Sherbrooke daily record, 13 mai 1949, vendredi 13 mai 1949

[" 1949\t\t\tMAY\t\t1949\t S.\tM.\tT.\tw.\tT.\tF.\tS.1\t2\t3\t4\t5\t6\t7 8\t9\t10\t11\t12\t13\t14 15\t16\t17\t18\t19\t20\t21 *\u2022 m\t23\t24\t25\t26\t27\t28 \"O\t30\t31\t\t\t\t SbecbcookeDaüi)Beccu\u2018d THE PAPER OF THE EASTERX TOWNSHIPS WEATHER CLEAR Clear becoming overcast this evening.Showers and scattered thundershowers tonight.Saturday clear, with little change in temperature remporaturea yesterday : Max in Am Où, minimum 27.Year ngo: Maximum 61', minimum 48.Established 1897.PRICE: 5 CENTS SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC.FRIDAY.MAY 13.BMO.Fifty-Third Year World News In Brief Tokyo, May 13.\u2014y.?)\u2014Approximately (50,000 Japanese coal miners will begin a 48-hour strike at midnight tonight.The miners want a pay increase.Management wants to out wages 20 per cent because mine owners recently lost their government subsidies.\u2022 » * London, May 13.\u2014(Al\u2019)\u2014 An operation described by his physician as successful »as performed yesterday on the injured eye of United States ambassador Lewis W.Douglas.The operation was part of treatment for the injury Douglas suffered six weeks ago.He hooked his eye with a trout fly while fishing.% * * Bangkok, May 13.\u2014(AP)\u2014 Premier Pibul Songgram has changed Siam\u2019s name back to Thailand\u2014the name he originated during the pre-war regime.The Bangkok radio said that since the country is called \u201cPratet Thai\u201d in the new constitution the government should he consistent in its choice of a name.* * * Washington, May 13.\u2014(A1)\u2014 Francis Patrick Matthews, Omaha lawyer, today was named secretary of the United States navy.The White House announced that Matthews.62.widely-known Roman Catholic layman, has been picked to succeed John L.Sullivan.Sullivan quit recently with a blast at defence secretary Louis Johnson for halting work on the navy's super aircraft carrier.It was learned that, the President is not yet ready to name a new secretary of the army to succeed Kenneth C.Royal, who also resigned.\u2022\tmm Moscow, May 13.\u2014-(/P)\u2014The Russians added aviation\u2019s loop-the-Ioop to their list of \u201cfirsts\u201d today.* Komosol Pravda, organ ot the young Communist league, said a Russian aviator.Peter Nikolaevich, first performed the feat.Aio date was given \u2022\t\u2022 m Ottawa, May 13\u2014(CP)\u2014 An R.C.A.F.pilot with more than 2,000 hours flying on east-coast rescue trips is the 1948 winner of the McKee trophy, awarded annually for \u201cmeritorious service in advancement of aviation in Canada.\u201d He is FO.R.H.West of Canning, N.S.He also holds the Distinguished Flying Cross for wartime operations off the east coast and the Air Force Cross for two hazardous rescue flights to isolated Quebec outposts last year.\u2022\t» » Bombay, May 13\u2014(CP)\u2014 Thirty-one members of the crew of the Canadian freighter Shellburne County have been arrested and charged with insubordination and refusal to report for duty following what her captain described as \u201cviolence\u201d aboard the ship.Police boarded the vessel last night after a call from the captain, Frank Kappase, and restored order.Later magistrate Oscar Brown ordered the arrest of three alleged ringleaders.Another 28 men were arrested this morning.Bickering Berlin As Starts Anew In Russians Make First Train For Berlin m \u2022# Charges Against The West Allies Approve Constitution ^ AccusTÂiiies ot Tor- .\t,,;\t,\t* XT _\tpedoing Agreement To Lilt Dratted For West Germany Bl?ckade t West Savs witt reservations de.im.d to make , ,'|,|ol\u2019senSe \u2022 Frankfurt, Germany, May 13.\u2014(Æ5)\u2014The western allies approved with reservations last night the new west German federal republic's draft constitution.Thus they gave themselves a high trump card for use in the May 23 Paris peace talks with Russia seeking a solution to the entire German problem They are shooting for an ultimate agreement uniting the Soviet zone of Germany with the republic, and hope the constitution, which guarantees a free government of the people, will be the basis for settlement Britain, the United States and France also ordered an \u201coccupation statute\u201d or interim peace treaty for the western occupation zones\u2019 45,000,000 Germans, to come into force the day the west German government takes office.Its terms had been announced earlier this year.Gen.Lucius D.Clay, for the United States; Gen.Sir Briar.Robertson, for Britain and L*\\-Gen.Pierre Koenig, for France, signed the constitution.Their action cut away the last obstacle to formation of the first German civil government since the war.The draft constitution now goes to the 11 state parliaments in western Germany for ratification which may be completed before the end of May.The military governors signed sure that no \"jokers\u201d in the constitution's wording would permit the Germans to do these things: 1\u2014Violate the occupation statute which limits German government activity in the fields of arma- By DANIEL DE LUCE Berlin, May 1 3\u2014\u2014 The Russians accused the western allies today of \"torpedoing\" nient, the industrial Ruhr valley, j the agreement to lift the Berlin foreign relations and trade.\ti ; r j 2\u2014\tForm a strong central police | D ° K ae\u2018 force under any pretext without ! A western spokesman the occupation authorities\u2019 consent.\ttl labelled the accusa- 3\u2014\tGive west Berlin represent- 1 ^ K ^ atives at this time voting rights in a future government, West Berlin is excluded from the proposed republic.4\u2014\tChange state borders \u201cuntil the peace treaty.\u201d 5\u2014\tUse any device to achieve \"excessive concentration of authority\u201d in the central government.An article in the constitution says specifically that \u201cweapons designed for warfare may be manufactured, transported or marketed only with permission of the federal government.1' Gen.Clay said this is not a \u201cjoker\u2019\u2019 because inter- i national and military government laws, which are paramount, forbid the Germans to manufacture war goods.Rather, Clay said, the provision is intended to put weapons manufactured under government control, instead of in private hands, and that he considers it a \u201cgaod thing.\u201d tion \"a lot of nonsense.\" The spokesman was Lawrence Wilkinson, economics adviser to the United States military governor.\"We were told by i our governments to remove all j restrictions put into effect since March 1,\t1948,\" he said.\"We've done that and more.\u2019 The Soviet protest was voiced informally, through the Soviet army newspaper in Germany, Taegliche Rundschau.The western powers are evad y Battle Roar Is Audible In Shanghai By FRED HAMPSON Shanghai, May 13\u2014 (AP) \u2014The roar of battle could be beard today at Woosung harbor and Lunghwa airfield, Shanghai\u2019s remaining links with the world.Two Communist prongs crept closer to the city.Government troops stoutly resisted.One battle raged southwest of the city some 15 miles from Lunghwa airport.Lunghwa is at the southwest edge sofe 19 miles from the heart of the city.The scene of this battle was around the village of Sungkiang, of the Shanghai-Hangchovv railroad Another developed to the northwest around the village of Tam-sang, just norm of the Shangiiai-Nanking railroad.Red lines there appear to be about 20 miles from Shanghai.Woosung is where tire narrow Whangpoo river pours its gritty flood into the Yan.gtzc and where ships from Shangnai pass through a narrow channel to the Yangtze and the sea.It is abou* eight nri.'es north of Shanghai.Woosung harbor and the Whangpoo form the city's main artery.It could not live long if it were cut.Lunghwa\u2019s loss would cut Shanghai\u2019s air link.There are three other airfields but they are even Continued on Page 5 National Unity Is Keynote Of St.Laurent Addresses Y'armouth, N.S., May 13.\u2014(CP)\u2014 Prime Minister St.Laurent, going to the people in his own way, carried his gospel of national unity into another segment of Canada yesterday, into Nova Scotia\u2019s storied, social Acadia land.Moving by car along a 65-mile strip of coastline between Digby and Yarmouth, he spoke again the message he has been proclaiming in the west, in Ontario and in his own native Quebec, speaking out on the thing which, he said recently, kept him in the post-war Cabinet.Its core is simple.It is great, mouth and in Digby and at the Roman Catholic college of St.Ann at Church Point along that stretch of coast Nova Scotians call the French Shore or One Long Street because there are substantial, wooden homes scattered all along it.Among these people of the sea and soil he went ahead with his own campaign of handshakes for all he meets, of small-town stops and speeches unruffled by heavy-political broadsides.In Yarmouth, while dignitaries waited, he signed his name for children.On the boat taking him he says, to be a Canadian.He got I from Saint John, N.B., to Digby he the phrase from a leaflet issued by; said \u201chello\u201d to a little girl and she a service club when he spoke in \u201cHi.\u201d At Church Point and at Saskatoon.\tIDigby\u2019s smart new rural high More and more Canadians are'school, he won cheers when he pro-tealizing this because there is a | posed a school holiday to celebrate growing consciousness from coast j the visit of a Prime Minister.At, to coast of national unity, of thejMeteghan he stopped his motor value of rearing a national edifice i cavalcade to have his picture taken! bulwarked by tne distinctive char-j with a lobster fisherman, aeteristics of two great races.| At the French college, before a, Canadians are blessed with an I capacity audience gathered from: Failure To Stamp Cheque Can Be Costly Ottawa, May 13.\u2014((P)\u2014That last cheque you wrote\u2014the one you didn\u2019t put a stamp on\u2014could get you in trouble.Because that sort of thing is against the law.The law, revenue department officials explained, requires that the person who writes the cheque must pay the tax of three cents on cheques up to $100 and six cents for cheques of more than $100.The tax must be paid nefore the cheque is cashed.So you just can\u2019t make out the cheque for an extra three cents and let it go at that.You may have intended the extra three cents as the tax\u2014but you didn't actually pay it.The stamp tax has been on cheques, purely as a revenue measure, for some 25 years and there have been prosecutions for not putting stamps on when the cheque is written.Conviction carries a fine of $10, but prosecutions are \u201cfew and far between,\u201d an official said.That means you don\u2019t have to accept a cheque for payment unless there\u2019s a stamp on it when you get it.Judge T.H.Barton ruled in Toronto yesterday, in what was believed to be the first legal decision of its kind, that an unstamped cheque doesn\u2019t constitute a payment.A landlord was trying to evict a tenant because, he said, she hadn't paid her rent.The tenant had given the landlord an unstamped cheque for one month's rent, but the judge ruled that wasn't good enough and ordered the eviction.The tenant, Mrs.Lillian Baxter, said she will appeal.She can\u2019t he evicted until after the appeal is heard.If someone does give you an unstamped cheque, you can't\u2014strictly speaking\u2014take it to the bank, give the teller three cents and have him put on a stamp.Because then the wrong person pays the tax.The law says it\u2019s to be paid by the person who writes\u2014not the person who cashes\u2014the cheque.The revenue department doesn't go around looking for people to prosecute.It gets the money regardless of who pays it.And it can\u2019t get a conviction unless it has an unstamped cheque.But the de partment is forced to prosecute when someone presents it with an unstamped cheque and asks for a prosecution.ing the lifting of their restrictions under invalid pretexts,\u201d it charged.\u201cThe agreement cannot be fulfilled by the Soviet side alone,\u201d it added.Some observers saw in those words an implied threat to reimpose the blockade, but such a step would be a matter of policy for higher authorities than the Russians in Germany to decide.But the Rundschau statements did lend emphasis to the Russian need for getting supplies from western Germany for her noarly-bankrupt occupation zone.Wilkinson said that at a four-power meeting of economic chiefs here yesterday the Russian representative insisted on a formal order reinstating the east-west trade agreement of 1948.The allies contend it is no longer applicable, he said.Wilkinson said another meeting may be held today.\u201cWe told him east Germans Î were welcome to buy or sell any- ! thing they wanted with the west Germans and that the western powers would not restrict interzonal trade,\u201d Wilkinson said.\u201cAll individual contracts made by German firms under the 1948 agreement could be revived if the firms so wished.But he kept quibbling that the 1948 agreement had to be officially reinstated as of March 1 last year.\u201d However, one source of friction \u2014 a dispute over exports from Berlin to the western zones \u2014 seemed to have been removed.The Russians had incurred western wrath yesterday by refusing to allow trucks from west Berlin to travel to the western occupation zones without obtaining permits from the Soviet military or the Russian-backed German economic commission.West Berlin and west Germany are separated by 100 miles of Russian-controlled territory, the geographical fact which made the blockade possible.However, early today west Berlin police quoted the officer commanding the Russian highway check point outside Berlin as saying such trucks now need only an order from the west Berlin government.There was no official announcement of the change, and the proof of it will lie in what happens when there is an actual test.Yesterday there was some whim- The first U.S.military train bound tor Berlin in It months leaves Frankfurt railroad station.Station attendant in foreground is signalling \"All aboard for Berlin.\" British Commons Gives Overwhelming Approval To North Atlantic Alliance Eisler To Be Returned For Deportation By JACK ADAMS Washington, May 13.- (fP)~ If it weren't for the principle involved, Uncle Sam could save quite a sum of money by just looking the other way while Communist Gerhart Eisler apparently flees across the S6&R.But, sard 41 ni ted Slates justice department officials today, they are determined to bring back a stowaway identified as Eisler so they can later ship him overseas officially\u2014-assuming he is Eisler.This is their reasoning: The 52-year-old admitted Communist owes the United States time in prison for violating its laws while here as an alien gusst.And while the department frankly will be delighted to exclude him from the United States forever, it insists upon doing this through the regular procedure: by a deportation action which already is in motion.Hence, elaborate By DON GILBERT Canadian Press Staff Writer London, May 13\u2014 ©) The House of Commons last night overwhelmingly approved the north Atlantic security treaty after Foreign Secretary Bcvin said the part was a \u201cdeterrent\" to Soviet aggressiveness and Winston t\u2019hurcl ill called it one of the \u201csurest guarantees of peace and safety.\u201d Tile vote was to 6 It cam on this motion put by lievin: \u201cThat this House approves the north Atlantic treaty signed in Washington on April I, 1949, relating' to the promotion of stability and well-being in the north Atlantic area and to the collective defence for the preservation of pc, and security.\u201d Parliamentary observe rs said the near-unanimous approval of the motion was sr.hieient to effect ratification of the pact.They said similar action was not required in the House of Lords although the peers may also pass a motion of approval as a formality if they wish.Thus Britain would become the third of 12 western countries to Showdown On Italian Empire Nears Like Success, May 13.\u2014 (CK \u2014 Russia accused Britain and thi* United States today of making a.\"deal\u201d ti) keep control of strategio parts of Italy's one-time Africa» Empire, The charge came from Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei A.Gromyko as the United States Assembly\u2019s political committee neared a showdown vote on disposal of the colonies after six weeks of bitter debate, Gromyko, said an anti-American riot in Tripoli on May 11th was a protest by the natives against the plan hacked by Britain and the United States to split up Libya under separate U.N, trusteeships.The committee adjourned after Gromyko\u2019s attack and will again this morning begin voting on a series of conflicting plans for settling the thorny problem.Any plan passed by the committee must, get a two-thirds vote in the A = -sembly\u2019s plenary session for final approval.The Soviet delegate directed most of his.fire at a plan approved by a Ui-nntion subcommittee to put Libya under three separate U.N.trusteeships for 10 years.Russia favors a collective U.N.trusteeship over all three former colonies a plan which would g'vt* (lie Soviet Union a voice in admin-Mc: ing the strategic Mediterranean area.1 'ko Sucres , May 15.\tid1'\u2014yTInv United Nations Assembly\u2019s social committee early today overwhelmingly defeated a Polish resolution: which western delegates called hi \u201cpolitical attack\u201d on the displacetl-petsons program.Poland's Henryk Altman chaig-i ii that D.P.camps in the western occupation zones of Germany anil \\u iri.i aie being used to \u201cfurnish, rhenn labor to Marshall Plan eoun-:rie-;.\" Western officials werS |b!ccking efforts of eastern Kuro-|P un i'.placed perrons to return to their homelands.The resolution, backed only by the Slav bloc, had asked United! Nations member-, \u2018not to permis persecution of displaced persons\u201d u'rl \"nut to tolerate the presents in camps of persons carrying mi hostile activities of propaganda ¦i i cry state member of tho United Nations.\u201d Altman also charged Canada, with exploitation of displaced persons who came to the Dominion after the war, charging that they worked under worse conditions endured in German Armed Police Are Watch in g Downing St.By ALAN HARVEY Canadian Press Staff Writer London, May 15.- O' Armed police today patrolled Downing Street, official residence of Prime Minister Attlee and other Cabinet ministers, as a pro, aution against possible terrorism, A spokesman for Scotland Yard .aid last niyht the.decision to issue revolvers to constables on duty around the Prime Minister\u2019s residence at No.1Ü was taken as \u201can extra safety precaution.\u201d But the pokesmun denied that Attlee had received threats.Bitter anti-British feeling among Irishmen over the Labor govern- j than they ment\u2019s new Ireland bill was believ-, camps, ed to be the ren on.C.nally eon-i 1-eon Mnyrand, head of the Am-stables do not carry firearms.I l'iican and far-eastern divison of The lion.ml bill, whirl i received j the Dominion External A (fairs De- second reading in the House o:' Commons Wednesday night, would rati'y the Atlantic treaty.Cana da was the first country to ratify prevent the reunion of the republic it and Belgium completed the final of Ireland with the six countries of jstep for raliiRation yesterday Northern Ireland without approval arrangements I when tiie Belgian Senate approved !of the Ulster parliament, have been completed for intercep- the pact.127 to 15.\tj Some \u201cpatriots\" claim that four tion of the stowaway aboard the j Speaking during the Commons jof the six northern countries Polish liner Bn tory.now on the | debate on the alliance, Bcvin and Down, Tyrone, Fermanagh and Churchill pulled few punches in Armagh -would, if given the op-their criticism of Soviet policy Iportunity, join the repuidic.But the since the end of the war.The for-j Unionist party, beaded by Prime feign secretary was more outspoken I Minister Sir Basil lliu.oke, will than usual.\tfight to the death to maintain He blamed Russia for forcing Northern Ireland under the British the security treaty on the western Crown.Sir Basil\u2019s government was powers and he justified its need empowered by the recent general by saying that if the Soviet Union flection to keep the six Ulster coun-had gone unchecked the situation I ties in the United Kingdom, would have led to a third world ! The Ireland biil has brought bil- Atlantic.-who has identified him- self as Eisler.These arrangements cali for Iris prompt return to the United States.Meanwhile, an immigration department spokesman in New York said that Mrs.Eisler also lias disappeared from their home there.She has been at liberty, without bond, under charges of being illegally in the United States.She is being sought for questioning about her husband.Thi Federal Bureau of Investigation has asked Britain's Scotland Yard to meet the Batory when it docks at Southampton on Saturday and take the stowaway into custody.And, on the assumption that he is the Eisler under two criminal sentences and described as the onetime No.1 non-office-holding Cotn-! munist in the United States, justice officials have asked the State Department to obtain a quick extradition authority from Britain.Arrangements have been made Continued on Page 5.Continued on Page 5 unmatched land and they them selves are a superb and unified race.Given peace through the Atlantic pact and given a continuation of unity there is nothing to stop them scaling the heights destiny has offered.To the descendants of the ori-| the area, he said Canada was blés-I std with good relations between! church and state and was obviously gratified when the Father Superior, Rev.Wilfrid Hache, strongly supported the Atlantic pact and described him as its \u201cinspirator.\u201d \u201cWe Acadians are expecting ginal French settlers of Canr.-h.helgreat thi\"4* from you for Canada.\u201d spoke it in French.To the Eng-i said the Acadian priest to the lish-speaking Canadians who fish French-Irish Prime Minister, and farm and build ships beside! In Digby's high school.Mr.St.them he spoke it in English.\tj .- , _____________________________ He was heard this time in Y'ar-1\tContinued on Page 5 Kingston, Ont., May 13.\u2014 (CP) \u2014Most Rev.John Lyons, 70, Anglican archbishop of the diocese of Ontario, was enthroned last night as Metropolitan of the ecclesiatical province of Ontario amid ceremonies centuries old.INDEX Page 2\u2014 Theatre News Page 3\u2014City New».Page 4\u2014Fditorials.Page 5\u2014General News Page 6\u2014Classified Ads Page 7\u2014Trading Post Page 8\u2014Farm A Market News p-ige M\u2014S'wiai and Personal Confederation Issue Raised By Drew In Newfoundland Grand Falls, Nfld., May 13.\u2014® \u2014George Drew carried the New-!which foundland phase of his Federal ! which he spoke from the rear election campaign close to home! private car.yesterday.\tvar;ous addresses, he stressed The Progressive Conservative ithese points: leader told an audience in this j Pro-^re -ive Conservative newsprint town a government un- KOVernment »-f)U;d not abo!ish fam.der his leadership would oe prepar- ij;y allowances or old age pensions, led to adjust the terms under which \u201e \u2018r\t^ I the island entered confederation.\t2' H'-! p,art>' he,iey^ that organ- A progressive Conservative ad- ;zin^ ,of Jar!