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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1940-07-04, Page 3Bells on Cats Help, To Birds Movement -Grows in Alberta To Increase ,Protection Songsters More, than 300 citizens of the central Alberta town of Red. Deer. have signed a . petition re- questing a .,by-law . ' airing.. ell 'erts ,to 'wear bells while out of doors. ' .• The petition Was circulated by the Alberta Natural History Sec- Jlety, officials of which 'announce ed there • are • 520. Red Deer . resi- - dents who 1 have erected bird haus- . ous- ... `N. Finn; social official; said; ' Red Deefr, has- ,all. the naturaI'.c+onee ditions to make, it .a bird paradise • • • but prowling eats .h a destroyed ,..many ` fledglings anal` even ' eat • -se owners Iiave agreed. belling of • the • animals. would result •in some pro- tec•tion.. ' , • • i • Mr Finnhopes the 'city will. follow the example. of Stavely where a by-law requiring belling •oF eats was. I passed in 1936. in six other Alberta '.towns=Nanton, • • 'Coleman, Stett'ler, Turney 'Palley, .nigh River and Camrose-cats • are, belled either voluntarily or byelaw and A,N.H.S. officials .re - pert the ,bird population in these eentres has increased due to this protection,'.• Flying Ports :. And Schools Made Ready HeydeY of Construction le Going On In Canada . at 'Phis Moment . -- Work Against Time, To Complete. Jobe-.• With a .drive never equalled in this "construction history of Can- ada, ,not: even in the heyday df • xailway bedding, .airports are• . being made ready and airdromes erected from the Atlantic .to the ' Pacific. Contractors have been no tified to go, all out, . irrespective • of the schedele • on which they were supposed to have been . work- ing, to •get •the jobs completed at, . the earliest possible, date. • , AIR TRAINING PLAN Elementary,`: flying training' l schools, air -observers' schools, 'bombing and gunxery„' schools,'' " service flying ,training schools, equipment , • and repair depots, wireless schools, air, navigation • schools, initial training • schools and central •flying schools .are `being made ready ' at a hectic pace. iThe speed is designed, in respect to ' fields and other facil- ities; to ,:have the commonwealth air training plan effective' in its . ultimate largeness not only to meet its general' purpose, but to provde for .emergencies . as they develop in Europe. • ' As originally planned, the scheme was worked out to have so many training fields ready this, year, so many next and so many in 1942, .AII this has gone by the , boards. Airports .which were to' be ready this autumn are now to, be ready in June or Julie FOR AIRDROME 'DEVELOP- MENT • The money allotted, up to June' 6, for airdrome development, in • various parts of Canada is as fol- lows'; Calgary, $40.9,547, Moss - bank, Sask., $330,890, Windsor, $17,500,• Lethbridge, $27.,760; . Fort William $90,389, Prince Al- bert, $17,600,; Edmonton. $48, 282, Regina $230,299,; Saskatoon $358,800, Airdrie, Altael: $89,000, •Venscoy, Sask., _$177,90, .Oster; Sask., $45,400,. Penhold, +•Alta.,, $24,250, Malton, • Ont., $70,500; Brantford $436,15$, Hagersvi]le, Qnt , $268.,300, Burtch $72;000, Ottawa $221,950; London, 4120,- 410r Windsor Mills, Que., $7f3,4- 406, MacLeod, Alta., • $340,500, Granum, Alta., $207,400, Pearce, • Alta., $62,800, Jarvis, Onit., $348,- 600, Fingal, Ont., $372,250, Char- lottetown :8248,000, Mount Hope, Ont., Edwards, • Ont, $86; 00, Dunnville, Ont., $393,350, Well- and $69,000, Kohler; Ont., $262,- 500, Quebec, $63,865, Rivers•, • Man., $265,288,'• Three, Rivers $93,270, • Summerside P. E. I., $241,300, Wellington, P.E.I., '$8.0,. 600, Carberry, Man., • $498,000, Petrel, Man., $288,500,; Oberon, Man. $76,500, Camp Norden $15,. 000, •Edeiivale, Ont., $249,100, Al- , Liston, .. Ont., $90,800, Moncton $334;343,,' Scoudouc, I11•.B:, $810, 500, Sa lisbury, N.B., $150,000, Medicine Flat $352,280,' Bolcom, Alta-., $204,900, Whitla, . Alta.,.' $50,0014'Collins Bay, Ont., $436,. 700 Ta•ylor • Ont., $•225,5.00, Sand- hurst, Ont,, $106,000, port AI., bert, Ont., $804,800, Goderich, $42,100, Vancouver. . $44,835; Moose Jaw, $523,000, Buttress, Sack., 1.$276,000, Boherni, Sask., $66,000; Piston $861,000, • •St. (Catharines $59,725, Swift Cur{ rent $32;535, Brandon ss $77,200. .,;.,��?•2 Pulp and paper nianufactur- ing in Canada uses approximate, ly 1,800,000 horse -power of hy- draulie power. , Along The Roof Of Theontjnent it is a far cry from the days ,w Major. Fred • Brewster, noted •mountaineer, • pa c k e d' .freight: through, the Canadian Rookies , bYs. .horse as• shown. • in picture • (left • above:) and the ' ease with which.. visitors W./Asper s National Park now, cover the ' old, pack , train k�oute over, the hew Columbia',Iec field Highway which` will be ficially .,opened,, July 1, One eof „• Ike world's' most` scenic, drives,• • the Columbia. Ieefield• Highway has been open from Jasper Park o the Icte old•; a distance owee right) t7tmiles dur . ing the past two years and has'' ,now been extended south another 75 miles .to Banff Park,. .From.,Jasper .Park Lodge., the,• highway' leads to' the foot of Ath- abaska. Glacier (right),'iwhere' is located • the • new Columbia Ice- • field' chalet. Near by are Snow Dome; Kitchener and other glace' • iers, . all. welded into one insep- arable • mass, binding'- these . '11,000 feet skywards. On these mountains which 'tower more than . glaciers, unexcelled , summer. ingmay be enjoyed and it is' here that • some • of the continent's out- " standing men and women skiers :train -for Canadian and inter- ' national eveTits. ` The compe letion els hway aksano her chanter in the history of ,,Jasper • National 'Park,'. '4,200 'square miles. in extent. ,The e Canadian Nationals Railway �e' Jas er Park Lodge in this, America`s -largest' National Park, now offers visitors the earllery y days explorers traderre s • -and trappers, set up their, prim- itive camps. • THE WAR . W E.E K Commentary On Current Events France Signs s Herself Away; • - Budget Brings Heavy Taxes A blitzkrieg of taxes struck .• hie D the House, the Parliament of anrinion last week following • Great Britain • would have to : am -a: the' bringing down of the Budget. • end the B. N. A. 'Act,.' transfer= With drastic: increases in income . • taxation reaching virtuallyring to the Dominion, from the• every provinces, authority over - unem- earner, almost prohibitive taxes on automobiles' and several. new tax- p1°yment insurance . . prepar- es, Finance Minister Ralston task- •The people of Canada f ed tremendous sacrifices, of the ed last week fol: the reception of Canadian • •past numbers of evacuee Children people for war purpos- ' from Great Britain es. For the first time, the cost ofo, open , the war was carried direct to' the ands placement homes were' ilrr en,...opbe pocket -books of every+ � � of children ,..to be group in the .country.income• • handled by the Provincial Go ernments:. , Battle of France Ends "On June • • 5 ' .the Battle of France began, the Gernians tak- ing off southward from the. Somme -Aisne line. Against all the material ' and . manpower General Weygand could mass, the ' Gei - • • man' army under General Von' Brauchitsch hurled .40, ' then 60 then 120, finally 150 divisions. By June 10 they were within 35 miles of Paris, with pincer's cure: ing .down from east and west. On • June 14 the pincer's met at Paris and it. was surrendered." June 17, Marshal ' Petain, neevly-elected French Premier, indicated that the fight was hopeless, asked for ` an armistice. June 21.. .French plenipotentiaries met Adolf Hit; leis in the Forestof Compiegne (in the same railway car where Marshal Foch in 1918 announced" the terms under. which Germany laid dowfi her .arms). June,24 the "cease fire" order ' came in • the war with• Germany; The following day .France laid down her firms.a against Italy, too. The Armistice • • Affects Everyllody Highlights of the new taxation.:, Inconie'rates increased so sharply that a married. man with no 'de- penden'ts; paying. $36 on a . sal- aryof $3,000 Sunder present rates, wilt' now pay $195. , A,. new tax on automobiles start- ing at 10 per cent 'on inanufac- turers' value up to $700 and increasing sharply to, 80 per cent 'on: value in 'excess of $1,2.00 (used cars are taxed, too) , A. new ,national defense tax of two :per cent flat rate imposed on all salaries over $600. in the .case 'of ,single persons and MOO M the ' case of married '-persons, increasing to three per. cent for salaries ..of ssingle persons above • $1,200. . a' t0• per cent tax imposed pn all imports except those e;"arrzniodit.ies 'entered . under - British preferential tariff. • cigaret tax raised from $5 to $6 per 1;000, manufactured tobacco • from '.25 to 35 cents a pound, ; cigar taxes doubled, etc. , imposition of ten per cent tax on phonographs, 'radios, cameras, and• radio tubes ; • . • . The Ontario Government, fay-. ing a possible revenue' loss..ofi $3;000,000; arising' from the creased Federal income .tail lev- ies, waas expected to make a re- adjustment . of income brackets some time this year to bring 50,-'- 000 more persons, hitherto ex- empt, within t`he • tax -paying category. Meantime everywhere in Can- ada rents were going up (due .in. great part' -to an increase in coal prices) ....Food prices ren1ain0d at approxiinatety the same level u in the. past couple of months but ,gains were recorded for beef, •'Bread, calinel vegetables, pota toes, tea, coffee, onions, pepper • `and salt . . Clothing was ex - petted ' to rise as a resultof the new tax on imports and the 'di• version of textiles for war use . Unemployment' Insurance Prorogation of the first session of the 19th Parliaments of Canada Waslooked for around July 20 e ,The -1414. employment insurance ••(contrib uted tti 'b1 employers and em- ployeesl;' but before such rti Measure. c'euld .be 'brought •befoe' e Say Nighthawks Like Dive -Bombers Quite a uanurfotion'has 1 been caused in.Learitington, Ontario, during. recent nights by night hawks 'that frequent the town's bt sin'ess section. Sound Of the birds as they dive after, insects has .iieen compared to that of dive -bombers. Great Britain was next in Line for a. totalitarian attack by. Ger- enany, that the moment Hitler's pr-eparetions "were complete, the blitzkrieg enthe British Isles s. would begin,..proedin,. with b`oanbing, subnia"rine warfare and an armed iiivasion.The' people' of Er-tain braced themselves for • the, blew.. ' " • • . • n • 7`he balazice• of power on tin 'sea depended on who obtained.' the. French navy. It, was' known • , 'that , the •addition Of the.'. French . . fleet 'to the. navies .of Germany •'and •I'taly` would bring the Axis to. tonnage., parity with Britain and to, numerical superiority, with 90 per cent more fighting ves- sets Prime Minister Church - 111, voicing his anger at" 'the , b ' manner in which the Petain regime' had violated its "Many solemn assurances" 'in ceding' sea power.. to the Nazis, acknowledged that ' the ultimate .disposition of the .French fleet.' would "powerfully though not decisively affect" Bri-. tain's 'safety . ,.. ' In the. war with : Italy; Britain was aware that 'loss •of the French• 'Navy• would seriously endanger her position: throughout 'a vast • 4'0;000 mile, theatre stretching from • Gibraltar • to Aden, beeapse all land fore'es involved therein must be supplied • •bysea . • . Japan' ,In Ascendancy The effects of European swar, actual and anticipated, were een last • week •.•as exercising a dynamic,. influence 'on • Japan's in ternational policy, ,A, .change. in • Britain; •a•11 military equipment the world balance',. Japanese lead s -inferred, might thean that. 'Furrend'ered, alil•'aircraft : ground- .Japan 'k;cold not only be "inter • ed; all roads, Grains,' railways'giv.. • .ested • in an alliance with the en' up; all • radio stations , had • tie. Axisppowers, • but in making Ther stop operations; all militai• - fore- ' pdsitid,n in •ehePacific and the es • began demobilization with -the Far . East impregnable. exception of. troops necessary •for . It was expected that Japan . maintaining order. The armistice. .:vould short] issuee. a sx a p was only an expedient, Berlin in- . • roneunceme t amounting to a,ping n dicated '. , final, peace' talk must '"Oriental • • M o n'r o e' Doctr ne" • await the Battle. of Britain •. warning all spetvers against inter - Mussolini Waits ference of any kind in all terri- With Italy, France :signed. an • toi•ies.• in East Asia.. "The dream armistice ' granting M.ussolMi a of '.decades . a Far East don- smail portion of ' territory along mated by Japan -was on the the Alpine frontier. 'The.. French. verge.. of, climbing into the realm a1oi agreed to demilitarize:.1, a ` of'action. " ("Time,•, Attie 24)..Strip ofIanit itt-one Miler. "The only forcewhich • could on. the. Italian border; 2, a strip turn that 'dream into a nightmare of, territory in • Tunisia. on the • s has always: been. the ,15. S. The African' Mediterranean coast;' .3, big question . taking shape last' • portion portioof French Algeriabor week appeared to be: could' the dering• on Italian • Libya ; 4, .'the U. S. summon enough diplomatic French, Somaliland port and ,'rail- • • adroitness to make friends' with road terminus of Djibouti, key to „ Japan without: 1. selling out 'both , Italian Ethiopia. These . zones • were ' China 'and the Allies in. the , Far to be kept ` demilita'rized for • the bast; 2. being double-Crossed. duration of the. Armistice -until herself if sh'e attempted. too' much the• end of Germany's and Italy': appeasement;. Failing either al- • war '::against England, and until • ternative, could the United States a formal peace treaty is `c'anclud- risk a war with Japan?" ed to satisfy' Italy's territorial demands 'against France.. "No One., Can Tell" All the countries of the Medi_ • terr•anean 'basin ;were seriously • . affected by the collapse of France and the signin•• of the wo pique Sharkskin, • Dotted arm- istices ,. . Turkey in particular • was agitated .by. the thought, of a '$Fisc Muslin :and Printed . powerful drive by the Axis in the Voile eastern Mediterranean (aimed at • 'cutting •.off Suez and grabbing • Pique, sharkskin; dotted swiss ,the' harbors and ri�cli oil 'districts muslin and printed voile are favor - of: the Neal East), and feared ite fabrics: for. morning housecoats: a' -Fascist attack on French -man- • Even the most{ iuexpensive seen in dated Syria' .. In Egypt, resig- New York axe charming in color nation of Ali Maher Pasha could- • and very well styled and cut. A mean the early entry of his coun- white pique with wide, squared -off try into the war .. . In a message, collar, cuffs and pocket trimmed' "to the ,people. of North .Africa," • with bright red riekraebraid will the French, High Commissioner in make any one feel cheerful in the French Morocc•a declared that his morning. crack Moroccan troops would not . ALL; iuslIn FB mnied IRIS yield one inch of French North Swiss muslin., trimmed with del- • African territory without a fight, irate lace edging, or more tailored Hitler's object, apparently, in the armistice notwithstanding , type's in sharkskin may be had, not 'forcing the particular terms that Vern •n Barle.t 'British mein- only in' white but in, luscious pastel he did upon France was to secure belt. of • Parliaments and writer in colors. Almost all r, made to fns-' every • possible facility, dor his the London News Chrorride con- ten with zippers, r sit keep, ones blitzkrieg , on Br•tain. All ' the mentede' "The French surrender looking haat nore se ,ter and quick- .ten French Channel • and Atlantic -involves, political, ehaliges all over s one has dressed, and all hive Coasts;.were'•aceupied by German the. world and no one can ,•yep skids with plentysIf 'loom, .and forces; French warships -and hay- tell their 'magnitude." y well cut .sleeves, so if thero is a s al egpipment were to be turned train to be caught after breakfast, Britain For ' It ' u ire c' x.e,< !/ M y ep 44;0•,., over to Ment we for .lige against But all the world knew that you can fly around comfortable. " `n �. There --naw 1 6o e You snake toast and CO2Pee,i.;,' P i you're convinced that those fin •e guest towel ale fact mine!'" • Jr ;";frit:. on t1�1A' Y • •BEG'L�.R iF°EL,EEI�B--•Ver • Considerate' • By GENE BYRNES Marcy- Materials For Housecoats Fo r Better Desserts r - 4. 'ch 9 P�+lucf St. Lawrence Strad!' 62. Ltd D20 - - lY • not be Is Plf f event'. ' . n A.Lot More Spacing and Few- er, hrotes. -- People'Who Do • :Not Like It, Should .;Not Be Condemned There are lots of people. who are not Scots who' say they enjoy hear,. ing the benzines, although some. qualify their appreciation: by saying, ,the pipes sound best when the op- erator is a long distance away. Others, real Scats perhaps, says the Stratford Beacon -Herald, think that there, is no grander or more inspir- ing music -than a hundred pipers an' a'• an' a' at close quarters. We learn, however,, that there is a reeson'why 'one•likes or dislikes the pipes. A blind •Scottish piper told a. service club recently that 91- though the note'scale is siniilar'to the ordinary scale, the spacing is sometimes different;• so that' to those. • who' have not been •brought up with. the sound Of the pipes . in their ears the music sounds atroc-' Nue. Therefore, he generously add - At . Calgary Convention H. E. Rice, publisher of tate Huntsville ,Forester, is President of the'Canadian Weekly News- ,papers Association io t on isbeinheld this se ,week in ` the Palliser 'Hotel, Calgary. LIFE'S L.iKEI THAT'A , ed, Peel*? vele" don't like it Qbud cond emwed• sxlxx, q o F THE IPE 'Undoubtedly -There. ,is s.einething "different" about bagpipe and this is the first •time wa.learn- ,, edwhat it is. We hope some of our friends .1who ere ;insultingly "eriti,cal will make, • allowan•ees , and '• adapt themselves tothe skirl of the pipes • . ' and we fear it'wouldnit do then - any good anyway if the notation was standardized. You really have to have Scottish blood in you to. en., • joy• the fail' flavour of • the national instrument -of Scotland; If•you .Have not -- ."that's your :misfortune. The Bask: Shelf "STARS ON ' THE SEA" By F..' van Wyck • Mason A 'spunky girl, a fine Net 'com- bine to ,make this historical • novel by van • Wyck Mason a 'ioueing . story. , "Stars . on • the Sea" is the tale of the U. S. Colonists, who, in • the face of .• an all-powerful foe, dared to flaunt their thirteen stripes 'and' thirteen stars on the' .sea. 'It is drama, gripping • and authentic. One of the major novels of the year, the hook presents. ' a new version, of . the War of In- dependence, as seen in a north- ern colony, a southern colony -' and a tropical island colony-- Rhode 'Island, South Carolina and the Bahamas. Historic char- acters come alive with all /their ,anguish; hope. and Suffering. , No reader Will ever forget .Desire" Harmony Bennett of , Newport, Sam Higsby, the Pennsylvania rifleman,; or scholarly. Nat Co f-• fin of Nantucket: ' "Stars on ,the Sea", , , -F van Wyck Masora . 6y To,• Fronto: Longmans, Green & . . . $3.00: 8 -Egg -Per -Days • Hen Wins Note Mrs. ,Chris sOleen of Bellevue,'' • Wash., • reported tier.. Rhode Island, ' Red hen laid., eight eggs 'Thur- - • 'day, .rested Friday, then rallied- • with two Saturday and five Snne day. • By Fred Neh'ey WHY; BOYS, you've CIJEAtED THE CELLAR MAftNpW$lt y "HbW t t Ct l• eo owe You FOR i'HI% WORT( 4i WE'RE NOT 10 MAKE A PRICE FO,R DOING IS lk.' BIT OF WORK FOR 'Ali MRS. MALARKY, YOU'RE TOO NICE / WED RATHER TAKE TNE"WENNY.FIVE CENTS IbtkL PROBABLY WE'D us , TNAN 114E. NICKEL WED CHA E YOU FOR DOIN' THEA s"‘"\'''1":7).4 •