Sherbrooke daily record, 27 octobre 1934, samedi 27 octobre 1934

[" s\u2019forbronke Satlu ^uatb Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, CANADA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1934.Thirty-Eighth Year.GREATEST CABINET CRISIS SINCE 1926 CONFRONTING CANADA TODAY -* 1SURPEISE ATTACK IN LOWER' I AUSTRIA BY HEIMWEHR i FORCES.Canadian People Keenly Awaiting Statement from Prime Minister on Situation Caused by Unexpected Resignation of Hon.H.H.Stevens\u2014Hon.R.J.Manion, Minister of Railways and Canals, to Carry on as Minister of Trade and Commerce Pending Re-organization of Cabinet.today was confronted with its biggest political sensation the cabinet crisis of 1926 in the resignation of Hon.H.H.Canada since the cabinet crisis of 1926 in the résignation Stevens as Minister of Trade and Commerce and chairman of the Royal Commission on Price Spreads and Mass Buying.Mr.Stevens announced today he had tendered his resignation, to Premier R.B.Bennett, but had had no reply.A flood of speculation at once arose over the consequences of this act.Word that the position of Mr.Stevens was discussed at cabinet meetings yesterday and the day before came as a surprise.Difficulties had been freely predicted following the publication of the now famous Stevens\u2019 pamphlet on the disclosures in the price spreads investigation, but as the months passed by no action was taken and Mr.Stevens announced the inquiry would proceed next week.Some quarters took it for granted the storm had passed over.A statement from the Prime Minister was eagerly awaited in political circles in the Capital, as all across Canada speculation arose as to the future of Mr.Stevens, who announced he would retain his seat in the House of Commons.He also declared he would continue as a Conservative.The intense public interest aroused by the disclosures at the Stevens\u2019 the not unusual incident of a Minister resigning because of a cabinet^ disagreement with political dyna-' | Vienna.Oct.27.\u2014Travellers j | arriving from Wiener Neustadt J j in lower Austria, said today ! ! Heirnwehr forces stationed there ; I in a surprise attack yesterday i i afternoon occupied police bar- \u2019 I racks and imprisoned police of- ! ficials.The'federal army was called 1 j out and authorities succeeded in ; j recapturing the barracks and ; ! freeing the officials.All Heim- I j wehr troops participating in the ' i raid were arrested.Inquiries t othe Wiener Neu- ! I stadt Gendarmerie headquarters ! ! failed to elicit details from of- ! ! ficials, who referred all ques- j | tions to the Austrian govern- | ment\u2019s official news agency I which, however, failed to report a raid.MACKENZIE KING LEFT TODAY FOR PARIS.London, Oct.27.\u2014After spending three weeks in England, W.L.MacKenzie King, Canadian Liberal leader, left London today for Paris.He intends to spend a short time in France and Italy before returning to Canada by way of the Mediter- mite.Wide publication of the famous pamphlet despite its official suppression had paved the way by bringing Mr.Stevens and his work forcibly before the public.The question of who will succeed Mr.Stevens in the cabinet is one which must be settled shortly.His resignation deprives British Columbia of its- representative, and if possible a man from that province will be chosen.Grote Stirling, member for Yale, is mentioned as a likely minister, but whether he would take over the Trade and Commerce Department is very doubtful.In the interval it is expected Hon.R.J.Manion, Minister of Railways and Canals, will he acting Minister.Dr.Manion has been absent from his office owing to illness, but is returning to work on Monday.In announcing his resignation Mr.Stevens complained bitterly about the disclosure of proceedings at cabinet meetings yesterday.He charged some unnamed members of the Government with talking to the press, but insisted he would still adhere to his oath of secrecy.While he claimed newspaper accounts of the cabinet meeting were distorted, he declined to reveal what took place.SECRECY OF MEIGHEN AND HENRY IN ABITIBI PURCHASE CONDEMNED Royal Commission Report Declares Ex-Premier Henry and Former Hydro Commissioner Should Have Remained Aloof During Negotiations for Buying of Company Due to Personal Holdings\u2014Claims Order-in-Council Guaranteeing Commission Against Loss Ineffectual.NAME BRITISH EXECUTIVE TO CENTRAL BANK J.A.C.Osborne, Secretary of Bank of England, Named Deputy Governor of Bank of Canada\u2014Provisional Directors Selected.Toronto, Oct.27.\u2014Premier- Mit-^ chell F.Hepburn had before him today the report of the | Royal Commissioners who conducted ! an exhaustive inquiry into the purchase of the Ontario Power Service Corporation assets by the Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission and the Ontario Government of former Premier George S.Henry.After submitting that Mr.Henry and Senator Arthur Meighen, resigned member of the Hydro Commission, should, because of their personal holding of O.P.S.C.bonds, have remained aloof from all steps lead ing to the acquisition of the Abitibi He did, however, set out to refute power development, the report de-some of the charges levelled against \\ clares that indemnity given by the him.He had not, he said, prejudged I government to the Hydro Commis-tho inquiry by condemning certain ' si0n against loss in the purchase was firms and individuals.The inquiry | ineffectual.was not into a charge against any)\tindemnity relied on is in- firm or persons, but an inquiry into j eflfect;Ua] because it creates a liabil-a business system.The methods cer-1 j^y on pr0Vmce that cannot be tain firms used in doing business , created by an order-in-council,\u201d says were brought out and discussed, but ! rep0rt, submitted over the names they were not condemned.\ti 0f\tChief Justice L.R.Lalehford, Without attempting to place ! 0j-\tOntario Court of Appeal, and responsibility for the circulation of | Justice Robert Smith, retired the Stevens pamphlet of msk July, jfrom tbe Supreme Court of Canada, he insisted he intended it solely for the private use of members of the Conservative Study Club.He had refused a request from some members for copies for general circulation.Until this week Mr.Stevens insisted he had not had a word or a line from the Prime Minister about the matter except a five-minute telephone conversation when he was in Winnipeg just after the pamphlet came out.At that time, he said, Mr.Bennett seemed satisfied with his explanation.\u201cApart from certain prerogative matters, an order-in-councii is not effective unless passed under an act expressly or by implication author izing what the order-in-council pres cribed,\u201d the report continues.Hence no order-in-council passed by the Governor General in council or by PRINCE URGES YOUTH TO JOIN PEACE CRUSADE Ottawa, Oct.27.\u2014Two definite steps in the organizing of the Bank of Canada have now been taken with the appointment by the Government of a deputy governor and the announcement by the provisional board of directors of the date of the first general meeting of shareholders.J.A.C.Osborne, secretary of the Bank of England, will occupy the post of deputy governor.The shareholders of the bank will hold their first meeting on January 23.Mr.Osborne, who is fifty-two years of age, has been with the \u201cOld Uady of Threadneedle Street\u201d for the past thirty years.In that period he has served in many capacities and comes to the Bank of Canada with a wide knowledge of international banking practice and organization.His\" term of appointment in this country is for five years, with the proviso that he may return to England within that time, if he can conveniently be spared.Synchronizing with this announcement came another from Finance Minister E.N.Rhodes that a French-Canadian would shortly be named to fill the post of assistant deputy governor.The decision to call the first gen-j eral meeting of the shareholders of Bank of Canada together on January 23 was made Thursday when the provisional directors, under the chairnmnship of Dr.W.C.Clark, Deputy Minister of Finance, met.The provisional directors at present are all high officials of the Finance Department, who will serve without remuneration until the general meeting elects the seven required by statute.Two of the seven must be drawn from the primary industries, two from commerce and manufacturing and the remainder from other vocations.Each shareholder will be furnished with a list of the other shareholders and nomination blanks, which must be returned by December 5.LYNCHED NEGRO FOR ATTACK ON MARIANNA GIRL RESIGNATION CAUSES POLITICAL SENSATION CABINET DIFFERENCES RESULT IN RESIGNATION OF TRADE \u201c _ Body, Shot and Mutilated with Knives, Brought into Courthouse Square at Marianna, Fla., Today and Strung from' Limb of Tree.Marianna, Fla., Oct.27\u2014A negro accused of killing a white woman met death at the hands of a mob during the night after a crowd of several thousand had gathered to see the lynching.The body of the negro, Claude Neale, shot and mutilated with knives, was brought into the courthouse square here early today and strung from the limb of a tree.He was siain in a woods on the banks of the Chipola River and his body dragged several miles behind an automobile to the Greenwood home of George Cannidy, whose twenty-three-year-old daughter Lola was attacked and slain last week.There a dozen or more shots were pumped into the body and it was further mutilated by knives.Neale had been taken from the jail at Brewton, Ala., early yesterday and held captive near here, while word was spread from \u201call white folks\u201d to come and see the lynching.During the early part of the night, several thousand people gathered at Greenwood.The crowd was so large that its leaders decided not to kill the negro immediately.The mob then began to break up.While hundreds of persons lingered at the Cannidy , home for the negro to be brought ' there, however, others slipped him into the woods and killed him.Whether the negro was shot to death and mqtilated afterward or whether he died in agony from his wounds could not be determined.After the body had lain in the Cannidy yard for some time, it was fragged into Marianna and hoisted n the square.The sudden appearance of the jody ended a night of suspense and Excitement for this county seat of Jackson County and the little town of Greenwood where the farm girl was attacked and killed.No officers' were\" identified in the crowd.Earlier J.P.Newell, executive secretary to Governor Dave Sholtz, had called Sheriff W.Continued on page two.>V Lack of Whole-Hearted Support and Co-operation from Other Cabinet Ministers in Conducting of Mass Buying Probe Made Resignation from Cabinet and from Chairmanship of Probe Inevitable, Stated Hon.H.H.Stevens \u2014Claims to Have Been Victim of Campaign in Innuendos.After two bitter cabinet meetings yesterday, at which his mass buying probe actions were discussed, Hon.H.H.Stevens, Minister of Trade and Commerce, announced his resignation from the cabinet today and also from the chairmanship of the Royal Commission.Youth of English-Speaking Democracies Can Play Vital Part in Promoting International Understanding, Declares Wales.New York, Oct.27.\u2014The Prince of Wales urged the young generation of English-speaking democracies to work for international understanding, in a message read at a dinner of the English-speaking Union of the United States last night.The Prince sent the message as president of the English-speaking Union of the British Empire.Read by the toastmaster at the dinner, John W.Davis, former United States Ambassador to Great Britain, the message said: \u201cThe endeavour of the youth of the English-speaking democracies should be directed to promoting not only their mutual interests but also international understanding as the intolerable, the Minister said no good could be served by his remaining on the Commission when he did not have the full support of the Government.The Stevens investigation was one of the issues in the recent bye-elec-tins, when Mr.Stevens took the stump for the go /.unment.Mr.King said Mr.Stevens should have resigned his position and that Mr.Bennett should have insisted on this, lie charged Mr.Stevens with making an improper judgment on the inquiry before it was completed, STEVENS ANSWERS CRITICS OF ACTIVITIES AT PROBE Ottawa, Oct.27.\u2014 Hon.H.IT.Stevens, who has resigned from the Bennett Government, in a further statement issued today deals with the now famous price spreads and mass buying pamphlet dated July 27th.In the statement Mr.Stevens says: \u201cUp to the present, Saturday morning, I have declined to make ., T .\t.\t.\tfirst step towards the economic re- the Lieutenant-Governor m Council covery ^ whkh the nla;ntenance of peace and \u2018 understanding throughout the world will depend.\u201d Sir Gerald Campbell, British Consul-General in New York, in addressing the dinner suggested youth is not \u201cgetting a square deal\u201d from the generation now in control of world affairs.\u201cWe must confess,\u201d he said, \u201cthat we have made more than an average bad mess of what was not such a bad world at the time it was confided to our care.\u201d in this province has any legal effect unless authorized by some statute, or falls within the category of prerogative orders-in-council.\u201d The Commissioners also charged Declaring his position had become that, the $18,000,000 paid by the province for the power company\u2019s assets through an exchange of bonds, of which $20,000,000 par value company bonds were redeemed, was \u201cbased on consideration for the bondholders and not on value.\u201d The part played by the then Premier in the negotiations is outlined in the report which says: \u201cThere was manifestly no ground for Mr.Henry\u2019s fear that financial interests might outbid him in the bond deal,\u201d and declares Mr.Henry \u201cout of consideration for the bondholders\u201d made an offer of seventy-one for the O.P.S.C.bonds \u201cwhen their value, as estimated by market quotations, before any intimation had been given as to government intervention, was not higher than forty.\u201d Of Mr.Meighen the Commissioners suggest the decision of the other two Hydro Commissioners probably would have favored the purchase of the Abitibi property', but hold that it was improper for him to sit in at the Hydro meetings while the matter was being discussed in view of his personal holdings of $3,000 \u201cand holdings of companies in which CANADA SHOULD STOP DRAIN OF RAIL DEFICITS any statement about my position in I he was interested, placed as coha the cabinet or to comment in any way upon what happened at the cabinet, meeting of Thursday last.Some other member of Mr.Bennett\u2019s Government, however, has chosen to freely inform the public through the columns of the press of what occurred in that cabinet meeting giving, however, a much distorted view of the situation and in a way which does not fairly interpret my position.\"I still decline to discuss what happened on that occasion.I do, however, now feel that I am at liberty, in the.light of the very wide public discussion of the matter and very general announcements that I have resigned, to state that, on Friday midday, to be precise at a quarter to one, I despatched to the Prime Minister my resignation.Up to the moment I have heard nothing from him ami therefore will not discuss tarai in New York, amounting to more than $170.000 par.\u201d The purchase, however, \u201cwas negotiated by Mr.Henry personally on behalf of the goverment, while he himself was holder of $25,000 of these bonds and the insurance company, the North American Life Assurance Company, of which he was a director, held $200,000.\u201d Suggestion is made in the report that Mr.Henry should have withdrawn from the Cabinet Council while the matter was being discussed and says Hon.W.H.Price, then Attorney-General, who served as acting Premier, \u201ccould have been trusted with the negotiations and the decision\u201d with the other ministers.Mr.Henry's defence that he refrained from disclosing the fact that he personally held bonds in the.company whose assets the govern- the letter accompanying the resign- ment was considering acquiring so Continued on Page 2.\tthe other ministers would be left LEGAL ASPECT OF MIXED MARRIAGES IS DISCUSSED Toronto, Oct.27.\u2014Delegates to the Baptist convention of Ontario and Quebec today found the subject of mixed marriages holding a prominent place in the thoughts of officials as they departed for their homes.The report of the Grande Ligne mission, presented at the closing sessions yesterday, precipitated discussion on dissolution of mixed marriages by the court of Quebec.Dissolution of such marriages on canonical grounds was found by the.report, to present \u201ca disturbing element in the, life of the community from the standpoint of Protestant ministers.\u201d The report foresaw far-reaching results if Rev.Victor Rahard, pastor of the French Anglican Church, Montreal, is convicted on the blasphemous libel charge against him.Implications of a decision against Rev.Mr.Rahard, the report con-timied, \u201cWill' be practically that religious discussions which criticize the teachings of the Roman Church are illegal in Quebec.\u201d Following the charge against the Montreal pastor, the report said, daily requests were made to the mission for French Bibles \u201cby Roman Catholics and others.\u201d \"untrammelled in their judgment,\u201d is recalled in the report.It, states, however, he \u201cwas Premier with the deciding voice in the negotiations and allowed his colleagues to suppose that, ho himself was exercising his Thomas Somerset, Irish Member of Parliament and Railway Executive, Advises Adoption of Beatty Suggestions.Quebec, October 27.\u2014Canadians should demand immediate Government action to stop the appalling di-ain on the public treasury through the huge annual deficits of the C.N.R.according to Thomas Somerset.M.P.a leading business men and railway director of Northern Ireland, who sailed yesterday afternoon for England in the Empress of Britain.\u201cMr.Beatty\u2019s remarks in his reply to Mr.Fullerton's statements at Saint John and Halifax form a convincing summary of the cost of the present railway situation to Canada.I should say that it was now up to your Government to do something about it,\u201d Mr.Somerset, commented.\u201cThe eyes of the railroadmen all over the world will be focussed on Northern Ireland in the near future, when announcement is expected of policy resulting from Sir Felix Pole\u2019s report on co-ordination of rail and road services freight traffic,\u201d Mr.Somerset, who is a director of the Northern Counties Committee, London Midland and Scottish Railway, as well as being a leading linen manufacturer, declared.The report, he explained, recommends pooling of rail and road traffic earnings and the apportioning of them according to fixed quotas determined by their earnings in 1930, which is regarded as an average year.\u201cChanges in rate and tariff structures may be necessitated by the move and many other details will have to be worked out, but the recommendation is generally regarded as one of the soundest solutions of traffic problems yet presented.\u201d Canadians are now buying higher grade linen goods than formerly and this country is a good customer of Northern Ireland in this trade, in return Northern Ireland is purchasing larger supplies of Canadian lumber, made possible by increased activity in the building trade.Northern Ireland has also been for years a steady purchaser of Canadian wheat, Mr.Somerset stated.The Irish M.P.found during n visit in Canada of several weeks that there is generally a spirit of optimism in all communities and also noticeable improvement in business conditions.QUEER MENTAL QUIRK CAUSED MASS TRAGEDY A CANADA TO AUSTRALIA FLIGHT CONTEMPLATED Honolulu, Oct.27.\u2014Plans for a trans-Pacific flight from Canada to Australia, by way of Honolulu, were untrammelled made known today.Uton, revealed here last night that Ulm is in England at present testing an aeroplane for the unprecedented dash.The take-off, Skilling said, would mum, 59; minimum, 30 judgment.In fact, his judgment Leon Skilling, navigator for the likely be from Vancouver or Mont- Same day last year: Continued on Page 2.\tnoted Australian airman, Charles real.\t31; minimum, 15.Quebec Man Killed Five Members of His Family to Prevent Them Suffering Indignity After Murder of Postal Inspector.Quebec, Oct.27.\u2014Some inexplicable quirk in the brain of Oscar Bilodeau that led him to kill members of his family so they would not suffer from any act of his led to one of the worst tragedies in Quebec\u2019s history, it was revealed today as details of the mass slaying of six persons here Thursday came to light.The gas-tortured war veteran, who ran hmok and blazed a trail of blood from St.Therese De Beau-port to Quebec City, leaving six dead, five of them immediate relatives and the other J.Oscar Fiset, divisional postal superintendent, was being subjected to a careful quizzing by police today before being turned over to alienists for mental examination.Meanwhile, two more of his victims, Postmaster J.G.L.Morin and Moise Joli-coeur, senior mail clerk, were reported progressing favorably from wound®.The knowledge that his family would suffer indignity after he killed the postal superintendent because of a fancied wrong done him led to the five other killings, the man is reported to have told police.Walking into the Quebec Post Office Bilodeau, former mail carrier and prospector, suddenly began firing.The three officials fell, one of them mortally wounded.Then, while frightened employees fled screaming, he slumped down into a chair and began mumbling into a telephone.It was this way that constable Patrick Korrigan, à rookie on the force, found him.The young constable, who has been cited for his bravery, jumped on the killer and rushed him off to headquarters.There the story of the rest of the killings was bared.Bilodeau told police he had killed his two sisters, Marie Bilodeau, 63, and Rosalie Bilodeau, 62, and his niece, Yvette Gauvin, 21, in the woods near St.Therese.He led them to the bodies.After his return he said he had also killed his two nephews, Gaston Gauvin, 20.and Fernand Gauvin, 18.Then began a search for the two bodies that lasted into the next day.BUTER CHURCH CONTROVERSY IN GERMANY IS FAR FROM German Protestant Rebels Determined Reichsbishop Ludwig Mueller Shall Be Ousted\u2014Resignation of Dr.August Jaeger, Former Commissioner for Protestant Church in Prussia, Regarded as Too Low a Price for Peace\u2014Renewal of Eighteen Months\u2019 Fight for Religious Freedom Appears Imminent.{~^ testant rebels fought today for the removal of Reichsbishop Ludwig Mueller.Emboldened, not pacified, by the resignation of Dr.August Jasgar bs Commissioner for the Protestant Church in Prussia, the opposition reckoned his removal from the bitter church scene too low a price for peace.There was every indication the lead-_ .\t_\t.\t.\ters planned to renew with vigor Solemn Ceremonies Mark Inter-1 their eighteen months\u2019 fight for ment in Cathedral of Victims I reIi^0US freedom\u2019 with flier\u2019s IL DDCE PAYS LAST TRIBUTE TO COMPANIONS of March on Rome Twelve Years Ago.Florence, Italy, Oct.27.A stern-1 0f loyalty, now that one source of .ASaA\u20acd-.^USI°)':n.1L r'ght.h*nd contention had offered to go.rising and falling in impressive Roman salutes to the dead, today supervised final burial of thirty-seven Fascists in Florence province who fell obeying his commands during the Blackshirt revolution twelve years ago.The fallen Blackshirts we'-e brought here to rest forever in ths Basilica of Santa Croce, the \u201cWestminster Abbey of Italy.\u201d Il Duce stood at rigid attention, his set jaw and smoldering eyes attesting to his emotion as Achille Starace, Secretary-General of the party, led the sombre Blackshirt hierarchy ritual commemoration of ful'len comrades.The ritual consisted of calling the roll of the dead, one by one.At each name arms shot upward in brisk salute, and the assembly shouted \u201cpresent!\u201d Outside the Basilica, volleys of musketry signalled the burial of the martyrs and a monotonous thud of artillery every few moments told an awed countryside of Fascism\u2019s reverence for its dead.The funeral cortege itself was a cross section of Italy\u2019s present day great.SIAMESE KING IGNORANT OF ABDICATION REPORTS London, Oct.27.\u2014King Prajadhi-pok, of Siam, apparently did not intend to comment on reports from Singapore that he intended to abdicate his throne.The king at present is living quietly in a Surrey retreat and is having his eyes treated by London Ottawa, October 27.\u2014Hon.H.H.Stevens has resigned as Minister of Trade and Commerce from the Bennett administration and as chairman of the Price Spreads and Mass Buying Commission.His resignation was placed in the hands of Premier R.B.Bennett *t 12:45 noon yesterday.The famous pamphlet issued early in August by Mr.Stevens had been made the centre of innuendos against him, said Mr.Stevens today.The inquiry of which he was chairman was into a system of economics and methods of merchandising and not an inquiry into individual firms.As his resignation had been discussed in (he public press, both last evening and this morning, it was only in justice to himself he should make a statement, he said.Shown the statements in the press this morning and last night, Mr.Stevens stated that in his opinion the public were not interested in nor would they be swayed by vague legal technicalities.\u201cI discharged my duties,\u201d he said, \u201cwhich were most onerous and difficult, for a period of nine months, to the best of my ability, without in any way sparing myself, and I deny absolutely the alleged improprieties in my conduct.\u201cIt must be born in mind that this \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 - -i was an inquiry into a system of economics and methods of merchandising and not an inquiry into individual firms, and names of persons were only mentioned where it was necessary to do so to disclose methods followed and practices indulged in.\u201cFurthermore, the now famous pamphlet has been made the centre of the innuendos against me.Let me say this: The only conversation that I have ever had with the Prime Minister on the subject of that pamphlet prior to Thursday last was in a brief five-minute conversation over the long distance \u2019phone when I was in Winnipeg and he was speaking from Ottawa.At the conclusion of that conversation I was left with the impression that he was satisfied with the explanation I had made.From that day, August 6th last» down to last Thursday I did not receive from him a single word on the subject.\u201cThe task to which I was allotted could only be discharged if one had the whole-hearted support and cooperation of the Prime Minister and his colleagues.The criticisms that have been directed against me in the last few days from Government circles makes it abundantly clear that this no longer exists and my position became intolerable.\u201cAs my resignation.has been discussed in the public press, both last evening and this morning, without one syllable having .been issued by me on the subject, I think it is only in justice to myself to say that yesterday noon, at a quarter to one, my resignation as Minister of Trade and Commerce and as chairman of the Price Spreads Committee was sent by me to the Prime Minister, and\u2019 up to the present I have heard no more of it except through the columns of the public press.\u201d Mr.Stevens emerged from political retirement to become Minister of Trade and Commerce in the Bennett government in 1930.After serving as Conservative member for Vancouver Centre for nearly twenty years, he was defeated in th® 1930 general elections by Hon.Ian Mackenzie but was taken into the cabinet following the Conservative victory and returned by acclamation in the Skeena bye-election.He was first elected to Parliament in the reciprocity election of 1911.He was returned in 1917 and at each succeeding general election until 1930.Mr.Stevens was Minister of Trade and Commerce in the Meighen cabinet of 1921 and held the portfolio of Customs and Excise in the short lived Conservative administration of 1926.The Toronto Mail and Empire made a predication today regarding Mr.Stevens\u2019 political future.A report given credence, said the Toronto paper, is that he intends to seek his political future with the Co-operative Common-Wealth Federation._ While Mr.Stevens was in the West, just following the publication of his pamphlet, he was reported to have conferred with J.S.Woods-worth, C.C.F.leader, said the Mail Mexico and Empire.\u201cAt that time Hon.T.A* Crerar, former Liberal eab- i ousting as their goal, i This was seen even though it was reported Reichsfuebrer Hitler finally would receive Mueller and the Nazi bishops who were to take the oath Thereafter, it was contended in one quarter, Mueller would be unostentatiously removed at some future date, leaving the evangelical church government to a council of j bishops he named.This would clear the way for the re-emergence of Friedrich Von Bod-clschwingh, who reluctantly gave way to the Nazi Mueller in March, 1933.There are, however, other points in the bitter controversy.Opposition circles have insisted they are fighting, not Mueller alone, but his policies\u2014the Aryan paragraph politics in the church, suspension of pastors and the national synod which dissidents call unconstitutional.Beyond that, not entirely related to the current evangelical turmoil, but contributing greatly to religious unrest, is Dr.Alfred Rosenberg's pagan movement, and the plans attributed to Nazis, but denied by them, of forming a single Christian Church embracing Catholics and Protestants.Hitler himself has repeatedly indicated a realization that these\" uro-biems effect the stability of Nazidom.One point at issue is the fact that alienation of the Catholics at this time might mean an adverse vote in the overwhelmingly Catholic Saar Basin territory in the plebiscite on January 13.MEXICAN SITUATION TODAY BELIEVED NEARING CRISIS Mexico, D.F., Oct.27.\u2014 The specialists.He has given no indica- ; church-political question in tion of his future plans nor has he !\theaded for a crisis today, j .\t-\t.\t.\t.made any official remark about' The killing of sixteen men at Mo-: lnet ^mister, was also mentioned abdication.\ti choaca and the publication of docu- His secretary said the first he I ments purporting to prove the gov-knew about the latest abdication I ®™ment ^E^rges that high Catholic rumor from the Straits Settlements ; Church officials were plotting a sub- was through inquiries made of him.The Siamese legation knew nothing of the report.-» THE WEATHER #-* COLD WITH SNOWFLURRIES.Pressure is high over the Western Provinces and northwest states.The weather has been fair throughout the west with low temperature this morning in Saskatchewan and western Manitoba.Showers have occurred in many districts of eastern Canada.Forecast: Cloudy and con! with some showers or snowflurries.Sunday\u2014snow with northwest winds; partly cloudy and cold.Northern New England: Probably rain tonight and Sunday; slightly colder Sunday afternoon.Temperatures yesterday: Maxi- Maximum, versive movement, further disturbed the scene.Eight osldiers, including a lieutenant, and eight civilians, were shot to death by a band officia\u2019ly described as militant Catholics whom they were pursuing near Tanhuato, Michoacnn.The attackers were said to have lain in ambush and all of the pursuers fell fatally wounded.In the as a party to the conversations.\u201cParticipation of the Minister of Trade and Commerce in a reorganized radical party is, accordingly, regarded by political observers here as a likely development of the immediate future.\u201d FIRE LOSSES SHOW MARKED INCREASE Toronto, October 27.\u2014Fire losses in Canada for the week ending October 24 showed a marked increase over the previous week but were considerably lower than the corre- group was the municipal secretary ! s'3Tnd*n^ Çer'f,d * rr> i 1\t*\tI jnsspst tor tho AX'POL' o of Tanhuato.Letters purportedly written by Mgr.Leopoklo Ruiz y Flores, former Papal Legate in Mexico and now in exile in San Antonio, were printed today by the government newspaper El Nacional, in an attempt to refute declarations by Archbishop Diaz of Mexico, who denied the Catholics plotted against the government.One of the letters, addressed to the \u201cprovincial fathers,\u201d urged members of the JesuÜts to \u201caid us Losses for the week ending October 24, were $547,825, compared with $156,850 for the previous year.Fire losses from January 1, to October 24, this year were lower than the same period of 1933, the respective figures being $12,570,-325 as against $18,909,975.are being persecuted in our coun-try.\u201d Another letter expressed disapproval of the proposed reform to to defend the sacred rights of the make Socialistic education compul-church, which now, more than ever, sory.i ( i 6635 0743 r\\r.r Trv« ûHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 19V.PRICES AND DETAILS OF SHERBROOKE MARKET Scarcity of eggs caused the price | Brookfield .25c jf that product to soar sharply on |\t.V.the, Sherbrooke market yesterday afternoon.Strictly fresh eggs sold at forty to fifty cents a dozen as compared with thirty-five to forty-five cents-a dozen a week ago.Pullets ranged in price from thirty to forty cents a dozen.Butter was steady, best creamery quality being offered r\u2018 twenty-two to twenty-three cents a pound and best dairy at twenty to twenty-three cents a pound.In the other divisions prices re- \u201e , ,\t^\t, trained steady with last week's quo- pot»to«> buslwl tations.Trading was reported to be fairly active.Oka, lb.35c to 40c THE FRUIT MARKET Xew Apples, per peck .25c to 60c Bananas, 4 lb.for.25c Oranges, per dozen .25c to 60c Red Grapes, lb.15c THE VEGETABLE MARKET Cabbage, each.§c Local Cucumbers, each.5c Bermuda onions, 2 lbs.for .25c .Green Onions, bunch.5c i Leeks, bunch .5c 40c to 50c Cabbage, each.5c and 10c Radishes, bunch .2 for 5c FURTHER GAIN INDICATED IN TRADE OUTLOOK _\tHothouse Tomatoes, lb.10c to 15c Following are the prices of flourjLocal Toniat(>eS) lb.5c mid feed grain delivered f.o.b.jEgg plant, each.10c to 15c Montreal, furnished by Hubert: Iceburg Lettuce.10c Ames, local grain broker:\tiHot-house lettuce, each.5c Flour, first patent, S2.65 for 9S ,, r r i osg \u2018\t! THE PROVISION MARKET Fleur, second patent, $2.45 for 98 Beef, carcass, lb.4c to 6c round hag Bran, S24.75 per ton.Shorts, $25.75 per ton.Middlings, S29.75 per ton.Grain, car load track.Montreal.Barky, No.3 C.1V.62 cents per 4&-Dound bushel.Oats.No.3 C.W.47 cents per 34 pounds.No.1 Feed Oats, 46 cents bushel.No.2 Feed Oats, 45 cents bushel.The^ prices of hay are Timothy, extra.SIS.00 per ton; No.2\tTimothy, $14.00 per ton, and No.3\tTimothy, S 12.50 per ton.In the following price list of products on the Lansdowne Market the quotations in the provision market include those of farmers and butchers in .that section: Beef, roast, per lb.10c to 28c Bacon, per lb.28c to 33c Boil:-g meat, per lb.5c to 12c Blood sausage, lb.12 l-2c to 15c Fowl, lb.18c Chickens, lb.18c\tto\t23c Calf liver, lb.20c\tto\t25c Ham, per lb.23c\tto\t27c Ham, Picnic, per lb.16c to 18c per Cottage Rolls, lb.22c to 25c Kidney Suet.8c\tto\t12c THE DAIRY MARKET Butter, best creamery, lb.22c to 23c Butter, best\tdairy, lb.20c\tto\t23c Eggs, per dozer.40c\tto\t50c Pullets.35c\tto\t.tOc Cheese .15c\tto\t20c Kraft Cheese.20c to 25c per Liver, per lb.8c to 12c Mutton, carcass, per lb.6c No.2 Mutton, fronts, per lb.8c Mutton, hind, lb.15c Pork spare ribs, lb.8c Pork, salt .15c to 20c Pork, carcass, lb.I0c Pork loins, per lb.16c to 19c Fork saus' e .15c to 18c Beef sausage, lb.13c to 15c Pork, Shouldtr rr-~>- ;b.12c to 15c Steak, sirloin, per ib.15c to 25c Steak, round, per lb.15c to 22c Spring lamb,\tcarcass.10c Spring iamb,\thind, lb.20c Spring lamb,\tfront, lb.10c Veal, carcass, lb.5c to 6%c Veal, roast, lb.12c to 18c Veal, front quarter, lb.7c to 10c *- 1 Country and Dairy Products Prices @ - Montreal, Oct.27.\u2014Further advances were scored yesterday on the local cheese market, as demand for current receipts continue active.No.1 Ontario colored became generally 9 7-8c per lb., while No.1 Ontario white was mostly 9 3-4c; No.1 Que- WJZ: Armand Girard, songs; CK-AC; Catholic Half Hour.10.30\tp.m.\u2014 WEAK; Jane Fro-m_an, songs; WABC: Dramatic Guild; 5VJZ: An American Fireside.11.00 p.m.\u2014 WJZ: Roxanne Wallace; WEAF: Spy Stories; WABC: Harry Salter\u2019s Orchestra.11.30\tp.m.\u2014 WJZ: Henry King's Orchestra; WEAF: Charlie Davis\u2019 Orchestra; WABC: Leon Belaseo\u2019s Orchestra.bee colored was 9 l-2c, and the No.\tn i , 1 Quebec white was 9 3-Sc.\t;\t\u201e MoDda>.- 0ctober 29^- The butter market had a slightly .^ P-1*1-\u2014WEAF: Xavier Cugat's easier undertone, with No.1 grade Orchestra; WJZ: Army Band; WA-r.carlots or l.c.l.lots 19 l-2e toi2C: .Buc!L Ro«ers.sketch; CFCF: 19 3-4c per lb.for spot butter.Small lots to the retail trade were 20 l-2c for solids and 21c for prints.The egg market held steady at recent advances, graded shipments Evening Musicale 6.15 p.m.\u2014 WABC; Bobby Benson and Sunny Jim; WEAF: Mysterious Island; CFCF: Dinner 'at Six; CKAC; Tangos; KDKA: Army Retail Trade During Past Week, While Still Somewhat Quiet, Has Been Stimulated, Especially in Clothing, Boots and Shoes and Kindred Lines, by Cooler Weather.GREATEST CABINET CRISIS SINCE 1926 CONFRONTING CANADA TODAY Continued from Page One.ation but content myself with a mere statement that I tendered my resignation as a Minister of the Crown and as chairman of the Price Spreads and Mass Buying Commission.\u201cIt is represented in the columns of the press, obviously based upon authority of the Government, that the issue was precipitated by a criticism of my utterances in the now famous pamphlet.I shall briefly state once again the facts regarding that pamphlet.First: It was a report of a speech delivered privately to a study club consisting of some fifty or more Conservative members of Parliament.In speaking to them I spoke with absolute frankness but extemporaneously.\u201cIt is the regular practice of that dub to take detailed notes of all speeches delivered before it, whicn are invariably mimeographed and distributed to the members of the club.This practice precisely wms followed in the case of my speech.However, certain members did me the honor of requesting a large number of copies for general distribution.This I declined to do.There was, however, submitted to me in the usual course a copy of the notes of the speech and I made certain eliminations and minor corrections, understanding that the speech would be then mimeographed for distribution among the members of the club.\u201cI am making no complaint nor seeking to place responsibility on anyone else when I say I had no knowledge that it was to be distributed publicly.\u201cThe next thing I heard was on my arrival in Winnipeg on August 5th when I was called on the long distance telephone by the Prime Minister.This is no secret, by the way, because it was blazoned on the front pages of all the press of Canada, I shall not say at the moment precisely what that conversation was.I will, however, say that at its conclusion, and it lasted I think less than five minutes, the Prime Minister seemed to be perfectly satisfied with the explanation I made, which was much along the lines I have above indicated.\u201cFrom that hour until Thursday afternoon last I did not hear a single word from the Prime Minister either verbally or in writing on the subject, nor did any member of the Govem-business for the farm implement : ment as far as I can recall discuss Montreal, Oct.27.\u2014The volume of business continued to move ahead during the past week.Bank clearings for twenty-eight leading cities for the week ended October 18th at $372,129,061, showed an increase of $36,088.923.or 10.7 per cent, from the clearings for the corresponding week of a year ago.Montreal's increase of $5,493,354.was 5.4 per cent.Carloadings totalled 51,560 for the week ended October 13th being an increase of 1,257 or 2.4 per cent, over the like week for 1933.The combined gross revenue of the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian National Railways for the week ended October 14th totalled $5,997,378 as against $5,901,950 in the corresponding week or 1933, an increase of $95,428 or 1.6 per cent.Continued expansion in building construction is being reflected in the business of the steel companies, who report operations on a more active scale than a year ago.Export business also continues to expand, one well-known concern recently received an order for the rolling of 2,50 tons of rails, the second within a few weeks.Conditions in the canning industry are said to be improving, with domestic and export markets both expanding.Due to the short crop, and the fact that stocks on hand are light, a further advance in prices is looked for.Heavy offerings during the week ended October 18 featured the livestock market.Prices were generally firm, calves being slightly easier, while other lines were steady to higher.Exports of cattle to 'the United Kingdom totalled 804 head.The improved purchasing power of the farmer is resulting in better houses.Continued activity !n the mining field and prospects of a busy season in the bush has resulted in some good grocery and hardware orders by wholesalers.Retail trade during the past week, while still somewhat quiet, has been stimulated by the cooler weather, especially in clothing, boots and shoes and kindred lines.in carlots or Lei.lots being 40-42c, for A-large, 37-39e for A-medium,!\t, P-™- «JZi.TnreeX Sisters; 30c for A-pulIets, 22-23c for B,\tSongs; WABC: The Ska- 19 l-2c to 20c for C.Small lots to dow> {irarr-a the retail trade held unchanged, ¦with advances due Monday.The list follows, as quoted by jobbers 6.45 p.m.\u2014WJZ: Lowell Thomas; WEAF: Billy Batchelor, sketen.7.00 p.re.\u2014 WABC: Myrt and A-l large Cartons\"Loose Ma:'Se: WJZ: Amos and Andy; WrE- 49c 41c 39c 33c 28c ?6c 23c at 40-45c; A-l medium .46c A-large.».42c A-medium .,,\t40c A-pallets .34c B-large .».29c B-medium.27c C .24c The potato market held with New Brunswick.Quebecs a: 35-40c, and Prince Edward Island stock at 45-50c per 80-ib.bags.Quotations on dressed poultry to the retail trade, as given by whole-ale jobbing houses, were as follows on A grade, with B grade ruling 2c per lb.less; Per Ib.Turkeys.21-22c Milkfed chickens.25-26e Selected chickens .\t.,, 23-25c Fowl .16-18; Broilers.23-20c Ueese .15-17c Brome Lake ducklings.24-26; Domestic ducklings.17-13c ft-* Tomorrow\u2019s Radio Programme AF: Ray Perkins, sketch; CFCF: Uncle Troy.7.30 p.m.\u2014WJZ: Comedy Sketch; WABC: Paul Keast, songs; WEAF: Dixie Dandies; CKAC; Real Life Dramas.8.00 p.m.\u2014WEAF: Richard Him-ber\u2019s Orchestra; WABC: Carson teadv.R°hmson\u2019s Orchestra; WJZ: Joe Following are the best radio programme:- tomorrow, Sunday, with lhe kfty '-'J \u2018he stations in the final i Week\u2019s Orchestra, paragraph:\tj 5.30\tp.m\u2014WEAF: The House by | the Side of the Road.6.00\tp.m.\u2014 WJZ; Heart Throbs of ; the Hills; WEAF: Catholic Hour; | WABC: Music bv Gershwin.6.30\tp.m.\u2014 WABC: \u201cSmilin\u2019 Ed.McConnell\u201d; WEAF: Frank Simon\u2019s j Band; WJZ: Grand Hotel.7.00\tp.m.\u2014WJZ: Don Bestor\u2019s Or- i che-tra; WEAF: Broadcast from ; P.ome; WABC: California Melodies.: 7.30\tp.m.\u2014WEAF: Queena Mario,! Metropolitan Opera Singer; WJZ.Mpmkprt Ozzie Nelson\u2019s Orchestra; CKAC: menloer* Church Service Garber\u2019s Supper Club.8.30\tp.m.\u2014 WEAF : Garden Concerts; WABC: Josef Pasternack's Orchestra.9.00\tp.m.\u2014WABC: Rosa Ponselle, songs; WEAF: Feature; WJZ; Greater Minstrels; CFCF: The Montrealers; CKAC: Variety Show.9.30\tp.m.\u2014 WEAF : Joe Cook\u2019s House Party; WABC: \u201cThe Big Show\"; CFCF: Dance Music.10.00\tp.m.\u2014 WJZ: America in Music; WABC: Wayne King\u2019s Orchestra.10.30\tp.m.\u2014WABC: Mobilization for Human Needs.11.00\tp.m.\u2014 WJZ: Hal Kemp\u2019s Orchestra; WABC: Jerry Cooper, songs; WEAF: The Grumitts, sketch.11.30\tp.m.\u2014 CKAC: Glen Gray\u2019s Orchestra; WEAF: Will Osborne\u2019s Orchestra; WJZ: Jolly Coburn\u2019s Orchestra.12.00\tp.m.\u2014WJZ: Angelo Ferdi-r.ando\u2019a Orchestra; WABC: Dan Russo's Music; WEAF: Anson the subject with me.As to what happened on Thursday I am silent.I will, however, make a brief reply to certain statements that have been made in the public press purporting to emanate from the Government.\u201c1\u2014\u2018That I have prejudged the case in many of my public utterances in connection with the price spreads and mass buying committee and commission.\u2019 I absolutely repudiate this statement.Those who are making it fail to make this important discrimination; that this investigation ss into an économe system, r\tnamely, the merchandising system of lanadian-Born Newspaper Peer this country.The order of reference and Staunch Imnerialisf Would IL5 c!ear on that Point and a11 the ana otaunen imperialist Would ; Commission and the committee is Include Association of United concei\u2019ned in is the practices, the States to Assure Affirmation trends an