HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1942-12-23, Page 2PUTTING PUNCH IN THE AUSTRALIAN AIR ARM
Vicious scrappers, swift P-38 fighters like this one being unloaded in Australia, are adding plenty
• of drive to the battle against the raps.
Have Y .'u Heard?
She watched the door of her
new establishment open to admit
her first client, Business had
started! A good impression must
be created!
Hurriedly she grasped the tele-
phone receiver and became en-
gaged in an animated conversa-
tion. Then an appointment having
been arranged, she replaced the
receiver, and asked: "What can I
do for you, sir?"
A moment's pause, and then:
"If you please, Ma'am, I've come
to connect the telephone!"
• Briggs: "You say that your
wife went to college before
you married her."
Griggs: "Yes she did."
Briggs: "And she thought
of taking up law, you said?"
Griggs: "Yes but now she's
satisfied to lay it down."
Last month, a friend invited
me to his office to see a chair
that he said had cost $5,000.
"You must be ,ridding," I said.
"That chair is not worth $5,000."
"Maybe it isn't, worth that
money," he agreed, "but that's
what it cost me last year, just
sitting in it, when I should have
been up and after business!",
Joe: "What's become of
the Hiker's Club?"
Jim: "Oh, it disbanded. It
was getting too hard to per-
suade passing motorists to
pick us up and give us,a lift."
An old lady was arguingwith
the driver about the cost of the
taxi ride.
"I tell you the price you are
charging us poor people' who have
been bombed out of our homes is
ridiculous. Do you think I have
been .traveling in a taxi.for years
for nothing?"
"No" replied the driver, "but
I'm jolly well sure you've tried
your hardest"
"Tommy," asked his stingy
uncle, "how would you feel
if I Were to give you a pen-
ny?"
"I think," replied Tommy,
"that I would feel a little
faint at first, but I'd try and
get over it."
"How did lidaguire lose the fin-
gers of his right hand?"
"Oh, he put them in a horse's
• tnouth to find out how many teeth
he had"
"And then what happened?"
"The horse closed his mouth to
find • out how many. fingers Ma-
guire had."
"George, am as I as dear to
you. ,as was before we were
married?"
"Ah, in those days I didn't
count the east!"
Chunk From Engine
D..o,w s Nazi, Plane
A German , lighter was brought
dowel by a fragmmit from ,a loco-
motive boiler Which exploded dur-
ing a strafing by the unioltenate'
Nazi and another. raider,
It happened when two L'ecke-
Wulf 190's slipped across the coast
for the first Nazi air assault on
Britain in three weeks,
After machine-gunning a school
and lire station the Germane
roared in low overa standing
train, A chunk of steel from the
engine hurtled upward and scored
a direct hit on the Nazi.
Eyewitnesses said the elated
engineer was as proud as if he'd
done It himself;
The highest mountain off Europe
it Mount ltllborus, 13,526 feet, la
the Caucasus.
Ways To Punish
Nazis After War
When the next peace is consid-
ered, the Allies will have before
them two alternatives, states The
London Sunday Times. One is to
purge ruthlessly and on a large
scale the Nazis and militarists and
then give a chance to German
democracy; the other is to dis-
criminate less, but be much more
severe toward the nation as a
whole.
If, however, the discriminating
policy is pursued, it must not be
a question of merely putting spe-
cial criminals to death. That may
be done,, but not that alone. Large
bodies of Germans constitute at
this moment the Gestapo, the
SJS.,and the party officials. None
of them need have tilled any of
these positions; they volunteered;
and in doing so the pledged
themselves to take part in any
atrocity.
No one would suggest shooting
so large a multitude, but there
may be strong arguments for re-
moving them from the future Ger-
many and putting them where they
can do no more mischief.
25th Anniversary
Of Great Disaster
1,635 Persons Killed in Ex-
plosion at Halifax
Dec. 6 was the 25th anniversary
of one of the worst single disas-
ters in the world's history.
It was on Sunday, Dec. 0, 1917.
that the Halifax explosion literally
blew apart the entire northern
seetion of the city 01 00,000 people.
Today scars are still visible in
Halifax, which is again a busy
wartime seaport.
In the northern end of the city,
in the west narrows, which divide
Bedford Basin from the stream or
main harbor, two ships collided
25 years ago—the Into, a freighter
of Norwegian registry loaded with
8,000 tons of wheat under Belgian
relief charter, and the French
freighter Mont Blanc, carrying 4,-,
000 tons of explosives.
The resulting explosion killed
1,635 persons, Five hundred dis-
appeared completely. Scores were
blinded and dozens partially blind,
ed. Hundreds more received- other
PARATROOP CHIEF HONORED
Col. Edson D. Raff of New York, left, eonunander of the first
contingent of U. S. paratroops in North Africa, stands at attention'
as French Gen. Edouard Welvert dedorates hien with the French
Legion
e laud of medal, Gol. Raff and his men flew 1500 miles from
England get into action,
United States Year
Ahead Of Schedule
The U. S. Ndvy carrier -building,
program is 25 months ahead of
schedule. Fourteen thousand
planes more are to be given to the
Navy.
What a feat that carrier build-
ing is! It means that the Ameri-
cans are averaging a year ahead
on every one of the 17 carriers
under construction. The :first
half-dozen were begun only last
year.
It means that America's ship-
builders are doing a four -pear job
in two years; that the first of
these 85 -knot, 25,000-tonners,.
each carrying 80 planes, may be
in the fighting line next year.
British naval shipbuilding is
secret.
Their shipyards are pot known
to have done more than replace
the four aircraft carriers lost
!ince the fall of France,
Their warship building program
was . disorganised by the French
collapse,
Equipment for new fighting
ships was delayed while the 1940
losses of every type of weapon
used by the army were made good.
Now naval construction is on
the same priority as tanks; gine
and planes.
injuries.
The explosion was investigated
by the law courts,' and the case
was taken to the privy commit.
That tribunal ruled both ships had
been at fault. Rumors of sabotage
are still unproven today,
A new city has arisen from the
ruins of the old. A large-scale war-
time
artime housing project blots out the
scar of the disaster. But Halifax
hasn't forgotten, and preceutioits
have been taken to ensure that
the second world war does not
repeat the disaster of the first.
Electric Eye
An electric detector, invented in
England, prevents damage to saws
by "finding" metal nails or bolts
hidden lu timber. -
$lritish Sailors' Society
A.t Home end Abroad '
Incorporated
)
Under tDistinguished Patronage
Some Thousands of Shclors Will
bo entertained this coming
CHRISTMAS soul NEW YEAR
3t our 106 stations all aver the'
1oVen seas by thhi1sq, TIIE .OLD -
CST SAILO SOCIETY IN' TAIL"
WORLD, send Gifts to •
E,l31TI$B SA%;t ORS! SOCIETY.
Geom.!) M. 5peedle,
•Ddxdltiiuti Searetiiry,
80 Alberta Avenue,
Toronto, Ontario.
Will . be greatly apprdciated.
T SCIENCE
IS DOING
NEW MEDICINE STOPS
BLEEDING QUICKLY
Prize fighters are using a new
medicine which stops bleeding al-
most instantly.
The seconds are putting the
medicine on troublesome cuts,
especially around eyes, which
partly blind fighters and some-
times cause n referee to stop a
fight.
The medicine is the fastest
blood -clotting substance ever
found, and the ring, in adopting
it, is one of the first agencies to
prove the advantages. The medi-
cine is made from rabbit's blood,
and that has no implications au
to its effect on courage. The
remedy could as easily be made
of lion's blood, if Lions weren't
so expensive.
It is a whitish powder, extract-
ed from plasma, the portion of
blood remaining after the red
corpuscles have been removed.
The rabbit plasma is the same
portion of whole blood as the hu-
man plasma now collected by the
Red Cross for military transfu-
sions,
Out of this rabbit plasma a lit-
tle more than a year ago Dr. I. A.
Parafentjev, of the Lederle labor-
atories, obtained a globulin, which
is one of the important proteins
in blood. The globulin had re-
markable blood -clotting powers.
One part of the extract would
clot 60,000 parts of blood in three
seconds. s
Modern Etiquette
By Roberta Lee
1. Isn't it poor taste to speak
frequently of the cost of various
things, clothes, food, etc.?
2. What is a fricassee?
8. Is it all right to use violet,
red, blue, or green ink in social
correspondence?
4. Is a woman's second wed-
ding as elaborate as her first?
5. Isn't it nice for a person en-
gaged in any kind of sport or
game to praise his opponent when
the latter snakes anexceptionally
good play?
6. Is it all right to use a folded
napkin to brush the crumbs off
the table?
Answers
1. Yds; it is very poem taste to
do 'so. 2. A dish made of fowls,
veal, or 'other Meat, cut into pieces
and 'stewed in n' gravy, 3. No.
Black ink.on13''should.behlsed,, 4.
The„specific arrangements
, wary according. to the age of the
bride and the 'attitude of family
and ''friends' towards the second
marriage: 5. Yes, A good sports-
man will be quick to do so, and it
is a sure way to become popular.
6.. Yes,
Blind And Larne
In War Industry
Physically -Handicapped Be-
come Successful War -
W o rkers
Acre's an army that's seeking
the anis with a fist that isn't there.
This army, says The Kansas
City Star, inelItles a legless lock-
smith who saves many mail hours
by scooting about the eprawllug
Lockheed aircraft plant In Los An-
geles at dog -trot speed on a little
platform on roller skates. , . Blind
girl wllo can't cross the street un-
aided, but whose sensitive Pagers
are the joy of every assembly line
and sorting department foreman
. Deaf mules who are placidly
undisturbed by Rio pounding rack•
et of the machines they operate.
One of the world's smallest
midgets, a riyeler, who crawls in-
to the cramped tails of bombers,
and ills score of men and women
friends who nonchalantly stroll
about the inside of plane wings
vacuum -cleaning for scrap bits of
metal . . . One -logged drill press
operators, one -warmed welders, a
spastics—lack of muscular control
—victim who operates a 94 -spindle
machine malting parachute cords,
There're the 2,:430 rehabilitated
me nand women of Southern Cali-
fornia's aircraft and shipbuilding
OFFERS `REVOLUTION'
Offering what he admitted was
"a revolution, yes, but a British
revolution,” Sir William Bever-
idge, above, submitted to Great
Britain his blueprint for post-war
living featuring `a blanket social
security system covering every
citizen.. He declared his proposal
would abolish want without Brit-
ain's "going Bolshevist,"
plants, high -producing proof that
physically -handicapped manpower
can become a powerful factor in
America's .war — and post-war —
production channels. A year ago
they were industrially . snubbed.
Today. hard-bitten, dead -line -ridden
employers have taken them on
DRESSED TO KILL
Equipment of RAF heavy
bomber rear gunner, ready far
action, includes: 1—helmet; 2—
oxygen mask and mike; 3—oxy-
gen tube; 4—Intercommunication
lead; 5—parachute "dog dips;"
6—inflated life jacket; 7—tape
ties for jacket; 8—parachute
harness release; 9—parachute
harness webbing; 10—fur collar
of lamb's wool lined leather
jacket.
HOW CAN 1?
Q, How can I make use of the
juices from canned or pickled
fruit?
A. Always save these juices, as
they can be added to the water
in which the ham is boiled,
Q. How can I remove paint
stains front clothing?
A. Paint stain's on clothing can
often be removed simply by rub-
bing the stain with the wrong side
of the same material..
Q. What can I do when my kid
gloves have become spotted by
rain drops?
A. Don't allow them to dry, but
while they are still on the hands
and damp, rub very gently with a
damp cloth so that the rain drops
are scattered, If this is done in
time, the gloves will not spot,
Q. What is an effective method
of flouring food evenly and quick-
ly for frying?
A. Mix the flour, salt and pep-
per in a paper bag, put in the
food to be floured, and then shake
well.
Q. How can I clean a bronze
article?
A. One of the best methods is
to dip the article into boiling
water and then rub with a soft
cloth dipped In yellow soapsuds.
Last, polish with another soft and
dry cloth,
In desperation, have discovered
they know, and do, their jobs bet-
ter than normal men in most casee
—and are howling for more.
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.During :the 'past three years of
war, sago Collier's, the Axis pow-
ers have Increased their territory
from about three to twelve per
cent. of the world's land area, their
population about ten, to thirty per
cont. of the world's people, and
their raw material resources from
about five to thirty per cent of ilia
mineral wealth of the world,