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Died. Harry von Tilzer (real name: Harry Gumm), 73, dear old daddy of Tin Pan Alley (which he named), writer of such dear old songs as I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl, A Bird in a Gilded Cage, In the Evening by the Moonlight, Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie, first to publish Irving Berlin and George Gershwin; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...many a reconverting industry that needs bearings, metal containers, etc., tin is literally worth its weight in gold. As far back as last fall the War Production Board solemnly warned that tin was so scarce that the U.S. might run out completely in 1946. The hope had been that when Far Eastern tin sources, which produced 92% of prewar U.S. tin, were surveyed, enough hidden stockpiles would be found to end the shortage...
Last week one of the first detailed reports out of Malaya, biggest producer in the Orient, scuttled this hope. After jeeping through the Malay peninsula, TIME Correspondent John Luter reported: no hidden stocks of tin, and no mine would operate for months to come. The Japs had looted the bulk of the engineering tools, flooded the mines, left destruction and decay behind them. The plight of the tin mines was far worse than that of the rubber plantations, which had been comparatively unharmed...
...were chased out or imprisoned by the Japs, return. There were 1,400 in Malaya before the war. Now there are only 120. Many are still recuperating in England and Australia from the starvation of concentration camps. Nevertheless, production of natural rubber (not nearly as vital at present as tin to the U.S.) is expected to be up to 25 or 30% of normal in six months. Within a year it is expected to reach 60%. Few planters were worried about the competition of the war-built U.S. synthetic industry. They are sure that they can undersell synthetics...
Against the Palestine Government, are arrayed 17 of Abdul's heirs. They are solidly backed by such solid Britons as Sir Malcolm Stewart of the Federation of British Industries and Colonel Beresford Lockhart-Jervis of Malaysiam Tin...