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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1920 RUSSELL FAVORS ADVISORY BOARD Liberal Candidate in South Vancouver Talks on Municipal Affairs Supported by Several Speakers at Two Meetings Yesterday SOUTH VANCOUVER, Nov, yestera meeting Fraser held day afternoon. Tiderington in the the Mr. chair, Russell, Liberal and Labor candidate for South Vancouver riding, after stating general policies and views as to affaire of the Province, spoke to the electors with reference to South sionership at present He outlined at some length the condition affairs which caused Government appoint a Commis- stoner. that, stated in the was course open at time the difficult sit- existed; and, he further added, it was the same step 8.9 private would take were to advance a large sum of to firm which was would trouble--he appoint Investment safe- Mr. Russell felt that people to be would able to an advisory board, however, and was accord with their wishes, and promto work for a change elected.

Captain Tan Mackenzte urged people to elect a man who would be In sympathy with the Oliver Government, which was certain to be returned to power, as such representative could accomplish more for them all, and especially for the returned men and their dependents In the evening, Candidate Russell again placed his platform before electors, at a large gathering in the Secord School, and asked for their support on that platform and his past record as a public servant. Dr. D. A. Dunbar, as chairman, few words eulogized Mr.

Russell a man sound judgment, Integrity of and ability, and, as such, one whom the electorate would do well to endorse as their representative at the coming election. Mrs. Bryant said that the Oliver Government was entitled to the support of the people of this Province, Mr. A. M.

Stevens, president of the Child Welfare Association of British Columbia, said that the Oliver Administration had, in its short regime, accomplished so much in the interests of the children that he could take no other stand than to support tha Government to the best of his ability. COUNCIL TO VOTE MONEY FOR WORKS Continued from Page One Crowe. M.P., and Col. R. C.

Cooper, M.D. The following telegram was despatched last night to Premier Meighen at Ottawa: At a large meeting today representative of returned soldier bodies, labor organizations and employers of labor, it was conceded that at least 6,000 men were out of work and hundreds of famflies in extreme want. This state of affairs naturally must be remedied at once, otherwise the discontent now manifest will assume a threatening attitude that it is desirable and necessary to avoid. Many industries such as lumbering, mining and fishing are being closed and the situation becoming acute, as industrial and ordinary business staffs are also being reduced. Vancouver is not financially able to cope with the condition and the Provincial Government is likewise limited in its ability to render effective aid.

Would therefore strongly urge upon your Government the vital necessity of granting immediate relief. It is estimated that nearly Dine under the big clock. Table de Hote Dinner, $1.50. STATES LIBERALS NOT PLAYED GAME Col. Warden Makes Plea for Soldier Vote at Conservative Rally Miss Paterson Has Colonization Scheme; Dr.

Mahan on Finances what was termed one of the best addresses he had yet made durIng the campaign, J. W. Warden, Conservative candidate, last night at the Finnish Hall made a plea for the soldier vote, saying that the Liberals had not played the game with returned men. Lieut. el Warden, Miss Paterson, Dr.

W. H. Mahan and Mr. W. A.

Cantelon spoke at Aberdeen School As well. Lieut. -Colonel Warden referred to a plan he had originated by which the veterans would have tax-exempt land set aside for them on their return from overseas. He had prepared this scheme during the early months of the war, and the Conservative government had accepted it. After the election in 1916 the act had been cancelled for no good reason.

CHANGE OF ATTITUDE The speaker touched upon the attitude of veterans now supporting the Liberal candidates, referring to remarks made in The Sun. Capt. Ian Mackenzie had at Fernie, on June made a plea to the soldiers there to stand together for returned-man representation in the Legislature. From newspaper reports gathered the idea that Mayor Gale was looking forward to a government position on the strength of 8 hope that the Liberals would be returned. Mr.

W. Cantelon denounced Liberal advertisements as suggestive of taking credit where credit was not due. De. J. W.

Mahan ventured to say that the cost of advertising for the Liberal committee in Vancouver alone would amount to $100.000. the money is coming from I don't know," he said, COLONIZATION SCHEME Miss Edith Paterson said the Conservative party Was a constructive one, and that if returned to power would devise a scheme whereby the various hospitals in the Province would receive financial assistance. One of the most important planks In the platform of the Conservatives, she said, was a colonization scheme. Miss Paterson said that the agentgeneral's office in London could be utilized for the purpose, and that was desirable to bring into this country real farmers from the Old Country, Capt. Black, to whom three questions were directed, in replying to one which asked his opinion as to what he thought the men who deserted these who had fought for the Empire replied: "I won't answer this question.

The audience is a mixed one, and my language might not be acceptable to a portion of it." WESTMINSTER LADY DIES AFTER OPERATION NEW WESTMINSTER, Nov. Death claimed one of New Westminster's most highly respected citizens in the person of Mrs. Fannie Isabella Macgowan, wife of Mr. D. H.

Maagowan, who died Thursday at St. Mary's Hospital, following an operation. Deceased was 78 years of age and came to this city with her husband and family seventeen years ago. Mrs. Macgowan was married Lu Charlottetown in 1879.

Besides her husband, she is survived by two sons, Gowan and Keith, and two daughters, Mrs. W. G. McQuarrie and Mrs. J.

F. R. Balloch, and five grandchildren, all of this city. There also 18 one brother, Mr. Charles Owen of Charlottetown, and numerous nephews and nieces.

One nephew, Mr. A. P. G. MacDonald, resides In this city, The funeral was held on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the family residence, 316 Second to the Holy Trinity Cathedral.

'WALK UPSTAIRS AND SAVE TEN' Suits and Overcoats at Your Own Prices. I've been instructed by headquarters to raise $100,000 within the next two weeks. I've been ordered to unload my stock at the best price I can get for believe me I'm going after it strong. The boss has given me the privilege of marking my whole stock at any price that I think will sell them quickest, and if you think I'm not going to mark them cheap, you don't know me. Headquarters has put it up to me to raise $100,000 within two weeks, Now I'm putting it up to you.

It has been put to me so strong that I must realize the money out of these goods at the public's own price. Sale Starts Today, Saturday, Nov. 20th There's plenty for you all so don't rush. Take it easy and let us have a chance to wait on the trade properly and fit you right. Yours for the biggest bargains you ever saw.

0). Mille Manager. P.S.-.-Raincoats all reduced in price. Tuxedos, $50. Full Dress, $60 Robinsons Clothes Shops SUITS, OVERCOATS RAINCOATS, DRESS SUITS The Largest Exclusive Clothiers in Canada Corner Over SHOP ARE Hastings and USSTAIRS World Richards OPEN SAT.

TILL 930 RM. Newspaper SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR MONEY REFUNDED TRUTH IS STRONGER THAN THIS FICTION SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Nov. 19. -Attacked by thousands of crows, while duck hunting on the Missouri river near here, M. L.

Murray of Salix killed and Woundede more than 500 of the angry birds in three hours of constant fighting, using about 200 shotgun shells. The coming darkness gave him an opportunity to escape. The fight started when Mr. Murray shot at a lone crow and wounded it. The wounded bird cried for help soon dreds of others went to its aid.

CORRECTION SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Nov. 10, Kill crow story. Unverified. BIG CROWD HEARS PREMIER OLIVER IN ROYAL CITY Continued from Page One mier reported, "and seeks to find material with which to condemn the Government. "In spite all his searching." added the Premier, "he has never found one order-in-council with which to challenge the on the floor of the Legislature.

Government After Bowser's experience in Mr. crooked work venture to say there is I 10 man better qualified for the job. "With 6000 men out of employment in Vancouver, the Province is faced with the fact that there are too many men in our cities while vacant farm lands cry forth for development," went on the Premier. "Before the winter is over many families will find themselves in a serious situation. The Provincial Government has the machinery to unlock the land to labor and more will be thrown open as time goes on.

The Land Settlement Board has been given the power to draw A line around any particular piece of land goes into the vaults with a little table and electric light," the Pre- and declare it a settlement area. ASSISTING VETERANS "The absentee landlord under the administration of the Liberal Government is more anxious to let go of the land a than he was to get it in the first the Premier declared. He next dealt forcibly with the work accomplished behalf of the returned soldiers. The land areas set aside for their use he said, had been selected by committees of the men themselves. In its various activities the Government had spent $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 for the benefit of returned men.

Criticisms levelled at the Government arose from the fact that opponents of the administration had gone into the soldier areas to stir up trouble and dissatisfaction. At two stages of the meeting some heckling was indulged in but was without the support of the audience, one interrupter even being led to the door as a mark of disapproval of his tactics. Capain T. B. Green was chairman of the meeting.

Following are some of those occupying platform seats: Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Cross, Alderman Wm.

McAdam, Alderman Eastman, Ex- Alderman Goulet, Ex-Alderman J. B. Jardine, R. Buckland, Mr. and Mrs.

R. R. Jardine, H. Ryall, J. A.

Courtney, K. K. Reid, M. J. Phillips, H.

Streight, H. Elson, A. G. Kidd. John Reid, J.

H. Huggard, J. McIntosh, F. Ogle, J. N.

McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. F. Murchie, C. Damaske, James Anderson, J.

W. Dixie, Mr. and Mrs. J. J.

Forrester, Mrs. J. R. Gilley, J. Murphy, M.

W. Minthorne, J. McMenemy, W. Burr, Reeve Marmont of Coquitiam, Mr. and Mrs.

T. J. Trapp, Frank Trapp, A. Hardman, F. Mercer, Jos.

Dorgan. STRONGLY CONDEMNS ACTIONS IN IRELAND Asquith Makes Violent Speech Against Policies of the Government LONDON, Nov. condemnation of the Government's Irish policy and reprisals in Ireland was voiced by former Premier Asquith in a speech at the National Liberal Club today. He declared that cold blooded, deliberate murder had been traced and credited to uniformed servants of the Crown, and asserted things were being done in Ireland "by authority and incitement of the executive, which would take a fitting place in the blackest annals of the lowest despotism of the European world." The plain truth is, said. Mr.

Asquith, that since the adoption of this practice of reprisals, SO far as my knowledge of history goes, in the annals of the British administration, justice has been put into the background and vengeance has been enthroned in its place. The executive with its agents and servants has allowed itself to be minister a polley of blind, pitiless and indiscrimInate revenge. BRITANNIA LITERARY SOCIETY CONCERT large crowd of students, parents and friends cor pletely tilled the Britannia High School auditorium at the concert given by the Britannia Literary and Debating Society on Friday evening. Every item on the programme was contributed to by Britannia students. Howard Daniel, preeident, was the chairman.

The concert opened with the reading of the minutes of the last meeting by the secretary. Miss Edith Butler. The Misses Eeler started the musical programme with a piano duet. Miss Inness followed with a. reading, in which she imitated an old negro par60n addressing congregation.

Something new in the musical line at Britannia was inaugurated by Geo. Buckley, who gave a solo on the clarinet. Gordon Miller, vice-president of the "Lit." gave a shout address, which WaS followed by a by the Britannia double nixed quartette composed of Mias Lena Wharton, Miss Edith Butler, Miss Margaret Gordon, Mies Harriet Cameron, Carl Schmidt, Harold Steeves, Ernest Roberts and Howard Daniel. Following this came a vielin solo by Miss Willis. A typical scene in village railway depot was then enacted.

Annie McKeate as old Mrs. Buttermilk, Jack McKenzie as young Johnay Buttermilk, and Arlington Dixon as the very-much-bored railway clerk, all acted their parts well. Miss Helen Northey gave a piano solo; Miss Dorothy Johnston contributed a vocal solo, and Miss Evelyn Kee gave an exhibition of Scottish dancing. Miss Nellie Harrison gave a piano solo. and the programme vas wound up with a shadowgraph sketch by John Payne and Harold Steeves, Miss Phyllis Jackson was the pianist.

To Care Cold in One Day Take Grow LAXATIVE BROMC QUININE tablets. The Grove. genuine bears the signature of E. W. 10c.

READY TO CANCEL CLUB LICENSES THE WEATHER VICTORIA, Nov. barometer abnormally low over Nor- thern B. and rainy mild weather the Pacific slope; mild weather also general in the Prairie Provinces. Temperatures Vancouver 50 50 Gd. Forks 39 49 Victoria 45 51 Cranbrook 26 Kamloops 38 50 Bark'rville 28 Rupert 50.

Atlin 14 Dawson 0 6 Calgary 30 50 Winnipeg 20 30 Portland 01 56 Francisco 56 62 Penticton 42 54 Nelson 38 47 Forecasts for 24 hours from 5 a.m. Saturday: Victoria and -Moderate to fresh southerly and westerly winds; partly cloudy and mild, with sional rain. Lower Mainland--Easterly and southerly winds; mostly cloudy and mild, with rain. Nelson and vicinity. -Partly cloudy and mild, with occasional rain.

Vancouver. guarded. BLACK DREW SALARY WHILE IN THE ARMY Fred Congdon, at Liberal Meeting, Discusses Former Yukon Commissioner POINT GREY, Nov. Columbia politics will never get 40 that It will be necessary to disthe career of Captain George Black." said Mr. Fred Congdon, K.C..

an address at Liberal meeting held at Queen Mary School, West Point Grey, last night in support of Mr. H. P. McCraney, Liberal candidate for Richmond riding. "My greatest relief in leaving the Yukon was that I would no longer have to listen to speeches made by Captain, "In Black." fact, I continued wouldn't Mr.

listen Cong- to him now for $100 an hour. He drew salary of $3,000 a year as Commissioner of the Yukon while he was drawing captain's pay in Victoria during the war. "The policy of encouraging iron and steel industries to locate British Columbia has been adhered to by the Liberal Government during the past four years," he continued. "The Provinee will never reach its true destiny until iron and steel are laid down in Vancouver as cheaply as in Eastern Canada and the United States." In speaking of Mr. 1 Bowser, he said, "The Leader of the Opposition violated every of ethics when he was Attorney address was given by Mr.

H. P. McCraney, candidate, who stated he would support town planning for Point Grey and the upkeep of trunk roads through the municipality by the Provincial Government. Mr. Alexander McLeod, K.C..

of the University of Manitoba, stated Premier Oliver had more heart that culture. Liberal Government has adopted a policy in educational matters which has as one of its main pointe the establishment of the University of British Columbia at Point Grey," he said. 20,000 have come into British Columbia already this fall hecause of the milder climatic conditions, and Vancouver in the centre to which they gravitate, thus aggravating greatly our ordinarily local situation. In view of the large number of returned men now in want it is imperative that your immediate aid be forthcoming. Among those who attended and took part in the preliminary ence were Col.

G. H. Kirkpatrick. chairman of the Harbor Board; Mr. S.

J. Crowe, M.P.: Co. R. C. Cooper, M.P.: Hon.

J. W. deB. Farris Mrs. J.

C. Kemp, Messra, J. R. Duncan, W. G.

Murrin, F. W. Peters, J. Hanbury, T. B.

Thomas, J. H. McVety, H. T. Lockyer and City Relief Officer Ireland.

Attorney-General Asks City Authorities to Show Where Law Is Broken Hon. Mr. Farris Denies Campaign Fund Charges at Progress Theatre Hon. J. W.

deB. Farris, AttorneyGeneral, is prepared to cancel incorporation, wherever the municipal authorities can prove that there has been any breach of law. Mr. Farris, speaking for the first time since his confinement in the General Hospital with an attack of tonsilitis, told an audience at the Progress Theatre yesterday afternoon, that he had been in conversation with Mayor Gale earlier in the day with reference to rumors of licensing of so-called beer clubs." The Attorney- General said that it had declared department had granted licenses for so termed "near beer clubs' in caseg where the City had refused such privileges. There was no such thing as a "near beer club," the speaker explained.

But by means of incorporation, which can be secured through the Provincial Government, such places as these had been established. "I told the Mayor this afterncon that if the City authorities will undertake to say that any incorporation ought to be cancelled, where it Is proven that it is for any breach of the law. I will do SO within 24 hours," the Attorney-General said. In reply to an alleged assertion of Capt. George Black at the Progress Theatre Thursday, to the effect that bootleggers' whisky was the source of money for the Liberal campaign, the speaker emphatically refuted the charges.

Other speakers were Mrs. James Mr. J. P. Dougherty, and Bryan.

Capt. Ian Mackenzie. BOWSER FEELS THE TIDE IS COMING IN Tells Island Audience That Conservative Sentiment Sweeping Province VICTORIA, Nov. Liberals in this contest, as in that of 1916, have but one text, and it is, 'Bowser, Bowser, John Oliver tells that I am politically dead, that you I was buried in 1916 and that only trouble about me is that I persist in walking around. If, as claims, I am dead, why is he talking so much about me?" asked Mr.

W. J. Bowser, K.C., Conservative leader of the 300 and more electors of Esquimalt who packed almost to suffocation the Sailors' Club at Esquimalt this evening. It was Mr. Bowser's first appearance in this section of the Island during the present campaign.

His resume of his recent trip to interior and up-Island points told of a great tide of Conservative sentiment sweeping the country. His prediction was that on December 1 next, the Liberals would be swept from office and the Conservative party reinstated in power. Mr. Bowser elicited applause when, in dealing with the claim of Premier Oliver and Liberal candidates that the Government soldier settlement policy is satisfactory to the men, he read a statement forwarded to him by soldier settlers at Camp Lister, near Creston, which statement set forth, among other things: "There are no satisfied soldier settiers at Lister." BOOTLEGGER GIVEN LIQUOR BY POLICE Was Able to Sell Case Lots of Fire Water From Results of Raids PORTLAND, Nov. -Austin F.

Flegel, assistant United States attorney, charged at a hearing in the City Council Chamber today that police officers of Portland had supplied a bootlegger with liquor which wag later sold in case lots to prominent citizens, some of whom he named, The occasion was the trial before the police board of Police Patrolmen F. W. Huntington anw G. W. Russell, both accused of connivance in the alleged plot, "James Marshall, a confessed bootlogger, told me that he was acting as 'stool pigeon' for Huntington and Russell," testified Flogel, "and that in return one-third of all the liquor taken in raids was being given him.

He said he had no trouble in selling the liquor in case lots. He further told me at a conference in my office that the division of the spoils of one liquor raid was made in the office of Police Sergeant R. J. Ellis of the morality squad in the presence of Ellis." Later Officers Russell and Huntington testified, admitting the truth of Flegel's charge that they had given seized liquor to Marshall. Determination of the case was taken under advisement.

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KIRKHAM CO. Limited VANCOUVER Phone Sey. 6739 VICTORIA COSTS HIGH TO FEED CREWS OF U. S. BOATS Witness Tells Committee of Extravagant Methods of Purchasing NEW YORK, No.

is costing the United States Government $24,000 a day more to feed the sixty thousand men on Shipping Board vessels under the existing system of purchase of supplies, than it did during the war before its ships were allocated, R. H. Gregory, the Board's port steward in the North Atlantic district, testified today before the Congressional committee investigating the Board's affairs. Gregory said that during the war all supplies were purchased direct by the Board, Now each operator purchases the supplies and "the bills are paid by the He estimated that the basic rate per man per day is about $1.25. During war the estimated basic rate was 83c.

In New York alone, he added, there are eighty purchasing, agents for as many operators Shipping Board vessels. They are bidding against each other for supplies--and the Government eventually pays the bills. The Navy Department, he said, feeds its service on an average of less than 80c per man per THE PICCADILLY TEA SHOP HOT LUNCHEON AFTERNOON TEA SUPPER "We Serve the Best the Market Affords" 9 a.m. ---7 p.m. DUNSMUIR Blk.

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Here in British Columbia if each person would demand "Made in B. on articles they buy, all factories would be kept busy, so that there would be work for all our citizens. Teach, the "Made children in B. to on their scribblers and exercise books. This one simple request if carried out by the pupils in the Province would give employment to hundreds cf people.

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