HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1944-04-20, Page 6THE CLINTON -NEWS-RECORD,
RECORDS U.K.
REINFORCEMENT
UNIT U.K.
BASE
• REINFORCEMENT
DEPOT NORTH AFRICA
MAIL TO REINFORCEMENT UNITS
A CHALLENGE TO US ALL
/THIS is a war of movement. Never before
have troops been moved such incredible dis-
tances, in so many theatres of war, so quickly.
Night and day, thousands of men are in motion,
by sea transport, motor truck and air... edging
into enemy territory, shifting to keep the element
of surprise. Did you ever stop to think what it
means, under these trying conditions, to find
your friend, or relative, and put your letter into
his hands?
Yet in spite of the tremendous task involved,
tracing men who are moving from reinforce-
ment units in England to group depots in Italy
...or from one location to another.. , or through
hospitalization or while on leave in the face
of every sort of war hazard...31,500,000 letters
in addition to parcels and other items, reached
our men in 1943.
CANADA POST OFFICE
issued by the authority of
HON. W. P. AIRLOCK, K.C., M.P., POSTMASTER GENERAL
REINFORCEMENT
BATTALION
C.M.F. ITALY '
ADVANCED
REINFORCEMENT
BATTALION C.M.F.
LINE UNIT
Row Much Our . Sailors D
For Us -- How Little They
Ask!
The Royal Navy—The British Navy
including, of course, ships of the
Royal Canadian Navy - certainly
played its part in the winning of the
war in North Africa, according to the
strong evidence recently given by
Flight Lieutenant James Sinclair,
M. P., of Vancouver, in the Canadian
House of Commons.
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d for the success of the greatest ven-
ture in the name of right and liberty
this world has ever known and yet for
how little they depend on us. All they
expect of us are a few comforts --
woollens, inagazines and a decent
place ashore.
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Let's help provide those things
through the Navy League of Canada!
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There would not have been a man,
a plane, a gun, not even a tin of bully
beef in Libya but for the grace' of the
Boyal Navy.
Men, -guns and planes were taken
to Africa by the Royal Navy, includ-
ing ships of the. Canadian Navy, the
long way round via the Cape ;of Good
Hope, the Red Sea and Egypt.
"It was the Royal Navy that
strangled Rommel, but off his petrol
and ammunition supplies in the
Mediterranean and made the victory
of El Alamein possible, "said the
aviator.
"It was the Royal'Navy that hurled
the heaviest artillery into the North
A'ilri'ca ports and ' that convoyed
3;20.0' ships of every size and shape'
safely across for the invasion of.
Italy," Lieut. Sinelair said
The thought strikes us how' depend-
ent all our efforts—those of the army
and the air force—.are, on our men of
the seas—the sailors who, in their
ships of the Royal Navy and the
Royal Canadian Navy and ships of
other countries in the British Com-
monwealth of Nations convoy .our
merchant ships, and the merchant
seamen who work those merchant
ships.
How dependent we are on them
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, APRIL
April is -a tricksome lass,
You never know her moody
She smiles from freshly springing
grass,
I And laughs within the wood.
She softly weeps on rainy dap,
And then her heart she hardens,
Just when old Sol's bright sunny rays
i Have turned our thoughts to gar-
dens.'
And April chuckles up her sleeves,
And whispers to the showers,
"Come, open up, the soft green leave,
And wake the little flower s.
And in April early dawning
Cherry songsters thrill the air,
In the fresh and fragrant morning,
All the joys of Spring are there.
Mary M. Forman
MORNING.
By Ethel Attenborough N
The dim grey buildings, tall and
lonely now, Lo
Stand silently, while deep within
their frames Gn
Are closely held the dreams of little ,
'men, T
Beneath the hill a knife-like steeple: Th
spears,
The sun on its sharp blade, lest
should slip
Behind the murky, lowering cloud
mist
Forever flung above the eity's 'head
What will this morn admit into
world?
Poor, harried world, with dust of ag
raised,
With tide of battle flowing from
snow -swept North
To vine -garlanded South; from eul-
tared West
To sweltering jungle islands of the
East!
Oh, may we soon see peace upon this
earth,
Soon stop this ebbing tide of human
life,
Defeat the bitterest manlike of man—
Intolerance, and ignorance and strife.
it Sowing our snatched moments with
the strong
of Gold' seed of song—
Believing that to Thee (of whom is
the I all)
No offering is too small.
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A PRAYER
By Audrey Alexandra Brown
Lord of• the stars and sun,
By Whom they run
Rejoicing down the courses of the
sky-- .
Thou Who art very high,
Give us the strength to know ourselves
of Thee—
To walk unbowed and free,
And even amid the thunder of the
guns,
To serve Thee as Thy sons—
Believing that for Thee and Thy
estate.
o offering is too great.
rd of the cricket's wing,
Ta Whom there sing
at -tenor, beetle -bass and all their
choir— '
oueh Thou our lips with fire
at we, unsilenced by Thy majesty,
May bring our meed to Thee,
A W.-D.'s PRAYER
Dear God, make us good servants.
Let not our honor die!
Help us to keep our standards bright'
"She serves that men may fly."
Teach us the code by which to live,
To keep our morals high.
Please spur us on if we should doubt
"She serves that men may fly."
To. •them, ' our comrades, give them
faith,
When fighting in the sky;
Give them the courage—these our
boys—
"She serves that men may fly."
And guide, our thoughts, our minds,
our eyes,
To where their broken bodies lie
Amidst the wreckage far from home.
"She serves that men may fly."
And when this bloody strife is done,
May we, whostrove to buy
The peace, go back and always know
"We served that men may fly."
LA,W. bemerling, J. E.
Civilian demand for farm products
in the United States is expected to
Continue at a high level in 1944 says
the Bureau of. Agricultural Economies
of the United States Department of
Agriculture.
COUPON PROBLEMS AS ANSWERED BY
LONDON RATION BOARD OFFICE
Due Dates for
Ration. Coupons
Coupons now; good are butter 54 to
58; sugar 14 to 31; preserves' Di to
D18; tea -coffee 14 to 29. El to ES,
and T30 and T31. i
THURS., APRIL 20th 1944
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child's book and send them to the
branch. together with the RB -99 form
out of each book. Those who prefer
going to the local ration board . fill
out the form and present the book.
The ration board will forward these
to the nearest ration administration
Butter coupons 54 to 57 expire Apr, branch • .
30.
All of the following coupons which,
remain unused in Book 3 aregood' un-
til cancelled by the Ration_ Adminis-
tration. red sugar coupons, blue "F"
canning coupons, green tea -coffee
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WOULD 1 DO?
Peanuts
Because the basic period price of
coupons and "D" preserve coupons, peanuts' imported from India and
China could not be applied to present
V imports from Mexico and the Jnited
States, ceiling prices have been fix-
ed for wholesale and retail sales on
mark-up basis. Prices set forthin the
new order approximate those at
Used ,trucks, trailers and buses sold which Mexican and American peanuts
in private deals, by auction or in stales would have sold in the basic period
of personal or household: effeets now had their importation beenpermitted.
are under definite price ceilings, ac- V
cording to information made public
by W. Harold McPhillips, prices' and
Ceilings on Used Trucks,
Busses and Trailers
supply representative for WesternFarm Produce Price
Ontario. Maximum prices for these
privately owned vehicles are estab- Since the beginning of the war the
lisped on the basis of new vehicle index of prices of farm produce- in
prices and are listed in a schedule at- Canada has increased 79.1 points, as
tached to the new order. Percentages cordingto a report Compiled by Don -
are fixed to allow for depreciation. ald Gorr don, chairman of the Wartime
according to the age of the model and Prices and Trade Board, for presen-
provision is made for handling charg-
es, optional equipment and transpor-
tation costs. Previously sales by auto-
motive dealers only were under price
control regulations.
Cation to the Canadian government.
The index represents the price, in-
cluding subsidies, special payments
as well as market prices received by
farmers.
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Late Applicants for Ration
Books
Many hundreds in Western Ontario
failed to obtain their copies of ration
book 4 during the general distribu-
tion program in. March, according to
the Western 'Ontario regional office
of the Wartime Prices and Trade
Board. Persons who still require
copies of Ration Book 4 must take
his Ration Book 3 to the nearest
branch of the Board or to his local
ration board. Branches of the Ration
Administration are in. London, Hitch-
ener and Windsor. If it is not con-
venient to personally present Ration
Book 3 to the ration administration
branch, the consumer may fill out
88.99 in book 3 and forward it. If
the consumer is sending in books for
his family and some of them belong
The breakdown of the rise shows
an increase of 28.9 points between
August, 1939, and October, 1941. This
was due to a sharp increase in live-
stock prices and to a Iesser extent to
a rise in milk and grain prices. From
October, 1941 to March, 1943 a fur-
ther increase of 29.4 points was reg-
istered. This was due largely to in-
creases in wheat prices. and the
introduction in December, .1941 of a
subsidy on milk. However, the
sharpest rise was in the period be-
tween March, 1943 and the end of the
year. In those nine months the farm
products index rose 22.8 points. This
resulted chiefly from the .sharp in-
creases in ;wheat prices, an increase in
the milk subsidy from 25 to 55 cents
per hundredweight and the intro-
duction of special payments to far-
mers on oats and barley. It is esti-
mated that the increase in cash farm
income was, 94 per cent in four years,
to children under 12 years of age, he rising from 922 million in 1939 to 1.4
must tear the F, coupon from the billion in 1943.
CJI cqurae, I'm buying Vie,.
tory Bands -double what I'
bought last year. And that
doesn't make nee any hero,
either. There will be lots of
time to }buy the things Mother
and I are doing without, once
we lick Hitler, and Bill's back
home again} if he comes
back! Until then, I'm putting;
Victory first, What else would
I do?
Keep on buying
1//CTORY BONDS
HOLMESVILLE
Misses AIma and Cora. Trewartha,
are spending the Easter holidays with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed,
Trewartha.
Mrs. E. Yeo of London is visiting
her sons on the Cut Line.
Misses Marie and Eileen Gliddotb
are visiting in Toronto this week.
Miss Geraldine White of Clinton,
spent the week end with Miss Herb
Jervis.
Mrs. 13. McMath returned to her
home after spending the winter,.
months in Toronto.
Mr. and Mrs. D. Glidden and Mr,
and Mrs. Wm. Jervis spent Saturday
in London.
Miss Isabel Hymers spent Baster-
with her parents at Donegal.
seitabe
FACED with the difficulties . created
I— by wartime shortages in labor' and
machinery, Canadian farmers carried
on with the equipment that was avail-
able, and it is a tribute to,their energy
and enterprise that they have attained
the tremendous increases needed to
serve the needs of the United Nations.
To assist them in, their greater pro-
duction programmes, Massey -Harris
and its dealers set new and higher
standards of service to farmers. In the
maintenance of equipment in the hands
' of farmers, they have prolonged the
use of machines beyond their normal
life period, and by reconditioning and
rebuilding, they have put back into
service machines much needed to com-
pensate for the shortage of new ones.
In the supplying of parts—always a
.feature with/the Company--Massey-
Harris and its dealers have, during these.
difficult days of shortage, rendered
such an outstanding service as to earn
the reputation of being—"The Best
Farm Machinery Service in Canada."
Early ordering of repair parts helps you and helps your dealer
COMPANY L 1 IVB I T:ED.
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