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THE CALGARY HERALD. TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1940 Edmonton Physician Gets Appointment To Senate DR. A. BLAIS IS Canada's Industrial Employment Jan. 1 Higher Than Any Other Year On Record, Declares Statistical Bureau's Report ft WAR VETERAN AND PIONEER -1 -H 3 BACKS LABOR'S PLAN TO SOLVE U.S.

PROBLEMS Gen. Hugh Johnson Wants Economic Conference Tribute to French Ottawa, Jan. 30 (CP) Employment in Canadian indus a Manufacturing, transportation and construction reported the most marked reductions. However, em ploymcnt Increased in logging and retail trade. For January 1 last year, 1,594 firms had a working force of 124,563 persons.

Severe In B.C. The recession in British Colum bia involved more workers than that indicated at the beginning of January last year. The 1,206 firms reported 85,497 persons employed compared with 96,900 at Decem her 1, 1939, while the number of men and women employed by 1,121 firms at January 1, 1939, wai 84,147. Lumber, food and iron and steel fartories, logging, mining, con st ruction and transportation recorded curtailment while services and retail trade showed with December 1, 1939, when 11,891 firms employed 1,198,541 workers. Based on the 192(1 equals 100 average, the crude Index of employment stood at 116.2 compared wilh the previous high figures of 113.4 in 1938 and 111.2 in 1930.

Seasonal Reductions All provinces recorded seasonally reduced activity from December 1, 1939, Ihe losses ranging from 2 per cent in New Brunswick to 11.3 per cent in British Columbia. The curtailment in Quebec at January 1 was less than verage while manufacturing in Ontario showed seasonal declines. Shrinkage on a smaller scale than at the opening of 1939 was noted in the prairie provinces at January 1, 1910, when 1.K98 employers had 134,934 workers, 7,321 less than at December 1, 1939. 1 Lost on the high seas is the two-masied schooner Spindrift. Aboard her are two explorers who heard the lure of buried treasure.

Recently they claimed to have located booty worth $60,000,000 on Cocos island. After making the announcement the pair, Charles and James set sail. This picture shows the schooner as she left Newport, last year. In the Reich Today Endless Prohibitions Face Germans Choose Breakfast from Broadcast Menus; Cosmetics Banned For Flavour BAGS 'HORSE-SENSE' (By Unlttd Prut) Columbus, Jan. 30 Hugh S.

Johnson, former NRA administrator, joined John L. Lewis yesterday in attacking New Deal failures to solve basic U.S. problems, and declared that a labor-backed proposal for a national economic conference to seek remedies "is Johnson devoted moat of his speech before the United Mine Workers' Golden Jubilee convention to praise of the union, and Lewis, whom he described as "the greatest labor leader of our He said that Lewis' political policy of keeping both the Republican and Democratic parties uncertain about his support in the 1940 campaign was the best policy because organized labor "loses Its bar-aining and becomes "a stupid sucker" when "it gets sewed up in the bag of any party or After praising Lewis, his union and their help in the NRA days, Johnson told how one industry had offered to do away with company unions and set up an industry-wide Independent Labor organization modeled after the miners' union, but American Federation of Labor President William Green refused. 'A Shock and an Eye-Opener" "That was a shock and an eye-opener to me," Johnson continued. "It made me wonder, when the break finally came, if the real opposition to industrial unionism, or a united front in all of labor, resides anywhere in the rank and filewhether in CIO or A.F.

of L. It made me wonder also whether the opposition is not rather in the very heads of the international craft organizations, who may value their personal prerequisites and influence more than the welfare of labor as a whole. "I say wonder. I guess I am getting soft and sissy-britches. 1 know damn well it is.

Unlike the Roman hero Curtius who, to appease the gods, threw himself into the smoking sulphurous breach that appeared in the Capitoline Hill to save his people, they seem willing 1o throw their people into the breach to save themselves The CIO, Johnson said, is not merely a movement to Increase organized labor's strength and benefits, but "also a movement for the democratization of labor Carries Election Responsibility (By United Preul Berlin, Jan. 30 A day in the life of a fictitious Heir Schultz, one of 80,000.000 Germans for whom the Nazi propaganda machine pumps out a ceaseless stream of war-time instruction: 7 a.m., Friday Herr Schultz, who takes all the advice and obeys all the rules, skips his customary morning tub. Coal is scarce, and authorities have ordered "no hot baths" except on Saturdays and Sundays. He washes with the small monthly ration cake of ersatz soap, carefully following instructions he read in the newspaper to prevent waste by not allowing water to drip on the soap. He squeezes the last paste out of his toothpaste tube and puts the tube aside to give to the Hitler Youth rubbish collectors.

7:15 a.m. He puts on a suit made of wood pulp fibre and goes into the dining room. Frau Schultz is putting wood into the stove. Indignantly, he tells her to remove it, explaining that wood is the vital raw material of the German nation and cellulose paper and fibre for textiles (according to recent propaganda movie) can bo made from it. Breakfait By Radio 7:20 a.m.

Frau Schultz chooses breakfast from the war-time menus broadcast by the German radio. This morning they have barley coffee (the Schultzes saw an advertisement that it "tastes just as good, is cheap and skimmed milk, rye bread and lard. Frau Schultz wears no cosmetics. They must be imported and cost Germany valuable foreign exchange. Instead, she follows a suggestion she read in the newspaper Der Angriff to cleanse her face with rainwater and juice from berries.

8:30 a.m. Herr Schultz puts in an hour sweeping the snow from the front sidewalk. Berlin's police president instructed that this must be done. 9:30 Herr Schultz goes to the jaaW out fte try at the beginning of 1940 was higher tnan that indicated at Jan. 1 in any other year on record, the Dominion Bureau Statistics re ported, today in.

IlsDanuary em ployment 1 Employees wmking In 11,891 establishments at the beginning of January totalled 1,135,400 while at January 1 last year 11,210 employers had a payroll aggregating 1,041,042 men and women. However, there was a decrease of 5.3 per cent in employment compared Prisoners Are Kept in Comfort East Internment Camp Located in Scenic raradise Near Petawawa Tetawawa, Ont, Jan. 30 (CP) Canada keeps her prisoners of war in acenic paradise. At least it is such in midwinter, after a fresh fall of snow and when the sun shines brightly through a clear, chill atmosphere. The concentration camp for prisoners near here, about 120 miles northwest of Ottawa, is on the shore of a small lake in the heart of a national forest reserve.

Before the war there was a road, but nothing more. Since then new units have been thrown up to house the prisoners and the soldiers who guard them. The country round about is well-supplied with game. All Warmly Clad With every prisoner and guard warmly clad, and every hut equipped with one or more box stoves, the crisp winter weather is pleasant. A prisoner's outfit of clothing consists of underwear, heavy woolen socks and mitts, a heavy sweater coat, a mackinaw and trousers of mackinaw cloth, two pairs of boots, one leather and one rubber.

Except for the barbed wire around the camp, quarters occupied by prisoners are Identical with those of men of the Lanark and Renfrew Scottish Regiment who guard Ihem. Canada is carrying Out to the letter the International agreement which, provides that prisoners of war receive the same treatment as the soldiers of the nation. was the Liberal member for Inver ness-Richmond, N.S. He entered the House of Commons in the gen eral election of 1935. Mr.

Stevenson is a prominent farmer in the Eston district of Sas katchewan. Appointment Given To French Catholic (From lh Henld'i Ottawa Bureau) By CHARLES BISHOP (Copyright by Tin Southam Nawapapara) Ottawa, Jan. 30 The appointment of Hon. Aristide Blais as a senator from Alberta succession to the late Senator Patrick Burns has been preceded by a long controversy wilh a racial nngl which the selection may settle or not. Did the position belong to a French-Canadian or an Irish Catholic? That was th bone of contention.

Those who took, the former view, largely supported Dr. Blais. Those to the contrary seemed mainly for J. J. Bowien, M.L.A., of Calgary.

The French wing won out, the reason assigned bcjng.that the sen-atorialjSeat, 'originally and continuously, Mfe' fifT ione break, was held by FrenrltsCanadian senators in turn by Senators Forget, Roy, Cote and Lessard. 1 After Senator Lessand died, Rt. Hon. R. B.

Bennett chose the occasion of Palrick Burns' 75th birthday anniversary to honor him as one of the West's great pioneers, by appointing him to the Senate. The appoincment was not regarded as on political or racial lines, but as a personal tribute. Senator.Bums came to Ottawa occasionally, at first, but he really became disqualified under the rule that a seat is vacated if a senator misses two consecutive sessions. No formal action was ever taken before he died. This is the background of Senator Blais' appointment and of its aspect of racial controversy.

Canadians In Alberta 65 YEARS OLD Ottawa, Jan. 30 (CP) Dr. Aristide Blais, pioneer Alberta physician and now a resident of Edmonton, was one of six new senators appointed by Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King last night.

The others are: J. rer- nand Fafard, Quebec; Hon. J. C. Elliott, Ontario; Arthur L.

Beaubien, Manitoba; Donald MacLennan, Nova Scotia; John J. Stevenson, Saskatchewan, and Dr. Aristide Blais, Alberta. Four vacancies in Quebec and three in Ontario remain unfilled. At Edmonton Dr.

Aristide Blais, informed of his apxint-ment said: "I am very proud indeed of this great honor and distinction. "But," he continued, "I accepted it not so much on the few merits I may have, but as a tribute to my fellow compatriots, the French-Canadians of Alberta." Dr. Blais, who will be making his first adventure in poltics when he takes his place in (ho Senate, admitted ho was "so excited at the present time that I don't know what to say." The 65-year-old doctor, however, indicated he would take part in political affairs only as much as his medical practice would allow him. Born in Quebec Born at Bcrtheir, Dr. Blais graduated from Laval university in 1899, took two years' post-graduate work in Paris, and practised at St.

Albert, a small French-Canadian settlement nine miles northwest of Edmonton for a year before moving to Edmonton to continue his career with Dr. Philippe Roy. lie maintained his association with Dr. Roy, who, in 1910, was named Canadian ambassador to Paris, for three years, and then practised medicine alone until 1914, when he turned his efforts to help Canada and the Allies in the first Great War. In 1915.

Dr. Blais went overseas with the 11th Field Ambulance and was attached to the 38th Baltery of Ottawa for a month during his si.v months' service at the front. Then he was transferred to St. Cloud to serve as a surgeon for the rest of the Groat War. At conclusion of the war he received three decora' tions including an "officer of aca demy" award.

Is Lover of Arts Since 1919 Dr. Blais has made Edmonton his home, making nU' mcrous trips to Paris to continue post-graduate courses dealing with various phases of his medical work. He is a lover of the arts, does a little golfing as a member of the Edmonton Mayfair Golf and Coun try Club, and takes a prominent part in the Edmonton branch of the Canadian Institute of Interna tional Affairs. The appointments were an nounced three hours after the close of a four-hour cabinet session which produced no other news. At least three of the six appointments had been widely rumored for months, those of Mr.

Fafard, Mr. Elliott and Mr. Beaubien. The apiiointments gave the Liberals 38 members and the Conservatives 51, with seven vacancies in the 96-seat Upper House. Was President of Caucus Mr.

Fafard, Liberal M.P. for Montmugny-l-lslet in the House which has just been dissolved, has represented his constituency in the Commons continuously for more than 22 years. For many years he served as president of the Liberal caucus. Mr. Elliott has had a long career in public life.

He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in 1908, and was re-elected in 1911 and 1911. Since 1925 he has represented Middlesex West in the House of Commons. Mr. Beaubien of St. Jean-Bapliste, is a native of Ar-thabaska, Que.

He was chairman of the House Select Committee on radio broadcasting in 19.18 and 1939. Mr. MacLennan, Inverness, N.S., Try These TEA Artit? Supplies Extra Vitamin Accompany each gla.u with on or two lemon quarters, according to tuts and serving lite. Or flavour in advance. You'll make freah juicea more templing-the canned teem frralier! roHflw 1 zond King to Depend Almost Entirely On Press Statements, Broadcasts (From the Herald' Ottawa Bureau) By CHARLES BI8HOC (Copyright by The Southern Newspaper!) Ottawa, Jan.

30 Prime Minister Mackenzie King is not expected to take the platform in the current election campaign, except possibly in Toronto and Montreal. Mr. King's participation, as he has outlined it himself, will be almost entirely confined to press statements and radio broadcasts from Ottawa. The chief burden of carrying the story of the government's war activities to the Canadian electorate, through the customary medium of public meetings right across the country, is likely to fall on Rt. Hon.

Ernest Lapointe, minister of justice; Col. the Hon. J. L. Ralston, minister of finance; Hon.

J. G. Gardiner, minister of agriculture; and Hon. C. D.

Howe, minister of transport. attic and clears out junk accumulated there. The air raid precautions instructions ordered that. He saves all of the junk to give to the Hitler Youth collectors, along with the toothpaste tube. Noon The Schullzes have turnip pudding for lunch another tip Frau Schultz picked up from the radio.

During lunch she says that she is invited by her sister to spend a week in Munich but her husband vetoes that idea because the newspapers have said to "make no unnecessary journeys in wartime as the railways are needed to transport coal and war materials." Mustn't Read Pamphlets 1 p.m. A neighbor comes by with a pamphlet which was thrown from a British plane and picked up on the street. Herr Schultz with out reading it deposits it in the lavatory as he saw done in a rc cent propaganda film and warns his wife against paying attention to "such driveling nonsense" as British propaganda. 2 p.m. The Schullzes switch on their "peoples radio set" to listen to the radio news bulletins, as all good Nazis are advised to do, They never think of listening to forbidden foreign stations.

7 p.m. The Schultzes take the subway downtown to the movie theatre. In the blackcd-out streets, they follow newspaper ad vice to "walk on the right hand side of the sidewalk, slowly, quiet ly and carefully." Once, in the subway, Herr Schultz was about to make a re mark to his wife about the coal shortage but he didn't, because there was a notice pasted on the window: "Bo careful in conversa tion. The enemy is listening." German Bombs Kill Seven Men on Ship London, Jan. 30 (CP) Seven men were reported killed Monday when German planes drop.

ped 10 bombs on the Latvian steamship Tuutmila in the North Sea. Fifteen other men and the captain's wife were said to have escaped injury. Flint Crew 'Rarin' To Fight for Ship Baltimore, Jan. 30 (UP) Capt. Joseph Gainard, who skippered the freighter City of Flint through 113 days of war time adventure, told today how his ship's company was "rarin" to fight it out with an armed Ger man prize crew to regain posses sion of the vessel.

The Flint arrived here Saturday. NEW BISHOP St. Hyacinthe, Jan. 30 (CP) Mgr. Arthur Dauvillc, 45-year- old native of the Fortncuf county village of St.

Casimir, received yes. terdny the mitre and staff symbolic of the Roman Catholic episcopate in a three-hour ceremony in St. Hyacinthe Cathedral. The colorful riles by which the young prolate became bishop auxiliary of St. Hyacinthe diocese and titular Bishop of Vita were performed before members of the church's Canadian hierarchy, representatives of the Dominion and Quebec governments and more than 2,000 priests and lay Catholics from all parts of the province.

"WILLIAM TELL" FREED Paulding, 0 Jan. 30 (AP) The Paulding County grand jury late today absolved Oscar Ball, 48- year-old farmer, of blame in the "William Tell" slaying of Louis Strake, 33, who was holding a gun on Ball's 19-year-old son. Strake was killed Saturday by a 200-foot rifle shot the father fired from an upstairs window at his home. Park Avenue Aids New York, Jan. 30 (CP) "Bundles for The sign hits the eye from a Park Avenue window warm with wool destined to comfort the heads and hands of British seamen.

"Bundles for Britain" is Park Avenue's effort to do its bit for "Western civilization's first line of defence." Steaks and Chops with lemon You know how lemon improves fiah I It does the tame for meats! Rub them with lemon juice before cooking. When broiled or fried, serve with I aqueotable lemon garniah. FUh, meiti, fruits, vegetsbles nd brverag ()te bitter when lemon bring! out the flavour. California'! belt and juiciest come in Buy ia doiem- never be without then. that I Voters List for Current Election Expected to Total 6,400,000 Persons Hon.

Angus MacDonald, Liberal Premier of Nova Scotia, it is expected, will undertake a speaking tour across the Dominion on behalf of the King government, Three other Liberal premiers will likely participate, but probably largely within the bounds of their own provinces: Hon. T. Duff Pattullo, of British Columbia; Hon. Adclard Godbout, of Quebec; and Hon. W.

J. Patterson, of Saskatchewan. Col. Ralston, it is announced from his office, will again be a candidate in Prince, P.E.I., which constituency gave him an acclamation a short time ago when he entered the government as finance minister after Hon. C.

A. Dunning was forced to retire because of ill health. Mr. Dunning, who represented Queens, P.E.I., in the last Parliament, has already announced his retirement from public life, cast, representing 74 per cent on the list. In 1930 the popular vote, also from press sources, was as follows: Ccvservative, Liberal, Liberal Progressive, Progressive, Labor, Independent, U.F.A.

Farmer, Communist, 5,683. The party standing after the 1930 election was as follows: Conservatives 137; Liberals 88; Liberal -Progressive, three; Progressives, two; U.F.A., ten; Labor, two; Independent Labor, one; Independent, two. In 1930, of 5,153,971 on the voters' list, a total of 3,922,481 actually voted. To Cost $3,000,000 The current election will cost the Dominion treasury between $2,500,000 and About 160,000 persons will be employed, officially by the government, in the election machinery. The total will include about 45,000 enumerators, 35,000 deputy returning officers, 35,000 polling clerks, 35,000 landlords of polling booths, and 10,000 constables.

By provinces, the 245 constituencies of the House of Commons for this eleectlon are divided as follows: Ontario, 82; Quebec, 63; Saskatchewan, 21; Alberta, 17; Manitoba, 17; British Columbia, 16; Nova Scotia, 12; New Brunswick, 10; Prince Edward Island, four; and the Yukon, one. ITALY BOLSTERS DEFENCES Rome, Jan. 30 (AP) Premier Mussolini Monday ordered Italian defences against air raids strengthened with arms and men, after hearing a report on the nation's fortifications. II Ducc expressed satisfaction with the work of fortifying Italy's mainland defences. CHARLES BISHOP (From tha Htrld' Ottawa Burtau) Ottawa, Jan.

30 Jules Castonguay, chief electoral officer, will bear the chief brunt of responsibility in connection with the Dominion government election machinery for the general election on March 26. Donald Stewart is the assistant chief electoral officer. Harry Butcher, for Last Mountain, is likely to be officially named legal adviser to Mr. Castonguay for this election. Mr.

Butcher has been actively engaged on electoral research since the 1935 election, advising the government on the complete revision of the Election Act put through under the King government. SENTENCED FOR ESPIONAGE Paris, Jan. 30 (AP) The National Defence Ministry announced Monday bne man had been sentenced to death and seven others subjected to heavy penalties for wartime espionage. COUGHERS! WHY BE AN OUTCAST? HERB'S RELIEF! It oou(hin( robbing you of life'! comfort? Do fiwndi ihua you (ail to Invite you to aortal githcinp? Are you glared at In public place became your frequent coughing, annoying toother? Whenever you euffer from cough, oac PertuMin. You will fa delighted with in quick, throat-toothing rflecL Pertuwn help the twill ure gland in yourtthroat to function naturally after a cold ha retarded normal Many phyalcian have prescribed Pertuatln, lift and plcaaant herbal tyrup, for over 30 Free from harmful drum.

For generou FREE botUe, write to Pertuaain Limited, Montreal. FIGHT COLDS by fta'pnf nttuf build up your cold-nghtlng rtssfnc ymi suffer one cold right after anotaer. liKViieniettanalnewal Mr. Illiabeth Vickery wrttaii aW I telrk eifx'i tttf fitly. Or.

Pkra't GoUm Medical iitpry hit9d Mtnttlm mt iul lUbtttrt.lUKlnm Himna.mdwwtrmblti try IMU ml nUt." Thii great medicine, formulated by ere tldng phviician, Help combat cold thia way: il) It ittmulatM the appetite. (2) It promote ow of galtrlc jutcea. Thu you mar; your digeitlo improve; your body get grnter Bouriihment which help nature build up your cold-fighting reiiitance. So suceeasful ha Dr. Plere Golden Med-Iral Diacovery been that over 30,000,000 bottle hav already been uaed.

Proof of ft re-merkihl benefit. Get Dr. Pierce' Goldea Medical Diacovery from your druietat today. Don't tuff at lunKetMrili from tola. Coprrlfkt, 140, Callfmia fraH Cmnn tnhua (From the Herild'e OtUwa Bureau) By CHARLES BI9HOP (Copyright by The Southern Niwapaperi) Ottawa, Jan.

30 Canada's total vote among the defence forces army, navy and air in the general, election called for March 26 will be around 65,000, of which about 20,000 will be among the First Overseas Division, now In England. In the 1917 wartime election, when the Union government went to the country, the Canadian defence force vote actually cast totalled 234,952. This was made up of 37,194 voles in North America, 85,221 in the United Kingdom, and 112,537 on the Continent. In all, the voters' list Tor the current election is expected to total 6.400,000 voters. Usually between 70 and 75 per cent of those entitled to vote actually cast their ballots in a Dominion election.

A review of the total popular votes cast In the 1933 and the 1930 elections, and the result as to members elected, is of special interest at this time. Vote In 1935 In 1933 the popular vote, as tabulated unofficially by press sources, was as follows: Liberal, Independent Liberal, Liberal-Progressive, Conservative, C.C.F., Reconstruction (Stevens party) Social Credit, Communist, Labor. U.F.O.-Labor, ell others, The party standing after, the 1933 election was as follows: Liberal, 171; Independent Liberals, five; Liberal Progressive, two; Conservatives, 39; Independent Conservative, one; Social Credit, 17; C.C.F., seven; Reconstruction, one; Independent, one; U.F.O.-Labor, one. Of 5.918.207 on the 1935 voters' 4,432,673 votes were actually 7fffSH AND fMB II Nil 11 aZW.X 1 I ln Jgm 1 7 ZJ.