Sherbrooke daily record, 22 février 1947, samedi 22 février 1947

[" 1947\t\tFEBRl\u2019\t\tARY\t1947\t S\tM\tT\tW\tT\tF\tS 1 A «X\t3\tt\t5\t6\t7\t 9\t11)\t11\t12\t13\t14\t15 IR\t17\tIS\t19\t20\t21\t\u2022lo 23\t21\t25\t26\t27\t29\t Sbctlmiûlu' iDaüiiBecocd THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS WEATHER INTERMITTENT SNOW Continuous snow today and toiujrlvU Sumlay, inter mlttent «now.Temperature* yesterday Maximum 11, minimum S lioUvw.Year a^ro: Maxilnuta 1Î, minimum 3 bdow.Established 1897.PRICE: 5 CENTS SHERBROOKE.QUEBEC, SATURDAY.FEBRUARY 22, 1947.Fiftieth Year.World News In Brief [ Des Moines, la., Feb.22.\u2014 (Æ5)\u2014Mrs.Opal Dixon today awaited formal sentence to life in prison after an allwoman jury yesterday convicted the 35-year-old mother of two married teen-age daughters of the \u201chypodermic syringe\u201d robbery Jan.22 of the Des Moines Bank and Trust Co.of 53,950.The charge on which Mrs.Dixon was convicted\u2014entering a bank with intent to rob \u2014carries a mandatory life sentence in Iowa.Judge Russel Jordan set Feb.28 for formal sentencing.* 1« # Los Angeles, Feb.22.\u2014(/P) \u2014Chemical experts agreed today that a 300-gallon mixture of chemicals equivalent to 3,-600 pounds of explosive virtually as violent as nitroglycerin caused the downtown Los Angeles explosion which killed 15 and injured 158 Thursday.A mixture of percholoric acid and acetic anyhdride was the lethal potion which disintegrated the O\u2019Connor elec-\u2022 tro-plating plant, wrecked nearly a block of buildings and rattled a square mile of the city, said police chemists.Workmen still searched today for two others still missing.V\tV Milwaukee, Feb.22.\u2014(>P) \u2014Counsel Harry V.Neissner today described as a \u201cterrific mistake\u201d the arrest of Rev.Dr.John Lewis, 72, pastor of one of Milwaukee\u2019s oldest and largest churches, on a charge of arson in connection with a $150,000 fire at the church he has been pastor for nearly 12 years.The elderly pastor of the Calvary Presbyterian Church appeared on the arson charge yesterday and was released on $1,000 bond pending a hearing March 10.Neissner, his counsel, said the district attorney\u2019s office was \u201cwrong as it could be in the interpretation it had placed on evidence in the fire!\u2019\u2019 Dr.Lewis, who has held pastorates and college posts in both the United States and Great Britain, has denied the charge in an oral statement to Joseph Tierney, assistant district attorney.Arson is punishable by a prison term of one to ten years under Wisconsin law.*\t* St Fort William, Feb.22\u2014Cfi A Fort William Liberal Riding Association\u2019s proposal that Northwestern Ontario secede from the rest of the province was countered last night by the suggestion that the pro-potsed division should take in all of northern Ontario stretching from the Manitoba to Quebec borders.The latter proposal, made here by unofficial lakehead sources, contended that Northwestern Ontario alone, taking in the Kenora, Rainy River, Fort William and Port, Arthur provincial ridings and with a total population of between 125,000 and 150,000 persons, would find it difficult to finance a skeleton provincial administration.Worst Blizzard Of Winter Again Disrupts British Recovery Plan Out Of This World\u2014In Wisconsin Early Easing Of Rent Bars Under Study Return of Snowstorms and Gales Disrupts Delivery of Coal to Industrial and Power Production Centres.London, Feb.22\u2014'CP1\u2014The people of Britain\u2014confronted by what the non-alarmist Times of London calls \u2018\u2018the most disturbing statement yet ever made by a British government\u2019\u2019 \u2014today watched \u2018\u2018the worst blizzards yet\u201d of the worst shortly to increase commercial ven- winter of this century falling on tals, possibly by as much as 25 per T ,\t, v ,\t,\t.cent, but that domestic rentals Commercial Rentals May Be Advanced Immediately and Pre-War Housing! Prices Shortly After May 1.Ottawa, Feb.22.\u2014(CP)\u2014Reports ! circulated in the capital today that1 the Government would take action U.K.Expects NoAssistance From Outside j Canadian and U.S.Loans Now Being Used as Vital Part of Economic Recovery.would remain unchanged until May i 1- These reports, unconfirmed in official quarters, said that the upward adjustment in commercial ! rentals would be on a sliding scale which would range as high as 25 | per cent.This may become effect-ive at the month-end.\ts.orms j , The Cabinet is known to have had increases in rentals'under study for London, Feb.22.\u2014((P)\u2014 Sir | Stafford Cripps, haggardly peering at documents in «the light of j a single candle, announced casually at a press conference today that Britain was entering a hard the United Kingdom and await- economic battle for restoration of national life without expectation ed the signal to open battle to meet the government\u2019s in-crease-production-or- go - hungry challenge.With the return of snow-and financial help from of further outside.After reviewing 'the economic White Paper calling on Britons to make a new effort to save the foundation of the country without any prospect that they would be gales hampering encouraged with more food or transportation of coal to power ! I.eisure> A*16 Boalxl of Trade Presi' dent said: talions and probably further \u201cNo more financial .he\tewitch- '™\" «\"«\t« unchanged until the traditional moving period around May 1.There have been reports that the Government has been under heavy ; pressure from landlords of both j types of accommodation to make .some adjustments which would give justice to owners of pre-war ! accommodation which still is rent-.ing at pre-war rates.Today's reports coincided with n cent indications that the Government already has printed, or is in assistance anyone is ,\t! expected.\u201d on of electric power in all j He said the Canadian and areas save in that of Midlands United States loans now were be-.\t.\t, mg used as a vital part of the ee- factory and producing zone, i onomic picture as Britain strug- Britons had time to digest the toward a balance between cx-.\t.\t,, j\tports\tand\timporte under rigid con- gnm\tnews\tcontained\tin the\ttrpls\tthis\tyear.By the end of\tthe economic white paper issued \u2022 year, exports must be 140 per cent ,\t[of 1938, under the influence of yesterday.\tj t]le fuel crisis, they probably will The\tnub of\tthe national\tproblem I\tbe down\tsubstantially from\tthe is an\tincrease of coal production\t[U\tPer\tcent reported in\tthe the process of printing, forms to be I to meet the demands of industry :\t** al-e^determine-l made out by landlords in applica-1 which must be thrown into higher1 are determined to go ahead without asking others out-gear to meet demands of the ex-] side to help further,\u201d said Sir increase of j Stafford.Britain expected no early ini- ! justice in.the field of rentals, par-j which Britain can hope to import : vvaTXl\u201d1 worked efte^d^bete ! pre-war luxuries or even some of iter in production to save Britain.tion for increased rentals if and when they are decided.The Government is known to feel ; f01'*- Program that there are many cases of in- ! which is the an only an acquitatle could be made.; and prices and employment conditions must not be allowed to act pre-war homes and premises, but,., | has been unable to find a formula ^:ie ,s necessities.which an acquitatle adjustment j The Times described the survey is {>ars ^ pr