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THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1951 PAGE SEVENTEEN * of the years since World War II at least some spring finery. British Greet Easter London -- The Britisn spring | . . bennet has not heen worn at quite G br a 1 ay 1 111 this longest bank Dolidey weekend has been the signal for casting o P Its winter cares and vying with the | TOVeS og The carpets of mauve and yel- Durabilii low blooms in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens are as gay as | In Somber Bonnets its jaunty angle this Easter. md magnolia are peeping through at | the parade of those who walk or drive to enjoy them, however, is in more somber mood. The motorist driving with petrol for which he has paid 3s 1%d or 46 cents -a gallon, is threatened with a rise in price to 5s or 70 cents before whitsun. Cars Hard To Get Rubber tires and tubes have risen by nearly 20 per cent. The cost of oil has increased by .15 per cent. Garage costs: are up. If the driver of a prewar car was nearing the top of the list for a new one his chances of getting it have been put off for months or years by the recent cut in steel and other metals for the auto in- dustry. The general feeling is rather that of the woman in a news- paper cartoon here who sits huddled .in the pavilion at the seaside and says thoughtfully: "I just can't remember all the wor- ries I have to forget this holiday." «+ Linen Grows Scarce Housewives especially are peer- ing into their linen cupboards to see what is the minimum replace- ment, they can make to carry them over the next few years. Utility nontaxed linen is still fairly plenti- ful. Under this subsidized scheme towels which used to cost 2s are now 5s each; bath towels are 30s each; cotton sheets are 65s a pair; and blankets about £4 sterling each. Two years ago utility blankets were selling for less than half this price. Supplies of linen not in the utility ranges and there- fore bearing the purchase tax cost three or four times these prices. Losing Race on Prices The cost of furniture K and up- holstery fabrich which have been creeping up in the past two years have skyrocketed in the past six months. For the present, only some types of utility furniture re- main stable, but retailers dare not say how long it will last. The race to buy before prices BO up in most cases is a losing one. Like many Britons I long for col- orful wallpaper in my home to brighten the walls which for years have been the standard austerity cream put on by air-raid damage repairers. I examined beautiful papers at a recent home exhibi- tion and worked out the cost, only to find I had missed some small hieroglyphics on the price tags which added one-sixth to the cost. Food Bills Mount Food bills are going up each week. Recent increases in prices added 2s. 6d. to a food check for 20s. These included things like soap powder, breakfast foods, jams and marmalade, baked beans and spaghetti. Rising costs have been writ large on the agenda of many con- ferences which take place each year over the Easter weekend. The Co-operative Party, repre- snting 665 cooperative societies with a membership of nearly 9,- 000,000 and one of the Labor gov- ernment's stoutest allies, saw mounting costs of living as likely to affect adversely the socialists' chances at the next general elec- tion. Pay Raise Urged A Manchester housewife at this conference summed up the food situation tersely when she said: "During the war we had a meat- less day once a week. Now we have a meat day once a week." The Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Vorkers Conference called for a minimum wage of £6 10s. a week to meet the present situation, The union is one of the "Big Six" trade unions, and its early annual conference often is regarded as pointing the way the trade union movement will think during the year. Over the weekend thousands of Londoners trooped across the bridges to watch workmen on the site of the Festival of Britain ex- hibition on the South Band. Oth- ers braved the mud ef Battersea Park to get a nearer view of the gay pavilions, shops, railways, roundabouts, and cafes of the festival pleasure gardens. "Well--looks as though there'll be some fun and games. Let's hope it's going to bring better times, too," was the cheering sen- timent of this South Bank Easter parade, TO NATIONALIZE SUEZ CANAL Cairo, Egypt, March 29-- (Reuters) --An Egyptian member of parlia- ment said Wednesday night a draft bill to take over the Suez Canal might be submitted to parliament in the near future. Yassin Serag El Din Bey, younger brother of the Egyptian finance minister and min- ister of the interior, Serag El Din Pasha, denied that a nationaliza- tion bill had already been submit- ted to both houses, as reported to- day in the newspaper El Assas. The Rock of Gibraltar turned up | for mention in two widely separat- | ed places a few days ago -- on the floor of the House of Commons and in the newspapers of Madrid, writes a New York Times columnist. The facet of Gibraltar life that concerned the honorable members of Commons was the well-being of the monkeys resident on the Rock, a type of Barbary ape that has lived there since the days of the Romans. One member of the Com- mons inquired, with some appre- hension, whether those monkeys are in good health, whether a daily subsistence allowance of fourpence per monkey is sufficient for them to thrive on and whether, per- chance, their numbers have in- creased. Madrid Reaction About the same day the Madrid newspapers were blasting away once more at Britain for holding on to the Rock of Gibraltar. <That Rock, the papers said, is Spanish and the British should be off. The phrases the papers chose this time may have varied somewhat in vili- fication, but the attack is not new; it has been going on for decades. That British flag on that 1,400- foot rock at the western end of the Mediterranean, with Spanish soil just beyond it, has been like some- thing stuck in the Spanish throat for two centuries. The Rock, monkeys and all, has been held by the British since 1704, when a British admiral, acting on his own responsibility during one of the minor wars of history, grab- bed it. Instead of reprimanding him, Queen Anne gladly added it to the string of British possessions. 'The British saw it for what it was: as it covers the western approaches of the Middle Sea it is one of the key points of the world. The Moors took it in 711 and, like the British a thousand years later, fortified it as heavily as they could. #€h got it back in 1462 and hired make it impregnable, yet the Brit- ish with Dutch help, took it easily in the summer of 1704. The Spanish besieged it in the autumn and again in 1726. From that time on they have always hoped to get back. Four-Year Siege In 1779, while Britain was busy with trouble over here, the Spanish set out to besiege the place in earnest. That siege lasted, with more or less continuing intensity, for four years. It was rather a series of watchful attempts to cut off all supplies from the Rock along with occasional bombardment and sharp combat to rout the British out. Two or three times British ships managed to get through to relieve the Rock and to bring sup- plies to the besieged. At other times there were near-starvation, scurvy and threat of mutiny. In 1782, with the garrison still holding out, the Spanish planned one great com- bined attack, with specially built ships, "fortified six to seven feet thick, with green timber -- bolted with cork, iron, and raw hides , . . and bombproof on. top." On the north, the Spanish side, were rows of new batteries, the British gunners on the Rock could do nothing with the green timber, the cork, iron and raw- hides. With time on their hands, the artillerymen had done some ex- perimenting and 'now began to answer the Spanish fire with one of their own inventions -- red-hot shot. That saved the British on the Rock. By noon the net day every FLOORS ARE. 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Heavily Fortified Since tnen, and "particularly in recent decades, the British have fortified the Rock with. about as much metal as it could carry, hid- den deep in the limestone caves and rarely seen by any visitors, Aliens need a permit to live on the Rock. The governor of this Crown colony has about 25,000 people to care for, along. with the many Spaniards who come from the "Lines", the Spanish towns just be- yond the Rock, as day laborers and go home at night. The governor also has to look out for those Gib- raltar monkeys. For what was probably back of that query on the apes' health on the floor of the Commons was an ancient supersti- tion, and an odd place.it was for that to turn up. There has long been a legend that as long as the monkeys, he reported with appro- priately solemn .mien, are doing well on their fourpenny subsistenCe allowance and there have f€en no | complaints from any of them. They | are enjoying excellent health, With | some modest satisfaction Mr. Grif- fiths added that the monkeys, who | were 20 in number at the end of | the war, are now 30. He did not | imply t this showed any su- perior beneficence in Labor party' policy. NAME NEW SUPERINTENDENT | Toronto, March 29--(CP)--T. E. | Wheeler has been appointed super- | intendent of the Canadian Pacific Railways' Smith Falls Division\ in| Eastern Ontario, it was announced! Wednesday. 'He succeeds E. C. M Kay, retiring on pension. . \ Wheeler moves from. Schriebef in Northern Ontario where he has been | Red List U.S. Prisoners Expert Seeks Lock That He Cannot Open Montreal -- (CP) -- A thin, grey- haired Montreal man admits he could be one of the world's best thieves if he chose to turn his hon- est trade into a life of crime. He is a 53-year-old railway lock expert, Emile Vidal, who proudly states that there is still a lock or safe to be built which he can't open. When asked how he does it, Vidal, employed at the C.N.R. Point St. Charles Shops in Montreal, said "that's a trade secret. I've never told anyone, not even my own fam- became locked in compartments, as- sisted chefs get food out of pantries when the door was keyless, and opened many a railway safe. Most of his work is done on trains, many of which have at least 800 locks. There isn't one of them he can't open and he doesn't de it by the old hairpin system. Vidal says he didn't know any- thing about locks when he joined the railway at the age of 14. He was working in one of the shops one day and seeing some locks lying around he thought it would be fun trying to open them. That started him on his trade. "For a whilé I drove my wife nuts with locks," he said. "She kept telling me to get those things out of the house. Now she never sees ene except in her own doors." No, he's never been locked out of his own house. "I always carry a key. And I'm not like some peo- ple, I never lose it." The | Spanish took it back in 1309. The | Moors retook it in 1333. The Span- | the best engineers in Europe to | In the first hours of the attack | apes remain on the Rock the Brit- | superintendent since 1947. H is| ish will keep possession of it. i : The i secretary, Mr. Grif- | assistant superintendent of Montreal | obtained frem an Iron Curfaf fiths, handed the query with fitting dignity and succeeded by J. W. Harmon, now! These photos of U.S. prisoners in Korea come from Eastfoto and were | advantage of the knowledge for | 1 source. All the men are purportedly from | other than honest purposes." terminals. The appointments are California and Pennsylvania. '2heir names were competence. 'The | effective April 1. information bureau, but hve not been checked by U.S. army officials. ily. 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