Sherbrooke daily record, 20 juillet 1953, lundi 20 juillet 1953

[" JULY 1953 M ¦i;\u2014'\t1 .mj.\" i tnyr fw' r\u2014tt -\u2022-1234 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Î8 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 \u2022 THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS Established 1897.PR?CE: 5 CENTS SHERBROOKE.QUEBEC, MONDAY, JIL\\ 20, 195* // ¦y~ WEATHER SUNNY\u2014WARM Cloudy this afternoon with wtdo.Iv scattered showers; clearing in the evening; Tuesday sunny and warm; low tonight and high Tuesday at Sherbrooke 66 and 86.Fifty-seventh Year World News South March, Ont.\u2014 \u2014Today is a big day for some 2,400 boy scouts camped at Connaught ranges 14 miles west of Ottawa attending the second Canadian Boy Scout jamboree.The Scouts, with confreres from six other countries, will stand rigidly at attention while Canada's No.1 Scout, Governor - General Vincent Massey, drives through their ranks to inspect them.Following the inspection, Mr.Massey will address the scouts and declare the 1953 jamboree officially open.>r *\t* Miami Beach \u2014(.\u2018Pi\u2014 A section of a multi-million dollar ocean-front under construction collapsed, sending 10 workmen to hospitals.The men fell 25 feet to the ground when a framework of concrete, steel and planking caved in under their feet, * * * Larisa, Greece \u2014{IP)\u2014 Jet fighter-bombers of four countries swarmed over Greece in tactical support to the first Greek national army which \"fought\" a holding action along the Olympus mountain line against a simulated inwader.For the first time since NATO's south Europe command was formed, Greek field commanders were able to call on F84 thunderjets based in Turkey and Italy.¥ * * Tokyo \u2014 Reuters \u2014 Rus-sians seized 29 Japanese fishing boats and more than 8(1 fishermen in the first 18 days of this month, Japanese coastguard authorities announced.They said the fishing boats were captured in Japanese waters around Hokkaido, Japan\u2019s nethermost island, and around the Kuriles, the Sov-iet islands off Siberia.3f5 New Delhi \u2014 Reuters \u2014 Three women and two children were killed and 22 people injured when a two-storey building collapsed in Old Delhi.Five of the injured were reported in critical con.dition.*\t4'\t* Cairo \u2014 i/P) \u2014 The Middle East simmered in a heat wave that sent temperatures up to 120 degrees over the week-end.The thermometer hit 120 Sunday in Baghdad, Kuwait and other Persian gulf points.Cairo reported a one-point drop from Saturday\u2019s 105.Allied, Communist Officers Work On Final Truce Draft ; War May End Within Week j \"\t.\u2014.'\t.\u2014-.m Japanese Flood Toll Reaches 273 Communists Give Go-Ahead To Preparation Of Last Details Of Armistice.By ROBERT B.TUCKMAN Panmunjom \u2014 (Af*) \u2014 Three teams of Allied and Communist officers, including for- the first time the men who would \u201e ,\toversee a cease-fire, worked todav on final details of a Korean Tokyo \u2014 i/T) \u2014 Thousands of\t.\t,\t,\t, ' ,\t, i n j\tj Japanese were rescued today from truce which seemed almost at hand after the Reds issued a go- debris - littered floodwaters as : ahead Sundav ground, sea and air teams worked \u2018\t.\t,\t.there was no official indication just when the historic docu- feverishly to cut the human toll in the nation\u2019s second great flood disaster in three weeks.The sudden flood that started with cloudburst rains Friday swallowed whole villages at Wakayama on central Honshu island's Pacific mem would be signed to end the three years of fighting.But some observers said it could he within a week.Fighting is to end .12 hours after the signing.Three United States members of the military armistice com- first time to join an coast about 200 miles southwest of mission flew here unexpcctcdlv for the Tokyo\tc National police headquarters A11>cd-Red stafT officers session\u2019 The commission, which would here estimated the toll at 273 ; be composed ot top officers from the opposing armies, will con-dead, 433 injured and 2,033 miss-^tro| ^ jn,ffer zone separating the opposing forces Earlier, police said more than They met at 3:40 p.m.(1:40 6,000 were dead or missing, but a a.m.EDTFand recessed an hour spokesman reported later those |anrt 50 minutes later without sett-totals listed many duplications 1.\t^\t.caused by chaotic communications, iin^ ^ ^ime ^or an°Dier session.More than 2.000 persons strand-, \u201cWe discussed suggested ar-eri on roof tops or trapped in flood- ' rangements which they (the Reds) ed homes were plucked to safety will consider and propably come by rescue teams searching the swirling waters, back with their proposals,\u201d said U.S.air force planes criss- navy Capt.B.M.Coleman, Me- j crossed the flood scene, dropping ; Team Va., one of the three tons of food to stranded persons.; The staff s\u2019ession then reconven-while Japanese ships and ground ed at 4:40 p.m.without the.eom-forces scoured the area for sur-j mission-members.VI'2?.rs'\t\u2022\t.\t, \u201e\t,\t,,, Another United Nations spokes- The lams stopped Sunday after, man no jruce meetings of two days of cloudbursts sent three j anv kind have been SPt fm-Tues- down narrow vllîevs5 thunderlnS j day.but they may be called by Flash floods hit valley villages, j Thp main lruce deicgati0ns pre- some before sleeping residents could flee.Although skies began to clear and the rivers to recede on central Honshu, new rains hit in the Tokyo area and the rivers there rose steadily.Thousands worked during the night to plug gaps at river dikes.At Wakayama.Japanese wept as they were reunited with relatives they thought dead.One young couple, picked up after clinging to debris for eight hours, told how they lost their two children.Shizuo Morimoto, 31, said: \u201cWe woke up and heard the roaring waters bursting the dike at 7 a.m.Saturday.Our house began floating toward the sea at 8 a.m.At the river mouth, surf engulfed us.When we came to the surface, my 4-year-old boy was gone.Government\u2019s Trade Policy Criticized By Opposition By Canadian Press Staff Writer The leaders of the Progressive Conservative and CCF parties fired broadsides at government trade policy during the week-end.Instead of firing back back, Mr.St.Laurent made a speech in which he said he hopes for greater Canadian autonomy.In speeches at Cambridge and Amherst, N.S., Hon.George Drew blamed Liberal government trade sumably are awaiting a call from Ihe lower level staff officers to set a date for the signing.Both sides quickening the pace toward a truce signing in the wake of the sudden communist announcement Sunday that they were ready to go ahead with final preparations in return for Allied assurance that South Korea would abide by a cease-fire.But South Korean foreign minister Pyun Yung Tai hinted more opposition from Syngman Rhee\u2019s government might be in the wind with a statement that the Communist agreement contained \u201cmany traps,\u201d He said it showed the Reds intend to take \u201call South Korea by subversive activity and by liquidating the army which we have built so painstakingly and with so much expense.\u201d An unnamed Republic of Korea spokesman said Allied assurances meant the UN \u201chad lost the war.\u201d In other developments : 1.The Peiping radio announced that Czechoslovakian and Polish ment exploited Europe\u2019s post-war i delegates who would serve on a needs for our products in ex-1 four-nation armistice supervisory change for American dollar aid commission arrived in the Red without any serious attempt to i China capital.The Swedish and establish firm long-term markets.! Swiss delegates are already in \u201cNow when those long-term mar- i Tokyo, kets are disappearing and com- 2.The Reds sent 200 North Kor-petition is the order of the day our ; ean and Chinese troops to resume exports to the sterling areas are ! work on the \u201csigning building\u201d at falling in the most alarming man- j Panmunjon.Construction was sus.ner while many of our products j pended a month after Rhee freed ,.\t,\t-,\t.\t-are being barred by the United ; 27,000 anti-Red North Korean pris- pohey for an alarming import ; States,\u201d\toners from Allied camps.Corn- surplus in the first five months of : Mr.Coldwell, who campaigned i munist correspondent Alan Win-this year At Kirkland Lake Ont last week in the Maritimes, spoke nington of the Lodon Daily Work-_ i: :olS'vl-,s, ?anada slKmltT of faliln§ £arm Prices in Hs Kirk-; ers said the building should be Truckers Quit Jobs In Ontario By THE CANADIAN PRESS Upwards of 1,500 truck drivers are on strike in southwestern Ontario, tying up operations of 36 transport companies from Hamilton to Windsor, Manager F.W.Murray of the Motor Transport Industrial Relations Bureau said in Toronto early today that the drivers, seeking wage increases, took their big trucks off the road as a midnight deadline passed.The men set up picket lines in Windsor and elsewhere.Officials of the drivers\u2019 union, the.International Brotherhood of Teamsters (AFL-TLC), and company representatives are scheduled to meet in Toronto today with Labor Minister Daley of Ontario in an effort to work out' a settlement.Involved in the strike are 980 members of the Union\u2019s Hamilton local and 560 belonging to the local in Windsor.Affect'ed are trucking companies in Hamilton, London, Kitchener, Galt, Brantford, Woodstock, Windsor, Sarnia and Chatham, The union at Hamilton and Windsor turned down a conciliation board recommendation of a seven-cent-an-hour boost for drivers and 11 cents for mechanics.The Hamilton area local seeks 29 cents an hour more for drivers and 30 cents for mechanics while the Windsor Ideal seeks a 52-cent general increase.The hourly rates are for waiting time or breakdowns.Most pay is made up a basis of 5,2 cents a mile.Under this system, a driver on the Montreal-Toronto run makes about $100 a week for 2Va round trips.uv-vt .K-yvNv \u2022.«k.vMiiv\t.Akv'* s LUCKY TWOSOME While a hot sun sent temperatures to 92 in Ihe shade fwo youngsters in swimming trunks kept cool by sitting on a pile of snow prepared by a Montreal snow blower manufacturer to test equipment before entering a tender to supply equipment to the Cils of Montreal.\t\u2018\t(CP Photo) Drownings -Claim 25 Lives At Weekend As Record Heat T^kes Toll In East Prospector Sought For Questioning finished Thursday, but the signing probably would not be that early.3.Gen.Mark Clark, UN far promote British buying by accept- i land Lake speech ing some payment for her goods i He said there is an accumulation m sterling.\t: of 30,000,000 pounds of cheese in Mr.St.Laurent didn't discuss, Ontario and Quebec.In eastern j East commander in Tokvo hailed government trade policy, already Quebec some farmers were offer-.rhe ReT go ahead as \u2019mo en-fair y well explored in the earlier ! ing hay at SI a load to anyone who I couragin* \u201d and said it \u201cshoufd S s' cim' iriUîTnl, ?¦ jf-ivno s v sySA-lsS Instead, at Mont Joli, Que., on j oflh\u201d Pralrilf *\tr0I> cvor ho s\"a S0I\"C , The cream colored yawl, commanded by Arthur R, Homer of Bethlehem, Pa .and sailing out of Mount Desert, Me., is given a good chance of capturing top honors.Her elapsed time of 89 hours, 13 minutes and 18 seconds for (ho 361 mile voyage from Manchester, Mass,, has already eliminated 10 of the It competing yachts.The nee was stowed l>> light winds.Her closest contender seems to oe the Spurhawk, a cutter owned by T.Banks, Jr , Manchester, with a handicap of 11 hours.The yachts and escort vessels do not radio progress of the race.The schooner Reveller, sailed by J.\\Y, Ereilas.Beverly.Mass., carries a four-hour.53 minute allow, anee over the Salmagal II and the culler Narwhal, owned by Olivet* Ames, Padanaram, Mass , 4:05, Although Nova Scot in's three yachts have been eliminated, the.province probably will have a share in the win.W C, Chipman, a native of Yarmoulh.N.S., now living iu Hinghan, Mass., is conic on Ihe 8-1 foot Salmagal.Navigator and first mate of the Salmagal is Daniel St rohmeier, New York.A O Willauer, Dedham.Mass , is second mate.Grew members are Stephen B Homer, son of the owner, Samuel Wake-man.Hinghan, Mass., Raymond Hinghan and Allan Brag- Kerris Ga.spe, Que.(CP) Quebec provincial police today sought a j don, Northampton, Mass, :d a freighter in Montreal harbor | man for appearance ai a corner's j Homer will have a double tri-and Rnbei tRoulce, 34, died in the, inquest mto the death of one of ¦ nmph should Ihe boat come exposion of a tank of propane gas lhiw Uniled Stales hunters who I through.He designed a major part at Valeaitiei nulitaiy camp ne.u d snppoarcd .lune 9 in the Quebec of the yawl, built in 1950.The Daily Telegraph said, iast week\u2019s massive Red assaut! the upper St.Lawrence river, he drew a picture of a Canada which would have the constitutional authority to settle all its affairs without reference to another country.Meanwhile at Cap St.Ignace, Que., 140 miles southwest of Mont Joli.Finance Minister Abbott ___________ _____, \u201e made an announcement which con- j undeveloped areas\t\u201e , firmed rumors drifting about gov- Mr.Coldwell moves through On-\t,UP.maPs.presumably need- ernment circles for many months, j tario until Thursday.Then he will ! fd incflxlngnt1he n.(;'v demarcation He said that if elected he would campaign in Manitoba\t1 u?, 01 \u2022,?\u201c '2\"ml£e duffer zone not again occupy the finance port-! Mr.St.Laurent said at Monti\"11 ¦\t\"''J1 separate Ihe opposing folio.That, would be filled by Jean I Joli he hopes Canada will soon be i arl™esr,12 hours aftcr a truce- II Lesage, Liberal member for Mont-i able to settle all its affairs with- \"'in refl«ct gains of the Commun-magny-lTslet riding in the last out asking the permission of an- 1SAS ln.Iheir Slant Kumsong bulge House of Commons, if Mr.Lesage other country.He was referring to ^ 1tenslve last u'cek ar|d territory were re-elected.\tthe existing legislative process italcen counter-attacking South! Mr.Abbott was speaking in sup- which requires that an amendment \u2019 Koreans- This team met in two I port of Mr.Lesage, his parliamen- to the British North America Act rnorninS sessions totalling almost j tary assistant in the last House.I\u2014which sets the Canadian const!- an ho,ir\u2019 Tllc §rr,up was joined in | Mr.Drew wound up his week- tution\u2014be passed bv the British the afternoon by the three U.S.I long four of the Maritimes Satur- Parliament.\tmilitary commission members, day.He moves into Quebec today; He said that Canada should be fi- Another staff group met with and will spend the next three able to amend its constitution ,lle Bods for 27 minutes, then weeks there and in Ontario where ; without asking British permission turnod its work over to inter-160 of the Commons seats are at and declared that he hopes that Ptctcrs.usually the final step, stake.\t\u201cmy grandchildren .will see Liaison officers, who have Besides criticizing government j the day when all that concerns, maintained the Allied-Communist trade policy, he took a shot at what ! Canadians will be settled within contact during the recessed with, he termed federal government Canada.\u201d\tout setting another meeting date, \u201csnoopers.\u201d Tax investigators were This would not mean that Can- also suggesting their work was hounding the small taxpayers and ada would be outside the Common- finished, going back 15 or 20 years, demand* | wealth.\t8.A UN spokesman said the ing records they cant possibly! \u201cI want Canada to remain in first trip of U.S.military armis-prortuce.\t; the Commonwealth but with all the tiee commission members to Pan- llie question was not one of in- privileges of the United Kingdom munjom represented \u201cplanning : vestigatmg those persons who : itself,\" said Mr.St.Laurent.! against the rlav that an armistice '¦ made false tax returns, but of i He referred\u2014as he has often \u2022 is signed so there will be a min-! requiring persons who made hon- done before\u2014to the government's imum of dclav in getting the com-1 est returns to give explanations of j record.\tmission into operation.\u201d\t' earnings several years later.; It was apparent, he said, that\t_____________________ 'They are.acting as if they were Ihe people of Canada seemed Y our masters, not your servants,\u201d j -fairly well satisfied\u201d with the 'aid Mr.Drew.\u201cYou ha\\e a far, Liberal administration.Although greater right to demand an ac-! there was prosperity in Canada counting from them than they have : the government did not claim to demanci it of you.\"\tj credit for it.It was the result of Of government trade policy, the work done by everyone Progressive Conservative leader1 Mr.St.Laurent this week move?sa,fk *\tabout Quebec, with a brief plane Tw fact is that this govern- trip to the Maritimes.Transport Minister Alan Lennox Boyd may invite a Canadian to head the commission, and the Daily Express said it is believed the man in question may be Gordon, Scottish-born president of the Canadian National Railways.A CNR spokesman here, however.said today the whole idea seemed \u201cunlikely.\u201d Lord Hurcomb retires next month.The commission, comprising a chairman and four other members, is the centrai executive body for Britain's inland trans port, system, publicly owned since Jan.1, 1948.were pushed back slightly, A Chinese battalion, some 750 men.hi! the RoK.s as they advanced cautiously near Ihe junction of the Kumsong and Pukhan rivers, just south of Lookout mountain.It was the farthest northward penetration of the Soulh Koreans in their slow-moving march in Ihe 20-mile Kumsong bulge sector that was flattened out by the 80,000-man Red attack last week.U.S.air force and navy planes bagged nine MiGs, including Iheir Continued on Page 5.Quebec A Canadian Press survey showed Ihe heaviesl loss of life in Quebec, where 23 people died, 17 of them by drowning.Eleven losl their lives in Ontario, two in Nova Scotia and one each in New Bruns wick and Prince Edward Island.A boating accident cost the lives of a brother and sister on the Nation river near Papineauville, Que, The victims were Mrs.Rheaume Perrier, 18.and her 20-year-old brother, Rejean Rahey, both of Notre Dame de la Paix, Quo.There were two double fatalities in accidents involving automobiles in Ontario.Rene Chasse, 25, of Matano, Que., and a 32-year-old man named Savoie from Bathurst, N.I!., were killed when their car was struck by a freight train at a level crossing near Monlcith.Quebec: Drownings\u2014Gerard Arbour, 33, St.Johns, in Richelieu river near his home; Michel Scguin, 14, Ki-guad; in La Graisse river at Hi guad; Andre Pepin, 19, Montreal, in Mille Iles river at SI.Francois dc Sales; Tadcusy Gyakor, 21, Montreal, in Mille Iles river at St.Eustache; Cclestin Malo, 17, Earn-ham, in Yamaska river at Farn-ham; Jean Saison, 18, Point Claire, in Lake.St.Louis at Baie d'Urfe; Paul Lizotte, 26, Montreal, in Lac Maskinonge near St.Jovile; Benoit Gerard, 17, La Tuque, in Riviere la Cloche near La Tuque; Lionel Bourget, 37, Montreal, in a public swimming pool at Pointe Fortune; Jacques Pion, 20, Montreal, in Riviere des Prairies at bout de Pile; Gabriel Lajoie, 21.Ville Jacques Cartier, in St.Lawrence river at Montreal East; Andre Drolet, 17, Montreal, in Mille Iles river near Ste.Rose; Stephen Moore, Longue Pointe, in SI.Lawrence river at.Montreal; Gideon Giroux, 19, St.Gcdeon, in Chaudière river; Armand Lachance, 28, Quebec, in a swimming pool at Quebec.Traffic- Denis Bclcc, 16, Montreal, struck by an automobile on Ihe highway at d\u2019Ahord a I\u2019louf\u2019fo; Rodolphe Lemay, 4L St.Donat, from injuries suffered in a four-ear collision near Rawdon; Noel Simard, 30, Montreal, crashed into base of overpass in Point Aux rrmbles; Emilius Ouellet, 26, Lotbiniere.when his car struck a bridge railing.wilds 65 miles from here while on a hear himling expedilinn Dr.Lionel Rlotix, dislricl coroner, Saturday issued a subpoena for Wilbcri Coffin, 37 year-old prospector and jack-of-all trades, to appear for questioning in connection with Ihe death of Eu gone H.Lindsey, 45, of Hollidaysburg, Penn.Dr.Rioux adjourned Ihe tuques! indefinitely Saturday shortly after if, opened.Meanwhile, police and mi-.hmcn continued the search for Lindsey\u2019s 17-year-old son Richard and a 20-ycar-old companion Fred Cla ir.Dr.Jean-Marie Roussel, Quebec crime Specialise said txr.cs found at Ihe scene were those of only one man, Ciarenoe Clarr, father of one of Ihe hunter:-, identified Intiered elolhing, produced at ;ho inquest ns thal of Ihe ciiier Lindsey.Dr.Rons id look \u2018¦orne of (lie bones and Ihe clothing for further examinalion at his Inooralory in Montreal, ahoul 600 miles from (he scene.Dr.Rinux said Dr.Roussel had taken a bone from (he upper human spinal column, and Inborn The Atlantic was as smooth as glass Ihe grenier pari of the way, Homer said.\"VVe left Ncwcombo Ledge buoy off Manchester at one o\u2019clock on Thursday and covered 111 miles in the first 24 hours.During this lime the Canadian Navy's Orioi II and Kefsh Zodiac, sailed by N.W.Rice, Gloucester, Mass.,' stuck fairly close to us.\" \"VVe Insi the Orioi Thursday night and showed our heels to the Zodiac early Friday.\" The Salma-gal covered 102 miles until noon Saturday.The wind dropped to almost nil Saturday nighl and fog closed in while, they were standing off the Nova Scotia coast.\u201cWe practically lay in one spot all day Sunday, about, 14 miles off Pori Mouton,'' said navigator Si rohmeier, \"The wind freshened just before sundown and we broke out the spinnaker.We used the spinnaker again in coming up the harbor, running before a smith wind.\u201d Homer and three of tho crew raced in ihe classic in 1951, \u201cHad we raised Ihe spinnaker earlier Polish Priest tory examination will aim t i dc-Qhal lime, we might have made a termine if ihe victim was 'decapi- heller showing,\u201d said the veteran fated,\u201d and, II so, how .\u201d\tJ skipper.Police believe Coffin was one of| the Iasi persons to have seen (he irio alive.TJicy said evidence disclosed Er-\tT _.TT- Hirer huniers had set up their! |)i«aDTIParS a ll I IK hunting camp in an old logging : ^1 311 \u201dIJCal'\u201d 111 U ** camp about four miles from where i Bradford, England.\u2014 (AP) \u2014 their truck was found.The spot is'Police pushed a search today for along Ihe northern branch of the! a Polish pries! amid growing fears SI, Jean river.\the may have been kidnapped hy Police found a large number of j Communists, bear tracks at.Ihe site and believe : Father Henry Borynski.42L-year* one of (he hunters, believed lo be j old Roman Catholic chaplain to Eugene Kindsdy, was devoured.1,509 Poles living in Ihis Yorkshire- Police have discounted the theory j industrial centre, disappeared that bears attacked the huniers, week ago.but accepted Ihe theory that wild; The 120,000 Poles in Britain have animals devoured the remains ! been asked In help find him.The hunters\u2019 truck was found Father B.Scanned, who worked four miles from the camp silo with Borynski, said he was sure The battery had run down and theifhal a kidnapping was the only truck was in a condition to indicate : explanation for the disappearance, it had stalled on the trip into the land added forest,\t\u201cBorynski has done a great deal Investigation has disclosed the.to unite Poles living here in a men left Gaspc about .June 9, drove ! spirit of freedom.His activities some 40 miles along a road leading;have won him enemies in official west lo Gaspe Copper Mines in j Polish quarters.Naturally he has Holland township, then turned; no! pleased the Polish embassy, south onto a humpy, mountainous which is under Ihe Ihumb of the logging route.\tRussians.\u201d London \u2014 (Reuters) \u2014 A new deaf mute sign language with a 4,000-word vocabulary has been worked out by Sir Richard Paget, president of the British Deaf and Dumb League.The league wants the ministry of education to help teach the new language to the deaf mute, it was announced.,\t* %» .,, ».j/, * H.J.vr.S., .