The Wingham Advance-Times, 1941-06-05, Page 3Thursday, June Sth, 1941
Bismarck Had 2,400 Aboard
A British Port — The battleship
Bismarck, pride of the German Navy,
was crowded With 2,400 officers and
men, 400 of them cadets under 20
years of age, when she sank under the
blows of the British Navy, a German
purvivor of the Bismarck was quoted
as saying to his'rescuers.
Bombs Dropped on Dublin
Dublin —■ Bombs dropped here by
Unidentified aircraft killed at least 30
persons and injured between 100 and
200, police sard after the capital of
neutral Eire was visited by planes.
Two bombs struck northside resident
ial areas, demolishing homes and bury
ing their occupants. The third struck
about a half-mile from the centre of
the city and destroyed many shops.
British Seized French Ship
Port-Of-Spain, Trinidad — Inter
cepted at sea by a British cruiser while
passengers were celebrating with
champaigne their expected arrival at
Martinique, the 8,379-ton French pas
senger ship Winnipeg is in Port-of-
Spain harbor and hundreds of her
Genman .passengers have been intern
ed. ’
King Offers Swap With Hepburn
Ottawa — Prime Minister Macken
zie King telegraphed Premier Hep
The Minister of Finance of the Dominion of Canada
offers for public subscription
$600,000,000
Five and one-half year
2% BONDS, DUE 15th DECEMBER 1946
PAYABLE AT MATURITY At 100%
Non-callable to maturity
Interest payable 15th June and December
Denominations,
$1,000, $5,000, $25,000
ISSUE PRICE: 99%,
yielding 2.19% to maturity
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CASH SUBSCRIPTIONS -. w .......Cash subscriptions for either or both maturities of the loan may be paid in full at the time of application .
at the issue price in each case without accrued interest. Bearer bonds with coupons will be available for
prompt delivery. Cash subscriptions may also be made payable by instalments, plus accrued interest, as follows—
10% on application; z 15% on 15th July 1941; 15% on 15th August 1941;
20% on 15th September 1941; 20% on 15th October 1941 ;
20.71 % on the 3% b^nds or 19.52% on the 2% bonds, on 15th November 1941.
The last payment on 15th November 1941, covers the final payment of principal, plus .71 of 1% in the
* Case of the 3% bonds and. .52 of 1% in the case of the 2% bonds representing accrued interest from 15th
June ,1941, to the due dates of the respective instalments.
CONVERSION SUBSCRIPTIONS
Holders of Dominion of Canada 5% National Service Loan Bonds due 15th November 1941, may, for
the period during which the subscription lists are open, tender their bonds with Final coupon attached, in lieu of
cash, on subscriptions for a like or1 greater par value of bonds of one or both maturities of this loan. The
surrender value of the National Service Loan 5% Bonds will be 102.15% of their pc^tr value, inclusive of
accrued interest; the resulting adjustment to be paid in cash.
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burn of Ontario an offer to restore the
tax on interest payments on provincial
securities held outside Canada to its
former level if Ontario immediately
agrees to withdraw from the income
tax field, The telegram was the latest
in a series exchanged as a result of
Mr. Hepburn’s protest against an in
crease in the tax on interest payments
to non-residents from 5 to 16%.
U.S, To Hold Wheat Parley
Washington — An international
wheat conference will be called by the
United States within the next few
weeks, it was announced here by the
State Department, Representatives of
Canada, Australia, Argentina and the
United .States are exp^fTed to attend,
as well as representatives of Britain.
Eden States War Aims
London — Foreign Secretary Eden
laid before the British Commonwealth,
its allies and friends, his first compre
hensive statement of the nation’s war
aims and this resolution: “We must
never forget that Germany is the worst
master Europe has yet known .
She must never be in a position to
play that role again.”
Work Camp for Pacifists
Ottawa — Conscientious objectors,
Mennonites and Doukhoibors in the 21-
year-old class, will be required to per
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Dated and bearing interest from 15th June 1941, and offered in two
maturities, the choice of which is optional with the subscriber, as follows:
Ten-year
3% BONDS, DUE 15th JUNE 1951
PAYABLE AT MATURITY AT 101%
Callable at 101% in or after 1950
Interest payable 15th June and December
Denominations,
$50, $100, $500, $1,000, $5,000, $25,000
ISSUE PRICE: 100%,
yielding 3.09%( to maturity
Principal and interest will be payable in lawful money of Canada; the principal
at any agency of the Bank of Canada and the interest semi-annually,
without charge, at any branch in Canada of any Chartered Bank.
Bonds may be registered as to principal or as to principal and interest.
THE MINISTER OF FINANCE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ACCEPT OR TO ALLOT THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OF
THE AMOUNT OF THIS LOAN SUBSCRIBED FOR CASH FOR EITHER OR BOTH' MATURITIES IF TOTAL
SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE IN EXCESS OF $600,000,000.
THE PROCEEDS OF THIS LOAN WILL BE USED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO FINANCE EXPENDITURES FOR
WAR PURPOSES.
■ SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BE MADE THROUGH ANY OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE, ANY VICTORY LOAN
COMMITTEE OR MEMBER THEREOF, ANY BRANCH IN CANADA OF ANY CHARTERED BANK, OR ANY
AUTHORIZED SAVINGS BANK, TRUST OR LOAN COMPANY, FROM WHOM MAY BE OBTAINED
APPLICATION FORMS AND COPIES OF THE OFFICIAL PROSPECTUS CONTAINING COMPLETE
DETAILS OF THE LOAN.
THE LISTS WILL OPEN ON 2ND JUNE T94I, AND WILL CLOSE NOT LATER THAN 21ST
JUNE 1941, WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE, AT THE DISCRETION OF THE MINISTER OF
FINANCE.
Department al Finance;
Ottawa, 31 st May 1941>
form labor service in lieu of military
training, War Services Minister Gard
iner announced in the House of Com
mons, "Members of that age class
whose military training is postponed*
as either conscientious objectors, Men-
nonites or Doukhobors will be requir
ed to render either three or four
months’ labor service in lieu of mili
tary training and be subject to such
further labor services as may be decid
ed in the future.”
Nazi, Ex-Diplomat, Held ip New York
New York Kurt Henrich Rieth,
a German citizen described as a form
er diplomat, was taken into custody
and hurried to Ellis Island by 'immi
gration Authorities. Dr, Rieth’s pres
ence in the United States was revealed
last Saturday by The New York Her
ald Tribune, which said he was here
to buy American-owned oil properties
in Eastern Europe.
May Buy South American Lines
Washington — The United States
government through the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation, may at
tempt to drive Gerffian and Italian Air
lines from South America where they
crisscross in a veritable maze of dom
ination.
Suggest New Party
St. Thomas — Calling for the org
anization of a ‘British-Canadian Pa?ty’
that would rally all Canadians and do
away with sectionalism in this coun
try, Dr. T. T. Shields, pastor of Jarvis
Street Baptist Church, Toronto, also
WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES
told the 82nd session of the Grand, Or
ange Lodge of Ontario West that the
Protestants should be more determin
ed to stand their ground than ever be
fore.
Churchill, King and Lapointe
Make Appeal
Ottawa — Prime Minister Winston
dhurchill, Prime Minister King and
Justice Minister Lapointe figuratively
clasped-hands across the seas Sunday
night in a two-nation broadcast send-
off for Canada’s $600,000,000 Victory
Loan campaign. “I am confident this
tremendous effort will be crowned
with success," said Mr. Churchill,,
speaking to Canadians from No, 10
Downing street in French and Eng
lish. And, speaking to Britons of Can
ada’s new loan, Mr, King said, "This
does not mean that we expect victory
in 1941; it does mean that we are ready
this year, and in each succeeding year,
as long as the war may last, to do a)l
that lies within our power to help and
ensure victory.”
Eire Protests Bombings
Dublin — The Government of Eire
announced that bombs dropped on
Dublin Saturday morning, killing at
least 27 persons, “were of German or
igin.” The Eire charge d’affaires in
Berlin is being directed to protest to
Germany against the “violation of Ir
ish territory” and to claim reparation.
Battle Ends In Iraq
Cairo—All fighting in Iraq between
British troops and Axis-inspired rebel
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forces of fugitive Rashid Ali(Al Gail-
ani ended at 8 .a.m, Sunday under the
terms of an armitsice reached on Sat
urday, Iraq sources here announced.
The Iraq regent, Emir Abdul Ilah,
who left the country when his gov
ernment was overthrown by Rashid
Ali on April 4, entered Bagdad Sun
day,
British Withdraw from Crete
I. ondon — Britain announced with
drawal of her forces from Crete as the
savage German offensive, without re
gard for losses in men and material,
wrote a bloody but successful finish to
history’s first large-scale air-borne in
vasion. The War Office announced
that some 15,000 British troops have
been evacuated from Crete to Egypf
and that British losses have been sev
ere.
THE LIFE OF
WINSTON^CHURCHILL
Despite the demands of influential
Britons, Stanley Baldwin passed over
Winston Churchill and appointed Sir
Thomas Inskip as Minister for the Co
ordination of Defence in March 1936.
Unfortunately, however, this position
was more or less a sinecure — virt
ually everything went on as before,
though the dark shadow of Nazi tyr
anny was looming nearer and nearer.
Late in the 'same year, Winston
Churchill, a continuous and consistent
critic of what he termed the Govern
ment’s spineless policy, declared: “Ev
eryone can see what the position is.
The Government cannot make up its
mind, or cannot get the Prime Min
ister to make up his mind, and so they
are decided only to be undecided, re
solved to be irresolute, adamant for
drift, all-powerful for impotence.”
* Talking to an interviewer at this
time, Churchill said: "Things are not
moving nearly quickly enough. Ger
many is going ‘all out’ to develop her
air force, while we are dawdling. Bald
win has been told, but he will not lis
ten.”* * ♦ *
OUTSMART RIBBENTROP.
Winston,Churchill .met von Ribbentrop
about this time at a dinner given by
one of England’s society hostesses.
Ribbentrop indulged in6 a long and
tiresome eulogy of Hitler, describing
him as the Saviour of Mankind. When
their hsotess asked “Winston Churchill
what he thought of this, he replied by
quoting an anecdote of Talleyrand.
When Talleyrand was told that France
had produced a Saviour, he rejoined:
“When, after he has been crucified,
he returns from the grave, I shall be
prepared to worship him!”
For once von Ribbentrop had noth
ing further to say!* * * *
CRISIS! In September 1938, the
Czecho-Slovak crisis burst on a thor
oughly alarmed world. Neville Cham
berlain had succeeded Baldwin as Bri
tish Premier, but the policy of inertia
and laissez-faire had remained. The
result was the Munich Surrender.
Again Churchill's voice was raised
in shrill warning. "It is necessary,’’ he
said, “that the nation should realize
the magnitude of the disaster into
which we are being led ... If peace
is to be preserved on a lasting basis it
can only <be by a combination of ali
the Powers whose convictions, and
whose vital interests, are opposed to
Nazi domination. A month ago it
would have been possible. But all was
cast away.”
Churchill’s warning went unheeded,
as almost world-wide relief was felt
that "peace” had been preserved.* * * *
ALARM! March 1939, and Hitler
sent his tanks rumbling through the
streets of Prague. Gone was the
slightest vestige of pretence. “Peace
in our time,” so ostentatiously express
ed in the letter signed at Munich by
Hitler and Chamberlain, was- a dead
letter. Another “Scrap of Paper.”
Britons awoke, the Government be
gan desperate endeavours to increase
the nation’s fighting ability, but the
one man who had done most to warn
the nation of its peril, and whose pre
sence in the Cabinet would have revit
alised the people, was still left on the
doorstep.
People started wearing “Churchill”
buttons; there was an almost irresist
ible cry from the people for Church
ill’s return, but it was only when the
die was cast, and war declared that
stubborn Mr. Chamberlain was forced
to yield to pressure, and on September
3rd, word was flashed to all units of
the Fleet, “Churchill’s back!”
In the House of Commons, Mr. •
Churchill Said: “This is no war for
dotfnination Or material gain,mo war to
shut any country out of its sunlight
and meahs of progress. It is a war to
establish, on impregnable rocks, the
rights of the individual, and it is a
war to establish and revive the stat
ure of man,” #
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PERSONALITY PARADE
Henry Morgen thau, Jr., the U.S.
Secretary to'the Treasurer, is much in
the news these days. The son of a mil
lionaire, he carved out his own career
independently of his father.
President Roosevelt, who quickly re
cognized him as a financial wizard,
greeted him so often with the ques
tion, “What rabbits ar.e you going to
produce out of your hat this morning?’’
that one day, Henry Morgenthau actu
ally pulled two white rabbits from his
hat and placed them before his aston
ished chief!
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KING AS ENGINE-DRIVER.
King Boris, of Bulgaria, who recently
succumbed to Hitler’s “charms" and
gave up his country to the Nazis, has
one great hobby — trains.
Whenever possible, he would steal
away from state duties to spend a few
hours with his model railways. He has
trains of all shapes and sizes, and they
run all over his private home.
Once he remarked that, if ever he
lost his throne, he’d have at least one
profession to fall back on — driving
a locomotive. When they heard this,
some fellows in the U.S. cabled to
Boris and told him that they’d give
him a job if he ever ceased to rule his
country.
Perhaps a pity he wasn't born to
be-an engine-driver instead of to be
come the head of a state vassal to Hit
ler!
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BOOMERANG! A detachment of
Australians were leaving a town in the
South of England. Some of the ‘boys’
"Coca-Cola” makes you
feel refreshed. Thirst asks
nothing more; So when
you pause throughout the
day; make it the pause
that refreshes with ice-cold
’’Coca-Cola”.
Authorized Bottler of “Coca-Cola” -
STRATFORD BOTTLING COMPANY ’
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called on the Chief Constable, said
they’d had a very happy time, and
asked him to accept a genuine boom-
arang as a souvenir. The Chief pro
mised he’d always cherish their gift.
Shortly afterwards his telephone
range. A case had been smashed at the
local museum. “The only thing miss
ing,” said the curator of the museum,
“is an Australian boomerang.”
The Chief might have known,, for a
bomerang always goes back! s
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MARRIAGE MADE EASY! June’
is the "month of marriages” and it is
interesting to read of some curious old
customs connected with the ceremony.
Perhaps the quaintest wedding cere
mony ever practised, in Britain was
known as being “married over a
broom.” This was a custom very com
mon among the gypsies about fifty
years or so ago, especially in Wales--
The ceremony was very simple; it
consisted of the man and womani
jumping over a broomstick held by the
bride’s father, the bride jumping first.
The simple ceremony was regarded as
even more binding than the orthodox
church service.
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PENNY WEDDINGS. The “pen
ny wedding" was at one time a com
mon feature in Scotland and Ireland.
When a young couple were desirous
of getting married but had not suffic
ient funds to start housekeeping, it
was usual to invite everyone in the
parish to the ceremony.
All attending made a small contri
bution towards the cost of the enter
tainment, the balance going to the
newly-wedded couple!
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TOP RANK PLOWMEN LEAVE ON
“SALADA” TEA TRANSCONTINENTAL TRIP
“Is this the Fidelity Insurance Co.?”
"Yes, ina’ani. What can we do for
you?”
“I want to arrange to have my hus
band’s fidelity Tusurod/’
The International Plowing Match held at St. Thomas last year set a new
record in the number of entries and attendance. The most coveted prize offered!
was that for the special class sponsored by the Salada Tea Company and open*
to all horse plowmen in Jointer Plow sod classes, who had qualified at branch
matches—a six weeks’ motor trip to the west coast and back.
It is a coincidence that the trip, along with the gold and silver medals for
first and second prizes in this class, was won by two neighbour plowmen, John-
Lister (left) find Harold Picket (tight) both of Hornby, Ontario, Their journey
was planned tinder the guiding hand of J, A. Carroll, manager of the Ontario -
Plowmen’s Association, and will take them to areas of agricultural interest in
the United States and Canada from Toronto to Vancouver. Gordon McGavin
(centre), another well-known plowman, of Walton, will accompany the winners
as guide, companion and manager.
The trip should prove intensely interesting and of great educational value <
id these three lucky plowmen*