L1BRVAVV VICTORIA. B< VOL. IT NO. 50 PRINCE GEORQE, B. C. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1935 Big Concessions Proposed to War in Ethiopia Peek Assails Canada's Treaty With the U.S. Hoare-Laval Peace Formula has j Tenders Resignation as Foreign Already Caused Split in the j Trade Adviser to President British Cabinet j By Way of Protest ANTHONY EDEN TO QUIT SILVER MARKET OPENS AGAIN IN LONDON ON � LIMITED U.S. BUYING London. Dec. 11�The silver market which was suspended yesterday "reopened with assurances of limited buying: orders from the United States treasury, and the price was fixed at. 27.'-d, which was equivalent to Cl cents, an ounce in sterling. There were twenty-one million - ounces offering and limited sales. HOLDS TREATY OBSCURE Contends Suggested Partition of ; Ottawa Sees in U. S. Objections Ethiopia Grossly Unfair to j Support for Belief Canada Emperor Haile Selassie j London. Dec. 10�An advanced step was taken yesterday by Great Brit-ain and Prance for the settlement of the war raging in Ethiopia. There Ls no certainty that it will end the bblt it Made a Good Bargain Washington. Dec. 9�President F Roosevelt today dealt with the crit- jcism of George N Peek his former foreign trade adviser, directed asaJvst tne reciprocal trade agreement 're- i Ls no cetiny j tne rp g war, but there is every probability it cently arrived at with Premier Mac- i lit i Premier --.._... _ will result in a split in Premier Baldwin's cabinet and the retirement of Anthony Eden, British minister to the League of Nations. What Europe is now studying is the proposal of Slr Samuel Hoare and Premier Laval, di f l kenzie King on behalf of the Dominion of Canada. President Roosevelt asserted Mr. Peek made a grievous error in asserting the reciprocity pact would crucify the agricultural industry of the United States, claiming Slr Samuel H y which involves the ceding of a large I the new trade agreement will inure slice of Ethiopia to Italy as the price j greatly to the benefit of the agricul- for peace. The boundary between, Italian Eritrea and Ethiopia has j never been defined, but it would be; established by the pact proposed, and at the same time secure for Ethiopia an outlet to the Red Sea through Er- ; itrea. Sir Samuel Hoare and Premier! Laval agreed upon their peace for-' inula while the former was proceeding through Paris on the way to Switzerland to recuperate his health.> It is suggested it was not intended to publish he formula a once, but a leak developed in Paris and the formula was given to the world before Sir Samuel's colleagues in the British cabinet had had an opportunity to .study it. When details of the formula reached London Anthony Eden, at once denounced it as grossly unfair Lo Emperor Haile Selassie, and it is openly stated he will tender his resignation by way of protest against it. Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, on the other hand, expressed his approval of the peace formula. If the Hoare-Laval formal goes before the League of Nations and is .submitted to Mussolini the general "belief ls that it will be accepted. Following" the announcement of the formula Mussolini issued a statement Police Say Hull Bank Robbery An Inside Job Eleven Persons Are Being Held for Complicity in the Murder of Armand Nadeau Five Cent* City Council Refuses Request for Increases in Relief Provincial Authority Refused to Entertain Medical Allowance Some Months Ago CITY IS OVER MAXIMUM Relief Allowances are Greater at Present Than Were at Same Time Last Year LOOT WAS DISCOVERED tural industry of the United States. Ottawa, Dec. 9�Official circles are somewhat concerned over the rupture of relations between President Roosevelt and George N. Peek, his foreign trade adviser. The split came over the reciprocal trade agreement recently arrived at by President Roosevelt and Premier Mackenzie King. In conveying his resignation to the president Mr. Peek denounced the reciprocal treaty in unmeasured; terms. He says the real effect of the treaty is obscured by involved classifications, quotas and exemptions, and that it is difficult even for oik? expert on matters of tariffs to arrive at a definite understanding of it. It is.pointed out here that the agreement contains provision for amendments at the instance of either party, and the circumstance .that the strongest objections taken to the treaty so far have come from the United States supports the view that Premier Mackenzie King did not get the worst of the bargaining. George N. Peek, who is now leading the campaign against the treaty, in addition to holding the position of President Roosevelt's foreign trade adviser was also president of the export and import bank set up by the administration. He was a former plow manufacturer of Moline. II- j Man Suspected of Actual Murder Killed by the Police in Resisting Arrest Hull, Dec. 10�Eleven persons, in-i eluding one woman, are to go on! trial here for complicity in the murder of Armand Nadeau. an eighteen- The Workers' Defence League, through its- action committee, on Monday evening submited to the city council its request for additional re-lief"allowances for the unemployed. F. E. Peterson was the spokesman for the committee. The requests ot the league were contained in a letter which was read to the members of the council It was in two parts, the first relatih'g to a former request for an addition to the fixed' unemployment relief to include an allowance for medical attention and medicines, and the second a specific request for an additional amount of relief to cover the Christmas season. The first paragraph recited that last spring the relief workers were promised consideration on the question of medical and dental treatment, but .so far had received no definite year-old clerk in the employ of the although favorable replies local branch of the Banque Piovin- ^ � y local branch of the Banque Piovin- ht local branch of the Banque Piovin ^ rece� d to ]ctlovs scm, lo ciale du Canada. Police believe that provincial government at Vic-1 while all the parties charged with j ^ wi,h ^ jn foQd iceg and , complicity in the murder were ac| thp ' ^nfc measles epidemic the re- one time privy to the conspiracy to rob the bank, some of them withdrew \ before the robbery was committed, in the commission of which Armand Nadeau wa.s murdered. In addition to these held by the police one man wa.s killed by officers in resisting arrest. He was known as Ted Mon-tin. and is believed to have been a New York gangster, engaged to stage the robbery. Montin was run down in an apartment house and killed when he .started to put up a fight wi'h the police. Chief Louis Jargille. of the provincial detective department in Montreal, asserts Montin was the man who did the actual killing of Nadeau lief workers are facing a winter of semi-starvation., and it i.s imperative that they get- an increase in relief to defray doctors' bills. The .second paragraph recited that Christmas i.s coming and the children of the relief workers are facing a very dismal holiday, and their parents wish to see thorn have a little enjoyment, .so the only way this can be done is/to ask for a double relief for the Christmas week. . After the reading of the letter F. E. Peterson addressed the council. Dealing with the request for an additional allowance for medical and dental treatment he stated that during the recent measles epidemic some treatment the municipality would have to assume the full cost on top of its proportion of the maximum relief cost .allowed by the government. The only concession the government had agreed to make was an allowance of $25 jxt month toward the cast of the services of a doctor, which were to bo made available to residents of the surrounding districts. The outcome of the matter had been that the city council had agreed on its own account to assume 20'', of the cost of medical treatment. He .was not aware that any application had been received for the 20'; of medical costs. He asked Mr. Peterson if he had made application in his own case and Mr. Peterson admitted he had not. On the request for the doubling of the relief grant for the Christmas week Mayor- Patterson .said there could be hope for this unless the the same were authorized by the provincial government. At the present time the city is assuming relief costs xln excess of the government maximum, and the amount could not be increased. For the current year relief ccsts will exceed the city budget by $3000. The indications were that unemployment relief would cast the city approximately $700 per mon'Ji, and to this figure had to be added the increase in charity costs, caused by the removal of persons from the unemployment relief list. For the months of July, August, September, October and November Mayor Patterson- said' unemployment relief cost had been $1476.40; $1417.85; $1374.05; $1356.16 and $1475.22 respectively, of which the city's proportion would approximate $7000. To this had to be added the city's charity disbursement'.; which for the five months amounted $739.95. It was not altogether the total amounts involved in these expenditures which required to be kept in mind. A very im]x>rtant consideration was the relation of current municipal collections to relief expenditures. Wheai the city was first faced withjincm- in the robbery, nd his arrest is ex- ' pec ted shortly. The robbery was committed in the that Italy will not accept any peace1 plow raanmaciui-w ui uwu,,. x. . vicinity of Hull on Wednesday, De-; proposals unless they concede all of linois, and since his association with) ecmber 4th. Paul Lefleur. aged 29, the demands of Italy in Ethiopia, i the administration has proven a dif-I an accountant in tho Hull branch ot\ This, is not taken seriously here as, ficult man to work with. His first) the bank, accompanied by Armand the British view is that the Hoare-1 clash came with Secretary Wallace! Nadeau. an eighteen-year-old bank ..... -...-. ;.. ,un on-,.^,,H,,,.ai rionnrt/ment whirh ! clerk, was transferring $15,000 in The nolice are searching for another, _ man who played an important part j of the relief workers had been called nuui h .> . .,__..! upon to mcm- additional expenses ranging from $6 to S7 per month. In his own case the additional expense Laval formula concedes so much that anything more would leave Emperor Haile Selassie no'hing of his present, kingdom. With the disclosure of the Ho~>re-Laval proposal the League of, Nations meeting to deal with oil1 sanctions, against. >aly has been postponed. Just what action could be taken in view of the probable acceptance of the peace proposals by Mussolini, and their more prc-bRWe rejection by Emperor Haile Selassie, i.s not suggested. The war w far has demonstrated the inability of the Ethiopians to make a s+and against the invad'ng forces, but if Haile Selassie can stem desertions from his forces ho may continue his resistance until the rainv ill in the agricultural department which led to his transfer from chief of the agricultural adjustment administration to the s*ate department to advise with Secretary Hull on reciprocal tar- I iff matters. From this he wa.s again i .shifted to become president of the export and import b^nk. He is a close j fiiend of General Hugh S. Johnson.1: former chief of the N.R.A.. and pro-sent administration critic, who re- j cently said Mr. Peek would have | geen his choice for secretary of agriculture. He is looked upon as a critic of the administration who will have to be reckoned with and there is already talk that the s'ate department will .�eok modifications in the reciprocity treaty. | currency to tho head office of the' bank in Ottawa. Some time after i they had started for Ottawa the two' men were found in their automobile. Nadeau had been fatally "wounded In I the head, and the $15,000 currency: was gone. Lefleur �ave out a story ploymcnt and other relief charges it had current collections ranging from $40,000 to $50,000. Unemployment relief and charity disbursements for the current year now approximate $8,500 and this must be found out of a current revenue of approximately had been fully this amount and he $30,000. Having regard to the city's contended it was too much to expect financial condition, to the fact that this to be taken out of the.relief al- / the city i.s now paying even more lowance. _ j than the maxiumum fixed by the government for unemployment relief, and to the further fact, that unemployment relief allowances have been increased over what they had been last year, he failed to see how the Mayor Patterson in reply to this : stated that.-when the matter of me- ' dical attention had boon up before. the city had proposed that charges for medical attention (should be added to the maximum relief, and handled in the .same manner, with the government assuming 60r! of the cost and the city the remaining 40' season sets in. when condiUons will-------------o-------------� f�r U'� in" MACKENZIE KING OFFERS Ot'awa. Dec. 9�Premier Mackenzie King presented a seven-point agenda for the provincial conference which opened hero today. It included questions relating to tho procedure to be followed in seekine desired amendments to the B.N.A. Act, matters relating to financial relations between the provinces and the federal government, as well as proposals for a fixed taxation scheme. Premier Pattulio Pdvancod his anneal for financial assisfance to British Columbia to permit of the introduction- of "work-and-wapres" but in the opinion of some of the eastern representatives it was regarded in the light of a raid upon the federal treasury. Premier Aberhart. of Alberta, spoke in support of his demand for financial assistinre. esppcinllv wi*h respect to the refunding of Alberta's funded debt, but made no direct reference to Social Credit with its promised cred'f bonus of $25 per month to all adult residents of thnt province. Premier Mackonize Kin? in tho course of a short address gave-something in tho nature of a warning to tho delegates that the federal government might find itself unable to solve in a manner oatisfactory to all of them all of tho problems such as unem-nloyment relief, but "he felt confident much could be accomplished to improve the relations existing between the federal and provincial authorities. The busi-ne-ss sessions of the conference will be conducted behind closed doors. to the police that they had been at-1 This proposal wa.s rejected by the tucked in their automobile by two | government, which meant that if any men and forced at the point of at allowance were made for medical pistol to drive to Gatineau Point on j ___ _ ___ the highway to Montreal. Here ho said Nadeau and himself had been bound and gageed. and a blindfold had been placed over his eyes. While he was blindfolded ho said ho heard three shots, and the bandits getting on*, of the car. When ho got the bandage off his eyes ho found Nadeau council could accede to either of the j'equests. Mayor Patterson's .summing up of the situation appeared to be in accord with the views of the aldermen and a negative answer will be returned. Slight Hope Entertained for Naval Conference *�. �----------*~ i AGENDA OF PROVINCIAL FRE;hCTOEDSp1ACESIPEL"nS . -PNPhWb IN OTTAWA OF HOARE AND LAVAL London. Doc. 11�Emperor Haile Selassie has indignantly rejected the peace plan arrived at by Foreign , Secretary Hoare and Premier Lavr.l.j As understood the plan calls for the' ceding to I'-aly of approximately one- ! third of the area of Ethiopia. The | portion to be ceded includes tho' greater part cf the Tigte province j adjoining Eritrea, and tlie groa'er! part of tho Ogaden. Bale. Sidamo I and Boram provinces in southeastern Ethiopia. Emperor Haile Selassie as- j serts he will continue fighting un+il the last Ethiopian falls before he. will j accept .such ignominious .terms. The ; firmness of Haile Selassie will admit- [ tsxlly complicate the situation at Geneva where the fooling prevails that Mussolini has succeeded in bluf- ' fin*: Great Britain and France completely. -------------o�---------- SANCTIONS SESSION OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS MAY BE POSTPONED Geneva. Dec. 11�Eighteen mem- j bers of the of the penalties committee cf the League oi Nations have i arrived here prepared to deal with I the vexed question of applying sane- j tions upon Italy, bu: in vie%v of the | latoit Franco-British proposals for' the bringing of peace in Ethiopia it1 i.s believed the session will be post- j poned. The small nation members of j the league have rec^iviyJ the latest! neaco proposals with misgivings as indicating a willingness on the pare of the larger nations to let the smaller nation down. General Agreement on Limita-The police were not Impressed with i tion of Naval Strength is Not Leflcur's story, and began their in-vectjgation upon the hypo'he-sis the I robbery had been an inside job. In j h d h Expected to Result en an inside job. In j hcrt time they had recovered the I Unsettled Conditions in Europe $15,000 jntact in a house in Hull, and ! placed George Chenier and J O. j Beausoleil under arrest Chenier had been dismissed from the bank's ser- ' vice six months before, and Beauso-' loil had been a room mat? of rsr-sdeau. who was murdered in connection with j Iho robbery Lefleur wa.s Inter ar-j rested on a coroner's warrant. Of the Have Changed the Attitude of Japan and Italy London. Dec. 9�At the opening of the naval conference here today Premier Baldwin made an eloquent address for a reduction in naval armaments, and for a complete elimina- persons being held the police assert tion of the -submarine. The Japanese the woman drove the : bandits to Montreal after the crininii.'-foii of th � enme ar.d one ci tho men he1 1 : said to have disposed of the weapon with which TTndnu was killed. jpresentatives are adverse 'o reduction of naval strength at thi.s time. The conviction is crowing that the world js in for another race in naval building, The existing; W^shing'bn The police cot on the trail of Ted! treaty, which imposed limitation in Montin. or Nathan Martin n.s hs was also known, as the result of his boasting that he had killed a man runv Hull, and that he would not bo taken alive. Montin's boast was reported to the police by Laura Cc'e. of Ottawa, who 'Haid she had been forced to drive Montin from Hull tn a lwint near Montreul. Being warned the police took no unnecessary chances when, they closed in on Montin. LEON TROTSKY SEEKS TO PROLONG HIS STAY AS NORWAY'S GUEST London. Dec. 11�Leon Trotsky, the exiled Bolshevik, who acl:isteri T-any inferior ratio, especially with the United States. Great Britain is believed to be aiming, at a qualitative and qualitative limitation agreement to holrl to 1942, but trie Kuropoan si'-uation i.s considered too much unsettled for the making of much pro-gress. In the Mediterranean Italy has become a menace to British naval supremacy, and in the Far East the Japanese encroadhment u\)on China, and her trade ^.penetration of India has 'given support to British demand for a larger navy. On all the sea lanes of the world the British tramp steamer iind liner ply their trade. These arteries pulse with tho lifeblood of England, and for their protection Britain hn.s announced she will require at least twenty more cruisers. Developments in connection with the war in Ethiopia are not likely to render cither France or Italy more amenable on the issue of limitations.-Since the London conference also, the German navy has been built up. .secretly at first in defiance of the Versailles treaty. The German "pocket battleships" are conceded to be marvels of engineering .skill with great striking strength, and with the British recognition for a German fleet equal to 35 per cent of the sur-, fac<- streiigth of. Groat Britain the limit on -German naval building is-virtually off. Europe us admittedly afraid of war. and any agreements which may be reached at the conference in the matter of limitations will doubtless b based upon entirely different principles from those which dominated previous conferences. The tide of nationalism is still rising, and this may be a determining factor with respect to any agreement which may be reached.