'
Mar
iloba
Government
Deal
Which
Caused
Resignation
of
Ministers
and
Proposal
to
Adjourn
House
Outline
of
Latest
Manitoba
Scandal
in
Which
United
Farmer
Government
Is
Implicated
and
Which
Is'Now
Being
Probed
KING
GEORGE
HAS
FIRST
WALK
JRJNl'fi.
t.
HIS
LONG
ILLNESS
KOGNOR.
Sussex,
Eng.,
Feb.
21
:
King
George
had
his
lomr
illness
when
he
walked
around
the
room
With
tV,
n
IA
-
.
.ll.t.
111.
uic
uiu
ui
n
pui.iv.
nurse
hovered
nt
hi
but
he
negotiated
a
turn
success
fully.
Former
member
of
the
legis
Premier
Baldwin
was
hurriedly
summoned
and
he!
not
opposing
highway
saved
the
situation
by
virtually
throwing
over
Winston
!
umh
ill.
chancellor
of
the
ex-
Vciuer.
and
L.
S.
M.
Amerj'.
.
minions'
secretary.
Mr
Amery
had
submitted
a
pro-I
for
the
reduction
of
an
ap--ipriatiun
earlier
lecommended
.'
special
committee
to
corn-sat'
loyalists.
lie
said
the
.;
Tiiment
had
already
paid
eight
voting
against
the
government
as
I
represented
by
the
chancellor
of
:
!
lature
for
Vancouver,
wno
defeated
by
Hon.
R.
H
rooley
in
the
last
election
in
Esquimau,
nvR
she
may
contest
a
Mm
npxt
Federal
election.
is
president
of
the
Liberal
Association.
Minister
Thinks
Keeping
Up
says
Mrs.
nadian
National
Most
I
treasury
on
itemplated.
Provinces
Do
Not
Welcome
Grants
With
Strings
Attached
the
exchequer
und
the
dominions'
uscretay.
Thte
would
have
meant
OTTAWA,
Feb
21.
The
mil.
a
decisive
defeat
for
the
cabinet
way
terminals
situation
in
Mont-and
the
premier
was
hurriedly
real
must
be
faced
and
faeed
in
summoned.
;
rather
a
large
way
In
the
very
Premier
Baldwin
said
that
hav-
future,
Hon.
Charle
Dun-
.on
pounds
and
the
baorstat
ing
lea
ned
of
the
various
opinion
Wng.
minute.'
oz
railways,
in-
.
crnment
two
....
million
pounds.
:
expressed
he
would
ask
.
the
house
tamed
the
house
of
commons
yes
l.k
!!.
I
-
t.i
J
It.
i
ansnrvat
ve
memoe-s
wno
nau
to
give
tha
government
an
oppor-
W9
waea
5JKwSuIn
:orir
stromriy
-supported.
tbeJoMk'fafrtftvfirjftfi
'
.
warmly
objected
to
the
Vr
iteuffon.
Thi3
Wis
agreI
to,"
fHs
tipon
the
government
to
c.on-ar,
proposals.
;
Churchill
-and",
Aniery.
iowevci,
'
slder
the
making
of
a
further
Winston
Churchill,
anxious!
Lto
were
vMriMhiif1rkl
g.ant
during
the
nextfffve
lend
the
treasury,
tame
'to
Mr.
tion,
theyfcavlliUnt
hMwsMW'"
for
highway
construon.
'r.cry'a
aid,
defending
the
reduc-
only
defended
the
position
adopted
Mr.
Dunning
drtw
attefon
to
ion
the
ground
of
economy.
;
by
the
entire
cabinet.
"Churchill
the
fact
that
Canada
-Was-"owner
Tie
objectors
demanded
pay-
showed
annoyance
and'
there'
were
the
largest
railway
tiansporta-in
full
as
a
debt
of
honor.
I
utnors,
as
yet
apparently
entirely
ytem
and
that
its
needs
i
declared
their
Intention
of
speculative,
that
he
may
resign.
mut
be
eonsidered
when
large
expenditures
from
'
the
federal
highways
wus
con-
imt
4hafk
Att'tt
till
t
M
t
ai
fnuoArl
1L
1.4.
iL.
f
-
At
'
l
me
puuu
iiiui
ifie
truvuiceii
uitriu
K4vAs
nrsfp
inrrAAftA
aiilutti-IIpfl
..
,
to
grants
which
are
ear-marked
to!t
WINNIPEG.
Feb.
20.
The
proposal
to
adjourn
theiwmB
specific
purpose.'
sueij
ar'
Manitoba
legislature
for
a
montn,
louowing
me
rsigiii-
mgnway
consirucnon.
incy
w
In
e
.
t
)i,
nnnl
nnViinnt
nnd
thp
onrrv-
pponed
to
government
gra
grants
-"w
:
.r
.
.
v
.
n
n-
i
with
strimra
attached.
ing
on
of
further
investigations
into
me
aeven
oibieis,
.
:
Falls
scandal,
has
set
the.whole
country
inauiring
what
it!
Annrn
oI(IrM
!
all
means.
The
charges
against
the
United
Farmers
gov-
(Ikljhk
1,1
VKN
Viiiuu
ui
1
ui
,
leader,
Colonel
,
I
ernment
were
brought
bv
the
Conservative
kere
F
G
Tavlor.
and
a
royal
commission
was
at
once
appoint-
I
Of
A
I
WOMAM
J
to
inquire
Into
them,
it
was
a
result
of
evidence
given
be-'
the
commission
that
the
two
-misters
offered
their
resignations
which
have
not
yet
been
accepted.
Hy
the
time
the
commission
has
c:mplctcd
its
hearing
and
given
'
verdict,
it
will
have
been
decided
whether
there
Is
basis
for
c;oI.
Taylor's
chargs
that
the
Uraeken
government
received
Oom
the
Winnipeg
Electric
Com-i'any
gome
"consideration"
for
th"
leaso
of
the
site
which
has
Continued
on
page
two.)
MRS.
MARY
ELLEN
SMITH
Fred
Stephens
Required
to
Surrender
Child
nt
Vancouver
VANCOUVER,
Feb.
21:
When
Mrs.
Dernice
Lucille
Stephens,
en-route
from
Prince
Rupert
to
Se-i;t
If,
arrived
here
this
afternoon
on
the
Bteamer
Camosun
she
was
onironted
with,
nil
carder
of
Chief
Justice
Hunter
requiring
her
to
mrreiidcr
to
Magistrate
H.
W.
Alexander,
who
is
official
guardian,
the
custody
of
her
son,
Frederick
Herbert,
aged
two,
who
is
travelling
with
her.
The
or
der
was
made
in
the
Supreme
Court
on
application
of
th
child's
father
Frederick
II.
Stephens,
Stanley
W.
Taylor
made
application
for
Stephens,
who
al-
seat
in
leges
that
his
wife
broke
an
ag-
She.ieement
whereby
they
became
re-
Provincial
conclled
and
undertook
the
joint
1
gunnlinhship
of
the
child.
CLASSIFIED
HABIT
i
.
i,
Boston
Grill
Irerjon
read
th
Ol&ultltd
Ad.
LARGE
CABARET
K
you
loe,
tAttrXSM
for
It.
Special
Dinners
Thursday
and
If
you
find,
locate
tb
owner,
Saturdays
Dancing
every
Saturday
nlfht
Wbaterer
you
need,
advertlM
for
It
from
9
to
12.
Dance
Hall
for
Hire
PRINCE
RUPERT
Accommodations
for
Private
OCT
THE
CLASSIFIED
HABIT.
Parties
Northern
and
Central
British
Columbia's
Newspaper
Tnone
457
Vol.
XX.,
No;
42.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.
C,
THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY
21,
1929
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
LOSE
CA
LL
OF
BRITISH
GOVERNMENT
4
MANITOBA
FARMER
GOVERNMENT
SCANDAL
DEVELOPING
British
Government
Faced,
Bad
Defeat
in
House
of
Commons
j
Premier
Baldwin
Saved
Situation
Refusal
to
Further
Compensate
Irish
Loyalists
Meets
WithStrong
Protest
and
Threats
to
Vote
Against
Party
j
I
LONDON,
Feb.
21.
The
government
came
near
de-1
feat
in
the
house
of
commons
through
dissatisfaction
of
i
its
own
supporters
over
the
question
of
compensation
to
i
ova
ist
sunnorters
in
tne
insn
i
ree
state
whose
nroner-s
erties
had
teen
destroyed
or
taken
over.
I
RAILWAY
FIRST
SAYS
DUNNING
Saskatchewan
Wants
Territory
If
the
Federal
Government
regards
Premier
Gardiner
(inset)
of
Saskatchewan's
application
favorably,
an
immense
territory
in
the
Far
North
will
become
part
of
the
province.
Under
this
new
proposal
).
the
western
boundary
or
the
rrovince
01
aasicaicnewan
He
did
not
want
him-
.
,
4,tBnHni,
.
indicated
by
the
broken
line
on
the
map,
to
self
placed
on
record
as
being
op-
Coronation
Guif
on
the
Arctic
Ocean.
The
new
northern
and
east-posed
to
the
construction
highway,
J
boundarie8
would
foIlow
the
coast
lines
of
the
ocean
and
Hud-lall
1
"yJ.h?1
!JT!
at&!
son
Bay.
The
-
whole
territory
which
would
be
annexed
to
Saskat-
nave
in
regara
over
two
mnion
....
,
.aa
t-h
nf
ti
i,nv
ma.i
cnewan
is
maicaveu
u,
,c
v-
v
r
dollars
investment
on
railways
in
providing
nr
a
it
tKm.9
1
v
a!
v
for
the
development
-
-
-
over
a
period
ot
TlifZlTZt'
President
of
Liberals
Gets
possibilities
of
our
railways
earn-!
.
Telegramrtr.om
Hanson
Kegard
wlto
Estimates
for
the
Dhtrict
II.
F.'
Glassy,
president
of
the
Prince
Rupert
Liberal
Assbciation.
received
a
telegram
this
morning
from
Olof
Hanson
at
Ottawa
saying
that
he
had
just
returned
to.the
cdpital
after
a
brief
absence
and
was
glad
to
find
that
during
his
absence
announcement
had
been
made
through
he
tabling
of
the
estimates
that
an
amount
had
been
placed
in
the
estimates
for
fishermen's
floats
and
other
"
purposes
throughout
the
district.
Mr.
Hanson
says
that
prior
to
leaving
Ottawa,
he
had
takenthemattd.supwiththemin-
ifters
and
received
an
assurance
from
them
that
they
would
be
granted,
but
he
was
not
empowered
to
make
an
official
announcement
prior
to
the
public
announcement
through
the
minister
of
Hnance.
The
Liberal
candidate
for
Skeena
also
saya
in
the
wire
that
he
has
taken
up
a
number
of
other
matters
and
is
expecting
to
get
results.
He
will
be
remaining
at
Ottawa
for
some
time
longer,
in
ordev
to
make
sure
that
no
opportunity
Is
lost
in
pressing
home
the
needs
of
Prince
Rupert.,
He
find
the
ministers
very
cordial,
in
real
estute
and
Insurance,
agent
(pit0
of
the
fact
that
littlo
wjis
at
Prince
Rupert,
and
is
effective
dono
done
for
for
the
the
cc
until
a
trial
of
an
issue
between
the
parents
to
determine
who
should
have
permanent
custody
!of
the
boy.
year,
constituency
last
CHAIR
OF
ECONOMICS
LONDON,
Feb.
21:
The
Empire
Marketing
Board
has
made
a
grant
to
the
London
School
of
Economics
to
enable
the
establishment
of
a
chair
of
Imperial
economics
relations.
WILLCONSUIT
WITH
DOMINIONS
NAVAL
AFFAIRS
LONDON.
Feb.
20.
In
replying
to
a
question,
Sir
Austen
Chamberlain
told
tho
house
.that
he
government
had
no
Intention
uf
Issuing
invitations
to
a
new
conference
on
naval
disarmament.
He
reafffvmed
his
previous
announcement
that
ail
questions
concerning
British
relations
with
the
United
States
and
tne
naval
conditions
of
ths
two
countries
are
under
consideration
of
the
Blitish
government.
"Our
examination
Is
being
diligently
prosecuted
and
as
soon
as
it
Is
concluded
the
first
step
will
bo
to
communicate
with
the
dominions,"
he
said,
British
Mines
Being
iReopenedcasDmand
'for
Coal
Increases
Miners
Federations
to
Make
Proposal
to
Government
at
Meeting
Arranged
for
March
5
With
Premier
Baldwin
LONDON,
Feb.
21.
Premier
Baldwin
will
meet
the
full
executive
of
the
Miners
Federation
to
discuss
the
coal
fields
situation
on
March
6.
A.
J.
Cook,
secretary
of
the
federation,
says
it
will
submit
practical
proposals
for
-
.u:ing
the
economic
problem.
Some
cold
fields
correspondents
express
the
opinion
hat
the
spurt
of
prosperity
now
being
experienced
may
be
partly
due
to
the
cold
weather,
although
an
increased
demand
for
coal
from
abroad
is
also
visible
.
In
the
house
of
commons
alst
night,
it
was
stated
that
since
January
78
mines,
employing
11,000
miners,
had
been
reopened.
The
lord
mayor's
relief
fund
has,
reached
a
total
of
$3,475,000,
not
including
the
government's
pond
for
pound
contribution.
BABPOSITION
FARMER
PARTY:
Premier
Bracken
Proposes
to
Ad
journ
Legislature
for
Month
Until
Charges
Cleared
Up
WINNIPEG,
FeB.
21.
Follow
ing
the
bMnging
of
charges
against
the
Dracken
government
in
connection
with
the
recent
lease
of
the
Seven
Sisters
power
site
and
the
resignation
of
Hon.
W.
R
Chubb
and
Hon.
W.
J.
Major
from
the
cabinet,
it
being
shown
that
they
were
dealing
in
stock
of
the
inteiested
company
at
the
time
the
lease
was
being
ncgotlat
ed,
it
is
proposed
to
adjourn
the
legislature
for
a
month
after
to
morrow's
session.
A
motion
to
that
effect
was
placed
before
the
house
yesterday.
The
legitlatuie
is
meeting
to
day.
ASAKEYESIS
SENT
TO
JAIL
Former
Prosecutor
and
Formef
Corporation
Promoter
Each
Get
Sentenced
LOS
ANGELES,
Fei.
21.
Former
District
Prosecutor
Asa
Keyes,
who
came
prominently
to
public
notice
in
connection
with
the
prosecution
of
Aimee
Mac-Pherson
of
Angel
us
Temple,
and
also
in
the
Hickman
murder
case.
was
yesterday
convicted
on
a
charge
of
conspiracy
to
give
and
receive
bribes
and
was
sentenced
to
from
one
to
14
years
in
San
Quentin
prison
by
Superior
Judge
Butler.
,.
,
,
.
i
,.
E.
H.
Rosenberg.;
best
known
for
hfs
work
In
connection
with
the
Julian
Petroleum
Corporation,
In
which
thousands
of
people
i)$t
their
hard-earned
cash,
,wa
copy,
vlcted
on
the,
same,
charge
as
Keyes
and
given
a
similar
sentence.
'
-
Hon.
W.
C.
Shelly
Brings
Down
First
Budget
in
B.C.
Legislature;
Criticizes
Liberal
Financing
VICTORIA,
Feb.
21.
Bringing
down
the
first
budget
of
the
Tolmie
administration
today,
Hon.
W.
C.
Shelly,
minister
of
finance,
pointed
out
that
expenditure
on
hospitals,
charities
and
pensions
had
increased
from
$1.75
per'
capita
in
191G
to
$4.75
in
1927.
In
1927
and
mi
it
had
been
one
hundred
per
tent
greater
than
in
the
noxt
highest
province
and
1050
per
cent
more
than
in
Quebec
on
a
per
capita
basis.
Education
cost
the
government,
$7.20
per
capita,
being
twice
the
amount
spent
by
any
other
province
and
seven
time
.that
pf
Quebec.
Education
and
ijospitals.
and
pensions
a
nd
c
ha
ri
tfoijotalled
35:'
pep
ccrt
of
'the
total
gross
expenditure
of
the
province,
the
minister
pointed
out.
The
gross
debt
of
the
province,
the
finance
minister
stated,
now
stood
at
$105,761,131
and
the
net
debt
at
$34,231,345,
British
Columbia's
per
capita
purchasing
powr
during
1928
of
$92o
being
the
hlgheit
in
Canada.
Mr.
(Continued
on
page
two.)
MItS.
MARY
4fl,l.BN
"
i-
SMITHlMAY-'RUN
FOR
FEDERAL
SEAT
t
t
MONTREAL,
Feb.
2i:
Mrs.
Mary
Ellen
Smith,
of
Vancouver
stated
yesterday
that
she
had
been
urged
to
run
for
the
federal
seat
In
the
next
election
and
she
was
seriously
thinking
of
it.