Sherbrooke daily record, 5 mars 1931, jeudi 5 mars 1931

[" m w i>berhronk£ 0aÜu ISfrnrîi Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUE., THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1931.Thirty-Fifth Year.PROGRESS ON COMPENSATION ACT \"EiSSS.CO-OPERATIVE SLOW IN PUBLIC BILLS COMMITTEE Although Few Clauses Were Discussed Yesterday, Sympathy for Labor Was Evidenced\u2014Minor Amendments Made Without Opposition\u2014Points of Order Superseded Discussion of Montreal Bill in Legislative Assembly\u2014 Credits Voted for Department of Lands and Forests.Quebec, March 5.\u2014 The* Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act came up before the Public Bills Committee for detail study yesterday, and although very little actual progress was reported during the two hours that it was before that body, the sympathetic manner in which the measure was treated indicated that the members had the interests of the workingman at heart.Following an objection from the Catholic Unions of Montreal, the clause in the bill which stated that compensation for disability shall be computed and due from the eighth day after the accident was amended to provide that compensation shall become due from the day of incapacity.Paragraph E and 4 of section G were killed in rapid order, the Government dropping the clauses after discussion.The section deals with SEVEN PLANES DESTROYED IN WINNIPEG FIRE Year-Old Hangar and Airships Owned by Western Canada Airways Totally Wrecked\u2014 Loss Believed Near $200,000.WINNIPEG, Man., March 5.\u2014In blackened, twisted ruins, the year-old hangar and seven planes owned by Western Canada Airways today lay totally useless or Stevenson Field after an explosion and fire late yesterday that caused damage believed to be near §200,000.Loss in aeroplanes alone is estimated at Lives Lost and Much Property Destroyed\u2014Devastating Hurricane Raged in Port Louis, Mauritius, Since Yesterday Evening.CAPETOWN, Union of South Africa, March 5.\u2014A message from Port Louis, Mauritius, today said that a devastating hurricane had raged there since yesterday evening.Loss of life could not he determined but property loss was enormous and it was feared all crops were ruined.The steamers Clange-aham and Sangate Castle were I ashore in the harbor.Conditions jwere growing worse.Mauritius, also known as the Isle of France, is a British Island Colony in the Indian Ocean, six hundred miles east of Madagascar and 2,300 miles from Capetown.Port Louis has a population of 50,000.LADY MOSLEY ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION FROM PARTY MINING NEEDED IN FAR NORTH UNITED STATES PLEASED WITH NAVAL TREATY UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION IN CHINA VERY SERIOUS Little Stands Between Chinese and Starvation\u2014Repatriation from Straits Settlements of More Than 400,000 Laborers.-\tj HONG KONG, March 5.\u2014Repa- One Means of Developing Re-1 Franco-Italian Naval Agreement tnation of more than four hundred sources of Country More Fully and More Quickly\u2014Suggest Changes Be Made in Mining Regulations.OTTAWA, Ont., March 5.\u2014 Cooperative mining in Canada\u2019s far north was suggested today before the convention of the Canadian Mining and Metallurgy as one means of developing the resources of the country more fully and more quickly.J.Lome MacDougail, of Ottawa, suggested changes be made in the mining regulatione in the Northwest Territories whereby one thousand Praised by President Hoover and Secretary Stimson \u2014 A Matter for Congratulation Throughout World.WASHINGTON, D.C., March 5.\u2014The Franco-Italian naval agreement was praised by President Hoover ami Secretary Stimson in the first formal comment by United States officials since the accord was reached.In a formal statement the chief executive said it was \u201ca matter for congratulation in the whole world.\u201d A little later Secretary Stimson indicated at a press conference that, rvDCDIlvnTXITC ITVDI AIM the agreement would be satisfactory] LArLlxllVIC.I'l 1 j LArLAln thousand Chinese laborers from the Straits Settlements has created an unemployment situation in this city and Canton unparalleled in modern times.There is little between them and starvation.Thrown out of work by slumps in tin and rubber on the Malay Peninsula, these jobless Chinese were deported to their own country by the British authorities at Singapore.The Cantonese Government provided a few gunboats and a half dozen small merchant steamers.About ninety per cent of the deported men on arrival here had only the few dollars given them when they left Singapore.CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE CAMPAIGN IN INDIA WAS BROUGHT TO END TODAY Brings a Halt to India\u2019s Political Turmoil\u2014Action in Accordance With Terms of Agreement Reached Yesterday by Gandhi and Lord Irwin\u2014Eleven Provisions Included in Truce\u2014Preparations Now Being Made for Second Conference to Be Held in London or India.FARNHAM MAN WAS STRUCK BY FREIGHT TRAIN N Illness of Leader of New Party Prevents Immediate Action in Carrying Out Organization Plans.cases of Quebec workmen injured ] $120,000.A privately owned F air-outside the province, the first read- j child cabin machine also was desing: \u201cwhere an accident happens ; G'oyed.outside of the province and the em- ! Early investigation into the spec-ployer has no place of business ! tacular blaze failed to reveal its therein, compensation shall not be ] cause, though workmen in and neaT payable to the injured workman or j the large frame hangar opin,.d an his dependents whether he is resident within or without the prov- explosion in the gasoline tank of a plane had set it afire.Flames LONDON, March 5.\u2014Lady Cynthia Mosley, who is helping her husband form his new political party, yesterday wrote to Premier Ramsay MacDonald asking him to accept her resignation from the Parliamentary Labor Party.She sits for the Stoke division and has been asked to attend a special meeting of the Stoke, Fenton and Longton Labor Party next Friday to explain her stand.Sir Oswald, her husband, announced last week that he would form his new party but his letter of resignation from the Labor Party, if it has been sent, has not been made public.He was in bed today threatened with pleurisy.ince, unless his usual employment quickly advanced along the gas is in the province and he is only out ' soaked ground to consume the cn-of it temporarily for some purpose I tire structure and its contents.connected with his.employment.\u201d !_____________________________________ Paragraph 4, struck out, reads: | ' \u201cWhere accident happens outside of ; the province on a steamboat, ship or j vessel or on a railway or by means or any other mode of transportation ! by carrier by land to a workman j who resides in the province, and the ] nature of his employment requires j him to work both within and with- ; out the province, the workman or - - vir'iL* t* î i i\txr .1 t\u2014 ,\t,\t, his dependents shall be entitled to Twice Within ! welve Hours Yesterday Extremely High benefit under this act, as if the ac-1 NEW ENGLAND SUFFERED HEAVILY FROM SERIOUS FLOODS AND GALE prospectors would work one hundred ]to ^UmtedState^\tgaid in part: \u201cIn the last phase of the negotiations Mr.Henderson, Mr.Briand square miles in a season and all j ^ share in the discoveries.It had been establsihed, the convention was told, that the area and Mr.Grandi have given it the abounded in mineral resources al- ^ |u][ llieasure 0f their statesmanship, though their extent and commercial value could not be determined without further prospecting.Water power with which to work the mines was abundant in the area, especially On the Coppermine, Dease, Sloan and Caniisell Rivers.Majority of the promising discoveries lay within fifty miles of Coronation Gulf and regular ocean transportation has and the successful result is a matter for congratulation in the whole world.\u201cI am happy also to acknowledge the impetus given the settlement by the suggestion of Ambassador Gib RAPID CANCER GROWTH Germ of Cancer Thrives on Tissue Contained in Parts of Body Affected by Dread Disease.WASHINGTON, D.C., March 5.\u2014 An experiment which may furnish a due to why cancer cells multiply so much more rapidly than normal body cells has just been completed by son conveyed in Paris and Rome last! scientists of the public health ser-November.\u201d\t] vice.Mr.Stimson said he did not wish,: This a normal speed of increase is ____\t_____ _______________ 'll the absence of definite informa-] essentially the reason why cancer is been carried on in this area for fif- jtion, to make\tany statement\tas to, fatal.teen years, the convention was told, whether the agreement would\tneces-i The experimefit showed that\tan j pat]j 0f the on-coming train with sitate_a revision of the London Na- amoeba, which is one type of single-1 no means of escaping.necessitating Senate j living cell, multiplies much more ~\t~\t¦ ~ g^git\tr\t; action.\t;\treadily when stimulated\tby a chem- D\u2019ARCY, Sask*.March 5.\u2014Setting I Tfhe United\tStates wmuid\tmuch] ical called glutathione,\tDr.H.\tM.a record for this district G McLearn I prefer> he.added> that the agree- chalk ley explained, Cancer tissues started seeding^ last week.A coim ! FeTlt.\t™\tthe Jccntain a great deal of glutathione, Mr.R.G.Edward.C.P.R.Yard Master, Victim of Serious Accident This Morning\u2014Rushed leader, permitting abandonment EW DELHI, India, March 5.\u2014Mahatma Gandhi and the All-Ind ia Congress party today terminated the civil disobedience campaign, bringing a halt to India s political turmoil.The action was in accordance with the terms of an greement reached yesterday by Gandhi and Lord Irwin, the Viceroy.The terms of the truce between Lord Irwin, Viceroy, and Mahatma Gandhi, Nationalist to Montreal by Special Train.FARNHAM, Que., March 5.\u2014 Struck by a moving freight train at an early hour this morning as he was walking along the railway track, Mr.R.G.Edward, local C.P.R.yard master, sustained very serious injuries, which necessitated his immediate removal to a Montreal hospital.Although the manner in which the accident occurred is not known, it is said that Mr.Edward was walking along the track to his work, i and in some way found himself in STARTED SEEDING AT D\u2019ARCY, ]val Treaty .\t.\t.\t.\t,,\tLondon treaty.\tj possibly more than any other type bine is m operation on the farm of , The fact that Gr\u20acat Britain) the tissue.Charles Milner, three miles nom directly interested power, was sat-i This is believed to be the first use \u2018 isfied, Mr.Stimson said, was a good] of glutathione, in such an experi-2 indication that the United States] ment, in its pure form.would be satisfied.\tI- here.The wheat yields bushels to the acre and is No.grade.Dr.Dorran and Dr.Demers, both of the C.P.R., were immediately called, and rendered first aid.The extent of the unfortunate man\u2019s injuries were considered serious, and he was rushed to a Montreal hospital by special train.Mr.Edward, a resident of this place, is married and has one son.OVERPRODUCTION BLAMED FOR PRESENT DEPRESSION in the pro- cident had happened vinee.\u201d Joseph Cohen, of St.Lawrence, Montreal, said this left out airplane transportation, which was commencing to become a factor.He felt also that a Quebec workman injured in Toronto, working for a company with a head office in Ontario, would not come under the Quebec law.The matter was disposel of when\te the two paragraphs mentioned were \" dropped.When the Tides Churned into Raging Floods, Which Caused Failing Provision of Work, Governments Will Have to Establish Unemployment Scheme, Says Labor Chief.APPRECIATES INCREASED TARIFFS ON VEGETABLES Member of Legislature for Also Seeks Extension of Duties Letter to Hon.Arthur DIRECT IMPORTATIONS OF RUSSIAN HFURS SHOWED STEADY FALLING OFF m Sauve.For First Nine Months of 1929 Imports Had a Value of of the civil disobedience campaign were published here today.The principal provisions are: (1)\tAbandonment of the civil disobedience campaign.(2)\tAbandonment of the boycott as a political weapon.(3)\tRelease of prisoners held for non-violent offenses.(4)\tRecognition of right of salt area residents to make their own salt.(5)\tPicketing of nonaggressive nature to be permitted.(6)\tRepressive ordinances issued during civil disobedience campaign to be withdrawn.(7)\tWhere property confiscated for taxes has been sold to a third party the transaction is to be regarded as final so far as the government is concerned.(8)\tSale and purchase of British goods is not to be interfered with.(9)\tAbandonment of Nationalist demands for an inquiry into alleged police excesses.(10)\tReturn of unsold confiscated property.(11)\tParticipation of the Nationalists in a second round table conference on the principles of federation, central responsibility and financial and military safeguards.Preparations were already being made today by tire Nationalists and their moderate friends for participation in a forthcoming round table QUEBEC, March 4.\u2014Jos.Renaud,! B Damage Estimated at $3,000,000 Along New England ! MONTREAL.Que., March 5.Coast\u2014More Than Two Hundred Left Homeless in: ^aany mi7Pand \u201cthere \"has-been ~a ] ^.itten Thrfonowhig ktteT to'HÔ7 ! Revere Shipping and Rail Traffic Badly Interrupted,\tmm\"1 ca^fty blinf Arthur Sauve, Postmaster-General:! greatly in excess of the demand, ]\t\u2019\u2019I ^ve, honor to inform y ou j John P.Burke, president of the I that Paui Gumos, farmer of the | Brotherhood of Pulp Sulphite and town of St.Michel (Island of Mont-1 Paper Mill Workers, stated at the real) called on me with a représenta-.* .,\t.- t» *1\t11va.flpipfrntinn t.p pxnress the satis- biermial convention of the Brother- $111,031, But During Corresponding Period Last Year (conference to work out details of They Dropped to $8,644\u2014Large Increase Recorded in Coal Shipments\u2014No Importations of Asbestos from Russia Last Year.OSTON, Mass., March 5.\u2014Twice * within twelve hours extremely high tides have been churned into raging floods by a powerful onshore gale to wreak tremendous along the New England i Damage from yesterday\u2019s REFORM NEEDED IN AFFAIRS OF GREAT BRITAIN .\u201e\u201e\t.j___________ flood committee adjourned, was estimated at $3,000,000.The discussion was waxing warm on the loss was greatly increased by a sec-clau-e governing the payment of ond flood shortly before midnight ioreign workmen.1'be act provides last night, and additional wreckage that where a dependent is not resi- was feared from the peak tide at dent in Canada, he shall not be en- none today.\t|\t\u2022\ti tv \u2022 titled to compensation, unless the More than two hundred were left] Present ^Confusion and Disinte-laws of his country grant compen- homeless by the battering, storm-sation to Canadian workmen injured tossed ocean in Revere.The Red while at work there.In the latter Gross supplied two hundred cots and ease, the compensation shall not ex- the city furnished food for the wed the amount that would be grant- refugees, many of whom had not ed in the latter country.\tbeen able to return to their homes Representatives of the labor un- from 'vork or school.Police and fire reserves were stationed at Revere Beach to aid sufferers and ten state troopers were sent to the city to aid local authorities.r, .t ,\tQuarters were provided for the 11 emier Taschereau ,n supporting homt,k,ss at the Governor Bradstreet (he measure, thought that the matter School had Wi be left to the Commission.\u2019 The Vising waters poured over sea sity today warned that continuation He d:«l not think it reasonable that walls and into streets, demolishing the present confusion and dis-in the case of a Chinaman, for exam-; homes and bringing traffic to a integration would put Britain bacK ] within a generation\u2014perhaps soon- ions objected to the clause on the ground that the hiring of foreign labor would be encouraged to the detriment of Canadians.gration\u201d Will Put Britain Back Within a Generation to Degree of States Like Holland and Portugal, Declares British Statesman.EDINBURGH, Scotland, March 5.\u2014Rt.Hon.Winston Churchill, British statesman, delivering the rectorial address at Edinburgh Univer- & hood here yesterday.Mills have been closed down, he said, and much hardship caused to the workers.Affirming that there are 5,000,000 unemployed in the United States, Mr.Burke went on to urge that failing the provision of work, governments will have to give serious consideration to the question of establishing a system of unemployment insurance.Some seventy delegates from Canada and the United States are attending the convention.MUSSOLINI SENT REPLY TO | TELEGRAM FROM MacDONALD tive delegation to express the satis faction felt by the market gardeners because of the action of the federal Government in increasing the I duties on imported carrots, and begging me to communicate to you their thanks, which they hope will pass on to the Prime Minister and to all our colleagues.\u201cWill it be possible to also increase the duties on cabbages, and beets which because of a ruinous competition cannot be sold and re, main in the cellars to the great detriment of the farmers?\u201d EXPORTERS OF CATTLE FACE NEW PROBLEM the projected Indian constitution.Some look at London as the site of the meeting, but the Nationalists hope that it will be held in India.The Bombay Chronicle, Nationalist newspaper, today described the Delhi agreement between Lord Irwin and Gandhi as an honorable I Figures of direct importations of the fur from Russia for the, first nine months of the current I truc« representing an achievement | fiscal year have been made available 1 jw non-violent methods unparalleled I in the distribution of a government j 'n history.But truce, or no truce, ] blue book giving details of Canadian | paper said, the boycott on for-! trade from April 1st, 1930 to the olffn cloth must continue until tha end of the year.The report shows a last package of the cloth and yarn considerable falling away in direct have been eliminated from the coun-importations of Russian fur for 1930 try in favor of khadder or home-in comparison with 1929.For the spun, first nine months of the latter fiscal FORMER SINGER IN CHURCH CHOIR HAS ACHIEVED FAME NEW YORK, March 5.\u2014After an absence of two years, Clara Jacobo, former Lawrence, Mass., church ! choir singer and mill operative, rc- Opera ROME, March 5.\u2014Premier Mussolini today replied to Premier MacDonald\u2019s telegram of felicit-j ation at the conclusion of the naval j turned to the Metropolitan accord among Great Britain, Italy and France.\u201cI am convinced,\u201d the message said, \u201cthat this accord be a benefic-l ial influence not only upon rela- Regulations Announced by British n!ke, imPprt?had a value of CONSULAR INVOICES FOR c k \u2022 it ncc\tMU,OiU, but durm£ the correspond-\t4 Ministry of Agriculture Offer jng period of the current fiscal year, PAPER IMPORTS OPPOSED Little Inducement to Attempt the importations had dropped to only I\t- Sales in British Markets.$8.644.The particulars of these imports 1 follow : Nine Nine Narcotic Division Seeking to Have Consular Invoices Attached to All Products Entering United ! States.pie, that money suitable for a Can- standstill shortly before noon yes-1\t-\t-\t,\t\u201e .adian standard of living should be terday for the first time.\t!\tj© degre of states like \u201c01*Ujons among the signatory powers cni to a widow in China, where, ini With the receding tides the shores [ atldjjPortugal.^_ ^ (\t, ! but also on\" the political and coon- His address, which he uldition, no check could be made to were strewn with debris, and only an occasional building remained in : many of the summer colonies along ] ernment of^tod, DISCUSSION ON MONTREAL i omic situation of the world.It is ,\t._ \u2014\t_ - - - -, \u2014 - - j _\t_\tp T>\tf\t1 UIIlIC MLUC11.1UII Ui- LI 1C W V/l 1U.J1L lo determine whether the widow ha i an occasional building remained in1 The Decline ol 1 arliamentary uoy-.^\tpreparation for .oday - 'vas d®voted to thc\tdisarmament conferences.remarried -\t| the north and south shores.Hundreds were made homeless, and .thousands slept in unheated homes BILL ONCE AGAIN DELAYED with from two to six feet of water ______\t| in their cellars.While the affected towns, which QUEBEC, March 5.\u2014House regulation* came in for more study in (he Legislative Assembly than the famous Montreal Bill yesterday.The private bills committee ,through the chairman, Dr.Gustave Lemieux, reported that the City of Montreal had announced its desire to drop thc bill included the north shore communities of Winlhrop, Revere, Lynn, and Nahant, and on the south shore, Hull, Nantasket and Pemberton, were quartering the homeless in public buildings, the water rose again.A full moon brought the tide to a record high shortly before midnight, and that its sponsor, Mayor Hondo, amj aKajn fke water flowed through had signified Ins intention of With-j the streets with an increasing toll drawing it.Dr.Anatole immediately j in damage.arose and moved that the report be! in Boston, shipping was at a not accepted, but a point of order I standstill and the ferry service from raised by Alderic Blain, Conserva-[ the city to the East Boston section live for Dorion, who pointed to the*! was stopped when the flood waters House regulation that \u201cNo motion inundated the landing wharves.; ball lie made in the negative form,\u201d j Ht il service was affected and traffic was sustaimed and further discussion | on the Boston, Reven Beach and war held over.\t: Lynn Railroad was entirely halted rile matter of compulsory nutomo- ! lor a lime.'I be Portland division of bile liability insurance was again