Sherbrooke daily record, 17 mai 1949, mardi 17 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 22\t23\t24\t25\t26\t27\t2S 29\t30\t31\t\t\t\t THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS WEATUER CLEAR AND WARM Continuing clear and warm, with light winds.Temperatures yesterday : Maxinv.rm 71.minimum t\u2019S.Year ago: Maximum 61), minimum 36, Established 1897.PRICE: 5 CENTS SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, TUESDAY.MAY 17.Fifty-Third Year World News In Brief Quebec, May 17.\u2014(®\u2014The Quebec Government will tender an official reception here May 24 to European delegates on their way to a convention of the International Agriculture Federation at Guelph, Ont.Premier Duplessis is expected to make his first public appearance after several weeks\u2019 illness at a banquet for the visitors.Agriculture Minister Barre and heads of Quebec farm organizations will also attend.The European group will come to Quebec by train from Halifax and travel on to Montreal by bus passing through Plessisville, Princeville, Vic-toriaville, Granby, St.Hyacinthe and St.Hilaire.* * * St.John\u2019s, May 17\u2014(CP) \u2014 Five city bakeries, closed since Saturday to protest ceiling prices on bread, re-opened today after the government promised an investigation of the price set-up.Supply Minister Addison Bown announced last week that bread prices in the heavily-populated Avalon peninsula must be stashed from 18 to 16 cents a loaf.The Newfoundland Master Bakers' Association claimed it would lose money under the new agreement and ceased operations in protest.Some 200 persons were made idle.* * Halifax, May 17.\u2014®\u2014The eight-man crew of the fire-ravaged steamer L'ronick was rescued by the cable ship Lord Kelvin off Newfoundland\u2019s east coast today while the search continued for some 20 Danish seamen adrift in small boats off Greenland.The Lord Kelvin, on cable repair work in Trinity Bay, reported she had taken aboard the Uronick\u2019s crew from the lifeboats.The men went over the side when the ship, carrying 500 gallons of gasoline, caught fire yesterday.The captain warned other ships not to approach the burning ves-scl.Two R.C.A.F.Lancaster bombers joined the search over a cold, snow-spattered sea for the crew of the 120-ton motor schooner Ebba.The seamen abandoned ship about 200 miles off Cape Farewell, the southern tipj of Greenland, after her hull wras ripped apart by a raging sea and she sank under their feet.* iR * Little Current, Ont., May 17.\u2014Xf>)\u2014Manitoulin Island is coming under provisions of the Ontario Liquor Control Act aftc 35 years under the Canada Temperance Act.Residents voted nearly -1 yesterday to scrap the 187H federal legis ation, so far as this tourist conscious island m northern Lake Huron is concerned.The Ontario Act will permit ^ale cf liquor under government control but another vote will be necessary to decide whether residents favor opening of hotel beverage rooms.¥ * * Montreal, May 17.\u2014(©\u2014Viscount Alexander will deliver an address at the annual Commemoration services to be held at the Field of Honor at Suburban Pointe Claire May 24, it was announced yesterday.The annual service is sponsored by the Last Post Fund.Soviets Dealt Unexpected Blow In Election To Approve Red Congress Appointment Three New Faces At Paris Parlev Universities Have Special Role In Life More Than One-Third of Electors Voted No On Ballot Calling for Approval of Red Party Slate.Sackville, N.B., May 17\u2014 Canada's Governor General today Canadian universities lose much of their unique value if ; they become \u201conly a further step in school education\u201d and if degrees become something needed to get a good job.The Governor General, Viscount Alexander, spoke at the annual convocation of Mount Allison University, where he received an honorary doctorate of laws.The result of several years at a university,\u201d he said in a speech prepared for convocation, \u201cis the development of the cultural side of life, and I cannot believe that this will continue to be possible if literally thousands of students are working to obtain degrees in subjects whi:h could just as well, if not better, be obtained at a commercial school designed for specialized knowledge.\u2019\u2019 The object of a university education, he said, was not merely the acquisition of knowledge but \u201cto train the mind and to develop character, thought and initiative.\u201d\u2019 The Governor General and Lady Alexander flew from Ottawa to Moncton, N.B., then drove the 30 miles to Sackville.They were met at Moncton by Lieut.-Gov.Lb L.MacLaren and Mayor F.W.Storey.Outlinin.j the history of universities and university customs, Viscount Alexander said Canadian universities now were greatly overcrowded.But by making university educations available to veterans of the Second World War \u201cwe have at least paid a small part of the debt we owe these young warriors, and in spite of the embarrassment as regards accommodation, extra work thrown upon the faculties and other difficulties, I would wager that this generous approach to the problem will not only pay a good dividend in the future, but that these young people are today amongst the best of your students.\u201d If universities expanded to meet Canada\u2019s growing population, he said he hoped \u201cthat the great universities of this country will maintain their traditions, prestige and position, and continue to give to future generations the cultural values of life which are the heritage of a great people.\u201d Berlin, May 1 7 \u2014 (Æ5) \u2014 Eastern Germany has dealt Communism an unexpected blow in Soviet-controlled territory.Offic ial figures in the People s Congress election today showed sa.;di a surprising snub by a third of the voters.will Of 'No 12,024,221 valid ballots, 4,080,2 72 were marked Party Heads In Britain Debate Vote By FRASER WIGHTON London, May 17\u2014(Reuters)\u2014 Both Labor and Conservative leaders are trying to assess the probable effect on next year\u2019s parliamentary general election of the country-wide local government contests now completed.Final results of the local contests show that in a turnover of 30,000 seats, Conservatives regained at least half their total of more than 3,000 losses suffered after the 1945 genera! election.Lm-bor losses in the just-completed contests exceeded 1,000 seats, The elections, which ended Saturday, were unique, because for the first time all local government contests were compressed into a single month, instead of being spread over the year, Conservative and L,abor leaders now must determine to what extent the \u201clocal government general election,\u201d with its representative character, was an accurate index of national political feeling.It is generally agreed that national issues, notably continued austerity living conditions, played a part in the local elections.But the political opponents recognize that the percenta-re of electors voting was far below general-election level.Only about half the British electors who vote in a general election normally turn out for local contests.Problem of the opposing parties ed States said yesterday she be- | js t;0 discover the political align-lieves the new relationship be- ment of the large proportion of the tween India and Britain will be of public which did not vote in the benefit to both countries.\t{ ;0cal elections.\u201cThe Association is a very happy | On the Labor side, there is gen-one at the moment,' Mme.Vijaya erai recognition of vastly improv- India Hopeful Of Neutrality Stand Washington, May 17.\u2014((P)\u2014India\u2019s new ambassador to the Unit 1 he Communists had hoped to roll up a virtually solid yes vote for their hand-picked single slate of candidates, so that they could go to the Foreign Ministers conference in Paris next week with a government for Eastern Germany which would match that of the West.So shocked were the Communist officials that election returns were withheld 20 hours after the polls closed, and the Soviet-controlled press cried double cross at their political allies in the Eastern zone.\u2014\u2014\t4* There were 13,533,071 persons eligible to vote.Of these 12,887,-234 cast ballots, or 95.2 per cent.The valid ballots totalled 12,024,-221.This was the vote: Yes: (In favor of the handpicked single slate) 7,943,949, or 60.1 per cent.No; 4,080,272, or 33.9 per cent.The organ of the Scn-'et militarv administration, Taogliche Rundschau, accused the eastern splinter parties of the Christian and Liberal Democrats of playin.g a \u201cdouble game.\u201d They were accused of swearing their allegiance to the Communist-front Congress and \u201cagitating in secret\u201d against it.Rundschau admitted that \u201cwithout doubt, there are not a few people under the influence of the lying propaganda of the enemies of unity who voted against the list.\u201d The two-day ballotting for the Congress ended last night.The ( ommunist - controlled People's Council took complete charge of issuing a final count, expected later today.The voting was for a people\u2019s congress of 2,000 members, all hand-picked and put on a single ticket.Voters were given a choice of voting \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d.Just before the lid was clamped on the results, the main election committee of the Congress for Eastern Berlin announced the breakdown of the first 7,000 votes counted.Only 2,820 voted \u201cja.\u201d A majority of 3,809 voted \u201cnein.\u201d About 250 Seme Three new faces will appear at the conference table in Paris «hen the Big Four Council of foreign Ministers tries again to unsnarl the German problem.Left to right in (his photo montage are U.S.secrctarj of State Dean Acheson; British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bovin; French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky.Only Bevin was present tn London in December, 1 947, when the D'g Four last considered Germany.Tax Reductions Election Propaganda As Budget Not Approved, Drew Charges ballots were declared invalid.L.Pandit told a press conference \u201cIt is an association which we believe will be of mutual benefit.\u201d Mme.Pandit emphasized, however, that her country intends to \u201cmaintain a certain aloofness\u201d in Continued on Page 5.ed Conservative organization the constituencies.Some independent observers believe that a cardinal reason for the heavy Labor reverses was the party\u2019s failure to exert its own full strength at the polls.wrote on their vote for a noli ballot:, \u201cWe won\u2019t St.Laurent Hopeful For Fiscal Pact By Canadian Press Staff Writer Charlottetown, May 17\u2014\\(P)\u2014 Prime Minister St.Laurent indicated last ni.rht his fehling that the June 27 election might pace the way for a financial agreement between Yp Federal Government and all the provinces.Onta-io and Quebec are the only provinces which have not entered separate agreements on tax sources with Ottawa since collapse of the 1946 general conférer ce.\u201cI believe,\u201d ho said in his first public address in this cradle of Confederation, \u201cthat it won\u2019t be very long after June 27 when the \u2022people dispose once and for all of this charge that the Liberal party is trying to destroy provincial rights and it may not he very long before we are able to reach tax agreements with all ten provinces, \u201cThese governments are the people\u2019s governments.They do not exist to provide pedestals for the men and women who take, leading parts in federal and provincial politics.They exist to serve the Canadian people.\u201d This main theme was an answer to an address by George Drew, Progressive Conservative leader, here last week when he accused the Liberal Government of centralizing power at Ottawa and proclaimed a \u201cfight to save confederation.\u201d Mr.St.Laurent said: \u201cI should a police state and we re-1 be very much surprised if many ject Communism.\t: people in the Maritimes were much pre=s le- impressed by this self-appointed that the' re-ex- The Western Berlin ported soon afterward election committee was aming\u201d the ballots.The Communists bad hoped 10,-000,000 or more eastern zone Germans would vote for them and only a few thousand would dissent.They wanted a huge endorsement of the Congress, which is certain to clamor for adoption of Russia\u2019s peace terms by the Foreign Ministers' Council at the Paris meeting next week.The Soviet - licenced German agency announced only that 91 per cent of the East Berlin electorate had voted and that percentages were even higher in some of j effort to save Confederation.\u201d His «rovernment had completed Confederation by the inclusion of Newfoundland \u201cand I don\u2019t think many Canadians are going to believe that the government responsible for completing Confederation is trying deliberately to destroy or even to weaken it.\u201d \u201cAll this talk about Confederation and provincial rights is completely wdthout foundation .I have three times challenged anyone in parliament to give a single sample of impingement upon any provincial rights by Ottawa since the war and no one anywhere Las the five states ip the zone.Continued on Page 5.United Nations Boycott Of promise in' Franco Spain Is Maintained nt\u2018ill0btn ( By NORMAN ALTSTEDTER New York, May 17\u2014 (ffi \u2014The United Nations\u2019 boycott on top diplomatic representation in Fran co Spain remains in force today.The U.N.General Assembly vot ed 26 to 15 last night in favor of returning envoys withdrawn from Madrid in 1946 as a gesture of disapproval against Generalissimo Franco.But the move failed because it was four votes short of the two-thirds majority needed for Assembly approval.Sixteen countries \u2014 including Canada, Britain, the United States and France\u2014abstained from voting although British and United States delegates spoke strongly against the Franco regime.At the same time the Assembly overwhemlingly rejected a Rus-sian-bloc proposal to slap military and economic restrictions on Spain.The vote was 40 to 6 rejecting a Polish resolution advising U.N.members to stop arms shipments to Spain and refrain from signing any agreements or treaties with the Franco regime.Early' today another Polish resolution\u2014attacking the present resettlement and repatriation processes of the International Refugee Organization\u2014was slapued down \"1 to 6 (Russian bloc.).Gen.A.G.L.McNaughton, Canada's permanent delegate, mounted the rostrum at 1 a.m.to reject as \u201cuntrue\u201d Russia\u2019s old charges that displaced persons now in Canada are being exploited.The Canadian delegate said all Canadian^ welcome the refugees and do all in their/power to make a real home for them.Assembly delegates were scheduled to be back at work at 11 a.m.to tackle the final problem of their six-week spring session.U.N.officials said it was possible they might wind un the session tonight with a decision on a controversial proposal to split control of Italy\u2019s former colonies among four countries\u2014Britain.France, Italy and Ethiopia.But informed sources said it was more likely the closing speeches would be made sometime Wednesday.Defeat of the proposal on Spain sponsored by Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru, leaves the status of the U.N.diplomatic boycott of the Franco regime just where it was.In 1946 the Assembly adopted resolutions banning Spain from membership in the U.N.and recommending that member countries withdraw ambassadors and ministers from Madrid, leaving in their place lesser officials.Argentina and several other countries have since sent back their ambassadors despite the U.X.ruling.Orillia, Ont., May 17.\u2014(®\u2014The strike at the Heywood-Wakefield baby carriage plant is over, with the dispute over dismissal of 18 workers to be settled by arbitration.Labor Minister Daley announced last night that officials of the plant had signed a four-point agreement witn the Orillia General Workers\u2019 Union (C.C L.) which called the strike 16 days ago.The cases of the 18 discharged workers will go before an arbitrator or a county court judge, to be chosen by the Labor Department.All of the others on strike are to return to work at once.The union claims as members 70 of 110 men.Brief skirmishes between strikers and non-strikers occurred and resulted in 26 Ontario Provincial Police being culled to the scene last Wednesday at the request of Mayor W.M .Seymour to keep order.The settlement was seen as a compromise between the terms laid down by Plant Manager A.J.Lloyd and Union Organizer George Brough.Lloyd had refused last Fresh Communist Threat To Shanghai Port Developing By FRED HAMPSON ,at 4 p.m.Shanghai, May 17.\u2014(/P)\u2014A new Fires were visible from dowm-Communist threat to menaced.t o vv n Shanghai as Communist Shanghai developed today as pres-; forces from the southeast surged sure eased on the city's vital sea closer to the Pootung waterfront, and air gateways.In Central! The fires appeared to be from China, the Reds were reported | four to eight miles away.They walking into Hankow, the country's | probably were set by Nationalist greatest inland port.\t1 nlanes which have been concentrât- give A Shanghai garrison commard'ing on the Communists in that communique said the more than I area.10,000 Reds based at Fengyen drove! Nationalist reinforcements were to Chowpu, less than 10 miles j being rushed to the Shanghai front, southwest of Shanghai\u2019s famous j Government spokesmen said the Bund along the Whangpoo river.city, \u201cunless mistakes are made,\u201d Another Red force of 2,000 Reds]could hold out indefinitely.The pushed to Chawansha, 12 miles al- : morale of troops was described rpost due east of the Bund, the Na-!as high.tionalist communique said.\t; Shanghai s shipping and aerial Thus it appears the Communists, | links with the outside world still held off at the Woosung ship were operating.Chinese planes, entrance to the city on the north although their crews admitted the and balked- at Lunghwa interna J Communists were dangerously tional airport to the south, arc con- close, continued! to fly from centrating_on a \u201csoft spot.\u201d\t! Lunghwa to Canton, Formosa and (By Canadian Press Staff Writer) | Halifax, May 17.M -George i Drew, Progressive Conservative | leader, sharpened his attacks on the Federal Government yesterday and said that the budget presented by it for 1943-54) is nothing but an election manifesto.Addressing a political party in this city, represented in the last Commons by Liberals, Mr.Drew warned that a budget cannot become eft'cctive until it is passed by Parliament.The 1949-5'il budget was \u201cdeliberately\u201d not passed by the government.\u201cYou have no right to accept any statement in the budget ns having any more value than other promises made by the government,\u201d said Mr.Drew, who speaks today in Truro, N.S., and Amherst, N.S., as he continues his coast-to-coast federal election campaign tour.His Halifax address was one of four made yesterday.He spoke a:-well at Mahone Bay, Lunenburg, Chester and Bridgewater.There was no reason, he said, w'hy the budget should not have been passed by Parliament before the election.Members have at through the Eastei Recess or Prime Minister St.Laurent could have called the session earlier.Now when a new government takes office after the June 27 election a new budget will have to be presented, he said.That budegt when presented and passed would be the budget that would be effective for 1949-50.At Mahone Bay, Chester and Lunenburg, Mr.Drew urged his listeners to get out on election day and vote according to their conscience.He reminded them that one of the freedoms in a democracy was the right to make a choice in an election according to one\u2019s own conscience.\u201cIf everyone voted as their fathers and grandfathers did.there would not he much use i having el retiens,\u201d he said.At Bridgewater, vhere ho mad-a major speech, he charged that the government has power to seize farm products and to nationalize the steel and lun her industries, In acts passed by the Government there was power to go on farms and vake products < terms fi d by the Government.There 1 for was powe.to take complete control of the steel and lumber industries.\u201cDon\u2019t tell us that they won\u2019t i use them,\u201d he shouted.\u201cThey will j use them if the long-haired boys in I their iv ,y towers get to C.e point ! where they believe that they should be used in that way.\u201d The government had stated that the Foreign Exchange Control Act wouldn\u2019t be uged to restrict trade.The Government went ahead and used it to enforce the restrictions on trade with the United States.\u201cIf they do that sort of thing v.ith one ^ct, they will do it with another,\u201d he aid.He stated the Government had refused a ¦ several occasions to information to the people\u2019s representatives in Par\u2019riment.Airlift Is Planned To Aid Imports Ottawa, May 17.\u2014®\u2014A small-scale airlift to shuttle machinery parts into the Canadian market will he proposed by President Harold Wilson of the United Kingdom Board of Trade when he returns to London, it was learned today.The proposal, it was learned, will be made by Mr.Wilson to British manufacturers as one wi/y of meeting United States competition in Canada, and giving Canadian buyers assurance that British replacement parts will he available quickly.This innovation means that a one-day replacements service may he available to Canadians buying U.K.farm equipment, wheeled tractors, motorcycles and some types of automobiles and other equipment.It is understood to have the approval of Canadian trade experts.Details of the airlift plan aro expected to be made public by Mr.Wilson as he continues his 20-day trade tour of the Dominion.The top U.K.trade officer left for Toronto last night after meeting with the Cabinet and speaking before a press conference and a district convention of Rotary International.He warned that the U.K.must sell more to Canada if it is going to keep on buying goods here.Britain now is buying all she can from Canada with spending her last-ditch reserve of gold and dollars, he said.Before buying more, Britain must sell more -and it must increase its exports to maintain By Canadian Press Staff Writer i purchases in Canada at the present 1 rate.He said the U.K.Coldwell Is Critical Of Both Parties Summerside, P.K.L, May 17.i© The big campaign guns of the C.C.F.party rolled into action last night as National Party Leader M.J.( oldwell opened a cross-Canada tour in Prince Edward Island with a volley of political fire at the agriculture policies of both the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives.Mr, Coldwell told a public meeting in this western P.K.L centre that, tlie C.C.F.alone has shown itself to be in favor of the measures farmers want.He accused the Lila ral Govern ment of (lodging its responsibility by failing to bring in uniform marketing legislation requested by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture.due of the greatest crimes, he said, is gambling with the people\u2019s food, a situation which existed under the _ Liberals and would, by George Drew\u2019s admission, be aggravated under a Progressive Con servative administration.I he C.C.F.would remove speculation in sale of coarse grains and enable farmers to market them through the Dominion Wheat Board.I he C.C.F.at the last session of Parliament had asked for this 1 hange in an amendment to the Wheat Board A I hut Liberals and Progressive Conservatives had both voted against the C.C.F.despite the (act that farmers had asked for the change.Mr.Coldwell\u2019s Summerside address was the first in a series that will take him into all of the ten provinces.He moved into New Brunswick today to deliver an address at Moncton.I he C.C.F.leader mentioned the asbestos workers strike in Quebec and described aid given the men and their families by the Roman Catholic Church as a \u2018\u2018great humanitarian gesture.\u201d it often takes great courage the church to side with the common man,\u201d Mr.Coldwell said.\u2018\u2018Its a great thing when a Chris- atd the U.K.was trading with iron-curtain countries\u2014and plans to increase trade with Russia because special trading agreements were needed in 1947 when the U.K.had to suspend convertibility of sterling into dollars.So she exported coni and steel, although they were scarce at home, to get timber and food which she needed even more.Another sales - boosting plan which Mr.Wilson may lay before U.K.manufacturers when he returns overseas is a large-scale Brit-i.-h advertising campaign in Canada a campaign which may equal United States advertising here.Canadian trade problems\t\thad reach-\t cd a\tcritical stage, Mr.\tWilsi\tn, it was\tunderstood, did not\tplace\tcon- cretc\ttrade proposals\tbefore\t(he I'Vdo\tral Government\tluring\this w eek\t-end visit to the capital.\t\t H0 a week when he was starring 25 years ago in such heart throbbers as \u201cBen Hur,\u201d \u201cScaramouche,\" \u201cThe Prisoner of Zenda,\u201d \"The Student Prince\u201d and, \\#hen talkies came, in \u201cThe Pagan Love Song\u2019\u2019 and \u201cSong | of India.\u201d Behind the Novarro look was physical perfection- and that darn | near drove him crazy.Cameramen i had orders to light him perfectly in every shot, to make him look i handsome in every scene.\u201cBy the time they got through i lighting me like a painting I I couldn't turn my head more than j a few inches.One day I complain-i ed: T can\u2019t act when I can't move.\u2019 \u201d Novarro Today i A director replied; \"Don\u2019t worry about acting, son.Just look 1 handsome.You can act when you \u2018 get old.\u201d Today, at 5(1 with a gray-t'pped goatee, Ramon Novarr* is a wealthy actoi'.He invested wisely in real estate and when he plays a movie role now it is to break the monot-i ony of collecting rent.Yrou\u2019ll see him next with Bob Mitehum and Jane Greer in RKO\u2019s \u201cThe Big Steal.\u201d He plays a Mexicali police inspector\u2014one of the few times he's ever played his own nationality.He was born in Durango, Mexico, and came to the U.S.when he was 17.But about screen love-making of today.I\u2019ll let Ramon do the talking.\u201cMaybe love scenes in silent ! films were more suggestive because pantomime is more potent than dialogue,\u201d he said.\u201cMaybe it Helita and Preston Foster are in love in their co-starring roles in Allied Artists\u2019 tense drama, \u201cThe Hunted,\u201d coming tomorrow to the Premier theatre.Senator Nicol Turns First Sod At McMaster U.OBITUARIES MR.HENRY I).SNOW, OF COATICOOK Coaticook, May 17.\u2014One of the ; oldest and most respected citizens : in this place passed away suddenly Hamilton, May 17.- Senator °n Monday, April 4 Mr.Henry D.Jacob Nicol, Quebec newspaper Sn