Sherbrooke daily record, 13 avril 1934, vendredi 13 avril 1934

[" storhtnokp Satlij ÎSwnrù Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, CANADA, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1934.Thirty-Eighth Year.OPPOSITION CONTINUE TO ATTACK UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF PROPOSAL Charging Deliberate Attempt to Blockade Measure Until Return of Opposition Chief, Prime Minister Turned House from Debate on Relief Bill to Study of Estimates \u2014Another Attempt to Pass Measure to Be Made Today \u2022\u2014Senate and House Committees Active.BROTHER TESTIFIES AT MITM DEDICUm INQUEST INTO SHOOTING IMUil rtmOnLlJ O ttawa, April 13.\u2014Parliament today continues the battle of \u201cpeace, order and good government.\u201d F.or nearly two weeks now the House of Commons has been deadlocked on the Gov- ernment\u2019s Unemployment Relief Bill, largely over the clause which empowers the Governor-in-Council to take such action as he deems necessary for the maintenance of those three happy conditions.A Liberal amendment to strike the clause from the bill met with defeat in the committee of the whole yesterday.As is customary in committee deliberations, there was no registered vote.A call for the \u201cayes and nays\u201d resulted in its defeat.Annoyed at what he termed a deliberate plan of the Liberals\ta brother, Timoth delay passage of the bill until their leader, Rt.Hon.Mackenzie King,! bachelor brothers res!ded returns from the hye-eiection campaign in South Oxford, Premier B.B.Bennett last night switched the House into committee of supply on the estimates for the Department, of Agriculture, but today another attempt will be made to advance the bill.The Liberals\u2019 objection to the clause is that it surrenders the powers of Parliament to the executive and the Govermnent\u2019s insistence on it is based on the desire to he equipped with power to act quickly in the event of an emergency developing out of the economic stress now prevailing.No Formal Charge Yet Laid Against New Brunswick Man Held Responsible for Fatality by Coroner\u2019s Jury.Bathurst, N.B., April 13.\u2014Victim of two rifle bullets on Wednesday evening, Frank Hagarty, aged fifty-five, was buried at West Bathurst today while his cousin, Thomas Hagarty, aged fifty-four, stood charged by a coroner\u2019s jury with responsibility for the fatality.Thomas, occupying a cell in the county jail here, has yet to be ar-rainged and a formal charge had not been laid against him this morning.Funeral services were held in the Frank Hagarty farm house at> North Tetagouche and Holy Family Church at \"West Bathurst.He is survived by a widow and five chil-jdren.Thomas, unmarried, lived with a brother, Timothy.The short distance from their cousin\u2019s home.Timothy Hagarty was tk~ chief witness at yesterday's inquest.He heard a shot soon after Frank had returned a borrowed horse, he said, and running outdoors saw Thomas fire two more bullets.Frank collapsed, added the witness, and the latter rushed to his nearest neighbor.Police respond- NEW AGREEMENT WHENCONVENT TO FIX PRICES RAZED BY FIREi BEFORE PARLEY THREE CHILDREN ESCAPE FROM BLAZING TENEMENT The name of Arthur W.Cutten, Canadian-born grain trader of Chicago, was dragged into the discussion yesterday, when William Duff, Libera], Antigonish-Guysboro, wanted to know if it was true Mr.Cutten sold grain on the Winnipeg market to John 1.McFarland, who has been conducting market stabilization operations backed with a Government guarantee.Mr.Duff did not press for a specific answer hut switched to the case of the Canso fishermen who, he said, could not obtain a guarantee of $15,000 to outfit themselves for spring fishing while the Government was guaranteeing millions of dollars to aid Western farmers.The Canso fishermen had not \u2014 asked for a guarantee, said Mr.Bennett.They had asked to Body of Sister St.Charles Recovered from Ruins of St.Grégoire Convent Which Was Destroyed by Flames Early This Morning.St.Grégoire, Que., April 13.\u2014 The body of Sister St.Charles Kas recovered from the debris of the St.Georgoire convent of the Sisters of St.Joseph and St.Vallier which was destroyed by fire early today.The nun\u2019s remains were found by firemen after a four-hour search of the ruins.The fire which started shortly after midnight was brought under control after more than six hours of hard fighting by volunteer firemen and a detachment from the Quebec fire department.It destroyed the convent, the nuns\u2019 residence and three other buildings.Damages were estimated at approximately $50.000.Sister St.Charles, a cook at the convent, was reported missing when a check up was made during the ing to a telephone call found the ! height of the fire, which started in wounds had been fatal and brought ' \u201cle furnace room of the three-storey Thomas to Bathurst.\t!\tbnck convent.Search was immedi- _____________________ j\tately started among the various GOVERNMENT DROUGHT BILL ; houses of the little village on the APPROVED\tj\tnorth shore of the St.Lawrence London, April 13.\u2014The House of ! Rwer, ten miles below Quebec, but Commons last night gave second reading to the Government\u2019s drought emergency bill, after de- to no avail.When the fire was brought under control searchers started to explore the ruins for a feating a Labor amendment which i trace of her body, and their search was rewarded during the morning.Sister St.Charles, who before entering religion was Miss Irene Trottier, of Grondines, Portneuf, Que., was forty-three years of age.charged the bill was inadequate.The vote against the amendment was 1S4 to 23.Details of Wheat Price-Raising Scheme Kept Secret Until Submitted to Governments Concerned.Rome, April 13.\u2014A draft agreement on a plan for maintaining a minimum world price for exported wheat running to twelve closely-typed pages today was giving delegates to the World Wheat Conference cause for serious thought.Although the main conference met today after adjournment since Tuesday, it did little beyond accept the minimum price scheme from the subcommittee which had labored on it nearly all week.The meeting broke up while the 'delegates took the plan back to their various hotels to give it a good going-over.Before the Conference formally considers the plan tomorrow the delegates will have opportunity to study it and cable their governments for instructLns.The report, although it is carefully guarded, is known to contain definite recommendations on a method whereby a minimum price might be established.What this price should be is up to the Conference to determine.It b expected now the Conference will conclude on Tuesday evening.Men Rip Main Door from Building to Allow Youngsters to Jump from Second Story.Charlottetown, April 13.\u2014Three children trapped in a burning tenement house here today were rescued by a group of men who ripped off the main door and held it above their heads on the steps while the three jumped on it from a second-story window.The fire raced quickly througTi the three-story structure and made ! twenty-three persons homeless.Most of the tenants fled in night ! elotl.es when the alarm was given, 1 hut the three children of Mrs.P.j Callahan lagged behind and met a j wall of flame when they attempted ] to run down the stairway.IN FRANCE CRITICAL AS OFFICIALS PROTEST PAY CUTS Resignation of Minister of Finance Rumored as War Veterans Refuse Cabinet Economy Proposals \u2014 Prices Tumble on Stock Exchange\u2014Employees of Telegraph System Stage First Demonstration Against Reduction in Indemnities.Paris, April 13.\u2014A breach with war veterans over proposed pension cuts, which caused rumors that the .Minister of Finance might resign, and falling prices on the stock market developed today coincident with the first of a series of demonstrations by Government employees against contemplated salary reductions.Police guards watched while 1,800 Government employees swarmed the courtyard and stairways of the main telegraph bureau It was the second budding des-1 at the noon hour.Communists among them shouted their hostility troyed within twenty-four hours j to the Government and chanted the Internationale.and third within a week.Several | Andre Mallarmé, Minister of Communications, said the leaders cays ago fire razed the Canadian National Railways freight office, !\t)e and yesterday morning a vacant A stormy session between Premier Doumergue and representatives of the war veterans failed to close the wide breach between his suggestion that their pensions be slashed three per cent, and their steadfast stand against a cut.Louis Germain-Martin, Minister of Finance, demanded that the economy programme, which includes pay cuts for Government employees, as well as pension cuts, should be fully effective.It was rumored he had threatened to resign.The veterans reform ultimatum was accounted a bearish influence on the Bourse which turned heavier.building, formerly occupied by the Palm Garden, was destroyed with a loss of $8,0CIO.William Ryan raised the alarm in the tenement house about two o\u2019clock this morning as 'moke - cured from the Callahan kitchen.He hustled his wife ami child out and aided others in escaping.Other families were Mr.and Mrs.Kenneth McDonald and two children ; Mrs.P.Caltalian and three children, Mrs.Stanlev Ryan and four children, Angus Doucette and six children and Joseph Gallant and his son.MINERS\u2019 STRIKE MENACES FOLLOWING RIOT DEATH Ü.S.INDUSTRIAL SITUATION HAS WOULD EXTEND oe brought under the scope of the Marketing Act which Parliament had not yet enacted.He accused the Nova Scotia representative of playing politics, of attempting to set east against west and of sug-j gesting the farmers of western j Canada should be driven out of j Least Two New Developments Today Gave Brighter Hue to Troubled Situation \u2014 Ten Per Cent.Wage ASSUMED MURE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK Government was business.So long as hL\t.in office, Mr.Bennett declared, all parts of Canada would be treated alike in the matter of relief, The basis of relief would be necessity and no favors would be shown.Within a few days the House will bo called upon to express is views i on the question of legalizing sweep-j VT stakes in Canada for hospital pur-poses.Yesterday the Senate gave third and final reading to the bill sponsored by Senator G.H.Barnard.of Victoria, by a recorded vote of thirty-seven to twenty.Both party leaders, Rt.Hon Arthur Meighen, Conservative, and Hon.Raoul Dandurand, Liberal, opposed it to the last.It is assured of a non-party vote in the House of Commons.Intimation the coming budget INQUIRY INTO PULP INDUSTRY Increase for Workers on Boats Operated by Lake Sub-Committee of Banking Com-Carriers Association Announced\u2014Motor Plant Em-!\t^ to Deterinilie if Mm\u201e ployees Voted to Accept Wage Concessions and End Six Weeks\u2019 Strike.- »- ew York, April 13.\u2014At least] two developments gave a! brighter hue today to the] black United States industrial situation.Ten per cent, wage increases were announced last night for all workers on boats operated by the Lake Carriers\u2019 Association.If all four hundred boats operated by members are in service this year about 13,000 persons will receive the increase.INSULL JOIES AS HE BEGINS HOMEWARD TRIP Employees of the Nash Motor \u201c]t js Remarkable that I Should Company s Kenosha, Wis., plant ]\t_\tf Need an tscorfc or Seven.1 m Perfectly Harmless,\u201d Former Multi-Millionaire Remarked with a Smile.red.Mr.Bennett pointed out , ^\tox tool ana memaKers m ,\t- treaty provided for alterations !\tof Petro,tst sixty-two Panderma, Turkey, April 13 plants became effective at midnight.] Samuel Insull turned jokester today Approximately 3,800 men are affected.The other seventeen plants, employing 1,200 men, negotiated separate agreements.Two thousand workers at the Electric Autolite plant in Toledo, Ohio, dropped negotiations for a five per cent, wage increase on May 1 and walked out.Two branches of the glove cutters\u2019 union at Gloversviile, N.Y., comprising nine hundred of the three thousand union members, voted to walk out at 5 p.m.today unless their wages are increased.Two pickets at the Cleveland Worsted Mills Company plant were shot, one suffering serious wounds.They told police an unidentified man fired at them with a shotgun.A strike has been on at the jdant for several weeks.Two mill employees, who have remained at work during the strike of knitters at three Indianapolis hosiery mills, reported bricks were thrown through windows of their homes.Authority to call a strike at.the St.Louis Chevrolet, and Fisher Body plants was voted the executive committee of the Federated Automobile Workers of America at a meeting of workers late last night.The trouble is over the alleged refusal of the two companies to re-hire about 250 men, most of whom have been active in union affairs.Five local unions in the automotive industry at.Pontiac, Mich., ignored the Automobile Labor Board ami presented new demands j to manufacturers for higher wages I ami shorter hours.\t\\ Striking aircraft workers in Buf-fAlo expressed unconcern over threats of the Curtiss Company to move operations to a Baltimore plant.Almost 2,100 workers are involved at two factories w would give effect to further chang-j voted to accept new wage conces-1 es in the trade agreement between sions from the company and end a Canada and the United Kingdom six weeks\u2019 strike, was the Prime Minister\u2019s answer to \"Elsewhere unrest grew and in1 a query about icpoi ts nom London sorne piaCes was marked by violence.1 that Canadas preference might be .\t,\t.limited.M'-\tnnint«,i I A strike of tool and diemakers m the by mutual consent and certain al terations had been made in the budget last year.Representations have been made to Washington in connection with legislation introduced in Congress to exclude Canadians from the right to commute across the international border, was another piece of information Mr.Bennett supplied.No definite action could be taken until the bill became law, he said.Similar legislation had ' frequently been proposed at Washington but had so far always fallen short of enactment.A move to provide the elder statesmen of the Senate with more work was launched yesterday by Rt.Hon.Arthur Moighen, Government leader in the Upper Chamber, carrying out one of the suggestions made in the recent debate launched by Senator Charles Murphy.The plan is to ha va all private hills receive their first, and consequently detailed, review in the Sonate.To this end Senator Meighcn\u2019s resolution proposes that, the fee for private bills introduced in the Senate remain at its present level, hut ihe fee for hills introduced in the House of Commons be substantially increased.The House banking committee yesterday appointed a sub-commit-toe to decide whether to call Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Herbert Holt, .1.H.Gundy, E.W.Beatty and J.It.Price to testify concerning the relation of the hanks to pulp and paper companies as requested by C.G.Power, Liberal, Quebec south.It also heard M.W.Wilson, general manager of the Royal Bank of Canada, deny the accusation the banks speculated in currency or set the level of Ihe Canadian dollar abroad.The Senate banking committee reported favorably on a bill to amend the Precious Metals Marking Act and heard Rt, Hon.Arthur Meighen, Government leader, say the Government was considering its policy on Federal regulation of insurance companies.The Senate Public Accounts Committee' heard Georges Gonthicr, Auditor-General, say that:, owing to heavy relief expenditures, he had triaiists and Financiers Should Be Called to Explain Promotion of Canadian Paper Firms.on the little train rattling along with him toward Smyrna and a ship waiting to re-turn the former multimillionaire to the United States for trial.To the surprise of fellow-passengers, he had cast off his appearance of despair during the night voyage to this Marmora see port from Istanbul.He even joked about the seven-man Turkish escort.\u201cIt is remarkable,\u201d he said in jest, \u201cthat 1 should need an escort of seven.I\u2019m perfectly harmless.\u201d The train was due at Smyrna, about.175 miles from Panderma, at 8.30 o'clock tonight.There, aboard the American liner Exilona, Insull will be handed over to Burton Berry, of the Istanbul American Embassy.Berry was designated to accompany him homeward.The trip may require a month.Frequent stops probably will be made as the vessel meanders through the Mediterranean and then across the Atlantic before finally reaching Boston and New York.MANY ARRESTS FOR PLOTTING AGAINST CAROL Eleven Officers and Thirteen Civilians to Face Council of War in Rumanian Revolutionary Conspiracy.FORMER U.S.SENATOR DIES Baltimore, April 13.\u2014 Former United States Senator Richard P.Ernest, of Kentucky, died early today at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he had been a patient for the past two weeks.He was seventy-six years old.STUDY RIGHTS OF STATES IN CERTAIN SHIPS Congressional Committee to Determine Right to Take Over Ships Under British Flag but] Under Mortgage to U.S.Citizens._ Hot Springs, Ark., April 13.\u2014 Two men believed by police to be members of the gang of Clyde Bar-row, Texas desperado, were captured here today and two men, one of Paris.April 13.\u2014Week-end strikes and demonstrations in protest against the cutting- of the pay of Government functionaries and reductions in war veterans\u2019 pensions got under way slowly in France today.A Communist one-hour postal strike failed to make itself felt, but the menace of disorders grew with a new cali for a \u201cgeneral .strike\u201d of miners beginning on April 16th, against \u201cFascist assassins\u201d as a result of \\hom.wa- suspected of being Bar- the riot and slaying at Hcnin, Leitard, on Wednesday night, row himself, and a woman escaped.\tn,,\t.'\t, j j there a miner was killed and * fourteen persons were injured in a clash which developed when workmen, most of them Socialists and Communists, forced their way into a hall where young Royalists were meeting.Postmen carried on today in their demonstrations at work\u2014shouting and singing the Internationale as they delivered the mail.MINISTER DEFENDS REDUCTION IN COLONIZATION SERVICE EXPENSES Hon.Hector Laferte Explains Reduction in Grants for Ploughing and Clearing\u2014Premier Characterizes Opposition Leader\u2019s Attack as \u201cPetty Politics\u201d\u2014Withdraws Bill for Municipalizing of Electrical Services\u2014Bill Providing for Exchange of Lands Approved.Washington, April 13.-\u2014The Havas News Agency said today it was reliably informed that records involving the right of the United States to take over British ships, owned by United States investors through large mortgages held but operated , under the British flag, will soon be | made public by Senator Hugo Black's j special committee investigating air j and ocean mail contracts.PREMIER MAKES CHALLENGE TO LIBERAL PARTY The records deal specifically with Defies Opposition Forces to Offer cleari Ottawa, April 13.\u2014 Whether a group of prominent industrialists and financiers should be called before the banking committee of the House of Commons to explain the relation, if any, of Canadian banks to the promotion of pulp and paper companies is a question which will be decided by a sub-committee.With that stage of its inquiry relating to the efforts of the banks to combat the effects of depression in Canada completed the committee will swing into the realm of advanced monetary theory at its next meeting on Tuesday, when it will hear the \u201cDouglas Plan\u201d of monetary reform expounded by the author, Major H.B.Douglas.A retired Scottish banker, Major Douglas has been advocating his scheme for some years and he was invited to appear before the committee at the suggestion of Farmer and Labor members.The cost to the treasury will be five hundred dollars.Yesterday Major C.G.Power, Liberal, Quebec South, one of the sponsors of the Liberal move for an inquiry into the efforts of the banks to combat depression and their relation to other large corporations asked that Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Herbert Holt.J.H.Gundy, E.W.Beatty and John H.Price be called before the committee to reveal the intricacies of the financial troubles of the pulp and paper industry.Morris W.Wilson, genera! manager of the Royal Bank of Canada, provided the committee with some information about his chief, Sir Herbert Holt, president of the Bank, who, he said, was greatly underpaid having regard to his responsibilities.Sir Herbert, he explained, received $25,000 a year as president of the .Bank less a ten per cent, deduction td the plan, 'saving' the\u2018companv 'it K,wl>irB trad