nN 4 PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1928. Five Cents. Population in Peace River Has Doubled in Year Crop Was Down 30 Per Cent Much Higher Than Years o ..�_,,. ol North Greatly Interested RCS"1n Vrojeced Auto Highway To Prince George ?h0UC -i Piuser government agent at ' roipe says the wheat yield of tSh Columbia section of the P-tr district will be short of VS He places the yield at 260 000 to 250 000 bushels. This is " Sol bushels short of the es- made in the spring, but the Sn count upon 500.000 bushels ^he shortage In the wheat rroi.ho Past season witnessed wonder ful strides in development and set-flSien The population nearly doub-d dSr ng the year, and the present rosnect for the ensuing year is even H ter As a matter of fact a large nmbT'of intending settlers are no%y Sng into the district as the harvest Sk on the outside is finished up. The wheat crop is harvested and threshed and while the yield is down 30 per cent, from that of the previous vear the wheat is grading much higher -\s the result of the open season ,rore' land has been prepared for spring seeding than in any previous Sr the increase being fully 100 per rfnt With an ordinary season the Peace River section of the Fort George district will be second to none in western Canada next year RALPH McKAY, OF REGINA MISSING FROM UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO London, Oct. 31.�Ralph McKay, a Regina student, aged 21, is missing from the university of Western Ontario and the authorities fear he has met with foul play. -------:-----o------------- DEMAND $500,000 TAX ARREARS FROM BREWING COMPANY OF HAMILTON Hamilton, Oct. 31.�The federal government has issued a writ against the Hamilton Brewing Association to secure the collection of sales and gal-lonage tax arrears amounting to $500,-000 000. Contract Let for Building for Home Oil Distributors Company Plans To Open For Business in Prince George On Saturday November 24th Camp Cooks Lose by Late Decision of Supreme Court Ruling of Board of Adjustment They Are Entitled To Minimum Wage Is Upset Milling Companies Win On Decision Reversing Judgment of the B. C. Court WHEAT POOL ASKED TO INVESTIGATE HUDSON BAY SHIPPING ROUTE Saskatoon, Oct. 31�W. Moss Thrasher, secretary of the United Farmers of Canada, has suggested to the Sas-katchean wheat pool that it make an early investigation of the shipping possibilities by way of Hudson Bay. EMPLOYEES ON UNITED STATES RAILWAYS WILL ' SECURE WAGE INCREASE Victoria, Washington, Oct. 31.�The emergency board appointed by President Cool-I idge to investigate the wage dispute 31.�Word has been I on western railways' has recommended Prince George Construction Company Undertakes To Complete Work In Three Weeks Leslie Martin, of the Home Oil Distributors, was in the city this week and let a contract with the Prince George Construction company for the erection of the buildings required by his company for opening in business in Prince George on Saturday, Nov- received from Ottawa to the effect that the Supreme Court of Canada has held that the order passed by the board of adjustment -appointed under the British Columbia Minimum Wage Act bringing cooks and flunkies in the lumber camps within the scope of the act and entitled to the minimum wage, is ultra vires of the province and invalid. Details upon � which the judg- i ment is based have yet to be received, j The question as to whether cooks and flunkies were entitled to the benefit of the established minimum wage has been the chief point of contention since te legislation went into effect. Some months ago two men employed in the camps in the Prince George v district sought the benefit of the act. Their application to the county court was refused following which the department of labor intervened when the decision of the lower court was upset and the ruling of the department that cooks and flunkies were entitled to the minimum wage was affirmed. The lumber associations of the pro- a wage increase of 6V2 per cent. ember 24th. The buildings include a I vince then decided to make a test case warehouse 30x50 feet, and a storage j and the issue was taken to the Su-tank with a capacity of 15,000 gallons I preme Court of Canada. The argu-and a pumping and metering station. | ment used against the inclusion of The contractors have undertaken to! cooks and flunkies was that while Residents of the district are^ greatly j complete the" building "within" ~tkree | their hours were long they were not interested in the projected automobile road to connect the Peace River with Prince George by way of the Pine Pass. This is regarded as of more immediate importance than the long deferred railway connection, and there is a feeling that the people of Prince George in their indifference to the automobile road have neglected the northern part of their district which is much richer in resources than are the districts to the south of them. BOY OF SEVENTEEN MAKES RETURN TRIP ON GRAF ZEPPELIN AS STOWAWAY Paris. Oct. 31.�The German dirigible Graf Zeppelin on the return trip to weeks. Mr. Martin says the Home Oil Distributors handle a Canadian product as far as possible. Much of their crude oil is secured from wells in the Calgary district which are owned by the com- j continuously employed ,and that lit was unreasonable that they should be paid the minimum wage for the full number of hours included in their day's duties. Victoria, Oct. 29.�The entire lumber pany. The" present output of these\ industry is excluded from the opera-wells, however, is insufficient to meet j tion^of the Nttmmum. Wage Act^as the demands, and the surplus oil is brought by steamers from the wells of California. In the movement of the oil supplies from California the company keeps three vessels of the C.G.M. in constant operation. While Mr. Martin does not promise any lowering in the price of gasoline he asserts the Home Oil Distributors product is of a very high quality, and that the company's service to dealers will be the very best. Germany from the United States was ; J. D. Gillis will be the local repre- reported crossing the French coast in the vicinity of Nantes, and was headed for its home port. Friedrichsafen. Nov. 1.�The dirigible Graf Zeppelin arrived here at 7:06 a. m.. having made the flight of 4003 miles from Lakehurst. N. J., in 68 hours and 56 minutes, thus establish- \ ing a record for the eastward crossing of the Atlantic. sentative of the company, but Mr. Martin will return to Prince George to assist him in getting the business started. LARGE VOTE EXPECTED IN-PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS result of the Supreme Court of Canada order today, in the view of government officials, who added that a new order would probably have to be issued to make the regulations effective. If this interpretation is correct, only the catering industry is affected by the B. C. Minimum Wage law. The judgment which the Supreme Ccurt of Canada has restored was given by Judge Cayley in Vancouver in dismissing an action by H. E. Field to recover $222 from International Timber Co. The claim was for a balance of wages, for Field contended that he should have been paid on the basis of a 13-hour day at the rate of 40 cents an hour. The company had paid him $3.45 per day. Until this judgment had been set aside the British Columbia logging in- New York. Oct. 29.�The Graf Zeppelin ,in pursuance of orders from its Gorman owners, left Lakehurst, .N. J. at 1.54 this morning on the return flight, the projected visit to the central cities in the United States having been abandoned. At last accounts the dirigible was moving out over the Atlantic honvward bound. A newspaper representative on the dirigible has wired his paper that a boy of seventeen was discovered on the Zeppelin when it was well on its way. The lad had secreted himself so well as a stowaway that he will earn the distinction of having been the first to beat his way across the Atlantic by the air route. -------;---------------O----------------------- WILD HORSE MEAT FINDS READY SALE IN MARKETS IN PORTLAND, OREGON ( Oakland, Oct. 30.�Wild horse meat is uncling a ready sale in the markets �' Portland and other coast cities and '!> soiling at about one-half the price of wm. Horse meat has been sold as a for humans in European markets many years, but it was not until prices commenced to soar that for beef ,.' "t01t was made to utilize the great mLi ? orses which run wild in sev" m,k\�, lhn astern states as a beef substitute, a number of companies �e been formed to capture the wild 3s Which t d to capture the wild 3s ,Which are tnen shipped to the marketing points for slaughter. W- M. McINNiS RECEIVES DISAL NOTICE FROM PROVINCIAL SERVICE of \v i announces the dismissal of \v uV? �ounces the dismissal or in v McInnte, official administrat-servwVa"C0UVer< from the provincial bernr v McInnis was for a num-for tho . cml service commissioner J- we province. CAUSES EAK IN NEWSPRINT PRICES ON TUESDAY NEXT j dustry was liable to flunkies and dish- Washington. Oct. 31.�There*are 43,-000.000 names on the voters' lists throughout the United States which will be used for the presidential election on Tuesday next. Just how many of these electors will go to the polls is a matter of conjecture but some place the number as high us 38.000.000 while more conservative estimators place the number at 35,000,000. It is expected that for the first time in the history of presidenial contests the women will make up a majority of the voters. In the last presidential election in 1924 the total vote cast was 29,091,417. AIR MINISTRY DESIRES AIRDROME IN EVERY CITY IN BRITAIN London, Oct. 31.�The air ministry has expressed the desire of securing an airdrome in every important city in Great Britain. In compliance with the air ministry's request the cities of Manchester and Nottingham have already purchased the necessary lands. -------------o------------- A general meeting of the members of the Prince George Agricultural and Industrial association will be held in the Prince Geoige hotel on the even-insr of Wednesday. November 8th. The business will include the consideration of the financial statement and the plans for the ensuing year. An invitation is extended to the citizens generally to identify themselves with the association and to attend the meeting. -------------o------------- A re-arrangement of provincial police officers in this section of the province went into effect this week. Constable Hugh McGlinchy of this city changes places with L. R. P. Dickson, of McBride. Earl Lewis has been transferred to Pouce Coupe, changing places with A .T. Batchelor, who will arrive in Prince George in a few days. H. L. McKinnep has been transferred from Giscome to Terrace. o- washers for arrears of wages on a basis of 40 cents per hour from the time those employees came on duty until they quit. Under the Court of Appeal judgment, the logging industry, it was estimated, was liable for approximately $300,000. This liability has been removed by the Supreme Court of Canada. There were 189 names added to the voters' list as the result of declarations by licence-holders and* householders filed at the city hall by the end of the month. Of this number 64 represent licence-holders. The effort to place names on the list is taken to mean that a contest will feature the approaching municipal elections. Mayor Patterson will be in the field for a third term and it is said ex-mayor F. D. Taylor may oppose him. Of the aldermen Messrs. Moffat. Griffith and Opie, retire, but it is said all of them will offer for re-election. Ingenika Mines Continues Work During Winter Ferguson Properties Justify High Hopes For Biff Producing: Mine Land Company Completed Surveys of Nearly 15,000 Acres During The Summer Laurence Canty, of Vancouver, arrived in the city on Monday, having made the trip out from the Ingenika River. He says the outlet of Summit Lake is freezing and that the waterway will soon be closed to travel unless rains set in. Coming out it was ne-cesary to break ice for a considerable distance in the Crooked River. Mr. Canty is more firmly convinced of the worth of the north country in a mineral and agricultural way than ever before. During the summer the Ingenika Mines Limited pushed devel- \ British Airship Will Outclass Graf Zeppelin R-101 Has Two Decks and Elevator and Accommodation F.n1 illC Passengers United States Navy Department Has Let Contracts For Larger Dirigibles New York, Oct. 29.�Contrary to popular belief the Graf Zeppelin, IiU-est of a long line of famous air.-hip?, was the fourth dirigible to fssay a flight across the Atlantic. 3ener.il! opinion has her as the third, forgetting, as the public is wont to fov;i*.y. a pioneer effort which failed when Walter Wellman and the crew of the non-rigid America came down beside a ship 1.000 miles off Cape Hatteras on an attempted flight from Atlantic City to Ireland in 1910. The second lighter-than-air c-aft to brave a crossing of the North Atlantic 8nd the first to achieve success, was the British dirigible R-34, commanded by Major Scott, which flew from Scotland to New York and back to England in July 1919. A German sister of the Graf Zeppelin, the Los Angeles, then called the ZR-3, was the third when Dr. Hugo Eckener, and many of the present crew of the Graf Zeppelin, delivered her at Lakehurst, N. J., in a 5:000-mile non-stop flight from Fried-richshafen, Germany, birthplace of the Zeppelins. There can be no argument that the Graf Zeppelin is the largest and most luxuruious craft of her kind yet to have taken the air. She dwarfs her immediate predecessor by 100 feet or more in length and by approximately 1.000.000 cubic feet of lifting gas capacity. opment on its several properties and I But a public addicted to fresh su- the work done more than justified the hopes entertained. Between twenty-five and thirty men were employed on the claims throughout the summer and perlatives and new wonders need not be discouraged; the airship R-101, being completed now by the British, eclipses the Graf Zeppelin by about work will be 'continued during the j 1.500,000 cubic feet gas capacity, is winter with a crew of about twelve. The Consolidated Company has also been doing considerable work during the summer on some properties it is interested in on Bower Creek, a tributary of the Finlay which puts into the river above Deserter's canyon. The result of this work is said to have been highly satisfactory-. In addition to the mining development the Finlay River Land and Development Company, in which W. R. Wilson is largely interested, has proceeded with the survey of ap'proxi-mately 15.000 acres' of land, and next j summer it is the intention to clear' and fence a considerable acreage of these lands. One of the first developments in connection with the lands will be the testablishment of a stock farm. Mr. Wilson is the owner of a farm In Alberta on which he has a designed to carry 100 passengers instead of- twenty,.has two aecks and an elevator to the, German ship's one-floor "walk-up" and will he able to carry a paltry twenty to thirty tons more load . It is also worthy of note that the United States navy has just signed contracts with the Goodyear-Zeppelln Company, of Akron, O.. for two dirigibles as large or larger than the R-101 which will outdo anything yet attempted abroad by having an airplane hangar and several planes inside their montrous hulls. The Friedrichshafen-Lakehurst flight of the Graf Zeppelin was most interesting perhaps, because it constituted the first attempt at commercial passenger carrying by air from Europe to America. Ten passenger cabins with two berths each in the after part ruimber PercheTons and it is his intention to transfer the stock farm from the prairies to the northern portion of British Columba. Mr. Canty is confident of a very provide accommodations for twenty passengers. Not all of the passages for the flight to America were sold to the general public�political and business reasons, no doubt, put most rapid mineral and agricultural devel- I u"ol"csa *CJ*fUI,I'> '1U UUU1JL- iJUL ��*>l �E,i of ts. w......v (nhnforv to thp ! of the airship's European passengers opment of the country tributary to the Finlay River, and there is the greatest confidence that within a very short time the railway will be extended to Finlay Forks and ultimately carried to tide water at Stewart. -o� The lowest temperature of the fall was recorded last night an official reading showing a minimum temperature of 10 degrees above zero. G. C. SINCLAIR REPORTS BUSY SEASON IN OCTOBER IN EMPLOYMENT BUREAU G. C. Sinclair reports the month of October the busiest one since the of- aboard�but among those able to obtain the coveted trans-Atlantic tickets were four Americans who iumped at the opportunity to pay $3,000 each for the ride. If the Graf Zeppelin should be put into a regular, or even an irregular, service back and forth over the Atlantic, as has been suggested, it is likely rates would suffer a reduction, but compared to the prices paid by ordinary ocean travelers for palatial suites on the fastest liners, they are far from seeming exorbitant. fice was opened with the exception of j The Graf Zeppelin's engines, In ad- those handling the movement of harvest labor. Vacancies reported numbered 335, applications 365, and replacements 412. The excess of placements was due to the bringing of 47 tie-makers into the district. There is still a scarcity of tie-makers and it may increase as difficulty is being encountered in securing experienced men. Orders for loggers are speedily filled. POLICE BELIEVE FRANK STEWART WAS MURDERED 29.-"as the result ad"m nifd c�ndition in the Can-niain tn spnnt industry, due in the ver",production- the Price of broke today to $50 per ton. The members of the ladies' aid of Knox church will meet tit the residence of Mrs. W. K. Nichols on the afternoon of Thursday. November 8th. at three o'clock. -------------o------------- H.' L. Gray, of Vancouver, spent a few days in the citv this week in making Blue Ribbon Tea better known to local consumers. SIov. 1.�The car o Stewart, missing taxi driver, has been found on the prairie a few miles west of this city. Bullet holes in the windshield and blood stains on the seat of the car lead the police to believe that Stewart has been murdered. -------------o------------- WEATHER REPORT VISITING AIRMEN LEFT TODAY ON THEIR WAY NORTH TO WHITEHORSE R. B. Carter, local meteorological agent, reports the barometer as high and says no break in the present fine Pilots Clyde Wann and John W. Patterson left Prince George Thursday afternoon in their plane 'Northern Light" following a rather profitable week in this city. In addition to catering to those desiring to make flights the airmen put in a lot of work on their plane preparing it for the kjw temperatures they will have to face in. the north.'- They intend to make stops at several of the towns be-tv.een Prince George and Hazelton. weather should be anticipated for the j from which point they will hop to next few days. The following were the Telegraph Creek, and from there to maximum and minimum temperature Whitehorse. The Yukon Airways will dition to performing equally well on benzol or 'blue gas' are worthy of special comment because they are divp'*t-ly reversible for purposes of manoeuvring the airship. Their propellers need no heavy gears in order to make them push instead of pull; this is accomplished by chanstfnc the position of the cam shaft and thus the timing < the motors so that they actually run backward. The Graf Zeppelin is driven by five 550 horse power Maybach engines which give her a cruising speed of 70 and a high speed of 80 miles an hour and are designed to supply a cruising range of approximately 6.200 miles dn the normal fuel capacity. TWO NUNS GAVE THEIR LIVES IN FUTILE EFFORT TO SAVE MOTHER SUPERIOR Ottawa, Oct. 29.�Fire last night destroyed the St. Francis de Salle school. Sister St. Cyrille, aged 64. was ill in the school, and heroic efforts were made by Sister Margerite Hull and Sister Annette to get her out of the building. They persisted so lone in their rescue effort that all three lost their lives. Another nun. Sister readings for the week ending Tuesday ! have two or three planes in the service J Rose de la Groix, who assisted in the October 30th. Wednesday ............. '............ 49 27 Thursday ..��......"..................... 54 32.5 Friday ..................................... 46 11 Saturday.............................�...... 46 30 Sunday................................... 47. 28 Monday .....................'................. 54 29 Tuesday............................,....... 55 28 The temperature for Friday last was the lowest so far this fall, the minimum reading being eleven degrees above zero . J between Whitehorse and Dawson this j rescue effort, was so badly burned winter. The company has no postal contract but is engaged in the carriage of mail, express and passengers between Dawson and Whitehorse and has found it so profitable that the service is to be enlarged. The planes are fitted with skids which makes landing fairly easy. The trip from Whitehorse to Dawson is covered in j that she cannot live. PRESIDENT GARVEY WILL BE DEPORTED FROM CANADA Ottawa, Oct. 31.�Marquis Garvey, the self styled president of an African republic, who arrived recently from England, has been detained by the Canadian immigration authorities in four hours as "against twelve days by Montreal and will be deported to Ber-the�dog-sled method of travel. muda.