Show Round Merry Canada Proves Provest I Be Poor By Ry Drew Pearson n V WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Its Its It's a of the good neighbor or policy Jr r eu e t b but t is deliberately C. C withholding 8 p Precious num from the United alt States This has already pinched the aluminum J supply for home construction construction con con- 1 and other other c civilian uses But far more serious the Air Force is not getting all nIl the aluminum it needs i ito to build jet fighters Furthermore part of oC the aluminum Canada is ham withholding from us Drew r p was financed b by y American R F during b World War II 1 What Canada has done is aluminum from the American to fit is ish h mar market markeL kern I It t wont won't be admitted he h real reason for or this d ders diversion ers on 1 is s i t to this country to swap steel for al alu For example Canadian aluminum ments to the United States dropped pounds per month lag last y yand i and April to a meager re is reper per month today today today-a a deer decrease ease of 33 as cent In the the s same me period Canadian aA ments to Britain have shot up fro fri frog pounds to 39 pou POUM a month month month-an an increase of 88 per perr r cent As proof that this is a cold squeeze play Canada has doublEt double aluminum shipments to Australia g. g Uruguay and even een Argentina at the the time it strangled the thc aluminum this country In fact the United S is the thc only market major that r rep reo less Canadian metal this year ear th thy thin As a result the United States is th North Atlantic Pact country that hai- hai forced to clamp civilian controls on i num Canada Wins Wins Meanwhile Meanwhile the C dian squeeze has accomplished its iU pose and forced the United States U tG American steel for British alu aluc Hard liard up for steel but overflow aluminum Britain has agreed to i t pounds of aluminum to Acan A 1 can purchasers during the next months In return Britain will be lt tons of oC fabricated Alt Acs L e esteel steel tons of steel ingots x ac other tons of iron and steel steels f from the American zone of Germa j The joker in this deal is th United States must return the alu ale after its own plants are expanded to up the shortage though Britain i t i lowed to keep the steel with no i t attached J I t Another ironic fact act is that B Bi contribution of pounds c d minum wont won't come come- from rom Britain j r but will be shipped directly to us Canada In other words this is the I aluminum that normally would have hare shipped to the U. U S. S market anyway was withheld in order to force this t try to kick in precious steel Ickes Predicted It But It-But But here i h final pay During the recent J Jones ones then czar of oC the R F C a aln c without interest to the Anum A X num Company of Canada affiliated the Aluminum Company of Ameria build the Shipshaw aluminum pe the River 1 J Jones ones also extended another S 1000 at 3 interest gave the C Czi plant an order for all its provided that if the order was air c before 1945 it would not be Canada to pay back the jHarold J JHarold Harold Ickes then secretary of C t fu futer ter tenor or vigorously protested He lie i s' that the U USA S A could not control Cap aluminum 1 and that equipping a Cas Cd power project with vital turbines turbines set back American power pro prow prot Shasta Dam Colorado-Big Colorado The Th parts of Grand Coulee and others othEr had his kiS r r. However Jesse Jones Now Canada withholding aluminum us is fulfilling Ickes' Ickes prediction Postcard There Postcard There Postcard There T I End of Penny some nostalgic b sighs at the Post Past Q I Department when the latest casau inflation the penny penn postcard lc CiSon CiS on Jan i. i 1 For about 80 years during j jJ J and copters copiers have replaced horses hones d tt 11 t r in III w have seen a fold Cold increase of oC government Uncle Sam has been t the popular green stamped green stamped post poste postman t to all an parts of the country even for overseas for one penny penn troops overseas dj Government subsidies help neW course but it is still a tribute to rugged individualism that the P- P postal could survive suni so longOne long boosted d then th w One reason Congress Jan 1 was b card to two cents after big business has been exploiting P biting t u act g postal for advertising P purposes n 1 only about 10 of oC the ot are n no ao sold yearly in post offices for personal correspondence i iTo tS Con COD Cong To oil foil the adv advertisers ad or p ther provided prodded a 10 surcharge ern fi t of 01 o O e cards purchased in bulk lots d Depart M But the Post Office P will serious l Iy think the new price L sales Even for two cents th the e to go goV 10 tit postcard is still far and tr the uie away c w II mail bargain anywhere in |