KEVEAL! OLD CRIME

Th, recent arrest. of Henry ﬂﬂlgr (above) 40. 011 I- "ling! hm; in Chicago is reported o u, led to the revelation of an q killing. Identified through a ingerprint check, Mueller told or j ﬁr“ robbed in 1009. when he we» ‘and o! slaying the bandit fem later in San Jose. Qaiifn l1" . edlv in "sclf-defencé.” Ho said i: egpgped to Chicago and went to the funk business. Mueller n s wife and 5 children. -

lietiirn to Homeland Predicted For llouks

VANCOUVER, Dec 8 - Nick udiakofl. 38. Canadian born ex- rvice man and Doukhobor. Pfe- ieterl in an interview here that 5,000 of the 25,000 sect members .. Canada would go to Russia ‘maybe inside a year" to "lulﬁli he Doukliobor destlny."

Hudlakoil, a carpenter, lives ere with his wife and 18-year-old ‘aughier, Kathleen, in his own tme. a three-room fro e bung- 1 n‘.

lie prophesied that reccnt dis- iirbanzcs in British Columbia rere no‘ nearly over and that they would lead to "bloodshed" before ciiiietlng down.

lludinkofl joined thc Canadian llllly in deﬁance of the tradition- rl Doiikiiobor ban against bearing arms und servcd l4 months in Canada. "l was in the armY- 1 iiiioke, rind then I take a drink. jusi. liki- anyone else. '

"ln other words, I am following the Ciinndinn way of life. But I was borii a Doukhobor and I'll die n Donkhobor. and I would Bladly give up all these things and move to Russia with my family, if the oilier Doukhobors will have us then they go."

lie siid he had no fears of ty- ranny or suppression in Soviet Russia or that he would be com- pjivd in join the Russian army.

"l don't think we'll stay long in Russia nnyiiray. According to an- cient prophecies, when the thous- iiizds of Doukhobors return to Russia from North America they will remain there only a short tme before moving, probably to a district in Turkey which has never iccn bloodshed in its entire his- tory. Tlirre we will stay forever.”

COCOA’! BIBTHPIACE

The cacao tree was first known in Latin America.

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BY HTUAII.‘ UNDEIHILL

Canadian Prone Bill! Writer

For’ 011 their grunzblirig about austerity rations and restrictions Britons ltlll have a lot to be thankful for and they knbw it when they look across the channel to harassed France.

Frenchmen know ft foo u they brood over tho uncertain winter which hn begun with tho outbreak of psrslwing strikes. sporadic vio- lence and the prospect of con- tinued political arguments.

"A‘ frcnchman is the greatest patriot in the world u for u his country il concerned but he lacks tho civic prlde." said one-thought- ful Parisian. “Make a regulation and immediately he's trying to find _a way of avoiding it.

"An Englishman ts just the op- poslte. He is the world's finest citinen."

The "finest citizens" accept this praise a bit smugly. Their attit- ude is, well, what would you ex- pect of Eilropehnsi’. But the fact remains that they make up a country envied throughout Europe for its stability. '

Coming from theUnlted Kingdom to France. where everyone wakes up wondering “what's going to go wrong today?" is like getting back onto solid ground.

A burly constable standing on the dock at Dover il a friendly figure. He's a man of whom you ask time or directions, not one of a group of steei-helmeted figures with rifles over their shoulders, who are waiting for trouble,

The next policeman a. traveller sees ll at the London railway station where he's helping pas- sengers find taxis. In France. police and troops are all along the railways guarding against sabotage.

Queues 1n Britain are longer and

more frequent than those in France but. on the whole. people are better fed and _ot least are sune of rations. The Prime Min- lster and the bus driver get a similar ounce of bacon weekly. the same fragment of chccse and butter. In fact, the heavy worker gets more to ‘eat than so-called social betters in view of the dif- ferential rationing. ' In France, the workers is an em- bittered man who finds weekly wages gone on food in a dill’ OI‘ two. Almost all he can afford to buy is crusty bread in thick sticks

All he gets ls :00 grams daily and sometimes he has to queue for hours before the bakery opens.

His bitterness feeds on the fact that people with. more folding money than he can buy all the rich foods they want. by resoursc to illegal channels. into which food production is drained. leaving normal arteries of supply to waste“

In Britain, there's a small black market but it is dwnrfted by the‘ vast efficient system of distribut- ing food to proper outlets.

Paris stores glitter with luxury goods that make London shops look bare and poverty-stricken but one o... not eat such things, as Parisian merchants doiefully tell you. So. while the Briton Damns Attlee or Churchill, according to his views. his tight little isle.

LEABN RURAL TEACHING

EDMONTON - (GP) — The University of Alberta's Faculty of Education has introduced a new experiment‘ scheme for student teachers. Students who formerly practised teaching in 611v schools now have the opportunity of participating in rural teaching in the Clover Ber division.

SEAFORD. Sussex, England (cp) A giant wave crushed against a bus on the promenade

Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

SECONl) SECTION

Science Probes Unique Sex Llfo 0f Warlike Ants

NEW YORK. Doc. l -(A.'P) - On a lush island in Panama. scientists are trying to solve three mysteries in the sex life of army anti, including a unique assembly- iine precision in births of su- less workers.

These mysteries govern the bo- havior of the big ante, which get their popular name ‘from their military habits.

The science team i: headed by Drfrheodore C. Bchnelrin. psyc- hologist and curator of the do- partment of animal behavior at the American Museum of Natural History. studies of nnlmll behavior promise new insight into problems of genetics and evolution and possibly qf human behavior.

Army ants probably have existed in some form for 55.000000 years. Dr. Schelrla said. There are many species, mostly in tropical areas. One kind of underlrouhd arm? ant lives as far north a: louth- ern Ohio.

Dr. Schnelrla now is making his sixth visit since 1% to Barro Colorado Island in Gotun Lake on the Panama Canal to study the species (Eclton Harriatum) of army ants there. Colonies of 50.000 to 100.000 wroker ants, ruled by a single queen, roam and bottle in the dense, island forest.

The three puzzles i‘ be ln- vestigated particularly are the clock-like regularity in product-_ ion of huge worker broods. the appearance of new queens and the once-a-year birth of males.

The light brown workers are an eight to half an inch long. The queen is nearly an inch long and when reproducing is 20 t0 80 times the size, in volume. of the largest worker. Raiding war parties of workers forage for food. killing other insects. and sometimes even snakes. frogs, or small animals.

Tracking the ants, Di". Scheirla found that for l’! days they are nomads, moving nightly in a. long

here, injuring six people.

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column t4) a new bivouac under a fallen tree or other shelter. During this time they send out highly-developed raids. Then for 20 to 2i days they suddenly halt. staying in one spot with little raiding. After this pausc. the nomadic life begins again.

He discovered this strango pre- cision was due to the queen's sex cycle. with unvarying regularity. the queen lays up to 30.000 eggs every 36 days, and these hatch into sexless female workers. The colony, Dr. Schelrla said. remains in one spot until the workers are stimulated to travel the in- creasing activity of the developing brood, which they carry along with them. High mortality from natural enemies keeps the ant colony from expanding to undue size.

Sometimes during the dry season, bevween mid-December and April. the queen lays . a smaller number of eggs, and from these come not only the usual‘ workers but also a number of queens. A bit later, the queen lays only some 3.000 egg: and all of these beccme winged males.

DECEMBER 9. 1947

Daniel Mayer (left). the new French minister of labor, and Mr. Jule. Moch. the new minister of the interior, are pictured as they read the French newspapers’ reaction to the selection of the new French cabinet by Premier Robert Schuman. Minister Mayer's job is not a too pleasant one. with almost all of France's industries snarled by Red-in- spired strikes.

|f 3mm‘, Mun; Crop-Dusting Machine

But What ls It

By LESLIE BRODIE

(Canadian Press Correspondent) SYDNEY, Australia. Dcc.8 - (C?) Rcsidcnis of‘ tiic little town of Gumlngal in the south-I west of New South Wales believe they have (liscovcreri a freak an- imal to rival the plﬁtypils.

The "thing" has been secn by. more than one of the townsfolk- and each has verified descriptions given by the original discovcrersﬂ Ern Elpiiick and Phil Slater.

WINNIPEG -— (OP) machine for dusting field crops, said to distribute weed killer through a 40-foot boom, is schedul. ed to go into construction shortly L. A. Ash of Winnipeg. its lnvcriior, says the' machine can be adjusted to any tractor or jci-"n unrl is designed to dust \‘.'llC',li, iJllS. barley and flux.

— Anew

DOES COURTESN‘ blfAYf

‘MOOSE JAW. Sunk. _-- iCP) _ Alderman Gordan Ferguson. a mCmbur of the city police commission. isn't sure whether or

It ll-Sklfl to have a long blacki n“ n‘ pays to olicy ‘raffle bydgws

. 5] . _- when he stopped at an inter- bouy covered Wm] h r and a‘ section recently to let a pedestrian

thick swan-like neck. but no he:id.i »cross. nnotlicr automobile crashed Two floppy ears hang from the . into the m“ of MS u“.

upper part of the neck and it;

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Oil Bomplicbtes Racial Problem In Middle East

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(By Juno: D. Wblic. Annotated Prep Foreign Affsfn Analyst)

Jews and Arabs in Palestine are Writing another‘ bloody warning that an old foe of human peace remains unoonquorod.

Around the world racial hatred burns in t-he hearts of men who often cannot distinguish among races until they see their fellow creatures eat or worship. or hear them talk.

I! CLYDE (Canadian Press Still Writer)

WASHINGTON. Doc. I —- (C?) — Ruuian ‘ ‘ to compromise has virtually halted tho work of the Far Eastern Commission which holds weekly. futile sittings here in the former Japanese Embassy. it is learned from o. reliable source.

The commission o! the ll countries, including china, which contributed to the downfall of Japan. seems completely snagged on the question o! reparations and on plans for a preliminary conference on a Japanese peace treaty. .

Russia. which came into the We!‘ against Japan when is was virtually won. is reported to be demanding a comparatively huge percentage of the total reparations to be collected.

That stand alone has contribut- ed to a deadlock on the re- parations guestion which saw original claims for more than twice thc amount that experts have

Racism knows no frontier and travels with ignorance, greed. bigotry and violence everywhere.

Palestine illustrates how racial hatred complicates and confuses an already muddled situation.

lt is bad enough that Jews and Arabs bear each other the mis trust of long religious. political and economic friction. It is worse

ihat minorities among Jews and Arabs have piled recent excesses on these historic differences.

It is still worse that both com inunlties blame each other collec- tively for what minorities have done.

Tb tie the knot harder. Pales- ine is a world crossroads essential for access to Middle Eastern oil. To tie it still harder, the twin giants of world power. Russia and the United States. are vitally con- rerned. Such external interest can- not easily encourage Jews and Arabs to subside, because each could obtain decisive help against he other. i

Pslestinek explosive potentiai is| partly responsible for the first Russo-American agreement of im- pc-rtance in some timkwhen the two powers agreed on partition and independence for Palestine. This confronts the United Nations with the problem, in case Arabs and Jews do not settle their dif- ferences peacefully in the mean- time of replacing British author- iy there next summer.

Deiicnic iialrmircs are iniolved at €‘.‘9l'_\' step, and are incnnced by one more source of trouble as long as Arabs and Jews kill each other simply because they are Jews and Arabs.

estimated can be collected.

About the only unquestionable claim was that of Canada which asked for little more than one per cent.

Members of the commission maintain the utmost secrecy about their deliberations but it was learned on good authority that Soviet iritransigence has render- ed ths weekly meetings compara- tively pointless and unproductive.

It is understood that the commission has disposed of virtually all problems that can be dealt with in spite of Soviet obstruction.

A compromise plan on re- parations recently presented by the United States has been ignor- ed by anumber of members as well as Russia but the belief seems to be the others would compromise if Russia gave the lead.

The long-standing American proposal for a preliminary con- ference. to plan for a peace con- ference has been rejected by Russia and the understanding is that China refuses to go into such a. meeting unless Russia goes along.

Not Eviction Notice

HASTINGS. N. Z. (GP) Wlicii Bridget Veronica Henty, a WldOW, zippCuYCil in court on a charge of setting fire to her own housc. police said she told them she had been driven to setting the fire to get the present occu- pants out. She pleaded guilty and

Palestine. however. is merely was ccmmmed for Sengenm

‘the hottest test-tube in the racial laboratory. Men hate each other “lfOllghOllt the globe for many reasons, but among them usually can he found reasons reducible to the simple fact that the hated have inherited real or fancied

choose for themselves.

Until the world finds better and

faster answers. the double edged sword of racial hatred handy for men who learn slowly waits from ancestors they did not ma; 1; can m; both ways“

will be

Work Of Far Eastern Commission ls Halted i

Assistant director of the Korea! National Police, Talk S. Chang. I leader in the right against, com; niunism in South Korea, warn! that Red agitators in the U. B zone are spreadingword that when U. S. troops withdraw, soviet {on ces will take over and put patrio to death. Chang, who also 1g ch19 of the Seoul police department, said Dropagandists are working to win Koreans over to Russia.

Victory Song Named Harness Norse 0f "47

(By 'l'hc Associated Press)

NEW YORK. Dec. 8 — Victory Song, champion trotter from tho Castleton Farms stables of Mnand Mrs. J.B. Johnson, Jr.. at Lexing- ton, Ky. Saturday was named "harness horse of 1947" by a com- mittee of 50 sports editors. ram writers and radio commentators.

Creator of a world mile record of 1:57 3/5 for stallions. Victory Song was awarded the honor by a ifarrow margin over his stable- mrtc. Hoot Mon, winner of tho llrimbletonian in a record 2:00 ﬂat as well as the Hopeful trot in California. and. the Kentucky fut- urity.

POLICEMEN NEEDED

varicouvical- (o?) -Scarcity of applicants has resulted in a

drive for police recuits in Vam‘ couver. Fifty-six new constables are needed to fill the gap caused by the newly-granted 44-hour work week. Constables previously worked 48 hours. .

spouts water from a point near its‘ rump.

It makes a sound like the low moaning of a. bull and swims with its neck about a. footout of the‘. water.

Eiiphick and Slater, who are de- scribed by friends as “almost iee- l totziilers, "were on a fishing trip ‘ about three months ago when they saw the strange creature in a lag- oon about seven miles from Gun- dagai.

Since then several people have‘ gone out at night with spotlights attached to their automobiles to hunt f0!‘ it and all have reported. seeing it. One man fired several

Part of a colony may follow a young queen and the queen is‘ mated no more than once n year, and perhaips only once in a lifetime.

wast-neo-

-locai boys taking a swim.

shots at it with a heavy calibre rifle without results.

Local bookmakers are taking bets on what the creature is. Some maintain that it is a seal escaped from a circus; others say it is an amphibious sheep; but the favor- ite guess is that it la one of the

Clarke Opens New Winter Service

M Doc 8 — A new winter fast freight service be- tween Halifax. N. 5., and St.

John's, Newfoundland, has been announced by Clarke Steamship 6o Limited. The service will be maintained by their steamer "North Pioneer". well-known on the St. Lawrence.

The “North Pioneer" handles 1300 tons of general cargo and is

‘ double gear throughout.

of the latest two. being equipped with radtr. direction-finding de- vices. and echo-sounding gear. The vessel has 'i.ween decks and

Known already u the “rescue lhip." the "North Pioneer" first corned fame lost August when she WI‘ used ioruoh supplies to, mnoto places on the Arctic itin orory of the ill-fated "Nueopie". ‘rho ship was clustered by Hud- son's Boy (b. to complete ‘the "Nuooplof original itinerary. she also figured in other rescues this put season, notably with ~0- Liof o! the "Manchester City". The “North Pioneer‘ lo under commend of Oopt. J. A. Ousllotto. ill- flat ailing will ho from Halifax on Doom-abs! llth with sailings to Newfoundland regular-

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