UNCE GEORGE ClTIZE
Relief System Before Council Monday Evening
ITALIAN FLOTILLA MADE ATLANT
TILLA MAD
ATLANTIC CROSSING IN TWELVE HOURS FLYING
PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN. THURSDAY. JULY 13 1933
Plve Oenta
July 12
Labrador,
K.ye planes
Bubo's [flotilla made the
� today from Reykjavik, Iceland, ta twclve hcuJ 3 {g
reScntations Will Be Made in '� .p**e!,maint?ined their formation
Rep Favor of Requiring Work for
Relief Extended TROUBLE IN PROSPECT
Unemployed Will Probably Resist Woric Allowance Made by Federal Authority �
-hioughcut the entire distance, coyorinr the 1500 miles in twelve hours. There were about two hours difference in the take-off time of the first and the last of the machines, ami approximately the same time separated them on arrival here. No stop was made at Greenland, but the planes passed over the southern end of it. The crossing was made without mishap of any kind. A stop may be made here before proceeding to the next point of call at Shediac Bay, New Brunswick.
BOWSER CARRYING WAR TO ATTORNEY-GENERAL POOLEY IN ESQUIMALT
Victoria, July 12�The Bowser-Don-aghy party has carried the political warfare to Hon. R. H. Pooley, attorney-general in the Tolmie government by nominating James Elrtch as their candidate, thus making a three-sided conteA. Pooley has held the constituency for twenty years and in a three-way contest his chance of con-Uinuing to hold it will doubtless be improved.
Xhe futility oi the government's method of handling the unemployment situation was stressed at the
1-m- iv of the city council on Mon- . . _. . J~^ �------------
Jy evening, when representatives of JAPAN HAS RESUMED the unmarried unemployed submitted WARFARP AGAINST THF
n-ntRst against their b&ng required ^tt^to^x ^^^ii>ji inn torSvS the work camps They CHRISTIAN GENERAL
W only protested against tneir being -------
it-QUued to return to the camps, but cnangna.i, July 12�The truce be-leaue.-icd that the government decide lv-'een Japan and China has been ucon seme plan of constructive work broken and the Japanese have re-vivciv would admit of their being em- sumed their offensive'.fagainst the n'eved lor a minimum cf three days ii00,1^ cf the "Christian" general in rer week at a wage of 40 cents per Iscrih China Thirty Japanese planes hour In support "ot^ their request aie. lfPorted to have dropped bombs they"submitted a numerously signed uP�.n V;1-?,.Chinese trcops with demor-petition in which their attitude was endorsed by business men and .residents of the city generally.
lii the dscussion which followed the submission of the request for endorsa-lion of their prote-t, It T^as suggested the attitude of a considerable number of business men was that they stood to gain more through the distribution of cash relief in the city than they would if the unemployed were returned to the camps, and to a certain extent they appeared to be advancing their own interests as much as those of the unemployed The members of the council were not much impressed with the supporting petition, it bens
Clv.cago, July 12�John Factor, internationally known as "Jake' the Barber" was given his liberty this evening by his abductors. Factor was turned lpe�e on the street. It is no" known' whether any part of the large ransom demanded for his release was paid. Factor's son Jerome was abducted in April last and it was the boast f h: fth
p ast
boast of h:s father was paid.
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that no random
Placer Holdings on McLeod River . are Promising
MANAGER OF BANK OF MONTREAL IN MEXICO CITY ASSASSINATED
Mexico City. July 11�Daytd-Emeno. general manager in Mexico ior-tlje Bank of Montreal, was assassinated today at a board meeting of the bank. While the meeting was in progress a former employee of the bank, who had been discharged, forced his way way^ into the room and shot Emeno down before he could be disarmed. Emeno died within a few minutes. The miuderer is describe das a Britisher who had been employed by the bank but was discharged a year ago. While he was a member of the bank staff
City Benefits through Advance Made by Sterling
Profit o
100 Is Secured bv
Substitution
Fund Securities
SALE OF C.N.R. BONDS
he enjoyed much popularity. David j Replaced with 13. L. becurtties
With Suitable Maturing Date and Higher Rate
Emeno is sa;d to have been a former resident..of the city of Toronto. The assassin is E. H. Whalley, an, English- ! man wiho served with the British forces in the world war and earned a ! gcod war record.
MOSCOW EXPERIENCES TROUBLE WITH NATION'S TRANSPORT SYSTEM
Russia Serds a Plane to Rescue Jimmy Mattern
Venturesome Solo Flier Forced Down 80 Miles From The � Anadyr Trading Post
appreciated many people would elect -rt-inpc w/rewe TrsJ w/Ti
to sitrn rather than dispute matters ir��-c,n wlcns irs Wl,
with the frameis of the petition. �
There was also the feeling that as Was Discovered on Uuy 5 th and
the city is handling a part of the T k Anadyfvvhen Radio
unemployed pr; >lem, as the agent of f/i
Told sn the Rescue
Douglas Lay Deals Exhaustively
With Them in Report o�
Minister of Mines
BIG RECOVERIES MADE
Sufficient in Extent to Warrant
Examination For Large
Scale Operations
Moscow, July 11�The breakdown Jn Russia's railway transport is causing
soviet authorities much concern. Vig- j �f $28,000. The deal involved the sale croiis rteps are bein
The finance committee reported to" the city council on Monday evening a switch in sinking fund investments which, due largejy to the appreciation in sterling, will net the city a gain of approximately $1,100 and give the city securiities better adapted for the retirement of municipal debentures maturing in August, 1935, to the vahie
g j taken to bolster | to Gairdner & Company, of Vancouver
of a C.N.R. bond of �3800. bearn terest at the rate of \<; y and teed by the federal govenunent. at the ra'e of 99 cents on the dollar, and accepting in payment B. C. governing out of elements working against | m'ent bonds to the value of $19,000,
bearing 'interest at the rate cf 5%( an:l maturing in October 1935. . The negotiations were conducted by Mayer Patterson. The C.N.R'. band disposed of proved a rather profitable investment for the,city, but maturing in Sep:emebr 1934. neaily a year in advance of the^ -ext maturity of c'ty bonds, it^becar. . advisable to substitute it/for some other form of holding.'"" Mayor Patterson received spme-^ thing of the nature of a shock in con-
-------- j ; ' >-^"| nection with this bond last year when
Douglas Lay, resident engineer for | Applicants Required.More Than j he nought to dispose of f,t to retke
up the railways. Order: h?�; I:::-issued for the' creat:on of what are described as transport political sections, the strengthening of thr Jisci-pline over railway labor, and the seek-
the efficiency of the service.
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Colorful Events
�
in Early Days of Board of Trade
rcit- No. 2, devotes a lot of at-on in his annual report, whicn t
July 11�There is said 'be a chance that Jimmy Mat-to n will be permitted to complete his solo flight arcund the world. The machine in which he made the f(;rci'd^4a*idins at Anadyr is reported a complete wreck, al-th( uirli Mktern escaped with a few biuises. It is said now that the Russian- Antic air stations will place a machine at Mattcrn's dis-to complete his hop to Nomt(
the provincial government, the municipal council should be very circumspect, in endorsing protests against the government program.
Alderman Taylor explained tha> while the petition had no. mitted to him he undersiood-"u.s con-teti's. as well as the altitude taken by the men cn -the^suggestion they be returned to>We work damps. His understandjag^of the situation was Hjia1, thMnerchants of the city favored of cash relief, and personally he thought the council should endorse the protest of the men against, /their. being required to return to7 the camps.
Mavor Patterson expressed the opinion the city council should avoid'any-thin? in the way of condemnation of the government policy in the handling cf ihf> Unemployment si'tuatipn. es-.pecially in view of the fact .that the city is acting ~;n the capacity of agent to the government in the handling of a nortion of the relief work, and that, it required from time to time to submit certain matters to the government for deternt'riatiqn. He said'ne was"quite of the opinion, however. 'hat some plan could be devised for ...
tHs handllnu of the unemployment June 14th, was veDbrted -safe Satui-situatiqn which ' " ' ' "" ""
every way to the tarried men to
.mamtajTecL.in-.idleness. �
Crocker said there to waiTant
Distrci
tent*
>as just come to hand, to the placer i
possibilities of the McLeod River, in i
which, a number of Prince Oeorge' ... . / r- i r^.,, r^ce
undents are interested, and which' Board Made a bight CD Kill Oft
are now under examination by one ofj i the provincial development companies, i ! There have been placer stakmgs on
both the McLeod and Little McLeod i
rivers, but in his report Douglas ira.y' Secretary J. O. Wilson was tihe
attaches':-the greater value to thifov-' ";::2k:r at the fc^ard cf t-ade luncheon on Wednesday afternr n when, in a vein of levity, he skt.w'ned in the bcafd's early iT'st^.y irerr,
Mere Money to Crash the CharmecLCircle
Someof the Roads That Were Threatening to Build
mer. The area is described" as comprising a portion of,, the Nechako vlatcau which the rivers have cuf. to a dep.h of 300 feetr^oth now running cn bedrock in^focky gorge-like valleys. The gradient of the McLeod is given at approximately 20 feet to the that cf the L'ttle McLeod 40 feet. The portion examined *ivas a stretch of nearly three miles on the Little McLeod above its junction
debentures maturing in that year. Carrying a government guarantee he thought the bond would be reasonably liquid, but at this time sterling was so low that the best price he could secure for the C.N.R. bond was 77 cents on the dollar. As this would me:in a substantial loss to the city tne mayor decided to hypothecate the bond as a matter of convenience, and in due process it was returned to the city. The difference between 77 cents and 99 cents, the prk � vt which the
p
bond was disposed 61 has
'.presents the jnade in the
�r that his backers of the night t j y/ith the McLeod and about 2'L. miles
line recovery sterling
time of i vs 'inception in Central Port! interval.
Gecrge in 191L "-Jul^bltfcraTvfrPwilT This7~nowever; is "not the sen rose to address" the members they | vantage accru:ng to the city in the had approved a resolution moved by! deal which has been made as the city W. L. Armstrong, and seconded by I accepts in payment for the C.N.R. Ge:.'se W.lliams, calling upon the j bond British Columbia bonds to the p.cvincial government lo create a j value of $19,000, bearing interest at nVning division out cf these, sections the rate of 5'/,., and maturing in of Cailbco and Omineca divisions I October. 1935. within two months of
will be permitted to send a machine to Anadyr. Once he reaches Nome Mattern will hiive a choice (f planes. Laler details of, lyiat-tern's forccd^landing some distance frcm the Anailyr trading1 post show ho hud ;i very close calL His emergency rations were used up, and he whs threatened with starvation when a number <;f fishermen saw lm hrtuiIs and brcught him to Anadyr.
CIkc-u�.;::>. July 10�Jimmy Mattern. the Texas a'rman. who was reported
yh e d d abut . mles of Carboo d j
along the McLeod below the junction, which are more accessible from Prince j the munic'pal bonds maturing in that
I hi diti f h ki Pi G th i year which are purchad th
In his description of the area Mr. Lay Gecrga, says: "The placer which occupies atten-
making Prince � George the oilice of recoid. and creating t he necessary officials .such as gold com-
tion occurs in shallow gravels'overly- missioner and mining lecorder. The ing rock benches, which flank both' motion was advanced to .obviate the j banks of the rivers and are of fre- necessity of making a trip to Barker-quent occurrence. These rock benches!^ ville to search records in the Cariboo
cVvision, and to Smithers for a like!
lost
on hiirwor'ld solo flight after tak-eff from Khabarovsk. Siberia, on.
i me unempioynu-nu uu�e 14th, was veoorted safe Satur-wouldbe isuperior in dav at Anadyr, o desolate region in : returning of the un- Siberia just under thKArctic Circle, I the' work camps to The cable reporting Mn ^n safe: was - - -rccei-ved�t-oda-y� b-v--S�J. HacketJ� of \vai HV.s; city, one. of Mattern's backers on the assumption his world solo trip: ' ~\
men would be maintained in idle- When Mattern was ri-poi-tec mis^s the camps. On Ing. .somewhere _betw^ ^abarov,k
aie enly fwo or three feet above the livers, and are net of any consider,- puiy able size, w'th the noteworthy exception of one on the right bank of the
McLecd river, on which C. Nelson's pehse' of the mover and seconder when claim is situated. Higher-lying t'er- he informed them the brain child* they
were asking the board to adopt was in no sensa a foundling, but a" creature
witii respect to Omineca re-Mr. Wilson raised a laugh at the cx-
gyg races of glacial .gravels also occur on
bo h banks of the rivers. Some of
these, of course overl'e rock benches, of mature years, as back in 1911 the
year, which are purchased cn the basis of 97 cents. Bringing to account the extra rate of interest on the B.C. bends, and the pain of 3 per cent in the bond on maturity the deal shows a profit to the city of $570 after making allowance for the sale of the C.N.R. bond at 99. When the matter of interest Is brought fully to account the increased benefit to the city on the transaction becomes approximately $1,100. There is the increase of one per cent in interest on the B. C. bond for the fourteen month's the C.N.R. bond'has yet to run. In the absence of any. other arrangement the pro-
ness on their return w contrary the j*ade it was the we men on highway Alderman Keller said there could b< ..rea??nable objection to the use of to b
with the carry-work. As a mat'er of
the gravel. The placer gold observed is not cf any great piece being- cf about
\ � n in somewee
^atenent he bSn �fd Nome, the only h.pe held ou. for aKalso are apparently the /metals of ,hc m
nention o nJlo his -safety was lhat he had made a i the >laMnum gioup. Scnie of the had nc
iwav con^n.ct' n anding where food nnd shelter would placer\s. well worn but the coarser B?=k
'S Should be b tunable. Thla evidently proved peces_ sl^w^very� little War and in sired t
fact it
be virtually impos-ibo" to d h
the case. Anadyr is a small trndinp post on the river of the same
the
\~ afternoon of June ,3rd on flight around the northern half
m the
a Ian of the
f a fair wage men could get j�K in addition to a bare exis-"e d:d not believe there would any opposition to the camps, decided upon mo-
J m S
l� Taylor, that the mayor make reprepenta^noms in the to th
of the world t6f better the time ma by Pest and Gatty. He was behind their schedules when he reached Khabarovsk but decided to continue his trip and thus .be the first to make a solo flight.
Moscow. July 10�Professor Sc'.nnldt, polar orplorei and all Arct/c air .-.tations maintained bv the soviet government, has dispatched flier Levanesky in a heavy hydroplane with a crew of fo.tr men to
Gold and also metals cf the platinum; board had' pressed as strongly as it ceeds of the bond would then lie in guerdp occur in the'gravels on the rock could for the center ns of the mining the. bank earning 21-'', interest, benches "mentioned, and also in the � adminis'.ration in Prince' George, but i whereas the B.C. bond Wjll continue cracks and crevices of the rooty under, unfortunately with no marked result.' to earn 5', in'e.e-t for an add tional
From this he proceeded to comment j eleven mmths. a net ga!n to -the-city-?iser The/coarsest upon the fact that in the early days I of 2'/_.#/. Cn approximately $19,000 for
fifteen cents in of th� board's history there were no ; that period.
H-alue, but it 's obviously easy' to save, half measures advanced, and when The city will also benefit this vt>ar asxalso are apparently the/metals cf the members wanted anything they1 through the improved posltron^&f thes
no diffidence about ask'ng for it. Canadian dollar in New Ypi%. There in 1911 when the board de- ! are still approximately S9t5.5OO worth he fixing cf the gold commis- j of municipal bends which are payable
view of the" fact that some placer oc- noner's cilice in Prince George they i as to principal and interest in New
wanted several other things and re-rolved accord:np:ly. Had tliey got away with it in 1911 they would have had not only a gold commissioner's effice but a land registry efficee. an experimental farm, a railway to tip Peace River and an imm'gration >hed
curs in bedrock, and that in the latter a!-3o occur mineralized quartz string-i ers. and fuither becau:e/intrusions of pyrcxenite suggest a nearby source of platinum group metals, it seems prob-
able that, some
le origm. although
placer is of local some doubtless re-
York funds, the-ifreater part of which bear intcre^K'at 6';. The discount upon tha^caria'dian dollar in New York^ias added greatly to the carry-ipg'charges, but with the Canadian clollar stera'ly improving the charges areN'becoming lighter. Th's will be
Otto
;
ovmulp
of the men camps would of a plan for
airman to continue hjs
men
upon th� mointenancp of AHn, lcilene�s in the relief csmtSs.
per
Armstrorto; report-ed f.hat Pitm.**> ivmiM be unaWe to
sn effp
library in in the dip*? came by the
1VR
rcpor......
was lorced down about 30 mile-. Anadyr on June 14th. and was found until July 5th, when he taken to Anadyr. There is a
from not was
radio
: bro^asiing ^tion at Anad,r Vti iery difficuU u
out'Sat commutation is very difficult *ith ijj -hout the year. This doubtless
to
be r
wv maintained by the pro-! the outside world was rvcnimpnv Bvi fecure the Matteni s safety.
S
rather thorough* rs^ and need re-
library have been
ults from recencsntration of glacial for the convenience of incoming set- j apprecmtecii when it_ is iremembered debiis, effected by po.st-glacial waters. "The total depth of material overlying these rock, benches var.es from ,,,,, ,,,.,.. .,,,............... ...
three to dx feet, and in the absence ' 1'hese things to date but they might, Mderab*e port.on cf the bonds early cf boulders of large size fenders it! truthfully say it was no fault of their's | �? the year the cty did no: have full easv to recover placer by hand-mining if the members of the government of advantage of the recent marked gain
tiei-s'r The old-timers cn rhe beard ' '"he dollar has moved up trom 8o to were men of vision without a doubt. ! 95 within ,a comparatively short time. True they have not 'secured any of'.As interest had to be met cn a con- iht
methods, added to'which is the fact that this placer is very easy to save in a sluice-flumeJ One dc'fficult fea-ture is that the/ river gradients arc
the day hap]jencd to be short-sighted. In fairness to the old-timers Mr. Wilson said it had to be conceded thev had not always drawn blanks.
in the dollar, but from now on the saving in interest payments will approximate $400 per annum from those of a vear asn.
very low. and it io a somewhat labor- | They had failed to get a lot of
ious matter to,' get water on the' things they asked for. but cn the LUMBER INDUSTRY OF benches bv following a system of wing- . o'her t;hey had secured a let of things, y JisjTTFn ^TATPQ TTMDPR damming and ditching. "Wlvle no great amount of
has been done: the values
work of the
ground, ranging from $1 to $2 per cubic yard, or more, are decidedly premising. While doubtless the in-
tbcv had a?ked for, and which had contributed to the opening up cf the district. In 1911 there was hardly a
wagon road in the district. Even the famous farming district of Mud River was without a road, but by hammer-
prmng W j
stallation of a small mobile pumping! ing away the board of trade had plant would render operation of much' brought about the construction of ot chis ground profitable by hand- i what at present constitutes a veritable nVning methods, large-scale pojsibili-' fifes are indicated on the bench on �vyftidrv C. kelson's claim is situated, which cannot, be more fully gauged in the aibsenofe of further testing." On one, of the leases on the McLeod
network of reads, some of them still fairly eood and ethers hot so good.
Mr. Wilson had the records of the old iboard before him for reference, pnd from these fce deduced the old-
GOVERNMENT
Washfngtbn, July 11�The lumber industry cf the United S'ates ha-3 been brought under direct federal control together with several other major industries in the move to speed up business, revival. It. is said the work we?k under government isupervis'-on will range from 40 to 48 hours. One effect cf bringing the lumber industry under government direction will be the determining whether it stands in need of the existing prohibitive duty against
j timers were a let of go-getters. Their; Canadian; softwood lumber. The re-
river halff a mile below the junction board of trade meant something to moval of this duty is one of the
of trie L'ttle McLecd mention is made " ' v ^----. ------- ...:. ,...=...., .... . ^,.....,:
# w4shlng which has been done.
ently y p
It was estimated l^5 yards had" been 'system, maintained a town hall, creat-(Continued on pajje 2) (Continued on Page Six)
the community1. In Central appar- i things desired by the Canadian gov- h k i
y
they operated the wa,terworks ti*nment in connection with the con- l ' '�'dera^on of reciprocal trade with the United States.