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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1941-07-24, Page 7•t. A Nazi 'Sub In Georgian Bay.. . British Movie Partly Made In Dominion Nears Release's • -Laurence Olivier in Cast , When the Michael. Powell film which was partly made in • '-Mon• treal and. other ,parts of Canasta dinally reaches, the ,s•ereen it. will be.:known as' "Five Men," according. to '.reports reaching' Mo t:real'. from England," It was preciously titled •' th .l'ara11e1 �' SOME SCENES 1.N,.ENGLAND +Phe film; is also reported; to haile been 'sold. to. Col : Studio •fpr • American distrib,ution, .at, a' pride unnamed but quoted. as. king hi h•• ` Air 'tharr.anny . suin ought lays Bri; tisk-mails fi-ims in . recent . years, • not excepting ''Blackout' ;.;.the last , m, Powell fil• and "Night Train •to • Munich:" .' The cast now includes Laurence • • • Olivier and Leslie Howard as well as Raymond Massey, ..their . lycenes baying. been, made in 'English sen. dig „Mr•. Massey's part of the :film was • made at 'the Associated • Screen News Studio here, Following the disagreement • between 'Elizabeth • .Bergner and the • Ortus company which is making the picture, Miss Bergnee's name 'has been dropped from the ;past and the role ane had: • : partly completed, for the film • will be taken by • a young .Welsh ac ti^e�ss., • ' According to • advance report's. Eric• Portman,ettis�h actor who satire over with Mr. Powell and the . location troupe,�js going to be no• ticed after the film is releasedHe Is said. •to do excellent . work:.Port: Man is a: West End actor of c'on- siderable reputation but • Le not • so. well knownfor tis Green work. Ile •had thekvillain's able in "Moon' light .Sonata," the•Paderewski film seen here last'year: - • .• • In•. "Five Men,`,' Portman play„a • the leader of the five, Nazis wh,t try to escape' down ,through:Cane. ads ' to the United States when ' their submarine is. destroyed in the . Georgian Bay district.' One by one • the risen are caught or, killed •until only Portman • is left. H'is' final scene comes• when he - nicetsan Ontario farmer' escaping •the'aimy, 'the role: played by Massey. • IS PEN MIGHTWIElt? Hitler is now writing• the • Ger- man war reports; • Can it be that be has.)liscovered that the. pen .is ' mightier than the sword? ' =--Chatham News rSCOT„S WHA HA•E. As one„might-,say.:`there.'ll, al- ways be an England' .aslong as Scotsmen. like Cobert Alexander Watson • Watt ge about inventing ;,,•thifagsr Itke the, ;solo. •plane H:loca= • Premier of Iceland Welcomes U.S. 'Proops Assured by Premien Hermann Sonasson, above, that the island's independence ' would be • secure, Iceland's •' Parliament approved 'United States occupation in an 'ell -night. session. Forests' Need EntiOlasizd Kiwanis Club.' of Montreal Hears of Wide Demand There Is in Canada For Trees —. Community rgrests Turn Low Value Land Into Produc- tion ' • ,`13 .rantfrd. Expositor Ex ositor o WOMEN I14 UNWORM. Good luck to those Canadian wonien who will soon be wearing His Majesty's uniform. Good luck• no less to those who 1 not; for let it newer be forgotten that they also serve, and sere no less de- votedly, who continue at their un- Spectacular Sobs rnf7re .home an in civilian ' employn'rent, carrying on.' without shoulder straps or chevrons the• family life and the business life of_the country.: , -Saint John Telegraph -Journal, —a—' ONE .LICENSE. PLATE?' Both the suggestions that have been made in respect to saving on "steep in'the iianitfa`ctfire`"df"Oli- tarso : mor .license plates are worthy of consideration. They are that plastics. be used tinstead, • of metal, .or that thefront license plate be abandoned: .The latter proposal Would seem to be :the more reasonable. Flas- ties give promise pf being an im- portant factor in-. our war effort, ' and there may beneed soon for ::relieving industries industries .manufactur- ,ing.these materials. of all unnec- essaiy, calls, Community forests,. of which •there• are some 2,000 units on the continent, were seen as one way`of turning, low value land into Pip - duction and, at the 'same time pre viding a healthful and p'leasant're• Creation centre said J.J. Frlte. bust- . mess manager of Middlebury Col- lege, who recently addressed the Montreal •Kiwanie.Club. The war had brought a great in- • crease In the d'eMand for forest products, the speaker'stated. This Continent, be added, had passed . the era when trees were regarded as a, nuisance. and , were now In grat demand. Community for- ests were Obtained , by gift ar be- quest, by Purchase or tax reision., or• by conversion of existing' town properties. It :was essential to es- tablish low eland, values, Mr: Fritz peinted out, as from 56 to 100 years. : were required aiefore a crop could be ,.realized,. There was hardly a Community, he said, but had some` Cheap idle land Whitt could , be used feratbe---ptrr_pose.. ' F ter farms contribute„ 35 per emit of • Canada's 'raw, fur pradue- tion. Issuing only one lice se plate 'for a car would save half the steel now-going-inte. these articles, and it would not be a revolutionary step. There is really little need for a plate on the. front; and Florida,. as an outstanding..exam.ple, has for years got along very well with- out it. a —Windsor Star. Sugg estions Foy The. Week -Ender • Are You Planning to . Visit 'Friiiends' From • Saturday- .• aturday• Monday This ' Summer? it • Might Be Wise to Follow These Rules. There have .been so ttauy printed complaints against the . summer .week -end guest who forgets her, bathing suit or who wants to bor- row a sweater or even• a little cold, •eream . that .many, hostesses are finding 'the guest -hostess relation - Ship pretty strained in • spots. ,...There may be a lot of rules about not asking 'for things that haven't been ptit in plain view, in guest or bath. room. But it's ten limes more annoying to any hostess to have a guest who won't wear a borrowed' sweater when she. is ohn vionsly cold than <. is to have one just who zip and asks Or. anything , she wants,. whether extra warm clothes or an extra blanket. Its easier on the I.astess to have a guest state herr preferences about food than to say, "1 like everything” and then not eat much of anvtTti:rig oil the tarbte. Saying "1 don't play bridge” is easier on everybody, 'eapecia(ly• the hostess, than playing so badly that half the other guests are annoyed. • ' Nuisances • Any guest can toil her hostess' ttlat she vtonld rather sleep than get up and go to church, or vice versa. No hostess minds having a guest sleep later than all others in the household, provided the guest doesn't mind making her own bed or offering to get her Own break- fast, - Be Natural. - •._ - Maybe •this is the tinge for guests and bogtesses to resolve to •bo. natural and forget most 'of the ready-made rules. • Summer Week - lends might be more funk all th ° way around if guests just assumed that , they were, invited •because they are liked and enjoyed and not because. they observe dozens of rules. How'Nature 'Helps Reds on Stalin Line • FINLAND. Helsinki ;and Gti %Fin iI do LEUJ< =m- NGRAe' • . 17,7.1Stalin Line- �\ German Spearheads Marshlands 04. t• Lakes 'Forests ,r r'ae: \ e i . Min\ �• ` ����\ ���\\\\\\ ..•\\tSobrutsk ' a LAND.u,.-u;,.,_..,r,._ 4 . Brest Litovsk" Worsow w, Vilna Borisov srraotensk Orshb • Rivers Ed, MOSCOW On•erie behind •the, line,' Russia. hos Millions of men to.fight invader' •, 'SOVIET.. GERMANY Guns; mechvanized- forces mutt 'de- fend 'Het Ukraine Pillboxes Tanks Cernauti HUNGARY • Miles 0 166 RUMANIA - Nature, asusual, is on the side of.the;defer der in the Russo-Gerrlan , conflict as Nazis, hurl new attacks at -the Stelae Line,,but even her aid has not Halted Hitler's mechanized forces', in the• -past. .1VLip • shows, hew', ussia. builds her great; line, using rivet's and difficult terrain ss natural defenses. • T .kl E WAR • W E:.E K—Commentary on 'Curren! ° Events Latest War Develoorne :ts , rove'Br:itish Position • Increased confidence was brotight to the people of Britain • and her allies by ' the speeches of Prune Minister Winston Churchill on July 14. This "'dogged old warrior" said, to quote the New York Times, "that the tables bad been turned on Ger-. • many in the matter of air; raids and, , increased' bombings could beis- pected,`that .there would be no truce ;'with Gernrany, that Italy was on the bombing schedule and that Lon- doncould cold -bine -to 'take it' if • inecessary." • i '12,500 Miles of Blades Divine, the past 'twelve months, thirty-three British manufacturers; • says Maclean's Magazine, have sent overseas a•n average of ' 1,125,000 razot blades a , day ' tad to end, the 456,2.510,000 bledes would reach - 12,500 miles. The valve of these ,ex,potts Is something like *3,00,0,- 1006 a year. The razor -blade export Inisinees used to be largely in the hands of Germany.- ` , , 'lima is but one at the many, ex arriples. in ,spite• of wax piodue- m tion, bombings tied sinkings, Brit lsh. Industry is expanding its over- sexs trade. Only the Beginning 1 "In the Last few •weeks alone,"' Mr. Churchill 'said, "we have thrown ' upon Germany about half theelon- -nage of bonus thrown by' the Ger= • mans upoti 'our cities during,- the• whole course of the War. ' But this is 'only the' beginning:, We do` not expect to hit without being hit back, and we 'intend with every week that passes to 'hit harder." Shipping Losaea Decrease • 'That Britain's position had vastly improved froln .a year ago was .the• opinion of. Kirke L. Simpsen, Mee - elated Press , military eorrespon- dent, who stressed, among other factors in the situation, the sharp decrease in British shipping'losses. He said: "London's ship -loss figures . for June tell the story. They were `the loevest since°July, 1940 4329,296 tousle except for a period in the dead of last winter. Indications - are that the present month's losses will fall even lower, due to Nazi air ' oncentrations in the east, to prob- -ibTe withdrawal of Seine Garman submarines for use against -Russia in the Baltic and to: British counter meastires'at sea." The Battle of ,the Atlantic would appear to be' veering in favor of Britain and the.fnited States. Collapse of Vichy Resistance The British 1iflelines had also been greatly strengthened in 'the Middle East by the Syrian victory, - end the political results, it was .predicted, would be of much more consequence. , T ee .could be no doubt that_ the outbreak of the Nazi -Soviet war had much to do with the col- lapse of . Vichy resistance to the BriItish-Free French allies lit Syria • • and Lebanon. It ended the last hope , of the "men of Vichy" for effective German ,intervention there.. Sur- • render followed inevitably. • British -Soviet 'Pact . The new 13ritish-Russian pact ' signed at Moscow on, July 12, 'said • Mr. Churc•h'ill, "is; of 'course aft aa. Bance and - the Russian people are our allies." General Jair Ohristian Smuts, Prinie . Minister . of 'South Africa, ..in commenting, on • eVIr. •; Churchill's statement to -the British House of •C•onimons, said: "Let no one say we are now in league with, ' the Communists-ama'are efiglrting•- : "•the battle • or. Cotrmrynisna"•. The:- ` British -Russian treaty pledged that • each nation, would ' support -the 'other in war against Hitlerite Ger many; and that neither, would'sige a separate peace with the enemy. The New York Times last week presented a. clear picture of the moves and counter -Moves of the two great 'powers now • in the ,fourth week of,wer: "It is still hard, to believe that the German and Russian reports of hostilities are talking avant the sapie war. Berlin tells of • sweeping advances.. Mos- cow reports victorious - counter- •' attacks, - "The .German High Command re- stricted itself to a report 'of 'pro- gress' on the whole eastern front, but the•German news agencies toll of the imminent doom .of two !of Russia's greatcrst cities, Leningrad and Kiev. .In the north the Nazis were aid to have crossed the Luga River, last gi'eat barrier' (to Lenin- grad, and in.the south' the fall of . Kiev was said to be a foregone eon- cluSion. "The Moscow coinmunlque saki the drive at. Leningrad lied been stopped with a successful counter- .attack in which the Nazi colnnuts • were being hurled back or"destroy• ed 'section by section.' fn the •central,sector, the Russian lino was said to be holding at Vitebsk, while the southe5'n thrnet at ;Kiev was declared to have beim thrown' back in disorder near Novograd 'Vol. ynsk." Which Way to Jump • The belief that something spec- - tacular .was brewing in the Land of the Rising Sun. Was vindicated last week wTheYi.after paying t visit to the , Etniieror, Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye resign- ed, and with him the entire. Jap- woese Cabinet. -Obviously this meant serians internal dimension ' in the matter of Japan's foreign policy, and 'disagreement •over the Saving Ontario's Natural Resources • G. C. Toner .-Ontario Federation of • Anglers and Hunters' ' (No. 50)• . PROBLEM: • OF EROSI N • This• article •will ,deal ' *with'. erosion.: I shpwed-fast week' bow..., .erosion -.cute- • .down • the ,highest,. • mountains, .liven time, and bow- , how-, natureusesit to,;fashuip the. earth. ' But this: is slow nit tical erosion :not -the swift .man- •,ode •ida- • tion• of .the 1aTid that 'occurs• 'when. • we misuse oar natural ere -seances, One "is ne•eessary, , the, other . will gtientually make • o}�i' had. a desert unless it is conn olle;i., • Where' soil•'or rock is • exposed •• =to- the atmnsphexe. pr tn_.w.ater ehernical •'and ...physical changes 7. take place: Freezing and heating• break up the rocks and the harder soils. - Acids fxom...-.the air and from. minerals .acted; upon, by. the air •' ,help ,to' dissolve away the hardest '.rock. -.These • reactions ` and many -others are• continuing all. the 'tine:• but very slowly .for there are other factors acting against them. , In Ontario's. History to our land there are •fe'w places where the soil or the rock is nor- t .t :e earl s d ., all .�.e;� Q e. a ....Q.,._h._..,p•"T�':� ��1_ �' . . .»:,pa y R . everywhere under natural condi- • `tions'.a heavy growth of plant life •' covers and protects the soil, • This protection cuts erosion •to •a- mini-. Mum. •s.o that very little , soil dis• - appears', into the ricers during, the • 3ear.. At •Dile -time evexy . strea'i l •_ ..in Ontario' flowed' clear and cool • the, year 'around... Erosion hardly' ` existed because of the • cover' ,Of planta and trees. ' ' ` The first settlers needed agri- culturallands, so ...they 'Gut the -treese trom- rnan-y-0-par-ta•-af--the— country. Where the soil:, was • ex- , posed- it was •rich 'fiend de.ept'crops grew • marvellously for • the .first years. Later • as the, rich :organic • humus, that -,held the soil together; disappeared, the ,land became more • open and less packed. And under 'such - conditions, erosion, is speeded' up a, thousaitdl-fold: Every • heavy rain .carries - away the soil to the rivers which are dirty'from • 'their heavy load of silt. As• the. top soil goes, the organic humus• already gone,. the deeper soils are .ea;,posed• .and these eat' away even faster: antil:..bar:e_ rock is .reached. :This is the. problem.,,we must • face• very soon. 'Prevent erosion 'or our agricultural lands will ,disappear %forev'er. • steps that,should be taken in the' face cif' the changing international situation. };uropean diplomats gen- ,eralTy • • professed ' to believe that. the Nippon government had been considering' some move to, counter Russia's action in mining Soviet Far 'Eastern . 'waters; -in British and American circes in Tokio, at• tenlion was centred' on French-In.do- China and .Southeast, Asia. But while the Japanese prepared for more "action." Washington was readyin - counter-measures that would almost surely follow a new ffapeeese act of a$grespion—eco• nomic counter-measures, such as' -a possible embargo on shipment of oil to Japan, or blocking 'of Japan from entrance into •the Iu- dian Ocean. • , . Canada and the War. : "A gallon a. day keeps Hitler is its 1 . at tlie beginning of e government drive to c•ut„'gasoline. consumption in the 1) minion. Hours of sale for the "buggy juice" were restrict- ed to between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. daily, not including sundaya; and the price was upped by lc. If these gentle hints 'ilidn't 'work, cat -driv- ers were cautionea to expect strict rationing by fall. The successful conclusion of the ai laliiah Army Active recruiting; drive—the quota was reached last week—removed the possibility. for the time tieing at least, that ' " a eanititt'1 Whtild-11e'ffit•i'ad tett: The Department • of. Defense oh- vionSly could get all the. men it wanted through the channels of voluntary enlistment. , Could Mr. King's -tour to the west have acted as a strong •stimulant to 'the re- cruiting campaign? Stalin -Line Makes 1,100 Mile Barrier Fortificatio.nee Run F rem m Black, Sea to .Gulf of' Finland ---Soviet .Secretive About De= ecriptiona Few. facts have leaked out auput • Soviet fiussia's Stalin Line, which • the. German war Machine has. been • • blocking -for the past -eouple of • weeks, r• and there. is no: i+el.iable• basis on Which to judge its strength. • :Here' Is the : best atatlable tic• isle; — In general -it is. a 1,100-.rni'le Man.. made ,,barrier.. running .along .;tie . ' entire old Russlanw'estern frontier. from :the Black Sea to• the. Gtf1f of •'Finland, and it was built prfnclpaily '. -to .;.guard agaipst 'invasfgn. froin .. • Germany. • It combines I the features;p ,Of France'•s. Maginot Lane, 'including great; full -equipped conotete fort• resses built "underground;. with the. advantages—of Ge -t many's.,J West Wall, • which is built. ,'in greater depth.. Whether.,.ar not it :can be flanked, as was the Maginote is, a matter cif-fipeCu:latian -' ' Underground, Fortresses The..bulk of the • 'atali•n'"system was completed in 1933, but the Red Army's• .leaders have, added to. it and strengthener) it .,continually, ever since, and • are reported to , ,have installed ;the most modern, machinery available ,to keep• the• fortifications impregnable • as new weapons of attack have been de." _• vela ed....._.,� .. _�. ,.. _ _.,�„. .,. p . •Details aboutth'e Stalin Line, oh. • 'viously, are . military secrefs, but., • the Kremlin bas not permitted even ' general descriptions as mu.eh, as the French 'dil. . • • One exception. was an.articie Pah- ' lisped Ap'i-1 l4 in -the Soviet Army. newspaper .Red Star—the • first mention,in th.e Soviet•press of the Red fortifications in several years: A special .co•rrespondent told entering a great steel'and concrete' • • iindergrounel. fortress- through a ---door-eo-neealed-in a--hillside:=Insi4e he found- • • a . Ware& '• well -lighted labyrinth 'of defence machinery. complete with Power .plant, .dorrni; 'tory and fire s'tatious., • The • guns .. and machine gime.. 'were said to. be a. unit in a eerie • pietely. fortified zone •of fire.• ' / 25 -Mite Depth ' ..These underground fortresses are provisioned with reserve stores •for Icing sieges.' et, . . • • • - An' invader must do more, than conquer these 1Vlaginot-typ e forti• neatens, however, for the Stalin ' Line-`. runs in depth for distances • • varying, up ,•tel about 75 •miles' ,in . some places. , The. depth is said to • average 25 miles - Making a Freight Car To . build a box car for the freight services of the Canadian' National Railways requires. ap- • proxir,,attely 2,000 titan -hours of work. The H ok Shelf=.. "The- forgotten: Village" - • . B.Y JOHN STEINBECK The top ranking American nov- elist who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath"' ,has Joined his Superb tal- ents with those of the elm .direeter who produeed "Crisis" and "Light; Out Ili Europe," to tell the story of , the coming of modern medicine to- • s the natives of -Steinbeek supplies the text, Kline• the beauti- ful, photographs' for this study ,of . the:Old , Mexico ' an d' . the , new • '.The, Forgotten; Village." The. ,camera crew . that ,recorded this narrative . of birth and death, of witch'doctors and vaccines: spent nine months on the off. trails :of - M.exieo. -.They 'travelled, thousands ' , of, miles' to`frnd.just thetvillage they needed; they borrowed . •chtlai 'exi• from' the: government •school, took men from the ,fields, their 'wives .•from the markets, ,an old, medicine • . woman teem her hat by the side`of the trail. The motion picture they • made • (for release this autumn) is 8',000 feet long. 'From this • wealth . of pictures 136 photographs- were selected for the, book.. - •. John Steinbeck' lifhaTelf says•: "This is.a story .of the little buebl.o of Santiago''on the skirts df'a hill in• the mountains of Mexkp. And -this • is the story of the boy uan Diego and of his family and' of his people, who live in the long moment when the•'past slips reluctantly into• the future. ", "The Forgotten Village' by' :Lahr Stginbeck.... ;Toronto:. Ma.c- . -:Harden Surface of Dusty Cement. Floor The most • practical' treatatent for cement• floors• which seem so:ft.and' inclined • . to.' dust is to saturate them thoroughly • with sodium .sill- cete ewaterg'lass) as follows:. Wash the floor thoroughly with • clear water,' scrubbing "evetb a stiff broom or scrubbing brush remov- ' • ing a dirt. owtli'e r" '.ai-ce to� .dry.. Mix one part waterglass (so•, • , dium silicate) with 'three' to tour - parts oe water. 'depending upon tlie_ pol•osity of the conetete—the denser . the • concrete the 'weaker 'the •solution required. •'Airpl'y with a 'bush,„ one, 'coat evenly over the , entire' surface. This will penetrate• into the peas • of the.' 'concrete. Allow the ,con- crete surface ,to dry; after 24 hours. apply another cost tiio.same as before..Again •allow the ceta- face td dy,, Land apply anotoer coat. If after. 24 hours, the th'd .coat— is- net- iiiiele- w-i-tieethe fuel e_ •in' any •part: of the floor, apply' ether •.coat. That which remains on the surface, tan be i-eailile ree- moved, ` •thus smoothing ue the floor. •T'liat which has_ penetrated into the pores has • came in con- tact, with the alkalies and . calls ' in. the concrete, and. formed 'into aq insal.u•ble hard mineral glue:— Ottawa Farm Journal. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Seller "'Where are you going to be after :lunch?" aEG'LAR FELLERS --Taking No Chances WHEN MOM FINbS"THIS • OUT IT'S. JUST, GOING TO BE TOO BAD' FOR ME! Dia YOU SEB '11-iE CAT AROUND., Pi,N'HEAD DID YOU LO -4:::;K IN THE SECOND DRAWER IN MY BUREAU PINHEAD, DID YOU DO THIS:' By GENE BYRNES WELL, YOU SAID IF 1 DID ANYTHING NAUGHTY YOU WOULD TURN ME INTO A MAtJSE Alke I WANT -TO GROW UP' TO. B A MAN 'INSTEAD! 0 -r61 se,