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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1945-10-04, Page 7THIS W^-APV<XWTE, EXCTOj ONTARIO, THURSDAY MOHNING, aCTOBBB 4, W $ »**!• Pag<? T New Ministers Welcomed in Huron ■w « “thunderhead".. by Rita Hanson “I’ll bet everything I own that Murray is in that plane,” Lesley said firmly. “I heard him getting his orders from del Santo tonight only I didn’t realize what was goin& on then.” “Del Santo!” Edith said. “You aren’t accusing him, Lesley? That's ridiculous! It's bad enough to think of Murray . . ,” “It’s not ridiculous,” “Who were the kidnap Lesley who’s Estella fairly obvious, is -a surprise!” They followed him into the room where he walked straight up to Estella, “Look,” he said, ”wa know that you and Murray working for del Santo, want to know who del working for!” Estella said, “How did out?” before she realized was telling everything. She "broke down then and told them that Mur­ ray was an agent of del Santo’s; that it was Murray who had sab­ otaged the Mountain Airline until del Santo had been able to buy it when it was bankrupt. And now del Santo was trying to buy this airline so he could have -a monopoly on the transportation situation. “But he’s so wealthy!” Edith protested. “Such a cultured South American gentleman . . “He’s no more South American than you are!” Estella hissed. “He is an agent for my government, just as I am! Oh! I don’t care what I tell you now. The 'Cause . . . my job, nothing matters now that I have had to kill Brett! I hated del Santo because he made nie do it. I hope you find him . . . but you won’t find him, because he will be gone by now! He planned to leave after the fiesta on his yacht. And he decided to take Lesley Saunders at the last minute. I told “him he couldn’t do it! And I was right . , . you caiight us!” “I had an idea he was taking ■"somebody’s orders,” Nick said. Edith looked bewildered. Estella went on dully: “He was here to begin the work; to lay down the foundations for the day when my country will take over this country and all its resources. . He had control of half the coastline ready! And he will kill me if finds .me! I’m a traitor! . . . will kill me! . . .” She began cry wrackingly agaip and Nick her alone. She was so distraught that she had no idea of what she was saying, or what it would mean . to her. , After an hour or so Windy -took off his headphones and looked around, “Jim just saw the lights of Brett’s ship’for a moment. He’s .about 10 .minutes from the pass.” There was a long silence in the group that remained in the room. Lesley’s mind pictured the scene and she wondered if Jim was frightened. She prayed that he was calm. If only he -could reach Brett before Murray’s ship did! |And if Nick said, men who tried to working for? working for? But Murray! ‘And It’s That radio “we are Now we Santo is you find that she al­ ii e He to let Highland Cedar FENCE POSTS LARGE RUN Sound, Straight and Peeled AT LOWER PRICES also Lumber and Shingles A. J. clatworthy We Deliver Phone 12 Grantor WHEN IN TORONTO Maks Your Hom* Wawrteg LOCATED on wldo SPADlNA AVE. At Collage Street . . . RATES . . . Single $1.50- $3.50 Double $2.50- $7.00 Write for Folder We Advise Early Reservation A WHOLE DAY'S SIGHT-SEEING WITHIN WALKING blSTANC^ A. M. POWELL, Prouident ■) lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll only Brett would understand what Jim was frying to do! ‘Fifteen thousand feet up with a speedometer reading beyond the 400 mark. Jimmie brushed his breath from the cold glass and peered out into the muffled dark­ ness. The fog was in thin shreds, drifting around him and obscuring his view, He was sure he had seen two tiny lights ahead of him. He stepped up the speed slowly, gent­ ly, and smiled at the way the ship responded to his slightest touch. It was everything that Windy had hoped it would be. In a dogfight it could run loops around any other fighter plane.' There! He saw a pin-prick of red and then like a movie slowly fad- ding in, th© black outline plane in front of him. them loomed the dark Wall and the pass that big enough foi* two planes flyjn, wing-tip to wing-tip, Brett would be in the pass in a moment. Before he heard it or even saw it, Jim sensed the presence of the kill­ er’s plane. It must have been cruising beyond sight in the bank of clouds at the right, but now it swooped out and like a fierce bird of prey came down on his tail. Jim heard the whine and sputtering o, machine gun bullets in back of him and over >his head. The plane was in a perfect position to finish him ■off, riding his tail. Desperately,, Jimmie went over forward, throw­ ing his ship straight for the earth, levelling out and swooping up at a breathless angle as the solid rock and scrub of the mountaian side flashed up toward his windshield. He was tense and excited, but not frightened. This plane would do anything! He felt that it was al­ most part of him. He was quite near to the armea plane, although he had shaken it off his tail/ and for a second, he saw a white, blurred face. Mur­ ray’s! Windy had told him in his last message that they thought it was Murray but he hadn’t really been able to believe it until now! He felt a stinging cold anger almost wept that he had no chine gun to give Murray a fight. Murray had left -him and going after Brett now. Jimmie pushed his sensitive motor to the limit. The quick forward leap and the live, surge of .power awoke a like strength in him. He was cut­ ting in ahead of Murray now, get­ ting in between Murray and Brett. He got his revolver out of his jacket pocket. He heard the machine gun again and saw that Brett was com­ ing back to help him. He dived, toward Brett as though chasing him away and when -he was near enough he waved his arm forward ana pointed toward the south. Couldn’t- Brett understand that he wanted him to leave—to get away safely? Brett waved back and kept closing in. He would be in the line of fire in a .moment. Jimmie pulled the stick back until he was up out of range, above the other two planes. Then he dove at the center of Mur­ ray’s ship, using dive bomber tac­ tics and shooting down into the covered cockpit with his revolver when he was at the bottom of the dive. I-Ie saw Murray’s startled face and a small jagged hole in the top of the fuselage but he -knew he hadn’t hit the pilot. Murray was coming straight at Brett, who, in his heavily loaded, unmaneuverable plane, could do almost nothing to avoid him. The machine gun tat­ tooed the thin cold air again. “Brett won’t' leave,” Jimmie’s voice said on the radio. “If only he would, I could keep Murray here for a while and then get away by outflying him.” His.voice stop­ ped suddenly and Windy waited. Jimmie hadn’t told them anything else, he was too busy most of the time. They couldn’t tell what was happening. The sky behind Jimmie seemed to grow light and for a second he did not know what it was. Then he turned his head and saw a pointed flame on the fuselage. It spread swiftly as he watched it. He saw the wind whip the flames out be­ hind him, while sparks flew up in little spurts. After a first panic- stricken inoment when he searched madly for a way to put it out, he knew that there was nothing he could do. It had spread too far be­ fore he had seen it. He shot down again between the two ships, drag- ing the yellow streaks of light be­ hind him, away from the gas tanks. Ho intercepted another^ burst of -ma­ chine gun fire. If he didn’t do some­ thing in a few moments, he would not hot left had With ah effort, he climbed again, fighting for altitude. A sudden de­ termination made his breath come short and ened with most wild, “Windy,” Won’t be able to bring your baby back, I’ve been careless with her. But I know you’ve got plans of liet* and'it won't be hard to build an­ other. You can do it, Windy, kept his receiving set turned off. He didn’t want to hear Windy talk­ ing fo him, asking questions. It was no time for questioning any­thing. He left the radio on but he didn’t say anything else. Suddenly lie hac his hands full. The controls were wild and he whs losing -altitude.. He felt the Warmth of the fire in buck of him. in a moment and Murray place to fire of Brett’s Ahead of mountain was just g and ma- reai was be around to help at all. A dull pain spread at the top of his arm and he saw that Murray drawn first blood. fierce and his face hard- a grimness that was al- He spoke into the radio, he said, “I’m sorry I He It would -hit the tanks He was above Murray Was maneuvering Into on Brett, Illllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Jimmie smiled. He felt good, This was real fighting. It would have been more fun if he had had a ma­ chine gun, but this way was just as effective. He looked out” at the fireligbted landscape below him; the crags and ravines of gray moun­ tain rock, and the unstarred sky. The fog wag clearing away. There would be a moon and stars later on. Deliberately he turned the ship into a spin above Murray, praying that the fall would be right. He was conscious when he hit. The last sound Windy heard was a loud, exhultant yell and a noise that seemed to cut his eardrums and burst inside -his head before he got the earphones off, In the radio room, everyone was on his feet, frozen at the sound. Windy turned to them, rubbing his ears. They were cut off completely now. The battle was four hundred miles away and out of their reach. Still everyone sat down again and waited the rest of the night, wait­ ing for a chance that might come through. It was not until the noon that they learned happened, Not until then did they learn how Jimmie had. died. That afternoon, at four o’clock, Brett’s plane ame in. There was a crowd to meet him when he stepped out, unshaven and sleepless, He told Ahem all about it, leaning for sup­ port against the plane. “Jimmie flew like an ace, ... when the ship was enveloped in flames and at the last minute he dove straight into the other ship and they went down together in one twisting, .burning mass. When they hit the ground there was an expolsion. There wasn’t much left of anything . . He told them how he hadn’t been able to land near there and so had flown on to his destination, deliv­ ered his cargo and signed a new contract, and flown back .as soon as he had recovered Jimmie’s body. “We went up into the mountains and examined the wreck,” he said. ‘.‘We buried Murray there. The na­ tive workmen from the oil fields dug his ’grave and they' brought Jimmie back.” His body, tightly wrapped in a blanket was carried out of the plane and Brett helped bring it into the house. No one knew what to say about it; .but their silence was more a tribute to Jimmie than any words or tears might have been. .Lesley met Brett in the doorway and .took him into her arms, He clung to her and she stroked his dusty, tangled hair. She- sa'fd, ** would have died, too, if you hadn come back.” He said, “I thought you’d be gone. I thought I’d never see you again.” “Silly,” she said, “I’ll always -be here when you come back.” He kissed her then and his beard scratched her and his shirt smelled of gasoline and his hands were -hard with mud. And it was wonderful. The End something next after- what had even Huron Presbytery met in Walton United Ohurch, on Wednesday with, the chairman, Rew. R, G. Hazie- wood presided, The new ministers in the Pres­ bytery were welcomed and intro­ duced. They are Revs, C. B. Wool- ley pf Ashfield, F. G. Stotesbury of Bayfield, G. C, Weir of Centralia, W, J, Rogers of Dungannon, 0. W. Down of Exeter, Albert Hinton of Kippen, and A. D, Penman of Londesboro. ♦Inspiring and instructive ad­ dresses were given by Revs. Dun­ can McTavish, president of London Conference; M, P. Smith, confer­ ence convener of the Missionary and Maintenance Fund, and George Moore, conference director of th# Crusade for Christ, In order effectively to launch the •Crusade for Christ and the King­ dom, Presbytery was divided into four each, ............ .. ....... Seaforth, Rev. W, A, Beecroft Wingham, Rev. R, H, Turnbull Goderich, and Rev. A. B, Irwin Exeter. Presbytery accepted an alloca­ tion of ,$26,185 for the Missionary and Maintenance Fund for the year 19 46, This is 11 per cent more than the allocation for 1945, Regret was expressed at the pass­ ing of Rev. John W. Johnson, who though superannuated, has ably supplied on the Bluevale charge for the past two years, Temporary Victory Loan Executive Meeting Huron County executive had their first meeting in preparation for the Ninth Victory Loan in Clinton Town Hall on Thursday, -September 27th with each member ‘pledging his support in the forecoming loan and. expressing Huron County’s ful loans would Mr. Beecroft, highlights of the new'loan, explain­ ed that, as there would be no loan in the spring, each municipality would -be asked to raise coiisider- ably more than their Eighth Loan quota and that the new bonds could be purchased with a down payment of 5 % and twelve months to pay. • The organization for the Ninth Loan is well under way with the same organizers. -Messrs. H. J. Vandewater, J. A, Lumsden and J. R. Hilborn as representatives of the National War Finance Commit­ tee. Members Of The Executive The County Executive is com­ posed as follows: Honorary chair­ man, Alex Alexander; chairman, Rev, W. A, Beecroft; vice-chairmen, Robert Bowman, R. Frank Fingland, K.O., kead, H. 0. MacLean, Ross Scott; payroll Tennant G. L. chairman, C. K. Saunders; adminis­ tration section, A. H, Erskine; ag­ riculture Liaison committee, Huron County Federation of Agriculture, chairman, A. Morgan, president, H. Sturdy; Huron County War Serv­ ices Committee. HueSton; Ontario Dept, representative, F. K. B, Stewart. ■confidence that string of success­ remain unbroken., in outlining the N. Creech* James Kin- savings chairman, M. B, special names chairman, Parsons; .public relations zones with a key man Rev, H. V. Workman for for for for for supply, In the person pt Rev, s, J, Brjdgette, pf Lambeth, has. been ar­ ranged for Bluevale, Presbytery accepted the applica­ tion of Ernest George Clarke, Sea­ forth, as a candidate for the min­ istry, Benson Sutter, president of Huron Young People’s Union, spoke briefly about the Loudon Confer’ ence Young People’s convention held in North Street United Church, Goderich, recently. He said it was one of the best, and he had attend­ ed the last 13 annual conventions. A resolution requesting the On­ tario government to close all wo­ men’s beverage rooms was ed. Presbytery urged that Wide Communion Sunday . _ „ served, in the churches on Oct, 7, Words of commendation were ex­ pressed for the people of Kippen, and Ontario Street, -Clinton, because of many improvements in their church property. Rev. W, A. Beecroft spoke on be­ half of the Victory Loan about to he launched, He warned against a let-down because the war was over, and appealed for support to feed the hungry of Europe and to bring .our hoys home, ” It was decided to hold the next meeting of Presbytery in Ontario Street United Church, Clinton, about the end of November, as ar­ ranged by the Presbytery executive. LETTER RQX adopt- World" he oh- 1 «“•........................... a Word ibas been received at Dash­ wood from S/Sgt. Urban C. ner or better known as son of William Zimmer, wood, Ontario. Yes folks, my job has pjeted at the Air Service Depot at Warrington, England, I ani now with the 8th Air Force at Bury St, Edmund, England- I ata a Crew Chief on a B17 Flying For­ tress. I am kept very busy as I go with my plane on all trips, We fly all kinds of freight also men to many different countries such as Ireland, Scotland, France, Belguim, Holland, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, ‘ ‘ ‘ - - England. ..................._ trips to Exeter, England. It is all very thrilling and most exciting way up in the “Wild Blue Yonder,” I am with the 94th Bomb Group which made 326 successful missions ovei* Germany, My outfit has been decorated with six Battle Stars, a Citation and the Oak Leaf Cluster, Germany is really a beautiful coun­ try but there is nothing left of it as it is completely destroyed by bombing, I am now very busy get­ ting my plane in good condition to make a trip to the United States of America, May1 God bless all of you. Best regards to all. Good luck and best wishes. I’ll keep ’em flying, S/Sgt. Urban C, Zimmer (Buster) ZJm- Buster, a of Dash- been com- Command Africa, Eygpt and all of In fact, we make daily SHIPKA Bunday next., Get, 7 th, there will he no churph u-ervlce -or Sunday School due to anniversary services at Creditor United Church. The Sacrament of the Imrd*§ Supper will be observed on Sunday, Oct, 14th, .at Sunday School following. The neighborhood and commune ity held a social evening Monday this week at the school in honor of Mr, Karl Guenther, Mrs. Hum" phrie& and Paul who are leaving; shortly, They were {presented with glftB. Backache-Kidneys Most people fail to recognize the seriousness of a bad back. The stitches, twitches, and twingee are bad enough and cause great .suf­ fering, but pack of the backache and the cause of it all is the dis­ ordered kidneys crying out a warn­ ing through the back. A pain in the hack is the kidneys7 cry for help. Go to their assistance. Get a box of Dean's Kidney Pills. A remedy for backache and sick kidneys. “Doan’s” are put up in an oblong grey box with our trade mark a 11 Maple Leaf” on the wrapper. Refuse substitutes. Get4 -Doan’s.”' The T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont, FARMERS TOURIST OUTFITTERS <? X I* rl who hove been using For the Immediate Attention of MARKED GASOLINE On and after October 1, 1945, gasoline will no longer be marked for special uses. Marking of gasoline for special uses under the jurisdiction of the Oil Controller for Canada having been discontinued, the tax exemption purchase permit system is thereby ended. Farmers, fishermen, guides and tourist outfitters will be entitled to claim refund of the Provincial Gasoline Tax where applicable. Claims, accompanied by receipted invoices, must be submitted to the Gasoline Tax Branch, Department of Highways, Parliament Buildings, Toronto within six months from date of payment of invoices. A simplified method of assuring prompt payment of refunds, eliminating affidavits for each claim, has been worked out. As there is no rationing of gasoline m Canada, marked gasoline, under the jurisdiction of the Oil Controller for Canada, has been eliminated, thereby ending the tax exemption purchase permit system. To meet the desire of everyone to be relieved of wartime restrictions, the Provincial Government has developed a new system as free from controls and difficulties as possible. A simplified refund form has been prepared which eliminates the necessity of an affidavit being taken for each refund claim. This form may be obtained on application to the Gasoline Tax Branch, Department of Highways, Toronto, Ontario. .president, K. J. of Agric. CAB PLUNGES FORTY F'EET THROUGH CLINTON BRIDGE A car, owned and driven by Percy Manning, of Clintdn, crashed iiito the bridge on No. 4 highway1 at the Outskirts of Clinton on 'Friday eve­ ning of last week, and took a drop Of 40 feet after .breaking off four posts. Mr. Manning, _ __’ “ by Douglas Kennedy and Alvin Sharp, also of Clinton, was return­ ing from London in the evening. The accident .^ resulted when the Car was allegedly crowded of? the highway by a passing car, Douglas Kennedy was taken to Clinton Hos­ pital ‘for X-rays of his neck injuries, The car was badly smashed up. accompanied • The ending of marked gasoline sale removes difficulties made necessary by this wartime control. • Complaints were made that marked gasoline was detrimental to the equipment in which it was being used. • Records and reports necessary under the marked gasoline system will no longer be required* • Extra storage facilities will be unnecessary for the separate storage of graded and marked gasoline with consequent saving to the consumer. c » i/ GASOLINE Department of Highways, Province of Ontario GEO. H. DOUCETT J* H* ROBINSON Minister of Highway* Ch^ Inspector Gasoline Tax *