VCL.
CITIZ
15,  No.  20
Advanced Step Taken Respecting Unemployment
Federal   Government   Approves
PRINCE   GEORGE   CITIZEN.    THURSDAY,- MAY  18   1933
Five Centa
the Plan to Open Placer Ground without Charge
INSTRUCTION  PROVIDED
Grub-Staices WilL Be Furnished
to Those Who Prove AcJept in Training Course
The federal
its approval to the plan submitted to the provincial legislature for utilizing the  services  of   unemployed   men en I .placer-ground and has agieed to pay] each  unemployed   man  rendering  his
number   of camps   l.cr
men   deserted   the   relief rivers   and   tijreams   the g'aryes cf which carried more or less go:d.   Some of the men. although un- I laimliar; with   mining  methods,  made : ,go^d,   a   much   larger  number- earaod! a   wage-- in excess of  their  relief al- ! towance, and all of them were mucn j more  contented than  thev  had Wn ;
Liberals Have Most Candidates in Nomination
Conservative Members Continue
to Drift Away From Premier
Tolmie's Cabinet
-----  they  had  been v.mle  they  were kept. in   idleness in he relief camps, even those who drew blanks in their mining venture"                                     �--------
oovem.neni   ir,   ,-iv �vrihTiStui^S ^ b� s<>methin� � . Majority of the Cabinet Counted government  nas  given -wie na.uie of a camp center fcr the
men who are-to receive instruction in prr- pc,:t -.n�� and placer mining, it can differ 'entirely from the form of con-centia:icn which as proven so undesirable  in the . ordinary relief  camp/
RUN AS INDEPENDENTS
on to  Retire  from  Politics at the End of May
~ services available 25 cents per day, or approximately $7.59 psr moniSi. white in tlie training camp the men will be supplied with food and rhcltcr and there is an intimation that the novices
Victoria, May 15�It is said the Liberal party expects to have candidates named   in   every   constituency   in   the
having received � sufficient instruction lo acquire the rudimentary elements io ; nide them in prospectingfor pl:-cer j. of placer mining. When this known-old and for its recovery, will be fur-I ledge has been acquired the men will n:5hed. with grub-stakes 'to engage as be at liberty to prospect without free miners.                                            j ch?.rge
ijfo'. much attention was directed t;> thifc legislation when it was .submitted _ta-t'r.e legislature by Hon. W. A. Mc-Ktnzic as an emendment to the "Provisional Free Miners' Certificates Act."
For one thing the men -'n the training camps will have the advantage of.
interesting employment, and in many \ -Province by the end of the. month. To cases their stay in the training camp' will'be brief, sufficient enly1- for them
date twenty-three have been named. So far the supporters of the Tolmie government have not placed a single candidate in the field. � Eight sittirjLg C n erva:ive3 are cu?-for   ndependent   nominations?   having
upon all-the unoccupied lands' �r�ken with the government. They are crown,  and to locate and on- ' E: c>. Carson }& LiUooet, Capt. James
but now that the federal government has 'Signified its willingness to ti-y the measure out, in connection with the administration of unemployment relief, it assumes new importance.
As a means of unemployment relief It provides for the establishment of placer mining training camps at suitable places in the province at which unemployed British subjects holding provisional ceitificates, issued  free of
of the crown, and to locate and op- ,
c+ate any ground they may fnd with- '< Fitzsimmons
out charge.
Last year a cons'derable number of the unemployed availed themselves of the privileges of t-he "Proviniional Fiee Miners' Certificates Act." and al-
M.
 in  Kaslo-Slogan,   Dr.   C.  Kingston in  Grand Forks-Greeri-
TOLMIE TO ANNOUNCE NEW MINISTERS BEFORE  OF THE WEEK
'\Jictoria> - May 15� Premrer Tolmie is credited with the statement he will announce the names of the men who will make up his reorganized cabinet before the end  of the present week. It will then be possible for the electors to learn whzJb pr gress he has made in his efforts to secure a cabinet which can fairly be termed a union one. With the announcement it is expected the political organizations opposing the Tolmie government will speed up their campaigns. There is still the virtual certainty" there will be lour political parties . antl unless the new cabinet, discloses ... unexpected strength the Tolmie party will ttsscplaced behind the Liberal and Bowser-Donaghy parties,
Light Criminal Docket for the Assize Sitting
Murder Case Has  to Do  With
Killing of Chinese  Merchant
in  Lillooet  District
| MILLERjQASE  ON AGAIN
Stay of Proceedings Entered by the  Crown  in  the  Nani   .   . False Pretence Case
Less Revenue is Received Under HigherXTaxation
wocd.     Jack   Loutet   in   North   Van-
though there was no -Ututory warrant fcr it many of them we.e given mod-evL grub-stakes in lieu of the usual unemployment dole.    On. the whole it
couver, Capt. MacGregor. F. Macintosh | in the Islands, William Dick and G. M. Walkem in Vancouver, and C. F. Davie. former speaker in Cowichan-Newcastie; and a number of them are openly favorable _to.. the Bowser-Donaghy party. This party has not as yet named a candidate, but before
proved to be the most economical me-   the week ^ out there %vlll be a number hod devised for unemployed rehef. In | of them in the ,he form of the grub-stake the relief!        f    h
 |
 form of the grub-stake the relief!  allowance   went   much     further   than  the expenditure of the same  amount
 of   the      eseni    cabinet
cost,  may    acquire    knowledge    and , Of mOney in the relief camp, and what j
placer
cd gainful work in the recovery of minerals. These camps shall not have pn area greater than one mile in length and one-half mile in width. and may be located on any crown lands, not held for mining purposes, by the creation of a reserve. During the existence of such reserve the said lands shall / not be open to entry or acquisition.
This amendment further provides the minister of lands may enter into an agreement with any holder of land under the "Placer Mining Act" for the establishment
Lng camp. No compensation shall be j paid to the holder of any such placer holding, but the agreement may provide for the holder's relief respecting the payment of rentals and : f res and the performance of the required development work, and for a division of thp recoveries between the �"tudsnt-miner j pnrt the holder of the mining ground. The utilization of the placer resources for the purpose of providing work and maintenance for the unemployed is not new.   Tlie   system was
.adopted in Australia some years ago with more or less success.   The legis-
' lotion passed by the Tolmie government in 1932, opening placer areas to British subjects among the unemployed without charge, was along the same line.   The legislation of the re-
 were. pVeii the    opportunity  to save
W.
therefore
much more contented. There is every reason to bel:.eve the
greater importance the men   Brunn l3 ' ejected  to offer again  in
Salmon Arm, but may run as a Bow-ser-Donaghy candidate. Hon. J. W. Jones, minister of finance, will have a three^sided fight  in South Okana-
plan which is to be tried out jointly j gan.  Hon.  W.  A.  McKenae will run by the provincial and federal govern-   in  Similkameen* and  mav not be on-
by [he provincial and federal govern' men'-3 this summer will be successful, but the less the training camps re-f.emble the relief camps of the past two years the greater the measure of success will be. Men engaged in prospecting along the rivers and streams require   very    little   in    the   way  of
in Similkameen and may not be opposed by the non-party combination. Attorney-General Pooley will be a candidate in Esquimau, which he has represented since 1912. There is sa'd' 'to be no certainty as to what action S. L. Howe, Hon.' W.   C.
will  be  taken by  Hon. Hon.  N.  S.    Lougheed,
 clothes during the summer season, and i shelly, Hon. R. L. Maitland and Hon.  -                                          f     rta       ^q fih '
 f  COI,ciderable
part
 furnish  of their susten-
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a nee. while nearly all of them w'll have something to show in the way of gold recoveries when the frost closes down their operations.
A'> to the lelief camps os they have Pejristsd in the past, not only have they
Joshua
 Hon.   William   At-
kinson, former mincer of agriculture is definitely out of provincial politics. The Bowser-Donaghy party is said to have developed considerable strength 'in the constituencies in t/he south-eastern portion of the province, and   to   have   a   working   alliance   in
been   trouble-breeding    spots   through   some of them with � prcspi.'ctJve Labor the complete absence of employment, j candidates.
have proven to be the most-j �  The    Canadian    Co-operative   Com-of  providing rel:ef.   mcnwealth is somewhat div'ded on the
Tax  Receipts  for Four  Months
of Current Year Short Four
Million Dollars
oTRADE HAS FALLEN OFF
Exports Were Down #6,00,000
and Imports off #8,000,000
for Four Months
Ottawa, May 16�Hon. E. N. Rhodes minister of finance, had a demonstration during the month of April that increased taxation has reached the pant cf diminishing revenue. The tax rates have beerixadvanced, but the values have receded to an even greater extent. The tax on personal incomes was given a big boost, but the proceeds so far this year are under those of the same period for 1932 by approximately half a million dollars. Income taxes for the current year were payable on or before April 30th. The revenue received under this heading was $4,808,323 as compared with $5,-268,235. The trade of the dominion has fallen off all around as compared with 1932. and tax receipts are off about $4,000,000. The dominion's exports for the period are down six million dollars and the imports are down eight million. Higher taxes have definitely failed to increase the national .income for the reason the country's business has fallen off. In the two larger cities where the higher incomes ore earned the slump in income   taxes  was    not  -so     noticeable.
The men have been well fed at a cost! iScUC ^ to whether cand'dattfs should Toronto citizens this year paid $1.-cf about 30 cents per diem, and a bo nominated in the provincial con-' 590.687 on income or $25,821 more than -mall amount was required for cloth-   te-t;  a   nurnber   holding   to   the            last vear   but the collections m Mon
ing. but when the maintenance charg-'.;^cf the camps were added the cost ranged   close   to  $25   per   month  per end. and in the prevalent unrest- the
fnd an cutlet for the ene!
;ie*  of
m session ?oos a step farther and \  exravated  in   fr-cnt  cf  a  timbered |
 been  gv;g
to-mining    In assoqiation with Harry | date. and if so which of the Consef--Thrasher he'has    located  about  five  vatiye wings he will support. miles  cf  n   creek  emptying   into  the      Mayor A. .Wells Gray, of Nov.- West-Fraser. at Snowshoe, (to the 'prospecting J minister,   wrll   contest  New  Westmin-of'which some remarkable  recoveries j ..-tor in the Liberal  interest. No other of   fi-ie  ""old   have  been   secured.   Hem name  was submitted  to   the nomina-has "not-been  able  to  reach  bedrock"; ting  convention os  yet   but  tlie. gravel  deposit  ha.s  aj considerable   depth
D. W. Strachan, a farmer of Dewd-
fr-cnt
nvo'e-fon. fo rof. wps the- strata tlv'oi'pb which the boviut was made. S. S. MaeoffJn, nrc id?n' cf the compariv. was en? of the contractors engaged i'1 the ccnstruct'pn cf :cu�s th& Geneva disarmament crisis,   considerable work oji the creek withm
the  next  few   weeks.  Their  discovery
Chancellor'Hitler's envoys have wreck-�d the hope for bringing about early disarmament at Geneva, and there is now a fear that the re'clistag \vill__de-
-s the  military    clauses  of   the Versailles treaty and bring about  the
ft--occupation of the Rhineland by the   ,, ,__________
Allied troops.    No such collapse of the j     powell River. May 15�A split devel-
lias created much local interest.
SPLIT HAS DEVELOPED IN THE LIBERAL PARTY IN MACKENZIE RIDING
 lit d
-^-OPERATIVE MAN IS NOMINATED IN TRAIL-ROSSLAND RIDING  �
 troops.   No such collapse of (fforts to ensure peacs in Europe was jhouht porsible.a few weeks ago. as  re-ocupa;tion of the Rhineland will  p^ace measures back to the po'nt  occupied ;-; the clote cf the war. The ta^'.lcs cl Chancellor Hitler has h    a .rupture    of    in'.ernational  closer than at eny tin\e since  nJ of ^e    Versailles treaty. ^          stand    on   d'f-annament   and
J�para.-t-iora    has    corrolidated  public ^Pini      :n Great Britain and France
 the flrsii
 in yrar-- Great Br't-
is now r^lM'v He^'rd France in y further c-ncessions tt^w Gbtttiv p-o^e-i >- - chan-(Contlnued on Pag� S'x)
Powell River. May             p
oper! in the nominating convention ot the Liberal party which w.a-3 hold hefce on Saturday which may result, in two Liberal candidates b?'ng n the field to contest Mackenzie riding, represented in ths; present legislature by-ihe late Mike Mnn-on in the Conservative interest. The spl't N^ chiefly betwesn the PdwcII River and the Ocban FaL-s centers, the ' delegates from the northern section cf the �Tiding rcfumig to- take P^rt in ths convention. Henry Ca� John E. Gordon; ar: rfl'-Tialcf the Coi^^lidated compnnv-fertilizing plant, has been named as the Co-Operative; Gommonwe^lMi caii-d'date for the Rossland-Trail riding.
NAN^rlMO FOOTBALLER DIED ON TUESDAY AS RESULT OF INJURY
. Nanaimo. Mav le-yNorman Mortimer died m ho�r>ital here th:s morning as. the result of injuries received in a ga.me en Saturday. Mortimer headed a high ball after which he was seized with pa'ns and taken fromvthe field. He was 22 years old, born in, Spenny-inoor, Durham, and arrived in Nanai-
FIVE CANDIDATES IN THE FIELD IN NORTH VANCOUVER RIDING
Mr. Justice Murphy i.esiv.ned tihe\ session-of the..-assize cdu:t this-morn-'. 'ng at 10 o'clock. A. m. Joliri'33-n, K.C., is in aLtendvince as crcwri prosecutor, and is being assisted by A. McB. Young. There are but three cases on the criminal list. Rex v Earl, murder; Rex v Msan?. et al, raps: and Rex v-MiV.e-. falre pi-etence. A. M. Johnson, on behalf of the crown, entered a -.tay of. proceedings in the case o' Albert j Nani. who has been cbnduct'iig mih-j ing tperatiens in the Hixon Creek district. Nani had been charged with f lc-^ jyeteiice in the securing cf $400 from the Edmcntcn and B.C. min"ng syndicate, the members of which had brm rssocia'ed with him in his mining ventures.
A .~Uy of proceedings was also entered in the two cases of false pi^-tence :n which Chester Smith, of Lytton was charged with receiving $65 from Paul Freeman of Lytton, and $25 from Clarence N. 'Rebagliati, also of Lytton.
In the rape case four Indians� Williard Means. James Billie, Sam Dickey and C%?org�; Brigham �are charged wfth the offence against an Indian woman, Jenn:e Ann Carlson, aged 50 years. The offence is alleged to have taken place on the night of November 5th, 1932, on the Texas Creek road, as the woman was accom-paning the men in their conveyance to her home in the Lillooet district. -The murder case comes from Lytton and has to do with the murder of a Chinese merchant Lee Man Bing. The man accused of the crime is an Indian John Edward Earl, alias John Edward McGee. The crime was discovered by Alfred Dryden, police constable at Lytton, who on information received visited the prem'ses of Bing on Monday. November 26th, 1932. He found the shutters on the windows and the front door looked, but secured admission through the rear. There was evidence �>the place had been entered, and after a search the police officer found the body of Bing in a cellar. Suspicion was directed to Earl by reason of his possessxm of a quantity of ci?nrettes. a considerable number of which were stolen from the store. The post-mortem en the body of Bincc discle;�d his death had been caused by three bullet wounds.
One of the crown witnesses in th� cape' is a. preposse?sintint; of Hugh Blacl.-burn (foreman,). Peter Lindsay, Ou."-tav Hiller. Andrew Si'ddall. yniita.--i Coil. Thomas Echvprd Crozier, .Jacob Leith. Edmund S. Robertson. Joseph Art ho, .:i-:ne.> Murray Henderson Richard Allan and George Harold Bond.
A. M. Johnson. K. C. ;s conducting iii'e case for tho crown, and John ^. Nicholson, of Vancouver, has chariro of�the defence. The case for the crown was closed at 12.25 o'clock.
� Vanrcuver.    May  16�There  will  bp ! ^dr.and  possiWv  flvn  cT-dkla'es   in j tlhs race !n North Vancouver.�{ Neither j 'tiho  eonservative    nor Liberal pnrt^.l �vMi nominate. Jnck Loutot, the. sitting | Conservative   member  will  run  as an' Independent,  and possibly receive the support  of  the   Bo,viser-Donaghy   or-ganizat:on; J. M. Bryan, a former Lib- j cral representative will be in the field, j but he al-"-o  will run as an Indepen- i firm, receiving    the    support    of the Liberal nart.y. H. C. Anderson will run � ps the St>r.alist candidate, nnd Roser E.  Bray  has    announced    himself  as i "the   poor man's   candidate".    So   far i rrclriiTi<* has been heard of a  Tclmie
At thr dance on Friday night und?r the aiuspices of the Girl Guidn Acso-p""aticn thn p.rir.s winning numbers in the danciii^ were held by Nan Robert- sen and Lillian Porter. Wayne JEvans  won the door prize. and-W. R. Addison  and Phyllis� Fisk were the winners of  the two dells raffled.
 CLUB CAFE OPENED"  T1SrvTTTMr  pnciuTccc
 WEDNESDAY MORNING
candidate.
Murdoch McLeod, registered optom il        ill        i        t th
etrist.
 g              p
 will    arrive   at the Oolmbu   ho           this caty on Wed-
nesday. May 3'st. when appointments
 of Trail,  hot*M
mo from England, four years ago.         may be made witfo him.
Mil-2c
Th" Club Cafe opened for business on Wednesday morning. This cafe is well located and the premises ha vine; been thoroughly renovated it becomes one of the most -inv'Ung restaurants in the city. The cafe, which is under the management of Leo Kilbride and Jack Craine. employs nono but- white help. It will ca.ter c^necially to business lunches and "after theatre" dinner part'es. Tlie Cub is located on the north side of Third avenue opposite T. A. Griffith's billiard parlors.