PRINCE GEORGE
5.  No. 37
Federal Election May Be Called in Very Short Time
premier Bennett   May   Dissolve Government Shortly After his
Return from Europe
RUPTURE WITH STEVENS
Ottawa Political   Opinion �is  it
Will Have Influence in the
Hastening of Election
The next general federal elections inav be closer to hand than most peo-,!c in Canada believe. This may explain the activity of the managers of the Liberal party in getting their candidates ouT in the opsn as quickly as possible. They \have 'been predicting an" early appeal to the electors for weeks pas', and they must have had -erne warrant for their belief as good campaign managers are never anxious 10 set candidates up to be shot at when ,he" election may be a year off. There Iras been an almost general agreement that the elections would be called in Novermebr. 1935, but the O'tawa correspondent of the Financ:al Post intimates it is more likely to be November 1934, than the November of the following year.
In its  issue of   September  8th   the Financial Post's Ottawa correspondent says dissolution of parliament follow-in^ the return of Pre.  Bennett  from Europe, as a direct result of tihe rift vith Hon. H. H. Stevens, is considered possible by persons high, in the coun-\ cils of the Conservative party. It Is believed Premier Bennett would rather do ��his than continue with a divided council and an uncompromising house Of commons. It >s pointed out the new wfere'  lists  will  be    compiled    and ready for use by November 1st, and no ?tAcle will exist after that date to uiunediate appeal to the country. Jonservattve headquarters have an-:ioiu�Td  Hon. Mr.  Stevens  will  lead �'he government    forces    in  the  approaching five by-elections. The developments in connection with, these by flections   will be  interesting.   If   the Conservative candidates make a good slicing  Mr.  Stevens  will  be in  an impregnable  position,  and  practically sure of tihe leadership wiven Mr. Bennett retires.  It is equally certain  he will be in a portion to dictate the report of the Price Spreads Commission. and of the  legislation to  follow.   Attempts on the part of his colleagues to interfere will brng the party face-to-face with the consequences of his. resignation on tihe eve of an election.
The open rift between Mr. Stevens and tihe prime minister and the majority of the cabinet remains uncloseu. Recent reports in prominent Conservative dailies, forecasting Mr. Stevens retirement from the commission are not to be fulfilled. But of more importance Is the fact well known in Ottawa, that these reports were not the emanations of political correspondents but sprang directly from the higher circles of the cabinet.
Following the now celebrated Toronto speech of Mr. Stevens, it is said '�he minster elected to stand by it and tendered a letter of resignation to Premier Bennett, to be accep'ed or rejected as the premier saw fit. Tlvs letter it is said is s4dll in Premier Bennett's possession. The Toronto speech, however, \s considered as ,a minor indiscre'ion compared with the Issuing of the Stevens' pamphlet, commenting upon the progress of the price spreads f-nquiry. The decision tit Ol-tawfi vas'that Mr. Stevens jhriiioi re-sisn ;i.o chairman--iMp of ihe commission. If he chose to resign from the cabinet as well the decision would be Ivs. But it appears the pamphlet, crea-'�d h deep and favorable impression in the country; that to put it plainly !!"   Stevens had  made a ten-strike...-""
PRINCE GEORGE, B. C.         THURSDAY,   SEPTEMBER   13,   1934
Five Cenu
CC.F. DENOUNCE THE INCREASE. MADE IN BREAD PRICES ON COAST
Vancouver, Sept. 10�Prominent C.C. F. members of the city are open in the'r denunciation of the action of tlhe city bakers in increasing the price of bread from five to six cents per loaf.
TASCHEREAU BOOSTS JUDICIAL COMMISSION CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Montreal, Sept. 11�Premier L. A. Taschereau is now advocating the appointment of a federal commission to consist of judges to investigate the criminal procedure of Canada and make recommenda'ions for the curing of deficiencies disclosed.
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Municipalities in Default Get Cut in Interest
Holders of Prince Rupert Bonds Express  Willingness  to  Accept   Cut   to   4%
BIG CUT IN BURNABY
Other Municipalities Advised to
Open Negotiations with Bond
Holders for Lower Rate
Victoria, Sept. 10�The provincial governmen-3 has started on its crusade to break the interest charges on the bonded indebtedness of the municipalities as a way to aiding them in their financing. It made a start"on the four municipalities now virtually in the hands of receivers, the affaire of which are being administered by provincial) commissioWierr,. The government's first victory came in the case cf the bondholders of Prince Rupert. Commissioner W. J. Alder making the announcement, the holders of Prince Rupert bonds have expressed their willingness to acept a cut in their interest rate to 4 per cent. In t one per cent. It is anticipated this drastic cut in the interest, ra'e wfU be resisted by the bondholders to the
uLtermost. With  respec
to  the    municipalities
130 Lives Lost in Burning of Morrow Castle
Survivors Tell Sinister Story or
Cowardice on the Part of
Members of Crew
FIRST IN LIFEBOATS
Passengers Robbed of  Lifebelts
and Trampled Upon in Mad
Scramble to Escape
Springlake, N. J., Sept. 8�One of the worst disasters in the annals of United States shipping occurred early this morning when the Ward liner Morrow Castle, homeward bound from Havana ilo New York, burned e'ght miles off the New Jersey coast. The liner is now lying in seventeen feet of water at Ashbury Park, New Jersey. The known dead number 130 persons, but there are 19 passengers and members of the crew still missing, and the death  roll  may  exceed 150.
There are various explanations offered for the outbreak of the fire which started in tihe early hours of Saturday morning while the passengers were still in their berths. The fire spread so rapidly that the wireless operator of lihe vessel was able to send out buf. one SOS call. This was fortunately picked up by the Brtish liner Monarch, of Bermuda. The captain of the Monarch had just taken his pUot on board when the SOS was . brough; to hm. He waited a short y,time for further details of the trouble on the Morrow Castle, but none being received he headed the Monarch for �the scene and reached the flaming vessel wfrfoin an hour. Four of the Monarch's lifeboat; were lowered and the work of rescue was commenced. The heavy loss of life in connection with the burning of the Morrow Castle is overshadowed with reports of in-competency in the handling of the ill-fated vessel, and the cowardice on he part of a considerable section of the vessel's crew. Sara Kerby, a stewardess on the Morrow CasUe. tells a shocking story of the panic on the part of passengers and crew af'.'er the fire had gained headway. She says rhere was the utmost of confusion, with passengers rumvng wildy/ about in their night clothes. She tells of one of the passengers who tried to restore some semblance of discipline by organizing passengers for the sing-in? of songs, but his effor.s were negatived when he was seized by the throat by another man and cursed. The panic erew momentarily after this, and the stewardess says she saw men snatching )ife preservers from the women. Then there came a flyng wedge of humanity from somewhere. From the manner in which they were dressed she snys appeared  to be members oi  the
McBride To Get Outlet by Way of North Thompson
DREDGING COMPANY UNCOVERS QUARTZ LEDGE ON NECHAKO
Considerable interest was shown during the week-end over the news that tiie Victoria company which has obtained dredging leases on the Ne-chako river above Prince George had struck a ledge of quartz. In the prospecting: of the river banks the lessees have been, sinking a number of test-pits, and it was in one of these the ledge was encountered. A couple of shots will be put into the ledge to determine the values carried by the quartz. The work of s'nking the test-pi's is reported to have been uniformly encouraging. The quartz ledge was discovered some four or five miles above Prince George, and the lessees will have the water of the river to contend with in the'r sampling operations.
DUNCAN CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL  FIXES  TUITION FEE FOR HIGH SCHOOL
which have so far avoided default in j
the  matter  of interest,  pavments   the i t!lc-\ "''''""�"J"  *"" -----."----- y    ~"
suggestion of  the  government  is tha-   fhips crew.    They were  fn a  frenzy. negotiations    with     their   'rampLmg   over     "he   passengers   .-md -         .   I snafcchins life-Dreservers from them.
The board of trustees for the Duncan Consolidated schools has decided *o impose a tuition fee of $65 in the cace of all non-resident pupils attending the h/igh school. $32.50 of which became payable with the opening of �he high school on September 4th the balance will be payable on or before February 1st. The trustees have gone further than this and have decided to impose a Uuition fee of $20 for the September term with respect to all high school pup:ls who have attained the age of fifteen years irrespective of their place of residence.
Hon. H. G. Perry Content with
Proportion of Public Works
Loan to Fort George
BRIDGE FOR SLOUGH
MRS. DAVID SPENCER DIED IN VICTORIA AT ADVANCED AGE
Victoria. Sept. 11�Mrs. David Spencer, relict of David Spencer, founder of the Spencer departmental stores, died here ;oday at the age of 92 years. She came to Victoria 72 years ago, via Cai>e Horn, from Yorkshire, and was married in 1867. she was the mother of eight daughters and five sons, eleven of whom are still liv.'ng.
MAGISTRATE  MILBURN DISMISSES CRIMINAL CHARGE AGAINST SAUER
BURNABY WILL CUT INTEREST RATE TO \% FOR NEXT THREE YEARS
Vancouver. Sept. 11�Getting in line with tihe government's policy to arbi-?arily reduce the rate of interest on the outstanding bonds of municipalities in default, Commissioner Hugh Praser has issued an offic/al notice to ftU holders of Burnaby bonds calling upon ifoem to surrender their bonds fcnd accept new bonds bearing an undetermined rate of interest. The Commissioner's proposal is that for the first three years the bonds shall bear interest ai the rate of one per cent, he rata thereafter tor be "subject to an upward revision annually. Wh'le it Is admitted there Is �an element of repudiation in the prop3sed arrangement it is not as great as it may seem as t.he bonds have already lost, a very substani'al part of their value, and if }'�m.e modification is not made -with, respect to interest the pmcipal as well ^ f'he interest on the ou,'standing oonds will be jeopardized. It te pointed <*�� the arrangement will safeguard �e Principal of the bondholders.- The vi proposal will not become ^            vm the,necessary legisla-
tion has been passed by the legjisla-
they   open
bondholders for the securing of a rate _ of  interest  accord;ng  to  their  ability j 'o pay. and the statement is made that any  further  loans  will  require   to  be j approved   by  the    government   before j Jliey  can  be  issued.    In  the case  of I a municipality failing to secure a. reduction in the existing rate of interest on  outstanding    bonds after    having opened   negotiations    with  the  bondholders   the decision   as  to  what   the interest rate shall be shall be fixed by the provinc'a.1 government.
The announcement respecting the government's policy on the interest rate on outstanding municipal bonds has met with an unfavorable reception on *he par. of the B. C. Bondholders' Association. Lyle Frasejv the head of this associatloif, expresses the opinion ihe government has been poorly advised in deciding upon its jjolicy In this respect and that i's ac'ion is likely to damage serously the credit of the municipalities. He questions if anyone will invest in municipal bonds when it is learned the agreed rate of Interest may be eompulsorily cut at any time.
Alderman Miller, chairman of the finance committee of the Vancouver city council, gives it as h\s opinion the ci'y of Vancouver will not take the short cut of repudiation suggested in the government policy. He favors nego'iab;on wi'ih the bondholders for a 'reduction in the interest rate but if it cannot be secured by agreement he '�ould not be hi favor of taking it by compulsion. Under no arrangemen tor a reduction :ji the interest rate would Alderman Miller be willing to turn the municipal sinking funds ever to  the  provincial  government.
WEATHER0 REPORT
For the -week ending Tuesday. September lirh. lihere were 28 hours. 36 minutes of sunshine and a total precipitation of 1.41 inches. Snow was reported from Edmonton on Tuesday, and there was r!so L:ght snow in rec-tiens between � Edmon on and Pritiqe George. The maximum and nvniniuin �temperature   readings   for   the   period
S6 5    37.0
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
 '585  6v0
 42.5,
 4'-
 49-2    *'-0
snatching life-preservers
The stewardess said she continued to fasten life-preservers to a number of elderly ladies until she became exhausted. She then fastened a rope to her body and jumped in o the sea. The rope broke. She managed to grab a p'-ece of wreckage and kept afloat for an hour when she was picked up by  a  lifeboat.
There is some confirmation of the panic on the part, of members of the crew of the Morrow Castle from the men in the rescuing life-boa s of the
Stipendiary Miagistra. e Milburn on Wednesday afternoon dismissed the dhnrge laid agafnst Karl Sauer under
Greater Part of Federal Loan to be Expended, on Permanent Road   Improvements
Hon. H. G. Perry has returned from a trip through the eastern part of his district and confirms the report that the work of giving the McBride section a hook-up with, the highway system of the province is to be.proceeded with at once, and that the work necessary to secure this will be completed before the end of 1935. If there were any features of lihe road situation which had been overlooked the member for the district fam'liarized himself with them in a walk he made over eighteen miles of the proposed highway from Dunster to Tete Juane Cache to Valemount and on to Al-breda, the eastern l/mit. of the Fort George riding, at which point connection will be given with the highway being constructed up the South Thompson from Kamloops. The bringing of the highway to Albreda wll give McBride and points east d r^ct conned ion with the highway system of the province, and provide the second side to the triangle highway, with the third to be added when the highway between Prince George and McBride is completed.
With t'he limited funds available Mr. Perry is convinced tlrs program will give the settlers in the eastern portion of the riding the maximum of service. The side of the triangle to be furnished by, '.he road connecting Prince George with McBride involves too great an expenditure to be undertaken at the present time, as it, means the building of approximately 100 miles of roadway, and tihe work will be comparatively heavy. A camp has been established at Small R4ver. between Croydon and Tete Juane Cache, where a start is to be made on the work to be done this season, there being considerable clearing to be done in this vicinity.
With respect to the recent loan re-cerved by the provincial .. government for the prosecution of public works, the cutting of this from $5,000,000 to $1,000,000, has naturally curtailed the public works program. Of this grant $500,000 has been ear-marked for public works, and Mr. Perry says a gen-erous allowance out of this amount lias been made to the Fort George riding. Included in this allowance us $6,500   for   the    replacement    of   the
Section 510 of the Criminal Code for I brid^e over "the Hudson's Bay slough, the shooting of a steer the ^property j Whlch has been the scene of numerous
of the Nor hwest Produce Company. The evidence disclosed the steer had been running at large in the vicinity of Sauer's property, and had occasioned some damage to his garden and crops. The owners of the s'eer had been unable to corral if for butchering-, and there had been some talk of shoot ing it and butchering it where it might be  killed.    Sauer took  the law
steamer Monarch, who say there was I into his own hands and shot the ani-a glaring dWegard of the ship's pas- j mal. He was not a very good shot and srnsers as they were struggling in the i 'ntead of lii ting it in the head he shot
The official enquiry into the Morrow CaVtle disaster will be awaited with iribres*.     It   was   first   surmised   the
I it iii the rear end, but he did' notify the owners he had shot the steer and cut   its   throat   "b   bleed   the   carcass.
! The  magistrate  absolved  Sauer  from
vessel had been fred by lightning strik-. any   criminal   intent   in   the   circum-na the fuel tanks, which might have'                   '" -"----'�'--'--   -*--             *1--
explained the instantaneous .spreading
stances  and  dismissed  the  case,    the maximum   penalty  under  the  cede   is
of   the   flames." but   this   explanation \ fourteen years imprionment. gees out wi h the statement there was j     Sauer fell foul of the the law a se-no storm and no lightning. The gen-   coml   fine   as   a   foreigner   being   in eraliy   accepted   explanation  a.t   pres- \ possession of firearms without, a per-ent is that the f're was started in the I mit   under  the   provisions  of the Of-
ent library of
he    vessel  by  a  cigarette j fensive  Weapons Act.    and  a charge
was laid against him by the police. The case >vas adjourned untfl Friday to give Sauer an opportunity to secure counsel.
bu't. This. � however, makes it difficult to understand how the fire could envelop the ship so rapidly that the wireless operator was able to send ou � but one SOS before he was driven from the wireless room, and before 'he passengers could be got out of their   staterooms.
Captain K. R. Wihnot, was not in command of the Morrow Castle at tihe time of the disaster.    He had died a
few  hours   before  the   fire  broke  out I -   '*'"''"" ".....-  *-�-�  ~w.  --    - .-�  ~.
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FRED PERRY DEFEATED WILMER ALLISON FOR U. S. CHAMPIONSHIP
Forest, Hills.  N.Y.  Sep .  12�Fred  J.
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