The Seaforth News, 1946-02-07, Page 3KING OF THE HERD
This great.,,..w.,....b.._......_.......
bull elk got his jaw caught in a.. tin can while trying to get at some food in the bottom.
The tin couldn't be removed and Ernie Young, B anff park warden, here with the elk, was forced to
shoot the animal, which would have starved otherwise. Note the fine antlers on the elk.
Highlights of the News
Turn in Strikes
A sudden improvement in the
United States labor situation came
last week. Throughout the nation
an estimated 1,650;000 Worlcers
vitae on strike and other walkouts
were threatened. The crisis had
seemed to be deepening. Then, at
tl.e end of the week, agreemnt was
+'cachet' on three important sectors:
. !list, the announcement that an
agreement on wages had been
reached by the Ford Company and
its workers; second, a similar an-
nouncement by the Chrysler Cor-
peratioo; third, all the strikers in
the Sheat industry announced that
they would return to their jobs. ,
A group of Nebraska farmers
planned to "strike against strikes"
by refusing to ship products to•'
market until industrial strikes
ended.
New Ambassador to U.S.
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Britisn
Ambassador to the Soviet Union,
ti. ill become British Ambassad.rr
to Washington, May 1, succeeding
tate Earl of Halifax, who has repro-
scnted Britain in the United States
since 1941.
Sir Archibald, 04 -year-old native
rf'Scotland is now en route to Java
os special assignment to assist in
negotiations of the Dutch Indones-
ian dispute. '
New President of France
Felix ,Gatlin, 61 -year-old leader
of the French constituent asse.n
L'3 was elected interim president
of France, succeeding Gen. Charles
de Gaulle. Last week an over-
whelming vote of confidence from
the Assembly -514 to 51—was a
triumph for President Gouin, who
had discussed France's economic
and financial plight with greater
frankness and completeness than
any leader has done. since libera-
tion.
UNRRA Head Reinstated
Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan
has been restored to duty as chief
of UNRRA operations in Germany,
The relief -agency had called for
Gen. Morgan's resignation after he
expressed belief at a press confer-
cnce Jan. 2 that a secret Jewish
TINY DOG SAVES COLLIE'S LIFE
One day not long ago, Blacl:w.
e big collie, disappeared from his
home at a lumber camp near
Cochrane. Isis piaster 'Gore,
year-old son of the camp cook, was
away on a visit at the time. When
he returned he struck out "'with -a
couple of men to find' his dog,
Some woodsmen told of hearing
a dog banking in the distance.
Then one of the searchers came
upon what he took to be otter
tracks. "They are Puce's tracks;
she tracks like an otter!"
The snow was deep and Puce,
the little dog—the name 'mcaas
flea --had found the going hard. At
nue spot she had, dug under. 20 fent
al logs acid lin*. In several other
places she had clierved away
shrubbery as if she had been car-
rying a load and got tangled up—
previously a ham bone with
enough meat to feed. a couple of
tilerhad disappeared from the
kitchen. Marks in the snow sug-
gested - Puce had stopped frequent -
to rest.
After going a mile and a half
tic commenced to calx, and Blackie
n wered, Guie exclaimed.
Blackie had got one of his (rant
legs in • the, snare.' Instead of tug-
uing and fighting to get loose, as a
trlid animal would have done,
Mackie sat -drip° and' waited.
organization was promoting an ex-
odus of thousands of Jews from
Poland to the United States zone
in Germany. •
British Food Rations
Prime Minister Attlee has re-
fused to support cuts in the British
foid ration to improve the food
rtuation in Europe.
Mr. Attlee said there was "little
prospect" of substantially more food
fcr Britain, but that the govern-
ment might find it necessary "to
provide some variation of the pres-
ent monotonous and unexciting
diet in order to secure increased
production at home."
New British Colony
THRIVING QUADS
Badgett quadruplets of Galveston, Tex., who will be seven years old in Feb. practice up to sing "Happy
Birthday" to each other. Left to right; Joyce, Jeraldine, Janet and Joan.
The British Empire is to ,have a
new - colony. Singapore, with
Christmas Island and the Cocos -
Keeling Islands to the south of
Sumatra is to have its own exe-
cutive and legislative councils, thus
ensuring full representation of, 0.1
classes.
Peace in China
China last week enjoyed its first
day of complete tranquility in 18
years. Gen. Chu Tell, Chinese
Communist commander-in-chief,
reported to correspondents that all
fronts were quiet, with no fighting
either by the Communists or Nat-
ionalisttroops.
At last China has laid down its
arms.
'Montgomery of Alamein
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Mont-
gomery, who received a peerage
in the King's New Year's honors.
list, will take the title Viscount
Montgomery of Alamein to com-
memorate his celebrated desert vic-
tory.
For the normal territorial basis
Sir Bernard has chosen Hindhead
in Surrey,. and the peerage will be
g•.zetted as Viscount Montgomery
of Alamein, of Hindhead in the
County of Surrey.
Aid to Greece
Britain will lend Greece £10,-
000,000 ($44,500,000) without -in- -
tcrest to help stabilize skyrocket-
ing Greek currency and assist the
country to restore production.
The loan, together with the can-
cellation of Greece's £.45,000,000
war debt to Britain was announced
by foreign secretary Bevin.
The British Government also
w f11 .sell at cost to the Greeks
£900,000 worth of clothing and
'agricultural implements. "in spite
of the acute shortage in the United
Kingdom," it was announced,
Wheat Pact
Trade Mihister MacKinnon, re-
cently back from- a month of trade
talks in 'Brittain said there would
be an assured market for Canadian
wl-eat overseas for the "nest
Louple of years" and added .he
hoped for the signing of a four-
year wheat contract with Britain
within the next few nlanths.
Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald,
son of the late British Labor Pre-
mier, J. Ramsay MacDonald, will
ge from the United Kingdom; ¢Iigh
Commissioner's office in Ottawa to
be Governor-General of Malaya.
Mr: MacDonald is scheduled' -to
leave Canada in April after com-
I:Icting iiis term .of office.
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FISH STRIKE TIES UP TRAWLERS IN BOSTON
Fishing trawlers and fish carts lie idle for the fourth week at Fisherman's Pier in Boston, Mass., due
to strike of fishermen which has cau sed loss of 10,000,000 pounds of fish.
CONTACTED MOON
As Chief Signal Officer, Maj. -Gen.
Harry C. Ingles, above, helped
supervise the extraordinary feat of
establishing radar contact with the
moon, achieved by Army Signal
Corps scientists from the Evans
Signal Laboratory at Belmar, N. J.
238,857 Miles Distant
Using specially -designed equip-
ment,- pulses of extremely high fre-
quency energy were shot into
space at the speed of light -180,000
miles a second—and the echoes
detected some 2 1-2 seconds later.
The [noon is about 238,857 miles
distant, on the average, as both it
and the earth move around the
sun
The Guard Corps experiments
leave valuable peacetime as well'as
wartime applications, although it
is impossible at this stage to pre-
dict with certainty what these will
be", the War Department said.
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One of the possibilities is the
radio control of long-range jet of
rocket -Propelled missiles, circling
the earth above the stratosphere.
The German V-2 missiles were be-
lieved to have reached an altitude
of 00 miles.
Peep Sight Used
Another "less likely" possibility.
it added, is the radio control of
"space ships" roaming thousands
of miles beyond the earth's surface.
Still another possible result of
the discovery may be more ac-
curate mapping of the noon's sur-
face with its many visible irregu-
larities. Radar equipment has al-
ready been used to measure mucb
shorter distances with uncanny ac-
curacy.
ccuracy.
A staff of physicists and math-
ematicians passed many weeks
computing the relative speeds of
the earth and the moon before the
special radar equipment for the
experiment could be 'built. When
the set was completed, the anten-
na was "aimed" at the moon op-
tically by means of a peep -sight.
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