Sherbrooke daily record, 19 février 1946, mardi 19 février 1946

[" WEATHER FEBRUARY S\tM\tT\tW\tT\tF\tS 1 L* 3\t4\t5\t6\t7\t8\t9 10\t11\t12\t13\t11\t13\t16 \u20197\t18\t19\t20\t21\t22\t23 24\t23\t26\t27\t28 THE PAPER OF THE EASIERX TOUXSHlI'S Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC.TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1946.SNOW Forfoast: Fair and cold today followed by .strong nortboa.'i'i winds with mod-cratinif tomperatuvc and ¦ o\\v late tonitfivt and Wed* mvi'ty.l'oiu'iioraluro- yosior-day: Maximum O, mini* imim 2.Year npo; Max.* mum 20, mimmim l, CIT Y EDITION.World News In Brief Shawinigan Falls, Que., Feb.19.\u2014 (C.P.) \u2014Two firemen were injured and damages estimated at $250,000 were caused early today in a fire which gutted three building and damaged a fourth in the commercial centre of this town, 90 miles northeast of Montreal.Cairo, Feb.19.\u2014\u2014Premier Ismail Sidky Pasha\u2019s new government won a vote of confidence from the Chamber of Deputies last night while students continued demonstrations demanding withdrawal of British forces from Egypt.The vote was 105 to 3, with 78 abstentions.The Saadist party, headed by Sidky\u2019s predecessor, Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashi Pasha, declined to vote.Chungking, Feb.19.\u2014(TP) \u2014The troubled situation in Manchuria, caused by the extended stay there of Russian troops and by activities of forces friendly to the Chinese Communists, caused a special conference here between Central Government officials.Wang Shi-Chieh, Foreign Minister just returned from a Nanking conference with President Chiang Kai-Shek, conferred last night with Chang Kai-Ngau, director of Economic Affair* for Manchuria, and Chiang Ching-Kno, the generalissimo's elder son who is special Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in Manchuria.* * Nuernberg, Feb.19.\u2014l/P) \u2014Soviet prosecutors told tho International Military Tribunal today that 632,253 residents of Leningrad perished of hunger during the 900-day aiege of Russia\u2019s second largest city by the German army, * v ?Washington, Feb.19.\u2014U-P) \u2014Proponents of the proposed St.Lawrence seaway and power project today called another United States government official as a witness to further their case before a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee.Claude R, Wickard, former Agriculture Secretary, new .administrator of the Rural Electrical Administration, headed a list of \u201cfavorable\u201d witnesses as the committee renewed consideration of legislation to authorize the seaway\u2019s construction.* * * Cairo, Feb.19.\u2014 (C.P.) \u2014 Ancient jewels, the splendor, importance and value of which compared with those found in the tomb of King Tutankham-on have been discovered by Professor Pierre Montet during excavations in the Tanis region, in the eastern reaches of the Nile delta.The 21st dynasty tornb of a general of the reign of King Paous en Neh has been unearthed intact with all its contents in a state of good preservation.Treasured Power Is Spy Ring \u2014 Royal Commissioners \u2014 Key To Atomic Spotlighted As Probe Continues Steel Workers Report To Work Again ssèII fwiül Hr ¦ §11®! Justice Robert Taschereau Justice K.L.Kelloek These judges of the Supreme Gouat of Canada are «wuhvetmg the secret enquiry into the espionage charges.TRADE PARLEY 21 Countries Named to Committee to Prepare Conference at Year's End \u2014Economic Council to Meet in May.Suspects Will Be Fe-turned to U.S.to Face Tribunal as Scon as Evidence Obtained\u2014Four Already Held.\ti Montreal Report Provides Direct Link Between Es- j pionage Enquiry and Government Probe Into Past Transactions of Eldorado Gold Mines, Ltd.By STUART UNDEUHIU, j Canadian Fro\u2014 Staff Writer I ' \u2019.don.Feb.10\u2014( C Cable) \u2014 'Prime Minister Mackenzie King has been in communication with Prime Minister Attlee regarding tire leakage of secret information in C .awa but the British Government leader does not intend to make a statement on the matter, he told the House of Commons today, Ottawa, Feb.19.\u2014 O\u2019 -*\u2022 Uranium, the treasured key to ! atomic power, came to the forefront of Canada\u2019s bizarre spy ring inquiry today with a Montreal report that Soviet agents had sough'; to buy $5,0i0,0,0i0 worth of the rare ch ment from \u201c'black market\u201d sources, but failed to get it out of the'country.The report was published today by the Montreal Gazette and tended to con- ! firm persistent reports here j that atomic bomb data headed | the list of information being ©ought by the spy ring,* said ! by authoritative sources ixj ' be guided by Moscow.\t! The Montreal report lacked of- , ficial confirmation here 111 m hü 4'h For \u2019*&**¦>.V4, 1» mm unary 21.sice the nn;i n-wi ()l K) worker: e strike ai Pi a\u2018\u2022\u2022burgh return to their jobs.White Hoir i.the ( .1.0.United Feel Worke: .* Union.Il k b fRfTO Before Amount Arrived at Total Owed ILK.by Canada for Mutual Aid and Troop Suoplies Must Be Calculated.London, fob.19.GT) \u2014 The I Washington.Feb.19.\u2014 UP) \u2014 United Nations Ecoroimc and So- »\tr*-\t, '\toe gumeo .uy aio^uow.\t, O; u.wa.] i\tmv.-Y\tIb\titnb'\ta,.','- London ses.a or, has agreed to sum-\tcl'r-.td today tliat\tJust;, e Denari-\tficir.l\tconfirmation here\u2014as have\t.!(ja\t;1MV(,\tp,'lK.,,, 'nnon an in iematio-na.l trade confer-\tm-ent investigate ns in Europe are\tmany\tother reports arising in the\tmal\tirwetiriY ami\tmw\tIri'vc ve-uJ\u2019cd \u2022erxe for the latter part of 1946\ton the trail of\t22 Americans\twake\tof the inquiry\u2014but it \\va>\tthe\tp hm\t«'h-'T-' P* mCe'tint in su'ip-ccted of wartime treason.\tthat a\u201ehi*h\tL0.1,1 being worked .N ew York .May 2u.\t\u2018\t.\t.\tJ ne Canadian Press Sunday tlie Ld:; of the United Nations bodies \u2019 Mr\u2018 C °\\k ;'auI tne\t1>e'\tring was seeking \u201canything in to adjourn, the council appointed partnver.t \u201cis determined to bring which a spy would be interested.\u201d cummitteea las; night to start work every single Amerksn who played The story provided the fir.-, im,mediately or, the trade confer-' the Axis game swUty to trial \u201cVo direct link between the spy ring enee.the refugee problem, control \u2022 eff0Tt v,jn be spared b\u20ac:Cause vve mnirfr and the government in-or narc cities, anul rt-MaivorvR witli M l SKSSION RF.Si MI S TODAY Quebec, Feb.19.\t\u2019 lion, ilrla nl (bill ho lit.leader of the I,:1}.'nil oppesil ;o'i.'.ill n .mue d I ate on the 1946 t hrone Speeeli lodny whi n the eond si :-:,ion of Quebec\u2019s 2'Jtul legislature continues it, sitting after the ueek-end.Premier Duplessis is sclted-uled t:> wind up (he dclmte later this week after other leaders in the V.-sembly hti'e spoken on the Address.Should the motion for adoption of the Address be ral l ied uni.niinou,* ly before the week is over, nuusl' u'm v, iil I egin tbe study of a few of tile.It bills the government introduced for first reading last Thursday.1) Nation-Wide Phone Strike Crisis Eased New York, Pcb.1ft.Pi \\ strike of long distance tele-|>'\u2018t>ue open, tors in Phil.del* pVa was settled today, c-'inov-ir« tlie threat of an imnt.dir tc enuniii wide svinpaflti le\u2019e* piviic licitp.but the possil ditv of a cotinl r\\-w ide walkout for bigber wages still was in the cards.Peter .1.Mnnno, federal con* eilintor, said at I'hiltidolpltiit the Vmerican reletdtone and Telegraph ( ompani and re* présenta ( ives of the Indeuend* eut 1 r.dera(ion of l.ong l.iir s T-lepliene Workers bad reached an agreement on the issue of promotions and thill 1,000 striking operators would return to work.Yl Mi mphis.Tenu., John A.!M ¦ ran, pi er id: nl of I he Fed .r* a'inn of lam:'.Pine Ope, at o'-:, annutiitce I earlier he would call il -> in path.' work .stop* page of long distance operators if the Philadelphia strike was Pot s | tl, (| v.i ! bin 2 I hour: .Mower er, Joseph \\.He!rnc, P'ederation preuident, : aid a piitjoiity of (he ,\u2018>0 independent unions in his group tavond a Hirike of its claimed 230,000 mciubers in sii|iport ol wage ilemouds.This issue remained iiidi'prmlcnt of the Pliiladel-pliin .trike.The troubl mhi the tel op lion & the cniint.r,','r e u four-week 750,000 C PO.draiving to » out, ti today.It was um.a s arc learned talks of narcctias, and rations with such specialized agencies a® the M\u2019or:d Federation of Trade Unions, the American.Federation c.f Labor and the International Co-operative Alliance,\t| Oouivtriea named on tbe com-1 mit'.ee to prepare for the trade confe.reniC'e, oiiglnally par pared by the United States, were Canada, DissrPr.Austiaik-n Belgium.Luxembourg, .* China, Cuba, Czechos\u2019-o- must show the world that we are not floppy s'cnitimentiaili'ts whore uranium-mining' the crime of high treason is con- was expropriate cemed.\u201d\tment two years \u201cAs sioon as evidence has been\t,\t, I he Lldorado igacion into past transactions ins irom \\ years.! Brazil, snkia, Fnama.India, Notiherlands.Yew .Zealand, Peru, Polam Britain, Russia, the'United State | Yugoslavia, the Soviet j By.o-Russia and Oolombia.of 22 Americans\tthe point win re .-onm dr suspected of wartime treaeon.Mr.Clark said the Justice l)e- 3od that have not reached the sir; a definite amount can fc cover Britain\u2019s probable nc Canada durin-j1 the mxt ft Before tl.o ; mount can be arrived , .at, it was Iccnail.representatives company which\t0if the Hvo\ty:,lV( n;nK.l:;s\twi]]\thave by tnc govern-\tto calculate\thow much\tBritain\towes i\tv >\ta?° '° sa^ôgual'd Canada as a result of the tunnina- ¦he source of tne element.\t.tion of mutuai aid last September.o-b-air- d ff bp a.d fi prl tribunal.\u201d\tsain b.resulted from information that some uranium had fallen into No Recess Whatever Between Prosecution and Defence Granted in Trial ot 22 Germans at Nuern berg.Nucrnbcu