Halton Hills Newspapers

Flesherton Advance, 3 Apr 1946, p. 3

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?; FIREARMS SEIZED IN MAILS > Lt.-Col. H. E. Chater, O.B.E., Assistant Director of Ordnanc* Stores (Warlike) looks over the latest accumulation of lethal hard- ware seized in the mails by the Post Office authorities in the United Kingdom. This array numbering well over 100 pieces represents only the last two months' haul from parcels addressed to Canada by souvenir collectors in the army. SPACE FOR RENT â€" NO CEIUNG An enterprising property owner hopefully displays a "for rent" sign on what is left of a Manila store building, reduced by bombings to only a shell. Manila, once proud "Pearl cxf the Orient" with modem, glistening buildings and spacious boulevards, is beginning to rebuild with temporary wooden structures. These will be replaced later by concrete and steel buildings when materials are available. OCEAN LINER, JET-PROPELLED ^ Miss Flora Tomadelli, daughter of New York designer J. Toma- delli, is pictured above holding a scale model of the "New Era" jet- propelled ocean liner conceived by her father. The ship, powered by four jet engines (arranged two to each side), would have an over-all length of 1487 feet and a capacity of 116,000 gross tons. Capable of carrying about 10,100 passengers, it would cost an estim- ated $60,000,000. ENEMY OF FRANCE? Gen. Maxime Weygand, above, 79- year-old former commander-in- chief of the French army, is on trial in Paris, charged with joining Mar- shal Petain in a conspiracy to over- throw the French Republic. Ill since his imprisonment in 1944, Weygand declared in answer to the charges that he had never acted "against the interests of France." FILES FOR SENATE Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan, who electrified the world in July, 1938, when he made a forbidden flight â€" "by mistake" â€" from iJew York to Dublin, Eire, in a dilapi- dated and obsolete plane, has filed his name for the U. S. Senate. He announced at his Los Angeles home that he would run on the Prohi- bition ticket in this fall's election. Highlights of the News Will Take Oath Field Marshal Viscru:^. Alex- ander nd children are expected to arrive in Halifax o the Aquitania on April 10. The formal swearing in of the new governor general will take place in th? Senate chamber either on Friday, April 12, or on the fol- lowing lay. ' Orders for Russian Spiae Soviet Russia's spies ordered their Canadian agents ..o get infor- mation on atomic research, on ra- lar application for â-  battleship des- tined to serve in the Pacific, on a new explosive in which the United States was interested, and on Can- adian milHary strength at Valcar- tier, it was revealed in court in Montreal last week. Trusts UNO WiU Succeed Trygve .Lie, United Nations Secretrtry - General, said the UNO's first purpose was to pre- vent differerces among great pow- ers "from resulting in armed con- flict." Dr. Lie declared. "We know thr.t this will be difficult; some people ma-j feel that it is hopeless. But I want to say this: "First: We firmly intend to maintain the peace. 'Second: I am convinced that we shall dc so." Ontario's Expenditures Wlien li'rovincial Treasurer Frost in his Ontario budget speech forecast a gross ordin.ry expendi- ture of $149,436,605 in the fiscal year endi g March 31, 1947, he was providing for the heaviest current spending in the prrvince's historv. To Visit Occupation Forces Vincent M .ssey, retiring Cana- dian High Commi. 5io':cr in Bri- tain, now on a farewell holidav tour of Europe btfore he retires will visit Maj.-Gen. Christopher Vokes, Commander-in-Chief Can- adian occupation forces in Ger- many, and tour the 'Canadian zone. Home Fleet at Lisbon The British Home Fleet, making its first "spring cruise" in seven years, arrived last -veek at Gibral- tar under the comniautl of Ad- miral Sir Edward Ne-.'iile-Syfret. Maple SjTup Ration Stays Maple syrup will remain on the ration list, R. VV. May'iew, parlia- mentary assistant to the minister of finance, told the Commons. A« in previous ; ears, the cou- pon value of maple syrup has been doubled for the duration of the producing season, until May 3L It can be procured at the rate of one jjallon for two sugar-preserve coupons.- There is no indication the ration regulations will curtail production. Rental Curbs Remain A report from Otta\.a states that while price-controls will be lifted from a wide range of arti- cles, in addition to those from which they have ilready been re- moved within the nex couple of months, the ceilingL will be re- tainei' for a longer period on clothing, rents, most food products and certain other essentials. Hungry Germans Looting Stores Looting of food .stores by hun- gry Germans has increas ' in Hamburg and a British medical Cropping of Fallow Land an Emergency Canada has at last achieved a reasonable uulance between crop land and fallow land and it cannot be ligiitly distributed in the inter- ests of agriculture, says the Win- nipeg l-'ree Press. While :uch s program is essential as a long- term plan, it can 'â- nd should be modified to meet a sudden and special emergency this year, the most serious famine and hunger of recent times. If fallow l;md is cropped tl year it should .t done with a ftill understanding that this is an emergency measiu'e only, when the emergency passes the basic fallow prograu should be re- reestablishcd. Also, when world danger has eased, Canada can re- turn immediately to ihe expansion of its livestock ou ->ut officer dcclare-j that the first de- finite signs of starvation were ap- parent amon^ many residents of Germaaj-'s second la.gest city. The polici ordered food dealers tj board up their shop windows as an emergency mea re against Lands of men, women and children who have stormed nearly 60 bread stores recently. Guards were placed at the largei shops. Thirty-three workmen in a Ger- man state railway machine tool factory collapsed from hunger. The £• ctory employs 1,000 men and, according tu an official, other workers are declaring they can not carry on much longer. U.S Rationing If Needed President Truman said he would not object to a return to wartime food rationing if it became abso- lutely necessary. Mr. Truman added that ration- ing was not yet absolutely neces- sary and said he hoped it would not becoint so. Tortured By SINUS niN Yoa caa get qnlck reliaf /sl^-*^ from painful distress with ^^'t^^l a few drops of mmmmMm S-3V VlcksVa-tro-nol. WlCIU '^L^V* It works right WA.f B||.|||M whete misery u! WJ» iltW â- â€¢^Wl KIDNEYACIDS Rob your Rest.. Many people never ueni to get a good oiglit's rest They turn and touâ€" blame it en 'nerret'â€" when it may be their kidneya. Healthy kidneji filter poisoiu and ezcesa adda from the blood. If thej fail and impurities stay in the ayitemâ€" ditturiied real often followi. If you don't rerf wefl fet and lue Dodd'a Kidney PiUi. Dodd'a help the kidneja to that jou can reat betterâ€" ~and feel better. 1 34 WE'RE SPEAKING OF fm^ //miormm //^..^ J jhousands of Canadian boys â€" sons, brothers, husbands â€" are returning from the wars â€" returning to what promises to be a happy tomorrow ... a tomorrow that many gave their lives to bring about. A tomorrow that may be held back if immoderate or luiessential spending brings about inflation ... if our desires are not confined to temperate limits ... if the many strange ideas and philosophies that are with us today are not carefully considered and moderated to suit our needs and way of living. The real enjoyments and full pleasures of srracious living are possible only to the man who practices moderation â€" in everything he does. The House of Seagram suggests that we think of tomorrowâ€" and be moderate in all He do. THE HOUSE OF SEAGRAM %y^l^ m^ SMm^ €/3'€imefii'ee€i .... 0^iar^[ce ^/€>4;^pjta/^i{m 0€t€^y/ Ml

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