Sherbrooke daily record, 12 mai 1934, samedi 12 mai 1934

[" sferbnwkp iatlg ÎRwnrîi Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, CANADA, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1934.Thirty-Eighth Year.GOVERNMENT MOVES TO MAINTAIN VALIDITY OF MARKETING MEASURE NEWS RECORDS DEATHS OF SEVERAL PUBLIC FIGURES Amendments to Measure Proposed in House Yesterday Provide that Rejection of Any One Section by Courts Will Not Affect Rest of Measure\u2014-Vote on Budget Proposals Expected on Monday\u2014Demand Made for Investigation of Farm Machinery Prices.Names of Well-Known Canadians in Various Parts of Dominion Appear in Today\u2019s List of Deaths Reported.The following deaths were re-jcorded in today\u2019s news despatches: New York\u2014William Ellis Corey, 68, well-known industrial leader and former president of United States Steel Corporation.Peterborough, Ont.\u2014Judge Edward C.S.Huycke, Peterborough judge and former Mayor of Co-bourg, Ont.Weymouth, N.S.\u2014Judge J.A.Grierson, 70, for many years pre-| siding judge for Yarmouth, Digby :and Annapolis counties.1 Ottawa\u2014Major Arthur Tristram Ottawa, May 12.\u2014Critics of the Government\u2019s natural products maarketing bill among the members of the House of Commons are today studying a long list of amendments introduced yesterday by Hon.Robert Weir, Minister of Agriculture, with a view to continuing the debate on the measure next week.For the most part the changes make no substantial difference in the effect of the bill as they are largely designed to clarify the wording.One of the important amendments contemplates a possible test of the validity of the bill in the courts, as it provides that in the event ! Phillips, 69, supei intending engi-ot any section or sections being found invalid the remainder of the nper\tthe Rideau Canal and a bill shall stand.The intention of Parliament is declared as being that ^and SnSfTo\u201d more ?han any part not found ultra vires are to be regarded as a separate and forty years.complete hill.\tJ Moncton, N.B.\u2014Dr.George J.Another change makes it clear moneys taken from the consolidated ;^ouj.ton\u2019 82>T/orraer principal of revenue fund for the purposes of the Marketing Board to be established jthe \u2022Ioncton High School, must he appropriated by Order-in-Council.The section authorizing' Montreal, May 12.\u2014Causing dam-the Board to acquire and hold real estate is dropped.Other changes age estimated at $35,000, fire last night completely demolished the horse section of the east end abattoir at the corner of Mount Royal §venue and Iberville street, burning sixty-five horses to death.DREAM LED SON TO FINDING OF set out various definitions in the bill in more explicit terms.Yesterday the House continued the budget debate which may end in a division early next week.Prime Minister R.B.Bennett suggested the possibility of a vote on Monday when outlining the business for that day.An interim supply hill is to be introduced Monday to appropriate ® sufficient money to carry on the public business pending the passage of the year\u2019s estimates in full.Differences of opinion prevail over the advisability of establishing separate grades for Carnet wheat, it was revealed yesterday when the Commons agriculture committee began the study of an amendment to the Canada Grain Act to establish separate grades.Hon.H.H.Stevens, Minister of Trade and Commerce, under which department the Grain Act is administered, strongly favored separate grades should be established only after full investigation and in the event it was established beyond all doubt the reputation of Canadian wheat abroad was suffering because of the mingling of Garnet with other varieties in the present grades.The Senate yesterday gave third reading to the Thousand Islands Bridge Company bill with an amendment requiring a deposit of ÇôO.OOO from the company with the Federal Treasury, Should the bridge not be built the deposit will be forfeited.The Thousand Islands Company is authorized to build a series of bridges linking islands in the St.Lawrence River and crossing it from Ivy Ixm, near Gananoque, Ont., to a point in New York state.The Senate also bowed to the will EFFORTS TO RANSOM MILUONAIRE HAMPERED BY MYSTERY MESSAGES Although Four Telephone Messages and Letter Contained Conflicting Directions, Family Intermediary Convinced that William Gettle, Los Angeles Oil Magnate, Is Alive \u2014Prepared to Pay as High as $75,000 for Victim\u2019s Freedom.L os Angeles, May 12.\u2014Ready to pay any ransom up to $75,000 for the return of William F.Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire, Ernest E.Noon, the family\u2019s intermediary, waited at his office today for instructions from the kidnappers.Confused by four telephone calls and a letter dealing with the ransom payment.Noon expressed confidence Gettle was alive and the kidnappers soon would come forward with definite plans for delivery of the money.The first telephone call set the ransom at $75,000, but no indication was given how contact was to be made.* WEEK-END RAIN PROMISED FOR PARCHED CROPS SAMUEL INSULL AT LIBERTY ON $250,000 BOND Former Head of Huge Utility Empire in Seclusion in Hospital for Rest and Medical Attention After Winning His Release from Cook County Jail.Chicago, May 12.\u2014Samuel Insult enjoyed $250,000 worth of liberty today\u2014in a hospital.The former head of a huge utility empire was in seclusion at St.Luke\u2019s Hospital for a few days\u2019 rest and medical attention after having won his release from the Cook County jail.\u201cWell, boys, good luck to you all,\u201d he called jovially to his fellow-prisoners as he left the jail hospital yesterday when his friends put up $250,000 to insure his presence in federal court on charges eof using the mails to defraud and violation of the bankruptcy law, and in the state criminal court, where embezzlement is alleged.Of the $250,000 bond, $200,000 of it was on the federal charges\u2014the highest amount ever asked of a prisoner in Chicago\u2014while the remaining $50,000 was on the state\u2019s charge.It took almost^the entire day to wind up the court activities which began with a defiance by the de- S.Yc.«tls,iiSd1ToliS sr.t; S'ilvï*?\"'1 \u2022\u2019\ta letter there for you.An inquest into Mrs.Vigfusson\u2019s death is considered unlikely.She disappeared a week ago while returning home.\\ln the body was found $36.55 she was know to have in her possession when she left the family home.It is believed the woman wandered onto cakes of pan ice and was carried out into the chill waters by an offshore breeze.She is believed to have drowned and the body Washed ashore.GERIANYOPENS ANOTHER DRIVE AGAINST JEWS Purchases1 oTfIOhctures FULL PAYMENT OF NEXT WAR DEBT Megantic Member Inquires About ' Purchases from Alleged Con-! servative Campaign Fund So-' licitor.INSTALMENT IS DEMANDED BY U.S.Awakening Suddenly from a Sound Sleep, Man Raced Through Chilly Winds a Mile1 piesident of tha w\u2019 c Macdonald Ottawa, May 12.\u2014The name of Ward C.Bitfield, Montreal broker described by Walter M.Stewart, Down Beach to Find Remains of Seventy-Year-Old Mother.Steep Rock, Man., May 12.\u2014 Superstitions and mysteries of the supernatural, always in strong favor with fisher folk of Manitoba\u2019s windswept lakes, came back to a score of hamlets today with the Vigfusson tragedy.Yesterday thirty-five year old Stoney Vigfusson dreamed heard voices.He raced from his home through chilly winds a mile cown the beach and there found the ^ body of his seventy-year-old mother, Olifa, missing more than a week.It was the second tragedy to come to Thorsteinson Vigfusson, aged seventy, blind, sick and partially deaf husband of the dead woman.Almost half a century ago his first wife mysteriously disappeared in Iceland as she returned home from a shopping trip.* Ktoney had lain down to rest just before noon yesterday when he fell into a fitful sleep.Without heed to others, lie jumped from his cot and raced to the spot on the beach.j Tobacco Company, as a solicitor for campaign funds for the Conservative party in the 1930 elec-j tion, crept into the records of the | House of Commons today.Eusebe Roberge, Liberal member j for Megantic, gave notice today he j will ask the Government if the Na- j tiona.Gallery of Canada bought! pictures from the Montreal financier.lie aiso will ask through and i wnom any sales were made and how much was paid.Great Britain Notified that Token Payments Will Be Regarded as Evidence of Default \u2014 British Willing to Negotiate Settlement of Debt Question, but First Move Must Come from United States\u2014MacDonald Cabinet Will Study Situation Over Week-End.L \u201cBLACK BLIZZARD\u201d HURDLED \u201cSMOKY CITY\u201d Pittsburgh, May 12.\u2014The \u201cblack Blizzard\u201d sweeping in from the west came to the \u201cSmoky City\u201d\u2014 and then ducked.In fact, few here even knew there was a dust storm.The weather man explained that it hurdled ^he city, travelling as hin-h as 13,000 feet.Some contended the dust couldn\u2019t penetrate Pittsburgh\u2019s \u201csmog.\u201d HERRIOT STILL HOLDSCONTROL OVER RADICALS Low Pressure Area in Rocky! Mountains Raises Hopes for Partial Relief to Drought-.\t.Stricken United States Wheat ¦ er?cna\u2018 P;£Sl!ge of Veteran Decline m German foreign I rade ondon, May 12.\u2014The United State?ha?notified Great Britain that a token payment on thenar debis instalment due in June, would be regarded as evidence of default, it was learned officially today.Notification was given through the British Ambassador at Washington, Sir Ronald Lindsay, by Secretary of State Cordell Hull.Sir Ronald informed bis government of the United States decision in a lengthy cable received just before noon today.Secretary Hull notified the envoy, he reported to the Foreign Office, that the Johnson Rill makes it necessary for the United States bo regard token payments by any nation as default.,\tUnder the Johnson Bill the money markets of the United States Anrm-tg0TiiMay 12-~Fl.ed Rost- of '\tclosed against all nations which default on their war debts.Aurora, 111,, motion picture ALL OVER AN EASTER LILY tor, charges his wife with extreme versatility in meting out cruelty.In his suit for divorce, ha charged she h:d his shaving soap, wouldn\u2019t let him turn on the radio, beat him violently \\vith a candlestick, then kicked him out of bed because he forgot to buy her an Easter lily.opera- The British Ambassador said no concrete settlement proposal had been offered Great Britain by President Roosevelt.It was indicated Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald would study the situation in the light of Sir Ronald's message early next week.Action on the notification over the week-end was considered improbable.In Downing Street it was reiterated after receipt of the Ambassador\u2019s _____________________________ cable that the British Government * I is ready to negotiate for a settlement of the debt question, but that the first move must come from President Roosevelt, WHEAT CONFERENCE ADJOURNS AS EFFORTS TO RAISE PRICES FAIL CONTINUED EXPANSION OF TRADE SHOWN BY FIGURES Small Committee Formed to Study Wheat Problems to Make Report when Conference Reassemble on June 27 Nations Divided on Feasibility of Price-Fixing \u2014 Problems of Large Argentine Crop Added to Difficulties of Parley.- & MARKETING ACT OFFERS OUTLET FOR CRITICISM Mackenzie King Charges Certain Developments at Ottawa Indi- L Districts.Canada spent their force, sweeping to sea on the eastern seaboard, drop- Statesman Routed Opposition to H:s Membership in Doumer-gue Cabinet.Clermont, Ferrand, France, May 12.Edouard Hcrriot\u2019s prestige routed the \u201cYoung Turks\u201d and a wave of indignant protest overwhelmed the opposition to the vete-ra statesman at the Radical Socialist Party congress today.M.Cudenet, leader of the \u201cYoung Turks\u201d \u2014 left wing element of the party, France\u2019s largest \u2014 was obliged to withdraw a speaker he had sent to the Congress platform when the delegates shouted him down when he attempted to attack Herriot.1 he party rebels had come to the v ingress determined to oust Her- The second and third telephone of the House of Commons and the call* were made whi!e_ Noon was Government in the matter of an absent, from his office, the caller amendment to the fruit and honey stating the attorney should insert a1 Chicago, May 12.\u2014Farmers of inspection bill.A number of amend- Personal advertisement in a Los United States who have stood help-ments had been made by the upper Angeles newspaper if he wished to j\tblazine sun seared -nvnv chambcr, but the Commons rejected get m touch with him.\tj.hnir\te , V .f one which provided that the Govern-1 The letter, unsigned, was delivered ^ c,°ps iulned hopefully to the or-in-Councii and not the minister j by mail at the Arcadia estate ol ! Rocky Mountains today for relief, must approve regulations made i Gettle, where the wealthy oil man | A low pressure area over the far under the bill.\t.\t, ! was kidnapped by two armed men'western region was reported work- An inquiry was urged into the ion Thursday morning.The letter \u2022\t.price of agricultural implements in ' informed Mrs.Gettle to have $40.000\t?\t'\t' °, ,y towal'