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* BULGARIAN PEASANTS IN FESTIVE MOOD « > â- 4 Peasant girls in native costume parade aiong the itieets of Sofia, Bulgaria, carrying sheaves of precious wheat in celebration of Spring harvest. PRIME MINISTER KING AT DOWNING STREET r rr •^ y 3 c The leader of the Canadian Government is photographed in the grounds of 10 Downing Street, Lon- don residence of British prime ministers, after his arrival for the meeting of Empire Prime Minister*. Left to right are: Prime Minister Clement Attlea of Great Britain; Rt. Hon. Ernest Bevin, Foreign Minister, Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey, retiring Canadian High Commissioner to Great Britain and Mr. IGng^ SWING MUSIC SOUNDS SOUR NOTE ON GAULEE SHORE 4 » ♦ t « * 4 4 4 • * ft 4 4 4 « â- 4 4 t 9 ♦ r 4 The Club Lido above, a drinking, dancing, bathing resort on the shore of the Sea of Galilee at Tiberias, Palestine, "with its dancing and swing music . . .offends the sensibilities of many Christian people," according to the Anglo-American Inquiry Committie which recently investigated protests. First danc- ing club on Galilee's shores since the days of th« wicked Herod Antipas, the Lido, originally German- owned, is reported under l:ase from Palestine's enemy property custodian MOUNTIES GUARD CANAL R.C.M.P. officers are shown above guarding government property at the Cornwall Canal against pos- sible damage by striking members of the Canadian Seamen's Union. Highlights of the News Hard Coal Jleii Quit IVnnsylvaiiia's hard coal miners (lu(j gardens in- lead of anthracite or made holiday plins while they waited for union and operator lead- ers to frame a new contract which woulfl end tht.ir striki. Ill N'ew York negotiators, in tlicir fourth wecl of conferences, reported I'ttle progress toward a lu'w pact. The strike Ijy 75,000 diggersâ€" 'Jtli major United Stales anthracite shutdown since the turn of the cen- turj â€" became effectiv after the expiratior. of the old contract. Leaders of the .\ F L United Mine Workers and the operators agreed that the walkout wa. completely effective. There are no collieries in the anthracite fields working. $15,200 BuU The highest price ever paid for a bull 5ok' at public auction in Canada, was paid at the national Holstein sale for an 11-nionth-old Holstein bull â€" Raymondale Rag .\pple Yalta. The bull was consigned by Sen- ator D. Raymond of Vaudreuil, Quebec, and was purchased jointly by H. L. Gilbert, V'ercheres, Que., and W. A. Hogge, St. Laurent, Que. Maritime Strike .A.11 the resources of .American armed might will be used to keep the United States merchant marine operating if the maritime strike called for June 15 occurs. Presi- dent Truman told his press con- ference. These resources would include the Xavy and the Coast Guard. Mr. Truman acknowledged that the prospects of settling the mari- time dispute looked rather dark at the minute. To meet the situation, he said, the Government is taking every necessary prcparaiion to see that the ships continue operating. The Navy moved to bring back into service all discharged men now available for service as well as others with experience in the mer- chant marine. .\rabian-.\n'.ericau Oil Company and the Trans-Jordan Governmeni had been completed with an agree- ment for building an oil pipeli: ^ across Trans-Jordan. Portugal Restore I n fulfilment of a wartime pledge, the British base in the Az- ores. Portuguese islands in the North -A.tlantic, has been formally handed back to Portugal. A sim- ilar ceremony took place simultau- eou>lv at the .American base. Church Union The question of union between the Church of England in Canada and the United Church has pro- gressed to the poin. where reports will be presented to the Dominion meetings of both churches next Septr. liber. Union was discussed in Toronto last %vee. by representatives of the two great Protesta.i denomina- tions, meeting as a joint commit- tee. India Railways Face Strike tiiggest strike in the history ot Indian labor, involving nearly 1,000.000 nun, was brought nearer when the raihvaymen'.- unions served notices on all eight State- owned railways, to come into ef- fect June 27, if their demands for higlier pay are not eranted. Bread Rationing Herbert Morrison, Lord Presi- dent of the Counci.'. told the House of Coniniuns that Britain is pre- paring a system of bread rationing for emergency -se. He compared the world food situation to the black days of Dunkerquc "when all the news was bad". "The very blackness of the situ- ation", he said during ^el^zte on Britain's food administration "is calling forth forces which make this the turning ijoi-* in human historv.'' Earthquake in Turkey Rescue crews searching through villages levelled by an earth-quake in the eastern Turkish Province ot Mus reported a toll of at least 133» persons killed and hundreds injured. Many villages were shakcii, nd many persons were trapped in their collapsing homes. Makeshift Homes UNRR.\ has utdertaken to build some 85,000 temporary homes in rural areas of Greece by the end of 1946. Since there is no furniture available, UNRRA furnishes a combination floor-bed with an ex- tra sccti. for each additional three mc-iiibers of a family. The rest of the floor is earth or stone. Radio Strike Threatened President Petrillo of the Music- ians L'nion threatc icd to call a strike against all radio net-works and to stop the manufacture of phonogaph records should the court uphold the constitutionality of new Congressional measures to curb his activitie:-. In what would amount to a vir- tual blackout of all forms of "can- ned music." Mr. Petrillo asserted that the networks would be pro- hibited from broadcasting a musi- cal program outside the city where it originated. It Makes You Feel So Much Better The Vila mm Bi Tonic Extensively used for headache, logs of sleep, nervous indigestion, irritability, anaemia, chronic fatigue, and exhaustion of the nervous svstem. <3^^ 60 cts. Economy size, $1.50 Dr. Chase's Nerve Food Trans-Jordan Pipeline The Palestine broadcasting sys- tem said that four-week negotiat- ions between rep-^sentatives of the CZ^u^a^ 75^3e^SMMe c^TAeZia^^ to minute!! aftct (>elaA<ltMolv«d la water. New Fast Rising Royftl is ready fur action. 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