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*n Independent Weekly Newspaper!D'ewoted to the Interests of Central and Northern British Columbia
24; No. 49
WEEK'8 WEATHER FORECAST
Unruled. Snow of Sleel, CoW fl, A,/jf
'ort George Sets
Prince Gear-ge, B.C., Thursday, December1 4, 1941
#2.00 a Year
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,cal #SociaI Reform7 love Sweeps Parley
lesolutions Propc�ed by Perry at Grit Convention Get Enthusiastic Support from Delegates Who Toss Out Pat-llo and Elect John Hart to Lead Party in B.C.
Xhe British Columbia Liberal Association convention in icouver, which relegated Premier T. Duff Pattullo .to poli-
isiasm
[ limbo on Tuesday, adopted with tremendous enthu resolutions embracing a policy of social reform which had formulated by the Fort George Liberal Association and presented to. the convention by H. G. Perry, M.L.A. j resolutions declared in favor" total war effort, a 20 per cent
^ase in old age pensions, a sel-
Lfomittee of the Legislature to
By family allowances and a sel-
[ committee to study provincial ! in search of possible econ-
Yukon Southern Schedule Changes
The Yukon Souatotrn -Air Transport schedule of service to prince George -was changed to "winter run last Monday. Fronni that 4&y on the tri-weekly plane vwllll leave Vancouver at 7:30 a.m. lEonoday, "Wednesday and Saturday, arrifivLng here approximately at 9:30 am.., end it will ie-turn the same ddayvs to froih Whitehorse,., E^^si here at 2:30'pan,
Air mail to Vaincoirver will henceforth close here at! 2 pjn. on the above days, Foetauster Burden has announced. . '
through
City 40 Per Cent Over Savings Quota
Prince George find District Ends War Sayings Drive with Big Oversubscription�#7022 Monthly Savings Pledged to Far Exceed Committee's Objective in ^Campaign.
The Prince George district came through with a rush in the final days of the War Weapons .Drive which ended November 30 to climb more than #2000 over its assigned quota of $5000, with pledges for monthly savings of $7022 in the hands of the committee as the drive closed, according to an announcement by Chairman E. F. Little of the district War
Acclamations May Return City Council
Aldermen Moffatt, Munro and Pitman Wll Seek Re-election at Polls1 Next Week
Up to the present there is no indication that any contests for civic office will develop this year in time to precipitate an election on Thursday, December 11, the official election. Three aldermen and Mayor A. i/L Patterson will run again for Citjy Council, and no opposition has so far appeared. ' �
The aldermen whose terms have expired and who have stated to The Citizen that they will again be candidates for civic honors are W. R.
L'LLCN^UT
�> 572 delegates to the conven-, carrying an additional strength '7 proxies, met in Vancouver on ay with the issue of Premier o's leadership overshadowing
I others. There was no direct attack on i Premier himself, the crisis reached on a resolution for a coalition govern-st. When Use Premier bitterly this and insisted on ad-to his expressed deter-ion to "go it alone," the ton the resolution inevitably i one on an Issue of "no-Itncc" in the party leader, three and a half hours of r debate, the supporters of cd-\, with a solid nucleus of Van-and Vancouver Island dele-1 determined to repudiate Pat stand, divided 477 votes for 1312 against the resolution.
CHOSEN ien the vote was counted and resolution declared adopted, lier Pattullo at once left the Ivention.
I Hon. John Hart, former min-' of finance^ was then chosen 1 provincial Liberal leader. 'presenting other resolutions to] convention, H. G. T. Perry, for Port George, took the toward forming a progressive ' reform platform for the par-hen he presented the resolu-. Printed elsewherepn this page, came from the Liberal Asso-tion here.
her resolutions adopted by the ntion later took ' the same and included motions urging Ssentation of labor on all gov- boards, federal as well as ncial; reduction of taxation on i property for educational purp-!.and commendation of the gov-to for grants to municipalities of educational costs.
Car Thieves Jailed for Year Apiece
Trio Tracked Down Near Fort Fraser are Sentenced in Smithers Court.
Win. Harstead and Allen House, two of three persons captured at Engen by three Fort Fraser men a week ago last Monday after a long pursuit through the bush, were sentenced at Smithers Tuesday by Magistrate H. B. Campbell to one year in jail with hard labor on a charge
of auto theft. Their companion,
a youth, was
sent to reform school for a year. The trio stole a car in Smithers and gasoline at Houston and Endako before they were halted by Bert Irwin of Fort Fraser and took to the bush, later to be run down and trapped by Irwin, John Kirkland and Wilbert Irwin. William Harstad of Prince George, who happened to be visiting Smithers shortly before the time of the theft, wishes it to be known that he is not jjie William- Haretead ~co~Il-ceme<^"in7~the crime. An error in a police report of the incident resulted in a similar spelling.
McBRIDE
[Liberal Resolutions
WAR. EFFORT
This provincial convention of the Liberal Party of British Columbia hereby resolves too ^pledge its members and the Liberal Party of this province to support 8 total Canadian, effort to prosecute the war to victory.
We commejiil Ehe government of Canada for all that has been done in our war effort anud. urge teat every measure necessary be taken from time to time to ensure stbie total resources, both human and material, of Canada be utilized*to .wlnxi ttri-e war.
old age pensions
Resolved thaa.tttlds convention urges the Liberal members of the .Government of Britkjslu Columbia V> introduce a Bill at the current session of the Legislature �npi*widing a grant forthwith of 20 per cent (20%) on all Old Age Pensions rno*w payable in British Columbia, and that such grant 'be a statutory gmxnb pa.ya*te until the federal government has increased the Old Age Penssloons by 20 per cent (20%) or such part thereof, and when such part as is psalclby Ehe federal government, the British Columbia grant shall be thereby reduced to tb*t amount.
AULOWANCE
Resolved thaat this convention, urges the Liberal members of the Government of BritcMri OoUmbta to move a resolution at the current session of the Legislature to appoint a special select committee of the House to consider the sul>.�j�� defenses of Tobruk, to Sidi Omar on the Egyptian n<* northward to Bardia on the coast. ^N k f
and
ardia on the coast. f
German shock forces have started a majoro e t Rier Basin 2a0"ul� ""^
^NDON-Massed German shock forces have
�n the KhMfcov region of the Donets River Basin, 2a0."ul�
�**. in an attempt to bait the rout of the German Army
the Kuiblyshev radio reported today. ERUN-^erman, Italian and Slovak * engaged in a counter-offensive in the ^ e High Command today, announcing the Z.Whlch de�^��^ the Russian ^^" DON-Soviet dispatehes today reporte bad f�ced German units into flight in ^ line troop, into retreat west 0^ -posBiWy Klto-on the endangered ^
NDON-A Bu�lan official news �*"***�* by Mosoow ^io ^a today that **>�%� <* Cacak and Urioe hi Jugoslavia, set up iow� ** of af�S of thrGerman-dominated Jugoslav regime.
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D. W. Hay, prrcssld-ent, and. W. a. E. Wall, of the Lioc=ai branch of the Canadian Red Cnoss Society, have commenced tlic: collection of niem-bersliip fees loor the year for the t net^rhip
Society. They exgpect a list of well over DO in the
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