Sherbrooke daily record, 31 mai 1944, mercredi 31 mai 1944

[" » \u2022 \u2022 hrrbrnokp lailu Siprnrîi K WEATHER THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS Established 1897.SHERBROOKE.QUEBEC, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1944.BRITISH THROUGH DENSE CITY EDITION.FIELDS Allies Fourteen Mi les convoy escort From Outskirts Of RomeSANK U B0ATIN 5th Army Beating Against Unyielding Wail of Enemy Resistance\u2014British Reach Point Just South of Pesca-relia Nuova.By SID FEDE'R, Associated Press War Correspondent Naples.May 31.\u2014s : .SI « HI «ill i 1 :'H'v Y;: v m \u2019 v V Continued on page 2, coi.5.BiAK AIRFIELD IS STILL HELD BY JAP FORCES Advanced Allied Headquarters, New Guinea, May 31.\u2014 (IP) \u2014 Defeated in a swaying tank battle, shelled from the sea and bombed from the air, unyielding Japanese were reported' today\u2014fifth day of the Schouten Islands invasion\u2014still grimly holding off American soldiers two miles from a prized airfield.coming the stoutest of the Netherlands New Guinea campaign.The Japanese on that biggest island of the Schoutens were flinging men and armor in furious counterattacks in defence of three airfields within bombing range of the Philippines, 880 miles to the Northwest.The present fight is for Mokmer airfield, approached along Biak\u2019s South Coast by a coastal road dominated by a plateau on which the Japanese have long-prepared defensive positions.Some 200 miles Southeastward along the New Guinea Coast, other counter-attacking Japanese were repulsed but still clung to Maffin Bay airfield which a comparatively small American force has been trying to capture since landing in that area May 17.There and at Hollandia, 100 miles to the Southeast, the enemy death toll mounted.It was pushed above 5,000 by fresh reports from those two sectors today.Ottawa, May 31.\u2014(®\u2014The mark-led turn of fortunes in the Battle of jthe Atlantic was emphasized in a naval release today describing a 'successful attack by six warships on a Nazi U-boat, prowling on the ! flank of a fat convoy.It was only by a fluke the U-boat\u2019s presence was spotted.I In the tough, early days of the convoy route, U-boats roved audaciously in packs and there was only a thin line of escort ships to protect merchantmen carrying supplies to beleaguered Britain.The Canadian destroyer Gatineau, in command of Lt.-Cmdr.H.V.W.Groos, of Victoria, left the convoy with a distiller defect, and immediately detected the lurking undersea raider.Another destroyer, two corvettes and a frigate of the Canadian Navy and a Royal Navy destroyer joined in the attack which brought the U-boat to the surface where it was destroyed.The U-boat\u2019s commander was killed and an undisclosed number of prisoners were taken.In the action besides the Gatineau were these Canadian ships and their captains; the destroyer Chaudière, Lt.-Cmdr.Pat Nixon, of Victoria, the corvettes Chilliwack, Lt.-Cmdr.iii Five types of U.S.fighter plav.es are now equipped to fire rocket projectile?, according to a War Department announcement, which said the weapons have been used effectively in the China-Burma-India and Pacific theatres.Simultaneously, first pictures of R.A.F.rockets in use over Fortress Europe were radioed from London to New York.Projectiles are being fitted under Beaufighter\u2019s wings (top photo).Two rockets are snapped in the air, just after they were fired (lower photo).Empty Beer Bottles Discussion is Soundly Aired In louse Of Commons Continued on page 2, col.3.U.S.Plans Security Organization Patterned On League Of Nations Washington, May 31.\u2014 (/P) \u2014The United States is prepared to put forth at the forthcoming big-four meeting here a plan for an international security organization patterned on the League of Nations and providing a consultative formula foi the use of force to suppress war.By this formula each nation would retain final authority over its own troops, planes and ships and would :^ssign r.o direct power over them to the international agency.The agency after consultations among its members, could recommend but not order that a member nation use its troops for international police duty.The only binding commitment on this -ital point would be one which in effect has already been made in the Moscow four-power declaration - that no participating country would use its forces in foreign territory except in accordance with the decisions of the international agency to maintain peace.President Roosevelt discussed the proposal briefly at his news conference yesterday.He called it a first dr-aft, subject to great changes and fast improvement, and made plain a-'vat, in the course of the vaiks with rue other three powers, it may be modified or merged into a single conference plan, if ore is agreed upon, in order to provide a satisfactory basis for further international action toward creation of a league.intention or \u2022,e White House Department is not to i make the plan public until after the big-four meeting.Yet as a result of detailed inquiry in responsible quarters it is possible to report that | the main points of the American I proposal are these: 1\u2014\tUnited Nations Council (or Executive Committee): To be eom- i posed initially of Britain, the United States, China and Russia but later tj be expanded to a membership of seven or eight countries, with spe-! cial emphasis on representation for ; small nations.2\u2014\tUnited Nations assembly: To include at first all 35 United Nations and the nine '\u2018associated\u201d nations among which France is pres- j ently listed.The assembly would j be expanded to take in nations now ; neutral and reformed enemy countries.All nations large and small ; would be equal in sovereignty and : voice.3\u2014\tPolice Power: Instead of a i single police force\u2014proposal; for i which have no support in official quarters here\u2014power would be ex-, ercised by the League Council against potential trouble - makers through the military forces of mem-j her nations.4\u2014\tWorld Court: A judicial body I either part of the Hague or inde-; pendent of it, with jurisdiction over 1 purely legal questions.5\u2014\t-Mediation Machinery: This would function within the framework of the assembly, designed especially to her.dle boundary dis-pute- and similar controversial subjects.GERMANS BREAK SIX-WEEK LULL NORTH OF IASI Large Enemy Tank and Infantry Forces Make Small Dent in Russian Lines in Romania with Heavy Loss of Men and Equipment.London, May 31.\u2014 ®\u2014German forces have broken their six-week lull in land fighting on the eastern front by making a small dent in Russian lines North of Iasi in Romania, a Moscow communique said today.The Nazis opened, the attack with \u201clarge forces of tanks and infantry\u201d but succeeded m making only \u201can insignificant wedge into our defence\u201d at a cost of \u201cheavy losses in men and material,\u201d trie broadcast communique declared.Although the German attacks were described as sharp, a dispatch from Eddy Gilmore, Associated Press Staff Writer in Moscow, said they appeared to be an attempt to upset Russian troop concentrations rather than the beginning of a real enemy offensive, Iasi is about 180 miles Northeast ' of the Ploesti oil fields.Moscow also reported fighting i Northwest of Vitebsk in White Russia in the North, declaring Red Army j troops beat back a German drive, | killing 400 of the enemy.It told of air and sea attacks on German shipping in Narva Bay, asserting bombers from the Red Banner Baltic Fleet sank three minesweepers, a high-speed landing barge and a motor patrol boat, while warships sank two minesweepers and damaged another.The Eastern front has been virtually deadlocked, but both the Russians and Germans have predicted a new outbreak of action will ace:m-pany the Allied invasion of Europe from the West.By D\u2019ARCY O\u2019DONNELL, Canadian Press Staff Writer.Ottawa, May 31.\u2014((P)\u2014The empty beer bottle, as precious to the brewer today as a full one is to the consumer, provoked practically the only lively discussion during yesterday\u2019s quiet sitting of the Commons.From Opposition members came the charge that the Government haa set up a \u201cmonopoly\u201d in the handling of empty beer bottles in Nova Scotia.To this Government officials replied that no monopoly existed, and that the Prices Board was justified in prohibiting the export of empty beer bottles from Nova Scotia.Speaking during examination of the war appropriation estimates or the Finance Department, Douglas Abbott, Parliamentary Assistant to Finance Minister Hsley, said the Prices Board order was passed to do away with duplicate transportation of bottles.Nova Scotia dealers were exporting the empty bottles to Central Canada while brewers in that Province had to import new bottles from the Central Provinces.The two-way traffic was unjustifiable.Tne Board\u2019s order prohibited export, but did not prevent anyone from selling the empties to the two breweries in Nova Scotia.P.C.Black (P.C., Cumberland) said the Government had created the monopoly by appointing one W.B.Moriarty to control the shipment of empty bottles in Nova Scotia.In New Brunswick, nine dealers had been recognized as handlers oi empty bottles, but in Nova Scotia there was only Mr.Moriarty who controlled the whole business and put another dealer out of business.Mr.Moriarty could make a profit of from $50 to $100 on every car of empty bottles shipped although he had hardly to raise a finger in arranging shipments.In a year the value of containers used in Nova Scotia was about ,$1,000,000 and profits from the handling of empties was about $100,000.\u201cMr.Moriarty should be dismissed from this position,\u201d said Mr.Black.\u201cAny decent man can be appointed in his place.W.F.Lee, the Prices Board Prices and Supply representative, could be appointed.\u201d Mr.Black said the appointment of Mr, Moriarty had undermined the confidence of people vigorously supporting the war effort.The responsibility ran back to the Government and Donald Gordon, Chairman of the Prices Board, through A.S.Mahon, Chairman of the Nova Scotia Liquor Commission, through whom the appointment was made.G.B.Isnor (Lib., Halifax) said \u201ca narrow, partisan attack\u201d had been made by Mr.Black on \u201ctwo fine citizens of Halifax,\u201d Mr.Mahon and Mr.Moriarty.He said he did not think that $100,000 could be made in a year handling empty bottles.Hon.R.B.Hanson (P.C., York Sunbury) and Gordon Graydon, Progressive Conservative House Leader, urged that the whole situ- DE VALERA HOLDS EARLY LEAD IN IRISH VOTING Dublin, May 31.\u2014 (W \u2014 Prime M inis ter Eamon de Valera\u2019s Fi-anna Fail Party, seeking a fresh mandate from the Eire electorate, took an early lead today as counting of ballots in yesterday\u2019s general election proceeded.Twelve Fianna Fail members bave been elected while two members of Gen.Richard Mulcahy\u2019s Fine Gael Party, the principal opposition group, have been returned along with two Independents.While counting of ballots began today, the outcome of the election, second within a year in neutral Eire, will not be known until Friday or Saturday as Eire follows the proportional representation system of voting.Continued on page 2, col.6.i WAR BULLETINS Dover, England.\u2014A thunderstorm broke over the Straits of Dover this afternoon after banks of clouds rolled in from the French Coast and covered the sun at midday.The temperature, which was 65 degrees in the sun and 57 in the shade at 9 a.m.began to fall.* *\t?* * London.\u2014The Berlin Radio asserted today that German planes attacked an Eastbound Allied convoy off Algeria last night, sinking one transport and two freighters totalling 23,000 tons.The broadcast also declared that six other vessels totalling 50,000 tons were heavily damaged.There was no Allied confirmation of the attack or the German claims.* * ?* * Chungking.\u2014China will be glad to send representatives to Washington to discuss with Britain, the United States and Russia formation of an international organization to maintain post-war security, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs K.C.Wu said todayr SCORCHED EARTH POLICY TO BE USED BY NAZIS London, May 31.\u2014 (® \u2014German propaganda pronouncements that the Nazis will apply the scorched earth policy ahead of Allied invasion armies coincided last night with an Allied fire-figluing talk to the European underground.In the fifth of a series of broadcasts by supreme commanders of the Allied expeditionary force, a spokesman for Gen.Dwight D.Eisenhower told patriots across the Channel to keep their fire-control units ready because the fire danger in the battle zones would be great from bomb.-, artillery and \u201cGerman incendiarism.\u201d The underground also was reminded to brush up on its first aid because \u201cthe wai; may well pass quickly end leave its casualties behind.\u201d As the German propaganda mill churned out its assortment of fact and fancy, much of it obviously designed to frighten waiting invasion f orces, a roundabout and sispect report told of the killing of five American airmen i:i Germany \u201cby agitated people.\u201d This story came from the Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper Aftcnfcladet, who said it was told to him by \u201ca traveller from Leipzig.\u201d The correspondent said he was informed a \u201cstorm of rage\u201d broke out among German civilians Sunday when American fighters allegedly strayed women and children, and that when five fliers parachuted to earth \u201cGerman police were unable to save them.\u201d CURTIN CONFERS WITH KING AT OTTAWA TODAY Australian Prime Minister Arrived at Dominion Capital Last Night \u2014 Pacific Affairs May Be Discussed at Conference.Ottawa, May 31.(®\u2014Prime Minister John Curtin of Australia, visiting Ottawa at the invitation of Primo Minister Mackenzie King, who had extended it while both were attending the recent Conference of Empire Prime Ministers in London, is scheduled to fill five engagements today, including a conference with Mr.King, and attendance at a meeting of the i War Committee of the Cabinet.\u2019 j It is eoiiisidered possible that in his talk with Mr.King Mr.Curtin will discuss Pacific affairs of mutual inlerivt to Canada and Australia, and that at the meeting of the Cabinet\u2019s War Committee the Pacific will be one of the subjects discussed, with Canadian Defence Ministers possibly outlining Canada's plan of action in that, theatre.Mr.Curtin reached Ottawa last night, accompanied by Gen.Sir Thomaix Blarney, Chief of the Australian General Staff, and was greeted by Mr.King, members of the Federal Cabinet, and important officials of state and services.In a brief chat with newsmen, Mr.Curtin said \u201cevents to come will be Continent Igain Slit Sw Aille» R.A.F.Attacked Targets on French Invasion Coast While Mosquitoes Bombed German Chemical Centre of Leverkusen \u2014 English Side ot Channel Trembles from Blasts.Continued on page 2, col.5.Advance In Changsha Sector Chungking, May 31.\u2014 (/P)\u2014Jnp-ane.se forces which landed on the Southeastern shore of Lake Tunting are making progress agaimt Chinese troops protecting Changsha, thrico-ravagod capital of Hunan Province, the Chinese High Command acknowledges.The Japanese, intent on reconquering (he whole llankow-Canton railway, have breached the Chi nose second lino of defence at the Milo River, 4 0 miles North of Changsha, a Chinese communique announced last night.Enemy gains were reported or a 15-mile front against the Chinese first line of defence below the Sin-chiang River, as well as in sup-porting operations both East and West of Lake Tunting, in Northern Hunan province.Field dispatches said ca.s-ulties were heavy as the Chinese battled to hold the invaders from Changsha.Unofficially the Japanese London, May 31.\u2014(® \u2014 Allied planes headed for the Continent in strength early today, and a short time later German radio stations faded from the air after warning that enemy formation's had crossed the German border and were approaching the Brunswick-Hannover area, The first Allied formation crossed the Channel at great height leading in the direction of Calais and Dunkerque and was followed by other waves heading toward the Southwest.After more than an hour thb steady roar of planes still was audible over Folkestone, with no sign of a let-up in the procession.The Air Ministry announced R.A.F.bombers last night attacked j targets on the French invasion coast while Mosquitoes bombed the j German chemical centre of Leverkusen.The night operations were carried out without loss.So heavy was last night's assault on the French coast\u2014apparently concentrated on the area between Boulogne and Dunkerque \u2014 that buildings on the English side of the Channel trembled from the blasts.Berlin Radio reported Allied planes over Germany during the night, and Balkan stations were temporarily blacked out, suggesting Italy-based bombers might be striking simultaneously at Southeastern Europe.The -overnight activity followed American blows yesterday, when 3,200 bombers and fighters from bases in both Britain and Italy blasted military targets in Germany, ' Austria, France, Belgium and Yugo-were slavia, estimated to have massed 12 divis- | There were 1,000 heavies escorted ions for the attempt to reconquer ; by more than 1,200 fighters, in the entire rail line.Nine of these | armada striking from Britain.Targets in Germany included aircraft the entire rail wore reported in the Hankow-Ynch-ow area above Changsha and three in the Can-ton region to the South.The other three divisions, in the Canton area, were reported still idle.factories at Dessau, Orchcrslebeni and Halberstadt and airdromes at Handorf, Diepholz, Rotenburg, Ol-d- Continued on page 2, col.4.Drainage Work Will Be Carried Out By Government If Request Is Made Quebec, May 31.\u2014®\u2014The Quebec Legislative Assembly gave final reading last night to a bill sponsored by Premier Godbout to amend the Department of Agriculture Act to permit the Department to carry out drainage work if requested by a \u201ccompetent municipal authority.\u201d It was carried on a 35-9 vote.In addition, first reading was given to two other Government bills, both designed to encourage the construction of dwellings.The first will authorize the Province to make loans to institutions which ir turn will loan money to prospective home builders, while the second will encourage building through the commutation of taxes.First reading also was given to a measure respecting certified technicians anti a bill to amend the Charter of the City of Montreal.Earlier in the day, the Assembly gave final reading by a 36-10 vote to a bill providing for the incorpo ration of Protestant Central School Boards.The measure, sponsored by Provincial Secretary Hector Perrier, will provide for the incorporation of Central School Boards \u201cin order that greater benefits may accrue to Protestant education.\u201d It will provide for a more \u201cequitable\u201d distribution of Government grants and j will give better opportunities t^j children in rural and remote areas to receive the fullest possible benefits of education.An Opposition amendment,1 moved by Onesime Gagnon (U.N., Matane) and seconded by J.D.Begin fU.N., Dorchester) was de-1 feated by a 30-10 vote.The amend- ' ment approved the measure \u201cin principle\u201d but asked that it be sent hack to Committee of the Whole ; with instructions to amend it \u2018in : order to respect the rights and pre-irogatives of those interested.\u201d Mr.Perrier said: \u201cIt is expedient to provide for the protection of .such Central School Boards following in each case the expressed con-Lsent of the majority of the local ! School Boards or school electors concerned and also to provide for the optional exclusion of any local School Board.\u201cThe measure is being recommended by the Protestant Com-mittee of the Council of Education jand will preserve the identity of the -various local School Boards already .constituted in the Province.\u201d Opposition Leader Duplessis said it was the first time \u201cthat centralization will do some good,\u201d although the measure is not \u201caltogether perfect.\u201d He added he was opposed to the article which stated that the Superintendent of Education \u201cshall make a written report to the Provincial Secretary on the petitions of Protestant School Boards received by him and thereupon the Central School Board may be erected by order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council.\u201d He spid it was customary in Quebec to appoint a French Roman Catholic superintendent of education and \u201cthe minority in Quebec should be given rights to settle their own education problems without the intervention of the majority.\u201d Continued on page 2, col.2, i / SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD WEDNESDAY, MAY 31.1944: 2.HONOR MEMBER OF E,T.FAMILY AT BURLINGTON Burlington, Vt, May 31.\u2014Rev.Charles Huntingdon Pennoyer, of Rutland, Vt., member of a prominent Eastern Townships family, sas honored here by the University »f Vermont when he was awarded the Doctor of Letters degree at :ommencement exercises.Well known in Montreal, where be has lectured, Dr.Pennoyer was born in Waterville, which was first tailed \u201cPennoyer\u2019s Falls.\u201d Dr.Pen-aoyer\u2019s great-grandfather, Major lesse Pennoyer, was the first surveyor of the Eastern Townships, as i monument at Noyan, Que., retords.A patriot on the American side in the American Revolution, Major Pennoyer was later on the C'anadian-British side in the War of 1812-14.Dr.Pennoyer was educated in Canadian and American schools and received his higher education at Harvard and Columbia.A pioneer é\tSTARTING TODAY I TENSE DRAMA, TAUT EMO-L TION, ROMANCE AND SPECTACLE! R Louis BromficM\u2019s Sensationally Suceees-H ful B.et Seller .NOW A TRULY H GREAT MOTION PICTURE I SEE the Greatest Spectacle Scenes Ever Brought g{ to the Screen\u2014the Torrential Hood, the I- Deadly Plague, the Devastating Fire S and the Shattering Earthnuakel 1 I ¦ i I S3 « DARRYL F ZAMJCR S Production ol (S ¦ K ¦ ¦ 4 20ta Ctoury- feu P U.S.PRODUCTION OF PLANES FAR AHEAD OF AXIS Ratio of Superiority Reaches 4-1, While Japanese Assembly Line Figures Only One-Seventh that of United States.Washington, May 31.\u2014(Æ*)\u2014As^ invasion-day draws nearer, United States plane-production superiority over Germany has increased to a 4-1 ratio, while the margin is 7-1 over Japan, a joint report from the U.S.War Production Board and Aircraft Production Board said today.Since entering the war, the country has turned out 171,257 planes, and will make 100,000 planes this year.Stacking up the gains against estimates of Axis production, the report noted that in 1936 Germany was building five planes for every one made in the U.S.and by early 1942, the German year of peak production, the U.S.had surged ahead.In numbers U.S.production expanded 3,400 per cent between January, 1940, and March of this year.In weight, the more meaningful measure, output rose 6,800 per cent.\u201cPresent annual Japanese production of combat planes is estimated at about 13 percent of the U.S.output,\u201d the report said.\u201cThe monthly output of Japan, for all types, is estimated at between 1,000 and 1,400 planes.\u201cThe Germans are now producing only about 75 per cent of their output in 1042, when they were producing about 27,000 planes annually.\u201d Gen.H.H.Arnold, Commander of the Army Air Forces, reported recently that while great damage has eaten into German reserves, the enemy\u2019s air strength has not been knocked out.The British Commonwealth and the U.S.together have built about 300,000 planes since the war started, while Germany and Japan together are believed to have produced about 151,000.Germany has been stressing aircraft since 1935, however, so they entered the war with a stockpile estimated at about 24,000 planes.In the first four months of this year the United States built 35,009 aircraft, or one every five minutes around the clock, excluding Sundays.This year\u2019s bill for aircraft will come to about $21,300,000,000, the report said.E.Bradley Honored At Magog Banquet by LOUIS BROMFIELD COUNTRY AND DAIRY PRODUCTS PRICES DEATHS IM ^ POWER ' Main for both j parties are now naturalized Amen- \u201cEdgar Nault to J.Edmond Aube\u2019f0 citize,ls'IivinT 111 » foreign coun-of lot 1494-04 South Ward.Price, ,rY- $2,500.\t| The parties to the action wore J.Eugene Choquette to Edouard married in Lennoxville or.Novem-Beaudoin of part of lot 431 East! her 6, 1920, and the annulment ac-Ward.Price, $6,600.\t| tion of the husband was based on Arthur Laçasse to Roland Laçasse allegations that his wife hud falsely of lot 355 Lennoxville.Price, $3,500.1 represented herself as a widow be-Hon.Charles B.Howard to Sylvio ( fore the marriage and that she had Chamberlain of lots 1 88, 119 and a husband thon living.He found out 120 North Ward.Price,\t$1,800.i\tin 1941, he said,\tthat\this\twife had Joseph Victor Ames to Paul\tRous-,\tbeen married to\tHector\tH.Howe seau of lots 78-2, 79-14 North Ward.'in Vermont in 1906 and obtained a Price, $1,600.\t1 divorce from him in Vermont in Mrs.Olivier Proulx to Eugene Des- igtç), since she was not then domi-coteaux of lots 667-2 and 668-1 Or-!Cjiecj jn Vermont, Main claimed, the rd.Price, $2,816.09.\t'divorce was invalid and would not be Robert E.Smith to Roland Gosse- recognized in thL province, with hn and Ovide Brun of lot -tc, range t|le re.suit that she was still legally 6 Compton.I nee, $;>0( .\tmarried to Howe when she went Andrew Ellis to Oswald Leme in through the marrnage with him in of.lote ^ A and TB range 10 Ascot.LcnnoxviU jn 1920 Price, $1.000.\t;\t,\t.\t, Miss Mary Olive Vaudry\tto\tRich-1 '¦ 'l?1!.' Komg\ti ;o\tthe\tmatter of ard Winget of part lot 331 Lennox- the validity of the 'oreign divorce ville.Price, $19(1.and the legality of the subsequent He honed there would be an end i pasture to ,mng ln the cows for thci T' Herring of lot 203 and rights on to rationing sometime, and when I e,ver'inS\u2019s chores, and was riding up | lot 204 Lennoxville.Price, $1,525, that day came, he made clear, he the road\tof a^vernment hoped that maple syrup would lead all the rest in being freed from restrictions.In fact, said Mr.Abbott, he dared to hope it would not be necessary to ration \u201cthis delicious commodity\u201d when the next crop came around.But this year, \u201cbeing very fond of this product\u201d he was willing to go to a little extra trouble to obtain it.Alton Douglas Kerr to Mrs.Ame-roari scraper.On arrival at his des-1 dee Ducharme of part lot 2£ range] tination'he jumped from the scraper.| 14 Ascot.Price, $4,200.BISHOPTON Len Lobb\u2019s concert and dance, Bishop-ton, Friday, June 2nd.John Robert Andrews to John A.McLean of part lot 22 North Ward.Arthur Grenier to Wilfrid Veil-] leux and Leon Cote of lot 1537-194' South Ward.Price, $1,000.Hermenegilde Dodier to Joseph! Cousineau of lot 21a range 10 and is ion, hospital author-1 part 21b range 9 Compton, pt lots e:l his condition as 22c, 2'5a range 10 Compton.Price, directly in the path of an oncoming car, driven by Joseph Minard, of Montreal.The injured youth was rushed to the St.Vincent do Paul hospital by Hurd\u2019s ambulance where he was placed under the care of Dr.E.Le pin.On admisssio ities pronounce.i\t«\u2018-i very grave, and he succumbed short-' $4,000.ly after, about nine-thirty o\u2019clock, i Ralph H.Fletcher to Paul Morin An inquest will be can due ted this \u2022 °f lots\tU3, 114 South Ward, afternoon by Coroner Leonidas! His Majesty the Kmg to Ihomas Bachar.d, Coroner for the District! Dupuis, of lot 676 Orford.Price, of St.Francis.\t1 $107.50.(North half of said lot).William S.Hunting to Lome Wil- marriage to Main, the Court of Ap-liam Butler of lot 7-2 range 5 As-; Peals maintained the wife\u2019s anneal.cot.\t' Since the parties to the case are for- C6l.Edward B.Worthington to ' signers and are In !nr in the United Charles Rogeau of part lot 48 North States, the Quebec Superior Court Ward, North of Durham Street.(had no jurisdiction to hear the case, Clarence L.Keir to Samuel A.the court decided.The Superior Hopper of lot 13A, S.pt.14c, and W.; Court judgment was accordingly re-pt.lot 13c range 1 Compton.Price,1 versed and the parties returned to $2,400.\ti their former status as husband and Adjutor Gendron to Mrs.Omerj wife.Marceau of part lot 22B range 7 Ascot.Price, $2,500.Jean Baptiste Houde to Adjutor Gendron and Eugene Gendron of lot 536 North Ward.Price, $4,400.; Mrs.Garland Page to La Caisse Populaire de St.Ro-ch d\u2019Orford of lots 10c range 10 and lOf range 9 Ascot.Price, $5,000.Mrs.J.Philias Jutras to Miss Bernadette Jutras of residue lot 114, part lots 115 and 116 Centre Ward.Price, $3,000.Earl Lloyd Savage to Harry G.Haddon of his rights in lot 282 Len-] noxville.Price, $2,500, William Arthur Bown to Raymond Walter Hunting of lot 356-101, and S.Va lot 356-102 Lennoxville.Sherbrooke Trust Co.to Charles ONE MINUTE IHCWE X ABOUT J OHNS-MANVILLE y CHEMISTRY SETS POST-WAR TARGET How will Canada of tomorrow benefit from wartime developments in the field of chemistry?This question will be answered by international authorities at the 27th annual Canadian Chemical Conference which opens a three-day session at Toronto next Monday.Under the broad theme \u201cTargets for Tomorrow,\u2019\u2019 leaders in the chemical industry will discuss such important developments as Penicillin, the new miracle drug\u2014 dehydration of food \u2014 synthetic rubber in war and peace \u2014 and modem plastics.Canadian Johns-Manville is one of more than thirty companies in Canada ami the United States which have arranged special exhibits for the conference.For many years, J-M engineers have worked with the chemical industry-in developing new products and processes for today and tomorrow.Windsor Mills, May 31.\u2014The death occurred in Montreal on Tuesday,] May 30th, 1944, of Dr.Josephat;4th Degree, K.of C., Sherbrooke.Frederic Champagne at the age of] $50 Cinq-Mars and Paquette, Shcr-fifty-three years.\tjbrooke; Paul Sylvestre, Edouard rLp.rtWi., R\u201e.Arthur husband of the former Albertin]\t,Dunn- McCabe, of Windsor, who survives |\tJortin^Rev.J.B.God- bout, Jeannette Lousiane.The remains are arriving from; $13.40 a priest, Sherbrooke.$10 Rev.J.E.Lemieux, Rev, J.I Have a Coca-Cola=Look who just blew in Montreal this afternoon and the] funeral service will be held at St.I Philippe's Church, Windsor, on Friday morning.lecturing to troops, Air Force and Naval units and civilians.He was Chaplain of the 11th Hussars, Eastern Townships Regiment, from 1921 to the outbreak of hostilities.The speaker showed lantern slides of the historical and natural beauty locations in Canada.He was introduced by Rotarian Gordon Armitage and thanked by Rotarian G.D.Wadsworth.One of the scenes was of Sherbrooke, looking East on King Street.Rotarian Forest Keene reported that the hundred-pound cake sent to the crew of the H.M.C.S.Sherbrooke for Christmas by the Rotary Club came as a surprise to the members of the corvette following the Yuletide dinner.Three guests attended the meeting.They were FO.\u201cBud\u201d Cook, of Sherbrooke, who just returned from Overseas; Clinton Soles, of this City, and Ernie Armitage, former local resident now living in Florida.Dickner, brooke.St.Jean Baptiste, Sher- TO CHECK OVERTIME PARKING; In an announcement from police! headquarters this morning, Director! of Police, Percy Donahue issued a] warning to automobile owners, that parking on Wellington Street North and South, and King Street East and West over the limited twenty minutes period would definitely be banned on Friday and Saturday nights.A longer stay is usually permitted on these streets during the evenings throughout the week, but overtime parking must be curbed on weekends when the traffic is so heavy in these sectors of the city.LENNOXVILLE '\u2022For prompt service call Herring\u2019s Taxi.Tel.330, Lennoxville.A single torpedo is composed of 5,000 parts and more than 1,000 assemblies.3 J 2 ftD*INK ecan Authorized Dealers for Gypsum, Lime & Alabastine Limited CODERE LIMITED PUBLIC NOTICE The Sherbrooke Hospital Alumnae Association wish to announce that Eight-Hour Duty will come into effect on June 1 5th next for all registered nurses in this District.(English Section).TYPES OF SERVICE, RATES, ETC.Hospital Hours \u2014\t7.30 to 3.30\t$5.00\t1 meal Eight Only:\t3.30 to 11.30\t$5.00\t1 meal \t11.30 to 7.30\t$5.00\t1 meal \tS hours\t$5.00\t1 meal In the\t10 hours\t$5.50\t2 meals Home \u2014\t12 hours\t$6.00\t3 meals \t19 hours\t$7.00\t3 meals .or how to say \u201cWelcome\u201d to an old friend A hearty handshake, a slap on the back, and those familiar words Have a \"Coke\u201dand your returned sailor knows he\u2019s back with the gang.These three simple words are the theme song of comradeship from Main Street to all the bounding main.From Halifax to the Seven Seas Coca-Cola stands for the pause that refreshes \u2014 has become the Hello friend of both hemispheres.Authorized Bottlers of \"COCA-COLA\u2019* I.H.BRYANT LIMITED TELEPHONE 29>.SHEKBROOKK.A 11311764 4.SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1944.by a few hours.The Sirius, of 700 tons burden, left' Cork, Ireland, on April 4, and grounded at Sandy Hook in the lower bay of New York eighteen days later.She got off and entered New York harbor the next day.She was closely followed by the 1,340-ton Great Western, which left Bristol April 8.Both ships encountered bad weather and the Sirius had an average speed of b'/i knots.J^berbrooke ^aib ^ecorb Eastern Townships\u2019 Only English Daily The Oldest Daily in the District.Established Ninth Uaj of Fchrnary.1897, with which is incorporated the Sherbrooke Gazette, established 1837.and Sherbrooke Examiner, established 187a.The Record is printed and published every weekday by the Sherbrooke Record Company, Limited, of which Edna A.Becrworth is Secretary-Treasurer, at EASING THE PENSION RESTRICTIONS the office, 69 Wellington Street North, in the City of j The announcement of Finance Minister Ilsley Sherbrooke, incorporating the news services of The i that in future recipients of old-age pensions would Canadian Press, The Associated Press, and Reuters, be allowed to have au independent income of $125 The Record is a member of the Audit Bureau of j a year without suffering any deduction from the Circulations, its circulation being regularly audited ! maximum pension of $300 annually is an act of and guaranteed.\t|\tmercy that should cost the Federal Treasury little Subscription rates; 18c a week, delivered at any | ai,d at the same time prove an inestimable benefit home in the city and suburbs.Post Office delivery to j to a large number of old people who are finding it any place in Canada, Great Britain or the United States, $5 per year; six months, $2.75; three months, $1.50; one month, 75c.Single copies, 3c.YEH, BUT WHO KEEPS HIM ALIVE?¦REMEMBER \u2022RmS'BlRD?~ -nw- /4 ' - V-j 1^'oh * ifRiGHÎ OFEa7 THE BOAT/ 0 God, Who art the author of peace and lover of concord, defend us Thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies.AN EFFECTIVE ANSWER The Roman Catholic hierarchy in Great Britain lias made a reply to the recent appeal of the French Catholic Archbishops of Paris, Lyons, Lisle and Cambrai for greater care by Allied airman in order to avoid civilian casualties in France which is as effective as any document could he.The letter cites a fact which seems to he forgotten, or at least ignored, in many quarters\u2014that the British people know what air war means, for they themselves underwent a campaign which took the lives of many civilians and droopy?From The Record Files extremely difficult to make both ends meet under existing conditions.Certainly, a total income of $425 per year or barely thirty-five dollars a month cannot he considered a princely income.The Minister also raised the whole question of revising the old-age pensions plan and he will find general support for his contention that the plan should be made contributory and compulsory for all wage-earners.Thus at the age of sixty-five \u2014 the age to which he would reduce the payment of the pension\u2014an individual would he entitled to receipt of the pension as a matter of right and not as a matter of charity.Turning the present plan to a contributory basis and making it universal would remove many of the objections voiced that personal savings are discouraged by the realization that a modest income will be received from the state when the individual reaches a pre-determined age.The contributory plan would rather encourage the accumulation of a modest competence by the contributor to supplement whatever payment he might receive from the fund.Any contributory plan need not interfere with as Report* of Hii death were GREATLY EXA66ERATed/ l firm ICI6HT offa / P.JhsRjesW ^ y ùootfr'l payments made to recognized funds, such as is done in the present compulsory savings portion of the income tax.Certainly the present plan is nothing but a stopgap measure, rather poorly designed and certainly unsatisfactory from every point of view, and its incorporation into a general scheme should not prove excessively expensive.destroyed many churches and shrines.Furthermore ! existing pension fund or annuity schemes \u2014 the reply emphasizes that the Allied airmen have 1 individuals could be given the proper credits for been instructed to keep the non-military damage to\t'\tx-*\"~A.'' \"\" the lowest possible level.But, unfortunately, the death of civilians and the destruction of irreplaceable property is an inevitable accompaniment of war.It is not a product of air warfare although the death and destruction has been brought to a higher level by the intensification of bombing from the air.Throughout the centuries old men and women and children have paid with their lives the price of battle.Any attempt j to warn the civilian populations of an approaching\tALLIED PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN bombardment is an obvious impossibility, for the\ttremendous extent to which the Allies have issuing of such a warning would enable the enemy j expanded their propaganda campaign against Hitler-to counter the Allied plans.While the civilians in i occupied Europe in indicated by the Royal Air Foice occupied countries know, as a general rule, that the announcement that in the first four and a half yeais attacking planes are only bombing communication of the war, 1,264,456,656 leaflets, newspapers and lines, munitions production centres and other magazines had been dropped by their planes over strategic points, they are also aware that the Nazis -^xis territories.And this does not take into account are prepared to use the civilian population with similar operations by the United States Army Air callous brutality as masks to cover military move- Force.This means that the R.A.l*.piopaganda PRESS COMMENTS York Times.An Albany reader of that journal was wounded about a certain American bishop, who said in the course of a speech at Kansas City that the world\u2019s 80,000,000 Methodists \u201cmust rise up and demand an international organization.\u201d The Albany reader complained that every day he read about i people \u201crising up\u201d about something, SO THEY SAY CAN CANADA EXPEL JAPANESE?St.Thomas Times-Journal \u201cShip them all back to Japan,\u201d is the title of a Montreal Star editorial, | but \u201cI never hear of any one rising The Star would not discriminate as! down, and I am not certain that it; between Japanese-born and Cana-'can be done.\u201d\tj dian-born Japanese; it would rid the! The first impulse of the Times' country of all of them, a sentiment was to set its correspondent down which will be applauded by some and as a purist with a tendency toward deplored by others.No matter what j pedantry and let it go at that.On one\u2019s feelings in this situation are, j second thought, the Oxford edition all must admit that the problem is | of the Bible was consulted, with the very difficult.The Owen Sound j °l)V\u2019olls reasoning that is good en-Sun-Times points out that the situa- £or the B?ble must be tak.en as : tion is going to demand a lot of very!;®'00, fi1}0,11?)?members of the j careful consideration.The whole j';'£e£bobl?*' Church, and for objectors i Japanese population of Canada is : to the above phrase.under 25,000; but it includes several! .Ihe result was ^ther astonishing, sections, each of which will have to As any one may d.seover,.the index be dealt with separately.Sun-Times; Says the \u201cIf all the Japanese in this country were simply Japanese the matter would be simple.All that is neces to_ the ordinary desk edition is rife with \u201crising up.\u201d A particularly good instance may be found in Job, XX.27, for the author of Job had a gift for words: \u201cThe heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the sary would be for the Government to earth shall rise up against him.\u201d issue an order of deportation\u2014send Ant.if the reader in Albany re-them out of this country and let them mains dissatisfied, the Times stands go home.But we cannot do that; all ready to smother him with a shower but a very small percentage are o£ other quotations containing the ments.As a result, the Allies are often compelled to bring death and suffering to innocent victims in their efforts to break down the German military strength.The British hierarchy is convinced that the Canadians, either by birth or naturalization.Can the Government calmly tell these Canadian citizens to get out?Not very well,\u201d To the statement of Thomas Reid same phrase.campaign requires two hundred tons of paper a month and that the average of articles dropped is twelve hundred per minute.Hundreds of planes are engaged in this type of operations.Information reaching Allied propaganda experts THE WESTERN FARMER IS NOT A QUITTER Lethbridge Herald These Western farmers of ours It is quite possible that when we make our great invasion, the Germans will make some son of effort to land in this country.\u2014Field Marshal Lord Ironside, British home force chief.* * \u2022 The self-interest of the United States is best served by the growth j of industry everywhere.\u2014Assistant) Secretary of State Adolf A.Berle, Jr.\u2022 \u2022 » We are finding now that the German soldier is deteriorating as a fighter and is not whet he used to be a year.\u2014Yugoslav Partisan Marshal Josip Broz (Tito).*\t*\t# \u2019Borne people are incapable of living with someone else.It drives some people mad to have anyone come home and bang their hat up in the hall at seven.And it drives other people mad when they don\u2019t.\u2014Ethel Mannin, British novelist, on marriage relations.*\t*\t* Capital\tmust\tbe\tmade\tavailable for the\tsound development\tof\tlatent resources and r reductive capacity in relatively undeveloped areas.\u2014Secretary of State Cordell Hull.people of France appreciate and sympathize with is definite that the leaflets are widely read, not only the Allied position, declaring \u201cThey (the people of in Germany, hut in satellite countries and by the France) would not wish that the success of the Allied underground in occupied lands.So widespread is arms should he imperilled by a failure to disrupt this reading that the Gestapo has ordered almost the communications upon which German opposition unbelievable penalties for those found reading or in possession of the British and United States articles.Paper is scarce but the known value of the propaganda service as a potent weapon of war gives it a high priority.Sufficient justification for the extensive leaflet will depend \u201cWe are sure that Your Eminences recognize very clearly the connection between the present bombing operations and military operations which have for their object to crown the long struggle, in which Frenchmen and Englishmen have stood, campaign can be found in just one paragraph from shoulder to shoulder, with victory and the liberation1 a Mannheim newspaper: of France.\u201d\t! \u201cThe Englishman sometimes knows the German One of the things the French prelates should soul better than we do ourselves, and kno-ws well appreciate is that the quicker the Allies can bring how to exploit his knowledge in the leaflets which the war to an end, the sooner will there be a halt come over with the bombers, to the brutalities and bestialities of the Nazis and Japanese to the people of France and every other occupied country of the world.A SLIGHT MISTAKE The United States Post Office Department has just issued another in its series of commemorative stamps, the latest being to mark the crossing of the Atlantic by the Steamship Savannah, the caption reading \u201cThe first steamship to cross the Atlantic, 1819.\u201d The stamp has made one important mistake.While the Savannah was the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, which she did in twenty-five days from Savannah to Liverpool, she was a fully-rigged vessel with an engine on the deck.A careful examination of records by an official of the Land and Water Department of the Science Museum at Kensington, London, reveals that this vessel used her sails for two-thirds of the voyage.Many Canadians have advanced the claim that the Royal William, built in Quebec City in 1831 by John Goudie, who learned his trade on the Clyde, made the first all-steam crossing.She sailed from Quebec on August 4, 1833, and reached Liverpool twenty-five days later.But her log book reveals that she encountered much had weather, ran out of coal, and after burning up all the wooden fittings and things that could be spared, finished the trip by sail.Actually the first all-steam crossing was a Westbound trip by the British ship Sirius in 1833, which nosed out another British ship, the Great Western, EDITOR\u2019S NOTE-BOOK We wonder if Hitler remembers when it w-as his wallpaper that was getting plastered.* * * Germany has the same pronunciation for all the towns taken by the Allies \u2014 \u201cunimportant.\u201d *\t$\t=r- Once upon a time an \u201cinvitation\u201d to meet Adolf Hitler at his Berchtesgaden retreat sent trembling, terrified puppets and stooges of Europe hastening to obey.But something seems to have happened to the host's prestige.The other day he sent one of those same social summonses to the Regency Council of Bulgaria.The council said it was awfully sorry, and thanks very much, but there were things to do at home.So, at long last, the fly has turned down the spider\u2019s invitation to walk into the parlor.And that, according to the classic definition involving the man and the dog.is news.BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY (Liberal, Westminster) in the Com- ncver se\u20acm to Unow when to quit.mens that the Japanese had come to H.G.L.Strange, world wheat Canada under a definite plan of the king of 1923, points out that in Japanese government which as early Spite of shortage of help and ma-as 1890 had started preparations to chinery, Prairie farmers have des-gain control of countries in and ignated their intention of sowing touching on the Pacific and his fur- the greatest acreage of grain crops ther statement that Japanese who in th ' history of the West\u201441,341,-had boon naturalized as Canadian 000 acres as against 40,497,000 acres! had admitted before the war that, in seeded in 1940, the previous high J the event of war, their allegiance to total, Japan would come first, the Sun- These same farmers have been Times comments-\tswamping the livestock markets for \u201cThat may be quite true in the ™al m- \u2022\u2014 >¦>1\tee ri : S' .red.55\t.1 Trout and Hal Newbouser, j> \u2019\t-Trout beat V s with Inning homer for 2-1 edge and 5 ¦ .ouser equalled his seven-hit 0\t, in taking nightcap, 4-1.Tel Harder and Allie Reynolds, Tans\u2014Huried Tribe to double , Humph over Red Sox, Harder scat-g- ered nine hits in 9-3 opener and deynolds spacing seven blows in 57,\u2019 1-3 finale.j-g George M.Quinn and A1 Hollings-45q worth, Browns\u2014-McQuinn drove in 45'q our runs of St.Louis 6-4 edge over 424 Washington in first game and Hol-333 hngsworth sawed second for Tex Shriely on neat relief job, 4-2.Bill Dietrich and Ed Carnett, White Sox\u2014Dietrich scattered 11 Philadelphia hits, leaving 12 stranded for 5-1 opening game victory and \u2022a'l Carnett drove in both runs of 2-1 .nOO .500 .474 .450 .432 night by capturing both ends of d'oubleheader, 6-4 and 10-7.Glenn Gardner held the Leafs to eight hits in the opener, one a three eight hits in the opener, one a three-run homer by Alex Mustaikis.Bill Emmerich, piching with only I one day\u2019s rest, turned in a fine job I of relief pitching in the nightcap to I get credit for his sixth victory of ! t'he year.Toronto .040 00b 0\u20144 7 2 Rochester .500 010 x\u20146 8 2 I (Seven innings.) Batteries: Knerr, Mustaikis (1) and Williams; Gardner and Malone.Second game: Toronto .050 Odd 200\u2014 7 13\t4 Rochester 240 000 13x\u201410 10\t3 (Second game, nine innings.) Batteries: Lambton, McCabe (2) Jarlett (7), and Crompton, Williams (7); Byerly, Smney (2), Emmerich (2) and Rice.London, May 31.\u2014 ©\u2014The people of Great Britain worked off invasion tenseness over the three-day Whitsunday holiday by attending sports events in record-breaking numbers.For a few hours they forgot the impending assault on Europe, and jammed transportation systems to watch a mixed programme ranging from pony and dog derbies to cricket and track meets.A wartime attendance mark was set Saturday at Lords, home of cricket, where 30,000 saw Australia beat \u201cthe rest\u201d by one wicket.Another 25,000 turned out yesterday to watch England down Australia by wickets.Thousands were unable to get into the grounds.At Ascot race track, Southwest of London, 25,000 wagered some $500,-OOd on nine races.Stocks of champagne at $16 a bottle were snapped up fast.At Stockton, in Northern England, another big crowd saw Sir Eric Ohlson\u2019s unbeaten Dante set a course record in winning the five-furlong Tantor.Stakes by dx lengths in 57 and two fifths seconds.Greyhound followers poured into] the big tracks in the London area; Saturday and Monday and more'iy^ than 15,Odd spectators watched!1 MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS By The Associated Press.National Batting\u2014Walker, Brooklyn, .431.Runs\u2014BordagarayL Brooklyn, 34.Runs Batted In lyn, 35.Hits\u2014Welker, Brooklyn, 62.Doubles\u2014Holmes, Boston, 16.Triples\u2014Barrett, Pittsbu>-gh, 7.Home runs\u2014Ott, New York, 10.Stolen bases\u2014Macon, Boston, 6.Pitching\u2014Lanier, St.Louis.6-0.American Batting\u2014Tucker, Chicago, .400.Runs\u2014Cuilenbine, Cleveland, 32, The Sherbrooke High School chalked up a 16-7 win over the Air Cadets in a regular game of the Sherbrooke Junior Softball League played yesterday afternoon at the Schuitz, Brook- iocai parade Grounds.Displaying power at the plate and taking full advantage of eight errors by the Air Cadets, the High School lads walked away with a comparatively easy triumph.After a scoreless first inning, the Sherbrooke High School opened up and scored two runs in the second, and continued their slugging to add Runs batted in-Hayes.Philadel-, five more in the third frame, phia, and Tabor, Bo.skn, 26.\t! The Air Cadets pushed their first Hits\u2014Doerr.Boston, and Hall, runs across the slab in the fifth when Philadelphia, 47.\t| four hits gave them two runs.The Doubles \u2014 Cuilenbine, Cleveland, High School retaliated with four 14.\ti runs in their half of the inning and 5.\t1 added five more in the last of the sixth, while the Air Cadets were able to tally only once in the sixth, j The Air Cadets made a desperate 1 effort to stave off defeat in the j seventh and succeeded in shoving Triples\u2014Gutteridge, S:.Louis, 5.Home runs\u2014Hayes, Philadelphia, end Seerey, Cleveland, 6.Stolen bases\u2014-Gutteridge, St.Louis, and Stirnweiss, New York.9.\t, \u201e\t,,,,,,\t- Pitching\u2014Borowy, New York, 6-lJ four runs a(Toss the slab before they were stopped.COMPTON track and field at London\u2019s White 1 City Stadium.The King, Gordon Zakaib, S.H.S.pitcher,, turned in a good job on the mound, giving up ten hits, fanning one and A meeting of the W.A.of the walking two.Gordon Harmer, Air United Church was held at Mrs.Cadet hurler, had no such luck, being Fowler\u2019s home with a fair attend- tombed for twenty-five hits, fanning ance of members.A letter from Dmee and walking four.MaeCallum to the Society 'Lf11- Yo™S bit heavily for the members was read and all were .School as he enjoyed a perfect dressed in civilian pleased to hear that she is making day at bat.Among his four hits w.progress toward recovery, after her a\ttriple to left field.Sonny .\t- ur\tn.\t, .\trecent illness.A very pretty quilt\tHolthani smashed out three hits, clothes m public\tfor\tthe first time\ttop was on display, which had been\twhl]e Robln\tStewart also connected since the war started, went to the made by the Moe\u2019s River members tjirTe;e safeties.Royal Windsor horse show Saturday to fill an order.Arrangements were Te