Sherbrooke daily record, 1 mai 1942, vendredi 1 mai 1942

[" V §>lm*hrnnkr lailg Sworô \u2022 \u2022 9 THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS WEATHER Cloudy and warm.Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QL\u2019EBEC, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 19*12.Forty-Sixth Year.ITALIAN AND REICH DICTATORS IN CONFERENCE Growing Unrest In Italy Causes Concern To Axis i^ast-Minute Decisions of Heralded Grand Offensive Against Russia, Reports of Smouldering Revolt and War-Weariness in Italy or Possible Joint German-Italian Peace Offer Alternatives of Meeting.(By The Canadian Press) Hitler and Mussolini, whose! meetings in the past have ire- ' quentiy signalled Hie approach of! momentous events, met in a two-j day conference ending yesterday at | Salzburg, Austria, it was an-j nounced today.In the usual stereotyped form, a( German communique said the Axis! dictators met \u201cin a spirit of close j friendship and the indissoluble 1 bretherhood-in-arms of their na-j lions.\u201d Allied conjecture, however, centred on the possibility that these points were discussed: 1\u2014\tLast-miuute decisions on the i heralded German grand offensive | against Russia, 2\u2014\tReports of smouldering revolt] GERMAN OFFICER IS ORDERED EXPELLED FROM CHILE Santiago, Chile, May 1.\u2014(/Pi \u2014Willy Splieth, a former officer of the Germany army, has been ordered expelled from Chile for having engaged in activities directed \u201cagainst the National sovereignty,\u201d the Ministry of Interior announced last night.Police authorities reported Splieth at present was in custody at Punta Arenas, strategic Strait of Magellan port.Nairobi, May 1.\u2014(ffi\u2014The Kenya Colony Government announced today temporary suspension of measures compelling the evacuation of ah civilians from Mombasa but urged the population to leave the area voluntarily.Mombasa, situated on the East African coast, a- a principal port of the colony.RULE AGAINST | DIRECT BUYING IS CLARIFIED _____ | Officers of Wartime Prices: and Trade Board List Consumers Who May Buy' Direct from Manufacturers.: Montreal, May 1.\u2014?(P\u2019\u2014The recent prohibition of purchase by consumers direct from manufacturers or wholesalers was clarified here yesterday by regional officers of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, Exception will be made for: Trust companies and real estate companies who administer real estate, when buying' supplies for repairs; transportation companies and municipalities purchasing uniforms for employees to wear at work; religious and charitable institutions; building contractors and tradesmen buying supplies for houses being painted or repaired; military camps and canteens buying goods for operational use; retail stores purchasing goods for operational use.Those prohibited from direct dealing with manufacturer or wholesaler are: Insurance companies buying goods to replace those lost or damaged by the insured; ministers and priests buying for their own consumption; church trustees buying for the church, presbytery or vicarage.Stalin Demands Soviets Smash Nazi Troops On Sssnender-Or-Death Basis In Coming Summer Mosk\tcow,\t, May 1.\t\t- (/:\tp) \u2014Jo\tsoph\tt He said.\tthe German Fas-\tcists h\tad Stalin\tdoc\tla red in a\tMi,\ty Day c\t> r rier\tj been repre-\trented as nation:\tGists V\ti o ~ of the\td a\tv today ti:\ti a t\tSoviet\tRus-\t1 fending th\te i[itegrit,v of\tGerm:.\tn y sin, re\t-ceiv\ting mrre\tand\tmere\tmili-\tfrom att-fteli\tas Siviah.-ts si\t.-eking\tto tary a\tid f\trom Brit ai\trv a\tr, t the\tUni-\t| defend the\tinterests of the\twork i'\tng ted\" Si\tLate\ts, must\tsim\tish Hit\tler\u2019s\t; people, as\tthe bearers of 1\tdurope\tan t roopa\ton\tkiUTendo\tr-o v\t-death l\tbasis\tculture\t\t\t to mal-\tce 1:\t1'42 \u201ca yeai\t\u2019 of\tfinal ;!*\tfeat\tj Of c-'rch\ti-!\":) he said: \u2018\t\u2018This,\tof of the\tGe\trman Fa sc\tist\tarmies.\t\u201d\tconrso, is r\ti lie,\u201d\t\t george killed British Troops Escape Burma Front Battle \u201cWe are able to do this and vr must do this, whatever happen'.', the Premier-Defer ce Commissar tC guerillas, work-tins internation-rh was observed rk instead of at mg mp and var-weariness in Italy.3\u2014A possible joint German-Ital-ian \u201cfinal offer\u201d of peace, on Axis terms, to the Allies.Informed British sources declared the purpose of the Salzburg conference obviously was to keep Mussolini in line.It was the first meeting of the Fuehrer and li Duce since their countries went to war against the United States last December.The official announcement said: \u201cThe meeting resulted in a perfect accord of views on the situation created by the overwhelming victories of the tripartite powers and on the further conduct of the war by the two nations in both political and military spheres.\u201d There was no mention of Japan, the third member of the Rome-Serlin-Tokyo bloc, having been represented at the meeting.While the communique ill Japanese Suffer Big Plane Losses !n Illied Attacks Thirty Japanese Pianes Lined Up on Airdrome at Lae on Northeast Coast ot New Guinea Plastered with Bombs and Machine Gun Fire by Daring Allied Air Raiders, United Nations Headquarters Reports.; Soviet armed force; j ers and peasants oi ( al labor holiday, wi Î within Russia at w | play.| He said Russia is fit | \u201cft war of liberation, a just war.'' I Stalin blamed impel hilist a gen t.-; of \u201cGerman bankers and plutocrats\u201d ! for the struggle; named Hitler, 1 Goerirg, Ribbentrop, Heinrich Him-I ir\u2019er and other rulers of present-day Germany as \u201cthe watchdogs of the j German bankers.\u201d Stalin, who directed the successful j defence of Moscow and ordered the Soviet winter counter - offensive launched five months ago, said that Germany had weakened while \u201cour | country has become stronger\u201d since I the invasion June 32, 1941.\u201cWar has brought to the German people great disappointment, millions of human lives sacrificed, hun-! gcr and impoverishment,\u201d he said, j \u201cHuman reserves are running out.j Oil is running ont, Raw materials are running out.\u201d Recognition by the people of \u201cthe inevitability of Germany's defeat,\u201d sabotage an\u201d guerilla warfare are said to have weakened the Nazi rear while Hitlerian purges, battle casu-! alties and restriction of rcinforce-i nronts seriously affected the iimul-! ing troops.| \u201cThe German army,\u201d Stalin sain, \u201cis an army of medieval darkness, j called upon to destroy European culture in order to institute the slave-driver culture of German bankers end barons.\u201d ' iin pc countr i i ' s I mon as saving the plague,\u201d is \u201cAmong count) ir-s by Britain Aim rk':\u2019, liceted by ship, and re epie of ah freedom-loving arc looking to the Soviet i force which is capable of ' work, \"com the Hitlerite A a Un went on, \" these freedom - loving the first place is occupied and the United St i V t U .S ( ' t with whom wo are con-tie.of unily and friend whit are giving our coun- \u2022 United Nations Headquarters, Australia, May 1.\u2014gj\u2014Thirty Jap-ane-se planes lined up on an air-! drome at Lae on the Northeast coast of New Guinea were plastered with bombs and machine-gun fire yesterday by daring Allied air raiders, it was announced today.Three other Japanese planes\u2014all fighters\u2014which attempted to inter-extolled jeept a simultaneous assault on Sala- HEAVY TOLL IN EXPLOSION AT j try more and moiv.military nssist-|anco .'.gainst the Fascist invaders.\u201d S.\u2019Vi.a troops upso.the Germans\u2019 | hopes to use winter for a respite, forced them to expend reserves i meant for pring and summer operations and shattered \u201cthat idle talk about the invincibility of the German arm;,,\" Stalin said.The 1\u2019reinier declared Red army troops had become \u201cfiercer and mon merciless\u201d as a result of German treatment of military prisoners and \u2022ivilians and reported disappearance of \u201cthe complacency and lack of responsibility with regard to the tno-my which was found among the men in the first month of the war.\u201d He issued ;i Uvc-point memoran dum charging all fighting men I\" inntxor their weapons and strulegic duties and urged guerillas in oceii-j pied territories to \u201cspare no hulk:'., | against the invaders.\u201d î lie praised the working people for mniing the holiday into a day of I lab,,\" to increase the output, of mui-| lions and food, saying \u201cthis mean -I fiat the front, and rear form a united and inseparable military front.\u201d The mass demonstrations which, have marked the last twenty-fom years of Russian celebration of May Day were cancelled, United States Commander in; Far East Crashed into An-1 other Plane When Fighter Craft Got Out of Control.j Melbourne, May 1, ik Krig.-'Gen.Harold George, Lnited States efticer whose death in an aerial nechlenl was aianmneed yesterday, j was killed when a lightei' plane gal I out of conlrol while taking oft\u2019 and i crashed into a party which was ;hoimiing another plane, ii was ,11,.elosed today.Melville dacoby, Time land Lite Magazine eon e-spombuit., ailed with Gem Georg, , Tim mishap was said to have taken .place ni an unvalued Allied air field, j A military I ums al is pi,a lined Sat -j urdny for Gen.George, who w a -'awarded the Distinguished ,Sendee Medal posthumously for his execu-lion of \u201c.seemingly impn -ihle tasks'\u2019 his commander of air force: in the J de fonce o f Hal as n.| More than tinny Brilish, Anna-1 lean and Australian war eorrespon-Idents and a group of U.s.Army olTicers attended the funeral of Jacoby a: a Melbourne crematorium toilav.Oxford, Kngbtml, May 1.- ® Harold 11 ill, \u2018.'(i-y'asr > Id .-d,;o-r, vva: hanged at.Oxford today for the murder of Doreen , ,¦\t||,-ai i-e.eight, who was found ,-.lranglcd.Fall Back Eighty Miles to New Defence Sector Thirty Miles Below Mandalay to Protect Overland Routes to India as Japanese Make New Thrusts from Lashio\u2014Chinese Determined to Continue Defence.U STR U I \\ M YIN I\u2019 UNS II \\N AGAINST D\\ IKSFAS roNscmi\u2019t ion < hinhorra, A usl nilia, M a> 1.U The It ohm* of Keprcst'iila-ti\\es (odav «leloatod, Ihirlv-oni' In la rot i seven, a motion hv former I\u2019rime Minister Arthur ('hidden to permit use of the militia outside Australia.Prime Minisler .lohn Curtin said the Australian Imperial Forre eligible for service abroad was larger than ever before ami that removal of the militia rest rirlion was unneressarv.( 111 liGt! I : KG FS SFI'PORT FOR RED GROSS Quebec, May I.iff) Parish prie in Quebec Archdiocese have boon invited to urge tiroir parishioner:., to apport I he (kinudiati Red Cro:-: drive, according to a not.ice which tip,peui in La Semaine Religieuse, ollicial organ of the Archdiocese.Government Retarding Arms Production Gommosiers Toy Proposals for Naming Twenty-Four Member Committee to investigate Expenditures of Munitions and Supply Department Bring Charges in Commons that Canadian Industry Is Not Being Allowed Full Development.past \u201coverwhelming victories\u201d by the 1 ma-ua, twenty miles to the South, Axis, Russia\u2019s Premier Joseph Sta- j wore shot down by Allied bombers lin painted a contrasting picture of ; which went on to unload explosives the present, declaring in a May Day |0n ground installations, u comnnini-manifesto:\tI quo from Gen.Douglas MacArthur\u2019s \u201cWar has brought to the German ihesdquurters fid.people great disappointment, mil-j \u2018\"\u201cOur loY-eT were slight,\u201d the lions of human lives sacrificed, him-!Curl ger and impoverishment.Human re- ^ atFchon Lae, which has been serves are running out.Oil .is run-jbJasted repeaU,,!ly (.h)ri51g the las! |two weeks, apparantly caught the Over 250 Persons Killed and Thousand Injured When Blast Rocked Chemical Factory at Tessenderioo.SIR FDAV \\RD BEATTY RESIGNS PRESIDENT Y OF CANADIAN PACIFIC Montreal, May 1.\u2014C®\u2014Sir Edward Beatty has resigned as President of the Canadian Purifie Railway and is succeeded by 1).C.Coleman, Vice-President of the Company, it was announced today, Si1' Edvard remains Chairman of the Board.RUSSIAN SNIPERS ORGANIZE FIELD DAY Moscow, May C\u2019Pi- When Russian sniper M.Ivanov told a Leningrad meeting of his fellows that ln-had killed 123 Germans \u201cas a May Day present for the country,\u201d the other sharpshooters forthwith organized a May Day competition to see who could kill the most Germans, the Moscow radio said today.BRITISH HOMES Raw materials are run- ning out.^Stalin1'declared that Russia, now j JaPa.ncse\tfor the com-, receiving more and more militaiy ,,mun,^e \u201c.e\"L10^l \u201d° 0PPoslhon! supplies from the United States ! JJ ei>emy fighter plane\t, - - -\t-\t-\t\u2014- -\t- Alter uni'oadmg their bombs on I days ago at Tessenderioo and Britain, would smash Hitler\u2019s.,, invasion forces on a sUrrender-or-!116\t\u201chc raiders ^'wept oyer death basis to make 1942 \u201ca wear of I t'he airdrome again witn machine final defeat of the German Fascist jgfns chattering.AY hen they roared sTmiGS.\u201d\ti off toward home they left large fir-e- The Hitler-Mussolini meeting was! burning behind them, the attended by Foreign Minister Joa- said.chim von Ribbentrop.Italian Foreign : jt described Ike operation as \u201ca Minister Galeazzo Ciano, Field Mar- ! brilliant attack.\u201d shal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the.The communique said that eight German High Command, Gen, Ugo : Japanese bombers had raided Horn Berlin, (from German broadcasts), May 1, \u2014 (A3) \u2014 Two hundred and fifty persons were killed and about 1,000 injured in an explosion which {destroyed a chemical factory two Belgium, Continued on Page 2, Col.5.Continued on Page 2, Col.8 Vigorous Defence Of ialia 0ns 0! Epic Events Of Present far The brave little island of Malta, recently awarded the George Medal by the King for its heroism, is a thorn in the Axis\u2019 side and its defence is one of the epics -of the war, Preston L.Grower and William McGuf-fin, Associated Press war correspondents, visited the island with the British Fleet, neither knowing the other was there, each reporing the latest developments in daily dispatches.Later they met in Alexandria and collaborated on the story -of Malta which appears in today\u2019s issue of Life Magazine.The following story is a condensation of the article in Life.(By PRESTON L.GROVER and WILLIAM M;GAFFIX.Associated Press Stuff Writers.) The most heavily bombed s.poi in the world is a little British island | in mid-Mediterranean.Malta eight miles wide and seventeen miles long.Mussolini\u2019s Sea every twenty-four hours.The attack began on the early morning of June 11, 1940, the day after Italy entered the war, just before France surrendered.Malta was not ready.It had coastal defences, but it had no fighter planes and no properly defended airports.However, there were four Gladiator sapiarcs awaiting shipment in a dock-yard storehouse.They were not, even then, tb best fighters Britain had, and they were designed for aircraft carrier-:.There were also at Malta four seaplane pilots.They had never flown fighter planes.But they took on tha defence of Malta.The four met wave after wave -of bombers.They founght all day.They came down -only to refuel, repair and take on ammunition.Many thought Malta coal : not be held.But the performance of the four Gladiators changed that.One A technical school and a number of houses nearby were destroyed or severely damaged, The factory was bulletin j full of workers and the school full of pupils when the blast occurred, at 11:30 a.m.The head of the German military administration of Belgium and Northern France was reported to have gone to the scene to direct relief and emergency measures.Tessenderioo is thirty miles Northeast of Antwerp.Immediately after the blast, German army units and special rescue squads from the Kemperland coal fields searched through the wreckage for victims.Cause of the blast, which also put the Tessenderioo telephone exchange out of commission, had not been ascertained.The announcement claimed that the factory \u201cproduces artificial fertilizers of various kinds Lsgi-slai-Ivs Machine Sags Down 2'?Sootfs Hew ir supplies in Canada is on Gov-nn-'-i;- account and the payment tarilTs is, largely a bookkeeping I 4 By C.R.BLACKBURN (ikniadian Press Stall Writer) Ottawa, May 1 (Ik A special commitlee of twenty-four members of The llon.-e of Commons has boon j set up In examine Government war i expenditure: with the unetjuivocal a urance of Prime VImister Mac ; tcir/.ie King (hat it will not be rih bed or restrictcd in its scope.Mr.King\u2019s resolution setting up! the committee was adopted unan-! nnonsly jus! be fore adjourn merit ! ta-i.night after the House had tie ling Stock of Coal, Gas and\t.tmiav\u2019s debuu ' Electricity Planned by Gov- w the ebarga- by C.K.1 ph:ision Promeut\ti (N.I).Bow River) that some war i (B\\ The Canadian t\u2019rc A IiM\u2019apino- a\tenlrapnii'iit sweep, British troops puardiii^ Hie riplil I la uk of Ihn Allied line in Burniii have talion hack eiifhlv miles In a new defence sf'etor only ihirlv miles below Mandalay.Imperilled by the Japanese ilirnsl In Lashio, I ,\u201d0 miles North-easi of Mandalay, the Brilish and Indian forces were said lodav In have \\\\ ilhdrawn to proleel (he overland routes (o India While file crisis in Burma remained anile, with 111e Japanese invaders now standing at the gale-v.ay h\u2019 China aslride the Burma Boad, a Chinese announecinenl declan d the fall of I ashio would not Gall the flow of Chinese rein forcements for |he continued defence of North Burina.Moreover, tin: ChilH\u2019sc said, alternative supply routes from India to China are already in working; order, Chinese < IL- patches said Lashio, ruptured by Japanese mechanized columns Wedens'day, had been reduced from a : oerning boom town to smoking rubble heaps by Japanese bombing assaults and the Allies\u2019 scorched earth policy.Japanese warships and troop Irons ports were reported massing Mar: hull I lands in the H among Ih South (lea lation that forces pnight t again: thru:-, li ne11 ic, st irring speeu-he Mikado\u2019s sea-borne be preparing a major I.the American supply WINTER MONTHS Domestic Rationing of Dwind Bbum (1er G .-P tha «% | industries, including '\u2018perhaps, the three largest, plants in G,'maria\u201d hi'iti: h | making I rucks «end similar equip- By J.E.SANDERSON (Canadian Press Staff Writer) Washingtoii, May 1.\u2014 ®~\u2014Four months after the original recommendation was made by the < ana-dian-Am-er: an Joint War Production Committee-, a proposed bill to suspend tariffs and customs duties on Canadian-made war supplies entering; the United States D still bogged down in Washington\u2019s legislative; machinery.After the proposal was approved by President Roosevelt it started a circuitous course through various Government agencies and today is under consideration by the Bureau 1 of the Budget.It not only provide-for the suspension of tariffs and i customs duties for the duration of the war but seeks to abolish other ot tarn pro blero Moam ment is in.gt.on, in-Coum wYhl\u2019m Canadian Govern-action by Wash-