Sherbrooke daily record, 27 décembre 1927, mardi 27 décembre 1927

[" Sherbrooke Daily Record Established 1897.SHERBROOKE.QUE., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1927 Thirty-First Year.HAVE NOT FOUND ANY TRACK OF MISSING PLANE Kidnapper Admits Murdering Child-Two New Canadian Cruisers ~ ~\tCANADIAN GOVERNMENT PIANS TO PURCHASE TWO NEW DESTROYERS Fear \u2018Dawn\u2019 Added To List MONDAY NOON Of Those That Dropped Out Of Sight Without A Trace No Word of Missing Plane as Yet \u2014General Opinion is that Motor Trouble or Weight of Ice on Wings Forced it Down.LITTLE HOPEHËLD OUT FOR MEMBERS OF CREW Two U.S.Destroyers, Dirigible Los Angeles and Many Ships Taking Part in Search\u2014To Date Eighteen Men and Two Women Have Been Lost With No Clue to Mishaps Which Brought Disaster to Their Overseas Flight Ventures.fAjaociated Pre»* Denpalcfc) NEW YORK, Dec.2 7.\u2014As hours passed with no word from the Dawn, long overdue in its flight from New York to Harbor Grace, Nfld., with its woman commander.Mrs- Francis Grayson, and her crew of three, fear was expressed that the plane had been added to the list of those which dropped from sight, without trace, in a trans-oceanic flight attempt.Eighteen men and two women have been lost with no clue to the mishap that brought disaster to their overseas flight ventures.The missing are: Captain Saint-Roman and Commander Mouneyres, who left St.Louis, Senegal, May 5 for Buenos Aires.Captain Charles Nungesser and Major Francis Coli, who left Paris FALL INTO POT OF TAR PROVED TO BE FATAL Charles Labrecque, 57 Years Old, Passed Away Saturday in St Vinecni de Paul Hospital\u2014 Had Been Injured at Magog rn December 13 \u2014 Verdict of Accidental Death Returned Coroner\u2019s Jury.by BADLY SCALDED BY STEAM FROM A LOCOMOTIVE Superintendent of Quebec Central Railway and Member of Many Sporting, Fraternal, Church and Educational Bodies\u2014Fu-| neral Will Be Held Tomorrow I Afternoon.In the passing away of Mr.J.T.I Reid, whose death occurred at his ! residence, Wolfe street, at- one-! fifteen o\u2019clock yesterday afternoon, ! following an illness of several ! months, the Quebec Central Railway has suffered the loss of a valued and faithful official, while the city of Sherbrooke has been deprived of_ a citizen who always took a keen interest in anything which tended towards the welfare or betterment of society.The late John Thompson Reid was born in Leeds, Megantic County, on August 31st, 1858, the son of the ' J.A.Boucher, district coroner, which in the White Bird, May 8, for Newjwag returned by the coroner\u2019s jury r ork.\t.\t_ t,\tat- the inquest presided over bv Dr.John A Pedlar, Lieut.V.R.Rnope I - ¦ -\t\u2022\t¦ and Miss MiMren Doran, in the Miss Doran, and Jack Frost and Gordon Scott in the Golden Eagle, who left Oakland, Calif., August 16, in the Dole air derby to Honolulu.William P.Edwin and Alvin Heichwald, who left Oakland in the Dallas Spirit August 19, for Hawaii, in search for the Miss Doran and the Golden Eagle.Paul Redfern, who in the Brunswick Spirit, left Brunswick, Ga., August 25, for Rio de Janeiro.Captain Leslie Hamilton, Col.Frederick F.Minchin and the Princess Anne Lowenstein-Wertheim, who left Upavon, England, August 31, in the St.Paphael for Ottawa, Ontario.Captain Terence Tulley and Lieut.James Medcalf and their plane, The Sir John Carling, were lost after leaving London, Ont., Sept.7, for London.England.The Old Glory was lost at sea on September 6.in an attempt to fly to Rome.Although portions of the wreckage were recovered, no trace was ever found of Lloyd W.Bertaud, James Dewitt Hill and Philip Payne, the crew, IS OF OPINION PLANE WAS FORCED DOWN BY ICE FORMATION ON WINGS to Sherbrooke Hospital.After eleven days of suffering Caught under his engine which from burns received when he fell!was sideswiped by a yard engine at headlong into a pot of boiling t-ar, Gorham, N.H., Thomas Chevrier, Charles Labrecque, fifty-seven years j thirty-five years old, of Island Pond, old, Brooks street, passed away in an engineer in the employ of the the St.Vincent dc Paul Hospital on!Grand Trunk Railway, was serious-Saturday.\tjly scalded about the face by escap- Labrecque, an employee of C.A.jing steam Sunday morning at 7.20 Gingras and Fils, local contractors, o\u2019clock.was helping to instal an electric > Chevrier was apparently oiling refrigerator at the time of the ac- h;s engine, which was drawn up on cident., which was being erected m | a sidin2.at Gorham the shop of Martel and Landreulle, | Magog butchers.While applying the cork lining to the room, the scaf-i -\t\u2018\t,\t- folding on which he was standing r,er was, ^^ath, tolled it suddenly gave way and the man was £,ver> and pinned the engineer to the thrown headlong into a pot of boil-!Sroun^- Chevrier was nou injUt-aa ing tar, which was used to cement V the falling engine but was seethe cork to the walls and ceiling., erely burned about the face with Following the accident the injured ! escaping steam before he could be man was rushed to the St.Vincent ! rescued by' feljow-workmen.He de Paul Hospital.Here everything ! was at once rushed to the Sher-possible to save his life was carried'brooke Hospital, arriving there dur-out, but to no avail, and after linger- jing the afternoon, ing between life and death for eleven ; Latest reports state that Chevrier days Labrecque passed away.\tjig restihg comfortably and that his A verdict of \u201caccidental death\u201d condition is satisfactory.Thomas Chevrier, 35 Years Old, of Island Pond, Vt,, Seriously Burned About Face When Engine Which He Was Oiling Was Sideswiped by Yard Engine at j late John Re\u2019id and\u2019 Mary Thompson, Gorham, N.H.\u2014Was Brought at Gorham, preparatory to a run.A yard engine side-the locomotive while Chev- (Associated Press Despatch) NEW YORK, Dec.27.\u2014Belief that the amphibian plane \u201cDawn,\" missing since Friday, was forced down by ice formation on its wings was expressed today by Captain Hugh A.Grant, former superintendent of the Meteorological Department of the British Navy and an authority on Atlantic weather.\u201cFlying through freezing weather with light winds in the jump to Nova Scotia,\u201d he said, \u201cit is probable that the \u2018Dawn\u2019 was forced down by ice formation on its wings and that it thus met with a disaster parallel to the tragedy which befell the Nungesser and Coli plane on the European side, flying westward.\u201cThe weight of caked ice on its wings and fuselage would have in creased beyond sustaining capacity as the plane advanced toward the rugged and desolate terrain of Newfoundland.At Halifax the weather was distinctly unfavorable, with fog and rain, but, it is unlikely that the missing plane could have remained aloft long enough to have come within appreciable reach of this point.\u201d was held at police headquarters on Saturday evening.Hector Laferte, Member For Drummond Speaker Of Quebec Legislature Has Been Deputy Speaker of Assembly Since 1923\u2014Hon.J.N.Francoeur, Speaker Since 1919, Has Decided to Leave for Another Important Post.Q1 (.Canadian Press Despatch) UEBEC, Dec.27.\u2014 Announcement is made here that Hector LaFerte will be selected as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly when the new House convenes on January 10th.Mr.LeFerte has been Deputy Speaker of the Assembly since 192 3, and it has been understood for some years that he was to become Speaker when Hon.J.N.Francoeur, Speaker since 1919, decided to leave that field for another important post, announcement of which will be made shortly.Mr.LaFerts wag first elected to the Assembly in HHG for the county of Drummond, which his father.Jos.LeFerte, well-known'in the lumber trade of the Eastern Townships, represented in the House from 1901 to 1910.Mr.LeFerte, who is a well-known lawyer here, represents several important labor organizations.He founded the Junior Liberal Association of -Quebec and was first president of that body.THE WEATHER FIVE MEMBERS OF FAMILY FOUND DEAD YESTERDAY Were Asphyxiated by Escaping Gas\u2014Had Entertained Party of Friends at Christmas Celebration.PATERSON.N.J., Dee.27.\u2014 Peter Scarpelli, his wife Jennie, daughters Rose, 21, Eleanor, 11, and son Ralph, 8.who entertained a party of friends at a Christmas celebration, were found dead yesterday in their home.A son, Anthony, 24, who was admitted to practice as a lawyer last week, was the only member of the family to escape death by asphyxiation caused by gas escaping from a Stove fixture in the kitchen of their home.pioneers of Megantic County, and was also educated at the Leeds' school.On October 10th,\t1896, he was married to Miss Janet Thompson, of Leeds, who survives him with one daughter, Miss Jean D.Reid.He is, also, survived by one brother, William Reid, and one sister, Mrs.B.McHarg, both of Leeds.The deceased always took a keen | interest in the Presbyterian Church, having first joined the Reid\u2019s Presbyterian Church in Leeds, and upon coming to Sherbrooke to reside became an active member of St.Andrew's Presbyterian Church.In 1924 he entered tire United Church of Canada, transferring his membership to Plymouth United Church where until the time of his death, he was a member of the Session and Superintendent of the Church Sunday School.He was also a member ot the Sherbrooke Protestant School Board; Sherbrooke Snowshoe Club; Y.M.C.A.; Victoria Lodge, No.16, A.F.and A.M.; Thetford Mines Golf Club, and Board of Governors of Stanstead College.Mr.R,eid, who at the time of his death was superintendent of the Quebec Central Railway here, entered the services of the company on May 1st, 1S90, as a relieving agent, and in October, 1890, was appointed station agent, which position he held until he came to Sherbrooke in June, 1891, to assume the task of train despatcher.In 1901 Mr.Reid was promot-ed to the position of chief train despatcher, becoming assistant superintendent in June, 1911, and superintendent on July 1st, 1915.Owing to ill health Mr.Reid had not been able to attend to his dutiese regularly since May last, and for several months past his condition became such that his numerous friends and business associates realized that the end was not far distant, although at times he rallied and his condition became more encouraging.The funeral will be held tomorrow, family prayers at the late residence, 31 Wolfe street, at- two p.m., followed by service at Plymouth United Church.Interment -null be in Elmwood cemetery.The funeral being a Masonic one, all brother Masons are requested to meet at the Masonic Temple, Montreal street, at 1.15 p.m.ORAZIO GASPARRI DEAD (Associaled Press Despatch; ROME, Dec.27.\u2014Orazio Gaspar-ri, elder brother of Cardinal Gaspard, papal Secretary of State, died yesterday.He was eighty-six years of age.A LITTLE FLOWER FOR $500?mrjf ¦: vv; * v n XlCI' w \u2022¦v^A\t¦ v.a TO BE READY YEARS New Craft Will Replace the \u201cPatriot\u201d and \u201cPatrician,\u201d Which Were Bnilt in 1916 and Have Performed Continuous Sea-Going Service Since Being Taken Over by Canada\u2014They Are Only Two Destroyers cf Their Age in Commission and Have, it Is Stated, Reached End of Their Effective Life.(Canad»3tt Press DesoatcK) OTTAWA, Dec 2 7.\u2014 The Government will give authority at the coming session of parliament for the purchase of two new modern destroyers to be delivered within three years.The new destroyers will replace the Patriot'\u2019 and \u2018 Patrician.\u201d The '\u2018Patriot\u201d and '\u2018Patrician\u2019\u2019 are to be paid cut of commission immediately and will be sold out of the Canadian Navy.Construction of the first of the new destroyers is to be commenced at once.Parliamentary authority is secured.In the meantime, arrangements have AT LOCAL JAIL Christmas Bisner and Supper Served to Thirfy Prisoners Housed In Jail Over Holiday \u2014Governor A.Charest Allowed Men Social Hour.Through the kindness of Mr.A.ChtKcl, governor of the local jail, and ths proiyiblcwi merck-sr.-bs who been made with the admiralty to;\tthe local.jail with food, the obtain two destroyers to carry on thirty prisoners who v era forced with until the new craft are!\tCteuitimas in jar: were sup- 1 ti\tlj at CL\u2019 r/::ed Av.-h.a DOTint-idjUu suipR.y oi ready.1 hese are H- M.bhip' i \u201d Here\u2019s a nice orchid you might buy your sweetie, if you have managed to save $500.The flower, the- result of 50 years of hybridizing, is being held by Mrs.Harold Lloyd, of Hollywood, to whom it was presented by its cultivators after it had won first prize at the Beverly Hills and Pasadena flower shows.It is called the \u201cCypripedium Mar-mion.\u201d \u2018Torbay\u201d and \"Toreador\u201d and the Canadian government has authorized the commencing of work forthwith at Portsmouth to recondition the vessels and bring them forward for Canadian service.It is expected that they will arrive in Canada towards ths end of March.The \u2018\u2018Torbay\u201d and \u201cToreador\u201d were built by Thornycrcfts and belong to the same group as the \u201cS\u2019\u2019 class Admiralty destroyers.Eight Declares Hickman Made Complete Statement Of All Details Of Crime With Dish Towel.Stated that Accused Has Admit- morning hs prepared -breakfast, but ted Murder aad Mutilation of\t'U\u201d, bot e^- ACJ'sr N\u2018eiih- f p .\tn fast lie talked to her and said she .Littie Marion rarker, as Wen could' write a letter to her father.as Kidnapping Strangled He,\t'hI\u201d\"|i,,b\"tofuPSrita\"S ; letter.\u201cHe told of waiting for Parker\u2019s (Associated Press Despatch) car on Friday and seeing two police BOARD\tHickman\tPrison\tcars and driving-\taway\twithout de- Car Watsonville,\tCalif.,\tJive™f the.SirL\t,Thei} ^ went r.\t, to Hickmans apartment.Uec.-/.Details or Lie \u201cThe girl sobbed a little because new\tconfession\tof William Ed-\tshe could not go\thome\tthat night, ward Hickman,\tin which\the ad-\tThat night she slept the\tsame as the A Millions Of Persons In China At Present Time Facing Extreme Famine Thousands in Shantung Already* Subsisting on Bark of Frees, Chafl and Grass\u2014Peak of Suffering Was Said Not to Have Been Reached Yet.mitted the murder and mutilation of little Marian Parker, as well as the kidnapping, were announced this morning by District Attorney Asa Keyes, of Los Angeles county, in part as follows: \u201cThis boy made a full complete statement of practic ally all phases of this crime.\u2019told him \u2018\u2018About six months ago he first thought of kidnapping a child to get money to take a course in college.He stole a previous night.The next morning he told her to write to her father and to make her condition appear really worse than it was.\u201cHe promised her that if \"het father did not pay the money he would let her go home.He then wrote the third note.He put her \u2019 note in the same envelope, went and ! '-'own town to get some papers, saying he would be back in half an hour.He tied her and blinotoided her.She hurry back.St'-fUigled His Victim \u201cAt this timi on n\u2019ention to murder her gripped hun.\u2018He got a rolling pin, but did not car in Kansas City and drove toTtr;\u2018k?ll«\u2018, it-\the took th 1 disih towel and strangled her with it.: P WEATHER IS SEVERE IN SABLE ISLAND VICINITY (AniiocUted Pre«« Denpatch) NEW YORK, N.Y., Dec., 2i7.\u2014 Gales, high seas and «now equaHto pirtvadled from Saturday morning until early Sunday in the vicinity Of SnlbOe falmnd, off the coast ef (Continued on page ci\u2019ght) COMPARATIVELY WARM Pressure is high to the south of the Great Lakes and over the Far Northwest and relatively, low over the western portion of the United States.The weather has been fair in nearly all parts of the Dominion.Forecast: Fair nod comparatively warm today and Wed-neaday.\t, New England: Cloudy tonight and Wedneaday; not *o cold tonight, except in extreme eaatern Maine: (Yeah, poaaibly atrong aoulhweat and west winda.(Associated Press Despatch) EKING .China, Dec.2 7.\u2014 At least four millions in the province of Shantung and part of Chihli are facing extreme famine, which must be expected to become more severe as the winter progresses, a committee of observers reported today.The report grew out of the Chinese International Famine Relief Commission s appeal to the Red Cross for aid and the request of the Red Cross for more exact information.A survey found to be already subsisting on the bark of trees, chaff and grass.While the Chinese famine relief blamed the drought and locusts the committee thought that \u201ccivil war, banditry and exorbitant taxation,\u201d Were also equally to blame for Shantung\u2019s plight.The peak of the suffering was said not to have been reached yet.It, will grow more intense from the Chinese New Year, January 23rd, until spring.The belief was expressed that the famine would be as intensive a.s that of 1,920-21, although the area was much smaller.The compilers of the report concluded that there was no hope of raising relief funds in China and outside aid must bo sought.They thought, however, that war and banditry would make virtually impossible intensive relief under competent foreign supervision such as was done in 1921.This, they said, would also prevent relief labor pro- Los Angeles.There he rented an apartment on November 2 3.\u201cOn December I2th, after thinking of .Perry M.Parker, he went out to Parker\u2019s house to see him come home.On Deember 14th he went again early in the morning and saw the two Parker children leave home for school, the well known details of the kidnapping.Alter putting the girl in CROWDS GATHERED TO SEE ACCUSED (Associated Press Despatch) Aboard Hickman Prison Car, San Luis Obispo, Calif., Dec.27.\u2014Although crowds gathered at all stopping points for the train bearing Hickman then ' related 'Villi»nl Edward Hickman toward .boa Angeles, no disorders had been Aiter putting the girl : encountered V\t\u201e\t.hevid-ay food at both Sunday no-on and evening meals.The twenty-six \u2022male -prh-oners ate in a lange room on the- first floor, a long table- having been set up to Èac-oramoêsie them.Following the dinner, which consisted cf rca.st goose, vegetables, fruit, candy and ice-cream; cigarette.:, tobacco and piipies, which had been tied to a cmaM\u2019 Christmas tree in the centra cf the tebie, were handed out and an hour spent in smoking, chatting and listening to ths ipSnoncgraçh.loaned for the occasion by Governor i Charest., ,,\t-\t| The four female prisoners who of these compose the eighth destroy.\tk,ouîed jn another section of er flotilla in commission on the |\tg,;Vea a sue- China station; three are m commis-j .\t\u201c ; Sion and- two are reserve in the Aus- Cla\u201c men'u- tralian naval service.One is in; Thomas Metz, an inmate cf the reserve commission on the Medi- ] jail, who is a wait mar sentence for terranean station.Their displace-j mans'augh ter m eonne: 3 on w .ntr?nient is 1,075 tons.They have a : fatal shooting here on New Year\u2019s speed of pfli knots.Thor armament| eve last, at his own reque .parbeok consists of 3 four inch guns, half of his dinner in his own quarters, pounder, pom-poms, I.M.G., 40 Messrs.A.Gauthier, Joseph L/i-Lewis and 4, 21 inch torpedo tubes, peinte, Claude Gosselin and T.The \u201cPatriot\u201d and \u2022'Patrician\u201d.\u2022 Savoie, jailers, ate with the male \u2022 were built m 1916 and have per- i prisoners and kept a watch over formed continuous sea-going service ; the proceeding*.since taken over by Cadana.They ; -1 ~\t\u201c _\u2014 are te only two destroyers of their stated, reached the end of their ef-i age in commistion and have, it is j fective life.i\t.^\t.\u2019\t-.r.Experts Figure \" 1 Of New York By Middle Of New Year Will Be Six Million Chicago, Second U.S.City, Has Population of 3,102,800 \u2014Cleveland Will Move into Million Class Before 1930 Census.W(AÏshÎnctqTDDecSP27C-siz-|LIQUOR TOOK HEAVY TOLL ing up the growth of 255 American cities credited i\t______ j with populations Ol thirty thousand:\t(Associated Press Despatch^ 1er more, census bureau experts! CHICAGO.111., Dec.- 27.\u2014Three ; have L g tired among other ! dead, fourteen in hospitals and 156 .things that by the middle of | locked up in police stations are the [next year New York will have more | early figures cn the liquor toll in I than sJx million inhabitants, and j Chicago.Cleveland will move into the one, Gus.av j million class before the 1930 enum- - er-ation.\t,\t\u201e\t,\t,\tT , Computations have been made as f \u201c\u2018y after he and ¦ red Johnson K\t_\t,\t.had engaged m a drinking bout, I of July 1.D'-L and are based, in James Cullen and Louis Lachance ! most cases, on the assumption that were found in their rooms, both rihe annual increase of population victims of Uliicairo holidny liquor.\u2019since the 1557 census has been the same as the average annual growth | between 1910 and 1920.Estimates were not made fur twenty-threj yit- IN CHICAGO OVER WEEK-END Carlson, of Sioux iCty, Iowa, one of the.dead, was burned to death in a construction company was then compiled by compct- jec^s Fko building roads and canals , r \u2022\ti i Bandits and soldiers are largely ent foreign authorities and ob- reRp0tlsjhie for a large peasant mi- servers.\tgration from the Tamingfu area of Thousands in Shantung wero Chihli.^ pULhs guv m _ ,uiJ }° t-oday when the his car, he drove out, he added, for F1\tweVe Glendale and stopped at a sideTLaiTed\t?-?ti4ap -ot l-le tni> street.He told the girl uhe was be- toT!a^ ' 0Ul lcrn bTuiforma city, ing kidnapped.\tJ.lu' -\u2019llan ÏU' ¦\thavo V»1-1 \u201cHe bound and gagged her.She1; sa YYT\u2019 'U.!-10' Attorney, that begged him not.to and he refrained, le wo;'ld bo f}1}™* t(! Ncad guilty blithe showed her a pistol.lie then 4° muider ai.,1 kidnapping ana would went to Pasadena, and sent the first Yy*1* .[nipositicn of the death pen-telegram to the father.He took the , F 'yith-out delay.He seemmgly chil.i to Medusa and assured her that had aJo£