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PASSED THE BUCKS-A teen-age couple, William and Helen zoerndt 0' ngfield, Mast, were arrested in Amsterdam, N. Y.. after a suc- gcounterfciting career. The 18-year-old ex-grocery clerk made s), 510 and 520 bills and his red-headed 17-year-old wife passed

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B31 Waterton, right, standing in the cockpit of the Avro Canada CF- lriu fighter, will pilot the craft on the first attempt at a non-stop. c'-- ing of the Atlantic ocean in a jet-propelled aircraft. The CF-i00 is .: i-mod the most powerful fighter in the world. Shown with Water- ton here is Don Rogers who wil fly Avro's jetliner, North America's '.'5t jet transport, on what may be the first jet transport Atlantic hop. . two jet planes will attend the Society of British Aircraft Construc- tors show in England in September.

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KISS OF DEATH-A seemingly harmless little peck between two ”"-""1185 (inset) proved fatal to themselves and 110 others. The star- "hss were settled on two electric wires which sagged close together. When two birds made contact in the kiss, it caused a short circuit on gilt! wires. cioclrocuting the entire flock. The scene is near Akswviiie,

THE GUARDIAN. CHARL(YI'l'ETOWN

Business opinion is that the out- look for 1950 is very good, said Graham F. Towers, above, gover- hr of the Bank of Canada and president of the Industrial De- velopment Bank. in an interview 01 531"! John. N. B, From the ex- Dort standpoint. assuming that crops. Will be normal. the over. all picture was favorable, with exports to overseas markets down somewhat but exports to the U. S. up.

iA prominent banker suggested Canadians could provide morejoba and increased production by in- vesting their savings in the coun- try's natural resources. J. U. Boy- er, above, president of the Canad- ian Bankcrs' Association, told the annual meeting Canadians now had S8.97l,000,000 in nearly 8,000,000 deposit accounts. This, he said. was s426,000.000 more than last year. And between 1945 and 1949 the average savings account had grown from 3532 to S637. Mr. Boyer stressed the answer to the prob- lem of the labor force increasing more quickly than jobs was "to stimulate more Canadians to in- vest their own money in the de- veloping of the resources and rich opportunities of their own coun- try." lie pointed out the recent growth of Alberta as an example of the benefits of investment.

SLIPPEEY EEL Homer "The Eel" Cook, 27, has fled from jail in Munich, Germany for the third time. The guitar

strumming Oklahoma badman, I- waiting trial on 19 charges. ripped a bar from his prison cell window and escaped.

A Richmond. Va., housewife, Mrs. C.S. Gilbert. on a repairman's tip, discovered that she could get rid of pesky files by sticking a few wads of cotton in the screen door. Soon word got around, the town and cotton dotted screen doors bloomed all over. in Wash- ington, Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brennan had no com- ment. But an aide said that may- be he had the solution: (1) the files may think cotton is their dreaded enemy, the moth; (2) the dumb flies think the cotton in the screen doors is a spider web.

Thought at first to be the miss- ing Toronto girl, Mabel Crumback. this woman was struck by a truck and killed on a highway at Scar- boro, Ont. Police say that there was very little traffic on the high- way at the time and that "the girl must have deliberately run in front of e truck. was chased, or was shoved." She carried nothing by which she could be identified.

LOST SINGER - Opera singer Anna Cuyle, 52, is the object of an intensive police search, after she disappeared from a Pasadena. Calif., hotel. The woman suffered from a persecution complex, and may have fled under the assump- tion ihat "Communists" were try- ing to kill her.

W. Averill Harriman has been named special assistant to Presi- dent Truman in handling 50111; affairs. Mr. Harriman. now SPEC!

representative of the U. S. in Eu- rope for the Eiirnp”.'in RecoverY Program, will take over new dut- ies carly in August. I 3 be to coordinate activ U. S. Government dcp nvnis 50 far as they bear on foreign policy.

What To Do When There's A Milk Strike

Strikes by milkmen in Washing- ton, D.C.. and Pittsburgh, Pa.. bring problems to housewives and youngsters. In Pittsburgh, above. pwomen armed with clubs stand guard outside a store while the owner dispenses to children the milk he got from 100 miles away, in defiance of strikers. When his store window was broken during the night, neighbors pitched in with 3100 for a new window. In Washington, D.C.. at right, two 4-H Club members, Robert Fudge of Jamestown, 0., and Kermit Newcomer of Bryant. 0., proposed a reluctant toast before downing their plain water. Two-hundred farm youths gathered in Washing- ton were forced on a milklcss diet by the strike.

Spry and spirited at '10, Martin J. Dziubalrowski is busy these days waxing and polishing his casket on the front porch of his Cleveland. 0., home. if he doesn't whistle as he works. it's more on account of checrfulncrs. kowski came to Cleveland from Austria in

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About 30 years ago he found a fine piece of oak. "Ah. that will be for my casket," he declared. And so the collection of oak pieces began. He completed the casket long ago and now gives it fatherly care with frequent polishing.

. . -- '- "lbs . . - ti Demand in Ottawa that a ban he placed on girls, we ring shorts M streets, has controversial pot boiling. Headed by a group of separate school teachers who are determined to ”swc-cp this immoral influence from our streets." citizens have been pouring in prot st; :0 members 0! the city. If liy-law is passed. Special Consialiio J. W. it:-nshziw will have a busy job on his hands if girls like Sally Soulard continue to wear shorts.

PIGEON PING-PONG-The pigeons pictured here are playing ping- pong. They're pros, too, because they only do it for gain. The birds, part. of flock belonging to I-Iavard Psychology Prof. B. F. Skinner, also play tunes on a toy piano, push buttons to get food. tell time and dif- ferentiaie between changing colors-like traffic lights. Dr. Skinner uses the pigeons to discover the relationship between human behaviour and the prospect of reward for work. Pigeons bat table tennis ball back and forth with their beaks, as at top. When bird at left missed the ball. which rolled into trough in front of him, it automatically 0p:llCd feed- ing station at right. Lower picture shows winner at right, collecting his reward of grain. ,

Aircraft at Niagara Falls, N. Y. Designed to be ('ll'Op;iF'.i from con- ventional hoavv bombers, the blockbuster is guided to its i-argj by remote radio control; s

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midget as he admires Fl 12,000- pound rndlo-guided bomb of I type being manufactured by Bell

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