HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1946-04-25, Page 2NAZI ADMITS HE LIED
" Lied," admits Joachim Von Ribbentrop, former German Foreign
Minister, during cross examination at Nuernberg war criminal trials.
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, chief British Prosecutor, torced Ribben-
trop to admit he had told falsehoods during his handling of Nazi
foreign affairs before the war.
Highlights of the News
Less Bread In U. 5.?
A compulsory 25 percent. cut in
bread consumption may be neces-
sary if United States famine com-
mitments abroad are to be met,
Public eating establishments .ap-
parently are not cutting bread con-
sumption as they had promised to
do under the present voluntary pro-
gram.
Servicemen's Pay Raised
The long -heralded improved ser-
vice pay rates aimed at attracting
highest -type recruits to Canada's
enlarged peat•etiine active forces of
51,100 men were announced Last
week. They include a basic rate and
subsistence allowance of $95 a
month for ratings, privates and air-
craftmen. The new rates are ef-
fective Oct. 1.
They compare with the pre-war
rate of $72 and the wartime rate of
$76.50.
Both Defence Minister Abbott
and Air Minister Gibson are on re-
cord as saying the rates are an at-
tempt to provide men in the ser-
vices with remuneration similar to
what they would receive had they
decided on a civilian career.
U. S. Strike Situation
Strikes and shutdowns in labor
disputes kept .650,000 workers idle
across the country. The major dis-
putes:
Farm equipment — The first of
30;000 International Harvester
workers returned to work after set-
tlement of 85 -day-old strike.
Coal — Negotiations between
United Mine Workers and mine
operators stalemated on royalty pro-
vision demands.
Sugar — 4.500 workers in two
east coast sugar refineries return to
work after companies agree to wage
settletttents.
Electric — Negotiations between
C.I.O. Electrical Workers Union
and Westinghouse Electric in 91, -
day -old strike continuing.
Dates For A -Bomb Tests
President Truman, who post-
poned atomic bomb tests in the Pa-
cific, said these tests ale of vital im-
portance and he ]las been assured
the new target dates would be met.
Mr. Truman said in a formal
statement that the experiments at
Bikini atoll should provide inform-
ation "essential to intelligent plan-
ning in the future and an evaltta:ion
of the effect of atomic energy on
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our defence estaba� -'--,Y e._._,:ts"
The joint Arn y-\avy ;:ask for
conducting the test_ ee,peo-ts to he,ld
the first one July 1 or as near at
date as the wea_':er : _._..._-
Farm Machinery Ceilings
Price ceilings for Canadian -nude
farm machinery have been in ct eased
12f. percent. the prices board an-
nounced last week.
The board said a surveti- had
shown :ha:. with t.te swing over
CHILD LABOR. IN SORELY -PRESSED FORMOSA
Liberated after 51 years of Japanese rule, Formosans today are not
sure whether" bondage to the Jap was not preferable to the "free-
dom" of their last six months, under Chinese rule. Famine, wide-
spread unemployment, black markets and economic robbery impose
heavy burdens. These exclusive pictures, showing young children
toiling to make their meager living, were taken by Harlow Church,
.NEA -Acme correspondent, first Occidental photographer :o visit
Formosa since 1936.
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Children of Taihoku, Formosa, labor with picks and shovels in the
ruined city's streets, removing and salvaging wartime wreckage.
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About bobby-soxer age, these Formosan girls work all day in the
hot sun, tread -milling on a primitive irrigation ditch.
from war production, unavoidable
cost increases had arisen which no
longer could be met,without an up-
ward revis:"tn in the retail price.
' Following are the general catego-
ries of machines affected,by the or-
der: planting, seeding and fertilizing
machinery; plows, tillage imple,
ments and cultivators; baying ma-
chinery; harvesting machinery; ma-
chines for preparing crops for mar-
ket or use; farm power machinery;
farm wagons, trucks and sleighs;
dairy machines and equipment;
spraying' equipment and dusters;
domestic water systems and pumps;
barn and barnyard equipment and
miscellaneous equipment.
Nazi Spies Arrested
U. S. authorities revealed the ex-
istence of a postwar Nazi -operated
Werewolf organization in China
with the arrest of 20 German, Ita-
lian and Japanese agents led by a
close personal friend of Adolf Hit-
ler.
Further arrests and wholesale de-
portations will follow. The leaders
arrested will be charged with viola-
tion of German surrender terms.
Activities of the group, known as
the Ehrhadt Bureau, were said to
be responsible for the sinkings of
American ships including at least
one aircraft carrier, They are be-
lieved indirectly responsible for
heavy American losses in the early
phases of the Okinawa campaign
and in other Pacific actions.
Dominion Day In Ontario
The Dominion's national holiday
— July 1. — will remain Dominion
Day to Ontario • o matter what the
fate of the bill passed by the House
of Commons which now goes to the
Senate to change the name to Ca-
nada Day.
This was announced by Premier
Drew in an address to the Young
Progressive Conservative Associa-
tion of Ontario after the convention
had passed a resolution condemning
the proposal for the change of
name.
THE SPORTING THING
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with that thing!"
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EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS
ARE FORMOSAN WAR TRAGEDY
The battered hulk pictured
above, at a Takao, Formosa,
dock, holds bitter memories
for scores of U.S, servicemen.
It is what is left of the Jap
"hellship" Enoura, used during
the war as a prison ship, In
December, 1944, the Enoura.
carrying U.S. prisoners of war
from Manila, had just reached
Takao Bay when American
bombers made direct hits, part-
ially sinking the ship. A total
of 483 Yanks were killed.
These were buried in a single
grave on the beach near Takao.
The grave, marked by a crude
cairn, is pictured at right. In-
specting it are, left to right,
Sgt. Robert Adams, of Wills-
boro, N.Y.; Taltaharu Suenaga,
a Jap prisoner; and Harry C.
Angst, of the Rcd Cross. These
exclusive photos made by Mar-
low M. Church, NEA -Acme
correspondent, - were the first
taken by, a U.S. pi.otowra pier
in Forrneea since 1936, When
the Japs closed the island.
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