Sherbrooke daily record, 4 janvier 1951, jeudi 4 janvier 1951

[" 1S51\t\tJANUARY\t\t\t\t1951 S\tM\tT\tW\tT\tF\ts \t1\t\u2022ft\t3\t4\t5\t6 7\t8\t9\t10\t11\t12\tIS 14\t15\tIS\t17\t18\t19\t20 21\t2°\t23\t24\t25\t26\t27 2S\t29\t30\t31\t\t\t tjci'bcookt' Dailij Bccocd THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS WEATHER SNOW Rain this sfiercoor.charging to snow this «voadiig.Friday occasional sno'wF.'Krries- Becoming colder tonight.Winds south»\u2018est 15 becoming northwest 15 tonight.Lew tonight and high.Friday at Sherbrooke four and 16.Temperatures yesterday: Maximum 42, minimum S2.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1951.Established 1897.PRICE: 5 CENTS Fifty-Fourth Year CHINESE REDS HAVE fîiïÜSSED HAN RIVER World News In Brief Hong Kong, Jan.4.\u2014\\JP)\u2014 A press report said today that \u2022\u2022thousands\u201d have been executed within the last two months inside communist China.Thousands more are reported undergoing mental and physical rigors of newly-formed \"re-education\u2019\u2019 camps springing up throughout the country, largely in the always-dissident area of south China.ÿ aie * Rome.Jan.4\u2014i/P> \u2014 Communist-dominated labor unions staged a brief protest strike in Rome today against government action allowing increases in rents which have been frozen since the war.Buses and trams were stopped 10 minutes.Other workers quit their jobs for 30 minutes.* « - Catania, Sicily, Jan.4.\u2014OP) \u2014Europe\u2019s tallest volcano today went into its 40th day of violent eruption amid increasing fears worse may be yet to come.The government of Cataniaj 20 miles south of the half-mile wide lava stream spouting from the snow-crested eastern slopes of Mount Etna, said in a special announcement: \u201cSerious concern is begun to be felt because of the continued violence of the eruption.\u201d * * * Dublin, Jan.4\u2014(Reuters)\u2014 Theatres and restaurants all over the Republie of Ireland have become unofficial banks to keep the business and social life of the country moving during a strike of bank em-employees.\u201cP lease tender exact amounts in payment,\u201d the acting bankers announce outside their premises, and they arrange that all small change they collect is passed back into general circulation as juick-1y as possible.Because of this \u2014 and because Christmas shopping put record sums of money into circulation\u2014the country\u2019s 7d0,-000 workers received their full wages last w'eek.Most employers are confident they can repeat that achievement next Friday.*\t* * Evansville, Ind., Jan.4\u2014'I.P) \u2014Fire swept through the centre of the business district of this southern Indiana city early today, destroying nine stores.Loss was estimated at $2,000,000.*\t* * Augsburg, Germany, Jan, 4.\u2014(/P)\u2014Use Koch, the accused \"Red Witch of Buchen-wrald,\u201d today gave up her two-day-old hunger strike.After a\thearty\tbreakfast,\tshe munched\tan\tapple\tduring pauses in her trial on charges of inciting murders and tortures of Buchenwald concentration camp inmates.*\t* * Detroit, Jan.4\u2014#)\u2014 More than half of the late Henry Ford's $80,319,145 estate went to pay taxes, it was learned yesterday.A reported filed in .probate court bv the motor magnate's grandsons, Henry II.Benson and William Clay Ford, listed the tax total as $41.114,529.It was the fourth and final accounting of Mrs.Clara Bryand Ford, elecutrix of her husband's estate until she died last September.Movement Off U.N.Pincer To Cut Inchon, Force Threatens Troops At Evacuation Hero\u2019s Burial Order To Abandon Seoul » Came As Surprise To Men By STAN SWINTON | had broken up much of the ice An Ai.Base in Southern Japan, i aiross the Han.Assault boats were Jan.4.\u2014t/P)\u2014The order to abandon ! busy plowing back and forth re-the South Korean capital of Seoul: moving supplies and the last troops, and defence; north of the city came j By mid-morning the last Ameri- Communists Press On After Eighth Army Quits Seoul.a a complete surprise to allied front-line units who had just been told to hold their positions at any cost.When the carefully-blueprinted pullback began, other United Nations units along the front began to move southward through the virtually-deserted city while troops of a British brigade fought a successful delaying action.The rearguard defence then was taken over by an emergency regiment, which held the line while the British troops passed through to the rear.At about midnight the British troops were ambushed by an enemy force of undetermined size just north of Seoul.The tommies fought their way out of the trap but suffered some casualties.Helicopters were sent to bring out the British wounded.After the others had cleared the smoke-covered city, th ' American regiment moved through the deserted streets on its way to the pontoon bridge over the Han river.Fires burned unopposed throughout Seoul.The withdrawing Americans occasionally saw little children separated from their parents, wandering aimlessly down the empty streets.The plan called for the narrow floating bridge to be blown after the last U.N.troops were on the south bank.Roy\u2014I Engineers from the British brigade handled the demolition job.Engineers from American units can elements had passed over the bridge to positions south of the river.For the second time in six months of wmr, Seoul was again in the hands of Red invaders from the north.By OLEN CLEMENTS Tokyo, Jan.4.\u2014\u2014Communist Chinese hordes today seized abandoned, fire-gutted Seoul and smashed across the frozen Han river to battle re-1 treating allied forces west of the South Korean Capital.The Reds were moving swiftly in a giant pincer movement aimed at shoving United Nations troops into the Yellow u.s.quarters said Reds in estimated battalion strength were across the Han and fighting an allied unit one mile west of Seoul at San Francisco, Jan.4.\u2014(/P)\u2014 Don Wrhitehead, veteran Associated ç\t, ,\tc\t.Press war correspondent, predicted \",ea a* Inchon, oeoul s big port yesterday that the communists will I 8 miles to the west, drive the United Nations out of!\trr c\tc- l l\tx\ti j Korea, but it wUl be a fighting\tU\u2018 ^ Eighth Army head- withdrawal.The Red manpower is just too1 much for the allies, he said in an interview on his return from five r onths at the front.\u201cWe can hold a beachhead in Korea indefinitely if v e are willing to spend the manpower,\u201d he said.\u201cBut Korea isn\u2019t the place for a major effort against communism.\u201cWe haven\u2019t enough men to fight the kind of Indian warfare we are fighting in Korea.\u201cWe can\u2019t beat \u2019em on a manpower basis.We can only hope to beat \u2019em on a production basis \u2014 out-produce them and wreck their production facilities.\u201d London, Jan.4.\u2014(A5)\u2014\u201cThey just ran and ran and ran.\u2019 That\u2019s how Peiping radio last' night described the American defeat by Chinese communist \u201cvolunteers \u2019 in the Changhin reservoir area last month.Continued On Page 5 12-Year-Old Producers Of Hiker Dies Meat Face On Mountain Competition U.N.WILL DECIDE Washington, Jan.4.\u2014 (fP) \u2014 President Truman said today that United States forces will not bomb China without United Nations sanction.He made this clear at a press conference in which he again expressed hope that a Third World War can be avoided this year.He abo said, in response to questions as to what point would have to be reached before he would have to consult Congress on a declaration of war.that if the proper time arrived, the proper action would he taken.He hopes the time will never come when he would have to ask for a declaration of war, he said, adding that the time has not come yet.Vancouver, Jan.4\u2014((P)\u2014.Safety was only a mile away, but 12-year-old Norman Fielders could drag his bruised weary body no further.The red-headed boy who loved hiking was found dead last night.Mountain cold had taken his life some time after he left his Vancouver home Sunday morning to watch skiers.Surveyor Bob Neil, an employee of the greater Vancouver water board, found the body while coming down Grouse Mountain.By HAROLD MORRISON Canadian Press SU-ff Writer Ottawa, Jan.4.\u2014((P)\u2014»-New external factors are facing Canadian meat produc.3, but government officials say they expect the meat price structure can stand the competition.Four new developments \u2014 recent or emerging \u2014 are: 1.C :adian imports of New Zealand meat \u2014 mostly lamb :\u2014 for the first time since 1940.New Zealand produces m t to sell main-the United 1 i a.m.(9 p.m.EST Wednesday).Other Reds were in contact two miles west of the city.Two allied road blocks were reported under attack.Their locations were not given.The swift follow-up of the\tf.?,!l .,\t.\tquLS'ite to stlffer £ Gen.Walton Walker, killed in a Korean jeep accident, is given a hero\u2019s hnrial at \\rlington.Va., National Cemetery.As the caisson, carrying the casket, goes by.high-ranking military personnel stand at attention.The chapel is in the background.Commonwealth Prime Ministers Meet To Discuss Means Of Averting War U.N.Moves Slowly On Korea 4/P £§ Four-Storey V ancouver Lake Success, N.Y., Jan \u2014Prospects for any speedy United Nations action against communist China beyond a formal condemnation of the Peiping regime appeared dim today as U.N.delegation», start were placed high on the debated future steps in the Korean of subjects the ministers are crisis,\tponder.The United' States delegation Prime Minister Attlee, who was understood to be canvassing opened the talks at 10 Downinp support for a resolution tagging Street, was expected to take the the Chinese Reds as aggressors, 1!nt\\,t,l lt , the Commonwea th abandoning for the time being 1 shou,d work more actively for such stronger measures as U.N.I peace and not Slm^ be a ^roup economic and- diplomatic boy- I.ondon, Jan, 4 \u2014(®\u2014 Grave | leaders of nine Commonwea countries in vital talks opem today sought ways to halt the march of communist imperialism j and to avert a third world war.The prime purpose of the 10- 1\t.\t.day conference is to co-ordinate I Î-I /a Fo I\tr-Vfl B T*Tni Cf more closely the fight of Com- Xx.V>\tXJk.a.x2l?5 mon wealth countries against com- 1 munist encroachments.\tJ Vancouver, Jan.4.\u2014®\u2014Firemen Defence policies of the vast'stood guard throughout the night group\u2014covering more than 500,-j at a smouldering newsprint sto 000,009 people in five continent,; ; room where a three-afarm fb'fl I i)0\u201c0\u201creaTVeapon\" against armie: in case a new world war does j launched a multi-pronged attack j in tho fleW or on the march be.cause one H-bonub\u2019s explosion will nearly totally destroy by blast everything within more than 300 square miles, and will burn or start fires over an area of more than 1,280 square miles.This, he says, will really stop or impede H-Bomb Test May Be Made This Spring By HOWARD W.BLAKESLEK ! Associated Press Science Edit New York, Jan.4\u2014(JP)\u2014Hyd gen bombs are considered pcf-c dr j by science writ?r William ! .Laurence\u2014in fact, he tels a inn way by which they may be ni .successfully.He does n t .:j .success is certa.n.And Laurence forecasts, : ; speculative, one type of atomic explosion that might kill ever) \u2018one on earth in a single fl-v Laurence, a New York Tin science reporter, gives his idea, in a hook, \u201cThe Hell Bomh,\u201d puhli lied today tKnopf).He was the only reporter invited to pass military secrecy barriers and see [everything in the making of atom I bombs.I Laurence comes up with a new j device to insure the possibility of 1 an H-bomb explosion.This is a 'booster, a mixture of the two forms of heavy hydrogen, deuterium and tritium.There are three kinds of hydrogen, the ordinary or lightweight, the doubleweight known as deuterium and triple-weight known as tritium.An H-bomb is made by sur-| roundin.f an ordinary A-bomb with one or more of these three forms ! of hydrogen, liquefied at 420 do-' grees fahrenheit below zero.Theiv is only n few millionths of a second for the atom bomb to detonate the hydrogen, before the A-bomb blast blows the hydrogen so far away that it cannot be exploded.Laurence shows that ordinary hydrogen heats up far too slowly to be used.Deuterium alone also is too slow.Tritium is fast enough to explode, but Laurem' says it is too expensive to be practical.But a small amount \u2014 a few hundred grams\u2014of tritium mixed with deuterium heats faster than any form of hydrogen alone.Possibly.he says, fast enough for this booster to be added to a deuterium bomb and make it explode Laurence says the H-bomb will a three-hour ram- cotts.United States \u201cHe was lying on the logging'- U under contract wit road just beside a root about 18 ^'\t]\t^\t; inches high,\u201d said Neil.\u201cHe had dug his way under the root during the night\u2014you could see where he had been digging in the sand.\u201cHe had stayed at the spot for some time.If he had only had some cookies or a chocolate bar he could have made it.\u201d Inside the \u201ccave\u201d were a small pair of mittens and one rubber boot.The boy\u2019s body was soaked Continued On Page 5 Stepped - Up Air Training Program Planned By Canada By DOUGLAS HOW Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, Jan.4.\u2014ÎI1)\u2014Canada is preparing to triple the pace of trainees en t e r i n g her flying schools by the end of 1951 as a major contribution to joint western defence that will make her once again a vital airdrome of democracy.Officials estimate there may well be 2,200 potential airmen training here by then.A swift, sharp, costly expansion was indicated last night by Defence Minister Claxton in announcing that Canada \u201cnow is offering .to increase substantially\u201d the numbers of airmen to be trained here for her North Atlantic Pact allies.The figure now stands around 300.with 10'O or more Europeans here and 200 Britons coming, this month.Mr.Claxton mentioned no new figures, but it is estimated reliably that the government is willing to boost the North Atlantic Treaty Organization total to at least 1,000\u2014with the bulk coming from Britain\u2014while preparing to absorb 1,200 Canadians this year.That would mean some 2,200 potential air crew in training at year\u2019s end, or roughly three times the 1950 total.R.C.A.F: experi- Reds\u2019 seizure of the South Korean capital \u2014 the crossing of the frozen Han \u2014 underlined Gen.MacArthur\u2019s report on the danger of a pincers enveloping Inchon.It was from an amphibious landing at Inchon that the allies crushed most of the North Korean Red army in a vise last September.Seoul was retaken from the communists then and the Korean war seemed in its final phases.But the sheer weight of shrieking and seeming!y-endless Chinese Red manpower forced allied troops Continued On Page 5 ources called the necessary prere-measures.They 1 acknowledged, however, that any campaign for stronger action will make slow progress.The political committee adjourned yesterday for 48 hours to give its three-men cease-fire group time to prepare a set of principes that should govern any over-ail settlement in Korea should the fighting be halted.The committee, of which Canada\u2019s L, B.Pearson is a member, formally acknowledged yesterday on their often-voiced demands- | 3nce is that 25 per cent or more fail to make the grade.The expansion will mean the re-' opening of three or four wartime airfields, mostly on the Prairies, purchase of more training planes, strenuous efforts to enlist and train ground crew, and a total bill in the next fiscal year of possibly $40,000,000 arising from N.A.T.O.training.R.C.A.F.sources say Canada may have to have some help from other countries in ground crew if enlistment figures don\u2019t increase smartly.They think it will he late this year before the program is in full stride.The arrangement is that Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, The Netherlands and Norway transport their would-be fliers here and clothe and pay them while here.Canada foots the bill for the rest, out of her arms-for-Europe program which now is feeding on a $300,000,000 Parliamentary appropriation, expected to be boosted at the impending session.Mr, Claxton\u2019s announcement, in a stock-taking look at 1951 issued Kingdom at prices much lower than those current in Canada.Some officials believed New Zealand imports would un \u2018 rseL the Canadian product, but New Zealand trade sources said they would not.2.\tOpening of the United States 1 ket to Canau.: pork oroducts, a move expected to be announced within a few days.Pork in the U.S.normally sells at prices slightly lower than those in Canada.Agriculture Minister Gardiner predicted a few months ago that opening of the market would tend to lower the price of Canadian pork.3.\tOpening of the Canadian market to American pork, thus increasing the supply in Canada of cheaper cuts, The controls, lifted partially for special imports last year, were wiped ouc Dec.31.\tMontreal, Jan.4 \u2014{(f)\u2014 The year 4.\tCollapse of 1951 Anglo-Cana-j\tNewsprint Association of Canada\t|\tmonetary restrictions\tand govern- dian\tbacon negotiations, disclosed\treported today that Canada in\ti\tmental regulation- in\tthose counlast\tSatmday.This will tend to\t1950 accounted for 54 per cent of\t1\ttries.world newsprint production and of powers passively awaiting war.lie was expected to explain, too, why Britain is putting new divisions into Gen.Dwight D.Eisenhower\u2019s new Atlantic army command in Europe nt a time when the situation seems ever more crit'c.l in Aria.Attlee believes such action is the best means of safeguarding the Commonwealth as a whole.Canada is represented at the parley by Prime Minister St.Laurent, who spent most of yesterday attending to private business.In the evening he attended a special service in Westminster Abbey and a reception at South Africa house.The King and Queen were at the Abbey service Then st ; yesterday, to I The fire, i* ! page: Destroyed the four-storey Parks ! Hotel; Forced 75 guesits to flee for their lives ; Sent 15 firemen to hospital; Caused the Vancouver Daily Province to run off its final edition on the pre ses of tho Vancouver Sun, its afternoon rival; And destroyed 500 tons of newsprint, worth $5LOCO.The fire also gutted the restaurant on the ground floor of the 72-room hotel.Fire department officials have sot total damage at more than $100,000, The storeroom was in the basement of the hotel, which adjoins the Daily Province building on downtown Pender Street.Smoke damage was reported heavy in the newspaper\u2019s circulation offices.The Province was hopeful, how marching military forces.It is within the realm of possibility, says Laurence, that an II-bomb may be tried at Eniwetok this -spring or summer.This first bomb will not be a thousand Unit more powerful than an A-bomb.The size will not matter, for if a small H-bomb can be made, a big one can too.Among bombs of the future, which will depend on discoveries not yet made, Laurence lists a positron explosion.Positrons are positively charged electrons.They appear in nuclear reactions au I last only millionths of seconds.They sometimes unite with a negative\u2014or ordinary\u2014electron.Then Canada Supplies 54 P.C.Of Newsprint In World that its efforts to obtain a cease- I _ fire had failed, but at tho sugges- Therc \"\u2019as some evident concern presses.tion of British delegate Sir Glad-1\td''lf'^°.s ,over absence j _ Cause of the fire was not known, wyn Jebb the group write a set of \u201cprmci way.\t______ _________ p.-i-e the Paki- erday, three hours after thft out- llrn,r ' break.But the fight was by no unjects to means ovcr_ Thjck smoi?e pre.vented fighters from reaching the ' » telegram urging him to attend the parley.The talks are also expected to range over: ever, that it would be able to run ' both are annihilated and changi off all editions today on its own | into a flash of gamma rays, which are pure radioactivity of the mo t axe oir Cjjfici- r\t, T\t,\t.\tr L\twus ntuu Known.was asked to : ^ PnTn Minister Laiqnat All Fire wardens reported the blaze, iciples\" any-lY;™0 ,rak:S;'n' T° dc'\"1:Tlod marked by volumes of dense smoke, I JItbYd, the conference because of vva, urdPr erntrol by 4.00 p.m.yes- So™ delegates - the ( vine « \u2018 rian-In'dU disiute Pover K\t,h\"\" .^ /'\"'- Reds certainly wou.d reject any on tho formal list of suhjf principles\u2019 that.were not based v>p d'=rnr = prl Continued On Page 5 The drop is attributed to be discussed.The first act of the conference i\tA n, ui today was to send Ali Khan a Ihcart of the blaze' Continued On Page S uangerous kind.A discovery that would release positrons in large numbers, Laurence writes, \u201cwould open possibilities of horror alon.gtide which those of the H-bomb would be puny.\u201d This possibility \u201cmay envelop the earth in one deadly flash of radioactive lightning that would instantly kill all sensate things.\u201d 1.Problems of western Euro-ocan defence.Attlee will renort on his talks with President ^yumon and the decisions of the 12 North Atlantic treaty organization members at their Brussels meeting las.t month.West Will Ask Russia To Clarify Proposal For Tal .LtJ By JOHN M.HIGHTOWfifi Washington, Jan.4\u2014t/P)\u2014Bri- 81 per cent of world exports.increase availability of supplies in Canada, stimulated by greater production through abundance of low- In T950 Canada had an esti-priced feed.\t| mated production of -5,275,000 Normally, all these factors would | fons! compared with 5,176,000 in tend to reduce the entire meat! 1949 and a pre-war 1935-93 aver-price structure.\t| nge of 3,337,000 tons.But officials say that demand for Tlle 195J forecast-estimate is meat in Canada is high and note that stocks held in storage were 62,000,000 pounds at Dec.1, much less than the 75,000,000 pounds in ri rage a year previously.Import controls were lifted partially last year to allow the United States to ship about 2,000,000 pounds of fresh pork, mostly fat-backs, to Canadian lumber camps and to Newfoundland.Imports of fresh meat from New Zealand therefore are relatively important.A Wellington dispatch said that the New Jealand meat producers\u2019 board will ship 5,000 tons shortly \u2014 3,600 tons to the United States and 1,400 tons to Canada.Another 1,000 tons may be made 5,400,000 tons Since 1947 Canada has been producing above rated capacity.Operating ratio in 1950\u2014production as percentage of rated capacity\u2014was placed at 100.9 For 1951 it is estimated at 100.7.The United States, Canada\u2019s heaviest newsprint buyer by far, took 89 per cent, or 4,710.000 Canada\u2019s pre-war shipments to the United Statbs were 72 per cent of total shipments.Now they are 89 per cent.Britain\u2019s imports from Canada P\u201ca,