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: , : / SN Ws 5 A Seat A Saxman gna Russia may already have an atom bomb of its own, or if not, soon will have, declares Dr. Simon Alex- androv, above, Soviet observer at the recent Bikini atom bomb test. He said that a Russian atom bomb might be demonstrated in the Si- berian wastelands or in the remote islands north of Canada. CHANGELING The little white hen ain't what she used to be, Henry Schneider, of Milwaukee, recently found out to his astonishment. His three-year- old White Leghorn turned into a rooster, quit laying, developed a comb and a lusty crow. Freak gland action caused the switch. Schnei- der's pictured above, with the changeling chick. HELD IN PLOT Oscar Selig Warner, above, former licutenant in the United States Navy, is reported arrested in Paris by the Army Criminal Investiga- tion Department in connection with a multi-million-dollar, world-wide smuggling and black market ring. Also involved was Warner's father, David L. Warner, of New York, and three other sons, TRUMAN'S SKIPPER Capt. Charles Lawrence Freeman, above, of Waltham, Mass, is the new skip of the presidential yacht "Williamsburg." > nd 7 bi S20 1 PLAY Ltt de vw a RP loa " VE FIP SL GNSS COR AOA OF fad a Lad i, a Hk King George receives 368 horses from Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands at Buckingham Palace in London. Thirty of the steeds are black and destined for the household cavalry, crack regiment which supplies escorts for the Royal Family. RIGHT IN DER FUEHRER'S FACE! These German women are laughing fit to kill--at none other than Charlie Chaplin burlesqueing their once-loved Adolf Hitler. The Chaplin film, "The Great Dictator," was recently sprung by surprise on an audience of some 400 Berliners, who thought they were going to see "Kitty Foyle." Experiment was conducted by the information control division of American Military Government. _NEW HOMES FOR SWEDEN'S FARMERS gl vp og wo This scale model represents the type of home the Swedish farm worker will live in shortly. It was exhibited at the Swedish Agricultural Exhibition in Stockholm. Sweden is making strenuous efforts to overcome the housing shortage. BRITISH SET TO ACT OVER IRANIAN OIL FIELD STRIKES Td, axvin Britain shifts troops in Iraq Petroleum Z Iraq to Iran border, warns BRIE N | hour coming Ui 500 British interests or lives : are thought endangered RKE (a : 4 x Bh 7, Mediterranean : Haifa Kuwait: Oil Co. = {American-British) @....onr1a ©). Refineries 01 oo. Existing Pipelines Ra a Domestic unrest in Iran, highlighted by two strikes of 50,000 workers which paralyzed vital British- held oil fields for weeks, may compel Great Britain to move armed forces into Iran. The British overnment owns over half of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, whose Khuzistan wells are the rgest in the Middle East, producing 17,000,000 tons in 1945. Iran has protested recent dispatch of tish troops from India to southern Iraq and has demanded withdrawal of British forces now con- \ centrated on Iran-Iraq border, & Highlights of the News Paris Pac Conference Italy will ask the Conference of Paris for the right to help draw the peace treaties for Austria, Ger- many and Japan. The Finnish delegation was: ejected from the commission and was told former enemies must pre- sent their views in writing unless invited to appear. Prime Minister Ping of Canada warned the Conference to stop "wasting vital time" and prepare "decent instruments of peace with- "out endangering © the future by futile discussions." Washington has prepared a note to Moscow rejecting Russia's pro- posal for joint Soviet-Turkish con- trol of the Dardanelles and offering for the first time to participate in the defense of the Straits. War of Nerves An American {ransport plane, the second within ten days, was fired upon and forced down near the Yugoslav border while on a regular flight to Udine, Italy, The last word from the airplane report- ed that it was a target for aircraft and anti-aircraft missiles about half way between Udine and Klagen- furt, Austria. The seriousness of relations with Yugoslavia was emphasized in the release by Washington and London of notes strongly rejecting Bel- grade's account of clashes between Yugoslav and Allied forces in Venezia Giulia. The United States charged Yugoslavia with conduct- ing a war of nerves against the British and Americans and accused Marshal Tito personally of making unfounded charges. Jet Plane in Test Flight Squadron Leader W. A. Water- son, Canadian-born member of the British Royal Air Force, achieved a "true" air speed of 620 miles per hour in a test flight of the second "Sta" meteor yet plane in England last week. On a similar test flight Augs 14 Group Capt. Donaldson, Com.nander of the Royal Air Force high speed flight, seached 626 miles per hour. Communists in China Mobilize Yenan called the 130,000,000 Chinese in Communist-dominated areas to mass mobilization for full- scale civil war against the Chiang Kai-shek \Government. It was emphasized that not only troops but also all of China's 130,- 000,000 Communist population was being mobilized. The Communists are said to have 1,200,000 regulars and more than 2,000,000 guerrilla fighters under arms. They control small sections of southern and eastern China, thousands of square miles in western, central and north China and all of northern Manchuria, There also are strong Communist forces along the eastern scaboard. U.S. Seamen Strike The National Maritime Union (C.1.O.) threw picket lines around maor United States ports on the Great Lakes, calling upon all sea- men to oin a strike aimed at tying up the American side of the lake shipping industry and halting the flow of iron ore, coal, grain and oil. Union President Joseph Curran, estimated the union's lake strength at 4,500 and strike headquarters THAT'S NO BUOY, BOY! This life guard keeps a wary eye on an old Navy mine that washed ashore on Coney Island beach near New York City, Bathers thought at first it was an old buoy, but Navy experts took one look, said it was a mine of the type used in New York harbor in 1941, and ordered it towed to sea and destroyed. predicted 4,000 to 5,000 other work- ers would oin the walkout in sup- port of the maor issue, a shortened work week. Lake Walkout Likely The Canadian Seamen's Union charged that the lake shipowners appeared to be hedging in regard to settling the three-month-old dis- pute with the labor organization and indicated the possibility of a new seamen"s strike unless the Federal Government takes steps to have an agreement signed without delay. Calcutta Riots Rioting in Calcutta subsided after four days of looting, arson and murder during which between 2,000 and 3,000 persons were killed. London took the view that these grave disturbances would not be likely to upset the efforts to form a new interim Government in India. THERE'S A SURPRISE awaiting you if you havent yet tried delicious Maxwell House Coffee. It's "Radi. ant-Roasted" to develop all the extra flavor in the superb Maxwell House blend, MACHINERY NEW AND USED Of Every Description Phone EL. 127) H. W. PETRIE CO. LTD 147 Front 81. W. -- Toronto "WE BUY & SELL" Macdonald's FINE CUT Some of the vast supplies of vitally needed steel and steel products of the Steel Company of Canada at Hamilton are pictured above. plate from which it was planned to make tanks, stoves, right 1s seen a whole trainload of wire fods badly neéded for wire n cushions, mattresses, etc, Beaide the freight cars Is a »~e sup thousands of tons of coke for Industrial use. Botte m of badly needed "akelp" which la truck bodies ail Aying idle in the strike-bound plant op left, ate shown stacks of steel control panels and roofing. Tap Is, fencing, springs for automobile plv of limestone and, in the backgrownd, picture shows a worker ¢hecking over 750° tons a trade term tor the strips of steel froth Which pipe is made: