VOL. 11 No. 18. PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1928 Five Cents. Real Estate Men Sell 27 Lots in One Weeks Drive H. G. Perry Says Experience Proves The Worth of Advertising To Create Interest Special Sale At Reduced Prices Will Be Continued By Realty Men This Week H. G. Perry, who with G. W. Mason | and I*' i?" nf^PrinS George ^f^ i bined sale �f F� eueS Central Interior School Teachers Now Organized Big Convention Was Held In This City During Easter Week� Officers Elected Visitors To The City Entertained By Resident Teackers And Mrs. G. H. Gower Prince George entertained a large company of public school teachers during the Easter week. There were told about fifty of them, chiefly needed t �t the benefit of^ tismg: his exPe"enc* week fully supplied-suit of the a.dv^n/ estate agencies *X some twenty-seven of the vertised The ^^ boen sold to the same timately, but ftefwt the advertising ^f to the lots ^^f^ othense would have come rt ved adver- the ^the th marms ever gathered the northern*portion together in of the pro- lote lots _' vince. The object of their gather-^ ' frig in Prince George wa9 the organ- foriization of the B. C. Central Telch- ad-' ers' Institute, an organization which aa , northern portion of . the province what the B. C. Teach- i i h th that! ers Federation is to the southern ^ ^^ meets an. dually during the Easter week, but school holidays during this sea- othense wouia n*vi. "�"� h ^ - son are not of sufficient duration to feet the advertising moved, them, a ^^ ^ teachers, from the central Part of the province attending, warehouses The opening meeting of the in-' stitute was held on Tuesday morn- TmonTthe' buyers' were Jacob Leith. I ing with all delegates in attendance, Among tne "">l" _5 tU/% x^y,� when temporary blocks 11 and purchased as sites for and for the storage of material. he buyers were A. P. Andersen and the Prince George Construction Company pointed There have also been a number of Gower, e residential sections of the city as the result of which there c-,w'"in the residential sections of;and sales "i Lnt-. lun" ,. � ,..Lt i.i----- school teaching he city as the Ls likely to be considerable construe-tion during the summer. *�------ the purchasers of these lotS'Were J. rwuuic, i�inuFU1 yi A. Boyd, who bought lots ,13 and 14, high school, read � - � * ^ t)wK^c rxrhn paper on "The Ter A. E. Roberts, who i �ver officers were ap-ln the persons of G. H. school inspector, president; Arnold Armour, of the high '�.staff, secretary-treasurer. At the opening meeting A. D. Noble, principal of the Prince George an interesting Teacher and the Pro-became the discussion purchased lots 17 and 18, in block , fusion � which later bees: 159; R. J. Garvev/who purchased subject of a very helpful di lots 4 and5 in block 47; and 0. Fehr , on the part of the meeting. im.uuP who purchased/lot 17, in block 148. ; the afternoon Miss Elsie Arlarr'd, of The speciaf sale being conducted F,ngen, read a paner on "The Ne-by Messrs/ft. G. Perry, G. W. Mason cessity of'a Good Library, and How and M. & Wiggins will be continued to Obtain The Best Results From for an'other week at the same bar- Its Use." an^ D- M- Moore, of Fort It offers the best op- Fras^. pave a demonstration of.the ' "Studebaker Arithmetic Set." jrain' prices. It o pSrtunity ever presented to acquire Prince George real estate. Details of the sale are furnished in the an- On Wednesday morning the session was devoted to sectional work, nouncement which appears on page nnd in the afternoon T. S. Carmi-eight of this issue". ichael, principal of the Prince George ______- /jnublic school, gave an address on . Joe Flieger, the rodeo star/is "Modern Methods of Testing." Per-travelling out of luck. Sometime I rJanGnt ago Joe lost his famous horse Grey ! ^lectec Eagle, then he lost his dog^ and now p�11/16 he reports the loss of/his suit case. Cook. The container of Jpe^s finery disappeared on Sunday, while Joe was MAYOR THOMPSON'S MACHINE SMASHED IN PRIMARY ELECTION Chicago, April 11.�The political machine which was built up so carefully by Mayor Thompson and State Attorney Crowe went down to defeat in Tuesday's election, Judge Swanson being chosen as Crowe's successor. Otis F. Glenn Lowden, 4Ofe Deneen candidate, has a iong lead over Frank L. Smith inrO the senatorial race, ,and in ^he state campaign Louis Emmerson defeated Governor Small by a/majority of 300,000. Senator CJiarles Deneen has called upon /Attorney-General Carlston to empanel a special jury to investigateythe violence which attended Tuesday's election. HIGH SCHOOL REPORT The following were the results of examinations'held during the week ending April 6th, names being arranged in order of merit: , .Geometry, Grade X.�Hazel Shaw, William Ferry, Eva Morrell, Charlie Perkins, Lawrence McLean, Rose Rice, Herbert Minnion, Dorothea Juest, Spencer Graham, Reginald ''ord, Oswald Harper, Annie Weh-en, Martha Huble, Dixie Blue, Maye Nault, Helen Kyle, Thelma agan, Reginald Bayne,.Samuel Mc-ean, Muriel Williams, Bell Porter, Dorothy Hartley, Virginia Taylor. Latin, Grade X�Spencer Graham, Eva Morrell, Muriel Williams, Rose Rice, Dorothea Guest, Helen Kyle, Hazel Shaw, Herbert Minnion, Lawrence McLean, Maye Nault, Samuel McLean, Dixie Blue, William Ferry, Oswald Harper, Thelma Fagan, Ernestine Stonehouse, Reginald Ford, Martha Huble, Annie Wehren, Chas. Porkins, Dorothy Hartley, Bell Porter. GEOMETRY, Grade IX�Clara Wieland, Erma Goheen, Merle Mal-ery, equal; Ralph Moffatt. Maxine Blue, eoual; Margaret Clapperton, Lucille Watson, Doris Goodell, Jean MacMillan; Leonard Harper, Allan Davis, eoual; Lois Dixon, Patricia arney; Dorothy Bain. Farrar Cash-r, equal: Howard Harper, Lulu "\Toffatt, Terrance Burgess, Christine Thomas, equal; Vera Foot. foJL the /ear. werf : T- $� Carnnchael. %e?\ President; F, G. yanderhoof, ^ce-president; y ^ Mrs. ?'� Martin< Prince secretary-treasurer present at the meet,mrs in T S Ci peared on Sunay? e putting the fouAorse team attached . ��� present at the meet,mrs in t th QZl tage up the long eluded: G. H. Gower, T. S. Carmi- to the QueZl stage up the long hill aeross'irom the steel bridge. Joe had hiir mind en the horses rather thanXhe suit case, and when he reached the top of the hill the suit �ase was missing Rather than de-lay III. Majesty's mail he continued hael. L. R. Stibhs. A. Armour. Miss Milligan, Miss Joan Pack. Miss McKee. Miss M. Wilkinson, J. Izowisky, Miss S. Cowan, Miss and Mrs. L. rs^g � who picked'the suit case up from the roadway is requested to leave Johnson it at McLane's taxi office. | COMMANDER BYRD'S PLANE RETURNS-FROM FLIGHT IN NORTHERN CANADA Miller Field, N. YM April 11.� Mrs. M. K. Miss Mary Mellish, and Miss Bessie Lamb, Vanderhoof; Miss B. Hillis, Shelley; Mrs. F. Buchanan, Fraser Flats, Shelley; Miss Elsie Arland, Engen; Miss Phyllis Belsham Salmon River; Miss Mary Huffman, Fort St. James; Miss Ivy Vye, En-dako; Miss Nettie Legge, Woodpeek- Floyd Bennett and Bert Balchen ar- Mrg_ H AsH) Canyon Creek; rived here today in Commander m&s L. Hel}reson/ pinmore; Miss Byrd's monoplane following a series Ruth Copelanl Sinclair Mills; Miss of test flights which were conducted. m: Winkler, Longworth; Miss E. in northern Canada. The plane is Brooke> Hulatt; Miss D. O'Neill, said to be in shape for the Antarc- Newlands; Miss q. Glover, McBride; tic flight of Byrd's contemplated Misg L Q Andrews, South Fort survey of the South Pole. I ARTHUR SHELFORD IS THE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE FOR OMINECA RIDING George; Miss M. L. Williams, Tabor Creek; Miss A. Munro, Loos; Miss H. Lentsman, Bend; Miss H. Drag-an; Aleza Lake; J. C. Long, Willow River; A. B. Clark, Dome Creek; Miss M. V. Sleightholm, Mud River; J Qiscome; Miss h T , � -i 11 a + i ~�� Miss M. V. Lake, April 11�At a large- sJh Qiscome; Miss ly attended convention of the Con- Longworth South; servative electors of the Ommeca J Godfrey, Fraser Lake riding which was held ^" !"J \ J riding which was held d !"J MisJ Harriet Stone, Burns Lake; B SS_ ^h wS^ �_�"_ I S�^�yS5 the candidate of the Conservative party to contest the Omineca riding with Hon. A. M. Manson, attorney-general, the sitting member for the constituency. Mr. Shelford has taken an active interest in public affairs since making his home in this section of the province and is expected to poll the full strength of his party in the approaching elec- tion. There' were three aspirants for the nomination in the persons of E. A. Mitchell, of Vanderhoof, Major Robert Lowe, of -Burns Lake, and Arthur Shelford, of Wistaria, and it required ten ballots to determine the choice. There were forty-two delegates in attendance at the convention, representative of thirty-one polling' divisions in the riding. A public dance will be given in the ballroom of the Prince George botel tomorrow evening, commencing at 9 o'clock. Music will be supplied by an accordion. Thompg^_. Misg $ A; Falmer> ster; Miss G. Klein, McBride; Miss G. Everets, Croydon and Miss E. G. Owen, Beaver River. During their brief stay in the city the visitors were the guests of the Prince George teachers at' a_ dance given in their honor in the ballroom of the Prince George Hotel, at which little Nona Holgson gave an exhibition of step dancing, and on Wednesday they were the tea guests of Mrs. G. H. Gower. The" gathering was perhaps the most important one held in the city not only in point of numbers but by reason of the very large section of the province represented. It also marked the beginning of the holding of important conventions in. Prince George as the most accessible paint for the central interior. In view of this it is a matter for regret that arrangements were not made for a formal welcoming of the teachers to the city by Mayor A. M. Patterson COSTES AND LEBRIX HEARD FROM AFTER SILENCE OF MORE THAW HALF A DAY Paris, April 9.�Anxiety for the safety of the aviators Costes and Lebrix was relieved tonight, following a silence of more than sixteen hours, for which time the airmen had been overdue. They were making ai 2500-mile flight from Tokio to Indo-China. They have been reported safe. DELAY AT OTTAWA MAY RESULT IN POSTPONEMENT OF GENERAL ELECTIONS Victoria, April 11.�So far there has been no confirmation of the report that the provincial general elections will be delayed until late in the fall. The delay at Ottawa in connection with the return of the railway grant lands to British Columbia is the basis for the. reported postponement of the elections. It is surmised that the return of the railway lands is a factor in the deal which Premier MacLean is negotiating for the sale of the P.G.E. railway, and that his chances at the polls will be improved the more definite if he is able to state the railway sale negotiations stand. JACK DEMPSEY STATES HE HAS MADE HIS LAST APPEARANCE IN RING New York, April 11.�Jack Demp-sey, former heavyweight champion, made the announcement here today that" he is definitely through with the fighting game and that he will not fight again under any circumstances. ' DominionDay Celebration Will Give Big Prizes Every Admission Ticket Will Have Chance For $500 Prize In . Sweepstake on Race Finance Committee Will Provide Spectacular Attractions For Grand Stand .The members of the finance committee of the Dominion Day celebration, at their meeting on Thursday evening, decided to provide prizes aggregating $2,400 for the horse racing which will feature the big celebration again this year. The races last year were divided by the Edwards stables, of Kamloops, and the Johnson stables, of the Cariboo Road. The races were good, but the competition was not sufficiently keen. This year with better prizes offering at least one or two aditional stables are expected to be represented. A number of local men are making arrangements to make a bid for the prizes in the two big events and intend to bring a car of horses which can be depended upon for performance. The members of the committee alo favorably considered the proposal to have a ' big sweepstake - in connection with each day's racing. Admission tickets for the race meet will go on sale early in June, and attached to each ticket sold will be a coupon. The coupons on the first day will be placed in a box and a sufficient number will be drawn from it to cover the starters in the Prince George Derby. The owner of the ticket drawing the winning horse in the Derby will receive a prize of �.^00. The process will be repeated on the second day of the meet, sufficient coupons being drawn to cover the horses in the Quesnel Stakes. The owner of the winning ticket in this race will also be paid $500. The members of the finance committee have been endeavoring for some time past to secure grand stand attractions. A number of responses have been received and are beinp: investigated. The decision in this matter will be reached at a later meeting of the committee. .It was decided to call for tenders fnr concessions in connection with the cc'-ebration, th^ ?.nme to be in the hands' of the secretary on or before Saturday. April 21. The advertisement respecting concessions appears in another column. MONTREAL MAROONS TAKE THIRD GAME IN FINAL SERIES FOR STANLEY CUP Montreal, April 11.�The 'Montreal Maroons last night took the third game in the final series for the Stanley cup when they defeated the New York Rangers with a 2-0 score. This gives them a lead of one over the New York Rangers for the cup representing the world's championship in hockey. The first game of the series was taken by the Maroons with a 2-1 score, but in the second encounter the Rangers registered a 4-1 victory. In the final series the team winning three pames becomes the victors. ' The fourth game will be played tomorrow night. If the Maroons take it they become the holders of the Stanley Cup for the year, but if the Rangers can nose them out a fifth game will become necessary. , J. B. Lambert Purchases George Street Corner Toronto, Apri. 11.�Colonel W. Grant Morden, one of the promoters of the British Empire Steel Corporation, left for New York today, having partially recovered from the illness which attacked him in this city. WEATHER REPORT "Unsettled weather conditions," is the prospect which R. B. Carter, local meteoi'ological agent, holds out for the next few days: The following were the maximum and minimum temperature readings for the week ending Tuesday, April 10th. Wednesday ......................37 Thursday -�..........-.....�44 Friday .................--...........49 Saturday ..........................50 Sunday ........----................63 Mionday..........................52 Tuesday..........................46 17 29 26 15 35 ,35 32 There is a business side to conven- them coming. tiona of this nature and the extending of the glad hand helps to keep JAPAN IS READY TO GIVE CONSIDERATION TO WORLD PEACE TREATY Tokio, April 9.�Japan is ready to participate with the United States in the preparation of a .treaty de signed to secure world peace. In official circles the opinion was ex pressed that there shoud be agree ment on the main questions anc littlo difficulty in working out the details. UNITED STATES HAD 23,127,315 MOTOR VEHICLES REGISTERED Washington, April 11.�It was disclosed today that there were 23, 127,315 motor vehicles registered in the United States during the yea 1927. The registration shows on motor vehicle for every 5.13 per sons, the highest showing in the world. 'roperty Wat Bought At First Sale Of City Lots By Local Syndicate Wag Held Under Ground Leases For Several Years By The Tenants Now In Occupation J. B. Lambert this week became he owner of the double corner at he intersection of George Street and Third Avenue which is occupied by the business premises of the Leith Hardware and A. M. Patterson. The ot was purchased at the first sale f Prince George property by a syndicate of railway men who subse, quently incorporated, as the Prince George Investment and Development "ompany, and after receiving ground ents from the property since the iate of purchase the investment company last week effected the sale___ of the lot to J B. Lambert at a price of $6,600. As the lot has a frontage j 110 ft on 3rd avenue and a front-a'ge on George street it is considered one of the best buys made in the city for several-years. Just what arrangements the present tenants will make has yet to be decided. LONDON TYPIST RECEIVES CHALLENGE FROM GERTRUDE EDERLE FOR SWIM London, April 9.�Miss Gleitz, the. London typist, who has negotiated the channel swim and is also credited with swimming the Strait cf Gibraltar, has received a challenge from Gertrude Ederle, of the United States for a channel swim this summer. GERMAN PLANE BREMEN , TOOK OFF ON ATLANTIC FLIGHT THIS MORNING Dublin, April 12.�The German monoplane Bremen, which has been awaiting favorable weather condi- . tions for several days for its flight to New York, took off this morning at 5.28 o'clock. If favorable weather conditions continue it is .expected to reach the United States by Friday noon. Pilot Captain Herman Koehl has as passengers Baron von Huenfeld and Arthur Spindler. CANADA IN AGREEMENT WITH NEW YORK STATE ON ST. LAWRENCE IMPROVEMENT New York, April 9.�A new note has been received by the state department which indicates that the Canadian and United States governments are now in accord upon the matter of the improvement of the St. Lawrence waterway. BRITISH TEACHERS UNION FAVOR MALE TEACHERS FOR THE BOYS CLASSES London, April 9.�The national union of teachers in conferance at Cambridge today entered a strong protest against the teachings of movie broadcasting, and that of the syndicated press of the nation. President Carler, of the national association of school masters,, addressed the conference on the division of the teachers work. He expressed himself strongly on the advisability of having all boys under the direction of male teachers and all girls under the supervision of female teachers only. EMIGRATION TIDE FLOWS INTO CANADA'S PORTS ON THE ATLANTIC SIDE Halifax, April 10.�The week-end rush of immigrants was continued today when two more liners landed 1259 passengers. The vessels sailed from Glasgow and Hamburg. The adjuster was busy this week fixing the loss in conection with the fire which destroyed the Sam Falvo rooming house and store on the night of Wednesday, April 4th. The owner estimates his loss at $4000 on the building, and S1500 on his stock and furniture. Insurance was carried to the extent of $4500. CANADIAN NATIONAL SHOWS A GAIN OF SEVEN PER CENT FOR, PAST MONTH Montreal, April 9.�The gross earnings of the Canadian National R*