PRINCE 16, No. 26 PRINCE GEORGE, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1934 � Worn Clothing Not Wanted by Unemployed Leader Made this Clear to lembers of City Council Monday Evening OF MILITANT TYPE sents Refusal of City Council to Provide Free Clothing and Medical Attention t�e members of the city council had encounter Monday evening with a \ and more militant element in unemployed. The council adopted system tome time ago' of receiving egations from the unemployed, and ing from them representations for proving condition's. The plan work-fairly well, but on Monday night If ell down. A new leader has come t. the person of a well-dressed wo-[n \rth a flair for the dramatic m 6 presentation of her case, and a ilure to appreciate the difficulties | the way of attainment. The new der was supported by a number of erans of previous interviews, but held the spot Ugh*, almos'. exclu-[y. ' . ^he purpose of the delegation's ,t on Monday evening was the urg-again upon the members of the council of the demand of the un-iloyed for free medical a'Mention free clothing, and when the object ie delegation had been stated the woman took the floor and held \t, tdng different] members of the I as her target from time to She had quite a let to say upon [subject of clothing to be supplied, made it very clear that while Uie Ity existed for clothing the de-is for new clouhes and not, used its. She suggested the used ��...-. might be dirty and might i carry disease germs, and in any ....-it the unemployed did not pro-tiSSk to "scab" any longer upon tihe jHfchants of the city who were an-388US to sell them new clothing. ^*he suggestion of a member of the incll that taxpayers who have keep off the relief had been ap-ttive of articles of worn clothing, they had been willing to wash articles when the case demanded, � even to take the remote chance infection after properly treating the ng, failed to turn the new leader �,.. her demand for new clothing. When Mayor Patterson informed her �.ie members of the city council had considered the previous request of the unemployed for free medical attention and clothing allowances and had decided the city could not carry the cost of the same, the woman flared up stronger than ever. A stranger in the city she evidently did not realize she �was addressing the mayor and informed his worship he had been talking too much, and tjhat she preferred to ihear from other members of the "council. '.i This prompted Mayor Patterson to jifeuggest that in courtesy the members ' the council should be advised as to ie identity of the person addressing lem, and he suggested the speaker _iould at least give her name. This rather angered the woman and she refused to give her name. She then proceeded to say there were other ,ways in wh'ch the unemployed might [secure what they wanted if the city council refused to lis.en to them, and nssociafed the other method with the smashing of plate glass winidows. Mayor Patterson shut off her flow of denunciation by infonnng her that since she had refused to disclose her name the end had been reached in Uie reception of the delegation, and he requested whoever was in charge of ;he delegation to withdraw it. There seemed to be. some doubt as to who was in charge, but eventually O:ty Clerk Fraser succeeded in escorting the delega'lcn to the door ond closing it, the last heard from the woman being an expression of resentment against the closing of the door in her face. Altogether 1-. was a rather remarkable demonstration m which the most voluble of the delegates ignored all the amenities of debate, and it was some time after the delegation had �wlthurown before the customary composure of the council chamber was The council had some further correspondence from William Manson. superintendent of welfare, on the application of Mrs. Isabel Patterson. w!,fe of Alexander Pattei'son, for a pennon. The husband has been declared incapable of performing work for the city, but to qualify for a pen-. sion Mrs. Patterson must show her husband to be totally incapacitated. A further examination of Patterson will be made by Dr. C. Ewert, city health officer. City Solicitor Wi'son submtted three letters which had come to him as the result of his efforts to collect overdue municipal licences. One was from the management of the stage line operating between Ithis city and Vancouver in the carriage of passengers and express in wh'cli the company's liability for the tax was disputed. The second letter was from A. McB. Young dis- SENSATIONAL FlrSfD ,6n PLACER LEASE IN THE VICINITY OF CANYON Stanley Williams and Bert Cunning-harii came in on Thursday night from the ground they are working in the vicinity of the Fort George canyon. In their prospecting they have come upon a lot of coarse gold, but the sensational feature of their work was the finding of a nugget weighing something over three ounces ?n one pan they were washing. When they first saw it in the pan it looked very much like a yellow leaf. It is of irregular shape, about three inches long and �two inches wide, and tapering off from half an inch in thickness. It weighed a little more than tlhree ounces and appeared to carry no quartz. Needless to say Messrs. Williams and Cunningham are elated over their find. The big nuggei was taken out about three feet below the surface. They pay they can get water with a sufficient head for sluicing, and purpose doing considerable prospecting during the next few days. HUBERT WATSON HAS COMPLETED POSTING OF CARIBOO HIGHWAY Hubert Watson arrived, in the. city on Tuesday after completing the posting of the Cariboo Highway from Lyttcn to ilhis city. In all seventy-five posts have been planted between the two points to as?rst in the direction of motorists. The p^sts give the mileage each way from Prince George to Vancouver as well as the directions to side roads from the main highway. The posting of the highway has been undertaken by the Vancouver Auto-mobrle Club, provision for the cost having been made by the provincial government. New York Police Hot on Trail in Trunk Murder Ivan Poderjay is Being Held in Vienna at the Request of U. S. Government CANNOT FIND THE BODY It May Have Been Taken On the Steamer and Disposed of in the Atlantic Vienna, June 26�The government of the United States will have to move fast if it is to secure the extradition of Ivan Poderjay, now held by the Vienna police on a charge of murder. Poderjay is charged by the United i Five Cento Water Service of City to be Given More Attention Further Analyses of the Waters of Nechako will be made Over Period of Year t SEEKING SOFTER WATER Oil Nuisance will Continue while Impregnated Mains of System Continues in Use The city council will make further investigation into the matter of the municipal water service. This action was taken on a motion of Alderman Armstrong. There are two causes of complaint with the city water. One is that the water is not fit for drinking by reason of the presence of oil, and the other is that it is too hard for ROYAL COMMISSION TO CONTINUE WORK OF STEVENS COMMITTEE Ottawa. June 23�The parliamentary mass buying committee may be turned into a royal commission' to complete its work of investigating price spreads, wages and unfair business prac'.fces among Canadian industries. No definite decision has been made but the committee, which heard the last witness Friday for the session will meet in executive session Monday. The commf'tt/ec, since Feb. 15, has been investigating many industries but particularly department -otorec. A house committee cannot sit while par-liamenn is prorogued and because fehe committee still has many subjects to iwobe, there has been a growing bei'ef for some days that it would surmount this difficulty by being formed into a royal commission. Friday tine committee heard a submission on behalf of independent retailers from R. P. Sparks of the fair trade council showing independent store markups lower than large department stores and the decline of independent businesses in recent years. -------------o------------- WILLIAM R. HEARST MADE UNEXPECTED LANDING IN FRANCE Bordeaux, June 23�William R. Hears*, and his party made an unexpected landing *n France today when the plane in which they were travelling was forced down for want of ga3. The order expelling Hearst from France still stands, but former premier Edouard Herriott. declared eighteen mon'.hs ago that the French government, would not longer attempt to enforce* it. Hearst and his compan- Agnes Tufverson, in New York City on or about December 20th, two weeks after she had gene through a marriage ceremony with Poderjay in the famous Little Church Around fhe Corner. As Poderjay had a wife living, Marguerite Susanne Ferrand, whom he had married in London in March, 1933, his marriage with Agnes Tufverson was a bigamous one. The woman Poderjay married in London is being held here on suspicion of having profited by the murder of Agnes Tufverson. The New York police believe they have come upon the trail of another trunk murder in the Poderjay case, but so far they have failed to establish the death of Agnes Tufverson. Poderjay is said to have admitted going through a marriage ceremony with Miss Tufverson in New York, but contends it was understood between Miss Tufverson and himself that, it was merely a marriage of convenience, that when he left New York on December 22nd to sail for Europe Miss Tufverson did not intend to accompany him, that this was the last he had seen of her, and that he has no knowledge as to her whereabouts. This statement of Poderjay's does not check with the investigations of the New York police. These show the couple lived for some time after the marriage ceremony in Miss Tufverson's apartments, and that.they had planned to sail on December 20th on the Hamburg, of the Hamburg-American line for Europe via Southampton. The police have uncovered the fact that Miss Tufverson accomDanied Poderjay to the Hamburg's pier In a taxi on December 20th. along with several pieces of baggage. They did not sail on the Hamburg but returned late in the evening to the Tufverson apartment where they were seen by Miss Tufverson's maid engaged in sorting papers. This was the last time Miss Tufverson was seen. On the following day Poderjay was seen leaving uie apartment and returned trundling- a large trunk. On December 22nd Poderjay rode on a baggage truck with �this large trunk and other pieces of baggage, and sailed on the Olympic the murder^ *��?� ^nxxses. . Aside from these 1 objections the service is fairly satisfactory. There is a plentiful supply of the water for such purposes as it is suited. The discussion on Monday evening had chiefly to do with the hardness of ,tihe water. As is generally known the water in the Nechako river is soft, but when it filters through the formation :nto the municipal well it hardens so much that it becomes a distraction to the housekeeper v.nd a joy to the soap-maker. The city council has wres ,led with the problem before. Some time ago analyses were made of the water take . from the well as also a sample of water taken from the" river, but dhese upset the theory of the soft qualities of the river water as the river samples analysed were found to be even harder than: the water taken from the well, drinking water will have been won Thfe was very disturbing, and the explanation offered is ttttat in some way 1he samples became mixed, as the evidence is all against the city well producing water even relatively soft. Wihat .the council hirs decided is that further samples of water shall be taken at points from which it would be possible to pump river water directly into the city mains. What the city has to guard against in the use of water pumped directly from the river is the presence of vegetable matter. At cei-tain seasons there :s more vegetable mirXter and to determine this samples'of the wa^er are to be taken at - intervals of 60 days. Thus will permit analysis of the water in the spring and in the fall, and incidentally postpone any oxpandfture upon pumping equipment, for nnojher year. � The members of the city ctuncii realize that even the securing of u new source of supply will not remedy the oil nuisance in the water service. Ditches have been dug to drain the oil away from the well in the vicini'y of the power house, but in the years which have gone the ground around the well has been more or less saturated with oil, so much so that, more or less oil has lodged in the mains and p;pes and residents will have oil with their water so long as the pras-ent distribution system remains. To get rid of the oil � nuisance the city must have not only a new source of supply but a new distribution system as well. Thrs involves a very considerable expenditure. The mains have been down for twenty years and may soon require to be replaced. This may be offered as an excuse for delaying the time for replacement. When the mains give out the* fight for for Southampton. New York police The theory of the is that Poderjay murdered his bride, put her body in the trunk and sailed with it. The large trunk was not in Ms possession when Poderjay was placed under arrest by the police of this city, but there is the possibility he may have disposed of it in rnakfng the crossing of the-Atlantic. Scotland Yard has been requested to investigate whether a large trunk was included in Poderjay's baggage when he arrived at Southampton, but have not yet reported. Poderjay's story that his bigamous marriage with Miss Tufverson' was nierelv one of converience is utterlv Imposing Home of League to be Ready Next Year �~_ Influence of the Body in World Affairs has Shrunken in Past Six Years :ons decided, however, not to leave disproved by a number of letters writ- their plane while it was being r fuel- ten by Mire Tufverson immediately ........,.................................... their plane while it was beng refuel-, af)er her marriage, in which she ad-| state members. This figiire excludes, ,,,,,,..... ,,, ,_____ ... .____ ,. led on the assumption that if Hearst vised friends she was leaving for Eng- j the library, of which the entire cost is had a suplus of counsel ttfce Indian Grant Made by Rockefeller Covers Entire Cost of Books for Leag1.'� Library Geneva. June 25�The pile of buildings designed to house the League of Nations Ls approaching completion, and it is hoped the\ will be available for the meetin-j of the assembly in 19X5. A marked change has taken place with rtspect co the speculative future of the League since the buildings were designed. At the time it was thought the League would become a lasting organization for world peace. Now there is less certainty about thf-s. Two important nation members�Japan and Germany�have quit as a protest against what they consider the oppressive nature of League restraint, and an even larger nation�Russia�is now seeking admission to membership, but the r.pparent inability of the League to enforce its mandates suggests the probable dissolution of the League as a peace enforcing organization. It looks now as if Geneva will have an imposing p:le of buildings in which to house a peace organization which has besn deprived of its punch. Work on the foundations was begun in March. 1931'. The total cost of the construction was fixed in 1932 at about $5,000,000. part] of which was already available in the League's building fund, while the remainder its to come from annual contributions by the MRS. R. P. STEEVES WINS NOMINATION OF THE C. C. C. PARTY Vancouver, June 21�At the nominating convention of the C. C. F. party for the North Vancouver riding, which was held last night Mrs. R. P. Steeves was selected as the candidate to contest the by-election necessitated by the death of H. C. E. Anderson. Three names went before the conven- ee tion, those of Mrs. Steeves, W. A. Pritchard and A. M. Lester. Mr. Lester was dropped on the first ballot and a close contest resulted between the supporters of Mrs. Steeves and Mr. Pritchard before the former was declared the choice of the convention. Both Mrs. Steeves and Mr. Pritchard were unsuccessful C. C. P. candidates in the general election last year, having been nominated along with Prof. P. E. Buck for the three seats in Vancouver-Point Grey. They polled much the same vote with Pritchard leading wnth 7592 and Mrs. Steeves third with 7115. In the general election Mr. Anderson carried North Vancouver for the C.C.F., securing 2354 votes which eave him a plurality of 619 over J. Loutet who had sat in the previous legislature as a Conservative. In the general election there were seven candidates in the field for tho cne feat. The official Liberal candidate was H. S. Woods, who ran third with a vote of 1563, and J. M. Bryan, ?! former Liberal member, who whs fourth with 824 votes. -------------o------------- MERRITT INDIANS REJECT COUNSEL OF INDIAN DEPARTMENT Vemon. June 26�When the case of the three Indians charged with the murder of Constables G'sborne and Can- on the Canford Indian reserve v. as called n de\ eloped the accused remained in the Dutch machine ne ! laud shortly where she expected to could not be Gaid to be on French soil. : Epend the rest of her life. The serious The maclvne took off in half n.n hour, break in the chain of evidence ag-ainst being met out of the Rockefeller grant Of $2,000,000. Interest in the buildings centres on for London, the pilot having obtained Poderjay is the inability of the police | the assembly hall proper, flanked en the necessary permission from local authorities. th 0 ! to locate the trunk in which they as- either sert the body of his victim was placed, or to establish whether it was even by a gallery giving access dsfenc department having enyaged counsel as well a-3 the Indians themselves. The court left, the decision with the Indians as 10 who should conduct their and they entrusted the de- puting liability for dog taxes and scav- taken aboapd the Olympic on" whichremier hopes to save his sight. to the committee rooms and leading on one side to the library and on the otli:r to the council. The total length of the buildings is about 400 yards, and their cubic ca-pacity is slightly less than that of the Palace of Versailles. The council room fence to Stuart Henderson, of Victoria, and li. Castillou, of Vancouver, whom they had retained in the first instance. VY/TT T WILL Palace of Versailles. The council room wing comprises a large room for the j BE MADE ON RAILWAY public meetings of the council, a f rit ti d g smaller room for private meetings and five committee rooms for the league Victoria. June 27�Premier makes the announcement. Pattullo another groups which sit regularly and not J start is to be made by Uie Consolidat-merely during the assembly. The S i y retariat building contains some 550 rooms. The a*ssembly hall will accommodate about GOO delegates, experts and sec-rctaries and about 500 journalists. There are about 800 seats for the public, :5.nd the acoustical requirements of the hall were a subject of planning by the British department of scientific and industrial research. The buildings formed the subject of an international competit/on in 1926. and 377 designs were received in response. The jiu-y failed to agree on any one design and awarded nine equal prizes. The assembly then appointed cv committee of five, whfch finally chose the scheme presented by M, Nenot, a French architect, in collaboration with a Swiss architect, M Flegenheinier. Tliree other architects among the nine pr'ze winners, were ed company in the building of the railway from Stewart to Fort Gra-hame. The company is required to make certain expenditures within the year to hold the charter which was extended at the la.st session of Uie legislature. J. \V. HARRIMAN IS GIVEN PRISON TERM New York. June 27�J. W. Harriman. former president of the Harriman bank, has been sentenced to four and one-half years imprlsonmem for directing the making of fraudulent entries m the books of the bank. selected to collaborate in the final scheme�Signor Broggi (Italian). M. Lefevre (French) and M. Vago, (Hungarian i.