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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1946-04-04, Page 7FIREARMS SEIZED IN MAILS Lt. -Col. H. E. Chater, O.B.E., Assistant Director of Ordnance Stores (Warlike) looks over the latest accumulation of lethal hard- ware seized in the mails by the Post Office authorities in the United Kingdom. This array numbering well over 100 pieces represents only the last two months' haul from parcels addressed to Canada by souvenir collectors in the army. e SPACE FOR RENT — NO CEILING An enterprising property owner hopefully displays a "for rent" sign on what is left of a Manila store building, reduced by bombings to only a shell. Manila, once proud "Pearl of the Orient" with modern, glistening buildings and spacious boulevards, is beginning to rebuild with temporary wooden structures. These will be replaced later by concrete and steel buildings when materials are available. OCEAN LINER, JET-PROPELLED Miss Flora Tomadelli, daughter of New York designer J. Toma- delli, is pictured above holding a scale model of the "New Era" jet- propelled ocean liner conceived by her father. The ship, powered by four jet engines (arranged two to each side), would have an over-all length of 1487 feet and a capacity of 116,000 gross tons. Capable of carrying about 10,100 passengers, it would cost an estim- ated $60,000,000. ENEMY OF FRANCE? ,Gen. Maxine Weygand, above, 79 - year -old former coniinander-in- •chief of the French army, is on trial in Paris, charged with joining Mar- shal Petain in a conspiracy to over. .throw the French Republic. 111 since his imprisonment in 1944, Weygand declared in answer to the charges that he had never acted "against the interests of France:' FILES FOR SENATE Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan, who electrified the world in July, 1938, when he made a forbidden flight -"by mistake"—from New York to Dublin; Eire, in a dilapi- dated and obsolete plane, has filed his name for the U. S. Senate. He announced at his Los Angeles home that he would .tun on the Prohi- bition 'ticket in this fall's election. Highlights of the News Will Take Oath Field Marshal Visceue: Alex- ander nd children are expected to arrive .in Halifax a the Aquitania on April 10. The formal swearing in of the new governor general will take place in the Senate chamber either on Friday, April 12, or on the fol- lowing lay. Orders for Russian Spies Soviet Russia's spies ordered their Canadian agents get infor- mation on atomic research, on ra- lar application for .t battleship des- tined to serve in the Pacific, on a new explosive in which the United States was interested, and on Can- adian mirtary strength at Valcar- tier, it was revealed in court in Montreal last week. Trusts UNO Will Succeed Trygve Lie, United Nations Secretary - General, said the UNO's first purpose was to pre- vent differences among great pow- ers "from resulting in armed con- flict." on- flict" Dr. Lie declared. "We know that this will be difficult; some people ma) feel that it is hopeless. But I want to say this: "First: We firmly intend to maintain the peace. `Second: I am convinced that we shall dc so." Ontario's Expenditures When Provincial Treasurer Frost in his Ontario budget speech forecast a gross ordin:.ry expendi- ture of $149.436.605 in the fiscal year endi g March 31, 1947, he was providing for the heaviest current spending in the province's history. To Visit Occupation Forces Vincent M..ssey, retiring Cana- dian High Commitsio ,er in Bri- tain, now on a farewell holiday tour of Europe before he retires will visit Maj, -Gen. Christopher Vokes, Commander -in -Chief Can- adian occupation forces in Ger- many, and tour the ':anadian zone. Home Fleet at Lisbon The British Home Fleet, making its first "spring cruise" in seven years, arrived last week at Gibral- tar under the command of Ad- miral Sir Edward Neville -Syfret. Maple Syrup Ration Stays Maple syrup will remain on the ration list, R. W. May'iew, parlia- mentary assistant to the minister of finance. told the Commons. As in previous ;•ears, the cou- pon value of maple syrup has been doubled for the duration of the producing season, until May 31. It canbe procured at the rate of one gallon for two sugar -preserve coupons._ There is no indication the ration regulations will curtail production. Rental Curbs Remain A report from Ottati,a states that while price -controls will be lifted from a wide range of arti- cles, in addition to those from which they have already been re- moved within the nex couple of months, the ceilings will be re- tained for a longer period on clothing. rents. most food products and certain other essentials. Hungry Germans Looting Stores Looting of food stores by hun- gry Germans has increas•' in Hamburg and a British medical Cropping of Fallow Land an Emergency Canada has at last achieved a reasonable valance between crop land and fallow land and it cannot be lightly distributed in the inter- ests of agriculture, says the Win- nipeg Free Press. While web a program is essential as a long- term plan, it can -.nd should be modified to meet a sudden and special emergency this year, the niost serious famine and hunger of recent times. If fallow land is cropped tt': year it should :.e done with a full understanding that this is an emergency measure only, when the emergency passes the basic fallow progran should be re - reestablished. Also. when world danger has eased, Canada can re- turn immediately to the expansion of its livestock ou 'gut. • officer declares that the first de- finite signs of starvation were ap- parent among many residents of Germany's second la:gest city. The polict ordered food dealers to board up their shop windows as an emergency mea re against Lands of men, women and children who have stormed nearly 60 bread stores recently. Guards were placed at the larges shops. Thirty-three workmen in a Ger- man state railway machine tool factory collapsed from hunger. The f-.ctor3 employs 1,000 men and, according to an official, other workers are declaring they can not carry on much longer. U.S Rationing If Needed President Truman said he would not object to a return to wartime food rationing if it became abso- lutely necessary. Mr. Truman added that ration- ing was not yet absolutely neces- sary and said he hoped it would not become so. Tortured By SINUS PAIN you can get quick relief from painful distress with a few drops of p VicksVa-tro-nol. VICi KS wItherermisery is! ht VtW►m�RO.110L Many people never seem to get a good night's rest. They tum and toss—blame it en `nerves'—when it may be their kidneys. Healthy kidneys filter poisons and excess acids from the blood. If they fail and impurities stay in the system—disturbed rest often follows. If you don't rest well get and use Dodd's Kidney Pills. Dodd's help the kidneys so that you can rest better—and feel better. 136 �ti`E'RE SPFAhRI OF r�ihousan.ds of Canadian boys—sons, brothers, husbands— are returning from the wars—returning to what promises to be a happy tomorrow ... a tomorrow that many gave their lives to bring about. A. tomorrow that may be held back if immoderate or unessential spending brings about inflation ...if our desires are not confined to temperate limits ... if the many strange ideas and philosophies that are with us today are not carefully considered and moderated to suit our needs and way of living. The real enjoyments and full pleasures of gracious living are possible only to the man who practices moderation—in everything he does. The House of Seagram suggests that we think of tomorrow— and be moderate in all we do. THE NIIIItiE OF S[ACIIAM a../ d 4oe4L�/i2 ry , eg;mof t ee m a ®e t7' ee :e.�iE�P, ' a t War,/