Sherbrooke daily record, 13 avril 1943, mardi 13 avril 1943

[" V S\u2019hprbrnnkp ISrrorù \u2022 \u2022 Established 1897.THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS WEATHER CoJttar \"«\u2019Itih S'nwvflunrfe^, SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, TUESDAY, APRIL 13.1943.CITY EDITION.EIGHTH ARMY TODAY NEARS END OF LONG TRAIL - - .r , Gains Fifteen Miles In Drive Towards Tunis Bare Fifty Miles Today Separates British 8th Army from Headquarters of Rommel at Tunis\u2014Axis Forces Subjected to Ever-Increasing Aerial Pounding as Ground Forces Continue Pressure.SALVAGE SEEN AS BASIS FOR BETTER TIMES By DANIEL DE LUCE, Associated Press Staff Writer Allied Headquarters, North Afri-| ca, April 13.\u2014{&)\u2014Allied forces' pushed the enemy into a steadily ! contracting area in the Northern tip of Tunisia, gaining new ground North of Sousse and Kairouan, on «- COUNTERFEIT MONEY BASIS FOR AFRICAN PROPAGANDA With the British 8th Army at Sfax, April 10.\u2014 (Delayed)\u2014(/P) -In an attempt to break down Arab faith in United State, cur-the Southern side of the Axis box, ; rency the German, have been circulating among the native population reproductions of one and five dollar bills bearing on the reverse side a death's head and an inscription in Arabic: \u201cThis money has the appearance of being gold.Don\u2019t be fooled by its value.\u2019\u2019 By C.YATES McDANIEL.Associated Press Staff Writer.Allied Headquarters in Australia, and in the Medjez-El-Bab sector on the Northwest, Allied headquarters announced today.(The Algiers radio, in a broadcast recorded in London, said that the British 8th Army had reached; Enfidaville, twenty-seven miles; North of Sousse, and fifty miles South of Tunis, and that nearly; the whole of the Italian Yittoria: division had been captured (London military quarters estimated that Marshal Rommel was! withdrawing into his Tunis-Bizerte defences, an area about 100 miles long by 40 miles wide, with about 210,000 men, 150,000 of them Ger-j mans.)\ti Gen.Sir Bernard Montgomery's ! April 13.\u2014 (A\u2019) \u2014 Japan has con-s-easoned 8th Army patrols engaged i centrated 200,000 first-line troops rearguards of the Africa Corps on land a great air force North of Aus-the coastal road between Lake Kel- ; tralia and may be expected to bia and the sea as Rommel main- ! undertake an offensive at any time, tained his withdrawal through the ; Gen._ Sir Thomas A.Blarney told a Enfidaville line under a constant ! special press conference today, pressure.(This would indicate that; Gen.Blarney, Commander-in-chief the Montgomery advance was from of Allied ground forces in this area, five to fifteen miles North of | said the heavy Japanese air assaults Sousse.)\t;\ton Allied bases in the Solomon British 1st Army troops were last Islands and New Guinea in recent reported fifteen miles North of Kai-1 days marked the opening phase of rouan and pressing on rapidly.| the enemy\u2019s struggle to regain par-While French troops mopped up ; ity, then mastery in the air.the Djebel Ousselat on the West| The \u201cprofound shock\u2019\u2019 of Japan\u2019s flank and continued to advance i losses in the Bismarck Sea and other Northward along the Grand Dorsal j actions has taught the enemy he Range, the 1st Army in the Medjez-; can't move large forces without El-Bab area, thirty-five miles South-! gaining air control, he continued, west of Tunis,_ captured additional ! In consequence, he said, \u201cthe hill vantage points.\t!\tJapanese are concentrating their (The Vichy radio, German-con-1 aggressive attentions\u2014already de-trolled.said Rommel had been re-, veloped to a strength of 200,000 inforced by air in the last few days : first-line troops and a powerful air with men and weapons.(The Italian communique, broad- British Experts See Salvage and Elimination of Waste as Basis for Romance and Happiness After War.By ALAN RANDAL Canadian Pre.-s Staff Writer London, April 13.\u2014(P!\u2014Reclamation authorities call it just plain salvage (with a capital \u201cS\u2019\u2019 of course because this is wartime.) In the home they associate it with the dustbin and tile garbage can.But the people who have really looked into the business of salvage see in it the key to romance and happiness so this child born of the war is likely to stay on through the days of peace.Salvage, the back garden ally of everyone will, if properly attended to, enable the world to reach an unsurpassed standard of living\u2014 shorter working hours, more leisure, more money, all of which adds up to comfort and happiness and removes money worries from the home.Anything like that should mean that romance rolls on long after the honeymoon is over.The authority for all this is Sir Continued on page 2.column 3.Allies More Than Holding Place In Battle Against German Subs, Churchill Tells British House Japanese Mass Huge Forces For Great Drive Against Australia #- i REINFORCEMENT UNITS TO COME UNDER ROBERTS London, April 13.\u2014 i(f' \u2014Prime Minister Churchill reiterated in the House of Commons today that \"We are more than holding our own\u201d in the Atlantic battle against Germany\u2019s U-boats.The Prime Minister was asked by Emanuel Shimvell, Labor, if he had any comment on the statement of Frank Knox, United States Secretary of the Navy, about heavy shipping losses in March.Mr.Churchill replied: \u201cMy attention has been drawn to this statement, 1 agree with Col.Knox that results of the U-boat warfare are serious, as they always must be.His statement, however, refers to a limited period following one in which sinkings were comparatively small.¦\u2018Viewing the battle, against the U-boat as a whole I can repeat my previous assurance that we arc more than holding our own.\u201d (Knox said a week ago in Washington that ship losses were higher in March than in February, and that up to the present the Nazi attacks had developed \"as we expected.\u201d The new submarine attacks were chiefly in mid-Atlantic along supply routes to Britain and Africa.Knox said, giving them a temporary immunity.from Allied air patrols.(With losses in February reported among the lowest of any month of the war, Washington interpreted the increase, as indicating a trend Considerable Opposition! Expected to Government' Measure on Free.Compulsory Education.rather than a peak of destruction, with the German submarine offensive actually underway, Sh|nwell asked if more information could be given about the enn-paign against submarines in view \"of considerable disquiet in shipping circles among the seamen who are]\t\u2014- engaged in this warfare and among] Quebec, Apr.13.-CP- The Logis ship-owners.\u201d\tlaiivo Assembly, when it reconvenes Mr.Churchill responded: \u201c1 do|today after the week-end adjourn-not want to give exact information | ment, is expected to settle down to which would be of great advantage i1*10 îdudy of him legislation which to the enemy but.a great deal of j the _ Government plans to introduce information has been given of gen- ; during the present session, eral character on this subject.\tj Since the opening of the session \u201c1 do not believe that the disquiet j jas* February 23, little time has is more serious than it naturally!,1 *.\u2019n devoted to the study of legis-weuld be at all times when this form | 7tlon i,s lh\u201c Throne Speech debate, of warfare is bcin£ levied upon us., l' ^ud^e-t Sjpovoh debate^ and dr-Certainly if it.were, there is no ground for it.\u201d (The Berlin radio, in a broadcast recorded by the Associated Press, reported a special announcement from Hitler headquarters asserting that U-boats attacked a heavily-loaded Allied convoy in the North Atlantic on the way to Britain.(\u201cIn this action as well n.s in single attacks in the Caribbean and off the South African coast they sank twenty-one ships totalling 138,500 tons and torpedoed oix more ships,\u201d the announcement said.It did not specify when the asserted actions took place and no confirmation in specific detail has been made from an Allied source.) LONGARGiiENi {Ministers Oppose Call For Wider Concessions In Farmer\u2019s Income Tax ON EDUCATION BILL FORECAST to on Member motions fust were cleared from the order paper.Some Member motions remain on the order paper, hut.this week the House is expected to adopt a motion for the holding of two sittings a day instead of one.Premier God-bout notified the House last week that he wished to bob! two sittings a day Monday through Friday.A bill to create a Provincial Civil Service Commission similar to the Federal Civil Service Commission is expected to be the tirst measure to Members of All Parties Demand Complete or Partial Exemption Be Granted Farmers on Income Tax\u2014Government Fails to Make Any Progress on Taxation Proposals Alter Day of Committee Debate.SASKATCHEWAN HOUSE EXTENDS OWN CAREER Continued on page 2, column 5.Regina, April 13.-i(P) The fifth session of Saskatchewan\u2019s Ninth Législature prorogued late last night after adopting a bill that lengthened the Legislature's term to six years.The hill to amend (he .Saskatchewan Assembly Act extends the LrgishUurc until July IS, ptl l, and provides that \u201cit shall not ho necessary to hold any general election to choose members of the Assembly until Hud date.\u201d A last, minute attempt by the < .r.F.to give the bill a six months hoi | was defeated 30-!), Hero of Dieppe Raid Given Important Post in Reorganization of Canadian Command Overseas.FRESH HAVENS FOR REFUGEES UNDER REVIEW International Governmental Action to Aid Refugees from Persecution Object of Bermuda Parley.CZECH JOURNAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO CANADIANS Many Secret Instruments Of War Now Pouring Off Arsenal Lines Ottawa, April 13.\u2014 (P\u2018\u2014Major-General J.H.Roberts, the man who directed the Canadian attack on Dieppe last August, ha.- been appointed to command all Canadian reinforcement units in tire United Many Aspects of Canadian Life Discussed in Special Edition of Czech Foreign Office Paper.Kingdom, Defence Headquarters force\u2014along the island arc North-; announced la&t nigiht.The possibility ward of Australia for the purpose of : that the Canadian overseas army returning to an offensive interrupted j s.ome time this year will form the ->y successive Allied successes ir.j spearhead of forces invading Europe the Corat Sea.the Solomons, New : makes it apparent that Gen.Rob-an^ Bismarck Sea., erts\u2019 new post is one of high respon-The result of this struggle in j sibility.the next few weeks will have the The appointnient created a vacan-greaLest importance for us.\u2019\tcy in the command of the overseas He said the Japanese have not yet division which the 52-year-old Gen- cast by the Rome radio and recorded by the Associated Press, claimed that sixty dead and 124 injured were left in Allied raids on Italy and Italian islands.) Patrols from both the British 8th Army and the 1st Army are pushing forward North between the coast and the hills, and French forces con.approached peak development for oral had headed for the na-st twelve tinue to press forward in the hills their bases in islands extending months.No announcement was to the East of the Ousseltia plain, across a sixty-degree arc from made as to his successor in that the war bulletin said.\ti Northwest to Northeast of Austra- post.In the air, Allied fliers continued lia.The enemy is able to concen-, Simultaneously, defence head-to pound enemy bases and airdromes, irate in this area, the veteran Aus-; quarters announced five other senior scoring hits yesterday- on docks and tralian commander declared, because overseas armyr appointments.They are as follows Washington, April 13.\u2014f eight Liberals who voted with a \u2022olid Opposition against extending i he life of the Legislature for another year.The bill was given second reading by a 41-27 vote last night.Liberal opposition was led by the member for Brant, Harry Nixon, who resigned as Provincial Secretary when Mr.Conant succeeded Mitchell F.Hepburn as Premier last October.Third reading of the bill was scheduled today, in afternoon and night sittings, which Premier Conant said in an interview would be held in the hope prorogation of the present session would take place Wednesday morning.Speaking on the bill to extend the life of the Legislature, Mr.Nixon said he had been on record for years as against such measures, adding, \u201cthese are still my views.\u201d Backing him were Farquhar Oliver, former Minister of Welfare, Grey South; Eric Cross, Haldimand-Norfolk; W.A.Dickson, Perth: D.M.Campbell, Kent East; C.M- Mac-Fie, Middlesex South; R.G- Croome, Rainy River; Dr.J.C.Bradley, Ren.frew North.Prior to that Premier Conant said the people of Ontario did not want an election.Replying to Opposition Leader Lt.-Col.George A, Drew\u2019s statement that he had agreed to an extension last year because of the war situation but could not do so this time because he felt there was a \u201cvery definite turning of the tide,\u201d the Premier said the war was even more serious now than it was when the previous extension was granted.\u201cIf however,\u201d he added, \u201cthe situation should change materially as, for example, the victorious conclu-si of the war.different conclusions would apply.\u201d He also said that he thought the seven vacant seats of Cochrane South, Huron Bruce, Kingston, Fort William, Lincoln, To.ronto High Park and Toronto Bell-woods should be filled before the Legislature's next session.Opposition was also voiced to the Collective Bargaining Bill, which now needs only the formality of third reading and Royal Assent to become law.Col.Drew reiterated his previous statements that the previsions for a one-man court to administer the act was ultra vires and said he had been advised by constitutional lawyers the Act was \u201cutterly unconstitutional and could be upset.\u201d Brig.J.F.A.Lister, 36, of Victoria, is promoted from the rank of colonel and becomes Deputy-; Adjutant and Quartermaster-General of a Canadian corps oven-seas, i Brig.J, E.Sager, 45, of Vancouver, is promoted from the rank of lieutenant-colonel and placed in command of a Canadian infantry brigade.Brig.T.G.Gibson, 35, of Toronto, is promoted from the rank of lieutenant-colonel and appointed commander of a Canadian infantry-brigade.Brig.Harry Sharp, D.C.M., 45, of North Battleford, Sask., is promoted from the rank of lieutenant-colonel and assumes command of a Canadian infantry brigade.Brig.Emmette McCusker, 53, of Regina, is promoted from the rani; of colonel and appointed Deputy-Director of Medical Services of a Canadian corps.Gen.Roberts has had extensive experience as a fighting soldier.He served overseas with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery during the First War from 1915 until he was wounded in 1918 and won the Military Cross.i He led the big Dieppe raid from a British destroyer stationed close i inshore, remaining on the bridge ¦ throughout the nine hours the Canadians were ashore.For his gallantry in that operation he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.The citation for that decoration said he stayed on \u201che bridge \u201cthat he might better observe the ! conduct of the operation.\u201d The destroyer was under fire from shore batteries and was dive bombed and machine-gunned from the air during ithat time.colonies ami Palestine.The United States, also beginning j sand8 oYwoHs to telling how Czech-to feel the pinch of wartime short- from the Old World are faring in : ages, is sheltering more than 500,000 | the New.There were stories of their! refugees from the Axis-dominated i ]oyalty> their\thistorv and\ti(mfn ' countries who came here since the | descriptions,\taccompanied\tby\tpic- advent of the Hitler regime in 1933.j times, of the Canada in which\tthev !\u2019:0,'l\tConstable\tand\tCompany;\tRest The two countries consequently are| Jive.\t(and\tCompany;\tBloomingdale\tBroth- By J.F.SANDERSON, Caivadian I\u2019rrsis Staff Writer Chester, Pa., April 13.\u2014(jÜ\u2014One day last July, just bpfOTc the day ¦Giifl at the ('illester Tank Arsenal was due to leave, a telephone message w as received from Washington, A ebnvoy was due to sail the next nigh I, fro in a porl up the eosts I and it was vitally important to catch it with a load of kinks and eelf-| propelled guns.The day shift didn\u2019t leave the j plant for twenty-two bourn.The; night shift toiled on, too.Tank after lank, gun after gun, were loaded on flat, cars and rushed up the e.oflwt where giant crâne» slung them aboard the shipi.The convoy sailed on lime.It, cut down through the ALlairtic, around i in tip of Africa, up flic Red Sea to Egypt, guarded day and night.When it landed, a nun named Montgomery was informed.That convoy, loaded with tanks and guns from the Oh es 1er Tank Arsenal, including what, was then a military secret, the self-propelled hank destroyer mounting a 105-irrm.Howitzer, soon to be calded \u201cThe Priest\u201d by British troops, sealed the fate of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at El Alamein in October.It was the last, link in a long chain of o! dnance planning that extended not only to the United Staten, but into Canada and Britain as well.I visited the Chester Tank A rsenal the other day and saw the latest war j machine: being prepared for export.Retail Dry floods Association of * stood on a lower in the yard and New York; Abraham and Straus, Inc,; 1!.Altman and Company; Ar- Czecho-Slovakia have endured uncounted suffering and desolation.\u201d The single word \u201cLidice,\u201d he said, had passed into the Canadian vo- looking for some joint programme to care for additional refugees who may flee Germany\u2019s attempt to exterminate the Jews, the Polee and other Nazi-despised peoples.The.' propose to deal with the problem internationally instead of by private charity or by individual governments.W\u2019ith this aim, the State Depart- ^ _________ ment said Monday that April 19 has : pabulary as a symbol for all time.been set as the opening date of the\t___________________ conference.Host at the conference will be the British Government, which proposed an informal meeting in January and obtained the American acceptance in February.State Secretary Cordell Hull euggested Ottawa for the site, but British officials chose Bermuda because, they eaid, it was a midway point.Prime Minister King, in his mes-j \u2019 rs> Inc-: Bon wit Teller, Gimbel sage to the paper, said Canadians ; Brothers, Frederick Loeser and had \u201cwitnessed with, an admiration j Company ; Lord and Taylor; dame which cannot be written in word- \u2022^t'( reery ;in'l Company; R.H.the steadfast courage with which the! -Many and Company Inc.; Russcks; brave defenders of the free spirit of!\u2019Saks aml Company; f ranklin Simon dured un- an(* Company, Inr., and Stern .surveyed 4,000 machines of death, ranging from 32-bon tanks to halftrack scout cars, from giant guns Continued on page 2, column 6.By C, R.BLACKBUUTC, Canadian Press Staff Writer Gtliuvn, April 13.® Finance Minister llsley and Ravomio Minister Gibson, the officials responsible, respectively, for imposing; laxalion and colIiYting it,, stood firm in Hie House of Commons yesterday against a demand for concessions In farmer income lax; payers.The demands, coming from private members of all shades of poli-lieal opinion, ranged all the way from complete exemption of all farmers from the income lax fo exemplion of the \u201cImiter and egg money\u201d a farm wife may amass.About four hours of the diayV slitting was devoted to this discussion in which (die Minister» answered a barrage nf qur.siione as lo dolail of the farm income (ax and turned asido numerous Kquestr for relaxation nf this impost.A little progress was made with the budget iv.-'oiutions on income tax change.- which were being considered by the Ihm.\u2022 in Committee of the Whole.Late in the evening, when Western, rep re sen tali vus of farm district» were repeating their arguments on behalf of farmers and their families, Arthur Slaghi, (Lib,, Parry Sound) entered the discussion.He said the people of his district, in great numbers, had seen their main source of income mid a useful one l.o the country the tourist traffic ruined by the restrictions of war.But he was not asking special consideration for them.\u201cIf every member singled out his own little grievance in his own dis I riel, and asked the minister to disci iminnte in his favor .where would we get in this great war effort and in the collection of income tax?\" he asked.In the, course of the long exchange Mr, llsley told the Committee that, it would he impossible to grant empiète exemption to farmers u: requested by Robert Fair (N.I)., Battle River), and that wages for farm wives could not be charged against farm income any more than for wives in any other activity.This latter concession was Who one demanded by the great majority of the many who spoke in the committee discussion.Member after member stressed the hard work; necessarily performed by wives on f arms.To exempt farmers altogether, said Mr.llsley, would set up a form, of discrimination \u201cso glaring we could never defend it,\u201d and to allow wages for farm wives would entitle every married householder t,o Continued 0n page 2, column 5.B rothers.The information charged, Fahy said, that the defendants agreed be-j tween March 5 and March 10 to ! withdraw advertising from the New York Times unless the newspaper Washington, April 13.(/Pi cancelled a rate increase scheduled Hundreds of Canadian and American ; t(> become effective May 7.The fi.bing vessels will take out after withdrawal was part of a concerted Pacific halibut when the season effort established through meetings opens at midnight Thursday.Date of the Association, the Acting Attor-of the season s opening was an- ney-General said.The store* had nounce^\t: suggested that instead of increasing advertising rates, the Times increase Jurisdictional Dispute Menaces Dominion\u2019s Aluminum Production Office of the Co-ordinator of Fisher ie WAR BULLETINS Cairo, Egypt \u2014 United States bombers attacked Naples harbor in daylight Sunday and hit Vittorio Emmanuele Mole and the vicinity of the shipbuilding works,, a United States air force communique announced today.* \u2022 \u2022 * * London \u2014 The Moscow radio reported today that twenty-five German planes had been shot down by Russian fliers and anti-aircraft batteries in an attempted raid on Krasnodar in the Western Cau-casus.Five Russian planes were lost in the action, said the broadcast, which was recorded by the Soviet radio monitor here.Arviria, Que.April 13.\u2014'Œ\u2014Officers of the Aluminum Worker.\u2019 Union (A.F.L.), advised officials of the Aluminum Company of Ofnada'K giant plant here that the possibility of a stoppage of production \u201cmurt be faced\u201d if the company fails to negotiate with the union within r,ev_ enty-two hours on the question of i bargaining rights.! (At the Montreal headquarters the price of its daily paper to five lone company official said a \u201cthreat-cents and of its Sunday\tedition\tto\tening telegram\thad been received fifteen cents, which the\tTimes\tre-\tand forwarded\tto Ottawa,\u201d while fused to do.^\t_\tanother, closely\tassociated with the Fahy said the information charg-'\tfirm\u2019s labor policy, denied know- strike vote wa.s reported yesterday, to have been taken by employee^ of the nearby Dolbeau power plant of f'rice Brothers and Company, Limited, whose newspaper and paper mills at Jonquiere, Riverbend and Kenogami have been tied up for six days by a strike of approximately 1,275 workers.Result of the Dolbeau vote was, not announced.ed that the action of the Association and its members \u201cdeprived readers of The Times of access to information of merchandise available to the public at principal department stores in New York City unless Times readers read other newspaper».\u201d It also was charged, he said, that a number of Times readers were misled by the lack of Department store advertising in the paper into believing that there was a shortage of available merchandise because of the war.Fahy said the New York Times had not filed a complaint, implying that the Justice Department had instituted the investigation on its own initiative.ledge of the union's approach.) \u201cIt appears, to be a jurisdictional dispute between unions,\u201d said an Aluminum Company official here, pointing out that the company had a collective bargaining contract with the Confederation of Catholic Work, cr.s of Canada.\u201cWe have been advised by Ottawa that nothing will be allowed to stand in the way of continued uninterrupted production here.\u201d The contract with the Catholic Confederation, representing potmen and other employee.* in the plant, was signed several years ago and has been automatically renewed each December since.Chicoutimi, Que,, April 13.\u2014(Pj\u2014A BAKERY TRADES NEGOTIATE Montreal, April 13.\u2014ffi\u2014A union official said yesterday that managements of thirty bakeries and pastry-making concerns here have been invited to meet union leaders Wednesday and Thursday to discuss de.mands for increased wages and improved working conditions.The managements have made no statement.The official was Albert Seneca!, business agent for the Syndicate of Employees of Bakeries and Pastry Shops in Montreal, a charter member of the Confederation of Catholic Workers of Canada.The union claims a majority support among the 2,100 workers in the industry.Union demands include a full cost of living bonus, a 48-hour week, a closed shop, increased commissions fop salesmen and some wage adjustments.1 2.SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1943.REVENUES OF OUTSIDE FIRMS POWER COMPANY GET HALF OF SHOW INCREASE! GM.WAR WORK: ____\tI\t____ Gross Returns of St.Maurice Materials for War Production Corporation Move to $1,-1 Cost General Motors Ap-550,413 Against Previous1 proximately $57,000,000! Year's $1,325,121.t in 1942.Japanese Mass ConL:r,ued trura Page 1.» a I ¦ I a r \u2022 a a Oshawa, April 13.\u2014General Motors\u2019 purchases from sub-contractors and suppliert: scattered widely across Canada, to supply it with parts and materials for its war production approximated $57,000,000 in 1942, W.A.Woeker, General Manager, disclosed today.\u201cThis extensive use of sub-contractors,\" Mr, Weeker staid, \u2018\u2018is merely the application of a long established peace time procedure of General Motors, of Canada, procedure which has helped to maintain requirements of mass production of war material and which has spread approximately one half of its war work to outside firms, \u201cTt wax apparent at the start of the arms programme in Canada that these hundreds of small industries could never be \u201cprime contractors\" because they had never built finished products for consumer use, serving solely as specialists in producing parts and assemblies for manufacturers turning out the final product.\u201cWhen the Government placed prime contracts in the hands of General Motors it was taken for granted that the network of suppliers James Marchant.K.R.E., who dealt I,AST DAY\u2014(MAT.ONLY) Kdsrar Wa.llace'a Greatest ThriJU-r \u201cFRIGHT.KNEH LAnY\u201d; Al?>o Murk Jon