Zurich Herald, 1946-03-28, Page 3HEIRESS SUGGESTS
MAMA GET A JOB
Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokow-
ski (top), 22 -year-old wife of 64 -
year -old conductor Leopold Sto-
kowski, thinks her widowed mother,
Mrs.. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
;(bottom), can get a job instead of
depending on Gloria's $4,000,000
fortune. Mrs. Stokowski had been
paying her mother a $21,000-a-yeat
allowance, but discontinued it, say-
ing "she can work as she has done
in the past." The money, she said,
now goes to a foundation she es-
tablished for needy and blind chil-
dren.
Highlights of the News
Royal Visitors
The Icing aild Queen and Prin-
cess Elizabeth and Princess Marg-
aret will visit South Africa early
next year, it was disclosed in Lon,
.don.
• Russia's Five -Year Plan
Russia has laid down a five-year
program for the development of
atomic: energy, it was revealed by
Sergei Vaviiov, president of the
Soviet Academy of Sciences.
Vavilov said the Government
was initiating extraordinary mea-
sures to aid scientists in all fields,
including atomic research, to attain
directives laid down by Generalis-
simo Stalin to equal and exceed all
scientific progress abroad.
British Mission to India
Prime Minister Attlee offered
India her full independence, either
inside or outside the British Com-
monwealth.
Attlee told the House of Com-
mons that a British ministerial
mission would go to India with a
free hand, and if India wanted to
cut loose from the Empire by. free
vote, Britain would help her.
Three members of the ministeri-
al delegation Left on March 19 by
'plane for India. They are Sir
Stafford Cripps, president of the
Board of Trade; I'. W. Pethick-
Lawrence, State Secretary for In-
dia, and A. V. Alexander, First
Lord of the Admiralty.
New Post for Canadian Banker?
A despatch from the Interna-
tional Monetary Conference at Sa-
vannah, Ga., says. it is authorita-
tively reported that Levis W.
Douglas, New York financier, is
slated for the presidency of the
World Bank, and that Graham
Towers, Governor of the Bank of
Canada is slated to become manag-
ing director of the World Cur-
rency Fund,
The despatch adds that it is un-
likely the appointments will be
made at the present meeting.
SPRINGTIME ON THE FARM
In a new programme announced last week by Prime Minister
King, Canada has undertaken to maintain food shipments to starv-
ing .people throughout the world at a maximum during the next
four years. Soon, as pictured above, the Canadian farmer will begin
to fulfill that promise.
SAILING ON SAND
This sportsman is scudding along the sands at Daytona Beach, Fla.,
in newest thrill sport of the winter season. Handling the flimsy
Craft under a heavy spread of sails requires real skill, he says.
At Ottawa, a finance official -
stated the post would be a full-time
job and if Mr. Towers accepted it
he would retire as head of the
Bank of Canada. He was named
Governor when the bank was es-
tablished in 1935,
•
More Wheat Ir Australia
—The latest official estimate of
the Australian wheat crop is 134,-
800,000 bushels, compared with a
crop of 52 million bushels last year.
Thirty million bushels will be
made available as stock feed, and
wheat will be rationed for another
year for dairy cattle, pigs and
poultry. A large quantity will be
milled for export. •
Good -Bye to Govrenor-General
A warmer public tribute than
had ever before been paid. to a re-
tiring Governor-General in Canada
marked the departure last week of
the 1: erl of Athlone and Princess
Ake after nearly six years' service
to this country.
Both houses ,of Parliament voted
an address of "grateful apprecia-
fion of the helpful cooperation in
the tasks of government." Large
crowds cheered the Earl and
Princess when they drove to'the
National War Memorial to lay a
wreath and say farewell.
Massey To Retire
Hon. Vincent Massey who has
served as High Commissioner for
Canada in London for the past ten
years t'i11 retire in May according
to an announcemen made in Ot- -
tawa last week by the Prime Min-
ister, Mr. MacKenzie King.
TRAVELING'S TOUGH IN SOVIET -OCCUPIED MANCHURIA
Although it requires 24 to 40 hours in sub -zero weather to make the 120 -mile railroad trip from Chin -
chow to Mukden, in Soviet -occupied territory, thousands of Chinese jam into—and onto—freight cars
for the journey. Russian occupation policies in general have become a matter of international con-
cern as a result of adverse reports by the few fore ign correspondents who have been admitted to the
area.
Friendship Treaty
British Foreign Secretary Bevin
emphasized that Britain wanted
friendship "for all time" with the
Soviet Union and that his offer of
a fifty-year friendship treaty was
"seriously proposed and seriously
meant." He said he would try to
obtain such a treaty "notwith-
standing all the disappointments."
Speech From Throne
Canada is to retain certain war-
time controls and res rictions for
an indefinite period "to prevent in-
flation and to safeguard the public
welfare," it wa t stated in the
Speech from the Throne, delivered
by His Excellency, the Governor-
General, the Earl of Athlone, at
the formal opening of the second
session of Canada's 20th Parlia-
ment.
Officiating at the opening of
Parliament was one of His Ex-
cellency's last official acts before
leaving Ottawa with the Princess
Alice. His successor, Viscount
Alexander, is expected to arrive
some time in April.
Food was the most pressing
world problem requiring immedi-
ate action, it was pointed out, and
Canada intended to do its utmost
in this regard for "unless the need
is met, gra"e disorders. endanger-
ing peace itself, must be anticipat-
ed."
SITE OF WORLD MONETARY CONFERENCE
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The General Oglethorpe Hotel, center of a $2,000,000 resort estate at Savannah, Ga., is the scene
the worldwide monetary conference which has drawn delegates from 38 nations.
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TO RULE GERMANS?
Gen. Vassily D. Sokolovsky, above,
may succeed Marshal Georgi K.
Zhukov as commander of the Rus-
sian occupation zone in Germany,
IRAN, WHERE RED MOVES CAST SHADOW OF CONFLICT
TABRIZ, pictured through an arch of its famous tower fortress,
built by Shah Haroun-el-Raschid, is the capital of Azerbaijan prov-
ince in northern Iran. Iran complained to United Nations that
re: olt which set up a separatist government there was Russian-
inspired and supported.
TEHRAN, capital of Iran, was scene of recent violent demonstra-
tions by left-wing Tudeh party which prevented Parliament from
meeting to extend its term, Moscow is believed maneuvering for
a new government in Tehran which would take Iran into Russia's
growing family of "friendly" neighbors.
Huge oil refinery of Anglo -Iranian Oil 'Company at Abadan on the Persian Gulf symbolizes one of the most delicate problems of Russia
and western powers in Iran. Britain, with monopoly of southern oil fields, depended for many years for Iranian oil to operate her navy.
USSR's insistent, but vain, pressure for concessions itt the north created wartime crises anxong the Big Three. y
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