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13. No. 23.
PRINCE   GEORGE   CITIZEN THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1930
Five Cents
T. D, Pattullo is Chosen Leader of Liberal Party
Explains   Failure   of   the   Late Government to Complete ��"   The P.G.E. Railway
SUPPORT WAS LACKING
Took  Convention  Off   Its  Feet
With Ringing Denunciation
of Tolmie Government
Kamloops, May" 31�The election of T D Pattullo, leader, of the opposition in the provincial legislature, to the : leadership of the-Liberal party in the in-oviiice, was the chief business transited at the first session of the Liberal convention. The forme^. minister oi lands in the Liberal administration was given a great ovation-by the delegates! and found himself quite unable for a time to acknowledge the honor
done" him.
Mrs Mary Ellen Smith was re-elect i-d" for a second term as president of the B. C. Liberal Association, following which she was presented with a :magnificent bouquet by Mrs. Paul Smith;                                 .���".-
Other officers elected are as follows: Hun President. Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King; hon. vice-president,. T. D. Pattullo; vice-presidents. Dr. J. J. Gil-Lis (Yale-Cariboo>; MDugald Donaghy, K.C i Vancouver and Lower Mainland!; G. S; Pearson, M.L.A. (Vancou-\er Island); Mrs. J. Keen yay to the most northerly point !�at ran bo reached by auto on the provincial highway system.   Their trip way rocan a great deal to this section. n.s n has been taken with  a view to disseminating  just what  this part  p' "�� Province has to offer for the en ;">vmrni of the tourist.    The party i mvelllnt? in a Buick car, which is ful ,'., .(>"u'Pped  for  any road  emergency c\\ '"ay be met with.   From Hazel-ton the party will    make its way t< m;=i>ce George to Sum l�w.ako on the Arctic watershed.
Miller says there is very littl isK rnins !� what this nortion of Brit in ivk1  m]?? hRS t0 �ffer to the auto f'vs  hnai! -P Panned the trip to gain Tl ho rKllnf?rmation on the matter 1  np t�nds the trip an  inviting onr it known to the reader Inn, and if he finds i ''    rlte11 Prospective tour 'What they can expect. Asid 'l"n,ri1.�Tever'  the  highway  h of thl ^as-Jin "Merest for th on !�   Pa5lfic states as form ^"l^'^t Unk In the pro to Alaska.
 GARTEN
 LAKE IN
ALLAN WATER
 5�The" body o  Canada Airway
 in forest P  from th  Wate  attempting "
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Frank Knapp was sentenced on /Tonday by T. R. Lloyd, justice of the >eace, at McBride, to six months im-irisonrnent: upon conviction for a ii'each of the government liquor act ;t Valemount. Knapp was summoned o appear on the charge about a month igo but failed to do so. He was re-:ently picked up by the police in a ;hack- in the vicinity of Albreda. As le had previous conviction registered against him the sentence of imprisonment was imposed.
Queen Phyllis Was Crowned in Between Showers
Attractive     English     Ceremony
Grows   in   Favor  in  Prince
George in Few Years
PARADE BIG SUCCESS
IK>so
 o w\  has  th?
RANK   KNAPP  GIVEN SENTENCE OF SIX MONTHS IMPRISONMENT ON BOOTLEGGING  CHARGE
Tractor is Now Hauling Supplies Up SiboIaMt.
hildren of the Schools Displayed Great Rivalry in Turning Out Decorated Cars
The May Day festivities which were ield on Saturday under the auspices >r" the Women's Hospital Auxiliary vere the most elaborate-in the history if the city. During the first two years t -was difficult to get the children '.�orked up over the crowning of the \.lay Queen, but they are all for the �eremony now, and take a keen in-erest in. the elections which deter-nine the succession.
Caterpilllar  Rises  4000   Feet In
Six Miles and Does Work
Satisfactorily
BIG MINE IN MAKING
Large Body of High-Grade Silver
Lead Ore Being Opened by >      Long   Cross-Cut  Tunnel
F. T. Bustin, local representative of the Morrison Tractor & Equipment Company, of Vancouver, has returned from one of the most interesting trips he has had in his experience, the ob-. iect of which was the delivery of a :20-ton tractor on the mining property being developed by the Consolidated Mining Company on Sibola or Sweeney mountain, within forty miles from Gardner Channel on the Pacific coast. The tractor "was taken by rail as far as Burns Lake, but this left 115 miles to be negotiated before the mine could be reached. Mr. Bustin drove the tractor forty mil&s to Ootsa Lake. Here it was knocked down, loaded on a boat and taken the remainder of the way up the lake and the Tahtsa river to the mine landing. It is now engaged in moving supplies from the boat landing to the mine, a distance of six miles in the course of which it makes �x climb of 4000 feet up the mountain ude.
Siboia or Sweeney mountain means nothing to the average resident of British Columbia. He wouid even have difficulty in locating it upon the map. but within a year or so it will doubtless bs well known. It is one of the districts which; during the past two .....      atten-
Saturday opened with threatening: ;ion of tne consolidated Company in .veather conditions, but the children | minerai development. High up on the ,vere not to be cheated out of their; fountain a discovery of silver-lead' ore how.  and  although    there  were , nu-
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merous   light     showers    the   Maypole Jance and coronation ceremonies were arried out without serious discomfort r inconvenience.
The decision of the hospital auxiliary to offer a pri?e for the best decorated car proved a very happy move in hat it resulted in reviving the spirit f  the  pageant  which died  out some years  ago.   and  brought  out  about  a dozen decorated  cars and   floats.    In he main these represented the efforts f the children of the several classes ttending  the   city  and   Fort   George chools,   under  the  direction   of  their
, respective  teachers.    There  seems    to
LIBERALS VOTE WITH LABOR .GOVERNMENT   TO   DEFEAT
REVIEW OF NAVAL TREATY
London, June 3.�The move of the Conservative wing of the opposition to have the London naval treaty, which came cut of the five-power conference, .submitted to an examination by a special committee of the house of commons, was decisively defeated on a_division yesterday. The Conservative mustered 201 votes" for thei "motion but the Liberal vote went solidly with the government to negative the resolution with a total vote of 282. The Conser-vaive proposal was that a special committee of eleven members examine the treaty and report their findings to the house.
Monday July 28 Is Day Set For Federal Election
I Prairie Provinces Promise "To Be
Battle Ground  For Control
of Government
Junkers F-13 Arrives in City From Vancouver
Will Engage in Commercial Flying  During  Summer  With  � Base at Six Mile Lake
MACHINE COST �30,000
Built on Lines of Bremen and Is Powered With The Famous Junkers 65 Motor .
W. A. Joerss. w!.o sp:nt-last summer
TARIFF  IS  ELIMINATED
Ontario and   Quebec   Expected To Vote Solidly As In The Last Election
in flying in this n. u. with   Dick   Corles.�.   a.
The proclamation for the election in the Cariboo riding was issued by Returning Officer J. O. Wilson on Monday. ' Nominations are to be made at the court house in this city on Monday, July 14th between the hours of noon and twelve o'clock in the afternoon, and the electors will go to the polls at eieht o'clock on the mornig of Monday .July 28th.
The prorogation of parliament took place late Friday evening, and it was dissolved immediately after. Although there was considerable haste in clearing off the order paper during the past few days- of the session the decision to bring on the elections at as early a date as possible did not come in the nature of_a_ surprise. This intention was declared over a month and it was only a question as to
.n association i fBU- aiIU '" ""? ""*-' ." ji"^"^ i-Pri   ot'pr   Mip i now so1"-11"1 supply could be voted.
, ived   over   the
was made, assays from which gave values as high as $100 to the ton. Rich as the ore was it was not a poor man's property by lack of transportation facilities. It fell to the Consolidated company to develop, and systematic work has been going forward for the past two years. The driving of a long cross-cut tunnel has engatred the attention of the company's engineers. This has been driven into the mountain for 1300 feet, and it is calculated it will have to be advanced another 1500 feet before the big vein disclosed higher up the mountain will be intersected. If. when cut,'the vein is found to hold
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lave been a misconception of the rules j will have another big silver-lead proper the contest, in that some of the i erty � added to its list of producers, classes prepared floats on trucks, while During the past winter work was others confined themselves to the de- j continued on the property under the ceorating of cars. When the judges direction of H. C. Hushes with a crew came to award the prize they ruled of twenty men, but it is the intention out all of the trucks as not being cars: -c speed the work up during the sum-rilhin the rules of the contest.    Thi.-; .per   months  with    continuous  ei^ht-
ti    th
)ut out of the running a number of he more attractive displays, including he ship with its crew of sailors en-eied by Miss Wilkinson's class, the lcat "Canada" entered by Miss Horns-y's class, and a very attractive , np-anese    garden  float    ontered    by the
mer   months  with    ct              g
hour shifts. This will involve a considerable increase in the number of miners employed.
H. C. Hughes is the mining engineer who gained notoriety last summer by being chewed up by a bear, which nearly cost him his life'   When he had
classes of Miss McMillan and Miss j been brought out to Burns Lake blood-Roberts. Of the decorated cars those poisoning set in and he was rushed to entered by the classes of T. S. Car- Vancouver in a plane for treatment, nichael and V. L.- Chapman, each re-j He has settled convictions upon the  bfli                             h I           d          i           to whether a bear
nichael and V. L. Chapman, each rej He has  settled c
presenting butterflies, were very much I mooted question as to whether a
admired, but they were passed over by; will attack a man without provocation.
eason of the fact the drivers were not ! h^ knows his bear did. This, however.
n costume, and the miscellaneous na- j v a< but. one of the closo calls he has
ure,of .the. dresses of the children car- had since being engaged on the bided as passengers. The children of I \^o\n development. Upon another oc-A T. Warder's class in the Connaught | casioh he was travelling over tne school had a very artistic float, and its frozen surface of one of the lakes in occupants were all' suitably costumed. a motor. It was good going and the hut the scheme of decoration was held I motor was opened up to give its best, not to have been carried out so faith-; Before Hughes realized what had hap-fully as the float entered by Miss Mil- j ,>ened the car had run into open water. Mean's class in the same school, and its momentum was so "'great that it ^he award was given to the latter. It was uot until the water oame through was very pleasing to noto the pride the ,ne bottom of the car that Hughes members of the respective classes took realized the fix he was in. He man-in thoir class entries in the parade. It ! 0UPCj t0 ^vi out but is wondering wnai would.be too much to say  they were I n-s nPXt thriller will be.
ratisfied with the award of the judges, but the same was true with many of the adult spectators who could not un- j derstand the elimination of the floats, which had been placed upon trucks instead of cars. The parade was formed at tho King
WEATIIER REPORT
The forecast pf R. B. barter, local meteorological agent, for the next few days is for fair weather with light winds.    For the week ending Tuesday.
city on Monday in a big: Junkers F-13, and after circling it a ooup.e pf times proceeded to Six Mile Lake where he went into quarters. While he was here last summer Pilot Joerss was impressed with the possibilities for commercial flying in this section of the province, and since leaving here last fall has devoted his energies to the formation ol a commercial company, and the outcome of his efforts was the organiza-Lion of the Air Land Manufacturing Company of Vancouver which will engage in commercial flying in this district and in the Yukon.
The company has ample capital, has two Junkers-F-13 planes ready for business, and a small two-seater on the way from Germany which is expected to arrive in Vancouver within the next few days. The Junkers F-13 plane is very similar in construction with the Bremen, which made the westward crossing of the Atlantic, and is powered with the Junkers 65 motor which was installed in the Bremen. It has a capacity for five passengers and a pilot, and as a freight carrier can handle a load of 1600 pounds. For the present it is the intention to operate cne of the bis machines la this section of the province, in which Mr Joerss will act as pilot, and the second plane in the Yukon district, with Capt. Burke, of Vancouver, formerly with the R.A.F. as pilot. The small two-seater will also be dispatched to Prince George.
As business develops other machines will be added. For the present the company expects by reason of its, exceptional equipment to build up a profitable charter business with mining companies operating in the northern part of the province. The. Junker? F-13 is said to represent the last word in airplane construction. These planes sre snfe and speedy, and cost $30,000 each fob at Vancouver.
In-making the trip north from Vancouver Pilot Joerss elected to come no the Pacific coast in preference to fol-lowirig the Fraser, due' to fog condi--ions existing along thc river route. He took off from. Vancouver at 9 o'clock Mondav  mornihe.  made  a  landing at
\)p,vt   Bay
 g  2 20   in   the   afternoon.
3eorge'school. The absence of a mar-I \ytwu% i"\,"'T "V,",.; ->Q �r i,nnve Af i shal was noted. There was some delav i ?"P* ,3rd- 'h�re T Si. 1 ini ' in getting the procession under way, I br>Sht sunshine and a total precipi-. and'some confusion was caused by cars . tation of .41 inches, Th;; inaximum and I -..:.._ ...:___i   ..� ,,.;,i,   ,.,,� antfiaz in 1^��minimum temperature readings loliow
Took off from this point at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, crossed the coas! range of mountains in the vicinity of Kimsquit at an elevation of 11.000 feet Mid mnde a landing on Tctachuck Lake. Here he spent twenty minutes in refuelling the plane from a reserve supply carried in the freight compart-ment of the- machine. He'took off from Tetechuck- at 6 "0. following the water way to Vanderhoof, and was circling over Prince Georee about 8.45 o'clock in the evening-. He will base the plane at Hedlunds at Six Mile Lake.
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MR. AND MRS. L. A. JOHNSON
McBRIDE. CELEBRATED THEIR GOLDEN   ANNIVERSARY
jetting mixed  up ,\vith  the entries in he competition, but these are details ' A'hich could be ironed out next year.
As the parade moved east along Sev-cnth  avenue  on  its  way  to  the- city hall  the boy scouts were in the lead and presented a very fine appearance.; They  were   followed  by  a  large  float j upon which wcif  seated    the Queen '
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
66 56-70 64 60 65 70.
52 42 4G 39 50 46 46
They were all decked
..... ......_     r.al splendor, and were
attended by their train bearers.   With them also rode the maids of honor of Queen Phyllis  (Ireland), Helen Styles Central    school,     Alice
Gertrude (Pit- | schools' who  sang   the lustily.
George Milburn opene< ceremony    with     '
festive   songs
 talk   tci   the
representing Johnson
he crowning of the  foll
 Queen, and
 ih
he crowning of the My Q Mavor Patterson followed with a very happy speech in which he compliment th   hr done
naught school.
Following this float Phyllis in a carnage Shetland   ponies,    ridden
�Sin"    ���><   schS   �SieS�hyiusu^n tho honor done bSS ?epiSnt]n| Con-   jjer �&^^&&gS
 came  j Queen
 Edna   then   acknowledged  f�        i       th    crown
McBride. June 3�Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Tphnson celebrated their golden 'wedding anniversary on Monday. The oc-"asion was made one for rejoicing by their personal friends, and the people nf the town joined with them in call-'ns; unon Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and extending their congratulations. A dinner was arranged in the Fraser hotel in the evening; at which over 150 guests were seated. In the course of the evening Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were made the recipients of a loving cup and a boqtiet of fifty golden rose l                    ift     f            idt     of
blossoms,
 y    g  ciifts   from   residents   of
McBride. In addition to the community testimonial a number of gifts were received from intimate friends, including a 400-hour clock from Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Jamieson, which will require to be wound as each anniversary of their woddinc rolls around.
Following the   dinner   the   evening was rounded out    with    dancing and
Just what the future holds in store for the  respective  parties  remains to be seen.'   It will be Hon. R.  B. Bennett's first appeal to the electorate as the leader of the Conservative party. There  are  oiie  or two factors in  his favor.    Conditions throughout the Dominion  are  hot  very prosperous,  and this generally reacts against the government of the day.   It" assumes credit tor the good times, even for favorable weather, and custom has come to hold it responsible for less welcome conditions. � It will be the first time in many years  when    an    election    lias    been brought  on  in  midsummer.  This  will r.qt  be  popular    in the  farming districts.    Premier   King's   excuse   for  a cummer election is that it- is desirable to have them over and the next government duly    constituted    to    speak with authority for Canada at the approaching imperial conference.    There is another explanation offered and this is the Dominion has come to the end of its era of prosperity; that it may be some time before a marked improvement will be noted in industrial and business conditons.    Had it not been for this it  is 'believed  Premier King would have delayed the date for the elections.    With no    prospect    for an early improvement the    choice rested -with him to call the elections in July next, or to take the chance of deferring them and perhaps face less favorable conditions than ex^ist at present.    Had the prospect been bright for an early improvement  in  conditions it   is  likely the imperial coference would  have been  required    to  wait    on    Premier Kind's convenience.
The leaders of the respective parties profess unlimited confidence as to the outcome of the  contest,  but one  will require to wait a couple of months to sef  how  well-founded    or    otherwise these hopes have been. � It is conceded the prairie  provinces will be  the-deciding factor.    It  is doubted that the Conservatives   will   make   any   inroads on the Liberal strength in Quebrc, but this condition will    be offset    by the Conservative strength in Ontario. -Premier Ferguson in Ontario is throwing the weight  of the  provincial  government behind  the Conesrvatives,    and Premier Tascher^au has announced the full strength of his government- will go to the Liberals, as an answer to Fer-gupon   if   nothing   more.     Both    On-tario and Quebec are protectionist provinces,   and   with   the  Liberals   com-rpi+rrri  to  a  protective,  and  even  retaliatory   tariff,   this   issue   should   be largely eliminated in the two big provinces'.    This   may   leave   the   prairie provinces as the battle ground.    Like the maritime provinces    the    prairies have stood for a low tariff, but by the latest turn of the wheel they now have no  friends  in  court.    They will have *o choose between their Liberal friends who have travelled farther alone the Qcqtftctionisf highway than they would iiked to have gone, or to siipoort Conservatives who might take them even farther along the same road.   The new tariff ancle may    have    the effect, of strengthening    the    Progressive    and United Farmer parties on the prairies to such an extent  as to give them a decided balance of power.   This is assuming the (Conservatives will be able to hold Hie stretieth they had in the last, parliament from British Columbia and the maritimes. Ottawa.  June  2�Premier King and R.   B.   Bennett.   K.C.   will   both UU>1, their cairn.viiem in Ontario. ' The Conservative    leader    will    address  a meeting in Queen's Park    on Friday, and the premier will own for the Liberals in London, but the dale has yet to be fixed.
placing  thc crown  upon   music.    The   management   of   one   of
Shetland   ponies,    ridden     by          p
Qulnn and W. Sherman" in court livery. The decorated cars and floats dropped in behind the queen's carriage, and the cortege proceeded gaily on its way to the city hall for the coronation ceremony. There was a large company awaiting tho arrival of the procession for the coronation, the arrangements for which were in the capable hands of Mrs. A. B. Taft. The ceremonies ftarted with the danco around the Maypole. The music was supplied by three violins in the hands of Clara Wieland. Maynetta Colder and Angus Keller, while "grouped around the dancers were the smaller children from the
WSSi n"S of her'sister Phvllis  and the   the.^rUa^ra^^broadcas^
 by   Phillip  lir
 sta-
new.- aueen was formally invested with   tions had been advised of the evening's ',,   .,.''.'    ,,1   ,^,,-�,-c   H-hir.h   bo   to   a ' nnthpvinir   nnri   enlivened  thc prcoeecl-
Hon.
all  the  regal  powers  which  go  to queen of the May. "                             .
invest i ure   ex-Queen ; McBride residents. ~.....       Mr.      '-'  *        T'
a ; gathering, .and enlivened the proceed- I Sougjrn ��� ^^S � inps with dance music dedicated to. the j Jjr rmp^j ^^ =�         _.....
C.\rT. KINGSFORD  SMITH
ARRIVES   IN  Dl'liLIN  TO
PREPARE FOR FLIGHT
Dublin, June 5�Capt. Charles Kings-ford Smith has arrived here in the Southern Cross to make preparations
��eland to
 which
Strand theatre, for the evening
the! several years in the   but is be:
the Fraser hotel.
 contracting
?
members Auxiliary of  the to be
C.  R.  Crysdale.  who has  charge of resources survey now un-
Quebec. June 5�The biir prizes in the Army and Navy sweepstake on the Derby were won by Wilfred Leblanc* of Hull, and E. P. Dougherty, of Brooklyn. They each drew down Si49.000 for their tickets on Blenheim, the winner of the big race.