Sherbrooke daily record, 1 février 1936, samedi 1 février 1936

[" Ü\u2019hrrhronke latlu îîwnrîi Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, CANADA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1936.Thirty-Ninth Year.ETHIOPIANS CLAIM ITALIAN ARMY1 ON NORTHERN FRONT ANNIHILATED! JAPS FROWN ON ACCIDENTAL INTERFERENCE IN ORIENT Statement from Ethiopian Headquarters Declares Famous Fascist \u201c28th of October\u201d Division Included in Forces Defeated in Greatest Battle of the War on Northern Front\u2014Shake-Up in Command of Southern Ethiopian Army Reported\u2014Italian Official Reports Fail to Make Mention of Any Battle.Dessye, Ethiopia, February 1.\u2014The Ethiopian general headquarters claimed today that the Italian army of General Diamant!, including the famous Fascist \u201c28th of October\u201d division, was \u201cannihilated\u201d in what was described as the greatest battle of the war on the northern front.Ethiopian authorities said the battle ended yesterday, and that hundreds of prisoners, masses of guns, machine guns, rifles and mules laden with ammunition were captured.At the same time, Ras Desta Demtu, son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie, was reported unofficially to have been deposed as Ethiopian commander on the southern front.ITALIAN DEFENCE LINES ARE STRONGLY PROTECTED Makale, February 1.\u2014Inspection of the Italian defence lines before, this northern Ethiopian city indicated today that it will be impossible for the largest Ethiopian army to break through.Strong fortifications at either end of the line are connected by lines of barbed wire entanglements, and the most careful watch is maintained constantly.NOTHING NEW REPORTED BY ITALIAN COMMANDER; Rome, Feb.1.\u2014The Italian war\tM communique said today, \u201cMarshal mV | h M Ml V » 1^1 PW Pietro Badoglio telegraphs that on \u2022 ¦\t\u201c lllil 1 1\\1® TÏ the Somaliland and Eritrean fronts\t_ .rrrri there is nothing^-.\u201d\tFATE TONIGHl PHOTOGRAPHS TO SUPPORT CHARGES OF MUTILATION East ^ wVman Fainted in1 Court This Morning Shortly; After Crown Prosecutor Began Addressing Jury\u2014Trial Ex-i pected to End This Afternoon.| Japanese Ambassador Declares His People Want No Repetition of Western Encroachments in Their Sphere or World.New York, Feb.1.\u2014An assertion that the Japanese would frown on Occidental interference in the Orient as strongly as official North America would dislike an Asiatic intrusion in the western hemisphere* was left today by Ambassador Hiroso Saito.of Japan.In a speech' at the annual dinner of the Japan Society, Ambassador Saito said his nation has been forced to wage \u201cseveral minor and at least one major war\u201d by \u201coccidental aggression,\u201d and added: \u201cNaturally our people want no repetition of these western encroachments in their sphere of the world.The United States would countenance favorably none in any part of the Americas from Europe or Asia.\u201d The Japanese envoy expressed the opinion there was little fear of immediate war on a major scale due to present day militaristic tendencies.Geneva.Feb.1.\u2014A group of .photographs of white and native soldiers, who, the Italian Government charges, were emasculated and otherwise mutilated, or wounded by dumdum bullets, was on file today with the League of Nations secretariat.The photographs were sent to Joseph Avenol, Secretary-General of the League, by Fulvio Suvich, Italian Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to support Italy\u2019s protest of January 16th, in which the Rome Government charged that the Ethiopians were guilty of committing atrocities and of abusing the Red Cross emblem.The photographs included a group showing \u201cCorporal Viovanni Sereba and Privates Antonio Amato, Pietro Frangioso, and Gillo Mazzeo, mutilated and emasculated during an encounter with Ethiopians at Tan-zooa on December 27th.\u201d Another picture was that of \"An Askari, slain in a fight at Dclbri, southeast of Makale, December 3rd, whom the Ethiopians disembowelled and whose head they bashed in.\u201d There were numerous pictures af white and native soldiers who, it was charged, had suffered wounds from dumdum bullets.The photographs were accompanied by reports on the cases from Italian army surgeons.CLAIMS EUROPEAN WAR TO FOLLOW ADDED SANCTIONS Rome, Feb.3.\u2014Premier Mussolini summoned his Fascist Grand Council today to a solemn session and led a simultaneous celebration of Italy\u2019s \u201cMilitia Day,\u201d amid grim warnings of peril of a European war arising from the Ethiopian conflict.A bluntly-phrased editorial in I! Duce's own newspaper, Popolo DTlalia of Milan, charged that \u201cif sanctions were extended\u2019 and a political victory was won by the pressure of \u201cImperialists and the blood-thirsty,\u201d Europe would fall fatefully toward humanity\u2019s \u201cmost terrible, unjust war.\u201d An in formed source said this admonition was decided upon only after Mussolini learned by telephone of the results of a private London conférence between Dim) Grandi, Italian Ambassador to Great.Britain, and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.The editorial, occupying two newspaper columns, received extraordinary publicity.The government-controlled press displayed it, on front pages in italics, beneath arresting headlines.In n single sentence, apparently referring to the Geneva proposal for addition of an oil embargo to the present League of Nations war penalties, it epitomized the problems of the Grand Councillors, supreme advisers of state, were called to ponder: \u201cAn embargo will end at a certain moment in a blockade, and a blockade will be war.\u201d VETERAN WARRIOR ORDERED TO GO TO SOUTHERN FRONT Addis Ababa, Feb.3.\u2014 Dedjaz-inntch Ralteha, veteran Kidamo province warrior, was ordered today to go to the Southern Front, where the Ethiopian forces were reported to have fallen back before a swift Italian offensive.Rumors that IlaltcVm was taking over tin' Southern command from Ras Desta Demtu, son-in law of Emperor Haile Selassie, however, were officially denied.YEATS OUT OF DANGER.Palma, Mallorca, Feb.I.William Butler Yeats.Ireland\u2019s world-famous poet and playwright, was reported out of danger today, following reports that two heart' attacks were causing grave concern.TROUBLE OVER DISMISSALS AT OTTAWA GROWS CLAIMS GERMANY IS MAINTAINING HUGE ARMED FORCE IN RHINELAND Belgian Military Expert Declares 250,000 Trained Soldiers Are Stationed in Demilitarized Area West of Rhine\u2014 Charges that Camps Have Already Been Constructed and Troops Motorized to High Degree\u2014Believes Two General Staff Headquarters to Be Established in Zone.U S.UNITED MINE WOHKERS j^TlONARY BLOC SEEKING B russels, Feb.1.\u2014Charges of a Belgian military .expert that Germany has stationed 250,000 trained soldiers in the demilitarized area west of the Rhine caused a sensation in Government and army circles here today.The charges were made by Lieut.-Col Tasnier in an article published in the newspaper Le Soir.\u201cI can declare without exaggeration,\u201d Col.Tasnier said in his article, \u201cthat according to information from the best sources there exist west of the Rhine more than'''250,000 men fully prepared to fight.\u201d Germany maintains formations of the \u201cLandespolizei,\u201d organized similarly to the regular army, and a labor brigade, preparing for army service, which has built camps near the Belgian border, Col.Tasnier said in his article.He said these formations include two groups of Storm Troops of the fifth and sixth bridages, an effective force of 150,000 men; the seventh regiment of blackshirt guards of about 20,000 men; a motor corps of six regiments, numbering 40,000 men.and a service of supply and construction corps of 30,000 men.There also is a large aviation reserve force.Col.Tasnier called attention to the fact that only ten of the twelve General Staff headquarters of the German army have been announced, saying that Chancellor Hitler will not disclose the location of the other two until he is ready to denounce the Rhineland demilitarization clauses of the Versailles Treaty.Col.Tasnier said that bridges, roads and before long an automobile speedway will link these forces with army units on the right bank of the Rhine.\u201cBy simple calculation,\u201d he concluded, \u201cmotorized forces, massed at night near the Belgian border could be in Liege the next morning, at Namur by noon and at Brussels and Antwerp by two o'clock in the afternoon.The militarization of the Rhineland is almost complete, and it is our duty to warn the country of this danger.\u201d Quebec, Feb.1.\u2014Beatrice Chapde-laine, of East Angus, Que., who is being tried in Criminal Court here for the murder of her husband, Lud-ger Chapdelaine, taxi driver, fainted in the Court room today.The accused woman collapsed shortly after Vahnore Bienvenue, K.C., Crown prosecutor, began addressing the jury, The trial proceedings were halted while Court attendants removed Mrs.Chapdelaine to another room where she was later revived.Mr.Bienvenue was, dealing with the evidence of Gedeon Bernard, the accused's brother, and Bernard's wife, when Beatrice Chaipdelaine crumpled in her seat in the prisoner's box Crown counsel had been stressing Bernard\u2019s testimony concerning the purchase of arsenic.Indications were that Mr.Bienvenue would not finish his address before lunch and that Mr.Justice Adolphe Stein, presiding over the trial, would begin his charge late this afternoon.It, is expected the case will he delivered to ill- jurors about five p.m.NEW TRINIDAD GOVERNOR APPOINTED.London, Feb, 1.\u2014 Sir Arthur Murchison Fletcher, Governor of Fiji and British High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, today was appointed Governor of Trinidad and Tobago, succeeding Sir Alfred Claud Hollis.Sir Alfredo has reached the age of retirement.POLICE BLAMED IN WOONSOCKET MURDER TRIAL In Acquitting Marie Sevigny of \u201cMercy Murder,\u201d Grand Jury Charges Police Bungled in Failing to Secure Adequate Evidence Before Bringing Charge.Woonsocket, R.L, Feb.1.\u2014 Mary Sevigny, dark-eyed nurse absolved of murder charges by a grand jury which charged police bungled the ease*, said today she would go back to her Manchester, X.H., home shortly and begin life anew.The twenty-six year old woman, who Police Inspector Leo Variasse once announced, confessed to killing a patient to end her suffering, said she would resume practical nursing.A Providence County grand jury dismissed the charges against the Freneh-Canadian nurse yesterday.She was accused of administering a caustic agent, to Mrs.L.Vahnore Normandin.forty-seven year old wife e?an auditor for the State Aleoho' c Beverage Commission, Mrs.Normandin, the grand jury found, died December 11 of poison she administered herself.Of police, the grand jurors said this: \u201cApparently proceeding on a premise that, there was no question about Miss Sevigny\u2019s guilt, they did not.bother to find out whether or not there was any testimony other than that used to build up their own case.\u201cWe deplore the fact that the young woman whom we all believed to be innocent, of any criminal action has been branded by sensationseeking newspapers and a careless police department as a murderer.\u201d Persons Evidently Selected to Succeed Dismissed House of Commons Employees Report for Work, Complimenting Task of Special Committee Investigating Trouble.Ottawa, Feb.1.\u2014 Complications which have developed on Parliament Hill due to the notifying of more than one hundred House of Commons employees their services were no longer required reached a*new stage today.With hopeful expressions on their laces, 120 out of 198 men and women notified to report, apparently for the purpose of taking over the work relinquished by those discharged, arrived at the Parliament Buildings.They found the hundred-odd who had been given their notice still at work.They were requested by the Sergeant-at-Arms, M.F.Gregg, V.C., to fiih in forms stating their qualifications, overseas service, number of dependents if any and other information.Then they went home to await developments.Those who turned up today were notified to report at the Parliament Buildings.At the same time notification of dismissal was sent to the others.The whole matter is now under review by a Cabinet sub-committee consisting of Hon.Ian Mackenzie, Minister of National Defence; Hon.C.G- Power, Minister of Pensions, and Hon.J.C.Elliott, Postmaster General.They will meet, probably next week.Pierre Casgrain, former chief Liberal whip who is said to be slated for the Speakership, and officials of the House, with a view to ironing out the situation.Those who received notification of dismissal included cleaners, charwomen, messengers, members of the protective staff and helpers of various kinds.The stenographic staff numbering more than 100 and the restaurant staff of forty-odd, has not been subject to interference.BIG MAJORITY GIVEN SARRAUT ON FIRST VOTE WILL SUPPORT ROOSEVELT Will Also Contribute to Democratic Campaign Fund\u2014Urge American Federation of Labor to Follow Their Lead.Washington, Feb.1.\u2014The United Mine Workers formally endorsed President Roosevelt today for re-election and decided to contribute to tile Democratic campaign fund.\u201cIt might be well for the American Federation of Labor to take cognizance of what this convention has done.\u201d said John L.Lewis, the miners\u2019 president, when the 1,700 delegates had unanimously adopted the Roosevelt resolution.\u201cIf the A.F.of L.would follow suit, as it should, then for all practical purposes the result of the next: election no longer would be in doubt.\u201d The Federation traditionally takes no part as such in United States presidential elections.\u201cWe.are not endorsing the Democratic party as such.\u201d Lewis added.\u201cThe Union is allying itself with a great statesman to protect the common people.\u201d BONUS PAYMENT IN NEW CURRENCY Resolution Passed by Forty Members of House Opposes Levying of Any New Taxes to Pay Veterans\u2019 Gratuities \u2014Would Also Carry Out Farm Mortgage Refinancing and New Farm Relief Programme by Speeding Up of Printing Press \u2014 Opposition to Permanent Neutrality Policy Growing.Chamber of Deputies Records Majority of 198 for New Premier Following Impassioned Two-Day Speech on Foreign Policy.UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMED TO BE FEDERAL ISSUE Dominion Counsel, Supporting Right of Federal Parliament to Pass Unemployment Insurance Act, Cites Poverty Pleas of Provinces and Municipalities.Ottawa, Feb.1.\u2014 The Supreme Court today took official notice of facts known to every man in the street that there has been a depression and unemployment has been crippling cities, provinces and the federal treasury.General economic conditions in the country were reviewed by Louis Saint-Limrenl, Quebec, Dominion counsel in the reference to test validity of the federal act establishing unemployment insurance.He claimed the Court in considering the Act could not close its eyes to general conditions.The Dominion claims the Act is constitutional because unemployment became so acute the provinces could not handle it and Parliament hail to step in under the \u201cPeace, Order and Good Government\u201d provisions of the British North America Act.Mr.Faiul-Laurent told the court I he.federal treasury spent $192,261,-OOO between 31*30 and 1935 to relieve unemployment.It was estimated total expenditures by Dominion, provinces and in un ici puli ties in the same years were $501,945,000.The Dominion counsel read several admissions from provinces, Ontario and Urit.isli Columbia among them, which admitted unemployment was loo big for them to handle without Dominion assistance.THREE RIVERS FIRE CLAIMED THREE LIVES Mr.and Mrs.Jarvis Thompson and Three-Year-Old Daughter Perished in Blaze that Razed Their Home \u2014 Father-in-Law Badly Burned.Three Rivers, Que., Feb.1.\u2014Three persons were burned to death here today when fire destroyed the home of D.S.Baxter, who suffered serious injuries in attempting to rescue his daughter, son-in-law and their three year old child.The dead are Jarvis Thompson, Mrs.Jarvis Thompson and Patricia Thompson, aged three years.The three were trapped in the upper floor of the father-in-law\u2019s home and were dead when firemen finally made their way through the smoke to the back part of the flat where Thompson apparently had perished in an effort to take his wife and child to safety.Thompson discovered the fire, which spread from the living room fireplace, and ran downstairs to telephone the fire department.The noise aroused Mr.Baxter and the two attempted to make their way through the flames, rapidly enveloping the staircase and cutting off the only avenue to safety.Baxter lost sight of his son-in-law and tried to make his way up the flaming staircase, but the steps were crumbling and he was forced to flee, seriously burned.Hospital authorities said his condition was serious but not critical.The bodies of Thompson and his child were found together as if the father had been carrying the child to the stairs.The body of Mrs.Thompson, the former Muriel Baxter.was found near the foot of the bed as if she had been attempting to follow her husband.He was pres- _ ___ idefit of the Trades and Labor Coun-1 would do his best to bring about an cil of Three Rivers and well known ' in Quebec curling circles.An inquest will be held at a date to be decided later.POLICE ACCEPT CHALLENGE OF N.J.GOVERNOR Despite Expressed Belief that Hauptmann Had No Accomplices, State Police Superintendent Launches New Secret w asliington, February 1.The United Slates House of Representatives inflationary bloc adopted a resolution today for payment of the soldiers\u2019 bonus in new currency.A resolution opposed any new taxes as \u201centirely unnecessary.\u201d It was adopted as word of a $730,000,000 tax bill to meet bopus and farm relief costs was passed in high administration quarters.There was no dissenting vote as Representative Patman, Democrat, Texas, leader of the group, put the question to approximately two-score representatives present.Representative Blanton, Democrat, Texas, asserted that the only leason financiers prefer the issuance of bonds to pay the bonus rather than currency expansion is \u2019\u2019because they get three per cent, interest on the bonds and a bonus out of manipulation of bonds.\u201d The resolution adopted was proposed by Representative Greenwood., Democrat, Indiana, who said: \u201cMany of us\u2014in fact all of us\u2014do not believe in wild inflation that would see Government credit and purchasing power imperilled.But we could issue notes on the metallic base that lies in the Treasury and belongs to the Government.\u201d After consulting Patman before meeting opened, Senator Thomas, Democrat, Oklahoma, announced a .Investigation Case.in Lindbergh RUSSIANS AND FRENCH STUDY DEFENCE PACT Trenton, N.J., Feb.Norman Schwarzkopf, dent of State Police 1.\u2014Co).H.Superinten-,launched a Paris, Feb.1.\u2014Ratification of the Franco-Soviet pact and preparations for the spring elections were today the two immediate tasks facing the government of Premier Albert Sarraut, which yesterday won a decisive majority of 196 votes in the Chamber of Deputies.Supported by the entire Chamber Left, the solid Radical Socialist bloc and the Socialists led by Leon Blum, and aided by the benevolent abstention of the Communist faction, Premier Sarraut -vas able to set his stop-gap Government to work today, picking up the threads of administration left at loose ends by xhe resignation last week of Pierre Laval.A proposal for electoral reform will come before the Chamber next week.Definite .dates for the election also will be fixed.It is expected that they will be called for late April.Ratification of the Franco Soviet pact, already favorably reported by the Chamber committee concerned, also was expected to come before'the final session of the outgoing legislature.Premier Sarraut won his crushing vote of confidence yesterday at the close of a tumultuous two-day debate during which the new Premier made impassioned appeals for national unity in the face of the grave problems of the day.Premier Sarraut pledged himseli to defend republican order against all attacks and indicated that he SOVIET AGENTS ACCUSED early settlement of the Italo-Fthio pian conflict.The vote of confidence was 361 to 1G5, 1 secret new investigation-today into the Lindbergh kidnapping, under orders from Gov.Harold G.Hoffman to \u201ccomplete the job.\u201d The Governor bad no specific suggestions for the course of the renewed inquiry into the crime, for which Bruno Richard Hauptmann is under sentence to die, but promised to turn over to the State Police \u201cthings that come to my attention\u201d and any evidence of accomplices he may receive.\u201cI feel they should follow the regular police procedure,\u201d the Governor said.\u201cHaving convicted Hauptmann, they have a starting point.It\u2019s a police job to find if any other persons were involved in the job.\u201d Despite his own expressed belief that Hauptmann had no accomplices in the kidnapping and slaying of the baby.Col.Schwarzkopf wrote the Governor he was willing to carry out the orders.Hoffman, in a lengthy statement, presented yesterday what he said was \u201cincontrovertible proof\u201d that Hauptmann was not alone in the kidnapping and collection of the futile $r>0,000 ransom paid for the baby\u2019s return.PARTY PLAN TO AGAIN ATTEMPT MOUNT EVEREST 1936 Mount Everest Expedition Party Left London Today, En Route to Darjeeling, India, Bound for \u201cLast Great Adventure on Earth \u201d European Security Against Threat of War and French Credits to! U.S.S.R.Among Topics Discussed at Meeting of Fhndin and Litvisioff.Paris, Feb.1\u2014European security against the threat of war, ratification of the Franco-Soviet pact and French credits to the U.S.S.R.were among the topics believed to have similar movement would be initiated in the Senate.Farm inflationists are seeking to force a vote in the House of Representatives on the Frazier-Lenike bill which would refinance farm mortgages on easier terms by printing ui], to $3,0'O'0,0(19,060 of new money.There also was talk in inflationist ranks of financing, in similar fash-, ion, the new farm prograninv;.estimated to cost more than $400,-000,000 a year.In the meantime opposition to permanent neutrality legislation that would vastly enlarge the President\u2019s embargo powers accumulated so rapidly that Senator Pitman, chairman of the foreign relations committee conceded an administration compromise was possible.The Senate munitions committee its life prolonged by a new grant of funds, called J.P.Morgan and 1rs partners to appear Tuesday for rc- i___, .,\t.i, * t* mewed questioning on war financing.been discussed today by Soviet For- They ^ faœeyoml its expiration date T c\tFebruary 29th.Pittman agreed it Predicts Prison terms tor Un- n,;o-ht be necessary to extend the named Officers at Head- | present law to allow more time for i debate but insisted some new legis-quarters.\ti lation would be enacted regardless.- ! On the question of liquidating the Toronto, Feb.1.\u2014-Gamblers were war debts Vandenberg pointed to a warned by some person in Toronto | provision in the debt funding agree-polijCe headquarters that police , ment of 1923 authorizing the Secre-would raid them yesterday.Norman j rary of the Treasury to demand of F.Newton, special counsel for the ! the debtor nations that they convert Royal Commission investigating the j the approximately $11,500,(H>0,000 in CLAIMS POLICE GAVE GAMBLERS TIP ABOUT RAID Toronto police department, charged early today.\u201cT know who they are and they will go to jail for this,\u201d Mr.Newton said.Preparations for the.special raids were made in Mr.Newton\u2019s rooms early Thursday night and only two high-ranking officers ot the department were familiar with the details.Eleven stores and clubs were raided early last night but police reported no arrests were made.Mr.Newton said that yesterday afternoon he received a telephone call from a Toronto barrister who said plans for the raids had become public enough for him to be informed of them.Mr.Newton expressed amazement that a newspaper had photographers and reporters at places police intended to raid.debts into smaller securities \u201cfor public sale.\u201d A provision in the agreement said, however, that such conversion was to be subject to \u201cagreement\u201d as to payment of principal which the Senator viewed as a possible stumbling-block.»- ¦ » THE WEATHER found on the great north-east lodge, but.there was no trace of their bodies or other equipment.A solution of the mystery is one of the major objectives of the 1936 expedition.FAIR AND COLD.A storm of considerable intensity, centred near the Straits of Belie Isle, is moving northward while pressure is high over northwestern Canada also in the northwest and southeast states.Snowfalls have occured in east Maritimes and Gulf, but with the exception of light snow in some parts of the Great Lakes region, the weather elsewhere has been fair and unusually cold.Forecast: Fair and cold today and Sunday.Temperatures yesterday; Maximum, 3; mininuqp, 33 below.i OO PAGE TWO SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD, SATURDAY, EEBRUARY 1, 1930.AMENDMENTSTO CITY CHARTER BEING STUDIED IRON AND STEEL PURCHASES ' BRUNSWICK LARGEST SINCE GREAT WAR Change in Municipal Election Procedure, Salaries for Mayor and Aldermen and Request that Outside Power Companies Be Allowed to Compete with City Among Proposals.Th'e Msyor and aldermen are kept busy these days drawing up proposed amendments to the City Charter which the Quebec Government will be requested to approve.Next week they expect to get down to work on the 1936 municipal budget, which will require about two weeks\u2019 work to complete.The proposed Charter amendments have been riven serious study and consideration in committee, but have as yet to come before the City Council.Remembering the cold shoulder the rate-payers two years ago gave the proposal of salaries for the Mayor and aldermen, an effort is now' being made to secure the necessary authority for these salaries without having to go to the public with a by-law.Quebec Will also be asked to amend the Charter so that aldermen in future not only have to be residents of the city for at least five years, but must be property holders for at least one year prior to election.The method of election may also be changed.At the present time two alderfnen are elected by each of the five wards.The Council is considering asking Quebec to allow the election of one alderman by the real estate owners and the other by the real estate owners and ratepayers jointly.Another proposed change the aldermen are studying would permit neighboring power companies to compete with the city.This move is being undertaken with a view to inducing more industries to locate here as it is felt that Sherbrooke is not securing its rightful share of industrial concerns which are being located throughout the province.Still another amendment which the Council is desirous of having passed call?for the removal from the electoral list of ail those who have not paid their taxes for the preceding year by February 1st before the municipal elections.The aldermen appear to be quite unanimous in having these changes made to the Charter, and the City Attorneys are presently at work ¦putting the proposed amendments in suitable form for presentation at Quebec, It is expected the city's recommendations will be discussed during the coming session of the Provincial Legislature.U.S.Commerce Department Re- ppADC I AQQ AF ports Shipments During 1935 A £ual\\u LI/Ok) vl Totalled 3,067,336 \u2014 Scrap nnr,/''I A I lYAIUm Iron and Steel Accounted for SPECIAL POWER 69 Per Cent, of Total.Attorney-General Declares Proposed Changes in British North America Act Would Subordinate Provincial Legislature to Status of Municipal Council.KING BECOMES COMMANDER OF ALL DEFENCES REJECTS SUIT TO RECOVER MONEY LOST AT CARDS Washington, Feb.1.\u2014The United States Commerce Department reported today that 1935 shipments of iron and steel products were the largest since the Great War.The 1935 total of 3,067,336 tons was 29,000 over 1929, and it compared with 2.832,413 tons in 1934.Scrap iron and steel accounted for sixty-nine per cent, of the 1935 total, and increased sixteen per cent, over 1934.Japan, Italy, Canada, the United Kingdom and Mexico, in that order, were, the largest buyers of iron and steel products.CLAIMS UNEMPLOYMENT IS FEDERAL RESPONSIBILITY Supreme Court Holds Saturday Sitting in Effort to Conclude Hearing into Legality of Reform Measures by End of Next Week.His Majesty Succeeds His Father Dismissing $50,000 Action, Mr.as Head of Kingdom\u2019s Three Justice William Finlay De- Defence Forces \u2014 Order of Prayer for Royal Family Altered.Ottawa.Feb.1.\u2014The Supreme Oburt opened today its firs, Saturday sitting since the constitutional reference began two weeks ago in an effort to conclude it by the end of next, week.It continued study of the federal law establishing an unemployment insurance scheme.In opening the insurance reference yesterday, Louis Saint-Laurent, Dominion counsel, argued unemployment had reached such proportions in Canada that it could be dealt with only by the Dominion.The problem had transcended provincial boundaries.In deciding the fate of the insurance bill, the Court, may settle also whether unemployment relief is a federal responsibility or whether the provinces and the federal government should share and in what proportions, it was suggested by Mr.Saint-Laurent.This is a point never determined by the courts.GRAND OLD MOTHER WILL OBSERVE 101ST BIRTHDAY FUTURE GREEK ARMY COMMAND IS DISCUSSED Cabinet and Army Council Split on Proposed Readmission of Officers Involved in Uprising of Last Year.Hard Work and Good Cooking Offered by Mrs.Thomas McDowell, of Milton, Ont., as Recipe for Longevity.Milton, Ont.\u2014February 1.\u2014 One of the grand old mothers of Halton County, Mrs.Thomas (Elizabeth Menary) McDowell of this town, is preparing to celebrate her 101st | birthday February 5 next.Among ' the county centenarians.Mrs.Me- t Dowell shares honors with Mrs.Miranda W.Hillyard, of Oakville, who was 105 November 26, 1935.\"I've always worked hard,\u201d Mrs.McDow-eli offers as her recipe for one_ hundred years of abundant and healthy life.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m a good cook,\u201d she added with pardonable pride, as she helped make the cakes last Christ- ! mas.She ha?four children, twenty-five grandchildren and fifteen great j grand-children; has her own home ! in Milton but spends the winter?with her daughter.Mrs.Arthur D.Bradt, of Hamilton.Fredericton.N.B., Feb.1.\u2014Should the power to amend the British North America Act be transferred from the British to the Dominion Parliament New Brunswick would lose the status enjoyed since her foundation in 1784 as a province, of Great Britain.This is the position taken by Hon.J.B.McNair.Attorney-General and Hon.A.F.Patterson, President of the Executive Council of New Brunswick.Explaining the province's stand before the special committee in Ottawa which considered B.N, A.Act amendment procedure, Mr.McNair said last night: \u201c\u2018Under the new scheme, New Brunswick would lose her status, enjoyed since her foundation in 1784, as a province of Great Britain and would become simply a torrential division of Canada.\"Her sovereignty would disappear.The intention to give to the Parliament of the Dominion power to invade the legislative fieid of the provincial legislature provided two-thirds of the provinces agree, can mean nothing less.\u201c\u2019By no stretch of the imagination could the legislature of New Brunswick be held to enjoy sovereign rights when it might be shorn of its power without its consent.\"The Confederation established by the province in 1867 would cease to exist.The federal system of union then adopted and which led to.the creation of the Dominion of Canada at the hand of the original provinces would be replaced by a system under which these provinces would become in a new hierarchy the creatures of the Dominion Parliament.\u201cThe Legislature of New Brunswick would, in its relation to the Canadian Parliament, be reduced to a position similar to that in which a municipal council stands in relation to the provincial legislature.\"In other words he would find the provinces in a new legislative union, a system which the original prov-*nces rejected in 1857 in no uncertain ternis.\u201d Mr.McNair emphatically denied a report the province was \u201cnot irreconcilable\u2019\u2019 to the proposed change._ The proposal put forward by the New Brunswick delegates, he said, was that \u201cwe were prepared to embark on a full study of the B.N.A.Act in order that any changes, which the provinces agreed were necessary, might be incorporated in a revised statute to be enacted by the British Parliament.\u201d The New Brunswick Attorney-General said their suggestions were not supported.\"Apparently they are not in line with the plans now on foot to bring about the subordination of the provinces.\" London, Féb, 1.\u2014An official proclamation announces that His Majesty King Edward the Eighth has been pleased to assume the ranks of Admiral of the Fleet, Field Marshal of the Army and Marshal of the Royal Air Force.These ranks, formally placing the King in command of the kingdom's three defence forces, are the same as those held by the late King George.Another formal announcement is made of an order-in-council directing certain alterations in the prayer book of the Church of England.In the prayer for the King \u201cEdward\u201d is substituted for \u201cGeorge,\u201d and the petitions for the Royal Family will read: \u201cOur gracious Queen Mary, Albert, Duke of York, the Duchess of York and all the Royal Family.\u201d 1 he Duke of York is included in this petition as being heir presumptive to the throne.nounced Gambling as Means of Raising Money for Worthy Causes.FURTHER TALK OF INFLATION AIDS MARKETS PRICES AND DETAILS OF SHERBROOKE MARKET Junior Golds Scored Greatest Advances in Month of UmKua! Trading on Canadian Stock Exchanges\u2014Gold Stock Index at New High.MURDER VICTIM OLD FRIEND OF FRENCH FOLIC London, Feb.1\u2014London's \u201cgambl- Toronto, Feb.1.\u2014Traders for ing damage case\u201d ended abruptly the rise had little to complain of in yesterday when Mr.Justice William the action of the Canadian stock Finlay threw out of Court the $50,- markets during the month that has 000 action of Keith Hugh Williams, just closed.The records could be Williams sought that sum from marched for years back without Jack Trevor, claiming he had beer, .urning up another month in which swindler! out of- about $60,000 in a -o wide and uniform an advance card game -\t, was made industrial and mining December, 1934.Part of the pro- shares.The brokers also must have ceedis of the game were to go to done very well for the 30,823,266 charity.The plaintiff\u2019s contention was that several dishonest \u201cprofessional\u201d croupiers had obtained admittance and took part in the game.Dismissing the suit, Mr.\u2019 tstice Finlay denounced gambling a?a means of raising money for worthy causes.Trevor.________.timie mv work for charity.In thirty- They have, in the last three weeks seven veer?T t-M-e - I -\t.; been moving higher, impelled by of pounds for hospitals, hut I will the widespread notion that the solu-not associate myself with any other -ion of the exchange tangle and the ! share turnover on the Toronto mining floor was the heaviest since April 1934.Since the last week in November j the prices of industrial and miscellaneous mines have been breaking new ground on the up side and on January 8, the price level of the j gold stock broke through the high however, said; \"I will con- ' established about nine months ago Viclim of England\u2019s First Gang Kiiling Identified as Max Kassel, Whose Criminal Record in Paris Dates Back to 1902.READJUSTMENT OF PRICES OF NEWSPRINT SUGGESTED MACDONALD HAS LEAD IN ALL FOUR UNIVERSITIES Convention Told Moderate Increase of One Dollar Per Ton for Newsprint in 1936 Did Not Offset Increased Costs.Athens, Feb.1.\u2014 Conference?among officers to determine the future organization of the Greek army continued today while a tense capital awaited the outcome of an autopsy to learn whether the late Gen.George Kondylis had been the victim of a political poison plot.High army leaders are said to be unanimously opposed to the re-admission into the army of officers who were expelled after the revolutionary uprising of last March.The Cabinet, on the other hand, wishes to settle this question before Parliament meets, and is understood to have made co-operation of the two larger political parties in this question a condition to its remaining in power.The autopsy was ordered late last night after report* spread through the city that the sudden death of General Kondylis shortly after noon yesterday had been caused by poison.Gen, Kondylis collapsed and died while in conversation with Deputy Merkouris, Apoplexy was given a?the cause of death.Lord President of Council Will Probably Be Member of Parliament when House Meets Next Week.THIRTY INJURED WHEN TWO TRAINS COLLIDED HEAD-ON Two-Fold Investigation Appeared Likely Today into Cause of Wreck at Cincinnati.Cincinnati.Feb.L\u2014A two-fold investigation appeared likely today into the cause of a head-on collision between the Ivouisville and Nashville line\u2019s \u201cSouthland\u201d and the Chesapeake and Ohio\u2019* \u201cSportsman\u201d last night, in which thirty or mflre passenger^ were injured, and part of one train plunged sixty feet from a trestle into Hie street,' \u2022Several of the vistims were believed seriously hurt.Scores more were shaken up.A score of those hurt, the majority of them on the \"Southland,\u2019\u2019 returning from Florida points, were treated in hospitals, Seven were aided by the Cincinnati life squad, Which accompanied police and fire ambulances to the scene.Four pas-.\u2019enger» on the \u201cSportsman\u201d refuted medical ajsambance.Four negroes, member* of the dining car crew on the \u201cSouthland,\u201d Buffered internal injurie*.'The crash occurred on a sing\u2019t ! track trestle approach connecting \u2018