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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1943-02-18, Page 3--- War's requirements have increased immensely the work of banks and bank staffs. At the same time more than one-third of our experienced men have enlisted. Bank early. Pay small bills by cash. It helps. rs. Jennings proudly goes \ to school! MRS. JENNINGS had been just managing to keep her family going. But things were look- ing brighter at last. ,Now with the children able to help with the housework, she had applied for the post of school teacher and had been accepted. - But that meant she needed suitable clothes and clothes cost money. She took her problem to the manager of her bank. On the strength of her ability, and character, he arranged a loan of $80. An4 io it was that she was able to take the position and greet her first class proudly. She paid off the loan after six months at a cost in interest of only $2.40. This is a true story. Only the name has been altered. It is typical of hundreds of human dramas in which the bank manager has been privileged to play a helping role. • inli•••14..111.111111••••••IIM World Wide News In Brief Form IN•1111110.41:116.1•INNIT11110.1111•0411111111 How to gut the .cost- of Heating Your Horne .BY AMERICA.§. HOMO iki,t *TRIO ;$1'.4.41. "MOW YOUR EYES NEED ATTENTION Our 25 Point Scientific E)tainin., ution enables us to give you clear, Comfortable Inman F: F. HOMUTH Optometrist Phone 118 Harriston Point System Predicted By Gordon Chicago, — Donald Gordon, chair- man of Canada's Price Board, fore- cast indirectly in a speech here, the extension of coupon rationing to com- modities, not yet, under control, and the „introduction of a "point system" or rationing for some lines of goods, THE BOMBER PRESS IN GREAT BRITAIN ments for the calling of a provincial Liberal -convention "at an early date," Fast Corvettes Called Frigates Ottawa, — The designation frigate now has been officially adopted for the new, faster and more powerful corvet- tes which Canada is sending to sea and building for the Allied nations. Turkey-Russian Deal Forecast Ankara, M, C, Acikalin, Turkey's ambassador to Russia, returned to the capital for three days of conferences with, the foreign minister and possibly President Ismet Inonti, after being cal- led back from Egypt where he was on his way to Moscow. Brazil Nazi Uprising Nipped Porto Alegre, Brazil, — Discovery of a Nazi-inspired conspiracy centring around Cruz Alta, a city in the inter- ior of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, and purportedly involving Brazilian army officers, "enlisted men, civilian and church officials," was announced in an official report. "All elements in the conspiracy have been jailed," authorities said, without disclosing the number involved but indicating it was large." 20 English Towns Hit London, — In the most widespread laids since the Battle of Britain, Ger- man planes, 'believed to include a new type of fighter-bomber, bombed and machine-gunned 20 towns, hitting a school, churches, houses, stores and a restaurant, killing a number of per- sons and injuring many others. Lorient Efficiency Reduced London, —• Naval observers estim- ated the capacity of the great German submarine base at Lorient, France, had been reduced 75 per cent by Allied aerial hammering, but they expressed the belief new bases were being built and mentioned Marseille, on the French Mediterranean coast, as the possible site of a new and powerful U-boat home. AUSSIES Elia UN FLEEING JAPSlAY ,BUNA BATTLE te Nothing posed ithotlt this. Australian fighters are kiloWt1 pushing through the Palm groves and kttnai "NS over pillboxes and gnashing through all pos&tlori LIS the battle in which they captured (whom from this hins. This line of Antsie 4:? infantryincti Is fliftig Ott gg -4146 fleeing *reeked pillbox no yard0 tiway. A Palni 'stilton ill aid to the lighter liking alit lit the. -01100111), Drafts and Chimneys PROPER draft is a necessity in 4- burning any hind of fuel. A draft is commonly defined as air in motion. This action goes on twenty-four hours a day and its proper control is most impor- tant if you want to heat your home economically and effi- ciently. All draft is controlled by means of dampers. When we want heat upstairs, we close the check damper and open the ashpit damper, making the air pass through the fuel bed. When we have sufficient heat, we close the ashpit damper and open the check damper, the draft then by- passing the fuel bed, entering the chimney directly. Many faulty drafts are caused by chimney troubles. Here are a few of the more common variety: I. Chimney too narrow or too low in height. At times a decorative arch across the chimney prevents the fire from getting the proper draft. 2. Dirt accumulation, broken bricks, tile, or pieces of mortar in the chim- ney will cut down the draft. 3. Cracks in chimney will reduce draft action. 4. rblo PIP e ProleCting into chimney beyond the wall. surface instead of beina flush with the inside of the waii nearest the chimney opening. Chimney Lower Than gutropadiog objects CerAzit Tep ObatIvote """44066 MOr*caUkil Leaks Cracks in Brickwork Joist Protruding Into Chimney &Arian! Ass Leakage Between This. chimney Teo Short ' Brisk Wedged ,l :per out Cilium Pratt Lop 'A Dirt and Sot tachi.cetee: Doke Amend Pips ti Pine Prnieots Into Opening Not Closed S. Leaky flue pipe sometimes caucca by rust or careless joining of the flue Pine sections. Also caused by having two flue pipe connections without proper dampers in each. (17) VIIIMINIZBIOIMIr@O(.11.,!/a."1:111121•111, NATIONAL SELECTIVE SERVICE Complete Utilization of Canada's Manpower and Wornanpower is Essential to Victory National Selective Service Civilian Regulations aim at complete utilization of manpower and womartpower. Workers and employers are urged to assist the war effort by carrying them out. All civilian regulations have been consolidated and revised, main features now being as follows:— COVERAGE Employees: Regulations cover persons of either sex from 16 to 64 years old, except— provincial employees; armed services; and those in fishing, fish processing, hunting, trapping; clergymen; nurses; school teachers; domestic servants; students working after school; em- ployees in respect of part-time employment; mid any one employed for 3 days or less in it calendar week. Agricultural workers are covered by special provisions, not by the general pro- visions as also are "technical personnel." Employers: Any person, firm or other em- ployers, with one or more "covered" employees. EMPLOYERS MUST— (a) Refrain from dicussing employment with a prospective employee unless under permit; (b) notify the nearest employment office of additional employees needed; (c) secure permis- sion from an employment office to advertise for workers; (d) notify the employment office of intention to diseharge or la,y off employees, or to retain employees when not required; (e) give employees 7 days' notice, unless a Selective Service Officer permits a reduction, or unless in the building construction industry; (7 days' notice is not required unless an employee has already been employed for one month, or after fire, explosion or other calamity, or on termina- tion of work by weather. Whether preceded by 7 days' notice or not, separation from employ- ment requires written notice). EMPLOYEES MUST— (a) Register for work at the nearest employ- ment office if out of work 7 ,days (full-time students, housewives and clergy are not in- cluded); (b) secure permit front 4 Selective Servite Officer if going to look for work; (c) re- frain from advertising for a job unless Selective Service Officer approves ; (d) give 7 days' notice if wishing to quit 4 job, unless authoti,zed by Selective - Service Officer to give less notice, (separation form, but not 7 days' notice required if in building construction or joining the forces). AGRICULTURAL WORKERS are covered by special provisions. Persons re- garded as "workers in agriculture" may accept employment outside that industry to a maxi- mum of 60 days within a calendar year without permit, but only outside urban municipalities of over 5,000 population: otherwise, agricultural workers must secure a Selective Service Permit, TECHNICAL PERSONNEL may only accept employment under special permit.. LABOUR EXIT PERMITS are required to work outside Canada. PENALTIES AND APPEALS Penalties are provided for non-compliance with Regulations or orders issued thereunder. Appeals against directions may be made to a Court of Referees, NATIONAL SELECTIVE SERVICE OFFICERS ARE AUTHORIZED TO— (a) Give persons unemployed for 7 days, or on part-tiny, for 14 days, direction to accept work; (b) exercise discretion in issuing permits to seek work; (c) authorize employed persons to transfer to more essential work, and subse- quently to be r6-instated in original employ, ment; (d) reduce the 7 days' notice period con- sistent with Regulations. THE MINISTER OF LABOUR IS AUTHORIZED TO* (a) require a person in an age class subject to military call-up to accept employment; (b) require 'employers to release male persons failing to furnish evidence of not contravening military eall-up; (c) autherize payment of transportation and special allowances in some east's; (d) authorize anyone to leave employment to take more essential work. 51. fOregOing it min an atatt at tontplala haprorlaatioa Natianat Soteeilve Sotviee Raga. latiaak. Par lahalaallaa h r,,lind5 opty rreetteltk EnipropiFOnt Mut selmipo .5eet•Iee 011kis. DEPARTMENT or LA OUR lIUMPIIREY MITC11101 A. INI.sc NA ISIAIIA *.ifbaster (V tabour OrtAWA, JANUARY Ii 1948 Direfl6r 0/ No11011411 Selertift 801,1 ,1Ptl tst,,s. 2W Thursday, February 18,1943 WINGHANI ADVANCg-TIMES IMF Sets Up $40,000,000 Foundation London, — Lord Nuffield, the motor magnate and philanthropist, topped all his previous benefactions with a gift of $40,000,000 for the formation of 'Nuffield Foundation." Roosevelt Tells of Battle Plans Washington, — The 1943 battle plans of the United Nations are an a global scale, encompassing not only the invasion, of Europe but .air and land operations against the .Japanese in China to end the .war, in the Un- conditional surrender `of the Axis, "as quickly as We can;" President: Roose- velt declared, Military operations to drive Japanese forces from China and an intensification of air attacks on, the • • islands of Japan were foreshadowed by the president when he filled in some of the details of the victory blueprint he and Prime Minister Churchill drafted at Casablanca. Reds Threaten 500,000 Nazis London, — The Red army of the Ukraine was reported officially to have captured Krasnoanneiskaya, a main rail junction 25 miles northwest of Stalin a, thus threatening to trap ap- proximately 500,000 Axis troops al- ready hard-pressed by other Russian units attacking in the Donets Basin and Rostov areas to the east. • Fire Fatal To 2 Women Toronto, — Two women, were burn- ed to death and two persons went to hospital with,, severe burns following an explosion and fire which destroyed the ciregg Model Aircraft Company shop on Ossington avenue in the west end of the city. The bodies were found in an apartment above the fac- ter y, Nixon In Leadership Toronto, Harry C. Nixon, who resigned as Ontario provincial secre- tary when Premier Gordon Conant succeeded Hon. Mitchell Hepburn as Government head. in, November, an- nounced he would. be 4 candidate for the Liberal leadership when the •flarty's convention is held after proro- gation of the Legislature. Passports To U. S. Not Requited Ottawa, Effective February 15, Canadian citizens and British subjects resident in Canada will be permitted to visit the United States without pass- ports for periods not exceeding 29 days, the External Affpirs Depart- ment announced. Entry to the United States for longer periods and for per- sons other than Canadians and Britons living in Canada will continue as at present, the statement said, Sees Manpower For Year Ahead „ Ottawa, — Labor Minister Mitchell, in a speech in the House of Commons, said his department had estimates of man-power needs to the end of March 1944 and "we are Confident that we can meet these requirements." He said the only "real serious shortages" were those of able-bodied men for heavy work in agriculture, mining, logging and related primary industries. Quints To Christen U. S. Boat Toronto, — The Dionne quintuplets are going to visit outside Canada for the first time in their lives on May 9. They are going to Superior, Wiscon- sin, in a gesture of international good will to officiate at the chirstening of five American ships, built under the lease-lend agreement for use by Great Britain. Make Enemy Bleed and Burn London, —Prime Minister Church- ill disclosed to a cheering House of Commons that vast Allied plans "to make the enemy bleed and burn" had been completed at the Casablanca con- ference and all that remained‘was,to put them into execution during toe next .nine months, In a buoyant speech, -delivered on a more confident note than any since before the •days• of Dunkirk, the prime minister an- nounced that the victorious 8th army of Libya would come under the com- mand of Lt-Gen. D. Eisenhower as it enters his sphere of action in North Africa and that "we are holding our own and More." in the war against U- boats. King Reviews Canadian Tankmen Somewhere in England, — Canad- ian milkmen, fit and equipped for action, rolled their Churchill Vehicles in a mighty procession past the King during a six-hour royal inspection of troops of the overseas,army. The big tanks, similar to those the Canadians took to Dieppe last summer, rolled across a hillside in column and filed past a platform on which His Majesty stood. Liberal M. P. and M.L.A's. to Meet Ottawa, A joint conference of 9 Ontario Liberal members of Parlia- ment and nine Liberal members of the Provincial Legislature has been called by Hon. T. B. McQuesten, president of the Ontario Liberal Association, it was announced, The Meeting to be held in Toronto on February 22, will discuss the present situation in the Ontario Liberal organization "hi all its aspects,' 'aod will make arrange- Junior Officers etc. Booby Traps Demonstrated. After visiting classes at work on these courses, we went to the area which had been fitted up for the. Booby Trap demonstration, Just where the .expression Booby. Traps came from is not clear, but as there are still some people who do not. know just what they arc, it might be explained that they are innocent look-, big articles which when touched or disturbed explode with tragic results . to anyone in the vicinity, They fol- low no set pattern or plan, and there is no -limit to the variations they may take. A favorite stunt of retreating Italians is to leave some article such as a fountain pen, which appears to be equipment lost or thrown away, but which explodes when touched. This booby trap area was chosen, because of the natural safety offered, and the object of the course is to teach the class how to .set mechanism, The explosive charges were all set under water and when exploded a jet . of water and mud was thrown up into the air, We were therefore all attired in oil- skins and metal helmets to protect us, It was the picture taken at this time of the two representatives of the Can- adian Weekly press, looking as if they were going to a fancy-dress ball, which was printed with such glee by so many weekly poblishers. The coarse was laid through a swampy patch of brush, and as we stepped on various bits of wood, or pushed aside 'branches of the bushes, certain of them set off the hidden mines in the water, Actually we did not learn much about distinguishing booby traps, for We never did know just what twigs or bits of wood were responsible for setting off the mines.' At this booby trap demonstration the section officer was Lieut. Brew- ster, of Cobourg, Ont., and the In- structor was Lieut, N. B. Gillies, of Braeside, Ont. Grenade Throwing From this we went on to a Grenade range to watch a section undergoing instruction in the handling and throw- ing of grenades, and our instructions read "Normal range precautions must be carried out, and gentlemen will please wear steel helmets provided and take cover behind the breastworks". The section officer was Lieut. J. 13. Donald, of Kimberley; and the instruc- tor was Lieut. W. E. Steeves, of Ot- tawa. In addition to the grenades 'here, we Studied some special types of in cen daries. Then we went to an artificial lake where demonstrations in improvised Another in a series of articles written by W. R. Legge and C. V. Charters, who represented the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association in a recent tour overseas. "BOOBY TRAPS AND OTHER THINGS" (Article No. 15) by Walter R. Legge September 1st, spent with the Royal Canadian Engineers was a day taken up with study of a wide range of sub- jects, one of whicli*was a practical ,demonstration of 'Booby Traps". There is probably no other arm of the service with so many ramifications as the Engineers, and in a technical war such as this, their work becomes of paramount importance. Everyone knows of them as bridge builders, and the demonstration of this branch of their activities was described in the eighth article in the series. We were visiting the No. 1 Can- adian Reinforcement Unit commanded by Col, G. H. Whyte, M.C., V.D,, of Vancouver, Other officers were Lt, Col. V. S. Thompson, of Hamilton, Lt, Col. C. N. Mitchell, of Montreal, Major F. A. Crich, of Seaforth, Got., and Major M. A, Buell, of Brockville, Course Of Training Men arriving at this milt are docu- inented, medically inspected, and inter- viewed by the Tests of Elementary Training staff, so that an idea May be formed' of their capabilities, and then they are posted to various training companies. 'rids training comprises, Military Duties, Drill, Weapon Training, Gas, First Aid, Air Defence, Map Reading, Military Law, Physical Culture, ricid Engineering, Knots and Lashing, Use of Spars, Pield Defences and Ob- stacks, Vield Craft and Battle Drill, Demolitions and Booby Traps, In addition there are special courses for officers, N,C,O.'s„ and Sappers, which include, Regimental Instruction, Ad-o ministration and Tulles, 'Meld En- t gineeting .and Donolitions, nridging, Mainterfaiite and Driving, Sappers, rafting were carried out, and we ivatched a 5 cwt, Jeep ferried across on special floats. We also watched pontooning being taught to a bridging class. At Canadian General Reinforcement Unit We had spent the morning of that day with Brigadier -H. Lefebvre and Brigadier A. E. Nash at the Canadian General Reinforcement Unit. Brig. Lefebvre was in charge of Military District No, 5 at Quebec before going overseas, and enquired especially after Hon. Henri Reneault AL LA, who is Publisher of the Beauceville "L'Eclair- eur". We saw many unusual field gadgets, for use of troops in the field, such as easily constructed, but efficient, sew,- age systems, showerbaths, stoves for heating water and cooking, made out of discarded oilcans, and burning old oil, disinfecting of blankets etc., in the field; disposal of garbage and sewage by burning, and many other items which are problems for troops in actual warfare. Incidently, we were told that the Canadian Soldier is the cleanest of all troops in the world. An extra activity of this Reinforce- ment until is the use 'of' waste corners of their grounds for growing vege- tables, and they proudly showed us a prize winning display of potatoes, car- rots, tomatoes, onions, beans, beets and turnips all grown in their camp. Last year 30 tons of potatoes were grown in these grounds of the camp. Going over to the C.A,S,C,R.U, we met Major Alex Cagnon, of Quebec who called our attention to a company which was just returning from a ten mile hike carried out in a little less than two hours, One of the men in this company was Pte, St. Cyr, of Shawiningan Falls, -Que., Major Gag- non asked me to impress on the people of Ganada that they are a real part of the show, and that their tads are being well taken care of, Here we were shown student cooks being trained in their work. The day was brought to a delightful conclusion with dinner at the Officers' Mess of the Royal Canadian Engin- eers, It was a fine meal served in a building that must have been a pre- tentious mansion before the war, and their very excellent band was playing outside on the grounds during the meal, which added to the enjoyment of the evening.