Sherbrooke daily record, 18 mars 1942, mercredi 18 mars 1942

[" \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 Sherbrooke lailu merorb THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS WEATHER Cooler with snow.TEMPERATURES Yesterday: Maximum, 40; \u2022minimum, 31.Same day last year: Max., 36; min., 14, Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1942.Forty-Sixth Year.GERMAN GARRISON GZHATSK NOW ENCIRCLED Soviets Claim Nazis Suffer Big Ship Loss CANADIAN NAVY RESERVIST IS GIVEN REWARD Ontario Member of British Fleet Promoted for Part in Running Fight with Three German E-Boats.London, March 18,\u2014(C.P.Cable) Two Enemy Transports, One Trawler and Patrol Ship Reported Sunk by Russian Naval Units in the Barents Sea \u2014A- R-Thompson, youth-r> «iiv/fï* ii \u2022 r-zr m.a.lïul Canadian commander of a Brit- -Soviet Troops Reported Making Heroic Effort to ish gUnboat which the Admiralty re- Pierce German Lines in Crimea.\tvealed last night had engaged three German E-boats in a running fight By EDDY GILMORE (Associated Press Staff Writer) Moscow, March 18.\u2014W\u2014The Soviet armies of the centre were reported today to have encircled a German garrison at Gzhatsk, one hundred miles West of Moscow and closest foothold to the Russian capital still retained by the Nazi invaders.It was to Gzhatsk.that the Germans withdrew after their disastrous defeats at Mozhaisk and Borodino.On the rail line from Moscow to Smolensk, Gzhatsk lies one hundred miles West of the capital and thirty-five miles Northeast of the key German defence position at Vyazma.The Western front dispatch which reported the city had been cut off, told of a supply-laden transport plane being shot down in an attempt to reach the German garrison.More than 4,750 Germans were reported to have been slain in a series of actions ranging from Leningrad to the Crimea, and the Moscow radio said Red army men had recaptured five, more communities in the Smolensk area.Tass said one of the five reoccupied settlements protected a strategically-important area before which the Germans left 1,250 dead and wounded after a vain counter-attack.The survivors were declared routed.Cutting off Rzh-ev-Vyazma pocket, where German garrisons hold out approximately half way along the 2'30-mile route from Moscow to Smolensk, is a major aim in current Russian operations on the Central Front.The Soviet Information Bureau said Red army troops killed 1,000 Germans to over-run a Southwestern defence position and levied heavy tolls in other sectors.(A Morocco radio station broadcast a Moscow report that heavy fighting was under way in the suburbs of Kharkov, German-held industrial city of the Donets Basin, 400 miles South of Moscow.) Nazi survivors of the Southwestern fighting, the site of which was not specificially located, were said to have retreated.At the upper end of the battle i HOT STUFF New York, March 1 S.\u2014f/P)\u2014Remembering the fire of February 9 that burned out the former French Notes Approving Alaska Highway Scheme Are Formally Exchanged Ottawa, March 18.\u2014t(R\u2014Formal exchange of notes between the United St:, tes and Canada providing for the construction of the Alaska highway took place today in the office of Prime Minister Mackenzie King.A note setting forth the verms under which the highway is to be constructed was handed io the Prime Minister by Pierrepont Moffat, United States Minister to Canada, and Mr.King handed over his reply agreeing on behalf of Canada to the terms set forth.The highway will extend from Fort St.John in Northern British Columbia to Fairbanks.Alaska.Engineering units of the United States army already are on the job to got an early start on construction of a pioneer road which will later be widened and .tirfaeed into a permanent highway.The notes will be released later 'ioilay.GODBOUT FEELS PRESS REPORT in the North Sea, attained his full lieutenancy today.It is not known how long the 25-year-old officer of the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve had Liner Normandie and resulted in the been in command of the gunboat, a 360,000,000 naval auxiliary turning ; secret type of craft mentioned of- on her side, officials of the Brooklyn Navy Yard posted this \u201cmotto\u201d today: \u201cFor welders and burners.T don\u2019t want to set the world on fire!\u2019 \u201d San Francisco, March 18.\u2014OP)\u2014 The Chronicle said today Quentin Reynolds, war correspondent, and Virginia Pine, film actress, would be married in New York March 26, with Wendell L.Willkie as best man.in last TECHNOCRACY BECOMES BIG ORGANIZATION VETERAN HOUSE MEMBER QUITS CABINET GROUP ficially for the first time night\u2019s communique, Lieut.Thompson, whose grandmother lives in Oakville, Ont., was mentioned in dispatches in July, |oure-AII for Economic Ills Has 'Founder ol Liberal National Uniformed Membership, Special Salute and Mystical Symbol.salesman The new gunboats are not the clumsy things their name implies.They are understood to resemble fast motor torpedo boats and to carry shell-firing guns instead of Continued on Page 2.Col- 5.House Likely To Override RooseveltViews On Labor Provision for Recapture of All War Profits in Excess of Six Per Cent Likely to Assure Passage of Measure Removing Forty-Hour Limit on Working Week \u2014 President is Opposed to Proposals.- %- Washington, March 18.\u2014(A5) \u2014 President Roosevelt\u2019s blunt opposition to any immediate changes in the forty-hour-week law in the United States found important support in the Senate today, but the House of Representatives still seemed bent on taking matters into its own hands.The House manifested every intention of pushing ahead with consideration of legislation which would suspend all maximum-hour laws in war industries, and some administra-i tion backers privately were dubious about the changes of defeating such a measure if it also contained drastic provisions for recapture of ail corporate war profits over six per cent.In one preliminary study of diverse problems, a Senate appropriations Subcommittee called high Government officials into a dosed session today for testimony on whether strikes should be outlawed and the forty-hour work week modified.The President told a press con- New York, March 18.\u2014Iff)\u2014A uni- Pariiamentary Great Britain War Policies.Party in Quits Over Claims Story Gave False lm-; pression of Meeting Held Odds Still Favorable To Japanese In Developing Struggle For Australia Recently in Montreal Bye- Allied Military Experts Convinced that Japanese Will Open Elections.London, March 18.\u2014(((!>) Cable)- formed membership using a special] Sir Murdoch MacDonald, septuagen-salute .fleets of gray-paintediarian member of Parliament, has reautomobiles in some cities .an j signed from the Liberal National emblem called the monad symbol i Parliamentary Party, which was a .a busy propaganda machine ! monument to his independence of putting out six magazines and ten ]political action.pamphlets calling for abolition of the j The step on the part of the white-price system .\tj haired, seventy-six-year-old member Thus the New York Herald Tri-jfor Inverness, who founded the bune describes today the reinvigor-1 Parliamentary group in 1931 among ated technocracy movement in the 1 Liberals favoring support of the United States.It says Technocracy, ; National Government, followed by a Quebec, March 18, CP) Premier Goribout in an interview with The Canadian Press yesterday said he believed The Canadian Press report, of a Provincial bye election meeting in Montreal Monday night \u201cgave an unfair picture of the meeting.\u201d He was referring to a report of activities of youths who were outside the St.James market in Montreal while Mr.Godhmit and others were speaking within the market in support.of Liberal eandidates.Mr.(iodbout in his address, for which he was cheered by his audience, said the country of all Canadians is the whole of Canada and that \u201cno Canadian can refuse any sacrifice at the present hour.\u201d During most of the meeting a group, of youths marched around the outside of the building, shouting and singing \u201ca has la conscription\u201d (down with conscription).Mr.Godbout said he felt The Cnn- Fiercest Campaign of War if They Attempt Invasion of Australia.However\u2014Large-Scale United States Reinforcements Aid Commonwealth Effort.Continued on Pago 2, Col.3 STREET COLLECTIONS IN VMS COUNTRIES NOW RATHER A NUISANCE Borne, March 18\u2014(/P)\u2014There are so ninny mllections of clothing, metal and other artieles in Avis countries these days that the pomilatjoa isn't surprised at anything.Recently in Bucharest a number of men in military uniform appeared on busy street coiners and began confiscating brief eases and overcoats of pedestrians.They explained these articles «ore needed by the a r m y.By the time the authorities heard of it, the collectors had disappeared.An announcement said a gang of robbers was responsible.few weeks the resignations of Edgar Granville, Sir Henry Morris-Jones usd Leslie Hore-Belisha, outspoken i*AP PRESS HAS OWN VIEWS ON ALLIED SHIFT Blames Cowardice of Commanders for Unwillingness of Allied Forces to Wage Effective War.Inc,, the \u201ceconomic cure-all that mushroomed and died ten years ago,\u201d has \u201cpoked the public eye again, this timv» with a new set of j e.Vt Les of the Government, trappings and mystery which give it) Sir Henry and Mr.Granville, who the tone of an incipient Fascist ] had repeatedly shown their indemovement.\u201d\t| pendence of party policy and who Technocracy, Inc., has been ban- did not attend the party conference red in Canada on the grounds it ad-'iast September, finally quit Feluu-vocates overthrow of the Govern- ary- 12 after they had been \u2018 cal ment by force.Howard Scott, direc-1 peted \\ for abstaining from the vote tor-in-chief of technocracy, was!00 Prime Minister ( liurchiil k mo-quoted by the Herald Tribune as i tion of confidence January 29.saying in an interview yesterday | Mr.Granville had been at odd-that the organization closed 208 wh-h the party since he had signed clubs in Canada in June, 1940, fob : a parliamentary motion for the ap-lowing the ban.Scott said the Gov-1 POTntment\tof\ta Minister\tof I\troduo- ernment\u2019s action was prompted be-\ttlüI1 without\tconsulting\tthe\tparty, cause the movement \u201ccross-purposed ! a™* k,r Henry Morris-Jones had the British Empire by advocating\t' a»«* today for\tpar y war\u2019s duration.\u201d\t! !'oln,.cs\u2022 \u2022^\tmust bc the The Herald Tribune article »«i«l .'UsiYnj?Murd0chW MacDonald, more ¦this reborn technocracy is no long- ,inm as an \u20acngineol.than as a just a parlor theory on how to set i L,rHflniPTltflt.v n,rator (President the world straight.\u201d Its members Parliamentary orator, summed up his stand quietly and briefly: He had yesterday that Roosevelt remarked wear gray uniforms and the organ-1 a]ways fe]t thc\tj,,] t Axis short wave ;^at*on has a sizable trea.suri,.iiwrong>> jn jjg am(;Udo towar ad been propagandists would try to\tmake\tfieetf of Kray-pamted autos\tville and Morris-Jones despite the \u2022 ,\t~\t;\tnumber of Western cities and an ;lupv wi ip-noreH the nartv in capital of Gen.Douglas MacArthur\u2019^ emblem called the monad symbol ! action?.He said he \u201cregret-transfer to Australia by picturing which rivals the swastika in anti-' ted\u201d their resignations, it as abandonment of the Philip- quity.\u201d\t_\t| Then the representative since 1922 pines.Following is the first Japanese , Full-page advertisements in at 0f the large.t but most sparsely-_\t, \u2022\tnvi c 1 i i j | least forty newspapers from N ew j populated constituency in the coun- reaction to the ransfer to be\tbroad-,\tYork tQ Ca]ifornia hwa been insert-\ttry declared he would continue as a cast-)\ted by Technocracy.Inc., the article\t! member of the Liberal National Tokyo, (from Japanese\tbroad-\tcontinued.All \u201ccall for a victory\tParty outside the House and gefier- information\u201d on the forty-hour-least), March 18.\u2014(/P) \u2014 Domei proramme conisstingof total govern-1 ally continue support of the Govern-week question.He spoke out against 'circulated this dispatch today:\tj ment conscription of ali persons and | ment and a win-the-war policy.How- (Thp Crimea is\tthe\tscene\tof\tes\tanY\tchange\tin\tthe\tlaw\tat\tthe pres-i \u201cObservers commenting\tupon\tmaterials and plants and corpt ate\tj ever, he intended to maintain inde- ,ombat\t% aid\ta\tBu-\tont\ttime\tbecause,\the\tsaid, things\tMacArthur\u2019s abandoning his own\twealth.\u201d\tI pendence of action as always.charitdSpItVtothe Vkhy news!*™ going alfng pretty well.jf-ces and fleeing to Australia de-\t- no-onr-v Russian\ttank and ar il-! Mr.\tRoosevelt conceded, in re-\tclared his flight is fatally similar to lerv\tcrews\twere\treported\tkeeping\tsponse\tto a question, that some legis-\tof (Australian Maj.-Gen.)\t; lery\tcrews\twere\treported\tKeeping\t.1^\t^ ^ forty-hour-week and\tG.ordo11 Bennett ?nd (British Gen.strikes\tmi gbit be required in time\t;^jr) Archibald Wave] 1 from Singa-| but advised against rushing things.,P?le an^ Netherlands East In-Prior to the conference Mr.Roose- line, in the Leningrad region, the fei'ence yesterday there had been Soviet Information Bureau said 2,000 aT amazing state of public t mis-1 German officers and men were destroyed in two days of fighting.German and Rumanian troops under continuous fire along the twenty-mil'e front between Arbatskya Strel-ka and Feodosiya.Continued on page 2 col.3 Continued on Page 2, Col.2.Many Problems Facing MacArthur In Organizing Australia Defence dies, which immediately after fell into Japanese hands.\u201cThey said \u2018This treacherous abandoning of a sinking ship seems to characterize Allied commanders who flee from post to post, leaving their soldiers to suffer the consequences.\u2019 \u201cPointing out the importance of a Commander\u2019s presence to inspire fighting spirit, these quarters expressed the opinion that \u2018with such cowardice shown repeatedly by Protestant Education Problems Reviewed In Legislature Brief Record Appropriation Bill Mm Before Dominion House War Appropriation Bill for $2,000,000.000 and Measure Approving $1,000,000.000 Gift to Britain Now Before House of Commons\u2014Opposition Resolution on Wheat Prices Turned Down by 125 to 44.-# - 1 By FRANK FLAHERTY, SERVICE DRAFT COMPLETED FOR NINE MILLION Montreal, March 18.\u2014KP)\u2014A.brief to be sent to the Provincial Government giving the entire case for the centralization of the administration of Protestant schools of Montreal, was issued here yesterday by the Protestant Committee, a representative body of the people.It givs the background of the \u201cdes- By JOHN M.HIGHTOWER ! for a major offensive once suffic _______________ =._ _________ (Associated Press Staff Writer) j ient men and materiel have been Allied forces are lacking in the will Washington.March 18.\u2014 (/P) \u2014 massed.\tJ to fight.\u2019\u201d Gen.Douglas MacArthur is facing If MacArthur can hold Australia\t- an extremely formidable task in di- | for such a day, the experts said, the ] rectir \u2022 the battle for Australia, mill- Australian, British, American and CHARGED WITH MAN-tary experts here declared today in Netherlands fighting men serving\tSLAUGHTER cautioning against a wave of false in his command have a long and Three Rivers, Que., March 18.\u2014 optimism.\t] costly job ahead, with plenty of re- A twenty-five-year-old ^ house- The odd» they pointed out, are verses to match the successes they, maid yesterday was held criminally still heavy in the enemy\u2019s favor, may win.\tresponsible by a coroner s ;ury for however much the United Nations! The strategy the task calls for .he death of her newly-born baby, may have been heartened by the : goes well with MacArthur\u2019s military The jury found that GeTmame St.arrival of American ground troops 1 temperament.It is the strategy of\tTi?S .)'®sp^sl]>le ^ the and air force units in considerable ! a dynamic defence\u2014striking out as f! ^ ti,e\t|»fter evidence strength T by MacArthur\u2019s dram-! hard and as often as possible at the ft the inquest that the child had Allied generals it is no wonder that Perai'e situation as it has been described\u2014with wmeh the school system today is confronted.Also at- tached to the brief will be two sug- ernment aid to thc: .-ehool system in Montreal.One is a long term project which the Central Board of the Committee has brought forward in thc past and the second is a plan to meet the immediate financial needs of Montreal L and Protestant schools at a cost of 82,083,560.The brief will be presented to the Government with the Island Board Bill which lists proposed administrative changes.The brief gives the as otten as possiore at me .- -¦¦-y The Australians already (been strangied by a silk stocking.Miss St.Arnaud is still in hospital here.atic shift from Bataan to supreme : enemy.command of United Nations forces ] have put it into effect, hammering in Australia.\ti away savagely from the air at the In all analyses of the situation, Japanese footholds in nearby islands the most these authorities would to keep potential invading forces off NON-SUIT MOTION DISMISSED venture was that the Japanese would balance.\tMontreal, March 18,\u2014®\u2014Judge be in for the fiercest campaign of For the undertaking, MacArthur Armand Cloutier yesterday dis-the war if they attempt to smash .has many advantages he did not pos- missed a non-suit motion presented Australia as they have smashed j sess in the Philippines, and probably ; by counsel for Dr.Alex Kasat-Singapore and the Netherlands In- as many disadvantages.\tchenko, fifty-three-year-old physi- dies.\tThe advantages:\tcian charged with murder in con- The expectation is that_the enemy He has more troops and better air ] nection with the death of Giiberte Belair, twenty-five.Judge Cloutier ordered Dr.Kasat-chenko to appear for voluntary statement Friday.The Crown alleges that the woman died from the effect oi an illegal operation.will risk the campaign.If the Jap- strength at his command anese do not attempt it, or if they He can organize his ground deattempt and fail, then the great is- fences in great depth because of the land continent down under remains vast area of the country.in the hands of the United Nations - as the Southern jumping-off point] Continued on Page 2, Col.4.gested methods of furnishing Gov-] ressens for these changes.WAR BULLETINS London \u2014 British bombs were dropped on Germany in daylight yesterday in the course of scouting flights, authoritative sources said today.Ÿ *\t* Cairo \u2014 German columns which advanced South of Tmimi in the Libyan desert on Monday had withdrawn again by Tuesday morning, British army headquarters reported today, and as a result \u201cenemy activity was on a much reduced scale yesterday.\u201d * * * Moscow \u2014 Moscow newspapers devoted one paragraph without comment today to the news of Gen.Douglas MacArthur\u2019s arrival in Australia.War Secretary Henry L.Stim-son Drew First Number tor Initial Wartime Draft in United States.Washington, March 18.\u2014(/P) - The United States first draft lottery of the war, a step toward classification of about 9,000,606 men for possible military service, ended at 7.10 n.m., E.D.T.today, a little more than thirteen hours after it started.Only 6,998 numbers, two less than was planned, were drawn from the oversized draft goldfish bowl.Selective service officials immediately went into a conference to determine whether additional capsules would be drawn to bring the number up to 7,060.Albert Carter, a sailor from Albany, Georgia, plucked the last number from the bowl during the regular drawing.War Secretary Henry Stimson drew the first number, 3,-485, last night.The lottery was held to determine the order in which qualified men will be called for examination leading to military service.Those affected are between twenty and forty-four years of age and who had not registered for the 1940 and 1941 selective service drawings.After Government officials and Congressmen drew the first numbers last night, teams of soldiers, sailors, marines, officers and clerks worked through the night geared to a rate of about five hundred capsules an hour.\tQuebec, March 18.\u2014 f(P) \u2014 The The ceremonie.-: started at 6 p.m.Legislature will pay tribute today Brig.-Gen.Lewis B.Hershey, So- to Sir Thomas Chapais, who was lective Service Chief, opened the appointed to the Legislative Council ceremonies with a statement that jfifty years ago.men might be selected to build ships and airplanes and work on farms as well as to fight at the front.(Canadian Press Staff Writer) Ottawa, March 19, \u2014 (CP) \u2014 With Finance Minister Isley\u2019s money bills before it, the House of Commons today turns to the provision of billions of dollars for direct war activity and aid to the United Kingdom.The resolution preliminary to introduction of the bill to authorize a gift to the United Kingdom of $3.606.000,000 in food, munitions and supplies is the first order of business for today and Mr.Ilsley indicated last night he hopes the bill will pass before Easter so the appropriation may cover supplies lo change in the situation but warned be sent, during the present month, that Japanese troops driving North last, of the fiscal year 1941-42, as i from Rangoon toward Mandalay had as to shipments in the foljow-1 received \u201cstrong reinforcements\u2019\u2019 (By The Canadian Press) The developing Bailie of Australia presented a grimmer aspect for Japan\u2019s invasion armies today as \"most substantial Vniled States forces were officially reporled helping to man the Commonwealth's war posts.Allied military experts cautioned against too great optimism, pointing out that the odds slill were heavily in favor of the enemy, hut they declared that the Japanese would be in for the fiercest campaign of the war if they attempted to storm Australia as they did Singapore and the East Indies.\u201cThe arrival of Gen.Douglas MacArthur in AuR'tralia is the healthiest and most welcome sign we have had,\u201d said Maj.-Gen.Gordon Bennett, Australian commander in the Malayan jungle campaign.Coinciding with Gen.MacArthur'* shift from the Bataan Peninsula to Australia, Prime Minister John.Curtin announced that another United States officer, Lt.-Gen.George Brett, fifty-six, would command the Allied air forces in thc Australia-New Zealand theatre.Brett also will hold the post of deputy supreme commander of United Nations forces under Mac-Ar thur.Allied bombers continued to smash at the enemy\u2019s potential jumping-off bases, raiding an airdrome at Kupang, capital of Netherlands Timor, in the East Indies.\u201cTen enemy fighters unsuccessfully attempted to intercept the raiders,\u201d an Australian communique said, adding that the attackers scored hits despite poor visibility.Timor, occupied by the Japanese, lies across the Timor Sea from the oft-bombed Northern Australian port of Darwin.In the Battle of Burma, British, military quarters reported little released by the conquest of Java.A Tokyo radio broadcast asserted that the Japanese now had \u201ca complete air superiority\u201d as the start of perhaps a decisive phase in the Burma campaign drew near.The British authorities acknowledged that the invaders had received ing fiscal year and part of 1943-44.The Finance Minister made his statement on the resolution dealing with the main $2,000,000,000 War Appropriation Bill for the coming fiscal year and said the Government\u2019s war programme would represent the country\u2019s utmost capacity, thc maximum Canada could carry ! heavy aerial reinforcements but de-out with the physical and economic clared the Tokyo claim was \u201cexag-resources at its disposal.\tj gcrated,\u201d with R.A.F.and American.\u201cThat capacity,\u201d he said, \u201cin-; volunteer fliers still inflicting heavy creases each year as the war goes blows on the enemy.on, as existing plants are expanded !\t- \u2014.and new plants are constructed to ; NEW YORK GETS AN INDUSTRY produce war equipment and sup-1 New York, March 18.\u2014(/P)\u2014The plies, as labor is trained and admin-! first tangible result of the city\u2019s istrative skills are developed, as j eighteen-month effort to obtain a civilian expenditures are more and | substantial slice of war production more restricted and as our economy j will he in the form of a huge alu-generally is more and more con- minum plant to be.built soon within -\u2014-\u2014 -__ the city limits and employ between Continued on Page 2, Col.2.\t\u201810,000 and 20,000 workers.Sir Thomas Chapais Honored On Half Century In Quebec Council PROVINCIAL BUDGET READY Quebec, March 1 8.\u2014 \u2019\u2019(Pi \u2014 Hon.Arthur Mathewson, Provincial Treasurer, said in the Legislative Assembly yesterday that he expects the budget estimates for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1943, will be ready sometime next week, He did not say when the estimates would be presented to the House.The estimates are usually submitted ar the Treasurer gives his budget speech address.Sir Thomas, Opposition leader in the only Provincial Upper House in never been enforced by either th« Union Nationale Government or the present Administration.The legal rate of interest is fixed by the British North America Act.\u201d A bill wdiicb would allow the Government to make reciprocal arrange- Oanada, row eighty-one, will receive ments with the Federal Government tributes from Government officials i and the Governments of other Prov-and House members when the Coun-j inces for the exchange of infor-cil reconvenes for its first sitting i mation relating to the collection of since February 25.\t|succession duties also was given The celebrations will take, up ; final reading.part of the sitting of the Legislative Assembly which yesterday gave final reading to four Government bills.The Lower House adopted on The other measures adopted would give women the right to vote and qualify for office in school matters and would repeal a law which gave the Government the power to division a bill which would repeal a! withhold certain reports from mem-law that reduced the legal rate oflbersof the House.interest to three per cent in so lar as the Legislature had the jurisdiction to do so.Passing of the bill came after Oncsime Gagnon, Union Nationale Member of the Assembly for Matane and acting Leader of the Opposition, TIME FOR COMPROMISE PAST New York, March 18.\u2014f/P)\u2014The time for compromise and halfmeasures has past, Robert P.Patterson, United States Under-Secre-j said that Hon.Arthur Mathewson, ! on the St.Lawrence river First reading was given by the House to eight new bills.Among the measures was a bill, proposed by Mr.Gagnon, which would appeal the Government\u2019s agreement to the development of deep waterways and power projects tary of War, declared last night, and from now on America is going to dish it out to her enemies with \u201cevery shot we have in the locker.\u201d He urged that no one underestimate the might of the Japanese and the Nazis, Provincial Treasurer, claims \u201cthat the present iaw is unconstitutional but the Government has only paid three per cent interest since it has come to power.\u201d Mr.Mathewson said \u201cthe present law is unconstitutional and has A second of the bills would allow expropriation for the construction of piscicultural establishment and would prohibit the operation of commercial piscicultural establish- Continued on page 2 col.3 ( 354366 SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1942, : :::::: of -long sentence students riot \u2019nelson still beaverbrook NEW CLOTHING IMPOSED UPON | AGAINST LOSS DETERMINED TO S WILL ACCEPT OF FREIGHTER FINANCIAL AND MARKET NEWS ARE PRAISED IMPERSONATOR Bright Colors Prove Frequent in Latest \u201cUtility Ranges\u201d of Clothing Sponsored by British Government.(Written for The Canadian Press By ALISON SETTLE) London, March 18.\u2014((P)\u2014Britain\u2019.s retail stores are unanimous in their praise of the finalities of the Gov-ernment-sponrored \u201cutility ranges\u201d of women\u2019s clothing, designed to give the best fabric, lasting qualities and style to the purchaser with a slender purse.In London, the Regent Street shops and the highest grade stores of Knightsbridgc are finding that their best class charge customers are asking, \u201cwhere are your utility ranges?\u201d Only a small number are as yet on the market, but those which are get snapped up quickly.Take, for Instance, an old established firm with a good class clientele; indeed, in the cires» dcnartinent a special range of dresses has always been kept for the Lady Mayoresses of the country.For all their public appearances, this was the store to which these city leaders were accustomed to go.Now their same clientele has fallen completely in love with the newly arrived utility ranges.\u201cIn dresses,\u201d said one of the directors, \u201calready one-fifth of our turnover has been done in utility clothes, although so far only a fraction of these clothes has come in.\u201d And certainly the dresses are far above the value suggest ed by their price.For less than £.3 (about if 13) you can get models in the purest woo], including an angora mixture, in the newest of the British Color Council shades for spring\u2014the \u201ccolors of the English countryside\u201d\u2014 in wheat-far yellow, maypole red, millpond blue, sunbonnet pink, linnet brown, woodpecker green or gothic grey.The dresses are mafic (o suggestions of the buyer and are in no way of standardized design.The \"colors of the English village\u201d and of the countryside, sponsored by the British Color Council, have been the most successful promotion put out by this body, and have contributed greatly to the success of the utility ranges.The pretty pastels of former years seem strangely out of place in a world at war and all these shades are fresh and heartening.Knitwear has even brighter shades than the wool colors.lancer blue, ruby rod, gold, jade and orange arc among those listed.Millinery is much quieter despite Guardsman red being a favored tone.The \u201ccountryside colors\u201d which are most favored, however, are forge blue, gothic grey, woodpecker green, and a lovely spring violet.In shoes, the three leading tones are harness tan, tudor rod and cavalier brown.Hosiery to tone is now no longer made in silk but in listes, Twenty-Three Months Sentences on Each of Two Charges Imposed Upon Woman Posing as Male Munitions Worker.Montreal, March 18.\u2014A two-year j deception had its climax today when Antoinette Arsenault of Ottawa, j who masqueraded as a male and who went through a \u201cmarriage\u201d ceremony with another woman, was sentenced to twenty-three months in jail on each of two counts to which she had previously pleaded guilty.The sentences are to run concurrently.i Dressed in feminine apparel, the thirty-four-year-old munitions plant worker was sentenced by Judge Gustave Marin of the Sessions Court in the Judge\u2019s private chamber.Newspapermen were not permitted to attend, being informed of the sentence later by Judge Marin.Miss Arsenault, known to fellow workers at a Ste.Therese, Que., munitions plant as \u201cAndre Arsenault,\u201d had pleaded guilty last Saturday to charges of falsifying her birth certificate by making the name read \u201cAndre Pierre Arsenault\u201d and to causing false information to be inserted in the marriage register.The woman was arrested ten days ago, a few weeks after the marriage, following complaints by the bride, nineteen-year-old Mimi Ouel-ette, to church and police authorities in Ste.Therese.* ¦ a a a s -x.s m h ¦ a w T HE NE W remieR T H E A T R E ** ** \u2014 STARTING TODAY \u2014 9 ASTOUNDING SPECTACLE! 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K VICTOR HUGO\u2019S \" IMMORTAL DRAMA! ¦ Mightiest Movie of All! 91 SI a m iï jp m ¦ si I I LAUGHTON 2 54% 34% 25% 8% 17% 34% 12% 33% 14% 51% 70% NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE The following quotations are sup-| plied by Greenshields & Co.: Open Noon Abitibi\t\t\t.60 B\t.75 A Abitibi Pfd.\t\t5% B\t6 A B.A.Oil\t\t\t13% B\t14 A B.C.Packing .\t13 B\t14% A Consol.Paper , .\t212\t21 T Donnacona \u201cA\u201d .\t3% B\t3% A Fleet Aircraft .\t27's\t2's Ford of Can.\u201cA\u201d .\t15% B\t15% A Fraser Co.V.T.\t10% B\t11 A MacLaren\t14% B\t14% A Royalite Oil\t\t18 A Robt.Mitchell \t\t13 B\t13% A BONDS AND BANKS i\t\t CANADIAN\tBONDS\t Following are the\tclosing\tbid anc A asked quotations as of March 17, as lurmshed by the Investment Dealers Association of Canada: Dominion Government Bonds: Bid Asked CURRIER 2, June 1, 1944 .2,\tDec.15, 1946 .2%, June 1, 1943 .2%, Nov.15, 1944 .3,\tOct.15, 1942 .3, Perns .3, June 1, 1050-55 .100% 101% .99\t99% .101% 102 .101% 102% .101 101% .93%\t94% .99\t100 99\t100 The annual meeting of the Austu, j 3, june i\u2019 1953-58 ._ Women s Institute was held at the 3%, July 1, 1948-49 .102% 103% home of Miss E.F.Duval with a ^ good attendance.The new officers were elected as follows: President, Mrs.Hazen Bryant, re-elected; Vice-President, Mrs.Clifton Bryant; Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs.Carl Juby.3%, Nov 15, 1948-51 .101% 102% 3%, Ju.1, 1956-63 .101\t102 3%, Oct.15, 1944-49 .102% 103% 4, Oct.15, 1943-45 .103% 104% 4, Oct 13; 1947-52 .105% 106% 4%, Oct.15, 1944 .106% 107% Miss Jennie Channell is in charge of 4%,\tFeb.\t1,\t1946 .108%\t109% Red Cross work.After items of busi- I 4%,\tNov.\t1,\t1946-56\t.106%\t107% ness were discussed knitted squares 4%,\tNov.\t1,\t1947-57\t.107%\t108% were put together for a blanket for J\u2019/a,\tNov.\t1,\t1948-58\t.108%\t109% the Red Cross.The group also de-1 4%,\tNov.\t1,\t1940-59\t.109%\t110% cided to join a chain of vanishing : 5, Oct.15, 1943 .105\t105% teas.At the close of the afternoon! Wartime Issues: tea was served by the hostess, as- j June 15, 1950-51 .sisted by her sister.Mrs.Geraldine 3, Oct.1, 1949-52 .URGES INCREASE IN OUTPUT OF FLAXSEED! Goode.Friends wall he glad to know that Mrs.R.H.Stone is improving and is able to sit up part of the time, Mrs.A.Hofacker returned to her home in Auburn, Me., after caring for her mother, Mrs.R.H, Stone, for the past month.\t,, Mr.and Mrs.Claud Wing, of Au- L\"\" \u201e> burn, Me., and Mr.Leonard Wing.^ Lh\\vDu,(,,\t, jY, of Haverhill, Mass., were guests at j^yp\t,orT R.H.Stone's.fCNR 4%, 1955 CNR 5, 1954 f CNR 5, 1949-69 3%, Feb.1.1948-52 .Dominion Govt Guar.CNR 2, 1943 .CNR 2%, 1944 CNR 2%, 1946 .CNR 3, 1944 .CNR 3, 1945-50 CNR 3, 1948-52 .99% 100% .98%\t99% .101% 102% WAY\u2019S MILLS Mrs.Cora Sullivan, of Hcathton, ! f GTP \t\t.100% .101 .1001, .102% .99%\t101% 103% 101% 103% 100% 99% \t\t \t\t99% \t\t.98\t99 \t\t.115\t116% \t.116\t117% \t\t.116\t117% \t\u2022 117%\t119 \t\t.117%\t118% \t\t.119%\t121 00 .\t.119%\t121 \t\t101% ! Montreal, March 18.\u2014There was little change in local produce prices tin comparison with the previous day levels.Government source quotes for large lot graded eggs were unchang-led at 31 cents for A-large, 30 cents |for A-medium and 28% cents for |A-pul!ets.Jobbers\u2019 prices were ; steady at 35 to 36 cents for A-large, 134 cents (\"or A-medium and 32 cents for A-pullets.Some packing houses ! reported that they had been offered 'A-mediums on the primary market ! us ]ow as 29% cents in comparison \u2022 with the Government quote of 30 ! cents.No.1 pasteurized butter was ! unchanged at 35% cent\u2019; demand \\va>- good with offerings very limited.Other items were unchanged.EGGS (c.pci aoz.;; I\tGov\u2019t Small \u2019Corn.Carlot lots to Hxch.Quoted retailers Closa A-l large .\t39\t.A-large .\t.\t31\t35-36\t30%-3l A-medium\t.\t30\t34\t29V2-30 iA-pullets\t.\t28%\t32\t27%-28 jC.25%\t27-29\t25-25 % Commodity Exchange Futures: March 29b.Eggs to retailers, as quoted above, are in cartons; when bought loose prices are 2c per dozen less.\u2018Basis ten or more cases.BUTTER (c.per lb.): Open Market, No.1, pasteurized, Soli.Small lots to retail trade, solids, 35%-36; prints, 36-36%.At Commodity Exchange: Spot, closing quotes: Quebec 92 score, 31 % b; West 92 score, 31 Vs b.Futures: Close: March, 31b; April, 34%-%.b-Bid.CHEESE (c.per lb.)! Government quotes: Ontario white, 26; colored, 26%; Quebec white, 25%; colored, 25%.POTATOES (per 75-Ib.bag) : P.E.I.Mountains .1.75-1.85 HE.I.Cobblers.1.70-1.80 N.B.Mountains.1.65-1.70 Quebec No.1 .1.60-1.65 Quebec No.2 .1.30-1.50 POULTRY: Wholesale prices to retail trade for dressed clock: Turkeys\u2014Grade A, over 10 lbs.33-35 Turkeys\u2014Grade A, under 10 lbs.32V-.-34 Milkfed Chick ans\u2014 Grade A\u20145 lbs.up .\t29 Do.o,round 4 ibs.\t28 Grade B\u20145 lbs.up .\t28 Do.around 4 lbs.\t26 STOCK AVERAGES Close .Prev.day Week ago Month ago Year ago '41-\u201942 H .\u201941-42 L.'40 high .'40 low ., high .low .\u201929 high .\u201929 low .\u201939 \u201939 10\t20\t30\t15 Util.\tInd.\tComb\t.Golds 41.0\t56.5\t51.3\t43.18 41.0\t56.4\t51.3\t41.46 411.1\t57.0\t51.7\t42.91 41.0\t57.5\t52.0\t45.18 48.5\t58.2\t55.0\t76.20 54.3\t66.6\t62.3\t79.90 40.3\t52.3\t49.3\t41.18 69.2\t92.2\t84.4\t100.81 50.7\t56.0\t54.7\t55.16 70.1\t93.8\t81.9\t126.48 55.9\t63.2\t62.7\t83.66 198.4\t174.5\t182.8\t 125.0\t83.9\t98.6\t\u2022 *\u2022\u2022\u2022> London, Mar.18.\u2014(1\u2014Thousands of foreign guide-books, maps, technical periodicals, directories and other reference works no longer obtainable through usual pre-war channels are pouring into the Ministry of Economic Warfare which uses them to fix potential targets in Nazi-occupied territory.A Ministry official discussing results of an appeal for the material, said that thanks to the donor of one obscure foreign reference book the whereabouts of a certain vital fac-torv in Nazi-occupied Europe have been settled.\u2018The book provided the missing link in a long chain of evidence,\u2019' he said.\u201cFor some time we had been trying to locate the position.\u201d The mother of a dead Royal Air Force pilot sent her son's collection of foreign maps with an accompanying note which saixi that if they helped to drop bombs on German objectives she would feel her boy\u2019s death has been awnged.Refugees from occupied territories have sent hundreds of guidebooks, maps and journals with pictures of factories and other key sites.Many marked places known to them personally are likely targets.Ottawa, March 18.\u2014(®\u2014Flaxseed production of 20,000,000 bushels in 1942, compared with 0,473,000 bushels last year, is being aimed at by the Dominion Government, Agriculture Minister Gardiner said today.He said the programme is being encouraged because normal sources of imported vegetable oils have been cut off by war in the Pacific.To provide the total production sought, at least 2.000,000 acres should be sown to flax in 1942.The five-year average acreage in 1936-40 was 311.180 for the prairie provinces, the area of main production and where the bulk of the increased out-put of 1942 will be found.The increased production of 1942, if achieved, will represent a spectacular gain for the second year in a row.Prairie production in 1940 was onlv 2,870,000 bushels.v\u2014Payable Canada and New York.1962 week-end with Mrs.Evelyn j f M Har 5, 19____ Hanson.\tj *\u2014Payable Canada and New York, j Vernice Ashman, of Sherbrooke, ; and London, j spent a week-end with her parents, ; Mr.and Mrs.J.Ashman.! Miss Ruby Clark, of Montreal, and 1 Pte.Jack Clark, of Debert.N.S., al-I so Mrs.Jack Clark, of Hatley, are ! visiting their parents* Mr.and Mrs.IH.Clark.BIRTHS FOREIGN EXCHANGE In Montreal yesterday the buying .\t, _\trate for United States dollars was The infant daughter of Pte.and MO per cent premium and the sell-Mrs.Jack Clark was christened on ling rates in New York: Sunday at the Anglican Church by! Following were the nominal clos-Ke\\.Mr.Belford.\t!irtg rate 11 per cent premium.Sterl- Burton Mosher, of the R.C.A.F., ; ing buying was 4.43 and selling 4.47.has been visiting his sister, Mrs.R.j Sterling\tClose Burns.\ti Demand.4.03% -\u2014-\t| Cables.4.03% BETTER CHANCE\tAustralia.In 1890, only 72 per cent of the New Zealand .boy babies in the United States | Switzerland ., reached the age of 10; today, more [Sweden.than 91 per cent attain that age.Brazil.BEERS.\u2014 At the Sherbrooke Hospital on March 17th, 1942, to Mr.and Mrs.Ellsworth N.Beers, of Melbourne, Que., a daughter, Barbara Ann.Both doing well.PYE.\u2014On March 15th, 1942, at the St.Vincent de Paul Hospital, to Mr.and Mrs.Martin J.Pve (nee Françoise Prefontaine), Windsor Mills, Que., a son.DEATHS .3.2272 .3.2434 .0505 4 We Fought Sharks With Our Bare Fists 't he Migntiest c hapter Plav Ever Filmed I \"THE SPIDER RETURNS.\" Latest World Events.Performances Daily at 2.6 :.10, 8:05.\u201cHunchback\u201d at .1:30 and 8:05: \"San Antonio\" at 2:30, 7 and 10:30.¦ ¦ m\"' fine country wool and rayon, the rich warm tone of dryad brown and the burnished carib lead.In colored stockings, millipond blue and reaper gold arc expected to rank high.The Board of Trade lays emphasis on the fact that the customer is in no way restricted in choice by these new sponsored ranges.Waste maybe eliminated\u2014indeed must be\u2014but the customer notices no small choice.There has been a confusing and unsettled variety in goods offered.Toronto.March 18.\u2014(())\u2014The annual meeting of the General Board of i Missions of the Presbyterian Church in Canada opened here last night1 with more than fifty delegates from many party of Canada in attendance.Dr.A.M.Hill of Verdun, Que.Chairman of the Board, presided.Among the speakers was Right Rev.J.B.Skene, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.SOLD FRIEND'S CAR Glasgow\u2014®\u2014Described in court as \u201ca proper adventuress\u201d a woman I A.R.P.worker was sent to prison for nine months for taking and selling a friend's car for £2,\t10s ($11.50).DETAILED WEATHER STILL VISIBLE During the Civil War, a Federal gunboat, the U.S.8.Sheridan, was wrecked near Rodanthe, X.C.Its boiler may still be seen above the water line there.COOLER WITH SNOW Fresh winds; mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday with light scattered showers or snowflurries and slightly lower temperature.The maximum temperature yesterday was 40 and the minimum 31.Last year the temperatures were 36 and 14, LINDSAY'.\u2014 Entered into rest at Bury, Que., on Tuesday, March TTth, 1942, in her 44th year, Elizabeth Leona, beloved wife of Charles C.Lindsay.Prayers at the late residence on Thursday, March 19th, at 2 p.m., thence to Bury United Church at 2:30 p.m.Interment at Bury.IN MEMORIAM MOONEY'.\u2014In loving memory of our dear daughter and sister, Glenna, who passed away March 17th, 1932, We have only your memories, dear Glenna, To remember our whole life through, But the sweetness will linger forever.As we treasure the photo of you.IN MEiMORlAM MacKENZIE.-In loving memory of our dear wife and mother.Flora MacKenzie, who died March 18th, 1935.Ever remembered by her husband and daughter, donald Mackenzie isobel Mackenzie This was one of many heroic moments in the stirring saga of three U.S.revs! flyers who survived thirty-four days in a rubber lifeboat after landing their plane on the s: .ny South Seas.Harold Dixon, La Mesa, Calif.Gene Aldrich, Sikeston, Mo., and Anthony Fastula.Youngstown, O., lived on birds they shot and caught by hand and tish they gigged with a pocket knife they used their clothing as sponges to catch rain water for drinking they fought sharks with their bare fists they lost twenty to fifty pounds each and finally they sighted land in the middle of a hurrhane.Natives succored them., and now they're back in Hawaii readv to fizht again.CARD OF THANKS W?wish to thank the Eev.Roy Stafford, of Coatieook.the bearers, the singers, all these who helped in opening the roads to enable ns to get through, all those who helped in other ways, for the flowers and messages of sympathy at the time of sickness and death of our dear husband ani brother.W.J.Harktiess.(Signed! THE FAMILY.CARD OF THANKS We hereby wish to express our most sincere tnanks to all our friends and neighbors who have been so very kind to us during the illness, death and burial of our dear husband, fathtr and grandfather; especially do we wish to thank Dr.A.C.Painter, of Cowansville.Rural Dean F.W.Gedye, Canon G.A.Mason, the organist and choir of St.John a Church.Brome, the beanrs and Mr.and Mrs.E.W.Ray: also all those responsible for opening the roads, those who loaned cars or helped in any other way, and those who sent card?and Utters of sympathy.MRS.WALTER TRACEY.Widow.-Mid.AND MRS.DAVID TRACEY, Son and Daughter-in-La w.MISS JEAN TRACEY, Granddaughter.7755 ¦\u201c«S\t\tMARCH CITY\t\tSon.Mon.Tue.W*d.Thu.Frl.Sit.\tJJ VV V V V V v y**?ii 1 V ^\tV V V V sr\t1\t2\t3\t4\t5\t6\t7 and\t\t8\t9 10 11 12 13 14 SUBURBAN\tSHERBROOKE, QUEBEC.WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1942.\t15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Four Soldiers Are For Assault On Taxi Driver On W indsor-Richmond Highway Sentenced 7,935 FAMILIES | ARE RESIDING IN SHERBROOKE Recent Graduates Raoul Boucher, of St.Hyacinthe.Received Four-Year Penitentiary Term\u2014Joseph Kingsley and Oliva Boissonneault Given Three Years and Ernest Marsan 23 Months.Pleading guilty to charges of rob-1 berv with violence, four soldiers from ! the Lord Sherbrooke Training Centre j were sentenced this morning when | they appeared before Judge J.H.Lemay in Magistrate\u2019s Court.Raoul Boucher, twenty-five years 1 old, of St.Hyacinthe, was given a j four-year term, while Joseph Kings-1 ley, twenty-six, and Oliva Boissonneault, twenty-seven years old, each received a three-year sentence, and Ernest Marsan, nineteen years old, was sentenced to twenty-three months.Boucher was given a four-year term in view of the fact that he had a previous record, it was brought out at the hearing.The men were taken into custody early yesterday morning at the Canadian National Railway station at Richmond by Traffic Officer Vital Lemire and Constable A.Blanchard of Richmond, after they had been advised of an assault committed by the four soldiers upon the person of Jîenri Leblanc, Sherbrooke taxi-driver, on the highway between Windsor Mills and Richmond.Leblanc had taken the four men ONE MINUTE NEWS ABOUT f JOHNS-MANVILLE BLOWTORCH DEFIED BY WOOL FROM ROCK Want to mystify your friends?Then you might try this \u201cstunt\u201d your J-M reporter saw a man perform the other day.He picked up a handful of what looked like fluffy wool, and laid a small piece of copper on it.Then he took a plumber\u2019s blowtorch and actually melted the copper with just that woolly-looking material between his hand and the white-hot flame.That\u2019s a test often used to demonstrate the insulation value \u2014 and fireproof protection \u2014 of Johns-Manville Rock Wool Home Insulation.A full thickness of Rock Wool in the walls and attic of a house give as much protection against heat and cold as covering the walls and roof with a layer of concrete eleven feet thick! And besides giving \u201cail-weather comfort,\u201d it pays for itself through fuel savings as high as 30%, For free literature, and name of your nearest J-M dealer, just call J, S.Mitchell & Co.Ltd., 78 Wellington St.North, Phone 2300.Johns-Manville Service Distributors for the Sherbrooke District.as passengers in his cab and they had asked to be driven to Richmond.On the other side of Windsor Mills, Leblanc was told to stop the machine and ordered to sit in the back seat.He claimed that after the men started to choke him and struck him, they demanded his money and key® to the car, and then took $8.85 and his watch from him.The men left him and obtained a ride in the direction of Richmond, after they had tampered'with the wiring underneath the dash board.Leblanc walked back to Windsor Mills and his call to police in Sherbrooke brought quick results and within the matter of minutes, the four men were apprehended at Richmond, Alfred Quenneville, Sgt.-Detective of the Quebec Provincial Police and Provincial Constable Conrad La-charite of the highway squad, informed the court that when the men were searched, they found the money and watch taken from Leblanc on the person of Boucher.Annual Report for City of Sherbrooke Records 2.818 Proprietors and 6,031 Tenants.LENNOXVILLE In municipal statistics prepared by Antonin Deslauriers, City Clerk, and contained in the annual report for the City of Sherbrooke, it is reported that Sherbrooke has a total of 7,935 families, and that there are 2,818 proprietors and 6,031 tenants.Number of persons subject to pay poll tax amounts to 2,862, while 088 are called upon to pay a business tax and 115 a professional tax.There are 3.417 properties within the city and 3,064 vacant lota.Also listed in these statistics are 675 clogs, 102 horses and 930 .bicycles.There are 9,411 electricity consumers and 3,742 gas consumers.^ If SHERBROOKE\u2019S IRISH HONOR PATRON SAINT Eight Judgments Rendered In Local Court By Justice White Banquet Under Auspices of St.Patrick\u2019s Old Boys\u2019 Association Held at New Chateau Hotel.LAC.K.S.GUNNING\t1 \\C.R.H.WELSH Among recent graduates in the Royal Canadian Air Force wore two well-known young men of Sherbrooke, LAC.K.S.Gunning, son of Mr.and Mrs.A.A.Gunning.Montreal Street, and LAC.R.11.Welsh, son of Mr.and Mrs.Henry W.Welsh, Queen Street.Both local airmen graduated as observers from No.9 Bombing and Gunnery School, Mont Joii.POLICE DIRECTOR RETURNS TO SHERBROOKE The members of the Lennoxville Women\u2019s League of St.Andrew\u2019s Church, Sherbrooke, held their regular monthly meeting at the home of Mrs.A.MacKenzie, Church Street, with the President, Mrs.G.B.Chris-tison, in the chair.The guest speaker for the afternoon was Mrs.A.E.Abercrombie, who gave a very interesting talk on price ceiling and wise buying.Final plans were made for a rummage sale and the sum of five dollars was voted to buy wool to be knit for the V Bundles of Lennoxville for Britain.This brought the business to a close and the members were invited to meet at the home of Mrs.H.Ross, Clough Avenue in.April, Tea was served by the hostess, assisted by Mrs.R.Stevenson and Mrs.H.Ross.General Notes Petty Officer Cecil E.Reeves, of the H.M.C.S.Hamilton, is spending his furlough with friends in Lennoxville and Sherbrooke.^ Lennoxville Women\u2019s League rummage sale May 9.Lennoxville Library rummage sale, May 16th.VALUABLE THRONE The throne which belonged to the Sultan of Turkey is of beaten gold, studded with diamonds, emeralds and rubies, set in mosaic.It has been appraised at more than $15,000,000.Police Director Arthur M.Maranda returned to Sherbrooke yesterday after being away for several menths to regain his health, but it was learned today that he will not immediately réassumé the duties which during his absence have been carried on by Acting Police Director Percy Donahue.More Information Sought By Jury In Fatal Accident Here FALSE ALARM RUNG A false alarm, turned in from Box 323 at the corner of Short and Courcelette Streets at 12.45 a.m., I was under investigation by the | Municipal Police and Fire Depart-ment today.The Department as a whole exper-| ienced a slow day yesterday.There 1 were no fires or motor accidents.CLEARING LOCAL STREETS Employees of the Municipal Department of Roads today were busily engaged removing the remainder of this winter\u2019s snow and ice on King Street East and West.Wellington Street, North and South, was cleared yesterday and for the first time since the first snow-fall of the season, there is no snow or ice on the thoroughfare and sidewalks.WILL ACCOMPANY MRS.PIERRE CASGRAIN It was announced today that Mrs.Leslie Hodges, of Montreal, Chairman of the Women\u2019s Advisory Committee, will accompany Mrs.Pierre Casgrain and Mrs.Tancrede Jodoin to Sherbrooke tomorrow to attend /Vo matter what washing method you use.you must have SUNLIGHT\u2019S \u201cEXTRA-SOAPINESS\u201d, for those extra dirty parts Pillow-cases show dirty marks where the sleeper\u2019s head has rested.Sheets often get very soiled and dingy-looking where they turned down.¦WfEEK after week as you look over your \" wash, you find that whenever clothes are at all badly'soiled it is nearly always in the same places.Here and there the dirt has become almost ingrained and while ordinary ¦washing methods suffice to remove the ordinary \"all over\u201d soiling, these extra dirty parts just won't come clean without the help of Sunlight! Sunlight has a wonderful Vextra-soapiness\u201d that enables you to get right at the soiled parts at once.Just a touch leaves a thin soapy film in contact with the dirt.As the clothes are washed, this thin soapy film lathers instantly into rich thick suds that speedily loosen every last speck of grime.That is the Sunlight method\u2014a method that saves so much time and work you'll want to use it for all your washing and for your household cleaning as well! Sunlight is all-pure soap\u2014gentle and safe for everything you wash \u2014gentle to your hands, too.You can\u2019t do without SUNLIGHT SOAP Inquest into Death of Emile Robert.2.3, of Chartierville, Found Lying on Wellington Street South Early Yesterday Morning, Adjourned by Coroner\u2014Victim Died of Skull Fracture Before Reaching Hospital.NEWSY ITEMS Reopeived today after being opened and adjourned last night, the inquest into the death of Emile Robert, 23, of Chartierville, who died while being taken to the St.Vincent do Paul Hospital after being found early yesterday morning lying on Wellington Street South, was once again adjourned until further information can be gathered by police.Believed by authorities to have fallen from a moving car or to have been struck by a hit-and-run driver, Robert suffered a skull fracture, which caused his death, and severe lacerations to the body.George Baker, of Lennoxville, saw the man\u2019s body lying on the street while on his way home at about two o\u2019clock yesterday morning, and im- med itely notified the police.When Sgt.Joffre L\u2019Heureux and Constable Walter Pigeon arrived ai the scene they found the man's iml.se still beating feebly.He was dead when they got him to the hospital.Two witnesses were heard last night, Sgt.L\u2019Heureux, who told, what he and Pigeon had discovered and the action they took, and Dr.Paul Emile Belisle, hospital interne, who reported on Robert's injuries.Today three witnesses gave testimony, Detective Lieutenant Vanier, Detective Sergeant Allard and Technician Georges Boudrias.Robert, an employee of J, A.Blanchette, M.P.for Compton, was identified through his national registration card.the mass rally on price control being held at the City Hall.Mrs.Hodges will speak in English on inflation and price control and the gathering will also be addressed by Mrs, Casgrain and Mrs.Jodoin.IRISH MUSIC AT ROTARY MEETING \u201cDanny Boy,\u201d sung by Rotarian R.L.Curpbey, and \u201cRose O\u2019Day,\u201d sung first as a chorus and then as a solo by Rotarian S, A.Belmont, gave last night\u2019s Rotary Club meeting at the New Sherbrooke Hotel an Irish flavor in keeping with St, Patrick\u2019s Day.Russell McBrian, of Montreal, showed the members a sound film entitled \u2018'Pioneers of Progress\u201d which, was much enjoyed.Gives Story On Study Of J it ter bugs Press (Written for The Canadian By EDDIE LEE) Visits of United States \u201cname\u201d be.nds to Canadian cities has brought to the fore a Canadian version of that menace of the modem American dance floor known as the \u201cjitterbug.\u201d Study of the subject is hindered by lack of competent authority.Little appears to be known of jitterbugs.Psychology has nothing to offer by way of explanation and the dictionary and encyclopedia fail to give a definition.But further search reveals that the jitterbug also passes under such quaint names as \u201chep-cat, alligator, jive hound or rug cutter.\u201d Both Members of Sherbrooke's Irish community yesterday paid litting tribute to the Patron Saint of Ireland with a special Mass at St.Patrick\u2019s Academy Old Boys' Association at the New Chateau Hotel last night.And apart from these largely-attended events, the city'.s Irish resident took advantage of the occasion for the \u2018'weavin\u2019 of the green.\u201d Ashton R.Tobin was the principal speaker at the banquet, giving an Ihistorical talk on the early days of the Emerald Isle and of the life ot (sacrifice ami service of the revered St.Patrick.Providing additional Irish flavor, Mayor-elect A.O.Ross pointed out that St.Patrick's Day would have a new significance future, since he had Chief .Magistrate by acclamation on March 17th.Speaking briefly, Mayor-elect Ross expressed his, thanks to the electors of Sherbrooke for the honor they had conferred on him, and promised that he would do all in his power to maintain the city'.s reputation of excellent administration during his two years in office.Dealing with Ireland prior to St.Patrick, Mr.Tobin, who was introduced by J.K.Flaherty and thanked by George W.Murphy, pointed out that the island was invaded at least five times by pagan and savage tribes, and that it was inhabited by Gaels, a war-like people.Religion of the people was Druidism, of which practically nothing is known.Rev.Canon J.C.McGee, of St.Patrick\u2019s Church, said Grace, and Francis Minon, President of the Old Boys' Association, proposed the toast to the King.The singing of Irish song.s was an enjoyable feature, with Francis Parker as Master of Ceremonies of the musical program ai e.Jimmy Gallagher sang two Irish selections, \u201cWhen Irish Eyes Are Smiling\u201d and \u201cRose O\u2019Day,\u201d with the gathering joining in the choruses.Mrs.L.E.Codere accompanied him I at the piano.Miss Kathleen Shea j j was also enjoyed in solos, with Miss Mimi Shea at the piano.Irish flags, green candles and shamrocks provided the decorations.Seated at the head table were Mr.and Mrs.Mitton, Mayor-elect and Mr., Ross, Mr.and Mrs.Tobin, Rev.Canon McGee, J.K.Flaherty, Mr.and Mrs.I.S.Mooney, D.J.McManamy and Miss Mimi Shea.Among those present were Brother Joseph, Rev.Father Charles Pepin, Mr.and Mrs.Cesaire Gervas, Mr.In one of eight judgments handed] down in Superior Court yesterday by j Mr.Justice Oharle.s D.White an action for $7,000 instituted by the] Sherbrooke Clothing, Ltd., against Achille Lemieux, of Johnville, was dismissed with costs.Throe of the judgments dealt with accidents, two were based on oppositions and the eighth concerned alleged damages caused to a farmer's property Incurs travelling on his land during the winter.In its action against, Lemieux, the clothing concern maintained that the sum of $7,090 was owed by Lemieux ns the balance of payment for shares of capita! stock in the company which it was claimed the defendant purchased.Pointing out.in its declaration that it was incorporated under letters patent on October 3, 1940, the company said that by agreement between Lemieux and one \\rmand Latu!ippe, dated September 9, 1940, the defendant sulwrib- 1 by verbal application for shares of capital stock at $25 share.According of tho application 460 per to the conditions the plaintiff paid for him in $3,000 in cash and agreed to pay the been elected (balance of $7,000 on the demand of the Directors.It was maintained that on October 19, 1940, the attorneys of the plaintiff notified the defendant that, his subscription hud been accepted and called on him to pay the $7,000.In defence, the defendant had denied that he had subscribed for the 400 shares, lu his judgment dismissing the ae-tion, Mr.Justice White pointed out that, the defendant denied having made any agreement, except with Latulippe, and declared that there was no lion de droit, between the plaintiff and the defendant, since the only agreement proved was between the defendant and I/atulippc, and not, between Lemieux and the Company, In a case based on a collision at, the intersection of Belmont Street and 7th Avenue last July 27 Henry and Irving Richards, of Sherbrooke, wore condemned to pay $101.73 damages to John Pratt,* of Fast Angus.Pratt declared that he was driving along Belmont toward Sherbrooke at n moderate rate1 of speed when the other vehicle, travelling at, an excessive rale, with Irving Richards at the wheel, swung around the corner from 7ih Avenue and struck FURTHER SUBSCRIPTIONS ACKNOWLEDGED The following additional subscriptions to the campaign on behalf of the local branch of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind ;male and female of the species are were acknowledged today:\t|said to closely resemble the human $2: Rev.Father Chasse, Mr.Gerard Lussier.$1: Mrs.Henry Veilleux, Mrs.L.Laverdiere, Mrs.Maurice Metivier, Mrs.Amedee Dube, Mrs.Alfred Rousseau, Mrs.O-mer Blais, Mrs, Xavier Paradis.Mrs.A.Martel.Ernest Darby, A.T.Roy, Wellie Biais, M.Fontaine, Gilbert Roy family, Donaldson family.St.Jeanne d\u2019Arc Parish collection, $86.40.$5: Chateau Frontenac.CITY BRIEFLETS his machine violently.Tn defence tho Richards had maintained that they made the turn slowly, and that the other car had smashed into them.Mr.Justice White said that the evidence of independent witnesses howed that the cause of the accident was the Diet that Richards had not.stopped ai the intcrsecion, and that the Richards' ear was travelling faster than that of Pratt.Mr.Justice White dismissed an action of $199 entered by Olivier Bessette, of St.Edwidge de Clifton, against, the Corporation of St.Edwidge Township, for damages he claimed were caused when the Municipality, after building a winter road across his farm, failed to build guards to make the mad, with the result that automobiles drove all over the land.The judgment said that the defendant\u2019s claim to have sent valuators to inspect the land for damage who found that, no damage had been caused, had been proved, and that in any cause the required notice of notion had not been given by Bessette.Orner Villeneuvre, of Coaticook, was awarded $101.59 damages from Roger, Raul Emile and Joseph A.\\ aillnncourt, also of Coaticook, ns an aftermath of a crash involving the Vaillancourts\u2019 truck and Villeneuve\u2019» car on March 22, 1941, on the Shcrhrooke-Coaiipook highway, the plaintiff proving to Mr.Justice White\u2019s satisfaction that Ihe truck bad stopped suddenly in the middle ot the road, leaving Villeneuve no other course but to slam into tha near of the stationary machine.Mr.Justice White dismissed with costs an action f >r $132.82 entered igainst, Adeiard 1,choux, of Disraeli, by Philippe Paquette, who claimed he wn.s owed ihe money to complete payment for having leased a truck and two men to tho defendant during the .summer of 19 40.Ernest Martineau, Sherbrooke, wood dealer and trucker, was awarded $217.68 from Evangeliste Rouleau, of Stoke, ns compensation for damages suffered by his truck in a collision in Stoke on October 21.1937, Mr.Justice White maintained an opposition to the rale of a property for taxes, entered by Dame Dolly Theresa Grey and her husband, Garnet Hole, of Windsor, Ont., against the Corporation of Bury Township, anti also an opposition to the seizing of two trucks, made by Clifford Brawl, of Birchton, against lladdon and Savage, of Lennoxville.Hunting's nutritions milk will keep you healthy.Nine quart, tickets for one dollar bill.Rhone Lennoxville 235.Do your repairs now.paint, varnish $2.5(1 gal.tine, Gyproe, Lime, Piaster, Hardware, etc.Get our We sell Alasbas-Cement, prices.and Mrs.J.R.Simms, Mr.and Mrs.Hubert\u2019s General Store,! 10 Belvidere Austin Workman, Frank Conway, being.Your best friend, your sweetheart, your own child or even your (brother or sister may possibly turn !out to bo a jitterbug.The symptoms\u2014things that known about the jitterbug Charles Stenson, W.R.Hayes, oil Richmond, Mr.and Mrs.Leonard Dunn, Dr.and Mrs.A.N.Dupuis, Mr.and Mrs.J.T.Hawkins, John Woife, Alfred Allen, Leonard Giroux, Paul Gcrvals, J.M.Ronnie, Desmond McKeon, Frank Irwin, J.K.Doherty, M.T.Stenson, Donald Kilgour, Mr.and Mrs.James Kenalty, Paul Dion, E.I).Kelly, J.M.Galvin, E.Galvin, Andrew Galvin, Adeiard Desrochers, Thomas D.Redmond, Mr.and Mrs.Jack Galvin, Donald Hazelton, Frank Mc-Reigb, F.Davny, If.Paul Fisette.The Misses Betty Downing, Viola Ward, Margaret Shields, Montreal; Florence Sheridan, Dorothy Kelly, are Josephine Croehetiere, Beatrice and are ( Helen Fitzgerald, Anne and Lucille Put idle wire coat hangers back to work! We'd be glad to call for any that you have no use for.Wire has been conscripted! Please phone 169.Sherbrooke Laundry.plain.Take the suspect to a place [ Croehetiere, Helen Wolfe, Christine where the jazz is \u201chot.\u201d When the ] jflatjjUrjni pforence Clark, Roberta ; band begins to \u201cjump\u201d watch your i patient closely.If he, or she, suddenly grows exceedingly violent and I seems to be doing his or her, best to Lmitate in rapid succession an ape, \u201cTwenty-One, Twenty-Two 5» V Tobin, Kathleen Clark, Marie Mc-Lei.ster, Gertrude Galvin, Edith Du-rochers, Audrey Dunn, Mildred Corcoran.Anita Boisvert, Irene Couture, Helen Callaghan, Peggy Workman.Raymond Dunn, of Montreal, J.Croehetiere, Francis Hove, Mr.and Mrs.Harry Daniel, Mrs.Ivan Boisvert, Mrs.F.Foster, Mrs.L.A.La-benge, Mrs.F.E.Jones, Mrs.F.J.Doherty, Mrs.F.H.Baldwin, Mrs.P, J.McKenna, Mrs.W.S.Kilgour, Mrs.C.Croehetiere.Our Congratulations to: N.Erie Walley on the occasion of his birthday.CHINESE V/OMAN IS REAL GOOD GOLFER Vancouver, March 18.\u2014(CP)\u2014Home town of many a golf champion, Vancouver now boasts what is believed to be the country\u2019s first Chinese woman golfer.She\u2019s twenty-one-year-old Vancouver-born Miss Toy (Buddy) Chong, who was sold on the game when she first saw women playing it a Banff.Already an all-around athlete, she\u2019s taking lessons and her teacher, Billy Barr, says she\u2019s developed \u201ca nice compact swing.\u201d Miss Chong thinks golf is the \u201cnicest game in the world,\u201d and already is planning to get.her brothers and sisters playing it too.Nearly 12,900,000 persons in Great Britain use gas, despite the growing popularity of electricity.A LEVER.PRODUCT Safely landed on an airfield \u201cSomewhere In Australia,\u201d members of the crew of a U.S.Flying Fortress count the bullet holes in one wing of them plane after an encounter with the Japanese.Before arriving in Australia, this plane saw action in the Philippines.a kangaroo and a common house fly, then you must brace yourself for the worst.Oraly one further test is necessary.Stealthily approach the subject and say suddenly: \u201cDig that horn bub!\u201d If the reply comes back \u201cright in the groove,\u201d or \u201cbut solid,\u201d or \u201con the beam,\u201d then and there you have a jitterbug.It is best to leave at that point because most authorities refuse to commit themselves as to what will cure a jitterbug.Some suggest wrapping it in a straight-jacket and taking it to the nearest symphony orchestra.This treatment is to be applied three times weekly until the cure is complete.Another suggested cure is complete solitude for a period of from six to ten years.Age of the jitterbug ranges from I sixteen to twenty-one years and few l of the species are found beyond that ! age.Jitterbugs usually travel in ( pairs\u2014male and female.When this I number is not sufficient to clear a satisfactory space on a crowded dance floor they gather in groups of five or six couples and dance what they mysteriously refer to as \u201croutines.\u201d The Canadian jitterbug is said to be less violent than the American form.One Canadian is reported to have apologized after thrice stepping on the toes of a passing dancer.But, then, the American jitterbug has been at it longer, Can the Deafened Hear Again?Medical authorities say yes \u2014- In many cases.Aurine Ear Balsam, a prescription, has proved a blessing to many deafened people.Used since 1895 by those who are deafened and bothered by ringing, buzzing head noises due to hardened or coagulated wax (cerumen).Over a million packages sold.Make a no-risk test.Must satisfy or money refunded.Ask today for Aurine Ear Balsam at BFDMNG'S DRUG STORE, 26 Wellington St.North, Sherbrooke, Phone 561, or other leading druggists.LEE M.WATSON & CO.REG\u2019D.INSURANCE Fire, Automobile, Liability, etc.Sun Life Bldg., Sherbrooke.Phones : 2951 - 2950 Night and Holiday Calls: Sherbrooke 1542W MOVIE THEATRES\t ryj CU X\tMYRA THEATRE c/5 SC\tRICHMOND \tWed.-Thurs.\u2014March 18 ¦» 19 o\tRobert Montgomery, (\u2014\tRita Johnson, 25\t\" HERE COMES os\tMR.JORDAN\u201d \tAdded: - \u201cCRISIS IN THE 3 UJ\tATLANTIC\u201d \u2014 A March Of Time Subject.\u2014 NEWS I.W.Blake RI!^I^AL-«yLA«-SEMCE o/- /-¦» r phoni 8\u20ac Queen St 404 Sherbrooke^ Qua The smallest American mammal,, the smoky shrew, has a life span of1 less than a year.NOTICE By order of the Administrator of Services all retail stores can only make one delivery per day in any one area.Beginning Thursday, March 19th, we will make the following deliveries: MONDAY to FRIDAY inclusive: Our truck leaves for North Ward at 10.30 a.m.; South and West Wards, 10 a.m., and East Ward, 11 a.m.SATURDAY \u2014 North Ward, North of Portland Ave.and Montreal St., 10 a.m.; South of Portland Ave.and Montreal St., 11 a.m.and the other wards same as other days.To insure delivery orders should be in one hour before the above times, H0VEY PACKING CO.ltd.Phones 1223 - 1224 A.SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1942.j&Terbrooke,(®a% ÿerarb Established Ninth Day of February, 1897, with which is incorporated the Sherbrooke Gazette, established 1837, and Sherbrooke Examiner, established 1878.\u2014 Eastern Townships\u2019 Only English Daily \u2014 The Record is printed and published every weekday by the Sherbrooke Record Company, Limited, of which Edna A.Beenvorth is Secretary-Treasurer, at the office, 69 Wellington Street North, in the City of Sherbrooke, incorporating the news services of The Canadian Press, The Associated Press, and Reuters.The Record is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, its circulation being regularly audited and guaranteed.Subscription rates: 71ic a month, delivered at any home in the city and suburbs.Post Office delivery to any place in Canada, Tireat Britain or the United States, $4 per year; six months, $2; three months, $4; one month, bOc.Single copies, 3c.WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1942.0 God, Who art the author of peace and lover of concord, defend us Thy humble servants in all assaalts of our enemies.MacARTHUR TAKES COMMAND The selection of General Douglas MacArthur to lake supreme command of the forces of the United Nations in the Southwestern Pacific, coupled with the announcement of the arrival of substantial United States ground and air troops in Australia may indicate a turn in the Allied policy in its war with Japan.Although the rather unpleasant position held by MacArthur and his men in the Philippines has been anything but favorable to an offensive war, the strategy displayed by the Philippines commander has been based essentially on offensive action.Although outnumbered, the General lost no opportunity to strike out at the enemy whenever the chance offered, with the result that his position on the Bataan peninsula has not materially weakened since the first surprise of the Japanese attack was over.The new United Nations commander is a veteran of the Far Eastern military machine, being the second generation of a family which has served the United States in the Orient, his father being a veteran of the Philippine campaign at the beginning of the century.MacArthur has commanded the Philippine army since 1933, when he completed a tour of duty as Chief of Staff of the United States W ar Department, Assigned to Manila as military adviser to the Philippine Commonwealth Government, he undertook the organization and training of the Philippine army, which with United States forces in the Philippines has defended these islands against the Japanese in a campaign, that has won the admiration of the world.Despite the fact that mobilization of the Philippine army was not completed, MacArthur\u2019s principal forces were able to delay the invading Japanese drives to permit withdrawal from Manila, which was declared an open city and was not defended, toward Bataan peninsula on the Western side of Manila Bay.In the early fighting, air forces under MacArthur\u2019s comanand inflicted heavy losses on Japanese invasion fleets, including the sinking of the Battleship Haruna off Northern Luzon The Japanese, however, obtained aerial superiority almost immediately, and the heavy bombers of MacArthur\u2019s forces were withdrawn to the Netherlands Indies after enemy bombing had destroyed the usefulness of their bases.MacArthur still retained an unspecified number of pursuit planes, which he fitted out temporarily as bombers for raids against Japanese installations in the Philippine Islands.To date the Japanese have extended control in the Philippines over the major portion of Luzon, the Island of Masbate, and a part of the Southern Island of Mindanao.MacArthur, his communications apparently still in good order, has been able to keep in touch with the operation of numerous guerrilla bands on the Philippine Islands, including such irregular forces in the portions of Luzon which the Japanese supposedly had occupied completely.Backed by the guns of Corregidor and other island forts at the entrance of Manila Bay, MacArthur succeeded in stabilizing a line across Bataan peninsula, and not only stopped every Japanese attempt to advance against, him for weeks, but has even regained small sections of the territory previously occupied by the Japs.The resistance of his outnumbered forces was cited by the War Department several days ago as the cause of persistent reports of hari-kari, or ceremonial suicide, of Lt.-Gen.Masaharu Homma, commanding Japanese forces in the Philippines.Homma was succeeded by Lt.-Gen.Tomoyuki Yamashita, who commanded the Japanese campaign in Malaya which resulted in the capture of Singapore.Direct command of the forces in the Philippines passes to Major Jonathan M.Wainwright, the senior officer remaining in Bataan.A cavalryman, Wain-vvright, now fifty-eight, has been in the Philippines tince October, 1940.HITLER EXCUSES HIMSELF Herr Hitler\u2019s Memorial Day speech in Berlin on Sunday has received less attention abroad than any other he has delivered since the war began, and yet it strikes some observers as being one of his most important utterances, for it is a tacit admission that things are going badly for the Fatherland.The unconquerable Hitler finally has had to come before his people and admit in as euphemistic terms as possible the terrific beating which the Nazi armies have been taking at the hands of the Bolsheviks.It is safe no longer or wise to evade the truth.The Fuehrer blames his troubles on what he describes as the worst Russian winter in 140 years.That is a long time to go back in weather records, and gives rise to the .-uspicion that it is calculated to antedate the great Napoleon\u2019s disastrous retreat from Moscow in 1812 and thus minimize the present misfortunes.Still, this thin sugar-coating to the pill cannot conceal the evil taste of the dose from the German public.The Nazi chief\u2019s speech is fair indication that he is worried, Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles of the United States goes even further and declares that \u201cthere is implicit in every word and every phrase Hitler's own recognition of his impending downfall.\u201d Quite likely the Fuehrer\u2019s boasted \u201cintuition\u201d has indeed shown him some unwelcome writing on the wall.In any event he has called on his people for greater efforts and has warned that \u201cthe Bolshevist colossus is a cruel menace.\u201d However, while all this is encouragement for Hitler\u2019s enemies, it would be a vast mistake to place any dependence on the weakness which his war scheme has developed, for he is still the greatest threat which the Allies face.You want to keep your fingers crossed when you even let yourself think that he may be on the way out, for he is likely to prove most dangerous when he is cornered.The Nazi dictator is not beaten yet.The moral of Hitler\u2019s confession is that now is the time, when he is showing signs of weakness, to redouble the effort to finish him off before he has a chance to recover.As Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Ambassador to Washington, said in urging greater Allied efforts: \u201cTime is but a treacherous ally, ready to fight on either side.\u201d The way to beat Hitler is to jump on him with both feet, hobnails and all, while he is part way down.That is not according to the Marquess of Queensherry\u2019s rules for gentlemanly fighting\u2014but this isn\u2019t a Queensberry type of scrap.The Bolshevists have given a fine example of1 what is called for.When the fierce Russian winter caught the Hitlerites unprepared deep in Soviet territory, the Reds struck at them with all their might.The Muscovites themselves had taken fierce punishment and up to that juncture had been mainly on the defensive, battling for every inch of ground they had to give up.But they pulled themselves together and counter-attacked\u2014they rushed green men through training and flung them into their battered lines they worked day and night to create new war factories to replace those destroyed.All through the terrors of the winter the Russians have hammered Hitler until now he is showing weakness.Along the Northern two-thirds of the long battle line the winter still has a month or six weeks to run.And the Reds are redoubling their efforts to try to deliver the knockout.To do that they need military equipment.That\u2019s America's cue.Every part that\u2019s added to a tank or airplane in North America plants is another nail in the coffin of Hitler\u2019s hopes.And since the Japs are.riding on Hitler\u2019s coattails, his finish means theirs.Production will play a large role in Russia\u2019s swelling offensive.The experts in British and American shops, whose technical training is essential to the production of war machines, may hold the balance of power between victory and defeat.And time is racing to the crucial spring.Thirty Years Ago FROM THE RECORD FILES Impressive ceremonies were held in Havana, Cuba, for the bodies of the crew of the U.S.Battleship Maine, recently raised from Havana Harbor where it had been sunk prior to the outbreak of the Spanish-American war.The remains of the ship itself were taken out into the Gulf of Mexico and scuttled.A general advance in the price of foodstuffs and other consumer goods is reported from the Old Country, where trade is virtually paralyzed as the result of the coal mine strike, which has spread to some other industries.Railway service in many parts of the Eastern Townships has been curtailed or cancelled owing to the heavy snow and unusually cold weather.The following directors have been named for the Eastern Townships Telephone Company, recently incorporated to take over the People's Telephone system: Lt.-Col.E.S.Bernard, C.\tH.Kathan, William Farwell, J.A.Begin, C.A.Jenkins, B.Quinn, C.H.Lovell, M.P., C.A.Young, J.A.Gauthier, L.W.Wright, Dr.H.A.Meagher and C.H.Fletcher.The following advisory committee has been named to administer the Trenholmville Cemetery: T.A.Trenholme, Henry Trenholrne, J.C.Houliston, R.E.Dyson, W.J.Ewing, Edgar Wintle, W.Bidgood, M, G.Crombk, F.Scott, and George Armitage.A St.Francis District Alumni Association for Bishop's University has been formed with the following executive: J, Ramsay Montizamlbert, Dr.A.Robertson'and F.0.Call.The officers elected by the Waterville Football Club were W.H.Ward, R.Walsh, A.Srnyàte, F.Miller, E.Randall, D.\tBrand, P.Roberts, F.Carter and H.Aimes.THE WAR STORY PRESS COMMENTS FRENCH PRESS AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE St.Thomas Times-Jourral Java is Australia\u2019s last line et defence before being subject to direct attack.Allied strategy appears to be a holding operation in the Netherlands East Indies so as to give time for the defence of the only Dutch possession that has not been sacrificed.Darwin in the extreme North of Australia is a naval and ait-stronghold.If Java falls and Darwin is made, untenable by constant aerial assaults, there is only ono thing that will save Australia from becoming a battleground as France, Greece and all the other countries became battle-grounds.That is a vast desert which is as dry as the Sahara, worse than Libya, a sort of defence in depth which proved so successful in the case of Moscow.It is rough ground covering over 500,000 square miles, and within that area, 100,000 miles greater than the whole of Ontario, there are only about 5,000 people.If the Japs started to march South they would have to take everything with them, even water.There is a 650 miles highway to Darwin, but that would bo destroyed.The Japs would rely heavily on air power.Still, it is an uncomfortable feeling to know that there is a ferocious and fanatical enemy army on one\u2019s homeland.UNFOUNDED FEARS L\u2019Information, Montreal.At the beginning of the (Victory Loan) campaign there were those who doubted of its success.They insisted, for example, that the time of year wa,s very badly chosen to undertake a campaign of that nature.It was difficult, they said, to reach everyone because communications would necessarily not be as good as in the summer.On the other hand, it was argued that the second loan came too soon after the séii Its HAVE A SMILE Mary: \u201cHow is it Bill neevr takes you to the movies any more?\u201d Helen; \u201cWell, one evening it rained and we stayed home.\u201d McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By Wm.E.McKenney, America\u2019s Card Authority.An inspector, after examining a class in school one day, asked, \u201cWho drove the Israelites out of Egypt?You!\u201d he said, pointing to a small PLAYER BLOCKS OWN SUIT DELIBERATELY; WINS EXTRA TRICK first.Canadians had just subscribed bov jn corner-.$800,000,000.It was not easy to , , No sir \u2019twasn t me, \u2019 replied the ; see how they could, a few months !^y\u2019 trembling.\u2018 I only came back hand was dealt.The bidding of irom the country last week.\u2019 ThL is the third of a series of six articles on colorful hands played in 1941.* » * I happened to be a kibitzer at a rubber bridge game when today\u2019s EDITOR\u2019S NOTE-BOOK Continued neutrality of the Irish Free State suggests that De Valera hasn't got his Eire aroused.* # * Making good excuses is a sure way not to make good.* * * It, takes more than a boiled shirt to enable you to put.on a good front.* * * The Japs always are happy to die for their country.Let\u2019s keep thorn happy.* * * Some people keep their spirits up only to save them a trip to the cellar.* * * A good reducing exercise is moving the head from left to right when second helpings are passed.NEED YOUNG MEN IN PARLIAMENT, TOO Ottawa Journal Not only for combatants is this a young man\u2019s war.It is no tie table that of the civilians brought to Ottawa for important posts in war industry and war finance the majority are men under 50 \u2014 men old enough to have had long and varied experience, but young enough to stand long hours of hard work, to welcome new ideas, to stand the rough and tumble of new circumstances and new conditions.It is an extraordinary fact, however, that the same call upon the younger men has not extended to the political field.When wo pick men for Parliament the tendency is to reverence age, and to assume that wisdom comes with grey hair.A quick survey of the Parliamentary Guide shows that of the 245 members of the House of Commons 56 are over 60 years, or nearly one-quarter of them, and more than one-half, or 139, are over 50.Of the senators 73 in the chamber of 96 are over GO.And in the | Cabinet itself, only three of 19 members are under 50\u2014sixteen are more than 50, seven are above 60, and one has passed 80.We should have in Parliament more of the fire and vigor General McNaughton is trying to develop in the Army through bringing along young men to high posts.A young man\u2019s army run by a Parliament and Cabinet not so young might lack something in the hard, smooth efficiency which is General j later, subscri be as much once more | It is also to be noted that some peo-iple reproached the Government with : launching this loan without having -made known the budgetary measure -for the next fiscal year, that is to |say, without having informed us of I the taxes we would have to pay in 11942-43.All these critics no doubt ! spoke quite understandably, but it j will he established by the results that the fears entertained were not justified.As Mr.Spinney, chairman of the committee of the second Victory Loan, said, it can no longer be a question of selling Victory bonds, ifor everybody in Canada\u2019 understands that it is his duty to buy them.Under these conditions the time of year was of very secondary importance in view of the fact that it was less necessary than before to see every person individually, since everyone, according to Mr.Spinney should clearly understand the existing situation.TIMELY COMMENTS ! course was inaccurate, since it failed I to uncover the fact that North-South Doctor: \u201cI can\u2019t quite diagnose held no diamond stopper.But a very your case.I think it must be drink.\u201d pretty point arose in the play.Patient: \u201cAll right, doctor,I\u2019ll come' East won the opening lead with back when you're sober.\u201d\tjthe king.He returned the jack, - 'avoiding the usual return of the! A minister was asked by one of fourth highest card since to do so his least respectable parishioners to might, block the suit.Then he led say prayers on Sunday for Anna Ike nine, West overtook, and East Bell.He did so.\tI'vas surprised to find himself back) A few days later the pastor asked 'n the lead with the three of dia- *75 V AJ94 ?5 4 AKQJ93 *\tA Q V 7 5 3 2 ?\tAQ8 62 *62 Dealer *\t106 4 2 V 8 6 ?\tK J 9 3 *875 4KJ983 VKQ10 ?\t10 7 *\tA 10 4 Rubber\u2014N-S vul.South\tWest North\tEasv 1 *\tPass\t2 *\tPass 2N.T.\tPass\t3 N.T.\tPass Pass\tPass\t Opening\u2014?6.\t\t18 the church member if he wished the >Ilcmds o\" the fourth trick This was, prayers for Anna Bell to be repeat- because West had carefully saved, j j\tM-ilton C Work could have od \u201cMr, tlin-nlr vmi Vinrllv answer- tbe deuce to force him 111.\tm,L