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Show I Sons of Quebec Who "Fathered" American Cilfcl BY ELMO SCOn WATSON j j' II AMERICAN visitors to Si Quebec this summer are due to learn some V I facts about the history their own country of they probably yof never before been At least, they if their journeying happens to take them through certain cities, towns and villages on highways connecting these communities with Montreal and the City of Quebec and the main trunk roads in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and the Middle West. At the entrance to these mu-nicipalities they will see sign-posts bearing plaques similar to this: olet. The province of Quebec, however, has done better by him with both a county and a town bearing his name. Out in Utah is a city which bears the name of a man who was born in the City of Quebec. It is the City of Ogden which honors Peter Skene Ogden, son of a New York Loyalist, who fled to Canada during the Revolution and who became one of the lead-ing magistrates of the province. His son joined the Hudson s Bay company at an early age and as one of its factors played an im-portant part In the early history of the fur trade in the Great West. One of his contemporaries in this period was another Quebec-bor- n boy, Dr. John McLoughlin, who also entered the H. B. C. service, established Fort Van-couver on the Columbia, reigned there as the "Emperor of the West" and has come down in history as the "Father of Ore-gon." Riviere-du-Lou- p was his birthplace and there the com-memorative plaque has been preoted. Moreover he wa9 a trusted lieu-tenant of Cadillac and a re-nowned fighter of the Indian ene-mies of the French until he per-ished at the stake in a Chicka-saw village in 1736. Before that time, however, he had built a trading post and earth fort on the present site of an Indian city which now bears his name. To this little town of Vin-cenn- es in 1789 came a young man who was a native of St. Antoine on the Richelieu river in the province of Quebec and during the next few years his name be-came famous in the adjoining territory of Illinois. It was Pierre Menard. He was a friend of Francisco Vigo, the Italian trader who had been such an aid to George Rogers Clark in the conquest of Vincennes ten year earlier and he accompanied Vigo on a trip east to Carlisle, Pa., where they had an interview with George Washington in re-gard to a plan for defense of the western frontier. A few years later Menard moved to Kaskaskia, 111., the old-est town in the Mississippi val- - .. mil iiMfliiilgliLL IIJIH Sjllllll ViL-- ; LA SALtt j EN'CETTE LQCAUTE VECUTj cAVEUER D LA SALIE, DECOU r VREUR bu MISSISSIPP. jrfXREUR j FONDATEUR de NIAGARA m mm DE JOLIET (tLimoisj etoe MEMPHIS , vMTOKSSffjj IN THIS TOWN LIVED CAVELERI DE LA SALLE. ; DISCOVERER: OFj THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI FDOTi fER OF NIAGARA, wv ram. JOLIET. ilmkAND MEMPHIS '.TEKNtsat, $ Like the City of Quebec, that other Canadian metropolis, Mont-real, was also the birthplace or home town of a number of nota-bles in the early history of the United States. It was the birth-place of two brothers destined for fame by their exploits in the Lower Mississippi valley. One of them was Pierre le Moyne, Sieur D' Iberville, born there in 1661, who became the founder of the French colony of Louisiana and later founder of the City of Mobile, Ala. The other was Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur Bien-ville, born in 1680, who became the founder of the City of New Orleans and of Biloxi, Miss. As governor of the colony which his brother founded, Bienville estab-lished the "code noir" which re-- fv J fit ' fS Y 1 SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAq settled, was adopted by the Indians and married a tiri that tribe. He began worst, J lead mines on the west bart, the Great River and today V the city of Dubuque, Iowa, grew up from that mining camt and a village named Julia, , short distance away, perpetuate his fame. Another native of St. MicH was Noel Le Vasseur, who at it age of seventeen went West i company with 60 other advente ous youths, Joined up with i c-itato Rocheblave (who was the last governor of the terrikr of Illinois under British rule) n became a fur trader in the r ploy of John Jacob Astor. E roamed the new state of Ulii. and became the founder oi li present town of Bourbons 111. (Incidentally, this town i; named for Francois Bourbc nais, and Beauharnois, the tot of his birth, has a plaque cc: memorating that fact.) LeVi seur became a great favorite the Indians and his into; with them was so great that was appointed United State agent to supervise the remro of some of the tribes from E nois to Iowa. Resenting the forced departure from tk homeland, the Indians threaten to stage an uprising and only 1 forceful character of Le Vass; prevented a serious outbreak; hostilities. Because of this k he has been called a "sect William Penn." In the town of L'Asumpfe stands a marker recording 4 fact that "here was born Sai; mon Juneau, founder and fc mayor of Milwaukee." fe was the son of Francois b Therese La Tulipe, whoi! France at the outbreak dt French revolution and cta! their name to Juneau in f fort to put their old life be& them as much as possible. At a early age Salomon Juneaiif came an employe of the tef mained in force until the pur-chase of Louisiana by the United NOEL LE VASSEUR States and much of it was incor-porated in the law of the Amer- - ley, and from that time on he ican state which bears the name played an increasingly important of the French colony. Another part in the development of the native son of Montreal was territory. When Illinois became Jacques Porlier, founder of the a state he was its first lieutenant-Cit- y of Green Bay, Wis. governor and he also was one of he founders in St. Louis of the Although Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac was born in France, famous Missouri Fur company. Montreal claims him as one of , Mmof as his 'amou 83 'Tl her sons, but Detroit, Mich., calls was nephew, him "father." For it was Cadil- - M.ena b?m st-De-a on the lac who laid the foundations of Rheheu 180o. He became a fur trader in the Old Northwest For the province of Quebec has erected such markers in more than a score of its citie3 and towns. It has done this to commemorate the deeds of some of its "sons who made good in foreign parts" and to draw the attention of Americans to the historical, link between it and their country through these men. The list of them is truly an im-pressive one. It includes ex-plorers, fur traders, churchmen, soldiers and civil officers who had a leading part in the de-velopment of regions now em-braced in nearly half of the states of the Union. Moreover, many of these "native sons" of Quebec "fathered" some of our most important cities, situated in all parts of the United States fromi,.N York to California (Sand from Minnesota to Loui-siana. Outstanding in this list is the name of Cavelier de La Salle, who has the distinction of being the "founder" of no less than three American cities Niagara, N. Y.; Joliet, 111., and Memphis, Tcnn. Another city in Illinois bears his name, as does the county in which it is located, and there is a La Salle county in Texas and a La Salle parish in Louisiana to commemorate the deeds of this intrepid ex-plorer in the country where the last scenes in the drama of his life were enacted. Although La Salle was born in France, Ville La Salle was his "home town" and there the commemorative marker has been erected. The City of Quebec, the first settlement in the province, founded by Samuel de Cham-plai- n (whose name is perpetuat-ed in the beautiful lake in north-ern New York) was the home town of three other explorers in what is now the United States. They were Father Marquette, the priest; Louis Joliet, the fur tm-- ' ''"g'5JtM"" V",' '' ?' " V ! ; fS 4 , ! " I it . " ,1 i , f . . . 4 V "' ) v. ' " , . , V( in iii On tlWaifa fcmin if at the age of sixteen, worked for his uncle in Illinois and Missouri and became so attached to the Indian mode of life that he joined a band of Shawnees, who later made him their chief. He went to Texas in 1833, became a mem-ber of the convention that de-clared the independence of the Lone Star republic 100 years ago and was the founder of the pres-ent city of Galveston. It seems a far cry from such bustling modern cities as Mil-waukee and Superior, Wis.; Ogdensburg, N. Y.; Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.; Dubuque, Iowa; St. Paul, Minn., and Kankakee, ; i ' 'A' jV'K. ,v '' - ' n ' ' a i i 111., to the quiet little villages and towns in Quebec, but the visitor to the latter will find in the plaques which are erected there the link between them. At Mascouche is one which tells him that here lived Repen-tign- y, founder of Sault Ste. Marie; at Oka is one which re-cords the fact that it was the home of Francois Picquet, who founded Ogdensburg; at Berthier was born J. B. Faribault, foun-der of Kankakee, and St. Michel d'Yamaska was the birthplace of J. B. Lefebre, who founded Su-perior. Vital Guerin, a pious church-man who was born at St. Remi de Napierville, founded a mis-sion, which he called St. Pauls, on the Upper Mississippi. Today the capital of Minnesota, its name DR. JOHN McLOUGHLIN that city in 1701. At one time also he was commander at Fort Michilimackinac (on the present Mackinac Island, Mich.) and later he became governor of Louisiana. Another of Cadillac's connections with American his-tory lies in the fact that in 1691 he was made lord of Bouagnat and Mount Desert, Maine, and nearly a century later the com-monwealth of Massachusetts con-firmed to his granddaughter, Mme. Gregoire, so much of Mount Desert Island as was not already granted to others. Another French-bor- n "son of Montreal" was Daniel Greysolon DuLhut, leader of a famous band of "coureurs du bois," fur trader and explorer of the Upper Mississippi, whose name is per-petuated in the modern city of Duluth, Minn. Two other ex-plorers whose birthplaces are marked by commemorative plaques are La Verendrye, first white man in Wyoming and dis-coverer of the Big Horn moun-tains, who was born at Trois-Rivie- re (Three Rivers) and Nicolas Perrot, who lived at Becancour. At the entrance of the village of Contrecoeur in Quebec stands a signpost which tells the visitor that here was born Captain Con-trecoeur, "who erected a fort where now stands the city of Pittsburgh, Pa." But that is not his only claim to fame. For it wa3 this same captain, who, as commandant of Fort Duquesne, sent out the force of French and Indians, to try to delay the ad-vance of general Braddock and who won that amazing victory over the superior force of British redcoats and Colonials one hot summer day in 1755. Visit the little town of Beau-mont and the marker will tell you that here lived Jean Bap- tist Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes. He was not only a relative of Joliet, the explorer, but he was also an explorer in his own right Y" : - . T v i, s i y a j fjpl f4gX'- - fM . ' II vM I :-- SALOMON JUNEAU ican Fur company in Wis J and in 1818 settled on the f site of Milwaukee as ag the A. F. C. TwoyearjJJ. married and he came the first permanent settlers in Milwaukee, w the first postmaster of town, the first president became a village m when it was made a cw he became its first ma or. Among the other W Quebec where comme; markers have been jd the following: St. Fierr tagny, birthplace of Blanchet, first bishop St. Henri-de-Lauzo- J , of Louis Blanchett St. Charles, Mo., praj; Plaines, birthplace J Beaudry, a pioneer ( of Los Angeles, w r Louiseville, bithp!f. 0( Ge minGervais, founder Minn. jt is but no lw Uptown of Mas mog,r,t was born Franco bry. the manjtne s fame as one distance riders in w the West, in 18-- V M., to f from Santa i Fe. ceoM pondence, Mo., a 8nd miles, in eight dj hours, and two J win a bet of that time to six jy City, Ariz., and-t- f perpetuate the nam frontiersman. on 0 Wetero N SIEUR D'IBER VILLE trader, and an almost "forgotten man" of our early history whose explorations preceded those of the other two by 40 years. He was Jean Nicolet, discoverer of Lake Michigan, the first white explorer of the present state of j Michigan, the first white man to set foot in what is now Wisconsin and by some historians believed to be the first white man to see the prairies of Illinois and the present site of Chicago. Illinois has a city named for Joliet; both Wisconsin and Mich-igan have Marquette counties, and the latter has a city named for the Jesuit priest. But neither state has thus honored Jean Nic- - PIERRE MENARD shortened to St. Paul, occupies that site and a great deal more. In 1762 in the little town of St. Pierre-les-Becque- ts a boy was born to whom was given the name of Julien Dubuque. At an early age he left his native land and made his way through sav-age tribes to Prairie du Chien in far-awa- y Wisconsin where he News Review of Current Events the World Over Frank Knox Notified of Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Spanish Rebels Winning Vic-- V torie Third PWA Building Program. By EDWARD W. PICKARD e Wulan Nwpapr Union. LONDON newspapers were taught lesson in fair dealing, In connection with the case of George McMahon who was arrest-ed for menacing King Edward wiH a revolver recently. The Daily Ex-press and the Evening News edi-tors and their respective proprie-tors, Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere, were fined $2,500 each for contempt of court because the papers printed articles calling act an attempt on the klng'i life, the attorney general stating that It was not yet proved to be an attempted assassination. A movie distributing agency was fined $250 on the same charge. TWO MEN were killed and nine injured when a breech-block blew out in a bow turret of the U. S. S. Marblehead which was engaged in gunnery practice fifty miles off San Diego. The cruiser Immediately steamed to port un-der forced draft The dead were Leo Steve Morande, second-clas- s seaman, Eureka, Calif., and Percy an enthusiastic crowd FACING filled the big Chicago stadium. Col Frank Knox received from Senator Steiwer of Oregon the official notification of his nomination for the vice presidency by the Republican par-ty. National Chair-man John Hamilton introduced the sen-ator, who spoke briefly but forceful-ly and with his cus-tomary eloquence. ern tiers of counties, with serious damage in some other sections. Threshing of winter wheat re-vealed expected yields, the report said, but spring wheat conditions were termed disappointing. ROOSEVELT ended PRESIDENT cruise when his yacht docked at Campobello island, New Brunswick, where he has a summer home. He shaved off the sidewhiskers he had grown to sur-prise his wife and mother and went ashore for a picnic and a reception with members of his family and friends in the summer colony of the island. Canadian Royal Mount-ed police Joined with the American secret service men in guarding the distinguished visitor. Mr. Roosevelt remained at Campobello only two days and then took a special train to Quebec, where he visited with Lord Tweeds-mui- r, governor general of Canada. "" " "" As Colonel Knox Colonel Knox gtepped forward to deliver his speech of acceptance he was greeted by a roar of ap-plause that continued for many minutes. Ills fellow citizens were glad to express their gratification for the honor done him, and the thousands from outside Chicago were no less warm in their appre-ciation of the candidate. In the streets surrounding the stadium was another vast threng of people who, unable to get Into the build-ing, listened to the proceedings as broadcast by a loud-speak- sys-tem. Unlike Governor Landon, Colonel Knox devoted much of bis address to the alleged failures of the Roose-velt administration which, he said, had the most glorious opportunity In the history of the nation but ig- -' nored Its responsibility, failed in its Job and defaulted in Its obli-gations. "From the day that it took of-fice," he declared, "it embarked on a series of hysterical experi-ments on the economic life of a burdened people. At a time when universal was a neces-it- v it initiated a campaign of TWO MEMBERS of the Olympic boxing squad failed to take warning' from the fate of Eleanor Holm Jarrett and broke training rules soon after their arrival in Berlin. Roy Davis, man-ager of the boxers, advised that they be sent home, and the Amer-ican Olympic committee so or-dered. The two delinquents were Joe J. Church, featherweight, of Batavia, N. Y., and Howell King, welterweight, of Detroit Their places on the team were filled by Theodore E. Kara and Chester Ru-tec-both of Chicago. GEN. FRANCISCO FRANCO'S forces in Spain, accord-ing to late reports, were pressing the government troops seriously William Cofer, boatswain s mate, Washington, Ca. UNOFFICIALLY, Germany is Helgoland, the Gibraltar of the North sea which was demilitarized by the treaty of Versailles. The report that the Nazis were taking this action was brought up in the English house of commons and Foreign Secretary Eden said the government did not intend to deal separately with the question, hop-ing for a fresh effort for European peace "in which Germany would play a full part" He hinted that Great Britain would let the affair pass without comment as one of Germany's "minor affronts." It was believed France would take the same stand. IOWA Republicans nominated Halden of Chariton, editor and American Legion leader, for the United States senate seat made vacant by the death of Louis Mur-phy. His Democratic opponent is Guy M. Gillette. The state Farmer-Labo- r party delegates met in Des Moines and named former Senator Smith Wild-ma- n Brookhart as their candidate for the seat Until recently he has been connected with the New Deal farm organization. In Oklahoma's runoff primary young Representative Josh Lee won the Democratic nomination for United States senator, badly de-feating Gov. E. W. Marland. Lee's Republican opponent is Herbert K. Hyde. ACCORDING to a report put out Association of Manufacturers, "excessive specula-tion in farm lands appears at last to have ended and opportunities for farm operators to rent land or pur-chase on equitable terms are now restored." The report prepared by the as-sociation's committee on agricul-tural was stated to be based on an analysis of the re-lationship between farm commodi-ty prices and the market value of farm real estate. and winning some bloody encounters. This despite the claims of Madrid that the Fascists had been checked. The rebel columns advancing on the capital from the south were reported to be threatening communications be- - tween Madrid and Gen. Franco the eastern sea. coast at Valencia and Alicante, chief sources of the government's food supplies. Indeed, It was an-nounced by the Insurgent radio sta-tion at Seville that the garrison at Valencia had revolted and gone over to the rebels. Leaders of the Insurgents claimed they held Huel-v- a, Important seaport and all the territory between Seville and the Portuguese border. The loyalists directed a strong attack on Sara- - MORE than 100.000 persons stood silence at Vimy, France, as King Edward VIII of England unveiled the magnificent memorial built by France to commemorate the heroic capture of Vimy Ridge by the Canadian forces in April, 1917. After greeting President Lebrun of France in French, the king said: "We raise this memorial to Cana- - abuse and vilification of business men. At a time when the credit of the country should have been strengthened it inaugurated a poli-cy of credit adulteration and cur-rency experiment that demoralized foreign trade and frightened do-mestic finance. It set up a system of regimentation of industry that reduced production and prevented By coercion of con-gress it forced the passage of re-form measures so recklessly drawn that they hamstrung the revival of enterprise and paralyzed the re-newal of investment It installed a regimentation of agriculture that destroyed food and reduced foreign . markets and increased the cost of living and multiplied the expense of relief. "At a time when private industry was struggling desperately for a new start it set up governmental enterprise to compete with private business. At a time when the bur-den of taxation was already hard to bear It embarked on a policy of squandering public funds and in-creasing the weight of taxes. At a time when united effort and mutual good-wi- ll would have completed recovery it promoted sectional hat-red and class strife. At a time when returning business confidence was ending depression it began a campaign to terrorize business and subjugate the banks. At a time when confidence in the character of government was vital, it estab-lished a spoils system. At a time when the economic system was worn and emaciated it performed major surgical operations upon the industrial body to see what was inside. It adopted an economic philosophy of scarcity and forced it upon a hungry and distressed peo-ple. . . . "No one can define the New Deal or even describe it But we know what it means. It means federal control over local business, over local bank credit over local wages, over local conditions of work. It leads to federal regimentation of the labor, the business, and the home of every American citizen. It leads to price-fixin- g and produc-tion control by federal authority. It leads inevitably to the extinction of the small business man, to the end of free enterprise in America." Before the ceremonies started there were four big parades, con-verging at the stadium; and elab-orate musical programs were pro-vided both inside and outside the building. THE WEEKLY crop report and summary of the De-partment of Agriculture revealed that the drouth and high tempera-ture were playing havoc with the corn crop in most of the leading producing states. In some sections there will not even be fodder and over a much larger area no grain will be obtained this year. There were good rains, however, in parts of the central and eastern areas and improvement was noted there In both corn and pasturage. The present drouth In Iowa, the department said, has caused great-er damage to corn than that of 1934. The summary reported al-most complete destruction of the crop in two southern and two west-- gossa but advices from the front reaching Perpignan, France, said their three columns were ambushed by the rebels in a narrow canyon and lost perhaps 2,000 killed. General Franco has been quoted as saying the revolution, when suc-cessful, will result in a military dictatorship for the time being. The government, now a red dic-tatorship, has taken possession of all church property and assumed control of all industry and agricul-ture. It also has confiscated the merchant marine to form a defense fleet The loyalists were encour-aged by victories in and around San Sebastian. Claude G. Bowers, American am-bassador to Spain, was cut off from communication with the summer quarters of his embassy at San Sebastian for several days, being himself at his summer residence in Fuentarrabia, close to the French border. He finally got In touch with the embassy and removed the staff to his villa. Mr. Bowers also provided safe haven for a number of other foreign diplomats and their families. He said he had tained that not a single American had been injured In the civil war. American warships and liners were utilized to evacuate all the Ameri-cans in ports where their lives were in danger. Later Ambassador Bowers and his staff went aboard the cruiser Cayuga, taking with them some of the American refugees. PMPHASIS is placed on smaller scale projects to be completed speedily, in the third building pro-gram of the public works admin-istration, which was opened by the allotment of $22,742,034 by Pres-ident Roosevelt It Includes 352 projects in 37 states, and the larg-est of these is a courthouse for New York city to cost the govern-ment $4,835,000. The average al-lotment is only $G4,323. Secretary Ickes, PWA admin-istrator, said that in addition to 45 per cent donation, PWA will lend $2,142,000 to help communities de-fray their 55 per cent share of the cost President Roosevelt has or-dered that all projects "be com-menced by October 1, 1938. reach a peak by the end of the year and be completed by October 1, 1937." dian warriors. It is King Edward an inspired expres sion in stone chiseled by a skillful Canadian hand of Canada's salute to her fallen sons. It marks the scene of feats of arms which his-tory will long remember and Can-ada can never forget And the ground it covers is the gift of France to Canada." The dedication culminated ten years of labor and an expenditure of about $1,000,000 on erection of the memorial. The work was com-pleted after earlier delays in con-struction because of difficulties in finding the 7,000 to 8.000 tons of special stone required. Walter S. Allward, Toronto archi-tect and sculptor who designed the monument for the Canadian battle-fields memorial commission, super-vised the preparations for the un-veiling. SIR HENRY WELLCOME, who born in a log cabin in Wis-consin 83 years ago and who be-came one of England's greatest scientists and explorers, died in London following an operation. His scientific achievements ranged from the establishment of physio-logical laboratories to pioneering in the field of archaeological survey through the use of airplanes. He won the Royal Humane society life saving medal in 1885 and as late as 1927 founded the Lady Stanley Maternity hospital in Uganda, Cen-tral Africa. ACCORDING to announcement news agency which is generally considered to be the mouthpiece of the Polish foreign oflice, an accord has been reached between Berlin and Warsaw on the policies to be followed in the Free City of Danzig. The Nazis are said to have agreed to give explanations that will take the sting out of re-cent incidents in the city. |