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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1942-03-19, Page 11• T .UI:SDAY, MARCH 26th, 1942 . Lyceurn Theatre. • WINGHAM , Two Shows. Saturday, Night Thursday,Friday, Saturday March 26i 370 35 ANN MILLER THE THREE STOOGES RUDY VALLEL Ip.*. * *, ,«TIME ,°OUT, FOR RHYTHM" A anttsical romaine, with stars, tunes and laughs.. Also "Comedy" "Cartoon" "News" Matinee Sat. Afternoon 2:30• Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday March 30, 31 April 1 RUTH HUSSEY II ROBERT YOUNG * in * • "MARRIED BACHELOR" The story of •a man who told wives how to hold their, hus- bands, but couldn't manage his own household. l—Ai"so- -Q4Canada Carries -43n" ! and "Specialty" , • MAF..E.KING. Mrs: M. J. Blake is 'home this week after spending• the winter .at THE LUOKNOW SENTINEL, L.TCKNO.1, ONTARIO Marty People Still Sleep. In Shelters In London's Underground Stations CI • By Hugh . Templiin This serieshas stretched, ,out and this story will complete the twelve that I originally planned, to write It seems that 'there' has been so much toy tell -much more than I thought l,when. I° arrived back ' in Canada. For the twelfth story, Iarn'choos- i,ng one of the simplest of them all. and yet one of .the hardest to .do. So many people • want to . know what London is ' really like ' in ' wartime; with the blackout and the bombing. So many ask for a description, yet it 'is' hard to describe: ° London; as one really. sees it, particularly at night when the eye sees little: There have been so many descriptionsand yet most of ..them fai`1`to•p4nt a,true° picture: - Perhaps I should not try, when so mained. The car lights made only. many experts . have failed: But it dim moving -circles on the pavement ought to •be easy enonglio. I'll take as they passed. one evening walk and tell about it, I found myself, bye % and, bye, in as I wrote it down after reaching HPiccadilly Circus. Loyal Londoners• the. light and warmth of my room , claim that this has the busiest' tra- at the Savoy: ffic of any'place'on earth in normal •It was : the night of October 1st, t• es: It certainly hasn't now.' Oc- and, as it happened, the anniversary casional taxis slipped past, and of my wedding -the' first time .I had busses with their windows. . covered been away from home on that date with some opaque substance with in 20 years Of married life, It was tiny' holes scraped in the centre of my durn to broadcast • a' message to each. window pane .so, that a pass: Canada that ' night and I h'ad sent enger cait look out with a single •any -wife -a cable- to_lie jistenina• I eve The statue of Eros is, nh. long - hoped ., she .would hear my voice, at er seen ,in 'the centre of the trews, least • It is covered with a cone-shaped In the next block ,it was stores that had suffered, Sometimes the window was just a great, gaping hole', and the inside of the store wasn't there. On either side, the windows .had . been boarded up, but :the; stores •were evidently carrying on, though I 'couldn't read what was on the little, signs nailed to the boards- No lights of any kind were to be: seen except the ,traffic lights atthe main corner and the single, shaded head17npsof approaching ears., The traffic, lights were tiny red. and green crosses cut in sheets of, metal that had, been fitted over the:len- ses.. The red and green looked rath- er decorative, but when the yellow' canie on,., it looked unlawfully bright for the five seconds 'it,re- The British Broadcasting House is protection against bombs and the in the West End'. of London: Pers boards on the outside are plastered haps you have seen pictures of it in with ,signs advising the onlooker. to days of peace. It has been an enemy buy bonds. '1 saw them in daylight target and it looks rather different several times.)` now, but we thought it had been de-. I had missed a tour of the ,air signed with bombing in mind, for raid shelters a few : night before, herdaughter's, - Mrs: Albert-Alton-:-trtuch• of it: is ufr'derground We -de --but-I-recalled that the, Most.. famous_ Mrs. Wilfred Hofman and' son cided that when the Hun knocks of them all ,was in the Underground Aliah•of -Dunnville are visiting rel- a bit off the top, the staff just moves station below 'Piccadilly Circus. I atives in this community this. week. down one stoney farther into the wentdown the ,stairs and into -the Mr. and Mrs: Chas. Pearceof Clin-. cellar, but I cannot .1101.10. for' that, bright light of the station: visited. over .the,�week-end'with :' ,It isn't an easy building to enter, My travelling before that time had Mr. and Mrs. T. J, An- for it is° guarded by both,police and ton her arentsc •derson. Mrs. Ernest Blake ; returned from London week with Muriel. . Mr. 'and Mrs.George Saunders soldiers, One has to "have a pass -and ast who, 'stands with' fixed' a definite, appointment toget p on Friday having spent the the soldier cl LettiQ-spent-Wednesssy. even= •ing with Mr. 'and Mrs.. Edgar Ritchie at bion._ . . Curran on Sunday were- Mrs. J. H. Ryan., her son jack and•childrrr: of Goderich, Bertram of Goderich; Mr.and Mrs. Lloyd Hunter. of Wawa - nosh and Mr. and Mrs. T. •M. And- erson. ,. Mr. M. and'. Mrs. Richard Kilpatrick returned , on . Sunday evening after Spending the week -end with friends in Toronto:.• Mr. and Mrs. Mulholland and Miss Niue Blake of �Clinton'spent Sunday, afternoon at Mr.. Thos. Al v ton's. „ BURIED TREASURES iii the foriu of scrap metal, are shortly to be dug •.out of old salt workings at Saltford, H'ensail •.and Kincardine and. shipped to Ontario'siheavy industries for the mmanufacture'of ships, tanks, etc: For nearly 'half - a century 'many `tons of iron have lain at these abandoned. • salt plants. Much of it has• .been `stolen during the years. Larger part were: too. heavy • to move and are • 'now sunk in the ground almost out of sight.' - "Why not take a week's vacation from Worrying?" asks a psychologist. We'd•be glad to, if only we could find . something . riot to -worry about, bayonet beside a .portable bomb shelter in the main hallway. - It was about 10.30 when. I , came out showing another pass at 0the door before 1• could get out: I had THE LUCKNOW .SENTINEL Published ' every Thursday morning at Lucknow, Ontario. L. CAMPBELL THOMPS.ON Publisher and Proprietor THURSDAY, MARCH 26th, 1942 than I had been since I arrived in London, but ,to the constable ft was an `old story. He was scornful: "A lot .of foreigners what hasn't got any' guts; sir, or ledging house folk. what won't pay their rent. You. can seg fur yourself, sir!", - •I „could see -a strangely assorted folk. They leaked' different to . me than they did to hint. He Mak ' have been right, but I thought I saw . be- hind it the homes that had; been de- stroyed,,and people with, no .place` to go, where they • felt* safe. Surly -it took more than' an ordinary 'terror to make', people live like That, Yet he may have ben -right: .after all,' it was 'live . months since the last bombing of that part of -London. As ' we went back upstairs, My new-found friend and. guide com, plairied about the Government in. a way that sounded thoroughly Can- adian. - The income tax, was unfair, he said, Here' he was, working for two days out of every week . for the Government.. He had . been retired' on a pension and • they called hire back to work—and then taxed his pay and pension 'as well: Yet he had a young nephew on the south , coast—a pu tean,.lie wa's=tlfaYtzlr n't• have anything .to do because his pub as In a- prohibited - area, He got a job as a carpenter, though he had no training. •,Bµilding de- fence•works, he *as, and still at it, and he ,' gets. 8 or 10., pounds a week. He , keeps changing from. one job 'to- -another •and nobody evei. checks_ him -up afltt he never paid any • taxes. ' They ' say Bevin favors the trade . unions anyway. ' ,It sounded. •farrfiliar. h thought • of • the carpenters at ' Camp Borden and, a' number of other complaints back been above ground. 'This was .'my •home . first -visit -to -the iFndergraund The rhe constable -had other -criticisms streets'may have seemed :. deserted , to make while he had the ear . but there were lights and action and of the Press. The Army should be crowds blow the surface: A" iong helping the Russians. He had a son' line moved slowly past a window in the army for two .years; just' do - marked '1 t/ad and another line• past ing nothing. ' Conscription wasn't the wick -et. Moving stairways fairlyenforced. A lot of young fel- seemed to go down into' the' bowels lowsgefree, • though they are call= PAGE FIVE RAPID CITY ' Messrs.. Frank and. Clifford .Mc - Nall of ,Windsor and Lloyd of Lori - 'den visited at their •home here a day this week. . BORN—To. Mr. and ' 'frs. Donald - Thomson, a, son. 'Co:. • .,itions. • We are sorry to k, a ew _Vlrs. Wm. Stimsonis not so well 'after an at-. tack of 'flu. Mrs. Andy Culbert, - Donald. and Patsy. of Windsor are visitiz * . with her parents,. Mr. and Mrs.- Quiliin. Mrs. Allan Durnin and' children are visiting' with Mr. and Mrs.,,W, Q. 'Reed. , . • - • • ' Miss- Doris, Irwin: entertained at- a birthday party after school. •on • Tuesday. a ,eM.rs, 'Dave . Alton ' and Mrs. Ar..chie Nicholson •spent Tuesdayafternoon• With Mrs.- W. G..:Reed•who -is- much improved after ••a recent'.illness. ' . ,. a . ,G..,� F. ; Yt� +""'—'•n,n.,.':,a aA.,h .R9� ikrfiractentitaairg 'L .� `'�"t tt 7 ,,,,® •.. !^" teem, two _ storeys below' the-sur--'dentl7t sa -was•-jaestrthe' v 'a to two young-cTraps tsar.eveienxrg- face of the earth. It' hadn't beenUnder theGround ordeal, in,spite of the sign that said that we would be warned if enemy bombers . were directly overhead,. .H and would we please continue as, see. 'e: called . to• another .man in long as possible after the first warn: blue'uniform: "Here, mate, will you ing ',sounded. There is much less' watch things for. me for a few min - formality about the broadcasting in utes", and then herded me ' past a the IB.B..C. than in studios on this 't'icket turnstile and down.. an escal- • side' of the ocean. I soon felt quite ator.. it was, 75 feot long. or more, -at _twine. _When the ;director learned ,about the 'anniversary, he • insisted"' that I add a personal message to my'wife.•I appreciated his thought- fulness. . - There 'Was no taxi in sight'. as I came out into' the blackout, but it was a- moonlit night and I was used to the blackness by this time, so I started off. It isn't hard to find one's way. in London. The' moon was in the, south and the. Thames lay in. that direction. . At a corner in Regent street, i stopped to check up with a police- man. Ile was standing ,outside his little brick, bomb -shelter. : Every maim corner has one of them. They would not. hold more than two or. three . pei•sens, huddled close, ' to- gether, but they do give protection' from blasts and flying splinters. The constable • seemed surprised when I' asked if I was headed in the right .direction for the Savoy. KINLOSS , COUNCIL. Kinloss Council met on March 16, • 1942 as per adjournment. All mem- bers bers present. • The minutes of the, last' regular • meeting of February 9,' 1942 .and special. meeting field :in Lucknow February 28th„ 19.4-2, as. read were approved and signed ' • - The clerk was instructed to write the. Seaforth Clinic and .Miss L: M. Hastie, .• R.N,—re 'expenses of . the ' late 'Wilfrid Mintz, • - • `•y,. The treasurer's bond was renewed with ' Cosens and Booth of Wing - ham, . • . . . The clerk' was instructed to call for 'fenders- for• the-erush; and- hauling of the gravel necessary for .the year 1942. , • ' • Councillor Tiffin's .expenses `to the Road Convention at •Tororito were_ ordered paid. -NOTICE OF MANPOWER REGISTRATION . , At the request of .the Honourable Humphrey Mitchell, Minister of Labour, and by authority of Order -in - Council under'the 'War Mc /sures Act, the Unemploy- ment Insurance Commission is .registering all persona in industries coming within the scope of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1940; It is mandatory that the Registration Cards°now being supplied to 'employers be chc_npleted for ALL employees, insured and non-insured, and forwarded to the' Local Office of the Commission by March 31st. This' Is An -Important w ' War Uri dert,a:ki•ng The skills and tra:ring of ev'eer' worker ' in Canada must be. kr ,wn -in order that they May be .used to the b st advantage. This is the first step ' toward:, complete registration of. tnan-power: . • `Renew Unemployment Inaurance Boolzs Before Aprll 1 To avoid duplication Of effort, the above registration is being combined with the renewal ,of Unemployment Insurance Books. • A supply of new, books will be mailed promptly on 0 receipt. at your local Emplo ment and Claims Office, of completed registration• forms and the old books stamped for•'the last pay period in Mc. r ch. . For details' consult the . Commission's 'Local, Office without delay, • 'E - LUiRED 'FL-�R ti'tJi7I�CO bFPit;A FIO�T Y' -�Rf�E•IV- Q , i C�o�xlin�ission _ Ottawa; Canada., • March 23, .1:942. • Council then adjourned 'to -meet 1HH I TECI'I__U BC H .ents; ,motto Do not,v.aste time look- again , on : Monday :the -13th day of • April, 1942, at the usual time and Mrs Clarence Cox spent,'a ..fevv place. days in.Landon last week..With_rela-' y Cheques issued—W.. J. Davison, 'fives there. . • ' arnbulance re • Gregan, $15:00; J. R. Mr: and Mrs. Wes Leggatt of Lane hydro at hall 7.86; Lucknow W h t •S d afternoon Seatiriel,, printing, 11.93; J. H. Hall with .Mr. and Mrs Eli.Jacques: relief. supplies,,.. 13.05; Miss' Jean Mrs: • T. McGoffin spent Sunday' , • ing am •spen •, .un' ay Weir, typing '3 copies auditors' re- with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. John port, :3.00; George Haldenby, school' Jamiesbir, also .Miss'Dorothy Jamie - officer's fee, 2,15; A. -E. Thompson; son and her two brothers: of Bel - caretaking and supplies, 4.30; Cos-' . . grave,, spent. Sunday at. the same ens and Booth, premium treas. bond, home ' rag ;a ourh11; -climb .i ;:-Nlrs. E1 - don Eckeriswiller; roll call, The greatestgift with which a person can be blessed; ltintfi, Mrs: A: Ackl- errt, . Mrs. Eldon` Eckenswiller, Mrs. Jas: Hodgins. ' • JAMES .GARLAND of Cargill, Bruce County's syrup king - has tap- ; ped 2600 trees and reports a good flow o€ sap which started two weeks earlier 'than.' last year. 8.00; George Tiffin, expenses Road Mr. Chas. Gillespie and children,., .0 - w ➢anent orty t•5, •p, '. 73a 1 a tt -spent the -week, k, an Sleeping . n er clothes (.about the only ' ones ! I saw so dressed ,in. London). They were drunk . and leaning on each other.:I The constable, said be' saw the same,. 'ones every • day. Why weren't they, y. in the Army? 1 didn't know, so I said good-bye, and reached the upper air again-.: Walking along Piccadilly I passed several ` groups of loving couples: I appealed to another constable. I explained who I was, where I 'had come from and what I wanted to OLIVET W. T. Roulston returned home after being in Hamilton for a few' weeks. - . Miss Donalda McCharles • of 'Tor - Onto Toronto attended the McCharles-Wal- den wedding ,Saturday. ` A couple • of lovely showers last week were held at the ho;ne. of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wal- den for Miss Norine Walden, bride- • to -be. The. ' neighbors' to the , west arid: , relatives attended the, . first ee#VA+;lle' friends of Olivetand the neighbors to the east attended the second. Many lovely gifts .were re- ceived. Norine, in a few well-chosen words thanked all for the gifts: Af• ter viewing the beautiful things' be- longing to the bride and her gifts, lunch was served by the hostess, . her . daughters and friends. . Mrs. James M•e,Tavish and Miss' Beth McTavish entertainedin, honor of Miss Norine Walden. Miss Sadie McCliarles returned Saturday evening to- Ravena after 'attending her brother `John's wed- ding. " Mrs. Jennie Fryd and her son.Alex Mckinnon of $ainiltonvisited friends here over . the week -end'. The Feed Cross held their serril- morithly meeting at ' the ' home of Mrs., J. Beaton last Thursday. • "Yes, sir", he. Said. "You are—but it's a long • way, sir. You wouldn't be thinking 'of walking that far!" I assured him I was and wondered if any constaiDle, in, any other large 'city in the 'world would have been so polite about it. ' •• I had my little pocket torch—the kind we call "pen lights" in .Can- ada. Even that was too ,bright for the London blackout, unless cov- ered with a .layer o'f blue tissue pap- 'them very tiny. An old cotaple, well cr. That night, I had iio need, of it,dressed, sat together on the stone The moon gave light enough. floor, :taking their things out of an The main streets in the West End e`xpensive-19ok pg suitcase. have, . suffered from the bombing.. • A stone stairway ran up 20 steps As I walked along, it seemed that er, so. Lying on it were six or seven the vacant spaces were at more ormen.•They weren't crossways on the less fegular distances; It seemed as though a German pilot might have gone up one side of the street acid down the other, letting 'his high ex- plosives drop as quickly as he cotild turn th.ebomb lever. I was passing a block of stately apartment !houses. Most of them ap- peered to be intact. Then there was a gap Where several had been blown out into the street. The rubbish had been clehrcd away, but the moon shone down an a blank white Wall, studded 'here and there with little fireplaces and against the sky a row of. about .201( chimneys stood silhou- I fee, cakes and sandwiches. c ted against the midnight blue. • I was more moved by these things 1 - but that was just the beginning. We. walked down some steps and took The men were mostly sailors_ Some another esculator for another • 80 of them were :singing. They had feet or so, past rows of theatre pas- • their arms around the girls. It was ters and other advertisements just dark enoughfor,that.. . I really wasn't 'prepared .for. what, ..I caught up to a pair • not so lov- I saw: London hadn't been bombed ing. There was moonlight enough in months, yet there were several` to see• that he wasgan officer in the hundred people . sleeping beside the R.A.F. The woman said: "Well; I subway tracks. The trains came rac- hope' you: are proud of yourself after ing Out Of the. darkness, like great ,that .exhibition!" The. voice was full caterpillars, stopped a moment, and of bitterness. I thought he , might went on again. The platforms were hit hers but they turned in a 'door; none . too wide, but all along the way and were gone. ' walls were rows of men and women At Leicester .Square, I p,➢used, for sleeping on tiled floors, with blanks there are several streets. '(You knows ets over and under them. the lines , of thesong, of course— In some parts . of the ".tubes "Good- bye, Piccadilly ; farewell, Lei - there were rows of double -deck cots tester Square.) -I stood at the curb along the walls: The cots bore hum- looking at, the streets across the hers ;and -the 'same people occupied: circle. A shortish lady came along them night after , night. Some of and humped into me. There wasn't them had been fixed up a. bit, with any need: the sidewalk was wide blankets, hanging cioun in front, like and it, wasn't really dark.' the curtains of . a berth on ' a train. "Sorry, :sir' , she said, so 'I asked But mostof them were open to the her which way,to the Strand. "Down that way", she -said, "But gaze of hundreds' who„passed by; There were more women- than I am going this way. You coming this way?"' mart and they were in various stages "No thanks!" I said and continued of undress. Some never took off . on my way south. their clothes at all; other women.Trafalgar south. 'their familiar, to were coming out of the lavatories may day „ or night. I turned down with pyjamas or nightgown's show- ' past' a bombed church and art am- ing below their dressing' gowns: I .balance passed me in• the darkness saw no children over a year,, old, with ,its • bell clanging, and stopped but there were three babies,. one of at the next .cornea.. As I walked past,. a lady on a stretcher was tak- en in thelittle door. The last time • I had been past that corner, .a friend had 'pointed to that same door. "That's where: they took the the night I smashed up, my car in the big blitz", , he had said. That was the first time I Chad known he had been bombed.• I caught up •to a very fat man at the next corner. He looked congen- ial. "Ts this the Strand"? I asked, 1 knew it was, but that might be an opening. •- "It Js that", he said, "though it's not like it used to be in the old days when it was so ,full of traf- fic that you couldn't crossit any- where hereabouts'. ' ' He timed to, me "You're an Am- .eriean and don't• remember it?" steps, because that • would have• im- peded "traffic, but :they were lying up the stairs. The sharp, metal - bound edges dug into their sides in three or four places, put they slept on, While hundreds `walked past them• and• the trains .thundered by 20 'feet away. I would not have believed it if I had not seen it. My`guide took me down to a low, er level. There • were More bunks. At the end of the row . was a tem- porary first aid post, with two nur- ses in uniform.. At .a counter'near`'` by, three' girls were selling tea, cof- $3:24; Alex .MacLeod, 19;80; ' Scott, 21.30; Huron Bdy: acc., George Colwell, .80: J. B LANE: THE.PICTUF.. GALLERY Joe 4.50; Clerk., 'WHO IS IT? Last week'spicture: was that of , J. GARNET ARMSTRONG - John Gillespie. • Mr.,Ralph Knight of Stratford and Mrs. Jantzi Of..Milverton spent; Sat- urday with • Mr.- and Mrs: George • Fisher. Wedding bells 'are ringing loudly. Word was .received here that Mr. • and Mrs. Angus McKay of Jhansi have arrived at Trinidad on their way home: Mr. George.. Garton .came from Leamington on Saturday with a truck and _ moved their furniture which has been stored in their house here., They are going to live there where theyhave been for the past, few months. , ZION • Mr. Andrew :Ritchie is busy in this community buzzing wood. Messrs. James Hunter, Lane and Cecil Gardner, of Hamilton were at 'their homes here over the week -end. Mr. Gordon Kirkland had the mis- fortune last week to'sprain his ankle but is , improving nicely. ' Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Kirkland and David, Mrs. h Andrew visited ' last, week with Mr. and Mts. J. McDonagh. Mr. and • Mrs,: Chas. MacDonald a former Lucknow druggist, who. and Joyce were ' Sunday visitors disposed of his business to Mr. A. E, with Mr. arid 'Mrs: Samuel Reid. . McKim some twenty years ago, and We, are 'glad to report Mr., Samuel 'has since been in the drug business Reid is improving after -,being con- .,Mr. New Toronto. • `t ' fined to bed for 'some time v',ith a, ., Mr. Armstrong was a graduate of cold. 1 ° the 1904-05 'class of the Ontario Col- Mr. Wesley Ritchie is • laid up at lege of Pharmacy and shortly after present with after effects of a sev- located in Lucknow •as 'a successor ere cold We hope .he will soon be to Harry Days. swell again.. , Mr. and • Mrs. Frank Ritchie ,,had he said, evidently' 'thinking there for their guests over the week -end, was no rehl difference. Mr..Lloyd McAuley of Toronto, •Mrs. On a beautiful night like that, it Mary McAuley of Ripley. was natural to turn to the weather The Y•P•S' met' on Monday even - next. ing at the home • of Mr. and Mrs. "Last year", ,he said, "they came E. Gardner. 1e over every night, moon or no m moon". (Hitler is never 'Mentioned by name and the Germans seldom: KINLOUGH it is `he or `they'.) About half -past Miss Violet Bell of Kincardine eight, it was. You could set ,your visited with friends here 'over the Watch by it. .One hundred and sixty- week -end. eight nights without a break. Hell, Mr. Harold Haldenby is spending it ih+as..But I'd rather be in London a few days with • Mr. Orland Mc-' in • a ,blitz than have ,to live any- Farlan at ••Kincardine. 1 ' where else. No place ' lkie London!Miss Ellen McBride, Concession And I'll live here while they leave 10, 'has gone oto Ottawa' where she two. houses, standing: But there's„ has. secured a p'osi'tion, the entrance to your hotel across The next regular meeting' of . the the street, 'sir's. H.W.I, will be held at the homt • We parted and I edged my way of, Mrs. A. Ackert on Thursday, - aeross the Strand, and- A'.2nd.. Convener. Mrs, Wm: • carefully c p _ I explained I' wasna Canadian. passed -through the revolving, deur Gr➢hair; asarstant,, Mrs. Hov, "I'krtew it has one or the'other", into The bright lights. Harris; topic, Easter; current ey-.• for collection phone 35 4