The Lucknow Sentinel, 1942-12-10, Page 7Third Link...Built,
Highway
In Alco Hag Y
New Tunnel Opens Up Pre.
viously Impassable Route
Withthe, vital Alaska Railroad
cut-off tunnel just broken
through, and the strategic Alcan
Highway officially 'opened, Alas-
_._ -ken-_ e,..ny ..authorities have per-
mitted the announcement of still
--
a third iimportant transportation
link in the Territory. •
The hitherto secret Glenn 'Highs
way from ,Anchorage to the? Rich-
ardson Highway, via Palmer,
opens a previously impassable
route between. the Cugach and
Talkeetna Mountains. . Cutting
through high passes and over
swamps, it gives Anchorage its:
first connection with the interior
aside .from the Alaska Railway:
The jhighway was constructed in
_secret and has been in operation
for some time: It is known locally
as the Chickaloon , highway,
60 Miles Cut Off
Crews • working fromboth ends
of the 13,000 -foot Alaska Railway
both met in the middle almost
directly under the centre of the
glacier covered .mountain. The
new tunnel will slash .60•. miles
from the haul necessary .to get
supplies from the seacoast to the
interior, • through elimination of
"thatmuch, tw=sting- roadbed.teltich
frequently caused serious tropble
in winter.
Maj. Gen. S. B. Buckner, Cone
wander of all. 'troops in. Alaska,
pulled d tine switeta which set off the
final blasts beneath the mountain
and asserted as he: did so the tun-
nel ¢fluid. "prevent the enemy 1.
from knocking out the most im-
portant. piece of transportation in
Alaska." •
Speakers said. the tunnel was
the fourth longest in the nation
and noted .that the construction
crevrts driving from both ends had
missed a "perfect" connection by
a mere •half -inch in 'elevation and
an eighth of an inch in line.
• Given only general outlines of
what is wanted, the engineers en-
tered : the .wilds with dog teams,
facing. tremendous . problems , of
bihor --cold
CHINA HONORS AMERICAN HEROES
Bine. Chiang Kai-Shek, presents the Military Order of China to
Brig. .Geri. (Now Major Gen.) James. Doolittle, who led the bomber
raid en Tokyo, for the part he played in the surprise American attack.
Cot..Jmhn A. Hilger (right) received the .same honor for his part in
the raid. Photo was just released by 'the Armya-Washington.
•
i 1
he -a-.
British flyers call it the Ven-
geance. Americans, who build it,
call this Vuitee single-eng:ned
dive bomber the 'A-3,1. Both know
it is faster, more powerful than
the Germans' vaunted Stuka.
• Medicinal Plants
New Zealand. according to The
St. Thomas Times -Journal, is ex-
t'-n4ing the raring- of medicinal
plants as an ail to Empire war
plans. The objective is • the re-
placement .of supplies the Euro-
pean sosrces .of which haye been
ctt off by Nazi oeelpition.
Plantings. this year have been
extended to foxglove, deadly night-,
shale, (horn apple and h'nbane,
from which dirha:is. belladonna,,
strain iutir-atrefel? osc atnrts are
obtained. local aovernmcn:s are
farming areas with labor s'ipplied
by the National Setvice Ministry.
Most of the. processing has been
done hy voluntary workers of flim
. Women's. War Service Auxiliary.
It is said that production this
year will meet national demands
and leave a large s.irpins far ex-
port.v yields of
Especially fall lien
f The
o-1 y obtained. o eace been- ohta 1i
New Zealand plant is
said to
eclipse the Rumanian. winch preL
vibtisly gave most of Europe its'
digitalin- ;
Courage
sitlet My greatest sympathy goes out
to Lady Halifax -one of the most
sympathetic -worsen I have ever
known. rorrites Elsa Maxwell In
New York Post. What dignity and
courage she bas shown during this
war. The day she received the
beers of the death of her youngest
son, Peter Woad. in the Egyptian
campaign, there was a very im-
portant official dinner being given,
at the Btitish Embassy in Wash-
- ington. • fler friends advised her
to ranee! the dinner.
"Not at all." replied Tlorothe
Halifax. "We are at war: and our
Personal feelingsa-e secondary to
our official duties." That ended the
matter. Their dinner peesed off
so smoothly ,that no one realized
the personal ,grief of • the British
Ambassador and his wife until thee-
read
hee`read the news the neat morning
In the newspaper=.`'
VOICE
OF THE
PRESS
SKUNKS AT• LARGE
Prince Edward Island has in •
-
creased its bounty on sknriks, from
50. cents to $1, and thereby hangs
a tale. Skunks are not native tel
the island, it appears, but some
years ago a few people began rais-
ing them for f ug,. 'When low prices
made the venture unsuccessful,
some of the breeders simply turn-
ed their skunks' loose. Prince Ed-
ward ..Island has suffered ever ,.
since.
—Brockville Recorder and Times
ALL -INDIAN JOB
Ten Iroquois Indians from the•
Caughnawaga Reserve are erect-
ing a big new 40 -ton crane at the
Midland Shipbuilding' yards. They
are under the . direction of s}n
Iroquois foreman, so it is an all -
Indian job. Theredmen of the
Caughnawaga reserve,• which is
across the St. Lawrence river from
Montreal, are the finest steel erec-
tion men in the world.
—Midland Free Press Herald
WHAT .A DIFFERENCE!
1
Wire photosof ,American
Doughboys marching into Algiers
show a different background than
the pictures of the Nazis march-
ing into,' Paris. 'In Algiers, the•
people were laughing and dancing
_and cheering. Which, is the dif-
• feren'ce between aggression and
friendship,
—Stratford Beacon -Herald
THE LAVALS, FOR INSTANCE
There would be many people of
a certain type wiped out if a re.
cent Vichy radio announcement
was taken literally. The announ-
cer stated . that "an offensive
against rats will be launched in
Paas."
—Niagara Fails Review
—a— •
SECRET -OF SUCCESS
Initial British successes in the
desert battle were dee, it seems,
to the impact on the enemy of a
six -hour barrage and a -great deal
of bagpipe Music.
—Boston Globe
0
COUNTING SHEEP
One airman writes home that
the Australian farmer has so many
sheep to count he ' has trouble
•staying awake in the daytime.
—Brandon Sun
i
THE ROMMEL TWO-STEP
The latest. dance, according to
ais the Rommel
wise -cracker, ,
two-step. You drop your arras,
leave your partner, and run.
—Kitchener Record
- ONE IN EVERY HOME
Would that firm advertising for
house wreckers be interested in a
powerfal specimen aged 6?
—Boston Globe'
ALTERNATIVE
If Hitler finds the Russian front
too cold this winter, let him try
Africa, where the heat's on.
--Ottawa Citizen
No Need To Falter
(Sing George's Speteem
Throne)
"Our enemies yet remain power-
ful. and we • can look forward to
no easy task. all our fortitude
and all our determination will be
needed to Will through to victory.
But I. °kstow nothing *illy shake
your pnrpoee or eau ie yo ,r steps
to falter on the way."
Old
Trees Drink
200' Gallons Daily
The anatomy and working of
the leaf of • a tree are as 'curious,
andcomplex in their fashion as
•the physiology of an eye or an ear
, -or a brain. Leaves and roots and
trunk-theseare the instruments
whereby is carried out the tree's
life. process, writes, Alan Devoe,
in "Lives Around Us."'
Occasionally, . very gently, .'a
tree moves its leaves, to let them
better catch the sun; occasionally,
very slowly,' it may reach out With.
its o.ing roots, hair fine at the
tipa, and crash a stone that 1l
.been impeding them. And always,
unceasingly; it goes about -its
soundless drinking and feeding,
drawing in the • earth's water for
its thirst, opening the million lip-
ped months of its leaves in the,
noonday sun. It may come' to
drink., in its old age, 200 gallons
ina day; it may come to breathe
out daily, in its slew invisible
vegetable .exhalations, so great a
moisture that it soaks the earth.
And then at last. after a century,
or a ,pan of centuries the heart-
wood that is i:s core crumbles to
nothing,and the staghead limbs
of its cron'n are •leafless, and
presently on. sortie day of gr eat
wind it is brought toppling down
and its life is done.
THE WAR - WEEK — Commentary. on Current Events .
Canada ' Is Third Largest Producer
Of Munitions Among Allied Nations
Up -to -the -Minute Report on Canada's Industrial Revolution by
the'Hon. C. D. Howe, Minister of Munitions
How many Canadians appreci- Commission: `I am glad to inform
ate that Canada, primarily an you that the Canadian Tanks
ae-r euural conntrye_ s now the . Valentine VII have shown good
third .,,,largest -Producer of muni-
tions'- among the allied nations?
The bion. C. D. Howe, addressing
"'an Club in Toronto last t tanks.'
"Our most spectacular expan-
sion has been in the production of
aluminum. Canada now has the
largest aluminum plant in the
world, exlianded sevenfold since
the war began., This ,plant now
hes a Capacity greater than tlfe
entire world production of alum -
inure in 1939. '
"Canada is now producing man-
nesium by, a process invented in
our own research laboratories,
which .is being w fiddly adoptedin
the United States. I believe that
ours is the lowest cost mag-nesiurt:
produced anywhere.
New Processes .
"Our national research Tabora•-
• tories are developing new pro-
cesses for making new types of
equipment en many ofthese are
Unitthat
Unsung Heroes of Empire of the Seas
British • Ballo r s' Society
Founded in 1818
In the year 1818, the . British
Sailors' Society was founded on
board the Nelson war sloop
-Speedy." The ,vessel had done
good service at the Battle of Tra-
falgar and wasprocured by some
warm-hearted business men, who
were deeply touched by 'the neg-
•
'of p
adian munitions is the best ol» e
designned. Ram tank is the beat • be a potent postwar factor in our
tank of the war. industrial life.
"l doubt if many -Canadians ' . •"yi-e are ,fortunate in slaving
appreciate the magnitude of the picked- out for Canadian prodnc-
industrial revolution" that is in tion the four most 'useful fighting
progress here. .,In prewar years planes of the war to date." Mr.
perhaps we have been unduly pes- Howe listed these' four as Hurri-
simistic about our ability to` pro-
duce, in competition with other
countries. If so, that inferiority
complex is' a thing of the, pasta
We fled that we can successfully
rna^rtake any 'type. of war pro-
duction and compete with the
world in gnelity and in produc-
tion ,costs:
"The most powerful explosive
of the war is now being manufac-
tured in Canada by a process de-
veloped by Canadian scientists and
the. Canadian process will he
largely used by our allies.
s and . dekicire's -
"The armada of more than 800
• ship's that recently moved into
North Africa carried some 40,000
Canadian mechanized vehicles.
The armies of the Empireall over
the world are almost entirely de-
pendent on mechanized vehicles
from Canada.
"Canadian armor -piercing shot
has revolutionized the makingof
this type of equipment, which pre-
vious to Canada's entry into the
field was made of high-grade tool.
steel. Today this shot is being cost of more than. $100,000,000
made from a low -alloy tyre of l "will have an important Postwar
steel, which is doing a more dead- va:ue." .
ly joii than the ste-1 citasting four Lancaster bomber. "the leading
ti nes as'tnueh four engined bomber," 'and the
"I quote from a letter from. Curt:_ s ` Helldi ver," the `latest
Soviet Government Purchasing Mr. Howe reviewed the . two
years of manufacture of optical
cane fighters, of which more than
1,000 have been delivered for the
defense of Canada and for over-
seas; the de Havilland Mosquito,
`=recognized as the World's fastest
ape most. efficient plane"; the
and best of the dive bombers." •
Mr. Howe added: "We are also
in large-scale prodpction of the
Catalina Flying .Boat, which is the
best of the Pcoastal reconnaissance
planes." .
Daring 1942 we will have pro-
duced approximately 215,000 (me-
chanized vehicle) units, One of
--hese un s-cansnmes approximate-
ly twice the material and labor
used hy a normal commercial ve-
hicle, so that our. 1942 output' is
practically equivalent to 430,000
commercial trucks, as against.. an
average of less than 40,000 per
year for the ten years prior to the
, war.
Chemical. Plants
Mr. Howe emphasized that Can-
ada is' manufacturing explosives
"on a tremendoes scale," and that
the chemical plants set up at is
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
By . Fred Neher
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"How much for. ,tbe snit?':
g1ii d in Canada. "Today our pro-
duction has reached amazing pro-
portions,"
• "Canada is making different
types of larger naval vessels. a
great•number and variety df small
patrol tope craft. and two types
of mercl-ent ships. These vee-
Bels. , inciu ling• enginee and all
equipment. are more than 95 per
cent Canadian col;tent, '
Canadian production oi` com-
munications and signal equipment
for the armed fo:ces. w -i:1 amount
to more than S100.000.000 this
y w . a:".il .to mo~e than S250,-
000,000
250:000,000 next year.
Canada exports .large and in-
crea sing oaanthes of copper. lead.
and zinc to i"r.:ted States and isi-
ports manganese, chrome tung-
sten, molybdenum and vanadium..
But large depds_ts • of chrome
have been found in Manitoba and
Qeebec. and product:..n will start
early in .1943. molybdeni'n has
been. found in Ontario and Que-
bec and is beinz developed, and
tungsten has been diaco'ered in
Colurni,:a. where a mill is
to be built -which vii:l.°a supply al-
most alt of Canada's requirements'
Synthetic Rubber
A synthetic rubber plant will he
.
in production by September, 1943,
and will supply all. Canada's war
needs and necessary civilian re-
'itL.rement_s and in the postwar
period will supply. the country's
Bluey and Curley of the . Anzacs
lect meted out to f, tie- sal ore -01-
that day. -
These business men, with some
friends, met in the City of Lon-
don Tavern, on Febar_y 12, 1818.
. The "Speedy r -u
vas beugbt and a
fee:- weeks later put into commis-
sion for the use of the sailor and
became their Arst Chapel and
Home. The opening • ceremony
"•:vas an inspir'atiun," we are told,
' "the well-wishers packed thestage
coaebei from 'B•: istol and elsewhere
and a great company assembled.
Axid soon tlh�y .t daover 124 years
ago, tile • British Sailors' .Society
was brought' into being.
For rears the "Speedy" was a
ee-ritabie refuge to storm tossed
saildrs.• Thousands were helped
and cheered. The British Sailors'
Society has gone on and ..on until
today . it is maintaining over -ONE
HUNDRED institutes and clubs for
the menof the Mercantile Navy
and of the Royal Navy all over
the seven seas.
A few months ;ago the parent
society in London sent a •cable to
our Toronto office 'telling ad the
wrecking of the " 17nder Twenty
Club for Navy Boys" at Malta by
,. enemy bombing and . how Mr. and
i Mrs.s: Matthews, in chars
e et the
1 club; had made a, clearing and
were carrying on as . wellse
Bible the great work for the
and men of •the visiting :vessels
from British and .Caeadian purls
"If my sailor boy ,goes to ala2t&.
said a' Toronto mother, 1_`ho'
tippy I will be to know .'there arse'
suet people to care for him-"
Not tally on the vessels •where
the society ministers to .the crew
"fore and aft," but when on shorn'
at all of their finely equipppe>!
Homes from Home the sailors arso
cared fol. Club .facilities of a`ill
kinds and Sunday services ` per,,
tieniarly adapted for.. sailors mf
arranged. The British Sailors'
ciety is inviting donations to erect
a new clrb and hostel for the meg
men at Malta. The first donation
has been received from .the "Lob.
law Employees' Aid to Britain
Club" of $500. This is in .a.dditina.-
to the stmt of 5400 given to help
' care fgr the crew's: of the tee..
'sweepers and dredgers operating
on the bleak sea coasts cif the
'northern :Scottish seaboards. .of
Slietiand arnd.Orkney.
The Chistmas and New 'Tea
seasons are so near! In over one
hundred .poijts the British Sailors'
Society will entertain the sailors -a -
thousands of them far from home
and loved ones,
The Canadian. ports . are .'V.aa
youver' Victoria, North Sailleelre
and others. 'Jersey and Guernsey
yonder in the Channel Islands maw
out of commission because of the
war as • are all the institutes inn
the continent of Europe. Wherever
our vessels.. go, manned byamr
British, Canadian and eeriet5ca
sailors, the British Sailore' B
ins it r . , :the and oaroe.
these boys.
full requiremente- "In the mean
time our ' dwindling stockpile 'of
crude rubber is giving ns. grave
coneerri," • Mr. H'oeve •said.
"Canada has. in three `years •
practically doubled it's natiopal
income," he said. "This has not
resulted frons inflation., nor 'is it•
due to abnormal prices .for pro-
ducts of our farms, 'forests and
mines. Many of our raw mater-
ials are selling • at or • below pre•
-
war .prices. I think it is fair to
say the increase in national in-'
tome is almost wholly dire io 1
immense increase in output of our
factories, our farms, our mines
and our forests.. More than one-•
half 'our aotal income is now being
used fer War •aurposes, but the
income so used has for the most
dart been created since ,the . war
began. Our people are spending.
for • wholly • domestic purposes
somewhat less than iminediateiyy
. before -the .war. .but .considerably
more than in the days of .depres-
sion. A,hoir one-half of our war
expenditures are being met by
taxation. and •the balance by bor-
rowing from our own people. ' Our
external debt is net being in.
e eased : in fact it. is tieing reduc-
ed. We are not in any way de-
pendent on lease -lend; we are
paring our way. meeting our ebli-
gations • and doing a job •that is •
ircreasing: our prestige 'among our
allies.._. • '
No Large Profits
"The threat of inflation. always
present in time .of alar. has :been
:net and compered."
Mr. •Howe emnhasized that in
placing war contract which now
total, 'more than $6,000.000.000,
denartmer.t exercised every
care to gain two objectives—low
,costs and :ow profits. "So far as'
we are conrrrned. no one is go-
ing to fret rich out of this. -War."
he said. as he outlined methods of
supervision lam.the Department o',
Munitions • and Sup ay over all
contracts. • the exhaustive audits
hy the Trea=::ry Department. and
-the 1-a es of taxation fixed f'in
such a way- that there iM no pur- '
pose it attentpt:he to make large
profits ;root war production."
Britain Warned
• - Invasion .Possible G,,
Sir James Grlag. S r'6reta-y to:
War, uric€: the Bt i.ish Home
Guard to - 'nt:air: constantly alert
-}
because ..,nti l tiaitres go, badly
for the Curmans Iith,ir, may try
a do or CPO in,asion of England."
"The in:'asion is not off by anyk
means." G-igg said.
Pa, Ma , and Twins
War Do Fie
Old -Fashioned, Farm Homan
Is Queerest of War Planta
At the junction of two counter
roads near Rockford. IIIinnis, stead*
one of the queerest of all 1 L
war plants, relates "Time" adage
zine. It . is a ' white' .cia.Iafiloeat
farmhouse, with, old-fashioned' gaol`
brei -roof, derinee adowe,
flower boxes at the window stills: I
is also the home office, sales Bram*
and factory of the Harrington'Brea.,
Machine Tool and Fixture Co,
manufac ur.ers of $1,000-a-mflntk
worth of machine tools` for making
Shelia and tank: turrets.
In the big living Toon last abseil,
grey-haired Pa Jodfn . Harrington..
68, worked long hours at a glibider,
grinned when the sparks' dew.
sometimes muttered: "I have mom
fun than a kid in ,ibis • place." Bux-
om Na -Harrington. 58. wearing a
house dress tucked • into over,alli,
oparateS a lathe. Twins Richard
an'i Russel;. 34. wangled new
ordere. worked a\t Tna[:itines,'0WeSit
o'n the plane at might. often were
on the job 16 hours out of 24. Air;.
Richard rept books. Mrs. Russell
did all the cooking.
a s s
The company started in the Ado.
pre-ssio:. when the Ilarrin_gton boyst.
borrowed money to build their own
:hou'e and machine shop. The ethos]
was a spare -time operation lentil
the war h: gat. Then the Barring -
tons sE•t ou:.to get some rea_ly b g
jobs. -
The first offa-.was some tooling
that. : rind he done only on a new
^4 nnr� mae'i:itie.•The twins, who had�nct r teat: seem $•t.thie. made their
ov: n n:a r•'ane — oat of • a jupkea
1a•he all old washing• machine mot
inr ::n ell pump f nni a 1026 auto-
thoeile and one of Ma's old Rash.
t 1.L to E•:::rth the oil that leaked.
New th-• 1•larrineet twins have
free subeoleracts. have given .jobs
to two hrot:ters-in-.ltiw and Bvea
0., her empJf'.',i• WIte keep tile
- sane 11,-1ii't::•a, and- ehare •iiirs'
p'u`t-= ROC k"fOre '$ logal•a
n-i'lt director: "They're doing
swc'.1 job. 1 do::'t think, they knew
wont t'tey WE `e c t'it:P into whe'S
- t: : seared. hu: they had, • the
ev- a to make a success of tea
Big c'onlpaniee which gave the
Baringe nns subroiitra: is used to
.fad ins
s ,u. pel°to - to look over fha
steep bu- harp long Bn^e riven
ue. sats Re -bard. •"1 used to
a :airg^h e:i: of those ;'-"vs
they sl,o-t"d this place, . ey went
rote -'
en
"GIve hiin a chance, Sarge"
By Gurney (Australia')