Sherbrooke daily record, 18 juin 1921, samedi 18 juin 1921

[" Sherbrooke Daily Record Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUE., SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1921 Twenty-Fifth Year.MINERS THREATEN TO TAKE NATIONAL ACTION Queen Mary To Accompany King On Trip To Ireland MINERS FAVOR A CONTINUANCE OF COAL STRIKE, AND NATIONAL WALKOUT IS NOW THREATENED Subsidy of Ten Million Pounds from Government Likely to Lapse\u2014Lloyd George States Offer Cannot Remain Open After Tomorrow Night\u2014Miners\u2019 Executive Endeavoring to Get Support from Other Unions\u2014Two-thirds Majority Required for Continuance of Strike Was Exceeded by 20,000 Votes.(Associated Press Despatch) LONDON, June 18.\u2014The striking British coal miners who decided by ballot, yesterday, against accepting the owners\u2019 settlement offer, this morning were given one more day in which to take the settlement steps which will assure them of receiving the ten million pounds subsidy from the Government to apply on wages.The action of the miners\u2019 executive committee in opening negotiations for the support of other unions, however, indicated that the subsidy offer will be allowed to lapse.Mr.Lloyd George replying today to the notification given him by Prank Hodges, the miners\u2019 secretary, of the result of the ballot, stated that the Government had no option but to make final its decision that the ten million pounds offer couid not remain open after tomorrow night.This gave an additional day for the miners' leaders to consider the offer as the Government's offer was originally timed to expire tonight.The two-thirds majority required for continuance of the coal strike was exceeded by over 20,000 votes.Government time limit within which the State grant of ten million pounds must be accepted expires today.The miners\u2019 ballet stands now' 432,511 against abandoning the strike, to 183,827 in favor of doing so.The men\u2019s leaders are placed in a difficult and anxious position by this vote and have not yet decided what course to take.The executive committee of the Miners\u2019 Union, which met this morning to consider the coal strike situation, decided to ask all the trades unions affected by the wage dispute to meet the miners\u2019 representatives at an early date with the object of taking national action with the miners to secure their mutual demands.Secretary Hodges, of the Miners, said this implied, a general strike if the other unions agreed.The members of the miners' committee left for their respective districts after the meeting had adjourned indefinitely.The committee will not reassemble, it was said, until developments arise or the members are eaiied together by their officials.Many thousands of miners who did not participate in the balloting, the result of which was announced yesterday as decidedly against acceptance of the owners' settlement dfîéfras well as others who voted in favor of acceptance, are preparing to resume work Monday in response to notices posted at several pitheads announcing that the works would open tomorrow night according to advices from mining centres today.In Warwickshire two coliieiies already are working while in the northern portion of the Nottinghamshire district and in the Midlothian district, 1toe men are declared to be preparing to resume work.***** ***** ***** PROSPECTIVE SETTLEMENT OF THE COTTON STRIKE.* * * * & * * * * * * * * * * *, refused to sign the agree- * *\tment until it had been ap- * *\tproved by their\tmembers\tin\t* *\tvarious districts.\tThe\tmills\t* *\twill remain cioscd.\t* *\t* & it ;ifc vfc àb &¦$£, it, & it ib TJC< TbT uN Txf TTV TXT 'T' TTs tit tXT 'X» Tjfv Txr JXf rjv (Associated Press Despatch.) MANCHESTER, June 18.\u2014Although the Textile Workers\u2019 Association, representing * all branches of the cotton in- * dliitry, voted yesterday to * accept the employers\u2019 offer * for a settlement of the cot- * ton strike, a hitch occurred when the spinners\u2019 delegates Appeal for Funds ANOTHER EFFORT TO SETTLE THE IRISH QUESTION ACQUITTAL OF MAX RANDOHER IS PROTESTED \u201cIf we could grapple with the whole child situation for one generation, our public health, our economic efficiency, the moral character and stability of our people would advance three generations in one.\u201d \u2014Herbert Hoover.What remains to be done in the Province of Quebec for the preservation of the life of children is clearly shown by the provincial statistics, for in the year 1918 this province lost, under the age of four years, the appalling number of 16,579 children.What is the Victorian Order doing for Sherbrooke children?It is doing pre-natal, maternity, infant and child welfare work to the limit of its financial support\u2014if you increase the support, you will increase the usefulness of the Order.Contributions may be sent to Mrs.J.Rosenbloom, Hon.Treasurer, 77 Quebec Street.The following contributions are Previously acknowledged .$311.50 PRESENTATION WAS MADE TO SIR K1NGSMILL Has Retired from the Directorship of the Canadian Naval Service.(Associated Press Despatch) OTTAWA, June 18.\u2014On his retirement from the directorship of the Canadian Naval Service, Admiral Sir.Charles W.Kingsmill was yesterday presented1 with a handsome silver flagon and tray suitably engraved, by the officers of His Majesty\u2019s Canadian Naval Serving in Canada and Imperial ships and by senior civil officers of the department at headquarters, the Royal Naval College, and the dockyards.The flagon is a replica of one taken from one of the captured ships of the Spanish Armada.Hon.C.C.Ballantyne, Minister of Naval Affairs, in making the pre- &###* ###** $£ & *\tCANADIAN CATTLE EX * *\tCEPTIONALLY FREE * *\tOF DISEASE.\t* *\t- * *\tAssociated Press Despatch.) * *\tLONDON.June 18.\u2014Wit- * *\tnesses yesterday before the * *\tCattle Embargo Commission * *\twere representative English * *\tmeat traders who unanimous- * *\tly asked for the removal of * *\tthe embargo on the ground * *\tthat prices of meat would ?e * *\tdown.They also stated that * *\tthey had no fear of disease * *\tbeing introduced into the * *\tUnited .Kingdom through * *\tCanadian cattle, which, they * *\tassei-ted, were exceptionally * *\tfree of disease.\t* « * **** **** ******* services as director, and paid tribute to the efficient service he had built up and maintained during the arduous years of the war.Mr.Ballantyne made special reference to the Royal Canadian Naval College, which, built up during Sir.Charles\u2019 tenure of office had turn- sentation thanks Sir.Charles in the ( ed out so many valuable officers, and name of the people of Canada for his attained such a high reputation.IMPORTANT QUESTIONS BEING ' .BY THE COUNCIL OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS Poland and Lithuania Prepared to Appear to Outline Status of the City of Vilna and Surrounding Districts\u2014Controversy Relative to Aland Islands, in the Baltic, Will also Be Considered\u2014Other Items on the Agenda Include Claims of Greece, Italy, Jugo-Slavia, a Protest from Germany, and Settlement of the Disagreements Which Have Arisen Between the City of Danzig and Poland.5.00 5.00 17.50 3.00 Rev.B.B.Brown Mrs.W.S.Allen.Maple Leaf Club.Girls in Residence, Y.W.C.A.Mrs.McSwiggan.E.T.Graduate Nurses' Association .10.00 Miss Agnes Edwards.\t1.00 \u201cMelbourne St.\u201d.10.00 Mr.and Mrs.J.Saint Denis\t5.00 Mrs.E.Milton Adams, jr.\t.\t.\t2.00 Governor-General\u2019s Medal Offered To Notre Dame Convent Was Awarded To Miss Doris Clark, A Successful Graduate Miss Yvonne Manseau Received the Medal Offered by the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province\u2014His Lordship the Bishop of Sherbrooke Presided at the Commencement Exercises-\u20141921 Graduates Were the Recipients of Many Gold Medals and Many Special Prizes.(Associated Press Despatch.) * GENEVA, June 18.\u2014Representatives of Poland and Lithuania were prepared today to appear before the council of the League of Nations to outline the positions of these two countries relative to the future satus of the city of Vilna and surrounding districts.Vilna has been occupied by Polish \u201cirregular\u201d troops for nearly a year, and representatives of the league have visited that city to determine the merit of the Polish and Lithuanian claims.The controversy between Finland and Sweden relative to the award of the Aland Islands, in the Baltic, to Finland, was also upon the agenda of the council.The claims of Greece, Jugo-Slavia and Italy relative to sections of land among the YOUNG LAD WAS FOUND DYING ON Employee of Dominion Textile Mills Died from Wound in Left Breast.(Associated Press Despatch) QUEBEC, June 18.\u2014With a knife Albanian frontier will be.considered! wound through the heart, Adrien before the council adjourns, as willl Vezina, aged 16 years, of L\u2019Ange Germany\u2019s protest against the plac-i Gardien Parish, died in a room of ing of French garrisons in the Saare|the Dominioin Textile Mills at Mont-district and disagreements which! gomery Falls shortly after noon have arisen between the city of ! yesterday, while his cousin, Lepold Danzig and Poland.-A- Showered with congratulations and.evening was Shubert\u2019s \u201cSymphony\u201d 5.00 burdened down with numerous with the Misses L.Desruisseaux.A.FT C A prizes, ranging from gold medals to i Yachon, E.Walsh and L.O\u2019Donnell the masterpieces of modern litera- at the piano in conjunction with the ture, the 1921 graduates of Monti following violinists the Misses Helen Notre Dame Convent, bade farewell ! Cox, H.Monty, E.Veilleux, A.Tal-yesterday evening to their Alma i bot, M.P.Beaulieu and G.Couet.Mater.\tI 1\u2019he prizes for politeness and The commencement exercises, r-e- j thoughtfulness, donated by the Rev.presenting the closing of the term, Emile Gervais, chancellor, were won $375.00 were presided over by His Lordship ; by the Misses Blandine Lejeune and : the Bishop of Sherbrooke; the Rev.| Mother Provincal of Montreal, Fa-l ther Simard, Rector of the Cathedral, 1 Mr.H.Lemay, M.L.A.also being in 1 attendance.The feature event of the afternoon F.Tessier, Prizes amounting to $50 were generously offered by the Knights of Columbus for class excellence and religious instruction and were awarded to Misses Yvonne Manseau, Lucil-O\u2019Donnell, Edith Walsh, Cecile G.W.V.A.PROVINCIAL COMMAND IS OPPOSED TO AMALGAMATION - j was the awarding of the Gold Medal, H\t, .Suggests Unity of Policy on All fbe highest scholastic honor, to five Rioux, Antoinette Talbot, Hildred M\tf\ttui i\tiii i\t1 .voung\tladies who\tcompleted the Monty and F.Tessier.1V1 alters Ot\tMutual Interest.\tI course\tof studies of\tthe institution\tgolden lyre offered\tby Mrs.E.-\t|\tand who passed satisfactory examin-j Codere, for instrumental\tmusic, was (Associated\tPress\tDespatch)\tj ations\tj awarded to Miss Lucille\tO\u2019Donnell TORONTO, June 18.\u2014The Onta- The young ladies who attained this 'Y^o recently passed her examina-rio provincial command of the G.W.] great honor, were the Misses Doris ^ons! at the Montreal Academy of V.A.has gone on record as opposed! c]a,.k, Yvonne Manseau, Lucille.Music, with great success.Miss HEAVY FORCE OF SINNFEINERS ATTACK POLICE Tardif, aged 17, the only witness of the tragedy, was placed under arrest and is now being held at the headquarters of the provincial police pending the holding of the cornor-er\u2019s inquest this morning.The two boys were working alone in a room, sorting cotton waste, Vezina, the victim, had a knife which he used to cut waste.The first intimation of the tragedy given to other employees of the factory was when Tardif rushed from the room stating that.Vezina had stabbed himself.Vezina was found lyinf Fierce Fighi Last Night at Rath- 01) fl0Ol.unconscious with blood coole.Where Twenty-five Po-; flowing from a wound in his left i-\ti Off qflft c:_\u201e! breast.He died within ten minutes hcemen Beat Utt\t^'nn without resaining consciousness.Feiners.\t'\t'\u2022 to the present suggested amalgamation of all the soldier organizations Lord Buxton and Viscount Bryce Was Responsible for IH-Treatinp int,° one bo