Sherbrooke daily record, 15 mai 1934, mardi 15 mai 1934

[" rr~ir srsscHs: mmt ZEE Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, CANADA, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1934.Thirty-Eighth Year.GOVERNMENT ACCEPTS CHALLENGE OF mm COMPANY EXECUTIVE Three Ministers to Appear Before Mass Buying Committee to Reply to Charges of Walter M.Stewart that Information on Cut in Excise Tax Leaked Out Ahead of Budget\u2014Imperial Tobacco President Denies Receiving Tip or Contributing to Campaign Funds.#- GERMAN PURCHASES OF PLANES IN BRITAIN AGAIN BEFORE HOUSE Ottawa, May 15.\u2014Pushing its probe of the tobacco business toward a finish, the House of Commons committee on price spreads and mass buying today proposes to inquire further into the allegations of W.M.Stewart, president of the W.C.Macdonald Tobacco Company, that information as to the cut in the cigarette tax had leaked out in advance to his competitors.Three members of the Government are to go before the committee in connection with the matter and Mr.Stewart may be recalled.The allegations made by the head of the Macdonald Company last week brought speedy repercussions yesterday.In the House of Commons Prime Minister H.B.Bennett announced he had asked Hon.H.11.Stevens, chairman of the committee, to recall Mr.Stewart and seek all the information he had on the point.A letter from Mr.Stewart was read both in the committee and in the House saying be was confused at the time and regretted some of London, Mav 15.\u2014Frederick 1 S.Cocks, Lalor member for | Nottinghamshire, will continue his questioning of Sir John Simon concerning German | purchases of aeronlanes in ; Great Britain when the House of Commons sits tomorrow.Cocks today annou iced he | would ask the Foreign Secre- | tary whether further orders | for planes have been placed | by Gernr\u2014ny in Entland.Cocks yesterday asked Sir John whether he knew that a | German order for eight planes | had been placed in England.! Sir John renlied that the ! French Ambassade, had drawn his attention to the fact, but that there was nothing in the treaties to prever.Germany I from making such purchas-.« the statements he had made, in particular his reference to the Government.\" He mentioned the Minister of Finance, the Secretary of State and the Minister of National Revenue as the ministers he had referred to.These three, Hon.E.N.Rhodes.Hon.G.It.Cahan and Hon.R.L.Matthews, will likely make stalemenis to the committee today.The committee, however, made no definite decision as to recalling Mr.Stewart.Yesterday, Gray Miller, president of the Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada, denied his company had received any advance information on the cigarette tax reduction.He also said, to his knowledge, the com- ] pany had made no contributions toi political campaign funds.The records of the Tucks it tobacco plant at Hamilton, a subsidiary] of Imperial, showed there had been | no shutdown on the eve of the 1932 j budget, he told the committee.Mr.] Stewart had said he had information that plant had been closed down because the tax reduction was anticipated.Turning to comparative cigarette prices in Canada and the United States, Mr.Miller took as an example a brand selling 20 for 20 cents or $10 per thousand.Of the $10, the Government received $5.34 in taxes and duties; retailers and jobbers, $2.19, and the manufac BIT MAN\u2019S EAR OFF BECAUSE HE SLAPPED HER Juarez, Mexico, May 15.\u2014Re-buving ! becca Hernandez, twenty-eight, bit off the ear of Manuel Nedina McDonald because he slapped her, she said in the Juarez jail today.Police charged her with aggravated assault.\u201cWe had been drinking and he slapped me,\u201d Miss Hernandez said.\u2018Then I bit him.\u201d Police are holding the ear as evidence.SURVEY TO DETERMINE FUTURE OF WESTERN DROUGHT AREA IS URGED K SUBJECTED TO UNPARALLELLED BRUTALITY HMftKSS #\u2022 FRANCE WILL SEND DEBT DEFAULT NOTE TO U.S.mm #lpr?, * V I WW- : / Paris, May 15.\u2014 The war i debt question received scant i attention when French Cab- ! inet met today a.'.discussed ; briefly the matter of sending ! a default r.Me to the United States.The note will he drafted, it was decided, by Foreign Min- | ister Louis Barthou.Premier Doumergue, Edouard Herriot, Minister with- ! out Portfolio, and Barthou had | hoped io induce parliament | to consent to a token payment ! I on the installment due on June I ! 15th.I However, as Washington has ! informed, the French govern- 1 1 ment a token payment would ! be regarded as def«\\lt, the eah-| inet concluded that it was not I worth -while to make a useless ! gesture.KIDNAPPEDTOTFOUNDNEARDEATH Six-Year-Old June Robles Confined in Narrow Stifling Desert Dungeon for Nineteen Days\u2014Torture Described as Most Horrible Uncovered in Years \u2014 Unsigned Special Delivery Letter, Postmarked Chicago and Evidently Written by Someone Connected with the Kidnapping, Guided Officials to Little Prisoner\u2014No Ransom Was Paid.T LONDON DOCK LABORERS ON STRIKE London, May 15.\u2014Three thousand London dock laborers were idle today following a strike declared late yesterday by the dock hands.Eight hundred stevedores struck yesterday and 2,000 stopped work this morning to protest against the giving of dock labor to white collar unemployed.They charged that port authorities were showing preference to the jobless office-workers and discriminating against the regular stevedores.Western Member Advocates Abandonment of Large Area of Southern Prairies\u2014Early Planning for Trans-Canada Air Service Suggested\u2014Vote on Budget Expected Today or Tomorrow\u2014Prime Minister Announced Decision to Cross-examine Tobacco Company Executive.Six-year-old June Robles, shown above, Tucson kidnap victim whose recovery after ninteen days of captivity in a desert dungeon reveals a storjr of brutality without present-day parallel, is today resting at her Arizona home -while doctors watch anxiously to determine the permanent effects of the torture on her health.The girl was chained to a stake in a desert grave with barely room to move.ttawa.May If.\u2014 Canada's® future in aviation should be planned and mapped out carefully in order to ensure that full 0 tarer, $2.47.This latter figure rep-j advantage is taken of this new and resented 82 cents a pound in terms of tobacco.Comparative figures for the United States were $3.12 for the Government; $2.12 for dealers on the basis of a 15-cent.package, and $2.26 for the manufacturer.To E.J.Young.Liberal, Wey-burn, witness said the Imperial Company had paid $2.800,000 customs duty on tobacco imported from the United States for the year ended March 31st last.The amount of excise tax paid by his company in the vear was $17,200.000.Including income tax and all other taxes and duties the company had paid out $24.200,000 in the year, said witness.\u201cWhat do you think of the Government taking over the tobacco industry as in France?\u201d asked Sam Factor, Liberal, Toronto West Centre.Witness did not reply.There were, two suggestions to deal with the situation in the industry, said Mr.Senn.One was to curtail production and the other was to develop export trade.\"Have you any suggestions how the export trade particularly with Great Britain can be increased?\u201d he asked.The only way was to got British manufacturers as a whole interested in Canadian flue-cured tobacco, answered witness.His company had planned to have Vice-President Buell and Townsend go to England this summer, and some other countries if the trade commission would agree, to interest the manufacturers in Canadian flue-cured tobacco.\u201cWould there be anything detrimental to the interests of your coni- RANK SALARIES UNDER FIRE AT OTTAWA TODAY the world, equipped with landing fields every twenty-five -miles, said Major Kennedy.It was essential that the public interest in the development of air services be safeguarded and promoted.\t,\t\u201e\u201e\tThree alternatives in connection pany if this export took place .Mi.with the operation of a trans-Can-Milter was asked rapid mode of communication, peculiarly suited to the wide areas of this country.Such is the belief of Major W.W.Kennedy, Conservative member for Winnipeg South Centre, who last night tried to make the House of Commons air minded.Ma,nitoba Tmbtc Er'!House of Commons Banking Com- '\u2018>ek wullJ, Conservative Souris, I\t-\t^\t.\t6 shared the spotlight with Major] Kennedy as the budget debate drew] to a close.Mr.Willis spoke of the] dried out areas on the wheat growing prairies and urged a survey of these lands to determine to what use they should be put in future, A survey, he said, would determine whether drought such as struck the southern prairies in the last few years conies in cycles or whether there are large areas of definitely sub-marginal land which, even under favorable eonditons, FOR CUES IN \u201cRIDE\u201d KILLING WORLD AWAITS ucson, Ariz., May 15.\u2014Little June Robles is lux ne again, rescued from the desert tomb where kidnappers had kept her prisoner for nineteen terrifying days.Physicians watched over her anxiously today to ascertain how seriously she may have been affected by an ordeal which might easily j have killed her\u2014blazing days of a sun that burned her olive skin, and chilly, lonely nights in iron Chains that gripped her slender ankles.An unsigned letter, postmarked Chicago, gave the directions that led to her rescue late yesterday afternoon by her unde, Carlos Robles, and Clarence Houston, Pima county attorney.No ransom was paid.Fifteen thousand dollars had been demanded when the child was kidnapped on April 25th.The letter that saved the girl\u2019s life\u2014she could not have survived much longer in her desert dungeon\u2014was received yesterday at the office of Governor Moeur in Phoenix.It gave explicit instructions for finding the girl \u201cburied under a cactus\u2019\u2019 near Tucson.The use of the word \u201cburied\u201d sent a chill down the backs of the hunters, for they feared it meant she was dead.Driving out to a point indicated on Rincon Way, a desert road, Hous-ton and Robles began beating about the bushes and thorny cacti.Houston was separated from Robles when he stumbled onto the prison.The child was literally rescued from the grave.Her prison was a boxlike hole dug in the desert nine and a half miles from her home.It had virtually the same dimensions as a grave, except for depth, being six feet long, three feet deep and two and a half feet wide.Oyer the grave\u2014it might indeed have been a grave had the rescue -\u2014\tbeen much longer delayed\u2014was a Official Communique Declares Peru and Colombia Near ] \"jf t^he^'VhTre11 weTe seS Agreement on Le'dcia Boundary Dispute\u2014Vigorous ] holes in the roof, and the sun burned Action Planned on Gran Chaco Situation\u2014Discourage-: (lown.to make P'1- despite the \u2022 t-tr\tB covering of cacti, a sweltering m- meni Characterizing oleetmg M as Caused Chiefly by I ferno by day, and a chill, horrifying Apparent Deadlock in Moves Toward Disarmament |^act that was aî.Agreement.\tj ways a robust child permitted June ______ to go through the nineteen days and eneva.Mav 15.\u2014 Coring ] ni*I?tB \u201eo£\timprisonment,\u201d ter f\t*___! uncle, Carlos Robles, said.SOUTH AMERICAN NEWS REDUCES LEAGUE COUNCIL GLOOM would not provide farmers with a profitable living.If the latter was the case the suggestion that a large corporation be organized to take such lands out of cultivation might receive consideration and a tremendous amount of hardship be avoided.Canada would soon have a eoast- mitiee Gives Consideration to Proposal Intended to Improve Present Salary Scale in Banks.Ottawa, May 15.\u2014Salaries paid ! by Canadian banks to their employ- ! ees were under fire in the House i of Commons Banking Committee] today.With only two .sections of the Bank Act remaining the committee discussed an amendment from Dr.Raymond Morand, Conservative, East Essex, which had for its object the improvement of the salary -cule in banks.His amendment however, made no attempt to stipulate minimum wages or indicate wnat salaries should be paid.It required the banks to furnish the Finance Minister with information in res- Five Suspects Arrested when].Body of Murdered Montreal Girl Police Descended on House; Where Retired Banker, Kid-! napped Five Days Ago, Was Found Bound to Bed Awaiting] Payment of Ransom.to coast: airway second to none in ; btet to their employees, the salat \u2018It would be to our advantage,\u201d was the reply.Developing export trade seemed to be the crux of the.situation, said Mr.Senti.\u201cAnd limiting production,'\u2019 staled Mr.Miller.\u201cI do not, like the idea of curtailment of production if it, enn be avoided.\u201d said Mr.Serin.\u201cThere is no use of producing if you cannot sell,\" answered Mr.Miller.Hon.H.H.Stevens, committee chairman, said his department was always available to develop trade.The Imperial Company had only about 4,000,000 pounds of tobacco actual \u201cexcess\u201d on hand and there wëro 10,000,000 pounds in the hands of the farmer.It would be about five months or so before the next season opened.Great Britain imported aLijp.175,000,000 pounds of Virginia fTmAuri'd tdbacco per year.With t,|fo Impérial Company of Great Britain amt Ireland, the British America Company, and the Imperial Ccwftpony of Canada in operation in lipt of all1 the facts there was reality go alarming quantity of to-tm@Co on band.TWfNTY-FIVE~ THOUSAND SPENT ON BUYING PROBE (httawH.May 15.The investigation* into price spreads aml effects of mass buying conducted by the special House committee, of which IJnn.H.11.Stevens, Minister of 'Trade and Commerce, is chairman has already cost the Federal Treasury over $2t.5,000, according to n brief statement made in the House yesterday by Sir George I\u2019erlcy in reply to questions when anotJer inlcrim supply bill was called chiefly Continued on Page 2.ies paid, restrictions as to marriage and other matters.\u201cA little publicity would be a good thing,\" said rD.Morand, in moving his amendment.It seemed almost impossible to set up a minimum wage standard under the act.he stated, but something would be gained by getting tho facts and laving them before the Minister.Found Crammed in Rumble Seat of Abandoned Car \u2014 Three Bullet Wounds in Head \u2014 Believed to Have Been Killed Miles Away.Los Angeles, May 15.\u2014The law j Montreal, May 15.\u2014Detectives to-has delivered William F.Gettle from j day left Montreal to run down clues his kidnappers safe, well and with- ! in nearby centres as they continued out thô payment cf ransom.\t]\tinvestigation into a murder discov- Officers found the retired broker ] ered yesterday which followed the last night, bound to a bed and with ! lines of a \u201cride\u201d killing.A young his face covered with a courtplaster 1 woman, Grazietla Viens, twenty-mask, in a little house in the foot- .eight years old, was found crammed hills town of La Crescenia, only a into tho rumble seat of a small auto-few miles from here.\tmobile abandoned on a city street in They arrested five persons in con- circumstances which suggested she nection with the kidnapping, which had been killed miles away and occurred five days ago.Gettle, haggard but smiling, said today that \u201cit all seemed like a bad dream.\u201d \u201cMy greatest worry while 1 lay bound hand and foot on that bed was owner of the automobile, was being detained at detective headquarters ^ for questioning and another man, for the anxiety my absence would ! to whom Alistro claims he loaned the cause my wife and family.\u201d\t| automobile, was the object of an in- \u201cThank God,\u201d murmured Mrs.tensive search as police endeavored Gettle, an invalid, when word of the rescue was given her.Gettle\u2019s rescue came unexpectedly following an unsuccessful attempt Little Likelihood of Any Word from the Leonardo da Vinci Until Aviators Reach Coast of Europe.Across the wide Atlantic reaches two adventurous airmen sought today to blaze a new sky trail from New York to Rome.And as the ocean\u2019s silence held secret their fate, two continents waited expectantly for news of Captain George Pond and Lieut.Cesare Sabelli, more than twenty-,four hours out of Brooklyn, NA., In the meantime Joseph Alistro, on the flight no flyer has yet com-\u201c\t1 pleted.Many have begun it.Six have found death on the 4,500-mile quest.But Pond and Sabelli were confident as they soared away from Floyd Bennett Field at 6.24 o\u2019clock E.S.T.yesterday morning.They expected\" to make Rome non-stop in less than forty hours.Little more than nine hours later 1 driven to the place where the was found.eneva, May 15.\u2014 word from South America blasted away some of the gloom at the League of Nations Council meeting today.An official communique from Rio tie Janeiro predicted ear]yr success in the negotiations between representatives of Peru and Colombia in the Brazilian capital regarding the Leticia border area dispute.The communique read: \u201cThe negotiations will shortly be brought to a satisfactory conclu-i sion.\u201d When they found her she was ill and too weak to walk.She appeared calm, hut the horrors of her experiences had written themselves upon her.Only after days of quiet and medical care will it be determined how seriously those experiences may have affected her.The barbarity of the girl\u2019s kidnappers was without present day parallel.The prison itself could have been conceived by no one but a person insensible to human suffer- \u201e\t,,\t,\t,\t.mg.The pit, with its covering, Other problems, however hüng;W{)uld not allow hr to stand er\u20ac{:t! darkly over Council m the sec- and cou]d hardly sit.There was ond day of the body\u2019s seventy-ninth session.First, it set out to grapple with problems in the Gran Chaco warfare between Par: uay and Bolivia.Later, it planned to attempt adjustment of disturbances on the Hungary-Yugoslavia border.The message from Rio de Janeiro to piece together the *few clues to the killing.Discovery of the woman\u2019s body came after neighbors became curi- ada service required consideration.First, operation by a private, company with a contract from the Gov-!\t- eminent and subject, to govern-! BAVARIAN SHOOTING WOUND-.mental regulations.Second, a semi-\tED TWO Al STRIANS national corporation on which the] _ Hallein, Austria, May 15.\u2014\u2022Shots' Government would have repre-]fined from the Bavarian frontier] .cotation, and.third, a wholly,nean Salzburg were reported to have j government-owned enterprise, I wounded an Austrian gendarme] Whichever alternative was adop- named Gaberl, and an auxiliary ted should be based on a definite trooper today, plan for steady progress evolved in the light of Canada\u2019s strategic location on the future airway map of the world, A vote on Iho budget may come today or tomorrow and there were indications last night of a disposition on the part, of both Government and Opposition to speed up the business of Parliament in order to bring about an early prorogation.As if in retaliation for the successful Liberal move to have the Farmer-Labor amendment, to the budget ruled out of order, William Irvine U.F.A.member for Wotaski-win, yesterday challenged the soundness of the Liberal amendment proposed earlier by Hon.J.L.Ralston, mqnvber for Shelburne-Yarmoutth.The Speaker reserved his- décision.If the budget, debate ends today if will be one of tho shortest on record in recent years.Hon.R.J.Manion, Minister of Railways and Canals, will bo the first, speaker this afternoon.The IHouso yesterday put through* an interim supply bill to provide the Government with money to meet immediate ohlign-tions.It goes before the Senate today., The new Companies Ac early yesterday to pay $60,000 ran- j ous about a roadster that bad been som in exchange for his safe return ! parked all Sunday night and part of to his wife and four small children, i Monday.They informed the police.The alleged kidnappers, even be- When detectives came to look over fore the crime had been perpetrated, ] the car they opened tie cover of made the mistake which led to last ; the rumble seat and were confronted night\u2019s arrests and the return of ] with the gruesome sight of \u2018he Gettle.] woman\u2019s blood-spattered b o d y.Five weeks ago they attracted tha ! clothes ripped and torn and blood across the St.John's peninsula and was caused chiefly by the apparent deadlock in moves toward a disarmament agreement Nevertheless, vigorous action was forecast on the Chaco question, with indications the Council would support, the report of the League commission \u2014 possibly voicing T .,\t-, strong disapproval of sale of arms they vyere oyer Lounsburg, al \u2018 0'a, materials to Paraguay and Bolivia.Scotia s eastern end.iwo hours i\t___\u201c\t___ more and they were roaring out of:Ann\u201e_rn Tn cx.vn tdiAI the sunset over Conception Bay, on:0RDERF,D TO STAND TRIAL the southeast coast of Newfound- p0R ^RDER OF DAUGHTER land, far below, the telegraph oper-1 ator on Bell Island saw their big' plane race its eastward course mall wounds strike out seaward.After that, there came no reports of the orange and maroon mono- a voluminous measure providing for a general tightening up in the law governing the incorporation of companies, received .second rending with little discusion and will be studied in a committee.Prime Minister R.B.Bennett revealed the Governme proposed to take notice of the charge made in the mass buying committee last week by W.M.Stewart, Montreal tobacco manufacturer, that bis competitors had received an advance tip on a cut in the excise tax] on cigarettes in 1932.He said he bad asked Hon.H.H.Stevens, chairman of the committee, to recall Mr.Stewart to give \u201call information in his possession with respect to his allegations that Ministers of the Crown have been unfaithful to their trust.\u201d The mass buying committee heard Gray Miller, president of the Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada, say his company had had no advance information of the cut in the cigarette tax in 1932 as alleged by W.M, Stewart, president of the W.C.Macdonald Tobacco Comi-pnny.Hon.H.H.Stevens, chairman, declared that three members of the cabinet would appear before the committee in connection with the Stewart, allegations.Earl Spaf-ford, vice-president in charge of sales for Imperial, denied undue in-fluetice was exerted on retailers to induce them to push the sale of Imperial 'products in preference to others.attention of the police robbery detail j clotted around three by tjveir activities in an apartment in the head.house.The officers were seeking a ! Last night Dr.Rosario Fontaine,\t.band of bank robbers.They placed j medico-legal expert, performed an plane.She carried receiving radio recording devices in the apartment autopsy on the body and reported equipment only, and after she dis-r on ted by the suspects.\t]\tthat be had\tfound three bullets in\tappeared\tinto the sky over the At- But results were lacking.Officers\t!\tthe woman\u2019s\thead.They were\tof\tlantic no\tfurther word was expect- vvere ready to give up last\tSaturday\t|\t.32 calibre.\tOne was lodged in\tthe\ted until\tshe struck the European when one of the records,\trerun in\t!\tleft side of\tthe head, behind\tthe |coast, unless she should be sighted police quarters, scratched out this ; ear, while the two other bullets were by some ship.\t_ conversation:\tfound in the left temple.The three i I lie \u201cLeonardo da \\ inch carried\t.\t.\u201cThere's no need to be scared any bullets were extracted and examined enough gasoline for torty hours ] .'JUJfJ1 longer.Things are in pretty good by the expert.\t]flying-\u2014680 gallons.Die former shape.The newspapers look favorable.I understand no one can tap a pay telephone line.\u201d It wasn't much, but enough.While police, sheriff\u2019s deputies and district attorney's operatives buzzed A further examination of the body ; United States navy flier and the failed to show any marks of violence, j wartime Italian ace earned enough iDr.Fontaine stated that the woman's ; food for several days, sandwiches, clothing was badly torn, which prov-j chocolates and liquids, and emergen-led that she had probably struggled J'y rations for use should they be room only to turn over, but this was difficult, if not impossible, because of the chains that held her ankles.The chain was fastened to an iron stake.Seldom do records of crime show more ca\u2019/ous treatment of a kidnap victim than that accorded June Robles.The kidnappers supplied was received shortly .-le.the com-1 enoufrll food to keep the child alive, mittee handling the Peru-Colombia j the fond was poor and not clean, dispute had cecidcd to delay action\tkidnappers had provided a jug yesterday pending receipt of fur- 0f water, some wilted oranges and ther news.\t! vegetables and a loaf of bread which The atmosphere of discourage-, appeared to be only two or three ment characterizing the meeting dayg 0id The child\u2019s first thought when lifted from the hole was for her mother, just as for nineteen weary days and nights her mother\u2019s thought had been for her.\u201cI want my mama!\u201d June cried, end it was the nearest she came to giving away to emotion during the rescue.When reassured that she would be taken at once to \u201cmama.\u201d June expressed anxiety over one other matter\u2014her report card.She had it with her, and pointed proudly to the marks she had been given at school.Her captors, the girl said, were two men.\"Bill\" end \u201cWill\u201d were the names they used in addressing each other, she said.They came to her desert prison occasionally, bringing water and food.With a child\u2019s aptness for detail, she mentioned that, one of the men ivo're gloves.Evidence Produced at Valleyfie\u2019d Enquete Brought Gasps of Indignation from Crowd that Packed Little Court Room.with her assailant before the fatal yn,Te^ down at sea.But neither looked for this con-ingency.Both are considered outstanding fliers, and they had been somberly over tho ransom payment shooting.failure, Capt.Harry Seagcr and Upon learning from Dr.Fontaine Lieut.H.P.Goarhard hided their1 ibat the woman had been shot, de-lime a! the apartment.\t\u2022 ! eel ives once more examined the At; the proper moment, when hopes automobile in search of a revolver, waned at the Gettle mansion, the They looked under the rumble seat] law struck.Jimmy Kirk and two and under the front seats, but their women, Loretta Woody Burke, were arrested.and Joan ] efforts were in vain.The fields near From Kirk] where the car was abandoned were no preparing for the flight for months before they took off.They were to have started last fall, but bad weather halted their plans.Sabelli\u2019s plans for the flight went back even further than that.He ValkyYield, Que., May 15.\u2014Ordered to stand trial on a charge of murder after being held criminally responsible for the death of their ,, .\t0\t.\t~\t~T~\t, six-year-old daughter, Laura, Fd-; Aicira, Spam, May lo.Twelve ouai-d Groleau and his wife were j arsons were injured today when the t!,r: Madrid express crashed into a de- noxt session of the criminal assizes.\tfreign; train as it was enter- vvhen their fate will be decided.| mg the Aknra station.The two were ordered to standi trial here yesterday by Judge J.II.] f Lemay, of Sherbrooke, at tho c.m- ! elusion of the preliminary heaving.#-W Their daughter was found to have I died in her home at St.Antoine-j Abbe, Que., from ill treatment and] undernourishment.Evidence produced at the en- THE WEATHER FAIR AND COOL.An area of high pressure extends from the west coast of Hudson Bay, l southward to the southwest states quote brought gasps of indignation J ^ relatively low pressure over from the crowd that racked tWh'\u2019 northwestern portion of the vears, his brother they obtained the address of the ! also searched by the police, Vm kidnap house where Gettle was hold.weapon was found.\til-,\t,\t, ,(> WABC.Now York .\t 860 WHY.fhthenecfarly.,.\t790 WEAF- Now York.9(IQ UFCF \u2014Mohl.roftl .fiOO CRCM-MonlroaJ .910 W./£- New York .7fd> Ottawa, May 15.lion.W.A.Gordon, Minister of Labor, Immigration and Mines, ban been ill for the past few days and has been advised by his doctors io take «1-much rent a.possible.Hn has been away from the House of Common* for about a week, but still keeps in touch wilh his three departments, His condition it is understood is not *criou*i Individual Experience Is inadequate! Estate administration is a business \u2014 rather than a duty to be delegated casually to relatives or friends.It requires the ability to quickly and intelligently deal with many complicated matters concerning taxes, accounting, real estatq, investments and business problems.We shall be glad to explain our qualifications for rendering an efficient and economical service to your dependants.SHERBROOKE TRUST COMPANY R.EWART G.MORGAN M.T.A.O.p Foot Specialist, 12 Magog.Ph.2735-W.Linoleum Cementing Ï INOLEUM CEMENTED BY EXPERT-enced men at low cost.Hector Lnnctef, ihe largest furniture store In Easern Townships, corner Peel and Marquette.Call 170.Veterinary Surgeon I) R.WHEATLEY'S VETERINARY HOS-pital, Phone 107 or 3200, Sherbrooke.T\\R.J.G.RODRIGUE, M.V., GRADUATE of Montreal University, general practice, 125 Marquette St., Sherbrooke.Ph.27B6-M.¦ -\u2014\u2014; -\u2014 Awnings\u2014Tents TJ T.TENT & AWNING CO.MFC.AWN-* Jm irga, tente, tarpaulins.All kinds canvas goods for sale.Awnings, tente, to rent.44 Court Street.Phone 8042-W SEALED TENDERS Sealed tenders will be receîv d until May 19th for the O\u2019Regan Estate.One farm of 65 acres with buildings, one mile from town : also 75 acres wood lot and pasture, offered together or sepfirately.Highest or any tender not hecers arily accepted.Address tkoe 72, Richmond, Que.WANTED TO BUY WOOL 25,000 lbs.of Unwashed Wool.1 Rn Brice, per lb.\tI «3 U B.COHEN & CO.J18 WHlitipton Si.So., Sherbrooke* Phones: J183 or 19.\u2018MF.TENDERS FOR COAL AND COKE HALED Tendf-rfi add rowed to the under' ° signed find endmaed \u201c'tendors for Coal-will be rein:ived until 12 o\u2019clock noon (duV' light saving), Wednesday June' 6.11)34.for tlm supply of coal and coke for the Dominion Hu il ill rum, in the Province of Quebec.Hpeeirirnfitma and forma of tender run be obtained from the Purcliaalna Agent, Department, of Public.Works, OltAWH ; the Fleck of Works, mo ,si, pmil St.West, Mon I real ; the Superintendent, 150 St.Paul SI.West, Mon (real, and Ihe Clerk of Works, Cuntorrm Building, Quebec.Tender* will not be considered unless made on the ferma .supplied by the Depfli'lmont nnd in accordn%r>.with departmental «peut» fient ion* find conditions, I be idglil.lo demand from I ho HUCcefisfill tenderer a dopoeil.rod exceeding IQ per cent, of the nmount of the tender, to aorun?Hu* propel' fulfilment of the contract, i» tv ftottettii, Hy order, N.DESJARDINS.tir-iretniy DepfiHttlrnt, of Publie Work»-Olhiuva, April i.\u2019\t|; x I l ^ ; aJli.'.J r,y,tri>pp!»i»tiirg COMPOUND OF HYPOP H OS P H I TES Mrs.Grorge Neveu, of spent Ascension Day Miss %¦ u -F j f -i Roach CA | Miss Rebecca Scott, who has been attending the Royal Victoria College, Montreal, has returned to her home in Stanstead for the summer vacation.Mr.Ray de Gruchy.of Magog, spent the week-end with Rev.and Mrs.de Gruchy.Miss Mary Channel!.Miss Lillian Sinclair and Miss Beryl Stew were among the successful graduates to receive their diploma; a; the Sherbrooke Hospital.Miss Lillian Sinclair won the president's prize.Miss Myra Crawford, daughter of Mr.and Mrs: Charles Crawford, has returned to her home from the Sherbrooke Hospital, and is convalescing after an operation for appendicitis.Mr.J.D.Ferguson was in Toronto and Montreal recently.Mr.J.D.McFadyen attended the meeting of the Presbvterv of the United Church held in Waterloo.Mr.and Mrs.Gerald Colt wc-; guests of their parents in Hatley recently.Miss G.Hodrson attended the Schubert recital held in Sherbrooke.Mr.Walter C.Stockwell.who has been attending McGill University, has arrived at his home for the summer vacation.Mrs.Lamh°rton and Mrs.0.F.Caswell, of Montreal, have arrived in Stanstead and have opened their home fc1' the summer.Rev.W.de Gruchy and family are moving from the rectory to an apartment in the dnnlex house owned by Mrs.Je- sie Hall.Mrs.Charles Colby, of Montreal.snent the week-end with Miss M.I.Butters.The Handicraft Club met with Mrs.Philin Corey at the Stanstead Inn on Friday with a large attendance of members present.All g and recitations, which had beer.Fine of the.cast.Thanks are due tb kinds of fancy articles are ______,, made by members at these meg-ings and will be on exhibition later on.Mrs.Corey served afternoon tea at the tea hour.The funeral service for Mrs.J.E.B.Champoux, nee Cordelia Bis-sor.net, who died in Montreal after a short illness, took place at the Stanstead Roman Catholic Church, Saturday morning.Mr.Henry Shannon has sold hi; house on Centre street, to Mr, Ernest Thompson.Mr.Sharman is returning to Manchester, N.K., after spending a short time in Stanstead renewing old friends.Mrs.Clara Jenkins attained her seventy-ninth birthday on May 16.A surprise party .\u2019a; given Mrs.Jenkins by her friends when bridge was played at four tables and a very happy party\twas enjoyed.Delicious refreshments were served j little Leora Davidson, who kindly by Mrs.Jenkins and Mrs.Gibson, (took part in the programme.Mrs.Jenkins is well and happy and | Mrs.Upland Bnekland, of Montis making a good\trecovery\tfrom ] real\thas\tbeen\ta recent guest\tof\tMr.her accident.\tI and\tMrs.\tW.\tB.\tHolmes\tat\tHolin- A miscellaneous\tshower\twas : hurst, given at th 1 home of Mrs.Edward Curtis for Mrs.Ernest Batcheldev, nee Hazel Fox, a\u2019 recent bride.\u2018 guests of her parents, Mr.am There were, thirty-four friend; and neighbors present and the bride re- ^ ceived some lovely gifts.Refresh- Group of Sherbrooke, with M prepared by Mrs.W.X Horn, wa enjoyed.The roll call was, \u201cE.ur-; opean Countries and Their Cap-! itals,\u201d after which Miss Amy ; Davidson asked each member to \u2019give a two-minute talk on some European Country.These were also | found very interc ' g.Mrs.Mor-jrison, Mrs.A.H.Davidson, Miss j Amy Davidson and M, - Cora Sul- ; with'her'sister, Mr livan were appointed to attend the j ;cis an(j famj)'v.'annual meeting cf the county at1 i North Hatley.The conveners each ; reported some item of interest.Mrs.Davidson gave a talk on I \u201cBread Making,\u201d and displayed a loaf of her excellent b:ead.At the close of the meeting tea was served iby the ho ! Fritz Pope and M V/aterville people for a pleasanï evening.Music and singing wera furnished between the acts by Mrs.Fred Ayer and Lillian Webster.After the play a dance was held, music being furnished by the \u201cSnappy Four.\u201d Mr.and Mrs.Norma Wheeler of Newport, Vt., spent the week-end F.C.Dan- Mi'.Bibeau has moved his family to Providence, R.I., where ire has work in a mill.Mr.and Mrs.W.L.Oliver, of Ayer\u2019s Cliff Mr.and Mrs.A.A.Bachelder and Mr.and Mrs.Gor-risted by Mr< i llon Bachelder, of Beebe, were c.Fl- Bernice \"David- ! in?.Pn\tUslie B.ef ' ?\" StV\"d\u201cY' Misses Bernice and Nettie Wheel- son.Thanks are due Mrs, Sullivan.^ ^\t.\t.Mr?.Sutton, Arden Jordan and \\ err of Barnston, spent the we^k-end with their sister, Mrs.Eugene ¦ Richard Bishop as leader, conduc.,-! ed the services in the United Church leses OgSy Fat 14 lbs.su 11 Paw ment; were served by Mr?.Curti.and a plearant social evening Was enioyed.Mr.and Mrs.Batchelder : on Sunday.A large number turned will reside with Mr.and Mrs.Fox out to listen to the interesting nd-for the present.\t| dresses given and enjoyed the scr- Mis?Mary Hackett.R.N., of, vice very much.The regular Mrth-Montreal, is a guest of her sister, Mrs.D.R.Parson; Mothers\u2019 Day was observed in Centenary United Church on Sunday with an appropriate sermon by the pastor of the church.Dr.Philp Markwell.1 Mr.and Mrs.Richard Wood of Stanstead.were Sunday guests of Mr.and Mrs.Gledhill.Mr.and Mrs.Kenneth Oliver, cf Ml ami Mr?Sam Mo'?e an 1 Barnet.Vt., were calling on friends child,' of' Waterviiie, wire' Sundc.; here last week, guests of her parent.;, Mr.ami ! Mr- and Mrs Norman Chcs.ey \u201e pcrcv\tj and Mrs.Jennie ( Lesley, ot bh?r- ** Five member; of the Oxford | brooke were at Mr.Fred Chesley\u2019-Group of Sherbrooke, with on Sunday.P'.ay \u201cThe Road Back\u201d by Hatley talent here.May 23rd.SAWYERVILLE The service opened with Scripture | evening of last week was enjoyeI by reading and the singing of \u201cHoly, ; an.The piay was very funny and \t$ \tw iSÊÈÊk\t y\t% \t// V 22 Pound* Ganot POWDER Everywhere \u2014\u2022 ,25, .50 and ] .00 MVSTERtOUS CNtMICAU CO, Mcmtreii.P C New Sole,