Sherbrooke daily record, 21 décembre 1934, vendredi 21 décembre 1934

[" Established 1897 SHERBROOKE, CANADA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1934, I hirty-Eighth Yeajr, National Business Government Must Be Formed Alfred Wood.Can we wait to save Canada?Would we wait !f we knew that each day\u2019s waiting meant a loss of a million dollars?That is the issue confronting Canada to-day.We must not wait! We have been playing the waiting game instead of the saving game\u2014the policy of procrastination instead of a sound policy of restoration.We have been through a period of attempted coalescing in the greatest single disaster to our country.We have been trying experiments which do not eventuate.\t*¦ All the while the people have been meeting with discouraging internal quarrels among our parlizans, one party objecting because the other promoted it.That was the sole reason.Is it not time that we all became national-minded and united as one man to save Canada, just as was forced upon us, and upon others of the allied countries during the war.To-day Business is War.We are fighting an economic war, which is proving far more demoralizing and disastrous in its effects than was the Great War.Continuation of petty partizanship means delay after delay in recovery.Can our statesmen, our public men, and each one of us not throw down all prejudice and join in a True Canadian National Government?Let us consider awhile, thinking it over, as we have reached the point of despair in looking into the future of our government bodies, past, present and future.Gather together our better known public men and ask them to sit down together as did the Hon.Mr.Bennett and the Hon.Mr.Taschereau the other night.Ask them to coalese, to join together, and meet graver issues without thought of mere votegetting.Let us take stock of our Public Men, our Wise Men, our men who are experienced in executive work, and who would have at heart only the welfare of their country.Before doing so we will admit frankly that all things point to a change of government and the return to power of an administration dismissed for inaction just five years ago.It is not just a policy of laisser faire, the classic name of \u201cfairly lazy,\u201d or rather a policy of despair when we turn from one to the other in a lack of confidence in both.Yet among the two parties there could be selected some very able executives if we discard ail exigencies which are used in forming a Cabinet with traditional fixtures, with provincial and parochial locations, with religious and racial reasonings.Get the good men; forget the persons of no importance.Coalese on a national administration after 245 new men have been selected in the electoral ridings.Then we have the makings of a super-Privy Council.Our Senate has lost its prestige because it has become a downy bed for the down-and-out and the has-been or the thinks-he-was.By Prerogative the Prime Minister has power to make as many Privy Councillors as he would wish to call to the service of his country.A We have a policy\u2014a clear-cut policy\u2014which has been a-glimmering in this journal these many years.For election calls we have shown that we can reduce policies to a slogan attack simply because it is something ninety per cent, of the people can read as they run and understand at a glance.Ten per cent, are always just dumb or iet others do their thinking for them.By and through reading this you prove yourself among the intelligent and thoughtful.The \u201cdumb\u201d neither read nor think of public problems.To adorn a tale told, probably just to give a broad hint of the men whom the two political Leaders could conscript for this saving of Canada we select a few names from the list of Public Men who have served and who \u201ccan serve again with all the prestige of the Good Name they have, or the reverence which they have left behind them.These are all men of the broad outlook which only public experience can give.Let us first nominate as a body corporate or as an administrative body: Hon.W.L.Mackenzie King, Prime Minister.Hon.R.B.Bennett, President of the Privy Council.These gentlemen could be called upon to enter a Privy Council of Administration, as holders ol portfolios, or without.Here are the Ten Problems w'hich must be solved without any further delay; and without fractious partizan feeling: 1.\t\u2014The Railway Situation.2.\t\u2014Stabilization of International Exchange and Money Values.A workable trading agreement with our Foreign Creditors.3.\t\u2014Mobilization of Frozen Assets.4.\t\u2014Re-construction of our Industrial System.5.\t\u2014Re-construction of our Agricultural Industry., 6.\t\u2014Shall we Cease Gambling in Wheat?7.\t\u2014Refunding of all Bonds at low interest rates.8.\t\u2014Shall our Provinces be allowed to Dictate to the Federal Government?9.\t\u2014Can Business in Canada be carried on successfully under Government regulation?10.\u2014Emergency measures for a mad world.That is the agenda, all of inter-twining interest, and beyond which all other problems are of infantile consequence.These are the Big Questions for our Big Men.Con this list.Most of them are household words to the people.You may find many good men not recorded through oversight.But you do find a Supreme Council of Wisdom and Experience, men who have arrived, who are loyal and true to their country and who are above petty politics, \u201cthe curse of the country.\u201d There are also members of the present Federal Cabinet, some of whom might be considered eligible; others not.We invite your careful look over these names, from whom could be constructed a Great Business Government at an invitation Conference, and from which might be erected a Standing Committee, or as our Yankee friends call it, a Brain Trust.We need that, and we require it quickly.We invite all our subscribers and the public-spirited men of Canada to convey their views to The Editor, and to suggest other names, and why.There is no man of us who does not wish to serve Canada.No political party alone can solve these problems.No verdict can be given in an electoral submission by partizans.His Majesty's Privy Council: lit.Hon.W.L.Mackenzie King, Prime Minister.Rt.Hon.Richard B.Bennett, President of Privy Council.Prime Ministers of Provinces: Hon.Thomas D.PattuHo, Premier British Columbi».Hon.John Bracken, Premier of Manitoba.Hon.O, L.McPherson, Prembier of Alberta.Hon.James G.Gardiner, Premier of Saskatchewan.Hon.Mitchell F.Hepburn, Premier of Ontario, Hon.Alexander L.Taschereau, Premier of Quebec.Hon.William J.P.MacMillan, Premier of Prince Edward Island.Hon.Angus L.MacDonald, Premier of Nova Scotia.Hon.Leonard P.D.Tilley, Premier of New Brunswick.Present Privy Council Members: Rt.Hon.Sir Lyman P.Duff, P.C., Chief Justice Supreme Court of Canada.The Rt.Hon.Sir Robert L.Borden, P.C.The Rt.Hon.Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, P.C.The Hon.Sir A.B.Aylesworth, P.C.The Rt.Hon.Sir Thomas White, P.C, The Rt.Hon.Sir George H.Perley, P.C.The Hon.Sir Henry L.Drayton, P.C.The Rt, Hon.Arthur Meighen, P.C.Hon.Arthur C.Hardy, P.C.Hon.Eugene Paquet, P.C.Rt.Hon.George P.Graham, P.C.Hon.Raoul Dandurand, P.C.Hon.Henri S.Behind, P.C.Hon.Charles Mancil, P.C.Hon.Pierre E.Blondin, P.C.Hon.Henry H.Stevens, P.C.Hon.William R.Motherwell, P.C.Hon.James Murdock, P.C, Hon.John L.Chabot, P.C.Hon.Donald Sutherland, P.C, Hon.Ernest Lapointe, P.C.Horn Rodolphe Lemieux, P.C.Hon.John E.Sinclair, P.C.Hon.Charales V.Massey, P.C.Hon.Charles A.Dunning, P.C.Hon.William D.Euler, P.C.Hon.James Malcolm.P.C.Hon.James L, Ralston, P.C.Hon.Ian A.MacKenzie, P.C.Hon.Thomas Ahearn, P.C.Hon.Cyrus MacMillan, P.C.Hon.Lucien Cannon, P.C.Hon.S.C* MeWburn, P.C.A National Business Government Sir Robert FYilconer, K.C.M.G., President, University of Toronto.Sir Joseph Flavelle, Bart., President National Trust Co.Sir Charles Gordon, K.B.E., President Bank of Montreal.Hon.Walter G.Mitchell, K.C.F.E.Meredith, K.C.Hon.A.J.Brown, K.C.Samuel J.Moore, Esq., President Bank of Nova Scotia.Joseph E.Perrault, K.C., Minister of Roads, Quebec.Reford Stewart, Esq., Construction Contractor.W.G.Gooderham, Esq., President Bank of Toronto.Henry E.Rawlings, Esq., President Guarantee Co.of North America.Sir Thomas Tait, Kt., LL.D,, Executive Director.Hon.James Lyons, Esq., Supplies Distributor.R.Home Smith, E«q,, President Algoma Consolidated.Major R.H.B.Ker, Vice-President Associated Breweries of Canada.Hon.Patrick Burns, Western Packer.Hon.Henri Bourassa, Statesman.Sir Frederick Williams Taylor.Major-General James H.MacBrien.Sir John A.Aird, President Canadian Bank of Commerce.E.W.Beatty, K.C., President Canadian Pacific Railway.S.J.Hungerford, Esq., President Canadian National Railways.J.Greetham de Lorimier, K.C., Economist-Corporation Counsel.Hon.Robt.C.Matthews, Esq., P.C.Investment Banker.Arthur Surveyer, Esq., C.E., Efficiency Engineer.C.H.Carlisle, Esq., President The Dominion Bank.Leighton McCarthy, K.C., President Canada Life Assur.Dr.A.B.Singleton, Esq., Western Oil Expert.Aime Geoffrion, Esq., K.C., Corporation Counsel.A.R.Whittall, Esq., Chairman Quality Canners, Ltd.Ross H.McMaster, Esq., President The Steel Company of Canada.Rt.Hon.Lord Atholstan, LL.D.Albert R.Carman, Esq., Editor, Montreal Daily Star.J.W.McConnell, Esq., President Canada Sugar Refinery.Paul F.Sise, Esq., President Northern Electric Co.Col.the Hon.H.Cockshutt, LL.D., President Cockshutt Plow Co.E.R.Wood, Esq., President Central Canada Loan and Savings Co.Charles F.Sise, Esq., President Bell Telephone Co.of Canada.Denton Massey, Esq., B.Sc., President Massey-Harris Co.Professor Stephen Leacock, LL.D., McGill University.Frank A.Rolpb, Esq., President Imperial Bank of Canada.R.Y.Eaton, Esq., President T.Eaton Company.Frank Bauslaugh, Esq., President Agnew-Surpass Shoe Stores.H.E.Sellers, Esq., President The Alberta Pacific Grain Company.Colonel Robert F.Massie, D.S.O., President Asbestos Corporation.Lewis J.Seidens-ticker, Esq., President Atlantic Sugar-Refineries, Limited.Beaudry Leman, Esq., C.E., President Banque Nationale Canadienne.Sir George J.Garneau, LL.D., President Garneau Limited, John S.Norris, Esq., President, Beauharnois Power Corporation, Limited.H.R.MacMillan, Esq., President British Columbia Packers, Limited.William M.'Weir, Esq,, President\tCanada Foundaries _ and Forgings, Limited.Norman Mackenzie, Esq., K.C., Counsel, Canada Permanent Mortgage Corporation.James A.Richardson, Esq.President\tCanadian Airways, Ltd.A.0.Dawson, Esq., LL.D., President\tCanadian Cottons.Arthur B.Purvis, Esq., ^President Canadian Industries.W.M.Archibald, Esq., ¦ President Coast Copper Co.G.H.Duggan, Esq., President Dominion Bridge Co.Harry E.Sellers, Esq., President Federal Grain, Ltd.Frank S.Meighen, Esq., C.M.G., President Lake of the Woods Milling Company, Limited.Geo.Caverhill, Esq., President Montreal Loan and Mortgage Company.Alexander Fasken, Esq.President Nipissing Mines Co.W.W.Near, Esq., President Page-Hersey Tubes, Ltd.N.A.Timmins, Esq.Chairman, St.Lawrence Corporation Limited.D.B.Hanna, Esq., President Western Canada Flour Mills Company, Limited, C.E.Gravel, Esq., Bank Director.A.O.Dawson, Esq., President Belding-CorticelH, Ltd.Janies B.Woodyatt, Esq., President Southern Canada Power Company, Limited.W.G.Mun-in, Esq., President, British Columbia Power Corporation.Ltd.Colonel Charles W.MacLean, Company Director.T.G.Meredith, Esq., K.C., President\tThe Canada Trust Company.C.W.Band, Esq.President\tCanadian Bakeries, Limited.Victor M.Drury, Esq., Investment Banker.A.R.Dufresne, Esq., Director, Canadian Dredge ana Dock Co.Limited.James J.Warren.Esq.President\tThe Consolidated Mining &\tSmelting Co.of Canada, Ltd.C.W.Sherman, Esq., President, Dominion Foundaries and Steel, Limited.G.Harrison Smith.Esq.President Imperial Oil, Ltd.J.H.Fortier, Esq., President.P.T.Legare Co., Ltd.Norman J.Dawes.Esq.President National Breweries Limited.T.Bradshaw.Esq., President North American Life Assurance Company.J.P.Black, Esq., Director Penmans, Ltd.A.L.Ellsworth.Esq., President Service Station, Limited.T.B.Macaulay, Esq., Chairman Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada.Col.J.B.Maclean, Magazine Publisher.William R.Bawlf, Esq., Grain Dealer.G.A.Guherty.Esq., President Calgary Power Company, Ltd.«f- WILL PROBE BRITISH ARMAMENT FIRMS.London, Dec.21.\u2014 Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald announced today in the House of Commons that a Royal Commission would be set up to inquire into activities of British armament firms.The Prime Minister did not reveal the personnel' of the Gonmiission nor the scope of the inquiry.-\u2014-£ Hon.W.A*.Black, P.C., Brandram-Henderson, Ltd.J.A.Kilpatrick, Esq., President Canada Iron Foundaries, Limited.W.M.Wilson, Esq., President Royal Bank of Canada.W.L.Bayer, Esq., President Canadian Bronze Co., Ltd.P.A.Thompson, Esq., Director Canadian Celanese Co., Ltd.T.H.McWilliam, Esq., Director The Canadian Fairbanks-Morse Co.Ltd.Paul J.Myler, Esq., Chairman Canadian 'Westing-house Company, Ltd.L.J.Belnap, Esq., President Consolidated Paper Corporation, Ltd.Maj.-Gen.Sir Newton* J.Moore, K.C.M.G., President Dominion Steel and Coal Corp., Limited.David Caldwell Patterson, Esq., Chairman Imperial Tobacco Co.of Canada, Limited, Marland Woolnough, Esq., Chairman National Grocers Co.Limited.W.A.Black, Esq., President The Ogilvie Flour Mills Company, Limited.Col.John H.Price, President Price Brothers & Co.R.S.Law, Esq., President United Grain Growers, H.G, Smith, Esq., Chairman Mercury Mills, Limited.Floyd S.Chalmers, Esq., Editor The Financial Post.William G.Beatty, Esq., President Beatty Bros.Limited.W.M.Messecar, Esq., President The Brantford Cordage Co., Ltd.J.D.Johnson, Esq., President Canada Cement' Corporation, Ltd.J.S.McLean, Esq., President Canada Packers, Ltd.W.S.Fallis, Esq., Chairman The Sherwin-Williams Co.of Canada, Limited.Herbert Horsfall, Esq., President Canada Wire Co., Ltd.Avern Pardoe, Esq., President Canadian Canners.J.Harvey Roy, Esq., President Canadian Converters\u2019 Co.Ltd.A.E.Dyment.Esq., Chairman Canadian General Electric Co.Ltd, A.Bienvenu, Esq., President Catelii Macaroni Products, Corp., Ltd.W.R.Wilson, Esq., President The Crow\u2019s Nest Pass Coal Co.Ltd.W.R.Aird, Esq., President Eastern Dairies, R S.McLaughlin, Esq., Director The International Nickel Co.of Canada, Ltd, J.A.Burns.Esq., President The Monarch Knitting Co.Ltd.Robert J.Magor, Esq., Chairman National Steel Car Corp., Ltd.WL Wallace Jones, Esq., President Ontario Steel Products Co.Ltd.Chas.G.de Tonnancour, Esq.President The Regent Knitting Mills, Ltd.Charles L.Burton, Esq., President Simpsons, Limited.Emile Chaput, Esq., Managing director Viau Biscuit Corp.Ltd.W.H.Miner, Esq.President and Director.Harry Vilas, Esq., President Vilas Mfg.Co.R.C.Wilkins, Esq- President Wilkins Mfg.Co.C.B.Howard, Esq.M.P., President B.C.Hownrd Lumber Co.Harry B.Muir, Esq., Kingston Whig-Standard.Robert J.Cromie, Esq., Vancouver Sun Editor.Hon.Jacob Nicol, K.C., Statesman, HUGE INCREASE EVEN PACIFIST MCDONALD GIVES IN PRICES FOR BP HOPE FOR REAL WORLD PEACE NFW WAR^HSPS CIaVTinSnTirne Has Not Yet Arrived when \u201cWe Can Beat IIL îï f I nlUJlill 0 Our Swords into Plough-Shares,\u201d Celebrated Friend of High Hopes for World Peace Today Presented Pessimistic Views Declares British Policy of Disarmament by Example Has Done Nothing to Promote Goodwill\u2014 Despite Great Sacrifices of World War, Few if Any Causes of international Troubles Have Been Removed.Price Doubled in Past Year\u2014DuPont Powder Company Made No Less than $228,731,000 Profits from 1915 to 1918 Inclusive.Washington, Dec.21.\u2014A sweeping inquiry into what chairman j-erald Nye called \u201camazing increases\u2019\u2019 in recent costs of warships wao ordered^ today by United States Senate munitions investigators.They said they wanted to determine if there had been \u201ccollusion\u201d in bidding.The investigators said they had evidence that bids of private companies for the construction of naval destroyers doubled between the fall of 1933 and the fall of 1934.Meanwhile Pierre Du Pont, of the Delaware munitions firm, called for \u201cexhaustive study by the wisest\u201d rvinds to devise a practicable plan to eliminate excess profits in wartime.He said the Du Pont Company already was on record as favoring such elimination.Calling for a study now \u201cto avoid hasty and inefficient measures later,\u201d he told the Associated Press: \u201cThe regulation of war time profits must apply to every business and every individual.It must not impair the efficiency, productivity and inventiveness of American industry.\u201d Although the committee had intended to bring up the question of warship costs in public hearing today.it put the matter off till after the holidays to make a more detailed inquiry.Investgators said data gathered by their agents showed that in the fall of 1933 the low bid on a certain cruiser type was $8,000,000, but that a year later it was $16,000,000 for virtually the same ship.They said increased costs would not account for the doubled price.The committee planned to conclude today its inquiry into the War Department\u2019s ideas for industrial mobilization in time of war.It sought to show the plan would result in \u201cregimentation of labor.\u201d The current inquiry into the Du Pont .Powder Company, which has j occupied four, weeks, was concluded yesterday with evidence that the i concern made $228.731,000 profits ! from 1915 to 1918, inclusive.JOHN BULL WILL RUSH PLANS FOR AERIAL.DEFENCE To Complete R.A.F.Expansion Programme in Two Instead of Five Years, Indicating Britain Takes Serious View of Present State of Affairs.L ondon, Dec.21.\u2014Internationally known as a pacifist and advocate of disarmament, Prime Minister J.Ramsay MacDon-aid was on record today in favor of more ships and guns and planes with which to protect Great Britain and the Empire.Claiming that the time has not yet arrived when \u201cwe can bcac onr swords into plough-shares,\u201d the celebrated friend of high hopes ior world peace stated his pessimistic views in an article entitled, Peace and Defence\u201d in the fortnightly review, \u201cNews Letter.\u201d Persons who speak of armaments as \u201cinsurance\u201d come nearer the truth than they realize, MacDonald said.\u201cWe do not insure ourselves against fire in the belief that fire will thereby be averted, hut that when fire comes our loss will bo covered, so far as possible/\u2019 I he article began with the statement that in spite of the sacrifices of the past generation this one has not found the way to peace, the late wai having removed none of the old \u201csulkiness, nor the bitter revenge-menace of beaten states, nor provided any security for the victorious ones.Avowing a policy widely at variance with the one he has long cham- CANADIAN SANTA CLAUS ARRIVES IN ENGLAND London, Dec.21.\u2014 Old St.Nicholas arrived at Southampton last night from Saint John, bringing with him three thousand bags of Christmas mail from Canada.Accompanying Kris Kringle ! aboard the Canadian Pacific ; liner Duchess of Richmond were ; twenty-three Belgian tobacco growers from Norfolk County, Ont., who are going to their homeland to pay a holiday visit.Some of them have not been 1 home for twenty years.The ship also carried a cargo I of 4,500 boxes of apples, which 1 soon wall make their appear-: ance in Christmas fruit baskets ' on tables throughout the United ! Kingdom.pioned, the Prime Minister wrote: \u201cDisarmament by example ha« been proved in the present state of international opinion to be no contribution to peace.When the last British ship is off the sea and the last British bomber has accomplish-' ed its last flight and Britain has exhausted its efforts to disarm the world by example, peace will be as far ofif as ever and Great Britain\u2019s contribution to establishing it will be nil.\u201d ARYSSIN1A AND ITALY AROUSED OVER DISPUTE *- URGES BRITAIN TO BUILD UP A STRONGER ARMY Tilt Over Border Incident Takes Serious Turn\u2014Abyssinia Has Sent Second Note to League of Nations Charging Italy with ression.Halifax, Dec.21.\u2014 Hunters in Nova Scotia killed 212 more moose this season than they did in 1933, figures released by the Department of Lands and Forests show.In the season just closed 1.273 moose and 1,326 deer were shot.In 1933 hunters bagged 1,216 deer.#-& I THE WEATHER LOCAL SNOW.The severe storm has passed east of Labrador but gales continue in Newfoundland.Pressure is relatively high over Quebec and on the Atlantic coast and in the far western states but low on the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley, with a depression in British Columbia.Light snowfalls have occurred in Manitoba and in some parts of Quebec and Ontario.The weather has become colder east of the Great Lakes but continues mild in southern Alberta.Forecast :\tModerate easterly winds with snow today and part of Saturday; not much change in temperature.Northern New England: Cloudy, probably snow in the south portion tonight and Saturday; Not much change in temperature.Temperatures yesterday: Maximum, 33; minimum.20.Same day last year; Maximum, 25; minimum, 8.London, Dec.21.\u2014Last summer the British Government announced plans to strengthen the Royal Air Force, making it the equal'of any force within \u201cstriking distance,\u201d in a period of five years.But the recent statement of Stanley Baldwin on the actual programme indicates the work will be completed within two years.In part, annroval has been given to completion of a very substantial part of the entire pro-pramme by 1936, indicating the British Government takes a serious view of the present state of affairs.By March, 1937, the end of the 1936 fiscal year, the Royal Air Force will comprise 118 squadrons, British first-line strength will be about 1,450 airplanes, and the personnel will be increased by 800 officers and 5,000 men.In the years 1935 and 1936, twenty-two new squadrons will be formed for home defence and three squadrons will be added to the strength of the Fleet Air Arm.Four new spuadrons are forming this year.By the end of 1936 the British air strength as measured in first-line aircraft will be increased by approximately three hundred over the present figure of 880, which comprises 560 machines at present stationed at home or with the Fleet Air Arm and the aircraft of numerous units scattered in three continents overseas, Mr.Baldwin revealed that since July move than ninety sites for new aerodromes have been surveyed in ninteen different counties.Sites for eleven new stations have been finally selected; of those eleven, six have been acquired or are in process of acquisition.Plans for altering or increasing about forty of the existing stations are well advanced.At some places work has already begun.Substantially more aircraft and aero engines will be ordered next year than in 1934.More flying personnel are wanted: Mr.Baldwin stated that an additional flying training school had been opened, and that another will be opened in April.1035.The number of short-service officers is being augmented and the annual entry of pilots in civil life who are directed to the Air Force reserve will be about one hundred per cent, greater in 1935 than this year The entry of aircraft apprentices to the training station at Halton will he doubled in January.The Lord President paid tribute' to the high efficiency and the un Minister of War in Agreement with Lord Ampthill\u2014If He Had Unlimited Funds Would Be \u201cVery Glad\u201d to See Militia Resuscitated.London, Dec.21.\u2014-Lord Ampthill demanded in the House of Lords last night that Great Britain\u2019s militia be built up to the point \u201cwhere it would be an effective reserve force.\u201d \u201cEurope has been rearming while we have been disarming,\u201d exclaimed Lox-d Ampthill.\"Nothing except a state of military preparedness can give us an effective voice in the councils of Europe.\u201cSo long as we maintain an army at all we must envisage the possibility of that army going to war and an army without a reserve is not an effective instrument of war,\u201d he declared.\u201cI believe that in the event of war our army would be useless unless the militia is reconstituted.\u201d The Minister of War, Lord Hails-ham arose to say that he was in agreement with Lord Ampthill and added that if he had unlimited funds for army purposes he would be \u201cvery glad\u201d to see the militia resuscitated.Geneva, Dee.21.\u2014The dispute between Italy and Abyssinia over responsibility for clashes between Abyssinia and Italian Somaliland assumed, increasingly alarming proportions yesterday.Emperor Haile Selassie\u2019s Government sent the League of Nations a second communication, reiterating charges of \u201cItalian aggression\u201d and accusing Italy of illegal occupation of Abyssitlmw territory.The protest charged that Italian troops stationed at Ualual, near the border, opened fire on an Abyssinian detachment without provocation.The attack, it said, menaced members of an International Boundary Commission and brought forth a protest from the British Commissioner.Italian reports said that thirty-five Italians and 110 Abyssinians were killed or injured in the encounter.Rome blamed the Abyssinians for inciting the attack.The protest to the League of Nations accused an Italian army officer of giving the signal for an attack by a blast on his whistle.\u201cSuddenly,\u201d it said, \u201cairplanes .dropped bombs, and a tank fired 1 machine gune.The Abyssinian machine guns were still under cover and not in battle positions.AH officers and soldiers with the exception of sentries were in their tents.\u2019 Two clashes between Italian and Abyssinian border forces along the undefined frontier between Abyssinian and Italian Somaliland have been the subject of controversy in the past two months.The first encounter, in which an Italian Consular Guard was killed and two injured brought representations from Rome and a demand for indemnities and apologies.The Government of Emperor Haile Selassie I complied.The later and more serious skirmish occurred at Ualual, claimed by both Italy and Abyssinia.A protest Vatican City Dec °1_____A Christ fro™ Premier Mussolini\u2019s Govern- mns truce in \"the Chaco war as\"a j Tjj- 01},t¥s occasion elicited from preliminary to a definite cessation; ^\u2018-a)5a a\t^\t1 of hostilities is beir,___ z' n- o_______ corresnondine weeks durinsr the\ti \u2022 i\tn\t.T\t.\t^\t, shop at Keeler & Cross Store \u2014 Low overhead, coupled ; with volume \u2014 make it pos- j sible to sell at prices that ; defy competition.THE \u201cZEPHYR\u201d Seas that Swept Ocean for Past Ten Days\u2014Collier Sever ance, Earlier Reported in Distress, Slowly Making Way to Boston\u2014Largest Ocean Liners Delayed in Reaching Ports.\t4 I n If you warn a good-looking radio at a low price\u2014and one that will bring in European as well as domestic broadcasts \u2014 you should see and hear 25SD.It will change your ideas on what can be bought in a radio for well under SLOO.OO.The cabinet is graceful and modem with its stream-lined effect.The 5-tube chassis contains the latest ideas in efficient circuits designed for good local and long-distance reception.The dear-vision dial and slow ratio Vernier control are great aids in New York, Dec.21.\u2014Savage; storms which for ten days whipped j the North Atlantic into a deathdealing tumult flung a dying gesture of defiance at shipping today.Strong winds and heavy seas continued to slow up trans-Atlantic vessels, but the great force of the storms had been spent and more moderate weather over the Atlantic was forecast.Twenty-one lives were given up to ravaging seas as gales battered BOTH PARTIES PREPARED FOR GREAT BATTLE corresponding weeks during the past two years.The clearings for the week ending yesterday totalled $720,723.74, an increase of $143,-709.21 over the same period in 1933, and higher by $136,093.88 than the total of $584,641.86 recorded for the week ending December 22, 1932.which Came Second in London-to-Melbourne Air Derby \u2014Scout Planes of British Royal Air Force Found Charred Remains of \u201cFlying Hotel\u201d in Desolate Spot of Iraq Desert\u2014Narrow Gorges Made Forced Landing Almost Certain Death.HONOR PUPILS AT DUDLEY\u2019S BUSINESS SCHOOL In the half year\u2019s examinations in j shorthand at Dudley\u2019s Business ; School, Miss Pearl Coombs headed 'the list with ninety-eight and one-! I fifth per cent., receiving the annual | ; prize of a shorthand and English \\ ! dictionary.Earle Douglas was a j dose second with ninety-seven and ocean-going vessels since the storms Selection of J.Earl Lawson, M.P.one-fifth per cent; Miss Dorothy -x__l-j ey______x____\t________ 7\tI W/qtTc t7\\1 Irvurino* ivirn mnor started.Seventeen men were lost when the British freighter Usworth foundered, two men were swept from the Japanese freighter Victoria Maru, while the Orient liner Orford and the Norwegian freighter Gard each reported they had lost a man overboard in mountainous seas.The collier Severance, with a crew of forty-one, made her way siowly to Boston today after winning a bitter battle against a gale-swept sea off the Long Island coast south of Fire Island Light.Unable to proceed because of a damaged , nr v .\t\u201e\t, i Watts following with ninety-seven tor nest lork, as Urgamzer and one-tenth per cent.Latest Step to Put Conservative The special examination type-m i \u2022\t¦ ,\tr- i \u2022 t .written transcription of a dictated Machine into Fighting Trim ' Elsie Gilby headed ALL PROVINCES ASKED TO RAISE WORK STANDARD Ottawa, December 20.\u2014 In a sort of pre-sessional lull which now seems to prevail in political affairs quiet plans are being laid for the general election of 1935.The selection of J.Earl Lawson.M.P.West York, as Dominion or- letter, was closely contested.Miss tne list with ganizer for the Conservative party ^______ ________ __ _ _______d__is only one of a series of steps be- rudder, the Severance sent out a call : iOR taken by Prime Minister R.B ninety-nine and one-half per cent., followed by Mr.Earle Douglas with ninety-eight per cent,, and Miss Bernice Glass with ninety-five per cent.; while the remaining pupils showed high averages.The Bookkeeping Examinaton will be held next Easter.QUOTED EXTRACTS FROM IMMORTAL FRENCH WRITERS .\t,\t_ \u201e .Gil Roland\u201d, Parisian actor at the country in fighting trim._\t! present under a six-month contract A committee of the cabinet has j m .Montreal delighted a large au-been working on organization plans ;dience last night when he ably quot-for some time, and when the date | ed extracts from the works of im-of the election is announced, whe-1 mortal French writers at a literary fher it is in the spring, summer or j evening held at the City Hall under under her own power and early to-i^E\u2018-> .a well-oiled vote getting jthe auspices of L\u2019Alliance Française, day resumed\ther\tjourney\tto\tBoston i *nachine will be in the field.\tj The fact that Mr.Roland has pre- with\tthe\tChamplain\ttrailing\ther.\ti The Liberal party has also been ; viously been seen in Sherbrooke .\t\u2022 The fishing trawler Widgeon, ' actlYe- In t5le National Liberal Fed-'both on the stage and on the screen; shtff out all goods coming into which had asked coast guard assist-i e,rat\u2018?n 'R ^as.a sort of permanent'rendered his performance last even- fcr help to which the coast guard j ®enlLe^ and his colleagues to put; cutter Champlain responded.Three Conservative forces throughout; times the Champlain tried to get a towing line on board the Severance but each time it snapped as the collier wallowed in the heavy seas.Finally the Severance repaired her rudder sufficiently to proceed British Columbia Premier Declares Co-operation Should Be Shown in Fight to Maintain Fair Wages and Reasonable Hours of Work.Victoria, Dec.21.be critical, those in other provinces who want to do business in British Columbia should comply with conditions no more onerous to them than to producers in the province, declared Premier T.D.Pattullo, of British Columbia, in a statement answering critics of the Coast Government\u2019s effort to maintain fair wages and reasonable- hours of work.Premier Pattuilo\u2019s statement, issued yesterday, was in reply to producers in other provinces of Canada who, he declared, interpreted British.Columbia\u2019s efforts as a plan ! this province in competition while ance*when she became disab\u2019ed 109 e\u20191\u20acSmall, WHO went to the father, John M.btttr, who OM called tiny craft\u2019s assistance when she wa home December 21«t, 191», at Aecot Corner, a full day overdue.Her entire sm.t Replacement of Reichsbishop Ludwig Mueller by Leader of Dissident Churchmen Believed to Be Basis of Compromise.Berlin, Dec.21.\u2014Healing of the schism which has split the German Evangelical Church wide open since the advent of Chancellor Adolf Hitler was rumored today as likely to he consummated by Christmas.Working in the Yuletide atmosphere, leading German churchmen were said to be nearing an understanding on the differences which resulted largely from the attempt of the state to bring the church under control of the state.The approaching settlement was said to provide for removal of Reichsbishop Ludwig Mueller and by Dr.August between the cast of Palestine Baghdad, is a desolate one.Sharp ridges rise out of great stretches of sandy desert, crisscrossed by narrow gorges which make a forced landing almost certain death.Royal Air Force fliers who know the territory well say they always | experience dangerous air currents | which rise from the sun-baked gorges.] Heavy rains, which had hindered the land search, made a landing doubly dangerous.Pilots of the ship had hoped to reach Batavia in time to deliver Christmas mail and presents to colonists.They sought to make the flight in five days, establishing a record.The plane left Cairo a few hours before the crash.British armored cars, which are at the desert station of Rutba Wells, were within striking distance of the scene of the disaster, but the heavy rain yesterday made it doubtful whether they would be able to break through immediately.Twenty-four planes from the British Royal Air Force bases at Gin-aida and Amman roared over the j desolate desert this morning, dc-I spite predictions of another violent i thunderstorm, before word came that the burned wreckage had been spotted.year's work mentioned several activities, including the St.Patrick\u2019s day concert, the Christmas Fair, the weekly teas and a sleigh drive for the young people.Mrs thanked the members splendid co-operation and good wifi,, and later feelingly referred to the ! Socialist party, brought together in long illness of Miss A.C.Murray, I Berlin the German Christian Nazi who for so many years had been the (Bishops and the leaders of the oppo-devoted treasurer of the Guild.The sition groups.his replacement Marahrens, one of the most militant of the dissident churchmen and i DUTCH REGARD CRASH AS Bishop of Hanover.A conference convoked yesterday McGivney ; by the President of East Prussia, for their ! Merich Koch, acting on behalf of the government and the National dence Sunday afternoon, December 23rd, at 2 o\u2019clock.Funeral service a*.St.Augustine\u2019s Church, Danville, a t2.30.Interment at Danville Cemetery.vote of sympathy which was recorded to Miss Murray was accompanied by best wishes for her speedy recovery.The financial statement presented by the treasurer showed the receipts for 1934 to be most satisfactory.The election of officers resulted as follows: President, Mrs.J.R.Simms; first vice-president, Mrs.M.Richardson; second vice-president, Mrs.D.J.McManamy; and secretary-treasurer, Miss Beatrice Lawrence.CHRISTMAS CHEER RESOUND- If Marahrens is elected, it is said the compromise formula would he to place Dr.Walter Kinder, head of the German Christians, beside him as juridical administrator of the church.Bishops Zaenber, of Silesia, and Schoeffel, of Hamburg, are also prominently mentioned as taking part in the new administration.Koch, who in yesterday\u2019s pourparlers as representative of the government and the Nazi party, told the conference the government wished to see religious peace re-established with the least possi blé delay.This de- wild desert country of Iraq NATIONAL CATASTROPHE Amsterdam, Dec.21.\u2014The crash of the air liner \u201cUiver\u201d in Iraq was considered a national catostrophe today in the Netherlands, which had been so proud of the plane\u2019s achievement in the Melbourne air Derby.Flags were placed at half staff and radio stations were silenced for a period as a sign of mourning.All newspapers published extras.Large crowds gathered outside the offices to read bulletins, many of the persons being visibly moved.K.D.Parmentier, who with J.M.Moll piloted the \u201cUiver\u201d in its spectacular flight to Melbourne, said he was unable to advance any possible cause for its crash in the claration, echoing as it did that of Inserted by H2S miX AND FAMILY.USED RADIOS IN MEMORIAM.In iovinsf merrjyry of our n, who d*- 1*1 'Til\ti r-\u2019 i \u2022\t!\tt'aàderuj from thSt Jl/« on December kinds, 1 able and Cabinet 121st, m2.Thifc k x i&f ot ta/J remembrance, Sets, from .$1.50 Gish $19.50uP - $1,50 Weekly.GOODS SATISFACTORV OR MONEY REFUNDED.ÎMuî and bitter to recall.When the one -wc lovH w*ub taken, By a abort and sudden call.Sediy œSaaed by HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER, MABEL Richmond, Qxut.of sails was blown from the spa-by the sou\u2019easter.The larger schooner, Shirley R ED^THROUGHOuT PLYMOUTH | Propaganda Minister Paul Goeli-yiAl l\tI bels statement last week that a There was at least one happy spot: truce was essential, was taken as in Sherbrooke last evening knd that Clearing a definite effort on was Plymouth United Church Hall,1 P- oE tne which was crowded to capacity by smiling lads and lasses of the Sun the authorities to bring about a settlement of the religious question.The plane wis the finest I ever piloted,\u201d Parmentier asserted.\u201cIt was a first class machine in nil conditions of weather and Beeknan, chief pilot of the plane, was one of the oldest fliers in the Royal A'iir Line service, He must have been over the route a number of times.\u201cAt this time of year, however, terrific thunderstorms amd sami-| storms are prevalent.In these any' ONLY $509 DOWN BUYS CHOICE OF properties at $1,000,\t$1,500,\t$3,200, $4,000, $5,500.at Edwards'.Balance very easy terms, Financial News MONTREAL OPENING AND NOON PRICES The following quotations of today's prices on the Montreal Stock Exchange are furnished by McManamy & Walsh: \tOpen\tHigh\tLow\tNoon Brasilian\t.\t10V4\tlOVi\t10%\t10 Vs Bruck Silk .\t13'A\tm;\t13%\t13V4 n.Car .» .\t.T\t7\t7\t7 Can.Cement .,\t.714\t7 Vi\t7%\t7 Vi Can.Cement Pfd\t.69ai\t59%\t59%\t59% Can.Ind.Alcohol 6\t\t6\t5/8\t5% Can.Pacific .\t\tii v;\t11%\t11% Con.Smelting .\t133%\t133%\t133\t133 Dom.Bridge .\t33\t33\t33\t33 Dom.S.& C.\t\u2022 5^3\t514\t5%\t5 % Int.Nickel .\t22%\t22%\t22%\t22% Mont.Power .\t30 Vj\t30%\t301.2\t30 Vi Nat.Breweries .\t30\t30\t29 \"g\t29% Shawinigan .\t17%\t17%\t17%\t17% Steel of Canada\t43\t43\t43\t43 T ADY'S SKIS, BOOTS, harness.Second hand.POLES AND Phone 153-W, 1 If ANTED ALL KINDS OF LIVE AND ^ dressed poultry.Highest price paid.David Dunkner, 5 & 12 St.Lawrence Market, Montreal.For Sale CIHKISTMAS TREES, 25i: UP.DELIVER-^ ed.Phone Whitaker, 649-M.TTEINTZMAN PIANO, $10-0 ; SEWING machine, $10.Phone 3 ring 6 North Hatley.OTEAM ENGINE STATIONARY, COST ^ $36, sell for $12, like new; also men\u2019s skates and boots, size 7 ; men\u2019s ski boots, size 8 ; lady\u2019ô ski boots, size 6 and skis, ail in gofrd condition.Phone 2503, s LIGHTLY USED KELVINATOR, LAST price, six monthe\u2019 guarantee.Phone 3457-M or apply 9d McManamy Street after 5 p.m.A TWATER-KENT EIGHT TUBE ELEC-trie radio, table model, complete, new condition, $58 or nearest cash offer.Roy Harrison, Bury, Que.pHRISTMAS TREES FOR SALE, ^ livered.E.C.Rose, 927r2.DE- pHRISTMAS TREES, 25c UP.DELIVER-^ ed any time.McVetty, Phone 113./CANARIES IN FULL SONG.AN IDEAL ^ Christmas gift.Mrs.M.Sarrasin, Len- noxville.Phone 34-J.For Sale or Exchange TJIVU EE-CONDITIONED BATTERY radio sets with tubes.Priced from $10 up to $65.Would exchange for grain, hay, 33x4 tires, tools, or what have you?For particulars write to Roy Harrison, Bury, Que.Hairdresser NEW YORK QUOTATIONS The following quotations of today\u2019s prices on the New York Stock Exchange are furnished by McManamy & Walsh: \tOD\u20acn\tHigh\tLow\tNoon Allied Chemical\t130\t130\t130\t130 Æm.Can\t\t107\t107 Vi\t107\t107 Vi Am.Sugar .\t66 H\t66\t65%\t66 Am.Smelting\t36%\t36%\t36%\t36% Am.T.& T .\t102\t102\t101%\t101% Anaconda Coryper\t10%\t11\t10%\t11 Atchison .\t63%\t63%\t68%\t53% Balti.& Ohio .,\t13%\t13%\t13%\t13% Beth.Steel .,\t20%\t29\u2019%\t29%\t29% Can.Pacific .ChesapeaKe\t11%\tnu\t11%\t11V* & Ohio\t\t43%\t4 3 Vo\t43%\t43 H Chrysler .\t38%\t3 3 Vs\t38%\t38% Com.Solvente .\t21%\t21%\t21 Vs\t21 Vi Con go ley m Co.\t33\t33\t32%\t32% Du Pont \t\t931,4\t9314\t981%\t93% General Electric .\t19%\t19%\t19%\t19% General Motors .\t30%\t30%\t30%\t30% Inter.Uarveater\t38\t83\t37%\t38 Kennecott .\t.\t16%\t16%\t151/2\t16% N.Y.Central .\t20%\t20%\t20%\t20% Sears Roebuck .\t38%\t39\t88%\t39 Stand.Oil of N.J.\t41%\t41%\t41 V;s\t41 Vi South.Pacific .\t17%\t7 7 Vu\t17%\t17% Texas Gulf Sul.\t32%\t32%\t32%\t32% Texas Oil Corp.\t19%\t20\t19%\t20 Union Pacific \u201e\t106 %\t106%\t106 Vi\t106% United Aircraft .\t13%\t13%\t13%\t13% U.S.Ind.AIco.\t42%\t42 Vi\t42%\t42% U.S.Smelting ,\t120\t3 20 %\t120\t120%.U.S.Steel .\t36%\t36%\t36%\t36% U.S.Rubber .,\t16% 16%\t\t16%\t15% TYUCHESS BEAUTY PARLOR.15a PEEL St.Permanent waving done by experts ; Marcel, 25c : Komel scalp treatment, etc.Course given in hairdressing.Phone 2896-W.BUSINESS DIRECTORY Advocates yiTELLS & LYNCH, ADVOCATES, GRAN-ada Theatre Building.JMJGG, MIGNAULT.HOLTHAM AND Grundy advocates, McManamy & Waisb Building, 70 Wellington St.N.Phone 1089.TORN P.WOLFE, B.A\u201e B.C.L.Q.C.R.Building, Wellington St.North.LBERT RIVARD, B.A.L.L.L.ADVO-L cate.70 Wellington St.N.Tel.218.ASHTON R.TOBIN.ADVOCATE, Rosenbloom\u2019s Bldg.66 Wellington St.North.Phone 623.Auctioneer R.M DEMERS, AUCTIONEER.DIS.ST.Francis.Bedford.Sherbrooke.Ph.1005, Chartered Accountants & c o.pDNEY, AR MITAGE Trustees in Bankruptcy.Sherbrooke Trust Building, Sherbrooke.Certified Accountants T U- BRYCE, C.P.A.C.G.A.AUDITOR, U \u2018 186 Quebec St.Sherbrooke.Tel.1308.Engineers and Surveyors U P- DUBUC, B.A.Sc., GRAD.ENGI-* neer, Quebec Land Surveyor.Rear.Pat* *nf A tty 4 Wei St.8.Sherbrooke.Bell Tel.Ccrkum, out of Lurvenburg, report- day School who came to greet jolly ed to the schooner R.B.Rennettjoid Santa Claus and to take part in ! numbers, songs, recitations, dia yesterday afternoon that she was the annual Christmas festival.i logues and short plays, these being | r^:\"\t\\ drifting in distress off Halifax.The; The large hall presented a truly given by the different departments ( \u201er) the An-HmUnn flight Moll R.B.Bennett stood with her as long, festive appearance with its gay coi- under the direction of their super-\t'\t® as possible in mountainous seas but ored streamers, cheery decorations ! intendents.Mr.Thomas F.L, Co- and brightly-lighted Christmas tree.1 boon was in charge of this part of The evening\u2019s proceedings began , the entertainment, and welcomed th IN MEMORIAM.parted her company in the gale.The Roya! Canadian Mounted Police cutter Fleur de Lis steamed out of Halifax harbor last evening in search of the distressed craft and later reported to shore radio stations that everything was now a ' shortly after six o\u2019clock, when_ the different departments, to the strains of a stirring march, made their way to the dining rooms.The presence! guests in a very happy manner.At the conclusion of the programme Rev.Dr.Ellery Read expressed the thanks of all for the very enjoyable of a number of friends and parents [ evening which the different commit- .evieg memory *f Irtt*\tj right aboard the Shirley B.Corkum of the young people greatly enhanc-1 tees and performers had given them r.who eft in on Dtmmbmt 2îr,«I.JM3.\t.1.\t\u201ei,< v.,.vi.4»\t.\t\u201e\u201e\t.\t.»\t».?h single string man of the week with a score of 231.and L.Bourguignon annexed three string honors with an aggregate of 634, G.Mathieu\t\t162\t172\t152\u2014436 G.Lemay .\t\t212\t154\t214\u20145S0Î A.Bilodeau\t\t2 OS\t219\t171\u201459S B.Beaudïy\t\t211\t232\t144 -557( Total \t\t\t 918 CLOTHIERS\t\t915\t871-2704 ' R.Robillard\t\t166\t197\t141\u2014504 G.Vallee .\t.\t143\t107\t181\u2014431 H.Asselin .\t.\t\t162\t193\t138\u2014493 A.Magfuire\t.\t164\t139\t201\u2014504 R.Couture .\t\t176\t211\t195\u2014582 Total \t\t,,, \t\t811\t817\t856-2514 Frontenacs\twon three\tstrings.\t\t The final standing of\t\tthe\tteams\tfor the : first half of\tthe schedule follows:\t\t\t \tP.\tW\tL.\tPintail Chateau .\t\t27\t23\t4\t22,407 Boswell\u2019s .\t\t27\t22\t5\t23,496 Frontenacs .\t\t27\t22\t5\t23,002 J.M.Nault\t\t27\t17\t10\t22,222 Clothiers .\t\t27\t13\tH\t21,722 Silk Products\t.27\t11\t15\t20,197 Barbers .\t\t 27\t10\t17\t20,182 Continental .\t\t 27\t9\t13\t21,080 Bankers .\t\t 27\t6\t21\t18,487 Telegram .#\t\t* .27\t2\t25\t16,707 AMERICA\u2019S CUP UNGLERS HIDE BEHIND RULES Severely Criticized fer Ruling in Fourth Contest of 1934 Cup Series, Race Committee Makes Matters Worse by Trying to Place Blame csi British Skipper.CURLING *- CHICKEN COMPETITION TO OPEN CURLING SEASON Everything is ready today for the official opening of the playing season of 1934-35 at the Sherbrooke Curling Club tomorrow.Despite the somewhat milder weather this fall, play opens at the same time as last vear and in similar manner, chicken competitions the Saturday before Christmas providing the initial attraction.The start of tomorrow\u2019s special competition is called for two o\u2019clock.New York, Dec.21.\u2014Had the race committee been forced to disqualify either contender in the now historic fourth contest of the 1934 America\u2019s Cup series, it would have been T.0.M.Sopwith\u2019s Endeavour which would have suffered, not the United States defender, the Rainbow.In a long and complicated report to the New York Yacht Club made public last night, the Cup race committee explained why it declined to hear Sopwith\u2019s protest over two alleged fouls by the Rainbow\u2014first, tint Harold S.Vanderbilt, the Rainbow\u2019s skipper, failed to give him racing room at the start, and second, tbrt the Rainbow, the overtaking yocht, failed to respond to the Endeavour\u2019s luff after the yachts had turned the first buoy.The committee explained the fault at the disputed start hud lain with Sop with and that therefore it could not consider the Briton\u2019s later protest over the luffing incident since tne Endeavour would type had to have been disqualified prior to the start if the protest had been heard at all.At the time, the committee announced it had declined to hear Sopwith\u2019s protests because he had waited three hours after the first alleged foul and 1 3-4 hours after the second before, raising the protest flag.The rules provide the flag must be raised \u201cpromptly\u201d when an alleged foul is committed.The race committee\u2019s decision met with harsh and justifiable criticism _ from yachting sportsmen both in England and the United States.The three judges, all Americans, it was alleged, failed to give Sopwith \u201ca square deal.\u201d Their ruling created a breach in international sport relationship\u2014a break which Sopwith himself tried to heal by publicly acknowledging that inexperienced seamanship had prevented the challenger from taking the coveted \u201cmug\u201d back to England.by Hon.Michael Dwyer, Jlinister of Mines for Nova Scotia.\u201cWhere did you learn that new piece?\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s not a new piece.The piano has been tuned.\u201d min ilfliilHlKIIIHIIIIk NEW BUILDING OFFICIALLY OPENED.Halifax, Dec.24.\u2014A plant, erected by the provincial government to ! assist the gold-mining industry by j determining the proper types of machinery for treating Nova Scotia ! ore, was officially opened yesterday I GPANADA ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT TO SEE THESE TWO BIG SCREEN HITS! The Greatest Triumph of The New Favorite! MAY ROBSON in \u201cYOU CAN\u2019T BUY EVERYTHING\u2019» with Jean Parker, Lewis Stone, Wm.Bakewell.\u2014 ADDED \u2014 In All Your Lifetime, No Picture Will Give You a Greater Thrill.Kav\tLeslie FRANCIS\tHOWARD And a Cast of Thousands, in \u201cBRITISH AGENT\u201d Cartoon - News.MARITIME CLUBS COME TO PARTING OF WAYS Amherst, N.S., Dec.21.\u2014Whether the seaside provinces will have an outlawed commercial hockey league or their \u201cBig Four\u201d League teams will be in the running for the Allan Cup will be decided today in Moncton at a meeting of Maritime Hockey League officials.President James E.Wry, of the Maritime Amateur Hockey Association, put the alternative to the Moncton, Halifax, Charlottetown and Saint John clubs last Tuesday.He did not rnince matters nor did he leave it in doubt that the Marl-timer:-: were facing suspension from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association if they continued to raid western dubs for new player.;.If today\u2019s meeting decides for commercial hockey, which John Conn, Halifax, is stoutly opposing, the league will be outlawed by the Canadian Amateur Hockey %;socia- ! tion and teams will not be permitted to enter for the Allan Cup.! President Wry presumed that if the1 Maritime Hockey League was aban-; doned, the Canadian Amateur Hoc-! key Assoc'a tion would not hold the | finals in the Maritimes this winter.A.Maguire .\tCLOTHIERS.\t 167\t179\t1S2\u2014528 G.Vallee .\t\t 102\t123\t145\u2014370 H.Asselin .\t\t 191\t163\t1S9\u2014543 R.Couture ,\t.153\t183\t154\u2014495 G.Gingues .\t\t178\t231\u2014543 Total \t\t\tS31\t901-3181 i W.Taylor\tCHATEAU\t159\t156 493 I E.Taylor .\t\t225\t143\t133\u2014501 -1.Galvin .\t\t151\t167-520 E.Hoitham\t\t\t173\t203\t A.Bourguignon \t197\t\t225\t212\u2014634 Total \t\t\t 975\t851\t857-2713 Chateau won two strings, TELEGRAM.L.Whiting .\t\t 147\t\t99\t162\u2014418 R.Lacharite\t\t 124\t110\t172\u2014405 L.Mayotte .\t\t\t117\t124\t161\u2014402 G.Gosseün .\t\t 212\t196\t132\u2014510 L.Bourguignon\t187\t\t162\t169\u2014518 Total .\t.\t.\t 787\t691\t796-22S3 A.Roy .,,,\tFRONTENACS \t 131\t154\t132\u2014437 L.Pouhot .\t\t134\t141\t143\u2014118 A.Moreau .\t\t148\t234\t138\u2014521 A.Bilodeau\t\t181\t171\u2014528 B.Bee^adry .\t\t 170\t163\t150\u2014483 Total \t\t\t873\t735-2387 Telegram won two strings.SILK PRODUCTS.\t\t\t L.Griffin\t\t202\t165\t152\u2014519 A.Beauchemin \t\t 160\t\t143\t148\u2014456 A, Bousquet\t\t137\t127\u20143S9 D.Bryan .,\t\t 165\t233\t151\u2014499 L.Fontaine\t\t 161\t140\t137\u2014438 Total\t\t\t823\t773\t7X5-2311 Harlan .\tBOSWELL'S.\t\t 144\t200\t194\u2014538 Arcouette .\t\t 200\t181\t172\u2014553 Brault ., t\t.194\t214\t161\u2014569 Albert\t\t\t151\t161\u2014498 Bigonnesse .\t\t155\t165\u2014480 Total\t\t\t884\t901\t853-2618 Boswell's won three strings\t\t\t J.Marceau .\tBARBERS.\t 132\t125\t160\u2014467 P.Bilodeau .\t\t\t \t 134\t207\t143\u2014534 J.Vallerand\t\t 172\t209\t1*3- Vi F.Bergerie .\t\t 167\t157\t3 38\u2014462 H.Courchesne\t\t 146\t2 49\t151\u2014446 \t\u2014\t\u2014\t\t_ Total \t\t.- .851\t*47\t775\u20142473 L.Goyette .\tJ.M.NAULT, \t 143\t122\t153\u2014418 M, Farrell .\t\t187\t133\t172\u2014492 R.O.Gagne\t\t187\t125\t16S\u2014473 A.F'ilion .\t\t166\t154\u2014496 A.Savage .\t\t196\t180\t144-520 Total \t\t\t 889\t726\t789-2404 Nault won A.Bergeron\ttwo ctringa.BANKERS \t 115\t161\t168\u2014444 R.Smi\u2019h .\t\t 167\t145\t120\u201443* M.Berard\t\t 124\t154\t167\u2014445 A.Baron .\t\t 182\t147\t210\u2014539 A.Bifbop .\t\t ur>\t177\t168\u2014490 Total \t\t\t784\t833-2350 CONTINENTAL HOTEL\t\t\t 1*.Gagne .\t\t170\t138\u2014498 R.Deb loi* .\t\t\t 141\t149\t1 \u20ac6\u20144 56 P, Dion .\t\t 172\t3 53\t159__4*4 E.Bl*i* .\t\t 137\t101\t126- 4 J 4 L.Roy \t\t\t158\t154\u2014MB Total \t\t\t 911\t731\tr,5-S307 Bankers won two Btring-.\t\t\t A.Roy \t\tFRONTENACS \t 125\t168\t{ 190- 4*3 \tAt The\t\t BAHAMAS CLASSIC WON BY BOBBY CRUICKSHANK, Nassau, Bahamas, Dec.21\u2014Bobby Cruickshank, the wee Scot of Richmond, Va., came back to win the $5,000 British colonial open golf tournament yesterday with a score of 267 after being five down to Tony Butler at the turn of the final round.Butler, a Harlingen, Texas, professional, faltered badly oh the last since holes, going four over par and finishing in second place, a ; stroke behind Cruickshank.Third place in the sensational ; tournament that saw the course re-| cord lowered by two strokes and the : early leaders unable to stand the j torrid pace, was taken by Leo Mal-I lory of Noroton, Conn., whose 72-| hole score was 269.; PLUCKY YOUNG SPORTSMAN HAS SUCCUMBED.Chicago, December 23.\u2014\u201cDuke\u201d : O'Connor \u2014 the gamest youngster .that ever walked on crutches\u2014is dead.I His real name is Stephen J.| O'Connor, Jr,, but his friends, in-| eluding \u201cBabe\u201d Ruth, Buddy Baer, Dizzy Dean, King Levensky, Frank Hawks, Jimmy Doolittle, Jimmv | Haizlip and other notables of the ! 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