Zurich Herald, 1946-05-16, Page 6JNG MAY QUIT
"Informed sources" in Rome say
that Italy's King Victor Emmanuel
III, 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 coming of age
of his 10 -year-old grandson, Victor
Emmanuel, Prince of Naples, lower
photo.
FRA NCO 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 formerrof
p essor and news-
paperman.
ONE OF VERY FEW
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
who have ventured into this gold
amp, e00 miles north of the near-
. _ est city, Edmonton,
IN THE -MOWS
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.
Highlights
U. S Coal Strike
The nation looked to Washing
ton for relief front the strangling
effect, of the 38 -day-old coal
strike.
*Cities 4tid :arms from A‘iaii.e to
Oregon were feeling the impact of
curtailments in essential • electric
power. railroad service, industrial
activity and other husinees.
1n a radidly-widening radius ex.
tending in all direction„ front Chi
Cago, ha.dent hit by the power cur-
tailment, electr:: service faded
from dimou propor+torts to threat-
ened blackouts.
Freight and passenger transport-
ation redt.ctions increased almost
hourly and unemployment figures
'mounteu into the hundreds of
thousands as raw materials and
shrinking coal supplies diminished
almost to the vanishing point.
In Detroit, the Ford Motor Co,
announced it would begin shut-
downs throwing 110,000 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
ZVood said coal shipments on the
lakes are about 4,300,000 tons be-
low this time last --ear.
Steel was the industry hardest
the News
bit, It was cstitiwte'l 10000
would be without work in the Chi-
cago -Calumet area alone before
the of the week.
Shipments on same railroads
bare been cut • to 75 per cent. of
normal,
Solid Fuels Administrator Krug
banned delivery of soft coal to any
cossumer with more than a fire
day supply. The order already
had cut off supplies to all except
essel.tial indusry and hospitals
with less than a 10 -day supply,
Britain To Quit Egypt
Britain has offered to with -draw
all her military, air -aid naval for-
c,.s from Egypt in return 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 opal
ailed any British alliance,
Ethiopia Helps
Ethiopia has offered to supply
United Nation; Relief and Rehab-
ilitation Administration with 100,
000 tons of wheat and other food•
stuffs in t' e next year and a hall
for famine relief. ,
The offer also included 10,000
tons of coffee.
Living Cost Up
....The cost of living in Canada a,
April 1 was higher than at any
time during the war, the Dominion
Bureau of Statistics reporte,i
..The bn reau said its official cost -
of -living index, 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 hig'll level of
120.5 recorded in August, 1945.
The bureau said the principal
part of 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 (nominally ($3,774,000,
000) loan "for restoration and de-
velopment of the U.S.S.R.'s nat-
ional economy," the Moscow radia
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.
FT IS DIFFICULT TO MAKE THE WORLD REALIZE THE MEANING Or 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 situation in India, warned Herbert Hoover, is
no worse than in otherart
p sof the world.
Rail Strike Seems Certain
Two hundred and sixty limns -
and Members .of the ,fr'otherhood
of Railroad Trainmen and Broth-
erhood of Locomotive Engineers
will walk ant .art strike at 4 p.m. an
May 18, on orders of heads of the
two union" issued shortly after
they had stalked out of Lt tweeting
in Chicago with carrier represent-
atives,
Only action by President Tru-
man can avert the walkout,
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