IZEN
Hon. H. Stevens Submits Policy of New Party
Attempt to Salvage Much of What was BuJicved to be Bon-iiett Policy a Short Time Ago.
NO RAILWAY l&ERGER
Would Enforce the Findings of t]lC Price Spreads Commission to the Fullest Extent.
Ottawa, July' 12—Hon. H. H.  Ste-veivs   fonner mini;ter  of  trade   and comrnerce in the Bennett administration   issued  to   the' electoi\s  pf   the dominion  today   the  platform   upon! aOiich his new party will make its ap ueal in  the approaching general flections. The manifesto presents little that may be considered as new, bin ! suggests' a  new  approach  to   prob- : ieras which have been uncovered, especially as the result of the enqu     I dv the price spreads commiiision. The ; text of tlie manifesto follows:
1. increased taxes on large income? ami c<M>orat ons operating on a multiple unit basis to be assessed on each unit.
Dominion government to collect all claims of federal and provincial taxes and divide returns on "equitable and agreeable basis."
2 Enactment of legislation  to  en- \ sure fair prices for the farmers' pro-) ducts  and    to  free    participants   in Canada's primary industry from oppression of the secondary handler oi , their  products;   "appo:ntment   of   a dominion  agricultural   board   ro   for- 1 mulate    a democratic*    scheme."   for j ":. •  :   and   direction for marketing | of agricultural   products  under   four1 groups:   Cereals, livestock and  poultry, fruits and vegetables, and dairj products.
3.  Complete investigation of  credit ind monetary problems, with the :ic-ristance  of    outstanding   authoritie from Canada and Great Britain, "to dovise a    plan of monetary   cbntro' txsi adapted to Canadian conditions." Nationalization     of     the     Bai\k   of Canada.
4.  Restriction  of:   interest   rates   to a much  lower level, and  exercise  of I governmental power and admiirstrn- | Live influence to reduce rates—"5 per cent en mortgages should l>e ample.'
Liquidation    of    national  debt   in I twenty-five  years  by   use  of   latent natural   resources,   through   the   de- j yeloptnent of the great "^roldshield:' I increased  consumption   of  Canadian coal by absorbing a larger portion ol : transportation  costs.     Utilization   of peat bogs is also proposed.
5. Vicorous administrat'on of al! legislation based on the price spreads j re;»rt. Legislation creating a feder-: ai trade and industiy commission; vth authority to act as referee in all ; commercial and trading. unethical | business practices, discriminatory-discounts and unfair competition gen- : erally.                                                     j
6. Complet'on of the Trans-Can^d:? j highway; construction  with uo-< ,: r- ; atioivof tbe provinces, of    highways j from the southern boundary to Cana-cw's national  parks;   development,   o' < Canada's northland  for tourist   traf-'ic; eountry-wide reforestration  pro  : ?rnin and removal of level  crossings.! .7. Financial institutions  to bo  in-"ted to join in urban and rural na- i t-ional housing scheme with lower in- : terest  rates. The housing  scheme  is to be financed by sale of Dominion i '."iiamntivxi bonds if -such co-operation 15 not forthcoming. .  8. Measures  to   establish   uniform-rt.v of wages and hours of labor; strict fnforcoment of  fair-wage  provisions |n all government contracts and with J we aim of securing such  fair wage j :f"f-c in  industry  cenerally.
9- Reciprocal trade agreements with ; ^Qther countries. Protection of work-1 Rt7S»nd atr-iculturist<! under the Can- . WiaiK customs tariff by reduction °r duties on agricultural implements i aiKl on ausclfl-Tses of primary textiles ]
10.  Exhaustion    by   the    dominioni 'V'Hmenr. of  !ts    "own  powers and! "grits under the British North  Am-, encfl   AcV.   b-fore   asking   the   provinces  to    relinquish,  any    of   their] Powers.  Cessation  of  the  dom'nion's
ivrtext" that it lnck'> constitutional | authority to remedy wrongs. Any tiiajiges in the B.N.A. Act to b> undo
only after ample and amicable conference" with the provinces.
11.  NTo amalgamation of Canadian! railways under private ownership. (]" ¦¦ ^e of Canadian  National  railways w  any  group   of   internalicnal   financiers,    at  this     time  or   at   the ^aJuiition of today
A^ plan is being prepared by the ^construction party for a "rational ;^?, .Practical solution of the railway Problem.."
uv!2' Ai>3Ori'Ption of  young men   and r?men into useful    emplovment  b«| yPpning  up avenues of  oppertunitv "»¦ work on farms. 1n tbe m'nes. for-, mnSL"?*1 other industrial  and  com-mercial activity.
J3- Thorough  study    of   Canadian I*?01}  system   with     the  object  of ,""^nsiornung      penltent'aries      into itnVf1*11 establishments" for relmbil-. lu™on of inmates.
y*- legislation to protect women; ^ Rirts from, expit/tat'on by "un- , mS-W01*5 employers" and rccogni-,,^. *?¦', "rorn«"Vj: rliim^ in <rovemm'
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PRINCE   GEORGE,  B.  C.          THURSDAY,   JULY   18/
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THREE WOMEN NAMED j PROBABLE MEMBERS OF CANADIAN SENATE
Ottawa. July 16—Mrs. Wimrfred M president    of    the    Nationa. ol     Women.   is    frequently
K;......"1(*< as one of those likely  to
be  apiiointed  to  the  senate.    Other
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Processing Tax Upset by Boston Court of Appeal
If Upheld the Decision Cuts Off Means for Financing Crop Reduction Plan
BANK ROBBER KILLS TWO POLICE OFFICERS NEAR PUYALLUP
PRODUCERS ALARMED
 ppted to the .senate. Other names mentioned are those of Mrs. Ufori-o Black, wife of the fonnei m u'"1' of Lne commons, and Mrs. £• H. Plumbtree and Mrs. Van Koughhet.

Flood Disasters Follow Fast in Stricken China
Han River Bursts One Dyke and Carries Death to 10,000 Helpless Natives
SUPERSTITION REIGNS
Case Goes to. Supreme Court of the  United   States   After  Its j Summer Recess                       I
Washington, July  16—President F. Rocseveit's leccvery program received another  set-back    today    when  the! court of  appsal  in  Boston  declared unconstitutional   the   processing   tax embodied    in   the   A. A. A.    It  was through this processing tax that the j government contemplated  to  recnm-1 pense  the farmers    for lands    held j fallow  to reduce crop output.    The i decision of r.hc court of appeal came as  a reversal  of  the district  court.
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Seattle, Jan. 16-yA bank robbei. who was making his get-away alter hold'ng up a state bank for a smal. amount of money, shot and killed two police officers near Puyallup who attempted to intercept him. The killing was witnessed by a man who was unable to render the police officers any assistance. He said tht bank robber stepped on the running board of the police car and shot the two occupants. One of the off cert was shot thorugh the heart dying instantly. The other leceived a bullei in the head and died within a fe ¦• minutes. Pursuit was organized an * the lcller's car was found in a short distance with a flat tire. Descriptions of the bank robber lead the police to believe ihe may be W l'.iam Mahan the man wanted as the instigator of the Weyerhauser kidnapp'ng. Thi police have thrown a big cordor around the scene of the killing and are confident of making a capture Mahan is said to have been implicated in a number of bank robber1 es before pulling off the Weyerfaaused! kidnapping.
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UNITED FARMERS OF ONTARIO PLEDGE THEIR
Mongolia Seeks Russian Aid To Check Japanese
Japan Seek.* Demand for Ilight To Maintain Military Observers in Independent State
MONGOLS ARE FEARFUL
They Have Soviet Type of Government and Are Closely Related to Russia
Flood is Wrath of the Gods for People's Transgression in the Eating of Meat
Hangkow, July 15—Chinese advices ts li the story oi  the flood waters of I the Han river breaking through the dyke  near Hanyang,  a thickly  ]>op- J / mated   region,    carrying    death    to! mere  than    ten    thousand    persons within   a  few  minutes.    The   catas- j trophe was witnessed by the crew of a Chinese motorboat who reixjried a large  portion of the dyke gave  way j under   the   great   pressure   and   the; rived moved cut cf its channel sweep- i ing  everything    before    it.    humans.; livestock and houses.    The break  in i the dyke, although it had been fear-ed. came without warning. .
This latest disaster is said to have : brought the? less of life in the Yang- j tre valley up to 50.000, mak:ng it one of  the   ma.ior  floodVdlstjsve'"?  in  t'.ie ]
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uisaster following fast upon the heels   rnoTRAl T    rAUC  yy/t-tli cf another the morale of  the people j t(JU l BALL   LrAMfc   VV1 I H has   been  utterly  shaken,    and   they : VY,'TjsT(^r) a A] HAS RFFN have   turned  again   to  their   ancient, w liN<Ji-'/*1M "^ ocfclN •superstitions.   Led by priests they are j pT\rFD FOR  SUNDAY offering    prayers    to  a    goddess  of I ri^L.V i UK  aurNUAl relieved from    further,
Toronto, July 15—The United Farmers of Ontario have announced their determination to throw their support to Hon. H. H. Stevens in the approaching federal elect\ons. There is said to be some uncertainty as to where Mr. Stevens will offer for re-election. He has allowed himeeli little time to organize for a domin-ion-w:de campaign and on this account may decide to .seek e'ection ir one of the Ontario constituencies which would make it possible fcr him to do more effective work durng the campaign than should he seek election  in  British  Columbia.
upholding the constitutionality of the
processing tax.    In effect the ccun ! ct ippnPT TO STFVFNS
of appeal held it was unconstitutuin- | bUPFUK L   l U ^ l fc V tiIN2>
al for the federal government to in- j
vade the jurisdiction of the -.state in i
the matter of crop production.    The I
f.-ght   against   the   collection   of   eJio!
processing  tax was  commenced  sev-1
eral  weeks  ago,  and there  are  now
on  file one hundred cases in which
the collection of the tax Ls be ins re- '
sis ted.
Administrat'on officials    point out j
that the constitutionality of (h= pro- '
cessing  tax    cani-.ot  be    determined!
until  the  (.a.se  hac  been  carried   to!
the   supreme    court  of     the  United!
States. Appeal to the .supicme court
will \.c taken, but a^ the court is now |
in  .M-ir.cr  recess  it will be several i
weeks before the momentous decision j
can-be secured.    The appsal of Uic ,
processing   tax   legLslation   has   been
followed with even    g:eat?r concern |
than the fight over the gold clause
in  that  a much  greater  number  of
persons have a direct interest in the
outcome.    The  farmers  in   the  central   and  western states are said   tc
be interested to the extent of S250.-
000.000. which they were expecting to
receive thus year for the withholding
of their lands from production, and the same will apply to the cotton producers of the south. If the tax if-held to be unconstitutional the crop-reduction program of the administration, which was designed to va:-i<-prices, will hnye to be recast oi abandoned.
RELIGIOUS FACTIONS STILL SNIPING AT EACH OTHER IN BELFAST
Belfast. July 15—Tine rioting which broke out on- July 12th between members of the Orange order and Roman Catholics is .still causing the police considerable trouble. Although the rioters have been driven to covei desultory sniping continued today ir which one man was killed and i number wounded. Since the outbreak of Uhe trouble there have been sever persons killed and upwards of fifty injured.
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punishments. They are being urged ¦ by the priests to abstain from the eating of meat in the future, being told the flood is a visitation of the displeasure of the gods for their lapse from their early teaching, esj>e-cially in the eating of meat. Tho death-deaL'ng flood it is explained to them represents the spirits of the countless thousands of animals which and superstition have thrown tho ]>oople into .such a state of panic that it has become impossible to get them to endeavor to help themselves and further catasiropliies are believed to be immense.
The bodies of 14.000 flood victims have l>een recovered, but it is feared the most strenuous efforts of the authorities will be unable to avert a plague.
UNITED STATES RECALLS ITS CITIZENS FROM THREATENED ABYSSINIA
The state department of the United   States   has   recalled   all   of   its citizens   from   the   threatened   kmsz-dom of Emixror Haile Selassie, who j claims to be the descendent of K.in<:; Solomon and the Queen of Shrba. In- j cidentally the United States has but 125  citizens  in  Abyssinia,   of  which number  113    are  missionaries,    who have been preaching all of th.^ fifty seven varieties of religion  from  that i of   the   Seventli   Day   Adventists   to! that of the hard-back Presbyterians. Of  the   thirteen    remaining    United States citizens one is Everett W. Col-son,  who has been  financial  adviser to Emperor Haile'Selassie sin-re 1931, and   twelve    American, negroes  who | have   been   making   their   homes   in. Abyssinia.
BIG NAVAL REVIEW AT SPITHEAD FEATURES KING'S JUBILEE
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 affectinfir   the  henHh   and|  well-beina: of the people. 15. Careful and sympathetic stv"r-e3<isting lesrislation relative to war.  "with a view to more fu"v iplementinp the pledges made wlvle . lh« war was on." ^^                        I
SIR JOHN COBB MADE FAST RUN ON SANDS OF SALT LAKE
t   i      ink- 16—Sir John Cobb Salt Lakc^Jj\\Tr  made a fast run Bfl'tteh speg},dgg- £ yesterday  th    Slt Lake               tf
 D- R^kefelW bad his 96th Jv ^ his estnt* t»> ^oVpwot^ ?•*- on Monday. JiUv BHi T)\r oil of rV^ h *?M_'in be *¦> " f«lr <*** 1 "ealth considering his many years.
Bfltteh spg},gg
over the Snlt La                      y
covering   323-- wat               than nd
hours, an average of neg      ^^  ^
miles  oer  hour    w            but for
Jrsss by ^ ^
of the moon.
The game of football  will stage a Come-back in Prince George on Sunday, when a group of lecal enthusi-asts will meet the Wingdam team at ' Duchess Park in what it is hoped will ; develop   into   a    series   of   matches.1 Sunday's game    is    scheduled for 21 n't ock   and   will   be  handled   by  Alt j Holm wood as referee, and Ernie Davis j a>>  linesman,   wfth  another linesman i chosen from tlie Wingdam following.
The Prince Georjge band has ki'iiilj j consented to play at the opening of j tlie football game and again during j the lest interval. This service is. appreciated by the football manage- \ ment and is sure to make a hit with i the fails.     |
For the past two weeks the locals j have  been   endeavoring   to  get   into i shape  and  are  now of  the  opinion they w.U be able to give a good ac- I count of themselves.   It is two years ] since Prince  George fielded  a  foot- j iMtll team.    In the interim many of i the former players have drifted away, j and some of  them may be seen on I Sunday  playing  for Wingdam,    but ¦ there have  come  a  number  of   new players to replace the old boys, and , the prospect is sa;d to be.. good for | rounding out   a   very good  team.   It ' will   be  chosen   from  the   following: Wilson,   Oabriellc.   Gibbons.  McL-?od. Miller, Johnson.  Hoist   Nigert.  Gun-nar,  Elvenes. Jensen.- DavYs, Spaner. Abbott. Henderson and others: A full ! practice is called for this evening at ! 6.30   following   which   the   team   for Sunday's game will be chosen.
The players are requested to meet -at the London Hotel. Third avenue £>t ' -1.30   where   dressing    quarters   have been provided.
Arrant'emtnus  are  being  made by j the local baseball executive to bring | me Wingdam u.ill team along at the same tiune for a game with the local club. It will not be known definitely whether the  baseball  team  will  accompany the soccer team  until   this evening."    Should    they   be    able  to come   notice  will  be  g'.ven   and  the j game  will     commence    immediately I after the football game, which would j be at 3.30 o'clock.                                  ; ------------o------------
WEATHER  REPORT
Sunday set a record as being tlie warmest day of the year. 92 degrees in South Fort George, 93 in Prince George, and 98 in Quesnel. Tlie moon rose in a total eclipse on Monday nfght and a good view of the phenomenon was had. For the week ending Tuesday. July 16th, there were 79 hours, 48 minutes sunshine, ana ia precipitation of .22 of one inch. The maximum and minimum temperature readings for the period were:
Wednesday ..................... 70.2   50.8
Thursday .......................... 76.0   45.8
Friday ................................ 84.0   51.4
Saturday ...........-............. 88.0   46.8
Sunday ......._.................... 92.0   44 2
Monday  ............................ 86.8   47.4
Tuesday   ...........................   77.2   55.2
ALBERTA ELECTIONS TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY AUGUST 27th
Edmonton, July 16—It was ;<n-nounced officially today that the provincial elections will be held or. Tuesday. August 27th, with nomination en Monday, August  12tJi.
SOVIET .FLIERS WILL HOP FROM MOSCOW TO THE PACIFIC COAST
Moscow. July 16—The Sovk-t government has planned a flight from Moscow, across the North Pole, to San Francr'sco. As soon as the weather is favorable a plane carrying three men will take off. Th? distance is 5815 miles and at a speed of 150 miles per hour they expect to cover it in 39 hcurs. The flight has a commercial objective,
! EMPEROR HAILE I SELASSIE EXPECTED TO MOBILIZE  TODAY
t nndon, Julv 1"—A dispatch from Addis Ababa says authoratiye circles •¦-, i »«:mperci Ha;!e Selass'e will issue tlie order tomoiTow fcr t-mobiliation cf all Ethiopians capable of bearing arms. In view of the aggressive measures beng taken by Premier Mussolini the opinion prevails thr Ethiopian ruler cannct further delay defensive measure. Re-ix)rts from Etftrea, where the ItaHnns are concentrating, say the climate is already taking a heavy toll on the Europeans.
t i>,> hi"ernl of the lMe Arrgus Hugh McLeod will bf held on Friday afternoon under the auspices oi Nechako Lodge No. 86. A.F. & A.M ¦at 2.30 o'clock. The deceased, who ' .ri •.•; e-y in ror>i- health for the past few years, was living at the home of t-> s son HiiErh Method He nppearea to as well as usual on Saturdav when l- -¦ s:'n and lr'-- family started for Vancouver on a vacation trip, but took a turn on the following d*\y "•1-iirh re^'lted in his death. The news of his father's death reached Hugh at Sardvs.
SIX LIVES LOST IN THIRD CRASH OF DUTCH FLYING HOTEL
Moscow, July 13—The independent state of Mongolia s viituaily seeking the assistance of Soviet Russia to prevent the overrunning- of Mongolia by Japanese troops and the ultimate seizing of the country. A communique issued at Ulan Bator, the Mongolan capital, and published in the official Soviet press, said Manchurian and Japanese forces had delivered an ultimatum demand'ng the right to maintain military observers in Mongolian territory. It made this charge:
"Recent events prove that Man-chukuo (the Manchurian state), with the Japanese army's .support, washes to avoid peaceful settlement of border incidents and prepare the way for further occupation of our territory.'
Mongolia, with its soviet type of government, is closely related po.it-cally with the U.S.S.R. Its borders march with Siberia's for many miles. Manchuria lies to its ea.st. Northern China, Into which the Japanese army has penetrated deeply during recent months, is southeast.
The Japanese demands followed sevei al Mongol-Manchuria border incidents, which were termed provocative in nature. They were presented even as Russia's diplomats representative at Tokyo was seekine assurances against the repetition of similar incidents, including an alleged invasion cf Sr,vL~'t territory along the Siberian-Manchuran frontier.
A note wh:ch Chan Kei. head o! the Manchurian foreign ministry, and high Japanese army officers handed on July 4 to the Mongolian Eectior. of the mixrd Mcngol-Manchurian ccmnvttee studying the border incidents, contained the demands,' tlT> Mongolian communique said. It called them "entirely unwarranted" and "intolerable."
The Japanese army. Mongolia announced, asked the right of permanent residence for military observers, the right for them to move about freely and keep contact with Manchuria and permission to run telegraph lines into Mongolia to fac:li-tate this communication.
Failing Mongolia's compl'ance, the communique asserted. Japan threatened to demilitarize much of f.he eastern section of Mongolia by forcing the withdrawal of Mongolian troojxs.
A recent dispatch from Tientsin. China, quoted foreign military rb ¦ servers as expressing the opiivon that Japan's Northern China and Mongolia policy was designed primarily to guarantee her freedom cf communications and freedom from trouble to the south in case she came to war with the Soviet.
While the Mongol'-Japanese icstif» was regarded here with crerU gravity. Soviet officials withheld comment pending further developments. A close watch on the situation was nYa'tit.Mhed. and full Soviet press facilities were given for dissemination of the communique.
Tho threat to demand the withdrawal of Mongolian troop, war held to be onrt'cularlv serious, sine* Mtengolia skirts an imiwrt^nt part of the Sov^t Observers said occupation bv Japanese and Manchurian troops of Mongolia, or part of Mongolia, would sreatly inrren.se the chance of further Russo-Japanese friction.
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T.W.S. PARSONS BROUGHT BACK RELICS FROM McDAMES CREEK
T. W. S. Parsons, assistant commissioner of B. C. police, has letunted to Victoria, following an extended trip to McDames Creek, in the Cas-siar district, where he ass'sted in the installation of a short-wave broadcasting station to be operated by the police. Mr. Parsons was forty-five r'av- oi his northern trip and his many friends in Prince George were not Gurpr'sed to lean that he brought back more historic loot from the north than a pirate would pick uu in a raid upon a Chinese city: all or which will go into provincial collections. Among his treasures were a large piece of jade secured on the Lower Laird, a collection cf Tahl-ton Indian arrowheads, and retorts and moulds used at Dense hike during, the late 70'* nnd the early 80".s of the Cassiar gold rush.
Amsterdam, July  15—The Nether- j lands   Air   Lines   lost   the   third   of j theft1   f-unous    living    hocels    todav i when  the machine    was taking off i fr'th fourteen ps'Tsengers and a "crew of six  on    an  intended    fl's-ht    to Sweden.    The accident    resulted   in t.be deith of two British passengers. Newman   and Hodson, who were in the  prilot's  compartment    inspecting the mechanism. t.Ve trlof. Pilverstein the  wireless    operator  Niebor.    »nd mechanic?  B"om  end   V^^^vic.    'rr>-riav's accident made the third of the flying-hotels lost within the past six months and a rigid invesiig.uicn has been ordered.
MARGARET WALEY GETS 20-YEAR SENTENCE FOR PART IN KIDNAPPING
Tacoma. July 17—Margarrt Walev, wife of Harmon Waley. was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment today for her part ii> the kidnnopimr of nine-year-old George Weyerhau.s-p-". The hT'bnnd entered a plea of guilty several dnys aeo. -and receJvp<i a sentence of forty-five years. Wil-!i"Tn M*>.bsr*. who 's caid to have r>n-snneered the kidnanpin<r is still a ftter^tix-e. bt't the jx>lice believe they have him located  'n Nebraska. Mi%
Waley's defence wa^ th"f -).....- • '•¦>
feaa- of Mah^n and was forced t« obey his orders in connection with the kidnapping.