Sherbrooke daily record, 4 juin 1949, samedi 4 juin 1949

[" I 1949\t\tJUNE\t\t\t1919\t s.\tM.\tT.\t\\\\,\tT.\tF.\t8.\t\t\t1\tn\t3\t4 s\t9\t4\ta\t9\t10\t11 12\tM\t11\t15\t16\t17\t18 19\t20\t21\t\t23\t24\t25 26\t27\t28\t29\t30\t\t Sbccbi\u2019oolu' Daili) TRecofd Established 1897.PRICE: 5 CENTS THE PAPER OF THE EASTERS TOWNSHIPS SHERBROOKE.QUEBEC,' SATURDAY.JUNE 4.19^7 WEATHER CLOUDY, COOLER Hftiaijr clear, oceaalonaT* ly clou.1v.Scattered ahow* ci» or tnundcratorma thlv afternoon and cvcnins.v ontlm i.ir very warm, Sunday.\\ arlanlc cloudi» ne», much cooler.Temperature* yesterday.Maximom stt, minimum 41, Year r.>: Maximum i»N, minimum 41.Fifty-Third Year GIANT WEEK-END SEARCH STARTS FOR L0S1 t\u2014r- World News In Brief S.,n Frsncoco, June 4.\u2014i.T1) \u2014Torch sinçer Billie Holidey, charged with po»»e»»ion of opium, was acquitted last night by a jury of six men and six women.The night club singer, testifying earlier in her husky voice, denied charge, that she knowingly possessed a bindle of opium last Jan.22.>j>\t*\t* Los Angclec, June 4.\u2014(VP) \u2014Los Angeles\u2019 Siamese twins are three week, old today and doing as well as can be expected.The liltle girl», joined at the top of their herds, are gaining weight and developing normally.Dr.Phoebus Berman had ,*id preliminary examinations indicated each baby has a complete set of organs, including a separate brain.e \u2022 e Paris, June 4____(Reuters)\u2014 British anti-aircraft teams and equipment may shortly he brought to France to instruct the French army, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery said today.Important progress had been made in harmonizing defence plans of the western European countries, he added.* # * Hamburg, June 4.\u2014(Reuters)\u2014The British-1 i e e n s e d German news agency DPI) reported last night that a new uranium and silver deposit had been discovered near Ober-schlema,\tin the\tsouthern\tpart of\tthe\tRussian\tzone\tof\tGer- many.More than 1,000 workers had been recruited in Leipzig during the last few days lor nranium mines in Aue, about 10 miles from the t zech-oslovak frontier, the report added.* * * Vienna, June 4.\u2014(AP)\u2014 Vienna forgot postwar worries for a while last night and became once more a carefree musical centre of Europe.A crowd estimated at more than 200,000 overflowed Rathaus square to hear the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra play the music of Johan Strauss the younger who died 50 years ago this month.3|c\t£\t* Paris, June 4.\u2014(Reuters)\u2014 The French national assembly yesterday passed by a vote of 367 to 221 a bill ending the colonial status of Cochin China and permitting itto be attached to the new- Indo-China state of Viet Nam.Bao Dai, former emperor of Annam, who has agreed to lead the new' state, made the attachment of Cochin China\u2014\u2019\u2019rice bow l\u201d of Indo-China\u2014en essential condition for fulfilling his part of the compact which he reached with the French government in March.* * * Lake Success, N.Y., June 1.\u2014 i/P) \u2014Maj-Gen.Lowell W.Rooks, a former director-general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (U.N.R.R.A.), has been named co-ordinator of ?he U.N.appeal for children, it was announced yesterday.More Than 2,000 To Take Part In Hunt For Michel Fontaine Expected Union Heads * I* r\\ .Blamed For .\\ H -1 Hit Breakdown Welcome Home Quebec, June 4 tl\" -George K.Foster, manager of the Canadian Johnt-Manville Company, at As-._\tI bestos, Que., in a statement yes- Soldiers.Police and Civilians Will Join in Final Effort to|s^Rmen?urik*fin Find Six-Year-Old Boy Lost Near Eastman Since Monday.! the strike of 6,000 workers.He __________________\tI added that the company had \u2018\u2018no A force of more than 2,000 fresh volunteers was expected i aJlcrr'u,'v The statement Invited all\tstrik- , Fontaine, missing since Monday in swampy, dense bushland on\ti J-1 '\tn'*ul'n tl' O'cir jobs\tat un hourly wage increase of 10 cents.his fathers DQO-acre farm near Lastman.\tThe company\u2019s 2,600 workers, on n.0, ,\t,\t, (P o,\tA nine-man directional committee, set up last night to 1\ts'n js,nce Monday night when word of Michels disappearance ed the union\u2019s reasons for insiating ccssive slight rise shown in the i brought crowds flocking to the Eastern Townships village, mid- I on the acceptance of two claur'.* bureau of statistics\u2019 monthly re1-1 way between Grajj^y and Magog.As many as 800 were ¦\t)\t\u2022 ¦) < i t foi mula.port\u2014brought the index to 159.5,1 comb;ng ,1^ brush yesterday.*- Living Costs Index Goes Up In April compared with 159.3 a month before and 150.8 » year year The frail lad disappeared while he and two older brothers were out The index now is within one- j after the cows.The brothers told 1 tenth of a point of its all-time peak ! the little fellow he had better go [ of 159.6 reached last October.; back to the farmhouse.At that I Based on the average of living time he was in a pasture near the costs between 1935 and 1939 i rur.CC(l vv?( .\u2022 equalling 100, the index hit its peak in October, remained steady for a month, dropped to 158.9 in December, but went back to the peak the following month.February saw it at 159.5\u2014its present level.It dropped to 159.2 ;n .March, climbed to 159.3 in April, now is back at practically the same point it reached eight months ago.In the eight months, it fluctuated | only seven-tenths of a point.Between April I and May 2, j food prices showed the main in-, crease.Clothing prices and costs | of home furnishings and services rose slightly, fuel and lighting costs dropped and rent and miscellaneous items declined in price.The index for food, which is regarded by the bureau as taking up nearly a third of the average householder\u2019s budget, jumped a full point point during April, from 198.5 to 199.95.This compared with an all-time high of 205.4 last i Oct.1 and was the first advance ! in the food index since that time.The clothing index increased from 183.2 to 183.3, while that for home furnishings and services moved up from 168 to 168.1.A drop in coke and anthracite coal prices in Ontario and Quebec cut the fuel and lighting index from 131 to 129.1, while the indexes for miscellaneous goods and rent held steady at 128.4 and 122.4 respectively.Although the fuel and Hght_ index drop of nearly two points was the sharpest change during the month, it was not enough to offest the rise in food prices.Fuel and light is regarded by the bureau as responsible for only six per cent of the average householder's bud-get.The general index now is 58.2 per cent higher than it was in August, 1939, at the outbreak of war.The United States cost-of-living index, computed on the same basis as Canada\u2019s, stood at 169.4 last April 15.This was a rise of 0.1 from the previous month and No fresh dues have been found since yesterday when a boy's footprints were found in damp ground deep in the bush.The prints were VOLUN I EKRS VVANTKD The committee organizing the search for six-year-old j Michel Fontaine, lost in the woods near Eastman since Monday, today appealed for more volunteers to join in the mass hunt which is being organized this week-end.It is hoped that at least 2,000 men \u2014more if available\u2014will be on hand to comb the dense woods which stiil hold secret the fate of the youngster.declared less than two days old, but as the hours went by they gradually faded and with them faded hope that Michel could still be alive.Mayor J.L.Fortin of Eastman said this morning tiiat a large detachment of army personnel had arrived last niglit to take part in the search and immediately had gone into the woods.Today it was expected there would be more than 300 military men, 50 Piovincial Police and more than 1,000\u2014possibly 2,000\u2014civilians looking for Michel.The search committee met for more than an hour late yesterday and made plans for co-ordinating and expanding the hunt over the week-end.Membêrs of the committee are: C.J.Warwick Fox, member of the Legislature for Brome; Mayor Fortin, Const.Ray Seguin of the CBC Policy Assailed By George Drew Medicine Hat, Alta., June 4.(CPi \u2014George Drew, Progressive Con-sgervative leader, wound up a busy round of political rallies yesterday with a charge that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation now does not even trust '.lie people to decide what they want to listen to on the rüdio.He made the statement after saying that the broadcast at ids rally here was cut off the air for 15 minutes because of \u201canother idiotic regulation of the CBC.\u201d The party, which had arranged for the broadcast of the meeting over station CHAT, Medicine Hat, four weeks ago, was informed shortly before th?start of the meeting that the 15-minute, cut-off would be made The reason given was that a, free-time political broadcast was I ( .hoTn niP1*C-TTlCC being carried over another station ] ^11411,1^ 1 r\u2019 in the area by the CBC during the' 15-minute cut-off, which came before Mr.Drew went on the air.Mr.Drew said Canada i# almost completely dependent on private stations for radio service, yet the CBC collects $2.50 a year on every receiving set.He criticized the CBC for not letting private stations go ahead and provide people right across the country with television, and added that an independent body should be established to control radio.At Cardston, Alta., he charged that Agriculture Minister Gardiner is \u201cbecoming infected with the germ of regimentation.He insists on running the agriculture policies He said these were clause* providing for re-hirin,;?of «trikers without discrimination and an impartial chairman for arbitration of the points in dispute.Both clauses were turned down by the government and the company.Two other Thetford Mines, Quo., companies rejected union settlement proposals similar to those rejected by the Canadian Johns-Manville\u2014in letters signed by their secretaries.The companies aro the Asbestos Corporation Limited and the Johnson\u2019s Company Limited.The Johns-Manville manager j said prolonging of the strike was \u201cnot reasonable.\u2019\u201d He added losses by the company and employee \u201cleave the company with no alternative but to make plans to keep the plants open.\u201d In his statement the Catholic union leader said the company and the government did not seek \u201ca peace treaty\u201d but \u201ca capitulation.\u201d He said the \u201cnon-discrimination clause\u201d was a \u201cpoint recognized for many years\u201d in .labor dispute settlements.Gerhart Eisler climbs on a table top and addresses a crowd \"f Communists as he arrives in Berlin.The former alleged lop Communist in the F.S.who fled to Europe as a stowaway, G speaking from the steps of Communist headquarters.In the left foreground, facing the camera, is Wilhelm I\u2019icck, Soviet Zone Communist leader.Canadian Seamen's Union Is Cut Adrift By T.L.C.R.C.M.P., Lieut.H.W.Gaudreau |°f \u2018he C0UnDy without informing .\t_\t.\tl-'ari-arnonf\t4-U/->\t~\t1 .an increas-, of 0.4 from Jan.15.Margarine-Butter Question Raised By Agriculturist Guelph, Ont., June 4.\u2014 (P.\u2014A ; cinity of the Ontario Agricultural Danish delegate to the Interna tional Federation of Agriculture told the international farmers\u2019 meeting here yesterday that governments should stop subsidizing margarine unless they are prepared to give the same preference | to butter.A.Hogsbro Holm told a sub-\u2022ommittee that any government vhich allows free entry of vege-.able oils \"produced by cheap labor in other countries\u201d is indirectly subsidizing margarine.He asked for an investigation College here, where they have been missing since May 31.The cunfer-erme ends June 11 The Danish proposal for an in-vcst'gati'r of margarine \u201csunsi-riies-' was endo' seb by R.W.Mnr rison of Long Branch, Ont., pres;-dent of the Ontario Federation ol Agriculture.He said in an interview that \u201cfree entry of vegetable oils to Canada forces farmers to compete with a standard of living that Canadians are not willing to accept.\u201d Mr.Morrison said most indus- by the I.F.A.and the United Xa- ! tries in Canada are substantially lions\u2019 Food and Agriculture Or-1 protected by tariffs, but not the ganization, and suggested that dairy industry, findings be presented to the inter- He said the Canadian Federation national dairy federation meeting of Agriculture is awaiting outcome in Sweden next August.\t\\ of a request for right to appeal to In another sub-committee here.Privy Council the decision last delegates continued to seek a plan year of the Canadian Supreme which would stabilize prices ol Court ruling manufacture and of the Provincial Police, Maj.John S.Gilchrist of the 73rd Battery, R.C.A., Magog, Claude Charest, Ken Johnstone, Jean Morin and Alex Paradis, the latter newspaper men.Provincial Police today interned to block off the road leading fvomj the Montreal highway to the far.r,| controlling traffic so that only those persons taking part in .he | actual search will be allowed I through.The presence of sight-1 seers has been a problem up to now and the control check is being put into effect with a view to better | | organization.j Constable Seguin of the R.C M.P.is preparing a list of \u201cbush wise\u201d men who know the area well enough to act as guides for the parties.The committee decided there al-j ready are enough local women present to prepare food for the searchers.Tre meeting outlined on a map j an eight square mile area in which it is believed the boy must be.More detailed army maps were brought in today.Maj.Gilchrist and Capt.P.E.Roy of the Royal 22nd Regiment from St.Johns were appointed to take over direction of the search parties.Mr.Fox is in charge of financing the operation.Several hundred dollars, including one $100 anonymous gift, already have been subscribed to pay for food and trans-nortation.Most of the money so far has come from M:.gog orgar.i- Parliament or the people of what is being done,\u201d said Mr.Drew.In Lethbridge Mr.Drew said he is confident scientists will rind many new uses for Canada\u2019s coal resources, many of which are located in southern Alberta.Case Is Heard New York, June 4\u2014(Æ*)\u2014The character and credibility of former Communist Whittaker Chambers, on whose testimony hinges the government\u2019s perjury charge against Alger Hiss, was the target of defence counsel yesterday.Under lashing cross-examination, Chambers acknowledged that he lied under oath before the same federal grand jury that returned the perjury indictment against Hiss, former state department official.Florid, gray-haired defence lawyer Lloyd Paul Stryker also drew' from Chambers an admission that he had failed to tell the whole truth before official bodies on sev-\u2018 oral other occasions.Both defence and prosecution lawyers have stated that it is prin- UK Economic s At Stake By The Canadian Press After two stormy months on strike, the Canadian Seamen's Union today is on its own cut adrift, at least temporarily, by ils parent union body' and beset by the rival Seafarers\u2019 International Union (A.F.L.).The heaviest setback to date for the 6,000-member union, allegedly communist-led, came yesterday when the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada announced in Ottawa that the C.S.U.had been su.-pended.The suspension will come up for review at the Congress\u2019s an nui! ««\"TfU'0\" ni\u2019xt September.jthat there will be no d waluaiton I ne I.C.L.announcement was tne!,.r most shattering blow for C.S.U.since it called the seamen\u2019s strike By STUART Canadian I\u2019re UNDE R HII Staff Writer London, June ¦ heading toward f -1 dine ?The labor government Lower Costs For Freight Advocated By JOHN LEBLANC W innipeg, June 4\t>(T The royal romminHinn on transporta tion yesterday heard suggestions for improvement of transport services and lowered costs over a wide field.Proposals submitted included reiterations of railicr demand foi lower freight rates in the west, better transport facilities into northern mining areas; an even distribution of railway income among various sections of the country; bettor rates on seeds for western farmers, and extension of air transportation.These suggestions wore received ns the commission under Hon.W.F.A.Tmgoon went through the third day of a silting here, first stop on a Canada wide tour in which it is to investigate all angles of transportation unuei federal jurisdiction.Submissions received by the ci mmission wore from metal mini operators, oil and electric companies, farmers\u2019 organizations, garment manufacturers and'spag-hetti manufacturers.] The mid-west metal mining | association, speaking for mine I operators in Manitoba ami Sa kal-chewan, said that transiyntation | facilities into mineral area should be improved.Its brief said highway, rail and plane services into those regions should be extended, as a means of developing mineral production The organization representing all metal-mine operators in tin two provinces -said there was a I need for lower freight rates on ; mctal-minc products, since these ! mines in the west operated on a | nitrrow margin and were not treat-1 ed as favorably ns those in the cast.Existing rates on seed grains and other seeds wore described a-\"chaotic and discriminatory\u201d -nb I b Is Britain j nf?ai\u201dst t,in \" ' st in a Joint an economic Continued on Page 8 Big Four Discussions On Berlin IIe 1 d In Secret L> ARTHUR GAVSHON i Lions of city government officials.1 ai s, June 4.\u2014-/Pi\u2014Russia and ! Russia was not expected to give the west both were behind a cur-Uip her insistence on veto power -am today, continuing efforts in unless other considerations made .oeret session to find a way of co existence in Berlin,\tlast year rioter?drove the elected Bemnd a news blackout, the anti-Communist aiplomats of the Big Four For-! r f ciL eign Ministers\u2019 conference face more than mer i restoration of har- r e western sector with the Rus-n.ony in the German capital.Both Mans '\u2022efusing to participate.A su.es believe\u2014-'.vith apparent sin- anal city government, with two \u2022cerity that a way of life can be currencies, resulted.V°ur7\tThe Prcsent- strike of railway VVitn their (-xt.erts\u2014all pledged , workers in the western zone of to secrecy\u2014the Foreign Ministers Berlin that ha?paralyzed the city begin today s talks :n the pink \u201cjil system for a fortnight grew-',a al ^ P-a1-\tout of the currency conflict.After a secret session yesterday One of the problems the four : .e only encouraging sign was the Foreign Minis'ers are believed dis-anourmement the ministers would ci ssing is how a single city ad-lr'c^.t.f.Ka'n\tministration can function with- Xeither Russia nor the western out haiming \u2018he.interests of the powers had injected their rival four occupying powers, p.nns for mak'ng Berlin a single Stale Secretary Dean Aches,on '7\t, .\tj of the United States has summor- J ne big barrmr between the two ed Lewis Douglas, American am-s-des was understood to be the hassaoor in London, as an adviser wneth it advisable.After the blockade drove the elected government out hall in the Soviet zone.New city electuns were held in March 31.This came after east-coast shipowners had drawn up an agreement with the S.I.U.which, until that time, had been inactive in Canadian deep sea shipping circles, Since then, developments in the bitterly-waged conflict between the two unions saw scores of C.S.U.men abandon the union to join the S.\tI.U.; outbreaks of violence; court actions in cities around the world and the calling out of troops in England to unload food cargoes.Meanwhile, the S.I.U.made progress in the manning of strikebound ships the world over.C.S.U.officials in Montreal last night were bitter in their condemnation of the T.L.C.move.They said the union membership was determined to carry on the strike, although such action now has ail the ear-marks of a last-ditch stand.The C.S.U.suspension came after five days of closed meetings in Ottawa by a special meeting of the T.\tL.C.executive council granted full power to consider the position of the C.S.U.as an affiliate.The i committee indicated the suspension w'ould not have been made had some of the union executive resigned.Union officials declined to do this.The T.L.C.committee decided against recommending affiliation of the S.I.U.In a statement made at Montreal, C.S.U.president Harry Davis-termed the action \u201ca stab in the back against the striking seamen\u201d and \u201cstrike-breaking of the most despicable kind in trade union history.\u201d He said charges laid by the congress against the union were \"nothing but a lot of generalities created out of thin air.\u201d He said the \u201cabject capitulation o of the pound sterling and that the current slackening in British export shipments was expected and can be overcome.The pound at present is set at i value of $4.03.The government\u2019s decision it should stay there is mission entered by eight farm organizations of the three prairie provinces.Declaring that seed should be made available to farmers at lowest possible rates, the brief said last year's 21-per-cent general freight-rate increase had been a \u201cgrave and serious error\u201d and hart seriously inetrfered with the west's program of seed distribution.The farm organizations went so far as to say that the railways backed by most newspapers.\u2022Sales to Canada have been .n-j might be well advised to carry seed creasing, hut there have been indi- f' cations that the export drive is losing its momentum.The Board of Trade, British equivalent of Canada\u2019s trade and commerce department.says that can he offset if manufacturers will reduce prices and go after foreign markets more aggressively.There has been widespread belief that Sir Stafford Cripps, chancellor of the exchequer, has been un-land sports wear der United States pressure to re- !\t\u2022 dues the value of the pound; and that belief probably fed yesterday\u2019s rumor that Sir Stafford was Continued on Pare 8 \"It would pay them many times over because of the additional bushels of grain they would haul.\u201d the brief said, adding that thi; would come about through biggei crops if the farmers could gel seed more cheaply.The garment manufacturers\u2019 association\u2014representing 28 Manitoba firms producing work clothes said \"arolhet increase in the cost of production or tranesportai'on is likely to endanger the existence of this industry by i endering it incapable of meeting the already stiff compétition from < .sewhere.\u201d Railway Amalgamation Is Discussed By St.Laurent By Canadian Press Staff Writer Railway amalgamation, a longstanding genera\u2019 election issue, was teased ba v.into the campaign for Canada's June 27 national vote last night by Prime Minister St.Laurent.He chose Stratford, an Ontario rail centre, as the place'to touch on Liberal policy on the amalgamation question and said the Liberals wont neither the