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Entertainment Business Slumps in England

LONDON. Feb. 6 -- (Reuters) - More than 15.000 actors. actresses and musicians-or one in three in the British entertainment business -are out of work in Britain. Their plight is blamed on a big slump in the entertainment world.

Three unions. Variety Artists Feds:-atlon. Equity and the Music- ians Union. with a oombined mem- bership of 40.000. say that the en- tertainment. business is over- crowded. '

"Every year about 1.000 actors

and actresses are turned out by; the dramatic schools." a spokes- man for Equity said. "Unfortun-

ately there are not enough plays for them owing to a slump in the theatre."

Most unemployed actors are. found in the West End of London. Every Friday queues of well-dress-E ed young men and women who used to earn up to 2'25 a week line up outside the labor exchanges to draw unemployment pay.

Many find temporary erenin: employment. One of l.ondou's big- gest ice cream factories is at pres- ent eminlnviru: large numbers of out-of-work male actors at night.

Death Toll In Plane Crash At Tower lip To Six

CARMAN. Mam. Feb. 6-(OP)- Three steel workers. trapped on a tottering radio tower. were killed early Tuesday when the 570-foot mart snapped in two. broke clear of its moorings and slammed to earth. The men were repairing damage done when an R.C.A.!'. plane rammed the tower yesterday. killing all three airmen aboard.

Working in the glare of n searchlight, the steel workers made a midnight ascent inside the three-sided tower. belonging to the Canadian Broadcasting Cor- poration's Manitoba station. CBW. Minutes later, as aatiff wind blew up. the light on the mast- head swayed. there was aloud grinding noise and a. 250-foot top section crashed to the -frozen earth. The remainder of the 30- ion steel structure-resembling a pencil standing on its point- snapped at the base and fell at right angles to the first section. Tile victims were Ronnie Erick- son, 19. of Tyndall. Man: Walter

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Burtnyk. 28. of Winnipeg and Jack Dyck or the criminal district. i Names of the victims of the sir-;

The girls usually find tempor- ary work as night waitresses at; dance balls.

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NEW YORK. Feb. 6-(APl--l Actress Julie lfavoc. wife of the producer Wllliam Spier and star; of the Broadway comedy "Affalrsf Of State." suffered a mlscai'ria'..zei

between acts of Saturday's matineelyzation school at Winnipeg. fouled. in New Yorl: l. a guy wire of the slender mast at Life's

and now is confined hospital. Havoc was ”doing

The hospital said Miss

plane crash were released today. They were F0. Charles Chow- Leong, 29. of acting PO. Peter Frederick Hal-vey,l 20, of woodlands. lsleham. Cam- bridgeshlre. England. and acting Po. Edward scanlan, 18. of Chis- wick. London W4, England.

The plane, from No. 2 Air Navi-

nocii yesterday. nudged the tower

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WINNIPEG. Feb. 6-Great-West total business in force reached 5l.89l,fXkl.GCO at the end of

very well." Hcrlitsrlf and crashed in flames in a l95l, H. W. Manning. Vicc-Prcsl-

dent and Manning Director. an- nounced to the sixticth annual meeting here today.

More than s29:i.o0o.ooo of new rlife insurance and annuities was lplaced (llll'illf.I the year. Assets now total S-i.l.'l.000,0(i0 and represent the lresourrcs of 515.000 policy-holders. lhurlng 1051. the Company paid !si.i.ooo,ooo to policyholders and ibenrificlarics.

i "The very favorable mortality experience among the Companyls ipollcyliclders continued dfiringthc iyezir," Mr. Manning dcclarecl, "and -actually showed a slight improve- iment over the level of 1950." He also reported that the gross ra-ie

iof interest rnse during the year and reached .'l.82 per cent. This represents the tllilrd consecutive

year in which the interest rate has risen.

Joseph liarris. in his President- pial address. commented on the iproposed extension of government ianniritles and said. in part. "The .Canari:an Government. operating in a field that is already well .served by private enterprise. has ibeen offering annuities to the pen- icral public which in no way re- flect the true cost that is bcin: in- curred. Both the costs of admin- lls-'.r:itioii mid the substantial oper- ntilig losses have been met from public funds. This in itself would suggest elimination of such a Junction. not. extension. increasing ithe illnlis available would further aggravate this condition."

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The sale of group insurance anal group annuities was :2 per ceiiti higher than inst year and totallrdi slt)'7.000.Ga0. Group business in: force kept. pace with this cxpaiis-' ion of new business and rose to S462.COC).0fl0 at tho and of the year. Group business now forms over 24 per cent. of the Company's total business in force. The Company adniinistcrs the welfare plans of 1.500 org1ni7.ations. who. together. have more than 250.000 employees.

Assets increased sax 000.000 dur- in: the year and now total 541.1.-

000.000. The Conip:iny's holdings of corporate securities increased 320.000.0021 during the year and

now total Sl25.000.000. These in- vestments were made after a careful screening to determine the degree to which they support our economy. increase production. or sircniztlicn our defense industries. This policy-a voluntary one-is finan- cial groups and is aimed at com- bating inflation by strenszthening our productive Capacity.

in commenting on the rise in the zeiicriil interest rate level. Mr. Manning stated. "This heartening rise comes after a long period 'of artificially depressed interest rates and is most welcome since it will. in time, have an important cum- ulative effect upon the cost of in-

Believes Russians Massacred 10,000 Polish Soldiers

WASHINGTON. Feb. 5-(AP)- Col. John H. Van Vliet. author of a long-missing secret report on the Kaiyn Forest massacre in the Second World War. testified to- day he believes the Russians themselves slaughtered upwards of

10.000 Polish soldiers in a Soviet prison camp in 1940. Soviet propaganda has long

sought to pin the blame for the moss ntrocity on Hitler": Nazi German armies.

Along with the current: inquiry. some question has arisen whether Col. Vnn Vlietfs original report was deliberately hushed up.

Testifying before a special House of Representatives committee. Van Vliet. said his five years of silence on the subject were imposed at his own request.

The witness told the committee Ihilt as a prisoner of war in Germany he wns taken under guard to the Katyn Forest in May. 1943. to "inspect" the massacre scene.

He said he saw the bodies of the slain Poles stacked in eight layers "like sardines in a can" in a mass lzrnvc 12 feet deep.

Van Vlict said he went. into the Forest convinced that the Ger- mans had committed the crime and

were Ir) in: to blame the Rus- lsiniis. But he noticed that the uniforms and boots on most of

the bodies were new and showed few signs of wear.

That. convinced him. he said. that the Poles had been murdered shortly after the Russians took them prisoner in 1940. rather than after the Germans nverran the lintyn Forest. 33 miles west. of Smolensk. in Western Russia, three years later.

Van Vlict said he reached that conclusion because his own exper- ience in prison pimp had taught

him that clothing and shoes of

live prisoners wore out rapidly to be replaced.

Van Vliet. railed home from

army duty in Japan to testify. told the lawmakers he submitted his orirzlnal report on the ninssacre Iiiny 22. 1045.

Following the disappearance of flint report. he Sliitl. he wrote in May. 1950. a second report contrain- lni: the some major facts and con- cliislcns.

The coloncl's second report was eventually released by the Defence Department at the insistence of the House inquiry committee.

T. Thaddeus Rom:-r. Polish Am- bassador to Russia in 1943 at the time of the break in Russo-Polish relations. will testify before the committee tomorrow. He now is a professor at McGill University lnvliiontrenl.

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T-he Companysltotal income was S'i'4.000.000-an increase of l2 per cent over 1950. Both premium in- conle and investment income were up substantially. Total income has more than doubled in the past eight years.

ONCHAN. Isle of wight-(OP)- Miss Hiphsibah Heap. 97. wore shabby clothes and used candles to save electricity. she was known locally as a woman who had seen better days. After her recent death, her will disclosed bequests of :21.-

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Seven Entries In N. S. Regional Drama Festival

HALIFAX. Feb. 0 -- (OP)-Two one-act plays by Canadian auth- ora will be among the seven en- tries in the Nova Dootla Regional Drama teatival opening here Thursday. t

"Incident On The Border” by Donald Wotmora. of Halifax. a romantic spy drama of the Maine- New Brunswick border in the days of the American civil war. will be staged by the Lunenburg Little Theatre. Mr. Wetmore's play was last year's winner of the second annual Nova scotia Drama League play writing contest. Dalhousie University players will present "God Caesar". by Marjorie Price. comedy winner of the air Barry ' ' Trophy several years ago. The tro-

best Canadian one-act play in the Dominion Dram; Festival.

An English exchange teacher. Moire Well-rd. will play the title role in the Truro Ooinmunlty Play- ers' production of Henrik Tbae.n's tragedy "Hedda Gabler."

A theatre-in-the-round group D the Robert Alban Players of Hal- ifax - will present Oscar Wilde's comedy of manners "Tho Import- ance ot Being Earnest." Another Halifax dramatic organiaatiori. the Halifax Theatre Arts Guild. will line Philip Bari-y's Broadway hit "second Threshold.

The Festival's third one-act play, "Dirk Brown" by Philip Johnson, will be done by the Annapolis Royal Drama Group.

TWO Plays by British authors will round out the three-day festival schedule. The New Glasgow Thea. tre Guild will present J.B. Priest. 1537'! "The Linden Tree" and the Shearwater Players. from Dart. mouth. will stage the London com- edy hit "Grand National Night" by the Christies.

This year's festival. to be ad. indicated by London stage star Phllip Lefevre. will be held in the gymnasium of H.M.C.S. Scotlan, It the Naval Dockyard,

Romance Brings tl.Z. llaval Man i To Dutch Title l

Auckland, N.z., Feb. JCPK Able Seaman Desmond Thomp- son of Auckland will soon become

a Dutch Baron as a result of a romance that started with ”pen' pal" correspondence. l A shipmate of Thompson aboard a New Zealand frigate servingi off Korea wrote to a magazinel seeking pen pals, and Thompson? was one of the seaman who soon entered into regular correspon- dence with a girl in Australia. The girl was a Dutch immigrant Miss Helen Coops. After months of wirespondence she and Thompson became engaged. and they were married at Perth, Australia, when he returned fromi service in Korea. 1 Only after the marriage dldi Thompson learn his bride wasi. heiress to an ancient Dutch Bar-i ony. Under Netherlands customs. in the eldest child of a. titled fam- ily is a girl. she may pass the title to her husband when she isi 21 provided the family agrees. Mrs. Thompson is 21 in February and her family is anxious that the title be passed on. . The Barony consists of two major houses. the house of Kcp-' pet and the house of Battenburg. a branch of the same house asi that to which th; Duke of Edin- burgh belongs. One of Mrs. Thompson's uncles. a naval cap- tain. is bringing the title trans- fer papers to Auckland for signa- ture after her birthday.

At present the couple are liv- ing in a caravan in Auckland while looking for a house. Thomp- ' son plans to leave the sea when- his term in the Navy expires and take up farming. Meanwhile their caravan flies the Dutch- flag and bears the Keppel coat! of arms on the well. ; Mrs. Thompson's father was a. naval captain and while his. wife and daughter were in at concentratlon camp in Java. dur- ing the war, he served in the Pacific with the Dutch Forces. at one stage in company with the New zealand cruiser Leander in

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