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Orono Weekly Times, 4 Oct 1945, p. 2

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Lt.-Gen. Sir Art hur Percival, cýommander of Singapore, whe was forced to surrender to the japs in 1942, shown on his arrivai at Ma-. mula. "Oh, Canada, eh1?" he re.. marlked, when this picture was taken by Canadian Armny photog- ïraph2er, Lt. Dan Dewan. Well, I kniow General Crerar very well. 'He wiIl be very glad te see these pictures. Do you think he will?" ALCQA IBUSTER Atty. Genl. Tom -C. Clark, abo.ve,' recommended te Congress that the vast Alumninujn Company of Amnerica, which won Iseven Armny- Navy E's for ,war production, be Split uP into a number of comipet- ing companies to provide "a more efficient, lower cost industry." Clark held that Alcoa controls more than 90 per cent of thealuý minum industry's productive ca- pacity and declared competition is the key to lower prices and more jobs. German Mines B3e4weeni six aiýd seven illiiion unexp)loded Germian ]and inies are stfi hididen in the feritile fields and saindy 'bePachaes of, Normand(y hn1 Brittany, says 'Finie Maigazine. Since D-Day an average of 200 Peopfle, iluld1sng nany children, have been killed ûeh imone y Germian rmlnes. On Au,,, 1, olly one-tenth had beenR remioved bY French worknj and German p risonera o'f V;al traiied bY -United States sappers' The dangerouis Job will. not be fin- Jshed before 1947. JOINS CABINET Shigecru Yoshida, above, ne-ti.me jap absao to Londoin, is ja.. rc~nd. Siemtualso had lr;~ s tcrýign mnistr lwer ùejo ndKso YOUNG FORD SUCCEEDS GRANDDAD Henry Ford, 82-year-old founder cof an automotive empire, shows a miodel of the Detroit Rouge plant to his grandso'n, Henry Ford Il. Young Ford hias just been announced as successor to his grand- father a President of the Ford Motor Company. MEN 0F A PUNJAB RGMN Picture shows m en of a Punjab Regiment marching out of the jungle after 15 days strenuous patrolling 15 miles' west of Pyagle, on the Mandalay - Rangoon Road, EPES' COUNSEL LOSES PLEA Sam~uel C. Epes, on trial for mnurder of his wife, leaves Columbia, S'.C., cour t surrounded by a gallery of bobby,-sox autograph hunt- ers. JPefense counseil lost its plea for, a directed verdict. WHEEL$ STILL STOPPED trikiers àt the Kelsey Haqyes Wheel Co., Detroit, on strike for 28 days. Ke-Isey Hayes supplies wheels to the Ford Mo tor Co., and strike has saspended ah Ford production, resulting in a layoff cf 50,000 men. Tlhe plant employs 4,500 men. Union officiaissaid the strike was unauthorized. NEW SERVICE This transcontinental plane is one, of a fleet that will establish ihe world's first 300-mile-an-hour comimercial'air service. TWA plans to use them for IO-hour coast-to-coast and 14-hour New York ta Europe fliglits. Fleet will include 3(; big four-rengined planes. CANADIAN VE HICLES FOR WAYS 0F PEACE Canadian Army vehîcles, buiît for war and used by the United Nations in destroying Germnany, are be- ing ýturned over to UNRRA for the purpose of bringing food and relief to a shattered, hungry con- tinent. At-Pepper Harrow, England, wvhere these lorries have been stored are shown above, left to right; Norman Gold, Director of Industrial Rehabilitation ULNRRA; Maj.-Gen, D. E. Dewar, Cana- diani Crown Assets Corporation; and Col. C. F. Hubbs, Midland Ont., Commandant No. 1 CCOD. Pepper Harrow, negôtiating the handing over of approximately 1000 vehicles. Below, Canadian lor- ries at a Vehicle Return Depot prior to being turned over to UNRRA. IN A JAPANESE HOSPITAL This is a hespiitl ward in notoriousSingw camp, whiere woundled prisoners of war were left ta' fight their battles againstdies and icta.Thoseý- who could no, find room on uncovered woodem coiLs sieip on fior.

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