PRINCE GEORGE
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 No.    22.
Thursday,    June    2,    1938.
Prince    George, B. C.
.P.O.E. Provincial
Convention Best Yet
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_ fifteenth annual convention of I r Elks' Association- opened in e piK Hall at Prince George on SprtSay evening, May 25, when the We i todee No. 122, called a special 1OCfwtion meeting which was followed fL iS- andI social get-together. byt, �ScaUy all the delegates arrived in?t me o take part in the proceeding. i ThP lodge room presented an un-fS and colorful sight, being filled  mcity with Elks of all ranks ana S in their smart and attractive
S'was much renews   >f old-time firendships and many new friend-iV established and not a dull mo-ment from start to close.         X mThey came   from all   parts of-th2
'lnce-Vancouver, New We.st.miiX  Vancouver Island. Powell River, i Aldergrove, Langley Prairie. Salmon Arm, Karnloops and many other places, all determined to make this first convention held in this northern hinterland a huge success.
This is what Robert Chance, who was elected for the fifteenth consecutive year as secretary-treasurer of the B C. Elks' Association, had to say when all was over: "Tell the people of prince George this has been the most outstanding convention since the provincial association was instituted." This is high praise from a high source, and intensely gratifying to the �boys" at Prince George.
The business sessions of the convention opened in the Elks' Hall on Thursday morning, May 26 at 9:30. After registration of delegates was completed, the local lodge officers opened the proceedings, and T. S. Carmichael, Exalted Ruler, after extending a welcome to the visitors present, handed over the gavel to Harrison Piele. president of the B. C. Elks' Association, who immediately called upon the officers of the asso-
ciation to take their respective chairs, and declared the convention open.
Mayor A. M. Patterson and H. G. T. Perry M.L.A., both of whom are members of Lodge No. 122. delivered addresses of welcome, the mayor expressing his conviction that when the keys of the city with which he now presented them, were returned to him, it would be found they had been m worthy hands and remained untarnished. Bro. Perry expressed his gratification at the coming of the convention to this city and spoke in eloquent terms of the high aims of the order and the good it accomplished.
Both speeches were the subject of much appreciative comment.
Hon. A. Wells Gray, Minister of Lands and Past Exalted Ruler of New Westminster Lodge No. 3, was given a Hearty welcome as he addressed the convention in the afternoon session. "As a ^brother Elk." he said, he was pleased to._be present and to renew his acquaintance with Prince George. He spoke of theN wealth of mine, forest and stream in this part of the province, of the great develonment that 1 would undoubtedly take place in the not distant future, and envisioned this city as the centre of a large and prosperous community. Elkdom would have its part to play in the upbuilding of such a community and he appealed to all nresent to be ready-.to meet the challenge of the future in the true spirit of the order they represent.
P. W. Pound, Grand .Exalted Ruler
of the B. P. O. Elks of Canada and
Newfoundland presented a report of
the proerpss'of the order during his
year of office. In snite of the denres-
sion and the drought on the prairies.
he was proud   to report   advance in
I everv direction, he said, and especially
I in his own province of British Colum-
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Newcomers Settling in Central B.C.
Swiss Settlers and Others Purchasing Farms in Vicinity of Prince George
The colonization department of the Canadian National Railways, located in Prince George, report an increasing number of bona fide settlers arriving in Central B.C. with a view to purchasing land. Each month sees art increasing number of newcomers.
The influx from Switzerland and other parts of Europe continues, and a larger number than usual for several years past of prairie farmers are looking over Central B. C. with a view to settlement. Many of the new arrivals have located on rented farms throughout the district while others are purchasing property outright, paying spot cash in many cases. The area most favored is along the line of the C. N. R. from Prince George to Smithers.
Leo Kindle and Marcell Banzer, recently from the principality of Lichen-stein, Europe, have purchased the old Lund 160-acre farm on Tabor Creek.
Gebhard and Johann Banzer also from Uchenetein, have purchased the Arthur Johnson 320-acre place in Tabor Creek area.
Nick Balaski has purchased an undeveloped property near Tabor Creek school.
H. Wessel and Meile Ktootstra, both of Holland, have purchased properties in the Palling district.
Suttleand Dettwiler, recently arrived from Switzerland, have purchased 320 acres in the Smithers district.
Astor Hidber and family also recently arrived from Switzerland have Purchased 320^ acres adjoining the new government experimental farm ai omitner
mitners.
Karl Maerki, Swiss, has purchased  acre? Of fr^ land near Remo' in
acres-, of fruit land near RemoV in Terrace district.
STORE CLOSING
JUN&9 OPTIONAL
J- A. Forin Campbell, inspector for J5J Pr�vincial department of labor, vm dquarters at Prince George, nas received the following information from the Victoria office of the  is being proclaimed a public 'i but will not be proclaimed or �.   fche Wetkly Half-Holiday  Act, �r tne Factories Act
to ?Qhls 8wUl allow stores and factories 10 remain open."
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Pattullo was in Washington had   an interview with .. He is going to Ot-returnlng to B. C
Discuss Plans
For Dominion ------    Day Sports
Splendid   'Program   Being   Arranged for Gala Celebration on, July 1
The Dominion Day celebration committee of the Prince George Board of Trade, with representatives of the Junior Chamber of Commerce present, met Monday afternoon and discussed tentative plans for the July 1 sports.
A sub-committee was appointed to investigate the possibility of staging the major part of the program out at the airport, in front of the old race track grandstand, thus allowing of considerable seating capacity for the spectators. Such events as the soft-ball games, the end of the final bicycle race, auto polo, lumbermen's sports, the tug-of-war and of course the an> plane stunte and parachute jumping, it was thought, might all be centered at the airport. The committee is to report on the feasiblliy of this at the next meeting.
Chairmen were appointed with power to choose committeemen to investigate the feasibility and report on the desirability of a program to embrace the following sports:
Children's parade, starting at the City Hall and proceeding along George street and Third avenue to Quebec and Fourth.
A box lacrosse game in the open air ice rink between high school teams of Prince George and any of the surrounding towns, immediately after the children's parade.
Bicycle races either on Third avenue or out at the airport.
Baseball tournament with teams from Island Mountain; Cariboo Quartz of Wells. Smithers team and a prince George team.
Softball tournament between teams from Giscome. Aleza Lake, Vanderhoof and Prince George.
Auto polo or push ball, a game played with   specially    geared motor
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Lumbermen's sports, such as log bucking, tie making, etc.
Wrestling and boxing.
Tug of war.
Ail-plane   stunt   performances   and
parachute jumping.
The usual midway attractions wil. also be a part of the celebration on Ibe evenings of June 30 and July 1. as will be the dance on the evening of Jun| 30 and the grand ball on the evening of July 1 in the Princess Ballroom.
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" Hundreds of men, said not to be B C residents, are "sitting down" in public buildings in Vancouver. Extreme patience is being shown by authorities and no violence has occurred so far.
Monkman Pass Highway Has Two Crews Working
Wembley, Alta.,   June   1:�The �>e-ond unit and main crew, headed by Helmer Johnson, left Rio Grande this morning for the Pacific via the Monkman Pass. Crowds of supporters said arewell and photographers took pic-ures of the final departure. An undertaking of this kind may never take place again in Canada. The Monkman 'ass Highway   Association is putting orth every effort to make this the final push. Road Foreman Johnson said oodbye    to    Superintendent    Albert Smith with the words: "Our next scop s Prince Geoi-ge."
CHARLES A. VAUGHAN
Newly elected president of the B. C. Elks Association who has been active in B. C. Elkdom for many years, being immediate Past Exalted Ruler of No. 1 Lodge, Vancouver. He is also Grand Inner Guard of the Grand Lodge of Canada and Newfoundland.             �
C.B.Elliott Dies From Airplane
Crash Injuries
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Made    Valiant    Fight    Against
Heavy Odds of Injuries and
Double Pneumonia
Making a fight for life for upwards of eight days against tremendous odds, Pilot Charles B. Elliott succumbed at 12:10 a.m. Tuesday in\ the Prince George hospital to a complication of injuries and double pneumonia following the fatal crash of his Pacific Airways Waco plane on Thloatslee lake in Northern Omineca on the morning of May 23, in which Dan Miner was killed outright, and himself, Mrs. Alan East and William Martin, air engineer were severely tojur^fl^lj   .
One of British Columbia's foremos pioneers and most popular aircraft pilots, C. B. Elliott made many mercy flights throughout the years he has been active in the aviation game and his tragic death has touched a deep cord of sympathy throughout all parts of British Columbia and brought innumerable heartfelt condolences, to the bereaved family.
Charles B. Elliott was born in Sum-merville, Mass., in_ 1897, coming to British Columbia as a young lad with his parents, and attended school in North Vancouver. The family moved to Lethbridge and it was there Elliott learned to fly in 1919. He operated an aviation school on the prairies for several years before returning to B C, where he has been engaged in charter flying for the past six years.
He is survived by his wife, and one daughter, besides his mother, two sisters. Mrs. C. J. McBrayne and Mrs A. W. "Mickey" McPherson, all residing in North Vancouver.
The body was taken from Assman's Funeral Chapel this morning to the airport to be transported to Vancouver by planeraccompanied by-Mrs.,Elliott, who has been with her husband since he was brought to the Prince George Hospital.
William Martin, who left the hospital this morning, also went south on the plane, a Pacific Airways Waco in charge of Pilots W. S. Holland and "Ted" Dobbin, which arrived from Vancouver late yesterday afternoon.
#75,000 ALLOTTED
FOR MANSON ROAD
Information released by Hon. W. J Asselstine, B. C. minister of mines states that upwards of $75,000 of the $360,000 federal-provincial program for mining roads in British Columbia wil be spent on the Manson Creek road from Fort St. James to Finlay Fork during the present summer.     ,
Vancouver-Yukon
Air Mail Service
Secretary J. O. Wilson of the Prince George Board of Trade received the following wire today from J. G. Turgeon, M.P. for Cariboo, dated Ottawa:
"Members of the Prince George Board of Trade will be pleased to learn of the Acting Postmaster General's official announcement today that-it has been definitely decided to establish an air mail service between Vancouver and Fort St. John via Prince George to serve Cariboo and Peace River district and connect with the Yukon air mail and passenger route."
A meeting of the Prince George branch of the Monkman Pass Highway Association is called for Thursday evening (tonight) in the Prince George hotel ballroom at 8 o'clock. A good umout is expected as Frank Murphy, president of the B. C. Peace River 31cck Monkman Highway Association branch, who has been at the coast for he past two months, will give an account of the progress he and his associates made there in interesting that section of B. C. in putting through the road from the Peace River country to connect with the Cariboo Highway at Prince George.
During his stay on the coast Mr. Murphy prepared and submitted to Premier Pattullo the following brief: Monkman Pass Highway
The Monkman Pass Highway Association has been organized to effect an immediate highway connection be-ween the road system of the Peace River country and the end of the Cariboo Highway. The road by which this connection will be made, will make use of the Monkman Pass through the Rocky Mountains.
The situation of the Monkman Pass is so favorable for a road as a connecting link between these two road systems that it is surprising that the con-
nection has not already been made. On the contrary it would appear that people have not only ignored the situation but have done their best to forget it. It is a strange irony that over half a million dollars have already been expended by the government and railway companies surveying, exploring and reporting on the possibilities of the Peace River country with the avowed object of "finding an outlet," with the only result that reports are on file indicating that the Monkman Pass route was the most favorable even for a railway. The amount spent for this work of getting information would have gone far, not only to build the necessary 150 miles of road, but would have gone far to have paved it as well.
There was the Resources Survey, the ioint board of Canadian Pacific ana Canadian National Railways and various other federal and provincial investigations of the country. Therefore our fund of information is not lacking. These surveys revealed important resources:
fat Oil prospects in the Peace River Block.
(h) Cnal measuers of Hudson Hone.
(c) Gold and minerals in the Man-son Creek area.
(d") Soil, farmland and settlement in thp Peace River country.
It is eratifvine to note that the mineral ore of Manson Creek is now served with a road, also the coal measures of the Hope, while not yet od-erative have been reachedA by the Peace River highway, but the'settlement which i�; jointly the concern of British Columbia and Alberta, has not vet been provided with transoortation facilities such as its geographical position would warrant.
The Peace River settlement, the far-famed when.t belt, spreads out from (Continued on Page Six)
Pilot L. Waagen x    Missing Since Friday Last
Was   Flying   Three   Passengers
from Vancouver to Zeballos , __         Vancouver Island
Len Waagen, popular ..pilot of the United Air Transport Co., who was stationed at Prince George up to a few weeks ago flying out of here to Fort St. James, Germansen, Fort St. ojhri and on the Vancouver-prince George flight, has been missing since Friday morning last when he left Vancouver in a United Air Transport Fairchild with .three passengers on the regular daily flight to Zeballos gold camp on the west coast of Vancouver Island. His passengers were Mrs. George Nicholson, wife of the deputy mining recorder at Zeballcs, returning home from a trip to Vancouver, and two men, Charles R. Rumsey. Toronto mining engineer. an H. Boyd of Steveston. Waagen reported on Friday morning shortly before noon that he was flying over Estevan Point ae the entrance to Nootka Sound, approximately 40 miles from Zeballos, in a dense fog. This is the last word received from him.
Seven planes of two nations, as well as shipping of all classes, have been searching since last Saturday, but up to time of going to press no trace has been found of the plane or its occupants.
Searchers include a United States coastguard amphibian, a Royal Canadian Air Force seaplane, Pilots Ernie Kubicek and Sheldon Luck in a United Air Transport Co. Norseman, who flew from Edmonton to Vancouver via Prince George last Monday, and Grant McConnachie, president of the U. A. T. who arrived by air in Vancouver Tuesday to direct the company planes in the search, and several other machines.
High powered speed ooats are searching every inlet and all steamers aie keeping a lookout all along the coast. Land parties are searching the country contiguous to lakes in the vicinity on which a pilot would likely attempt a landing if in trouble.
Len Waagen is known as a resourceful pilot used to flying over the roughest terrain and it is , thought that if he has not crashed he will be located. All United Air Transport planes carry a lai'ge supply of emergency rations, as well as fishing tackle, guns and ammunition.
Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, speaking on Canadian foreign policy Tuesday declared that C mada had m* commitments to engage in any war or in regard to iemaining neutral. "Parliament alone would decide the course of Canada in any war." he said.
George Street Walk Paved For One Block
Several Other Business Premises
Arranging for Similar
Work This Summer
George street replaced wood with concrete pavement last Monday when three weeks' work of laying 336 teeo of eig^t-fopf cofnerefte walk from Fourth to Third avenue was completed.
George street ratepayers and city council are receiving congratulations today as Prince George proudly wajfcs down the first stretch of concrete to be laid along an entire city block. It is believed the work is precedent to further construction planned along the same line, as Third avenue business houses contemplate a similar move.
The work was done by a co-operative plan between the city council and a bloc of George street -ratepayers�F. D. Taylor, Karl Anderson, T. M. Watson, I. B, Guest, D. G. McLeod and I. B. Baird.
According to a plan laid down some time ago, city council contributes one third of the cost of the project, supplying the services of the city engineer and surveyors. Remainder of the cost of the project was met by Messrs. Taylor, Anderson. Watson, Guest, McLeod and Baird .
Under a similar scheme, 110 feet of eight-foot concrete walk will be laid along the lot from Sterling Market corner to the end of I. B. Baird's store. under arrangement with I. B. Baird.
On Quebec street, forty feet of concrete has been laid fronting the Citizen building. Taken in conjunction with the strip ranging along the Northern Hardware building, the new piece laid by the Central Interior Printing Co. Ltd. gives Quebec street a substantial strip of pavement.
LOCAL GOLF TOURNEY
ON SUNDAY NEXT
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The Prince George .Golf Club is staging another club tournament on Sunday which will be run on similar lines to the one held on Sunday. May 1.
The men's four-ball foursome will tee off at 10 a.m. sharp, while the mixed � two-ball match will be started at 2 p.m. sharp.            �
All players are requested to be on hand early Sunday as the draw will be- made immediately before play starts.
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Construction crews have started work on the Big Bend Highway from me Revelstoke end of the road. Plenty of men are said to be available for the work in the immediate neighborhood of the job.