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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1942-10-01, Page 6f Economy Buying Clothes Canada flas.:Sufficient Fab- __teles .For • Normal Require- *tents : Batehes on cldthing may* be more , (Ammon than they used to be, but •a(eh evidences o8 economy may seam_ that.. elo-g. _ rationing will • ft ;be necessary for a lohg time,, ibsformed sourees said last heck. fanada, has sufficient fabrics on hand to meet the "normal' needs o[ buyers for some' months to ane, and tete .War . Time Prices tsdt Trade Boars. emphasizes that the law forbids a Canadian buy- ding" more than his . "normal" re- quirements . of any commodity—Ms "eluding elothU1 . - ' • ' k • Off, tciais. said they had :heard aomors that, the spare .coupons in station: books::whi -which Went into ser- hive ;Monday were to be used -dater for e t g, rattonsng- "The. ;tatt is 'that' no one. mows what' :these coupons ;may- be used . .'it' they are ever used," one sPokesman--said--.- lt-ey _bete been plated in the ration books purel-ye. as a'precaution against a condition drat may arise in the future." He recalled a statement of M. W. ala'Ketrzie, Chief of .the Bo'ard's Supply, Distribution •. and gtationiag„ Section, that persons eircidating rumors like the one shout clothing rationing are . hamp- eringthe war effort, "The only people who could' ben - alit wanid • be unscrpulous sales-- .:.. _...a People_ us''ng. web • ian►ors to.the- move stoeks which wouid not otIt- erw$e readilyfind buyers," hlr. MacKenzie said Ciotizing trade . officials ' have made, clear ' that' the supplies of clothing are not sufficient to per - .rant a l:az-get sties ` in com cri o=• with, past years, and. if more . an norinal amounts are disposed. tptioning becomes a more inedi- ate prospect • • Ja . -s' Losses In Two Month's Warr Attlee Sink 25 Ships And Destroy 300 Ptafles Allied • forces have definitely sunk 25. Japanese warships 'and transporta and destroyed 300 Met any planes and. perhaps 500 in iess than five months, a review of com- muniques ommuniques . from • Gen. .deArthur's headquarters disclosed. )rorty -one aditional warships , and transports were damaged, and a total of 177 enemy planes severe- ly- damaged or "probahIy damag- ed," amaged," :making the aerial.. toll 477: The real total on enepty air- planes, it was believed, - probably exceeds ,500 planes since on , many occasions when bninbs were drop - red oft parked aircraft there was no meansofdeterthinifig. the 'el- ect esact results Of the 300 eireraft :definitely-re- ported efinitely-re-ported 202 were fighters, Sts bomb ers, 11 float 'planes, sc-et fir Ing boats, and eleven were of ulj specified types. They we de- stroyed - either in combat, by anti- aircraft fire, orby bombing of enemy air bases. ' Allied' pb ie'''losses for the same period ,cannot be given 'with any ' degree of accuracy because many of the early'. eommuniques issued ity the southwest Pacific com- mand beginning ' April -21, -did notgive them, The highest A+ llied loss; given in one operation was four plane. "Make And Mend" Is British .Slogan Clothes, rationing in England has' made . it essential for . every woman to melte her own and her ' family's clothes last as long as , • t possi=ble_ - The Women's Group on Public Welfare under the . chairmanship of Margaret Bondfield has launch- ed a "make and mend" campaign among weathers thers of . all' women's organizations. • The committee is_ composed .of craft experts, repre- sentatives of the bar baard of educa- tion, of the Association of Teach- ers of Domestic subjects- and • of women's organizations. Local classes have been started and teachers provided_ , British women are determined that Hitler is not going to make the. British public shabby in spitz "of the fact that clothing has to be rationed. Make JJ .,? most ..f y.Our7ea.,. i kap i. 'SERIAL STORY SPORTING BLOOD BY`HARRY 'HARRISON KROhI._ ,. FRAZIER'S ACel/5ATION' CHAPTER Vu. Hunter Dent 'stifled an oath. Now he knew why he, had never cared for Strickland Ballard's brother -in -lase. Hunter wanted to hurl soniething, through the win- dowand thaeh his face in. "I'll explain why I have a hunch Dent is our magi," Neal Frazier went, on. "We've been moving on •'the theory that Jun- ior must be protected at any cost. If he lives, we must save him from well, you know what I mean:. • If he dies, we have to ' keep his hi ory ,clean. ' "What • are we saying? Simply'thie, that. Junior; Ballard killed this bank messenger, robbed him, _managed to get away, though he was shot by the police. "But that is ab'sitrd. Warwick would have heard Junior's car. The car would be here. The tracks Sheriff Anderson saw this afternoon would have been .Jun- ior's, when • instead we kuote. Dent assured the officer they were is ear; that he alone had a key to the private gate. Ander- son Was troubled about the clean tread in. \Dent's tire, until I ex- plained .that 1entetook very •-gid care of his . automebile and • it would require but a few minutes to wash "Hunter Dent evidently • was 'not here .last' night, or early this morning, for when Junior reached home '.he'. would 'most Certainly have ' gone tg. the office where Dent sleeps. If he')were in trouble I am 'certain he would. Instead he came . to his room.- Red told me that .Dent himself said no one came to see Win during the night. "Well," he, concluded, "I grant you this hypothesis is not fot,1- proof. But it is the- most plausible thing I am able to work out I think -we ere losing valuable time trying to shield Junior, when Dent is .likely to . slip . from be- tween our fingers any motnent" One of the Ghibartos spoke up. "You think, then, Frazier, Dent was the man who killed the mes- senger?" • "I do. In the end I think that w11 'prove to be the ease." The other twin said, "He would . have to .have ‚had a'eonfederate:" • Thhat is true. 'In ease the ac- count given by the Kiiker . girl is correct. She said there were two. But, then, you have to allow for the 'kind of person she is—obvi- ously not too intelligent; she was afraid, confused, and suffered a • mental aberration. Until , the po- lice find who her bog friend was and get his. account of the stick- up you have to make allowances." "But what about the money?" Hankins Temple asked. ' . He was greatly Worried: "I'd bet my last cent that Dent has that money .in his odssessioa this moment!" ' A . murmur . went • up. Hunter drew, back into the deeper gloom as he heard hurrying stepsalong the concrete' walk from the high- way.. He knew Red's sharp; : t-: cato heel -click. There was a young man with her. They .came mo- .. mentarily into a patch' of.• light from the window. The two stop- ped. As` Hunter had surmised,. Red's companion was young Tis- dale. Tisdale was harried, and Red was angag- "Pil not have you forever dic- tating to me, Oliver!'.Once for all, I deny the whole business, and I . ask you not to mention it, again." Oliver Tisdale growled. I know what I see. And' I don't like it. 'If I catch you two-timing me—" For an instant it seemed they might go at it tooth and nail. Red controlled herself. "They're wait- ing for us. Let's not fight here. I'm sick and tired of fighting." They went into . the house. *' * * Red . and Oliver Tisdale's join- ing the' group changed the , dis- • Mission. Some one eame to the window. Hunter 'slipped- away. He wanted to hear the rest of the business; but the . risk appeared too great He was worried. Had he, he . wondered, gone too far in protecting , Junior Ballard" Had, he, in fact, built up 'a ' powerful case against himself? Moodily; he moved through the night, came to the parked truck. He got in, and ran with pale park- ing arking lights mita he ryas within cov- er of the woods. He reached_ the spot where Junior's car . had left the ' read and gone , into a tree. Hunter began a none -too -simple jolt of Oinking the wreck out.. It was harder than he had planned, and he worked longer than he Iaad expected. . Finally, he , had the roadster back in the road. With the torch from 'the tool chest of . tiie truck Hunter went over the interior of Junior's car. "Junior's still alive," he surmised. "Else the gang would have been ' in tows tonight" By the torch beamahe. saw blood on the steering wheel. It must have been a pret- ty tough drive for Junior. Hun- ter bad to tie' the damaged door to keep it from banging to and fro. He took a .look at the Fear of the car. There was a bullet hole through the back- It was easy to trace the course of the bullet to the place where Junior 'had been sitting. "Made by a heai-y caliber. re- volver,. too," Hunter mused. It seemed obvious the tshot Was from one of the _policemen's .,guns.. , s *• * Junior Ballard had been inixed in that stick-up. There was no way , out of it Hunter had , tried to believe it was just a gag, done on a wager. ' It could have been. But the 'more he pondered the thing, the more he had to admit that fundamentally Ballard's boy, spoiled and pampered, allowed to run wild, was Weak and maybe. criirisinal. If only Hunter could account ' for the missing money. There he was stumped. 'Maybe he couldn't see straight when- Ilse elooked in the safe. ' Maybe he just dreamed the bag end Ate contents had disappeared. He got into the truck and 'drove the car to the barn. He backed it in, and hoped 'until he could find a better hiding place the big barn would keepatha secret. He had a feeling :every step he made was ' that much further on a fool's journey. Why she—Ghillie be shield- bag Junior? It wat because he lowed the boy. Why did he, sotne- how, have a contrary affffecttioit for the kid? It got batik to Red She, too, was one he was trying to American ' Prisoner Beaten By Japanese When 'an ' American prisoner of the Japanese was lying bound On the ground, a Japanesepolies ef- ' 1 cialegroiitid the heel of his hoot in the ,prisoner's' face and then kicked hien, breaking a rib. After the prisoner was ur tfed, he could hardly stand- He taid ,* Japanese fficial that he w s afraid a Fib had been broken. The Japanese then began to fees the ribs. Whee • he ratite to the. broken rib, he asked the prisaaner If that was the broken one. hen the victim sand it was the Japan - eve officer healed off andswath- edat the brrpken rib with his- hast art hard as he could. rJ"sfc . Women today . are turning to quilt -making as handiwork that fascinate end is se serviceable, too. This three patch' gnilte Whiriaway, is easy even for a be= ginner. Pattern 223 contaitas ac- curate pattern 'pieces; ding: ani of block; instructions for cutting, 'sewing and finishing; yardages; diagram of quilt Send twenty cents in coins. (stamps: Cannot beta; cepted) for this pattern to Wi3sa►ri Nee'decraft. Dept, linom 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Write • plaiinly pattern burs er, yo',nr name and: address. ISSUE 40—'42 A • deAsamething for. That did not make particular sen,e, for she and Tisdale were going to be mar- ried. They might fight, but the Ballard -Tisdale ' money had to be kept intact. * * With these muddled thoughts for companion, 'Hunter Dent put the truck in the garage. nest to the barn, and walked" through the heavy darkness, toward the house. Save for a low light in the, rear, in Warwick's quarters, the man- sion ,was deserted: As Hunter entered the yard, however, he be - carie aware of voices. They were not loud, but they were charged with anger. Now he could make. Out in the dense gloom—the 'sky overhead was clouded, ' and rain 7was .'in the air—two cars. They were parked' up the driveway, some • distance from the .wide' doors of the garage. At, the foot of the stairway to the office Hun-' ter stopped,. and listened. "I'm , felling' you for the; last: time, 'Red," Tisdale's 'voice warn- ed. "Frankly,. I' ,think you're in love. with Dent and 'won't admit • 1 it to yourself, or you are simply stringing me- along:" "Ah, shut up, Oliver!" Red Ballard said wearily. "I ' have never seen such a bitter, jealous person es you in all my life." Tisdale's headbeams flashed en. His car left with a terrific scrunch of rubber. In a moment' it was tearing away up the road. Bella Ballard 'came swiftly back to her ear and got in. • "Red!" Hunter called: She must not have heard his voice: In a -moment she 'started her mow - tor and was gone after Tisdale. Hunter went up the. stairs. He Opened the door. To : his surprise. it was not locked, though he was sure he had lockedit when he left the last. time. Without switching on the light' he used - the flashlight be: had and • went to the safe. He. had to make sure about that $17;. —990: A The whale- th ngemede, feel crazy. He had. to _make two trials .before he worked the com- i binathee„ ge„threw open the door.' The place was •just as empty now as it had been when he missed the bag: ' Then it seemed to, him figures came from, everywhere. Voices, flying •fists, oaths, a tiff en the back of his head that laid.him out. Just before he lost co'sciousness he caught Frazier's ''voice. "We'll hand him over tothe sheriff--” The others seemed' to '.Hunter to. be 'the Ghiliarthe;; perhaps Han- kins Temple. He didn'•it, know and it didn't matter, for 'he:went out then: . .(Continued Next Week) Red Cross Losses Below 2 Percent Shipments of Goods Overseas Between Jan i to July 31, 1942 Valued at. $6,700,000 Less than two percent off the total value ofgoods shipped by the Canadian' Red Cross from 'Janu- ary, 1940, 'through July; 1942, has been lost *in marine disasters, Harry Milhursee'chai.man of the society's national transportation • committee, 'told a meeting off the central council recently. " '"During the period laniary ' 1 to July 31, ' '19422 Canadian Red Cross goods valued at i ,700,000 were shipped olerseas r. itis bnrne said. ' "These supplies in- cluding prisoners of war food par- cels, ambulances, relief clothing, blankets and quints, hospital sup- plies; 'drugs and canned goods" ' The shipments, carried on 1d6 ships, were sent .to the United Kingdom, Iceland, Russir, ' Portu- gal and the British West Indies. • Supplies were,; aleo forwarded to Canadian prisoners ,of war in Jap- an and food was sent to the civil- ian' ivillan' population ' in Greece. 2009- - Persons• Quit Gold ,Caps 55 Regularly Producing Gold filmes Lost Since War Began Estimated that more than 20,490 persons had quit the Ontario gond camps €ince alae` beginning of this year. , The paper said the migration from the gold belt this summer had been "one ot the strangest and saddest sights- in the, history of northern development - `The unigpne feature is that dess 'than a year ago* :he .Government at bttatee 'wee nrg;ng goldminers to pr•odnee more gold". the paper coarnmented. . The Northern Miner said .Cana- da had lost • 55 -regularly predate Ing gold nines einee°the outbreak of the war, most of them in the last three months. The Dominion has 94 gold mines left, and 'afore than 50 of these hare had to re- duce tonnage:.. The paper addle a further del: eunne• was expected Ballet- this rear' be;;aase a number of 'damning oper- • ations were now in the laet stages of .clean ,tip operations` " The arreas hardest hi ere said to be Tianxanine. Senn' orcupine anDat - Kirkland, Laine. e CANADIAN S. These surviving members of a German H -boat crew were picked up by sailors from. the', Canadian destro*er Assiniboine after their warship had rammed and sunk the sub during a. rubnirig battle in the Atlantic. Captive Germans are shown boarding the Assiniboine.. „ •MADAGA$CAR:'•. Besides Its Military Value Vast Island Also Has .Varied Resources Seized By French . in 1883. Madagascar,' _ by its strategic position in the : Ind'ian Ocean op- posite. Portuguese Mozambique, stands as a eentine! on vital Al - Tied -supply lines_.to_the aliddiseand Far. East. Since the fall of Singapore Ma dagascarts importance has dont- _ led. Had.Axis forces landed there first the Germans or Japanese Haight have been ableto cut both the United Nations' cominunica- tions lines andthe strategic 250 - Mile wide Mozambique Channel off the Affrican'.East. Coast: Moreover, Axia control would have eonsti-' , tuted a serious threat 'to the Afri- can mainland and wouid hare pro- vided etrategic bases for sea and air raiders., 3ladagasear is just 300 miles off the Eastern African coast- . It is about 1,000 Hailes long and its greatest width . is '360 miles.' It is nearly as large as the State ot Teras, basing au area of 240.000 square miles. Eroti its 'excellent harbor at Diego -Suarez' on its northern tip Madagascar is only 800 • • miles • frons ttlombhea. the main ,port , of the British „Crown Colony of Kenya. The Gulf of Aden. at the most eastern tip of Africa, is at a dis- tanco of L300 miles... The British' Crown' Colony .:Matiriijus is 474 miles east of the island. The naval base of Fort Dauphin on the south- ern tip of .Madagascar is '1,000 miles from Durban in South Afri- ca. At; a distance of 2,460 miles to the •northeast is Ceylon and at twice this dicstanee Singapore'and, Perth, Australia. can be reached. Its Varied History Madagascar . has had a varied history since ifs disscticery by the Portuguese, Diego Diaz, in 1500, who christened it St. Laurence. Ae in. South, Africa, the Dutch suc- ceeded the Portuguese. but in the 18th century the French had mili- tary bases on the East Coast Dur- ing the reign of Charles 1, the', time when English colonization began in .other parts of the world. notabiy America, a small settle ment Was formed on the South - wrest coast, but it was not until 1811. daring the Napoleonic Wars. that British troops occupied Tanta - tare.' _.e gate of_Paris in 1814 formally ceded Madagascar to Great' Britain,. but.. the age of Im- _ perialism was 'not yet, and the British ''Government : naer-ely or- ganized- the, Hove tribe •to manage the iisland, 'of which it was the . most important element.' A' Brit- ish. Resident presided at the Hove King's court. British officials ad- vised the native `Government. Under •Queen Ranavalona came to the hone in 1868 and soonafterwards. was 'baptised, the •pn-olnibition of Christian mission- aries uas , ernoved: British offic- ers- organizd •the Army,' and the United States appointed a Consul to the independent elate of hada' • gascar, the ,fourth largest island in the world if Australia is 'ex - eluded. ' . . „ French Take Control ' Ent there. were Frenchmen who wished to restore the former ata- thority or France over the 'Mala- gasy. The dispuied• property of • a Frenchman furnished the occasion, or evense, for war in 1383. when the French bombarded l'amatare ' • . and landed troops The treaty of 1335 placed the 'foreign relations of the island under French* con- trol and: established a French rep- reseatatire at the capital, Antal- anarivo. A. further bombardment followed the rejection of further French demands in 1895; a.Freneh force oceepied• Antananarivo and a French Protectorate,, which still endures, was proclaimed. Swab is the stormy history; of this •.long island, which has toda'fr a 'populetioni of 4.000,000, mostly • natiree. The Malagasy, however, have 'no ` representative in the French Chamber of .Deputies, and ' • were not et -en admitted to French- citizenship until fire years ago_ . Madagaiscar's chief commercial port •is • Tametare• on • the east coast, but the city is built close to marshes and has a hot, humid climate: •Fort DaMphin, in thl arid southern part of the island, has little to recoutmend it save a good highway to Tamatave. - Foreigners, of whom: there are Some 35,600, have found the is- land's high central plateau a pleas- ant region. - Modern Capital Antananarivo, capital city of 100,000, stands on the plateau near the , approximate center of the is- land. It is modern in appearance with boulevards and ,parks, church-. es, schooka, hospitals and en im- posing railway station. The chief exports are t"aw hides, preserved meat; tapioca, rice, dried ' vege- tables, coffee, graphite and pre- cious stones': At one time theisland yielded some rubber. - The forests have been virtually ' 'denuded. The tableland is brown -onems and barren. Cattle '.raising Is an • important-' industry, and it has been said that. • - there are "more cattle per caplta raised on the island than in any ether country in the world: The ;natives will not' kill them for food. A man's social position is gauged' 'by the number of Gattis he, pee-. sesses, and he`would let his family go hungry rather than butcher one of the beasts. The natives, 'called Malagasy;' are of a brown rather than a black race, and belong• to the Mateyo - Polynesian family. There are Sem- itic, Mongol and 'negroirl strains in their blood. Members of the rul- ing 'families are descended from Arabs. - Couldn't Resist Pun Sergeant Is Married Sgt. William. Hopkinls, o% Olym- pia, Wash:, ' couldn't renis, a 'pun., Now, he's married. : ' While he was stationed in Dutch` Harbor, •Alaska; a Council Bluffs,. Iowa store returned bis mere rh n- . . dise order aaVng ,hien to specify size. The letter wz� igned:Mona ' - Davis Mekvibill, bookkeeper., Reordering, Hopkins couldn't ,pass it over, so: "We have, much in ,common. l too, arm a bookke per: - I-berr-ow- ed a hook onceand never return- ed IL" , Miss RSulvakriln, deciding this' needed proper burial; replied and - One thing ied toainor ner. Then , cattle the Jeps. Napkins has wounded at Dutch Harbor and transferred to,' Fort Le: is... Cdcle Sam refereed him a fur- lough to go to see his co: respond- ence sweetheart. ' ' . Miss Malvfhi_i's employers. how- ever. gave hare two we -?its with ,Pay to come west~ They were married recently. :. Twitted By War Office Twitting Mirssgiini• for • his fail - are to attack tine Angio-Egy,paian Sudan with. with his far' greater forces in 1940, the 'War Office 'comment ' ed today that ,'.any Italian general who looks back at that thine must feel inclined tq Melt hiitiseli , for '• the. waste of those precious wetks." 11 Duce's costly 'procrastination at a time where he had 300,060 troops to threw a, rinst only 7,0091"•✓ thinly -spread British troupe in the ' Sedan was related in a 150 -page booklet, "The Abyssinian Cant- paign s: ' • This 'illustrated account of . the 18 -month campaign - which cost Italy her East ,African empire • set ' forth that llus?olnni ens in strong posktien by the end of Augacat, 1940. far similtaneons drives frame Ethiopia, Eritrea and Libya. _ - UNCLE SAM'S HUGE TRANSPORT PLUS. .l'nne t: -mete r, planes load up with Uncle So Pint's ata^:•a2- shrcck itreiess at Fo o anti-tank ghee being loaded on llese'gretand planes 1lra�r_r, 1 - C. Nets,•