Sherbrooke daily record, 26 octobre 1939, jeudi 26 octobre 1939

[" WEATHER Cool with rain.For detailed weather report see Page Two.S\u2019hprhrookf Hath tRrrnrù TEMPERATURES Yesterday: Maximum, 7; minimum, 20.Same day last year: Max.60; min.40, Established 1897.SHERBROOKE.QUEBEC, THURSDAY.OCTOBER 26.1939.Forty-Third Year.Duplessis Force?Swamped Liberals Only Sixteen U.N.Members Retain Seats 3ix Ministers Among Casualties in General Election Yesterday as Liberals Take Sixty-Seven of Eighty-Six Seats in New House -\u2014 New Premier Pledged to Cooperate with Federal Authorities.Quebec, Oct.\u201c26.\u2014®\u2014Liberals under Hon.Adelard Godbout made ready today to take over the administration of Quebec\u2019s affairs and to co-operate with the Federal Government in which four of the Province\u2019s native sons hold ministries.The will of the Province\u2019s voters to go along with Godbout in his promised \u201csafe and sane administration\u201d and to back the stand on war participation of its Federal Ministers was expressed yesterday in an avalanche of votes that sent sixty-seven Liberals to the Legislative Assembly in this Ancient Capital.Premier Maurice Duplessis found his Union Nationale représentation\u201471, when he called a general election a month ago\u2014reduced to 16.One Independent and one National candidate made up the total of 85 who were counted in after the polls closed.One constituency\u2014Charlevoix-Saguenay, votes November 16.Six Cabinet Ministers were among Government party casualties as Liberals reversed the vole which put them out of power in 1936 for the first time in 39 years.The new Premier will be Godbout, who held that position for two months in 1936 after a period as Minister of Agriculture.He is a scientific farmer from Temiscouata county on the St.Lawrence\u2019s South Shore, a former professor of Agriculture, a family man with five children.He is 47 years old.Throughout the campaign the Pre-&- Comments On The\tPremier-Elect Seeking United\tLOSES LIFE AS Election Results\tAction To Restore Province\tTRAIN STRIKES \u201cI was glad to show the people of my province, of Canada and even my King and Queen, and France, that I had enough principle to run against the Premier of a province in order to demonstrate to the whole world that I was against Communism and Nazism and in favor of civilization and Christianity\u201d \u2014 Mayor Pitt of Three Rivers.* * » \u201cVery proud I am of the good old Province of Quebec.She was true to herself and her name.\u201d\u2014Hon.P.J.A.Cardin.* * \u201cThe final result of the election is not a surprise to me because the programme (of the A.L.N.) is a campaign of education which people cannot easily understand, particularly in time in which excitement runs high.\u201d\u2014J.E.Choquette, defeated Gouin candidate in Sherbrooke.* * * \u201cWe will contest the results of the election in Sherbrooke County.\u201d \u2014Maurice Gingues, defeated Liberal candidate in Sherbrooke.?» » \u201cThe result of the election shows plainly that the people of Quebec, regardless of nationality, are interested vitally in the cause of Canadian unity.The final standing in the Province and in Sherbrooke was no surprise to me, although [ consider that the result locally was not a victory for Col.Bourque in that the number of votes against the Government exceeded his total.\u201d \u2014 Charles B.Howard, M.P.* # * \u201cThere was no opposition at Quebec before, there will be one now.\u201d \u2014Hon.Maurice Duplessis.* * * \u201cAs long as God gives me life, I will carry on.\u201d\u2014Paul Gouin.mier-elect talked provincial affairs, urged a broad agricultural programme, improvement of rural life and collective labor contracts.Much cf the Liberal reply to the Duplessis charge that Quebec\u2019s autonomy was threatened by Ottawa acts\u2014.notably the War Measures Act\u2014fell to three federal cabinet ministers \u2014 Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe, Postmaster-General G.G.Power and Works Mnister P.J.A.Cardin They had staked their seats on the defeat of the Union Nationale Government.At Ottawa last night Prime Minister Mackenzie King show teh Quebec result as showing \u201cabove all else that the people of Quebec are as one with their fellow Canadians of the other provinces in their determination that a united Canada _shall cooperate at the side of Britain and France in the war to defend free-j dom x x x.\u201d He said \u201cno greater service has been rendered Canada since Confederation\u201d than the cam- , pa.\u2019jrn work of the three federal min-isto'L'K.Conservative Leader .Manio.n said: \u201cParticipation is no longer an issue.Now let us get on with the war.\u201d Mr.Lapointe declared, \u201c1 will remain at my post,\u201d and Mr.Cardin said the result disclosed a firm determination on Quebec\u2019s part to cooperate with the rest, of Canada Premier Duplessis made no formal statement but appeared before his Three Rivers home in response to a Continued on Page 2.Col.4.Sherbrooke Member Returned To Legislature By 116 Votes Voices His Determination to Defend County\u2019s Interests at Quebec as He Had Done in Past Three Years\u2014Polled 3,959 Votes as Compared with 3,843 by Maurice Gingues, Liberal Candidate.Quebec, Oct.26.\u2014 (CP) \u2014 Quebec Province\u2019s citizens had before them today an appeal from Premier-elect Adelard Godbout to \u201cwork together to bring back progress and prosperity to old Quebec, and at the same time, to our beloved country, Canada.The Liberal leader, speaking from his home here last night over a pro-! vincial network of the Canadian ^ Broadcasting Corporation, said that administration of Quebec \u201cwill require much work and 1 am fully aware of the responsibility which has fallen upon me,\u201d \u201cParticularly in the financial field! much work has to be done to place this Province in good standing,\u201d he said.Mr.Godbout\u2019s address followed a1 triumphal automobile procession from the ferry wharf in Downtown Quebec, where hundreds gathered to greet him on his return from 1\u2019Islet county where he won a personal vic-j tory at the polls.\t| Ex-Premier L.A.Taschereau, Ini whose cabinet Mr.Godbout once| Liberal party and lo see again order served as Agricultural Minister, was (and good sense reign at the Quebec among the greeters and the two j Legislature chatted for many minutes in the crowded parlor of the Premier-elect\u2019s home.CAR AT BROME Walter Heap.45.Killed When! Dmmmondville-Sutton Maili Train Crashes into Auto mobile in Brome Village.Chamberlain Challenges German Efforts To Place War Marne Upon Britain Brome, Oct.2(1.\u2014Walter Heap, 45, of East Hill, met instantaneous death here hid evening when the Icar which he was driving was dtruck by the Drummomlville-Sut I ton mail train a few minutes after dix o\u2019clock.A verdict of accidental death was returned at an inquest 'conducted in Brome following the iaccident by the district coroner, Dr.Boulay, of Sutton.Declares Statements ot Von Ribbentrop Unworthy m Comment and Filled with Distortions of Truth\u2014Claims British Navy Seized German Shipping in Excess ot Tonnage Sunk in Week.Premier-Elect Adelard Godbout gnsoiine-ope dig out of Brome station in the jdireçtion of Sutton on is regular 'evening run from Drummomiville.The train had gathered sufficient momentum to carry the car some distance down the track.Heap was apparently crushed as the car was 'dragged along.\u201cTonight\u2019s verdict constitutes also | ]t is believed the victim failed an approval of the attitude held in.to notice the approach of the train .\t,\t,\ttbe Federal domain by those whojanct was uual,i,, to st0]) 1)is cal.j\u201e Outcome of yesterday\u2019s general have always been the protectors of j time to avoid being struck.Heap, election, Mr.Godbout said in hisi our rights, the defenders of our tra-! of English descent, has no'family.address, \u201ccompensates us well for! ditions and the champions of nation-\u2022 During the summer he Vis employ' the trials which our party underwent; al unity.\t|ed by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1936, when thirty-eight years otj \u201cIt is also in my opinion a proof i Company and at the time of his Liberal rule ended with rise to that Quebec electors, be they (death was working for n lumber-power of Retiring-Premier Maurice] French-Canadian or English-Cana-j ing concern at East Hill Duplessis\u2019 Union Nationale party, dian, understand the necessity of! \u2019\t________V!________' \u201cShould I also thank Mr.Duples- maintaining unity of thought and! BLENHEIM IS SCHOOL sis for having wished that this Pro-1 action, so indispensible in the dif-: Malvern, England, Oct.26.'W-vincial election campaign touch also; ficult times which we are under-1 Gift of Queen Anne to the'first Duke on questions concerning Federal { going.\t| of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace is politics?\u201d he asked.\t.\t' \u201cIt signifies, finally, that the co-i t§ be taken over by Malvern Gol- \u201cWe knew that the provincial operation of all well-thinking citi-jlege as a school building.Best known stens now is acquired to permit'of the Marthe roughs today is \\V in-Canada to play, among the nations stop Churchill, First Lord of the Ad-of the world, the important role miralty.guaranteed it by its geographic position, its natural resources and the value of its population.\u201cThe attitude of the chiefs of liberal party had good and loyal friends in the.Federal domain, but in spite of their sympathy in our behalf, they -would not have had to participate in this political campaign if it had been conducted only on a prnvincal basis.(By J.F.Sanderson, Canadian Press Staff Wriior) London, del.26.\t(C.P, C.mIiIp)- Prime .Minister Ghniuberlnin [oiitiy dismissed Joachim von Hibbontrop\u2019s effort to pin blame for tlio war on Great Britain as unworthy of comment and filled with dis-lorlions of the Iriith.The whole world knew iho Nazi Foreign Minisler was wrong when the gasoline-operated train was nuli-1 firgued in lus Danzig spcecu lasl luesday that it was Britain and not Germany which desired and plotted war, the Prime Minister told the House of Gommons in his weekly \u201cwar report.\" \u201cThe whole world knows dial no government ever sought more ardently to avoid war or look greater risks lo preserve peace than the Government of this country,\u201d Mr.Chamberlain said.\u201cWe have already published with complete frankness all essential documents relating to the causes of the war.We are content to be judged by facts and lo know liial the verdict of the great majority of neutral observers is in our favor.\u201d Before dealing with what lie called von Ribbentrop\u2019s \"performance\u201d at Danzig, the Prime Minister declared \"it now seems to have become the rule for merchant ships to be sunk without warning.\u201d \u201cNo words are strong enough to express our deleslation of this form of warfare,\u201d Mr.Ghamherjain said of German U-boat attacks.The British Navy during the past few days lias captured five German merchant ships totalling 28,367 tons, lie said.During the same period five British ships were lost, one by the German surface raider Deutschland.Bui British losses amounted to 6,HOC) tons less than the tonnage of German ships captured, -¦?/.- BOURQUE\u2019S ELECTION TO BE CONTESTED w Hon.J.S.Bourque, Minister of Public Works and of Lands and Forests in the Duplessis administration, remained a member of the Quebec Legislature today, having escaped by a narrow maragin in the landslide which swept the Liberals in and the Union Nationales out.He remained a member of the Quebec Legislature, but he was a disappointed man\u2014a man who saw his party collapse in a tremendous vote of non-confidence in the Duplessis Government; a tired man who walked for a time in the shadows of persona] defeat after the Liberal \u201cWith all my heart and soul I candidate\u2019s election had been con-thank my compatriots of Quebec.I'ceded; buta determined man, never- The re-election of Hon.J.S.Bourque.Minister of Public Works and of Lands and Forests in the Duplessis Government, by a majority of 116 votes will be contested, it was learned today from Maurice Gingues, Liberal candidate, and Charles B.Howard, M.P.for Sherbrooke.\u201cIn effect, today\u2019s election has a ' state of the Canadian nation had al-double significance.It shows first: ready received the approval of for-that in the provincial domain thejeign countries: it has just received electorate wishes to confer the ad-j tonight that of the electors of Que-: ministration of this Province to the'bee Province.\u201d Germans Claim Sea Raiders Sinking More Ships Than Admiralty Reveals French Convinced Germans To Stage Drive In Near Future I - Scouting Parties Report Huge Troop Concentrations and Supply Arrangements Usually Regarded as Forerunners of an Offensive\u2014Actual Fighting Limited to Patrol Clashes on Northern Flank.Berlin, Oct.26.\u2014UP)\u2014A German spokesman claimed today that German raiders are taking a greater toll of Allied shipping than has been announced by the British Admiralty.\u201cOur sailors and aviators are out , there, at Scapa Flow, in the North ' forces had captured the day before.The French, it claimed, trying to regain the position near the border and about 1 Vs miles west of Voel-klingen, were \u201cfrustrated while still on French soil.\u201d (The French communique for to- Paris, Oct.2(1.\u2014(/P)\u2014French luml*-jnd air patrols were reported today i to have returned from reconnaissance assignments with information Sea and in the East Atlantic, mak- day, noting \u201cbad weather, ing a good account of themselves,\u201d night \u201cwas quiet as a whole.\u201d) a Propaganda Ministry official said.I While the Nazi press was priming congratulate Mr.Godbout, I congratulate the Province, I congratulate Canada.I will remain at my post.\u201d\u2014Right Hon.Ernest Lapointe, Federal Minister of Justice.Heme Comforts Ease Lot Of British Troops Holding Western Front Line theless, ready to fight, \u201cfor the fight is only beginning, this is not the end.\u201d Col.Bourque's majority over his Liberal opponent, Maurice Gingues, was unofficially announced today at 116.J.E.Choquette, A.L.N.candidate, followed the Gouin clique into oblivion and lost his deposit.According to the unofficial count Col.Bourque polled 3,959 votes, Gingues 3,843 and Choquette 614.It was a tumultuous election night.A feverishly excited population, with mixed sentiments of exultation and disappointment, watched the Liberals ride to power on a tidal wave of votes and the National Union party crash to defeat; cheered Maurice Gingues when his election was erroneously conceded early in the evening and then Col.Bourque when he was announced victor by a \u201cBut the whole story cannot be told now and for actual German accomplishments at sea the world for the time being must be content with the understated admissions of the British Admiralty.\u201cGermany is issuing no statistics.( e(L In fact, Germany has only an in- Hitler made the former Free complete picture of the successes of the nation for the struggle ahead, more than 20 army and air force generals and staff officers were reported tn have conferred in Adolf Hitler's Chancellery last night.Hitler was believed to have participat- With the British Expeditionary ! We saw one man trying the Force Somewhere in France, Oct.: effect of a hard broom in an effort 26.\u2014 (IP-Reuters)\u2014A small sitting to dissipate the mud, but the im-room, the wallpaper a profusion of pression we had was that as far as British pink roses and the ceiling these auxiliary^ roads are concerned covered with a\tgreyish whitewash,\tthe\tcoming winter\twill make\tthe with the entire\tfloor space deep in\t' passage of heavy\ttraffic a\tnice straw\u2014this is the typical home of | problem for our engineers, members of the infantry platoon | Along the front line we visited ' majority of 99.But for al; the ex section immediately behind the\tmen 0f Part of the throog which d about the Record Building last on the Provincial elections.night to obtain first-hand returns Latest Modified Russian Demands Claimed Unacceptable To Finland I Liberal Victory Parade Is Dimmed By Return Of Bourque after Mayor Marcus Armitage bad Mr.and Mrs.R, P.Hilliker and Mr.\u201e 11\tQ.,,.\ti-\t.êtlltjl iVniVUL IViclICUâ /\u2022VilltllU nf 'w,.\t\u2019 n® iVn'\"®L.5U!,Lta congratulated the believed success.ful Liberal candidate, word was re of Mr.and Mrs.D.D.Nixon and family in Gore Miss Joan ! guest of Mr.and Mrs.Vaughan _____________ Continued from page 3., c ,\t'been defeated after all.Cries of | Some observers expected the lat-\tt ,,\t, (Associated Press Staff Writer)* est Russian demands would be com-\t,n j y.,\t1\t/ Helsingfors, Oct.26.\u2014(A5) \u2014 An mumcatcd immediately^to the gov-jan sidcg; while more intimate friends i of the candidate consoled him as By LYNN HFINZERLING authoritative source declared today «-nments of Norway, Denmark and! Mi*w tno-\trm\tceived from the returning office that Lh\u201et onv- .t, ; ¦ .modified ?wcde,n\twas disclosed, j best they could, ivihss Joan\tR.N., was a (vrrcu' ha