Sherbrooke daily record, 7 juin 1937, lundi 7 juin 1937

[" storbroofep laüg ÎSprorb Estabiished 1897.SHERBROOKE, CANADA, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1937.Forty-First Year.Gold Supplies by Continental Inierests-zation Fund Discussed.-Position of Stabili- London, June 7.\u2014The price of bar goid was pegged at 140s SVad ($34.72) a fine ounce on the London market today in an effort to stem the flow of the metal to the United States.The new price was an advance of five pence (9.8 cents) to the ounce.At today's price for the pound sterling shippers of the yellow metal stood to profit about 2\u2019Ad (five cents) an ounce, compared with around 7d (fourteen cents) Saturday.The narrowing of the margin between the London price and the Government-fixed price $35 an ounce in New York made shipment to the United States less profitable and tended to discourage selling on the London market.London sales today were 262 bars, valued at about £727,200 ($3,636,000), as compared with 46o bars valued at about £1,296,800 ($6,484,000) Saturday.Bullion dealers explained it costs about 11^ pence (twenty-three cents) an ounce to ship gold to^ New York for sale at the $36 price, so shippers must buy at less than $34.77 an ounce in order to make a profit.* *- IMPERIAL CONFERENCE DELEGATES START FINAL CLEAN-UP London, June 7, \u2014 The Imperial Conference today began its final clean-up.Committee reports on constitutional and economic questions were approved by chief delegates at their fourteenth meeting at 10 Downing Street this morning.The reports are being cabled to all the Dominions and probably will be made public tomorrow.The Conference concludes on June 15.BRITAIN SEEKS TO STEM GOLD FLOW Molten Lava Snuffed Out Over Five Hundred Lives In South Pacific Island Higher Quotation On London Market Cuts Wide Price Margin Pegged Price Announced Nearly Five Pence Above Saturday\u2019s Level as Financial Circles Seek to Halt Dumping of Hoarded SCENE OF WINDSORS\u2019 HONEYMOON 1 m Two Volcanic Eruptions at Rabaul, Principal Town of New Britain Island, Were Followed by a Tidal Wave Which Inundated Wide Area\u2014All Victims Were Natives\u2014White Population Is Being Evacuated as a Safeguard\u2014Island Is Under Mandate to Australia.K Illustrated above is the thirteenth century castle in Austria where the Duke and Duchess of Windsor have gone for their honeymoon.The castle is set among the Alpine lakes of Southern Austria.A view * ; of the western side is shown.$84,000,000 Gold Sold In London I\tIn Two Weeks.*-* What part the British Equalization Fund might have played in the move today was not disclosed.Bullion brokers who fixed the price said it was the result of a \u201csmaller supply and an increased demand.\u201d For two weeks an unprecedented total of about $84,000,000 in goid has been sold on the London market, giving rise to fears the strain would be too great for the governments of both Great Britain and the United States to handle readily.Most of the gold that was sold was said to be owned by continental interests, and hoarded in London.The unloading was prolonged by fears of a reduction in the American gold pr\u2019ice, despite official official statements from the United States which scouted such reports._________________________________ ! Continental Interests Have Huge i | Amount Hoarded In London 1 ?* Regardless of the immediate possible consequences of the gold sales, there were indications authorities handling the tri-partite monetary equilibrium agreement, among the U.S., Great Britan and France were not altogether displeased with the developments.The less gold that remains in hoarding, it was said, the easier it may be to effect real money stabilization in the long run, when the time is deemed ripe.The Finançai News suggested the last few days had indicated the British equalization account was \u201creluctant to buy,\u201d and that this reluctance had thrown the burden of the gold outpouring \u2018\u2018on the unwilling shoulders of America, thereby increasing the danger of an American price reduction.\u201d This newspaper called for a Brit Please Turn to Page 2, Col.6.Tension Increased In German Church-State Crisis By Riots Ten Priests Placed Under Arrest at Munich Following Clash Between Catholic and N«azi Youth Movement Supporters okopo, New Guinea, June 10.\u2014Volcanic eruptions a( Rabaul, principal town of New Britain Island, took a toll of upwards of five hundred dead, according to reports brought here today by the Government patrol sent to investigate the devastated district.The patrol discovered decomposed bodies over a wide area and special precautions were taken against a possible outbreak of typhoid.All the victims were natives.The white population is being evacuated as a safeguard.Two eruptions of nearby volcanoes occurred on June 1st on this island of the Bismarck Archipelago off the northeast coast of New Guinea and were followed by a tidal wave which inundated Rabaul.Like British New Guinea, the island's are under mandate to Australia.HEAVY DAMAGE CAUSED BY JAPANESE VOLCANO Tokyo, June 7.-\u2014Mount Asama, an active volcano near Karuizawa, erupted early today, spreading a dense cloud of acrid smoke and ashes over the surrounding countryside.Considerable damage was caused to crops in the vicinity.?-\u2014 & SEEKS EMPIRE GUARANTEE FOR PACIFIC SHIPS SEIZE LOAD OF EXPLOSIVES ON FRENCH BORDER -Protestant Confessional Leaders Unleash New Broad-1 C.P.R.Ready to Order Two ! Frontier B side at Nazi Philosophy.erlin, June 7.\u2014-Tension in the church-state controversy increased throughout all cornei-s of tihe Reich today after Protestant Confessional leaders unleashed a new blast, of oratory against the Nazi philosophy.The rei'igious dissension flared anew Sunday as both Catholics and Protestants joined in open opposition to the Nazi attitudes toward the Church.Street demonstrations led to fist fights in Munich where ten more priests were imprisoned.Martin Niomoeller, presiding pastor of the Confessional Synod, in a scorching sermon derided attempts to discredit the Christian concept of repentance and to substitute for it a heroic ahtilbude, \u201cas though there was only one possible attitude for a German to assume today\u2014-that oi Prometheus or Lucifer, the pose of a defiant Triton.\u201d In Cailholic churches vigorous attacks were made against the \u201cunscrupulous exploiting\u201d of church immorality trials which clergymen contend have been used for political purposes.Reichstfuehrer Hitler made his answer almost simultaneously to the wave of religious protest.Speaking to 120,000 brownshirf® at Regensburg', Hitler declared he would never permit religious dissension to tear Nazi Germany asunder,, recalling the strife and dévastait ion Please Turn to Page 2, Col.6.BRITISH FILM FIRMS NOT TO SHOW WEDDING New Liners for Canaria-Anfipodes Service if the Dominions and Imperial Authorities Will Give Assistance.London Press Protests Decision of Newsreel Companies Not to Release Pictures of Marriage of Duke of Windsor.Southampton, June 7.\u2014Sir Edward Beatty announced today the Canadian Pacific Railway Company would place an order for two new ; liners for the sendee between Can-| ada and the Antipodes if necessary | financial guarantees were forthcom-| ing from the Dominions concerned ! and the Imperial authorities.; Arriving in the liner Normandie, l the C.P.R.president left the ship at I Ryde, Isle of Wight, and dashed up j Southampton wrater by speedboat in order to reach London as quickly as possible.\u201cI am here in connection with the future of the Canadian-Australian line, concerning which the Imperial Conference is deliberating,\u201d Sir Ed-¦vvard said.\u201cI am anxious to see the representatives of the various Dominions hack and find out what they are going to do.with regard' to furnishing some sort of subsidy.\u201cIf all is well it is planned to put liners of 28,000 tons, with a Guards Intercept Two Carloads of High Explosives Destined to Spain Under Guise of Oil\u2014Largely Used in Munitions and Dye Industries.Two Persons Killed And Two injured In District Mishaps Veroon Shufelt, of Knowlton, Lost His Life this Morning in Fall from Hayloft, and Edward Davis, of Cherry River, Succumbed to Injuries Suffered When He Fell Off Scaffolding\u2014Compton and Waterloo Motorists Injured MONTREALER APPOINTED BISHOP OF GRAVEL.BOURG, SASK.I Perpignan, France, June 7.\u2014 Frontier guards of the twen'ty-seven-nation Non-Intervention Committee today seized two carloads of a high explosive at the border town of Cerbere, France.The explosive, used largely in the munitions and dye industries, was in metal tubes kibeied \u201coil,\u201d and was consigned to Spain.GOVERNMENT FORCES IN MADRID AREA RETREAT Scotland Yard Engaged In A Nation-Wide Search For Young Society Girl Beautiful Diana Battye, Fiancee of Michael Asquith, Disappeared on June 1 After Being Slashed In Forehead on Coronation Day.L ondon, June 7.\u2014Scotland Yard disclosed today a nation-wide search was under way for beautiful Diana Battye, twenty-one year old society girl and aspirant for motion picture stardom, who disappeared on June 1 after being mysteriously slashed on the forehead.\u201cDidi,\u201d as she was known to her friends, was last seen leaving the home of her childhood friend, Viscountess Long, with whom she had been staying for the Coronation sea-eon.The blonde beauty Is the fiancee of Miehale Asquith, the son of (he Hon.Herbert Asquith and Lady Cynthia, and police assumed she was going to post, a letter to him when she disappeared from the Viscountess\u2019 London home.Last year she visited Lord and Lady Twredsmuir at Ottawa.Young Asquith said he received the letter the following day but, it contained no hint, she might have planned to leave London without, letting her friends know, Ladv Long said \u201cDidi,\" on the day she disappeared, had kept a luncheon appointment at which her motion picture prospects were discussed and then returned to the house.\u201cShe left again after making two telephone calls,\u201d Lady Long told police, The girl was in such a hurry she did not take her hat, gloves or bag with her.Lady Long told Scotland Yard detectives she had received two mysterious telephone calls on the day following the disappearance.Each time she went to the telephone, however, she said no one answered.Diana, Lady Long disclosed, had been worried for several weeks by a series of anonymous typewritten letters.Then on the night ef May 12^\u2014 Coronation night when all London was jammed with celebrating crowds \u2014the girl was slashed on the forehead by a mysterious assailant.\u201cShe would not.let me call police because she said that she was afraid if she disclosed the attack another attempt might be made,\" Lady Long said.Her hostess said Ihe girl had only about ($25) with her when she disappeared.Madrid, June 7.\u2014Insurgent reinforcements sent from Segovia today pushed back the Government lino's pressing toward La Granja on the mountainous salient thirty-three miles northwest of Madrid.The zig-zag Government lines fell before the insurgent counter the insurgent forces.La Granja, site of a palace of the former rulers of Spain, and the nearby village of Balsain to the southwest remained in insurgent hands along with the strategic hills of San Benito and Cerro Grande.Please Turn to Page 2, Col.5.London, June 7.\u2014 The British newsreel companies\u2019 decision not to release films of the Duke of Windsor\u2019s wedding brought a protest from Lord Beaverbrook\u2019s Daily Express today.\u201cNot even for adults!\u201d the.Express exclaimed.\u201cYou will have to go to Fkance or America\u2014or maybe Russia to see them, thereby proving that though a large-sized piece of humbug is talked over here | two about freedom, no censorship, no I speed of twenty-two knots, into ser-dictatorship and what not, yet the vice by the winter of 1939-40.We Imperial British people are still have either got to build new tonnage treated as a mentally deficient or else lose an essential and vital race.\u201d\tlink in Empire trade.\u201d The films \u201cmight re-awaken painful emotions among the patrons and even lead to invidious demonstrations in the theatres,\u201d Gerard Sanger of the British Movietone News declared in announcing the ban.The understanding among the newsreel concerns \u201cwas reached without pressure or guidance from U&STKSSSJ'\u201d3SJ2\"S*!:|Jgfievani» Committee Urges President to Prepare ed.\t| Joint Wage Agreements\u2014Railways Demand Government i\u201e\tProtect Pi'opsr,y Asainst Aclivity of strikm- after his marriage that he and his bride desired privacy.At the same time the public pondered a defence of his decision to perform the religious ceremony at Monts by Rev.Anderson Jardine in his small church at Darlington yesterday.Hundreds came from many parts of northern England to hear his sermon.The idea of performing the cere EIGHT BRITISH MRS KILLED OVER WEEK-END For Second Successive Week-End, Death Stalked Aviators Throughout the United Kingdom in Five Separate Crashes, London, June, 7.\u2014For the second successive week-end death stalked aviators in the United Kingdom Saturday and Sunday, exacting a toll of eight lives and injury to nthers in attack, but Government officials | five separate crashes.One of the said severe losses were inflicted on j victims was a Canadian.Seek Intervention Of Roosevelt In United States Steel Mill Impasse Last week-end seventeen persons were killed in airplane accidents, making it one of the blackets periods in British aviation historv.n-, -i,\t,\t- , A variety of accidents in the Eastern Townships had today taken a toll of two lives and sent two victims to hospitals suffering from serious injuries.The dead are: Vernon Shufelt, fifty-seven years old, of Knowlton, instantly killed this morning when he fell from a hayloft, and Edward Davis, thirty-five years of age, of Cherry River, who succumbed over the week-end to injuries received when he fell off a scaffolding while painting a house in Magog, The injured are: Charles Emile Savary, twenty years old, of Compton, suffering from a compound fracture of the right arm, three broken ribs, a fractured shoulder blade, injuries to the spine and cuts and bruises; and Ernest Forand, thirty-year-old Waterloo resident, who received a compound leg fracture and severe head and chest injuries.Both men were hurt in motor car accidents, Shufelt suffered a broken neck this morning when he fell through an aperture in the hayloft of a barn.He fell a distance of eight feet to the floor below.Schufelt was | Castel Gandolfo, Italy, June ! 7.\u2014Pope Pius today appointed I Mon-signor Joseph Guy, apos-\\ tolic vicar of Grouard, Alta., I to be Bishop of Gravelbourg, Sask., succeeding Rt.Rev, ! Arthur Melanson.! The new bishop was born ! i at Montreal fifty-three years I ! ago and was educated at Otta- ! I wa University and Ottawa I ! Scholasticate.He was ordained | \\ in 1906 and after going west ! was principal of Le Pas.Man,, I Catholic School and rector of | Gravelbourg College in Sas- | katchewan.He was named apostolic vicar ! of Grouard in December, 1929, | arid was consecrated at Ottawa I in May of the following year.I .}*\t\t4* A 1 «\tTHE WEATHER\t1 \u2014 & The Canadian killed was \" Ser-1 emPl°y«d by W.D.Soles removing géant John E.Roe, twenty-one years ! from the barn of James McKee, old, formerly of Edmonton, Alta., i located on the outskirts of Know! a_ member of the Royal Air Force\t\u201d \u2019\t' Volunteer Reserve, whose plane crashed in a tree near Reading.Roe Y oungstown, O., June 7.\u2014Striking steel workers looked today to President Roosevelt for possible intervention in their de termined drive against fhi-ee major independent producers for signed bargaining contracts.As the Steel Workers Organizing Committee\u2014John L.Lewis' Industrial Organization affiliate\u2014ex * ;r T \u2018 V\u201d\tVVd to b m I Ported thousands of strikers at Sun mony, Jardine sa d, occuned to him ,\t, vol,.ol, swn P after he read in the newspapers that there would be no religious marriage.\u201cFrom the moment T became in the bands of God the simple channel for God's will to be done,\u201d ho said.WOLF REPORTED ON GROUNDS OF CASTLE WASSERLEONBURG Noetsch, Austria, June 7.\u2014The wolf of the Dobratsch Mountains was reported today to have been seen prowling about the grounds of Castle Wasserleonburg where the Duke and Duchess of Windsor arc spending their honeymoon.An attendant at the Chateau declared he saw the beast by flashes of lightning during a heavy storm, Word immediately spread through the community and the villagers planned to organize another hunt Please Turn to Page 2,(001.6.day rallies, an S.W.O.C.grievance committee telegraphed the White House from Gary, Ind.: \u201cWe, the grievance coiinmiittee representing men in the Calumet region, appeal to you to act at once to bring the strike to a peaceful end by having joint wage agreements written and signed by the steel corporations and the S.W.O.C.\u201d It was the first direct appeal to the United States President, since May 26th, when Philip Murray, aggressive S.W.O.C.chief, announced [ strikes at Republic Steel Corpora- ' tion, Inland Steel Company and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Com- ! piany plants located in seven states.| At least 70,00