Sherbrooke daily record, 19 avril 1944, mercredi 19 avril 1944

[" V §>hprbnmkr latlu Smirii ! WEATHEB THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS I'air, Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, WEDNESDAY, ABRIL 19, 19-14.-.'1 rr\"»1;\" .\"'3 CITY EDITION TERRIFIC PRE-INVASION BLOWS SMASH GERMANY German Troops Resisting Desperately In Defence Of Sevastopol Vital Nazi! How Red Armies Can By-Pass Mountain Barrier Rail Bases Are Struck Enemy Aircraft Factories in Western Germany Battered in Raid by Ü.S.Heavy Bombers Despatched \u201cini Very Great Strength\u201d to, Follow Up Assault on France.i London, April 19,\u2014{&)\u2014Send-1 mg out more than 5,000 planes, the Allies have blasted a new road toward D-day by dropping more than 7,000 tons of explosives on Hitler's Europe in the last twenty-four hours.Nearly 2,000 United States bombers and fighters went out today, smashing fighter plane factories in Germany as a similar armada had done yesterday.Sandwiched between these blows was a night assault on French rail junctions by more than 1,000 R.A.F.and E.C.A.F.bombers, the heaviest force ever dispatched by the E.A.F.against occupied territory.(The German - controlled Vichy j radio said Rouen was badly hit and the Cathedral there *was ( damaged.Another French city of 15,000 was declared in flames.) The American heavy bombers\u2014 which were escorted by fighters\u2014 lammered fighter plane factories »t Kassel and plants manufactur-mg aircraft parts at Eschwege, Southeast of Kassel; Paderborn, Gutersloh, Lippstadt and Werl, it was announced.The mighty force of four-engined \\\t,w/ > LITH./, Baltic Sea 100 F 777777//, E.PRUSSIA SOVIET RUSSIA Benin u/U/M/y///, across Warsaw Thrust across southern Poland would separate northci n ond southern German 0 '-'Y Breslau\u2022Nf Lublin \u2022 Krakow 'my® Vienna Tartar Pa*s Mountains, with few, and easily defended posset, form natural barrier against direct smash across Romania into plains of Hungary 7 AUSTRIA T Budapest HUNGA 2 Transyhanian Alps Iron\tÇ^Pfaestî O Bucharest * YUGOSLAVIA \\\" BULGARIA Possible Allied invasion of Yugoslavia would complete Balkan trap Belgrade Block Sea Heavy Casualties Feared In Raid QUEBEC SALES On 2,000-Bed Hospital In London gjy gyp^ FIRST READING London, April IP.\u2022 (T \u2014RescueiAt loc.-i ifl enemy planes were re workers dug through the wreckage ported shot down of one of London's largest hospitals today in a search for casualticfi after the building had been blasted and set o: Firemen and air raid workers] quickly extinguished the fire at.the I hospital and rescue squads worked | through the night hours fire by a direct hit during .a] violin patients i (ierman air raid on the capital early this morning.Nearly 2,000 patients were in the hospital and it was feared a number of them were buried under the debris, A.ward housing male patients was completely destroyed.The raid\u2014-the first on London in four nights and the third attack this month\u2014started about 1 a.m., and lasted for an hour.Anti-aircraft batteries hurlçd up a heavy barrage but if (ailed tojof London, including two residential turn away the raiders and vari-col- areas.Three women and a man wer Quebec, April 10._ (T \u2014The seeking |Legislative Assembly last night gave first reading to a bill to amend the Provincial sales tax so as to olim- I.- the two per cent tax on a ,\t¦\t, ,\t\u201e hion to two .number of items including soft wrecked by nlast.Several nearby cottages also were damaged by the Some of the cxtricatec were injured badly.All told five wards were damaged |mate seriously by fire in a ] drinks, , needs.explosion.The patients were evacuated to three nearby hospitals.A high explosive also fell in a teuamom district.killing ten persons.A fairly large number of fatalities occurred in other scattered sections ks, school supplies and farm «red flares, incendiaries and high explosives rained down on the city.killed at one point when a crarhine; raider demolished u house.The map above shows possible double drive by on-rushing Red Armies, across the plains of Southern Poland, straight into central Europe, and across river barriers and Nazi defense line, in South, to overrun Romania's oil fields.Both attacks offer the advantage of by-passing the \u201cnatural ramparts\" of the curving mountain chains.Continued on page 2, col.5.War Situation Seen At Glance Russia \u2014 Germans \u201cresisting desperately\u201d as Russians push toward Sevastopol.Aerial\u2014Allies send more than 5.000\tplanes to blast Europe with more than 7,000 tons of explosives in last 24 hours; 1.000\tR.A.F.-R.C.A.F.bombers batter French targets Tuesday night after American daylight raid on Germany; Germans lose thirteen planes in raiding London; Americans resume attack on Germany today.sjt sk ri Burma \u2014 Allies switch to offensive Northeast of Imphal.PUBLISHER WILL STAND TRIAL IN SEDITION CASE Court Has to Decide Whether to Permit Present Panel of 130 Prospective Jurymen to Stand in Sedition Conspiracy Hearings.By ERNEST G.WARREN, Associated Press Staff AVriter Washington, April 19.\u2014(TP)\u2014Capture of Edward James Smythe, New York pamphlet publisher, removed today a threat of indefinite post-1 ponement of the trial of Smythe and ; 29 other persons charged with sedi- j tious conspiracy.Smythe.described as publisher of ! \u201cOur Common Cause,'\u2019 was arrested in Ausable Forte, N.Y., yesterday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.Hiis absence during the first two days of the trial before Justice Edward C.Eicher had placed Prosecutor O.John Rogge, special assistant to Attorney-General Francis Biddle, in a position of either having to ask j postponement of all proceedings or I Continued on page 2, col.5.Eire Is Isolated By Security Move London, April 19.\u2014(®\u2014Britain adop\u2019.ed new security measures today to isolate neutral Eire as a potential Axis spy post, suspending shipping between Cork and Britain and curtailing rail traffic between Northern and Southern Ireland.Both measures, obviously linked with Allied preparations for the forthcoming invasion of Western Europe, dealt a fresh blow to Eire\u2019s already hard-hit economy.Suspension of Cork\u2019s shipments bottled up one of Eire\u2019s main outlets for livestock and agriculture produce.The War Office declined to divulge the extent of reduction in rail service between Eire and Northern Ireland.JAP AIR BASE SHATTERED BY 34-TON BLAST FARM LOAN ACT BILL PASSED BY QUEBEC HOUSE Legislative Assembly, by Vote of 34-10, Adopts Amendment After Opposition Because ot Interest Rate on Loans Is Turned Down, UNRRA SEEN AS FORMATION FOR LASTING PEACE Ottawa House Members Express Opinion that Organization Might Lead to Universal Peace Through Collaboration and Cooperation.Balaklava Seized By Red Troops Nazi Machine-Gunners Firing on Their Romanian Allies Showing Least Sign of Retreat or Surrender\u2014 Soviet Marines in Sight of Port City \u2014 Prepare for Combined Assault.Moscow.April 19.\u2014 f.T) \u2014 A Soviet communique said today that Axis troops were \u201cresisting desperately'' as crack Russian marines | pushed through the valleys South-j cast of Sevastopol, apparently on 1 the verge of joining up with the The agreement would mean a decrease of $1,400,000 in sales tax revenue.\u201cMetal wire or netting for fences is added to the list, of exemptions when purchased by a bona fide farmer for the needs of his farm, said explanatory notes of the measure.\u201cGrain and mill feeds, seeds, fertilizers and drain tiles for agricultural purposes, which at present are exempt only when subject to the above conditions, now will be exempt in all eases.\u201cArtificial limbs, orthopaedic appliances, printed books and periodicals, classrooms supplies (not in- for a combined assault on the big eluding automatic pencils or Crimean port, fountain pen) soaps and other I products used for cleaning coal,1 \u201cThe Germans are heaping as I firewood and ice, children's clothing many obstacles as they can in the :and children s footwear are exemnt.\t.\t,\t, , \u201cSoft drinks and aerated waters way of our troops and are blowing are no longer taxed when the sale price is 10 cents or less, i A bill to amend the Hospital Tax on rostaurant meals, also sponsored .by Provincial Treasurer Mathewson, received first reading.The hill pro-: vides that meals up to 60 cents are manian I main body of the 4th Ukraine Army By D\u2019AR'CY O\u2019DONNELL, Canadian Press Staff Writer.Ottawa, April 19.\u2014- ((P)\u2014 Many members of the House of Common's a asting Allied Airmen Continue Pressure on Japanese Along Bomb-Pocked North Coast ot New Guinea and Pound Rabaul.Quebec, April 19.\u2014((P)\u2014The Legislative Assembly, by a vote of 34-10, yesterday gave final reading to a Government bill amending the Quebec Farm Credit Act.The law was i00k upon the United Nations Relief adopted after an opposition amend- Und Rehabilitation Administration ment disapproving the measure be- as the pattern of an organization cause of the three per cent rate of that may lav the foundation for interest on loans was turned down new World order by the same vote.\tipeace.The Government bill \u201cto put at1 The concensus expressed yester-the disposal of the Farm Credit I day in the House by members was Bureau, for loans to farmers of|that the U.N.R.R.A.agreement, this province, an additional sum of signed as it was by 44 United $2.000,000\u201d was adopted after reso-1Nations, might well serve as the j lutions relating to the measure were j basis of another agreement which adopted in committee of the whole.jWOuld lead to the establishment of Mr.Duplessis said that Govern-1universal peace through collab-, ment members \u201cwho are now prais-j oration and co-operation, ling the farm credit, fought the] The opinions were expressed measure when the Union Nationale | while the House gave second read- i exempt from the five per cent tax.(At present, meals costing 35 cents jor more are subject to the tax.Two other bills, one amending the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act and the other increasing the number of members of the Montreal Prot- up bridges across mountain streams,\u2019\u2019 declared the communique.It added that Nazi machine-gunners were firing on their Ro-allies if they showed the least sign of retreat or surrender.Gen, Andrei I.Yeremenko\u2019s marines yesterday captured the coast town of Balaklava, scone .f -.he historic \u201cCharge of the Light Brigade,\u2019' and today one arm was advancing estant School Board from seven to\u2019along the Balaklava-Bevastopol high-twelve, also were given first reading.way, less then geven miles from the The Compensation Act amending .port proper, while, another moved to-would \u201cabolish the existing limit-1 ward the city along the Sevastopol-ation of the shipowner\u2019s response Yalta road, threatening the base Allied Headquarters, Pacific, April 19.\u2014 (/P) - Government created it in 1936.\u201d He charged that the administration of Premier Godbout had \u201csabotaged\u201d ] the legislation when it increased the j rates of interest on loans from 2.5 Southwesti to three per cent, and on the sinking One more fund, from 1.5 to two per cent.THOUSANDS OF Premier Godbout answered that the Union Nationale Government had \u201cruined\u201d the credit of the Province from 1936 to 1939 and that \u201cconse- airdrome in the defence ring around! 3»ruk in the Caroline Islands was useless to the Japanese today.It was the airstrip on Satawan j Island in the Nomoi Atoil, about 150, statute miles Southeast of the once- J fearsome Truk fortress.Satawan\u2019s ] airdrome was neutralized by a 34- ton bombing Sunday and the forceia,.o said that Opposition members of four-engined bombers encounter-1 \u201calways try to give a false impres ed neither aerial opposition norrip11 ou.Umjtand of the Liberal party ing and clause by clause study to the bill that would ratify Canada\u2019s participation in U.N.R.R.A., set up to rehabilitate, feed, clothe and care for the peoples in countries which will be liberated from the enemy.The reading was given the bill before Air Minister Power announced that Canada by the end of this month will have trained the ,\t.\t, 1100,000th air crew- member under quently, the cost oi loans increased,;^ British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.The announcement came shortly before the House adjourned until Thursday.Wednesdays are devoted to sittings of House Committees.Answering inquiries about the Yri closing of air training schools announced forcing the Government to increase | the rate of interest on loans to; farmers.\u201d Mr.Godbout, who sponsored the j measure as Minister of Agriculture nnt; ui-ri-nfr fire Rivnnn\tp\u201e.!when the Union Nationale Govern-1 ,m,ulTe'' 1Pe a decided hazard to adjacent equipment.Ihe.se are only a few of many asbestos products developed by Johns-.Miinville research to guard lives and property against the dread menace of fire .GLENBURN A 51b.package Water Paint fàr Walls and Ceilings El-44 See Us For Gypsum, Lime & Alabastine Products J.S.MITCHELL & Co., Limited Authorized Dealers for Gypsum, Lime & Alabastine Limited CODERE LIMITED Mr.and Mrs.A.Collins and Robert were afternoon callers of their cousin, Mr.Ernest King, in Crossbury, one day.Miss Mary Murphy, of Riviere-aux-Pins, Valcartier, spent two days and Mr.Holtham indicated that each of dental services and hospitalization | with Mr.anil Mrs.W.Blodgett, case of the number handled, some provided to several of the blind of ! Mr.Peter Fernandze spent a few 254, had cost the Institute some five the region.Three successful eye1 days with Mr.Robert Collins during dollars, which was a most reasonable \u2018 operations were also handled, while the Easter holidays, figure when one considered that a fourth case was not surgically I Mrs.J.Grime, of Sherbrooke, was glasses were furnished in the major-: treated because of an eye condition a guest of Mr.and Mrs.W.Blodgett ity of casce.\t| making surgery dangerous.Of the j for several days.Neil Tracy, District Secretary of:t|lree cases treated, one was from] Miss Alice Clement was home the Canadian National Institute for] Sherbrooke, one from Magog and over a week-end.the Blind, submitted his annual re-'another from the Coaticook area.] Mrs.Arthur Cote and children port on the activities of the Institute ( Tracy reported that fine sue-! are staying with the former\u2019s in the district which comprises the loess was enjoyed at the annual I brother, Lauréat Clement, since the Lioc+h their mother, Mrs.E.auspices of the i uiement, who had made her home Brome and Shefford.\t[Junior League, and at which baskets] with her son.Mr.Tracy reported that there are [ °^ food, clothing and other gifts at present i93 blind cases in the dig-] were distributed.This was in addi-!- trict, of which number sixty-three : tion to the regular distribution of are in the city and County of Sber-j ciothing which the Junior League brooke, one less than last year.The undertakes for the Institute yearly, number of cases in the district has) Dwelling on the Home Teaching Department, Mr.Tracy expressed his sorrow at the illness which kept Miss Aline Charbonneau, the Institute Home Teacher, from her work.He reported on the splendid work , she has been achieving, and stated nard.ed as against 224 such cases that at least eleven blind persons last year.He spoke of the large i have been instructed by her in clinics hcid in Granby, where twenty-' braille, knitting, or for regular five school chilcreTi were examined school cour^es- \u2022 - \u2022 v/aiv-\tLilt; : - ~ -\tx-11 j\ta u Hit: Kea to srive biood;.-p, * r \u2022\tj i j that is why the Kingston clinic has The cpenmfr spade lcad was asked for three thousand new donors.They are not asking for ruffed in dummy, and now Casson started to count.If he could make ! A None V A 8 7 5 2 ?Q843 A J 9 6 3 AKQ105 V J 10 3 ?\t76 *\tK 10 5 2 A A.9 8 6 2 VQ96 ?K 10 9 A3 -1 ** Casson A J 7 4 3 ¥K4 ?AJ52 A AQ7 Duplicate\u2014E.-W.vuh themselves, just to make a record.aI1 the clubs separately, he would) They are asking in the name of aa')6 seven c'ub tricks, plus the ace,a heart.Now South j West\tNorth\tEast 1 A\tPass\tt V\tPass 2 N.T.Pass\t3 ?\tPass 3N.T.Pass\t4 A\tPass 4 4\tPass\t5 A\tPass Pass Double\tPass\tPass Opening\u2014A K.*\t* -dk\t\t19 he ruffed another Canadian soldiers! who, twisted and Iancl kinS of hearts and the ace of spade, took the diamond finesse, wounds andldiamonds\u201410 tricks.Therefore, in which held; ruffed his last spade, through the (Order to make the contract, he had leashed the ace of diamonds and led fin.} t\u2018\u2022\u2019fa L\u2019ino* rvf t amnnH\u2019c in\tanntTioT /Ti n m r.n rl\tWocf \u2019Viorl torn and ripped by vk.may miracle of plasma.Surely King- to find the king of diamonds in the\u2019another diamond.West had to stonians can give a better answer to East hand.He came over to his hand Trump, so Casson won the last two that appeal than the pitifully inade- with a heart, ruffed another spade, tricks with the ace and queen of ouate one so 'ar male.\tcashed the ace of hearts and ruffed clubi.From The Record Files Ten Years Ago Thirty Years Ago The formation of the Sherbrooke Athletic Association has created a noticeable increase of interest in sports as teams submit entries into the leagues.Plans are being made for the staging of a musical and dramatic performance to be held in the St.Charles Seminary in honor of the birthday of the Superior.The President and members of the Council of Arts will present prizes to students of the local drawing school at the closing meeting, at which the past year s work will be display.The annual meeting of the Eastern Townships Baseball League was held in the Magog House last evening and it was agreed to accept two new teams into the league, those being Magog and Baraca.Two French pilots lost their lives and two others are in critical condition as a result of a mid-air collision between two monoplanes during the air races held in Paris yesterday.A decided sensation was created in Washington, Pa., today when it was reported from faculty sources that ex-President Theodore Roosevelt would be offered the presidency of Washington and Jefferson College on his return to the United States from Brazil.A bill introduced by Honourable W.B.Nantel, Minister of Inland Revenue, to provide against the adulteration of maple sugar and maple syrup is to be discussed by the House of Commons Agricultural Committee in the near future, it was announced from Ottawa today.Twenty Years Ago The date has finally been set for the opening of the new tubercular dispensary which is to be under the auspices of the Anti-Tubercular League for the District of St.Francis.The dispensary, which is to be situated on King Street West, is to be under the charge of Dr.P, P.Beaudry.A resident of Sherbrooke, Rev.Dr, J.E.Bentley, M.A., S.T.B., M.R.E., son of Mr.and Mrs.Charles Bentley, of this city, was among those who were awarded degrees at the convocation of the Wesleyan Theological College in Montreal.Ensign Martin was elected President of the Sherbrooke Ministerial Association at the meeting of the organization which was held here last night.The Town of Coaticook and the City Water Company, of the same place, are engaged in a bitter fight over water rates.The Public Service Commission at Montreal is hearing the company's appeal that it may raise rates on the grounds that new equipment has greatly increased the expense of supplying water.The Lennoxville Tennis Club held its annual meeting last night with the election of officers featuring the evening\u2019s agenda.A.O.Beck, of Lennoxville, was named to fill the office of president for the ensuing year.Members of the Sherbrooke Gun Club took top honors at the Grand Trunk Riverside Club competition in Montreal.Feature events of the shoot were won by Bob and Steve Newton, of Sherbrooke.Considerable increases were noted in the earnings of the Quebec Central Railroad over last year in figures read before the annual meeting.Granby residents have issued a plea to motorists to drive more carefully through the town as another accident this morning added one more death to the fast growing number of fatal accidents in that area in the past two weeks, A number of alterations in the Income Tax Schedule were announced from Ottawa last night, but no changes in rates are made.A ten per cent levy on gold production, and a reduction in sugar tax from two to one cent per pound, and modification of trade restrictions with the United Kingdom are principal features of the new budget presented to the House by the Finance Minister yesterday.Spurred to redouble activity by French contention that Germany's increased defence appropriations have smashed all hopes of disarmament, statesmen in London strive to stave off fear of national re-armament race.Five Years Ago Colorful ceremonies marked the presentation of a silver bugle to \"D\" Company of the Royal Canadian Regiment by the Sherbrooke Regiment (M.G.) as the local regiment showed appreciation to the permanent force unit for past services.At the regular monthly meeting of the Sherbrooke Boy Scouts Association, it was decided to attempt to gain Scout awards for Donald and Patrick Power, who recently saved four-year-old Robert Loignon from drowning in the Magog River.W.C.McKean, purchasing agent for the Carnation Company, announced that as much as possible of the material for the new plant to be built here would be bought from local concerns.The Plymouth Players, under the direction of Martin Corcoran, presented the three-act comedy \"Smoky Treasure\u201d last night which scored a great hit with the large audience which attended the \"first night.\u201d It was rumored this morning in London that Winston Churchill may join the Chamberlain Government, perhaps succeeding Viscount Runciman as Lord President of the Council.Hector \u201cToe\" Blake, of Montreal Canadiens, received the Hart Trophy today, a cup donated to the man who is regarded as most valuable to his team.Clmt Smith, of New York Rangers, was awarded the Lady Byng Trophy.\\ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1944.5 SHEKHROOkE DAILY RECORD IN THE WOMEN\u2019S SPHERE m LEAGUE GIVES REVIEW OF ITS WELFARE WORK YOUR MANNERS The Situation: Your hifth school age daughter gets a telephone call.Wrong Way: Say, \u201cWho was that you were talking to, dear?\u201d Right Way: Don\u2019t ask members the most interesting session.First Mrs.Southern stated that nine families had been supplied and had received 2,375 quarts of milk.The purchasing and distribution of new clothing included twenty-six pairs of shoes, twenty-three pairs | of rubbers, four pairs of overshoes, j fourteen sets of underwear, ten pairs 1 I of boys\u2019 pants, twenty-four pairs of I Facts concerning the work achiev-j\tiHpr,.S\"V'eat\u20acrs' and th,rty j of your family who their calls were ed bv the Junior Welfare Le a true \u20191T 1\t\u2022 'from.(That habit makes a parent et e Junior \\\\ l.are \u2018'eaByc|\tMrs.Southern\talso distributed\tor any other member of the family during the past year, under the\tninety-six articles\tof used clothing, \u2018\tseem\ttoo possessive and too inquisi- leadership of Mrs.Y.G.Southern, '\teither donated or collected, these\ttive.\tMembers of a family should President, were clearly revealed in ;\tincluding shirts,\tsweaters, coats,\thave\tsome privacy in their own .\t,,,,,,\t.\t,, 'shoes, pyjamas, underwear, stock-.homes 1 reports presented at the fourteenth :\tdre\u2019sseR and blankets.; norac'J______________________ annual meeting, held through thej Th# president ref.: