PRINCE
VOL.  16, No.  14
PRINCE  GEORGE,  B.  C.
THURSDAY,  APRIL 5,  1934
Five Cento
Senator McRae Has Support on Sockeye Treaty
fpfauld Put the Issue Before the [  United States Senate to Secure  Ratification
Breat fishery killed
iGanada Will Not Continue Poli-'$$ cy of Finding Fish for the Washington Traps
^ Ottawa, Mar. 31�Senator McRae will have much support throughout Can-fada in his demand that the United States senate ratify the salmon treaty I'ife the price for the continued recognition of the ceding treaty by the do-:iainion. Canada's experience with the ' United State; m the matter of the delayed ratification of the salmon ;t*ea'y suggests that the U. S. senate ' itaproves only such treaties as promts W give the United States the best of bargain. Representatives of the ted States are ever willing to dis-3S any matter of difference between nada and the United Stater,. Dis-Hhssions proceed along amicable lines, ^agreements are drafted, and negotiations proceed smoothly up to the point Of senate ratification when the inevitable snag is encountered.
Canada has feiled four times to secure ratification of a cockeye treaty wfth the United States for the join. �control of the sockeye fishing industry of the Fraser river. Proposed treaties in 1908. 1919. 1920 and 1929 all ended in failure. The fifth attempt is now being made, and Senator McRr.c proposes if the present attempt fails that Canada should withdraw from the existing sealing treaty, which inures more to the benefit of the United States than to the benefit of Canada.
The  sockeye   fishery  of  the  Fraser �was at one time the greatest in the �world.   In later years it has not meant much to Canadians in the way of employment, as most of the fishing lias een done by the Japanese and Indians, while  in  the   canneries  much  of  the Employment has been secured by In-xHan  women  and  Chinese;   but there �till remained    the return    upon  the ''Capital invested in the industry which �4a Canadian and British. llThe necessity for  the  in'emational .trol of the sockeye fishery on the ser is occasioned by the hab:ts of fish, which'by the way have com-ided the highest price in the world fket.     They   are   spawned   on   the Tof the tributaries of the  Fraser, cumd remain in Canadian waters until
�  th.eV  enter  upon  their    second   year. when they  migrate    to    the    Pacific ocean.   Reaching maturity at the age of four or five years    they    start on their return to the spawning grounds. They come up the Strait of Juan de
� Fuca. and then swing south into Uni-\ed States wa'ers to pass the southern end of San Juan island before enter-
I ing the Gulf of Georgia to reach the pmouth of the Fraser river. This habit a of the sockeye, in passing through ; "United States waters to reach spawn -5ing grounds in British Columbia. �makes international control of the �;:sockeye fishing necessary to its main-itenance, as without regulation United ,'S'ates fishermen and traps take the ,'sockeye in such numbers that suffi-Vcient do not reach the spawning beds. I nnd the sockeye runs have become ��/smaller each year. Experience has de-Inibristrated the Canadian government � cannot produce sockeye on the Fraser I .to meet the toll taken in United States I waters and secure thr> return of a suf-f ficiont number of sockeye for renro-; riuction. In effect Canada for years | has been producing sockeye for the United States fishermen.
Commercial fishing began in the Fraser river about 1876. and a year or ��> later In the state of Washington. But because the returning fish pass through United States waters before reach'ng the Fraser river the fishery on the Washington state side has for years been much larger than that in the Fraser river.
There was one feature of the annual runs of sockeye which was accepted without explanation. Every fourth yogr the run of fish was very much greater than in the other three years, and  third reading, was somewhat "mended. The company is given nine, months within which to commence work upon the railway and to ccmplete\the work within the five-year period. Premier Pa'tullo supported the amended bill in a speech in which he contended "the birlding of the new railway would rot nrove inimical to the interests of the P.G.E. George Murray. Liberal member for Lillooet created an uproar in 1 he house when he charged Clive Planta. non-partisan member for the Peace River with betraying his constituents in his support of the North Eastern railway charter extension. He was called to order by Speaker Perry, but contented himself with lesuming hLs seat.
Municipality is Facing Trouble in Budgeting
Government Grant Cut and City
Saddled with Heavy Charges
for   Social   Services
I Good   Opening  for  Winter-Fed
Beef  to   be  Supplied  as
Market Demands
S,00S. In  1933  the  pack  of these   fish on
Mrs. Norman Bennett and children, of Winnipeg, are spending the Easter holidays with Mrs. Bennett's aunt, Mrs. George E. Oliver, of Central.  .
tho United States side was 135,738 cases on ; he "Canadian .side G1.9O6 ca^cs. a total of 187.644 cases. At the same price the revenue would be only $1,627,016.
Aside from any pressure which Canada may exert in �securing a nUifca-tion of a treaty for joint, control of the fishing, the United States is faced with the choice of a treaty or no fish. Canada will continue to have sockeye "'it the other river? putting into the Pacific. The number of fish in them never compared with those In the Fraser, but they do not, enter United Slates waters in returning to the spawning beds, and therefore cannot be taken by United States fishermen, and their number may be maintained and even increased by Canadian regulations.
With a view to securing the orderly and profitable marketing of farm produce, particularly baby beef or winter-fed stock, a competition has been arranged which is open to all farmers in the Central Interior without ccst. Behind the competition is the aim to correct a mistake in farming me:hods. as the result of which farmers have been endeavoring to market cattle off the grass at the same time in the year when the ranchers are marketing their s'ock. which results in a depressed market. During the past winter farmers have been selling hay in the open market, and r^s all farmers know-hay is a commodity which carries high marketing charge-.. Instead of marketing the hay an effort is being made to induce the farmers to feed it to stock, which properly finished will result in improving the farmers, price net. only on the hay but on the stock as well. The fanners are to be educated to produce beef fully up to the market requirements, and to put ;t on the market when the demand warrants.
Burns & Company. Limited, are the largest buyers of beef in this sec ion. and in the competition which is being arranged they acre? to purcha.se at the market the best cpr of fifteen baby beeves produced in the district this year, and as a premium to assume all shipping charges in connection with Ihe rail shipment from any point between Prince Rupert and Prince George. The competition is being directed jointly'by Donald Sutherland, district agriculturist at Smithers, and Harry Bowman. B. C. representative of the C.N.R. agricultural department. The following rules and regulations have been drawn up for the conduct of the competition:
1.�Any farmer in the district, located between Prince George and Prince Rupert, is eligible to enter stock in the Central Interior baby beef feeding competition. A car of cattle may be I'sscmbled for this competition in any one d's'rict, owned by one or hot more than four farmers. A farmer may only contribute stock in one carload in this contest.
2.�Calves entered in this contest must be fed by the con'estarit. They may be:
 Purchased in dam.
(O Or purchased on or before they are ninety days old. That is. they may bo purchased along with their dams or purchased and entered on or before they are 90 day- old, but are allowed to run with their dams unt:l seven months of nge before delivery.
All contestants will be required to furnish eact date of birth and breeding of all calves entered.
3.�A "carload" shall consist of fif-(ContTiued on Page Three�
I Government  Action   in  Increas-j       ing   Unemployment   Relief I         Doubles  Expenditures
Despite   the   talk  about  an   inf.-ea.se j in the amount cf the provincial grant ! to tenche:;' salaries. Mayor Patterson j has ascertained that not. only is there ! to be no increase in the grant  in a;d f  teachers salaries in Prince George, but as a matter of fact   the grant in j aid   of  elementary  teachers   is   to   be i reduced  from   the  figure   of the  past year by $18.    This is the  information contained   in   a   letter   received   from S. J. Willis, superintendent of education, to the effect the grant  for elemental   teachers   will   be   reduced   to I $537.
While the reduction In the grant in ! aid of salaries is not very much, it is | the cumulative effect of reducing gov-| eminent   grants  and  the  saddling  of | additional   responsibilities    upon    tne j municipalities which is making it more I difficult   to  frame  municipal  budgets. i Since  1930 there has been  an annual j shrinkage in the amount of the gov-|.crnmcni grants, with the prospect that �he amount of the .same for the * seal year 1934 will be $2,000 le>s than for the  year   1933.     The   comple'e   withdrawal of the municipal grant in con-| nection with liquor profits will account toy the lessening of the   1934  grants, n.s^$1.393.34  was  received    during the Tr.si half^of 1933 on account of liquor profits, payments with re:.pect to which were disccnt inueck jn the last half of the year.
Despite the curtailment of the gov-j ernrrient gran's the. city was'obliged to I assume iii 1933 expenditures of $2,318.61 i in connection with social services, part> of the cost, of which has been saddled upon the municipalities.   In 1933 these I consisted  of  S1.6C6.25    on  account  of I mothers'   pensions.  $502.50   ns   mental I hospital fees, and $149.86 !n connection with the  Old  Men's Home.   Not only ! was  the city    forced    to find    these amounts  in   1933.  but   it  also  had  to find  approximately   $4,000   for   unemployment   relief.    This   year  the   provincial government has virtually forced �'� the c'ty to double its expenditures upon unemployment relief. It was represented to the city this increase would be I i optional;   but   as   the  government  in-! creased the provincial relief payments. the administration of which :s attend- ; r-d  to by  the    municipal    authorities. , Here was no other course open to the j city but to increase its relief payments I to secure uniformity to avoid constant ! friction.    The   action  of   the   govern- j meni   in   advancing    relief   payments | will  Increase  the  cast to  the city by $4,000.   making   the   total   relief   costs to the city $8,000 per annum. Despite falling revenues Prince George is being j railed  iijxm   to  meet    this   additional charge, and this explains the action of I the city in mak'ng application to the j provincial  government   for   a  loan   of j $S.000 to take care of the prospective | unemployment relief expenditures for the current year. While this loan wili have to be repaid,    it. will    ease  the stra'n  upon  municipal   finance  for  a year, in which  time there may conic an improvement in the unemployment situation.
Samuel Insull Now a Prisoner in Istanbul Cell
His Efforts to Reach Roumania
Were Frustrated by  the
Turkish Authorities
MAOITIS BOTTLED UP
Turks   Refused   Permission   for
Vessel to Pass Bosphorus
With Insull on Board
Istanbul, April 3�Samuel Insull is waging p. losing fight to avoid extraction to the United States. Insull is new in jail here, and the Turkish authorities have intimated to the United States they can have Insull when they come to get him. Insull's attempt at flight from Greece on the freighter Maoitis proved- disastrous as well as expensive. The chartering of the vessel is said to have cost Insull or .his friends $10,000. but when he put to sea for the second time he found he hacNnowhere to go, at least nowhere safe from the application of the United States . for his extradition. In his desperation he decided to try and enter Roumania by"way of Turkey. The Turkish authorities not only -.showed themselves to be unresponsive but they ordered Insull's arrest orr the Maoitis, and notified the captain of the vessel he would not be permitted to pass through the Bosphorus so long as Insull remained on board.
The captain of the Maoitis threatened to protest to the Greek government against the interference of the Turkish authorities in hi.; movements, but in the end Insull decided to leave the vessel and submti to arrest. He was at once placed in confinement by the Turkish police. From his prison cell Insull will play his last card in an effort to establish British citizenship. It is not regarded as a very strong one. Insull was bom in London, but after some years resrdcnice in the Uni'cd Sta'cs he took out citizenship papers and renounced his allegiance to the British crown. The British foreign office is ;:a d to have passed upon the Insull claim as a British subject about a year ago, and to have | decided   very   definitely   against  it.
Washington. April 3�An unusual development has presented Lself in the Insull extradition proceedings Although Insull has been wanted for two years it is said the formal warrant for his extradition has not- ye', been? signed. There was a wanar.t issued by the court of IKinos. but in applying to a foreign power for the extradition cf a citizen cf the United SiPtes the warrant must bt> signed by tho president. A.s i here has been som �. uncerta'nty as to where Invul! m.ght be found th:-3 formality was never attended tc. President Roosevelt Is now on a fishing trip, and the warrant will be taken to him for signature. As the Turkish authorities are showuig a willingness to assist in the extradition it is believed they will hold Insull until formal Application for his extradition can be mp.de.
SEA   MONSTER  WASHED ASHORE AT PALESTINE
London. April 3�Palestine has entered the lists wth its &ea monster, the Mediterranean having  thrown up
r up the beach something entirely new.
j The mcuth of the monster is said to measure nine feet, around the jaws.
JAPAN UNEASY OVER BRITISH   PROGRAM OF SINGAPORE BASE
^ London. April 3�The Japanese government :s said to be showing uneasiness over, the decision cf the BritLsn gGvemmenV-tQ proceed with the completion ci the efoiagpore base. Japan is said tc realize nc\v\Qi;-.t the comple-ticn of the British bas^-srt Singapore will completely up.>et the rta^al balance in the eas'ein waters, anoi-epre-sentations in the matter are saidxa. have been made to the British government.
DR. CLEM DAVIES QUITS VICTORIA CITY TEMPLE
Victoria. April 3�Rev. Dr. Clem Davioj has resigned lr'.s post- as minister of the Victoria City Temple. Financial difficulties were mentioned by Dr. Davies as responsible for h!s action, fie- announced his resignation immediately after G. G. McGeer, K.C., had delivered the Easter message to t hv congregation.
FIELD IS ACQUITTED ON  MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE IN VANCOUVER
Vancouver. April 4�The jury todav returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of Henry Field; charged with manslaughter in connection with an automobile accident, in this city in December. The accused was found guilty cf criminal negligence.