Sherbrooke daily record, 17 juillet 1939, lundi 17 juillet 1939

[" WEATHER ÎVyreeast: Fair and \u2019b»-coming warmer.For detailed weather report see Page Two, ^Irprbrrnikr Satin Srrnri) TEMPERATURES Temperature yesterday: Max.59; Min.50.Same day last year; Max, 77; Min.55.Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC.MONDAY, JULY 17, 1939.Forty-Third Year.BRITISH CIVILIANS ON A \u2018AVAR FOOTING\u201d BRITISH MAINTAIN EASTERN POLICY Jap Requests Rej ected By Chamberlain Prime Minister Tells British House of Commons that Government Will Not Change Its Policy at the Demand of Another Power-Insists on Consulting France and United States on Broad Issues, ss- London, July 17.\u2014 (C.P.Cable) - - The British Government will not .change its Far Eastern policy to accommodate Japan, Prime Minister Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons today.In a long statement MacLAREN ESTATE IS RETAINED BY FAMILY Buckir^ham, Que., July 17.\u2014(CP)\u2014 According to details of his will made public today, Alexander MacLaren, seventy-nine-year-old member of a pioneer lumbering family of the Ottawa Valley, bequeathed his estate to his family and other relatives, and $10,000 to St.Andrew\u2019s United Church here.He died July 9th.Mr.MacLaren owned extensive properties in this district.Total amount of the estate may not be known until it is valued for succession duties purposes.many aspects of the Far Eastern situation, including Tientsin, the Prime Minister made it clear that the British Government would not change its policy \u201cat the demand of another power.\u201d At the same time Mr.Chamber-lain reiterated that the negotiations in Tokyo over blockaded Tientsin must continue on a local basis.The British Government, he said, is not willing to include the bigger field of Japan\u2019s financial and economic policies in the conquered areas of China.Press reports from Tokyo had intimated the Japanese Government would require a fundamental reversal of Britain\u2019s Far East policy as a condition for opening the Tientsin negotiations, Mr.Chamberlain declared.So far there had been no official demand from Japanese Government sources, he continued, adding: \u201cI should like to make it clear that this country would not, and could not, so act in regard to ' its foreign policy at the demand of another power.\u201cIn the opinion of His Majesty\u2019s Ambassador at Tokyo the Japanese official attitude would be more correctly described as a desire that Great Britain should endeavor to re- ! 0;f gard the Sino-Japanese hostilities!\t,\t, with more understanding of Japan\u2019s g™tlon s Packinghouse Workers\u2019 difficulties and the Japanese side of ! Organizing Committee, empowered the case.\t(to caB strikes against the big pack- \u201cHis Majesty\u2019s Government share jing companies, today considered the their ambassador\u2019s view that to attri- ;next move in their efforts to obtain bute to the Japanese Government an ! contracts in the huge industry, intention which may be found to ' Delegates to tne National Policy have no basis in fact would be only | Convention of the union voted un-calculated to prejudice success of ! a11\u2019mously yesterday to authorize the negotiations.\u201d\tI officers and national bargaining corn- ai-jmittees to order walkouts at any m I Is s MINERS STRIKE AGAINST ORDER FOR REGISTRY Britain Strengthening Military Contacts With Centrai European Allies Australian Council of Trade! Unions Also Organizes Boy-|- cott of Commonwealth Inspector-General of British Forces Visits Warsaw for Staff Scheme of Manpower.Registering With steel helmets topping their civilian attire, London's \u201chome guards,\u201d men and women volunteers in Air Raid Precautions work, parade through Hyde Park.Twenty-thousand strong, they were reviewed by King George and Queen Elizabeth.Melbourne, Australia, July 17.\u2014 j CP-Reuters)\u2014Coinciding with the .opening of the Commonwealth Na-jtional Register of Wealth and Man Power, miners called a one-day strike today throughout Australia.The closing date for the register, which is to lie compiled for reasons of National Defence, is July 29.! The Australian Council of Trade Unions is boycotting the register pending a conference with Prime Minister R.G.Mcnzies at which it will urge that a special session of Parliament be called to give legislative sanction to the assurance of ! safeguards.given July 1 in a letter sent by Defence Minister Geoffrey Street to the Council.The register cards were distributed by the Post Office.Talks with Polish High Military Command as British War Office Officials Make Special Inspection of Anti-Aircraft Defence in Southern Area.-\u2014.^ - Miami, Fla., July 17.\u2014(JP)-A ninety-one-ycar-oid motorist, who insisted he was quite capable of driving an automobile safely, moved his | car promptly when a traffic light; blinked \u201cGo.\u201d An observing policeman arrested him, anyway.The car was moving backward.Manion Again Rejects Senate Views On Unification Of Canadian Rails WEDDING FEAST GUESTS SUFFER OF POISONING PACKINGHOUSE WORKERSPLAN FRESH STRIKE Question of Union Recognition May Tie-Up Giant Packing Plant Industry in Chicago District.Chicago, July 17.\u2014(fP)\u2014Chiefs Congress of Industrial Or- Riviere du Loup, Que., July 17.\u2014 ((^^Conservative Leader R.J.Man-1 ion today prepared to return to his ! office in Ottawa, having completed j his get-acquainted tour of South-Eastern Quebec.Speaking here Saturday night at the last of some ten public meet- jTwo Seriously III from Pto-! maine Poisoning and Twenty Others Less Seriously Affected at La Tuque Party.OBJECTION OF NEIGHBORS TO MATCH STRONG FOUR NATIVES KILLED IN INDIAN CLASH Simla, India, July 17.\u2014(/P)\u2014Four natives were reported killed and sev-|eral injured today when police fired ion a deputation from Simla which | attempted to enter the \u201cForbidden\u201d state of Dhami, fourteen miles away.URGES REVISION OF UNITED STATES ANTI-TRUST MEASURES Washington, July 17.\u2014(A5)\u2014 Revision of (he anti-trust and patent laws was advocated today by the Federal Monopoly Committee, which declared that \u201cthe survival of the system of private property depends upon the re-stimulation of economic activity,\u201d The committee submitted to Congress these preliminary pro-prosals after completing about half its work: Changes in patent law procedure to make it speedier and to stimulate private initiative; prohibition of the use of patents for establishment of trade restrictions; revision of the Clayton Anti-Trust Art to prohibit corporations from acquiring the assets as well as the stock of competitors; expanded use of the civil courts to enforce anti-trust laws.[ La Tuque, Que., July 17.\u2014((F)\u2014A mother and her small daughter were \u2018 in hospital here today and nearly Police and Fire Departments Needed to Permit Aged New Yorker to Marry Young Girl Over Protests Tokyo, juiy 17.\u2014(zp)\u2014Pending the , r , .\tnext British - Japanese talk on the Of Neighbors.\t! Tientsin dispute, now set for Wed- - \u2019nesday, informed quarters were, ex- New York, July 17.\u2014(AP) \u2014 Over tremely pessimistic today over the the objections of neighbors, sixty- outcome of the conference, year-old Carmelo Locapira and six- A meeting between Foreign Min- Tokyo Pessimistic At Outlook For Anglo-Jap Discussion On Tientsin *- twenty other persons were under j teen-year-old Torsilla\" Minichielle ;ster Haobiro Arita and the British ings, Dr.Manion re-affirmed his op- predial care from ptomaine poison-j wcrc man and wife today\u2014thanks Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigie position to the unification or amal- \u2019ing\u2019 believed to have been caused by j to the police and fire departments.: scheduled for today, was postponed ga mat ion of Canadian railways.He contaminated ingredients of sand-1 Neighbors objected to ihe match t0 allow for London\u2019s reply to Sir said the policy of the Conservative party on the question had been declared at the party\u2019s convention in Ottawa last year and no one but himself had any authority to speak for the party on the matter.Referring to the vote of twenty-five Senators in favor of unification last session, he said he would not permit any group in the Senate or elsewhere to dictate to the party.(The Senate voted twenty-five to National w.,cJles\tthey ate Saturday at a wed-1 i)eCause of the disparity in age be-\tRobert\u2019s report 0n the opening dis- dmg party.\t_\t>\ttween the grey-haired Locapira and\tcussion at present,\u201d it was said by They became ill after the break-1 pretty, dark-eyed bride, daugh- persons acquainted with the report fast at the home of Mr.and Mrs.i (er 0f a janitor in a house owned on the Saturday conversations.Omer Fiset in this town about 100 j Locapira.\t\u201cA compromise would be possible miles northwest of Quebec, follow- j They waited in clusters last night on]y ;f one sj(]e or the other made ing the wedding of nineteen-year-old until jjg emerged from his home to sweeping concessions amounting al-Lucienne Fiset and Roland Leboeuf.] ieave for the ceremony.\tmost t0 surrender.\u201d Locapira, a widower eighteen; These sources added that the Jnp-months, listened in silence to their\taMSe ha(i refused to reced > by \u201cso jeers.Then he took to his heels,\tmuch as an inch\u201d in their demands followed by the crowd in full cry.fo], a British about-face policy in The panic-stricken bridegroom (jpina.was pursued into the Church of St.Infôrmed circles interpreted the n on \u201eftpv ihn nartv An|;,10riy Parfue\u2019 where ms bride postponement as indicating the ser-of Conservatives under the leader-1\tRmUkrd who *nd £** P,TT>U\tT.T\u2019 ?nv iousness 0f the British position, since shin of Rt Hon Arthur Meighen ®nfiecJ.' Dr- Llzeai Bouchaid who ig forcecj to run up to the altai foi Some ° CMs'ervatives voted against\tHmt° he^fi011!\tS™ï'in*, w0men, hfed the nronosal however)\tj better, said that he had under hisjat the church doors only long \u201cThat vote has no effect what-1 CalVhll'teen of.lhe s^ty vveddmg, enough to tie handkerchiefs over J on the resolution of the NaJ\tDr.Maxnue Comtois treated | thoir hair, then entered and con- a hall-dozen otheis.\t'tinued to shout imprecations.Only about thirty sandwiches j Priests were unable to still the were made from the ingredients and|c|amor mtil police and firemen arils who ate those sandwiches ; rjved and c]rarcd the aisles.Then became ill.Dr.Bouchard said that j ceremony began.CHINESE OPEN COUNTER-DRIVE AGAINST JAPANESE ADVANCE The bride and groom escaped poisoning, reporting by telephone after they left on their honeymoon that they were well.Mrs.Henri Morin, twenty-seven, and her daughter were taken to Foochow, China, July 17.\u2014 (/P) __ Countering a Japanese announcement of a big scale invasion of Fukien Province to start Wednesday with operations against Hinghwa, Chinese forces today were blowing up bridges on the Hinghwa-Foo-chow highway.It was believed the Japanese might strike ont overland toward Foochow, once Hinghwa, an important foreign missionary centre seventy miles to the south, had been taken.twenty-one in favor of unification hosr,ital when they became vj0]c\u201et]y and the majority consisted largely jp, It is understood here that at-1'¦\u201c'\u2022i.ce.-, uiutu «r-uwui.-, «1 \u2014.Siberian air base of Blagoveschenri' 11 rotaLn-tion, and some observers believed the Mongols bombed Jalunarshan again to show contempt for threat.The town had be ' r; Eaton Methodist Church yesterday,, said he hoped his charges would start a nation-wide reform move-1 ment.Dickinson, retiring president of; the Anti-Saloon League of Michi-; gan, told his Sunday School class ho S that his charges of drinking by men led 1 and women at the Conference of twice before \u2014 last Monday and (State Governors in Albany provok-Thursday.\ted a response that \u201cgives