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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1941-03-13, Page 3PAGE THREE Quality Counts Most Hny.i.aamju’jii, joint Indo? com- Indo-GhinE War Ended Tokyo — Government circles said the conflict between French China and Thailand is "almost pletely settled.” Thursday, March 13th, 1941 WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES SALADA T E tire Italian army.O.A.C. Classes to Continue Toronto •— Classes at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, will continue for all except the girl stud ents after certain buildings are taken over for a wireless training school by the Royal Canadian Air Force. After a week of uncertainty in which the fut ure of the famous college remained in doubt .Premier M. Hepburn told, the Ontario Legislature that a plan had been worked out whereby the teach ing of scientific agriculture would con- tinue at O.’A.Ci with very little dislo cation to the students or faculty. Only inconvenience will 'be the fact students will have to find boarding houses in ( downtown Guelph. f ..•..... Conquest Final in Somaliland Cairo — Final conquest of Italian Somaliland was announced by the Middle East command, along with the capture, destruction or grounding of 12 Axis merchantmen in naval opera tions which knocked out the colony’s two chief bases for Indian Ocean raid- f ers — Chisimao and Mogadiscio. Britain Bars Food for France Washington — Britain, blocking a shipment of cefeal, has decided against any further relaxation of the blockade of United States food supplies for Un occupied France, it was reported. Nazis Talk Against U.S. Bprlin—An alleged effort by Pres ident Roosevelt to keep Yugoslavia from approaching the Axis has pro duced “a new. accent on European-Am erican relations,” the German com mentary Dienst Aus Deutschland claimed. The only report in Central Europe of any s-ucli alleged effort by the United States president was a story in the B-udapest paper Magyard sag, .but this story was picked up at length by the German radio and D.N. B., the Genman news and propaganda agency. A Hqckey War Glace Bay, N.S. — The dizzy drama of the Cape Breton Hockey League play-offs was catapulted onto a ^new stage. Glace Bay’s town council, tak ing up the cudgels for its much-batter ed team, called on the Nova Scotia Government for a public inquiry into amateur hockey in Nova Scotia. MacDonald Honors Churchill London — Prime Minister Churchill was termed "the high constable of the tower of England” in a warm tribute by Malcolm MacDonald, high com missioner designate to Canada. Adap ting a Churchillian phrase, he told a Canadian Club luncheon in a witty speech that "never in the field of hu man conflict was so much owed by so many to one man.” Mexico Would Sign Pact Mexico City — Foreign Minister Ezeuiel Padilla told the Mexican Sen ate that Mexico would "not hesitate to sigh a military pact with the Unit ed States” should an emergency aris ing from the present war require it. $44,500,000 Given to Buy Planes London — Lord Beaverbrook, min ister of aircraft production, announced that gifts for the purchase of airplanes now exceed $44,500,000. It was an nounced that after March 31 it is pro posed to devote 10% of the money sent in to benevolent funds of service charities of three fighting forces and the merchant navy. Canada to Make New Guns Ottawa — H« J, Carmichael, director-general of munitions produc tion, disclosed that 14 types of g-uns and 10 types of carriages or mountings are “being produced or to be produced very shortly,” in Canadian plants, We are going to manufacture in Canada two types of anti-aircraft guns of the most modern design the world knows. Probe Farmhouse Bombing Ottawa-^-Royal Canadian Air Force court of inquiry investigated the ac cidental bombing by an R.C.A.F. air craft qf a farmhouse and out-buildings near Petawawa. An earlier statement said two bombs were accidentally re leased from a plane during routine testing of samples from a new ship ment of aerial bombs. Turkey Has "Wait and See” Attitude Ankara — Turkey adopted a wait- and-see attitude with Yugoslavia’s de cision and the extent of British back ing, for Greece said to be prominent factors in her policy-making. Now that Germany is her next-door neighbor in occupied Bulgaria, Turkey is strength ening her defence preparations, but most observers agree that the pros pects of her being thrown into war immediately are remote. Consider Compensation Plan Toronto—A system to provide com pensation for persons injured in auto mobile accidents by financially irres ponsible drivers is now under consid eration by the Ontario Government, it was learned at Queen’s Park. * Gardiner Blames Newspapers Ottawa Hon, J. G. Gardiner, Min ister of National War Services, in the House of Commons said that "there is no organized group in the Dominion that has done more since the fall of 1939 to delay the war effort of this country than certain sections of the press of this country.” Raid Norwegian Islands London . - British and Norwegian forces sank 11 ships under German command, captured 225 prisoners in a surprise raid on the Lofoten Islands, off the coast of Norway, an official announcement said. lllgl Compare What You Check up the extra advantages, at no extra cost, that Chevrolet brings you! Besides the features illustrated above there’s a bigger, more beautiful Body by Fisher, of the same design and quality used on many higher- priced cars ... There’s a safety-increasing ,1 Get For What You Pay! W&tk |ot Victey... 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Believe Russia Making Move Belgrade—A new phase of the grim Nazi-Soviet chess game with heUpless Balkan nations as the pawns was in progress, with Russia’s Sitaim .-appar ently moving to counter Hitler’s move into Bulgaria. High diplomatic -quart ers here heard that Russia !had de manded immediate cession by ■mania of Black Sea naval bases. Ru- Ousted by II Duce Gen. Ugo Cavallero, Italian general staff chief, who has been superseded as commander in Albania, by Gen. Carolo Gelloso, 11th Army command- • ■ er, according to Athens’ reports. It was not definitely known if Gelloso had been made’chief of staff of the en- Weygand at Vichy Viyhy — Back home after almost half a year of mysterious isolation in North Africa, Gen. M'axime Weygand spent 23/& hours in consultation with Premier Petain. Some competent ob servers deduced that the visit ^of Wey gand, commander of an untested French Colonial army, foreshadowed establishment of .a firmer central au thority, emanating from Vichy, over the African Empire. Losses Light in Libya London — The Government Parliament that the British .army had lost only 525 men in the -.entire cam paign against Italy in Africa and the Middle East. Capt. David iMargesson, war secretary, said of these 438 were killed and 87 are missing. An addit ional 1,249 were wounded. told Carol and Lupes.cu Escape from Spain Seville, Spain — Former King Carol of Rumania and Magda Lupescu es caped from a pplice escort in Carol’s automobile and have made their way into Portugal. M ■ ■ WINGHAM Greece Stands with Britain Athens — Greece rejected mounting German pressure for a separate peace with Italy and announced she is stand ing firmly beside Britain, .having "ag reed on all aspects of the situation” in Southeast Europe following' confer ences with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. .year, the first step in farmwar pro duction effort is .to make sure the seed you plant tests high, in germination, otherwise you may harvest poor crops despite favorable weather conditions. Unfavorable harvest conditions iin Central and Western Ontario last year have increased the! need of testing seed before planting. This has been dem onstrated recently at the Ontario Ag ricultural Coliege, Guelph, where at was found that some plump seed of satisfactory color germinated poorly while some badly weathered lots ger minated much better than 'their ap pearance would indicate. The only sure way to make positive your seed grain will give maximum crop returns, is to have it tested for germination and this GAN BE DONE AT HOME by every fanner in On tario. Full directions for germination tests are contained in a small pamphlet writ ten by Dr. G. P. McRostie, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, and can be obtained from your Agricultural Representative or by writing direct to the Statistics ami Publications Branch, Ont. Dept, of Agriculture, Toronto. Seeds of the following crops can be satisfactorily tested at home: oats, barley, wheat, lye, buckwheat, corn, peas, heaps and soybeans. First Great War, a young Canadian ■made his way to Ottawa to offer his services. He told the authorities he would like to fly, but they laughed at him! Raymond Collishaw didn’t like be ing laughed at, so lie paid his own pas sage across to England and enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service. In 1916 he was sent to France and, quickly making a name for himself with his daring, lie became the Empire’s No. 2 flying Ace, one of the half-dozen fly ers to be credited with more than sixty victories. He brought down 68 enemy planes. * * * Air Commodore Raymond Colli shaw, D.S.O. and bar, D.S.F., D.F.C., and enough other medals to festoon his chest, is now the Chief Officer Commanding the R.A.F. in the Middle East, and played a great part in the aerial strategy that swept the Italian Air Force from Libyan skies, and helped, immensely to break Mussolini’s Libyan Army. field PERONSALITY PARADE by Lawrence Hibbert From British Columbia early in the MJ After the war, lie lemained in the R.A.F. seeing much service in Iraq, Mediterranean and in Egypt. For a time, too, he was senior R.A.F. offic er aboard the carrier Courageous. A fellow-pilot tqlls a good story of Collishaw’s coolness. When in Iraq after the last war, lie and another fly er started off from Bagdad in a two- seater to bomb a group of mounted rebel tribesmen. Engine trouble developed and they Who is your printer? Does he create for you the kind of printing that makes every sale a clos ed sale? crashed in the desert. Neither was in jured but the desert is not place to be found in by inimical tribesmen, and both flyers were silent as they pond ered their flight. Just when the silence began to ominous, Collishaw spoke. "If we ly had some beer, what a party could have!” get on- we ONE OF BOMBERS.” * * * ORIGINAL "DIVE- Collishaw was born at Nanaimo, B.C. 47 years ago and ent- .ered the Canadian Fisheries Protection Service in 1908. He was able to put in, simultaneously, two years’ study at the Vancouver Navigation School, and this study was invaluable to him later in his naval and air service. He was particularly fond of “ground strafing” and made a beeline for Ger man airdromes whenever lie got the chance. The Nazis claim to have or iginated dive-bombing in this war, but Collishaw was dive-bombing- back in 1917 — and in rickety machines, at that. I V> •J,: $ >|s MAN WHO SAVED WATER LOO. When the British people refer to the splinters from anti-aircraft fire as shrapnel, they are unwittingly, if inaccurately, paying tribute to a man who helped to win the Battle of Wat erloo. He was Henry Shrapnel, a Wilt shire man, who entered the British ar my in 1779 and invented a shell which, after it burst, scattered a shower of marble-like bullets. Sir George Wood, artillery adviser to the Duke of Wellington, said that this inveition saved the day for the British at Waterloo, * * * A DUBIOUS DISTINCTION. M, Molotoff, of Russia, will be remember ed in history, not because he was Premier and Foreign Commissar dur ing this second Great War, but be cause of those diabolical instruments of destruction which are called “Mol- i otoff’s breadbaskets.” These are containers for a High Ex plosive bomib and a number of incend iaries, and were first used by the Rus sians against the Finns. The Nazis im proved on them and now use them ov er England. Incidentally, M. Molotoff had noth ing to do with inventing the missile that bears his name. * * # AN OLD FRIEND. Millions of Canadians who listen to Old Country broadcasts are familiar with the res onant and cheerful chimes of London’s “Big Ben.” “Big Ben” is the beli which strikes the hour for the clock on the Tower of the Houses of Parliament. The Clock Tower, by the way, is 320 feet high. The clock itself has four dials, each 23 feet square; the figures are two feet high, and the minute hand is 14 feet long. "Big Ben”, the. bell, was named after Sir Benjamin Hall, who was Chief Commissioner of Works in 1856 when the bell was cast. It weighs thirteen and a half tons. - We print attention compelling Letterheads Booklets, Catalogues, • Blotters, Tickets, . And anything in direct sales material Manufacturers, merch ants and buyers of print ing who realize thje im portance of this co-oper ation by their printer come to us for results^ Let us work with you on your nfext printed piece and help you make it a profitable sales-getting investment. British Navy Strong London — A. V. Alexander, first lord of the Admiralty, told the House of ..Commons the Royal Navy has I more in most classes, especially des- g J troyers, at sea or ready for sea "than ■ at any time since the war began,” but asked for more ships, men, stores, to “fight the bat.tle of the Atlantic now opening,” Want Ottawa to Buy Surplus Toronto — Directors of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture passed a resolution urging that the Dominion Government consider advisability of purchasing the available summer sur plus of butter for storage against the winter production period "as a war measure.” SHOULD TEST SEED BEFORE PLANTING PHONE 34 Is first step in war drbp production for 1941 — Pamphlet outlining me thods of hbtfto germination can be obtained from Oht Dept of Agri culture, With Ontario being geared for the greatest possible crop production this \SPEEDY RESCUE BOATS BUILT IN CANADA FOR ROYAL AIR FORCE :>K-v A fleet of boats, such as the one pictured ABOVE, are On their way r England fof service with tho R.A.F. 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