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Port Perry Star (1907-), 18 Apr 1946, p. 2

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MANNING A recommendation for the removal of world trade barriers has been made in a joint brief signed by Premiers 'Stuart Garson of Mani- toba, T. C. Douglas of Saskatche- n, and E, G. Manning of Alberta. Bho brief, which reviews the im- portance of export markets to Canadian economy, the dependence of prairie agriculture on exports to the U.S. and United Kingdom and effects of trade restrictions on Mving costs and production, has been prepared for presentation to a eomimiftee on tariffs of the Domin- ion government, LORD OF ALL HE SURVEYS Bill Waller, English poultry merchant, takes a stroll around the poultry market with his pet 10-year-old chicken on its favorite perch atop his head. Both are well known London characters. YOU ORDER AND UP POPS DINNER . +. presto! up pops the food. : There's no waiting for the waiter in a New York restaurant equipped with new "magic tables"--begcause there aren't any wait- ers. Table, invented by John Bellion Dascher, retired waiter, has a square hole sawed in its center, which is the "exit" of a dumb- waiter leading to' kitchen below. Customer writes out his order and drops it down a slot in the table. When food is ready, trays are put on dumbwaiter, kitchen attendant presses button, and the meal ascends to the table. Above, Ignatuis Cushman, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.,, war veteran, his French wife, Yvette, and their children, Christine and Miguel, try out the novel server, Highlights of the News Hunger "at the Table" Famine is "inevitable" in Europe unless America and other large wheat-producing countries im- mediately ship all available focd supplies. Reporting to the Emergency Food Conference in London on the results of a personal survey of Europe, Mr. Herbert Hoover, the Honorary Chairman of President Truman's Famine Emegency Committee, declared that "hunger sits at the table thrice daily in hundreds of millions of homes." Price Rise In U.S. President Truman last week re- leased a report showing that con- sumer prices have increased 'only 3.4 percént" since the govern- ment's '"hold-he-line" order was issued three years ago. The report showed an overall increase of 31 percent in prices of consumer goods between August, 1939 and February, 1946, as com- pared with a 108 percent increase during World War I inflation. Self Rule For Burma Britain will seek to promote full self-government in Burma by holding a general election as soon as possible an destablishing a min- isterial government, Canada Day The Canadian Parliament voted last week to change the name of the national holiday from "Domin- ion Day" to "Canada Day." Detroiters Ride Again Detroiters rolled to work, school and shop on public transportation for the first time in a week when striking, AFL bus drivers and street car motormen resumed ser- vice for 2,000,000 residents. Drivers voted in a mass meeting to accept settlement terms of 15 cents an hour increase with the municipally-owned transit system. Russian Wheat for France The first instalment on a total of 500,000 tons of wheat which Rus- sia has promised to sell to France arrived in Marseille by ship. last week and additional cargoes were reported awaiting shipment from Odessa. Southern Hail Storm Tons of hailstones remained on, the streets of Anniston, Ala, while residents struggled to clear away debris left in the wake of a storm which caused damage estimated at millions of dollars. The hail, as large as 50-cent pieces, fell in such volume that many buildings looked as though they had been hit by artillery and machine-gun fire. In some sections of the city a foot of hail fell in half an hour. League of Nations Dissolves In Geneva, Switzerland, Presi- dent Carl J. Hambro of Norway convened the opening session of the 21st and last League of Na- tions assembly, The session opened with a re- minder from M, Hambro that its sole task was to dissolve and transfer its assets to the United Nations. British, French Leaving Syria -ny Withdrawal of British and French troops from Syria is e¢x- pected to be completed by Aprils 15, Premier Saadallah Jabri said National celebration of withdrawal day is scheduled for April 18 and 19. Crisis in" Albania Authoritative sources said that Britain had broken off diplomatic arrangements with Albania be- cause of the treatment of a mili- tary mission in that country. This situation may set up an- other bitter United Nations Secur- ity Council battle among the big powers to replace the settled Iran- ian case, Albania's "application for U.N. membership, supported by the Sov- iet Union, is pending before the council. It was submitted by Yugoslavia at the London council meeting in January. Great Britain and the United States are opposed to immediate membership for Albania, And Greece, which still is form- ally at war with Albania, is vio- lently opposed to admission of that tiny Balkan country before a Greek-Albanian peace treaty is signed. ON FAREWELL VISIT On a farewell visit to Netherlands before relinquishing his post as Canada's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey, (right) discusses the current situation with Hon. Pierre Dupuy, Canadian minister to the Netherlands, at a gathering in The Hague. "Combined operation" for Ex Vets in Oshawa "We stuck together four- years in the RCNVR"" says former Lt. Com. Ken Johnson (left) to Edward McAlpine, his chief engineer on H.M.C.S. Fennell-- "and it will be that way in civilian life". Both ex-Navy men have joined forces with ex Wing Com. Geo. Clarke and are all busily engaged managing their new plant in Oshawa which will manufacture the famous Reynolds pen far Canadians, Sthoke columns upward from the mouth of Mt. Sakurajima, Japanese volcano which began to. erupt early in March, Lava flow endangers town of Kurokami, whose 800 inhabitants already have fled. Eruptions occur once every three seconds. SAKURAJIMA ERUPTS ONE-TIME WAR PLANT MAY BECOME UN HOME Pictured above are the administration building and part of the huge, sprawling, 17,783,000 former war plant at Lake Success, Long Island, N, Y., being considered as a possible home for the UN during the next five years. The modern, air-conditioned plant, owned ° by the federal government, was operated during the war by the Sperry Gyroscope Co. Rheumatic pains may.often be caused by excess uric acid, a blood impurity that should be extracted by the kidneys. 'If kidneys fail, and excess uric acid remains, it may cause severe discomfort and. pain. 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