Sherbrooke daily record, 15 février 1935, vendredi 15 février 1935

[" V Established 1897.â>b?rbrnnke latlu îRworii SHERBROOKE, CANADA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1935.1 hirty-Eighth Year.UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PUN OPPOSED BY MDEPENDENT MEMBER «- DENIES EARLY BRITISH GENERAL ELECTION IS PLANNED.Henri Bourassa Declares Unemployment Insurance Would Just Add to Race of Loafers and Spongers Who Are Looking to State to Provide Them with a Living\u2014 Minister of Railways Attacks Opposition Members for \u201cPreaching Co-operation but Practising Opposition.\u201d 0 ttawa, February 15.\u2014Although only one member has announced opposition to the unemployment insurance bill, the measure provided a high political issue as debate on its second reading moved to a close in the House of Commons last night.Prime Minister It.H.Bennett will bring the debate to a close and a vote will be taken today or Monday.Mr.Bennett will set out to answer constitutional objections advanced by the Liberal Opposition.Charging Liberals with a narrow partizan outlook, lion.H.J.Manion, Minister of Railways and Canals, last night claimed they were preaching co-operation and practising opposition.They said the bill was invalid and of no use, yet they intended to support it.\u201cThe Liberal leader.Rt.Hon.W.L.Mackenzie King, claims he has always been in favor of unemployment insurance, yet he did nothing during his nine years of office to put it into effect, and is doing nothing now but putting obstacles in the way,\u2019\u2019 said Dr.Manion.\u201cIf Liberals were honest they would vote against it after the speeches they had made.\u201d Prime Minister R.B.Bennett might at times be inconsistent, Dr.Manion admitted, but at least he had the courage to set about correcting Die evils of the economic system.If the Liberals had been consistent in preaching reform, as they claimed, they had also been consistent in abstaining from practising it.Dr.Manion\u2019s attack came after®- Liberal speakers, including Hon.Ernest Lapointe, of Quebec East; Hon.J.L.Ralston, of Shoibourne-Yarmouth, and C.R.McIntosh, of North Battleford, had questioned the validity of the bill and at the same time maintained the Liberal party had always favored unemployment insurance.Col Ralston claimed the measure indicated a sudden conversion on the part of the Prime Minister on the eve of an election.Mr.Bennett had not turned Socialist, he said, but was simply suffering from \u201celec-1 ionitis.\u201d The legal argument advanced by Mi, Lapointe was to the effect that the Treaty of Versailles imposed no obligation upon Canada to enact un-i uiployment insurance which would enable the Dominion Parliament to override provincial jurisdiction.The provinces should have been approached to obtain an agreement cither to enact enabling legislation or to consent to an amendment to the British North America Act.The lone opponent of the bill was Henri Bourassa, independent member for Labelle, who said he was against it on constitutional and social grounds.He said it was another example of colonialism , a tendency to ape English legislation without regard to its suitability to conditions in Canada.Unemployment insurance would just add to the race of loafers and -pongers who were now looking to the State to provide them with a living, Mr.-Bourassa contended.The whole tendency of social legislation .-bice the war was demoralizing to the people.Many farmers in Quebec wore now losing their self-respect.They were thinking of going into bankruptcy to imitate the city bus:-ress man who took this way to ¦ -cape paying his debts.Power to refund Canadian National Railways bonds totalling $200.000,01)0 is contained in a hill which received first reading yesterday.Hon.E.N.Rhodes, Minister of Finance, explained that if maturing and callable issues were refunded at prevailing rates of interest an annual saving of about $500,000 could be effected.Strong opposition led the Government to delay pressing a resolution which provided for the collection of dues from Canadian ships for the maintenance of light-houses and buoys along the coasts of the Leeward and Bahama Islands.Shrewsbury, England, Feb.15.j \u2014Walter Elliot, Minister of i Agriculture, was definite today ! that there would be no early ] general election.! Speaking here lie gave the ! reasons why.\u201cWe are not i going to run away from our job, ! as the people before us\u2014Labor | \u2014ran away from their job,\u201d he ! declared.\u201cOur business is to govern the country and bring it through its difficulties.We were put there for that task and we intend to continue.\u201d ® \u2022 -=-* AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT TO COMBAT TOURIST GOUGING Vienna, Feb.15.\u2014Tho Prince of Wales, .whose presence in Kitzbue-hel has worked a miracle of prosperity for that Alpine winter resort, has been charged seventy schillings \u2014almost 14\u2014for a bottle of whiskey.This notable achievement in FRANCE WOULD PROBE WORK OF ARMS INDUSTRY Charges Made Armament Manufacturers Direct Foreign Policy of World\u2014Bill Calling for Creation of Investigating Committee Presented Chamber of Deputies.HAUPTMANN IS NOW DEPENDING \u201cAs God Is My Judge, 1 Cannot Confess, for There Is Nothing to Confess,\u201d Condemned Man Replied when Asked If He Could Not \u201cPossibly Name Persons Conrected with Lindbergh Kidnapping.\u201d ¦» BRITAIN REGARDS GERMAN I REPLY WITH FAVOR.I London, Feb.15.\u2014The British | Government, according to usual-j ly reliable quarters today, rc-| gat'ds the still-secret German I \\ reply to the Franco-British pro- ! ; posais with favor \u201cat least as j i far as it goes.\u201d Although it was reported in ] ; Paris that the Hitler document j probably would be made public j there tonight, British officials ; said they did not expect to j make the note public until an : opportunity was presented to ! offer it in the House of Com- ' ! mens, perhaps not before Mon- j day.CHEAP MONEY AND SOUND FINANCE FAVORED FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY Neville Chamberlain\u2019s Defence of MacDonald Government Regarded in Informed Quarters as a Clear Indication of His Disbelief in National Recovery Scheme Proposed by Lloyd George\u2014Motion Censuring Government Method of Handling Unemployment Swamped Under Adverse Vote of 374 to 68.Paris, Feb.15.\u2014 Having heard charges that armament manufacturers direct the foreign policy of the world, the Chamber of Deputies committee on civil and criminal legislation had voted today to investigate the French armaments industry since the World War.A bill calling for the creation of an investigating committee consisting of Deputies, Senators, war veterans and representatives of the Labor , ,\t,\t,\tand National Defence Ministries was ,uas re,yealed today by the, intl,0(jUC\u20ac(j jn tjje chamber yesterday official travel bill and the govern-, Deputy Planche, a Socialist.Notaient view it.and other similar 'J1-j withstanding the committee\u2019s re-stances, as such a serious menace to j commendation, strong opposition to the recent increase of tourist traf- lhe bm wa, anticipated.Premier fic that a federal commission tor the control of prices is being organized.DECLARES QUEBEC LEADS COUNTRY IN DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE Berthier Liberal Member Claims Expenditure Per Capita on Agricultural Aid in Quebec Nearly Double That of Restoration\u2014Laurent Barre Urges Return to Land and Restoration of Family Life\u2014Attacks Failure to Institute Limitation of Working Hours.Q' \u2022ebec, Feb.15.\u2014 Comparisons as to agricultural development in Quebec and Ontario with the former province leading all along the line were the contribution yesterday of Cleophas Bas-tien, Liberal Berthier, to debate on the budget speech in the Quebec Legislature.Mr.Bastien was the fourth Lib-j eral to vaunt the budget prepared; and delivered by Provincial Treasurer R.F.Stockwell a week ago.Preceding him were the Minister of Roads J.E.Perrault.Provincial Secretary Athanase David and R.W.McDonald, Pontiac.Mr.Bastien followed Laurent Barre, Independent Rouville who like his hide-! pendent colleague Aime, Guertin, | Hull, and three Conservatives, Pierre Bertrand, St, Sauveur, Mar-; tin B.Fisher, Huntingdon, ami; Brig.-Gen.C.A.Smart, Westmount, j urged the government to enact so-1 j called social legislation to relieve existing distress.The member for Berthier declared that for the fiscal year 1932-33 Ontario had a revenue of $20,000,-000 greater than that of Quebec.Despite this the Quebec' Government spent $4,233,000 for agriculture whereas Ontario spent $2,174.-000, he said.\u201cPer capita,\u201d ho emphasized, \u201cwhen Ontario spends 2.71 annually for its farmers, Quebec spends $5.44.\u201d While Mr.Bastien had praise for, the Quebec Municipal Commission | he recommended it to undertake aj campaign with the view of forcing I municipalities to prepare \u201cbatter\u201d! evaluation rolls, Actually, he said,; a large number of municipalities; figure properties for only one-third j or one-half their value.In many circumstances, he stated, this was] prejudicial to the farming class I : SECOND ETHIOPIAN NOTE AGGRAVATES SI TU ATIO N.j Rome, Feb.15.\u2014 Charging i Italy with aggression and terming her troop mobilization a ; menace to peace negotiations, a second Ethiopian note added to-j day to the uncertainties of the Italo-Ethiopian crisis.Premier Mussolini maintained i -ilenee concerning the note and his future policy.He conferred i with members of the Fascist Grand Council.A second Italian mobilization, ! it was learned, has been pre-i pared for in case it should appear necessary.The men to be ; called in the next troop concentration already have received i notices and instructions to hold themselves in readiness.\u2022 « U.S.ARMAMENT CONTROL PLAN Canadian Delegate to Disarmament Conference Convinced Armament Manufacture Will Soon Be Confined to State-Owned Establishments.was anticipated.Pierre-Etienne Flandin himself recently declared the French armament industry should not be weakened at this time.International firms were bitterly denounced by Deputy Gouih in a report recommending approval of jthe bill, as \u201ccommitted to a policy of ; profits above all.\u201d \u201cState armament is worth noth-!mg,\u201d he declared, \u201calongside these vast organizations which developed after the Napoleonic wars.Before the Great War they took on an importance so huge in the world that it is not exaggeration to say they direct the foreign policy of the world.\u201d He declared the munitions makers co-operated with each other, and that French companies equipper Bulgaria and Turkey with arms which were used against France during the war, while Abd-El-Krim fought France with French arms in Africa in 1925.The Deputy added that during the war German soldiers who stormed Fort Douamont at Verdun died on barbed wire furnished to France by a German company.He renewed charges that the French High Command had spared German iron mines and munitions works under pressure of arms interests.He described the munitions industries as \u201cwithout morals,\u201d and said they spread false reports before the war which produced an \u201carmament race.\u201d Mentioning the munitions inquiry conducted by the United States Senate, Gouin said: \u201cAmerica has courageously tried to lift the veil which hides all dealings of international munitions companies.\u201d ANGLO-IRISH PEACE URGED BY DOMINIONS SECRETARY J.H.Thomas Declares Sanctity of Agreements and Empire Membership Must Be Maintained.Flemington, N.J.Feb.15.\u2014Bruno! Richard Hauptmann, awaiting ^IMPORTANT DISCOVERY OF in \u201d he public'today hifhope PfoTa i CANTABRIAN ART REPORTED successful appeal against his con-: L ond'on, February 1 b.The defence of Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, of Hie Government\u2019s policy of cheap money and adherence to \u201csound finance\u201d was regarded today in informed quarters as a dear indication of Mr.Chamberlain\u2019s disbelief in lhe national recovery scheme set forth by David Lloyd George, wartime Prime' Minister.The Chancellor of the Exchequer spoke for the Government last night, Concluding debate on the motion of censure by George Lan - viction for the Lindbergh baby: Madrid, Feb.15.\u2014 A treasure,, .\t,\t, .\t.,\t., I trove of Cantabrian art dating back IÎ!-y \u2019.le»Jer oi lhe Lal)or\tthe motion was defeated by \u2019J haven ;.a dollar,- th-e condemn* K .,n/,\t, , « .-, .\t' \u2018 .ed man told his counsel, \u201cam! mu-o ! 12,000 years before Chr.st trove years before Christ was depend on the public.\u201d\t| found in north western Spain.The In his only interview during four I Cantabri, an ancient, warlike months in the jail here, the Bronx j People, inhabited northern Spam, carpenter was asked late yesterday i Jua!1 Cabre, director of the Cer- whetheV he could not \"possibly name riyHbo Museum, who reported the persons connected\u2019with the kidnap- discovery, termed it \u201cohe of the ping of the Lindbergh baby.\u201d \u201cA most important finds of many God is my judge,\u201d was the reply, \u201cfj years.174 to 68.Lloyd George laid clown bis proposals for nalkmal recovery in a series of speeches last month in Wales.Unconfirmed reports have been current since that time that he might be invited into the cabinet of the National Government.Mr.Chamberlain's remarks wound up a stormy debate in which Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald was severely heckled and in which .r__\t^ Opposition speakers berated the Government\u2019s unemployment policy.fo, there is nothin:'.; It consists, he said, of color re-1 I he Labor censure motion said the Government had forfeited the eon- cannot confess to confess.\u201d \u201cIf I had any confession to make, I would have made it months ago and saved my wife and child ail this worry.\" \u201cI told everything, on my word of honor.That is, I mean I have not fried to cover up anybody.\u201d But the New York Daily New said in a copyright article today that j y not only were two men involved ir.the $50,000 ransom fraud\u2014Hauptmann was identified as the actual recipient\u2014but that police knew the identity of the second and sought to trap him.This man, it was stated, was the one who hid his face with a handkerchief and peered into Colonel Charles A.Lindbergh\u2019s ayi-toinabile while the father of the slain baby awaited his ransom, emissary, Dr.J.F.Condon.The mystery man moved on and dropped his handkerchief, apparently as a signal to the ransom collector.APPROVES VERDICT Washington, Feb.15.\u2014H.L.Mencken, Baltimore critic, of \u201cLife and Letters has put his Stamp of approval today on the Hauptmann verdict.\u201cI thought he was guilty all the time,\u201d Mencken, here to appear at an anti-lynching hearing', said.\u201cNot only did the web of the circumstantial evidence show Hauptmann\u2019s guilt, but it showed no one else could possibly have committed the j crime.\u201d Mencken expressed fear, how- liefs found in two caves near the town of Saelizes, which exhibit the brilliant hues of Canabrian art.The ubject matter includes deer, bison,! iidenee of the country ns a result of its \u201cbungling\u201d on the relic: question.The Chancellor of the Exchequer asserted the Government\u2019s unent- eats and horses.i ployment policy had been eminently successful.He rejected proposals L\" a large expenditure upon public works, which is one of the planks in the Lloyd George platform.He said :lie most effective contribution the Government could make had beent j encourage ordinai'y trade.\u201cThe increase in our exports is remarkable,\u201d be told the House.\u201cThere is no country in the world, unless it be Japan, which can show a similar increase.\u201d ,\t, t\t-\tMr.MacDonald, first one to fic- tion and Conscription of AH \u201cHuman Power\u201d and All G-nd Hie Government against at- TVT \u2014\t.d \u2022\t: tacks from the Labor and Liberal INo Une to Receive ! nnnositmn\t-riven a SENATOR WOULD MEET FUTURE WAR EXPENDITURE SY CAPITAL LEVIES Special 1 axes and Capital Impost Proposed by Senator J.J.Hughes to Prevent Increase of Capital Debt\u2014MobiHza- Materia! Wealth of the Nation-More than Soldier\u2019s Pay.Opposition parties, wa rough heckling by his AMENDMENTS TO PATENT j when it tried to borrow money.ACT BEFORE COMMITTEE Progress' of agriculture in the Province since 1030 was note-_ ,\tTI\t-,\t| worthy Mr.Bastien continued.Ottawa, Feb.1».Heating ol- ie\u2018| Drainage methods had resulted in presentations on the proposed exten-,the improt(,,ment of M)oo.oo() ar-ive revision of the Patent Act will pel)ts of ]and Pn 37,000 farms.Thh open February 2'6th before the banking and commence eourmiUce or lhe Senate.Meeting under the chairmanship of Senator I.B, Black,.Conservâticc, Sackvillc, the.committee made this arrangement yesterday.Secretary-of State C.11.Caban will be heat'd in an outline of his ret- ons for asking the changes, A motion by Senator Arthur Mcigiven, Government leader, for the appear-nnee of Mr.Caban carried with concurrence of Hon.Raoul Dandu-rand, Liberal leader, and members of the committee work cost, about IfSBS.OOO to the department of agriculture.Quebec, cattle was still in the forefront, Mr.Bastien added.Specimens had been awarded several first prizes at the Royal Exhibition, Toronto.In the matter of grains, Quebec farmers had also won several prizes at Regina in 1933.In conclusion Mr.Bastien said that during the past fifteen years of the Taschereau regime the prov inee had known a development rtf interest, to industry in Canada, I\u2018\u2018«nnal, if not.superior lo any part n large number of representations »f the Dominion, al the same time will be made, many through the j remaining the less taxed and ess indented province m Confederation Canadian Manufacturers\u2019 Association.A represenhative of lhe assn-nation promised to endeavor to have these views placed on common ground to avoid repetition.One of the most contentious clauses is a provision that in infringement actions before the courts after lhe lapse of three years from the dale of a paten! the patentee shall no! be entitled to obtain final Antonio Elie, Conservative, Yam-aska, spoke briefly before debate was adjourned by ,1.A.Francoeur, Liberal Dorion.Members of the Quebec Government have no monopoly on patriotism and there are those who believe they can best serve their province by refusing to follow blindly those in power.Laurent Barre declared Geneva, Feb.15.\u2014Canada today expressed approval of the three-fold plan for supervision of armaments, presented'to the special committee of the World Disarmament Conference by the United States and adopted yesterday as the basis for discussion after Great Britain an 1 Italy had entered reservations to some of its points.The part of the American plan calling for international supervision of the manufacture of and traffic in arms was especially supported by Dr.Walter A.Riddell, Canada\u201d delegate, when discussion continued today.Me added, Canada was convince: i London, bob.15.\u2014J.H.Thomas, j Dominions Secretary, yesterday expressed a \u201csincere and genuine j desire for reconciliation and real j peace\u201d between Great Britain and the Irish Free State.At the same time he said: \u201cThe two questions, sanctity of agreements and membership in the British Commonwealth of Nations, are and always must be fundamental to any settlement of the Irish difficulty.\u201d Addressing the Constitutional Club, \"Jimmy\u201d Thomas said he had no intention of going into the political differences of the past.An overwhelming majority of the British people, he believed, sincerely desired reconciliation and real peace.Geographically the Free State was so situated that Britain was the market upon which it had to depend, he said.FUNERALS OFFER CHANCE FO'R ILLEGAL GATHERING.Vienna, Fefo.15.\u2014Police today solved the mystery of why large groups of mourners were turning out enthusiastically to the funerals of persons with whom they had not been acquainted.The authorities discovered it was a Nazi plan to circumvent decrees against illegal gather- \\ p g.0 ttawa, Feb.1 war as a 1 Senator J.J.Hughes Prince Edward Island, tabled sweeping resolution in the Senate yesterday affecting the citizens and industries of the country in the event of Canada again going to war.I The proposals of Senator Hughes include :\u2014 1\u2014\tMobilization and conscription of aii tlie \u201chuman power\u201d and all material wealth of the nation.2-\t\u2014-Establishment of a War ,1 Council representing the provinces former colleagues of the Labor party and 5._ Condemning! '-\"f0 ^eaker had to intervene \u2022monstrous evil\u201d; bf^re ^ could CTnttnue.\t, I ibe\u2019-ai ' George Lansuury, the Labor '\t\u2018 \u2019 j leader, moved the censure motion, \u2019 charging the Government had for- ever, that the conviction might be 1 FOUR CHILDREN IN THIRTEEN all\u2019«l'idly eastward across the Lower cd, he said, adequate control was j Lakes and another low area is mov-ossential.lhe American fdan e\u201d' ing north eastward from Maine with visages international supervision j\u201d | increased intensity, while pressure manufacture and Iraf fic, estabitslt' hs\tovor (.ho Pacific states.A ment of an international advisory moderate cold wavc 0f Arctic origin .'in,y and publication of nations.|js movjno.south eastward from expenditures on arms.\tj northern Manitoba, Rain with snow in northern districts has fallen et aside\tby higher courts\tbecause |\tMONTHS, of errors\tin the trial.\tj\tFalmouth, Mass., Feb.\t15.\u2014Four -\u2014\tchildren born in thirteen months is SHOWS REMARKABLE\tI the record\tof Mr.and\tMrs.\tJohn CONTROL.\tj\tHathaway,\tof Falmouth.\tTwin\tboys Flemington, N.J., February 15.\u2014 I just born to Mrs.Hathaway, 23, Bruno Hauptmann\u2019s fortitude airzz-; follow boy and cirl twins who arrived his guards as the time'drew near ed January 9, 1933.for his transfer to the death house.His outburst of weeping immediate-1 ly after being sentenced for the | Lindbergh baby slaying passed and | his features again became the emo-| tionless mask so noticeable during the trial.He was once more the stoical carpenter.\u201cHe has obviously been shaken by the outcome of the triai.\u201d said one of his guardians, \u201cBut he shows remarkable control.\u201d WILL BE REMOVED TO DEATH j HOUSE TOMORROW.Flemington, N.J., February 15.\u2014 | Sheriff John H.Curtiss anounced today that Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh kidnap; murderer, would be removed from| the Hunterdon county jail to 1N0 death house in state prison sometime tomorrow.\u201cWe are going to take him down tomorrow.That is definite.\u201d control of war activities 3-\t\u2014Authority of the War Council to assign men and women in Canada to whatever positions it thought they were Best qualified to fill, but making as few changes as possible in their daily occupations.4-\t\u2014Wages, salary or income feried the confidence of the country by its lack of any policy for dealing with unemployment and for its \"bungling\" methods on relief.St Herbert Samuel, Liberal Opposition leader, moved an amendment calling for lowering of tariff barriers as the first step towards building up employment.Prime Minister MacDonald asserted that another financial cribis like that of 1931 would result if Labor got into power again and unemploy-ment would be increased, instead of decreasing.The Laborites cheered when M>.Lam bury opened the debate with ihc declaration, \"We do not want anyone to say we are charging the Government with dishonorable conduct in the ordinary sense of the SEEK DIVISION OF RELIEF AND PUBLIC WORKS \u201cfrom the Governor-General down,\u2019\u2019| word, but we are charging it with I including army officers, not to be j gross incompetence.\u201d I greater than the pay of the com- Referring to thé new \u201cmeans j mon soldier in the field, plus a rea- test,\u201d provision for ascertaining ac-jsonabie amount for dependents.tual needs of applicants for unem-|\t5\u2014-No money to be borrowed for I ployment relief, Mr.Lansbury war purposes but all war expenses ! threatened to read the actual Cabi-! io be met by taxation and capital I net minutes should the Prime Min-I levies so as not to increase the lister repeat his \u201cinfamous lie.\u201d that I country\u2019s debt.\t[Lansbury himself had defended the I Adjournment of the debate was means test when it was first estab- lished by the former Labor Government.Mr.Lansbury said he would take not ex-riiis chance on imprisonment for contempt or a breach of the Official Secrets Act, when J.II.Thomas, Secretary for Dominions and a mem- moved by Senator J.J.Murdoch, \u201cTTI\tLiberal, Ottawa.While the Sen- Opponents of Plan Sponsored by j ate adjourned until next Tuesday Roosevelt Would Pass Direct:^el1ator ,M?rdfocl1 , H .,\tpected to speak \u2022before the- latter Relief Provisions Without De- part of next week.lay, but Take Plenty of Time I \u201cWar ha-become revolutionized \u201d\t, M M \u2022\u201d ,\t.n\tSenator Hughes declared.It is to: her with Lansbury and Mr.Mac- Debating Works I rogramme.ibe no longer confined to the pro- Donald of the old Labor Cabinet, fessional soldiers.Women and chib interrupted to say it was useless for dren, the aged and the sick are to Mr.Lansbury to try to make a dis be its chief victims in future.\u201d tinotion between the present house Long ago the wealth, the pride hold means test\u2014labelled \u201catroci gel 1 resident nooseveu 5 ,>i,puu,uuu,-i an(j\tprofjt should have been ous\u201d by the Labor member\u2014and jOOO week-end relief bill through the |\t()U^ 0f war but \\i was never : United States Senate.They had to j too late to mend, he said.\u201cTo me Washington, Feb.15.\u2014There was 0 rest today for the men trying to I President Roosevelt\u2019s $1.800,000,- j RUMORS DENIED.¦ Washington,1 Feb.15.\u2014 State-1 ments that federal officers have\t\u201e\t,\t.\t.\t.evidence that Bruno Richard)tic and Republican Senator* to toss Haup'tmann had an accomplice in the bill back into the hands of a the Lindbergh kidnapipng w