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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1944-06-01, Page 7'Thursday, June let„ 1944 WATCHING PROGRESS Or BATTLE General Sir Harold Alexander, Allied commander in Italy, follow: 6. the progress of the Allied assault on the Gustav Line from a positia on the 8th Army front. WITH OUR WEEKLY NEWSPAPER REPRESENTATIVES OVERSEAS THE NEW BLITZ By R. P. MacLean I wandered into 3. very small to- bacconist's shop in London, one morn- ing. The proprietor was abrupt. He did not. think he had the brand I was looking for:and did not act as though he cared. Finally I said: "Your pretty pessimistic this morning." He agreed: "I. am pessimistic. .These raids are getting me down." I argued with him: "I cannot under- DONALD B. BLUE Experienced Auctioneer Licensed for Counties of HURON & BRUCE All Sales Capably Handled R. R. 1, Kincardine Phone: Ripley 30-24. • DR. R. L. 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By WALLY BISHOP WH AT 'SoNVE PEOPLE WILL. DO 5OR MONEH!.! tion room 28. Large body of troops (mil.) 31. Therefore 32. Fired, as a furnace 36, Aloft 37. Silk scarf (Eccl.) - 3 4 s i Women's Association The W. A. of United Church met in the church school room Tuesday of last week for their monthly meeting. Mrs. J. N. Allen and Mrs. ,Newton were in charge. Quilting was carried on and a short business period con- ducted by the president in which plans were discussed re the redecorating of the Manse. Pot luck supper was serv- ed at the close. Women's Missionary Society The June meeting of the W. M. S. United Church, will be held in the church school room on Wednesday evening, June 7th at 8.30 o'clock. This will be -an all members programme. Subject-"China". • week at the home of Mrs. M. Sellers. Friends of Jack Meighen who ar- rived home on leave last 'Tuesday, is ill at his home with scarlet fever. Jacks many friends will wish lam. a speedy recovery. Neil Carr of Trenton, is spending a. few days leave with Mrs. Carr and their baby son. Mr. H. V. McKenney received word on Friday of the death of his uncle, the late George McKenney of Melessa, Ontario. Mr, iMcKenney was 86 years old and was one of the pioneers of the Huntsville district. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil. Mines and two children of Niagara' Falls, New York, also Mrs. Miries' mother, Mrs. Ma- guire, of Blyth, visited the former's father, Mr. Wm. Mines over the week-end going on to Blyth to visit other friends. Mrs.' H. V. McKenney and Mrs. H. I. Durst, spent an evening last weelc with Mrs. Stafford Bateson of Wing- ham. cellent show, There are 8 members in the caste, 3 of them, Jimmy Dev- on, Pat Rafferty and Jack Ayres, of the former Dumbell show of the Great War. Added to these is Nor- man Evans, Canadian-born baritone, Joan Elaine, who sang and gave ac- cordion solos; Helen Bruce, singer; Irene Hughes, dancer and Daphine MacFarlance, blue singer, who played her accompaniment on the guitar, The whole concert was of a very high order and was originated in 1941 by Lever 'Brothers of Canada expressly- for the entertainment of Armed Forc- es. They have travelled Canada and Newfoundland, coast to coast. This is its first civilian tour and Lever... Brothers are donating their services to the Canadian Red Cross. The local branch benefited by $170.00 on Wed- nesday evening, .Mr, W. A. Sawtell,, on behalf of the local branch, expres- sedtheir appreciation to the players and their manager, Mr. R. K. Cheet- ham, of Lever Bros. Should this company at any time return to our village they will be even more popu- lar, as this concert was enjoyed by everyone. • I Junior Red Cross Dance There was a large crowd on hand at the school house of S. S. No, 2, Turnberry when on Friday night the Junior Red Cross and their leader, Miss Viola Thacker, put on a dance. Music was supplied by local talent. Refreshments were served by the lad- ies of the section. A very enoyable evening is reported. School Meeting Held A meeting of trustees and rate- payers of this district was held in Wroxeter school one evening last week, for discussion of the township school area plan. Mr. John D. Camp- bell of Toronto and Inspector Game of Walkerton, were the speakers. The Lifebuoy Follies There was the largest attendance in the history of Wroxeter town hall when on Wednesday night in the in- terests of the local Red Cross Society The Lifebuoy Follies put on an ex- LAUNCH ATTACK ON MANPOWER SHORTAGE National Selective Service has. launched a three-way attack on the most acute manpower shortage Can- ada has yet faced, Arthur MacNamara, director of the National Selective Service, said in an interview. The program designed to find Men to fill essential jobs includes: 1, Personal interviews with men re- jected as medical unfit for military service. 2, An on-the-spot survey of plants, to combat hoarding, 3. Extension of compulsory tranfer orders to industries now not affected. 62 Per Cent "We estimate that of the 8,820,000 Persons in Canada 14 years and over, 5,500,000 now are in the armed forces or gainfully employed," said Mr. Mac- Namara, "That is about 62 per tent and it is just about as high as we can expect to go. "The answer now is to make the best possible use of the people who . are working. At the moment we need 175,000 workers t6 fill jobs in war plants and essential industries-entire-, ly apart from firm workers." Men 30 40 501 7 7 I I° Want Normal Pep, Vim, Vigort Try Oetrez Tonic Tablets. Contains Wales; stints. tante, iron, vitamin Bt, ealclurn, phosPliorue; aide normal ace, vim, vigor, vitailu' after BO, or AL Introductory oho only 350. If not delighted Ida results or Mat package. maker refunds IOW Dr1014. At all druggIsta, Start taking Ostrez Tablets today.i la 39, Reach across 42. Across 43. Thrice (mus,) 45. Conclude 47, Born 6 7 8 .11 IS stand that. Not after the way you British have taken the blitz. Where do you live?" "I live over the shop, said the pro- prietor. "Look," I said, "have you ever figured out what the odds are on your being hit in this little shop. Why- it's thousands to one." "Don't talk to me about odds", ans- . wered the pessimist. "I won the Irish Sweepstake." 'That little incident seem a good in- troduction to an attempt to answer one of the questions most frequently asked since my return to Canada-"What about the air raids." First let's try to describe one and then talk of the why's and wherefores. Not that I have any hope of even giv- ing a faint idea of what an air raid is like. Words are not quite suitable, especially my- limited supply and combinations. Nor is radio, nor a movie camera, nor any reproduction unit known to man, You need sound and you need color and you need words and you need vision and, above all, you need something to create im- pressions, specially the feeling 'of helpless-, ness. For above all that is the main emotion experienced in over air raid, They are up there over your head, They are dropping bombs, and there just is not a thing that you can do about it. If a bomb comes yOur way, you must just stand and take it. The people of London must be all fatalists today.. On"Ce during a raid I remem- ber thinking that the old Presbyterian idea of predestination wasn't suet' a bad one, We experienced between eight and ten raids. At first we, were very an- noyed because during our first week in London Jerry only came over on those nights when we were out of the city. We were beginning to wonder if he was deliberately avoiding us. It may have been just a coincidence, but following the day we thumbed one nos- es at him from the Middle of the Dover Strait,, he satisfied, our curiosity in ample measure. We were living on the top floor of one of London's swank hotels just across a famous thoroughfare which runs along an equally famous park, My room was a corner one, and so from it we had an almost unobstruc- ted view of the southern half of the city. Usually the siren went between nine and ten" and we congregated in my window until the all clear went about an hour and a half later. I found the Panorama of the raid something like the waters of a whirlpool, fascinating, drawing you to it. I seldom left the window. One night early in the raid a "chandelier" suddenly appeared in the sky just a little to the left of the win- dow and very close. The several lights attached to a parachute lighted the district for blocks around so that it was possible to read a newspaper. As we watched we noticed that it was drifting towards us and presently it looked as though it would either come right in our window or land on the roof of our hotel. At just about that time I suddenly realized that'the purpose of that chan- delier was to light up the target, and it was the mark upon which the planes would drop their bombs. And I did not feel happy. And about that time there was a terrific explosion and a fire-on the far side of the light. And another one not too far from us. At 'about that time, too, we - I mean our defences-started to lob what looked like big balls of red wool at the chandelier. At first we thought WINGHAM ADVANM,TIMAS Business and Professional Directory they were trying to hit the lights and it seemed a futile effort, but we soon discov6red it was for a different pur- pose, And then, presently, smoke be- gan to appear near the lights, As I watched, within a period of fifteen seconds, I saw four large ex- plosions on the perimeter of the south. em horizon, Flames and black, angry smoke billowed heavenwards. The fires burned long. Constantly the ack-ack shells ,were bursting• in the moonlight sky, their thousands of flashes dimming the very stars themselves. But even these were dimmed when the rocket guns were fired. Their bursts eclipsed the Toronto Exhibition fireworks display a hundred fold, And through it all the long, white fingers of a hundred searchlights probed the heavens, weaving back and forth searching for the raiders. Oc- casionally one would pick a plane up and quickly twenty or thirty other beams would focus on the trapped plane and the lights 'would form a cone. At the tip of the cone the plane looked like a, cabbage butterfly danc- ing around in a sunbeam, or a moth beating against a light.. It would twist and swerve and weave to escape from the light Ana, evade the ack-ack shells which quickly commenced bursting around it. Once we saw a plane hit and it burst into flame as it passed from, our vision on its earthward dive. To all this must be added the fires burning 'on' the horizon-and nearer. Great, angry fires, red blotches in the night, billowing pillars of smoke heavenwards. And one must add the noise. First the loW rumble of the distant thunder of the batteries on the outskirts of the city. Then the sharp cough of the nearer batteries. (Stick your head out of the window and feel the concussion sharp as a slap on the face,) There is no word to describe the noise of 'the "Z" or socket guns. It is something of a swish and whoop, but those words are too puny, much. Imagine, if you can a million of the largest skyrockets you can picture. and imagine the noise these would make if they all went off at the same moment. That is as near as I can tell you what the rocket guns sound like, It is terrifying; you never get used to it, and it is difficult to think of such a sound as being friendly. The ack- acks bark brings comfort; the rocket guns are terrifying„ menacing, evil. Occasionally there will come a lull in the crescendo of sound and new, small sounds hit your ears. You hear the roar of the busses on 'the street below as they pass about their busi- ness, raid or no .raid, And a new sound is difficult at first to identify. Little bells? No. Hailstones on a tin roof? That is what you think of, but it cannot be that. Suddenly you real- ize it is our own flak, fragments of the ack-ack shells our batteries have hurled skywards, falling on the pave- ment of the famous street below. Periodically a volume of unexplain- ed shouts drift to you from the bat- teries across the park. Suddenly, all activities seem to cease. The guns stop, the search- lights seem to pause, arid there comes the roar of a bomber crossing the city, A German bomber. The thought isn't a pleasant one and you cock your ears in an attempt to judge the direc- tion and. the distance. You remember that it is AFTER a bomber has passed that the bombs come, A new shriller note is heard and you realize that; THAT is one of our night fighters searching for the enemy plane. By this time, the chandelier has drifted jacross the park and darkness is once again coming to your area. As you stand watching the fires, you hear the welcome sound of the "ALL CLEAR". You fix the blackout cur- tains on the window; turn on the light and go into the sitting room, wonder ing if you were looking as nonehalent as you would like to feel, (Another article dealing with the whys and wherefores of the London raids will follow next week). WROXETER Mr. John Howes of Parry Sound, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs' Gilbert Howes. Mr, and Mrs, Bert Martin of Hamil- ton and Bill Martin of the. R:C.N,, who is on furlough, are spending some time at their residence here, Mr, James Wylie Sr., who was a patient in Wingham Hospital, 'return- ed last week much improved and is now with Mr. and Mrs. J, -1-1, Wylie. Mrs. I. J. Gamble, Mr, John Gam- ble, Miss Frances Leman, all of Ford- wich, also Mr, George Fischer of 'Bluevale, were Sunday guests of Mr, and Mrs. D. S.. MacNaughton. Gordon Greig of the Military Police and Mrs.1Greig of WoodStock, visited last week with Mr. and Mrs. Allen Munroe and other friends. Mrs. Bevington and her daughter, Mrs. Schott, both of Cleveland, ' are guests of Mrs. J, Stutt and other friends. Mrs. Bevington will remain for some time with her sister, Mrs. Stutt. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tindlay of Listowel: were visitors one day last week with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Green, Miss Mae Davidson is spending a few days with Mn and' Mrs, Walter Davidson at Bluevale. Mrs. J. H. Wade leaves this week to take up residence in Wingham. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Timm were in Listowel on Monday attending the funeral of the formers aunt, Miss Kate Timm. Mrs. Vern MacDonald was a Lon- don visitor on Friday of last week. Jack Meighen of the R. C. Navy, Cornwallis„ N.S., arrived home on Tuesday of last week on furlough. Mrs. Leonard Hayes of Toronto, is a visitor at the home of her mother, Mrs. H. Waller. Mr. and Mrs, Leslie Hetherington and, Sharron Leslie, of Toronto, were week-end guests of Mr, and Mrs. M. Sellers. 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