throughout Great Britain the Union Jack still stands with them as the emblem of freedom.
Big Gain Shown in New Voters' List for Prince George
Gain of Over 200 Shown in the List
Prepared  by   Registrar
W. J. Matheson.
Saturday   Will   be   Last    Day    Upon Which   Names May  be  Added on Application.     L
W. J. Matheson, registrar and revising officer for the Prince George polling division in the Cariboo riding, had 1488 names upon the preliminary voters' list yesterday, when the four-day period for revision was entered upon. He says there are upwards of fifty names yet to be added to the list, and there is every probability that as many additional names will be added during the next four days as will be taken off in the course of revision. He says the completed list after revision will contain approximately 1500 names. This wiil be a marked gain over the list upon which the last election was contested when the list totalled 1283 names.
Saturday will be the last day upon which names of voters can be added to the list upon application to the registrar, but it will be possible for any qualified voter whose name has been left off the list to cast his ballot on election day if he attends at the polling booth and is vouched for by  qualified  electors in   attendance.
In the last election, although there were 1283 names upon the list, less than 700 qualified voters cast their ballots. This was due in a great measure to the fact there was no Liberal candidate in the field, and also to the.fact that T. G. McBride, who made the race against John A. Fraser. the Conservative, v^as regarded with much disfavor by the local members of the Liberal party. In the 1925 contest 477 votes were counted for Fraser and but 214 for McBride, there being but slightly in excess of 50 per cent of the available vote polled.
LIBERALS  GET  PROVENCHER AS RESULT OF BAD ROADS IN MANITOBA PROVINCE
Ottawa, Sept. 1.�Advanced nominations were made in twenty-seven constituencies throughout the dominion yesterday and resulted in one election by acclamation, in 23 straight contests in which two candidates are running, and in three in which more than two candidates were nominated. The single case of election by acclamation came in Proven-cher, Manitoba, where A. Beaudin, Liberal-Progressive was elected. The bad condition of the roads in this constituency delayed the arrival of the nomination papers of the Conservative candidate with the result that the election went by default.
GERMANY WILL HAVE
PERMANENT SEAT  IN     / LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Geneva, Sept. l.^The problem of allocating the seats in the/council of the league of nations htuNbeen settled, except for minor detauv upon the  basis of the Cecil  compromise.
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE WILL INSIST UPON PAYMENT OF DEBTS  OWING THE  U.S.
GERMAN  SWIMMER SETS-, NEW RECORD FOR CROSSING THE  ENGLISH CHANNEL
Dover, England, Aug. 30.�Ott Vierkoeten of Germany, today swam the English channel. He landed at 2:15 o'clock this afternoon at Lang-don Stairs half-way between Dover and   St.   Margaret's  Bay  from   Cape
It  provides for the  giving of   nihe^ non-permanent, seats   and   one manent seat f6r Germany.
Predicts Majority of 400 in
for J. Graham
Customs Scandal Dealt With by W. J. Bowser
Sordid   Matter   Handled   in   Masterly
Manner by  Former Provincial
Premier.
T.  S.  Baxter Presents  New Face  to �        Constitutional  and Tariff /      Issues.
W. J. Bowser, K.C.. entertained a large audience in the Capitol theatre lasly night when he spoke for something over an hour in the interest of the candidature of John A. Fiaser, the Conservative candidate in the Cariboo riding. Mr. Bowser for many years enjoyed the distinction of being one of the most entertaining speakers in the province. He is still good, but those who heard him last night were impressed with the fact that the doughty old warrior is lii         Th               i
slipping. The greater portion of his speech was devoted to the customs l^eandal. It is a sordid story at the besVxbut Mr. Bowser relieved this with axrunning line of humor and satire whxh kept his audience in laughter most of the time while he fastened responsibility for the condition in the customs service upon Hon. J. Bureau, the. minister in charge of the departme^vL and upon Mackenzie King for keeph-vg him in his cabinet after it was knoxn his minister was derelict, and later\for seeking to reform the senate by ishing Hon Mr. Bureau to it for life at a salary of $4000 per annum.
Mr.   Bowser dealt  first  with    the ruin-running   out   of  the   ports     of Halifax and St. John in which   261 vessels were engaged, and were per-I mitted   to   take   liquor   cargoes     on Joseph Graham, Liberal candidate ! clearances for  Cuban  and  Peruvian in  the   Cariboo  riding,   finished    his   ports and leturn within four or five
Gillis   Says    Liberal   Candidate Will   Sweep   Largest   City   in Riding.
People   of   Quesnel    Gave    Attentive
Hearing to Speakers  Saturday
Night.
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New York, Sept. 1.�Despite plea of Newton D. Baker that United States should cancel debts owing by the European powers, a dispatch received from President Coolidge, from his vacation resort in this state, indicates the president will insist upon the payment of all international obligations of the warring nations.
MORNING POST SAYS
DOMINIONS IMMIGRATION PLANS  ARE INADEQUATE
London,   Sept.   1.�The     Morning Post, in a leading editorial, declares
I rince    George    for a number    of | the  measures taken by Canr.da and
years. The circumstance that the promoters of the enterprise were a^ain in the city could only be taken as evidence that their plans were again making headway, and if there remained any manner in which the provincial government could co-oper-ate and assist in the establishment of such an important industry as that contemplated he said he felt quite justified, as the representative W the Fort George riding, in giving the assurance it would be forthcom-lnR. while for himself he thought it almost needless to add any such establishment would have his hearty "'-operation.
As to the suitability of the district " the location of such an industry e was little to  be  made  known as to the great stand of timber which contained, or the ease with which s, ?i<>u    nG- moved to a central point v Ivj as Prince George.   It was worth jnue stating  however, that 85 9'r of timber was spruce, and therefore � desirable for the manufacture 'aper, and that the government, i a view to securing a permanent >�y tor a paper mill, had created umber
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by Australia to formulate compre hensive schemes to secure imperial immigration are inadequate and will have to be improved upon if the dominions are to receive the quotas from Britain they have reason to expect.
GERMANY'S SUBSTANTIAL SECOND YEAR PAYMENTS UNDER THE DAWES PLAN
Berlin, Sept. 1.�Germany's reparation payments in the second year of the operation of the Dawes plan totalled 1,220,000 gold marks in specie, and deliveries in kind to the value of 656,800,000 marks.
Gris   Nez,   where   he     entered     the water at  1:35 a.m.
The elapsed time of the swim, according to the figures, is 12 hours, 40 minutes, or nearly two hours better than the record of 14 hours. 31 minutes, established by Miss Gertrude  Ederle on August 6.
Vierkoeten is the eighth person to swim the channel, and the first man to perform the feat this year.
Gertrude Ederle and Mrs. C. Cor-son, both of New York, are the only others who have swam across this year. Sebastian Tiraboschti, Argentinean held the record previous to this year, at 16 hours, 23 minutes. Miss Ederle, the first woman to conquer the channel, set a sensational mark with her 14 hours 31 minutes.
speaking campaign in this part of his large consttuency on Saturday when he addressed meetings at Woodpecker in the afternoon, and in Quesnel, the home town of his opponent, John A. Fraser, in the evening.
At the meeting in Woodpecker the candidate was supported by H. G. Perry, M.L.A., and Attorney-General Manson, and there was a good turnout of the settlers in the district.
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NEWLANDS CONSERVATIVES
COMPLETE   ORGANIZATION
JUSTICE CLARK ISSUES
WARRANT FOR ARREST OF
RETURNING OFFICER
Lac la Biche. Alberta Sept. 1.� Justice Clark has issued a warrant for the arrest of W. E. Proctor, the demity returning officer for Conklin polling station in the Athabasca, riding, in the last federal election. Proctor is said to have confessed the faking of the vote returned in the last election.
BRITAIN  AND  FRANCE
AGREE THAT GERMANY BE
ADMITTED TO LEAGUE
Paris, Aug. 31.�It is reported here that an agreement has been arrived at between the governments of Great Britain and France that Germany must be admitted to the league of nations. If this action is not taken there is a probability that the league will go to pieces, and that Spain will be one of the first of the European nations to withdraw.
At a meeting on Friday evening the Conservatives of Newlands completed their organization, �_ Prest-lein being elected president, William Bearman, vice-president, and W. Webster, secretary-treasurer. The officers elected, together with J. Foreman and W. Clark will constitute the executive committee. On the following evening the association took charge of the public meeting wheh was addressed by'T. S. Baxter, of Vancouver and H. A. Carney, of this city, and later gave a very enjoyable dance in honor of their visitors.
W. F. MACLEAN WILL
RUN AS INDEPENDENT IN
SOUTH  YORK  RIDING
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Toronto, Aug. 30.�W. F. Mac-Lean, who represented South York in the Conservative interest for the past thirty-four years, and who was refused the party nomination in the approaching election, has announced himself as �n independent candidate in opposition to R. H. McGregor, the regulr party nominee.
C. M. NEW RECEIVED
INJURIES ON  C. N. R.
C. M. New, the C. N. R. brakeman who was severely injured by being thrown from a passenger train while fixing the tail light, is making good progress in the Smithers hospital. New landed on his head, and remain, ed unconscious by the rails for five hours until he was picked up by railway employees on a speeder. Severe cuts about the head and three fractured ribs make up the list of his injuries.
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rasged around him were Dr. Gillis of Merritt, who was a strong favor ite for the Liberal nomination in th riding, J. M. Yorston, who for sev eral years represented Cariboo in the provincial legislature, Attorney-Gen eral Manson and H. G. Perry, M.L.A Mr. Perry opened the speaking but with the knowledge there were at least three to follow him, was very brief in his reniarks. He was followed by Dr. Gillis, who said he had made the trip up from Kamloops for the purpose of advising Mr. Graham as to how the campaign had been shaping up in the southern end of the riding while he had been, carrying the fight into the northern end. He understood that Kamloops was the center in which the people were most interested, as it was regarded as the pivotal point in the constituency. He had just made the trip from Kam. loops and had been able to give Mr. Graham the assurance he had nothing to fear from Kamloops, as it was as certain as anything pertaining to an election could be that he would receive a big majority in that city. It was not a question of a majority which was concerning the Liberal workers in Kamloops but the size of it, and those who should know best were certain Mr. Graham's majority in the city of Kamloops would mount up to 400. As for the portion of the riding in the vicinity of Merritt Mr Graham would do much better. This was conceded by the Conservative workers. As to the progress of the campaign in the northern portion of the riding he was pleased to learn from Mr. Graham who had just been through it, that his pi'ospects were very much brighter than he had counted upon when he set out to cover the territory in company with Mr. Perry.
Mr. Graham occupied about one and one-half hours in his address, covering much the same ground as he did at Prince George, -He did not make use of notes and was therefore much more effective, being listened to with marked attention.
Attorney-General Manson closed the meting with an address of some, thing over one hour's duration. When he had finished Chairman Holt invited the audience to ask any question they wished to have answered dealing with any issue in the campaign. There were none, and the meeting was closed with the singing of +.he national anthem.
FAVORS VISIT OF QUEEN
MARIE TO DOMINION
Bucharest. Aug. 30.�The Roumanian government has signified Its approval of the proposed visit of Queen Marie to Canada and the United  States in October next.
days for fresh cargoes. This liquor being taken out of bonded warehouses for presumably foreign shipment escaped the payment of the ex. ise tax of $9 per gallon and the loss to the federal revenue was figured ut $52,481,000. The real destination of the liquor taken out of the two maritime ports, Mr. Bowser said, was the rum row off the United States coast and the prohibition provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, to which much of it was brought back for domestic consumption.
Mr.. Bowser paid   his   respects   to �William  Duff,  the    Liberal    member for Lunenburg,  and deputy speaker in the commons, and his connection with the rum-running vesel the "W. C.  Kennedy" owned  by him   which was seized  by the cruiser Margaret with $35,000 worth    of    liquor    on board.    After being held by the customs for some time Mr. Bowser said the crew    of    the    Margaret    were obliged to reload the liquor and return  it to a vessel in the rum-running  business.     Mr.   Bowser  raised quite a laiigh when he scoffed at the suggestion  that  Inspector   Bisaillon, the   chief  offender  in  the    customs scandal was a Conservative who had jone wrong.    He said Mr. Bisaillon [jot   his   first   appointment   from    a Liberal government, and this should >e   a  guarantee   as  to   his   politics, since Liberal governments never appointed Conservatives to office.    To-istabish the connection between Inspector Bisaillon and Minister Bureau iir.  Bowser read an extract from a etter written by the inspector to the minister seeking the removal of the mounted police    from    the    Quebec 'rontier in which the expression was used:  "It would be  in the interests of the party to discontinue the watch upon the frontier."
Dealing with  the   shipment    into Canada of prison-made  goods from Jnited States   Mr.  Bowser said this )usiness w,as handled by a syndicate cnown as the prison tryst.    It found difficulty in placing the prison-made articles in competition with    United States   labor,   but   found  a   way   to lood  the  Canadan  market Although uch imports were expressly prohibited.     Not  only   did   such   shipments constitute an unfair competition with Canadian factories but they were a very serious menace to the health of he people of Canada who, upon the score of cheapness might be induced o buy them in ignorance of    their origin.     To establish the  extent   of he   shipment of  prison-made goods nto the dominion Mr. Bowser said a irm  of  auditors  had   been  commis-ioned   to  determine  the  extent     of ;he receipts of three firms   of   such goods, and had found they had pur-hased   130 tons which at wholesale )rices were valued at $250,000.
The importance of the develop-lent of a system of automobile highways was dealt with by Mr. Bowser. The first attempt at this in British Columbia had been made by the government of Sir Richard McBride when it undertook the construction of the Malahat drive on Vancouver Island. There had come a remarkable change in conditions since this first motor road was constructed fifteen years ago. Now everyone who can possess a motor has one, and whole families can be seen moving^ (Continued on pagy S)