Sherbrooke daily record, 30 janvier 1951, mardi 30 janvier 1951

[" 1951\t\tJANUARY\t\t\t\t1951 S\tM\tT\tW\tT\tF\tS \t1\t\u2022»\t3\t4\t5\t6 7\t8\t9\t10\t11\t12\t13 11\t15\t16\t17\t18\t19\t20 21\t22\t23\t24\t25\t26\t27 28\t29\t30\t31\t\t\t beebtookeMUjIReeocd WEATHER MILDER Sminy tod# y *nd tomorrow.Very cold tonigrht.Uiritintf # little miltwr tomorrow afternoon.Light wind».Low tonight and high to.morrow at Sherbrooke 15 below and 15 above, romperatum yesterday: Mini, rniim tl, maximum 13, Year agoj Minimum 23, maximum 49.THE TATEE Ob THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS iatablished 1897.PRICE: 5 CENTS SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC.TUESDAN.JANUARY 40.193 1 World News IteUinki, Jan.30\u2014(fP)\u2014The state funeral of Baron t'arl Lustaf Mannerheim, marshal of Finland, will be held next Sunday.He will be buried at Sandudd military cemetery.Two knights of the Manner-heim Order, Gen.K.A.Taulola and Gen.A.A.Puroma, will he honorary guards in the Finnish plane which is to rarry the marshal\u2019s body home from Switzerland today.Paris, Jan.30\u2014(éP1\u2014Belgium and western Germany have accepted invitations to attend a conference here Feb.*i aimed at creating a unified European army.The French government is awaiting replies from eight other western European powers, also invited to attend the talks.* » # London, Jan.30\u2014(Iteuters) Thick fog and freezing temperatures today threw' Britain\u2019s transport system into chaos for the second day running.\t.Planes were grounded at airports, road traffic has reduced to a snail\u2019s pace, and trains were heavily delayed.No ships moved on the river Thames, blanketed in its thickest fog this winter.* *\t* Washington, Jan.30\u2014(/Pi-Representative Joh\u2019n B.Sullivan (Hem.Mo.), 33.died unexpectedly\tlast\tnight\tof\ta brain haemorrhage.Sullivan, from St.Louis, Mo., had been in Congress since 1941 with the exception of two terms.* #\t# Tokyo.Jan.30\u2014(/P)\u2014Forty-four persons were injured yesterday by torpedo explosions at\ta\tsalvaging\tcompany\tin Naruto, 350 miles southwest of Tokyo.Four were hurt severely.Police said hundreds of salvaged Japanese bombs and torpedoes w ere stored near the scene of the blast.Four dwellings were destroyed and 15 warehouses wrecked.James Bridie, Playwright, Dies Edinburgh, Jan.30\u2014(/P)\u2014James Bridie, 63, Scottish playwright and author, died last night.Bridie, whose real name was Osborne Henry Mayor, was a physician who took up play-wrighting on the side, bringing out his first successful play, \u201cThe Anatomist,\u201d in 1931.He wrote 30 plays in 20 years and was considered one of Scotland\u2019s leading dramatists.His plays included \u201cTobias and the Angel,\u201d \u201cJonah and the Whale,\u201d \u201cSusanna and the Elders,\u201d \u201cThe Last Trump,\u201d \u201cThe Sleeping Clergyman,\u201d \"Storm in a Teacup,\u201d \u201cMr.Bolfry,\u201d \u201cDr.Angélus,\u201d and \u201cDaphne Laureola.\u201d The last played in New York after a long run in London.Critics considered he excelled in works of a light, ironic vein.Last year he won the George Bernard Shaw 94th birthday prize for his play \u201cGog and Magog.\" He put the money up as a prize for a play competition in connection with the Festival of Britain.Bitter Down Resistance Slows U.N.Offensive On Toughening Up wr Lài Western Korean Warfront Sidelights On Conflict In Korea Miryang, Korea, Jan.30\u2014iPi-\u2014 Maj.Jack George learned on his return to this Canadian training camp last Tuesday from a company exercise in the southern Korean hills that his wife had given birth to a son at home at Edmonton.The news, contained in a telegram, was a fitting climax to the overnight exercise in which George\u2019s man camped out on the ground, ready at a moment\u2019s notice to engage any Red guerrillas who might have attacked.(The Canadian Press on Jan.24 erroneously reported that Lieut.Jack Campbell of Edmonton had learned that he was to be the proud father of a son at home.The error was due to the dropping of a name during wireless transmission of the original dispatch from Korea to North America.) Tokyo, Jan.30\u2014\u2014The Canadian destroyer Cayuga joined American and British ships in shelling the west coast of Korea today, while on the east coast the United States battleship Missouri led a big allied naval force in pounding the Kangson area north of the 38th parallel.The United Nations ships opened up their big guns on the west coast port of Inchon just before dawn.They helped soften up communist troop concentrations ahead of the Eighth Army fighting its way north from Suwon.Suwon is 25 miles southeast of Inchon, where U.N.troops made a surprise amphibious landing which led to the rout of communist forces in the big allied push last September.On the east coast, the 16-inch and 5-inch guns of the Missouri alone buried in more than 1,000 rounds at the Kansong area during the first hour.* * * Tokyo, Jan.30 \u2014 (Ah \u2014 Vice-Admiral C.Turner Joy, commander of United Nations naval forces, said today 24,500 North Korean and Chinese communist troops have been killed by allied naval action since the start of the Korean war.The seven-month boxscore was compiled from official action reports up to Saturday midnight.Canadian ships were among those contributing to the over-al! totals.Joy said the enemy also \u201csustained heavy losses\u201d in rolling stock, vehicles, shipping and buildings through U.N.naval air and surface pounding.The boxscore also included 81 enemy aircraft destroyed and 85 damaged.\u201cContributing to the over-all totals,\u201d Joy said, \u201cwere the ships of nine nations including Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States.\u201d (Three Canadian destroyers \u2014 the Nootka, the Cayuga and the Athabaskan are operating in Korean waters.) Naval And Air Power Are Added To Attack As U.N.Infantrymen Run Up Against Main Red Positions.V V» By OLEN CLEMENTS Tokyo, Jan.30.\u2014W \u2014 Infantrymen spearheading the allies\u2019 limited offensive were slowed to a crawl by dieheard communist resistance today.An officer said they apparently hit the main enemy force arrayed along the frozen western Korean warfront.The Canadian destroyer Cayuga joined American and British ships in a successful day and night bombardment on the west coast port of Inchon.They helped soften up communist troop concentrations ahead of the Eighth Army fighting its way north from Suwon.An aerial spotter confirmed the destruction of 12 large barracks buildings and damage to others.On the east coast, U.N.naval power hurled hot steel and bombs into a North Korean town from carrier-based planes and big guns of warships.Hundreds of enemy supply vehicles were seen in North Korea moving southward toward the western battle line.Forward U.N.units in the western sector advanced laboriously only a few hundred yards on the sixth day of their northward limited offensive.A regimental officer told AP cor-1?* «cnonHonf .Tim BGCkd*;\tI '' respondent Jim oecner;\t1%/Ï a 1\tA 1 \u201cI think we\u2019ve hit their main de-1 fence line.\u201d On the flank, however, gains up to six miles were recorded.An enemy division may be manning the Red defence line on the western half of the 40-mile front.\u201cThey're well dug in and determined to stay,\u201d Lt.- Col.Bernard Peeters, executive officer of a spearhead regiment, told Becker.Advance allied units, he added, were-suffering their heaviest casualties of the offensive, but these I 3 Children Die In Fire Montreal, Jan.30\u2014((P)\u2014A 23-year-old mother and three of her five young children died early today in a fire that destroyed their one-stoney, three-room home in a Reserve and active force trainees take a breather during a routine trek, part t the \"inter indoctrination course at (\u2019amp Sliilo, Man.Chief instructor Capt.William Harris of Port Arthur, Ont., gives the men a chance to cool off so they won't perspire too freely and freeze while bunking down in the open for the night.\tU® Photo) United Nations Are Expected To Name Communist China As Aggressor Today Bitter Cold Situation Is Critical In were far below the \u201cterrific losses maUer of minutes.\t.being inflicted on the enemy.\u201d\tThe 6\th°use 18 m h*]6 For the second straight day Chin, community of Notre Dame de ese artillery pounded away at U.N.^^atreaf\u2019\t^ S Defence Matters Expected To Highlight House Debate Ottawa, Jan.30 \u2014 it) \u2014 The storm and fury of the new session of Parliament will swirl mainly around defence and international affair*.Central figure will Oc Hon.Brooke Claxton, the Defence Minister who has been the centre of bitter Commons strife in the past.The new session was to start shortly after 3 p.m.EST with the reading of the Speech from >-he Throne by the Governor-General, Viscount Alexander.A br.ef ceremony yesterday marked the prorogation of the special session adjourned last September.That session, called to end the speculation keeps cropping up that at least a second Defence Minister will be named by Prime Minister St.Laurent because of the expanding military effort.Sources close to the Cabinet say area positions nine miles northwest of Suwon.About 100 rounds were fired Tuesday.Seven miles northwest of Suwon American units were fired on by Reds in well-hidden caves, and made only a small advance.\u201cAir and artillery are pouring in there,\u201d said Peeters, \u201cbut the doughboys still have to go in there and dig them out one by one.\u201d Maj.-Gen.Edward M.Almond, U.S.10th Corps commander on the central front, told a press conference the North Korean 5th Corps is poised for an attack on allied forces.The dead: Mrs.Joseph Pare; Doris, 5; Ceciie, 3; Joseph, 11 months.Mrs.Fare\u2019s 54-year-old father and her sister, who were living in the same house, each managed to save one child.By STANLEY JOHNSON Lake Sucvess, N.Y., Jan.30 -; (Æ\u2019)\u2014 The United Nations today j was expected to name communist I China as an aggressor in Korea, .\t,\tI\t12 weeks after Gen.MacArthur iVl 1 Tl 111 IT I tfAtXrn i first reported Chinese Red forces lUlHlllg X O W 11 ] had ^ed ,tlle fif;ht.Princeton, B.C., Jan.30.-«-| , Rus*ia and P°11and se^Ved noL|i.l'C Waters backed up by an ice jam 1 that th('y would .sr>\u2018'ak .tlie 15 feet high drove approximately ' 60-country political committee 200.persons from their homes here) against such condemnation, and yesterday.\tj\t[ndia warned that passage of the Rescuers clad in slickers and (United States resolution would wearing hip boots carried women j end aj| hope of a peaceful sett and children from 40 flooded\t.\tr.,, f dwellings, w'here damage was ten- _\t, tatively estimated at $10,000.But while the jam remained, the Tulameen river began a slow Is Sweeping United States Chicago, .Ian.winter\u2019s severest 30.-\t;n\t,e>tt(>r.d p,rti 0f chances to meld, and none of them P|ay______________,, not the official f m IX Hoi XYWOOD Erskine Johnson NEA huff Porree pondent bought before that stinging epistle guessing Rita Hayworth and Or-to a Washington, D.C., music cn- son Welles.^ ^ ^ \u2022 « *\tThe word on \u2022\u2022September Af- A Beverley Hills meat market, fair\" is that the Joan Fontaine-catering to the film crowd, re- Joseph Cotten M-starrer ia ft hap-purls John Hoyt, had a sign in it* py return to the love stor\\ tor window reading: \"Special Today mula that once packed the Bijous - Brains.\u2019\t^ ^\t^\t! 2i doubl#.feature legend on Hoagy Carmichael will break his long absence from the screen as a Bernard Shaw chaiacter In Androcle- and the Lion\" af RKO .The feud between Jem Lewis md De in Martin and Tommy Noo gy ( \u201e surburoan marquee; \u2022TWO WEEKS WITH LOVE\u2019 and \"THREE HUSBANDS'' It happens every time in Hollywood.* * « Six weeks ago Janis Carter ob ¦i:in and Fete Marshall has reach-\tbar release from her joint \"i the flying hot grease stage.pK(j.Columbia contract because able discard pile.If you pass the 2 Excellent Films! BURT VIRGINIA LANCASTER-MAYO « uets.will he any worse than what you have given up.As a matter of fact, if you know ! in advance that you are not going I to take the first up-card, you I won\u2019t give yourself away by look-! ing longingly at the king (or whatever it happens to he).Then the next discard you get a chance that may be another king, and this time you will be quite pleased to take the pile and meld.* * * Q\u2014-The card at the top of the ! discard pile was a queen.I needed 50 points for the first meld, so I ofli* the country.It in n°t the rule and never ha« been, hi cial rule, U that you may, at your turn, take a ducard that matches your closed canasta exactly as you would take a discard that matches any other meld that your side has on the table.For this purpose a canasta is just the same as any other meld.Mr.Jacoby is unable to answer individual questions on Canasta from readers.However, he will include the most frequently asked questions in his column.Olivia de Havilland registers an emotional gamut in Darryl F.Zanuck's presentation of \"The Snake I\u2019it\", in which are also featured Mark Stevens, Leo Oenn.The second feature attraction which starts tomorrow at the New Premier Theatre is \"Holiday Rhythm\u201d, a musical comedy featuring IS acts of vaudeville and stars Mary Iteth Hughes and David Street.WATERLOO ther, was a native of Waterloo, where many of her friends still re-1 co-starrer.DURB'N (HUMS SAY SHE\u2019LL HE BACK AGAIN FOR A SECOND TRY Hollywood \u2014Exclusively Yours; Deanna Durbin film comeback rumors are making the rounds again.Her Hollywood following her honeymoon in France and that MOM Producer Joe Pasternak, who discovered her, will oversee her second picture try, * ¦ ¦ The huddles between Judy Garland and Jerry Wald are leading straight to the starring role J\u2019or Judy in \u2018\u2018Stars and Stripes Forever,\" story of USO entertainers originally written for A1 Jolson.Jerry claims that Clifford Odets\u2019 \"Clash by Night,\" a flop on Broadway, will be a Hollywood smash as a Joan Crawford - Bob Ryan Following The Regular Meeting Of The Stanstead South Ladies\u2019 Aid Three Members Were Given A Birthday Party \u201e\t, ,,\t, r> ¦,\tI \u201cOn Broadway,\" wailed Jerry, Mr.Sidney Mitchell son of Rev.; side.\t| \u201eth cast Tall^ah Bankhead in G.D.Mitchell, of Waterloo, has Mr.and Mrs.Murdock H.Mac-; it ima,;ine Tallulah as a sweaty .I young-j Staten Island housewife.\u201d Hmmmmmm\u2019 Imagine Joan.* * « VJ.\tAVAI\tvs .-,\t.All.(Hill Dll'.UUIUVJCn.been promoted to Squadron Leader i intosh accompanied their v _ in the R.C.A.F., with present head-, t,r forl| Joseph, to Sweetsburg Hos-j quarters in Greenwood, N.S-, piui, where a tonsilectomy was where he and Mrs, Mitchell w sooir be taking up residence.Relatives and friends in this community were grieved to learn of the sudden and untimely (loath of Mr.Drummond Curtis, of Stanstead.Mrs.Arthur Curtis, his mo- was in St.Albans, Vt., on Friday, well enough to return home.Mrs.W.C.Benson, of Drum-mondville, visited her father, Mr.J.A.Mairs and her aunt, Miss Edith Mairs, for a day.On her return to Drummondville, she was January 20, on business\u201d'and\u2019was I accompanied by Miss Mairs who .accompanied to Cambridge, Vt., by Wl11 spend several days with Mr.Mrs.Rice, who spent the day with aml MrSi Henson.performed.Mrs.Macintosh re- Note f m Alan Wilson: \u201cA mained with her son until he was New York television ' star came Marta Toren screamed for the melling salts when she read that she was going to take Ingrid's place as Mrs.Peter Lindstrom.She hasn't seen him, she says, since an introduction backstage in New York at \"Joan of Lorraine.\" * \u2022 * A movie fur designer whipped up a mink coat for a movie queen and got this comment from her: \u201cIt'» divine what it does to my eyes.Makes them look positively minky \u201d Wish Come True Gary Cooper will realize a long-time ambition by starring in the Celeste Holm-John Haggott nroduction of \u2018\u2018The Chase\u201d on Broadway.About a western sheriff trying to hold back a lynch mob.First Gary does a picture for Warners, though .Sight of the week; A French poodle, on a leash at Hollywood and Vine.The poodle was wearing a sweater with a monogram and a hander-chief neatly tucked in a lapel pocket.* * - James Hilton is denying that he had a real Hollywood star and director in mind when he penned \u201cMorning Journey,\" due on the bookstalls soon, but insiders are her sister-: -law, Mrs Myra Willey, end Mrs.Nellie Willey.Mr.Bruce Mandigo spent the week-end in Sutton with his par- Mr.and Mrs.J.C.Howard, of ents, Mr.and Mrs.Lloyd Mandi- WEDDINGS CONFERENCES CONVENTIONS BUSINESS & FAMILY REUNIONS .The management now offers the facilities of the new Picardie Ruem as well as the May-fair Room and the Canadian Club.The numerous organizations that use the New Sherbrooke for their activities can\u2019t be wrong.You, too, will find it a pleasant headquarters.The New Sherbrooke Hotel Sherbrooke, Qu» Rock Island, Jan.30.\u2014 The Ladies\u2019 Aid of S»anstead South United Church met in the Church hall on Thursday afternoon, Jan.25, with 33 members and friends attending.The business session was president over by the president, Mrs.R.E.Grow, and the secretary\u2019s and treasurer\u2019s reports were accepted as read.It was agreed to pay one ! third of the cost of the new coffee I maker being purchased for the church kitchen.Mrs.A.P.Bliss proposed a vote of thanks to the officers of 1050, who are also serving again this year.This was heartily given.The ladies were reminded that the World Day of Prayer is to be observed on February 9.The next meeting will be held in the church hall on the afternoon of February 18.The hostesses will be Mrs.H.f Demick and Mrs.E.J.Bedard.A social afternoon followed, and a delicious hot dish supper was I served.The highlight of the day was the presentation of a birthday cake and a shower of cards each to Mrs.H.Demick, Mrs.Harry Smith and Mrs.Etta Manning, wrho were tak-| en completely by surprise, but in a few well chosen words expressed I their appreciation, i The supper table was decorated I in keeping with the occasion by pastel candles and matching accessories.The cakes were made and prettily decorated by Mrs.Lucias Rye, J Miss Agnes Greenwood and Mrs.Fayne Hovey.' The supper hostesses were Mrs.Harry Goodall and Smith.Mrs.Harry \"35\u201d CLUB MEETS The \u2018\u201835\" Club of Stanstead South United Church met at the home of Mrs.T.W.Tyson one Wednesday evening with Mrs.Richard Reynolds and Mrs.Rudy Miller, the assisting hostesses.The business session was presided over by the president, Mrs.Miller and the reports were accepted as read by the secretary, Mrs.Reynolds and treasurer, Mrs.Kenneth Rice.Donations of money was made to both the Canadian and the American \"March Of Dimes\" campaigns.The final plans were made regarding the club\u2019s activities in serving the Canadian Legion Banquet on January 27.Mrs.Rudy Miller was the winner of the \u201cchurch mouse\u201d and during the social hour a quiz game was very much enpoyed.Delicious refreshments were served by the hostesses.The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs.Roland Curtis, on Wednesday evening, February 7.Massawippi, visited at the home of their daughter, Mrs.George John-I son, and Mr.Johnson, on Thursday.Friends of Mr.Ludger Salois regret to learn that he has been ill at his home on Wyman Street, having suffered an attack of acute indigestion.Mrs.Wallace Rever and infant son of Tomifobia, were guests of her sister, Mrs.Floyd Webb, and Mr.Webb, in West Park.Mr.and Mrs.Gerald Chaburn and baby son, of Irasburg, Vt., were guests of her parents, Mr.and Mrs.Earl Jacobs.1 A STARTS TOMORROW F0R ,™lsR INSCRIBING A NEW CHAPTER IN THE ANNALS OF SCREEN ACHIEVEMENT! Walter Winchell says: \u201cNever viewed a more enjrrossinff thrilluloid.\u2019\u2019 Hedda Hopper: \u201cPowerful and superbly done.\" Louolla Parsons: Will prove a sensation!\u2019* Sam Grafton says: **One of the five greatest pictures ever made in America.'* J A Picture That Answers A Cry Born of Hate, Fear.Despair \u2014 With The Substance Of Love, Courage, Faith! Snake A REBEKAH LODGE MEETING Crystal Rebekah Lodge, No.14, met in regular session at the Lodge hall, in West Park, on Tuesday evening, January 23.There were 31 members present.Two new members were admitted and a new application for membership was submitted.Sister Hattie Gignac, P.D.D., in-stalled Sister Queenie Quillinan, \u2014 j as noble grand for the current term 1 ~ 1 to take the place of Sister Nora Johnson, who is absent through illness.Plans were discussed and made for a card party to be held in the Lodge hall on February 5, and a baked bean supper was planned for February 10, for the public, to be followed by a dance for members and friends The next Lodge meeting will be held on February 13.There being no further business, the meeting adjourned and refreshments were served.Mr.Norman Whipple, of Ottawa, Ceylon visited at the home of his sister,: Mrs.Clara Chamberlain visited Mrs.Stanley Miller, and Mr.Mil- Mrs.Leslie Durrell.who is confin-ler.\tl ed to her bed at her home in Foster.go- Mayor Albert Norris is recovering from attacks of the mun.ps and the grippe, after being confined to his bed for two weeks.Mrs.Gordon Kendall, of Montreal, was calling on friends in town.Several friends in Waterloo have received cards from Mr.and Mrs.Charles Slack, who with, their daughter, Miss Janet Slack*, are on their way to Australia, on the R.M.S.Orcades.In the Bay of Biscay they encountered the rough-j the Show.\u201d She\u2019s got everybody est part of their trip.They were talking with a hominy grits ac-going to spend a day at Colombo, cent, calling the movie \u201cMeet Me After the Show Nuff.\u201d * * » Ob, no.MGM will film \u201cLetter From the President.\u201d But it was out to Hollywood to discuss a movie but couldn\u2019t get into the studio.They didn\u2019t .recognize him with his bead on.\u201d * * * Few people know it, hut Edward G.Robinson has been doing \u201cVoice of America\u201d broadcasts\u2014in nine different languages .\t.Some- body ought to start a course in how to protect daddy from junior.Lash LaRue bulhvhips, merchandized by the cowpoke star for kiddies,' are about to hit the toy counters.Secrets Will Out Paulette Goddard and Cy Howard are muttering \u201cNo comment\u201d when they\u2019re asked if they were secretly hitched in Mexico.But Paulette epigrammed this to me: \u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as a secret marriage.\u201d * * * They\u2019re telling it - about the chorine with the Dixie drawl in Betty Grable\u2019s \u201cMeet Me After she wanted more action with her career.She hied herself back to New York did one guest shot on TV and RKO snapped her up as John Wavne\u2019s love interest in \"The Flving Leathernecks\u201d at FIVE times her former salary.\u2022 * Switch: One of the dancing boys in \"I Love Lydia,\" a new Hollywood stage musical, is Stuart Kearns, former University of Wisconsin football star, DANCE HATLEY TOWN HALL Thursday, Feb.1st Benefit of Ayer\u2019s Cliff Branch of the Canadian Legion.IRVING RICHARD'S BAND Mixed dances.Admission: 50c each \"SOMETHING NEW HAS BEEN ADDED\" We are now, in response to popular demand, serving snacks from 8:30 to closing e ery evening.Prices are popular; this service is available in the Wilbryn.Canadian Club.Mayfair Room and the new Picardie Room.An added attraction at Sherbrooke\u2019s most popular rendez-vous.The New Sherbrooke Hotel Sherbrooke, Que.\u2022\tMAYFAIR ROOM Air conditioned.Dancing every night except Sunday.\u2022\tWILBRYN CLUB Popular with everyone.Pleasant atmosphere.Hammond organ from 9:30 every night except Monday and Wednesday.\u2022\tCANADIAN CLUB Air conditioned.Dancing every evening except Sunday.\u2022\tPICARDIE ROOM Air conditioned.Sure to please those who appreciate quiet surroundings.Soft music.Quaint and attractive.- AL.SO A BRAND NEW MUSICAL COMEDY HIT \u2014 SEE FOR THE FIRST TIME 18 VAUDEVILLE ACTS IN A TOE-TAPPING, MELODY-HAPPY TREAT! THE JOLLY TWELVE CLUB The Jolly Twelve Christmas Club held its first meeting of 1951, on Tuesday evening, January 23, at the home of Mrs.William Higgins, in West Park.There were nine members present, who re-elected Mrs.Floyd Webb for president this year.As one member bad tentative plans to spend six months in England, she was replaced by Mrs.Stewart Smith for the year.The evening was spent playing \u201c500.\u2019\u2019 Delicious refreshments were served by the hostesses, Mrs.Higgins and Mrs.Webb.The next meeting will be held on the evening of St.Valentine\u2019s Day at the home of Mrs.Herman Sisco.V, - Plus: - \u2022 TALKING MAGPIES\u201d, A Gay Cartoon - Latest Sports And War News - t NEW PREMIER THEATRE * _______-.\u2014 -i LAST DAT \u2014 TWO FIRST RUN HITS \u2014 A THRILLING NEW SCREEN \u2014 SPECTACLE IN GORGEOUS TECHNICOLOR : Robert PRESTON, John BARRY- ¦ MORE, Jr.Csthy DOWNS, \"THE SUNDOWNERS.\u201d ALSO A NEW EX- ( CITING MYSTERY DRiMMA.\"HOMICIDE FOR THREE.\u201d with Ao-try LONG.Warren DOUGLAS.Stephanie BACHBLOR.Pina \"PIRATES OF THE HIGH ¦ SEAS.\" CARTOON \u2014 SPORT AND WORLD NEWS.\tm General Notes Miss Joanne Sloan, of Derby, Vt., was an overnight guest of Miss Joyce Whiteman, at her parental home.Miss Nancy Nason is improving following a seige of pneumonia at the home of her parents, Mr.and Mrs.Ernest Nason, in Derby Line.Mrs.Douglas Cordeau, cashier at the Rock Island A.and P.Store, has been transferred to Sherbrooke for two months and is staying with her sister, Miss Cora Racicot.Mrs.Lawrence Hodgeman received word on Saturday morning, January 27, that her aunt, Mrs.Nicholas O\u2019Garman, of Island Pond, Vt., had passed away on Friday-night.Sympathy is extended to the bereaved family.Mr.H.A.Rice, of Derby Line, A few months ago they were at school, or civilians\u2014many with no special trade! 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Z\\jt Cttp ^age 9HBRKE, IJW9IX', TUESDAY, JAM VRY mtute* .dEoai ^tOTO*',- r«i.'i\u2019Vs» (2 I in»\u2019*) WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS Qunrtvr »if n Million I'Rru « nrriwl In Sl(H\u2018k, Supplier (\t.ome l)lunt statements> the\tcity more for their\tpurchases\tin\tthe\ttreasurer declared\tthat it\twas near future\tif4\tthe request\tto Ulj j hopeless to attempt\tto maintain a made by the city for a municipal balanced budget on the present sales tax of two per cent is ap-l^ax structure.The municipal sal-proved by the Quebec Legislature.| ary bill, he said, had almost trebled It is estimated this tax will pro-j jn tfie past seven years while every j duce about $400,000 annually, j item entering into municipal ad-The decision to seek a cnarter ministration had at least doubled, amendment to permit the levying , Any suggestion for an increase of this tax was unanimously ap-1 ;n mjH rate was loudly oppo:ed proved at an adjourned meeting! by the aldermen, who felt that in Miss MacKenzie To Be Speaker At Richmond Richmond, Jan.HO.\u2014M\u2019ss Ida MacKenzie, B.R.E., of Toronto, Ont., will be the guest speaker in Chalmers\u2019 Church on Thursday, February 1, at 7:30 p.m.The meet-has been arranged by Mrs.Kenneth Armstrong, the sectional vice-president for the Quebec-Sher-brooke Presbyterial.Invitations have been sent to organizations in this section which includes, Kingsbury, Melbourne Ridge, Ulverton, an extended debate on the relative 1 being maintained by the city, it Windsor Mills.South Durham and merits of the sales tax and an in-|Wag unfair t0 35^ the property Banville, Everyone is welcome to crease in the mill rat#.The motion owner to carry the entire load.| c0.***® an^ 11 ls hoped that thei.-for the sales tax was adopted w'ith-\tsa[es tax on the other hand, \"l-\u2018 be a large representation fion, out a dissenting vote after it^^adjtbey maintained, spread the in-1 the above places.The local or- burden equitably on the Àmedee Roy Tells Optimist Club About Baseball Down Havana Way Amedee Roy, business manager^.and pays their players a minimum of the Sherbrooke Athletics base- salary, even it the stands are ball team, was guest speaker at nearly empty tor most games.'\u2019 , the weekly dinner meeting of the , In the winter league 01 Havana, Optimist Club, held last night at the brand of baseball very ORGANIZER of the Council^ last evening after j light of the widened services the Social Club.Recently returned from a scout ing trip in Cuba, Mr.Roy told the Optimists about baseball down high, he said, right next to the major leagues.All the games in tnis league arc played at the Hrand Stadium Havana way.The meeting was packed with events.Not only did the Optimists hear Mr.Roy's enjoyable talk but they were treated to a skt«2?fs&srr&z ! ««*«« \u2022»-« dreS!Sing room, and a bath, yourself, Dick.It\u2019s not up my al- jt ba(i a fireplace, studio couch, ley.\u201d\t| gateleg dining table and several A few minutes later as they j easy chairs.Polly\u2019s cabin consisted left the studio\u2019s main gate m 0f one very ama]] room and bath.Hank\u2019s car he said, \u201cWhere to.! Hank loved to cook and he was Princess?\u201d\t\u201e1 very good at broiling steaks and \u201c'Let\u2019s go downtown to Faix, : trout (the trout were out, o* fhe suggested.\u201cIt\u2019s been a long j course, on the desert) ; baking bis-time.You should^get out of tne | euits, frying potatoes, creating salads ami brewing coffee* He had a lot of fun the first few days in the kitchen, which *ra.- hardly big enough f§r a man of his bulk.Polly washed th* dishes and did the housekeeping.When not at his culinary chores, Hank lay stretched out in a hammock In the Valiev and the Strip once in while.\u201d They drove into town and bypassed the business district and parked in a neighborhood housing loft buildings, small manufacturing plants and wholesale houses.They obtained a booth at the old French restaurant, famed for its patio, out in the pleasant, warm cuisine.Outside of a choice be- 3un 0,f a Borrego Valley January, tween duck and chicken, they were it was.not urltil Thursday that ¦-erved family style.They had no they decided to take a run into alternative.\u201cWe do the thinking, the little community a dozen miles Taix proudly proclaims on its t0 the north, where there was a ni'enu.\tgrocery store and one or two other It was a good, hearty dinner, business establishments.Thev and over the coffee^ Polly, sanj needed a few things to carry them determinedly, \\oure tired Until Sunday, when they planned Uncle Hank.\u201d He agreed gloomily.\u201cI\u2019ve known that for a long time,\u201d she continued,- \u201cand I\u2019ve made the proper arrangements.\u201d \u201cYou\u2019ve what?\u201d \u201cTommorrow is Saturday and we\u2019re going to the desert for a week.You can get away from Hollywood and just relax.\u201d Hank blew his top.\u201cHow can a guy get away from Hollywood at Palm Spring*\u2019\u2019\u201d to start home.After making some purchases, Polly suggested coffee.They went into the small lunchroom adjoining the store.It was a spotless place, with a counter, and a few tables, with bright red and white tablecloths.Thèÿ sat At the counter and ordered coffee from a rosy-cheeked girl.A moment later a bronzed, white-haired man in levia and a anything Springs.We\u2019re going to Borrego the United States and Britain sup- l)iJ\u2019 plying up to 10 each.Here France, with the smallest population, would carry the biggest load.\t,T ,\t.\t,___, What these comparisons reveal ' ^ari, he added* ! \u201cSouth tried for an\teven\ttrump\tthe\tgame contract.\tJu Tan*\u201d \" V5 own and South have stopped bidding hand ,n ord ' tt\tBathuist \"A\u201d \t\t44%\t11%\tCons, Edison \t\t80%\t30% '.\u20199%\t\tBell Telephone \t\t40%\t40%\tDupont \t\t8*»\t86% \t5 < \\\tBrazilian \t\t21%\t24\tGeneral Electric .\t54%\t54% 47%\t48%\tB, C.Forest \t\t < n h AB Booth is now en h b ILM.C.S.Sim : .U bi.-.i'd 43 ( Canada February 4.Canadians Will Continued Prom Page 1 alongside tn( way home.T ays and took in Chr b for thes f other navies in the United Nations fleet, piloto was taken during the final patrol made by hi | stark ns ever they were, once the e men Tory smokescreen has been blown Shawlnigan Steel/of Canada ft mas and New Year\u2019 IP.4\u2019he Sioux is due hack in (National Defence Photo).away.Socialism is mon' than a po-! \\vH]p(,r .Jaasler-Pep Fight Is -! March rcsîpcneü New York, Jan.29\u2014f/P)\u2014The In ernational Boxing Club announced yesterday the Sandy Sad- 487 Westerners G.\tA.Bishop .93 C.\tSingleton .91 W.Buck .97 R.\tTruax .97 G.\tW.Bishop .98 481 Circo won 2 points.Situation Is Continued From Page 1 areas at the confluence of the Similkameen river, pushing as much as four feet of water into some houses.Town officials were considering asking the R.C.A.F.to drop explosives on the jam.Police yesterday wired Victoria divi-rional headquarters to advise senior officers the situation was \u201ccritical.\u201d Townsmen also wared Premier Byron Johnson for some form of assistance.most British brigades.Once under way, Che battalion expects to give up t.ie tents in which it has been living here at Miryang and use si;; trenches.With two stoves in each tent and dler - Willie with scrounged rice-.-(raw mats championship on the floor, the men have been Feh.23 at Madison Square Garden snudv housed at their\t.\t, ,\t¦ ^ u ili be postponed to \u201csome time j Mother And Continued From Page 1 smoke.She awoke all the others but by that time the flames had spread quickly from the stove.Mrs.Pare lan from the house Pep featherweight 1 and shouted for help.Williams fiirht\tscheduled ! grabbed Violet and Miss Williams g \u2019\t!Kneaulca j tnmdled up Betty.All four reached aiety.A few seconds later Mrs camp.The army supplies oil for \" one stove and the troops buy wood in March at toe request of Pep.j ran frantically back into the burn-for the other if they want more ftp, :.c challenger Irani Hart- nl\u201e- house but ap aientlv couldn\u2019t heat.\t| for.!,.Conn., asked more time tu get ; get, far.Her charred body was Cpl.William O\u2019Brien of P: ton, ready, ma.-mninker A1 Nvefil said.foun