Sherbrooke daily record, 5 juillet 1920, lundi 5 juillet 1920

[" .w Sherbrooke Daily Record Established 1897.0 Cod ere ,?*v: r-th SHERBROOKE, QUE, MONDAY, JULY 5, 1920.St- \u2022r [Iwenty-F ourth^ Yea*.habeasuorpus judgment is now appealed The Democratic Convention Is In Ninth Session Today JUBM GERMAN DnEUTES MET T0MÏ FOR HRST SESSION OF THEIR CONFERENCE AT SPA German Chancellor Signified His AjJproval of the Order of Business and Procedure, Saying in His Reply to Mr.Delacroix, the Belgian Premier, Who Presided at the Conference, that He Was Glad of This Opportunity to Meet and Talk With the Allies\u2014Many Important Matters Are to Be Taken Up During the Conference.(Associated Press Despatch)\t_____ SPA, July 5.\u2014Allied and German delegates to the Conference to be held here this week met this morning for their first session, which lasted only twenty minutes.Adjournment v/as then taken until two o\u2019clock tomorrow afternoon.Konstantin Fehrenbach, German Chancellor and head of that country's delegation, kept the Allied Premiers waiting for ten minutes, being late in reaching Villa Fraineuse, where the conference is being held.Premier Millerand, cf France, was prompt, as usual, hting the first to arrive.Count Sforza, Italian Foreign Minister, was next to arrive, being followed by Viscount Chinda, Japanese Ambassador to Great Britain.Premier Lloyd George was the last of the Allied representatives to reach *he Villa.When Herr Fehrenbach\u2019s car rode up the winding hill .read to the beautiful Louis XVI.villa, the Allied delegation were all assembled-\u2014three from each delegation\u2014and ar «rmy of photographers awaited.When the German Chancellor alighted from the car, he smilingly consented to be photographed, and then entered the villa with alert step.He was followed by two of his colleagues, after which the session was declared open by *M.Delacroix, the Belgian Premier, who presided.M.Delacroix read the order of business as follows: dure; second, disarmament : third, reparations ; e guilty of war crimes.ehrenbach signified his approval of the order nd procedure, saying in his reply to M.Dela-e was glad of this opportunity to meet and talk lies.\t\u2022 \u2019\u2022 DEMANDS WHICH HE CONSIDERS Ï0 BE BEYOND GERMANY\u2019S STRENGTH TO MEET .First, proc fourth the H cl it with the A WILL REK! : Associated Prcci Despatch' spa, July 5.\u2014The Allied and NATIONALISTS HAVE German Premiers arc here to niee .each other for diret negotiations for trie first time since the Versailles treaty was signed.The probability of reaching an agreenmt on the total \u2019sum of reparations Germany is to ; .appears slight.The Allied pre-it^ In.r.- will communicate their collec-ju t.c decisions to Constantin Fohren- g Lach, the German chancellor.He and j C his associates aff.rm th > ar pre-'C jiared to refus, demands which they g evacuated ISmid, about SIX- C meet bcy0nd\t^ ty miles to the southeast of Herr Fehrenbach said yesterday * £ Constantinople, according to his £ 1er- !0 lad I® EVACUATED ISMID (Associated Press Despatch) Paris, July 5.\u2014The PARIS, July 5.\u2014The Turkish Nationalists have ' t0 \" ih VT II a despatch from the Turkish iarations to the Uer- r .\t,\t, ntil after he had : £ capital yesterday.POUTRE BLOCK IS SOLD FOR RECORD PRICE Property Purchased by L.R.Steel Company for the Sum of $200,000, It Is Stated.Confidence in Sherbrooke as a business centre has been expressed in no uncertain terms by Mr.L.R.Steel, President of the L.R.Steel Chain Stores Company, who was in the city the past week end.This Company has purchased the Poutre Block on Wellington Street for à sum stated to be $200,000, r\u2019'\u201d\t\u2014 , 1 ,\t.nor are the actual terms con- nected with the transaction known.This deal was made_ on Friday evening after Mr.L.R.Steel had made a complete survey of the situation in Sherbrooke.In company with Mr.- P.C.Deeble, President of the L.R.Steel Service Corporation of Canada, and C.E.Hoarey, purchasing agent, he visited the industrial and residential sections of the city.On their tour of the city during the day the three visitors expressed themselvs in no uncertain terms regarding their impressions of the possibilities here, and in the evening they backed up their words by action.The store will be completely remodelled at once and a four storey up-to-date establishment will be erected.The basement will be used for a Cafeteria, and on the ground $1.00 departmental store, and the two top floors will be used as a specialty shop for blouses, waists, lingerie and millinery, the feature of this department being that nothing in the store will be sold over ten dollars.Mr.Steel, who is the originator of the 5 cents to $1.00 chain of stores is certain of the success of the.Sherbrooke enterprise.It is the intention to eventually establish 5 cents to $1.00 stores in every city in Canada over six thousand population.Those who met the President of r.he Company are very much impressed with his personality.He is a man of few words, but of definite action.He inspires confidence and bears all the characteristics of euc-cea.The secret of the organization\u2019s success is in the wonderful purchasing and distributing advantages enjoyed in the control of a series of stores over the whole country.They will manufacture most of their own goods or buy in such large quantities as secures th eminhnum price.The price paid for the Poutre Block marks an unprecedented record In Sherbrooke real state which startled the down-town district on Saturday.Sober consideration of the possibilities for business on the four floors in the centre of Sherbrooke\u2019s busiest street under- modern merchandising and distributing methods is tempering the surprise of the first announcement, and is having the effect of making Sherbrooke citizens appreciate the value of their birthright.NINETEEN ARE .IN A TRAIN WRECK Thirty-five Others Were Injured in Collision Near South Pitts-toa, Pa.(Associated Press Despatch) SCRANTON, Pa., July 5.\u2014In a collision between three cars on the Lackawana Valley Railroad near South Pittson station at seven-thirty Saturday night, nineteen people were killedand thirty five seriously injured.The accident occurred near South Pittston, when lightning struck a telegraph pole .along the line of the track and the pole fell over on the tracks in front of a car bound for Scranton.A moment later a limited car crashed into the rear of the car that struck the pole and a third car telescoped the second.All three cars were piled in a heap./'rsTnnmnryrraw AGREE ON DIVISION OF : g GERMAN REPARATION ; (Associated Press Despatch) Brussels, July 5.\u2014An agreement as to the division of German reparation has virtually been reached between the Allied Premiers in conference here.France gets 52 per cent., Great Bri-tain 22 per cent., 10 per ° cent, to Italy, 8 per cent, to % Belgi um, and 5 per cent, to Serbia; and the balance is divided among the other Allies.JULILSLIUJUJULSULS^^ STATED THAT THE MAJORiïY OF M IRISH CONNAUGHT RANGERS IN INDIA HAVE NOW MUTINIED ____________ -\t-\u2019 -b Despatch Says that Three-quarters of the Battalion Stationed in the Punjab, India, Have Mutinied Following the Arrival of News of the Recent Events in Ireland, and that Another Detachment in the Simla HiUs Also Has Mutinied.\u2014.\u2014 \u2014.i t MANITOBA ELECTIONS.WINNIPEG, July 5.\u2014The unofficial standing of parties in the Manitoba elections is: Government 21; Labor 11; Farmers and Independents 11; Conservatives 10; Deferred 2; Total 55.(Associated Press Despatch) ONDON, ENG., July 5^-Three-fourths of the battalion of Irish \u201c* Connaught Rangers, stationed In the Punjab, India, have mutinied following the arrival of news of recent events in Ireland.Another detachment in the Simla Hills also has mutinied, accorûlng to a Reuter\u2019s despatch dated July 2nd.Appeal From The Second Judgment Of Habeas Corpus Has Been Inscribed By Warden Malepart In The Labrie Case Latest Development in Case is Appeal to Court of King\u2019s Bench Against Judge Duclos\u2019 Second Writ of Habeas Corpus, Which Was Filed in Montreal on Saturday by Counsel for Warden Malepart\u2014Desistment of Proceedings Against Latter Was Allowed and Recusation Is Thereby Dropped.- ?HE next step in the Labrie DEMAND RELEASE OF LARKIN.(Associated Press Despatch) DUBLIN, July 5.\u2014At a public meeting held yesterday, resolutions were passed demanding the release of James Larkin, head of the Telephone Workers\u2019 Union, who is serving a sentence in New York, having been found guilty of criminal anarchy.The resolution requested facilities for the return of Larkin to Ireland, and called upon the Dublin workers jto cease their labors for two hours today for the purpose of signing a petition to the United States Government for the release of Larkin..Me, he moved out MORNIIS4 V this] !lP PS (