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1 i ! & FO a SNL TREN Re Te A Ne A NE TN CREST es i ha SAW ESCORTS DIE Rose I, Korb, above, War Depart- ment civilian employe from Gary, Ind, was in an Army jeep in Nuernberg, Germany, when bullets suddenly crashed into it, killling two of the three American soldiers present, Miss Morb and two British army women escaped injury from the attack, believed to have been made by a German sniper who mis- took the women for fraternizing Germans BLASTS BIG FOUR Pp? 8 Former U.S, Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, above, charged ov gl "secrecy" surrounding the Big Four conference in Paris was promoting false reports rather than popular understanding, and thus was destroying the chance of a reas __"pegples' peace." CHALLENGES COURT Japanese defense counsel for the alleged war criminals on trial in Tokyo, challenged the jurisdiction of the Far East International Mili- "tary Tribunal, declaring that Japan surrendered "conditionally,"" and that the terms of the Potsdam Declaration did not define "crimes against humanity and crimes against peace" as punishable war crimes, NO BLUSTER NOW so he 3 ~ Fear of what may be in store for, him is etched on the face of Anton Brunner as he takes the stand in Vienna war crimes, trial. Wartime Gestapo commissioner, he is ac- cused of sending 49,000, Jews to thei> deaths. HOOVER SEES WORLD GETTING FAMINE RELIEF Pacific-Ocean | OTHER 'WESTERN - Fa Pca 4 5 ana, ! dy i i 9 2, TONS HEMISPHERE ARGENTINA 2,375,000 TONS \ VO | STATES A » | 40,000 TONS \ TO. TH ESE "HAYE NOTS™ pve 5 Won ee \ fo A) 4 i oy SN 4 : Ih ." y , 3: ; LEP ; ; Sa h i EER LSC PACIFIC OCEAN ) 7 =) AREA EI ---- % [) ] 1,910,000 TONS || 3 | A : i LATIN 7B ee SUR 4) TA | Nags prom on | NOT - & D d ) Oh indion 7 I | 2,886,000 TONS TONS | IN Ry J cen 7) Ocean ¥ ; : | io, 1% 1 2 : \ [south AFRICA] | ff 2 Ys) | a' ' ' ; ! d ' Z Mo JA yo --eNEW ZEALAND FT NY J OTAL ; ) 7 oe % Isc rors ti {LEER TONS" & - 7 5 MIDDLE EAST} \ ~1100,000 TONS | X EUROPE L240 : or Pacitic Ocean ey 8,390,000 2 : ! 2 | TONS | A Maps above show, top, possible supplies of cereal foods available for distribution to the famine-threat- ened areas shown below, as described by HerbertHoover in his recent report to President Truman after a 35,000-mile tour which took him to 22 food-deficient countries and to five which have sur- pluses, May 1 to September 1. need, as they can furnish 85 per cent of emergency diet. Figures on lower map show his estimate of the food import needs of these nations as from Hoover points out that cereals, particularly wheat and rice, are the primary Note that there is a deficit of 3,587,000 tons between food available and total amount needed. PAID IN CAS til H ag 14 3 Retr rang nN : iy When Ulric J. ("Spud") Arsenault," veteran prospector, recently sold six mining claims in Canada's Yellowknife gold rush area for $100,000, he insisted on payment in cash. Above, he's pictured in To- ronto with his money--and an understandable grin, PERLE 37,000 B. C. LUMBERWORKERS STRIKE 3 > A : dy vege 29 a, be vt Ady RLF He le Ll Strike of 37,000 British Columbia logging and sawmill workers went into effect May 15, As well as the lumbermen, the strike affects 80,000 workers in other industries, The strike follows breakdown of negotiations between the International Woodworkers of 'America and the B. C, lumber operators. Lumberjacks like these, men mov- ings logs down a rushing stream reduced their demands and, offered to go. to work for an 18-cent hourly wage incréase and a 40-hour week, Operators offered a 12}4-cent hourly increase for three years if other demands were dropped, Workers refused, The autcmotive industry is cel- ebrating its 50th anniversary this year. 'kers. Highlights of the News On The Strike Front Newspapers in Western Canada and United States face newsprint shortage as 50,000 members of In- ternational Woodworkers of Am- erica ((. 1.0.) threaten to strike for 1 cents-an-hour increase, About ..,J00 members in British Columbia continued their strike which has forced a reduction in size of many western papers. 5,000 miners in Lake Superior district returned to work this week as settlement of wage demands ef- fected on basis of 18% cents-an+ hour wage increases. Strike threatened for June 15 by seven CIO and independent un- ions in the maritime and longshore industries may affect 161,000 wor- The National Maritime Un- ion, C10, is demanding a 30 per cent wage increase in new con- tract. The International Long- shoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, C1 O, has wage cuse before Presidential fact-finding board. Hard Blow for Britons More belt-tightening for the people of the United Kingdom was the prospect when Herbert Mor- rison, Britain's Lord President of the Council, concluded an agree- ment with President "Truman, whereby another 200,000 tons of British cereals stocks will be di- verted to the world pool to avert famine, Mr Morrison told a press con- ference in Washington that he was not sure whether the contribution of another 200,000 tons of cereals from British stocks would mean bread rationing in the United "Tingdom. But he said it would be a "hard blow" and one he was sorry to have to impose on a people who had suffered war shortages so many years. ~ Only a few weeks ago the Brit- ish Government to help out the at- temp to avert famine abroad, per- mitted the diversion to other count: ries of 200,000 tons of cereals des- tined for Britain, on the under- standing the deficiency would be made up l.ter by Canada and the United States. No similar condit- jons were attached to the present offer to divert another 200,000 tons. Gandhi Approves Monandas K. Gandhi, spiritual leader of millions of Hindus and elder statesman of the All-India Congress Party commended to the people of his country the Britisn .binet Mission's proposal for a union of India, Gandhi's, approval of the plan, culmination of seven weeks' negot- jations, was voiced at a prayer meeting at which he said. "There are some who said the English were incapable of doing the right thing. 1 do not agree with them. The mission and Vic- eroy are as God-fearing as we our- selves claim to be. "Recess" at Paris Last week for the fifth time in eight months, a major effort to SUCCESS FOR A PARTY is assured by serving Max- well House. This su premely fine coffee de- lights guests because its blend contains all the stimulating goodness of choice Latin-American coffees. write the first peace treaties of World War II ended in failure. The Foreign Ministers of the Big Four, meeting in Paris since April 25, had agreed on certain surface quest uns, But they had found st imporsible to agree on fundament- als, to bri 'ge the gulf between the Russian colossus and the Western world. ~ At Paris the Ministers were con. fronted with the same probleins that the previous etforts had failed to solve: the writing of drafts of treativs with Italy, the ex-Axis Balkan countries and Finland. The meetings opened i. a mood of cordiality. As deadlock piled on deadlock the feeling of optimism dissolved in gloom. When it became obvious that no real progress was being made the Big For agrees to recess untl June 15. A1 Quality & CHINA'S RICE BOWL EMPTY -- MILLIONS DYING | (Editor's note: The following dis- patch from the Far Eastern Man- ager of NEA Service, Inc, is a camera-typewfiter study of what may be the most seriously affected famine area in the world.) By HARLOW M, CHURCH Hunan Province, China--Hunan province was once the "rice bowl" of central China. Now the 'rice bowl" is empty and so are the rice bowls and bellies of most of her thirty million people. Two-thirds of her lush, fertile, terraced valleys that once blos- somed green with growing rice are now unplowed and unplanted. Lack of rice seed, lack of farm im- plements, lack of plough animals, lack of fertilizer has transformed these rich acres into sun-dried, parched fields. The Chinese farmers that once tilled them now, cull the desolated rice. paddies for blades of grass and roots for their hungry families to eat. Famine and death hover over the land. The little rice in the re- maining one-third of the fields can't be harvested till August. Many of the men, women and straining, in the place of their dead water buffaloes, to pull their ploughs through the earth, wopder dully if they'll live long enough to harvest the crop. Many of them won't. Many of them. haven't. A diet of grass doesn't give much strength even if it temporarily eases the sharp, gall- ing pain of an empty stomach. Many of them had stomachs so delicate, that they found it impos- sible to digest grass, even after it had been mixed with leaves and boiled: into a spongy, green por- 'ridge. These were the unfortunates, They = died , early, They dropped, underneath. the yoke. of their plough. Their legs. collapsed under, them as they walked alongia road and they fell beside the road to die alone and unheeded, Some woke up of a morning and fouhd them- selves too weak to get out of their beds--and there they died. And children "} be Bn OS, "Food, Food," cry these starving. Shinese. Death: by starvation is very slow and very unpleasant. death by starvation isn't a swift, merciful death. It's slow--very, very slow. It takes an unpleasantly long time to die. Millions . of- farm waqmen and children have left the country for the cities of Hunan, leaving the men behind to work the fields in the desperate hope of raising enough rice to stave off starvation of their families this winter. In the cities, they roam the streets, begging for rice, money or work. Daily they become more filthy and ragged. Their eyes_be- come glazed and filmed, their bodies become a mass of loath- some malnutrition sores. Mothers abandon their children on the steps of orphanages and missions or just leave them on the street as they totter wearily forward, too weak to carry the children farther. The famine is man-made and man-aggravated. The Japs picked Hunan as their battleground for their final effort to crush China. The ravages of war destroyed a million buildings and homes in the province. Railways have disap- peared--not a bridge, rail or tie remains, Inter-city telegraph and telephone communications have been almost totally wrecked. Corruption The Japanese, during their occu- pation of .the territory, seized most of the rice, slaughtered the bulk of the farm animals and turned their own horses out to graze in-the rice fields. A drought last year, coupled witle the ever-heavy demands of Chinese armies moving from south China northward through, the province, has brought rice stocks to. an all-time lofty. The supplies that remain are under the control of reckless, cor- rupt government officials who are making fortunes as the price of rice spirals dizzily upwards, In: Chang- sha, rice capital. of the province, the ~ price.of rice jumped from C€$28,000;. to €$40,000, a picul, (150 pounds) in ten short days. ' The Ta Kung Pao, leading news- paper of the city, editorially charged that the reason for the price increase was that an import- ant government official and an in- fluential rice. merchant had pur- chased 50,000 piculs of rice to be: shipped south where the. famine was more acute and even higher prices could be exacted. The paper charged further that some officials are so corrupt that even when relief supplies arrived, they would prevent its distribution to the people and continue their manipulation of the rice market. "Robbing bread from a dying per- son," commented a Lingling news- paper, These charges have been amply substantiated by UNRRA and other investigators on the scene, UNNRA, which is bankrolled mainly by the United States, pro- vides the food, provides the planes and ships that bring the food and + Hunan mother, to Lingling. too weak to walk Her young son listlessly fingers the grass, they gath. tight when they leave. Many farmers complain that even when they receive relief flour, their baos (local district leaders) force them to promise to repay a pound and a half of rice from their next harvest for every pound of relief flour. Famine sufferers complain that the Chinese armies confiscate re- lief supplies after they're brought to distressed cities. Sometimes they're confiscated outright, at other times they're taken directly from the people after distribution: has been made. Chinese 'Squeeze' Nepotism; ---an- ancient custom brought to a fine bloom in China, is so prevalent that payrolls of some CNRRA offices eat up relief funds. In Lingling, for 'instance, more than 160 persons were em- ployed in one small office.at wages of better than C$90,000 a month plus food--a figure far in excess of the average province wage. When UNRRA officials threatened to refuse to send- further supplies the figure dropped down. to the - necessary ten. people. Honest, hard-working: CNRRA officials who have worked desper- ately against these practices, have succeeded in forcing through about 60 per cent of the relief supplies to the actual famine sufferers. Rice and wheat kitchens have opened in most of the cities where supplies can be brought in; work- relief highway projects have been started to build roads that _can carry supplies to isolated, hard- stricken communities, Chinese city dwellers and labor- ers feel the pinch of famine as rice prices go higher daily. The aver- age man, working - thirty days a month, can: just barely buy enough rice to feed a family of four with not enough left, over for vegetables, sugar and. salt. In some villages, the hungry have helped by taking matters in their own hands. In one village in pork | » ¥ £ * ¥ 2 ; pre farther, collapsed, near. the road. ered to eat, 'medical supplies into the region, 'UNRRA furnishes the trucks for ' Chinese relief convoys. But the actual distribution is controlled completely by CNRRA (Chinese. : Nafi Relief :and Rehabilitation , Administration), the Chinese, relief organization, Some, rice 'and. wheat kitchens have a mysterious habit of opening up when American investigators are on the scene, closing down southern Hunan, a "peoples com- mittee" went in a body to reasom with a rice hoarder who was hold- ing his rice for prices that none could afford. They reasoned so elos quently that . they paraded lates through the streets of the villagey the hoarder's head held high atop one pole, his heart impaled and held. aloft on another, The situation in that village was greatly improved after that.