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¢ i Sees Air Mail Paying Its Way Post Office Superinténdent Tells House of Commons It {Should 'Balance 8elf In Five Years Air mall should pay for itself in five years, George Herring, super intendent of air and land mall ger Hee of the post office, told- the fouse of Commons committee on rallways and shipping lat week. Answering questions concerning © payment to Trans-Canada Afr ines and 28 other ain services of $2,260,000 last year and an estimat- ed payment of $4,600,000 this year, Mr, Herring attributed the increase to natural expansion: of the ser vices, It the volume of mail were doubled, however, he estimat- ed that in five years it would pay for itself, He pointed out that vol- ume had increased over a period of three years as from 39,000 lbs, through 450,000 1bs. to 740,000 lbs. last year. "We never go back," he sald, Asked about a possible lowering of the rate now charged for air mail, Mr. Herring sald the rate was fixed up to next December. 31st, when, based upon the difference be- tween the revenus and expenses of T.C.A, he was hopeful it might be reduced. The minister said the operating expenses of the airline would be pald more and more by passengers, ~ He hoped' that the most of the mall, now 60 cents a pound a mile, would bo reduced next year to 50 cents. | Owen Sound Native Is Reported Killed Flying Officer William -- G. Middlebro, native of Owen Sound, Ont, who composed the war song of the 110th air squadron, is re- ported to have been killed in a flying accident in England. - TransiCanada Road Stopped War Brings Halt To Highway Plan Through Ontario -- A Small Stretch Remains Un. finished Completion of the trans.Canadd bighway, long the dream of Canad- fans who have to motor. through the United States to get from Ont- arlo to Manitoba and return, may ----awalt -thé-end- of-the--war,- though -- only a small stretch remains un- _finighéd, . AR pa In northwestern Ontario are two proposed highways, elther one of which, when completed would con- stitute the final road link between British Columbia and Nova Sco- tia. But 'Ontarlo's deputy highways Minister, R. M. Snlith, said last woek "It depends on the war when we can get back to heavy work on the projects." Bnd ey WARTIME ECONONY Mr. Smith added that wartime economies have slashed capital ex- ponditares to almost nothing. He eaid that just when work on the projects would resume was "indef- inite." The route most likely to be com. pleted first is the far northern one which approximately 200 prison- ers, housed In road .camps, are working on at the present time be- 'twéen Long Lac and Hearst, . 135 MILES MORE i Mr, Smith sald the work Involves roughly 135 miles and that $5,000, 000 or. $6,000,000 will be necessary to complete the road after the pris. oners have cleared the land and .Tinished other preparatory work. 'America Holds : + - Music's Future HR Rite Baripton, toptatio of the Me ropolitan Opera company, be- lives that singers must look to American composers for new con- cert musie, ; { i "Their refreshing approach, the 'tonic quality of thelr moods, oe the current aptnéss of their themes can éatn for our native Bong-writers a ready place in the repertoires of nrtists all over the world," Miss Bampton said, carried 2) are 1 THE WAR-WE E K--Commentary on Current Events Britain Scorns Hitler Peace; "Die Cast", Declares Berlin Adolf Hitler's failure last week to induce Britain to accept his "final" peace offer left him with but one alternative --. to make good his threat to "annihilate" England, at whatever cost to Ger many, But as the zero hour approach ed, in the war's forty-fifth week, it wag still g matter of guess- work how Hitler would go about breaking the power of Britain, Would he attempt it through a wholesale invasion of the British - Isles? Or would he try to bring the: country to its knees by pul- verizing it with mass air attacks, at the same time imposing a star- vation blockade by destruction of British shipping? DOUBLE-HEADER ASSAULT Would the attack on Britain be coupled with a simultaneous blow in the Mediterranean? Many ex- perts last week expressed that belief. Tho, Battle of Britain could not be a simple, straight- forward affair. The conflict would have to be divided into two _ Interlocking phases--the direct German assault on England, and --the- Battle -of - the Mediterranean (Mussolini's affair) --- for from the Axis standpoint, Britain's hold on the Mediterranéan would have to be broken before victory could be achieved. One factor during the week was seen as likely to postpone the new German offensive for the time being, and that was the sit- uation ip the Balkans. Russia's thrusting of a finger into the Rumanian political pot at a mo- ment so inopportune to Germany _ might be causing. Hitler serious. worry and giving him occasion for pause. THE ANSWER BRITAIN: Britain's answer to Hitler's :"last chance" peace pro- posal came promptly, in the deeds of British air forces blasting anew at German targe's; in the staggering new war budget which demanded that Britain give up almost 70 per centhof the nation- , al income to financeYthe war; and in the words of Viscot alifax, British Foreign Minister, re- affirming the will to fight on. During the week, the Govern- ment announced its formal re:- cognition of the Czecho-Slovak "National Committee in Exile} headed by former Czech Presi- dent Dr. Eduard Benes, as the legal government of the German held nation ..... ... Prime Minister Churchill 'told the House of Come pons that he did not believe in the exodus ob children to Can- ada and the United States; he thought the movement entirely unwarrdnted , . . the Admiralty' announced the loss of the famous __submérine. sighted the "Bremen". last Dec- ember) . . . German air attacks covered practically the whole is- land, ranging from Scotland to the Channel and from the North Sea to the Irish Sea. Aircraft and munitions factories were bombed, railroads and other come munications, troop. ' concentra- --tiong,- coastal defense-works, port | facilities , . . TO GERMANY VIA. SPAIN SPAIN: Britain's. second big- gest worry of the week, next to actual invasion, was the Spanish situation. General Franco had Just finished declaring that it was his duty to fulfill the desire of Queen Isabélla and return Gib- raltar to Spain, and that he had an army of 2,000,000 men ready to back up his contention. It was anticipated that he would make a move against the Rock, aided by German guns across the Bay "from Gibraltar (which had been there since the time of the Span- ish Civil War) . . . American citizens returning on the liner "Manhattan" soldiers overrunhning Spain, SPAIN AND THE AXIS By last week everybody knew that Germany was gétting oil sup- plies from the western hemi- sphere via Spain, The moment appeared to be at hand when ritain would havé to clamp - down with a blockade through which Spain would be permitted to receive only such imports as are not classified as contraband. Such a move, necessary since Bri- tish victory depends to a great extent on the ability to prevent Germany from receiving eggential supplies from the western world, 'might draw Spain into the war on the side of the Axis powers. . . L383 Ls FRANCE: The Fascist regime of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain last week ordered the arrest and trial of former high French Gov- 'ernment leaders, including ex- Premier Edouard Daladier, be- cause of their roles in "declaring and continuing the war' against Germany; The trial will be part of a new "domestic moral pirge"" of France by Petain's new auth- _"Salmon"._ (which. reported" German - fie i who fled from France alliance with Russia . . . © BALKANS: A pro-Axis trend . mania with the blessing of Hit- oritarian time regime, At the all. Frenchmen, same including fter. May 10, were ordered de- prived of citizenship, their pro- perty and fortunes to be. con fiscated , . . DOESN'T FEAR GERMANY RUSSIA: Comforting word came from oscow last weel, Through diplomatic channels Jo- sef V. Stalin informed . Great Britain that Russia will keep out of the European war and sees no Russia . . . In the Rumanian cap ital, Russian quarters indicated they felt the Soviet had become a Balkan power since acquisition of Bessarabia and therefore ex- pected to be consulted on further political or economic plans in- volving. Balkans countries; while rumors ran that Russia had sent a note to Rumania stressing the desirability of a CHINA WON'T QUIT "FAR EAST: The closing of the Burma Road and the Hong Kong route into, China. left Chiang-kais shek's Central Chinese - govern- ment with but one: hope of secur: ing supplies from the outside world=~over the: Old Silk: Road threading up through the inacves- sible, unknown Northwest' into Russia. Nevertheless, undaunted, Generalissimo Chiang declared "popular gov- 'ernment' at Bucharest... . . t ' . - * the domestic field there would be a gradual intensification of the trend toward totalitarianism, without any immediate drastic steps. The Japanese (lovernment appeared to realize that, in the end, it will stand or fall on gen- eral public opinion and hence will not follow blindly any line of action recommended by the extreme militarists. (One thing the Government "knéws without shadow of doubt and that is that the people want the China war stopped as soon as possible, and will concentrate--every effort to that. end). NEW DEAL IS DOMINANT UNITED 'STATES: With the acceptance by President: Roose- velt of a third-term nomination and the naming of Henry A, Wal- lace as his running-mate, the New Deal came back into control of the Democratic Party in the Un- touches of the and Cuba's strong suggestion that a Pan-American protectorate be established over all foreign-owned islands off North or South Amer- ica, Disruptive forces were at work at the conference, and Nazi hand weve seen in more than one diplomatic manoeuvre, on the part of the Latin-American republics. U.S, CONSCRIPTION PROGRAM In Washington, the U, S, Jus- tice and State Departments an- nounced changes in immigration regulations to facilitate entry of "child guests" frem abroad under 16 years . . , the Department of Justice ruled that United States citizens in Great Britain could enlist in the Royal Air Force without losing their citizenship, providing they did nét take the British oath of allegiance . . . the National Deferce . Advisory Commission reported that the Royal Canadian: Navy On Active Service In British Waters on These pictures of -the Royal Canadian Navy were taken in British waters where units of the Canadian naval forces have already disting- uished themselves in action and have suffered a grievous loss in the sinking of the destroyer Fraser. H.M.C.S. Skeena, first Canadian ship to arrive in English waters, is pictured TOP LEFT, and LOWER RIGHT two of the Canadian warships are shown tied to a dock in an English ort. The Canadian officers at TOP RIGHT are Lt.-Comm. H, G. De Wolf, Lt.-Comm, H. N, Lay and Lt.-Comm. J. C. Hibberd. Some of the- rawny Canadian tars manning the ships are pictured LOWER LEFT as they went ashore on a brief leave. The pictures were released by the British ministry of information. _ reason to fear German - domina- tion of Europe, reliable sources disclosed. The Russian leader was reported to have said that the possibility of German domination of Europe presented no problem for Russia, because he refused to believe it would come about. According to indications, last week Russia was following up the Incorporation of the three Baltic" States (Lithuania, Latvia . and Exthonis) into the Soviet Union with efforts to arrive at further clarification of her relations with Finland . . . Better feeling be- tween Russia ;and Turkey was evidenced when the Turkish press made a clear-cut proposal for an TOWARD THE AXIS among the small countries of southeastern Europe was evident in many quarters last week. Ru- mania, which had been going more and more pro-Nazi for some time past, moved to confi- scate the largest British oil com- * any in Rumania; sent some of ts chief ministers to confer with Ribbentrop on Balkan politics. To: Berlin went Bulgarian govern. ment representatives, hoping to> gain back the Dobruja from Ru- ler. Hungary appeared to think that Germany would shortly help her get part of Transylvania from Rurhania, Would Germany seek to "stréngthen" the Balkans by = peaceful settlement now, of these revisionist claims? ; Curiously enough, the only country which seemed ready. to support Rumania against: the claims of Hungary was Soviet that the far eastern war would not be shortened by the closing- off of those two important arter- les. "No third power can shake ina's delermination to resist until her territorial and sovereign integrity is attained," Chiang as- serted. ; SHARING THE WORLD' In Japan, the minister of home affairs in the new Konoye gov- ernment said: "We cannot doubt that the day soon will come when Japan can share the world with Germany and Italy." But other- wise the new regime appeared to be proceeding cautiously in all fieldse Prince Konoye in a radio address to the nation declared that the government would assid- | uously keep open the door for the -closest relations with Germany, Italy and Russia but would not close it against any friendly overtures that might be made by the U. 8. and Britain. From this same address diplo- mats drew the conclusion that in ited Science Monitor. Seven years aft- er Mr. 'Roosevelt took office, it is his men who are In import- ant managerial positions and his lieutenants who guided the Demo- the election campaign; Those who lost control of the Party were James A. Farley, Vice-President Republican leanings. Next in interest to the Ameri- can public last week was the con- ference in Hayana on Pan-Ameri- can republics (Canada ostensibly was not invited). Principal prob- lems on the agenda were ccon- western hemisphere and disposi- tion of FEuropean-owned - New World colonies. Under fire even before the conference were sev- eral proposals, chief among them the U. S.-sponsored trade-cartel plan for this whole hemisphere; P24 States, says the Christian cratic convention and will guide 'Garner and certain-Senators-with- can, Defense attended by the For-: eign Ministers of the 21 Ameri- omic and military defense of the | country had obtained or will ob- tain all the supplies necessary for America's armament program , . the Senate Military Committee approved a revised bill providing for registration of 42,000,000 men, of whom 1,600,000 would ( Yanlecler 5) Slow Burning 3) CINADETYS CIVAREIIL NY IRILIL ) OMAT OKLET be drafted in the first year, It was the first peace-time com- pulsory military training progam in phe history of the States . . .. CANADA: The war, unemploy- ment insurance, the grain prob- "lem, Each of these would be en- ough to keep the Parliament of Canada going for a whole session, But Jast week, the hottest and most uncomfortable of the sum- mer, the House had to deal with all three. . Opposition to of the hill providing for unemployment insurance contin- ured to accumulate, Unanimously the passing approved in principle when it came before the House for sec- ond reading, 'strong pressure against it was applied in special committee by representatives of the Canadian Manufacturers' As- sociation. It was also expected io be opposed in the Senate, but labor groups were all- for the measure, WHAT TO DO ABOUT WHEAT Three prairie wheat pools last week made séveral suggestions to I'ederal authoritics on how to re- lieve .the anticipated storage con- . gestion when delivery of this summer's prairie grain harvest starts The four main points sub- mitted by the pool organizations to the Government were: That the Canadian Wheat Board should handle all the wheat; that some method be worked out for' fin- | ancing wheat stored on the farm; that farmers be protected against past indebtedness as present prie- cs are too low to leave any sur- plus after paying current taxes and family living expenses; that a domestic price be set for wheat which could be used to meet all- or a portion of the Government's loss on wheat when the final was less than the initial price. PUBLICITY FROM HITLER An army shake-up took place in the Dominion last week which saw younger men placed in top positions. The new key man of the army in Canada is now Major- General H. D. G. Crerar, chief of the general staff . . . Hon. J. G. Gardiner, minister of war ser- vices, and Hon. Angus L. Mac- donald, minster of national de- fense for naval services, were Lotk added to the war committee of the Cabinet . . . ' Canada achieved public men- -tion dn a new quarter last week: Hitler referred to the Dominion in two different passages of his "last-chance-for = peace" speech. Herspoke of British leaders carry- ing on the war from Canada should Britain itself be conquer- el by Germany..." LIFE'S LIKE THAT CZ, _ * "I'll caddy for you for nothing, Mrs. Pip, just for the laughs." By GENE BYRNES \ REG'LAR FELLERS--Zero United .