Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1943-09-02, Page 7THURSDAY, SEPT. 2nd, 1943 THE, LUCKNOW SENTI$EL, LUCK:NO-W, ONTARIO v/ • Donald" Johnstone of the R. C. A. F. is visiting withhis par= „ents, Mr. ,and. Mrs. Russell Johi • stone: Brother ' In Sicily LAC„ 'Lloyd Elliott who is • sta•. tinned . at. Mossbank, Sask.; .in' a letter. to Mr. and.•M.rs. Jack Car-,. ter,' states ,that his brother _Ar- thur Arthur • is '. in. Sicily with. the 1st Division. Wasn't Long'. •Enough Since arriving overseas,recent- •ly; Stewart Cameron' has spent two • days - with his. , brother Ken- • neth. but •it wasn't half' long en- • ough to . talk over' the . things .they Wanted to; they said: In' Group Picture:. Last weekks issue of the ,Walk.- . alk-. erten' Herald -Times - contained a group picture taken at a reunion :arranged by Rev. Father: Jos. L. Wilhelm, arid, held at the 'Beaver Club, ' •London, England;..iliott Webster and. •.Kenneth Cameron were in the picture. • - Met Lucknow' Foursome k While 'on furlough .in Scotland; ' Donald Finlayson stepped into a restaurant•and could scarcely be- . lieve his eyes. when his gaze fell oil a foursome from back • herne. The; boys . were Clarence • .Greer, Bob McKenzie;1Harvey Hall and Raymdnd' Richard's. Reports ,For Training' ,Donald Watt, son of Rev. "and. Mrs., W: J. Watt of, Grimsby, r.e- Ported for . training. recently 'in. ,the R.C.A.F. at Manning .Pool,: Toronto, after'. visiting at White.- church with his 'sister,. Mrs.. Milan • Moore: His • brother, 'PO. Bob Watt, received • his wings •. two weeks. ago and is now stationed at Mountain View. Another bro-' ther .PO: Watt received his wings in June and 'is now a `flying ,in- structor in Albe'rt'a: •Met Folks •From.. Home ' ,Since completing his recent furlough, Harold.Ritchie has been, in -barracks at ,Halifax, awaiting ,posting to a ship.. Anxious, to get to sea .again, the drabness of life on shore has been broken some- what, by .meeting folks • from. home. Among them. were Mac. Graham, .Mrs. Graham, ' Bob Thompson and Fred Webster; also:Arr.Ellis, with whom Harold played.° hockey in Lucknow a few seasons back. Art, is in the Air Force. Mrs: Graham . (nee Mar 'jory•. •Henderson), ha arrived home since ,then. In fact Harold helped `them pack. •as Mac. was to leave 'for Goose Bay in Lab- rador, where. ho was posted in the R.C.A.F. ,014E ENGINE TOOK,FIRE• ON 'RETURN FROM HAMBURG Rennie Graham of Camp Bor- den . is on farm leave at his home in Kinloss. Russ Button who was • recently invalided home from overlseas, is" now a patient in Byron Sani- tarium. Kenneth Ross of the R.C.A.F., son of "Mr. Roderick Ross, Loch- alsh, is at .present stationed at Medicine Hat, 'as' a mechanic. ' LICpl. W. D. Reed of Yarmouth; N. S'., returned oh Tuesday after a 7 -day, leave spent ' with Mrs. Reed, and -with his parent's, Mr. and; .Mrs, Wnn • Reed joins Air Force Jack..Cook, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas: Cook, • has . enlisted in the .R.C.A.F. and will report 'at Tor-• onto on September ' 22nd: Jack et listed__at_ London and ,passed his final testslast week. He 'has been employed in the. Maple Leaf Aircraft. ,plant. WAS ,TnE 2,000th GRADUATE 'OF : PRE-WAR CREW COURSE PURPLE GROVE • Red ,Cross workers ;met at the home of Mrs: Howard Thompson last week and among the ..crow -d were -visitors from Sarnia, Kin- cardine .arid . Lucknow. • A quilt was ' quilted, the top donated `by Mrs. Emerson and' knitting was in progress during the afternoon. Letters.of appreciation for boxes sent boys overseas were read, from Joseph Morgan and Russ .Stanley, also from those- indis- posed: ,,4Quilting will take place in- the basement ,of the 'church next Wednesday. The next .meet- ing will be'• at. the home of Mrs. John' Emerson. Miss Marville Scott moved a vote of thanks to the .hostess and. assistants.` • ; . The=little Brown girls of. Luck-. now are, spending, holidays at the home of Mr. John Wall. Sgt. • Go'rdon Fennety, of Tor-• Onto. was honored as the'.2,000th graduate of 'pre-war- : air crew, course at , OntariCTraining:' Col- lege,,, Hamilton.• Sgt.' Fennety .leas. served overseas for ,two years and .remustered • tp , aircrew . ,to train . as a pilot., . He . attained highest marks. Along With . his diploma he was presented with an air •force ring •and. scroll, ' by Group Captain' J. S. .Scott of Hamilton. Gordon . has :'a wide circle of : ' the figs and almonds friends here :Sgt. and Mrs. Fen- .;enjoying g. n,ety (nee Jessie McRae of 'Loch- though. The people were illiter- alsh) reside in Toronto where, ate and backward)i and mules Sgt. Fennety is in training. With Provost Corps ' \' • r „In 'Sicily . • . ' On Monday of' last. week,. Mr. and ,Mrs: Temple Clark received an air letter from their son: Doug- las, who is ' with 'the No. 1 Pro- vost Corps,; R.C..M.P., in Sicily: It was their first intimation that Doug was in the. Mediterranean •area, and he pointed out that he must be discreet in. what , he. wrote. Written early in ' August, Doug said ' oranges, lemons and Olives weren't quite ripe. He w'as' • Mrs.. C. Collins ' returned home; on Sunday frown Kincardine hos- pital . Where *e .had been con- fined for -the past .week; the • re- sult,..of ,a fall down the cellar steps at home causing' severe" wounds. Her. many 'friends 'will be pleased to learn of her re- covery. • Miss Mildred Jones of Auburn is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Donald McFarlane;. PAGE -SEVEN, OTTAWA LETTER Although tl have been di recess, the viii ital ' of Presiders` "il,00sevelt, de- serves a special article. .• . Since the war began the then Prernier of Australia,, ' •Robert Menzies,. 'Anthony• Eden and Ma- dam. Chiang Kai-Shek have vis- 'ited Ottawa while both Houaes'; have, been in Session. •Members have travelled to Ottawa „ori •two, •special occasions • to hear • Churchill and.. Rposevelt, •• and never. smite the King 'anti ,Queen visited • Ottawa have such .en- thust�eaas.tic" crowds, been 'seen ,on the streets `of Ottawa, 'as on Wed- nesday t� welcome Franklin I).. Roosevelt. ' } The weather man. brought . dut Ottawa's best sun- Shine, 'and several • hourSx before` the '.President was due' to speak •crowds were . gathering:. to select. .positions where they .might hope to get the' best view. of the Pres- identai party: It iS estimated that at least 75,000- people • packed Pariiainent Hill, Confederation Square, ..and.. the. uptown streets of.,'the 'city. Loud. .speakers .arid microphones carried the. familiar voice to. those .who were. on the and ' to radio . listeners throughout •the world. Bp' A. M. "Nicholson, M.P. �e Ottawa Letters Islands, there vdere some Amer - , continued for the. ican•-.-and' some C.anadians, too, to Canada's. cap who wished our governments' to withdraw from the Atlantic and •' Mediterranean campaigns to re- move 'our enemies from a few ' ocky specks in the Aleutians. Fortdnately wiser' counsels pre- vailed in ,a relatively small .cam: .Miss Jean Long visited her.. sister, Mrs. Ralph Hill recently. .Miss Marville Scott is visiting. at Toronto this week. Salt is cheap ' and unrationed. Take a grain of. it with 'every war rumor you hear. Hamburg 'is desolate and in ruins completely says W.O..Alex MacKenzie: D.F.M.. in a . recent letter to his ;mother, Mrs.' Wm, enzie.. And. Alen .is w'eil qu. r Pied to speak because , he has p rsonally dropped' his bomh loads bn the devastated city. •On one return trip,from •Ham- burg,. Alex_sa•id they were flying at 1000 feet and the srnokc w. • so dense you 'couldn't see. On ,that trip one orf their engines took fire' which' imp 'cdiately ''1"brought searchlights into play on their aircraft. They managed th. get hoi e safely though with a "kw" holds in the plant. (Alex said. In ,a . pi'cvious letter Alex had Passed tiuc t,0=flight 'mark over enemY territory..and. in his last letter didn't menti.dn the number of flights but said., that if all' goes well he expects to be Mame •for, Christmas. • He. spoke liighla. of his "crack". crew, and. also referred to the pleasure•of.m'eting..Har•old Greer ahf��:r>d Were the chiefmeans' of . trans-: portatidn. • Often these jackasses .were so laden down that you - couldn't see the animal.He men- tioned meeting a mother four children on a mule. One child was. behind' her, onein front,' arid one on each side ;of the ani- mal .in baskets. 'Everybody, pen:, pie, and. animals, 'move at a snail's, pace, ,.due to the heat :no doubt, which Doug says is. stiffling.' He has his motorcycle with him, for he spoke of having to fix •a•• "flat", fifty miles 'from nowhere -in the heat of the noonday ' sun. 1 n • paign, assisted by the Japs them- selves, Every Japanese.. has been eliminated from •'Attu and Kiska'. Mention was made of the Que- bec . Conference, ,which, he had just left: He ` was not at liberty, ''to disclose' conclusions reachedat. the gathering, but assured' us that in One ' course '.their •'.would be revealed to the. woad and, particularly, to ,Ger- many, Italy and" Japan. He men- tioned that it was no secret that, there 'shad .been much talk of the -w postar •at the Quebec Confer, • ence.. "There• is a longing 'in . the air', he said, "is n&. a longing to go back to what they call the good 'Olddays. I have a distinct reservation .as to how good 'the good old days' were. I would. rather believe that we can achieve new and .better days".. The President bronzed, with `leis winning smile, captured. the hearts. :of those who were present' and were addressed by him as his good friends and neighbors of the Dominionof Canada, spoke but for, fifteen minutes: he Upheld the tradition he has established as one of the world's'chjnpions of freedom: • The first. President of the Un ited States to visit Ottawa,' dur- ing hi°s term of • office, 'provided an interesting page in Canadian' history, ' on August 25th, 1943. Canadians and' :free people the world. over . 'appreciate the ser vice that Roosevelt has perform- ed as a champion. of the . rights of free men throughout his..Meth-lie. He reminded' his .hearers' that a .year ago 'when the 'Japs oc- cupied several• of the Aleutian With a note. ' o anger in his voice . 'he' had, sothething to say to those who' scoffed at the Four • Freedoms outlined in the. Atlantic, Charter. One hundred and fifty years ago' people would have. scoffed at., the objectives,:of the ..Declaration of Independence: One thousand • years. -ago • the ideals of the. Magna Carta would' have ,,been regarded as fantastic,' and : at the time of Moses .the Ten Commandments, were no ' doubt Y regarded as the movings of an. •i- MAYBE - ti Anerew Needed Now for Immediate, Training as • PILOTS NAVIGATORS BOMBERS AIR GU,N,NERS WIRELESS OPERATORS (AIR GUNNERS) - MAYBE you're making bombs,. or tanks or plane . parts or ships -but the real job, the big job today is delivering the sniff right -into the heart of enemy country. No job is more essential today than sweeping enemy planes from the skies; thanblasting half -made U-boats back into scrap metal. If you're a young Canadian eager to do your bit, there's a place for you pin aircrew. There are fast training planes•and skilled instruc- tors waiting to help you get wings and get' into the fight more quickly • than ever before. And the specialized training you: get today as a memberof ah R.C.A.F. Aircrew will help you take your place in the skyways of tomorrow. Make upyour mind to get into the'l ght now. See your nearest' • R.C.A.F.Recruiting Centre today. ` . • 1 ' ' If• you are physically fit, menially alert, over 17/y an'dnot yet 33, you are eligible for' aircrew training. You do not require a High School Education. • • You.can be in uniform at once: Recruiting Centres are located in the • principal cities of Canada. Mobile recruiting units visit smallercentres regularly. AC.SW idle dreamer. Although -he admit- ted that these great teachings were not :perfectly lived .up to. today and. that the good old world cannot arrive ' at . Utopia, over -night. he personally would -- rather be..a builder than a wreck- er, hoping always that the-struc- ture he,structure of : life is growing, riot dy- ing, Concluding his memorable 'or`a- tion he. said', ' "som'e . day, in the distant' future — but some. day with certainity, all . of them will remember with the Master • — Thou shalt...hive. thy neighbor- as thyself •• . The President was introduced.. -to the. gathering - and_ :welcomed __' to Canada ' by Prime Minister Mackenzie King" ; Canada's," Pre; mier. was • in :easy form `while •introd"cing •such a ",G -odd ,Neigh=° bor",' He' received ved thunderous re- snonse .R,then he said "On behalf . of a]1 Canada , I extend..to. you Mr. President. the' .warest .of • welcomes to. the Capital ,of our .country". ; • ' Speaker. Glen, in thanking the President said; "E.veryone, young • and old in, this•.vast assembly- be- fore you, together with that., great unseen ' listening ..- audience throughout the whole.of Canada. . looks upon yon with' that poss- essive . regard which is bestowed when a much=loved . guest • honors • our home". Honourable Thos. Vein, 'speak- er of the Senate, spoke in the. •French language, and thanked the President .for his' • personal • contribution in the present crisis and the assistance that his coun- try is providing for democracy for the second time. in our gen- eration. ' • •a Cottages Can't Be Plentiful', • The Port. Elgin Times received a letter some time" ago from • Violet, enquiring . as to the names of cottage 'ov+fners, as she and five friends wished .to se- cure one in August. Violet forget to sign her last name and so the Times pub]5shed . the letter, ad- vising any interested cottage renters to reply .:to. Violet thru the Lucknow Sentinel. ' To date no •replies have been. received and with the summer • season ' waning no doubt: the six girls have holidayed elsewhere — or - else 'abandoned the idea.