Sherbrooke daily record, 3 juin 1941, mardi 3 juin 1941

[" WEATHER Fair and warm.Storbrooke Sailij Iwnrb TEMPERATURES Yesterday: Maximum, 76; minimum, 44.Same day last yearj Max., 76; min., 61.Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1941.Forty-Fifth Year, RACE FOR ::: IN SYRIA now underway London Clearing Path For Attack On Mandate Area Qualified Observers Predict that War Cabinet Will Declare Syria an Enemy-Occupied Territory, Opening Country to Full-Scale Attack\u2014Turkish Reports Tell of Nazi Troop Landings at Syrian Ports.I London, June 3.\u2014®\u2014Qualified observers predicted today the War Cabinet soon would declare Syria an enemy-occupied territory, opening the French-mandated wedge between Turkey and Palestine for full-scale British attack.Reports from Turkey that the Nazis already had landed sea-borne infantry with motorized equipment at the Syrian port of Latakia, just East of Britain\u2019s Island of Cyprus, were interpreted in some quarters as indicating the race for positions on a new front already is on.There were indications that British official circles would not be surprised if the Vichy Government soon requested Nazi \u201cprotection\u201d of all French colonial possessions, including Syria and Lebanon in the Middle East.The Brenner Pass meeting of Hitler and Mussolini yesterday in a war-strategy session prompted almost unlimited speculation as to where the Axis would strike next.Most guesses, however, involved the Suez Canal.Many observers declared they were convinced the Axis leaders had decided on a drive across Cyprus end Syria to Iraq and Palestine in an effort to split Britain\u2019s Middle East forces before touching off the actual Libyan thrust toward the canal.British forces also arc known to be watching closely for a Nazi move into French Africa in an effort to seize South Atlantic bases and to attack British and Free French African colonies.Some sources said such a drive probably would start with a push through Spain and Portugal and an attack on Gibraltar.\u201cIf Hitler can occupy Syria,\u201d one.source declared, \u201cit is very doubtful whether we shall find Cyprus defensible.\u201d \u201cAnd once the Nazis were firmly in control (in Syria) there would be no stopping the inflow of German material.Turkey then might grant a right of way.And how long after that could we possibly hope to hold Iraq and her oil?\u201d With Axis troops in Grecian Thrace, on the .Aegean Islands, Crete and the Dodecanese, and reported in Northern Syria, Hitler already has Turkey partly cut off from British aid.MONTREAL STEEL WORKERS STRIKE FOR BETTER CONDITIONS SURVIVORS OF THE BISMARCK Montreal, June 3.\u2014(®\u2014Approximately 650 cf the 800 workers at Canadian Tube and Steel Products Limited plant here remained away from work last night as they sought higher wages, improvement in working conditions and union recognition.Majority of the workers are members c.f Local 2423 of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee.FRANCE PLANS TO AID REICH SHORT OF WAR Spokesman for Laval Declares that France Will Adopt Same Attitude to Germany as Washington Does to London.GERMANS REPORTED MOVING TO SYRIA Istanbul, Turkey, June 2.\u2014 (Delayed)\u2014(fP)\u2014Germans in civilian clothes recently passed through Turkey to Syria with Bulgarian pass- Continued on Page 2, Col 6.Vichy, France, June 3.\u2014(A1)\u2014The Vichy Government held an unusually long meeting of two hours today.The fact Gen.Maxime Weygand, who is not a member of the Government, was present was considered in diplomatic circles to give the conference added significance.Weygand, commander of France\u2019s North African army, arrived yesterday, saw Marsha] Petain and was expected to confer with Vice-Premier Jean Darlan today.As the cabinet was meeting it was reported in Vichy that Pierre Laval, former Vice Premier, is likely to visit his Chateldon Castle near here this week-end, with a possibility he might be called to the Parc Hotel for a conference with Petain.Laval has been in Paris and the Occupied zone since he was ousted from the cabinet December 13.He crossed the demarcation line only once \u2014 to confer with Petain at a small village last winter.One of the exponents of Laval\u2019s policies, Jean Luchaire, writing in the Paris evening paper Les Nouveaux Temps, declared \u201cThe neutrality painted by Anglophilism which was the leitmotif of a large portion of French Government circles, is already being succeeded by a military neutrality colored by Eu-ropeanism.\u201cBut from the economy point of view as well as morale, France is ranging herself at the side of Germany.Vichy and Paris intend to conduct themselves, as far as Berlin is concerned, as Washington conducts itself where London is concerned.Keen Rivalry Witnessed As Many.&\tgg\t- - nap Victory Loan Quota Central Officials Report '\u2018Satisfactory Response\u201d on Opening Day of Drive to Raise $600,000.000 \u2014National Leaders Continue to Urge Large-Scale Public Participation in Campaign to Ensure Victory.,100 offi,c.ers an?men of the German battleship Bismarck who were picked up after the pride of the German navy ad been sunk by British warships and torpedo planes.Photo, cabled from London, show Bismarck crew under guard as they landed at a British port.WOULD DONATE THE NEWEST UNITED STATES SHIP TO GREAT BIOTA IN Harrisburg, Pa., June 3.\u2014 (¦\u2018P)\u2014T w « Pennsylvania Republican representatives have suggested that the United States give the 35,000-ton battleship North Carolina outright to Britain without reservations.Herbert G.Gates and Arthur P.Bretherick introduced a resolution yesterday asking that the Legislature mcmoralize Congress to enact legislation, if need he, to permit President Roosevelt to take this action.BRITISH LABOR DEMANDSTOTAL REICH DEFEAT National Convention of Labor Party Gives Overwhelming Approval to Demand for Complete British Victory.London, June 3.\u2014((P)\u2014The Labor party, using a block-voting system ! altered\" Federal House Awaits Next jEVIDENCE OF Ontario Move In Tax Fight SABOTAGE IN PLANE CRASH Order of Business in House of Commons Altered to Admit Reply by Hepburn on Dominion Proposals to Reduce Bond Interest Tax in Return for Province Vacating Income Tax Field\u2014Western Members Vexed.By C.R.BLACKBURN (Canadian Press Staff Writer) Ottawa, June 3.\u2014((P)\u2014Business of the House of Commons has been to await the next move of under which delegates cast ballot: for all the members they represent, rtsOPnm,J\u2019coof000 t0 19\u2019000\ta1 Mînister Mackenzie King over tax- its annual conference a memorandum ation methods.Premier Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario in his controversy with Prime from its National Executive declaring there could be no peace with Germany without \u201ctotal victory.\u201d \u201cWe declare we can have no part Last night Finance Minister Hsley told the House that consideration of some income tax amendments would be delayed pending a decision from which his Government will fight in the Courts.Last Friday Mr.King, after an exchange of telegrams with Mr.Hepburn, wired an offer to put the Four Killed as Giant Bomber, Designed for Great Britain, Crashes Near California Factory.San Diego, Calif., June 3.\u2014(/P)\u2014 The unexplained performance of a tax back to the five per cent level if i «.tea nn,, u , r -u t ,\t, Mr.Wervhm-r,\t.u\u201e !\tBritish Liberator bomber that sideslipped into San Diego Bay in a policy of accommodation and Mr.Hepburn on the Prime M that the necessary prelude to a just peace is total victory,\u201d the memorandum said.\u201cIt would be folly and ter\u2019s offer to restore to its former level the tax on interest payable to \u201e - non-resident holders of Canadian betrayal of those for whom we securities if the Ontario Government speak to put any trust in a peace to | agreed to a Federal proposal that it which Hitler and Mussolini are jwithdraw from the income tax field, parties.\u201d\t: The announcement and an accom- Clement Attlee, leader of the panying statement by Mr.Hsley party in the House of Commons and created a brief debate in which Lord Privy Seal in the Churchill war ; Ralph Maybank (Lib., Winnipeg cabinet, opened a discussion of the South Centre) said he thought Can-war, declaring that lasting peace adians generally are \u201csomewhat sick can be established only by adoption of continually playing to the Pre-of the principle of collective secur- mier of Ontario and endeavoring to ity.Free and social justice, he said, smooth him down.\u201d must be the watchword of the post- | Conservative House Leader Han-war world.\t| son and M.J.Coldwell, acting C.C.F.Mr.Attlee added that for years House leader, both expressed r Mr.Hepburn would accept the budget proposal that P rovinces vacate the income tax field and accept compensation from the Federal Treasury.No reply had been received, Mr.Hsley said, and he asked the House, after the income tax bill had been given second reading, to hold up discussion in committee of its clauses until Mr.Hepburn had communicated his decision.Mr.Hanson said he believed the income tax proposal to the provinces \u201cgenerous,\u201d and he asked a number of questions on the attitude of the Dominion in the event the provinces refused to co-operate.Mr.Ilsley said he would answer them when the bill is again in committee.\u201cNo stone should be left unturned to get Ontario\u2019s agreement,\u201d Mr.Hanson said, even if it involved giving up the non-resident tax proposal, He recommended that the Govern- Continued on Page 2, Col.7 Berlin Suffers Heavy Damage In Renewal Of British Aerial Raids London, June 3.\u2014®\u2014Large fires.(The Nazis said several apartment were started in Berlin last night by ! buildings in Berlin were damaged by a small force of Royal Air Force bombs and that a number of civil- bombers, the Air Ministry announced today.Attacks also were made, a communique said, on the cities of Dues-seldorf, Duisburg-Ruhrort and other targets ip the industrial Ruhr, and on docks at Ostend and St.Nazaire.Four aircraft were lost in those raids, and three in daylight attacks on Nazi objectives yesterday.The Air Ministry News Service-said British bombers covered the whole length of the Kiel Canal \u201cin search of enemy shipping\u201d yesterday.One bomber dropped half its load on a 1,200-ton ship in the canal and then dived from 1,500 feet on a 3,-500-ton ship, \u201cfiring his front guns all the time,\u201d and unloaded the rest of his bombs.The British planes found ships of various sizes up to 10,000 tons spaced along the canal, the News Service said.After each attack ihe planes went back into the protection of clouds before their crews could sec the effect of their bombs.The raid on Berlin was the forty-;ixth since the war began.First reports indicated that last night's assault was on a small .cale., ians were killed and injured.Points in Northern and Western Germany also were attacked.) German nocturnal aerial activity-over England was described officially as on a small scale, although the Government acknowledged there had been a number of casualties.Bombs fell at points in North and Northeast England and the Midlands.British fighters shot down one German plane over the Channel last evening and another off the Northeast coast, a communique said.British bombers during daylight yesterday attacked Kiel Canal shipping and land objectives in Schleswig-Holstein.In a raid off the coast of German-occupied Norway, an \u201cenemy\u201d ship was reported sunk.A direct hit also was scored on a i vessel in the Kiel Canal.labor stood for collective security at the lack of unity between Ontario jment calf aH the Premiers to a con-: and its stand had been fully justi-iand the Federal Government but ! ference on taxation methods and1 fied.Europe\u2019s trouble had been dis- said they were not going to get into : Mr.Coldwell endorsed the sug-unity of peoples in the face of a the controversy.\t^gestion.common enemy.If labor\u2019s policy had ; The House was giving second j\" Mr.Maybank scouted the sug-been followed, he contended, this reading to the bill to amend the gestion.ÎTe recalled the Dominion-would never have happened.\tIncome\tTax Act.This contains the\tProvincial Conference last January He warned that hard times are; clauses\tincreasing to fifteen per\twhen Premier\tHepburn\tAberhart\tI ahead, but declared \u201cwe have grow-\tcent the former five-per-cent tax on\t- of Alberta and\tPattullo\tof British\t1 mg strength and assurance of vie-\tinterest\tpaid non-resident holders\tColumbia had\trefused\tto discus- tory, because forces are coming up of Canadian securities.\t(taxation changes envisaged in the ' v1 ^u l-dt\th behind us today greater than the: This tax, m effect since 1933, ap- Rowell-Sirois Commission report 1 ne,^?er heJ,or4.I?men would forces opposed to us.\u201d\t:plies to provincial bonds but not to; \u201cIf one thing more than another discusa the matter further- -\u2014\t: Dominion bonds.Mr.Hepburn has |\t_____________ GERMANS SEEK TO INCREASE | described this to be a discrimination I Continued on Page 2.Col.4 and killed four aviation experts aroused suspicion today of sabotage.FBI and Company agents, investigating the crash, awaited salvaging of additional pieces of wreckage for examination.Failure of the controls apparently caused the crash yesterday of the great camouflaged ship, of the type used by the British to bomb Berlin.Observers said the bomber took off from Lindbergh Field easily enough and climbed swiftly.Then it suddenly slipped sideways into the bay.A crash boat rescued Lewis M.Mc-Cannon, twenty-five, of Woodstock, 111., one of the five men aboard.Seriously injured he was taken to the naval air station sick bay.The body of Mechanic William H.Rieser, twenty-three, Cambridge, Mass., was recovered.Still unfound and believed pinned in the sunken nose section of the ship were the bodies of Consolidated Aircraft\u2019s chief test pilot, William Wheatley, twenty-eight; Alan T.Austen, twenty-eight, assistant test pilot; and Bruce Craig, twenty-seven, aviation engineer, A spokesman for the Consolidated Aircraft Company said \u201cevidenccs of sabotage\u201d had been discovered, Ollawa, June 3.\u2014Canadians subscribed $08,bo 1,230 io Canada\u2019s 1600,000,000 1941 Victory Loan, according to returns tabulated as of 7 p.m.Monday, loan headquarters announced today.Mr.Spinney said that delays are inevitable when such a large army of non-professional canvassers and workers are engaged in the task of selling and reporting.\u201cWith so vast a machine it is unavoidable that many canvassers and many units have not transmitted their reports in time to bo included in the Federal total as of 7 p.m.last night,\u201d said Mr.Spinney.\u201cWithin Ihe next few days it is expected that the organizatipn will be in its stride and functioning more .smoothly,\u201d Meanwhile, he added, the Committee regards these first day\u2019s figures, though incomplete, as \u201cvery satisfactory\u201d and as indicating widespread patriotic enthusiasm for the loan throughout all sections of the population.\u201cIndeed there is every active evidence that the whole country is thoroughly aroused and everybody de-Washington, June 3,\u2014 (ZP) \u2014The ! termined that this lean will be suc-Defenee Mediation Board made a 1 eessfully finalized well within the new effort today for a settlement in j allotted days,\u201d he said, the twenty-five-day old strike of 12,-! Among the first cities to report 000 C.I.O.lumberworkers in the ! were Saint John, with thirteen per Pacific Northwest, which has cur- cent of its objective reached; Monc- LABOR POLICY OF ROOSEVELT NEAR SHOWDOWN Attempt to Force Lumber Workers of Northwest to Return to Work May Bring Crisis in Mediation Board Affairs.tailed supplies needed for the United States defence programme.The Board already has recommended that the strikers resume work pending a settlement and has reminded the Union of President Roosevelt\u2019s assertion in his address ton with twenty per cent; Calgary, with twenty-seven per cent; Montreal 6.44 per cent.New Brunswick Government has invested $2'50,000 in Victory Bonds, and the Workmen\u2019s Compensation.Board has subscribed for $200,000 a week ago that the American peo-; worth of bonds.In Ottawa, the pie expect the impartial recom-.Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen mendation of the Board to be ac-: invested $300,000.cepted.\tj New Brunswick was the fourth Thus, some Washington circles | Provincial Government to check in thought, the lumber strike might ; for bond purchases, bring a show-down on the admin- i Three provincial governments by istration\u2019s determination to end work last night bad signified their inten-stoppages hampering defence pro- Lion to subscribe to the loan.Quebeo duction.\t,\ttopped the Governmental list with There was speculation, too, on : $3,000,090, British Columbia sub-whether a potential weapon against, scribed for $1,000,000, and Prince strike shutdowns was contained in ; Edward Island $110,000.the proposal!) y the War Depart ment yesterday that Congress grant Mr.Roosevelt power to requisition property necessary in the defence effort.Some legislators thought it would permit the Government to take over strikebound plants.President O.M.Orton of the International Woodworkers of America cam i from Seattle to Washington today to confer with board officials.The I.W.A.rejected a board-drawn peace formula Sunday, declaring it woul d stand on its request a 714 eent an hour wage boost to seventy-five cents, paid vacation?, and a union hiring hall.Seventy thousand Chrysler Cor- Continued on page 2, column 4 By nightfall a score or more districts had reached their loan quotas to qualify for \"honor pennants.\u201d The pennants\u2014white naval ensigns with a Victory Loan torch superimposed on the white section\u2014go to villages, towns, cities and districts which meet the quotas officially allocated to them.Another pennant is awarded for each additional twenty-five per cent of quota filled.Last night, hundreds of thousands of Canadians listened to Victory Loan speeches, either by radio or at public gatherings.One programme arranged by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation brought together addresses by Sir Lyman P.Duff, Chief Justice of tha- Continued on Page 2 col.6.SUPPLIES FROM FAR EAST .Berlin, June 3.\u2014(ZP)\u2014German spokesmen said today that Dr.Helmuth Wohlthat, economic expert, is in Tokyo negotiating a far-reaching extension of Ger-man-Japanese economic relations.(Reliable circles in Tokyo said today that one of Dr.Wohlthat\u2019s chief objectives has been the speeding up of the flow of foodstuffs from Japan and Japanese-occupied China across the Trans-Siberian Railroad and into Germany.) The spokesman said that \u201con account of the vastness of projects under discussion,\u201d Wohlthat\u2019s negotiations will take time, but \u201cthere has been progressive and positive development.\u201d Washington, June 3.\u2014