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â- J^ SMOKEY SAVED DROWNING MASTER w ir â- T f â- â™¦ n * • â- ^'l Highlights of the News V -I J. T. Donaldson, of Atlanta, Ga., owes his life to his dog, Smokey. The canine rescuer held Donaldson's hea-d above water when the automobile in which he was riding plunged into a creek. Another passenger in the car, Ben W. Noyes, was drowned. Deputy Sheriff Julian Peacock looks on as Smoky joyfully greets master. Canada Easc^ Price Controls The "suspension" announced tty Prime Minister Mackenzie King of a limited number of articles niainl}- coming under the head of luxuries and some services from operations of price ceiling is the .;;st step towards "the eventual re- moval of price and wage contro's'' which will ultimately free Canada from wartime emergency regula- tion. Tne success of price control in Canada and this country's escape â- from the ravages and physical destruction of war have resulted in our price structure being sub- fiantially lower than the pri-;e levels of many of the countries ftith whom we trade," Mr King ;^aid. In Europe There is no Big Three issue in Spain â€" none of the Three likes Franco, says the New York Timet, in Europe as' a whole there are some signs of financial and eco- nomic recovery. At least there ii uot the wholesale slaughter by starvation and disease that was /cared. In France there has been a leftward swing, with the resiy I'ation of General de Gaulle and the election of Felix Gouin, bat communism has not reached the English Channel in force. In Asia Some of the Asiatic trouble FAMOUS SCHOONER "BLUENOSE" SINKS OFF HAITI Y f Fastest fishing schooner of modern times, the Blue nose of Lunenberg, N.S., sank off Haiti after hitting a rock or reef. Her crew of eight was rescued. Never defeated in championship contests, the famed schooner was built in Nova Scotia in 1921. WINDOWS FOR BRITISH HOMES M. '4 Metal windows for Brttain''s postwar houses are bjing turned out in large quantities at Witham (Es- sex)) Works of Crittall Manufacturing Co. Workers hang frames on conveyor* which carry thenito automatic paint dip. spots are less menacing than they were, .\merican and Russian mili- tary commissions have been try- ing to revive Korea's economic liie and to give her fifty-four pol- tical parties some voice in the promised "'provisional democratic tovtrnment." In China a settle- men* of the nineteen-year-old struggle between Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists was in sigut as the week ended. Only in Ind'.a is the situation tragically bad. with .Vmine threatened and unrest m- creasing. Levant Files Demand Syria and Lebanon handed the Vnited Nations Security Council a new explosive issue, asking with- diawai of all British and French tioops from the Levant. French authorities estimated about 5,000 French troops and M,- noo British troops are in the Levant. Syria and Lebanon, former French mandates in the strategic Middle East, based their cases jo the claim that British and French troops have remained in their ter- ritories "many months" after the end of the war with Germany and Japan and that "some of these tioops have been a constant men- pce to the peace and security m this region." Famine In India According to the latest reports of the food situation in India fail- ure of the monsoon â€" the seasonal wind which brings most rainfall â€" in December and January pro- duced a drought in the Madras district more sevtre than can be icmimbered for tlie past 30 years. Harvest in one of the worst-hit districts in the 1942 and 1943 Ben- gal famines, was onh- onesixth of r.ormal. The food minister in the Indian Government said that unless la- t.:a's food resources are conserved "we shall not be in a position to iglit the demon of starvation two months hence." Scrap 6,000 Planes Six thousand 'planes which cost nearly $1,000,000,000 are being .'•crapped by the United States Army in Europe because they are considered militarily obsolete and ] avc no peacetime use. Another Strike Tlie United States government i?st week made ready to take over operations of the tugboat system in New York's tig harbor as a ;'3ralyzing strike tied up com- mercial sliipping. .\nd meanwhile .New York's 7,500,000 residents were cut off by the strike from an estimated SO per cent, of their fuel supplies and nearly half their food supplies. There was an estimated week's supply of each on hand. Imperial Trade Conference .Arrangements h.ive been co.n- ricted for an Imperial trade con- ference opening in London May 15 a,- a preliminary to the interna- tioal trade conference in \Va>h- irgtoii. It was understood that the prin- rprJ discussions will be on the future of Imperial preference which is expected to be raised a* I i;e Washington conference wh :n tre 15 principal trading couutri.;s of the world will endeavour to vork out a scheme ensuring a frcT â-  ow of the world's commerce with the removal of restrictions. Veterans Learn Diamond Cutting Refugee Dutch and Belgian artists who fled from their home- : nd.i before, the German in'H- ;ion are training 15 Canadian war \ cteraiis in the ancient skill nt diamond cutting. The veterans work en a three- year apprenticeship basis at the loronto plant of the Canadian Diamond Cutting Company, bit l^ecHuse of-#production line methods some are making good money right now. "It takes 10, '20 or 30 years o boconic an expert diamond man, but wcr're able to teach them pro- duction methods in a very short lime." said Mark Gross, son nf plant owner S. Gross. "Of course, if they want to stay in the busi- ness and become all-round men, they'll have to work quite a while." "The quality of the work done by the veterans will stand up ugainst any in the world," Mr. Gro.-s said. CANADIAN BUYS BULL WORTH $51,000 We Have Prospective Purchasers We have prospective purob.isers for properties near U'indsor, To- ronto .ind Niagiira Falls, Write, Blvlng us p.irtioulars. Guarant.v Trust (."ompany of Canada, Windsor. Toronto, Nia,?ara Falls, ITCH CHECKED •or Moner Sack For quick relief from itching caused by eciema, athlete's foot, scabies, p> m pies and oi lier ' tchinn coodltionsvUsepure, ctx>Iinc, medicated, liquid n, Bl Ol MKCCRIPTION. Omseless and Malaleaa. Soothes, comforts and quIcUt calms 'ntetise Itching. Don't suffer. Askrour druuist todar far ».•.». MlinciHV^OM.^^ Fifty-one thousand dollars' worth of bull in U.S. currency or $S6,35S in Canadian cash is represented in this Hereford. Jack Smith delivered it to the Stouffville herd of George Rodanz. Toronto. Ont New world's record was established when Mr. Rodanz bought the bull, Del Zento I, at an Oklahoma auction. Rodanz, 37, started his career trucking produce from Stouffville to Toronto. HAPPY JAP Meet Nobuhiko Higashikuni, first grandson of Emperor Hirohito of Japan. He is the son of Princess Teru. the Mikado's oldest daughter and Moriatsu Higashikuni, son of the former Japanese prime minister. The baby was born in a Tokyo palace air-raid shelter, lit by candles and flashlights, during an air raid on March 10. 1945. Fish Story Three Sydney fishermen must Irve thought they had hooked a cyclone when their boat was to\v^ fd round about the ocean for four 'nours by their catch. 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