Sherbrooke daily record, 5 octobre 1942, lundi 5 octobre 1942

[" V i>lirrln*onkp \u2022 \u2022 Srrnrî» THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS WEATHER Cloudy.Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1942.Forty-Sixth Yeai.RESERVES STALINGRAD ASSAULT Nazis Achieve No Big Gain Or Breakthrough Germans Pour Constant Stream of Reserves into City Along \u201cThe Road of Dead,\u201d Swelling Forces to Mere Than Half Million\u2014Enemy Conducting Fierce Attacks in Direction of Factory Settlement.#- By EDDY GIL'MORE, Associated Press Staff Writer Moscow, Oct.5.\u2014(Æ5)\u2014-The Germans poured a constant stream of reserves into Stalingrad along \u201cThe Road of Dead\u201d today, swelling their forces in the area to more than o00,000, but they still had not achieved a break-through or material advance, Soviet dispatches said.The mid-day Soviet communique said the Red Army itself had improved its position Northwest of the city but that the Nazis in a determined drive upon a Stalingrad factory settlement forced the defenders to withdraw somewhat during the night.The Govermuent newspaper Prav-da said the German command loosed the assault in this sector after bring-mg up two more infantry divisions and one tank division, increasing its strength to thirty-five divisions.After bettering their position Northwest of the city, Russian troops were reported engaged in battle with Germans clinging to a strongly-fortified hill.In other fighting in this area, a Red army unit battling for possession of a strategic height killed 1\u201850 Germans and destroyed some German equipment, it was reported.The ferocity of the fighting within the city was indicated in the report that artillery and mortar tire wiped out a battalion of enemy infantry and destroyed twenty-four machine gun posts and six gun and mortar batteries.\u201cThe enemy is conducting fierce attacks in the direction of a factory settlement,\u201d the midday communique said of the fighting in Stalingrad.\u201cAt the cost of heavy losses he succeeded in somewhat, pressing back one of our units.On all other sectors the German attacks were repulsed by our troops.\u201d A furious German infantry attack was reported from the North- NEW LABOR GROUP WILL NOT FIGHT Chicago, Oct.5.\u2014The Confederated Unions of America\u2014the United States newest and third national labor organization \u2014 is opposed to declaration of war against its rivals, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.This was disclosed in a statement issued by C.U.A.officers yesterday at the close of a three-day organization meeting in which a constitution was adopted and officers elected.DUPLESSIS IN FRESH ATTACK ON GOVERNMENT Roosevelt Speeds Imposition Of Price, Rent And Wage Control To Halt Further Living Cost Increase SEEK INFORMATION ON WOODEN TIRES Edmonton, Oct.5.\u2014((P)-\u2014The Edmonton Chamber of Commerce announced during the week-end that it has received a letter from an Indianapolis firm seeking information^ of any proper wood-working establishment in a position to manufacture and market wooden tires in Canada.Wooden tires, made of elm and consisting of 16 segments, now are on the market in the United States, the letter said.Declares Godbout and Bouchard Aiding Dominion in Transferring Rights and Privileges of Province.Ste.Anne des Monts, Que., Oct.5.\u2014©\u2014Sharp criticism of the Federal Government for \u201chaving voted in conscription despite the opposition of the Province of Quebec,\u201d was made yesterday by Maurice Duplessis, leader of the Provincial Union Nationale Opposition, in a public address in this Gaspe town.It was one of a series of addresses that Mr.Duplessis is making to constituents in provincial ridings.\u201cIn 1939 we warned you that it was the intention of Ottawa to impose conscription,\u201d he said, \u201cbut despite that you refused to place your confidence in us.(The Union Nationale Government was elected in 1936, but was defeated by the Liberal party in a provincial election in November, 1939.) \u201cThe Federal Government then began, with the approval of Mr.God-bout, to deprive the Province of Quebec of its principal sources of revenue.I realize that the laws of the country must be observed, but that will not hinder me from taking to task the present legislators at Ottawa.\u201d Mr.Duplessis said that the Federal Government had imposed \u201cthe most villainous, the most knavish, the most vile and the most hypocritical form of conscription possible.\u201d Previous to that, he said, Hon.T.D.Bouchard, Minister of Roads and Public Works, ai d Premier Godbout had deprived the unemployed of work to force them to enlist.\u201cThat is the reason why I call it a vile, and villainous conscription,\u201d he ,said.By J.F.SANDERSON, Canadian Press Staff Writer.Washington, Oct.5.\u2014©\u2014A weekend series of rapid-fire moves designed to halt rises in two major cost-of-living items\u2014food and rent \u2014today placed the United States on the same plane of economic control that has existed in Canada for several months.President Roosevelt, given the \u201cgo-ahead\u201d signal by Congress to stabilize the cost of living and forestall runaway inflation in the United States, issued an order Saturday which clamped ceilings or.wages, salaries, profits, farm prices and rents.Supreme Court Justice James F.Byrnes was appointed economic czar of the United States.The new machinery, although similar in many respects, differs in emergency order to be followed soon by permanent ceilings for the duration, is effective today.It enjoins all retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers and processors to charge no more than the highest price they charged between September 2S ami October 2.Only important foodstuffs excepted were fresh fish, most fresh fruits and vegetables, and peanuts, which probably will be treated with later on a seasonal basis.The rent order, a further carrying out of President Roosevelt's anti-inflation directives, is to be issued today.All landlords who have raised rents in the last seven months will be asked to reduce them to the March 1 levels.The wage, salary and farm price detail in the United States and levels prevailing September 15 last Canada.The nearest approach to Byrne\u2019s fourteen-man board is the Dominion's Economic Advisory Committee made up of senior government officials.Following Saturday\u2019s order extending price ceilings to ninety per cent of all food products, Price Ad will be taken as the stabilizatior point.To complete the top set-up, the President is expected soon to appoint two representatives each of labor, management and farmers to serve with Byrnes and his department-head colleagues on the Staib- ministrator Leon Henderson, who ; ilization Board, will help administer the general pol-; So^ sweeping was the scope of the icies formulated by Byrnes and his anti-inflation programme that there economic stabilization board, last was little disposition on the part of night ordered all rents rolled back] industrial, labor or farm leaders to to their March 1 levels.\tj comment pending a thorough analy- The food-price freeze, a sixty-day sis.SCHOOL TAX ON INDUSTRIES TO Î EASE DEFICITS! President of Municipalities Union Believes Province-Wide Levy Would Provide Ample Funds for Schools.Seigniory Club, Que., Oct.5.\u2014© \u2014Annual three-day convention of the Union of Quebec Municipalities will be officially opened here tomorrow by Hon.Oscar Drouin, Quebec Minister of Municipal Affairs, Trade and Commerce.Mr, Drouin will address the delegates after Napoleon Courtcmanche.President of the union and Mayor of Montreal East, welcomes the representatives of municipalities in ail parts of the province.During the convention, Mayor Ad hemar Raynault of Montreal will suggest in a resolution that a mobile tax be imposed on the province\u2019s industries to create enough revenue to lift Quebec school corporations out of their financial difficulties.The Mayor believes that, \u201cwith a school tax on the province\u2019s indus-j Oct.5.-OP) The Italian High Corn-tries, ample revenue will be obtain |maI1d claimed today the Italian Australian Troops Continue With Unopposed Advance In New Guinea Allied Headquarters, Australia, Oct.5.\u2014((0\u2014In the seventh day of consistent, unopposed advance, Australian troops pushed upward yesterday over a rugged trail North of Efogi in New Guinea\u2019s Owen Stanley mountains.Fliers of the Allied air forces at the same time swept far beyond the advanced ground forces to harass key points on the Japanese line of retreat.In another sector bombers made a night raid on the airdrome at NEWFOUNDLAND CRASH DETAILS STILL LACKING Action Against Associated Press Claimed Move For Press Freedom Stalin Statement Asks Immediate Opening Of Western Europe Front In Letter Written for Associated Press Correspondent, Russian Premier Calls Upon Allies to Fulfill Their Pledges of Aid Fully and Without Delay\u2014First Statement on Question in Year.-* $5,000 WORTH OF RINGS ARE STOLEN Winnipeg, Oct.5,\u2014(CP)\u2014Police announced that diamond rings, valued at .$5,000 were stolen .Saturday night from Feldsted Jewellers and Opticians in downtown Winnipeg while the only employee of the store went into a backroom to answer the telephone.ITALIANS CLAIM SUBMARINE SUNK Rome, (From Italian Broadcasts) Peterborough, Ont,, Oct.5.\u2014 Marshall Field, publisher of Chicago Sun, expressed belief today that successful prosecution of an anti-trust suit against the Associated Press would \u201cprove to be one of the most important moves ever made toward real freedom of the press in American journalism.\u201d The United States Government recently filed a civil action against the news-gathering organization, charging it is a monopoly.Members of the Associated Press previously had declined to grant a membership to the Chicago Sun.In an address prepared for the Ontario-Quebec Circulation Managers Convention, Field said that the purpose of the Government action was not to dissolve the Associated Press \u201cnor to restrict or injure in papers have given the side of the the case; wpkh I am now describing to you, \u201cIt is, of course, no such thing.Rather it would serve, in purpose and effect, to make the press free by freeing it from monopoly.\u201d One of the reasons why American cities are moving toward a one-paper status, Field said, was monopolistic discrimination in gathering and distributing news and he added: \u201cAssociated Press monopoly is a fundamental drift toward total monopoly in American journalism .a distinct threat to my nation\u2019s future.\u201d Field said the Chicago Sun had made every effort to become a member of the AP under existing by-laws and \u201cfurther announced its willingness to make any kind of compro- to provide sufficient revenue for all the school commissions of the province.\u201d The Montreal Protestant and Catholic School Commissions' alone, he said, anticipate a deficit of $1,-500,000 for the present year.Mayor Lucien Borne of Quebéc is expected to disclose Wednesday the Federal Government\u2019s proposed system for the setting up of rationing offices in municipalities throughout the province.The effects of war on municipal finances, the effects of electricity curtailment in industries and other wartime problems also are expected to came up for discussion.destroyer Libra had sunk an enemy submarine in the Mediterranean, but gave no details.(There was no confirmaticm of this claim from any Allied source).The Egyptian front was quiet yesterday, the war bulletin said.London, Ont., Oct.5.\u2014I®\u2014Eight keys that, haven\u2019t turned a lock for sixty years were placed in the local key collection to be returned into metal for arms.They were switch keys of the old Great Western Railway, and had been kept as curios in the divisional offices of Canadian National Railways.Starve Europe To Feed uermans, Goering Advises Nazi Partizans -a I any way its free and useful function- mise that would be allowed under CONFESSED TO BRUTAL MURDER OF MOTORIST I ing.\u201d He added : western front, but the communique j Buka, on the extreme Northern tip said it was repulsed with heavy ! of the Solomons, starting fires near losses.Four hundred more Germans were killed in fighting for a populated place North of Voronezh, it added.the runway and in dispersal areas and destroying at least one plane.Efogi, sixty-five miles by jungle trail from the Allied base at Port In the Caucasus, somewhere in the ! Moresby and about seven miles from Moz-dok region, the Germans at-j \u201cThe Gap\u201d in the Owen Stanley tempted to fight their way through I range, was captured Saturday, a mountain gorge, but retreated in 'ru\" the face of stubborn resistance, leaving eighty dead, it rvas reported.But the Germans obviously were throwing their main strength into the struggle for Stalingrad, where the Russians were holding fast amid the smoking ruins for the forty-second day., \u201cRather the purpose is to compel Ten of Thirty-Seven 0c- The Associated Press to eliminate rimante nf I amp llnitprLthe monopolistic features of its CUPamS 01 LclIQe \u201c01160 sjruc^ure an(j become in fact what States Plane Killed in Crash it is in name; a co-operative organ- 16-Year-Old Boy Masquer-aded as His Victim on an Auto Tour Until His Capture Late in Day.Off Newfoundland.Continued on page 2.col.5.New York, Oct.5.\u2014'(/P)\u2014Details were lacking today concerning the crash of an airplane at Botwood, ! Nfld., Saturday, in which ten men The Australians were believed to | were killed and at least eight persons be either in or near the South en- ! were injured, trance of \u201cThe Gap\u201d which is at an .i ,\t'\t, ,, TT ., , altitude of more than 6,000 feet.Headquarters of the Un,ted States An Allied spokesman said the, Eastern Defence Command and the Australian forward units had made ; 1st Army, which announced the only slight contact with the enemy, j crag}^\tthere were thirty-seven persons aboard the plane, but did not not say how many were passengers , The crash occurred Saturday be- ization of American newspapers formed for the purpose of gathering and distributing news.\u201d for the membership owned by the Herald-Examiner, which has no morning paper during the week.\u201d \u201cIn other words,\u201d he continued, \u201cit was only after every possible effort was made to comply with the existing rules that the Chicago Sun filed a complaint, realizing that the too light to indicate even rearguard action.Their given.exact position was France, Having Lost Battle, Must Provide German Needs, Envoy Says tween 5 end 6 p.m., the army announced.Apparently the plant fell into the sea off Botwood since the army\u2019s announcement said the hull was split in the crash and subse-; quently was towed into shallow wat-i er into shallow water to facilitate Field said that just as railroads I by-laws were designed to preven t are common carriers, forbidden to\tand therefore the Chi- discriminate between persons orjcaK° >c,un could have no expectation places, \u201cso press associations then i°f ever being elected, would\u2019become common carriers of I\t____ EETT c news, open on equal terms to all CLlMBo I Ktfc, K-lLLo who wjsh to purchase its services or BEAR WITH HATCHET share in the cost of a co-operative undertaking.\u201d \u201cWith news treated as a public.\t,\t, utility,\u201d he said, \u201copen to all alike, | driver Amp James, en route to Ma-for men of moderate capital to em-; in tbis_ Northern hrontenac bark upon the publication of news-1 country district, met a bear on the papers without being choked to ™ad.The bear climbed a tree and death at the outset by a monopolistic ! James stopped bis truck, climbed a discrimination \u201d\t! tree next to the one the bear was The publisher said that among the 1 Pf'ched in, and killed it with a single repercussions from the suit had been j\ta hatchet.He loaded his a charge that it was designed as an | kill on the truck and sold bear steak attack upon freedom of the press.I at Northbrook, most cases this Plevna, Ont., Oct.5.\u2014© \u2014 Truck Bay City, Mich., Oct.5.\u2014(A\u2019)\u2014 Police Superintendent Frank Anderson said today a 16-ycar-old boy confessed that he shot and beat to death Clyde Valentine, 39, Detroit, on a lonely country road in neighboring Midland County Sunday morning, took the slain man\u2019s automobile and his effects and masqueraded as his victim on an auto tour until his capture late in the day.Anderson said the farm boy, who admitted serving a term in a juvenile corrective school for theft from a welfare officer two years ago, told of hitch-hiking a ride with Valentine near the city of Midland about midnight Saturday.Two Mexican sugar beet workers also rode with them for a distance ami when Valentine had dropped them off the man and boy rode on together down a side ; road at 2 a.m.Berne, Switzerland, Oct.5.\u2014(/P)\u2014 The German people today had the warning of Reichsmarshal Goering the copping winter would not be \u201cso easy\u201d on the fighting fronts, bu\u2018 they were assured they would be fed no matter how hungry the rest of Europe became, \u201cIf there is hunger,\u201d he said, \u201cin no event will it he in Germany.From now on it.must be the unshakeablc fact that the.German workman and those working in Germany are supplied with food the best of all.\u201d In this connection, he.said, there are more than 6,000,000 foreigners working in Germany and 5,000,000 prisoners of war.Asserting that the country had a potato crop this year unsurpassed in history, Goering advised Germans to store the.potatoes in their drawing rooms rather than in wet cellars so they would not freeze.The No.2 Nazi spoke in the Berlin Sportspalast at the annual harvest thanksgiving festival.It was a long and rambling speech, devoted largely to the food situation, the tricky weather and the home front with all the usual flourishes.Goering denied that Britain had ever sent 1,000 plans on a bombing raid to Germany, but he asked \u201cthe poor people who are so frequently By HENRY \u20ac.CASSIDY, Associated Press Staff Writer Copyright, 19-1:), by The Associated Tress Moscow.Oct.\t- Oft-voiced! Russian desires for speedy establishment of a second front wera given new urgency today by a blunt statement from Joseph Stalin as he called on the Allies to fulfil their pledges of aid fully and with-cut delay.The help they have delivered tu date, he declared, has been comparatively ineffective.Stalin\u2019s statement was delivered! in the form of a letter answering three questions submitted to him in writing by this correspondent, chief of the Moscow Bureau of The Associated Press, ' and represented the Soviet Premier's first public utterance on the second front issue in more th^in a year.Text of the letter, typed on a plain sheet of white notepaper and signe)! in a bold hand, follows: \u201cDear Mr.Cassidy: A \u201cOwing to the pressure of work and my consequent inability to grant you an interview, I shall confine myself to a brief Written answer to your questions.\u201cOne: \u2018What place does the possibility of a second front occupy in the Soviet estimates of the current situation ?\u2019 \u201cAnswer: \u2018A very important plaça \u2014one might say a place of first rata importance.\u2019 It is a harsh warning but one that: we would be very foolish to resent.\u2019 \u201cTwo: \u2018To what extent is Allied aid to the Soviet Union provinj; effective and what could be done to amplify and improve this aid'/\u2019 \u201cAnswer: As compared vvij:h thw aid which the Soviet Union is givin;?to the Allies by drawing upon itself the main force, of the German Fascist, the aid of the Allies to the Soviet Union has so far been littla effective.In order to amplify and Improve this aid, only ome thing is required: That, the Allies fulfill their obligations fully and on time.\u201cThree: \u2018What remains of th« Soviet capacity for resistance?' \u201cAnswer: I think that the Soviet capacity of resisting the German brigands is in strength not less, if not greater, than the capacity of Fascist Germany or of any other aggressive power to secure for itself world domination.\u201cWith respect, \u201cJ.Stalin.\u201d This communication, written in Russian and accompanied by an authorized English translation, was handed to me yesterday by Nikolai Palgunov, Chief of the Foreign Office Press Department, only twenty-four hours after I had submitted my queries at the gate of the Kremlin.In effect, it confirmed the report Continued on page 2.column 3.Continued on page 2, column 3.Paris, Oct.5.\u2014bP)\u2014The first con-, tingent o'f 133,900 French workers permitted unification of Europe,\u201d both apparently escaped injury cheduled to be sent to Germany un-, went on, \u201cevery nation will have 1 The lirt of dead, based upon re He added: \u201cIn - - - r,\tr « 1\t- kind of attack is pure camouflage.Sault Ste.Marie, Unt., Oct.,>.\u2014'ÏPi 1 Anderson said the boy told him It is carried on by papers who wish I\u2014Bank Messenger David Rogers he noticed a .38-calibre pistol in a to make sure that their own enjoy- 1 didn\u2019t have to use a gun to get his 'car compartment and, finding a pre-ment of this monopoly will not be j first partridge this season.A bird j text to have his companion stop for a moment, he seized the weapon and salvage operations.\t,_____ \u2014 \u2014 ».\t.When German victory will have] Two OCCUpants were women, but j disturbed by a competitor coming ; flew against a bank window, break der the Vichy Government\u2019s new extent I Ports made to the State Department f 1 VJ IJ y vruvej niucuv 3 tt\t.\t, \u2022\t* ,1 compulsory labor programme left by ] t0 £lve an accoun mg\tYT1*]'| by the American Consulate at St.the detea.john>g) f0i]0WS: Capt.Dwight G- train today along with a scattering to which it contributed to of volunteers.\t; of Bolshevism,\u201d This initial trainload included com- j Schleier, speaking with Capt, Thomas, Lincoln, Neb.; Michael C.J.________ _r.o _____ official Doylbe, Laurelton, N.Y.; John R.plete factory crews and their f°re-\u2019\tvTi caid5 of the French > Redmond, Jackson Heights, N.Y.; , picked in record time from Vich.v approval, said ol tue *rencn ; Quentill Mooni F]ushin^ N.Y.; C, L fanenrie.and \u201cdesignated\u201d i compulsory labor system:\t¦ ,\tTv\u201e\tm v .r, t.French factories and \u201cdesignated\u201d j compulsory labor system:\tj ^j pipol;> The Bronx, N.Y.; C.L.for service in Germany.They were! \u201cIf this law appears hard to some Lansing, New York City; Lt.-Col.ready to go to work immediately as ; Frerichmen I take the liberty of re- James Edward Whittaker.Worces-complete units in Nazi plants\t| cajling in all frankness the follow-1 ter, Mass ; Capt.Harold R.Freckle- Other departures are expected to , ;\t^.waJton.Hartford, Conn.; Cape.\\V1ll1am T.Meyers, Tampa.; Capt.Warren follow in quick succession as the ing facts: France declared ^this war Government issues rush orders for ! without motive and lost it.\u201d workers in fulfilment of Pierre La- Then he launched into a history of ; Lay?1\u20195 agreement to send tnree Frerlch .German collaboration ; id 1 skilled Frenchmen to Germany for,\tr- \u201e\u201e every one prisoner of war released ; asserted that the German peop -by Hitler.'\ti \u201ccould not imagine that French ' While the train was pulling out workers would hesitate or balk, con-Minister Schleier of the German iderjng Gerrnany>s sacrifices, at the embassy addressed French mdustri- , ,\t, ., .\t, aï heaci and flayed their lukewarm '^ork m question which is well corn- attitude toward the new labor set- pensated.\u201d up.\tI A law promulgated in Vichy yes- \u2018An abstention on the part of | terc]a.pr0vided the same guarantees French employers which _ remains | ^\trBr,irTliT1\u201e wnrkerS as C.Lessing, West Orange, N.J.FORMER WATERLOO MAN IS APPOINTED iinto their field, and lamentably few' ing the glass and its own neck.WAR BULLETINS London \u2014 Russian planes last night bombed the city of Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, the Nazi- controlled Vichy radio reported today.***** London - Myron C.Taylor, who stopped here on his way back to report to President Roosevelt on his conferences with the Pope, conferred today with Ambassador John G.Winant.held up the man.\u201cWhen he told Wendell Willkie Holds Extended Conferences With Chinese Leader Chungking, Oct.5.\u2014(/P)\u2014Wendellito-heart talk with Gen.Chiang Kai-me he had no | Willkie mingled for more than four | ^tick.money,\u201d the boy was quoted, \u201cI]hours today with students welcome that *'»k fT \"f\u2014 \"-fc\" noted.\u201d the Nazi speaker said, warn- ; for released pnsone Lur that the French could not \u201cre- industry to continue \u201e r-.,-,-7\u2014.\t.\u201e .main op the sidelines in this war! families haif Pa>' trough a 1 com-' gion including the cities of Montrea.without participating sacrifices.\u2019 Montreal.Oct.5.\u2014(TO\u2014-Canadian National Railways announced here today the appointment of Oswald Arthur Trudeau as general passenger agent with headquarters in Mont-leal.He succeeds E.C.Elliott, retired after lengthy sendee.Mr.Trudeau, who was born in and obliged, Waterloo, Que., will have charge of to pay their! the Eastern half of the central re or 'making1 po\u2019n?atlon\"chest\u201d while they work in Ottawa and Quebec and the lines in\u2019 Germany,\ti New England and New York states.Cairo \u2014 British torpedo-carrying aircraft scored a direct hit on a medium-sized merchant vessel in an attack on an Axis convoy in the Ionian Sea Saturday night, a communique said today.The bulletin said that land activity on the Egyptian front during the week-end was limited to patrol skirmishes and that aerial operations again were curtailed by bad weather yesterday,\t^ an(] ; Mme.Chiang Kai-Shek was pres-shot him thee times and\" be rolled i .\u201e1llt,v Tnfim'ilf.r.at foilr chun»>kimr'cnt at the meetin*\u2019 assisting in in-out of the car.I pulled him down I'fcu!ly Tnf mbef aVf0Ur.U\"fkin,?terpreting when delicate shades of the road-side about 12 feet, but he : f,overnrn(ini' education institutions, I mear)jnK were involved, was not yet dead.Bo I hit him over ! reiterating his message of \"anti- j Both Chiang and Willkie refused the head with the pistol several | imperialism\u201d and receiving a spon-jto comment on the nature of their tinTes.\u201d\ttaneoua \u2019\t.Then, the confession continued,! .\t'\t, the boy backed up the car over visi\u201d1y affected.Valentine\u2019s body.From the death scene he drove several miles to park in a grove and slept until 5 a.m.He then started back for Midland but ran the car off a slippery road into a ditch.He hitch-hiked five miles into the hamlet of Sanford and, representing himself as \u201cClyde Valentine,\u201d used the slain man\u2019s insurance aid card at a garage and accompanied a wrecker back to the States army air forces in China car, which was released from the; Leading figures of the Chinese (Jitch,\t'educational and scientific world Thence he drove back to Midland were present at the first luncheon, for breakfast and subsequently to! It was disclosed, meanwhile, that him 1 discussions.I Willkie said he was greatly im- .\t.,.\t111 pressed by what he saw yesterday in Lager, smd.ng Ch)nese.students ^hungkj/g,s humminf?factories, 1 'moved inland only a few years ago tha virtually overwhelmed Willkie wi their manifestations of good-will, cheering him again and again as he moved from building to building.Later Willkie lunched with Chen Li-Fu, Minister of Education, and then gave a luncheon himself in honor of Brig.-Gen, Claire L.Chon-((\u2018one ls w0'\u2018 rault, commander of the seized Royal Oak, Detroit suburb, later heading back for Midland, eventually reaching Bay City, where a police patrol car spotted the car parked on the wrong side of a street while the ! boy was in a restaurant.Still representing himself as Valentine and i Continued on page 2, column 6.arrangements had been made for Willkie to visit the Chinese battle-front, but the time and place were not revealed.Yesterday he had a busy day, touring Chungking\u2019s war industries, meeting political leaders, including the Communist Grin, Chou En-Lai, and finally having a 314-hour heart- when the Japanese Chinese seaboard.\u201cThese industries are efficiently operated and the employees are skilful,\u201d he said.\u201cWhat is being done.A number of United social problems remain to be solved, 'however, such as the high labor turnover.\u201cOne of the principal problems of Free China is the transformation of an agricultural people to an industrial basis.\u201d Earlier Willkie was the guest o.f honor at a tea at which Mme, Chiang had.assembled a host of Chinese and foreign notables.Willkie was introduced to the guests of Mme.Chiang as \u201ctha living, vibrant* symbol of the fretl nations.\u201d I I 2.SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1942.RALLY DAY AT BIRCHTON WAS well::::\" COCKSURE Congregations of Birchton and Eaton United for Worship in United Church.Staa\u2019ve Europe Continued from page 1.Birchton, Oct.5.\u2014Rally Day was appropriately observed at the United Church on Sunday morning, September 27, when the Sunday Schools and co rig re gâtions of Birchton and Eaton united foi' worship.\t! The scholar's of the two Sunday Schools all made a contribution to the service in some way or another.The Scripture lesson, made up of| four passages from the Gospels, was! ^ picture of coniidence, Brig.Gen.r ead by Edith Scveigny, Ruth Davis, pv Littlejohn, European quarter-Margaret Innés and Janet Taillon.i master for the AEF in Europe, is A trio \u201cListen to the Voice of j fih0wn shortly after arriving in Jesus\" was sung by Shirley titro-j Lon(]on.nach, Leona Campbell and Lomcrj-\u2014- Hodge.Charles Harbinson and Walter McComib took up the offer-¦ ing, which will be sent from the Sunday Schools to the Treasurer of the United Church for work in Christian Education.¦ Mrs.Stuart Coates, j Miss Doris Wright and Miss Moira Sinfield, of Montreal, were week-end guests at the home of Mr.land Mrs.J.A.Murray, \u201cThe Pines.\" The two Sunday Schools united ini Mrs.Henrietta Reed, of Rieh-\u201cI Love to Hear the Story\tspending two weeks at the home of her daughter, Mrs.Stuart Coates, and Mr.Coates.Mr.and Mrs.Clayton Hodgman hard-pressed at nights to hold out as marvellously as they have done in the past.\u201d He said he had to keep his ah' force in the East, but when the Russian enemy \u201cis Lrougth to his knees .then we shall meet in England.\" Goering asserted his air fleet is bigger and better than the Allied air fleet in Britain.\t, \u201cThe coming winter will not be so easy, but it will not be comparable to last year,\u201d Goering said.\u201cThis time we are prepared.We know what the Russian winter is like.We will be able to stand it better.The enemy may attack all along the front, but he wall be cheated at the final point.\u201d He confirmed the reports of differences between Hitler and some of his generals.\u201cWe have a number of the most excellent generals and leaders and such who do not live up to their task or who were not hard enough have been given other tasks or have been replaced,\u201d he said.\u201cNo one has beon shot.But, if a soldier is a coward, he is shot and if a general deserts his troops because of cowardice, ha too will he shot.\u201d He gave no names.LOCAL RATION BOARDS GIVEN GREAT POWERS singing Which Angel Voices Tel'l.\" The minister, Rev.R.C.Bclbin, on behalf of the Birchton Sunday -\t,\t.\t,\t, School and Congregation welcomed of Sherbrooke spert a week-end as the Sunday School and friends from Aues,ts \u201cJ former s mother, Mrs.Eaton and spoke briefly on \u201cThe\tHodgman.responsibility of adults for the' Mrs.Violet Butler, of ^nd Hdl, spiritual well-being of children and was il\tbrothei', Mr.vf,,, ne nponle \u201d\t.Robert Kirkby, and Mrs.Kirkby, on ' The children and those who train- Wednesday last cd them are to be congratulated in* Mi.Aithui Kenny and Mrs E.that the children took their parts Donnahue, ot Cookshirc, were Sun-in the service with dignity and day guests of Mr.and Mrs.Stuart beauty.A large congregation at-.CoIyts\\, ,\t.\t,\t.\t, tended and enjoyed the inspiring i ^r' Murdo Macdonald ant.Miss service.General Notes Mrs.Oscar Desruissenu spent a week-end as guest of Mrs.Leon Des-ruisseau, in Cookshire.Joyce McLeod, of Sherbrooke, spent a week-end with the former\u2019s uncle, Mr.J.A.Murray, and Mrs.Murray, Miss Alice Hill, of Montreal, was a caller at the home of her aunt, Mr and Mrs.' Fred Clark, of Mrs' Fl'e