Sherbrooke daily record, 20 mars 1936, vendredi 20 mars 1936

[" latlu Ükrorù Established 1897, SHERBROOKE, CANADA, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1936.Fortieth Year.PANIC AND DESPERATION ADD TO UNTOLD MISERY AS RAVISHING ROOD WATERS CONTINUE TO RISE Latest Estimates of Damage in Eastern United States Placed at $225,000,000, with death Toll Standing at 153\u2014National Guardsmen called to Quell Panicky Crowd Near Lewiston, Maine Who Had Heard False Report of Collapse of Gulf Island Dam above City\u2014Pittsburgh, with Its Death List Increased to Forty-Five, Fears Threat of Disease and Water Shortage\u2014Washington Considers Pouring Nearly $400,000,-000 into Stricken Area to Aid Sufferers and to Check Future Disasters.MUCH INTEREST LABOR LEADERS IN MEETING OF ! THREE POWERS ON RHINELAND Panic and desperation built new and grave problems today for the civil and military authorities of the eastern United States, struggling amid still-rising flood waters which left miserable homeless hy the hundred thousands, an estimated $^25.000,000 in property damage and at least 153 dead.The toll of identified and unidentified dead by states follows: Pennsylvania, 108; West Virginia, 18; Vermont, 5; Connecticut, 4; Virginia, 4; Massachusetts, 3; Maine, 2; Maryland, 2; North Carolina, 2; Georgia, 2; Washington, D C., 2; New York, 1.In New England, in the Ohio valley, through Pennsylvania, New York and the rich region of the Potomac the floods raced on, submerging industrial cities, ousting householders, spreading ruin.Tha \u201cNew Deal,\u201d with President Roosevelt directing the disasterfighting forces, considered, pouring nearly $400,000,000 into the twelve-state area to aid ilood sufferers and to check such disasters in future years, Militia and police, fingering guns and clubs, patrolled Springfield, Northampton and Lowell, Mass., against threatened outbreaks of looting.National guardsmen were called to calm a panicky crowd near Lewiston, Maine, which heard false reports that the Gulf Island dam above the city had collapsed.Several persons were hurt.\t- Flood veterans of the debric-filled Ohio battened down in Marietta, Ohio, and other cities to await the great crest which left seventeen dead or more in the Wheeling-Martins ferry area and routed upwards of 20,000 persons from their homes.The river rolled out of Wheeling, leaving misery and desolation.Pittsburgh, tolling against almost impossible odds to clean up the teeming steel city, saw'its death list increased to forty-five and worried over threats of disease and water shortage.Food was plentiful, however.Johnstown, Pa., historic flood town where the present inundation first struck, housed 653 ill and destitute refugees of the Conemaugh River rampage in a hilltop dance hall, Three were born in the building.CONSIDERING $400.000,000 EXPENDITURE FOR FLOOD CONTROL ! Washington, March 20.\u2014 ! Pitting money and men against ! inundation and want, the United ! States Government today con-! sidered spending a total ap-! preaching $400,000,000 to aid flood sufferers and check similar I disasters in the future.A senate committee drafted I army engineers to work out a bill authorizing $300,000,000 for I flood control.The works Pro-; gress Administration had already allotted $18,000,000 for flood ! relief and re-habilitation.Bills were pending to spend $5,000,-i 000 to $10,000,000 more in ! Pennsylvania alone.Hungarian, Austrian and Italian Statesmen Meeting in Rome to Discuss Effects of Hitler\u2019s Locarno Renunciation on Danu bian Affairs.i WATER POURED INTO THIRD STORIES AT WHEELING, VA.DECLARES EX FARMERS REAPING A SUBSTANTIAL BENEFIT FROM PACT Budapest, March 20.\u2014Forthcoming meeting of Hungarian, Austrian and Italian statesmen in Rome today assumed new importance in view of the League of Nations Council\u2019s condemnation of Germany as a violator of the Locarno and Versailles treaties.With Premier Julius Goemboes and Foreign Minister Kolmon Kanya en route to Italy, Hungarian Government circles declared following questions would dominate the three-power meeting: Consequences for Rome, Vienna and Budapest of Germany\u2019s denunciation of the Locarno treaty.Possibility of reaching a common policy to be followed by the three powers in the new European situation.Situation created by attempts to organize a Danubian Pact, notably proposals advanced by Premier Milan Hodza of Czechoslovakia on his recent visit to Vienna.*- Charles Howard, Member for Sherbrooke, Claims Resumption of Cream Shipments to United States Has Served to Maintain Domestic Price for Eutterfat\u2014Prime Minister Is Confident Canada-U.S.Trade Agreement Will Remain in Force fer Three-Year Term Despite Three Escape Clauses.- «-\u2014.\u2014 - 'dawn, March 20.\u2014 With its Highlights of U.S.Flood News o A-STRAIN STRUCK Wheeling, W.Va., Mar-ch 20.\u2014 Ohio River\u2019s death dealing flood waters rolled out of the stricken Wheeling industrial valley today, leaving at least seventeen persons reported dead and thousands homeless.The crest of the muddy waters ).House of Commons today was embarked on another.The first was the ratification of the Canada-United States trade treaty arid the second is establishment of a National Employment Commission.Yesterday the house approved the last clause of the trade treaty in committee of ways and means and all that remains is passage of a bill to ratify the pact, a more or less formal proceeding.The House also gave first read- AUTO KILLING mm PERSON: SPRING GIVEN DAMP RECEPTION.New York, March 20.\u2014Spring arrived today to find much of the eastern area of the United States devastated by floods.Astronomers say the exact time that winter becomes spring is 1:58 p.m., E.S.T.PRIZE CATTLE OCCUPYING BEDROOMS.Boseawen, N.H., March 20.\u2014 Twenty prize cattle spent the night in the bedrooms on the second floor of the home of Farmer J.Ralph Graham.surged southward toward Marietta, j *° *he National Employment O., carrying with it a tabernacle, uncounted homes, buildings and automobiles.In Marietta, three hundred persons, aware of the haVoc on the Girl Passenger of Ill-fated Car Was Also Seriously Injured in Level Crossing Tragedy Near Delhi, Ontario, Today.upper reaches of the Ohio, the Mo-nongahelu and the Allegheny rivers, fled from their homes in the lowlands.Parkersburg, W.V;i., also prepared for the flood, which was expected to rush on south through Point Pleasant, Huntington, Ashland and Catlettsburg, Ky., Portsmouth and Cincinnati.Surging waters already have killed fifty-four persons in Western Pennsylvania, crippled industrial Pittsburgh and caused many millions of dollars damage.They topped fifty-five feet in Wheeling, a swirling, muddy torrent lashing the lowlands and boring into business and residential sections.Water poured into the second and third stories of homes, shoved dwellings from their foundations and swept away the tabernacle, a frame structure built to accommodate five thousand persons at church meetings.Police said there was no means of checking immediately the persistent reports the.deaths mounted above seventeen, because many sections \u2018till were under water.PITTSBURGH THROWN INTO PANIC BY FALSE REPORTS Pittsburgh, March 20.\u2014 A false police report that the crowded Sixteenth Street bridge had collapsed threw Pittsburgh into a short panic today.Associated Press reporters who reached the bridge found it safe, with traffic moving over it.Every available policeman and ambulance in the city had rushed to the span, after Police Superintendent Jacob Dorsey's office had released a report the bridge had fallen into surging flood waters with Continued on Page 2.Commission bill and thus has before | it the erystalization in statutory i\t_______ form of the unemployment policy! Delh| 0nt., March 20.\u2014 Four advocated b\\ the Libera, party for men were killed and a girl seriously several years.Members wi.l study j injnren t}>« h\u2019-e- Anne river carried awav A- Wnvrav ment supporting one end of town bridge was washed awav.the j ridge wihch was in course of construction.The bridge The north side of the village of De Beaupre, into which another Ste.Anne river flows, is inundated and score of families have homes.At Murray Bay, in Charlevoix County, the Murray Bay river wa?s wollen to flood levels by packed ice the town\u2019* j Hiver, -\t, - '\t' ~\t1 4 -sv 1 ^\t\u2019'liaient, i aiii.nvn UJi' a;or^ tne Ste.Anne ?Mr:-;.Albert Charest and Mrs.Char nume.'oir- residents were j les Lajoie were painfully injured.are J\tf, .\t-V.V\tweie painiuuy injUM It lu ''\ttfl*,r h RIED WARING AND HIS PENNmVANIANS, 9i38 Tuesday ov»n,'nB (E.S.T.).Columbia System.LOW FORD PRICES Convenient Terms Eleven Word V-ft Body Types FORD V » f o m \u2018 6 WM T V ii THE F 40 H 40 *\tt.Johns and Montreal\u2014are the only highways in the Eastern Townships maintained without a break SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE Dr.~VV.J.McCormick, Toronto physician, has invented an electrical during the past winter without anv ^eat®r w,hich oiables smokers to derive smoke from tobacco without burn-support from the provincial Depart-1it\u2019 Vnus eliminating undesirable gases generated in the process of ment of Roads.\t* \"\t^\t¦ combustion.The tobacco is placed in a porcelain container surrounded by responsible , Rn e!ement anft is attached by wire to an electrical plug.A thermostat in Today it is the flood waters round and round.that The municipalities ,, ,\t._ are modestly proud of this aceom- the container keeps the temperature even.Here is Dr ! plishment but observe ali too plainly 1 his fil'eless pipe.McCormick and au\t: that, while helping to pay the gen-1 oral deficit of the famous railway I What Editors Say Britain To Tackle Divorce Problem From New Angle.Great Britain is going to tackle the marriage and divorce problem from a new angle.Britain's new approach to this serious problem is outlined in r Hill a bill, already passed by which prohibits div in existence for at least five vt The grounds for div r House of Commons, a marriage has been COSTLY TALK.Brantford Expositor.Reports from Ottawa forecast that when the Hon.j Charles A.Dunning.Minister of Finance, presents his budget he will announce a deficit of $100,000,000.That is an alarming condition of affairs, and one that cannot be allowed to continue without danger to the finan j cial structure of the country.Yet while this is goinn I on the members of the House of Commons have spent j three weeks in idle talk, practically to no purpose.An improvement of $20,000,000 in revenue and a saving of | 80000,000 in expenditure is a mere trifle compared j with this gigantic shortage.Of this amount $45,000, 000 was caused by expenditures in behalf of the Cana-I d;an National Railways, and $70,000,000 on unemplov-f ment relief and special public projects to provide work.Moreover, the Government has loaned 840,000,000 to the Western Provinces under the Relief Act, bringing rpose to more than $100, ent was given an enormous j of whose services they have been ~ ; deprived, they now have the additional burden of providing their : own means of transportation.\t: w The curtailing of this service | MISS ; seems to have been a game of rob-1 ! hing Peter without even paying I S T311-\tj Rock Island Yours truly.-® I Perfect Peace,\u201d \u201cNearer My God to DEATHS REPORTED I i Thee\u201d and \u201cAbide with Me.\u201d The bearers were M.Bibeau, W.B.Powers, M.Martell and Ray Euzzell.The church was filled' with citizens of all denominations and representatives of the business and) March 20.\u2014 Miss j farming communities with whom the j i Alice Jane Whitcher, died at the ; deceased was highly popular, j home of Mrs.Mabel Drew, Rock) Ernest Gill, who was forty-six: ALICE JANE WHITCHER, ROCK ISLAND.liFU H.HOPKINS, Secretary-Treasurer, ! Island, early Sunday morning, ! years of age, was the son of the late Municipality of Village March 8th.For a long time, Miss j Thomas Gill, at one-time owner of .\tof Frelighsburg.\t: Whitcher had been in failing health, ! the old Turner Farm, which now rre.ighsourg, March\t19.\tj The late Miss Whitcher belonged ) comprises the Hermitage Country i to a pioneer Ctanstead family.She ; Club.This was formerly the home was a granddaughter of Dr.Isaac i of the Gill fafllily.! Whitcher, who was born in Me Hi- \u2018 The deceased was engaged in the ; uen, Mass., October 7, 1770, came j grocery business, being first assoei-| to Danville, Vt, in 1791 and to ! *-ted with the A.H.Moore Company .Stanstead in 1799, settling- on what I and later with the firm of Vaughan | is now the Brock farm, just outside j Bros., which is now Martel Register-! the present village limits.From I ed.He was a faithful employee of that place he went to the location | these companies for twenty-two j now occupied by Mr.K.I.Curtis.| ÿears._ At that time it was thought the set-' ^ He is survived by his widow and I tlement would be centered there, j daughter, Madeline and two- bro- -\t' Dr.Isaac Whitcher married Miss ! there.George Gill, of Rosemount, Alfred S.McKay, of Calgary kiolly Bang and for years was the ; and Harry .Gill, of Fitch Bay.nri\tr- ,\t- - v* *\u2019 nri;v.L no Lamed OF C.F.R.OVER rant Irom the total leans for this 000,000.The King Govtr majority, and the count the financial problem v: avoid disaster.Surely \u2022 they pursue this fc::cr deserlion lo in.-cmity cod 1\t\tdrunkenness; but,\trealize that the: regardless oi :! U :\t.\tt ; = the 1\theory of this biil\t: to talk.that every avenue o; .;nn\t\tlust be exhausted i\trwo t before a «eparnfxn ccn i ¦:\t\t.In a word, the\t law would 7: :cr- » : : , -\to imske.\tan earnest effoU\tThe German lo \"live out\" their djk-: It is an interesting r\tMices.\t\toccupation ef t yet ready so s:: \tsperimen\tshe British are ;\to.her angle of : proposing.It wiil j,e v\tv etched\twith interest bv\tThe heavy artiL other countries, e-necic:\tIv Unit*\t::d States, where\tcations along :I divorces are an every dav\t\t\tof high-range :rr.bers Fc Mr ) at Ct to take hold of r-.and in order to of the House a-: I finances must :wa than mere!'.' n j, -g - ; oniv practising physician in Stan- j r.t\tEatlot-Eoxes : Stead County.Four Hundred Miles to North- j Alice Jane Whitcher was a da ugh | land for First Federal Election hter of Clarke Thayer and Nancyi DIX VILLE \u20ac\t_\tJjPeasley Whitcher and v.as bo n Mrs.Samuel Swailes pleasantly Win:il Algeria Residents\t20, 1856, in the above-men- entertained at her home \u201cUnder- T m.Ts-Jo GE MOVE.:e U Germa î rvvhcers rymg powe Kingston\u2019s Example Believing that the prime purpose c owned power consumers a Public Dtilit domestic ucer?\\vi cent, of the tot during the past pump These how; lel\u2019.s oniv in' * ,on dal vear \u2022(.-vide issible, has a rebate of paid for mumcipailv- rvice for the .he Kingston iounced that .verity per eiectricitv ed to cover the territo with an intensive bar which any German ad-, sad part is that the g-, zone an concealed are poir.-it rr.ited area behind the e.That ¦(¦ was sap yp -t :e Fie fu! foiled ma eir.pl: An i so high they car, They are design-demilitarized zor.' was the line frem posed to start.The Wei EL'tcd pVAC:Jani ç1 tioned neighborhood.\tcliff Cottage\u201d at the dinner hour on r -\t\u2019 V'\t\"\t0i: Years a.o, the family moved to ; Sunday in honor of the seventy-fifth! Lajy\u2019\tI Coaticcok and\tin due course Miss ' bmthday\tof Mr.Swades.The guests] -\t\u2022\tWhitcher,\twho\twas a person of rare ' memded\tMr.Swaile\u2019s daughters, I March\t2D.\u2014Southern\tAI-1 qualities, became a practical nurse,: ^rs: .Ervin McIntyre, Mrs.A.W.s\tand\tOld-Timers\u2019\tAs-; following that\tcalling with marked ' Lushing,\talso Mr.McIntyre, Misses sucre-.?throughout her cedve years.! Beryl and Esther McIntyre, Mr.erring in Coaiicr k, Barnston, i \u2019 ushing and Master Erroll.The Sherbrooke, Derby\u2019Line and other Misses Ethel Bhrumuller, of Coati-places.\tcook, and Susie McKee, of Hillhurst Mi > Whitcher leaves one cousin, were also guests at the same home.Mrs.Jenne W.Liccf-tn, of this The Ladies of St.Cuthbert\u2019s town; one\tniece,\tMrs.\tCharles Lind-\tGuild met at the parsonage on Tues- .ay, nee\tDorothy\tVfhi\trh : ; a sister-\tday when arrangements were made in-law.Mr.-.Mary Whitcher, both for the food and work sale.Com-of Wayne, Ilk, and a brother-in- plted work was handed in.A very which |-aw, Mr.Heracrt B.M :Cut r.eon, ' pleasant social time was spent while of Barnston, besides other distant lunch was served by the hostesses, eph V, n't- | .Mrs, Tannar and Mrs.Gooley.' * iLL'T i\tDeath removed a highly respected of Acre-1 \"v-=-\u2022?«\tvn c,eia-1\tresident of this place on Wednes- day afternoon, when Mr.Edgar E.' Pion_________ \u2022\u2022\u2022\u2019\u2022 p-oeting here, ticcted a nt the man who made a his-four hundred mile dash in cm Calgary to Lac La Biche, \u201d ' rllct boxes to the north-\"n,f0,r tne first federal elec-wmeh Alberta residents vot- is Alfred S.McKay, Calgary, ; ne of the two surv.ving mam- i the survey par xd the route of the Canadian , Railway across p.air; s ancl \u2018 relatives.A brothe ams in 1883-35.The other.cher, and a sister, ! or.Charles Shaw, of Here-1 MeCutcheon, passed B.C., led the party.\tyears ago.vay, following completion\tMi's Whitcher will I ot ; is can t rates approxtma service has beei Corrîmenting reduction ot n all clas?es of ouch the demilitarize useii.The Germans are now so close they ar out of range of Franc Changing the armaments slow and very costly.Both \u2019?main defensive weapor o meet this challenge will muen miss- .returned to \\d.]\t-e ha-\t; written four-fifths margins\tthat require\tcareful adminh\t\u2018ration and ;\t\tof the fifth volume of hi-\t\t: Wa:\tr mem\tolrs.He has written have nts of the little commun-1\t««aumxuons of her ballot boxes, shortly be-1 kindness.ection led to McKay\u2019s I Many flora! offerings and cards r.teering for \u2019the journey \u2018 ,of sympatoy were received from re-a light cutter, drawn by one I l^ive/ and friends of the family, e, McKay left Calgary one bit-1 T^e fur:era! was held at the home winter morning in 1886.After ve and a half day trip, a record | \u201df,°p tne four hundred mile journey, *\" ' ' ' 11 lil,ic' body was entombed in f'i-y .el Lake I 6.00 p.m.\u2014 WEAK: Bavarian Cemetery to await burial at Maple j Orchestra; WABC: Talk; WJZ: I Hill Cemetery, near the old home, I Temple of Song; CFCF; Mining he de .here were only a few Hers in the area, but sei and half-breeds were white set-era! thous-entitlel to Following are the best radio pro-Mr.-.Drew on Tuerdry after- 1 grammes tomorrow, Saturday, with the service being conducted 1 the key to the stations in the final by Rev.Dr.J.H.Philp, paster of ] paragraph: Centenary United Church.The foresigiiled watch fulne enjoyed both.\u201d The principle?enu support the stand of reduction in the local r Klectric Deparlrnent dii made budget conlribu O T ax Department as j 1934.S132.343.78, a \\Y3 nave s or a ; ooke! Leo.revi not n pcr.c evrite~, th \u201cL.the ty mostly in the early ; matter is typed, and that is a formidable ip! :han a.i he man he lows: 1 193 1933, 8149.801.40: ! », 8486.-40.34.In ins I He ( out- -anu i tv,?( .ne y KLi an:c as lorning hen come; hir^.He there are or three T}-ry.*ver.ne doe-He i addition, advance?of $230,i\t000 have been\tmade to the Tax Department, rno-\tt of which h\tave been subMiquenily cancelled, mai,\t.i/jg the total\tcontribu- lion of the electric plan.\t\ttreasury $738.387.72 in the past thr\tee vears.\t Thirty Years Ago Today j vote.\u201cAnd they all wanted to vote Tî -aid Mr, McKay, \u201ceven though they | am not know what it was all about.\u201d Harold W.Riley, secretary-treasurer of the body, in his annual ad-dr»;-?regretfully mentioned the loss °f Airty-eight members of the group, twenty-eight men and ten women who had died since the last meeting, but \u2022 -m the i.rignt side were the various wedding and other anniversaries celebrated during the year.\u201d Memories of the trade post that wa- Calgary sixty years ago were brought back by the old-timers.Two member;, of the original North West Mounted Police who were with the force in 187J when the first trail war (dazed across the prairies to the Rockies were present.They were Loi.James Walker, now ninety years of age, and Major John Merlon, eighty-six, of Pincher Creek, There are 94.000 Canada, exclusive of incorporated village;, since 1923.The