Sherbrooke daily record, 13 juillet 1922, jeudi 13 juillet 1922

[" Sherbrooke Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUE, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1922, Record Twenty-sixth Year.DETERMINED MOVE PLANNED BY FREE STATERS Discount Rate Is Again Reduced By Bank Of England France Will fREE STATE GOVERNMENT'S DECISION TAKEN TO INDICATE MILITARY OPERATIONS ON LARGE SCALE IMPENDING; REBELS MAKE PREPARATIONS i iDSISt UDOil Republicans Are Reported to Have Taken a Line from Waterford Across fhe Country to Limerick for a Defensive Front, Entrenching Themselves in Preparation for Expected Free State Assault\u2014Mystery of De Valera\u2019s Whereabouts Furnishes the Subject for a Fresh Rumor Every Day, and There !s Even.One Story that He Is Dead.- ¦>& POLICEMEN AND FIRE- « MEN THREATEN TO « STRIKE AT MONT-\t* REAL.\t* morning in Manitoba, elsewhere in the Dominion the weather is quite fine.Forecast: Fre»h westerly wind», fair and a little cooler.Friday, light wind», fine and moderately warm.Due Almost Entirely to Seasonal Decrease in Freight Traffic-Monthly Report Announced.(Associated Press Despatch) | OTTAWA, July 13.\u2014The most; prominent feature of the report for ; April of Canadian railways as a ( i whole, was the sharp decline in j I revenues from March, declares the I monthly statement of the Dominion ; ( Bureau of Statistics covering opera- ! ; ting revenues, expenses and statis- ' ! tics of steam railways of Canada for! April.This was due almost entire- ; ly to seasonal decreases in freight) traffic, although the decrease was ! much greater than for either 19211 or 1920.Canadian National Rail-; ways showed a decrease of $1,491.-! 092 or sixteen per cent, in total | revenue, compared with April 1921.,! the statement continues.This was due to decreases in ra|es and also to decreases in freight ^nd \\ passenger traffic.The decrease inj freight traffic from March was.much greater this year than last, being thirty-eight per cent.for.1922, as against twenty-two per1 cent, for 1921.The operating loss1 was $1,349,516 for the month as! compared with $2,636,639 for April! 1921.The Canadian Pacific Railway,! says the statement, showed a de-! dine, of 10.5 per cent- in revenues and a reduction of 3.5 per cent, in ! operating expenses, which increased 'the operating ratio from 81.09 per cent, for April 1921, to 87.37 per cent, for April.1922.The Grand Trunk Railway showed an increase in passenger revenues over both April, 1921, andj March of the present year, but; freight revenues decreased.Total ; revenues decreased $774,971 or 13.; 6 per cent, from April 1921 while; expenses were reduced $697,400 or 13.2 per cent giving an operating ratio of 93.78 per cent, compared, with 93.27 per cent for April, 1921.The operating ratio on all railways for the month was 95.51 per cent, as comparted with 96.25 per cent, for April 192L (Associated Pres* Despatch) London, July 13.\u2014The Bank of England today lowered its discount rate to three per cent., a reduction of one half per cent, from the figure established on June 15th.The reduction of the official minimum furnished another of the periodical surprises which the Bank of England has given the money market.It was anticipated a few weeks back, when the Federal Reserve Bank rate in the United States was lowered, that the bank rate here would follow' suit, but hope for this vanished with the tightening conditions in the money market and the collapse of mark SIX DEAD AND MANY INJURED IN BAD WRECK Express Train Crashed Head-on into a Freight on the Outskirts of Kansas City.(Associated Press Despatch) KANSAS CITY, MO.July IS.\u2014 Two white men and four unidentified negroes dead, forty-eight persons injured, some of them perhaps fatally, was the toll this morning of a wreck on the outskirts of Kansas City last night, in which Missouri ,\tn k* 1___________'Pacific Railroad flyer number 11, exchange, as wel.as heavy °or'| westbound, crashed head-on into a rowing by the Government from local freight train, as a result of the Bank of England.\tconfused orders.k~.The wreck occurred five minutes However., ^ raj] from Union Station, in the a\u2018l city\u2019s largest park.The engines were demolished, half the freight train of fifteen cars was wrecked, and four coaches of the flyer were smashed.A wooden smoking car was telescoped by a steel baggage car.Most MADE ATTACK ON STRIKEBREAKERS.(Associated Press Despatch.) ORVILLE, Cal., July 13.\u2014Numerous strike breakers and, guards were injured, several seriously, and one perhaps fatally, when about seventy-five men, speeding into town early today in automobiles, charged the Western Pacific roundhouse here.The attacking party then motored away.Four guards were missing and are believed to have been kidnapped.SENDS REPLY TO PRESIDENT HARDING.(Associated Press Despatch! CHICAGO, July 13.\u2014B.M.Jewell, head of the railway employees department of the American Federation of Labor, today sent a tele-j gram to President Harding, replying to the President\u2019s proclamation ! on the strike situation and opening ! a new phase of the grievances of I striking railway shopmen.] The telegram, which also was | signed bythe six international presidents of the railway shop crafts, j declared that the strikers had walk-) ed out because wages fixed by the ! Labor Board were in violation of the ! provisions of the Transportation Act I and because of the violation of the WALK-OUT WAS AVERTED.(Associated Press Despatch) NEW YORK, July 13.\u2014A strike of fifteen thousand clerks, station men and freight handlers on the sixteen New York Central lines was averted yesterday when union officials and the executives signed a \u201csatisfactory settlement\u201d covering wages, vacation pay, sick compensation and the \u201cfarming\u201d of freight handling contracts.________ MERCHANTS PLAN A BIG MEETING TO CONSIDER LATEST LEGISLATION ; Conference Will Be Held at Brockvilie on July 19 and 20.i\t- j (Associated Press Despatch) OTTAWA, July 13.\u2014To considet [legislation and taxation affecting th« ! retailers, a conference, which will !be one of the greatest gatherings of {representative retail merchants ever {held in the Dominion, has been call-! ed by the Eastern Ontario and Ot> itawa district section of the Retail Merchants\u2019 Association of Canada.' The conference will be held in Brockvilie on July 19 and 20, and from present indications five hundred or more merchants from the fifteen counties in the territory covered from Ottawa will be present.Some of the most important matters to be dealt with arise out of the recent budget provisions as they affect the merchants.The Government, has since repaid practically this indebtedness, and as the foreign exchange situation is admittedly less strained, the bank has given traders further heln by ,\t.taking on.half of on.pat ^j- from the minimum.!he reduc- -o- don also is expected to stimulate j fJO STATEMENT IS ISSUED the buying of government secun ( REGARDING WHEAT BOARD ties on the stock exchange.-»i- STEAMER RAN AGROUND.(Associated Press Despatch) SEATTLE, WASH., July 13.\u2014 The C.PR.steamer, Princess Victoria took off thirty-five passengers from the steamer Williamette which ran aground on Whitby Island, yesterday morning during a heavy fog and brought them here.The Princess Victoria and Not Likely Any Formula Can Be Evolved To Save The Conference From Disruption Both Russians and Non-Russianss Are Standing Firm at Regards the Property Question\u2014Experts Holding Meetings for Discussion of Final Stand on the Question of Foreign-Owned Property in Russia Confiscated by the Soviets.Discuss Advisability of Calling a Special Session of the Alberta Legislature.EDMONTON, Alta., July 13.\u2014 Premeier Greenfield, after a lengthy conference of the Provincial Cabinet regarding the advisability of calling a special session of the Alberta Leg- .______ ___ the jislature to consider the establishment steamer'Cordova made several inef- of an Interprovincial wheat board in fectual attempts pull the Wil-1 co-operation with Saskatchewan, an- liamette into deep water.Several'nounced last night that no state-steamers are standing by.\tment would be issued until after the The Williamette was en route executive council had dealt with the from San Franc sco to Seattle.projkomtioii more fully.(Associated Press Despatch.THE HAGUE, July 13.\u2014Actual dissolution of The Hague conference on Rusian affairs probably cannot taKe place before tomorrow, as the sesison of tire subcommission on credits has been postponed until then, and no meeting is scheduled for today between the Russian and non-Russian delegates.Meanwhile the experts representing the countries which have been trying to reach an agreement with the Soviets are holding meetings for the discussion of their final stand on the question of foreign owned property in Russia confiscated by the Soviets, about which ah the minor differences centre.Many of the> delegates have made train reservations for tomorrow or Saturday, and have advised the hotels they will surrender their rooms.The deadlock over the property question is so tight and both the Russians and the non-Russians are so firm in their respective stands that it seems unlikely any formula can be evolved to save the conference from disruption.Two stormy sessions of the conference of the Russian problem yea terday apparently ended all char'*\u2019 of an agreement between the R sians and the other powers.An^ \u2022r session will be held today.698 PAGE TWO & SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1922, ST.FRANCIS ,* DISTRICT NEWS the celebration of the Holy Com- spes few days at Mr.Roy Bostwick\u2019s Dudswell Centre.Mr.and Mrs.E.A.Rowe were in this place on Sunday.Mr.Elwin Brown w-as home from bUeri*,! fcJ LorreipoBoi Comnanitie».the Daily Record East Angus for the week-end.e«ti in Ike Variow\tSTAN5TEAD FITCH BAY Building Association, had the mis- preacher.Special music will be ren-\u2019 fortune to lose one fmger in the dered by the choir The members planning machine on Tuesday after- will meet at the lodge rooms in Vic- °S?' * r> .\u201e\t\u2022»\t'to*1» HaB at 2 o\u2019clock.Regalia will Master Emmett Remhan, young be worn.All officers and members son of Mr.and Mrs.Henry Remhan,.of sister lodges in the vicinity are , is ill with an attack of scarlet fever.! cordially invited to join in this an-! Messrs.Phillip Routledge and R.nual parade.iSwezey, two young men from Cam-] From Sunday next, July 16th ur-1 i bridge University, Cambridge, Mass., til the last Sunday in August, there passed through here on a hiking trip ; will be but one service a day in the on Tuesday.Mr.Edmond J.Curran HOT WEATHER SIPS IITILin Ironized Yeast Will Restore It Quickly dragged out\u201d Villages.The parade and sports iR.Mclver.were exceptionally good and the ! Miss Cristie McDonald, of Do weather all that could be desired.Mass., accompanied by Miss M ^ Mr.George Layfield took Mrs.and Master Richard Cullen, has Kelly, Miss MacKay, Mrs.Layfield visiting her parents, Mr.and and Miss Sarabell Layfield to|M.McDonald.Brown\u2019s Hill on Thursday to attend Mr.D.McLeod has returned ho the meeting of the Women\u2019s Institute, which was held at Mrs.E.Taylor\u2019s.A splendid report of the convention at Macdonald College was ___\tvisit relatives., ,\t,\t,\t- i Dr.R.O.Ross, Mildred and Lil- The annual bazaar and sale of i-\tin- fancy and useful articles, under the!\ttw r!ta^^o auspices of the Ladies\u2019 Guild of St.\til Thursday afternoon and evening, ^ in Stangtead July 20, at die home of Mr^ and Mr_ arid Mr3_ Dermott Parson9 , '\tmotored to Cowansville on Sunday, ic* gr*™ A.Rogers was called to ! U ^ j patten le£t on Mondaj ev_ - Methodirt Church heTe.On^day Ho you fee! all \u201cdragged eut\u201d! Rev.E.C.Ruseell left Monday _ Mf- Edmond J.Curran, of Island next, July 16th the service will be Can\u2019t sleep?Appetite poor?Does\twere\thi*?! morning for Ottawa, where he will\tV\"\u2019 ^as accepted a position in : at *-.30 p.m.(please note the hour), ordinary mental or physical exertion; hostess\t\u2019 \"e hostess.Mr.Gobeille, from St.Ephrem de the tool rooms of the Butterfield when Dr.G.Ellery Read will be the leave you exhausted?Do you wake Shops and went to work on Monday : aPffial preacher.The local Masons up feeling \u201call in\"?These are dan-!\t^\tw h _ morning.\t' will attend this service.A large at- gerous symptoms.For they indicate | ?\u201cuc*\u2019 was vlsltm^ M.r- °- Flue« ~~ 11\ti tendance and an inspiring service is that the heat is sapping your energy, r AYER\u2019S CLIFF\tanticipated.^The services on the Sun- |strength and resistance, and leaving days July 23rd, 30th, and August Dr an