Sherbrooke daily record, 20 novembre 1940, mercredi 20 novembre 1940

[" WEATHER Fair and cooler.§IiprbrDokp lailg mwnrb TEMPERATURES Yesterday: Maximum, 39; minimum, 28.Same day last, year: Max., 30; min., 23.Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1940.Forty-Fourth Year.INCORPORATED INTO ROME-RERUN AXIS On T«rksrSS Likely To Followj injured two Latest Axis Move Aircraft Reported to Have | Been Destroyed in Crash While Attempting to Take Off from Air Field.Lack Of Go-Operation Leads To Withdrawal Of British Flan Of Increasing Indian Independence London, Nov.20.- Britain Incorporation of Hungary at Vienna Meeting Clears Way for German Troops to Attack Turkey in Drive Towards East and in Effort to Relieve Pressure on Italian Troops in Albania.Budapest, Hungary, Nov.20.- £- OP)\u2014Hungary by her admission to the German-Italian-Japanese Al- PHYSICALLY PERFECT MAN San Diego, Calif., Nov.20.\u2014(JP)\u2014 A \u201cphysically perfect\u201d man was , | found at the San Diego Marine Base, hance has been given a definite role > He is U,enty.four.year.old Bernard in the Axis programme in which j A.Nelson, of Bristow, Neb., given possible passage of German troops j the perfect specimen rating by navy through this country is seen as an I niedjcal 0fcers' Nelson ^tributes his .1 perfect physique to rough food, an important factor m am campaign ; OU(_[]0or existence, no liquor or cigar-against Greece and Turkey, inform-1 ettes.ed sources said today.\t; The joining by Hungary, long j LIGHT THAT DIDN\u2019T FAIL pledged to a policy friendly to the |\tNov- 20,Ta r °\tt j\t^\t| W\u2014Ihomas Hall, a manner, told Axis, was reported here to have!the court in an admiralty case now marked the initial step in execut-j1}13 electric torch (flashlight) went \u201e .\t,\tdown with him, lit up the bottom of :ng a programme of the other part- ! the sea and was still bright when ners to bind Southeast Europe he was \u201cbiown up\u201d to the surface.closer to their \u201cnew order\u201d objec-%-\u2014- five.Some said they believed Spain, Rumania and possibly Bulgaria would he the next asked to join.!\t- I ! St.Hubert, Que., Nov.20.\u2014fP)\u2014A: | bomber crashed at St.Hubert Air-) i port near here today, injuring two j members of its crew.The bomber was reported to have] caught fire and crashed as it was! taking off from he field.Extent of the injuries to the crew! members was not known.Nor was! it known immediately whether any ; others were hurt.The aircraft was reported to have ; been destroyed by the fire.PROBE ONTARIO CRASHES Toronto, Nov.20.\u2014i(P)\u2014Investigations were under way today into two Royal Canadian Air Force plane accidents which claimed the lives of three youthful airmen and two forced landings from which R.C.A.F.pilots escaped uninjured.The dead: Leading Aircraftman Robert Samuel Watt, ninetocn, of Sit.Catharines; Leading Aircraftman ! John Harold Whalen, eighteen, of i Ottawa; and Leading Aircraftman J.A.W.Boyd, nineteen, of Montreal ] LAC.Watt and LAC.Whalen were ; on a practice reconnaissance flight j Continued on page 2, col.V.withdrew today her offer to give India's political leaders greater voice in the Executive Council and on the ¦war effort, because the offer of last August 8 to give India \u201cfree and equal\u201d partnership in the British Commonwealth of Nations failed to gain \u201csufficient representative support.\u201d The Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, declared \"We note with regret\u201d that India\u2019s \u201cmajor political parties are not in present circumstances prepared to take advantage\u201d of the proposal.(The offer was announced in the House of Commons and in India in an appeal to India\u2019s millions to aid in the Empire\u2019s fight against the Axis powers.) He said Britain \u201cstill is prepared to give effect to them (proposals ' looking toward eventual dominion 1 status) as soon as \u201cit is convinced ! that a sufficient degree of represen-jtat .ve support is forthcoming.\u201d \u201cBut, as that degree of support has | evidently not yet manifested itself,\u201d | the Viceroy\u2019s statement added, \u201cHis Majesty\u2019s Government have decided that I should not be justified in expansion of my Executive Council, or establishment of a War Advisory Council at the present moment.\u201cI do not wish to conceal from you the deep disappointment I feel at this failure to secure within the framework of a constitution due expression of the ultimate essential unity in which the hopes and labors of so many of us were founded and on which must depend the future position and influence of India in time to come.\u201d DEATH TOLL IN JAMAICA STORM APPEARS HEAVY Scores of Persons Believed to Have Lost Lives in Single Building Following Cloud-' burst.C.I.O.REJECTS PROPOSALS FOR PEACE PARLEY PEACE EFFORTS OF AXIS POWERS CITED Vienna, Nov.20.\u2014(Æ5)\u2014Hungary fcecame a full-fledged partner of the totalitarian Axis today by signing up with the German-Italian-Japanese alliance.Thus Germany stretched a potential military avenue 250 miles further into Southeast Europe\u2014toward Greece, Turkey and the Suez Canal.The original alliance, signed last September 27 at Berlin, is a ten-year military and economic treaty which binds its signers to a one-for- all and all-for-one pledge of^ aid basis of known figures, a gain for against any new entrant into either ; f-^g Union Nationale party of former the European or Asiatic wars.: Premier Maurice Duplessis.Hon.Hector Perrier, recently ap- Government And Opposition Split Provincial Contests Hon.Hector Perrier, Recently Named Provincial Secretary, Given Substantial Majority in Terrebonne Bye-Election\u2014 Tancrede Labbe, Union Nationale, Appears Elected in Megantic Constituency.- *- Quebec, Nov.20.\u2014((t1)\u2014The results of two bitterly-contested Quebec Provincial bye-election campaigns were locked up in the ballot boxes today, one definitely a victory for Premier Godbout\u2019s Liberal Government but the other on the John L.Lewis Stages Major Victory in Preventing Selection of Special Negotiations Committee.Hitler himself came to this onetime capital of Nazi-annexed Austria for the ceremony.A protocol admitting Hungary to alliance membership was signed by Hungary's Foreign Minister Csaky and for the original signers, by Ger- pointed Provincial Secretary, carried Terrebonne yesterday by more than 1,000 votes over Leonard Blanchard, Union Nationale, but in Megantic Tancrede Labbe, the Union Nationale candidate there, man Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, ,\t,\t, Italian Foreign Minister Ciano and had a f^y-four-vote margin over Saburuo Kurusu, Japanese ambas- sador to Germany.There was no intimation from any sources how soon any military operations might follow these Nazi diplomatic strides toward the Balkans, the Liberal, Alphonse Olivier.Labbe\u2019s margin was on the basis of figure?, gained from what Returning Officer Arthe Dostie termed \u201cthe best .sources possible.\u201d Dostie said it was made on a count of de- but scarcelv an observer doubted tahecl figures for each candidate from forty-two polls of the riding\u2019s such a step would be taken In the original agreement, Germany, Italy and Japan bound themselves \u201cto assist one another with all political, economic and military-means when one of the three contracting powers is attacked by a power not at present involved in the European war or in the Chinese-Japanese conflict.\u201d (Since then, Italy has invaded Greece, contending the Greeks had sided actively with Britain by per-Continued on page 2, col.1.seventy-one, and on majorities re ported from others.In some case he had not heard directly from Deputy Returning Officers.He did net believe the result of the election could be known definitely until declaration day, November 26, when the ballot boxes will be opened.Dostie announced Labbe\u2019s majority after a re-check of figures which had been counted earlier to give a margin of twenty-seven to-Continued on page 2, col.4.UNITED STATES EXPORTS HELD TO WAR GOODS Government Officials Frankly Worried About Unhealthy Expansion of Country\u2019s Foreign Trade.-MV ¦fÙT -The Local News Still Has Spotlight In United States Newspaper Life Louisville, Ky., Nov.20.\u2014 (JP) \u2014 days as these, people are more inter-Local news is still holding its own jested in national and foreign news in United States reader appeal; than in secondary local.\u201d Smith despite the war, M.V.Atwood, of j held that \u201cwar is the all-absorbing Rochester.N.Y., Associate Editor j topic\u201d and Powers said that \u201clocal and head of the Central News and] news has got to be a lot better than Editorial Office of Gannett news- \u2022 it used to be to get in.\u201d papers, told managing editors of As-! The \u201cgood will\u201d theme in news-sociated Press member newspapers ; paper operation was discussed by at the closing session of their eighth } Arthur Burrowcs of the St.Joseph annual convention today.\tj (Mo) News-Press and Gazette.Atwood reported on a symposium \"We believe we live on good will,\u201d survey of seventy-five AP managing jhe said, citing that his papers spon- ] editors.He said that with few ex-jsor annual Christmas parties, receptions the AP papers he surveyed operate with churches, encourage \u201chave not let wars and major en- local photographers and artists, gagements on the political fronts j operate a bulletin service, publicize diminish their emphasis on local \u2014 nearby towns and sponsor ice and they are still finding room for pro- poal funds for the poor, per recognition of the career and achievements of \u2018Mr.J.Quentin Willoughby, newly-elected President of the Chamber of Commerce.\u2019-\u201d Atwood cited exceptions to this view by R.W.Simpson, of the MORE STEEL FOR WAR Sydney, N.S.W., Nov.20.\u2014 CP) \u2014 Largely because of war\u2019s demand production of steel ingots in Aus-Tampa tribune; C.E.Smith, of the tralia has increased to 1,600,000 tons Fairmount (W.Va.) Times, and Wil- yearly as compared with 1,200,000 liam L.Powers, of the Youngstown tons in the previous year, (Ohio) Vindicator, but said most'\t-\u2014 -\u2014\u2014- managing editors share his view\tNOW HE'LL TRY IT that \u201clocal news is the very heart Winona.Miss.Nov.20.\u2014(®\u2014At-of the newspaper, and it\u2019s a mighty torney and former '\u2018professor of unimportant local story that is .political science\u201d Rupert Ringold pushed out because of lack of space.\u201d thas ben nominated as mayor of this Simpson\u2019s view was that \"in such town, for practical experience.Washington, Nov.20.-United States\u2019 favorable t'ore\u2019gn trade balance reached almost $1,-400,000,000 for the first year of the war\u2014the highest peak since 1921\u2014 but Commerce Department analysts evinced little satisfaction today over the record.\u201cOur export trade is becoming more and more a war or artificial trade,\u201d said Louis Domeratzky, chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce Division of Regional Information.He was commenting in an interview on the fact that the 'inked States shipped more than .$4,010-,000,000 worth of goods abroad in the twleve months ending September 1.This was a gain of thirty-seven per cent over the previous corresponding period.\u201cThe unward export trend for the year must be considered with reservations,\u201d Domeratzky cautioned.He exlained that a month-to-month analysis showed the spread of war had progressively restricted normal exports to Continental Europe until today it is a mere trickle.While Great Britain and her possessions had taken up much of the slack by war purchases, he said that this was not a very \u201chealthy sign,\u201d when contemplating the outlook for future normal markets.In September, 1940, he pointed out, Britain, her dominions and possessions accounted for almost two-thirds of American exports by value.There was a distinct shift in American export trade from Europe to Latin America in the first year of war, but here, too, Domeratzky sounded a note of caution.While exports to those countries increased fifty per cent in value in that period, the trade expert cited the disproportionate gain of 31.3 per cent in America\u2019s imports from her Southern neighbors.Ho said the United States could not hope to keep on selling more and more goods to the twenty Latin American republics unless the latter found some means of obtaining more dollar exchange or other financial aid.Atlantic City, N.J., Nov.20.\u2014(Mb \u2014-Johmn L.Lewis bad the laurels of a major victory in the Congress of Industrial Organizations convention over Sidney Hillman and advocates -of new efforts for labor peace today.Lewis was the victor yesterday with an attack aimed alternately at William Green and the AmerkiJV Federation of Labor high command and Hillman\u2019s Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union.The convention gave Lewis a thumping vote on his policy of simply maintaining a pe.ace committee with power to negotiate with the A.F.L.The Hillman bloc wanted the C.I.O.delegates to consider an immediate move to re-explore possibilities of ending United States labor\u2019s civil war.But Lewis replied that there would be no peace until the C.I.O.demonstrated its strength to \u201cbargain on equal terms\u201d with the A.F.L The Hillman group also wants the C.I.O, to take a stand against Communism, Nazism and Fascism, an issue which is reported to be a large factor in determining whether C.I.O.Vice-President Philip Murray will agree to take the C.I.O.presidency Lewis will vacate this week.Murray served notice on the convention yesterday that he was not a candidate for Lewis\u2019 job and did not want it, and that his interest in labor was the \u201cpromotion of our ideals, our concepts of true trade union American objectives.\u201d Representatives of several of the largest C.I.O.unions are reported to have informed Murray after Lewis had won his victory on labor peace that they would support him for the C.I.O.leadership on his own terms.During the debate on what policy the C.I.O.should follow on labor ROOMS PROVING IMPORTANT IN Living Quarters So Few that One Newspaperman Who Is Not Sick Is Living in Hospital.Ottawa, Nov.20____((P) \u2014It\u2019s so hard to find a place to live in wartime Ottawa that one newcomer who isn\u2019t sick is living in a hospital.He is Andy Clarke, former Toronto newspaperman now attached to the Department of Public Information.The Y.M.C.A.gymnasium has been turned into a dormitory to help handle the big population increase caused by expansion of most Government departments during the past year.\u201cWe\u2019ve been full ever since the war started,\u201d an official said, \u201cand every week-end we have to turn away as many as thirty.\u2019\u2019 Newspaper advertisements aren\u2019t much help to the room or apartment-seeker, either.More advertisements , are inserted by people looking for a ] home than by people with places to rent, and the demand is so great one advertiser specified he was looking for a \u201cMember of Parliament or business executive\u201d to rent the single room he offered.Latest move to help solve the situation was made by the Ottawa Property Owners\u2019 Association.It asked owners of large private homes ] to take in paying guests and more ilhan forty have expressed willing-; ness to help.! ! unity delegates from the Hillman group\u2014the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Unions\u2014demanded a United Labor organization movement without, however, surrendering the principles upon which the C.I.O.for five years has waged its military campaign against the open shop in modern industry.Kingston, Jamaica, Nov.20.\u2014IP-\u2014Many persons were feared drowned today as the aftermath of a cloudburst that showered devastation and death upon a section of Northeast Jamaica in a swift stroke.Meagre advices reaching this colonial capital said scores had drowned as the sudden deluge sent streams swelling over their banks Monday night, sweeping away hemes and other buildings, devastating crops and crippling communications.No definite estimate of the dead was available from the stricken area.At least six bodies bad been recovered, but many more were believed to have lost their lives.One report from the area .said some scores of persons had been lost when a single building\u2014-a church at Portland\u2014 was carried away.The villagers were huddling in the church for protection against the wind and rain storm when it was swept off on flood waters, according to the report.No details reached here.Crop damage in the fertile area Continued on page 3, columin 2- Canada Plans Extension Of Naval Shipbuilding To Cruisers, Destroyers Dominion to Have Naval Establishment Commensurate with Position as World Trading Power, Naval Minister Tells House of Commons in Review of War Effort\u2014To Reestablish Naval College.HAS TWENTY-FIFTH CHILD Berlin, N.H., Nov.20 - (/P)\u2014Ar-thur Morel, forty-six, announced the birth yesterday of his twenty-fifth child.Twenty-two of the children are living.Twelve were born to Morel\u2019s first wife, who died.His second wife, who is thirty-four, is] mother of thirteen.By CARL RELNKE (Canadian Press Staff Writer) Ottawa, Nov.20.\t® Cana- dian naval establishment sufficient STILL ON HIS UPPERS Cleveland, Nor.20.\u2014 (Æ*) \u2014 He\u2019s United Slates Senator-elect, but he'll keep on riding upper berths.Mayor j personnel Harold H.Burton, of Cleveland, took! ri an upper to Washington.\tI s i Navy Minister Macdonald as a pros naval to meet Canada\u2019s obligations as a member of the Britisih Commonwealth of Nations and as a \u201cfriend and ally\u201d of the United States iv planned by (he Government.Such a navy, of Canadian-built ships manned by Canadian-trained was pictured to the of Commons vesterdav bv ORIENTAL REFUGEES Shanghai.Nov.20.\u2014 (TP) \u2014 The United States liners Washington and President Taft left this afternoon with 502 Americans who boarded the vessels here to quit the Orient on advice of the United States State Department.British Industrial Region Suffers Heavily From Raids Bombs Rained by Thousands on Fourteen British Towns in Nine-Hour Raid Likened at Hardest Hit Areas to Last Week\u2019s Devastating Attack on Coventry\u2014Number of Casualties Comparatively Small.WAR BULLETINS POINTED Hartford, Conn., Nov.20.\u2014CP)- Sign seen on the rear of ribbon ! bedecked automobile carrying a | couple away from a church heir: \"This is real love, not conscription.\u201d Berne, Switzerland \u2014 An air alarm, the first in a week, sounded today in Basel, It remained in force for fifteen minutes, from 9:45 to 10 a.m.* * ¥ Hong Kong \u2014 All British merchant ships with home ports here and Singapore which have not been taken over by the Government will be requisitioned shortly^, it was announced officially today.Ships belonging to tw'O companies were requisitioned last May, but scores of others so far have not been.¥ ¥ ¥ Cairo, Egypt \u2014 The Government announced today that fifty-two persons were killed and seventy-nine wounded Monday night in a raid by five successive waves of Italian aircraft which smashed seventeen houses at Alexandria.Cairo had three air raid warnings early today, but the raiders were driven off by anti-aircraft fire before they could drop any bombs.Ÿ ¥\t* London \u2014 British fighting planes in Greece were reported officially today to have shot down nine Italian planes yesterday without any British losses.British bombers last night attacked targets in Berlin, as well as a number of other objectives in Germany, the Ministry of Information announced.Further details were not immediately released.PITIFUL SCENE AT RETURN OF WAR PRISONERS Melancholy Caravan Passes Through Swiss Railway Station as Germans Return Wounded Prisoners.By CHARLES S.FOLTZ, -JR.(Associated Press Staff Wnuii J Geneva, Nov.20.\u2014 (/P) \u2014On the scuffed plush seats of sccond-elars railway coaches, a melancholy caravan of France\u2019s war-wounded passed through Geneva today, bound from German prison hospitals to their j conquered homeland.There were 630 of them, the leg-1 less, the armless, the sightless and] the sick, but they lifted a thin hail ] \u201cVive la France!\u201d and again.\u201cViv-la Suisse!\u201d as Swiss relief organiza.! lions fed and comforted them.There were tears in many an eye j and some of the men wrecked !>y | war stretched in silent wretchedness j on the coach seats.It was the fifth trainload of j wounded and sick French soldi t.- re-] leased by the Germans to be routed home- through Switzerland in ihe| care of the Red Cross and the Swiss j army.Four thousand men now ha\"c | returned to France but thousands more remain to be repatriated.In the dim lit Geneva station, in the chill of pre-dawn, there vere such taxlcaux as these: A tall Moroccan cavalryman, his red fez set at a jaunty angle above his swarthy face, reaching with his left hand for a cup of chocolate presented by a wide-eyed Swiss Roy Scout.The cavalryman\u2019s right arm was missing.A young soldier, hopping one-iog-ged, to take a sandwich from a pretty Red Cross girl while he adjusted the beret marking him as one cf the Chasseurs Alpin, famed mountain unit.A priest, still wearing the uniform of an army chaplain, standing at a train window, thumbing a well-worn prayerbook, his face half-smiling as his sightless eyes turned toward the blank wall of the station.A poignant pause in the journey home.But, for all their sorrows they were glad to be getting home.Those well enough to stand crowded into windows to chat in swift French with the nurses, Boy Scouts, policemen and trainmen on the platform.They did not talk politics.Neutral Switzerland frowns on such talk.They talked only of-France as the home to which they were returning.One man, his head swathed in bandages so thick that his mouth was eposed only when he spoke, said ne had not heard from his family .-inre before the armistice.He said his home was Dunkerque! London, Nov, 20.\u2014 -air.and that Canada bad to have ducts t0 be SL,PP1,ed t0 the EmPire-a navy sufficient to fulfil her obli-l Thef'e included bacon and hog gâtions and adequate to the needs of products to the extent of the sum J a great trading nation.\tiof $69.000,000, the exportation of Canada long had enjoyed the