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jy***â€" mUV I SW. ' "" â€" « < ii Hi iM |n w* Uc.> » :<i iii»»i i i w KING MAY QUIT .«â-  IN Tiii: MOVirs Signed to dance in movies is Clarence "Caesar" Murphy of Windsor. Ont. Heavyweight boxer and at one time a bouncer in a hotel. Murphy was spotted by a Hollywood talent scout in Detroit. He starts his movie career at $300 a week. Highlights of the News U. S Ccal Strihe 1 iic ii.-tlion !c)ol;iti lo V\'ic.-'liiiiy ton fur relief from ilic str;iiiKliny tffccls of till' 38-'iay-ol(l roal stril;r. Lilies ui.il farnis from Maii.c to Oregon we>e feeling the impact ot crrtailiiieiits in csscrtiul electric power, railroad service, inJiisirial activity and other busincfs. In a raijidly-wiileniiig radius ex- IciuliiiK in all dircclion , from Clii cago, lia dest' hit by the power ciir- t..i!ment, elcctr .: service faded from (limou propor*ioiis to tlireal- cncd Ijlackoiils. Freight i.nd passenger transport- ation reductions increased almost hourly and uneniploymeni figures mountco into the hundreds of thousands as raw material'', and shrinking coal supplies diminished almost to the vanishing point. In Detroit, the Ford Motor Co. announced it would begin shut- downs throwing 110,000 out of work. Only 35 per cent, of the freight- ers ill the Great Lakes coal and ore fleet now are in operation, accord- ing to A. T. Wood, president of tlic Lake Carriers' association Wood said coal shipments on the lakes arc about 4,300,000 tons be- low this lime last -ear. Steel was the industry hardest hit. It was oslim:'ted lOQ.OlID would be without work in the Clii- cago-t aliimet area alone before the of tlic week. Shiiiinents on some railroad^ have been cut to 7.i per cent. '4 normal. Solid Fuels Administrator Kni^ banned delivery of soft coal to any cossunier with more than a five day supply. The order already had cut off supplies to all e-xcepi essci.tial indusry and hospitals with less than a 10-day supply. Britain To Quit Egypt Britain has offered to witli-draw all her military, air ind naval for- ci-s from Egvpt in return tor an alliance negotiated "between two equal nations having interests 'n common." This would throw the Egypt. Egyptian extremists ass- defense of the Suez Canal upoa ailed any British alliance. Ethiopia Helps Ethiopia has offered to supi'I; United Nations Relief and Rebali- ilitation Administration with IHO. 000 tons of wheat and other food stuffs in t' e next year and a liali for famine relief. The offer also included lO.OOJ tons of coffee. Living Cost Up . -The co.st of living in Canada a. .•\pril 1 was higher than at any time during the war, th. Dominion Bureau of Statistics* reporter ..The bureau said lis official cost fif-liviiiK iiKle.x, on the l)asis 1935 last week. 1939 e(|uals 100, advanced from 120.1 at March 1 to 120.8 at April I. Ihe index slightly ex- ceeded tlic wartime high level ol 120.5 recorded in August, 1945. The bureau said the principal part of tile increase came from the food group which rose from 133.1 to 135.1 Price increases for butter, pork products and vegethbles were mainly responsible. Soviet Loan Drive Soviet Russia called on her people to subscribe to a 20,000,000, 000 ruble (nominally ($3,774,000. 000) loan "for restoration and de- velopment of the U.S.S.R.'s nat- ional economy," the Moscow radio said. U. S. Rail Service Cut The United States Office of De- fence Transportation last week or- dered a 50 per cent reduction in passenger service by coal-burning locomotives, effective May 15, to conserve dwindling coal supplies. "Informed sources" in Rome say that Italy's King Victor Emmanuel 111, upper photo, may abdicate soon in an effort to save the mon- archy and the House of Savoy. The reports say control of the throne would probably be tuned over to a regency, pending the coming of age of his 10-y car-old grandson, Victor Emmanuel. Prince of Naples, lower photo. FRANCO PROBER Paul Hasluck, above, new Austra- Kan delegate to the UN Security Council, heads a five-man UN com- mission charged with investigation of the Franco regime in Spain. He is a former professor and news- paperman. ONE OF VERY FEW Vera Clegg of Yellowknife, in Canada's far-flung Northwest Ter- ritories, takes home a few dollars' worth of gioccries, for prices on food in the booming little gold- rush town include $1.S0 for a dozen ecgs, 2S cents for a loaf of bread. Vera is one of the few white women •â- ''"1 bn"C ventured into this gold -.lip, ""(1 miles north of the n-ar- ert citv. Edmonton. IT IS DIFFICULT TO MAKE THE WORLD REALIZE THE MEANING OF FAMINE So spoke Herbert Hoover as he looked at India in his worldwide investigation of food conditions. His words are a Cramatic sound track for these pictures, taken in Calcutta ... of a young mother covering the dead body of her starved child ... of tne grim curious watching the corps removal squad take away the body of an old man ... of the pitiful cargo of young death being loaded into a removal •quad truck. But the situation in India, warned Herbert Hoover, is no worse than in other parts of the world. Rail Strike Seems Certain Two lumdred and sixty thous- and members of the BrotI cthood of Railroad Trainmen and Broth- erhood of Locomotive Kngiiicer* will walk out on strike at 4 p.m. on .May 18, on orders of beads of the two union- issued shortly after they had stalked out of a mcctiiiif in Chicago with carrier represent atives. Only action by President Tiu man can avert the walkout. HEMORHHOiDS 2 Special Remedies ay the Makers of Mecca Ointmsnt Merra Pile Remedy No. 1 )? for Protriiiling Bleeding Piles, and i^ sold in 1 ube, with pipo» (IT inlprnal appli''at'"'>. Price 75c. 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