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Flesherton Advance, 2 Jan 1946, p. 6

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1m COMING UPâ€" A RAILROAD RIDER'S DREAM SEEKS CURE FOR PALESTINE "HEADACHT' Composite of all the practicable wishes of railroad passengers is the idealistic train shown in model form above. Designed by the Styling Section ol General Motors, it is being studied by railroed executives and has been made into a test car by Burlington. It features elevated, all-glass dome* for better observation and there are many improvements in seats, berths, recreation facilities and sanitary provisions. The cutaway model (bottom) shows the elevarted observation lounge and lower cocktail lounge. SUCCESS AFTER 45 YEAR BAN B. L. Carrâ€" Art Laurinâ€" P. E. Ouderkirk Art Laurin, pubisher of the "Morriaburg Leader," aided and abetted by the Morriaburg Fishing and Game Club, was imstnunental in raising the ban which has for the past 46 years prevented deer hunt- ing in Dundas County. The sample draped over the car in the photo- graph was bagged after 4B minutes of hunting, which proves the gentlemen photographed are not only good shots but also good sportsmen â€" they could have gotten more. THRILLED BY SIGHT OF SNOW TEST PILOT liH an ill wind ilnit . .„•, Mttiefy somebody. While most people ihuddered when they -jkc to find the streets covered with Hiow, these girls from India, i,tudent» at the University of Toronto school o: nursing, were thrilled at the aight. "It's beautiful,' they chorused. J 'he native sari worn by Mrs. May Aster Jainu Deen, right, and her Hi may appear incongruous in Canada, but she was anxious to try the sport. Her friend, Mrs. R. lyangar, went along to watch. Blonde, blue-eyed Helen Harrison of Toronto, Ont., has flown 3,000 hours in all psirts of the world, but hasn't had enough. "I just can't keep away from it," she declared as she annoimced signing up as test pilot with a British firm which is to assemble passenger planes in Toronto. Vancouver-bom, she ob- tained her commerciid license in England in 1936, instructed R.A.F. reserve pilots there and then taught flying in Canada and the U.S. Later she joined the U.S. air transport auxiliary and ferried planes around Britain for the U.S. forces, flying 400 miles an hour in Mosquitos on delivery trips there. » -♦ 4 I * « * Dynamite-packed Palestine holds explosive potentialities that will in- volve aJl the great powers unless a speedy solution to the Arabian- Jewish conflict is found. Indicated on map above are some of the de- velopments and factors which focus world's anxiety on this tiny trouble spot. First positive step by the U.S. and British govern- ments toward ending the strife was the appointment of al2-man Anglo- American committee to study the whole situation, and reconmiend remedial action. Supreme Arab Council for Palestine threw sur- prise monkey wrench into the peace machinery by repudiating in ad- vance any decisions of the Anglo- U.S. committee. Heading Britain's six Palestine committeemen is Judge Sir John E. Singleton, left, of the London High Court of Justice. Chairman of the U.S. group is Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, right, of the U.S. Circuit Court at Houston, Tex. * THEY'LL SEEK FACTS IN GM-UAW STRIKE * â- 4 â- A Pictured above are members of the fact-finding board appointed by President Truman to investigate the General Motors outo strike. They are, left to right, Judge Walter P. Stacv, chief justice of the Nuorth Carolina Supreme Court and chairman of the recent Labor-Management Conference; Lloyd K. Barrison, chairman of the War Labor oard; and Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College. Without special laws, which are now pendinj, before Congress, the board vnill have no legal authority to examine the -General Motors Corporation's books NAZIS HEAR THE PIPERâ€" AND "THEY'LL PAY THE PIPER" i Serenading the top Nazis wl.o are now in trial at Nurc.ibsrg, Pip;r Ker.ieth Caivpb.ll. of the Scots Guards marches up and dowti in front of the sentries gur.rling t c jai!. Tlic Nazis may not appreciate bagpipe music but as the war crimes trials continue there's little doubt that the men of the N.izi hier.vchy \\ill soon "pay the piper." ' : *. ♦ » *â-  ♦ â- 9 • « \ * ' A « « 4 <* 4 * 4 A ^- 1 4 9 * •i 4

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