Sherbrooke daily record, 11 mai 1948, mardi 11 mai 1948

[" 3945\t\t\tM \\ Y\t\t19\tIS S\tM\tT\t\\V\tT\tF\tS \t\t\t\t\t\t1 2\t3\t4\t5\t6\t*\tg !)\t111\t11\t12\t13\t14\t15 16\t17\t18\t19\t20\t21\t6 0 23\t24\tÎ5\t26\t27\t26\t29 30\t31\t\t\t\t\t SljeécookelMujRecocd WEATHER CLEAR Clear with little chancre in temperature, Light win is.Te nperature* yo«st*rd#\u201di Ma.mui;' (V., minimum 43 »ov nv Maximum S\\ THE PAPER OF THE EASTERS TOWNSHIPS Established 189?'.PRICE: 5 CENTS SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, TUESDAY, MAY 11.Im Fifty-Firat Year World News In Brief Washington, May 11\u2014'.¦Pi\u2014 The Senate approved legislation yesterday to raise the amount of duty-free goods which returning tourists may bring into the United States from abroad from $100 to $500.The provision was attached, by unanimous consent, as a rider to a house-approved measure to permit the temporary free import of racing shells.It will therefore go to the conference with the house.X *\t* Ottawa, May 11\u2014.CP)\u2014Canada\u2019s latest tribal class destroyer, H.M.C.S.Athabaskan, will sail from Halifax May 19 in a 42-day sea voyage to her future operational base at Esquimalt, B.C., Naval Headquarters announced today.* « * Geneva, May 11.\u2014 (Reuters)\u2014Jerusalem will be declared an open city tomorrow or Thursday unless unforeseen circumstance?intervene, the International Red Cross announced today.* £ * Winnipeg, May 11.\u2014 (C.P.) \u2014An urdue delay in seeding today was the principal worry of farmers in the north western Alberta district of Ross-ington, where the swollen Pembina River earlier had forced 12 families to evacuate their homes.Ewart Stutchbury, secretary of Westlock municipal district which is astride the Pembina, said last night the water levels had not changed.\u201cThere is no suggestion of serious danger,\u201d he added.\u201cIt seems to be settling more into a long endurance test.\u201d * * * Rome, May II.\u2014(TP)\u2014The executive committee of the World Federation of Trade Unions r-dopfed a resolution charging that trcxde union rights have beevi \u201cabolished or seriously impeded\u201d in 13 countries.The resolution named the countries as Argentina, Brazil, Burma.Ceylon, Chile, China, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Malaya, Portugal and Spain It 'did not list detailed charges.* * * Brussels, May 11.\u2014(J?)\u2014 The executive committee of the Belgian Catholic and Socialist parties demanded yesterday that Paul Henri Spaak form a new Socialist-Catholic coalition government.Spaak, a Socialist, and his Socialist - Catholic coalition cabinet resigned last week.* * * Lima, Peru.May 11.\u2014(TP)\u2014 A violent earthquake shook the Arequipa department at 4:55 a.m.EDT today.Reports from Arica, a port in northern Chile, said the shock was strong there.^ $« Montreal, May 11.\u2014 (P\u2014A spokesman for Canadian railroads said today that on the presumption American lines are lifting their embargos on shipments of perishable cr other goods, Canadian roads will accept shipments for the United States, The spokesman said that at no time did Canadian lines impose an embargo.Russia Holds Out Hope For Peaceful Settlement Of Its Quarrels With United States Jews Claim Victory Over Arabs In Supply Line Battle Russians Declare Soviet Ready to \"P\u2019irstie Policy of Peace and Co-Opera-! tion\u201d \u2014 Americans View! Statement With Cautious Optimism.! Jerusalem, May 11.\u2014()P)\u2014Jews (awaited a written request from claimed victory today in the battle!Arab and JcwGh leaders to eon-j to open their vital Jenrtalem-Tel ! vert Jerusalem into a neutral zone.Aviv supply line.\tA temporary cease-fire, agreed to A spokesman said Jewish com- Saturday by the Jews and Arabs, niandos smashed through Arab re- now ex.sta in the Holy City, distance last night m the Bab E! Cairo dispatches said the Saudi Moscow s response to a plain-Wad Gorge, then swarmed over Arabian legation announced last ken American bid for \"de the hilis to wipe out Arab en- night that kmy Ibn baud has de- trenchments.\tcided that Saudi Arabia \u201cwill par- cent and reasonable\" relations Hagana militia engineers, mov- t^ipate with other Arab countries with Rusfia gave a sudden ing :n behind the commandos, used in the military uefence o.Palet- bulldozers and dynamite to root |tîn« at a time which has been boost today to hopes that the remaining Arabs' out of hillside agreed upon.\"\tworld's two top powers may be ! positions along the winding nvoun- Sonve Arabs m.d «xpres .>\u2022¦