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Aluminium

THE LITTLE WHITE HOUSE AS ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL Prefabricated

THE Little White House, the green-and-white cottage in Warm Springs, Georgia, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt lived happily find died, will become a state-owned national shrine, if plans of a newly-appointed Roosevelt Memorial Commission work-out.

The commission, authorised by the Georgia legislature, was appointed by Governor Ellis Arnall to plan a niting memorial to the late President who found in the warm pine hills at and Warm Springs another home healing

help

his Infantile paraly-

for.

the white fence enclosing the grounds. There is no charge, and visitors may register, Except for a few postcards, sold by the caretaker, there are no souvenirs.

Houses

London, Oct. 18 (LPS).—~ Housing experts of 20 countries] have made enquiries about alu- minium prefabricated houses Britain's latest answer to the housing shortage problem,

every

Now being made at five wartime The Infantile Paralysis Founda= | shadow factories of the rate, of ove tion, whose medical contre le only a hourly, by noxt February they-will be

the woods, coming off the lines at one mile away through

and are quickly erected; in Bristol, the record of erecting the house and con- necting all services in 4215 minutes was achieved.

The legislatio

appropriated $200,- inspects the cottage regularly and, two and a half minutes. The houses 1000 for the project and he hoped the fumigates it against pests.

BBC

Jane Carr, well-known as singer and

...in many of COMMOTO

the Broadcasting

Corporation's have been allowed But no visitors inside, and the premises are being kept as they were until plans completed for the shrine.

Cloverdor Little White House site con ba deed-scets. ed to the State by the Nation Foun

Infantile Paralysis. Mr dation for

asil O'Connor, chairman of the Foundation and former law partner of the late President, has been ask- ed to serve as honorary chairman of Georgia's memorial commission.

To-day, the Little While House o near pine

designed after collage the presidential mansion in Washing torstandr lonesomely in the woods unchanged since Mr death in April, 1945.

Tourists still trickle by steadily, but a curetaker keeps them outside

erg

Governor Arnall said the State Commission would plan another memorial if Georgia could not obtafa

Little White House, the

main road through Warm Springs to Columbus, Ga. already has been designated the Roosevelt Roosevelt's Memorial Highway. It passes

foundation entrance, and is connect ed by an unpaved road with Little White House.

Social Democrats Victory In Berlin

Elections

Berlin, Oct, 21 (UP)—As the anti-Communist section of the Berlin press proclaimed their satisfaction and the Communist paper remained silent, now de tails of the victory of the inde- pendent Socialist Party (SPD) in Berlin's first post-war élections were disclosed to-day

the

the

These houses are as "durable brick, and have passed all-weather having steam pumped into them and and tests, Including being frozen being exposed to an 80 mile-per-hour gale produced by a Beaufighter's ex- huust. Many of them are made from scrapped bombers.:::

Air San Francisco Link With Orient's lined with plaster board.

Principal Cities

San Francisco, Oct. 21 (UP) The Pan-American World Airways clipper "Westward Ho" will off to-night on 24,000-mile survey fight to blaze a now aerial trail be tween San Francisco and the prin cipal cities of the Orient.

The Company ́ says

#

'programmes.

Wasting no time, Jane Care Hogan ‘her' radio career in her school holidays when sho took her Teddy Bear and toy monkey to the DUCT Newestin studio

he said. When they commented that and wird if she could ro on the air. she could make her animals very funny, was a pity they were not real she replied that, they were to her. She was allowed to have try as the micro phone, and that started a regular weRKİY broadcast with Jane Carr, describing the adventures of Teddy and Chimpsy: Incidentally, she still has them and they

her greatest friends. That led to her deciding on the stage as a career, and on leaving schoot she

was one of}

China Facing Critical Coal Shortage

China, with its principal coal mines operating at less than 25 c per cont capacity, faces a critical shortage of fuel for what is forecast to bo one of the zãost. severe wintors in many years saye United Press,

North China, traditional copl pin of China, already is in the grip of a coal famino which has dent prices skyrocketing avan in advance- of the cold weather. North China's

Before the war,

coal production exceeded 1.000.000. tons monthly from mines in. Jehol. Liaoning provinces Hopel and alone. The Wushwan mines pro dived in excess of 500.000 tons monthly and 400,000 tone was, the,

the average monthly output of Kailan munes. The Fushung mines produced another 400,000 tona, and the pita at Chinchin another 200.- 000. ***

Land Siaco the

of hostilities, China' civil strifo

has dlerupted mincs both the production of the

Tit and the transportation of the tion's coal to such centres of con». Tientsin and" sumption os-Shanghai, Peiping

which

The houses have two bedrooms, a living room, klichen and bathroom, and can also be supplied with three or four bedrooms. They are attracted the Newcastle and later the Itali tyely designed and assembled at the Repertory Theatres. She factory in four units, which are bolt the riginal broadcanting "White Coons

and har sing and given impressions in ed together. Floors, doors and skirt many later broadcasts. She was chosen

Only the Kallan, mines, ing are of timber, and the wall is to broadcast with Eddie Cantor an experience she enjoyed, Anding Eddig

have not been seriously affected by. "metienlong but charming to work

attained China's civil war, has with." Television viewers have seen and hard her in many

programmes, and

something approaching prowar out.. put. It's miners are working she has appeared in several aims, Free Arit appearance on London's West End

per cent of their pre-war Є.n. Cochran chose stage, was when ner for a leading role,

hours capacity, and the mines are furning out 11,000 tons of cool: dally no compared to 15,000 tons daily pre-war. All other mines in North China are down to a bare 10 per cent

of

capoelty. The following table illustrates what has happened to China's' cogi production:

When the Government order for 54,000 aluminium houses is completed next August, a beginning will be made with aluminium school bulld- ings:

Progress in Britain Inka "For new permanent housing alone local authorities in Great Britain al- ready have some 200,000 houses in tenders approved," said Alderman Key, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, at the annual con. ference in London recently of the In- stitute of Housing,

bu will

the Pacific with Atlantic airlines in

the

pointed towards eventually linking the first globe-circling air service. "If to these," he went on, "are Carrying experts of the company added the permanent prefabricated and government representatives, the houses, the temporary housen, huge clippor will survoy routes to houses for which licences have been Japan, China, Indo-China, Thailand, Issued and the war-destroyed houses Malaya, Burma, Java and India. to be rebuilt, the total figure in The route will be to Tokyo via contracts already placed is well over Honolulu. Midway, Wake, Guam and 430.000. thon Shanghal. Canton and Calcutta where the Pacific division clippers will make a world link with the

or

JAVA RICE FOR INDIANS

!...

Oct. 31-Mr-K. L Batavin,

the

Него representative Panjabi. of the India government announced that India had wc- this morning quired a loan from the British-Indian Army of 200 trucks and 84 lighters which will be placed at the disposal of the Indonesian Republic for the

rice from transportation of Interior of Java to the ports and ships bound for hungry, India.

Whwan Koliat Fushung Palpino

pro-war

· man-

Pre-War Present Working

dally daily hour ratio production production.

la tons in tons 16,000 3,000

13,000 $5,000

Kantaokow *** 2,500

11 pet 11,000 78. pat 0004 pct

0 peti. 10 pct

GOO 7,000.. It was explained that the once- valuable Chinchin mines have been?

down, because the completely closed

so close to the fighting zones of Hopel tank most been recruited de- coal miners have for military training for self

The rest are reported have fled.

fonce.

The latest tabulations and voting breakdown showed the SPD had:

1. Led the voting in each of the city's 20 boroughs, scoring clear majorities in seven in the four-party TOCCI

2. Trounced the

they are located Communist- controlled Socialist Unity Party (SED) on the latter's home ground the Soviet sector by 85,000 votes: 3. Registered a majority of votes in the other sectors of the city,

Won an estimated 04 seats on the 130-man city council.

The following are the final official figures:

The independent Social Democrais

Pan-American expects (SPD) 948,743; Christian Democratie Union (CDU) 431,910; Socialist Unity regular flights to the Orient as soon Farty (SED) 383,183; Liberal Demons the U.S. Government negotiates

for landing rights. cratic Party (LPD) 182,097.

Only very minor adjustments to this total to be reached by recounts

clol announcement.

are expected, according to the off-

Yugo-Slavia Not Bound

By Frontier Decisions

Belgrade,

Oct. 20.

"This does not include the conver

Mr Panjabi said India had already adaptation of existing supplied 5,000.000 yards of textiles, lon

or the repair of houses 3,000 cycles, tyres and tubes, to the premises,

Indonesian Republic, and plans to severely damaged during the war,"

send an additional 700,000 yards of Saigon,

described Alderman Key

the textiles and 7,000 tyres and tubes and retum Minister of Health's "Finlah the

Atlantic divisjon.,

The clipper will then fly to Rangoon, Bangkok, Singapore and Batavia

to San Francisco via Manila in 38 Houses campaign to finish by the and 23,000 agricultural implements New Lease Of Life

days,

at present being loaded in Calcutta,

Javanese rico...

end of the year 30,000 Council to start houses already up to caves level as part of the barter deal for

plus as large a number. as possible

The India representative's of private enterprise houses, as great task but n

Helnouncement was the latest develop-A- realistic one." ided: "The Minister's campaign is ment in the bizarre economic situation the unrecognised concerned with something tangible, which with

O. They will not be the only com- official commercial relations

particular houses which all can Indonesian Repablle carrying. pleted new houses. Already there other nations-Reuter. are 44.500 temporary, houses finish-

MILLIONAIRESS TELLS THIEVES JEWELS ARE IN BANK VAULTS

#

od in England and Wales, and

with

many more will come on in the MELBOURNE TRANSPORT latter part of the year."

WORKERS. ON STRIKE

For Paraplegics

Civilian paraplegics; hopeless ly bedridden for year, have hope- for a new lease on life from treatment technique developed. during the war. -

These tragic cases s of paralysis of the lower half of the body through Hovere injury or disease of the spinal cord formerly, were regarded as in curable. To-day, as a result of col- States authorities, para-

...

London, Oct. 21 (UP)—Million-

The vast addition being made to airess Mrs Philip Hill asked London the number of houses in public

San Francisco, Oct, 21 (UP newspapers to-day to inform all ownership was only the beginning Radio Australia reported that. Mel- (UP)-The thioves that she had sent her of an expansion of house property Kundell, ve Vice-Premier, Eduard jewellery to the bank prior to her ownership by local authorities which bourne, to-day is tied up by trans-laborative studies between Canadian

portation and waterfront strikes which head of the Yugo-Slav dele- departure this week on three-would grow in the coming years, threaten gas and meat famines. plegics are. driving, corn' and `going to gation to the Paris peace conference, month trip to South Africa.

"It is of the utmost importance,'

Half a million people were forced work. on his return to Yura-Slavia said Robbed four times in two years, said Alderman Key, "that new re-

when 32,000: Canada's new treatment of para- to-day at Yugo-Slavin would not of a total of £10,000, Mrs Hill be cruits should be attracted to housing to walk to work

transport workers struck, halting all plegia deeply impressed Mr Wilfred Peling, British Pensions Minister, be bound by any decisions affecting loved thieves had pinpointed the management, and that they should Government-owned railroads through visiting Canada to study Canadian Yugo-Slavia's frontlers nor decisions movements of victims including the be given the best available training out the state of Victoria. reached

at the last conference Duchess of Windsor-by reading the Big opportunities and responsibilities The waterfront walk-out

methods of treating was disablies. prevented session.

society columns.

rest with the Institute of Housing, the unloading of coal for making gas,

paid tribute to the work he had in Canadian hospitals and said and other training bodies for pro-The cancellation of livestock trains scen viding this trained personnel. Great out off the metropolitan meat supply, he had picked up some useful tips steps forward in the field of prac- All foundries shut down on Thursday

paraplegic

treatment. tical training have been made during when 15,000 workers downed tools. All the strikes are for higher wages. the past year.":

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#Copyright, 1946. by Ely Culbertson) Reading the opening lead and scling on the correct interpretation were the ingredients of success in to-day's deal,

South dealer. Both sides vulnerable.

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Until recently the new treatments 1- were confined to ex-Servicemen,

Authority has, however, "now been granted for treatment of a limited number of civilian paraplegics.

Streptomrela

Recently, a of medical re-

a group search men have done considerable work with the new drug, streptomy cin, on the kidney infections which frequently arise from paraplegia.gazki.

extended This drug has greatly. the life expectancy of

of the

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Against the actual three no trump, West made the inspired lead of his lop heart. That Is 10 say, probably would have been inspired"

Also, in consultation with United against the average declarer, but States authorities, a new concept of was West's misfortune that this treatment has been bulit particular South knew how to pro- special drug therapy exercises and tect himself! He up. dummy's use of braces or other heart queen, and when Fast covered, the Victims fiow can walk, or got appliances gave him the trick. East returned a

the

Through

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about with the aid of special devices. low heart, and declarer, sure from

start that West's opening had A former RCAF officer been the "top of nothing," finessed crash resulted in permanent paraple with the len. When that card held, gia, is planning a legal career in Ed the diamond was led from the closed monton, Canada, after fie leaves the

hand West could not be sure that no-corporated 27 drive

it was a singleton, hence held up

his ace as mere routine play. After car with special controls and plans collecting the one di

diamond trick

df switchboard work 4 carcer

coupled probably needed, South returned with typewriting, TELOKMA to An ex-air force officer has his own

I dummy's, club ten and passed a poultry-raising: business in", Nova esund four tricks in what suit,

took his club Jack and Scotia, anc cashed

the

diamond inco-South

Another

paraplegie drives his own discarding espade-then led his car and is banking on his pre-war spade * king. The "ace: being-ja grain farming experience to go into West's hand, there was how farming deal in British Columbia

no partnership with his brother in further defence."-

Observe that if South had won the He plans to delve fammi machinery frat trick with the heart ace, Enut and supervise, and plan, the work of could have ducked West's second a large form. Reuter, South's heart play and won his third, thereby

defeating the contract.

North" would have been wiser to Insist on a diamond Contract His ercellent suit virtually guaranteed game (at least).oppòsite strong bidding..

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AUSTRIAN, RATIONS

Vienin Oct 31 (UP) "Austrian Government announced

that y depressed

day

from forex 21"

forced ■; thresïper

daily rations for

reducing the

just over 1,100.

FVAL;fher

Minister Joseph Kraus,

the'; Rukalary:

Jeopard flon plans My

province