PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN 32 Prince George, B.C., Thursday, August 8, 1940 $2.00 a Year iert Beac n cteen- ham Dies Und Friday er Youth Returning Along Right-of-Way a(. Believed to Have Sat Down Asleep�Jury Hears Evidence. L Canadian National Z the badly mutilated _ the badly \\, the shoiOder; the se "red near the elbow, rht foot """ n. notified B. C. police rince coorge by phone, iible W. H. Taylor mime- drove to ^e " eation discto^d that the that of Albert Beacham, id son of John Beacham, port George, jl W Skinner, after vis- '" of the tragedy, or- 't body removed to Assmans in Prince George, 750 More Vets For Reserve Bait. (Special to the Citizen) OTTAWA�Col.. Pat Sparling has been appointed general staff officer in charge of internal security in British Columbia. There will be two officers in charge of the whole province. The other has not been named. Authorization has also been granted for an increase of 750 men for part-time duty in the Veterans' Reserve Battalion in British Columbia. Timber Controller Pegs Lumber Prices to Northern Interior Mills The dictatorial powers of Can-^new excess profits tax, an 18 per -.da's War Measures Act was re- cent federal tax, and 10 per cent vealed to northern interior lumbermen operating sawmills along the C.N.R. line in the vicinity of Prince George when thev met Deputy Timber Controllers D. Rosenberry of Winnipeg and Hales Ross of Edmonton at Jasper, Alberta, August 3 and 4. Immediate government requirements from the group of mills in British Columbia and Alberta represented at the conference run into approximately 30,000,000 feet as matters stand at present with a probability of these figures being provincial tax, which in all, lumbermen estimate, works out to from. 90 to 95 per cent of the actual profits, if any. As the pegged prices are part of Canada's war effort, the lumbermen naturally accepted the situation Conservative Leader Speaks R. L Maitland, K.C, Ml. A. Heard in Stirring Address Urges Faith in Britain, Aids to Agriculture, Highway Commission; Accuses Pattullo Government of Vicious Patronage and C.C.F. of Discouraging Canada at War. unanimously in good spirit, and R, L. Maitland, K.C, M.L.A., accompanied by Mrs. promised the deputy timber con- \a '-'i j � j � n � r* i c J c trollers to do their best to produce j Maitlanc*> arrived in Prince George late Saturday afternoon nd left for Quesnel on Sunday. Owing to the stores being (pen Saturday evening and the Red Cross "Jamboree" no public meeting was held. A large gathering of Prince Geonge their quota of the bast quantities that will be required for hus and airdromes in connection v/ith the military air training plan; huts and other buildings required fo'r the C.A.S.P., and those required for the increased considerably during the next 90 days. I National Mobilization plan in which A considerable portion of the del- ' some thirty new military training cgates' time was given over to a! oamps are to be established across discussion as to ways and means of arranging for these supplies -with- Canada to take care of the 30,000 men per month to be called up and out, if possible, interfering with the I trained starting October 1. Fred W. Bunton States All Ready In Cariboo Area Registrars Uncfer National Registration Act States 100 Per Cent Support in District Fred W. Bunton, registrar of the vast Cariboo riding under the National Registration Act, has about completed the circuit of the territory entrusted to him. He reports 100 pet cent co-operation in response to his call for volunteers to help in the work. Deputies (have been appointed at all .the polling divisions used in the last the evidence of j Dominion elections, and the states pei inquest was called for evening and adjourned un-liy evening. bo witnesses to the acci-police reconstruction of the sth of the youth, based on matlon available, suggests .youth either placed his ithe rails and sat down to rest, fell asleep, and I as No. 195 train came Hnsjrthen have attempted ||ds pack from between the 1..us struck by the train t or that he actually sat the rails and fell t awl failed to hear the and was run over attteory seems most ac- rtl Gardner, who had f to train, the engine of i ted to have blood on that all major details have been arranged throughout the entire Cariboo .riding. kliwi the machine was j In motoring from. Vanderhoof to Urfle roundhouse after � Prince George recently Mr. Bunton H off the run an. Saturday Vta McBride. 'theory advanced is that miy have mounted the f of the engine while the for. a few minutes had the misfortune to lose control of" his car on a slippery section of the read with the result tihat It went over the bank, turned over twice, badly demolishing the fenders and top before coming to rest up-and fell off and died j side down against a tree. Outside wheels. However, all' of a shaking up ahd a badly bruised forehead Mr. Bunton escaped in-Jury and was able to continue his duties with another car next day. In town last Thursday wate Louis LeBourdais, M.L.A.. (Cariboo) to (present commitments of mill men, j particularly those for United States j consumption, which is advantageous to Canada's war effort on account of these orders building up armah desired American exchange. It developed hhat there would be no difficulty in supplying the quantity of lumber required providing the orders did not specify bone-dry material. That there will be no "runaway" market in the lumber industry as far as Canada is concerned was made plain when the deputy timber controllers, acting under instructions from H. R. MacMillan, federal timber controller at Ottawa, informed the local millmen just v/hat price they would receive and where they would have to ship their timber. As an instance of what government control means, the prices set for northern interior British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba mills are in most cases $20 per thousand feet of lumber less than obtained for the same grades during the last -war, and considerably less than those obtaining in peace times of 1928 and 1929. The pegged price was stated to be based on the approximate average price of lumber to British Columbia and .Alberta anillmen for the past two years. Additional factors entering Into the costs set-up of lumber are the to favor the first to preference to the foe said Albert Beacham his death at 10:25 pjm., two |Wf miles west of Giscome WUl. right-of-way by be-over by Train No. 195, en-� �n Friday, August 2,1940," verdict of the coroner's Jury flight after enquiring into of the 16-year-old youth. � were I. B. Guest, fore-I Watson. J. Leith, Geo. J w- H. Hughes and T. A. "on Creek * Up Record Coarse Gold confer Mr, Bunton. Mr. Le- Bourdais had just completed an 1100-mile motor trip through the Ohilcotln country doing voluntary organization work in connection with the National Registration. He reports that he received the heartiest co-operation in all communities throughout the district. Numerous offers of community halls free for use of the registrars -were received by Jhim as well as offers of truck owners to supply their trucks free to bring in people living: at considerable distances from the registration booths. Like Mr. Bunton, Mr. LeBourdais rports car trouble on his trip. He found some of the road's on his 1100-mile trek pretty t�ugh due to the heavy rains, but (managed to get through all � right except for one In addition to these military re-( quirements a considerable footage of lumber will be required on the prairies to provide for the annexes for wheat storage to take care of the surplus wheat crop which the (CONTINUED ON PAGE. Baby Boy Chokes To Death on Way To City Hospital Swallowed Knot of Wood and Died Before Medicai Aid Could be Procured. A coroner's enquiry held in Prince George last Thursday morning by ML W. Skinner disclosed that Robert McDowell, seven-months old child of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McDowell of Sinclair Mills, had choked to death on July 31 wihen in some manner unaccounted for it had taken into its mouth a wood knot from a spruce board. It had become lodged in its throat. The knot proved to be ajbout one inch in diameter and one inch th'ck. R. L. MAITLAND, K.C, M.L.A. Quesnel Citizens Irked Over Delay In Enlistment Many Volunteers on Hand to Sign Up When Order to Cease Recruiting Comes. AUGUST 7. �Major R. L. Gale recruiting- officer, and staff returned from Quesnel yesterday evening where they secured 27 recruits oui of 33 applications for enlistment. The more or less "stop and go" system that has prevailed in regard to recruiting for the Canadian armed forces in cen tra! and northern British Co>-lumbia since June 22 has entailed considerable hardship on many who wiahed to join up. This applies particularly to the Quesne and Williams Lake districts. When Major R. L. Gale wa6 appointed recruting officer for the area south from Prince George t: Williams Lake, east to McBride, west to Burns Lake, and north to the Arctic Circle, he made a trip to Quesnel. Wells and Williams Lake, spending from June 28 to July 3 in Whose areas. After signing up a and. the Parsnip and Peace rivers goodly number, he found that many j by canoe and! motor boat under ar-volunteers from outlying districts j rangement of Dick Corless, Jr., and onservattve Association, however, attended a dinner in the s� Shasta Cafe in honor of the visit 'Britain Will Win . . ." iof ^e Provincial leader of the party, and Mr. Maitland delivered an eloquent address which brought hea/ty response from his supporters. Norman Radley presided. Mr. Maitland made a strong appeal to his followers to give every possible assistance to all war efforts in recruiting, war savings and the Red Cross. "For," he said, "these things come first. Though I am not attacking the provincial government at the moment In public addresses, I ask you to keep your organization up to full strength and be ready for 1 the next provincial election." No Government Co-operation Mr. Maitland then reviewed the provincial situation up to the outbreak of war. "I offered the fullest co-operation to the government in the emergency created by the war," he said. "That position was carried out up to and through the last session, in the hope of a change in the ways of the government in the present emergency; hoping, that patronage, waste and extravagance would go, and that thoughtful, long-range policies are to be brought about. "But," he added, "I am still hop-Ing, for as yet there are no signs of reform." Hits the C.C.F. Turning to the C.C.P. party which as a group has only one less member than the Conservative party led Eastern Educationalist and ibv *?� Maitland as the official op- 'position, he said that "neither the Daughter Canoe From This members of that party in the Leg- Highly Pleased With Trip "Down Over The Top" City to Peave River Area, islature, nor the offical newspaper --------- of the party had done anything to Major W. P. McLean and (advance Canada's war effort, but his 12-year-old daughter Kim- 'rather had done much to discour-fa.ll of Morton Illinois, return- |J�� ^ ye* -de by Mr, ed Thursday last after a two,(party ^ ^ faU ^^ of ^ weeks' trip from Prince George , Legislature during the very early to Fort St John, via Summit ; days of tne War, was not the only Lake, Crooked River, McLecd Lake ! one but One of many v/nicn criti_ wished to enlist but asked that they be given time to dispose of their farms, livestock and other property, and to arrange, if working, about being replaced in their jobs before joining up. Major Gale arranged to come back ! to the district between July 22 and i August 2 by which time these vol-: unteers intimated they would have (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE"! New Registrars Added to List A list of deputy registrars named for centers in the Port George provincial district was published In this 'CONTINUED ON PAGE POURl New Coverage as Citizen Expands To Six Columns Plant Improvements Permit Increase in News Service to Citizen Subscribers. his guides and boatmen. Arriving at Fort St. John they returned to Prince George by Yukon Southern Air Transport^ plane. Major McLean describes the outing as one of the greatest scenic canoe trips on the North American j continent and .thinks the Citizen's j use of the1 phrase in describing it as j "Dpwn'Over the Top to the Arctic" is well chosen. Fishing and photographing, were the 'chief attractions in addition to I Continuing our policy of steadily enjoying ,the scenery during the improving and modernizing the trip, and Major McLean thinks he Prince George Citizen, t complete lias seme wonderful moving and j set of new electric welded hard steel still shots of r.ild game. One parti- "< chases and new type have been cularly interesting roll of film he i purchased, enabling us to print a believes, if It develops well, will be six-column paper instead of the five Evidence was to the effect that j paper last week. Registrar P. W. j that of four bears feasting on the , formerly used. Last week we exper-M> inrt Mrs McDowell's two child- Bunton advises that the following i carcass of a bull moose (how killed. ; imented with the new sec-up on ren wore in a room by themselves, the seven-month old baby boy in a crib, and the two-and-a-half-year- one night jhich^ he had to spencI McDowell on the road in his car because of , ^ ^ t^fa^ily ^shlng in an bogging down in a mud hole nnd being unable to -work his cav free help in the adjoining: room. Hearing choking: sounds. Mrs. Mc-�^KW''h,Dott-oll went to investigate and i found the baby turning black in the face. She took the child into her next door neighbors and together until daylight shape of reliable old pull him out/ The Cariboo member reports that he found thousands of ton.> of hay throughout the Cariboo district lying cut in the fields, the heavy- and \ J^ [ lair Spnice Lumber Com-incessant rains delaying toe harv- ioi *n\c\[u *p estlng of it, and that the second |pany. Mi. Mints was unable tore crop is almost ready to cu the first Is stacked. �Or they rushed it to the Sinclair Mills Lome Minty. Plan Air Courses In Prince George The Junior Chamber of Commerce in co-operation with Yukon Southern Air Transport staff is sponsoring a course in air engineering and maintenance, and is arranging for classes to be held in the evenings. Those wishing to Join the classes *re invited .to attend a meeting at the Shasta Cafe tomorrow night at 8 p,m. ? bnfore ' move the obstruction from the tot's throat, and knowing that Robt. T. Harlow. C.N.R. roadmaster. was in town informed him of the circumstances ^nd Mr. Harlow rushed the moth- cud child the 50 miles to the Prince George hospital on his gasoline speeder. The baby passed away a few miles west of Sinclair ^Arriving at the hospital here Dr. j G. NCacArthur extracted the knot from the.baby's throat. The'funeral was held from /Lss-Vs Funeral Chapel on Saturday wiU, burial m the Prince changes and additions have since been made: Shelley�R. H. Kidston. Shere�Sam Clifton. South Fort George�Harry Collins and R. W. Lotman. Pineview � Hugh Blackburn and John Blackburn. Isle Pierre�H. E. Fanshaw and G. E. Boothroyd. Newlands �G. U. Smith and J. Artho. � CONTINUED ON PAGE SUCCESSFUL TAG DAY The tag day of the Prince George Nurses' Association held last Saturday realized $116.00. The proceeds will be immediately spent for gauze from which members propose to make surgieal dressings for the Red Cross Society. George cemetery. By special arrangement with Jatmes Rutterfield, nationally known columnistr the Citizen will publish, commencing next week, his popular colunui�� "THE COMMON ROUND." Send your subscription in to the Citizen now. S2 per year. Lady Mechanics Pass Examinations unknown) but certainly furnishing four pages and four..I the change the bears with a grand meal and worked satisfactorily. So this weak Mr. McLean with a collection of the entire eight pages of the Citizen unique pictures. will contain eight additional co!- Near Hudson Hope he met and umns of reading matter and picture visited with Neil Gethin.j. old-timer 'news, giving our readers the equivalent of one and one-fifth pages :i.Jded to the printed rr.att?r in the Citizen. We believe the paper is soundly established as the voice of central British Columbia. We want it. read The second class of women stu-';'in every home, and already our dents under the Ford Motor Com- | paid-up circulation has increased pany's Women's Auxiliary Motor,50 Per cent- Service courses which was conduct- * National advertisers are utilizing ed here by Prince George Motors, j weekly papers more, and particular-all passed. On Wednesday night ly ^e Citizen. Local advertisers last they were presented with their have found it pays to-keep their diplomas, cards ami pins. These' names and what they sell before were handed to the ladies hy In- jthc Public eye by constant advertis-structor R Tibbett. Those passing � inS in the Citizen. Those merchants the examinations were Hazel Good- | who do not advertise would be sur-win, Mrs. R. Carson. Mary Good- i Prised at the low cost compared to win, Mrs. Kirschke, Vivian Naef, jtlleir turnover. Mrs. "Chuck" Thomas. Noreen Pat- ! Besides, the Citizen is constantly terson. Mrs. Goodwin, Mrs. Peter j urging policies that bring more bus-Annan. Olive Hagerty, Grace Wis- | ines.s and development, and as your enden, Cynthia Burgess. newspaper it should receive your The third class has started With- support, for as a business man you an enrollment of ten for the four- fwil1 benefit with every bit of de-week course. i vek>i>ment in the district.