16, No. 43
PRiNCE GEORGE, B. C.
THURSDAY, OSTOBER 25; 1934:
Five Cents
Scott and Black Had Big Margin in Winning Race
British P^ots Cut Time Between
London and Melbourne More
Than 70 Hours.
DUTCH PILOT SECOND Winning Pikes Had Anxious Time Over Sea When One Engine Gave Out
r^don Oct. 22�Captain C. W. A. , u-is the winner in the great air
^ fSm Lo�don to Melboume- rhe ^ of Scott, who had made r. solo 3ver the course in eight days, hours, was conc^ied la when Scott, accorr.pf.n kpr on the flight, Ca
Darwin some hours
Evidence Taken in the A. Bellos Assault Charge
Girl Testified She was Knocked
Down and Kicked on Head
by the Accused
___________HEARING IS ADJOURNED
get into the air againStfter �.securing j --------
h's bearings. As it happened .Turner Accused Had Not Recovered and Pangbom, in the following third
^piece_ of boggy ground. He came down^-so heavily that it was a matter of hours^before he could
plane, also lost their direction atid; did not finish until some hours afoei i Parmentier.
The performance turned In by Scott, winner of the $50,000 prize, Ls conceded to have been the most outstanding in tlie annals of aviation, the British airman having covered the 11,325 miles in 70 hours and 59 minutes. The previous L-ecord was set by C. T. P. Ulm a year ago at .six days, 17 hours, 56 minutes.
Colonel James
from Beating 'Administered by Constable Cook
The hearing of Arthur Bellos on the two charges which had been hangrng over him for two weeks, was further adjourned on Friday afternoon until Friday, OObber 26th, at 2.30 o'colck. The application for tliird adjournment was made by A. McB, Young, counsel for the accused. One of the charges against Bellos was that of having Fitzmaurce, the j commuted an assault upon M�.v Row-
City Facing Stiff Tax on Purchases of Diesel Oil
a n
the
nyiag record, having f Lod
pecifi
intention of
to wit Constable Cook. The one came
as the sequel to the other, and it was
rf!" I in view of the happenings featuring the back-
As Fit?m�urice ha.
New Impost Will Add �1200
Per Year to Administrative
Charges of City
RELIEF COST ALSO UP
Cut in Federal Relief is Passed on to Municipalities by the Provincial Goyernment
The members of the city council had an uneasy time on Monday evening with the reading of the correspondence. Frs. there was the letuer from J M. Hci;dc:-�on, local representative of the Imperial Oil Company, intimating that ihe munic-pallty is about to be mulcted to the tune of
ailBUm?" ^T
V ^ f,? oil purchases for .the
w nyiag , ing of the Ir
90(W miles from London in two, -t ,s not an h and 33 mnutes Scott iff i
ing of the Irlsh Proe state sweepstakes
^
have any
m t ,s not an ici]^ied ^ ^ have any
hours and 33 minutes. Scott difficulty in making the attempt, and
Vgallant Jight^ in^ the^ seaJiop
put
when one of his
It .looked like the finish British flier, and for a time his backer had to think more
wnen arrangements for re-fuelling at
?5Tii
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adminis-
tactics of
S 'JESS STwi
client with Constable
Cook having resulted in facial injuries ri
, Cook having resulted in facial injuries
the stopping points are cample1 cd hr ] requiring medical And dental attention, and so painful that the interlude
will doubtless be ready to take off. It �'t> expected Fitzmaurice' will be in the air within a week.
pave for tne
J SiW their lives than of �he $50 000 prize. Sco.tt bent all h's 1-^'es on reaching Darwin, both ""msring life belts in the expectation
lm- would drop into the sea. By skill- i
M handling, however. Scott managed {
�o retain altitude and limped into;
Dartfin vith one engine. Having i
avoided i forced landing the race j
again became uppermost in the minds ; --------
ot'sccv and his companion. The d\s-! Preliminary List Open to Public
ablcd engine was not in as bad shape j as had been feared and with expert attention Scott was ready to take off within half an hour for Charleville. a hop of 1200 miles; from which point
Does Your Name
Appear on New
Electors'
of two weeks proved insufficient to overcome them.
I P. E. Wilson, K.C., appeared for tlie j prosecu Sen. He said there was a de-I sire on the part of the prosecution to get the cases cleaned up. He aid he I would press for the taking of the evidence of the girl whom Bellos was
city will receive a lesser amount in connection with the municipal relief expendtures and a consequent increase in the taxpayers' burden in relief matters.
There has been more or less fog ob-fcur.ng the government's intent in connection with the impou.ion of the tax on diesel oil when tued in internal combust-on engines, and ihe letter of Mr. Henderson did not make matters much clearer, o her than that his company had been charged with the col-
application for a further adjournment.
Inspection at Registrar's Office for 20 Days
Mr. Young expressed his willingness to have evidence of the girl taken, but would then press his application for cents ^ further adjournment. He informed 1 conie5 a \fx Police Magistrate Moran that he had|ancl on me Dr. Me Arthur and Dr. H. J. Hocking! f�werf hou5e
the tax on diesel oil used for internal combustion engines would be seven
^gallon L
REVISION TO FOLLOW
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were not resisted by the counsel for the prosecution he would be inclined to grant it, and in such an event tJie taking of the med'eal and dental evidence would not bo necessary. Tlie
were to
he had but. 800 miles to negotiate to finish the race.
Parmentier, tlie Dutch flier who had wide flying experience on the easem airways, landed the second pl?ne at Darwin, but he was so far behind Scott that his only chance of winning was that Scott should suffer some further mishap. The United State? team consisting of Colonel Ros-coe Turner and Clyde Pangbom was the third to land at Darwin. Much
vis exix-cted of them by the oeopLe j electors for said poling division. On | of the United States as the former it there are 1464 names, wheh closely; is the holder of the United States approximates the 1716 names appear-: �"wrd records and Pangbom Ls famous I ing on the provincial lis: as revised on ! for his long-distance solo flights. The September 28th. 1934. This prelinvn-Jones-Kon Waller British plane was -irv \'$t has now been posted in the the fourth to reach Darwin, and the office of the registrar of electors, on four were so evenly spaced that, barr- Third avenue, and will remain posted ine accidents, they were expected to j until Tuesday, November 13th, follow-finish at. Melbourne in Uie order ofj;mr which a revision ol[jhM^M J'^eii^fcS^to ii p^sibie"motWe
tax of S1200. Thf lei derson read as follows:
Ample Provision Made for Registration of Electors who are in Relief Camps
Richard Allen, enumerator for the
Prince George polling division in the j professional" uitnVw.- "�hn Cariboo district, has completed the j K^n^Mnw, Vn ^ V**ho *�� ^ compilation of the preliminary list oi' ha^es"lfied to the thoroughness of
tr,
of
e^dence of May Rowland was
?iven ln a ve
manner. She
we have received are as follows: "Under the gasoline tax the goveni-that the 7c per gallon ail sales of on
and diesel oil, when such diesel oil is ih>ed in internal combustion engines, but in lespect to diesel oil we are permitted to charge the 7c on the face of the invoice and make ; of 5c. thus charging 2c er gallon :s the same as the purchaser paying 7c and making application for refund
their arrival at Darwin.
; be undertaken by the enumerator in on Lhe ii f th
of Bellos j
With no desire to minimize the great \ accordance with the provisions of the paid Be:iO55 nad accused her of victory of Captain Scott there was
ir] ^
Dominion Franchise Act
g the pohc-e something, but the nature
While the preliminary list remains of this infOjTOatiOn ro the pol\ce was
sreat d'fcappointmen* expressed over, ...... . _..........._.
�he bad breaks suffered by Captain ! posted it Ls open to public insiaection. I no. disclosed
ate item. In the case of a purchaser objecting to pay the '--c per are to waive same and so
�'This
fuel oil tax is nhe tax
James Mollison and his famous wife Amy .Johnson. They were sent away first from the Mlldenhall a'rdromo. They lost several nainutes on the start Iftft wore "he first to reach Bagdad, a
Qualified electors
_.____ who find the:r
names have been omitted may make application to have them added, and they aLso have the right to take exception to
wlrch the provincial government were h h
Sha testified Bellas had paid a num- | collectinc direct from the purchaser �� ,.f ,.,ei,e ^ fho Montgomery house ,.The 7!bovp charge of 7c. with the
of ViSit-s
no unpleasantness. She said Bel o: was under the influence of liquor, but could walk and talk. On his ihird visit Bellos came between 2.30 and 3 o'clock Wedr. sday mom-'ntr. accompanied by Bert Goglin. a
� ny names appearing on
(light of 2551 miles, closely followed by j the lis � 'as improperly entered. All Captain Scott. Luck continued with matters of this nature, r-; well ns all the popular British flving couple on suggested omissions, will be dealt with the net hop of 2300 m"e^ the
*>"t had to return rwice. only to find J design of the Ot.awa government, to room nnfj about half an hour after
that repairs would occupy so much disfranchise the men donrciled in re-1 t,1(V,;r avr;vai t.}:e witness Belles as-
t'me that, they had no chance to com- j ijef camps. There was no warrant for
P�10 for the main rjrize
slim chance in the handicaps.
The creat race wa tragedy which continues !'aci>s This resulted >ode*th of H. D. Gilmans. one of the DTi'<-- h Piers. ar>i h's c-'nnnnion -T. V- C. 3aynes. A short! distance out of Rome their machine" crashed and '�"mediately burst into flame
on the- (vening of Tuesday, October: dpduction of 5c On diesel fuel only 2nd. and in the early morning of the j H h d1ese] fucl is lised on ;n-
following day. On h;s first two visits t^'nal' COmbu.s;ion engines, o her than Jgcs had sat r.rounrt and talked, but Qn t'he highways. If ~de.sel.fael is used
".....�'�"-�*� �^- SJ for motor vehicles on tlie highways
then tlie straight 7c tax will apply
and there is no refund." The members of the city
council
were somewhat indignant, but their views on the taxation measure had been framed hugely upon what they had learned of the tax through the
the letter of Mr. Hender-
_._...... �,..,� ...... y-...... The | temporary absence from their last
indent "was "viewed" by �'.hundreds of. place of � residence, and the man in
Peonlt* whn �wn � t.Wo lnok-out. for tho relief camp having any sucn piac<
with in respect to polling dlv'sions. hP;icj vyith hob-nailed boots, breaking
n lief camps are given no status, but tno skn nnd drawing blood the instructions clearly sta'e that men li
in relief camps shall be treated as m
She -.aid Goglin, :;he taxi-driver, came fo her ass'is ance and held Bellos untfJ she could make her escape. At
the relief camp .
of residence or home, either of_hiai-
(hp competitors in t.he crrent race. A..........._�__ , ,, .
nish was made to the burniw olane 'self or any member of Iv.s h mli>; 1O
which hr could return, shall, not-
the time of the assault she was wear- j ing a nightgown and long coat. She j idontif c-d a blood-stained coat produced* as the one ;he had beon wearing.! She testified she remained out of the I
The answer 'probably is
there s more" of the oil used for heating with a greater prospect for pro-ie*s1 In the press it had been in'.li-riiated the refund.of five of the seven cents charged on purchases of diesc-1 use in internal combustion en-Riid the- withhold'ng of t>wo .! ;he sallonage tax, had been
It read as follows:
"I bej: to inform you that the dominion government has altered the basis of contribution to direcr rel:ef expenditures. Effective from Aug. 1st, 1934, they will pay to the province the sum of $150,000 per month until March 31s'., 1935, as their contribution to relief expenditures made by the provinces . and municipalities. This cancels the previous arrangement whereby the dominion government shared in one-third of the cost of expenditures in municipalites,. and fifty per cent of the cost in unorganized territory.
"Notwithstanding the fact tiiat the federal government's contribution is substantially lower than the monthly sum formerly received from them, for the mti,ths of August and September the provincial government will absorb the difference between the amount which your municipality would have received on a three-way basis and the amount if paid on a proportionate basis.
"I am instructed to advice you that, effective from October 1st, 1934. tne monthly grant will be divided between the municipalities and the province on a proportionate basis, and while the province will not absorb the d'f-ference between the proportionate share and the one-third share former-y borne by the dominion government, it will advance the difference to the municipalities by way of loan. Loans for this purpose will be advanced under the same terms and conditions as provided in the "Unemployment Relief Act, 1933."
"The dominion authorities will be asked at the next conference to review the whole problem as the additional financial burden placed on the province and municipalities will no doubt increase considerably during the next few months."
To appreciate just what the effect of the new arrangement will be upon municipal finances it would be necessary to know what, the federal contribution to relief wes formerly. Some assert this amount approximated $200.-000 per mon.h and that by the change the provinces and the municipal'ties must find an additional $50,000 per month, supposing the total cost of relief remained stationary. There is another facor in the advance of $1.-000.000 the province recently received from the federal treasury for public works, or as others put it "work and wages." The expenditure of this sum should reduce the demands for relief while the work continued in progress, and there may have been some relation in this matter to the willingness of the provincial government to absorb the d'fference between the relief payments of the federal government during the months of August and September, as there i* a suspicion the absorbing involved no great strain upon provincial Tuanee.
It was 'ntimated at t'he council meeting that the Union of B. C. Municipalities will enter a formal protest to any fur'her burden being placed upon municipalities in connection with unemployment relief. The city of Prince George will join in any such protest and the city clerk will lodge an individual protest with :!he government at Victoria.
Considerable discontent was voiced over the action of the provincial public works department in refusing em-ploymeiv to men receiving municipal relief on the work in progress at the Hudson's Bay plough and on the building in course of erection in the city. It was represented that men on provincial r^'.of hpd been rrven pm-Dloyment, but ihe fact a man was on the city relief list debarred him from employment. A protest against this discrimination will be lodged with the pubPc works department,
oil fo gines. cen
decided to cover government admin-house for what she thought to be two) [gtrative costs, bur' the net result re-
C. F. COLLIS.ON OF
: ORT ST. JOHN HAS VALUABLE PROPERTIES
kondon, Oct. 23�C. W. A. Scott landed hours ahead of th� second | imdet mane piloted by the Dutch airman fine
" ' a I ment
The'
At Darwin there was ^ of p finish with bu' n fe_w separating the leadfng machines. were close enough in fact that
who is registered as an elector tiy.s Act shall, merely because of spent by him a relief enmp.
nn unemploy-or in ��such nn in-
hours, when she was brought back by Carmen Montgomery. Later she received medical treatment from Dr. Lyon for her ;njuries but could not ray who had summoned the doctor.
At tine end of her cross-examination A. McB. Young secured an adjournment of the hearing until Friday next and new bonds were token for
r 'lv'"haP to cne mteht determine the : 'u't. As i*i turned out, however it
ouaHf'catioi/m
or refuge; lose' his residence (}l(i a,ppearanC� of the accu---ed. The
"the electoral district d
in which he is so registered^
number of
char?:? as well as that of ob-structing a ix>Hce officer will be pro-
ceeded with tomorrow.
Po.m< divsion
iGti-aUon is
Jf.wie planes following Scott, which of tu?" rtifficultles. Witlvn 200 miles Melbourne Parmentier lost his
^nnrs completely and sent out an I r'ght to registra"' ZS This was Pl<*ed up by a small | as possible, and. it nJ? stati9n and a call was Ls-sued to il^. of 'nutomobi-es in the vcinitv the localiV and with : flights give Parmentier a to bring Ws plane down. The
ter of fact a
In the Prince George . _________0-------------
" re?- ISEMPLE GIVEN LIBERAL
;�, hasten lneir hfH>
p e was good and Parmentier
themselves sufficiently to
cation for registration
the same position as the resident
tlie List of electors.
Their j NOMINATION FOR THE FRASER VALLEY RIDING
New Wes'�minster. Oct. 22�The Liberals of Fraser Valley riding today .tendered their nomination to A. Scmple. James Conley, of Hope, went to ballot with Semple but ra:. second in the voting.
w'll be In
ma-'ns n ta:; of two cents per g-allon on ail diesel oil used in the engines in the city power house. This net tax of two con-s per gallon is on the heavy side. The oil is .sold a! Vancouver at approximately 7 1-3 cents, inclusive of the federal government's sales tax. so that the new impost :-s some.hing in excess of 25 per *ent upon the sale price.
On mot'on of Alderman Armstrong, seconded by Alderman Keller, it was decided to instruct Ci y Solicitor Wilson to submit a protest against the payment of the tax to Hon. John Hart, minster of finance, and to furnish a copy of the same to Hon. H. G. Perry, as the representative of the Fort George riding.
The circular of E. W. Griffith, administrator of relief, was d'squieting, but it left the members of. the city council in the dark as to how badly
Lates! reports are to the-effect that the quartz discoveries made on Quartz creok. a tributary of McDamcs creek :n the northern part of Cassiar dis-trlct, are 1 kely to prove of great value. Prospecting for quartz in the Mo-Dame-; ssction has been prosecuted stead'ly for "ho past two years and \\i h rto small measure of success, but on Quartz creek C. P. Collison and his three sons have the inside track. Tlie discovery was made in the summer of 1933 by Coll son who made his way into the district with a pack-train from Per Nelson. Assays secured in the following whiter indicated high values in gold, and early in the spr'ngr of 1934 Collison was back into the district accompanied by his three sons. Since then it is repor-.ted approximately 150 claims have been staked, and it is claimed one of the sources of tlie McDa.rn.es creek placer gold lias been found. There is a short season for work at McDames creek, there being a
foot of
on the ground on Sep-
the municipality is going to be hit- | tember 12 ih.