The Archive · 1940

Earnings or Deficits

1937 1938 1939 Yield on basis price in German Prisoners Escape in Ontario Toronto, Sept. 1.

Four escaped German prisoners of war were at liberty somewhere in Ontario the centre of Canadian industrial region, yesterday.

Fritz Pietsch, German naval petty officer, and Herbert Naumann, a. German army sergeant-major, escaped Friday night by riding on planks laid across the undercarriage of a truck from the same camp from which Gunther Lorentz escaped two weeks ago by tunneling under the fence. Lorentz was later recaptured in Montreal, A total of seven Germans have escaped and three have been recaptured since the war began.—United Press. toms has long been attempted. ordination railroads, waterways, highways, airways and pipe lines so that each carries the traffic it can bear most efficiently is one of the major problems facing the transportation industry today."

In communications, the board found several economic effects due to technical developments that need to be settled.

"The rapid technical developments which have already taken place in new forms of communication and the remarkable refinements and improvements in the older ones have created competitive situations that involve economic questions," it pointed out. gigi Irregular 3 Feb. 1 151 Irregular 12:

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"Will television curtail the income of the motion-picture industry by shifting commercial activity within the theatre field? Will facsimile transmission—the sending of a newspaper page by radio—seriously disturb the publishing industry, and, thus, the paper industry, and back of that lumbering and forestry?"

Inasmuch as petroleum, natural gas (and high grade coals) are "distinctly limited" the board declared that a "sound national policy must be concerned with their conservation and trips prudent utilization," and suggested three possible remedies.—1. Promotion of "greater efüciefty in the production of mineral fuel from the standpoint of recovery."

2. Promotion of greater economy in the use of fuel.

3. Placing a larger share of the energy burden on lower grade fuels and water power."—United Press. proso, duri ate TE

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