PRINCE GEORGE CITI VOL. 19. No. 40 PRINCE GEORJ3E, B. O, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1936 Civic Water Committee Will Recommend Sinking a Well V^ill Test Alexander Theory That Pumping Will Give Soft Water in Well THEORY VS. PRACTICE If Soft Water Obtained Problem of Getting It Into The Mains Can Be Tackled The members of the civic water committee made another move last night n the matter of securing a supply of soft water at a meeting in the city jj.jll which was attended by Alderman Reid chairman; Alderman Munro, Alderman Taylor and Mayor Patterson. -\lfred Alexander, manager of the Al-txander Sawmills, was in attendance ft. at the request of the committee to explain his theory on the securing of a soft water supply, as well as C. E. Freeman, city electrician. Most of the discussion was between Mayor Patter-on and Mr. Alexander. IP opening the meeting Mayor Patterson recounted a number of the moves made by the city council over �> period of years to secure a supply of "-�a water. This had been one of the first problems to be faced by the civic authorities and while no satisfactory .'chition had yet been reached, he said it must'be conceded the civic authorities had been persistent in their ef- -� lilts to reach a solution, even if they had not succeeded. The mayor commented upon the number of letters which have appeared in The Citizen recently dealing with the water problem and said he had been struck with the statement appearing in one of the letters, attributed to Mr. Alexander, to ihe effect that with an expenditure of S1000 he could secure a sufficient .'oJt-water supply for the city.. What had impressed the mayor was the claim in this connection that while hard water might appear in a well when first dug. this hard water would be replaced by soft water after considerable pumping. Mayor Patterson said this came as an entirely new proposition, and he felt confident it was the desire cf the committee to pursue the matter tint her. It was for this reason that Mr. Alexander had been invited to attend the meeting and give the committee the benefit of his advice and experiments. M]r. Alexander, while affirming his contention he would be able to tell the ! committee .hew to surmount its present difficulty, disclaimed having made any such statement that a soft-water .'upply could be secured with an expenditure of $1000. He was satisfied the soft-water "supply is uvrjlabie, but he made no estimate as to the probable cost, of securing it. He said he had overcome the hard-water problem with two wells he had dug, and felt satisfied like success would attend the digging of a third well for the city. The well he has at present at his sawmill was 8 ft. x 8 ft. and was sunk tc a depth cf eight fcet< at a point approximately 100 feet from the? river. Wthen the well was first sunk the water was hard, but after the well had been pumped for a considerable time the water, in it had become soft and had lrniained so ever since. Asked by. Mayor Patterson as to the extent to which his well had been subjected to pumping Mr. Alexander said (he water had been pumped while the mill wavs in operation, and would approximate a two-inch stream. Mayor Patterson said he could not understand the statement that pumping would displace hard water with scft water in view of the city's < xperience with its present well, which is down about twenty-three feet. This well had been pumped to the extent � l 200,000 gallons per day for twenty ears, but the water in it remained as nard as ever. Mi' Alexander's explanation of this '�.'as that the feed of the city well might p! be from the river, and that if a well were sunk nearer the river, some- !'-e in the vicinity of the Nechako bridge, that a supply of soft water ' oiild v-(> .secured. So confident was ' �e as to this that he said if the city , ' ould undertake to sink a well in this ! vicinity he would agree to supply the i necessary timber, and if soft water ���ere not found after the well had been jumped for a. reasonable time the | nnibers would not cost the city any- j ^im?. but if soft water were secured �tie cost of the Umber would be $18 I cr thousand. Mayor Patterson expressed his will- "lyness to put Mr. Alexander's theory o the test, and the same appeared to �vn with the approval of all members J the committee. There was a long � 'Uiment as to the respective advances of a well abovs and below the mi) ? �'Slte- as t0 the feasibility of rivpr3 batting order to pieces in the effort to take the lead in the game. Leslie was sent in to b.u for Mancuso. but went out on a pop fly to Roll'e at third on the first pitch for the second out. Ripple, batting' for White-head was passed. Mark Kbenig was r;-nt in to bat for Jackson, but he was fanned by Murphy and the inning clc-cd out. for one run. R H E Yankees^. 13 17 2 Giants -r> 9 1 New-York. Oct. 5�The fighting Giants came back this" afternoon to make'the count 2-3 in the world series. Schumacher who failed so miserably in the second game of the series, when he was yanked in the early part of the nme was the here of tine contest today. He went through ten innings to emerge with a 5-4 victory, being even more effective In the latter part of the same than he was in the first. Red Ruffing who lost the opening duel to Ca.rl Hubbell. started for the Yankees, but was taken out in the sixth, with �he *rorr standing 4-4 to make room for Jchivson a pinch-hitter. Pat Malone wa� called urx>n fcr a second time as n relief hurler. and as the Giants -nueezed (he winning run over in their half of the tenth Malcne was charged (Continued on Page Si>o _______�o------------- Joseph Nieumeyer, of the Nechako Bakery, returned this week from a monh's vacantion on the. l>rairiei3. Five Centy SONG AND PRAYER At the meeting of. the water committee on Monday evening, called with a view to seeing what further might be done to secure an improved municipal water supply, Alderman' W. R. Munro was an ' attentive listener. Near the close of the meeting he produced the following: Seme sing of the waters of Minne tonka And some of the Blue Lagoon, But our song's of mighty Nechako With prayers for soft water soon. ----------:------o---------i-------- Threatened Strike on Pacific Coast May be Averted Ship-Owners and Longshoremen in Session With View to Have Dispute Arbitrated Business Interests Active in an Effort to Avoid Another Disastrous Conflict San Francisco, Oct. 5�Representatives of the International Longshoremen's Association and ship-owners got '.cgether on Saturday in an effort to determine within the next fifteen days whether their differences can be submitted to arbitration. Another disas-rotis strike which would have Involved 37,000 longshoremen in the first instance, was narrowly averted on September 30th, when an agreement was reached to consider the various points in dispute with a view to arbitration. As the matter stands a fifteen-day truce has been granted, not to submit the dispute to arbitration but merely to see if an agreement can be reached to go to arbitration. Public feeling is running high all along the Pacific ccast and the dock-workers are receiving much sympathy. As a usual thing the newspapers have been ready to denounce an unwillingness of either party to a labor dispute to submit to arbitration hut although the long- Fall of Madrid Now Reduced to Matter of Days Insurgent Generals Set Stage to Starve the Defenders Into Submission TIGHTEN STEEL RING Capture of Maqueda by Franco Forces Considered as Turning Point in the war London, Oct. 5�The government forces at Madrid are now beginning to feel the giant pinchers which. General Franco is applying from the south, and General Emilio Mola is bringing into play from the north. The insurgent forces are now within twenty miles of the capital, and there ^ls little in the way of foimidable obstacles. The capture of Maqueda is conceded to have been the turning pcint in the rebels' campaign. The government's military command was greatly-disconcerted over the capture of Maqueda. Several days before General Franco began his assault upon Maqueda the lines were personally inspected by President Az-ana and he expressed himself as confident the gcvemmeir- forces would effectively check General France's advance even if they failed to put him to rout. The superiority of the insurgents in both arrillery and aircraft turned the scale, hewever, and Gen-eval Franco's forces, after the capture of Toledo and the raising of the ssige1 of the Alcazar, pressed steadily on toward their goal. In the north the government forces Fort Nelson Fur Robbery Case is Given Traverse Crown Was Not Ready to Proceed" in Absence of Material Trapper Witnesses ACCUSED GIVEN BAIL Trial Goes Over to the Next Sitting of the Cariboo Assize in the Spring The Fort Nelson fur robbery case, in which Bert. Sheffield and Henry' C. CcurvoLsler were charged with Ihe theft oi fur from the Hudson's .Uay post on Sunday, July 12th, was called at the. opening; cession cf the court of assize on Wednesday morning, which. Ls being presided over by Mr Justice Fisher. When the accused had entered pleas of "not-guilty" J. o. Wilson crown counsel, moved to have the trial cr the accused traversed to the spring assize. This action he explained became necessary in view of the fact that a number of material witnesses for the crown followed the business of trapping, and while cut on their trap lines were difficult to locate. In support of his application to have the case traversed crown counsel submitted an. affidavit of his own and one of Provincial Constable Frank Clark. There was considerable argument on the part of A. McB. Young, defence counsel, on the application to traverse the case, in the course of which he questioned the sufficiency of the affidavits supporting the application. The court decided ivt the end to traverse have pioven equally unable to check j the case to the spring assize and the prisoners were allowed their liberty in bail of $1000 each in their own recc*,'- the advance of General Mola's forces. In the fighting of the past week the government, forces appear to have lost their aggie-^ivems-i. and to realize their resistance is becoming more hopeless each day. As the policy of Generals Franco and Mola is developing it seems move probable than ever that they will be mzance. shoremen held out against arbitration i in- no hurry to carry Madrid by assault. fcr weeks the newspapers ocntented themselves with pleading the cause of arbitration. Although longshoremen and ship- owners prefers a mutual desire to ar- bun will rely on into submission. starving the capital Fcccl supplies in Madrid have been running- low for the past two weeks and are now being/ rationed'. The defenders of the capita] bi'rate the immediate cutloc4c is are s?.id to have received some fresh j threatening as ther..� a�e some points of disagreement which will b^ difficult to arbitrate unless one side or the ether backs down from the position supplies, but nothing at all adequate for their probable requirements. There is ample evidence there is a seething discontent on the part of (ho civic British Labor is Now Solidly For the Government Trade Unions Take Over Control From Party's Leaders in House of Commons present maintained. It is not only the population cf the capital. They have Trades Unions in Britain longshoremen wlio have to be reck-1 stood a two-months seige and have ' Z, � ^nionf In onrain cned with as agreements are now pending with other maritime unions and there is a makings cf a strike winch would paralyze shipping en the entire seen the government forces prer-sed back steadily, with no prospect of immediate success. What is most feared is that when the government forces Become Bulwark Against AH Forms of Communism London. Oct. 5�Neither Hitler. Mussolini nor Stalin is freer from internal, effective political opposition to his foreign policy than is tho British gov-eminent at present. There is, of course men without union Intervention and | mary executions cf hostages. k> C1.iticism_ eveu denunciations; While tho fall of Madrid has been ,n Enf,]and, which wou]d be I^ Pacific cca?t and disorganize business I realize fhe hopelessness of their posi-generally. ! tion there will be., n recurrence of street Briefly the ship-owners demand the J fighting in the capital, and another right to hire and fire all longshore- outbreak of the dreadful orgy oi sum- to discipline men engaged for unsat- isfactory work. Harry Bridges, the central figure in t he longshoremen's union, has expressed the opinion the union might agree to the union being disciplined fcr unsatisfactory work but not tlie individual and he agreed to the setting up of work standards, but on the issue that ship-owners ;rhall be permit'cd to hire men at the piers instead of through union-controlled halls he scents trouble. Despite the?e difficulties there is a feeling that a compromise will be reached which will avert the threatened strike. DR. F. PATTERSON WILL ARRIVE IN PRINCE GEORGE ON MONDAY Dr. Prank Patterson, leader of the Conservative party in the province. v ill arrive in Prince George on the pfternocn cf Monday not wlv n he will Tr-t the members of the local Conservative executive Dr. Patterson is making a trip through this section of accepted as a foregone conclusion it will be by no means the end of the war. There will still be the Catalonia, the Asturias nnd the Basque country to subdue, but oner General Franco i<5 e-tiblished in Madrid 'here to ex- under the dictators, but as a practical opponent cf the government's course in international affairs the British Labor party has ceased to function. The real command of the Socialistic , . . . . , . , , .Labor organization has passed from Its pected to be a considerable shift of political, parliamentary ^roup, "which is supper from the government force,. , theoretically the opposition to trade I hero hplncr n Invop niimhnr in inn . . ' , . . .... unionism, which numerically is almost half of the Labor party. The unions contribute most cf the funds and have developed a leadership that greatly outweighs thr politicians and intellectuals of the party. Ernest Bevin, who for years has been the mo^l dominant personality in the there beins; a large number in the government rank* who would welcome a chance- to switch their allegiance. ABERHART'S ATTITUDE TO BONDHOLDERS IS THAT OF DEFIANCE unions has been elected president of ; the Trade Union Council, which i> '.he Edmonton, Oct.. 6�The attitude oi \ executive body for nearly 3.000.000 or-Premier-Aberhart toward the bond- ganized wage-earners, nearly all of holders, who jffirm his repudiation in ! whom i\rv members of the Labor party, connection with provincial bends was i Mr. Bevin is as gocd a Tory a.s Win-uhnecessary in I hat ihe province is �ton Churchill, so far as foreign affairs quite solvent, is one oi defiance? Last ' are concerned, and his autocratic pow- night, in an address delivered on speaking tour" he asked^his audienci if they desired him to lay down to tho bondholders and drew from ln^ listeners a strcna chorus of "No." From cr is now formally recognized. The action of the Plymouth convention- in favor of non-intervention in Spain will be duplicated this month by i-hc Labor party conference in F-din- iinrict problems and will deliver ad- j thi-3 it is gathered that iittk> attention burgh despite the minority's desire to iresses at the more populous centers, will be paid to the equities in the J denounce the British government's re-He will be in Vandei'hoof Sunday and �, premier's policy oi repudiation the early part of Monday, motorins ] �-<> � cast to this city. On Tuesday he will make --short'trips to Reid Lake. Chief DEBT ADJUSTMENTS ACT WILL BE TESTED IN fasti to help the Madrid regime against the rebels. There is now no prospect for the : forming of a United Front by the i Labor unions nnd t.he Communists. The | Labor party hates communism as bit-j t-erly as does*-the government!." N"a peeches from Conservative benches in Lake. Willow River and Giscome. and cm Wednesday even'ng will deliver i> oublic address in this city. On Thurs- | THE ALBERTA .COURT day he will go east to visit McBride i -------- and other points. j Edmonton. Oct. (5�The debt adjust- j the House of Commons have been | ment act enacted by the- provincial j more denunciatory of the Soviet than legislature, and which'has created such | those from majority speakers in the 'a stir in the eastern provinces is to j Trade Union Congress and Labor party be tested in the provincial courts Thp ; conference. Imperial Trust Company has launched j -------------�------'�-----� two actions to maintain mortgage | LABOR CONFERENCE IN agreements affected bv the new act. i C.W.A. SCOTT TOOK DOWN #20,000 PRIZE >7 , AIR DERBY jc ha nut-bur-. Oct. 6�C. W. A. Scott The litigation will be followed with who flying with OUes Guthrie was i interest throughout the dominion. first in the air nice from England to -------------o------------- Johannesburg, was today Presented j j HUGGARD GIVEN with $20,000 out of the purse of $50,000 �' offered for prizes. Scott and his companion were the only contestants to finish. They covered the 6500 miles in 52 hours 52 minutes and 48.2 seconds. VIcst of their competitors crashed and two were killed. Max ^notlay and Wireless Operator Morgan, flying with Ken Waller. Tt is said the rc>t of �he purse will be divided between their widows. THREE-YEAR SENTENCE ON THEFT CHARGES Toronto. Oct. 5�J. T. Huggard, the Gooderich barrister, charged with the theft of clients funds approximating EDINBURGH AFFIRMS NON-INTERFERENCE Edinburgh. Oct. 6�The. Labor conference in session here today gave a sweeping endorsatiort of the Baldwin government's policy of non-interference in the Spanish civil war. The minority party, which some weeks desired the government to assist Madrid administration against the the rebels, has been completely swamn�d, $50,000. was sentenced to thrp� years and there will be no adverse crit;.ci5m impriFonmpnt. The money stolen was on th^ part of Labor against. th� '.--. i:i otcck speculations. Baldwin government's foreign policy.