Prince An Independent Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the est of Cenrraf a« breaking and entering the home of Mang Foo in Prince George on January 9 —five years in penitentiary: (I)) robbery with violence of an elderly Chinese, Jar Kee, in his residence above the Chicken Inn on January 9—"Ix yearn in penitentiary. The judge warned the two men that they could have been sentenced under the recidivist section of the crlminial code as habitual criminals, and added that despite the sentences he handed out, the Attorney General still might have dealt with them 'In that manner. The- men were committed for trial at a preliminary hearing held earlier on the same day. TOOK NOTES During the hearing, Evans, eld-. er of the pair, paid, clpse attention to evidence gtoen by prosecution witnesses and from time to time scribbled notes on a scrap of paper in the prisoner's box as though he were preparing a defense. Hall, the more studious looking of the two, gazed unconcernedly out the court-room window through the lenses of a pair of steel-rim spectacles as witness after witness took ttic stand to present evidence of the chain of events leading up to capture of the pair at Merrltt, B.C. Most damning piece of evidence linking up the theft of the two car8 consisted of a shovel and flashlight which left Prince George in the welfare depart* ment car stolen here, only to be recovered In Merritt in the welfare care stolen at QueSnel. William Fleming, an employee of the Northern Hardware and Furniture Company, was called by the Crown to testify that the snow shovel was one he had sold to a welfare department official a few days before the theft. FLASHLIGHT The welfare worker F. St. John Madely. identified the flashlight as one left in the stolen car. Committal for trial on the (See YOUTHFUL, Page 4) Wo rid News In Summary As the first shipment of Vancouver newspapers since Friday expected here only tonight.. is "The Citizen" news below: summarizes world OTTAWA: The post office department has clamped a ban on mailing of parcels, news and printed matter to points west of Kamloops and Penticton B.C. because of heavy snow and blizzards. * • * * MONTREAL: Beverly Van Home,, 17-year-old million dollar heiress, was back home in Montreal this week after being found in Vancouver working at a $20 per week dish-washing job. She is a descendant of wealthy Sir William Van Home. • * • • LUNEXBERG. GERMANY: — Russians were reported today to have started mining uranium from a new field In the Soviet Zone of Germany. Five workmen who said they fled from the mine described Ht a*, located In the Haru mountains about 25 mile? from the British Zone border. « • • *¦ EDMONTON: A measles epidemic which in recent weeks has struck the Indian an<3 Eskimo population of the MacKenzie delta region Inside the Arctic circle has taken three more lives bringing the toll to ten. • * ? • EDMONTON: Five deaths have resulted from a recurrent epidemic of diptherla on the Halfway Indian reserve in northern British Columbia. Fifty cases wore reported. * • • * TORONTO: Canadian tenants will argue before the Supremo Court on Monday that all war-born rent controls are valid. If the court rules that the controls are within the jurisdiction of parliament, they will be extended beyond March 31, if not, all housing will be decontrolled except where provincial laws apply. "Dr. Tom" Junior A son was born yesterday to Dr. and Mrs. T. H. Patterson of the Cariboo Health Unit, in the Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria. The baby weighs R lbs. lOVfe oz . PROPOSED LEGION WAR MEMORIAL for erection on the green in front of the City Hall this year will odd greatly to the appearance of Prince George. The main column will be nine feet high and the bronze plote in centre will beor the words: "In Memory of Those of Prince George and Distrkt Who FeU in Two World Wars," and will be permanently illuminoted by concealed Nieon lighting. The Memorial ond surrounding posts, cast in concrete with smooth cement facing, will occupy on areo of about 50 feet square and the site has already been gronted by City Fathers. It has been proposed that alcoves be made in each side of the main column, in which, suitably framed, embossed and illuminated, can repose the scroll of honor of the City and District. The Memorial will be so constructed as to permit ample room for the laying of wreaths and for the solemn Armistice Day and other remembrance ceremonies. Cost is estimated at $1,100. Prince George Board of Trade last r>ight contributed $100 to the MemoricH Fund. —Citizen Photo. C. 0. Albins Again B.o.T. President Charles C. Albins was re-elected president of the Prince George board of trade at the annual general meeting held in the Prince George hotel last night. Vice-president is W. Dobson, with Hubert King as second vice-president, and H. R. Fretwell again secretary. The following ..mginbers wete elected to ttfe exefctftffre:— A. M. Patterson, Martin Caine, Alex Bowie, Frank Button, Harry Gregson, Gordon Bryant, Alex Cross, John MclnniB. The meeting heard detailed reports from the president and heads of committees on their work during the past year. Drive to still further increase the very solid membership was decided on. Exchanges of correspondence wkh the Government and West Coast Transmission (pipeline) company were read. In view of the lateness of the hour at which the meeting terminated and lack of space so near press time to adequately summarise the meeting, a full report will be carried in next week's "Citizen." C~L ^IL. _~J IT^A^^A.. PGE Trainmen Killed, dCnOOIDOara ES5imatCS Locomotive In Lake Up By Nearly $30,000 But City's Share Depends on Provincial Government's Assessment of Rural Areas School expenditure for the present year was budgetted at $413,811—an increase of about $30,000 over last year a meeting of the schoolboard on Monday night. Of the $413,811 dollars, approx- Rupert's Moose Temple Destroyed By Fire Moose Temple, one of the old landmarks of Prince Rupert, was totaly destroyed by fire which broke but shortly before 6 o'clock on Thursday last. The adjoining Canadian Bank of Commerce building had a narrow escape. Damage estimated at about $25,000, is partially covered by insurance. TUPPER DOES IT AGAIN - - WINS SECOND ACQUITTAL William Tupper, age 23, who as counsel for his own defense early In December, won acquittal In county court on a charge of truck theft, did It again this week when n charge of theft of kitchen utensils was dismissed in police cotifi bv Magistrate)P, J. Moran. Tupper, fast acquiring the court-room "snvolre falre" of a -onponod barrister, again ques-"oTd witnesses pointodlv, strolled thoughtfully up and down the confined space of the prinsoner's box and drummed nls fingers along tho wooden balustrade to the general distraction of the court. Ho wan arrested ln8t week chnm»d with having removed a rnm>>er> of pots, nnns etc." from n Jto-mp he and lite attractive • Wonde wife had been loaned to I've in nt Routh Port George. ^he r>»-onerty belonged to Mrs. Viola Elliott, who told the court at the first hearing on Friday that she had taken pity on the couple who said they were find-imx th'nu's hard here and so had loaned them the ^iouse for a time. On the day after the couple had moved out of the hoxisc, 10 days n»*o, she inspected it and found much kitchen equipment missing. Following her complaint to the nolice, Constable Fred Thorsten-?en was disoatched to a Second Avenue rooming house where the couple were living. A search revealed certain ar-McTc« " h'ch were identified by Mrw. 1511 iott in court as her property. Tupner admitted not having obtained permission to remove the articles from the house but added that when he and his wife had moved there was no fuel with which to build a fire and he had taken the kitchen utensils to wash them and return them clean to the house. He told the court that he had interfded going to Mrs. Elliott to tell her1'he had removed the kitchen equipment on the day after ho had moved out, but was prevented from doing this as the> police meantime arrested him. The court adjourned until this week while pol'ce attempted to unearth evidence which, they said,, would show that Tupper had at one time tried to sell the furniture in the house belonging to Mrs. Elliott. On Tusday morning Sgt. N. O. DeWitt told Magistrate Moran that police had failed to get the evidence and the case was dismissed. Tuoper strolled from the pris-! oner's box to the rear of the court where he sat in the public 'seats beside his wife. With a certain amount of professional interest, he watched the next case hoping perhaps for more legal ex-! perlence. imately SI40,000 will be paid by the provincial government and the balance of $274,064 must be raised by rural and city taxation. If this is split half-and-half over rural and city, the city taxpayer's j share will be about $137,000 com-! pared with $150,000, last year. ! But the chances are that the city's share which was 56.6 per cent last year, will this year be increased, in which case the total school assessment against the city may well exceed $lf>0.000. MOPE TEACHERS The increase in expenses is due to four more teachers engaged since December and to allow for yet another three teachers before the end of the financial year. Teachers' salaries have gone up considerably which will probably mean a boost for all employees, according to R. Gracey, school-board secretary, (Teachers' salaries now range from $2,060 to $3,900, with principals getting extra remuneration.) It Is expected that the Prince George and district school area will have the equivalent of six new class rooms this year, three of which will be within the city limits. MORE PUPILS There are just under 100 more pupils this year than last., but if vital statistics are any guide, thk number will be still further in-crensed before the end of the financial year. Included in the schooiboard/estimates is an amount of $2.ni>7 for the Cariboo Health Unit This is an increase of nearly S700 over last year. The school still considers this a goodinvestment as it Strickland Rink In Jasper Semi-Finals Mel Strickland's rink moved in-fo the semi-finals t>r the Visitors' Event at the Jasper Curling Club's bon spiel. It is expected finals irr" all events will be played today. Other members of Mr. Strickland's quartette are: Harold Hatch third; Hans Roine, second: Jimmy WilsonT lead. Two other rinks will take to away ice this week-end when Gar-vin Dezell and Ron Hatch will take rinks to the Smithers Annual Bo'nspiel. Curling at Smithers commences Saturday and will terminate on Monday. Trapped in the locomotive cab; two men plunged to a waWry death in Seton Lake when a PJG E. engine was derailed on Monday. The accident occurred when an avalanche slid down the cliff alongside the railway track and hurled the locomotive with itx occupants and a tender Into the deep ice-covered lake hundreds of feet below. Smashing through the ice, the locomotive disappeared from sight. Names of the killed are-Alex Munro and Harry Seymour, both reported to be from Squam-ish. Redrock May Be New Townsile VICTORIA—Redrock may »e the site of a new town. Ry order-in-council, the government in Victoria recently granted to the Pacific Great Eastern Railway 5G9 acres of land along the extension from Quesnel In Prince George. The land is near Redrock. about 17 miles south of this city. Vancouver Isolated, But PG Keeps Arteries Open As intense cold weather remained like a pall over the B.C. interior this week, unemployment became rife, a fuel shortage became more critical and transportation was severely hampered. But Prince George, with rail and road arteries open, is luckier than Vancouver and*most of B.C. I After a two-day mild period when the mercury rose to 3 above on Friday and 5.2 above on Saturday, Prince George's "break" lost itself in a freezing fog, bringing school attendance on Tuesday to an all-time low of \'.V.) out of-438 students—under one-third. UNEMPLOYED . Employment officials at Prince No Forecast So fo*t*r;ist is available fron» the weather office today ! efuisr. teletype linos from Vancouver are down in the Canyon. 'rhe only forecast the loci! office c;ui get is ove»* the Denn^ment of Tvans;»o'%t. »*:»l?o :;n'l fhis is obtained infrequently. v...- .....w. - r,—. George stated this morning that thereby gets th?1 services of two 192 miIis in the district arc shut nurses, one doctor and n sanitary inspector, whereas, the budgetted sum for the Cariboo Health Unit would hardly provide for the EX^nT ,?"!£ Tchoo^ ! unemp.oymom in_ m «, own hea.th sevv.ee. | %%$££ .Xh^.nu'as Bob Anderson was elect ed Out" down and that known unemployment has reached ;i total of L500 men. They said that applications fon was chairman of the board at Monday's meeting. Frank Clark, J. P., administered the oath of office to Mr. Anderson and to trustees Harold Moffat and John Nielsen. Present at the meeting in addition were: Bill Rees, Gordon Stiles, Inspector W. H. Grant, and school principal Jack Beech. well as from within the city. They attributed the mill shutdown partly to snow conditions which are making operation excessively expensive for smaller outfits. The coal and wood shortage has become critical. Flnmes whfch bxoke °'1' on Friday morninn n' 'ho home of Mr. and Mrs. .1 Gerard at Alcza I,;ike totally consumed 'heir house and many of their p sessions, according to reports from that district. Mr. Gerard barely had "m« to pvocnjjto hts wife nml th»*ee children, still in the''' T1^s^h^ clothes, from the swiftly h*i»-»-Ing building. Ft Is renorted hr Nnffered burned hands in getting them out. The fire broke out in the upper part of the building, owned by One coal dealer stated he is John Hannev> and was discover- (See VANCOUVER, Poge 4) ed at 6:50 a.m.