The Chilliwack Progress from Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada • Page 1

OPPORTUNITIES look for you when you are worth finding. Province wide regret has been expressed at the passing of Alderman C. E. Tisdall, Vancouver, former mayor of the city and former provincial minister of finance. Canadian Legion Corner fjgj The Canadian Legion Dominion convention is being held in Hotel Vancouver, Monday to Thursday inclusive of next week.

Comrades McCammon, Stevenson and Hall are our official delegates. Any Legion members may attend the sittings and functions of the convention as fraternal delegates but are not permitted to take part in the discussions. The entertainment committee has arrangements for Vimy Night well forward and have promises from good talent that they will appear. Definite information will be given later. His Majesty Sends Thanks To Citizens City Clerk P.

J. Brown is in receipt of the following message from Buckingham Palace: "I am commanded to convey to the members of the City Council and people of Chilliwack the sincere and heartfelt thanks of The King, Queen Mary, and the Members of the Royal Family for your kind message of sympathy in their great loss. "His Majesty appreciates deeply the loyal assurances which accompany this message. "Yours very truly, "Wigram." Ginger Coote Suffers Severe Sprain While loading his plane last week for the Whitewater, Ginger Coote council expressed sympathy with fell and sprained a leg badly. He the views of the delegation, and on fell backward as he was carrying motion of Alderman MacLeod and i Uvo iarge pans Gf oii that he had muuuiaii uie cuunni agiieu warmecj up for pane engine two thirds of the cost of the pro posed plot." The delegation will meet with the members of the municipal council at its next meeting, and if that body is favorable, financial arrangements between the two bodies would be taken up to provide the two thirds portion of the cost of the plot.

Noted Folk Festival Authority To Speak Mrs. J. T. McCay, who has been largely responsible for the great success which has attended Vancouver's Folk and Handicraft Festivals, will be guest speaker at the Women's Canadian Club on Monday afternoon next, March 23, at 3 o'clock. A keen student of the ways and ideals of those people who come to us from other lands, Mrs.

McCay believes that they have a real contribution to make to us along many lines. A large attendance is hoped for on this occasion. Ontario Storm Round A blizzard that swept south and central Ontario left a large part of the province storm bound Wednesday, as winter laid unexpected ljr on a wide area. Ontaric have been flooded also. As he descended the steep bank of the lake shore, he slipped on a piece of ice, his right leg doubling up as he fell heavily upon it.

He sprang up at once but found that his leg was numb and he could not control it. Mr. Coote is in the hospital and all trips by the plane will be cancelled for a few days. Dan Crowley whom Ginger rescued from impending death with legs frozen for a month from a cabin by the side of Angus Horn lake in the Blue River mountains a week ago, is in the hospital and is much improved. His rescuer is in an adjoining ward.

Saturday saw the three seater jr.ai and Roy from Vancouva. avored by a tail wind, the speedy ship circled over this city just 20 minutes after Pilot Lionel Vines pointed its nose into the air at Sea Island. A new 225 horsepower Wright Whirlwind motor, similar to the engine that carried Lindbergh across the Atlantic to Paris on his famous flight, has been installed in the Brett ship and Pilot Vines states that it is now one of the most powerful and capable performers in Canada. Roy Brett accompanied Pilot Vines on the trip from Vancouver Saturday. Formation of a Chilliwack Flying Club, organized by Frank Edwards, is expected to give stimulus to private flying.

With Lionel Vines as instructor in charge and Frank Edwards as the club's air engineer, other enthusiasts include Humphrey Svendsen, Leo Edwards, Eric Eversfield, Fred Meilicke, and Ronnie Wells. The club has taken over the three passenger Eaglerock biplane formerly owned by Ed. Pras loski, the ship being powered with a 110 horsepower OX 6 motor. Construction of a hangar for the plane at the Brett airfield is proceeding. Frank Edwards' two passenger low wing monoplane has been licensed and will bear the letters About twenty Chilliwack Valley veterans of the Great War have signed up for the Canadian Legion Vimy pilgrimage trip, it is reported by the secretary of the committee.

D. S. MacNeil. In all 3700 reservations for the trip have so far been made, including 305 from British Columbia. Four steamships have so far been chartered and will sail from Montreal on July 15.

Reservations for accommodation on these vessels had to be in before March 14, when the passenger lists were closed, but if a sufficient number of extra bookings are received in time another vessel may be chartered. Two of the steamships will sail direct to Le Havre while the other two will proceed to Antwerp. From these ports the pilgrims will tour the old battlefields of the Western Front, converging on Vimy Ridge for the unveiling of the great Canadian memorial. They will then rejoin the vessels and proceed to England, where special arrangements are being made for their reception and entertainment. While the entire round trip is scheduled to occupy 31:..

weeks those participating will have the privilege of staying over for any length of time up to six months without increasing their rail or steamship fares. Vegetable Board To Meet Growers Vegetable growers of Chilliwack will have an opportunity to hear an outline of policies and ruling of the coast Vegetable Marketing Board, and to question board members, at Monday evening's Chilliwack Board of Trade meeting. The Board of Trade has invited the marketing authorities to be present in an effort to present accurate information to the growers, and by means of questioning to clear up any misunderstandings which may have arisen in regard to the operation of the scheme. Skyways Lure Ambitious Birdmen Of The District A ACTIVE summer in Chilliwack's aviation world is con fidently expected by flying enthusiasts in the district, and as a result of recent developments more planes than ever before are expected to be housed on the XO acre Brett landing field. CF AYN.

It is powered with a 125 horsepower LeRhone Quick motor, and is ready for the air. A hangar for the ship will also be constructed this year. Another ship that will be seeing service is Leo Edwards' single passenger Heath. Powered by factory converted Henderson mo torcycle engine, it is a beautiful construction job. Leo served with the Royal Air Force in Egypt dur ing the war, and is anxious to get back into the game again.

Ayliffe Carey, another birdman. is finishing instruction course Vancouver at the present time. The held being used at present is the 80 acres owned by Earl and Roy Brett. This will be fitted with a 2000 foot runway and will comply with all regulations, and will afford Chilliwack an excellent private field for use of local planes. Those interested in aviation in the district stress the fact, however, that it is vital to secure facilities for commercial air lines and mail service here.

Chilliwack, situated on the "right edge" of the coast fog belt, should be an important point on the trans Canada air mail route, and for that reason efforts are being made to arrange an extension of the temporary commercial airport license on the Chad sey property on Sumas. SCOTTS SCRAPBOOK Flame Of Memory For Cenotaph Alderman Eyres Suggests Lights To Illuminate Corners of Shaft Placing of small floodlights at the four coiners of the Cenotaph at the city hall to illuminate the memorial at night, was suggested by Alderman L. H. Eyes at Monday evening's council meeting. Such lights would serve to mark the memory of Chilliwack's fallen sons in a fitting manner.

Alderman Eyres declared that the memorial is a beautiful one by day, but at night loses much of its significance by virtue of its being shrouded in darkness. Public organizations holding any service there are forced to grope about in darkness, and persons entering the city pass without noting it. Other aldermen expressed sympathy with the suggestion, and the cost of such a lighting system will be investigated. Mayor Hurndall also favored some welcome signs at the approach to the city, and was informed by Alderman Eyres that a Board of Trade committee is considering various forms of welcome gates, and that definite recommendations will be forthcoming in the near future. Japanese Letters Rouse Much Interest Centre of interest in Chilliwack Wednesday morning was a large touring model Graham Paige automobile which bore black and white license plates of queer design.

Parked in front of Hipwell's Drug Store, the machine attracted many curious glances from both children and grown ups during the noon hour. fflh 11 ills JlfiSL Spring Cleaning Is Needed Aldermen Ponder Possibilities of Garbage Collection; Week For Clean up Possibility that a garbage collection system may be instituted in Chilliwack loomed following deliberations of the City Council Monday evening. Alderman Dennis brought up the question of disposal of household refuse and other rubbish, declaring he and Mayor Hurndall had recently made an inspection tour of city lanes and were not at all impressed with the sights that greeted them in some of the city's "better" residential lanes. "Some people seem to consider a lane just a place to dump old cans and ashes," Alderman Dennis remarked. Mayor Hurndall agreed thai conditions could be improved, and suggested that a self supporting garbage collection department might be instituted in the city.

Alderman Pook was of the opinion that the field offered excellent possibilities for a private business venture, if a route were established on a regular basis throughout the entire residential district of the city on a regular collection charge system. Upshot of the discussion was advocacy of another "clean up week" by Alderman Eyres, with the suggestion that the city again offer to remove rubbish if placed in the lanes in proper containers by citizens. COMING EVENTS AS ADVERTISED IX THE PROGRESS TODAY Friday, March 20: Dunce. Atehelitz Hall. Investigation disclosed it to be i Friday Saturday, March 20 21 the property of Dr.

Hugh Keenley of the Rum ho," Strand. side, former attache to the Cana Monday, March 23 dian Legation at Tokio, and the curious figuring on the plates meant "Canadian Legation No. 3," the official identification mark of the car in Japan. Dr. Keenleyside is at present in Ottawa at the department of external affairs on business, and the car was brought to Chilliwack by his brother, E.

W. Irvine Keenley side of Vancouver. Mr. Keenleyside and A. F.

Arnold of Forest I Lawn Memorial Park were visiting i H. M. Eddie Sons and the B. C. Nurseries in search of stock for landscape gardening.

nadian Club. Empress Hotel. Monday Tuesday, March 23 24: Double Feature Program. Strand. Wednesday Thursday, March 25 26: Double Feature Program.

Strand. Thursday, March 26: Annual Meeting. Agricultural Ass East Chilliwack Hall, Ruth Rebekah Roll Call. I.O.O.F. Thursday Friday, March 26 27: Kin Kit! Broadcast." C.

II. S. Am torium. Friday, April 3: Dance. Fuilfielil Island Hull.

Wednesday, April 8: Dun Club Revue. H. S. iu Friday, April 24: Opening Dance. New Agricultural II ft A POUT the busiest thing on earth is an idle rumor.

FORTY FIFTH YEAR, Vol. No. 50 CH1LLIWACK, B.C., THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1936 $2.00 PER YEAR Returned Soldier Plot Proposed By Legion AFLOT of ground specially set apart for the burial of the returned men of Chilliwack and district is a probability following Monday evening's meeting of the City Council. Representatives of the Canadian Legion, in placing the matter before council, met with a sympathetic hearing and promises of assurance. William Stevenson and President T.

T. McCiimmon, of the Canadian Legion, informed council that arrangements had been made with cemetery trustees for the acquiring of a 100 grave plot for this purpose at a cost of $700. The normal cost of such burial ground would be $1,000. Tho delegation suggested that funds for the plot be provided by the Canadian Legion and the city and municipal governing bodies. Mr.

Stevenson, as spokesman, declared that the Legion would maintain the plot and would arrange for surveying it. Situated in a beautiful spot among the recently cleared portions of the I.O.O.F. cemetery, the returned men's plot would be a distinct credit to Chilliwack and district. He informed council that communities smaller in size than Chilliwack had such plots, and put forward the view that such a project should be a matter of community responsibility and trust. The average age of Canadian war veterans is now 49, Mr.

Stevenson said, stressing the fact that in coming years a special plot for returned men would be needed. Mayor Hurndall and members of Twenty Join Pilgrimage Chilliwack Veterans Will. Journey To Vimy Gathering Live Smail ajse Swallowed AS CURE. FOR fuBERCULOSK By 1he Poor. wHiffes some.

5EjCiokS of The. Southern umie.d 51eS EARLIEST KMOWN PofXRArf OF A. DOCfbO. PIC fURE OF CRO MAMOH fRlB The op The few Por Trai ts of The lute Kms CEOB.GE. sr IN NAVAL.

UNIFORM 14 SHOWN Ot THIS NEW Z.EALAN.D STAMP, PA.IN1LD ALLS OF A SSOffO IM ettiEt E.FRAXCE. ALMOST 30,000 by R. J. SCOTT; 1 21 Suicide Raises Legal Point Three Way Controversy Over Costs of Burial The suicide of a Chinaman in the Estimate Frost Did $500 Street Damage; Weather Halts Repairs AMAGE to Chilliwack streets caused by the rectm cold snap and frost cominq; out of the ground has been municipal lockup while under ar estimated at bv V. E.

Jenkins, manatrer of Columbia citv has had a rather unusual of Uitulithic Company, who inspected city streets during the ficial sequel, as a reproduction of past week in company with Alderman L. 11. Eyres, coi lespoiiut iice oeiween ine municipality and city and between the municipality and the provincial attorney general's department will show. The issue is still undecided. awaiting some Solomon or Paul Kruger to find a solution.

Municipality to City We are enclosing bills in connec tion with the death of Chin Sing in the municipal hall. I am instructed to forward these to your council as they consider that this man was only here as a convenience and that I this municipality should not be sub ject to any charges in connection 1 I with him. I Municipality to Attorney General Reeve G. N. Ryder has requested me to place' the following case be fore your department.

Apparently it is not covered by the Municipal Act. I A Chinaman committed an of fence within the limits of the city I of Chilliwack and was put in jail, For convenience he was moved from the city of Chilliwack lock up to the township of Chilliwhack i mittpH QiiiriHo Tkmiinn aPieJ when the Canadian and Ameri as to whether the township of can boundary survey parties met at pointed out that a new Chilliwhack or the city should pay hkagit last summer, J. c. Hetty, would ne an expense. the coroner fees and the funeral lopograpmcai engineer oi me mier expenses.

The municipality hold 1 national Boundary Commission, that as the man was only here at i learned from S. Everall of the the city's convenience they should grave of a former American soldier not be responsible for these charges. The city hold that the death occurred in the municipality, therefore they are not responsible. The reeve would be glad if your department would indicate who should pay these expenses under the circumstances. Deputy Attorney General to Municipality Your communication of the 17th instant received.

The department Municipal Leaders Will Share Cost Of Hodgins Paving The section of Hodgins avenue from Yale road to Chilliwack hospital will be paved this summer. Definite plans will be made as soon as the dry weather sets in and conditions are favorable to the carrying out of the work. Members of the city council expressed pleasure Monday evening, when a letter from Municipal Clerk S. L. Brice officially informed them of the willingness of the municipal council to bear half the cost.

Lonely Mountain Grave To Be Marked who was buried at Opnnt Creek. now Brown Creek, near Chilliwack "1B uw" Lake Memhers of his nnrtv showed 1 mayor asked Mr. requested Mr. Everall to give them further information if possible. This was done, and upon the return of the survey party to Washington a subscription was taken up among the members.

Some $110 was raised in this manner and a bronze memorial receives many curious requests for tablet has been purchased with the loan council. Pheasants Freed; War On Crows By Game Board REPLACEMENT of pheasant losses has been carried out by the provincial game department under Game Warden Arthur Butler, who has liberated to date a total of 192 birds in the district, he reports. winter much better than the previ ous one. In addition the game department has issued shells for crow shooting, and hope to keep the depredations of these birds down to a minimum by this means. Members of the Chilliwack Fish and Game Protective Association are taking an active interest in crow shooting.

In addition thev 4 works chairman. Mr. Jenkins advised again" immediate reconstruction of tbir bad spots, as frost is nut all out (i the ground and woik done now would be subject to further po.ssibil.ly of trouble. Alderman Eyres roj cited that Chilliwack men and mm rials will be used in the work, i.r.iier supervision of an expert. Both gravel roads and sections surfaced highway suffered fion.

Jrc st damage. A woiks scheme at the school which will cU off thi. ioa'i sides and provide gravelled space on Yale load and alf street was explained by :i.n Eyres. I'rged New AsM shnieiu T. E.

Herron appeared 1 tfore council to urge a new civic hhm nient. He claimed the assessed value of city property is not in line with sale values, and for thai reason felt a new assessment should be made. Then, when a "more equitable" value had been council should strike what eve i mill rate is required in order to p. vide civic finances. Mayor Huindall not passed.

Alderman Pi iment tated that unless there weie inconsis tencies he could not see poir: a new assessment. "What do you think of tin system which permits a ratepayer to the Herron. Yrjder a great interest in the finding and tne system outlined by His Worship a properly owner set his own vaiue and paid taxes on that amount, but must be prepared to soil the figure he named. Mr. Herron frt ed it "would be splendid," but there appeared no immediate prospect of such a scheme being adopted in Chilliwack.

After some discussion roum. the table, and exchanging of op.r.ions advice, but none quite so curious money Mr EveraU has been asked betw'en 6an(, tnt" city perhaps as this coming from a to pack the tablet in, which he will falners he withdrew and tht municipality asking for advice as do some time in June or as soon as ter dropped iu us ui. pui.e wiui a iitiniiuuniiK i jiiuuiiuuii nans ueimit. ne n.is Tenders for silliplvint oa municipality as to who should bury i been asked to see that a firm ive(1 from jbu the corpse of a poor dead China foundation is made for the tablet. consj(ieiinff tne itter man dying within the municipal which is 2 1 by 30 inches, and is a ti i 'i J' men.

06 ijjcil i i i kil nil nuuuiu uira nuii.ii suit your solicitor. We trust the was found over the head of the corpse has been buried in the mean grave. The following inscription time. Municipality to Deputy Attorney General I am directed to acknowledge re ceipt of your letter of February 18 appears on the tablet: "Sacred to the memory of Michael Brown, a native of County Galway, Ireland, who was drowned in Chillowevuck Lake October 10, 1858, his body required and not cnntiact. year's supply fioui any one A bill from A.

J. pumping, and computed at tin of per hour, was autre paid at a rate of $1 per hoti. Relief Problems Alderman Pook, relief cha Alderman Pook, relief cha reported on his department reported on his depar tment tie fter ome for late in reference to a deceased China was inunn ann interred nere june man and to say that the reeve 1B nls comrades oi urn ac wishes me to acknowledge the con 1 fltn Infantry, U. S. Army, i tivities.

One resident on reia? has cern of your department in regard 26 Rest in peace." i recently purchased a piece ol rop to the disposal of the body. I ami erty and commenced erectioi. of a pleased to advise that the remains Premier Aberhart announces he garage thereon, and uined (it have been buried so that, in due will resign from oltice before sub he should "lay oft i lief for course, the bones may be returned mitting to the control of a federal Formal resolution to this effect was to the land of his forefathers. re marking that "1 11 tell him." Another of Aldeunnn Pook spe I cial problims was a new arrival, of European or igin, who had drawn I relief in Lanlev in February. I moved to Chilliwack and acquired a home, and now wirturi to draw tassistiTC? fr.Tm th civic funds of his new home." i Aldei man MacLeod querie as to the pns of recalling re mced rates on lijjiit and water st vices performed fot the city.

fere, will interview the Elk Creek works Co. relative to the fl.hing are makiner better than 00 tier cent iof fire hydrants. Alderman Eyres Birds have come through the nast scores now. i hail a word of mm ndation for Renorts of the week's fishinir in oinci lor the eou. the district indicate that the Ved extended the city in the past, dur der yielded several good bags over nR discussion, the week end, and that steelhead I Mayor Huindall proFcntec a re are running well.

The Vedder view of the Eraser Vail Kttves' Canal is good for dollies. Harrison Association nr. tins held recently is expected to be good for fly fish in New West rninst r. and council imr this week, and the Fraser is comm 1 him fir his ir. erest fair for trout.

and his vi Weaver, Grace, and Wolfe lakes! The phc have been brushing up on their are frozen over. Morse and Cultus the post marksmanship by range shooting, are good for fly and troll, respec I city was and report that 90 per cent of those i tively, while Harrison is reported matter had participating in the range shoots 1 poor as yet. iCntin a of 'h' proceed'ngs. 'on of Pelly i. olio rtte in i the 'fore.

The ben passed to the e.l ell Pue Four) These Statesmen and Diplomats to Fore in Present Grave European Crisis; League Efforts to Avert Conflict COL. JOS. BIX'K Poland's Foreign Minister F.IHH AKD BEXES President of Czechoslovakia Above are the principal actors in the drama of Europe's bitter controversy over Rhineland occupation. Anthony Eden, British foreign secretary, has played an important role in the negotiations which are now proceeding in London, and Tuesday Britain staved off immediate imposition of sanctions against Germany by the League of Nations when she secured the presence of German delegates at the League of 1 i l. ir ilitn', JL.

feutf il BEXITO MI SSOLIXI Premier of Italy MAXIM LITVIXOFF Soviet Foreign Minister Nations council table. Vote on the Franco Belgium demand for indict ment of Germany as a treaty violator was postponed until Thursdny. Britain proposed creation of mutual de militarized zones on both sides of the Rhine frontier as one of the principal features for averting a European crisis. France, with an expensive fortification system already created, did not warm to the proposal. ANTHONY EDEN British Foreign Secretary French and German viewpoints are still far apart.

France scores Germany for violation of the Versailles treaty and the Locarno pact, while Hitler and his aides profess alarm for the Franco Russian pact. Soviet Foreign Commissioner Maxim Litvinoff upbraided Germany's action in reoccupying the Rhine zone as "brutal infringement of international treaties and sabre rattling," and the Communist state ALBERT SAKKAUT Premier of France ADOLF IIITLEK Chancellor of Germany 1 is thus drawn nearer to France in the present crisis, i Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy and Entente leaders have pitted support for France. In addition, the European crisis has over I shadowed the Italo Ethiopian conflict in Africa, and practically halted all League of Nations efforts to settle that trouble. The future of the League is bound up in solution of present difficulties..