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CITIZ
Vol. 20, No. 12_
Aberhart is Being Backed to Wall by Insurgents
premier Suffered Defeat Again On Monday on Motion For Closure of Debate
RESIGNATION HINTED
Would Never Consent to Terms of Insurgents as Price For Their Further Support
Edmonton, Mar. 29�There was renewed evidence today that Pre-ir Anerhait nas lfcit his hold ul>(n his Social Credit following in U)0 legislature. When the house met (he pitniier taught to back-up ,� his coercive action in moving tnc closure on the budget debate. He -aid he had no wish to shut off dcbat�?on the budget, and request-cd permission of the house to' withdraw his motion. Usually requests of this nature are complied j with, but it requLrcs unanimous consent on the part of the house. The insurgents were not prepared to concede the premier anything, and the desired permission was refused. The motion of the premier wasombled company and several of them made a very I load job of it.
Mine host Manson served an excel-| ^snt dinner. The table? had been ar-! !-.'sticaJly decorated by the committee ! in the institute colors and earned two j l-.rge birthday cakes, each with three I candles to indicate the a make purchases of merchandi-w. to t� on display, on about the same
"in as did the holders of Gorman .during the inflation iwriod in ny. it wiu be a night when one lose without having a head-ache in
h" morning.
HOSPITAL NOTES
i !fni* JInitcd ch"crh eavc tT the hos-1 5? >rop ^wttrul Easter lilies. _PV Mchad's church sent sprin? 'lowers.
kQfss D. Kerklioff "donated eggs for
sends Uianlu for th
Ottawa. Mar 27�What has become! of the St. Lawrence waterways treaty? j This is a question a number of people' are asking themselves at the present time. A short while ago Premier King visited President Roosevelt in Wash-ington. The St. Lawrence treaty was j one of the matters they talked over. No report of the conversations was given j cut by Premier King, and so far as is known the only comment made by i President Roosevelt was to the effect1 there was no certainty the treaty will | be .submitted to the senate again during the present session. j
There are some people who are spec- ; ulating as to whether the waterway j treaty will ever be again submitted to ; the senate. It might be futile to -sub- : mit it if after be'ng given approval � by the senate it required the assent! of the Canadian government. This thought is suggested by the action of j the judicial committee of the privy i council in throwing out the new deal , legislation of the Bennett government, j which it was contended was validated ;,y a treaty entered into by Canada at ; Geneva. The privy council lias held { that, while the Canadian government; may enter into a treaty, it could not^bc : enforced unless all of the nine Can-: adian provinces assented to it.
W:th respect to much of the new : c'eal legislation disallowed by the privy I council-by reason of encroachment on � provincial jurisdiction by the federal , government the provinces will wcrk out I heir own solutions, but in this respect 'he outlook for a treaty covering the j St. Lawrence waterway improvement nnoears hopeless ns the provinces of , Ontario and Quebec are snici to bo vnry much opposed to it, There is.believed to bo considerable Opposition to tho treatv in tho house of commons ns � well] on the ground thc improvement of \hr waterway would take a ronsiri"1--Hn volume of much-needed traffic from the two Canadian railways, one � of which is nationally owned ani on-prated very much in the red. It would rot bo Ftirprisinff if the situation created by the decision of tho privy council is seized upon to shelve a very troublesome problem for some time.
SETTLEMENT IN MOTOR STRIKE IN DETROIT EXPECTED THIS WEEK
Edmonton, Mar. 30�A truce has been reached in the dispute which has been evident for the past few days between Premier Aberhart and a considerable portion of his Social Credit following in the house. The insurgents had been holding up the budget with the assertion they would refuse to vote supply until Premier Aberhart came across with a promise to immediately introduce Social Credit legislation. With the fiscal year closing at the end of the month they even said they would eppose an interim supply bilL Such was their ultimatum to the premier. Mr. Aberhart was not to be moved on Sunday. He said the demands of his insurgent following virtually involved the introduction, of a capital levy, and that he would sooner resign than consent to it.
A. J. Jank, of this city, who has boen serving as a srame officer in the north country, arrived in the city on Wednesday of last week accompanied by his wife and infant daughter. While in the north, in the discharge of his duties. Mr. Jank was the victim of a very painful accident, falling on the ice to break his right arm in two Dlaces. After the accident Mr. Jank had to walk a considerable d'stance. but there was no one who would attempt to set the injured member. The arm was broken on March 11th, and it was not until March 24th that the injured man could be brought out by
S plane, receiving in the interim notb/ne
j but superficial attention. -Just what has been happening to the injured arm
I ""n the meantime te a matter of speculation, but it is known there has been
1 a marked contraction of the muscles, and it being the right arm it was dsem-
< rd best to seek medical attention at
Threatened Strike Would Have Been Attended With Great Loss to the Dominion
Montreal, Mar. 29�-The threatened strike cr the 117,000 men employed in the running- trades of the C.N.R. and C.P.R. aystems, w;hich would have effectually tied up the business of the dominion, has been swerted. An announcement to this effect ins mule tt tlay follow-iiiff numerous conferences between the railway managements and the heads of the running trades. Fallowing the rejection by the. men of the award of the board of conciliation, their officers decided to take a strike vote, or a vote which wculd empower thc heads of the several unions to rail a strike to enferce the demands of the men fcr the return of the 10 i>rr cent cut in wages made some years ago. No details of the strike vote were given cut but they said the trainmen voted almost unanimously in favor of a strike if their demands were not corri'-.lisd ^itli
Faced with this alternative the railway managements decided to retreat from the award of the board of conciliation and make further concessions. It was announced today the managements have agreed to restore the whole of the 10 per cent wage cut. but it is to come in installments spread ever a year. In the main the settlement is a victory for the men, but the opinion prevails the railway managements have made the best of a very difficult situation, since there i--� oven-reason to believe a strike would have resulted in the event a satisfactory adjustment was not arrived at. which would, have paralyzed the business of the country, and would have resulted in much greater losses than would be involved in wage increase. Fortunatelv there is a good prospect that increased earnings on- the part of the railv-�vs will absorb the wage increase, and that
off than
Something happened since Sunday j rhe coast. Mr. Jank went east on i __ .,_�_., 4ww ,� _ _ n. wii uiitiii nnd it looks much like a surrender on j Thursday eyen:ngs train for vancou- j tney navp been whije operating under the part of Premier Aberhart. An in- ver. | thfl waere.cut which was the bone of

terim supply bill made its appearance i in the legislature today, and it was \ U. S. SUPKbivjb (,UUK J given its first and second readings. I *~p * mtc PYTPAnTTTniM Simultaneously there appeared in the ^KAfN I b bXJKAUlllOrN
hcuse a government bill to authorize the creation of a board cf experts, who are to draft a Soc:al Credit policy to be submitted to the legislature within the next two months. The insurgents r.re now supporting the interim supply b'll. and it is inferred they have be-mne molified by the willingness of the government to set up the board of experts who will draft the Social Credit nioeram. The arrangement made between the premier and lv's malcontents y< paid to contemplate the passage of interim supply and the bill to create ihe board of experts, after which tho ip.qls.in.turp w'll recess for two months. By this time, the Social Credit policy Is expected to bo readv for submiss'ph tn the legislature, and Alberta will be ^pfinitelv started toward a Social Credit administration:. The support civen the interim supplv measure in-
OF CAPT. HATFIELD
Ottawa. Mar. 29�Word was received | tcclay that the U. S. supreme court j had consented to the extradition of! Captain Hatfield, wanted in Canada for fraud in the collection of $71,726 from the government of Canada in connection with the sinkine of tho r-vnsum Queen off the coast cf Ireland riurine the world war. Hatfield collected from the government on Irs c1(M'-n the Gvpsum Oueon had beon ���ynk bv n nennnn submarine but it vas established the vessel had sunk os tho result of stress of weather and yhffi no Fiibmprino wa� �stehted at the
the wage-cut which was the bone of contention in the recent dispute.
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MEN INVOLVED IN FORT NELSON FUR ROBBERY FACE ANOTHER CHARGE
lime of her sinkincr. An international "�aich was instituted for Hatfield after *he cause of the sinking of the Gypsum Queen had been established and he located in Manchester. New Hamp-
jven thp interim supplv measure
,jf,.,tec somc assurance hns been given -hire, in 1934. He was denied bail and ; t j tid t fiht tdifon Hcf
in- premier Aborhart to the insurgents nf o ttrin'noftjpcis to meet their demands. but tho leneth to which he will' go has yet. to be determined.
E ELLINGTON TOOK HIS LIFE BY HANGING IN PRINCE RUPERT
Prince Rupert. Mar. 29�The body of Edward Ellington was discovered on Saturday night hanging from a tree rbout two miles outside the city limits on the railway right-of-way. Elling- I m ten was a man of 54 years who served overseas in the preat war. Ho came hero about a year ago from Penticton.
! VANDALS DESTROY NEW SYNAGOGUE BY
ontinued to fight, extradit'en. now 76 years old. A public scandal "ttended the fraud exposure in connection with thc Gypsum Queen payment.
RAY WOOD CLAIMS BRIDGE TUMPING HAD EDUCATIONAL VALUE
the effect ho was confident a settlement of the strike in tho Chrysler motor plants will bo settled by the end of the week. The conferences between ihe strikers and company management is to be retimed on Friday morning.
CANADIAN SOUVENIR DOLLARS MINTED IN COBALT SILVER
Ottawa. Mar. 27�-Canadian souvenir dollars are to be minted for thc coronation of Kins George VI. They will be minted of Cobalt .silver and available-shortly before the coronation in May.
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San Francisco. Mar. SO�Ray Wood. the man who broke his back in a jump from the new bridge to the waters of th� hay 185 feet below, says his jump-feats had an educational value as �'�o'l a" an advertising one. Jumoihg from bridges Wood contends is a rpmparatively safe tlrng. an<\ in his uimp; ho said there was always the j � houcht in the back of his bond that l he was showing would-be suicides that | inmping from bridees was no sure wav rf ending their Tves. Wood began his uimning when ho was but 14 years eld in Indiana, ond performed all over the United States and Canada. When he �rot-> out of hospital* he says he in-�r>d�* to continue jumping.
Bert Sheffield and Henry C. Courvoisier, the two trappers who are awaiting t.'ial on the charpe of having entered the Hudson's Bay post at Fcrt Nelson on JuJy 12th 1936, and stealing- therefrom a quantity cf fur valued at $32,000. will have a preliminary hearing at Fort St. John next week on a new charge, that cf retaining- possession of a quantity cf fur stolen from the Hudson's Bay Company Fort St. John store in 1934. When Shet field and C- what fur-buyers call "old fur" the catch of previcii? years. It admittedly was not fur taken from the Fort Nelson post and thc pcliee consented to its sale to Thomas Clark, the man in charge of the Hudson's Bay post at Fort Nelson. In payment for the fur the ermpany issued drafts for $2463 and SI610, payable at Edmcntcn. but when the drafts were put through to Edmonton it �was found the Hudson's Bay Com-nany had stopped payment. Therf-is said to be a yuggestion now that the fur purchased from Sheffield and Courvoisier at Fort Nelson is part of the fur stolen from the company's store at Fort St. John.
On Saturday J. O. Wilson, crown counsel, A. McB. Yountr. defence counsel and Police Officers Frank Cook and William Forrester, will leave Prince George to attend the Fort St. John hearing, going in hy wav of Edmonton,
FIRE ON SATURDAY
Now Yor. Mar~2&l-The West Jewish synagogue was destroyed y
fire of incendiary origin _on &ai.. cu . do jpg j destry, p .
Throe attempts were made to, uie drycin,^ Kav he will spend tho rest of worst enemy of some of our largest
' bfl\1lwa h: lif i hl hair d t ful wild game The crow
DESTROY CROWS
"As an egg eater, and a young b!rd but � the ; QCStroyer. the crow is probably tho very
build'ng before it was de-stroyed.
historical records kept in tho synagogue are reported to have been saved.
IRISH FREE STATE WILL
tl10 Irs life in a wheel chair.
B.C. GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BE REPRESENTED AT THE CORONATION
Victoria; Mar. 30�Premier Pattullo ha1? announced that the provincial govrnment will not be reprosontod offi-
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juid most useful wild game. The crow question becomes, therefore, one Tor tho sportsman rather than the farmer. Tt bebcoves the sportsman to orotPct his own sport and to take the burden of controlling one of thc worst came destrovers." P. A. Tavener, "Birds of Canada" 1934. To assist in tho war upon tho crows
London. Mar. 31�The British gov-liment has been notified that the. Irish Free State will not send repre- j
gifts.
Gordon Wood has received a telegram from Hon. H. G. Perry announc- .......
1,� the membor for Fort Geoi-ge riding i rcntatives to the ijnper.al conference will arrive in the c!ty on Monday and ; will .spend several cJay-5 in the dustrict.
to b" held during the coronation ceremonies.
at. (ho coronation Drocoedmas :n tho game department has arranged to Tondon- in May This is taken ns a fsunply the ammuh-tTon. For every crow "in-o indication "thnt iho provinciol el- .killed, the heai_pr feet or which arr --tio"^ will bo under w:iv at the time brought to tho local same office, there-and that, the nremier wants nil of his will bo issued one 12-guase shot-�nin minjst^-s available for service in tho shell. Every crow killod will incrp^ � -npaicn ; the nun'ibor of game b;rds in the fall.