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An Independent Weekly New.paper Devoted to the Interests of Central and Northern British Columbia
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Prince George, B.C., Thursday, May 31, 1945
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ars C.CF- Program y Lead to Evils of finany's Socialism
if Adolf Hitler in the early , German national social �it were paralleled by TCJ manlferto Fit-
CCJ. manl. Fit- f Eyres, M.L.A. for CWUi-a'ft meeting last night in when he spoke in support jamleson. Progressive candidate in fee fed-
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ten soldiers had fought for Uf speech, action and sett home, yet the C.OF. were w take that away, the ' declared.
Who vote for the C.CJP. j being true to our boys who forerseas," he stated. I Eyres said he had no fault Jwith persons who supported ICP. policies 10 years ago, |the'Co-operative Oommon-IpKleration was solely a social I party."
|�U want social reform," he but added he was tired of [ the C.CJP. claim they were nplons of labor when labor it was wholeheartedly r of private enterprise.
SOCIALISM
. j ago the C.C.F. stood for tform: now they stand for j socialism, the speaker gaid. �is no such thing as demo-jdalfcm. Flt.-Lieut. Eyre* re-j recalling that in 1883 Hitler ICermany national socialism, 1 employment, at an even-t of 10 million lives and ter-f the world. Under socialism party could exist, so It I and resulted in dictator-Ineritable concentration
dangerous to say. "The i a new party. Give them a he speaker stated. It was [say, "what happened in Ger-not happen here, dng the leadership of Mac-S, his two-army policy, war manpower policy, efforts to take credit for t, even the success of the Loans," Flt.-Lieut. Eyres "We want someone who ; of what we need in this
Ued Hon. John Bracken's tof a railway outlet from the Hwr by way of Prince George ist.
i no idle promise. Bracken �ord of keeping his prom-r Jamieson was equally IPEARS C.C.P.. Page Five)
Promises Railroad
Thomas Jamieson, Progressive Conservative candidate for Cariboo in the federal election contest, repeated his pledge to Prince George electors Wednesday night in the Elks' Hall that If elected he would devote his entire time to the riding. His Peace River farm had been turned over to othere, he said.
He pledged himself to work for a railway outlet from the Peace River through Central B.C. to the Coast and to support Hon. John Bracken in implementing his policies.
"That is all I can promLv now," he said. "I will do my best to rectify all the ills handed to us in this great north country."
His meetings in the south, to the west and in the Peace River had drawn good attendances, the candidate said. He expected further large meetings in the Peace River in the next few days.
Mr. Jamieson quoted from Mr. Bracken's speech at Vancouver on Monday in which he said:
"The basic philosophy of the Progressive Conservative party can be listed in a 10-point policy with which no reasonable minded Canadian can take question"
1. A Job for even' man.
2. Pair pay for every man.
3. Responsibility for every man.
4. Equity for agriculture.
5. Stability for enterprise.
6. Opportunity and education for youth.
7. Equality for women.
8. Security with dignity for the aged, sick and the unemployed.
9. An expanding economy for all. 10. An enduring pence."
G. Mann Killed As irited Team Bolts
i beneath a tripod used for JJ� cattle, Alexander l�nn, 65. was instantly kill- �n his farm five miles eon the old Shelley Road. nwd team of horses bolted fythe gate between 6:15 ., swerved to miss a pile and smashed to pieces rj ?� foot tripod, the top "Jng30 feet away and the
J�f the ribs of Mr. Mann. I the lungs.
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1 'nounced life extinct, testified Mr. Mann sustained a fracture at the base of the skull and hud both lungs pierced by, fractured ribs. Const H. L. McKenney testified to finding j of the body near the- scene of the tragedy.*
. A routine verdict of accidental j death was returned by a jury comprising R. McMillan, foreman, and I. B. Balrd. T. R. Richardson. T. A. | Walsh. C. E. Arnett and R. A. Me-! Lennan. HERE 22 YEARS
.Mr. Mann came to Prince George 22 years ago and took up farming in Pineview. Born at, Kitchener, Ont., February 29, 1880. he migrated west at an early age and arrived at Vancouver in 1910 where he followed his work as tailor for a time. Prom there he brough.Lh.is .wife and family to Prince George.
During the First World War he served for a time overseas. His first wife died 12 years ago.' Tn 1936 he married Mrs. Richard Armstrong in Prince George.
Besides his wife he is survived by three sons, Ray, of Pineview, and Irvine and Nobel, of Prince George; two daughters, Mrs. Otto smith, of *Rnce George, and Mrs. Conroy Stussi, of Perndale; two brothers and a sister in Chicago, a brother in Detroit, a brother in London, Ont., and a sister in Kitchener.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at 10 a.m. In Sacred Heart Cathedral, with Rev. Father J. J. Gilhooley officiating. The Canadian Legion was in charge of the funeral.
Field Men Check Pine Pass Route
With 20 Canadian construction companies interested, field men are inspecting terrain of the Pine Pass Highway route from both ends, before the deadline for tenders is reached on June 28.
Interest is widespread In the tenders called for construction � of an outlet for the Peace River district, largest road project by B.C. in several years, and estimated to approximate, $6,000,-000.
Assizes
Opening
Monday
Criminal list of the Courts of Assize, opening here Monday with Chief Justice Wendell B. Farris of the Supreme Court of B.C. presiding, calls for:
A Slkanee Indian, Alex Prince, appearing for his third assize court trial on charges of murdering two trappers, Eugene Messmer and Hans Pfeuffer.
A mother, Mrs. Grace Martinson, going on trial on a charge of manslaughter, involving the deaths of her two children, Elsie Laura, 7; and Charles Ernest. 4, at Aleza Lake.
An alleged wife-beater, Roy E. Higgins, facing a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm to his wife.
Defence counsel will be Alex McB. Young, K.C.
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Attorney General R. L. Maltland, K.C., with P. E. Wilson, K.C., will appear for the crown
Sheriff /.. K. BourcMer has completed a panel of 48 jurors.
A damage action for alleged breach of contract heads the civil list with O. F. Rowe, plaintiff, represented by Mr. Young; and Met-calfe Construction Co., Hamilton Construction Co. and Kansas City Bridge Co., joint defendants, represented by Mr. Wilson.
Three divorce actions complete the list, with Douglas Hugh Todd, Stanley Hale and Mona Perry, petitioners; and Bernice lone Todd, Margaret Ruth Hale and John Perry the respective respondents.
Petitioner Todd will be represented by Mr. Young and petitioners Hale and Perry, by Mr. Wilson.
Alex Prince was escorted north on Monday by Sergt. H. D. Macdonald, assistant mechanical supervisor, B.C. Police, who continued on to the Peace River, on inspection trip.
Witnesses for the various trials began gathering in town today.
Stone Creek
Unsettled weather put a damper on sports activities, but school children enjoyed May 24 activities on Thorn's hayfield where luncheon in the early evening preceded a spirited mixed softball game.
Mrs. Herb Elliott of Pineview, who underwent an operation in Vancouver recently, returned Thursday by bus and stopped overnight with her sister , Mrs. Forsythe, before continuing home Friday with her sister and niece.
CROYDON
Mrs. William Campbell returned home Friday, having spent six weeks visiting friends and relatives in Vir-den, Woodnorth and Cromcr, Man. She states that seeding Is backward on account of late spring.
J. Sampson, S. Clifton and Dan Wilson have gone to work near Yellowhead, B.C.
Mr. and Mrs. E . Rosin visited Croydon Sunday.
H. C. MacKenzie, Billy, Victoria and Violet visited Freda McKenzie in Red Cross Hospital at McBritfe Sunday.
r. Parsey, of the extra gang was a McBride visitor Friday.
Pays $50 Fine
O. L. Keeler paid a fine of $50 In Police Court on Saturday on a charge of purchasing liquor from a source other than the liquor vendors.
Council Wants Vote Taken on Hospital Site
The City Council will ask the Hospital Board to have the ratepayers decide by plebiscite on the site of the proposed 60-bed hospital.
This decision was reached Monday night after aldermen acted on the board's request to reserve lots 2, 3, 4, 21, and 22, block 265, on the southwest side of Connaught Hill as a hospital site.
Some time ago the council placed a reserve on blocks 229 and 230 at the board's request.
Aldermen favored having the architect view both sites.
In answer to a letter from the Hospital Board asking the City Council to change its representative to the board, the council will advise that it has no wish to recall Aid. C. W. Ferry. No reason for the board's request was given, aldermen noted.
Aid. Ferry reviewed for aldermen the situation leading up to the board's decision to ask for a change of council representation. AGED MEN'S HOME
Endorsation was given a Kamloops Board of Trade resolution asking the B.C. Government to establish a home for aged men in the interior.
On application of T. B. Tobiasen, secretary of Prince George Agricultural & Industrial Association, the City Council voted a special gmnt of $100 in addition to the regular annual grant of $100.
In reply to a letter, Prince George Library Association will be advised that a grant of $500 was provided for in the civic estimates.
Payment of a claim for $20 will be made to Harry Faulkner. He stated city public works crews had taken the top soil from a city-owned lot he bad been permitted to use as his garden. Consequently, his vegetable seeds and onion sets had gone into road making;
The oil controller advised the council a car of asphalt for road coating had been released to the city.
No Welcome for Unwanted Guest
WILLOW RIVER�Strange noises outside the house late Sunday night drew Mr. Renne-berg to the window of his home.
He snapped wide awake. There was a bear, staring him in the face.
He grabbed a broom and opened the door�and there it was. standing on the doorstep. He hurriedly shut the door; and the bear shuffled off, embittered at the hospitality shown.
Woodpecker-Hixon
Capt. C. Colgrove Is Laid to Rest
The district lost an old time resident on May 24 when Captam Charles Colgrove,, 76, or Hlxon passed away in Prince George Hospital. A number of residents motored to Quesnel Sunday to attend the funeral service held in the Anglican Church.
Captain Colgrove was a World War 1 Veteran. He is survived by his widow.
Pallbearers were H. W. Lockyer, Fred Lockyer, Mat Anderson, J. MacKay and C. Sahlstrand all of Hixon. and E. J. Down of Woodpecker. BRIEFS
Ten district farmers motored to the Australian Ranch below Quesnel on Sunday and were shown .trie methods of potato planting used there.
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Lockyer and soir motored to Prince George Saturday and were accompanied on their return by their daughters, June and Rose, who spent the weekend with their parents at Hixon.
Seeding throughout the district is nearly completed.
E. J. Down Is shipping a car of potatoes to Prince Rupert this week.
D. Strolles is visiting in Prince George.
Opportunity to Complete Far-reaching Programs Asked by J. Gray Turgeon
JT. GEAY TURGEON
Mother Charged In Death of Two Children
On a charge that she "did unlawfully kill and slay Elsie Laura and Charles Martinson," Mrs. Grace Martinson was arrested May 24 and on Saturday was committed to the Courts of Assize next week by Magistrate George Milburn In District Police Court on a manslaughter charge.
Defense was reserved by Alex McB. Young, K.C., counsel for accused, at conclusion of the preliminary hearing Involving the deaths of the two children whdse bodies were .consumed by flames that destroyed their home at Aleza Lake, May 11.
Only an explosion could have so completely wrecked the heater between where the bodies were found. Constables T. R. Maxwell and G. A. Perry testified.
TURNS TABLES ON ATTACKING BEAR
FRANCOIS LAKE�His thigh lacerated when swiped at by a bear, Patrick Michel, Indian, turned the tables on his assailant before obtaining medical aid.
He was walking at dusk near Nourse Creek with his rifle under an arm when he stepped along-side a sleeping bear that reared up and struck at him before losing its balance.
Michel scrambled back 12 feet and fired, the first shot piercing a forepaw and shattering the forearm; the second passing across the head behind the eyes.
One ear and the nose of the bear had been recently torn in a fight.
Rev. R. A. Wilson
VANDERHOOF�Rev. R. A. Wilson, who has been here two years, will answer a call to Prince Rupert on June 30, leaving a vacancy here.
His appointment was annonuced at closing sessions of the provincial conference of the United Church of Canada in Canadian Memorial Church. � Vancouver.
"It is essential that Canadians judge the future by the past," declared J. Gray Turgeon, former MJ\ for Cariboo and candidate for reelection June 11 on the strength of his accomplishments, to an audience of 85 in Elks' Hall on Tuesday in assailing C.C.F. leaders.
"If anybody had tried to enforce conscription in 1939, there would have been revolt," he submitted, in dealing with "the most tricky question ever confronting Canada-conduct of the war and conscription."
As deputy chief government whip at the special session in 1939, Mr. Turgeon recalled how there were two groups, "one certain group from the province of Quebec and the C.CJP." bitterly opposed to con-scripition.
"My duty to close the debate on Saturday, September 10,1939, so that His Majesty might declare war, was the most difficult task I have ever tackled," he recalled. Of statements-that "If conscription had been imposed at the start there, would have been no trouble," he said, "that Is not true." FALSE ASSURANCE
Mr. Turgeon stated that the O.C.F., between 1932�37 ."devoted every ounce of its strength against war," that its members were among the loudest in announcing there was not the slightest danger from the Japs, that they had no intention of attacking North America.
He accused certain C.C.F. members in B.C., including some in the legislature, of denouncing the national government for joining Great j Britain, then recalled Grant Mc-Neill's efforts to block an expedi-(tionary force.
"Six out of seven C.CJF. members, the exception later allowed to be defeated; and certain so-called Liberals now with the Bloc Populaire voted that there be no expeditionary force,'1 he recalled.
Had the amendment to the war appropriations bill been carried, he submitted, Canada could not have spent a cent outside Canada, "not even in Newfoundland."
He quoted excerpts from a C.CJ". organ urging that the C.C.YJVT.� the youth group�step up its anti-(See TURGEON, Page Five)
Asking Public To Report All Fires Promptly
In need of public co-operation a� never before in recent years, B.O. Forest Service officials gave grateful recognition today to speed with which a fire was spotted and extinguished near Red Rock.
Within five minutes, James Richards, Junior Fire Warden; two-forestry lookouts and the airport, had reported the incipient blaze.
General co-operation Is asked for from the public in observing safety precautions now that temperatures are high.
The fire season is underway with a 28-man crew fighting a blaze at Elliott Lake near Middle River toward Tatla Lake, another fire being-investigated at Finger Lake, 40,.miles southwest of Vanderhoof. AiVaerial survey was made late Tuesday of smoke reported toward Punchaw. 40 miles southwest of here.
WEATHER FORECAST
Moderate winds, partly cloudy and warm, today; a few local ground frosts tonight. Friday: moderate winds, fair and warm.
Licence Granted For Broadcasting Station
Prince George is to have a 250 watt radio broadcasting station that will serve the entire central and northern B.C. areas once the government ,freeze on radio transmitters and equipment is lifted.
Rotarians at luncheon Friday heard this announcement made by Frank H. Elpnicke, Vancouver, manager of Radio Station CKWX, who with his brother, Cecil, of Vernon radio station, has been granted a federal licence to operate station CKPG in this city.
The speaker assured Rotarians it was not a stock promotion venture as the station had adequate funds even now for its financing, although
some delay in its installation could bo expected until the war needs are met in the Pacific.
"We are asking no favors of this-community, only the opportunity to come in, become a part of your everyday life, and grow with Prince George," Mr. Elphicke said.
Mr. Elphicke. accompanied by hLs chief radio engineer, spent several days here last week looking over possible sights for the stations ar tenna poles.
"We are to get a radio brp' ing station here at last," xr B. Moffat, club presicJ' good healthy sign, y' beginning to comr7