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‘Chamberlain Declares Hitler

Missed The Qys ’

Mother, Three Children Slain.

LOS ANGELES. Aflfll 4-—(AP)— Police Captain likdgar Edwards said today 11-year-old Chloe Davis had admitted slle hammered her mother to death and smashed her three-year-old brother's skull with the hammer to "quletcn him."

Police began questioning the girl after the mother, Mrs. Lolita Bjorkman Davis. and three of her four children were found dead in their home. The children were Daphne, 10, Deborah Ann, seven, and Marquis, three.

Chloe, suffering from a head in- jury, told pollcc her 36-year-old mother killed the children and then set fire to herself and forced the girl to strike her with a hafn- mer until she "stopped talking."

After several hours of question- ing, Ildirards said, the girl chang- ccl her story that Marquis was dead when she awakened, and that she found her mother strik- ing her young sisters.

Edwards said the girl admitted hittlng her brother as wcl1 as her mother, but denied striking her sisters.

Chloe said the killings occurred just after hcr father, Barton Davis, erccery store employee, left for work. ~

Edwards said Chloe told him that after beating her 1110121191‘, un- til she was dead, she heard "Mark" -—Marqu.s—-gron:lirlg in the kltcli- en. Then, she swi. sh-c hammer-Id him until hc stopped gi-ralliiig.

It was the only chnngc lil orfleinal story. Edvmrcls -:iid.

She said that after the killings and bfiilflffinbfilfipllflllilfif her lather. she chatted in the yard with a neighbor, say‘ng nothiig of the bcdlcs lil the llcusc. The ohIId pare no explanation fcr such l)l‘ll‘VOl‘

Olllv cllce during Lli- question- in; did shc up cur llCDl‘ tears, Wllfll slic said, ' "c brill thioilgll a tcrrqbls- cxpcriciicc.“

“You lllust try to forget it,“ snc was told.

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“My father is the on? who should try to o ," tllc girl snapped. "He's T11‘

"Oh God," ‘avls cried, “I've nothing tn lil/c for, now. \ ‘l I d e, tco?“

Ho sa‘d Chloe was an unusual child. "with the p? ivid mental- it)" of a girl 1G ye s old."

Dr. V. J. Stack, family phvsician. card Devi: tr'colloi~c:l hm two u'c"ks ago and ‘i.l hc i"1l‘.‘t‘(l Mrs.

rvls ans lofiri: licr l“iZ‘.EI.

“I tafid hlin t c». lllt a. p.=_\'clli.1- trist," Dr. Hicks rad.

Formal Cgielliilg Cf ll. B. Haas

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FRlTDERICTON, Ailrll -—\\'.th

4. thc \l‘1.llll .:y

clilulntcd ic Spa; ch

from the Throw.‘ v.1 rli fovccist “measures fur the reicrin oi‘ the law. to ulcct- the fiscal IlQPCS of

the province and for fiirtllcl‘ pro- moting tllc general well being of

the ‘ pcoplq," Tnc spcccll mainly dealt with events of the past your and rc-

vlcwed accomplishments of the Government.

Dr. F‘. A. McGrarlrl (Lib, Sun- bllfy Wlls chosen speaker. Foa- ter G, Calder (Lib. Charlotte) mWed i110 address in reply and

Isaac Melanson (Lib. Kent) was sccorider,

Tile usual state banquet and Governor s and ha“

reception customarily mar ing a legislature opening in New Brunswick, were

cancelled beeau. 0g the Wm; There was no -g'un galutc, Lieutenant-Governor Clark wore

nlorning clothes instead of the usual Windsor uniform. and khaki replaced the peacetime blue of his aldes-de-calllp and ard o: honor provided by the niversity of New Brunswick contingent of the Canadian officers‘ training corps. The band of the saint John Fusiliers played "God Save ‘Hie King."

Coming Events

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"Rllmma e Elili-“Ti-l-lniiv SUCH] Hall Butur ay, April 20th at 6.30. l.-'JB--i-."l-li)-20.

“PM Mcaw-Groilnd Meat 5c. Horse Meat 5c. Beef Tri silo, H011 Pluck; 21cc. Island (gilt: Storage Company.

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WFCMMANIIER CF ZNBIIIVISICN IS NAM Ell

60- Yeair- Old Vancou- ver Citizen - Soldier To Lead Canadians.

lFailure To Lau n ch Blitzkrieg Last Sep- t e m b e r Ensured Nazi Defeat.

By nun. Flnucrty

Quail-on Prell Stuff Writer OTTAWA, April k-(OP)—-Brlg- antler-General Victor Odlum of Vancouver, BOJyear-old disting- uished citizen-soldier, schooled in two waiu and long peacetime miu- tio service, will command the Second Division of the Canadian Active Service Fbrce, according to an un ouncelment by Defence Min- ister Rogers today.

Like Major-General A. G. L. McNaughton, Commander of the first Division, now in England, General Odlum has made some personal contribution to the de- velopment of the science of war. As an artillery officer 1n the first Great War. General Mc- flliligllfbll’! scientific a d mathe- matical training aid him in working out plans for the devas- tating and accurate barrages which always preceded an attack by the Canadian Corps in the latter years of the war.

First Trench Raid

As an infantry officer, General Odlum commanded the battalion

LONDON, April 4-(OP)- Prime Minister Chamberlain today called a secret session of the House of Commons for next ‘Ihursduy for debate on the world-wide economic warfare by which All!“ um 596N118 to "drain the lifeblood out of our enemy.”

Speaking outside the House he declared he is "l0 times as confid- ent now of winning the war as he was when the conflict broke out because Hitler “missed the bus" ‘n failing to launch u. Blitzkrieg last September.

A new step in the economic of- , fensive was taken with establish- ment of “the English Commercial fiorporation, Limited" to ileu rals. particularly in southeagz- iem Europe. to divert vital goods from Germaéifv and capture mar- ik-ets for Brit n.

, In the continuing war in the skies, the Royal Air Force report- ed a lone flying boat on patrol yes- terday attacked and scattered six German warplanes over the North Sea, shooting down one and damag-

|lng one so badly it landed in Norway

where the crew was interned.

Chamberlain Optlmllllo

The Prime Minister optimistically surveyed the war in a luncheon [speech before the Conservative Pa tv Coilncll even as the nation weighed yesterday's Cabinet re- sliuffh which gave Winston 1 l Churchill, First Lord of the 1 lnlraltv, prime responsibility for war strategy Mr. Chamberlain said Britain is Iin "w. great deal" stronger position {relative to Germany now than at ‘the start r~f the war. In addition, ‘he said. thee was "a growth of xentmi-lit among nuetral countries ill our favor."

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Mauretania lit Honolulu 0n {Secret Voyage

‘ wes.lm=.rsa..z-atsczrar= I Married Woman

ls Kidnapped, Three Arrested

TORONTO. ADril 4 —(CP) — A 26-year-old married woman, who told police she had been kidnapped, robbed and criminally assaulted by three men early today, viewed o. pu- lice lineup several hours later and police anounced three men had been arrested on serious charges.

The three, Antonio Bcno, 22. York township and DflVid Hill, 19. and his brother Larry. 24. North York EPW11- sill . They were charged with a serous offence against the woman and also with robbery with vlo.ence. The men were picked up at their homes for questioning alter the woman wife of a member 0f the Royal Canadian Air Force who now is in Ottawa. awakened the occu- pant of a York townshlp home nod where the alleged assault occurred. She said she had been pushed from an automobile.

Police termed the case “one of the most horrible Bssktilil. cases 1n 1119 history of this city."

The wife of the R. C. A. F. mem- ber salo she was grabbed bv the wrist and pulled into an automobile containing three men. They drove north of he city where she was os- saulted. She told police that the men beat her about the head and face and that she was robbed of a wrist watch, a diamond wedding ring and another ring. Two 11011-18 after she was kidnapped she was pushed from the car When it reach- ed a lighted street and made her way toa nearby house.

H. B. C. Officials Announce 88 Per Cent Silvers Sell

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HONOLULU. April 4-(APl—

Brltalnfis great liver. the Maure- ltanlfl, reached Drmond Head at 12:40 p.m. today (7:10 p.m. East.) on her secret trans-Pacific voyage. The Mauretcnia. which left New York March 20 and passed through the PPfIB-‘fflfl. Canal into the Pacific a week latrr, was reported ap- prraclrrvz Honolulu la=t night. but a veil o! s-rcrecy prevented report- crs from lfllirfVfig of her exact whereabouts until she was sighted by a lookout.

The liner will step here to take on fucl and \V"‘t"l' before resum- 511"’ licr trans-Profile voiwige, pre- ,‘l'I"'l1)lY to New Zealand or Alls-

Ncv-sonpennen and photograph- or»: xvcre refused access to the territorial pier, which was crowded with cilstmris officers and poVoe.

A rciocrt that the British Consul had rcqilcsted customs authorite" in l0l'1l‘ti ncivsnnnerlnen to board tho cu=toms launch meeting the Vnilrr-tarlla was denied by the Consul. It was sold customs men

t"c1'. the action 0n their Own inl- LONDON Am.“ 4 __(CP) __Hud_ ma”; ~ son's Bay Company officials today

announced BB er cent of $6.832 silver foxes of ered at their fur auction had been sold. The Iver- age price advance for all grades .was 42 i-ll r cent compared with prices pad at the __last fur sale while average advance for low gra es was 05 per cent.

Average prices for individual grades were: Dark and slightly sil- very 513.55; quarter silvery $16.85; half silvery $21.85; three-quarter silvery $23.95 and silver 120.85.

Plane Breaks Through lee In Harbor llere

A Canadian Airways plane can! through the harbor ice here lust evening after making a. flight with mall and passengers from Moncton, N. B.

The pil0t brought the ski-equip- ped monopl-ane Sig‘)! perfugcpt 1:221;

I 8 taxiing a few hundred yards A1008 the lee. As the ngeru prepar-

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9d 1° "Wm- ° W“ hm“ I N -Seoret comma nel- thro h the ice and sank slowly ,..,',’,°".'.’.ii=a fur Thunder; lme but e spread of ulo wine k3: ' Mlnlster Chamberlain u!!! he u thee liinlm from mchliis e lure: than evcr of vlc on. W! l‘. ‘

The return flight was mode bv gumm- gagging“ Airways plane. PARIS -Reyuuud “N? ‘t0 ‘:1’:

Passengers on the glans in- luel. fut; new 1100:?! h ohm“ $1 eluded Hugh Murray of ra-mliwn. mil-flim- "I I ' Ont. s Charlottetown nun wu the drafted- only other who made '

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the trip from Monclon with MT- Murru . l-lls name could not be learne .

"Agwfwflfd Mr. Mtg-ta ‘llilftlid 1.11‘: p o "kept u cool e ' a was lucky the accident had not proved to be more serious. He hld no trouble stepping out of the cabin of the plane onto the i60- lhe said, although he did got his "feel. wet."

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c; territory 12th 80v- loi republic.

HONOLULU — Liner Mountain: neon Howell.

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Opposition members in the Leg la ture, the and supporters voted yesterday to disregard the decision of the Chief Justice -of the Province %&lid to the election of Mr. R. R.

e District of Queen's and to declare

by the following troduced by the Premier:

WHEREAS Writ of Election of Councillor and

Page was declared elected as Coun- cillor to represent the said District in the As

AND WHEREAS before the Judge of the Court for Queen's county the said declaration was duly confirmed:

AND WHEREAS. tion to the Chief Justice 01 preme Court of Judicature an or- der was made directing the fir? of the County court t0 vary

D WHERE being taken from the said fin ing and order of the Chief Justice, tile Supirelne court in banco was equal-

entertain such an appeal, pursuance of the said division of opinion the presiding Justice of the Supreme Court rulinu of the Court to the follow-

British Government will set up a trading company t0 compete with Germany for Balkan John Simon, Chancellor of Exchequer, announced to the House of Commons today.

013C. markets it has YQmYS. the new finn, Sir John said. will not British concerns but will supple- ment them.

company should supplant existing channels of trade." "but should make sure of t em to the

Steam Roller

Methods Used

Inf Legislature

Liberal RCfllSfiO Conoede Mr. Bell’s Election In Second Queens Will Result In Another BL election.

Against the united protests of the Lurisdlctlon of this Court to 15 T311121‘ 511K311‘; dabtilieglhwas raised. ou ivi e i lS o - ion, Justice Saunders holllilllllg that there was jurisdiction and J1 notliclliig that tlhere was no uris ic ion. A a1 1' i. £101?‘ 118st lnowc bgeél glliidgpilllltlrllfl o ave e our A l l - convened to hearothe L222: ‘Dell the merits. ‘hi! sthe Court tvivere fCOIIVGIJIZC, lune ues o ' " ic- tion would qarise ‘Iago M11215 the Court cannot agree and in view 0f such divided opinion, I see

Campbell Government

with re- l as Councillor for the Second

he seat vacant. The discussion was recipitated reso ution in-

by the return of a

Assembl man f r the gcco d E1 - toral Disgtrict o? Queen's “$011156. Cgtlllgfi —-lllisewgl¥lldcongfcllltlngf‘llttgl'l which election W33 he on the 18f more ‘expense and take m‘, me dflv of May. 1939. Br 10rd W- Le- time of the court ilselessly.

In the circumstances, 1 fuse the application."

. upon a. recount AND WHEREAS, owing to tho County said finding of the Supreme Court

in banco and the aforesaid equal division of the said Court, it is not EOSSIDIG to obtain a final disposi- lvn through the Courts of the mat- ters in dis ute upon the sold sp- Feal, and l is therefore expedient hat the Assembly should forthwith determine and dispose of the some; BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED as follows: That a. bill may be in- troduced to determine and dispose

of the dispute respectin the elec-

m.

sembly:

upon a plica- le Su-

said

inclings upon the said recount; AS, upon an Ap eal

as to its jurisdiction to

iidd v e and in

Second District of Queen's county. The House went into conllnittee on the resolution with Mr. Aeneas Gallant in the chair. M!‘ , F. McPhee moved that

in banco filed the

ff ct:- ‘Iwlien th‘s‘= AppQlL-cilllie up for hearing. the question of the

Trading Company To B l ocgazi

Floods Threaten In Quebec

LONDON, April 4—(CP)—-'1‘he

trade, Sir the

Intended not merely w prevent

Germ». m». owl-in. ioll"i”f°.ll“mlil'.ft“issflflls‘a wmmemla‘ B11 “n eastern Eur‘ this eastern townships town were

but to dr ve the Reich from 60111111934811 101' lomcs as an ice jam threatened develop in the rising Ylimaska Riv-

compete with existing

"It is not intended that the

stables patrolled the shores to watrn for signs of overflow. The ice was

he explained, break ng up rapidly in the swollen

on the ccntr tlat it.

ALI.

2s STAMPS ..... PLA

An euccpilouul opportunity to secure u splendid “lot" of genuine Polish nlmps wll ch mult new become lnerelllnyly valuable, includ- in :— oriralta of notional llcroel picture: o IIIIOU! buildln l, ul ogor u, crane, no. Our unuuucl offer cuuuut be repealed, w to for your packet immediately.

THE llBCllE slliurs F RE E

In exehlnge for any I-lb. lubel from u packet of

‘SAMBA TEA

Send this ad with» name and addruu and the label-end.

showing teapot trade-mark. from any l lb. pkt. of SALADA

TEA (or 2 hull-pound lubell or 2 panels from 25c ieabug

boxeu or 1 from c box of 1C0 foubugu). Offer good l week only. To SAl-ADA STAMP Cllll.

401 If. Lawrence lint, Montreal. loud no the IPECIAL PACKET of l! STAMPS 0F POLAND cud lint el thousands more clumps offered FREE in exchange for ill-ADA labell-

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tion return of a Councilor for the ling Ships and land cblcctlves

FAST FIGHTERS INEFFECTIVE

lNDAHltNESS

Major Raids Demon- strated Inability Of Pursuit Planes To Intercept Bombers.

By J. F. Sanderson Canadian Press Stuff Writer

LONDON, April 4 -(CP) w-‘The two biggest uir raids of the war, the first German attack on Spapa Flow and the British rciiiliillolgv bombard- llll‘1ll- of the lsiziiid of Syli, have ec- mollstrated the relative ineffective- llvr», <;l lust lllilu-is- agliiilst bomb- 01's lil the diirlznl s. ' The tlvc raid. l-inoilstrated the inability of the filllitcr to iniercept bclnbcrs with any degree o1 success unless they were cziilgllt in the glare nt svilrcllligllts. ’I‘ll s has led air 6X- pcrts here to predict night bombing will he clnpllasized bv both sides "

all all. be inc intrllsaillcn dur- iiill_t ll ' - of the war. Flglltel cl at six lililcs a min-

ute and l.le pilot sits ill a closed cockpit which allows a, nliilimum of vision, Ill the darkness travelling at that speed. it has been found to be almost impossible to come into con- tact with the slowcr-nloving bomb- Pi‘ uliwils it has been silhouetted from ilie ground bv the crew of a sclircliliglit bzittr-ijv.

The it. A. F. have found the Gladiator to be the ‘best n1 htflghter

its list cf lllacliliim, e con- struction of its cockpit permits grcnfor vision than in the Spit- ire m- Hurricane. Britain's num- cl‘ one and llumbcl‘ two fighters. But tile Gladiator i; slower than the Spitfire or Hurricane.

Ill the first. scapa Flow Gcrnlan machines were over the Orkney islands 50 minutes although the nrtilnl time consumed in bomb- was only 10 minutes. 'I‘lic_v used at, lo <1; 14 machines. Although British fighters took after thcm, only cne bomber was bl‘ lght down and that one by mitt-f ' "all shells. The raid

‘the gonqwmg amendment)” added |W3G Lillllfil to give the pilots a icw

miliiltcs bcfcrc silnsct to find their

l\'t“ and then darkness to el-

iii British pliiiics were over Svlt; lil

wac- lur l.t‘\.'(‘ll hours and dropped the Germ

l

ll l this type

when the filth Of Ill!‘ I! lova- fallu, when one upon whom we de- pend fiilvca way in the hour of trial and bl

FIB! to be borne.

MAXIMC

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MERE MAI“

us despair. there is u. doubli-

Spectacular F l i g h t Ovcr North Sea As R. A. F. Planes Out- numbered.

uixnrixi-{liil 4—(CP)

day rose to lllrce 1111111.)’ us ll

flying 1il>;it—-fir<t rcporlcil in action Ilgrilllsl Cllt'lll_\' pl'llll'*<——scllt 0m‘.

illotorcd

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Junkers [illllnlllctilig sczilvarll in ilallics and shot up the lllOlOfSl

of another so linrlly that it cracked up near Strivallger, Norway after the (lfig-fight,

Its Cl'<‘\\' was illtcriuwl Norwegians.

The other Gcrnlan machine, 8. HClllkfil III, wag bagged by a fast S 'tfir¢ plane in a. duel? off the Yorkshire cnzist. T1181 Spitfire caught fire after the, Nazi machine had come down‘ on the sea and also was obliged '

liy the l

Aunun Subscription Delivered $5.00 liy lllill—l'.l'.'.l. $1.011: (‘Inndn Ind U-Ps‘. “.00

TOLL OF NAZI PLANES L 051" INCREASES

1 Two Bigjllnkers Accoanted For In Hot Battle

l

W 'on his

I hi

; had

to alight. Tile British pilot and _

the Gcrilirills were saved. , '

Thu Silndcrldnd tvas engaged by i118 Nil/i planes shortly after they had at 'ed a convoy and had been

ii off by the fire of es-l Q

carting “ll . Tile silinlcrlnrld had to about 300 it'll liliovc the Nortlr

59a to avoid bciilg attacked from1

below bv lllt: viii-lily critft. Before‘

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Sets Fire To Invalid Mother

T] H _ t.‘ v I, __ ~ ‘CHICORA, Pa... April 4_,.I_~‘\P)._ — 1e in 0.1 l<rlll.ill pants State pollClj sergeant Frank Gira- dlivclirll lll ml- 11J1iI1US \\c-luc.~ "'1 “lmrlpd Wdlv that 34

old Georue Moore hurled u.

invalid mother, watched

zllr nlillislry riliinlllilccd lllill a;hcr clothes ignite from a stove, lllaui" Suiiiiclizliul flvlili; li<.:l'.1{""r‘1,‘“‘1°111@g a hatchet on hi! '. ~ )I')'.O!‘ l‘ . -