1 LIBRARY-VICT-OHiA, i . \Z .iv I 'ON) e An Independent Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Central and Northern British Columbia lo. 38 WEEK'S WEATHER FORECAST -CeneraUu Fair Warmer During the Dau, Morning Fog Patche, ion's First Frost 27-Day Rains cops Badly Damaged by Incessant Rains as Cut Stand in Inundated Fields-�Oats Suffer Most, Stands Up Well�Dirt Roads in Bad Condition. Prince George, B.C., Thursday, September 18, 1941 $2.00 a Year Summer was ushered in this morning on the brisk [crackling, invigorating frost as Prince George skies it 27 rainy days that ruined much of the grain crop Irict and made many side-roads impassable. jlal- thermometer heredegrees, four degrees officially the tempera-lecorded as "a killing st of the 1941-42 season. [to J. E. Manning, dis-Iturist, the grain crops ie district have suffer -i the rains," which down on every one of Jays. Jthat between 50 and 60 jail grain in the district City Liberals Re-elect All 1940 Executive id and so was Drake || : '� -:::; v:::-'::v:::::';:;':-:-:::v;':::':::';::: A___ �i::^v::i:!?!:i^!?::i::�^:>$>::: :v:i:::;:;:;:J:;:^:v:$Xv>:Wv-:f;:>;:^: :':S::::::':-:-:::^S:';':S^^-':^:"::;'::::: | but that approximately is threshed, leaving 30 it standing in' the stook. to 40 per cent, the .dly damaged. The it is wheat is soggy, adly damaged, and a file amount may be sav- emaining 40 to 50 per ing in the fields, a big: can be saved if the ent in the weather today continues. oughout the district are where they have grav-though where work is i the main road south George it has been haul cars and trucks i a tractor, side roads are in impassable, and many en mired for hours try- ird Time iber 27 make .the change of �aylight Saving Time to me on a week-end, Pre-Pattullo has altered his to revert to Standard tember 30, and the be made Sept. 27. in British Columbia now Saving Time will be put ur at midnight Septem-nd normal time will be in all day Sunday, Sep-from then on. Banquet, Convention and Dance Tonight�Clark Will Nominate Harry G. Perry. land INLIST TNIGHT slackened off during the ?ht in Prince George, a it men joining the forces They are J. S. B. J. Mcliwain, P. T. Bustin Thompson, all of Wells; Prince George; D. M. Uiams Lake; G. E. J. tilliams Lake, and L. E. en. L. Gale, M.C., officer ig the station, is at pres-suver at a. conference of ^officers. He will return 'with instructions for the will open shortly. The Prince George Liberal Association (men's division) re-elected its entire 1940 executive to serve another year when the association held its annual meeting in the ballroom of the Prince George Hotel Monday night. OFFICERS The officers are: honorary president, Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King; honorary vice-presidents, Hon. T. D. Pattullo, H. G. Perry, M.L.A., and J. Gray Turgeon, M.P.; president, G B. Williams; vice-president, R. Black.v-trn; secretary-treasurer, Gordon S. Wood; executive, George Prudente, W. Plynn, D. McDonald, F. Bunton, H. Assman, Karl Anderson, Dr. C. Ewert, F. Clark and J. D. McLeod. Dr. Ewert is president of the Port George District Liberal Association, Gordon S. Wood is its secretary, and;.F. Clack;, and. F.. Buntou.,.are president and secretary of the Car-liboo Federal Liberal Association. CONVENTION Arrangements were completed for the banquet to be held tonight at 6:30 o'clock in Prince George Hotel ballroom for all delegates to the nominating convention. The convention will be held immediately afterwards. At the convention Frank Clark will make the speech nominating Harry G. Perry, the sitting member in the last Legislature, and he will be seconded and supported by delegates from outside the city. The Prince George Women's Liberal Association is sponsoring a dance to be held in Elk's Hall at 10 p.m. tonight. ________o----------� "The Citizen Aluminum Drive On; Scrap Urgently Needed Red Cross Salvage Workers Will Attempt to Fill Corral; Boy Scouts tp Make House-to-House Canvass Saturday; Next Two Days Culmination of Dominion-Wide Drive. The Salvage Committee of the Prince George Red Cross Branch today issued an urgent appeal to all citizens to respond to the utmost in the collection of aluminum scrap being made "riday and Saturday in Prince George. This is not only based on normal patriotic grounds, but also as a point of national prestige, as the United States, still a non-belligerent nation, has made a record-breaking success of "ts drive for aluminum scrap as an aid to the British Empire 'lease-lend" program, and already Axis and isolationist propagandists are Busy across the boundary predicting that the sim- t ilar Canadian drive will fail. Old as the sea rule of Britain is the tradition that men of the Navy are "bearded tars." This Canadian sea-gunner is nobly upholding one of the traditions the Royal Canadian Navy has inherited from the Motherland, for even as King Alfred and Sir Francis Drake and thousands of forgotten worthies who have upheld the Empire of the Waves, he is growing a noble bush. He had to have his captain's permission first, though, and if the beard had not quickly measured up to R.C.N. standards, he would have been met one sad morning with the laconic command, "Permission to grow withdrawn." School Registration Up; Seven New Teachers Board Has to Order N|^Hj>eats for High School; Need New Wiring to Permit ^Kallation of Domestic Science and Manual Training Equipment; Piano Asked for Gym. Registration in Prince George schools, though not yet complete, shows a slight increase over the same month in 1940, according to Principals H. R. Pennington and T. S. Carmi-chael, and seven new teachers have filled vacancies in the staffs of elementary and high schools. High school registration this yearf Te Widely Quoted The Prince George Citizen is upholding its record of being one of the most widely quoted weekly newspapers of British Columbia, scarcely a week passing without its editorials being reprinted journals. During the past in contemporary week complete editorials have been reprinted from this journal in the Alberni District News, the Western Canada Mining News and the Comox Argus. PRODUCTION RISES just Scak 13 Million; Production Eclipsed scaled in Fort George August totalled 13,-�, according to a report lay by R. D. Greggor, er, being 2,649,765 f.bjn. the cut for August, 1940. total sawlog pro-to the end of August ! to 67,436,997 feet, an in-22,762,807 over the cor-j* period of last year. *e same period, 152,842 |of poles "were cut, an in-1940 of 24,217 feet; 3100 cut represents an in- 1941 August ................ 13i639,848 ....... _^ 2,315 l,l.f___I.....Z 2JS00 3. If........ 168,495 17,787 1,434 cords 16 crease of 1100 feet; 312,098 feet of mine timbers show a rise of 175.456, or more than double the 1940 production in the corresponding period; and 13,983 cords of wood and 248 cords of fence posts account for an increase of 9254 and 80 cords, respectively. Only decrease recorded In the first eight months of the year was in ties, 92,921 being cut this year against 136,715 in the first eight months of 1940, a decrease of 43,794. The official scale for tihe period is: 1941 1940 1940 Total to Date August Total to Date 67,436,997 10,990,083 44,674,190 152.842 3,100 312,098 92,921 13.983 248 17,950 10,930 329 39 128,625 2,000 138,642 136,715 4,729 168 has risen to 143, ten above the same period last year, and the elementary school has now nearly 300 pupils, a slight increase. There are five new teachers in the high school, Fred Sharpe of Burnaby taking over the industrial arts classes; Robert Brown, formerly at Dawson Creek, 'teaching sciemce; Miss Jean McLeod of Hedley taking English; Miss Joan MacArthur of Vancouver, social science, and Miss Margaret Simms of Lumby, French NEW STAFF This means that the high schoo has an entirely new staff, with the exception of Principal Pennington and Miss Margaret Walker, home economics teacher. In the elementary school. Miss G Churchman and F. Flick have filled the vacancies caused by resignation of Miss Williams and Mr. Leversage. (See SCHOOL, Page 4) Wismer Will Miss Grit Convention Attorney-General Gordon S. Wismer, scheduled to address the Liberal nominating convention in this city tonight, has wired the Liberal Association here that he is unable to be present. J. Gray Turgeon, M.P. for Cariboo, will be in attendance, however. He reached the city on Wednesday's Yukon Southern plane, and will address the gathering. Mr. Wismer's telegram expressed his regret that he now finds it impossible to be here, because of an-important engagement in Victoria. It included a wisih of "every success to H. G. Perry, sitting member for Fort George, in the coming campaign. GOLF CONTEST PLAY CONTINUES Wet weather last Sunday slowed play in the Lyon Cup handicap at Prince George Golf and Country Olub, which will end Sunday if possible. Play in the mixed foursome matches will also be continued Sunday, beginning at. 2 p.m. 400 More Names On Voters1 List As a result of the registration of voters which closed here Saturday evening. Registrar George Milburn announced today that 500 names have been added to the list, and between 75 and 100 struck off. for a net gain of approximately 400. This, however,.does not represent entirely an increase over the last provincial list, as a number of names have been struck off on account of death or removal since the last provincial election. Registrar Milburn will sit in Court of Revision Friday at 11 a.m. to hear argument on nearly 80 cases in which registration has been objected to. Those concerned have been notified. Under the new regulations, no names can bs added to the list by the Court of Revision. C.P.O. Unit Heads Meet To Organize Dr. Alward Speeds Warden Registration�Mayor Spurs Control Committee Action. Prince George's Civilian Protection unit was thrown into gear at meetings held here last Thursday and Tuesday as the Wardens' Com-mitee and the Central Control Committee swung into action preliminary to the actual training of protection workers. Thursday night chiefs of the warden service met with their head. Dr. R. W. Alward, to set the registration of wardens under way, and to plan out the training activities and schedule for the winter's work. / George Williams, James Quayle W. J. Pitman, R. B. Carter and Sgt George Clark of the B.C. Police attended the meeting and laid plan: for the immediate registration of wardens. First of their tasks, Dr. Alward explained, was the organization of the unit and registration of volunteers, for which forms are now on hand, and officers of the committee are already registering volunteers for warden service. Sgt. Clark gave a comprehensive sketch of the manner in which the wardens at other points are trained and outlined the syllabus of training which will be adopted here, already in force in other centres of British Columbia. The city was divided into zones and the forces necessary for each zone were calculated. Tuesday night the Central Control Committee, headed by Mayor A. M. Patterson, assembled in the B. C. Police offices to survey the progress of the plan, with heads of fire, school, health, first aid, warden and other co-ordinated services reporting on activities of their groups. (See C.P.O. UNIT, Page 5) They are using this as an argument that tfhe U.S. is being "done n the eye" by the Empire, which will not go to such lengths for its own defence. It is therefor regarded as most important that every city and town in the Dominion, including Prince George, should contribute every available scrap of aluminum. Success in the drive will not only contribute to the war effort, but will scotch this Nazi fifth -column campaign at a critical time. The appeal is thus based on two urgent needs, instead of one. ARRANGEMENTS Complete arrangements have been made by the local committee for the convenient collection of the scrap. All city merchants have agreed to have their delivery vehicles call for any scrap donated by householders. The Boy Scout troop here will make a house-to-house canvass on Saturday. AH householders are asked io place their aluminum scrap at the front door for the boys, if possible. For any persons able to bring their � scrap down town, a "corral" has been provided outside the Salvage Hall on Third Avenue. WANTED All types of aluminum are needed. Old domestic utensils are ideal. Women are urged to donate to the drive any utensils which they would (See ALUMINUM DRIVE, Page 5) Thanksgiving A proclamation has been issued in Ottawa fixing Monday, October to be observed as Thanksgiving Day throughout Canada. U. S. Convoying Munitions ft Ht ft .ft ft. ft- ft .ft. ft- ft ft Belgians Join Underground Revolt, 11 Die ftft ft. ft ft ti� � ft ft ft ft ft Japs Threaten Dutch East Indies ftftftftftftftftftfttx British United Press � Thursday, September 18. (Special to The Citizen.) WASHINGTON�President Roosevelt may ask Congress today for six billion dollars more for lend-lease aid to Britain. The new money would supplement the first seven billion lend-lease fund, nearly all of which has been aillocated. War supplies provided with the original money are now being protected in their voyage across the Atlantic by all means known to the United States Navy, including convoy. BERLIN�Eleven Belgians have been sentenced to death by a German court martial "for assisting the enemy espionage and reproducing anti-German pamphlets," thevGerman controlled newspaper Brussels Zeitung announced today. tenth TpKYO�A war office spokesman asserted today on the h. anniversary of Japan's march into Manchuria that "now is the time that we Japanese should forge ahead, smashing whatever obstacles may lie in our path." The spokesman was Major Kametaro Tominaga. Writing in the newspaper he said (Continued on Page Five) j. W. Penberthy C.C.F. Choice For Fort George Candidate Former Prairie Co-operator and Engaged in Coast Logging Industry. Nomination of James Warren Penberthy as C.C.F. candidate for Port George riding in the coming provincial election was completed last week. Mr. Penberthy is a former prairie resident with a record of long activity in farm -co-operative and political movements in Saskatchewan, and for the".-past four years has been engaged in the logging industry in the Fraser Valley and on the coast. NOMINATION He contested the Fraser Valley federal constituensy in the 1940 Dominion elections, but was unsuccessful. He has been in the Fort George district for the past six weeks, meeting members of the party here, preliminary to nomination. (See C.CJ. CHOICE, Page 5) Pioneer's Son Visits 'Prince' Passing through Prince George last Saturday was Pilot Jack Louden, son of Angus Louden, who old-timers will remember was manager of the Royal Bank at South Fort George and the first manager at the bank on its removal to Prince George. Jack was born after his parents left this city, about 1917. They reside in Montreal where Mr. Louden is with a trust company. He had given the names of some old-timers here to his son to look up if time permitted. He managed to find Dr. 6. Ewert at home, and he met H. G. Perry on the train going east.