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Clinton News Record, 1944-07-20, Page 3Thursday, July 29th, 1944 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD New :Guinea Australian Sniper Lies in Wait for a Jap. In country inaccessible to mechan- ised transport, and where tropical diseases form a second and fornnid- 'able enemy, Australian forces have made good progress against the • Japanese. Picture shows:—Australian •sniper in 5 ft. grass on the fringe of bush surrounding Gona. ed both .in England and in yrance. Pte. J. J. McCaughey arrived back. in Clinton on Saturday. Jack enlist- ed in 1917 and was in England all the time with a unit. Pte. R. Tasker got back Saturday after being " overseas for thepast three years. Dick enlisted with the 161st Battalion and after it was broken up in England he was attach- ed to the Military Police at Bram- shot Hospital. • Pte: J. R. Butler enlisted with the 161st Battalion at Blyth and arrived home on Saturday to visit his mother and sister and' brother. His, brother ° Alex only recently returned from overseas, going over with the Bruce Battalion. Pte: , A, McGarva arrived home Monday evening• after serving His Majesty since 191.6. He enlisted with the 161st Battalion, but when they were broken up in England he was transferred to a Forrestry Corps in Scotland where he has been up to a month ago. .artiave THE HAPPENINGS IN CLINTON EARLY IN THE CENTURY Some Notes of the News in 1919. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD passed with high marks into the July 17th, 1919 , Entranee Class of the Public School, I The family expects• to join Mr, Mac- Kenzie in Toronto before school op- ens in September. Mr. William Crooks, one of the pioneers of this section, was among the visitors who took in the Orange "Walk" at Exeter on Saturday last. This was his sixty-seventh walk. Misses Winnie Thompson and Mau& Wiltse went to Kincardine ,yesterday, where they will take in the Chautauqua, which is being held there this week. Miss Bessie Irwin spent the week end as the guest of Miss Hattie. Baker of Fullerton. Miss Minlue Pinning, who has• been in Peterboro for the past year, has returned to town. She has taken a position with Coueh and Company. Miss Emma Lavis is taking the organ in Willis Church during the absence of Miss Torrance for the next few weeks. Miss Clete Duniford, who has finished her probationary. course . at- Harper's Hospital,- Detroit, passori her examinations with honours and has now' entered upon hey course as a nurse -in -training. Mr. W. Jackson has been. in Toron- to this week., Mr. Ed. Munroe, who always pri- des 'himself on his gardening success picked two ripe tomatoes on Sunday last and has had them coming along ever since, This is early for home grown tomatoes. Mr. Richard Walton has been ap- pointed caretaker of the postoffice and eotnmeneed his` duties `Mon l y (morning. Mr. Walton is a returned soldier having been a sergeant cook in the bifficers' mess in the old SSrd' with which he went to England. On his return to Canada 'he signed up with the Air Force to which he was. attached at Toronto for some time. Art a special meeting of the coun- cil yesterday evening Mr. Thomas Cottle was appointed assessment commissioner instead of Mr. 'G. Saville who declined to aoeept the apJ intment made a couple of months ago. Mrs. A. J. Grigg and Miss Helen are visiting friends] in London. Mr. Chas. Twitchell of Windsor has, been in. town this week. In the supplementary estimates !tabled at Ottawa last week was one for. $12,000. for an addition to the Clinton Postoffice. Master Edwin MacKenzie, son of Mr, and Mrs. T. E. MacKenate for- merly of Clinton, was awarded a diploma by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church for ',having •recited the"entire Shorter Catechisms to 'His minister, the. Rev. George Telford of Blyth. He was the winner of a couple of prizes while a member of Clinton Presbyterian Sunday School, and just a•ecently THE CLINTON NEW ERA July 17th, 1919 Mr. Larry P. Biggins of Pancaqua, Chile, South America, is the guest of his aunt, Mrs.' W. Graham and uncle Mr, B. R. Higgins. Mr. Ernest Livermore finished his examinations on Wednesday and left the same evening for Harlock where he will work for Mr. John Knox un- til the end• of September. This is. the third year Earnest has worked for Mr. Knox in the holidays. The Doherty piano Players de- feated Porter's Hill 'Baseball team 12 to 8 last Friday evening. Lavis, the pitcher for the visitors, played a good game, but his wild heaves caus- edhis downfall. He strike- outs had five st yke- e outs to his credit. Earl Cooper, who was 'handing them out for Doherty's had eleven strikeouts. He also had a splashing - three -bagger and Bobby Shrink; took' two bases on•his hit in slashing three -bagger and Bobby perfect "batting"' ', average for' the game' being at bat fot r times and hit four hits, the pitcher 'hit hire three times and Ernest hit the ball once. Sturdy, the first base man for Por- ter's Hill. was the most active player on the field and "woke up" Fulford and Cooper in the second innings when be slid. into• second and home and both players fell over him. Frank McCaughey was. umpire. Porter's Hill: Potter, McDougall, L. Lavis, Little, II. Lavis, Sturdy, W. Mc- Dougall, M. McDougall and Gliddon. Doherty's: Draper, Pinning, McDer- mott, Cooper, Welsh, Hall, Shrenk, Goulds Fulford. I Nursing Sister Clara Ferguson got a hearty reception on Wednes- day evening when she arrived home from overseas. Nurse Ferguson saw active service in France with the Imperial Nurses; having'.enlisted in November 1919. Pte. Wm. Carter arrived back Wednesday evening. He enlisted with the 110th Perth Battalion and was wounded in the big fight. Serge, E. Mitchell arrived home on Saturday morning after seeing ser- vice since • 1915. He enlisted with No. 3 Stationery Hospital staff. He serv- When the Present Century Was Young THE CLINTON NEWS -R1(..."010 -July 14th, 1904. The Orange demonstration at Wing ham on Tuesday was very largely attended, some fifty lodges, it is said, being in• line. The Stanley and two Goderieh Township Lodges embarked at Clinton, 366 tickets being sold at this station. The weather turned out fair for the proceedings which nese- ed off satisfactorily. ,Mr. John Crooks of the Palace staff left on Saturday last to spend his holidays at Grand Bend. He has remained closely with business the past year and will be the better of the ten days of loafing and sun and water bathing he is••enjoying at the Bend. Mr. Harry Hewson of the Molsons Bank was holidaying at the same place. Mrs, Ed. Floody . and Ed. Floody Jr., Toronto, areaspending a few days with Clinton friends. Mr. and Mrs. W. Poster of Mon- treal formerly of Clinton, will cele- brate the twenty-fifth Anniversary of their Wedding day on Monday next. Among the invited guests are Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Watts. On Monday C'antelon and Wallis shipped 400 hogs to Toronto and London and on Tuesday R. Fitzsim- ons shipped a double decker to Toronto. Five cents was the price paid. A number of Miss Newconbe's pupils gave a very interesting re- cital at her studio the other evening.. The pupils who took part were: Mis- ses Mary Hayes, Sebringville; Nellie Medd, Constance; Mary MacDonald, Brucefield; and Missed Leona Potts, Alta Lind Cook, Margery Manning, Myrtle McMath. Last. Thursday evening Miss Sybil Courtice gave a recital consisting of graduating conservatory pieces. Miss Courtice has passed all the Conser- vatory examinations in theory, har- mony, history, form and piano with first ;class honours. Misses Greene, Keiser, Hampton and Newcombe as- sisted at the recitals with vocal selections, Miss Courtice as aceorn panist.' The . schedules Lacrosse match, Clinton vs. Wingham, played in the latter place on Friday last, ended in a decisive victory' for the former, the score standing 3 to 0. And this not- withstanding that J. Crooks and E. Gladneya two'. of Clinton's' speediest players, • were unable ' to take part. Their places were taken by W. Tozer and J. 'MacKenzie. airs. R. K. Lagan of Saginaw Mich., .is the, guest of her mother, Mrs. Gilchrist. Among those who came up from Toronto' on Saturday en the Huron Old' Bays' ' Egcursion were: J. B. Eisdall, Thos.'Peckitt, Mrs. J. T. Ross, Miss Maud Cook, George Cook, Mrs: W. Pridham, Fred, Walter, and J. C. Pridham, Wm.' Gibson, Miss Alma Rogers, Jas. Brownlee, Miss Thrower, Miss Peacook, Mrs. B. Dickenson, Miss Edith `'Dickenson, Miss Annie MacDonald' and, Miss Nellie "Johnston. • -v NEW DEFINITIONS The students were undergoing examination; rTeacher': What are the 'two- gen- ders? en-ders? Junior—Masculine', and feminine. The masculine is ,divided into the temperate and .intemperate and the feminine into°. the tdrr•id- and frigid. ' Canuck Invasion Troops Proud of "Tank -Killer?' Lieut.-C'ol. L. V. Stewart Blacker is a cousin of the late Ernest Blacker of Hallett, formerly of Clinton, A monocled man who broke his neck in the last war .but lived to e'i- periment in stratosphere flying is the inventor of the "Plat," -the secret British anti-tank gun which in Can- adian handshas proved to be a dead- ly killer of the heaviest Nazi tanks at'sshort range. The Plat it, one of the most success ful invasion weapons-,"Piat" being short for "Projector, Infantry, Anti- tank." The man who made it possible is Lieut: Ool, L. V. Stewart Blacker, famous as one of the four men who flew over Mount Everest in 1933. In the last war he literally broke his neck in a Royal Corps crash, but an operation saved his life. The gun which the Canadian boys are making famous first began life in a little shed workshop in Sussex just before the war, where ljlacker had three assistants; "The first model," he recalled, "was whipped into production to meet the invasion. It was too heavy for mobility, but • the Home Guard liked it. I had prototypes made in a linoleum factory. Then we took it along to Chequers for the prime minister to see. Mr. Churchill was all over it at once. He told us to fire it. That went off all right. Then be said, "See that tree?. Try to hit that!" "I thought to myself, 'We shall never do it.' But there were some bangs, and 'the tree was beautifully walloped. Winston did not hesitate. He ordered it into production." Another gun was being evolved on parallel lines, so it was decided to pool the best features of each so that a useful gun could be produced for an, urgent Canadian operational need. Plats now .being used by Canadian troops against Nazi tanks will pierce four inches of armour. They weigh only 33 pounds; two pounds lighter than the standard anti-tank rifle, and they can be fired from any posi- tion. An explorer and +big -game hunter 'who served in all three services in the last war has perfected an inven- tion which is not only saving Britain a shipload of imports .a month, but has speeded up the construction of tanks, submarines and aircraft. His discovery has been flown by bomber to, Canada from a British arsenal, and the secret is now helping Canadian arms production. The idea was born in a talk on the bridge of a gunboat at sea off the coast of Newfoundland. In that talk Dr. Grenfell, of Labrador, and the inventor decided there would be an- other war with Germany inside 25 years. They asked themselves what would be the Allies' chief need if war came again. This invention, one of the most jealously guarded sec- rets of the war, is the result. The discovery is a startling new method of cutting steel and iron, It rules out the need for a valuable import to Britain, obviates fire dan- ger anger in certain ships, consumes one- quarter the quality of coal hitherto required icy old-fashioned steel pro - ceases, saves many thousands of tons of steel and iron, and is so simple a woman can use it. The other day we watched a wo- man using this new method. A steel bar eight inches long was wedged in a vise. The woman picked up a light brass jet, pressed a spring and reeved the jet across the face of the bar. A white-hot light stabbed the surface of the steel. Sparks danced and flickered. The steel melted. ' Slowly the light bit into: it in a ..straight, unwavering line. A girl tapped the steel' bar with a hammer. The end dropped with a crash. . Convoys to Britain have been made safe by another Strange invention—a wen way of making glass. Bamb- sights used on patrolling aircraft which "mother" the convoys use this special glass. So do.the periscopes of British submarines, Soon' after the wet began we rea- lized how handicapped we were in lens' manufacture against Nazi con- cerns such as Zeiss. ,At once the air ministry asked a certain scientist to produce a lens eight times' more accurate than the best camera lens then in existence. They expected him to ask for a re- search establishment, and a techni- cal staff. "I' can do it," he said. "I shall want an office, two girls and two automatic adding machines. ' And it I will take: me 1$ months!" Ng, he was not quite right. The, job was finished in 16 months—slid the lens from the resulting formrula. is . now producing the pictures being taken by the ,R.C.A.)i+. after bombing raids. V Production of Butter is still Below Last Year Butter production in Ontario is still running considerably .below last year, according to the report for June of Creamery Instructors of the Ontario Department of AgricuItuxe. In the Northwestern section of the Province, however, production has been very close to that of last year. The peak of production for 1944 was reached during the week ending June 17, the same week as last year, ex- Ieept in Northern Ontario, which was a week earlier. The quality ,of butter being produced has been very good, despite labour shortage and lack of efficient help. July prospects are for a decided drop in production, this being accentuated by the hot, dry weather. On account of the extremely hot weather during the last part of June, the Director of Dairying has recom- mended to the Administrator of Ser- vices, Wartime Prices and Trade Board, that creameries be allowed Ito pick up eream at least twice a 'week, effective at once. v Transient Labour on Farms W. Harold McPhillips, prices and supply representative for Western Ontario, has made clear the ration regulations concerning transient la- bour on farms. ' A farmer who employs transient labour is entitled to supplementary coupons for the rationed .food he serves to these men, unless the la- bourer stays on one farm 14 days or more. In that case, the labourer must take his ration book with him and make it available to his employer. The farmers should not try to esti- mate the additional coupons he may need throughout the whole summer; but he should make application each time he has transient help, since supplementary rations are issued ac- cording to the number of men to be employed, the number of days of employment, the work to be done and the number of meals to be serv- ed on each occasion. Coupons will be issued on a claim for less than 12 meals. If the farmer applies to his local ration board in person, he will be asked to fill out a. form supplying this information. Under "Full de- tails of work to be done" he must state, for.. example, "Harvesting rye 60 acres". Harvesting would not be sufficient information. If the farmer PAGE3 Two' British Generals and an Air Marshal Escape from Italian Prison Camp. Lieutenant General Sir Richard O'Connor, Lieutenant General Phillip Neame, V. 0., and Air Marshal 0. T. `Boyd have escaped from their P.O.W. Camp in Italy and are safely back in Algiers. Aix Marshal Boyd was cap- tured by' the Italians in November,' 1940, when his plane made a forced landing while he was on his way to take up his new appointment as deputy to Viscoun' Wavell, then C. -in -C. Middle East. General O'Connor and General Neame were captured together in April 1941 when they were held up by a German motor 'cyclist armed with a tosamy-gun while their staff car was leaving Derna for a new H.Q. The three senior officers took advantage of the confusion among the guards at their camp when the news of Italy's capitulation came through, The method of their escape is still secret. Picture Shows—Left to right: Lieutenant General Richard O'Con- nor, Air Marshal 0. T.' Boyd and Lieutenant General P. Neame, V. C., photographed together after their arrival at Algiers. aa5'artaV' eaaa-a.a ':ae-.-w. ..,r -r ssr r•r Plan Comforts for Hitler's Victims. are sent out. These coupons, more- over, remain valid indefinitely. One of the hardest working and enterprising women war work units in Canada is the Salvation Army Red Shield Auxiliary. Although they 'have done a tremendous amount of work in providing clothing and other cons - forts for bombed -out victims as well as comforts for men fighting at sea and on land, they 'are now turning their attention to a newer and im- minent purpose. When peace conies, no one can tell. But when it does, women of the Red Shield will be there with plenty of comforts and clothing for the millions of victims now under Hitler's heel. Ma v required for vied:me of Nazi terror, and the Salvation Army has pledged itself to the Canadian government to co-operate with UNRRA to this ex- tent. "The only way we can reach our goal," says Mrs. George W. Peacock, national president of the auxiliary, i"is for each community to assume its own responsibility in this vast under- taking. Three or four women meet in someone's home, in a church parlor, or elsewhere, an soon a group rs started. In this way, the idea` spreads like wildfire, and our figures mount encouragingly. We never send over- seas anything we wouldn't wear our- selves', ,and we have found that our women take great pains to make the clothing they send in pretty and wearable, and use a great deal of in- genuity in `making over' or `making do'. The nearest Red Shield Group will be glad to get heavier outer garments which can be .lnade over into children's coats, ski suits and other wearing apparel," i The Red Shield does not give out patterns, believing that the women prefer to use their .own. Large quan- tities of materials are available, however, for those who need them. So that they •can build up an en-. ormous store of clothing and emir - forts of every kind for the great day of deliverance, they have formulated a plan to form 1,000 new sewing and knitting groups covering every town and hamlet in the Dominion. The now existing number of 1,400 groups will be augmented to more than 2,000 with a membership of about 100,000. The ,Red Shield Women's Auxiliary ! needs more than a million and a half !articles of clothing by. December, writes to the local board for his ;1944. These include 188,000 items of coupons, he must supply all the above boys' clothing, 4 to 16 years; 330,000 informations telling in adiition girls✓ clothing; 158,000 mens' cloth - whether 'he makes his own butter. I ing; 328,000 girls' and women's gar - As with regular books, these tem- ments; bedding 120,000, as well as porary coupons are valid only when hospital supplies, ate, In all 1,366,000 attached to the folder in which they articles of clothing and comforts are The women of Canada are urged to take part in this far-reaching effort which will, not 'only serve the im- mediate purpose of clothing the ,nee- dy, but will. help to spread goodwill among thousands of persons crushed by a merciless' and brutal Foe. New Zeala n iers in Italy C'•x`w?za Picture taken with New 'Zealand tanks used ,by New Zealanders at the Unit on the Sth. Army front: Divisional water point on the banks Picture shows,. -Canvas' water of the Sangre River.