Sherbrooke daily record, 31 janvier 1931, samedi 31 janvier 1931

[" t herhronk?lailu Swnrîi Established 1897.SHERBROOKE.QUE., SATURDAY, JANUARY 31.1931 Ihirty-Fourth Year.HOOVER STATES PREMIER\u2019S yM_ \u201cInformality\u201d Marked Canadian Prime Minister\u2019s Short Stay in U.S.Capital\u2014Had Conversation With Secretary of State Stimson, But No Matters of Importance Were Discussed\u2014Informal Talk Also Featured Dinner Given by President Last Evening WASHINGTON, Jan.31.- Maintaining an \u2018\u2018inform-1 ality\u201d unusual in a dis-j tinguished visitor.Premier R.B.j Bennett, of Canada, took advantage today of an opportunity ! to carry out the purposes of his ; trip to Washington.The Premier's programme for the day was kept entirely open,\t- except for a few conferences with Labor Government Leader Says THREE HUNDRED BANDITS\u2019 CAPTIVES RESCUED MacDONALD IS DETERMINED TO FIGHT IT OUT SHANGHAI, Jan.31.\u2014Chin-1 j ese press despatches today s: d J j Nationalist troops had surprised | j 3,000 bandits in southwest Honan j j province, killing 1,000 and rescu-1 I ing 300 of their captives, who | | were held for ransom.The des-1 I j patches said the brigands were ! ; j moving the captives into the I j | mountains when attacked.The i outlaws fled.GIANT GERMAN 'POSTPONEMENT SEAPLANE NOW OF INTEREST HAS AT LAS PALMAS BEEN APPROVED Fog Between Lisbon and Madeira Island Made a Change in Ori-Flans THIRTY-SEVEN CONDEMNED i TO DEATH BY TURKISH MILITARY COURT newspapermen, so that he might discuss the affairs of the Canadian Legation with officials of the Mission.Although it was indicated officially the Premier\u2019s conversations with Secretary-of-State Stimson had Administration Will Resign Only on What Amounts to aj Vote of Censure.WATFORD, Eng., Jan.31.\u2014\u201cThe Labor Government will only resign concerned no matters of international ! on what amounts to a vote of een~ importance President Hoover said he i sure,\u201d Premier Ramsay MacDonald considered such a visit was in1 the j declared in a speech here last^r.'ght.interests of the common welfare of : The Government, he added, \u201cwould both nations.\t:\tsuffer no humiliation by refusing The dinner Mr.Hoover gave last1 to be victimized by a tricky mo'e night in honor of Mr.Bennett of- | in the House of Commons, fered an opportunity for the in- i \u201cWe have to get our majorities formal discussions which the Presi- in the Commons,\u201d he\taJ'd dent said would take place between are going to get them.The lone.-» the Premier and United States of- i professed hori'or when the Govern-fi-iajg.\tment got the Liebrals into the The guest list was confined to the!sa,rle lobby'\tdid not reveal six officials in Washington having !tbat they had been moving heaven the most intimate relations with Can- ; ar}^.ear 1 \\ .\\° e, ec, f ,v'inr adian-American affairs.It included j^,e ^-bearls to tuin e , Secretary Stimson William R.Cas- | rrnrnent, 0\u201ct-.T,he T™e?a,w°Uïe tie Jr.Assistant Secretary-of-State\t'\"dependents they were for Western European Affairs, Han- I made out to be-ford McNider, United States Minis- LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands, Jan.31.\u2014The German seaplane Do-X landed in the harbor here at 3.10 p.m.(10.10 a.m.E.S.T.) The big ship settled down in the | harbor with a great roar of motors j which brought everybody within I hearing distance to the waterfront.She had completed this first lap of her projected flight across the south Atlantic in .almost exactly seven hours.Fog between Lisbon and the Modeira Island made a change in her original plans and Commander Friedrich Christiansen, instead of dropping a mail bag at Funchal, as he had intended, eliminated the) Resolution Adopted by First Bondholders of Asbestos Corporation at Montreal Meeting.MONTREAL, Jna.31.\u2014A resolution was adopted yesterday by first mortage bondholders of the Asbestos Corporation granting postponement of the January 1st, 1931, interest instalment to July 1, 1931, provided that if such instalment be not paid on July 1, 1931, the grant of such delay should not relieve the corporation from the default which occurred on January 1, 1931.The management had submitted various proposals involving longer postponement of interest payments but expressed itself as satisfied with the resolution adopted.Bondholders representing $1,563,700 par value of bonds voted in favor of the resolution, or slightly more than the ISTANBUL, Turkey, Jan.31.! \u2014Thirty-seven persons accused | of attempting to foment a noly , war in Turkey were condemned ( : to death today by a military I I court sitting at Menemen.