Sherbrooke daily record, 14 avril 1954, Section 1

[" 1954\t\tAPRIL\t\t\t1954\t S\tKA\ty\tW\tT\tF\tS \t\t\t\t1\t2\t3 4\t5\t6\t7\t8\t9\t10 1 1\t12\t13\t14\t15\t16\t17 18\t19\t20\t21\t22\t23\t24 25\t26\t27\t28\t29\t30\t Established 1897.3'HE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS PRICE: 5 CENTS\tSHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14.1Q54 WEATHER WET SNOW, RAIN Cloudy today and tonight; occasional wet snow this afternoon; Thursday cloudy with wet snow i hanging to rain before noon; warmer; winds easterly 15.Low to.night and high Thursday at Sherbrooke 30 and 50.FRANCE ACCEPTS ANGLO-U VIEW World News In Brief Chicago;\u2014 (JP) \u2014Joseph T.Meek, who calls himself a \u201cno label, unhyphenated Republican,\u201d romped off with the party\u2019s Illinois senatorial nomination in the first primary election of 1954.The 50-year-old head of an organization of 60.000 Illinois merchants.Meek has said he would support most but not necessarily all of President Eisenhower's policies.But he says he is neither \u201ca Taft-Republican nor an Eisenhower-Republican.\u201d * * * London \u2014 Reuters \u2014 Two British soldiers, one of them dead, have been awarded the George Cross, Britain\u2019s second highest bravery medal, for heroism under Communist torture in Korean prisoner-of-war camps, the war office announced Tuesday night.The awards went to Fusilier Derek Godfrey Kinne, who taunted his captors through months of beatings, and Lieut.Terence Edward Waters, who died from mistreatment in Chinese Communist prison camps, * * * Singapore \u2014 (JP) Australia has made no firm decision on U.S.State Secretary Dulles\u2019 call for a \u201cunited front\u201d in southeast Asia, External Affairs Minister .R.G.Casey said on his arrival Tuesday.Casey is on a fact-finding tour of southeast Asia before the Geneva conference begins April 26.He added: \u201cI hope to meet Mr.Dulles and Mr.Eden, British foreign secretary before the Geneva talks and we shall probably discuss the question then.\u201d Soviet Housewife A Patient Person Montreal \u2014\u20ac?)\u2014Russian housewives are among the most patient people on earth, Gerald Clark, Weekend staff writer, said Tuesday.Mr.Clark, the first Canadian correspondent since 1946 to receive a working visa to Russia, told a Jewish Welfare League meeting Russian housekeepers must always line up to do their shopping.\u201cIt takes something like 40 minutes to buy a can of peas,\u201d he said, describing his recent visit to the Soviet Union.A typical Russian family usually had several persons working at a wage averaging about $50 a week.It took a typist a week\u2019s pay to buy a dress that sell for $4.95 in Canada.Connolly Is Premier Of Nova Scotia Halifax\u2014 CP) \u2014Health Minister j Harold Connolly, 53, was sworn in ! Tuesday night as premier of Nova Scotia and successor to the late Angus L.Macdonald.Premier Connolly told the Legislature immediately after Lieutenant-Governor Alistair Fraser administer the oath of office that he regarded his tenure as temporary \u201cand in due course the Nova Scotia Liberal Association will call a convention at which time a permanent leader will be selected.\u201d The convention w'as a near-certainty for late summer or early fall.Mr.Macdonald died early Tuesday in Victoria General Hospital here after an illness of only a few\u2019 days.The death of the builder of Canada\u2019s Second World War Navy evoked a flood of warm tributes from Prime Minister St.Laurent on down.Mr.Connolly will retain, for the time being at least, three of the 11 cabinet posts\u2014the premiership and the highways and health portfolios.There w\u2019ere no cabinet changes.The other eight ministers went through the traditional procedure of being re-sworn by Lieutenant-Governor Fraser.The 37-seat Legislature was formally told at a silent sitting earlier Tuesday of Mr.Macdonald\u2019s death which abruptly ended what had been described as a period of prolonged rest.Mr.Connolly said the 64-year-old Cape Breton-born Scot and wartime navy minister \u201cachieved the honor of a prophet recognized as such in his own time.\u201d Mr.Macdonald\u2019s death makes necessary a by-election in his riding of Halifax South but there was no indication of the date.The late premier\u2019s body will lie in state in the storied Red Chamber of Province House from 2 p.m.Thursday to Monday morning when a state funeral will be accorded the man who fought and won four provincial general elections and led Nova Scotia\u2019s Liberals from apathy to ascendancy in 21 years.Mr.Connolly was once editor of the Halifax Chronicle and Star before they merged with The Herald and Mail, and has had a political career which in some ways paralleled that of the man h