HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1946-05-16, Page 2KING MAY QUIT
IN THE MOVIES
"Informed sources" in Rome say
that Italy's King Victor Emmanuel
LII, upper photo, may abdicate
soon in an effort to save the mon-
archy and the House of Savoy. The
reports say control of the throne
would probably be tuned over to a
regency, pending the corning of age
of his 10 -year-old grandson, Victor
Emmanuel. Prince of Naples, lower
photo.
FRANCO PROBER
Paul Hasluck, above, new Austra-
lian delegate to the UN Security
Council, heads a five -man UN com-
mission charged with investigation
of the Franco regime in Spain. He
is a former professor and news-
paperman.
ONE OF VERY FEW
Signed to dance in movies is
Clarence "Caesar", Murphy of
Windsor, Ont. Heavyweight boxer
and at one time a bouncer in a
hotel, Murphy was spotted by a
Hollywood talent scout in Detroit.
He starts his movie career at $300
a week.
Hight gh s
News
U. S Coal Strike
The nation looked to \Mashing
ton for relief from the strangling
effects of the 38 -day-old coal
strike
Cities ..t:d :arras from Alaii,e to
Oregon were feeling the impact of
curtailtnents in essential electric
power, railroad service, industrial
activity and other business. ;
In a rapidly -widening radius ex-
tending in all direction., from Chi•
cago, ha'clest hit bythe power cur-
tailment, electric service faded.
front dimou proportions to threat-.
en ed blackouts.
Freight :.ltd passenger transport-
ation rede.ctions increased almost
.. hourly and unemployment- figures
mounted' into - the hundrtds of
thousands, as raw tnaterial', and
shrinking coal supplies diminished;
almost, to the vanishing point,
In Detroit,. the Ford Motor Co.;
announced' it would begin shut-
downs throwing 1101000 out of .
work.
Only 35 per cent, of the freight-
ers in the Great Lakes coal and ore
fleet now are in operation, accord-
ing to A. T. Wood, president of.
'the Lake Carriers' ' association
Wood ,said coal shipments on the
lakes are about 4,300,000 tons be-
low this time last -ear.
Steel .was the industry hardest
hit. It was estimated 100,000
would be without work in the Chi-
cago-Caliiitet arca alone before
the of the week.
Shipments on some railroads
have been cut to 75 per cent. of
normal,
Solid Fuels Administrator Krug
banned delivery ofsoft. coal to any
cossumer with more than a five
day supply. The order already
had cut off supplies to all except
•essectial indusry and hospitals
with less than a IO -clay supply.
Britain To Quit Egypt
Britain has offered to' with -draw
all her military, air ind naval for-
Cls from Egypt inreturn for an
alliance negotiated "between two
equal nations having interests in
common." This would throw the
Egypt, Egyptian extremists ass•
defense of the Suez Canal upo,a
ailed any British alliance.
Ethiopia Helps
Ethiopia has offered to supply
United Natibut Relief and Rehab-
ilitation Administration with, 100,
000 tons of wheat and other food.
stuffs in t` e next year and a .halt
for famine relief.
The offer also included 10,000
tons of coffee.
Living Cost Up
....The cost ob living in Canada a,
April 1 was higher than at any
time daring the war, the Dominion
Bureau of Statistics reported
..The bureau said its official cost-'
of -living inclex, on the basis 1935-
last week,
1939 equals 100,, advanced from
120.1 at March 1 to 120,8 at
April 1. . The index slightly ex-
ceeded the wartime high level of
120.5 recorded in August, 1945.
The bureau said the 'principal
pant Jf the increase came from the
food group which rose from 133.1
`to 135.1 Price increases for butter,
pork products and vegetables were
mainly responsible.
Soviet Loan Drive
Soviet Russia' called on her
people to subscribe to a 20,000,000,
000 ruble (noininally '.($3,774,000,
000) loan "for restoration and de-
velopment of the U.S,S.R.'s nat-
ional economy," the Moscow radio
said:
U. S. Rail Service Cut
The United States Office of De-
fence .Transportation last week or-
dered a 50 per, cent reduction in
passenger -service by coal -burning
'locomotives, effective May 15,. to
conserve dwindling coal supplies.
Vera Clegg of Yellowknife, in
Canada's far-flung Northwest Ter-
ritories, takes home a few dollars'.
worth of groceries, for prices on
food in the booming little gold-
rush town include $1.50 for a dozen
eggs, 25 cents for a loaf of bread.
Vera is one of the few white women
v/Lo have ventured into this gold
r,';np, tOO miles north of the n'iar-
_.est city, 'Edmonton.
IT IS DIFFICULT TO MAKE THE WORLD REALIZE THE MEANING OF FAMINE
So spoke Herbert Hoover as he looked at India in his worldwide
investigation of food conditions. His words are a dramatic sound
track for these pictures, taken in Calcutta'... of a young mother
covering the dead body of her starved child of the grim curious
watching the corps removal squad take away the body of an old man'
. of the pitiful cargo of young death being loaded into a removal
squad truck. But the situatidn in India, warned Herbert Hoover, is
no worse than in other parts of the world.
Rail Strike Seems Certain
Two hundred and sixty thous-
and members of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen and Broth-
erhood of Locomotive Engineers
will walk out on strike at 4 p.na. on
May 18, on orders of heads of the
two union' issued shortly after.
they had stalked out of a meeting
in Chicago' with carrier-rcpresent-
atives.
Only action by President Tru-
man can avert the walkout..
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