PRINCE GE^KSE CITIZEN
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Central British ColumbiaX
Vol. 23, No. 40
Prince George, B.C., Thursday, October 3, 1940
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SAYINGS
'CERTIFICATES^
^Diesel Unit in Full oration at City Plant
electricity Now Available for New Industries ehoia Appliances�#30,000 Worth of Modern USf Added to Prince George's Main Public Utility.
f Prince George is now in a position to supply C1      eral hundred additional k.v.a. for new indust-
�   i u^i.tchold appliances and other uses that may
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fm time to. time in the future.
\ K work completed on the installation of the new 375 I A   el   five-cylinder Fairbanks-Morse engine,  direct
Jto a 250 k.v.a. generator,--.
er "actor of the city's elec-
m is  practically   doubled ft prevailing a year ago.   . Lnd light has been supplied neak-load evening  hours
UNION  JACK  GOES  UP  ON   BRITAIN'S  NEW DESTROYERS
akload
,nev unit for the past week _e machines are supplying |ted capacity with ease and
the daylight hcurs when .oad-peaks  prevail  one  of \x units is utilized.
�h the four combined diescl [direct connected to genera-_ up the city's power supply upwards of 700 be safety factor of operation _ around 515 k.v.a. With tirie "coming on and additional light requirements plac-fthe plant, the service can nded to run 100 per cent , because of the new instal-
ew delsel engine has  five , and is housed in a 20x40-ete addition to the power addition conforms to 1 construction, making an [building.
baust gases from the new
[are led by pipes from each
i cylinders into a concrete
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CFGP Director Visits Pr. George
Arriving in Prince George On last Sunday's Y.S.A.T. plane from Port St. John was C. L. Berry, managing director of radio station CPgP at Grande Prairie. Mr. Berry is combining business and pleasure on an inspection trip through this section of British Columbia. Among matters of interest to him is that section of the Montoman Pass highway lying in this province from Hansard north to Herrick River where the Alberta end of the road is now located. Mr. Berry is also interested in the industrial development generally in this area and is gathering first-hand information on our agricultural, sawmilling and other phases of industry.
Accompanying him on the trip was M. D, Spencer of the National Film Board, Ottawa. They returned to Fort St. John on yesterday's plane.
Also a passenger on Sunday's plane en route to Vancouver after an inspection trip of the Peace River country was James Beveridge of Ottawa, head of the National Film Board.
This picture records the finale to the dramatic agreement by which 501 United States destroyers, fully equipped and in fighting trim, were transferred  to   the Royal  Navy  in
oday's News
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Eagle Finds "Hot Seat"
Endangers City Power
A bald - headed eagle with a seven-foot wingspread ran foul of the city's power lines on top of Fraser avenue hill at the rear of the powerhouse on Monday and was electrocuted. The side of the big bird's head was badly burned, but no damage was done to the power circuit.
BERLAIN  RESIGNS   IN  BRITISH   CABINET   SHAKE-UP X, Oct. 3 (BUP)�Neville Chamberlain, champion of appeasc- leader of the cabinet which took Britain into war, resigned as sidenf of the Council n Churchill's war cabinet today, passing1 [active politics in which he had been a key man since the test war. Btnn, supply minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, chancellor of the �The R.A.F. bombed the great Krupp aniia-lions   dock       -n in aadltlo�  to  oil plants,  freight yards,  railroad '            ^""I01"68  �nd   invasion   ports   in   heavy   attacks   on
said ^^""�"��wsupled tenitory during last night, the Air Min- ly" Slovd* but relentlessly increasing attacks Under the M at Sifir u^6 plan of campaign, British planes bombed oil n�ar'ft,* mbur& and Bottrop, freight yards at Cologne, a junc-fo^am. nT/ ^ at Hamburg, Wilhelmshaven, and shipping: at Wnt in i!mam> AntwerP, Flushing, Ostend, Calais. Cherbourg '         n i ,itionto several German airdromes.  Two British bomb-
"eu to return from these extensive raids.
 HEAVY BOMB damage in london area
 to Yon,? 3 .(Bup)�The German High Command claimed heavy %, and on?' 1,ncludin� bomb hits on a railhead in the center �f  here in           and har}*or works along the Thames.   Authorized
 L^"?161111"* ^ the resignation of Chamberlain  said:  t        bd    H   bdl         d   a   cape
i^l WanL^?1"* ^ the resignation of Chamberlain    a lforl�is faiurJ� ^" his bal|ast overboard.   He badly needs a scape-ures and seeks to pass off onus onto retiring Chamberlain.'
 M0VE   TOWARD   GREEK   FRONTIER
y after t�3i (BUP>�Greece rushed troops to the Albanian fron- frontier.        y 8Bddenly moved up impressive forces close to the
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 WILL  REOPEN BURMA  ROAD  nth!�' An�lo-Japanese agreement under which  to all military supplies to China, expires October 17.
GLOAT OVER THREE-POWER AGREEMENT
assolini "and Hitler will meet soon to discuss i� last week's signing of a   Germatf-It�lJa�-it was reported here today.
exchange for defence bases off the Atlantic coast. Taken at the Canadian port to which they were delivered, it shows British Jack Tar's raising the Union Jack, on the bows
oKsome of the first group of former U.S> destroyers. The historic agreement set the seal on the short-of-war alliance of the United States with the'British Empire.
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Not Guilty" is Jury's Verdict In Log Theft Case
Guildford Lumbermen Discharged After 30 Minutes' Jury Deliberation Yesterday
The fall assizes of the Supreme Court of British Columbia opened at the court-house in Prince George yesterday (morning with His Lordship Mr. Justice H. B. Robertson presiding, and H. Langley as court reporter.
The first case tried was that of Rex vs. Abernefchy and Vick. charged with the theft of logs. The jury called was composed of J. N. Keller (foreman), W. Flynn. J. C. Robertson, C. H. Wisenden. W. Seymour, J. Gillis. C. Sinclair. J. Hawker, J. Baker. E. Dixon. J. Elder and I. Brogden. After hearing the evidence and addresses by P. E. Wilson. K.C.. prosecuting attorney, A. McB. Young, defense counsel, and His Lordship Judge Robertson, the jury retired and after 30 minutes' deliberation brought in a verdict of not guilty.
The evidence in the case was to the effect that Abernethy and Vick operate a small mill at Guildford, B.C., on the banks of the Fraser River about $0 miles east of Prince George on the C.N.R. The Red Mountain Lumber Co. operate a mill at Penny about eight miles down river from Guildford and a logging camp up the river from the Abernethy and Vick mill. They float their logs down the river past the Guildford mill, and they charged Abernethy and Vick with catching the disputed ogs in their boom and sawing them into lumber. Several logs were admittedly found in the Aberr.ethy-Vick boom with the Red Mountain Lumber Co.'s mark on them, also ends of sawn lumber found under the resaw table at the Guildford mill had the Red Mountain stamp  on them.
The accused stated that they were unaware that these logs were in their boom or that they had been cut into lumber. They testified that they had two imen on the jack-ladder of their mill to guard against just such an eventuality. On the dav  previous   to  the visit  of   Red
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Fine Vegetables, Fruits Raised in and Near City
The fruit, floral and agricultural7 possibilities of Prince George and vicinity are daily gaining more and more pubicity. and it is becoming more evident that the visiting official of the federal experimental farms � staff from ' Ottawa " knew whereof he spoke when he informed a representative of the Citizen re- ,    ^ membership
cently that his department consid- jc          ^^ of u........................
ered  this  area  one of  five of the j Cros5  ^         .g   being handled   in most favored areas in Canada for,the                  .  Cenfcral and SouLh
agricultural  development.                   pon ^      b    35 ^nv&s;ievs.   The
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two weeks perfectly formed and de-        ^         canvassers are usually de-
! tailed   to  work in  pairs.   The  res-
Neil Mclntosh Passes Away in Sleep Yesterday
Was One of Pioneer C.N.R. Locomotive Engineers Running Out of Prince George.
The legion of friends of Neil Mclntosh were shocked yesterday afternoon to learn that he had passed away in his sleep# some time between Tuesday night and noon an Wednesday. He was last seen going to his room, at the' Prince George Hotel, where he has resided for many years, around midnight. His tragic death was discovered at noon Wednesday when the maid went to service the room.
The  late  Neil  Mclntosh  was  57 years of age and had been a resident of Prince George and vicinity or the past quarter of a century. Coming to Prince Rupert during the onstruction days of the old Grand runk Pacific he has followed locomotive engineering ever since,  and ransferred over to the C.N.R. when t took over the G.TP.
Mr. Mclntosh was born in Cape Breton,   and   is   survived   by   one brother, Douglas, a conductor on the C.N.R.,   residing  in  Prince George, nd three sisters, two of whom re-ide in Boston and one in Cape Hie-on.
An inquest will be convened this evening at Assman's Funeral Chap^-1 by Coroner M. W. Skinner to enquire into the cause of death.
Funeral services will be held in Knox United Church at 2 p.m. on Saturday afternoon.
 of Prince  Canadian Red
liciouslv    sweet   wild   strawberries,
brought to  the  Citizen office,  and
has been satisfactory, and the canvassers state that those few who
local cultivated everbearing strawberries are still obtainable on the market.
On Tuesday of this week Eric Oal-lenberg brought  to the Citizen office  a bowl of cultivated  raspberries which represented a sample 
are hopeful  that  they ! considerably  larger.
From Longworth comes word that �the committee there has already enrolled 30 new members.
From Sinclair Mills comes the handsome sum of $106.00 raised by a group of young ladies.
Figures in possession of Mayor A. M. Patterson early this morning suggest returns of approximately $1200.
Next week all returns should be in, and a complete report of the amounts from various communities and the names of members will be published in the Citizen.
DEFENCE   UNIT ACTIVE  IN CITY
On Monday evening last members of the Prince George voluntary defence unit organized last summer responded to a mock alarm and hastened to various strategic points throughout the city. Officers of the battalion inspected the volunteers at their stations, and later in the evening the -battalion assembled in the new rink for drill. Speaking on behalf of Dr. R. W. Alward, commander of the battalion, who was confined to his home by illness, A. McB. Young, second in command, congratulated the men on their alertness and improvements in military drill during the past few weeks. A number of non-commissioned officers of the last war have been placed in charge of platoons, and weekly drills are being held to acquaint veterans and rookies alike with the new army code of drill and formations.
Mines Minister Visits Northern Hydraulic Mines
Hon. W. J.-Asselstirve Inspects Gold Producers at Gertriansen,  Mason  Rivers.
Hon. W. J. Asselstine. provincial I minister of mines, returned to this I city from Mansan Creek on Satur-jday morning after an inspection of I the big hydraulic placer operations of the deGanahl interests on Ger-mansen River, and those of Omin-eca Placers. Ltd., in charge of Bert McCorkell, also on Germansen, and. the Lost Creek Placers, Ltd.. located on Manson Creek at the mouth of Lost Creek, in charge of Bert Mac-donald.
The minister stated that these large placer operations had completed their "dead" work in the construction of flumes and ditches from nine to fifteen miles in length, and were now in a position to pipe pay gravel continuously. All reported operations going ahead efficiently 3nd all expect a profitable clean-up from the season's piping. W. A. Macdonald of the B.C. Travel Bureau accompanied Mr. Asselstine on his trip into the mining properties.
Mr. Asselstine left on Saturday's plane for Fort St. John from where he will visit the provincial government's oil well at Commotion Creek, south of Moberley Lake, in the Peace River Block.
Unemployment Fund Awaits Organization
Administration Will Require a StaflF of Over 3000 Clerks, Referees, Umpires and Inspectors in Addition to Three-Man Commission � Some Occupations Not Affected.
Although the three-man commission was named last week by Prime Minister Mackenzie King to administer the unemployment insurance legislation, actual contributions to the insurance fund will probably not be started for some time to come. A staff of 3000 helpers will have to be appointed by the commission before the organization can function. Also there will be courts of referees, an umpire and deputy umpires to be seletced from justices of the Exchequer Court of Canada and superior courts of all the provinces, inspectors and numerous local bodies in the administration districts, all of which will have to be set up before the legislation can get into action. There will also be an advisory committee consisting of a
chairman and from four to six members equally representing industry and labor.
Dominion employment offices are to be established as clearing houses for vacancies and applications for employment, and there will be nation ai and regional committees representative of workers and employers to assist the commission.
Administration costs are expected to amount annually to about $5.-000,000, and once contributions commence the fund is expected to grow at the rate of $58,000,000 a year.
Terms of the act provide that the government shall pay administration costs and contribute one-fifth of the aggregate    contributions   made   by
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