Flesherton Advance, 1 Aug 1945, p. 3

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/ TO WASHNGTON? r ' > A. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, above, Briti&h ambassador to Moscow, is consider«d a likely choice as ambissador to Washington, should the present envoy, the Earl of Hslifax, relinquish the post to return to politics, as has been reported. VENUS IS HOME An AJied soldier, one of the first visiters to the Louvre after the Pans niuseum reopened its door to the public, gazes up at the statue of Venus de Milo, back on its pedestal after six years of exile. After long interrnent in an excelsior-padded crate, hidden in a vault of a Valen- cay chateau, only wartime "dam- «ge" Venus suffered was a smudge on her classic nose. A TINY RADIO Pretvy Lola Dean here tunes her new pccket radio which isn't much large: than a cigarette case. It weighs 12 ounces, is complete with batttVits and four tubes and has an ear piece speaker of the hearing aid type. Canada's Muskrat Trapping, Long Inactive, Becomes Big Business A muskrat trapper spi-eads his day's rat muskrat "house" where he sets his traps catch on the ice before he takes it back and catches as many as five at a time, to camp for skinning. Behind him is the then resets the traps for further catch. ; Rats are skinned tlie same day they axe caught, pelts ! are put on stretchers and hung up to dry, like youny ; Claude Dionne and veteran Ben Nolt demonstrate here. Commissioned by the Department of Mines the trapping gi'ounds. Each unit consists and Resources, tractor trains like this of a tractor and three sleds. Usually it carry men and equipment from The Pas to can make the trip in eight or ten hours. I^ve Perry, veteran muskrat trapper, emerges iwm faia tent to chat ^th Game Guardian Norman MeKenzie who ia on one of his regular tours of inspection. FORCES SULKING NAZIS TO SALUTE Members of the crew of the German cruiser Leipzig didn't salute when the barge of British Admiral Baillie-Grohman passed In Kiel Harbor. So ne.xt day. Admiral BailHe-Grehman, sent to escort the captured warship to England, ordered the German captain to assemble the crew on deck, sailed his barge past and was paid the proper honors as pictur/.d above. It was a disciplinary meas- ure., designed to bring home to the sulking crew a realization of their defeat. PRAYER BY CANDLELIGHT THESE MEN WILL RULE BERLIN These four generalsâ€" Berlin's "kommandantur"â€" took over government of the bomb shattered capital of Germany. Left to right they are: Maj.-Gen. Floyd L. Parks of the U. 3., Col-Gen. Alexander V. Gorbadov, of Russia, Major.-Gen. L. O. Lyne of Britai.i aad Maj.-Gen. Geofrey DeBeauchesne of Fra.ice. The four will rotate aa head af the grou(), serving IS-day terms in that capacity. In a tent chapel, somewhere in the Western Pacific, Secbees bend their heads in prayer during t holy communion service. AH carry lighted candles, who^e soft glow make the dramatic photograph above. WORLD'S LARGEST FLYING BOAT SSiJs;ia^j;..^SSssC;Xi.r?s Big enough to transport eight jeeps at a time, the huge "Hawaiian Mars," world's largest flyii.g boat. soars over Genn L. M.irtin seaplane base at Balti nore. The ship has a wing span of 200 feet, weigha over 77 tons, and has a cruising range of 7,000 miles. It will see service aa a Navy transport

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