Sherbrooke daily record, 14 octobre 1931, mercredi 14 octobre 1931

[" 4 Established 1897, SHERBROOKE, CANADA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1931.Thirty-Fifth Year* CITY PLANS TO SPEND $750,000 ON UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF WORK Proposed High Level Bridge Over St, Francis Included Only as a Special Demand Over and Above Council's Official Programme\u2014Work Approved Calls for Filtration Plant, Opening of St.Francis Street, Widening of Wellington Street South, Paving, Sidewalks, Sewers, Water Mains MOVE IN AUSTRALIA TO REDUCE TARIFFS.and Gas Pipes.*\u2022 THE City of Sherbrooke plans to spend approximately $730,000 on unemployment relief work during the coming winter months.Of this amount the city will provide one half and the other half will be supplied by the Ottawa and Quebec Governments.At the special Council meeting held last evening, Alderman L.R.Langis, chairman of the Finance Committee, submitted the following eight projects which the city hopes to undertake: Construction of a filtration plant at an estimated cost of $26o,000.Opening of St.Francis street as a means of relieving Wellington street traffic.This is expected to cost in the vicinity of $14o,000.Widening of Wellington street south at an approximate cost of \u2022$30,000.Construction of sewers, costing in the neighborhood of $90,000.Building of sidewalks to cost INJURIES TO A C0ATIC00KB0Y PROVED FATAL CANBERRA, Australia, Oct, j 14.\u2014In order to give a lead to the adoption of reciprocal trade agreements throughout the Empire, a number of members of ! i the Australian Senate have de- j cided to insist on general reduc-! tion of Australian tariffs, par- j j j ticularly the rates against [ British goods.The decision was taken at a j j meeting today of Senators I opposing the Labor Govern- ; ment, which is in a minority iiv ; the Upper House.ITALY SHOWS DISPLEASURE AT DECISION -* FORESTRY BODY PERSONNEL FOR QUEBEC IS ANNOUNCED inquest Today into Tragic Death of Leo Fortier, Fifteen-Year-Old Son of Mr.and Mrs.Joseph Fortier, Accidentally Killed Yesterday Afternoon.New Commission to Make Study of Forestry Resources of This Province.«$95,000.Paving to amount to approxi-matc-ly $55,000.\\ew water mains, cosmg $00,-(J0Ü.Laying of gas pipes at an esli-i.a led cost of $10,000.'1 nose eight items will comprise the official list which the city will s ubmit to the Provincial Govcrn-) ont authorities for consi ieraticn.Each item appears in the order of importance as viewed by the City Cc uncil.It will be noted that no mention is made in this list to the prooased high level bridge aero: s the Sft 1 rancis River.Realising that repiv-f.entative gatherings of citizens h.1 cn numerous occasions ur çed the necessity of constructing til's bridge, and having the int.«rests :h> the citizens at heart, Alderman r«.li.Fortier, M.P.P., called he h' un-cil's attention to this matter.He pointed out that the proj ¦ ¦\u2019 had been approved by the Sherbrooke Chamber of Comme e, atii furthermore, that a delegation, headed by Mr.J.H.Walsh, .dec president of the Quebec Central Railway and one of Sherbrook i\u2019s influential citizens, had made a special visit to Quebec City to dis-< uss this plan with the Provincial Government authorities.Alderman Fortier made the request that this project also be in eluded in the list.He made a formal motion, which was seconded by Aderman M.T- Armitage, that the city contribute twenty-live pov cent of the total cost of the bridge cunstrucion, providing the Government furnish the other seventy-five per cent.This suggestion seemed to meet with the approval of the Council, although Alderman' Lan gis made it quite clear that tne eight items already drawn up oy the Council would proceed the bridge in importance and receive first consideration.The bridge project was regarded as a special demand over an-l above the Council's official programme.The programme outlined mot with the approval of the Counc\u2019!, although the filtration can ,e and the proposed widening of St, Francis street did bring forth a few v > marks.Alderman Fred Gelinas opened the discussion on the filtration project.Making it quite, clear 'hat he was not in any way opposed to the construction of a filtration plant.Alderman Gelinas said that ho could not give his support to the spending of so large an amount as 000 unless the ratepayers were first called upon to give their ap provnl.He was strongly in favor of securing public opinion on ' this mat ter.Alderman Langis explained that as matters now stood it would he necessary to submit the details to the ratepayers.There was, however, he said, a possibility that the Provincial Government mlgnt pass certain legislation at its opening session which would make it lawful to go ahead with such work without the approval of the ratepayers, athough there was no official announcement as yet on th * part of the Government in this respect.At any rate, Alderman Langis pointed out, the aldermen now were simply preparing a list \u2019f work to he submitted to Queh'-c for consideration.Later on, when the entire programme agam came before the Council, there would be ample time for discussion by nil aldermen, he assured Alderman Gelinas.The proposed widening of St.Francis street came as a surprise to the chairman of the hoatlh committee.He said that he had not studied this proposal very carefully, hut he did not like the id.a of having the street go under the ( anndinn National Railway bridge.During the coutse of his remarks the health chairman happened to (Continued on Pago 7), COATICOOK, Que., Oct.14.\u2014 When he was pinned beneath a ] heavy door that had been suspended I by weights, Leo Fortier, fifteen years \u2022 old, son of Mr.and Mrs.Joseph -For-I tier, of this place, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon.The boy was playing with his bro-! ther in the wagon sheds at the rear of .St.Edmond Church when the accident occurred.Heavy weights are used to slide the shed doors up and down, and the rope attached to ; one of these accidentally broke, i Seeing his brother pinned beneath, i the other lad attempted to free him, ; but was unable to do so.He ran to : the parish priest\u2019s house and secured [Father Simard.When the latter ar-( rived upon the scene, however, Young Fortier was already dead.| An inquest into the tragedy will i be he\u2019d today by Notary Leonidas ! Bachand, coroner of St.Farncis Dis-: trict.QUEBEC, Oct, 14.\u2014The names of the members of the Forestry Products Commission, created during ! the last session of the legislâture, i were announced in an order-in-coun-icil yesterday as follows: Louis Daigle and J.S.Bock, of Montreal, and Hon.Gerard Power, 1 and J.M.Dessureault, of Quebec.! G.C.Fiche, chief of the Provincial [Forestry Service, will act as secre-I tary of the commission.I The new commission will make a ! study of the forestry resources of i the province, for the purpose of suggesting practical measures for the [manufacture, classification, sale and j use of the forests of the province.! WELL KNOWN MONTREAL INSURANCE BROKER PASSES ON j MONTREAL, Oct.14.\u2014Leaving a request that friends who might | wish to send flowers to his funeral ! send instead a cheque to the Montreal General Hospital, Char.es Thomas Hare.Montreal insurance broker, died here yesterday.He was sixty-four years of age.k!*r10ML GOVERNMENT HOPES FOR s Y SEVENTY ACCLAMATIONS Expects to Have Majority of Between Twenty and Thirty on Nomination Day Next Friday\u2014According to Present Calculations, Acclamations Should Include Forty-One Conservatives, Three National-Liberals, Twenty-One Laborites and One Liberal.Application of Anti-Dumping Tariff Provisions Against Countries Whose Currency Has Depreciated Meets With Disapproval.ROME, Oct.14.\u2014Displeasure in Italy at the deciison of the Canal-ian Government to apply anti-dumping tariff provisions against imports from countries whose currency has depreciated on foreign exchange markets, yesterday was reflected in an editorial appearing in Giornale dTtalia.It is unfair, the newspaper said, to apply anti-dumping provisions against Italian imports, as the lira still remains on the gold standard, and any oscillation in its late of exchange will be short of duration.Re-enforcing its argument with statistics, the newspaper said thac during the last three years the value of Canadian goods imported by Italy had been greatly in excess of the value of Italian merchandise imported into Canada.CANADA\u2019S IMPORTS HAD VALUE OF $919,5 76 OTTAWA, Oct.14.\u2014 Canadas imports from Italy for the first three months of the current fiscal year\u2014the last period for which figures are available\u2014had a value of $919,576, while exports from Canada to Italy were valued at $2,-330,760.For the same period last fiscal year Canada sold to Italy goods valued at $3,118,484, as compare! I with imports from that country ! which had a value of $1,283,591.\u2014 WESTERN PREMIERS WILL HOLD CONFERENCE : VICTORIA, B.C., Oct.14.\u2014Pre-: mier S.F.Tolmie, accompanied by [ Hon.R.H.Pooley and Hon.J.W.[Jones, will leave for Calgary at the week-end to attend the Calgary conference of Westeren Provinces, the Premier has intimated.The conference is called to discuss taxation, legislation, gasoline prices and other matters.CANADA WILL NOT SUBMIT TO DEPRESSION Dominion Has Unconquerable Belief in Herself, Declared Premier Bennett at Opening of Canadian Club's New Quarters in New York.BOTH CANADIAN DOLLAR I AND STERLING WEAKER TODAY.London.o 11,1X1 for Rea, Liberal, and 6,615 for Sparks, Labor.On election day, October 27, .ome of the, polls close at 8 pan.and obiers at 0 p.m.\u2014or 3 pnn.and 4 p.m.eastern ' standard time.It is expected the results in two hundr-1 seats will he available the same evening, but the bulk of declarations will not be made until the morning after polling.BEWILDERED ELECTORS ARE PLOUGHING THROUGH SEAS OF ELECTION LITERATURE NEW YORK, Oct.14.\u2014H.G.Wells came to the United States last night for a month\u2019s visit and i brought with him a six point