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!Mr ^ \^ V HEIRESS SUGGESTS MAMA GET A JOB â- * > Highlights oi the News Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokow- â- ki (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-year 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. Royal Visitors The King and Queen and Prin- cess Elizabeth and Pr-nctss 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 X'avilov, president of the Soviet -Academy of Sciences. \'avilov said the Government was initiating extraordinary mea- sures to aid scientist 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. .\ttlee 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; V. W. Pethick- Lawrence. State Secretary for In- dia, and -A.. V. Alexander, First Lord of the .\dmiraltv. New Post for Canadian Banker? -\ despatch from the Interna- tional Monetary Conference at Sa- vannah. Ga., says it is authorita- tively reported that Lewis 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 tic WoiM Cur- rency Fund. The despatch adds that it is un- likely the appointments wUl be made at the present tneeting. SPRINGTIME ON THE FARM In a new programme announced last week by Prime Minister King, Canada has imdertaken 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 ThiN sportsman is scudding along the sands at Daytona Beach. Fla.. ip newest thrill sport of the winter season. Handling the flimsy craft under • heavy spread of sails requires real skill, he says. .•\t 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 Barik of Canada. He was named Governor when the bank was es- tablished in 1935. More Wheat Ir Australia â€" The latest official estimate of the .-Kustralian 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 Govarnor-General .•\. warmer public tribute tlian had ever before been paid to a re- tiring Governor-General in Canada mar.tfd the departure last week of the isrl of Athlone and Princess Ai'ce after nearly six years' service to this country. Both houses of Parliament voted an address of "grateful apprecia- ^.cn 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 TRAVEUNG'S TOUGH IN SOVIET-OCCUPIED MANCHURIA Massev To Retire Hon. \incent Massev who has served as High Commissioner for Canada in London for the past ten years will retire in May according to an announcenien made in Ot- tawa last week by the Prime Min- ister. Mr. MacKenzie King. Although it requires 24 to 40 hours in sub-zero wea:her to make the 120-mile railroad trip from Chin- chow to Mukden, in Soviet-occupied territory, thousands of Chinese jam into â€" and onto â€" freight cars for the journey. Russian occupation poUcies in general have become a matter of international con- cern as a result of adverse reports by the few foreign 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 L'nion 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.' > wa stated in tlie Speech from the Throne, delivered by* His E.x-ellency, the Governor- General, the Earl of .-Vthlone, at the formal opening of the second session of Canada's 20th Parlia- ment. Officiatiiig at the opening of Parliament was one of His Ex- cellency's last official acts before leaving Ottawa with the Princess .\lice. His successor. Viscount .\lexander, is expected to arrive some time in .\pril. 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'c disorders, endanger- ing peace itself, must be anticipat- ed." SITE OF WORLD MONETARY CONFERENCE TO RULE GERMANS? The General Oglethorpe Hotel center of a $2,000,000 resort estate at Savannah. Ga.. is the scene of the worldwide monetary conference which has drawn delegates from 38 nations. Gen. Vassily D. Sokolovsky, above, may succeed Marnhal Georgi K. Zhukov as commander of the Ru»- sian occupation zone in Germany. IRAN, WHERE RED MOVES CAST SHADOW OF CONFUCT 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'i- growing family of "friendly" neighbors. Huge oil refinery of Anglo-Iranian Oil Company at Abadan on the Persian Gulf symbolizes one of the most deUcate 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 in the north created wartime crises among the Bic Three. ct-