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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1943-11-18, Page 3akta means More PROFIT Neilson's Quality remains as always —the highest! A-R.E NEILSON CHOCOLATE. BARS GOING 'THESE.. DAYS? • We are not surprised that people ask that question when they go into a store and find, no 'Neilson's" chocolate bars . and here is the reasom—There are so many more people buying chocolate bars today than ever before, that no sooner are the popular Neilson's high-quality favourites placed on sale than they are sold, So, in spite of the fact that Neilson's Chocolate • Bars are being produced in the maximum quantity, in'accordance with wartime restrictions on the use of raw materials, they are naturally IA short supply. We feel sure you.will understand this. World Wide News In Brief Form / Fat/A/D LO?' OF a5"5/WZ ////1178 /raf /44.57:44/Ce... ",4/1 / /476-7-/ ef 8007* avPeRrU4CF AND P/P66" /40,9786" HELP YOUR POCKET AND CANADA II Vs not often that patriotism is so personally profitable! By saving 20% of the coal we used last year we perform an essential wartime service and at the same time cut our own expenses, Remember 68° Is the healthy temperature and a dirty furnace is sabotage! JOHN LABATT LIMITED tenth:1/i Canada Thursday, Nov, 18th, 1943 WINGHAM ADVANCE TIMES PAGE THREE Wingham Branch — G. C. Gammage, Manager BREEDING tells! . . It pays to breed good stock on your farm, because better strains Increase your profits. This Bank is interested in everything which will make farming more productive and profitable for the farmer. If you need money to buy breed. ing stock call and discuss your needs. Our Manager will be glad to talk' over any plan that will bring you Bigger profits. THE DOMINION BANK ESTABLISHED lai n Catroux To .End Lebanon Trouble London, — The French Committee of National Liberation, headed by Gen. Charles de Gaulee, announced a few hours after the British Government urged it to sit-tooth the strife in Leb- that'it was sending Gen. Georges - Catro.ux, Commissioner of .State, to Beirut with full powers, to .settle the situation, Disturbances _are flaring in the streets . of Beirut, capital of Leb- anon, a Beirut dispatch reported. 1,,Jap Navy Damaged Again, ' Allied Headquarters in Southwest Pacific, — Navy planes .from _aircraft -carriers and land-based bombers — a raiding force of more than .200.— sank three Japanese warships ,and damaged 12 others at Rabaul - ,on Thursday while the enemy expended 64 .planes„ ,in four frantic but unsuccessful at-- temptsc to sink the carriers. Land-• based fighters .covered the aircraft carriers and their escorting ships.. Sn :all the 'actions, 17 Allied Planes '.were lost :against the ,japanese plane adll 88. Some of the Allied pilots were • ;Saved. Asks Turks 'To Stop Hun Shipments • Ankara, — Turkey was asked by Anthony Eden, British foreign se.cre- tary, at the recent Cairo ,conferentes, to ,eliminate .shipments to Genmany of certain luaporbant war materials which might prove useful ip the arms indus- tries,, it was reported. Germans ..Land', on Leros Cairo, — HundredS of Germans were killed :securing beachheads in a Nazi invasion 'of the British-held Aegean Islandl of Leros as British and pro-Allied Italian troops fought side by side in a grini battle to throw the invaders back into, the sea: Other German landing parties wei-e More successful however, succeeding in set- ting foot on the island, principally in the northeastern corner. . Seven Die In Plane Crash Halifax, — Seven members of the R.C,A.F. and R.A,F, ,including a wing commander and an officer of, the Wo- fen's Division, are "missing, believed killed" after the crash of a twin-engine flying boat in Newfoundland, the Eastern Air' Command announced. U. S. Warship Loit Washington, — loss of the United State's destroyer Beatty in the Medi- terranean as a result of aerial bomb- ing was announced by the navy. The 1700-ton Beatty went down Novem- ber 6, but no details ‘Were given about the attack by German planes, Former Coeds Zone Seethes London, — State of near chaos in the Carpatho-Ukraine, easternmost 'province of Hunkary and formerly the southeastern tiP of Czecho-Slovakia, was reported bY the Czech Govern- ment in London as Premier .Niellolas Kallay of Hungary appealed to his countrymen. for suppression of anti- Axis outbreaks. Will Prevent Seasickness Ottawa,. — A "pink ,pill" :cure and preventative for seasickness and air- sickness — effective for 75 per cent of persons normally susceptible — has- been developed by the Royal Canadian Navy in one of tile major .medical ad- vances of the war, it was announced. The capsules. now are in mass produc- tion and will soon be .issued to ships for general use at sea, naval service headquarters said, but they are not likely to be available .to civilians until after the war. To Use Men of Lower,Category Ottawa, — Employment • of call-up troops of lower medical .categories on. railway "development .and mainten: ance" is authorized under .an order-in-. council made public. The order pro- vides that home defence .troops of medical grading lower that' "Pulhems 2222222" may be required ,to „perform, such work and that all ,orders given• them in connection with its ,perfor- tuance shall be lawful orders given by :a ;superior-officer. To Check Oakes Estate -Ottawa, Evaluation of the Cana-: sdian. ,estate of•. the late Sir Harry Oakes will ,commence next January 8, Revenue Department officials The lbw ,aequires that the estate -must catalogue assets within six 'months :of a death, Tim :estate is said to !be $200,00,0,0,0,0. His Nassau holdings were listed at :$14,000,000. New York Governer Relief Head Atlantic City, N.1„ ---: Delegates from 44 countries unanimously elected Former Gov. Herbert. H, Lehman of New York as director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabili- tation Administration. • Marigny -Acquitted Massatt„ Bahamas, — Alfred de Marigny was acquitted of a charge of murdering his Wealthy father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes, by a jury that rec- ommended his deportation from this tiny British -colony, The jury voted nine to three for acquittal but reco- mmended immediate deportation of de Marigny, Home Air Unit For Overseas Ottawa, — Some home war estab- lishment squadrons of the R, C.A, F., fighter and army co-operation, are being sent overseas, Air Minister Power announced, They will be in addition to the 88 R,C,A.F, squadrons it is proposed to' constitute overseas, 86 of which have already been set up, Wooltort Gets Reconstruction post London,— Prime Minister Church- ill has created a Ministry of Recon- struction with the task of rebuilding tritairt after the peace and has shifted Lord Woolton from the Food Mini- stry to direct the Vast program, it was announced.. Ina series of Cabinet changes in connection with the new post, which carries with it a seat in the War Cabinet, Lord Woolton will be succeeded at the Food Ministry 'by Col, J. J. Llowellin, British minister resident in Washington. Breadner to Direct R.O.A,F, Overseas Ottawa, — Air Marshall L. S. JAeadner, chief of air staff, is going to Britain -as Air. officer commanding-. in-chief of the R,C.A.F, overseas and will be succeeded -here by Marshal Robert Leckie thee present air member for training, Air Minister Power an- nounced. The present air officer com- manding overseas, Air Marshall Har- old Edwards will be given another post but it is not definitely decided yet what that post will be, said the mini- ster. Three American Destroyers Lost Washington, Loss -of three United States destroyers, two in the South Pacific and the third in a battle with a submarine in the Atlantic was an- nounced by the Navy Department. Kennedy Wants Markets Toronto, — Agriculture Minister T. L. Kennedy asked the Ontario Agri, culture Commissioh meeting now at Queen's Park to -consider sending representatives of the provincial de- partment to all other provinces, Eng- land, and the Western United States to study post-war markets. Labor Parley Reaches. Accord Ottawa, — Laboi, Minister Mitchell said in a prepared statement that "unanimity" -had been reached between the Dominion and provincial labor de- partments on four basic principles of collective barkaining and arbitration discussed at a three-day -conference, .Germans 'Told To Hold On Algiers, Under orders to hold their present Italian line at all costs "for at least eight weeks," German forces are launching 'savage counter- attacks - against Allied 5th Army in- fantry and massed artillery in the mountainous Mignano-Venafro area, the Allied command announced. IMMUNIZATION IS" IMPORTANT SAYS GOVERNOR GENERAL Calls On People To Protect Children Against Communicable Diseases National Immunization - Week mes- sage to the people of Canada, th,e Governor-General, the Earl of Ath- lone, has called attention to the im- portance of protecting children against communicable diseases -and has com- mended the piesent effort t6- arouse the 1-tarents of this, -country to''their responsibility to safeguard -health. Immunization Week is being held November 14th to 20th. Here is the statement by His 'Ex- cellency: "I desire to -call the-attention of the people of Canada* to National „Im- munization Week, -the object of which is to inspress on everyone the import- ance of ,protecting 'children from the four menaces which threaten them— diphtheria,..smallfox, whooping corigh and scarlet fever, These diseases are all avbidable. They can all be pre- vented and they can all. be, eliminated, Science ;can, however, make little pro- gress without ,popular ' support and popular support will not he forthcom- itig without ,popular ,understanding. "I 'warmly commend the Health League of Canada in its praiseworthy efforts to provide that understanding .whereby thousands of young Canadian boys and girls ,May be saved from hecomitig the 'victims of wholly pre- ventable inaladies...". INCREASED PRICES FOR' HOGS NOV. 15 The Canadian Meat Board announc- ed that an increase of 75 cents per 100 pounds on all bacon- for export to the United Kingdom will be paid *el- fective Nov, 15. The increase will be effective prior to the opening of a new contract peri- od under which the Dominion will supply the United Kingdom with 900,- 000,000 pounds of bacon, in two years. The new price schedule increases the price for "A" grade No: 1 sizable a(55-65) pounds Wiltshire sides from $21,95 to $22,70 per 100 pounds at Canadian seaboard, with correspond- ing increases in price for other grades, weights and selections of Wiltshreis and export cuts, and becomes appli- cable on all products put into cure from hogs slaughtered on and after Nov.15, / On October 22 Agriculture Minis- ter Gardiner announced that the new bacon agreement was being negotiated with the British Ministry of Food for a two-year period, 1944-45, based on an increase -of 75,eents per 100 pounds for "A" grade baton over the price provided in the present one-year agreea most wider which 675;000,000 pounds is being provided.. • From Accumulated Savings The Meat Beard said, however, that any price increase provided for 'in a new agreement would not apply on shipments to the United Kingdom until the present contract is complet- ed, but that the board was able to increase the price now to the level proposed in the new .agreement from savings accumulated during opera- tions -under the present contract so far. "It is estimated that the increase in the price paid for export bacon should. Kis° hog prices by approximately 50 cents per 100 pounds, warns dressed weight, and will accordingly raise the price level for all hogs marketed," the hoard said, "Hog producers will,, therefore, secure, as from NOvember 15, the full advantage of the anticipated increase in price under the new agreement not- -withstanding. the fact that a -consider- able quantity of bacon still ,has to be Purchased to complete the present agreement". Two women were discussing a mut- ual acquaintance. "She has- very magnetic personality," said one. "She ought to have," said the other, "everything she has on is charged," BASEBALL ON • * GREEN PASTURES by Austin L. Budge, Hamilton, The death. of Ben Taylor in Blyth, a baseball hero back in the "golden- eighties" when the game was played on- the green pasthres of many a town- ship in Huron. He and his younger brothers, John and Ed, were the front- line of attack in the St. Helen's- team and afterwards inspired the young plow-boys to organize a club at West-, field. Ben was the catcher, a tall, rosey- cheeked, brown-eyed chap, whose long arms and big, hands were just made for the job. Our first "profes- sional" game in East Wawanosh was hot rivalry when Blyth drove their wagons out to attack the famous team at Westfield. Billy Hefferon, mighty and fiery, with Jim Emigh, Will Shane and others, were sure of humbling 'the lads of the pasture fields. We have forgotten the score, which does not matter, but we can- still feel the excitement and recall at least two incidents. It was Ben a the bat, tak- ing one of Will Shane's "fair-balls" -and knocking it over the fence and -across the road into a wheat-field. And he ran the bases like a wild In- dian. Later Billy Hefferon, catching, without glove or mask, got a tick-and- catch right below the eye, making him wink as his cheek ros-e half the size of the ball. That also was a mere trifle and the, game went on. Ben grew older and so did his brother Ed, one of the. steadiest, and .most aggressive players that ever ,guarded the bases or piled up the score, and their veteran pitcher Bob Henry. Probably their last game, -at least the saddest, was when they sent Belgrave to bat, a bunch of much younger men, most of them' students. Billy Potter, now a doctor "across the line"; Term Agnew, a doctor in Van- couver; Milt Godfrey, who became Justice Godfrey of the Supreme Court; Bob' Agnew, -a well4cnown dentist in Clinton; and others, with the village Blacksmith, Van VanNorman as Cap- tain, humbled the "big bats" of West- field. The latter could not hit the 'ball, because all kinds of tricks were invented to keep them swinging or making "little flies". - Ben did not like ICOBAC Pipe rohaeco FOR A MILD, COOL, SMOKE it -or ever forgot the game. With such an orgnization at Bel-1 grave, the club went abroad for lion- ours, At Brussels they were only schoolboys, when in .a tournament drawn against the famous "Huron", among whom were Dave Rbss and Jack Shaw (Dr. Shaw, Clinton), but ended the_ day with the third prize. The people of Belgrave were proud of them and supported a concert which filled the treasury and enabled them to drive down and tackle Clin- ton. Will 11/1eTaggart was their captain and pitched a curve, but when he saw the Belgrave pitcher and catcher in action, he said on the side: "What is this you have brought?" It was fort- unate that a tinsmith. has been doing some work in the Belgrave cheese factory, a fellow from Wingham named Mooney, and he -coaxed his chum named Duffield to come with us and pitch for bini. The former sat almost under the bats and received the swiftest pitches that we had ever seen upto that time. Despite Will Mc- Taggar's curves the game was alto- gether one-sided in our favour and full of the protests of our hosts. The next event was -a tournament and picnic half-a-mile south of Belgrave, with Brussels, Blytli, Exeter and other teams in competition. secretary, Milt Godfrey, was even more ambitious and secured a Univer- sity friend, pitcher of the Varsity team, to "hand them. out" to the cele- brated Mooney and again we were in the third class. We have referred to the St. Helen's Club, made up of fellows by the name Hetherington, Gordon, Cameron, Webb, Taylor and others, whose rivals were found ill Dungannon, Auburn and Lucknow. They were the first to come on the "green pastures" in. uni- form, looking as snappy as crickets on the hearth. We remember a great day at a picnic near Dungannon, when the 'chief attraction was a match be- tween St. Helen's and the home team led by the Vickie boys, the MacKays, and others I cannot just recall. 'There was good feeling and a real happy picnic crowd. To keep up interest at Auburn there was an annual match between Grits and Tories, the losers to pay for the banquet. George Sturdy, Will Sturdy, the Clark boys and a chap called Mc- Brien had been leading the "Sir John A. Macdonald voters" with uniform success, until the tide turned. Andy MacDonald, Billy Symington, the, Stalker boys, Ab. Cullis, and such staunch. ''Sir ()Beer Mowat's men" had Our .done a bit of electioneering. The game was played in gacDon,alds field, just back of the Presbyterian manse, and even the minister, Rev. James Pritchard, for 'once showed his Grit- sympathies. We don't think- George Sturdy, a great player (catcher and batter), ever quite got over that de- feat, At "The Hill' in Colborne it was foot ball that excited the husky plow- boys of that fine settlement, the games played in Old Sandy .Young's There was the never-to-be-forgotten match between the club and 'Goderich and on the home grounds. Fred flair (later a N.C. in Regina) the teacher at Number 3, was the secretary, with Rod Young, then a student at the Collegiate "in town", one of the lead- ing players. The "old boys" of Col- borne still talk over that fierce battle, boasting of the victory, of the mighty kicks of Billy Young and the number of the townsmen he could knock over in one of his charges to relieve the goal. Yes, there were "giants in those days"—Ben Taylor, Billy Hefferon, YanVanNorman, George Sturdy and Billy Your::, with many more, They ; made the green-pastures of Huron ring with cheers away back in the "golden eighties." I /SWF IT THE numsr 23)/ 71--dog No. 24