WGE GITIZ
Thursday, March 11, 1937
n E. Harris Asks Support for the Building of Monkman Pass Road
Ottawa and Now His Way to Consult Provincial Government SHORT ROAD^TO PEACE Wembley Settlers Will Construct Trail Over Location For The Highway This Summer
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karris of Beaverlodge, -Alberta, H hi the city on Tuesday morn-"�lt. n Mr. Harris is travelling "� interests of the Monkman Past; the in ilsooiatroix, ana will canto Victoria with a view to ? fSmt^ the federal hou,e.
lh�, rounc all but one oi them euthus-
EJcTc the project cf reacts a
the
highway
get back to their farms for harvesting. Alex � Monkman has consented to accompany the party and to locate the line of the trail. Alex Watt, secretary of the Monkman Pass Highway Asso-
�iption, who i-i also familiar with the MJonkman Fass area, will also be a member of the trail-building party. If
be residents cf the Beaverlodge and Wembley sections can push a trail through the mountains by their own effects Mr. Harris says it should not �be difficult to enlist the
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and that of the federal government, to undertake the building of a read suitable for automobile travel.
TURGEON PROMISES ADJUSTMENT IN THE AIRMAIL MUDDLE
"Am having: success in arrange-
'merits covering1 northern ai,r-mail
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Mr. Harris addressed the members of j tuted next week with Edmonton as the the Prince George beard of trade at. a'
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Luncheon meeting on Wednesday at which he created a very favorable im-pre~- ion. From Prince George he will proceed to Vancouver and from there to Victoria.
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Munitions Carrier Slipped Out New York Harbor Just Before the Arms Embargo
Prmce George, B. C.
Money Market, of United States to Open to France
Great Britain and United States Will Join! in Subscribing to
#45,000,000 Loan
France Finds Way to Avoid the Prohibition Against Loans in the Johnson Act
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or the proper develop-
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"f hP had Riven his approval to the Iha taking eff from~fche mining
'higf�� built into Manson Creek road ,? not feel free to withdraw his
trie auauu^ � the federal house with TuT Harris
if its favor-
able co As to bcrs of to the might 1
Hansard
lprp:ovinclal ^-^lnce of British necessary or �� Presentations In imbm to n^eJ^truction to the n��*r _!!�Eefore the l**ter
highway
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icr federal cuiu>uuv.v..i or Joint construction. As for, the small piece of construction-.iVlthih the province of Alberta Mr. Harris said there already Ls a highway in Alberta within eighl miles of the interprovincial boundary so that Alberta's obligations in th� matter of highway construction would be negligible. >
Alex Monkman, the discoverer of the pass which bears his name, is not an engineer, but a man who has been "-- w-mWriy district sinc^
David G. Fraser Becomes Chief of Fire Brigade
Provincial Regulations Require
Attendance of Three Time Men in Hall
Full
Will Increase Cost of Service toj The Municipality But There j is No Way to Avoid It
A shut fie was made in the municipal service at the meeting of the city coun-cl on Monday as the result of which David G. Fraser, who has served as
Pacific Coast to Get Most of the Defence Works |
Fortification Planned Which will! Command Shipping on thej Strait of Juan de Fuca
BATTERY FOR RUPERT
Johnstone Strait on the Inside i Passage Will Also Receive a j Heavy Gun Battery j
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municipal utility man, dividing his time between the city power station d th lif ffi b hf f
Ottawa, Mar. 6�The greater part of ! Canada's additional defence vote is to be expended on the air service.' All-told increased air defence expenditures total $6,706,622. With this appropriation the government will purchase ten two-seater planes, seven flying boats, eight coastal' reconnaissance craft.
and the relief office, becomes chief of] the city fire department, and as the result of holding th:.s office deputy fire marshal.
Mr. Fraser succeeds John C. Mc-Kenzie as fire chief. The switch was really forced by the provincial requirement that three men should divide the twenty-four hours for constant duty
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in the fire hall. been discharging
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Mr. McKenzie has other duties than
eleven torpedo bombers, twenty-seven training planes and eight bombers. It !s said the planes will be built and en- j gined in Canadian shops. ;
The Pacific coast is to be given the attention in the matter of coastal of the" $8,000,000
farming m 1898. He years ago mountains. The to the cost
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available having been allocated to defence works extending from Esquimau to Prince Rupert. It is said but half the defence works planned will be completed this year, but the unexpended portion of the vote will be available next year.
The defence nfm'I'Rter's program to to call for an air base and capable
those of chief of the fire department. He is superintendent of the water works system, superintendent of pub-! lie works and superintendent of the' cemetery, and he was at a loss to see how in addition to his other duties he? could take an eight-hour shift in the fire liall. and brought the matter .to the attention of members of the council with the result noted.
By the switch made there will be
three full-time men dividing the 24 I ^ *" ^g"�^^ "searchlights: " On �??� inJ]H-fi.re.^U* D^1^.Z:55!5>! Vancouver Island two air bases are to
s�id to call for an air a p
.shore batteries at Prince Rupert. At Johnstone Strait, a strategic point on the line of travel between Vancouver and northern coact points, heavy shore aims are to be located to command shipping over a wide range. Tho defence works at Vancouver will consist of an improved air base, anti-aircraft fl archlights On
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the Monkman Pass route to �"*v�- , and received an estimate js to the probable cost
Aitken sought to improve his standing in the interim by taking a correspondence course on deisel engines. He will pick up practical experience in
be established and two fuel bases, and in Victoria anti-aircraft guns are to be .supplied. The greatest expenditures nre to be made in the vicinity of Es-nuimalt. the only naval base on the dominion's Pacific coast. The program calls for a nrge magazine for- the naval, milit .ry and air services, the ] modernization of the existing guns on Si^nnl Hill, and the erection of a powerful defence fortification some fif- I teen miles out of Victoria. � which will have effective command of the Strait j cf Juan de Fuca.
The work to be jjcrformed this vear in the matter of shore batteries will be restricted to. the building of the emplacements. The guns it is said will be nut in posMion next year.
London, Mar. i)�Latest advices to the admiralty state the Span sh lie'ghtp.r M.Tr Cantabiico, reported a�-, having- been sunk in the Bay of Biscay by the insurgent cruiser Canaris, was captured but not sunk. With her capture the cargo < f munitions intended for tha Spanish loyalists fell into the hands cf the rebels. 'j
London, Mar. 8�The Spanish freigh-ter Mar Cantabricc frcm New York on January 6th with a cargo including a \ consignment of reconstructed airplanes ! valued at $2,770,000 for the Spanish j loyalists, was sent to the bottom of the | Bay of Biscay today bv an insurgent ; cruiser. The master cf the freighter! �at out by one day the prohibition of! the United States congress of the shipment of munitons to Spain. Tho vessel was stopped within U. S. territorial j waters, but the authorities decided she j could not be legally held as at that i f'me the prohibition against shipment of munitions had not been approved j by both branches of congress. From : New York the freighter proceeded to Vera Cruz. Mexico, where further mu- | nitions were taken aboard. j
Tlie insurgents were lying in wait for the vessel in the Bay of Biscay today, and sent her to the bottom w'th gun-fire. All members of the crew of! the freighter were taken off by the in- I surgent cruiser. The .sinking of the Spanish freighter was witnessed by the British passenger steamer Adda which sent out an SOS. Tlvs created the impression it was the Adda which had , been sunk. British destroyers were .soon on the scene when the identity o; i the Spanish freighter was established, i as well as the rescue of her crew by the insurgent cruiser.
The s'nking of the freighter by the 1 resurgents is one of their greatest ac- j complishments in the s-hutting off of munitions to the loyalists. It now develops the cargo of munitions had been got together largely through Soviet agene'es in the United States which had been in the market for some time in purchasing planes, Some of these planes were re-conditioned in the United States and others shipped to Mexico fpr like treatment. With the blockade of the Span'sh coast expected to go into effect on Saturday the last hope of the loyalists for a substantial supply of munitions has been cut off.
Faris. Mar. 8�An important announcement, is expected to be made today by Premier Leon Blum. Financial difficulties some time ago forced the government to supend its social reform policy, and still later called a hall in the defence policy for the extension cf the line of fortification along the Belgian and Swiss frontiers. Now it i-3 asserted a way has been found for the floating cf a government loan cf $450,-OCO.OOO. as a means of financing both social and defence programs. The new loan it is asserted will be financed jointly by France. Great Britain and the United State-3. For some time French representatives in Washington have been discussing the possibility of t uving a French loan in the United States. What is known as the Johnson Act was held to preclude the raising of any loans In the United States by any country in default on war debts. Some time ago President Roosevelt was represented as saying no relief in this respect, could be expected unless with the application for the loan there came .some satisfactory assurance on the part of the borrowing nation for a reduction in armament. It is now asserted a way has been found to get around the prohibition in the Johnson Act aeainst loans to war debtors, and one which has been recognized by the United States treasury officials. As a result it is said an arrangement has been arrived at under which Great Britain and the United States will join with France in the subscription to the-loan of $450,000,000. Tlv>, unexpected solution of the financial difficulties of the Blum government is said to have been worked out in some manner through the covenant of Great Britain and the United States to maintain the value of the Fench franc. That this undertaking on the part of the governments of Great Britain and the United States might assume serious proportions is seen in the ten billion franc deficit in the French trade balance for last year. This trade balance deficit is still threatening as the deficit on trade balance for January went to one and one-quarter billion francs.
Sacramento, Mar. 10�The leg'-ilaturr: today passed a resolution calling: for a pardon for Thomas Mooney, serving1 a life sentence ior his part in th<> Preparedness Parade outrage in 1916 To become effective the resolution1"; must be approved by the senate.
Additional Relief for Farmers Aims at Enabling Them be Self Supporting
said ranged from $1,500.1**' to $2.-
T�Harri.s estimates the ^mber^J I necple resident, in the ^� .*�� I district at 70.000, and m the Albetta , action of the district there *� c�nje , paratively few on the relief lists. He U the settlers arc parting under �a situation which places them 1300 . nrles from Vancouver by way oi j*J monton when a direct route to van couver would cut the distance to TOO miles. His present mission is to sen the idea of the Monkman Pas:, nign-way to the people of British Columbia. Th's cannot be done without money for advertising, and as a starter on the road to an advertising fund it ^ proved to sell memberships in tnt Monkman Paw Highway Association at M.00 each. Mr. Harris thinks � 'houki be possible to raise upwards oi $10,000 in this way and thus get the Project fairly before the people oi "'';'Mi Columbia. As for the pepP16 resident, in the Peace River District 1hey will get through the mountains '�M bp at McGregor river by the first 01 August, thus permitting' them to
^ZLiXZ^J2^\2 i 'V^i^vnT-p^rnnrcontemplates the ing over the. reading of1 m^rl His k'^ ^ *�� ^^^l^t engagement Ls in -the nature of an Wid tr be avnilnble out of lrst year's experiment. ^ , ,Hcfpnco vote This wiU aivejthe dom n-
j im four destroyers, two on each coast i Four mine sweepers nre to b? built at in trrnl coct of SI .000.000. .and there \s | ne�r training ship now under con-1
COVERED RINK
Citi'/.en has boim requested to
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covered rink mean
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housing for hockey. The local rink j Um the-dominion w;il find it-elf corn-company, which for several years pro- , mUtfid lo steadily risinc annual de-vided the op.ni rink on whuh thechU-| fpnCf, expendtures. and the deferring
- � ' -� '��� �!-." niTimicf^ri linlqnced
�... securing of a j Etriiction. �., .
more to the youth . Thfv general view is that Canada p even the laudable |-ciefenCp prevision is inadeo.uate and
dien used to skate, has passed out of existence, with the result that unless the covered rink materializes there will
of the dav for the promised balanced
budget.
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b? no ;3kat\ng for the boys and girls I /-r-v. ;cnM\jcMT crrci^TM/" other Utah afforded on the unsafe sur- |
Up to February 13th, home loans ! issued by the banks totalled 4377 and the amount involved was S1.G75.398. : Ontario leads the provinces in the number of loans tnken out and Toronto leads the cities.