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Orono Weekly Times, 8 Aug 1946, p. 2

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U GENS FY PITUR5 i SCI~ LtuO FOR ALL TO SEE Carrier pigeons expedite photo cuverage in japan. Acnme photog-rapher Tomn L. Shafer and Torakichi Mliura, phocto editor of Sun News Photos, receive pýcture of Emiperor Hirohito watching rice planting in Odo Village, righit. Pigeons flying at 40 m.p.h. beat train back to Tokyo by four hours. Andrei Gromyko, Soviet delegate to the United Nations S.curity Couti- cil meeting in New York City, tricd to bar A. L. McN,ýau-ghlton, Cana.. dian delegate from his scat, at lea-st temporarily, Gromyko vwas out- voted. The Counicil was going tc, discuss the atoniic bomb in wh"Iclh, Canada bas a big stake, RENEWAL.OPA Sen. Robert F. Wagner, D., NY., studfies the Senate version o-f the new OPA bill. Wagner is member cf Senate-House Conferenice Comn- mlittee which will try to, reconicile House and Senate versions cf the measure. As the resuit cf charges th-at 2,000 pairs of armny bcoots and slippers, somne almost new, had been thrown oni a MVoritreal dump, armny authorities have ordiered a fil investigation, Hlere are some of the discards, END 0F THE JAPANESE DREAM 0F CONQUEST When Japanese miilitarists started thieir attempt at world conquest, littie did thyv dreatm that the metal they scraped tgthrby the -acrifices c' ithe people would end wheré it should have gcie in the, beg-nin*i-., i pots and pans. The "'War Wea -*sD:posalJ Conritî c cf ýjapaii l'as-given orders to fi-e oudrt o e, i the ork f detroyng ilTtary eup t 'r~ ~t ~ 2 planes Japzan haýd at t1he end of the war are beii&mle dw~a the Furuklawa Electro-industry fundy car Yo,-yo. .V -rS, upper lef t, b)atter airpiane parts into, pieces suitable for mlinand v-pper right, cram the furnace with the proken pieceýs. Sixty per cent ocf thie ta is duralumin. Through the siuice, lowver left, corneis a sivey treamn of metal which workers, lower right, care- f ullypuriýnto ingots. It later ill be fashioned into rice pots and as.Eachi plane provides metal for 500 rice pots or 900G smaller pans.

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