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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, PAGE TWELVE Ex-Millionaire Now Penniless, Learns Farming 'Winnipeg,--(CP) -- A man who was once a millionaire and the taxation expert of the pre-war Polish government is. living with his wife in a dimly lit room on Alexander Avenue here. He is Wladyslaw Runcewics, graduate in law of Vilna University in Poland and the author of more than 20 works on finance and taxa- tion, Now---virtually peniless--the 46- year-old man is working in a local hatchery. He came to Canada as an immigrant this year with the proviso that he "settle on the land." He plans to do that and thus start life anew. He wants to raise poultry and mink. Mr. Runcewicz iin't quite sure what his estate was worth when the Nazis swooped into Poland. He owned a distillery, several fisher- jes, a sawmill, a residential apart- ment block in Warsaw, a palatial home and 10,000 acres of forest land. He also had several banking accounts. ' «1. have lost everything in ex- propriation there," he said. Happy rather than bitter about his pres- ent state, he is absorbed in his new work.. His only regret is the loss of involved conversations on fin- aneial adménistration, taxation and social research. He has lived in one room and worked for the hatchery since last December. His wife also is woik- ing. "Content himself, Mr. Runce- wicz could not see his daughters in similar surroundings. So he has placed his 12-year-old ~daught ter 'in Sacre Coeur convent 'in Montreal. Another daughter, aged 9, is attending St. Mary's Acad- é&my here. Agriculture was as strange to Mr. Runcewicz as Canada. Manual labor was a "new adventure." But through conversation and a short course in poultry at the University of Manitoba, he picked up basic knowledge. "My 'boss' J. J. Hambley, start- work with mink some weeks ago," he said. "It was new to his business and I was a newcomer tob, so he put me in charge of it. I've been picking up information on mink from ranchers around the city. and particularly from Dr. H. C. Collins, the director of the ex- perimental fur farm at the Uni- versity." Mr. Runcewicz won't keep the job too long. He's anxious to. ob- tain a small farm of his own to meet the immigration proviso, He dodged political questions regard- ing" present-day Poland. But he hasn't been idle since its collapse. At the end of 1939, his govern- ment sent him to China, then to Tokyo. Eventually he went to Lon- .don as chief of the taxation sec- tion of the Polish ministry of fin- ance and director of the research department in the inland revenue administration. Then the Polish government ended its; days and be was out of a job again. UNRRA. asked him to go to work, He accepted, became prin- cipal welfare officer in the United States zone of Europe, then child tracing officer among displaced persons in Vienna. "I hadn't seen my wife since I had left Poland," he said. "But af- ter much effort and manipulation she arrived in Vienna Dec. 23, 1046, one year- before I reached Winnipeg." ; His application for immigration finally was accepted. Right now he's thinking only of making a success in Canada. He loves the freedom that Canadians seem to stake so naturally,' admires the climate and feels it has bolstered his health greatly. 'I admire the way Canadians ac- cept new citizens," he said Teacher Shortage Decreases in N.S. Halifax--(CP)--A teacher short- age in Nova Scotia is on the de- crease but there still are more than 1,000 untrained or partially twained teachers in schools throughout the province, it is revealed in an annual report to the legislature here. Improvement in the situation was credited to higher pay schedules | now in effect. ; The Nova Scotia Normal College at Truro 'has a full enrolment of 300 for the first time since 1942. WHY NOT TYPE IT Sydney, Australia--(CP)--There's a limit to what even a university professor can bear," A third-year law student here réceived this let- ter: Dear Sir: I have to inform you that Professor Stone eannot read your handwriting and it will be necessary for you... to dictate your paper to a member of the staff - Krupp on Trial in Nurembu Es At the war crimes trials in Nureemberg, Germany, Alfred Krupp (centre), owner of the gigantic Krupp munitions combine, listens to testimony concerning his treamens of slave labor. Krupp was forced to sit with his former financial director, Ewald Loeser (right). The latter left Krupp in 1943 as a result of a personal quarrel. Shipping Losses Cost U.S. Enough To Maintain Army By GEORGE TUCKER New York--(AP)--Enough freight and merchandise were lost or dam- aged in 1947 to finance the main- tenance of an army of 2,000,000 men in the United States for a full year. Cost of maintaining a single sol- dier, the US. army information gervice says, comes to' about $590. The total loss or damage to freight and merchandise during the year is estimated at about $1,200,000,000. This freight was lost, stolen, stain. ed, crushed or broken on freight cars, airplanes, trucks and cargo ships, and by loose handling on ocean docks and in stores. . The railroads alone paid claims amounting to $115,000,000. There is an additional $20,000,000 of claims which they have not yet been able to apportion among responsible carriers. The cost of investigating and adjusting claims was $10,000,000. In a letter to Senator Ives (R-NY) President Jerome PF. Gould of Acorn Packaging and Packing Corporation said that American cargo loss--including merchandise of all types transported on ships-- came to between $750,000,000 and $1,000,000,000. Key department stores in New York said they received approxis mately $400,000 in recompense for gocds damaged before receipt last year. ad il Assuming that this proportion holds for stores in all cities, there is perhaps a $50,000,000 loss for the country as a whole. An additional $2,000,000 was lost through damage to freight carried by trucks. Another $1,000,000 was spent by consignees and shippers in filing claims for damage. The railroads say much of the loss is due to containers manufac- tured from inferior materials, sub. 'stituted because of war shortages. "The scarcity of shipping con- tainer materials (wood, fibreboard, nails, etc.) resulted in a drastic lowering of the protective quality of all types of shipping containers," the railroads said. "Literally mil- lions of old, dilapidated, second- hand shipping cases had to be used, under which many war and post. war loads crushed. However, the quality of containers is constantly improving." A spokesman for the Association of American Railroads said "one of the many thorns in rail flesh is the increasing tendency c' retailers to refuse to accept slightly damaged shipments. If, for example, a chair in a three-piec~ living suite is dam- aged, the consignee may turn back the whcle suite because he cannot match the upholstery. This has put the railroads in the merchandising business on a huge scale." The Shipping Container Institute has released a series of photographs showing the cause of damage to merchandise after a coast-to-coast stud, during which it photographed more than 700 loaded freight cars. Some of the photographs show that car doors were inadequately block- ed, or not blocked at all, and that ins ficient bracing was used. Others disclosed shipping containers rolling free on car floors. 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Order a month's supply and use as needed. we \ =) a hE N A ( } / Plan To Combat Lamprey Menace In Great Lakes By MARILYN LAMBORN Canadian Press Staff Writer Toronto-- (CP) --Justice for the vampire-like sea lamprey would be to pop the two-foot fish parasite into the frying pan--and that's ex~ actly what officials of the Ontario department of lakes and forests would like to do to him. They suspect the bloodsucking in- vader of Great Lakes waters of re- du the annual fish catch, and their suspicions are shared by North Channel net-setters who say lam- preys leave lake trout dead or un- marketable. alias Petromyzon Marinus, becomes a delicacy on Canadian menus, the department wants to do a lot of re- search with a view of curtailing his harmful activity to lake trout and other species of Great Lakes fish. The number of pounds of lake trout caught in Lake Huron, Geor- n Bay and the North Channel fell from 3,797,975 in 1925 to 862,- 166 in 1945. Officials don't know how much of this reduction has been caused by sea lampreys, but they've been trying to find out for the last two years. A questionnaire sent out to Great Lakes fishermen presented suffi- But before the eel-like lamprey, cient alarmni; evidence to launch ' experimental catch of 10 tons of suckers, 75 per the governmext on er victim of the lampreys. In a operations to determine the abund- cent bore the deep scar of the lam- ! ance of sea lampreys, their life his- tory and methods of control. | What they now know is almo\" balanced by what they must still find out. They are certain the lam- preys- originated in' Lake Ontario and spread into Lake - Huron through the Welland Canal in about 1921. Now they are appear- ing for the first time in eastern waters of Lake Superior. With a row of dangerous looking teeth inside its sucking mouth, the bluish-colored lamprey grasps the side of the fish, works its way through the scales and drains the blood. Tons of fish are caught alive with large scar holes in their bodies, but it is difficult to determine how many "actually die from sea lam- prey attacks. . Experts say the only feasible me- thod of control is trapping in spawning grounds--usually a stream of clear, rapid water with a stony bottom. Favorite spawning ground is the Little Thessalon River, some 50 miles east of Sault Ste Marie, Ont. They can only guess why lampreys do not spawn to any great extent in neighboring streams with similar characteristics to the Little Thessalon, ° Information gathered in experi- mental operations shows that the lampreys spawn between May and June and run shortly after mid- night, This coincides withe the spawning period for suckers, anoth- prey's teeth, ' As the" number of lampreys increased /in waters, the | number of suckers decreased. Officials suggest that any experi- ments aimed at control of lam, preys should be extended to Lake Ontario, a potential supply source. They also feel that if there were some practical use for the para- sites, their numbers would be re- duced shortly. Although they are reported to be an established Eu- ropean delicacy and King Henry I | » is said to have died from eating too | many, department officials won't stick out their necks too-far in proclaiming them "delicious on rye |: ITS FINER...ITS RICHER ITS CHASE a SANBORN bread." A few years ago fresh lampreys were packed in ice and sent to a ; Canadian packing plant to be can- ined. The edibility was reported satisfactory, but no more experi- ments were suggested. SCAN COMIC BOOKS Detroit, April 14--(AP)--The De- troit Police Department's "Red Squad" yesterday began thumbing through piles of comic books search- ing for what city officials termed evidence of Communist propaganda racial prejudice, or sexy or gory ma. terial. Charging that many of the youngsters' favorites were filled with such stuff, Police Commission- er Harry S. 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