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VOL. CLXXV. No. 19 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1946. ANSWERS OFFERED FOR CRIME WAVE North End Business Men Differ Widely as to Causes of Increase SEVEN TYPES SOLD IN AUCTION OF FUR First Bidding of Year Will Continue Through Friday, Resume Monday FT ii it 1 1 l' Apt 4' I li -4 1: I 1,300 Destined Here In Three Troopers Of the 16,000 Canadian servicemen due to arrive in Canada this week aboard the three troopships, Mauretania, Lady Rodney and lie de France, nearly 1,300 are destined for homes in Montreal and the province.

The oft-delayed Mauretania, now scheduled to dock at Halilax this morning at 8 o'clock, carries 391 army and 41 air force personnel for the Province of Quebec. Arrival cf the men in Montreal is expected on Thursday. Both the Lady Rodney and the He de France are still due to dock at Halifax on Friday. The Lady Rodney carries a total of 84 Quebec men, including the 72 officers and men of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers. The lie do France, bringing the Canadian Grenadier Guards back to their homes in and around Montreal, has a total of 631 army repats for this district aboard as well as 41 Quebec members of the R.C.A.F.

4 Nth Oil v' GIRLS' SCHOOL 'SINKING': Once a boys' institution and before that a farmhouse, this building at Cowansville, now "sinking into the houses the Girls' Cottage School, one of the most enlightened social experiments ever undertaken in Canada. The school is the only institution for non-Roman Catholic girl delinquents in the province of Quebec. A modern building will replace this if public interest and support are forthcoming. School Uses Kindness to Retrain Delinquent Girls, Now Needs Help HISTORIC OCCASION COMMEMORATED: Donated by J. C.

Burnett to commemorate the gallant and tragic action of the 1st Battalion, The Black Watch (R.HR.) of Canada at St. Andre-aur-Orne, Normandy, on July 25, 1944, senior ofliccrs of the regiment are here shown receiving an oil painting of a regimental piper. This magnificent painting by Thomas Miller, of Toronto, prize-winning young Canadian war artist, will be given a permanent place on the walls of the historic old Black Watch Armory, on Bleury street. Shown above, left to right, are Eric Motzfeldt, V. E.

Traversy. both former Commanding Officers of the 1st Battalion; Col, I. L. Ibbotson, E.D., Regimental Commandant: Aird Nesbitt, former Commanding Officer of the West Nova Scotia Regiment, and W. W.

Ogilvie, commanding the 2nd (Reserve) Battalion. Inset is the donor, Mr. Burnett. MEDICAL SCIENCE W. Duncan Reaches 100 Today As Family Arrives to Celebrate Seven types of fur were offered yesterday at the opening of the first fur auction sale here this vear.

The sale continues through Friday and resumes Monday for five days in which only silver fox will be offered. An official of the auction sale announced th- following results of today's bidding: Beaver 96 per cent, of the 15.406 pelts offered were sold, with prices as compared with. 1945 advanced 55 per cent, for blankets and extra large and 40 per cent, for medium and smalj. Otter 100 per cent, of 989 pelts offered sold, with prices advanced 60 per cent. Lynx 72 per cent, of 757 pelts offered sold, with prices declined 15 per cent.

Lynx cat 82 per cent, of 551 prlts offered sold, with prices declined 10 per cent. Raccoon 45 per cent, of 4,419 prlts offered sold, with prices declined 30 per cent. Skunk 80 per cent, of 10,477 pelts offered sold, with prices unchanged. Squirrels 93 per cent, of 60,579 prlts offered sold, with prices advanced 65 per cent. BONFILS DESCRIBES IP CENTURY ART Variety of French Painters Made Works Alive, Parisian Says Characteristics of French art in the 19th century were change, research and variety, resulting in an art that was marvelously alive, Robert Bonfils, artist, engraver and professor at the College Technique Fstienne in Paris, told a meeting at the University of Montreal last night.

His lecture, on the evolution of French painting from David to Renoir, was given under the auspices of L'Institut Scientifique Franco-Canadien. One school of painting followed another. Mr. Bonfils said, from the romanticism of Delacroix, the realism of Courbet and Corot with love of nature, to the impressionism of Manet, Monet and finally Cezanne and Renoir. The 19th century in France, so often decried for its excesses, was a period of fierce independence that completely revolutionized painting, Mr.

Bonfils declared, and French art continues to lead the way with the powerful production of its living modern artists. The speaker was introduced by Jean-Marie Gnuvrcau and thanked by Kdouard Montpctit. administrative secretary of the University. Cyclotron to Be Topic Of Professor Foster Professor J. S.

Foster, D.Sc.s F.R.S., Macdonald professor of physics at McGill University and internationally recognized for his contributions to physical research, will give an illustrated address on the Cyclotron to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at the F. I C. Auditorium on Mansfield street at 8.30 this evening. To the physicist this device Is becoming an essential instrument, and it played an important part in The development of the atomic bomb. Professor Foster will describe the new 49-ton cyclotron and radiation laboratory now under construction at McGill University and continue with an account of clans for future research.

McDougall Will Leave For Tokyo Trials Soon Mr. Justice E. Stuart McDougall of the Court of Appeal, who na3 been appointed a member of the international tribunal which'will kit at Tokyo and try Japanese war criminals, stated yesterday that he v. ill leave Montreal during the next fj-w days and expects to leave Washington, D.C., bv plane on February 1 en route for Tokyo. Justice McDougall will be accompanied by Brig.

-Gen. H. G. Nolan of Calgary, vice judge advocate-general at Defence Headquarters, Ottawa, who will act as an associate prosecutor at the Tokyo which are scheduled to start in the month of March. Thomas Wilcox Rites Planned Here Friday Thomas Wilcox, an employee of the Canadian National Railways for 35 years and uncle of Archie Wilcox, Montreal cartage contractor and former professional hockey player, died yesterday at his residence.

461 Willibrord avenue, Verdun, after a brief illness. Mr. Wilcox, who was born in Brigus, Newfoundland, was in his 89th year. He was a member of the Odd Fellows Club for several years. He leaves an adopted daughter.

Mrs. Edith Dunn of Brawnsburg, y.ie.: two nepnews. Archie and Charles, both of Verdun and three nieces. Mrs. Hilda Renfrew, 'Miss Florence Wilcox and Miss Lilian ilcox.

all of Montreal. Funeral service will take place to By ARTHUR (Gazette Staff Cowansville, January 22. Its very name virtually unknown to a Montreal and a Province of Quebec which have good reason to take pride in its achievements for society, a four-year experiment here in the rehabilitation of young girls which is as advanced in technique as anything the world has to offer, is being stifled slowly by inadequate facilities and accommodation. The experiment bears the name The Girls' Cottage School. lhe girls whose home this is are those whom bad housing, immoral neighborhood conditions, broken homes, lack of affection, alcoholism or any one of a host of other factors have forced into that type of behavior described usually as "delinquent." They are not "bad" girls merely pathetic bits of flotsam and jetsam drifting aimlessly in the backwaters of life's river.

The school was founded in 19 ll, starting eight girls who were housed in Outremont in what had been a private home. The number rose to 18 and it was moved to Longueuil. It remained there until, in 1925, its board of directors purchased "for about $10,000," an old farm near here which had been converted for use as an institution for boys. Throughout all of those years and many which followed, the school, operated in an orthodox fashion in accordance with the theories prevailing at the time, 'stab-lished a fine record and reputation for itself among Canadians interested in social service work. But its board and its staff became increasingly dissatisfied with such a limited program, and increasingly confident that more could be done for the girls.

And so, four years ago. The Experiment was born. "We felt," says Miss Janet Long, executive secretary of the Girls' Cottage School, "that we wouldn't be going far astray in rereading the federal statutes dealing with the subject, which state emphatically that a delinquent child should not be regarded as an offender but as a child in need of care, guidance and good supervision. It was then that we decided to make changes in our school and its administration which would give to the non- Koman catnoiic girls or the prov ince who needed it a better place in which true- understanding and the skill of the staff, coupled with modern educational methods, would prepare them to return to a place in life which they would be capable of, and interested in, retaining." Yesterday, this writer was turned loose in the school with complete freedom of action, and was perhaps a little surprised to find that it exceeded in reality all that had been claimed for it. The atmosphere was definitely not that of an "institution." It was comparable only to that of a better-than-average girls' boarding school.

It has 35 "students" at present. Pending the arrival or the new school superintendent. Miss Dorothy Beattie, on March 1, -complete authority rests in the hands or Miss Willa Broderick, a graduate in home economics of the University of Toronto and of the two-year course given by the Toronto School for Social Work. Of the seven other staff members, four are grad uates of McGill University, Moun' Allison University, University or Toronto and Dalhousie University, and another a graduate in nursing. All are young and intensely inter ested in their work.

Miss Beattie graduated in psychology from the University of Toronto, where she is at present lecturing, and will bring with her a host of other useful experience. Perhaps the most strikng feature of the school is the complete Tree dom of expression. A students council assists the staff in exactly the same way as a similar body does at McGill University. There is an Open Forum every Saturday at The causes of the current crime wave in Montreal took on all the lors of the rainbow as they were filtered through the spectrum the North End Business Men's Association last night. A large gathering attended the meeting in the Morin School hall on St.

Denis, near Beaubien street. The causes, when thoroughly broken down, ranged from the reading of dime novels to the necessity of obtaining an amnesty for army deserters. Others felt there was not enough employment for returning veterans nor a comprehensive rehabilitation program. The King government was asked to implement its promise of making the country a place fit for heroes to live in wlvcn they returned to civil life. Councillor Lucien Croteau.

one of many members of the City Council at the meeting, claimed there were at least 5.0O returned men unemployed in Montreal at the present time. The meetirg was not agreed that army deserters should go "scot free" by receiving an amnesty for their refusal to do their duty as loyal Canadian citizens. There were many who argued vehemently against 'Ottawa granting amnesty to those who deserted the amy in war time. POLICE INCREASE ASKED. An increase in Montreal's police force headed the list of remedial measures against the outbreak of crime.

When the group was reminded that if 600 more policemen were taken on by the city a tax would have to be imposed to meet the cost. 'Why talk about taxes when the important question of protecting the public is at stake?" asked a young man who said he spoXe for the Social Credit Party. "Prime Minister King was able to get plenty of money to fight the war: has he got none now to protect life and property in Montreal? Why should the acquisition of 600 more men to the Police Department make much difference? Leopold Gagnc. who represented the 1. cal St.

Jean Baptiste branch, wanted to know "how many policemen were protecting Montreal at lhe present moment." He addressed his question to Deputy Director J. Alfred Belancer, who was on the platform with the members of the association. No answer was forthcoming, however, and the matter was entirely ignored in a brief address of thanks which Deputy Director Belanger later made to the gathering. Abolition of the registration card as has been done in England would help to keep down crime, the as-stciation members thought. There was conflict on this too from another section of the h.ill that, foi if the card is abolished it should be replaced by an identification card.

OTHER PLANS OFFERED. Other immediate measures designed to cut down crime were: Better street lighting; accentuate the drive against gambling and prostitution houses: control the sale and insist on the registration of firearms: prevent the sale of tpy pistols: maintain a strong system of justice by having the Crown prosecutors check closely into bonds and by refusing bail to repented offenders Among the remedies advanced us preventive were those with a long view range. In this category the association thought that parents should exercise a wise supervision over their children. Other measures were youth recreation plans, training of maladjusted youths, prohibiting the distribution of immoral and salacious literature, application of the Archambault Penitentiary Report as to penal reforms, encourage and increase the number of technical schools for workers and veterans. Rodrigue Moore, president of the association, presided.

It was decided to res-olve the meeting info a committee for further study and report. A patent gives an inventor or his heirs the exclusive right to make, use and sell his invention for 17 ears. PAIN OF COLDS, SORE THROATS FIST! 16 3m See for yourself how quickly Aspirin acts! Drop one in a glass of water and "clock" it. Within two seconds, it will start to disintegrate. It does the same when you take it.

As a result, it provides relief with remarkable speed. Get Aspirin today. The "Bayer cross on each tablet is your guarantee that it's Aspirin. ftOW New Low Prices! Pocket box of 12s Economy bottl of 24 Family lz ol 100 only It onty29 only 7V UlJUf I ret ADLEGiON M. CAILLOUX HEADS BI0L0GICAL GROUP Natural History Society Names University of Montreal Professor Marcel Cailloux, professor of vegetable physiology of the botanical institute of the University of Montreal, was elected president of the Canadian "Natural History Society at the annual general meeting lai night.

Jules Labnrre, a professor of the University of Montreal, told of the wartime discoveries of radar and the atomic bomb. He said that in the light of these discoveries which had, on the one side, brought a boom to mankind, and on the other given birth to a weapon which might destroy the world, man must think of the higher implications of these works of science. Three films one on the electronic microscope, one on synthetic rubber and one on the Mexican volcano, Parlcutin, were shown Other officers chosen for the forthcoming year were Claude Melancon. vice-president; Emile Jacques, secretary; Miss Marcellc Gauvreau, joint secretary; Roger Gauthier, treasurer; and councillors, Giles Brunei, director of the Botanical Institute of the University of Montreal: Vianney Legen-dre. Rev.

Leo Morin, Luc Cho-quette, and ex-presidents Jules Labarre, Dr. C. Simard and Rev. Ovila Fournier. Enrolment Over 240 In How-to-sell Course An unexpectedly high enrolment of over 240.

the majority of whom are ex-servicemen, was announced yesterday for the evening course entitled How to Sell, sponsored by the extension department of McGill University in collaboration with the Advertising and Sales Executives Club of Montreal. Classes be gin tonight, in the chemistry building, and will continue until April 3. Originally it had been intended 1o limit enrolment to 100 but so Kieai was me oemana ior tne course that that limit had to be ex tended several times. Local News Briefs $12,000 Asked at McGill A charities drive combining the drives heretofore sponsored for the International Student Service, the Red Cross and Amalgamated Charities ODens todav at McGill TInivr. sity, with an objective of $2.00 per Student, or a total nf annrnvimato.

ly $12,000. The drive will continue umn teDruary cnairman of the committee in charge is Tom Mc- ivenna oi Montreal, tnira year law student. School Treasurer Appointed Miss Mary John, of the treasurer's office of the Montreal Protestant School Board, has been named acting secretary-treasurer of the Montreal Protestant School Commission, it was learned yesterday at the McTavish street headquarters. Miss John succeeds Sydney Scott, who retired at the end of December after serving for 24 years as secretary-treasurer of the Montreal body. Feildhouse Cancels Talk The lecture scheduled to have been delivered last night by Prof.

H. N. Feildhouse, Kingsford professor of history at McGill University, as his inaugural lecture, was cancelled at the last minute due to the sudden illness of the speaker. Announcement as to the new date of the lecture will be made later by university authorities. Verdun Must Pay Damages The City of Verdun was yester day condemned by judgment of the Superior Court to pay Earl McDonald $265 damages, the amount claimed for injuries Mrs.

McDonald suffered when she fell on the sidewalk on Fourth avenue. Verdun. March 15, 1944. Mr. justice Louis Loranger declared that the municipality liability was en gaged by its failure to sprinkle sand on the ice-covered pavement 21 More Face Tire Charge Arrested in connection with a huge tire black market, 21 more persons were arraigned in police court before Judge T.

A. Fontaine yesterday and charged with illegally purchasing tires. There are now before the courts almost 100 persons charged with breaking the ruDoer controller regulations. All those arraigned yesterday oleaded not guilty and trials were fixed for January 30. J.

G. Renaud Elected Retail Body President J. G. Renaud. Dresident of J.

Lefebvre Limited, was elected president of the Quebec Chain Retail Distributors Association at the annual meeting of that body yes terday. This will make Mr. Ren aud's fourth term in office. Others elected were R. J.

Ward and Clifford Townend. vice-presi dents; Gabriel Renaud. secretary treasurer; directors. J. B.

Parent, Henri Dubois. H. Starkweather. J. G.

Bourdeau. Fernand Beaudin, and aam BLAKELY. Reporter.) which all girls are encouraged air their views on all subjects to in which they might be interested. Every change in administration is discussed with the girls down to the movement of a table in a room Cleanliness, personal and other wise, everywhere prevails. Each girl takes pride in the appearance of her tiny room.

DISCIPLINE IS KINDLY. Corporal punishment has long been tossed into the discard. Discipline is firm, kindly, and to a surprising extent, dependent on the school body. The only punishment inflicted is detention and segregation from the rest of the students. The offender is kept alone in a room in every way similar to that in which she normally stays, but she is given the same meals as the students and the staff receive, and as many books as she cares to read.

Council girls and others who prove worthy of trust are allowed special privileges, such as trips into town. All school training is a preparation for life after "graduation." The academic schooling fills in breaches of former schooling, and covers subjects up to Grade X. Cultural studies include poetry, nature study, current events, art music and literature. Emphasis is placed on home economics in the practical section of the curriculum and the growing ot vegetables, grain, fruit and flowers, and the care of poultry have an important place. Typing and shorthand courses are available to advanced students.

A course in mcthercraft is given, and training in community service work. Religious education is not neglected and the recreational training program includes gardening, pfenics, dancing, hobbies, dramatics, community singing and such competitive sports as hockey, swimming, baseball and tennis. The girls have a rhythm band and a teen-agers' club and publish their own weekly paper. Relations between student and teacher are better than at many public schrols. and this is on the evidence of the youngsters themselves.

The most eloquent testimony was a letter, received during my visit, from a former student, asking if she could return. And no one student or staff was surprised. In this "school" where the girls have a maximum of freedom of action and expression, few problems arise, but when they do there is no hesitancy about discussing them with members of the staff. That this is unusual in a school of this kind, is due to the fact that Sirls bruised by life as these have been invariably regard adults as their "natural enemies." This is a brief picture of the Girls' Cottage School a school of which the girls themselves are more proud than its board of di rectors could ever be. It is a school which every year is returning good girls to a useful place in society.

But there is a more sombre aspect to the picture, too. The present quarters, taken in 1925, were regarded even then as a stopgap. In 1929, plans for building a more suitable school on the same site on the Yamaska River were well advanced, but the depression intervened. The outbreak of war in 1939 was a further hindrance. But now.

with the war won and over the board of directors is again making plans for rebuilding, so that its work may be intensified and the number of girls "educated" increased. The present buildings are sinking into the ground, and further delay is regarded as inadvisable. The school and its girls most of them Montrealers who are looking forward to returning to that city are hoping that financial support for the measure will not be wanting. room, the doings in which have no interest to the outside world. "Not only upon complaints bv those said to be oppressed should action be taken." the legal authority said, "but the council.

of the nations should keep a watchful eye on the internal affairs of every country. "Man is completely free excepting to become a slave," he said. "It is difficult, but not impossible, to teach that war is a crime," Dr. Americano continued. "In Germany and Japan the child of today will have the father of this war and the grandfather of the last war to counteract this doctrine.

But when this child has become grand-gather of 50 I feel confident that present-day thinking on war will have been supplanted by the rule ol international law." Peoples, as well as states, must be represented in the United Nations Organization, the Brazilian legal authority declared, with ability to make their voices heard in the counsels of the world. This is Dr. Americano's first visU to Montreal, he said, and told of his friendship for Jean Desy, Canadian Ambassador to Brazil, and the growing ties between the two countries. He is visiting at the invitation of the Canadian Inter-American Association. APPLICATION URGED Shorter Distance Between Discoveries and Practical Use Said Task The need for special diet to replace protein loss through accidents or other lesional conditions was discussed by Dr.

J. S. L. Browne, associate professor at McGill University and doctor at the Royal Victoria Hospital, at last night's meeting of the Societe Medicale de Montreal at Notre Dame Hospital. Dr.

Browne, who made a study of protein destruction and reconstruction in convalescence, under the auspices of the committee of wartime medical research of the National Research Council, warned that there was a tendency during the past few years to neglect the dietary importance of proteins, fats and starches, and said all doctors and nurses should consider diet a serious part of the treatment of convalescents. Dr. Armand Frappier, new president of the Societe Medicale, spoke on the practitioner's future role in relation to public health. Medicine, he averred, was rapidly evolving, and the task was to shorten the distant between discoveries and their application. Health, rathef than disease, was gradually becoming the focal point of medicine, and it was the task of the Societe Medicale, he claimed, to make objective and scientific studies of medico-social problems and to inform the medical profession, the public and government of the respective roles of curative and preventing medicine.

ARTHUR L. DECARY DIES INJlf YEAR Drug Firm Official Honored for Contributions to French Trade Here Arthur L. Decary. well known in business, educational and social circles in Montreal, died at 7.45 last night at his residence. 17 Chelsea Place, after a lengthy illness.

Mr. Decary was vice-president of Rougier Freres, wholesale druggists, president of Laboratoire Poulene Freres of Canada, Limited, and until recently vice-president of Geo. Wallau, of New York City. In recognition of his efforts and contributions to the development of French trade in Canada, Mr. Decary, who was in his 81st year, was honored by the French government in 1925 with the title, Of-ficier d'Academie.

Mr. Decary was a member of the executive committee of the University of Montreal and governor of both Notre Dame and Jean d'Arc Hospitals. He was a director of Alliance Francais of Montreal and an honorary mem-blrof Jhe College of Pharmacists of the Province of Quebec. He was also a member of the Board of Trade, Chambre de Commerce, Cercle Universitaire de Montreal and the Laval sur de Lac Golf Club. He was also connected with the Circle Interallie of Paris France: Throughout Vlic n'jrnnw HJT Tv cary displayed keen interest in the advancement of artistic and literary movements in this citv and often endowed them with financial support.

He was an active member of the Art Association of Montreal. His wife, the former Laure Seneca), died in 1945. He leaves two daughters, Mrs. Frank Rolland, wife of Col. Frank Koiiand of this citv, and Mrs Andre Gasparinetti of Italy, and one grandson, Jean Rolland of Montreal.

Funeral service will take place at St. James Cathedral. The day and hour will be announced later. Interment will be at Cote de Neiges Cemetery. To Visit From Rio de Janeiro Fifteen engineering students from the University of Rio de Janeiro, accompanied by two of their professors, will arrive here Friday to begin a tour of Quebec and Ontario engineering Installations and schools, it was learned from officials of the Canadian Inter-American Association yesterday.

London. ((F) British farmers are seeking government help to put down a plague of rats which are causing wide damage. One farmer put down 60 traps and caught 47 rats in one night, with another 400 killed when a barley stack was threshed. Today marks the anniversary of the birth of J. W.

Duncan, who is now a centenarian. In celebration of his 100 years of life, Mr. Duncan today is surrounded by members of his family and friends from near and far at his home and that of his daughter, Mrs. F. M.

Jones, 4656 Sherbrooke street west. Despite his advanced age, Mr. Duncan takes a great interest in current events and still goes for his daily walks in the neighborhood of his home. He escaped the recent 'flu epidemic and has not even suffered a slight cold this winter, Mrs. Jones related last night.

One of the recent events that pleased Mr. Duncan most was the homecoming of his grandson, Cpl. Douglas Jones, after serving three years overseas. Mr. Duncan, who is a veteran of the Fenian raids, was born at St.

Catharines, and has been a resident of Montreal for the last 82 years. After several years in the on Friday at 2 p.m. in the chapel of J. W. MacGillivray, 3067 Wellington street, Verdun.

Burial will be at Montreal Memorial Park. Matsuoka Surrenders Tckyo, January 23. (Wednesday) Yosuke Matsuoka, former foreign minister, credited with bringin? Japan into the Axis' tripartite pact, has surrendered at Sugamo prison to await a hearing on war crime charges, headquarters reported today. Commutation Protests Three new protests against the commutation of the death sentence of Kurt Meyer to life imprisonment in Canada have been recorded in resolutions passed by the Montreal District Council, Ypres Branch and Concordia Branch. It is asked that the Canadian government set up an investigation committee to review the case.

In view of the government's previous announcement that it is no more possible for them to interfere with a court martial ruling than with a ruling of any criminal court in Canada, and in view of this column's already expressed opinion on the matter, the protests are reported without comment. Brig. Frederick Kisch Branch No. 97 is asked to turn out this morning at 11 to attend the funeral of Louis Levine, an associate member of the branch who died yesterday morning at the Montreal Military Hospital. The funeral service will be conducted by L.

A. Weintraub at the Paperman Funeral Parlor, 4081 St. Urbain street. Mr. Levine, whose home was at 4949 Fulton avenue, spent five years in service overseas and had been a patient at the Montreal Military Hospital since his return ko Canada last June.

Ypres Branch No. 53 plans a dance and gathering on Saturday at 8.30 p.m. in Rialto HalL The evening will include an appreciation for the efforts of those who assisted with the Poppy Sales Campaign during the last few years. Maisonneuve Branch No. 66 has announced the following officers elected and installed for the present year: President, C.

Thorp; vice-presidents, A. Patterson, E. J. Harvey and Millar; secretary, J. E.

Harte; treasurer, H. Swindells: executive, Mitchell. J. Woodbridge, J. Jou-vet, A.

Blyth. E. Buckland, S. Copping. P.

McDonald and J. W. Heath; sergeant-at-arms, F. Keller. Found: Returned Serviceman's Badge No.

275702. (O.S., 1914-1918). Owner may reclaim by proving identity to this column. Remembrance Branch No. 75 will hold its annual general meeting at the Hussar's Armory, Cote des Neiges road, Friday evening at 8.15.

Election of officers will take place. Remembrance Ladies' Auxiliary officers for the present year were announced as follows: President, Mrs. Bashford Browne; vice-presidents, Mrs. A. E.

Seale and Mrs. H. B. Grant: secretary, Mrs. B.

Taylor; treasurer, Mrs. L. Fisher; sergeant-at-arms, Mrs.i L. Tucker; executive, Mrs. S.

Prefton. Mrs. I Walter Montgomery, Miss C. Booth, Mrs. A.

i-erguson. Mrs. M. Wheat-ley and Mrs. H.

K. Harper; auditors, Mrs. Walter Montgomery and Mrs. Percy Booth. The above officers are to be installed in office at a special meeting February 9.

Notre Dame de Grace Branch No. grain and transportation business with the firm of J. and H. McLennan, he entered the mining field, where he was shortly considered an expert. In addition to Mrs.

Jones, Mr. Duncan has two other daughters, J. W. DUNCAN Mrs. Joseph White and Mrs.

W. L. Russell cf East Orange. N.J., who travelled here to celebrate his birthday. He has one- son, Dr.

James Duncan of this city, as well as several grandchildren. 106 will hold a monthly meeting Thursday evening at 8 o'clock at the Boy Scouts' Hall, corner of Cote St. Antoine road and Drarier ave nue. Prospective members are welcomed. North Star Branch No.

125 has elected the following officers for the year: President, F. Bascher; vice presidents, I. McKenzie and J. Pomeroy; treasurer, E. Clark; sergeant-at-arms.

J. Hendrie; executive N. Watt. W. E.

Jeffrey. F. Pomeroy, R. McEwen, H. Johnston and W.

Bignall. Canadian Railway Veterans' Guild Branch No. 16 has announced the following officers elected for the year 1946: President: H. Wilson; vice-presidents, W. H.

Jones, T. W. Winter and J. C. Clifford; recording secretary, F.

L. Noiles; treas urer, H. G. Woodgate; sergeant-at-arms, J. A.

Cain; executive committee, R. S. Gates, A. E. Strange, R.

S. Hyde, J. C. Legualt and H. J.

Woodgate. The Ladies' Auxiliary of the branch has elected the following officers: President, Mrs. F. Guthrie; vice-presidnts, Mrs, F. L.

Noiles and Mrs. A. Jackson; secretary, Miss J. Norton; treasurer, Miss E. Bryce; sergeant-at-arms, Mrs.

W. Redhead; executive, Mrs. E. Purdon, Mrs. A.

D. Bryce, Mrs H. Wilson, Mrs. H. Long, Mrs.

J. Young, Mrs. A. Cooper, Mrs. J.

Murray, Mrs. A. Strange and Mrs. N. Butler.

Flanders Branch No. 63 has elected the following officers for the present year: President, R. Wilson, vice-presidents, F. A. Knight and G.

C. Cowlishaw; treasurer. A' E. McKenna; secretary. F.

J. Nowell; executive, G. A. Bishop, W. N.

Thomson, R. Whiteley, G. W. Jones. C.

MacFarlane, J. R. Williams and H. L. Drabble; sergeant-at-arms, W.

J. Plumpton. The installation of officers will take place January 30 in the Church Hall of the Livingston Presbyterian Church, Park Extension. Concordia Branch No. 69 has elected the following slate of officers for 1946: President, J.

C. Mann; vice-presidents, G. H. Horwood and H. L.

Sorer; treasurer. C. W. Edwards; secretary, W. S.

Caie, executive, N. M. Barclay, P. Chevalier, E. A.

Morin, D. Mc-Naught, F. Lavery, G. F. Lee, J.

D. Dowling, J. P. Carlon, J. W.

H. Cunningham, J. D. Ladd, O. McColm.

D. J. O'Hearn, Leo Roback and J. R. M.

Aziz; auditors, E. G. Clossey and J. B. MacMillan; sergeant-at-arms, J.

M. Pritchard. A note on names Publicity secretaries are reminded that names submitted for publication in this column are required to be complete with either one full Christian name or two initials. Several announcements have been unfortunately omitted due to the fact that names carried no initials whatever. I Brazilian Authority Sees Place For Man in International Law By JOHN AKIN If mankind can have but 50 years two generations without a major war, there is much hope for the success of aims of the United Nations Organization and a peaceful world, Dr.

Jorge Americano, Brazilian authority on international law, said in an interview after his arrival here yesterday. Dr Americano, rector since 1941 of the University of Sao Paulo, drew a parallel between the relations of the nations of the world and those of the individual in the community. "Man, as such has always been ignored bv international law," he said. The former international law dealt with nations and only with nations, he said, with treaties and conventions and with war. Having international laws to decide how war should be waged was exactly like having limits upon the way in which one man could murder another in the community.

Now under international law, "man becomes a person, with international rights." Dr. Americano said. "When he does not receive his rights broadly speaking based on the Four Freedoms the United Nations Organization must intervene to see that he gets them. No nation can be considered as a closed f.t 'i fir.