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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1943-11-25, Page 3Your Estate —.An Asset or a Liability? cHANGB$ in Succession Duties and. Income Taxes have created some real problems in the administration of estates.. A revision of your will may be advisable. Fy .naming The Sterling Trusts Corpora'; tion as executor, you have the personal attention of a senior estate .officer assisted by a staff familiar with current legislation and the rulings of the various taxing authorities. THE STERLING TRUSTS CORPORATION Sterling Tower, Toronto 32 years in Business ne Deguire, ,operator of the Cecile Nursery, criminally responsible for the deaths of five infants who died in hospital here after their removal from the nursery. C, Q. F, Capture Manitoba Seat Brandon, Man., — The C. C, in- creased its membership in the Mani- toba Legislature when Dr. D,'L, John- son was elected in the Brandon con- stituency by-election, He defeated F. H. Young, veteran mayor of Brandon, a Government Coalition candidate, In the second by-election of the day, Chas. E. Greenlay, Government-Coali- tion, was elected to represent Portage La Prairie in the provincial house, Three Survive Air Crash. Montreal, — Three Atlantic ferry crewmen, surviving an air crash in shifting ice fields, 20 hours in a flimsy robber dinghy in. which they hand- clawed a passage through 15 miles of jagged ice cakes, 10 days on a bleak polar pinnacle and finally a hazard- ous rescue, agreed from hospital wheelchairs and cot they had "come back from the dead to tell about it." Turkey May Enter War Ankara, — T,urkey is giving sub rosa assistance to the Allied armed forces which closely approximates that which the United States gave Britain in the months before she herself enter- ed the war. Turkey is moving toward war with the Axis. There is little doubt that Turkey's course has been set and that she will become a full- fledged fighting member of the Uni- ted Nations, probably by spring 14-Year-OLD Boy Held Montreal, — Police of neighboring Westmount said they were bolding a 14-year-old boy for questioning after Mrs. Andrew R. Webster was found murdered in her bed and three other persons, two of them children, were taken to hospital m serious condition. NEWS of the ISTRICT A regular feature of Friendly Vleating E V,veTY • vs-foE',10 9.° P . 001 Brought to you by your `blue coar dealer V•i" A smile is in order 'for Peggy Ann Jepson of Vszicouver, B.C., who had just been released from the Jap ship Teta Maru at Mormugao, Portuguese India, in the exchange of war prisoners. She was inflamed at Shanghai. Father Charles Murphy. of Toronto, carries the baggage of Mrs. G. C. Madge and her little daughter, Ann, of Victoria, 33,C., as they went from the Jap ship to the Swedish lino Gripsholm. They were all interned at Hong Kong INPS. tailSOVI'S 01,00311Xli, SARS SO OVA "SOW OM?" • The answer is this:. 14ellson's Chocolate Bars are so popular that they sell faster but the big reason ¢®r the scarcity is that there are so maw/ buyers today than ever before: .. this, in site of the fact that Wilson's are manufacturing and distributing to their dealers the maxi- mum quantity in accordance with wartime restrictions on the use of raw materials. Neiion's Quality remains as always —the highest! 43'0 ThursclaY, Nov, 2504, 1943 - WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES PAGE TI R ing pill. They had with them a small metal mirror which they used as a heliograph, 'and flashinj Was seen by a United States army Major, on a tinj ship Which hoved to eight miles away from the caste, ways, to, repair broken down engines. The strandel fliers, who were at death's door when saved, were Very emaciated, and they have just been flown frotr Greenland to hospital in Montreal. Photograph lauSivt the three airmen in hospital. Left to right: E ni Officer Norman E. Greenaway (navigator) of rose, Alberta and Montreal; Capt. Abbott 11. Coffnlis (pilot) of Raton Rouge, Lotilalana, and Radio Offlcsi Ronald E. Snovre tolarbi, Nova SOUL TEN DAYS ON ICEBERG NOW IN MONTREAL , " The most dramatic and astounding air-sea rescue story y et of the war, concerns three Royal Air Porde Transport Command Aviators, pittured above, who, while on a 5,600-Mile flight from Colombia, in Britain to British Cbia, Cae down in' the sea off Greenland. They fought away for 20 hours through dense to between towering icebergs to reach the Summit of a submerged Maintain protrud- ing from the Polar Sea. There they, lived eXpOsed to the fury of' Arctic tempests for 10 days, without heat, and having for food Only a few malted mills tablets, pieces of sodden thocelate the sire of a 'outage Stamp, and an occasional betizedrene energiz« Petain Would Quit Bern; — Information from across the French frontier said that a num- ber of Marshall Petain's close friends, including three generals, had been ar- rested after the 87-year-old chief of state offered his resignation in pro- test against thwarting his plan to promulgate a democratic constitution. Germans To Police France Madrid, — French newspapers ar- rived here carrying official German military ,and police communiques which seemed to make it clear the Nazis mean to take over the policing of France whether Marshall Petain is induced to co-operate or not. Twin, Raid Biggest Yet London, — 'Germany rocked to the heaviest 12-hour aerial bombardment of the war as U.S. heavy bombers :pounded western German objectives in daylight 'a few hours after a record force of nearly 1,000 R.A.F. and R.C. A.F. heavy .bombers ravaged Berlin and Ludwigshafen with 2,500 tons of bombs in a devastating night assault. Nazi Take More Greek Islets London, — The Germans claimed the occupation of four more pin-point Aegean islands in a creeping counter- HOW TO FUEL YOUR N COUNTRY AD HELP rig L1ERS STRANDED fie suspected trouble, and went back co the pond to investigate. Out .on the water he saw the ducks, and croiching along the shore were three foxes. While Reynard is usually credited with superior emitting, the simple minded ducks had quite out- witted three of his family. They sensed danger and stayed well out in the water while their would-he-assail- ants remained on land, quite unable to secure the fowl dinner for which. they longed. — Arthur Enterprise Body Found Strapped In Plane The body of a 19-year-old Yorkshire lad, Samuel Edward Killington, a stu- dent pilot of the Fleet Air Arm of the Royial Arm Training at No. 12 E.F. T.S.; was recovered from Lake Huron Thursday afternoon, He was strap- ped to. the seat of his Tiger Moth trainer in which he plunged into the water Tuesday afternoon, when he be- came lost in a snow squall only a short distance from the airdrome at Sky Harbor. The sailor and the plane were lifted from about 20 feet of water two miles north of IGoderich, just opposite the airport, Reported Missing, Now Safe Flight' Lieutenant Murray Forman, well-known young man of Listowel community, who was reported missing overseas about two months ago, is now reported safe in the United King- dom, according to information receiv- ed here by relatives. He is the son of Mrs. John Forman, now residing in Pankhill, and the late Mr. Forman, El- ma Township farmer. Kincardine Cadets May Disband Kincardine high school cadet corps faces disbandment. This information was conveyed to Kincardine board of education by H. M. Campbell, prin- cipal of the school, acting on infor- mation received from the cadet officer for this district. He said that sug- gestions' had been made that the cadet corps affiliate with the local reserve unit. He was opposed to this. At the present, all possible time which can be devoted to cadet work is being given. — Kincardine News. Teeswater Resident Is 96 Teeswater's oldest resident, Mrs. John Gordon, observed her 96th birth- day quietly at her home here. Many visitors called during the. afternoon and • evening to express their good wishes to Mrs.. Gordon on the happy occasion, In spite of her advanced years Mrs. Gordon is active and alert in every way. She has an excelldnt use of all her faculties and rarely has to use glasses. She takes an active interest in her home and keeps in close touch with the church and the com- munity happenings. — Teeswater News. Bruce Free of Debt Soon Bruce county council received the report of the county treasurer, Allan Nelson, who said "we expect to live within our levy for the year as usual, notwithstanding the fact that our final payments on all county debentures will be made about December 20, putting the county in the position of. about half a dozen others in the province of having no debenture debt." , • Walkerton Folk to Have Skating A letteveceived from the Depart- ment of National Defence, Ottawa, in- formed the Walkerton council that they were willing to allow the town to use the rink from December 20 until April 30. The town recently purchased the 'arena for skating for the young and old of Walkerton. How- ever, the Department of. National De- fence have a lease on the building for storage purposes for the equipment of the local 97th Reserve Battery, R. C.A., with this letter however, the town will now go ahead with the ice- making as soon as possible after De- cember 20, Can't Kill Neighbor's Dog Judge T, M. Costello in a written judgement awarded 'William Pinning, Clinton piano maker, $25 and costs in his $50 damage action against Wil- liam Jenkins, 'Clinton district farmer, who shot Pinning's beagle around, "Sunny," on June 15, 1942, while it Was running a rabbit on the Jenkins farm. "I don't think it was the inten- tion of the Legislature to give any person the right to destroy his neigh- bor's dog simply because it ,wAIS tres- passing on his property without a tag and not tinder its master's control," said the Judge. "Such an 'interpre- tation would cause much grief to dog lovers the province over." Bride Pins Wings on Husband At the graduating exercises in con- nection. with No. 6 ServiceFlying School, Dunnville, Thomas n, Sills, sort of Mr, and 'Mrs. F. S. Sills, of Scaforth, was graduated as a Pilot in the 12,C,A.1+,, his wings being pinned on by his recent bride, Sgt. Nora Sills, of the Women's Division of the Air Force, 'Camp Borden. At the same time ,b Was conimissioncd as a Pilot Officer in the 12.C.A.P. Seaforth Huron Expositor. World Wide News In Brief Form 11 offensive along the sea line. before Greece, while the Allied air arm fell with methodical violence across the Balkans from Salonika to the Yitgo- slay coast, Oppose Mosely's Release London, — Moving to halt a rising tide of indignation over its decision to release from prison the pre-war British Fascist leader, Sir Oswald Mosley, and his wife, the Government promised a full explanation to Parlia- ment which, it said, it believed would satisfy the country, Battleship Richelieu On Duty Algiers, — The 35,000-ton battle- ship Richelieu, pride of the French Navy, has arrived from the United States in full, fighting trim to resume its place in the struggle against the Axis. Big Three To Meet Soon London, — Reports of a meeting ,soon of Prime Minister Churchill, President Roosevelt and Premier Stal- in indicate that they may decide on a Post-war police plan to guard the peace in Europe and the Middle East. Red Army's First Setback London, — The Russians lost Zhito- mir, the Red army's westernmost threat to Poland and Rumania, in their first major reverse in four months, but the Red-.army dropped troops from the skies for a new crosSing of the Dnie- per and captured another rail junction 70 miles north of Zhitoniir. Evacu- ating Zhitomir before a concentrated German counter-attack by perhaps 150;000 'men, the Russians abandoned a strategic centre they had captured only a week before. May HaVe Reconstruction Minister Ottawa, — The shape of things to come in being indicated in various ways 'in Ottawa these clays. The Government is giving consideration to a sessional program 'including some questions of social security and wel- fare and post-war reconstruction. Rumors circulate of the possibIlity of a ministry of reconstruction to co-ord- inate different plans within the sPlyere. Nursery _Operator Held Montreal, — A coroner's inry, in five separate verdicts, held Mrs. Jean- Elected To- Boys' Parliament Word has just been received that Mr. Ernie Clarke, of Seaford', has been elected by acclamation as mem- ber of the Ontario Older Boys' Par- liament for the riding of South Mar- on. The Ontario Older Boy.' Parlia- ment meets this year at Kitchener from December 27th to 31st., It is composed of members elected from Tuxis Groups and registered ordaniz- ed Sunday School classes throughout Oittario.—Seaforth Huron Expositor. Ducks Outwitted Foxes A Wellington County farmer re- gards it as a lucky circumstance that foxes cannot swim, Like cats, they prefer to keep their feet dry. The other night the farmer in question wondered why his fine flock of ducks had not come up to the 'barn as usual. CANADIANS. ON WAY, Ii011/16 PROM lAP 114,$0N CAMPS CONDENSED REPORT OF HURON COUNCIL (Continued from page two) Five of Huron county's wards are in the armed services, one of them now overseas, Nine final adoption orders. have been obtained. There were 44 unmarried parents' cases, and 86 cases under the Dependents' Board of Trus- tees. Mr. Edwards and Mrs, M. Chafee, social workers with the society, spoke briefly. A grant of $100 was authorized as a Christmas . gift to the crew of the destroyer H.M.C.S. Huron, to be sent to the commanding officer. Warden Tuckey expressed his pleasure in the splendid cooperation he had received from members, officials, and the press. BELMORE John Darling Passes It is our duty this week to record the passing of our grand old man in the person of Mr. John Darling. Mr. Darling apparently was in his usual health until Friday when Ile took to his bed and sank rapidly. Monday abcfut 4 o'clock he passed peacefully away at the ripe old age of 90 years and 2 days.' Deceased will long be remembered The 'funeral was held Wednesday afternoon from the Presbyterian Church of which he was a member. The edifice waS filled with. sorrowing relativeS and friends showing their respect for one who has lived all his life among us, Rcv. Cram assisted by Rev. Hewitt,, took charge of the service. The pastor took his text from 121.4 Psalm — "Unto the Hills, and God of Bethel by Whose Hand," favorites of Mr. Darl- ing were sung, who was very fond of music. Pallbearers were Mr. Scott Inglis, Henry Johann, Leslie Harkness, Reu- ben. Stokes, Mr. Aitken, Roy Ruther- ford, Burial was in McIntosh Ceme- tery. Those left to mourn are one sister, Mrs, Harkness, one daughter, Mrs. Elmer Zinn, a son Win., on the home- stead, five grandchildren and a large circle of nieces and nephews, to whom we extend our sympathy. Poi hisliristian example and wise -Culliton is quite poorly. counsel. Among our soldier boys we notice Mr. Thos. Inglis, also Stewart Mul- vey who is a: strapping policeman— just what we need sometimes. The 'Institute meeting was sponsor., ed for Wednesday was put off again, Mr. and Mrs. George Lane and Mrs. Nelson Hunkin motored to London on' Friday. Mrs. Lane will visit her daughter there, (nee Jean Lane). Mrs. Win. Abram is in possession . of a letter written, from Barrhead, Scotland, by Mrs. Harrison. Pte. Wni. Wesley visited at their home in Scotland and formed a sort of friend- ship. Mrs. Abriam was delighted to hear from this lady of no acquaintance over there. Miss Bessie Stokes is taking treat- ment for goitre in a London hospital. The Red Cross quilting was held Thursday afternoon at Mrs. 'Wm. Curie's with the group from the 'boun- dary as our guests, Of course they quilted on a lovely quilt pieced and worked by Mrs. Rev. Hewitt. Mr. R. J. Douglas is assisting at the Culliton home at Glenannan. Mr. A di ning room rug catches crumbs and, grease. A quick blush-up after a meal may whisk off grease before it can s9alc