VICTORIA, B.C. P RINCE GEORGE CITIZEN J4& Vol. 22, No. 42. Thursday, October 19, 1939 Prince George, B. C. Junior Chamber To Hold Dinner Session Monday Capt. H. Angle, B.C. Dragoons, Will Address Gathering iOti Army Duties Captaia H. Angle, O.C. of the B.C. Dragoon troop guarding the Fraser river bridge, will address Junior Chamber of Commerce at its dinner meet-. ��iiu." next Monday evening1. Captain Ajv^le will speak on the timely subject �The RecruLt and the Army." As a number of members of the Junior Chamber are at present on active duty in Prince Rupert and others are expected to join up shortly, the speaker ylll be followed with interest. A. B. Moffatt, an honorary officer o: the J.C.C, will also speak. A native son of the Cariboo who has become onc of the leading business men of the north, Mr, Moffatt is well qualified W address a young men's business organization. In addition to the two guest speakers, and the regular business session, the entertainment committee has prepared a short and snappy programme. They urgently request a good turnout in order that the .meeting will go over with'the usual J.C.C. vim. Prospective members are warmly Invited to attend the dinner and put in their names for membership. Membership is open to young men between the ages of 18 and 40. The dinner will be held in the Shasta cafe at 7 p.m. on October 23. Drama Lectures by Miss Somerset Well Appreciated U .B. C. Extension Service On Dramatic Art Aids Students HERE IS ANOTHER PHOTO OP OUR LOCAL MEN WHO RECENTLY LEFT FOR ACTIVE SERVICE ELSEWHERE WITH THE SECOND SEARCHLIGHT BATTERY, R.C.A. / Jury Finds Martin Death Accidental An inquest was conducted by Coron-. er M. W. Skinner on Thursday last into the death of Everett J. Martin on October 9 at Longworth. the jury consisting of F. J. Lockyer (foreman), L. Woods, W. E. Brown, A. H. Brooks, W. Reynolds and E. Pinker. Evidence was given "by A. E. Martin, brother of the deceased; Lloyd Oamer-0:1 and Martin Bogle, who were with '.he deceased at the time of the acii-dent; W. Range, first-aid man at the. Sinclair' Sprttce'"Mills Vhere the �accident occurred, and Dr. C. Ewert/the attending physician. The evidence of Cameron and Bogle stated that a spruce tree they had attempted to fall lodged in the forks of a small birch, and that they were attempting to fall the birch to bring down he spruce when the birch gave signs of falling. They both ran and shouted at Martin to follow them, but he moved a slight distance away and stood there, not realizing the danger. The birch came down and one of its branches struck Martin and knocked him down on top of the crosscut saw he was carrying. An autopsy conducted by Dr. Ewert disclosed chest Injuries and that several ribs had been broken. The deceased had suffered severe lacerations on his body when he fell on the teeth of the saw. Dr. Ewert gave the cause of death as internal hemorrhages. The verdict of the jury was as follows: "We the jury unanimously agree that Everett J. Martin was fatally injured accidentally by a falling tree at Longworh, B.C., on Monday, October 9. 1939." Attacks War Profiteers Harold Winch Asserts C.C.F. Party Stands for Liberty and Democracy Harold E. Winch, M.L,A., aggressive leader of the C.C.F. in British Columbia, spoke in Prince George on Saturday to a large audience. Mr. Winch is touring the province before participating in the Cranbrook bye-election. Mr. Winch prefaced the main part of his speech with a short description of conditions as they existed in the Dominion before the declaration of Canada's "state of war."v----------------------------------------------� He declared that in times of economic stress mushroom parties and would-be leaders spring into the limelight and gain temporary support due to the feelings cf the citizens that something must be done to relieve pressing problems. He cited such leaders as George Mc-Cullogh of the ^Leadership League, Mr. Hcrridge of New Democracy, and Premier Absrhart of Social Credit fame. "However." declared Mr. Winch, "the people are thinking far more deeply than in past years with �he result that they soon see the fallacies' of ^the-self-appointed leaders, born of depression periods, and by their thousands have been turning to the C.C.F., the organization that has been consistently pointing out that the only way to perman-enly remove the evils existing in the Dominion today is to go to the root of the trouble, which is the economic system under which we live.' Mr. Winch was definitely of the opinion that in the normal course of events the C.CP. would have soon captured administrative power, and would then have been able to prove to the citizens the correctness of their policies and program. "However." he declared, "before we were able to achieve this opportunity, capitalism, which had been unable to solve the world s"-problems in times of peace, found a temporary solution to the major problem of unemployment through the medium of a" 'state of war'." In order to show that this contention was not merely his own analysis, Mr. Winch quoted from Hansard, the official record of the House of Commons, and quoted extracts from (Continued on Page- Four> See HAROLD WRINCH Hansard Bridge Bridge At Hansard Estimated Cost $104,000; May Use Railway Bridge Deputy Minister Advises Plans Prepared But Efforts Continuing Ril Bid If Economical HEADS C.C.F. IN B.C.�Harold Winch, M.L.A.. Vancouver East: is C.C.F. leader in the B.C. Legislature and of the party in this province. He addressed a Prince Gecrge gathering in the C.C.F. hall last Saturday. MAKING SURVEYS EXPERIMENTAL ON FARM F. P. Burden, B.C. land surveyor, has been,appointed by the federal department of agriculture to survey the land purchased for the experimental farm in Pineview. This area comprises approximately 640 acres situated about five miles from the city, and included the farms of G. H. Thompson, Chas. Pinker, John Hediger and Alfred Didt. The total purchase price was $19,400. -------------o------------- Ban On Import Of Horses Lifted Encephalomyliris Ban Removed; Settlers May Now Bring In Horses The ban on the importation of horses into British Columbia from other provinces owing to encephalomyelitis was lifted this week by Hon. K. C. MacDonald, minister of agriculture. This will be good news to a number of new settlei"s here, who contemplatec bringing- in their own horses from'Al-breta and Saskatchewan when they acquired land here this year but were prevented by the order. "It will be necessary for intending settlers or importers to submit "with their applications permit, certificates showing that their horses have been vaccinated against sleeping- sickness during the current season." the statement said. Cinnabar and Molybdenum Needed Metals War Brings Increased Demand For Minerals Known To Occur In District ster Advises p To Use Railway Bridge If Economical No definite arrangements have been made by A. Dixon k f idi ossing or the No definite arrangements have y deputy minister of public works, for providing a crossing or the Fraser river at Hansard. The three courses open to the department Have been to put in a ferry; a new provincial bridge; or make some arrangements^ the Canadian National Railways to plank and dHd A.* ferry could g^ utilise the steel railway bridge-t y p A.*e ferry could only d to of a bridge, and at the same time made on the feasability of utilizing member' that' the possibility of utilizing the railway bridge is again being the railway bridgV.~b�Tng August the j*kdei*h"P "The pi said-Mr, and the S104.000. minister of public works, Hon. F. M. M^cPherson, advised H. G. Perry, the member for this riding, that in view. �f the high cost of "the provincial structure, efforts would be renewed towards making an agreement with the railway company to use the railway bridge. Since that time Mr. MacPherson has resigned as minister and become a member, of the Transport Board 01 Canada which has jurisdiction over all railway toridges. " As the season was advancins and the highway has been partly constructed on the east side of the Praser at Hansard. H- G. Perry, M.L.A.. communicated with the deputy minister and chief en-Smeer, Mr. Arthur Dixon. as to what the C.N.R. for a separate structure," have been prepared amounts to as not 04 000. *."" ailable in this year's bridge appro- PIShou!d no agreement be possible on conomical basis for the use of the bridge, it is expected that a be placed in the estimates at i f the legislature an e the to p session of the legislature to piS for a separate bridge as it is felt by the engineering department under Mr. Dixon that a ferry on this Unportant highway will "not be satis-' i Continued on Page Five) See HANSARD BRIDGE Fred P. Burden, B.C.L5.. a former agent -general in London of the British Columbia government, and probably one of the best informed men in this province regarding the undeveloped natural resources in the.vast area north of Prince George, expresses himself as highly pleased with the'action of the British Columbia government's mines department in directing attention of prospector's to ths desirability of looking for such minerals as molybdenum, cinnabar and antimony. Mr. Burden's knowledge of the mineral possibilities ofTthe north has been gained through reconnaissance and actual survey work in;i the area over a p.eriod of a quarter of va century. He is satisfied that considerable bodies of molybdenum, cinna-Dax and antimony exist north of this city and that the increased demand for these metals, through war requirements, will see a large group of prospectors in the field during 1940. In commenting on the article in last week's Citizen reporting the recent discovery of a large showing of molybdenum on Munro Creek, a tributary of Manson Creek, north of Prince George, Mr. Burden states that the ore body was originally discovered twenty odd years ago by J. Ferguson, locater of the Ingenika mines, near Finlay Forks. During the summer of 1938 Messrs. Burden and Ferguson endeavoured to relocate the old showings, but the lapse of time had so mixed up Ferguson that (Continued on Po&e Eight) .See CINNABAR SAFECRACKERS DO NEAT JOB W. A. E. Wall, merchant of McBride, was in town over Saturday enroute home from Quesnel where he was a witness a>t the assize court in the case of McGowan and Cherniak. accused of blowing the safe in Mr. Wall's store last September. Being in Quesnel in connection with, a safe-cracking job, it was only natural that Mi". Wall should be an interested visitor to the Quesnel liquor store the morning after the safe-blowing incident there last week. He is of the opinion that tha Quesnel job was done by yeggs more expert in the work than those who blew his safe at McBride. In the Quesnel liquor store job the dial was knocked off the door with a hammer which the robbers left along with a small pinch bar. The safe was turned on its side with the door up, and the charge of nitro-glycerine poured in the hole left by the removed com-'bination dial. - Cartons of beer were piled all around the safe to deaden the sound of the explosion and the door was neatly separated by the blast from the rest of the strongbox. While many dozens of bottles of beer in cartons were placed around the safe, investigation showed that only three pint bottles were broken. Approximately $1000 \v?� obtained by the robbers. $700 be-' longing to the liquor store and $300 belonging to Mr. Donnely, the liquor vendor. A quantity of liquor is also missing,. according to a check-up. , The series cf lectures in dramatic art delivered in the public school building, Prince George, on Friday. Saturday and Monday evenings last by Miss Dorothy Somerset assistant in dramatics department of University Extenson of the University of British Columbia, were attended and thorougniy enjoyed by some thirty members of Prince George Little Theatre Association and their friends. Miss Somerset's subjects included amateur acting, correct speech, instruction in directing, the art of theatrical make-up, and wig making. Each lecture was followed by interesting and informative class discussions on the principles of acting generally, including practical demonstrations and improvisations. At each session short scenes prepared in advance by students were presented for the critical analysis of Miss Somerset, and formed the basis for class discussion on the various problems presented in their enactment and direction. The four scenes presented were from the following plays: "Stage Door." by Edna Ferber; parts taken by Miss Margaret. Reed. Miss (Continued on Page Six) See DRAMA LECTURES � �------------0--------------- Local Woman Dies In Victoria Hospital Mrs. E. Rice Succumbs After Year's Illness A telegram received yesterday morning from their father, E. Rice, brought the sad news to Mrs. R. Gunderson and her brothers, James and Edward, of Prince George, of the death of their mother in the Royal Jubilee Hospital. Victoria, early Wednesday morning. Mrs. Rice, a resident of Pineview and Prince George since 1920, had been in poor health- for the past.year, having been a patient in the Victoria hospital during that time. Mr. Rice has been with her in Victoria during her illness. Mrs. Rice was very -ijopuhir in the community and will be greatly missed by her host of friends. � -Left to mourn her loss besides her husband are five sons and three daughters:' Mrs. R: Gunderson of Prince George/ M.s. Jack Nelson and Mrs. James Stewart of Premier, B.C., Tom, Joe and George, residing in San Francisco, and James J. and Edward, living at the home farm at Pineview. The fiun.-.ral-v/ill be held on Fiuiiday, with burial in Prince George cemetery. Eagle Tackles Decoy Ducks Hunter Witnesses Unique Sigh* At Mud River Walter Seymour, well known local nimrod. is regaling his friends with the story of a battle between a bald eagle and a flock of inflated rubber duck decoys, which he witnessed last Sunday out Mud River way. --'Having inflated and set out a number of these decoys, Walter was comfortably settled in his "blind" waiting for the hoped for flock of mallards with visions of a full bag before the day was over. Suddenly a bald eagle swooped down and grabbed one of the decoys and started skywards. The decoy being tethered naturally stopped short when the line ployed out. The eagle gripped its prize tighter with' its claws and suddenly the decoy deflated with a big bang. Seemingly incensed r.t the loss of its meal, which virtually vanished into "thin air," the eagle tore the decoy into shreds before giving up the fight. Letting loose of it, it dived a second time and grabbed another decoy with much the same result, so finally gave up the duck foraging expedition and flew off to hunt for better fare. Hospital Gets $2,500 Special Grant To City Hospital Of $2,500 From Provincial Gov't Members of the hospital board were>? cheque for $2,500 to keep. "This per-cheered this week, when some of their | nuts me to report with a smile to the financial worries were lifted by aj bankers for the hospital," said Mr. cheque for $2,500 received from the Wisenden. Mr. Milburn expressed his delight at the receipt of the q provincial government as a special grant in aid toward the improvements undertaken this year in the Prince George hospital. H. G. Perry, M.L.A-., called upon the president of- the board, G. Milburn, �nd Charles H. Wisenden, secretary-treasurer, and handed them an official letter from the Hon. G. M. Weir, the provincial secretary, to read and a grant which he said "would special greatly relieve the strain of financing the hospital' this year." Other members of the board of directors who are gratified at the receipt of the special grant are Messrs. W. L. Hughes, Alex. Moffat, Mi's. Frank Clark, James Scott and Ivor Guest.