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FINAL Winnipeg Wheal EDITION SJetljhri&ge Herald May close .............. 61% ^OL. XXV.—No. 124. LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1932 14 PAGES ASSASSIN SHOOTS FRENCH PRESIDENT Peter Veregin Given Millionaire Race Car Driver Paul Doumer, Aged Three Year Sentence French Statesman, Is In Pen For Perjury Reported Near Death Leader of Doukhobors in Canada Sent to Prince 74-Year-Old Head of French Republic Crumples to Albert Penitentiary on Charge of Perjury— Floor While Opening Exhibition as Three Bullett Sentence Passed at Yorkton, Sask. Strike Him About Head and Cheat—Assassin Doukhobor PeaceLooms is Arrested—Hope for Recovery Faint YORKTON, Sask., May 6. — Peter Veregin, Doukhobor leader, this morning was sentenced to PARIS, May 6 — (A.P.) — President Paul Doumer, white-bearded 74-year-old head of the French republic, three years in Prince Albert penitentiary on one Nudists Are In Pass As was shot three times and desperately wounded today by charge of perjury by a jury here yesterday. Mr. Jus an assassin as he opened an exhibition of tice Maclean passed sentence. books by war veterans. Veregin, holding virtually supreme power over He had come from the Elysee Palace the 15,000 Doukhobors of British Columbia, Alberta, Sent To Pen Truce Made with Claude Farrere, the noted author. Together they entered the grand hall of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, was the 119th of his the Baron de Rothschild foundation near sect to be given a three-year prison term within 24 Eighty-Four Men and 34 Picket Lines Removed and the palace. hours. Yesterday 118 Doukhobors were sentenced at Women Get Three Mine Idle Pending Farrere walked with him up the grand Nelson, B.C., after pleading guilty to taking part in Years Apiece Conference staircase where the president paused to nude parades. sign a copy of a book by a contemporary To Prince Albert leader at this time. He made ref author. While Veregin languishes In the erence to seeding operations. DISROBE IN FRONT BELLEVUE STRIKE Then he moved over to a table and northern Saskatchewan penitenti Judge Maclean replied at length stating that the verdict of guilty stood talking with Farrere and Madame ary, his British Columbia followers OF HON. POOLEY ZONE QUIET TODAY Farrere. will be behind bars of two other on the one perjury charge was Paul Doumer federal prisons. The 84 male nud Justified. The offense had been (From Our Own Correspondent Suddenly a man sprang, seemingly out ists sentenced yesterday will be deliberate and he was unable to NELSON, B.C., May 6.—(By and Special Despatches.) of nowhere, levelled a pistol at the president and fired taken to New Westminster, B.C., treat it lightly. Canadian Press.)—Grim warn ENGLISH SPORTSMAN RETURNS HOME WITH BRIDE BELLEVUE, May 6. — A penitentiary and the 34 women to Veregin is to be taken to Reglna ing that further breaches of the Captain Woolf Barnato, English millionaire and driver of racing twenty-four hour truce has five times. Portsmouth, Ont„ penitentiary. Jail, where he will be kept 30 days law will net be tolerated in Brit cars, and his bride, formerly Miss Clarldge Quealy, photographed on been proclaimed In the Belle- M. Doumer's knees crumpled. He sank to the floor. A large crowd of his followers during which time he may lodge an ish Columbia has been served arrival at Southampton from the United States. vue miners' strike and quiet There were bullets in the front of the head, in the head heard Veregin sentenced here. The appeal. on the Doukhobors of Nelson reigns In the camp today. district and provincial police arc behind the ear and in the chest. court room wag packed with Douk This tranquility is fii sharp Grapples With Assassin hobors who came from all parts of patrolling the area today to pre contrast with the active hos vent further nude parades. Dismissal of Two Civil Service Farrere sprang forward. The as the province for the trial which tility of the striking miners sassin's pistol was still smoking In started Wednesday morning and What To Do With Perhaps the speediest justice Commissioners Recommendation yesterday morning when 'em Operations And his hand. He raised It and fired ended with Veregln's conviction yes ever meted out In a Canadian ployees who had slgned-up for twice. Farrere stopped with a bul terday afternoon. court wag meted out here yes work were escorted to the mine let In the arm but lunged forward More than 1000 members of the Doukhobors Is terday when 118 members of the Commons Report, Says Ottawa by police. The West Canadian Transfusions To again and grappled with the man. sect axe In this town. A strong Sons of Freedom Doukhobor sect Collieries, owners of the Belle- Paul Gulchard, director of tho police guard has been standing In were sentenced to a total of OTTAWA, May 6.—(By Canadian Press)—The Journal pub- vue mine, and the miners' Paris police, ran forward. The as readiness for disturbances which so 354 years in penitentiary within Ifshea the following today: committee have agreed to the Save President sassin fired again. The bullet struck far have failed to materialize. Problem For B.C. a space of 120 minutes.' They "Recommendation* that Civil Service Commissioner* J. Emlle truce and the union has with Gulchard in the arm. Veregin wns convicted of swearing are now awaiting removal to By this time a dozen police sur federal prisons and the 84 men Tremblay and Dr. Newton MacTavlah be dismissed and Hon. (Dr.) drawn all pickets and the coal falsely at the preliminary hearing company has agreed to keep Loss of Blood Through rounded the man and a crowd gath last January of George Chutskoff, Penitentiary at New West will bo confined at New West Wj J. Roche, chairman, be retired with a gratuity will be contained ered about them. As the crowd minster while Uie 34 women will the mine closed down all day an Independent Doukhobor, on a In the report of the special parliamentary, committee Investigating Friday ponding further negotla- Severed Artery Gives grew it became an Infuriated mob. perjury charge. Evidence was given minster is Already Pill be taken across the continent to the adrn^yj^^lo^.sHhe Civil Service Act" The. police had the greatest dlffl* by a doctor and nurse to disprove Portsmouth, Ontario. Each was (Continned on rage Three.) Doctors Concern culty protecting their prisoner. Veregln's sworn statement that he ed With Prisoners sentenced to serve three years. was in British Columbia for seven Disrobe in Courtroom PARIS, May 6.—(A.P.) — At (Continued on Page Three.) ' months prior to March, 1929. These Undaunted by the action against 8:30 o'clock tonight President NEW WESTMINSTER, May their fellows half a dozen Doukho Doumer underwent a third witnesses said they had attended 6—(By the Canadian Press)— HILLCREST VIOLINIST the Doukhobor leader In the late bor women disrobed last night in Crafty Murderer transfusion. Loss of blood front £ AND $ QUOTES' The Internment prison camps of front of Hon. R, H. Pooley, attor a severed artery under his arm fall of 1928 in Saskatchewan. the great war may re-appear In Chutskoff, who broke away from ney-ger.eral of British Columbia, WINS HONOR MARKS was causing the doctors consid this province to provide for In who came here to warn that the erable concern. TORONTO, May 6—(By the the Christian Community of Uni carceration of 84 Doukhobor Canadian Press) — Exchange versal Brotherhood, of which Vere law would be strictly enforced. No Expiates Crime On One of the surgeons, a Dr. men and 34 women who wore rates at noon today . were aa gin is president, several years ago, arrests were made and the incident AT MUSIC FESTIVAL Gosset, said he had examined sentenced to three years' Im was allowed to pass. follows: was charged by Veregin with per prisonment each at Nelson yes the president and had discovered Pound sterling In Montreal jury in connection with the same Pete Maloff, leader of the element, none of the bullets had pene terday for appearing In public took his sentence with a smile after Quebec Gallows 4.11 Hi. hearing but the charge was dismiss In the nude. There la no room Bernice Short and George trated the brain and (hat he ex ed three days ago. admitting appearing in the nude, pected M. Doumer to recover. Pound sterling In New York for them In New Westminster and walked to his cell with a smile 3.67 . Ask» for Leniency penitentiary. Accommodation Brown of City Praised From police headquarters came Before his lordship passed sen and "I thank you." There was little Thursdays Albert St. Pierre Hanged word that when they searched the Canadian dollar In New York there It already overtaxed, peni trouble with the men, but tho wom tence A. A. Patrick, K.C., chief de tentiary officials stated today By Judge assassin they found In his pocket a 89%. I fense counsel, made a plea for en In some cases protested their For Shooting of Rene notebook with the phrase printed In commenting on the Doukho sentences, declaring they had strip Results At -leniency, .stating that the Doukho bor sentences. in pencil in letters an inch high: especially to commit this crime. bor people particularly needed their ped but were praying or celebrat A good attendance has marked Malloy in Liquor Case "This day I killed the president He was born a Cossack, he told According to these officials the ing. all sessions of the local Musical penitentiary has cell accommoda The Festival of the French republic." them, and two years ago formed Patience Ended Festival and Thursday was no SHERBROOKE, Que., May 6.— Madame Doumer, who gave four what he called the Society of Rus TYPHOON TOIX HEAVY tion for 391 prisoners.