f GIVE to the PRINCE GEORGE ClTlf^N A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Central British Columbia $ Vol. 24; No. 13 Prince George, B.C., Thursday, March 27, 1941 a Year Weather Forecast Part cloudy. Frosts at night. Ferry Across Fraser at Hansard Member States Long Sought Ferry at Hansard I, Built and Put in Operation Immediately�Gives 1 Analysis of Sirois Report and Ottawa Parley. feplores Lack of Co-operation |un.cheon meeting of Prince George Board of Trade 'tcrday afternoon, Harry G. Perry, M.L.A., as guest ^ nounceel the immediate building and operation of Ef' h ferry across the Fraser River to open traffic on from this city to Sinclair Mills; the extension l ll d SING FOR YOUR WARNING �i analysis of the Sirois re-:; Dominion-provincial rela-l with the effect its im-' would have on provin- ainces. jeplared the fact that no de-, or discussions on the regions took place at the (oriive conference called for ��-!. and dosed a masterful jtion oi the main points of the | with a peroration outlining a �der for Canadians which iri-[his audience, and caused G. _ams in moving a vote of s to Mr. Perry to state that in it- should rank with such ^tuous utterances as those of Willkie and Lord Halifax ses delivered during the rdays. s at the luncheon were Su-nt J. Clark of the C.N.R., , district freight and pas-1 agent, Prince Rupert, and I Superintendent J. W. Mc-|ff Prince George. l A. M. Patterson was called ftj President W. J. Pitman to (theguests, who each in turn fwrds. Mr. Clark predict- *""� t idvancement for this city future, while Mr. Lakie lit as his opinion that the (of years would bring an Parity here little realized board members pres- nt road" beyond Sinclair Mills, and completion of j jjj'from Red Pass to-the Alberta boundary, thus bring- j nothcr step towards completion of the Yellowheadl as well as outlining work to be undertaken this year E'sections of the Fort George riding. fperrv then gave a most en-1? 1 ^nti-Axis Club Conducts Second Draw Last Week Disburses $128 in Savings', Certificates to Lucky Ticket Holders�Prizes for Cards. The Anti-Axis Club of the Prince! George War Savings committee of' the Board of Trade and the Junior Chamber of Commerce helfi their second drawing of tickets in the lobby of the Prince George Hotel last Saturday evening, resulting as follows: With' the advent of spring, hundreds of additional pleasure cars are appearing on the road- daily, and authorities are using every means to persuade autoists to "Drive Carefully." Down near Kingston, Ontario, a dangerous corner worried. Ivor Stevens, and he was moved to exclaim about it in the idiom of a popular song�and in letters two feet high. "Jeepers creepers!" added Mr. Stvens. "If they don't use their peepers, someone's goine to get hurt at this corner." No accidents reported so far. 512. Mrs. M. S. Wood, South Port . George, $50. 445. Ivan Cragie, city. $25. 53. Peter Annan, city, $10. 1046. G. P. Murray, Vanderhoof, $10. 987. Mrs. Mary Ogg. city, $10. 519. R. B. Carter, city. $10. 451. H. Assman. city. $10. 969. N. Thomas, Endako. $5. J. Anthony, Willow Riv^r. $5. M. B. Jones, Ft. St. James. $5. W. L. Forrester, city. $5. Norine Patterson, city, $5. K. Wilchek, city. $5. Mrs. L. Reaugli, city. $5. 560. 752. 856. 308. The prizes were War Savings ftlAulay expressed his re- i Certificates of the value stated. fen? the district but said j The next draw will be held at the to be back again at some same place at 8 o'clock p.m., Saturday. April 5. Tickets to the value of $131 were Pitman then called on � /.who said in part' [to been the custom of your **many years to invite me �s you once a year. I have I discussed legislation of the ' and matters affecting our a particular. taeed grateful for this priv-J shall endeavour to treat |�Wters as time permits me to " PERRY, Page 5) Jugoslavian Revolt Pro-British Cabinet Named Hon. Hart Announces Drastic Tax Reductions Besides Retirement of $26,000,000 in Maturities and Increasing Municipal Aid by $2,000,000, Income Tax Reductions Affecting Over 100,000 Persons Announced. VANCOUVER, Marqh 26�A S2,-'f21 years) from $200 to $400, insur- BLOODLESS COUP EFFECTED EARLY TODAY sold for last week's draw, $128 con- I stituting the above prizes and $3| was paid in War Savings Stamps to school children in Grade VII as the prizes for preparing advertising cards to be used in assisting the sale of Anti-Axis tickets. The pupils winning prizes were: First, Billy Carmichael. Second, E. Guay. Third, Lloyd Baleni. . Hospital Society tats Officers for Year UP Insurance Shows Gain in Membership of 170 and rj � Operating Account of #234.55�Total Number 1� ^tcntsTreatcd in 1940 was 1,032, Reports Secretary'. Angers Now ridb 12. At the ann-ual meeting of the City of Prince George Hospital Society the following were elected to the 1941 executive: President. George Milbum. Vice-President, W. L. Hughes. Sec.-Treas., C. H. Wisenden. Committee. Alex. B. Moffat, Ivor B. Guest and A. T. Cross. Representative of the City Council. W. J. Pitman. Representative of the Women's Auxiliary, Mrs. Prank Clark. In attendance at the meei ing were G. Milbum. W. L. Hughes. Tvor B. Guest, W. J. Pitman, H. Hewlett, A B. Moffat, A. T. Cross. C. C. Reid. Mrs. W. G. Fraser. Airs. Prank Clark. and Secretary C. H. Wisenden. After adoption of the secretary-treatsurer's report, votes of thanks were passed to the Women's Auxiliary, Junior Women's Institute, W.A. to the Canadian Legion, Northern Rebekah Lodge No. 24, B.P.O. Elks Lodge No. 122. Nechako Chapter No. 40, O.E.S., mayor and aldermen, and to the hospital staff, and all other institutions that have helped in carrying on the hoscital work during the past twelve months. HOSPITAL STATISTICS From the secretary-treasurer's re-(See HOSPITAL, Page 4) Prince Paul Flees Country BUDAPEST, March 27 (BUP)�A Jugoslav coup detat today drove from power the government which signed the Axis pact with Adolf Hitler, and placed in the saddle a pro-British, anti-German regime headed by boy King Peter II, ruling in his own right for the first time. LONDON, March 27 (BUP)�Jugoslav army leaders to--!ay overthrew by a coup detat the regency and cabinet which nad taken their country into the German orbit, and made Peter II monarch in his own right. General Richard Dusan Simovich, Trmy corps commander and friend of Britain, was named premier. Momello Nincic, a cabinet leader during the last war when the Serbs and Britain were allies, was made foreign minister. Prince Paul, head of the regency, is reported to have fled Belgrade, and members of the government which took the country into the Axis are reported under arrest. Reliable advices said the coup detat began at 2:20 a.m. today and was effected blood-lessly in the capital, though what happened in strongly anti-Axis Serbian provinces is unknown. King Peter was in school in Britain when in 1934 his father, Alexander I, was assassinated at Marseilles. Aleaxnder had been a friend of Britain and France. CHURCHILL CONFIDENT Prime Minister Churchill today expressed belief that Jugo-slavie would repudiate the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo military alliance and would defend its frontiers against aggression. He pledged Jugoslavia the full support of the British Empire and expressed the belief that the United States would also aid it to fight common German domination. Hastening late into a luncheon of Conservatives, Churchill gave the news of the Jugoslav coup, then his promise that the Empire, aided by the United States, would crush Nazism. Of the Battle of the Atlantic in which Germany seeks to starve Britain, he said: "I cannot doubt that before many months I shall be able to declare to you that it has been decisively won. We shall continue to make sacrifices and preserve our national unity until we have finally beaten down Satan under our feet." 500,000 contribution by the province to Canada's war effort, effected by drastic reductions in the income tax and assumption by B.C. of the federal share of direct relief costs; repayment of treasury bills held by the Dominion in respect to refunding operations; outlining1 of increased aid to municipalities amounting to over S2.000.000; retirement of S25.000.000 of maturities, thereby releasing cash for war investment, and a substantial reduction in annual debt charge} amounting- to Sl,200,000, were highlights of a speech delivered by Hon. John Hart, minister of finance, before the Vancouver Board of Trade I here today. TAXES REDUCED Reduction of income tax will affect over 100.000 persons and will further lighten the tax burden by $1,500,000, bringing the total annual reduction in income tax since the government took office to $2,664,000. A greater measure of tax relief was contemplated, and would have been possible had the province not agreed to take over in full the Dominion's share of unemployment relief totalling about $1,000,000. The reductions will be effected as follows: (1) exemptions will be rais- ance to $300. and gifts to charities to 10 per cent. (2) complete abolition of surtax. (.3) special depreciation allowances for war industries, thereby encouraging erection of new plants and extension of existing ones. PAY DOMINION Dealing with the request from the Dominion government that treasury bills be paid by provinces able to do so, Mr. Hart said he was prepared to immediately pay those bills which were incurred in refunding operations by selling debentures on the open market, or by giving the Do-(See TAX REDUCTIONS, Page 4) C.N.R. Officials On Inspection Visit to P. George Three Fast Fish Trains to Start Rolling East Shortly� Will Add Men to Payroll. Arriving from Prince Rupert on Tuesday evening's train were J. Clark, superintendent of the C.N.R. ed on single persons from $600 to Jasper to Prince Rupert, and P. $750, married persons from $1,000 to Lki ditrit fih d Local Red Cross Workers Make Many Articles Material is Fabricated into Clothing for Refugees and Members of Military Forces district freight and passenger agent, on a regular inspection trip of the company's operations over the division. Mr. Lakie informed a representative of the Citizen that starting shortly the company will have three fast fish trains rolling- east, leaving Prince Rupert on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays., This now traffic will necessitate additional train crews along the line and will mean a considerable increase in payroll. _____ He also reports that W. J. Arm- The works committee of Prince! stronS ^"^ family now are comfort- RUSSIA UNEASY OVER JUGOSLAV CRISIS VICHY, March 27 (BUP)�Diplomatic reports received here said without confirmation that in event of any German violation of the Jugoslav frontier Russia would be compelled to re-examine her hitherto friendly relations with Germany. NEW JUGOSLAV LEADERS BRITAIN'S FRIENDS ROME, March 27 (BUP)�Jugoslav quarters said Jugoslavia's new cabinet contains many democratic leaders who are friendly to Britain, but they reported receipt of special advices saying the Tug�s^av adherence to the tri-power pact would be '�ecognized as an accomplishesd fact. The new cabinet includes MilangTol, head of the Democratic party, and a number of men openly friendly to Britain. Radio stations at Belgrade and Zagreb could be heard broadcasting military marches. JAPS AND NAZIS IN HUDDLE AT BERLIN BERLIN, March 27 (BUP)�Japanese and German foreign ministers, Yosuke Matsuoka and Von Ribbentrop find themselves in hearty agreement on all current questions, a communique announced. The Japanese foreign minister was to see Herr Hitler late this afternoon. The conferences were occurring in the midst of news of revolution in Jugoslavia which only last Tuesday joined the triple alliance as a junior partenr. JAPANESE DRIVE IN CHINA COLLAPSES CHUNGKING, March 27 (BUP)�A Japanese military drive in northern Kiangsi province has collapsed after Japanese troops had suffered 20,000 casualties in ten days of fighting with Chinese forces, a Chinese spokesman announced. George Red Cross branch completed fabrication of some 450 pounds of materials in the course of the past month and the supplies were forwarded to provincial headquarters at Vancouver last Saturday. Included in the lot were: FOR REFUGEES 18 boys' shirts. 18 boys' shorts. 51 boys' vests. 30 boys' hatchways. 17; pairs pyjamas, 4 cotton slips, 5 boys' sweaters, 4 scarfs, 6 girls' sweaters, 3 boys' sport jackets. 2 ladies' vests, 11 children's slips, 14 girls' dresses, 9 boys' suits. 1 pair mitts, 1 pair gloves. 1 pair socks. 1 pair overalls, 1 pair Kyserettes, 1 pair boys' pants, 1 pair child's rompers, 1 girl's sport jacket, 4 caps, 2 pair overshoes. ARMY SUPPLIES 295 surgical towels, 67 diapers, 51 baby shirts, 33 boys' r.ightees. 23 childs' bloomers, 8 surqeon's masks, 200 pairs mitts, 7 scarfs, 7 pairs Jea-men's stockings, 3 pairs seamen's socks, 4 sleeveless sweaters, 5 turtle-neck sweaters, 1 convalescent jacket, 38 pairs socks. 41 chiefs, 16 pyjaina suit _________o handker- Routine Matters Occupy Council Business at the regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen on Monday evening was purely routine and occupied the city fathers for only a little over half an hour, during which an application for relief for an aged Chinaman was granted; a citizen was given permission to keep a cow in the city, and a city lot was sold for $36.85. Accounts submitted by the finance committee and ordered paid amounted to $5,996.73, the larger proportion being made up of school payrolls $2,205 and regular payroll $1,941.66. By-Law No. 439 was reconsidered and. fmally passed. This by-law will allow city stores to remain open on Saturday evenings until 8 o'clock after April 1. Present at the meeting were Mayor A. M. Patterson, Aldermen H. J. Hocking. J. N. Keller. A. B. Moffat. C.C. Reid and W. J. Pitman. ably settled in their new environment at Prince Rupert, and that they wished him to convey greetings to their legion of friends here. While here Mr. Clark and Mr. Lr_kie attended the presentation gathering of C.N.R. employees to bid bon voyage to J. W. McAulay. assistant superintendent of this division, who is leaving for Vancouver today where he and Mrs. McAulay will reside in future. -------------o------------- Pioneer Sawmill Operator Victim Of Pneumonia Body Forwarded to Oshawa, Ontario, and Burial Will Take Place There Saturday. The sad announcement of the death of S. B. Trick, president of the S. B. Trick Lumber Co., in the city hospital at 10 a.m. Sunday morning. March 23. came as a distinct shook to his family and many friends in Prince George and throughout the surrounding district. Mr. Trick was admitted to the hospital on March 15 suffering from an acute attack of asthma which developed into double pneumonia, and the combination of 'ailments proved too great a strain on an already weakened heart. He was 70 years of age. Accompanied by his son, Ambrose, and his daughter-in-law. A'v \ the body was forwarded en Tu-\sdav's train to Oshawa. Ontario, where interment will take place in the family plot on Saturday. Mirrch 29. The late Mr. Trick is survived by his wife living in Oshawn: one son, Ambrose, living in Prince Georre; a sister. Mrs. W. McRevnolds. living in Bowmanville. Ontario: and three srranchildren. M^ry Pat and John Trick, livinoc in Prince George, "nd Margaret Anne Morison. with h?r grandmother in Oshawn. His on'y daughter..Mrs. Harry Morison. predeceased him in January at Oshawa. S. B. Trick came to British Co-(See LUMBERMAN DIES, Page 4)