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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-03-12, Page 3THURS., MAR. 12,1942 1'LLt tiA.it'.rieletileleS lie t,i,IN'1'UN t1ARL 1 IN NTURY Some Notes o f The News in 1917 FROM THE CLINTON NEWS RECORD MARCH 8TH, 1917 The . hockey team from the Piano factory played the Juniors on Pridap evening and again on Monday even- ing winning both times. This makes the third win for the piano makers. Tonight they play a pinked tete from the Pastime Club. - After a abort illness of pneumonia Rebeeta Jones, widow) of the late t John Pinning, passed) away at her home early on Tuesday morning. The deceased was a daughter of the fate William Jones and was. 'born and spent praetieally all her life here. Two daughters and' one son survive; Mrs. Hudson a town, and Misa Me and and Will both at home. Two sis= tore and five brothers survive. It was with very great surprise that the citizens became aware on Tuesday that George Hoare had died suddenly during the night. The late Mr. Hoare who was seventy years of age, was born at Acton West but the family carie to Huron county a great Many years ago. There were few figures better known on Clinton streets than George Hoare. He war a man of more than average intelli- gence, ntelligene, a great reader and a great lov- er of nature. It was largely through his efforts that the Huron County Stock Show was first started and he never ceased taking the keenest in- terest in Its welfare. Mr. Hoare had never &married but for many years had made his hone with his brother, Mr. C. Hoare, who at the time of his death was absent from home. One brother and four sisters survive; John of East Wawa - nosh; the Mesdames Chapman of British Columbia, Mrs. Harrison of Muskoka and Miss Mary, also of East Wawanosh. Mr. Wilfred Biggins of Hullett has taken a position .as manager of D. A. Forrester's, farm, Mr. R .Walker is moving into his own home on Vittoria street, Mrs. Morgan Agnew, whe has been aecu- eying it, having moved into the house recently vacated by Mr. R. Walton. Yesterday the marriage took plate ef Mr. Rainey Armstrong of Rose - fawn, Sask., and _Mies Margaret, only deughter of the late William Wheat- ley and of Mrs. Wheatley of Clinton. Counter—In Simooe on February 28th, Marion Counter, in her 43rd,, year, and slater of W. R. Counter of Clinton, Mrs. W. P. Glover and little son, Master George Ginall, and her cous- in, Miss Elva McLean of Colborne, east of Toronto, were guests at the home of Mr. W. S. Harland last week, Miss Mabel Harland is a sister to Mrs. Glover. Miss, G oelte left on Monday for Orillia, where she has taken a position for the millinery Beeson. Misses Mary Reid and Margaret Campbell of Bayfield were in town en Friday. • Mrs. Sadie Johnston and Miss Is- abel left this morning for Toronto ,where they will spend a few clays. FROM THE CLINTON NEW ERA MARCH 8TH, 1917 Rev. R. Fulton Irwin of Glencoe, who hatbeen assisting in speeial ser - 'vices in' Wesley church this week, has CHURCH DIRECTORY rug BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. A. g. Silver, Pastor 2.3u. p.m.—Sunday School 7 p.m.—Evening Worship The Young People meet eacb Monday evening at 8 p,m, •s tS. PAUL'S CHURCH R v. G. W. Moore, LTh. 11 aim. Morning Prayer. "2.30 pare Sunday' School. 7 mm.—Evening Prayer. THE SALVATION ARMY Mrs. Envoy Wright 3 p.m. — Sunday School. 7 p.m. — Salvation Meeting ONTARIO STREET UNITED Rev. G. G. Murton, M.A.; B.D. 12,00 a.m.--Sunday School. 11 a.m.--Divine Worship 2.00 p.m. Turner's Church. Ser. vice and Sunday School ? p.m; Evening Worship ' WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED leev. Andrew Lane, B.A., B.D. 11 a.m.--Divine Worship 7 p.m.—Fvening Worship. Sunday' School at conclusion of morning service. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH fiunday, School 10 a.m., Worship Service 11 a.m. 8 pee. Worship Service at Bayfield 2 p.m.—Sunday School. Bayfield. .been a guest at the home of his bro- ther, Mr. J. A. IrWhii. Miss Jennie Holmes returned last week after spending several weeks with friends at Brantford and other points. Mr. Jacob Taylor was up, from To- ronto last week in connection with his businesus interests here. , • Word has been received recently by the parents in Stanley Township of 'Pte. Franklin Boyce, of the 161st who ;was wounded some time age, is still in England suffering from 'a' wound • in the) eye by a shrapnel, and Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Stephenson of the Goshen 1 Line have received wore that their son, George Henry ie missing. He also belonged to the 161st. Mr. William McGregor, who has been attending the Faculty of Edu'- ication has enlisted. He paid a visit to his home in Stanley Township at the end of last week. Lor!Mr. Lorna Tyndall of Hullett is un - loading a car of oats this week for feeding purposes. Shortage of feed made this! move imperative. 1 Clarkson—In Clinton on Sunday, Mae* 4th, to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Clarkson, a son. Mr. Ike Rattenbury spent a few ! days at Toronto en business, and took a rum over to see Mr. and Mrs., Otto 'Fink at Hamilton. Otto's od friends will be glad to hear that he is work- ing up a fine business in that city Mr. W. R. Counter was called back to Sinicoe last . Thursday,owing to the death of his sister, Miss Marion Counter. In the past 18 months Mr. Counter has lost his mother and father and sister. Dr, Will Holloway Ieft on Monday morning for his home in Peterboro, after a 'couple of weeks• around his Feld home here. Miss E. Mains of Blyth has• taken a position in Connor's Restaurant, Miss Violet R. Argent left Monday !morning to take charge of her posi- tion in Springfield. Rev, A. H. Drumm, hasresigned the pastorate of. St. Paul's Presbyter- ian church at Bowmanviile. Mr, Drumm is a former Clintonian, and in addition to being a successful and popular preacher is a good printer as well, having served his time in the New Era. Last week Mr. Josh Cook lost one of his greys on the bus. The horse slipped the other week on the icy street and paralysis set in, Word was received sometimo ago that Pte. Norman Levy, son of Mr, and Mrs. Levy of town had won a Distinguished Conduct Medal. When The Present (entur) Was Young 11'ROM THE CLINTON NEWS - RECORD MARCH 6T1I, 1902 The interesting program of events. in connection with the opening of the new Wesley church will commence next Sunday morning with a "sunrise prayer meeting' at 7 o'clock. Services• will last throughout the day with a public meeting in the evening. Mr. Charles .Helyar has been ap- pointed caretaker of the new Wesley church. Mr. D. E. Cantelon of Gederkh township has received the, appoint- ment of assitant chief of the Wood - Stock police force. Mr. Frank Whitmore of Goderich township has rented the eighty acre lot ',adjoining his •own from Mr. John Sheppard of Clinton and will now have a 160 acre farm. We under- stand he is going into the cattle busi- ness quite extensively. On blonday Mrs. James Dunford received •a telegram which conveyed the sad news that her mother had passed away during the night, The «deceased, with her husband., Mr. John. Small/eon, had lived' for sone forty years in the township of Grey where ,they were well and favorably known. Under: the heading "A.n honest Man" the Toronto Star made the fol- lowing refereiuete to a son of Mr. Will- iam 'Cantelon of town. "W. E, Ru- int, a student at the Central Business College, while attending the college reunion at the Teenrple Building, Fri- day evening lost his wallet, contain- ing a cheek for $600, endorsed and ready to cash,. $40' in cash. and wine valuable papers. The wallet was found by W. F. Canteion, a School: of Pharmacy student, who, dis'coverin'g Quinn's' card in it, promptly handed the wallet over to the owner." Barber In Clinton on March lst, Rddout, ,sister of Messrs Charles and John Ridout of Clinton and relict of the late J. M. Baiter of ,Georgetown in her 59th year,' Reynolds In H;ullett on 6th .e0111 - cession, on March, 4th, the wife of I&. Dominick •Reynolds; a•.•son. Creo--In Clinton °mit Mr, Lo 3L role 4t hr wife of a h, to daughter. Lock Gree, of a Many People Still Sleep in Shelters in Loudon's Underground Stations This is the twelfth in the series of articleswritten exclusively for the weekly newspapers of Canada by Hugh Templet, editor of the Fergus News -Record.. He flew to Great Brit- ain as a guest of the British Council and was given an opportunity to see what is being done in Britain, Ireland and Portugal in wartime. This series has stretehed out and this story will romplete the twelve that I originally planned to write. It seems that there has been so meth to tell—much more than I thought when I arrived, back in Canada. For the twelfth story, I am choos- ing one of the simplest of them all, and yet one of the hardest to db. So merry people want to know what Lon- de is really like in wartime, with the blackout and the bombing. So many ask for a description, yet it is hard to describe London, as one really sees it, particularly at night when the eyes sees little. There have been so many descriptions, and yet most •o them fail to paint a true picture. Perhaps I should not try, when so matey experts have failed. But it ought to be easy enough. I'll take one evening walk and tell about it, as I wrote it dawn after reaching the light and warmth of my room at the Savoy. It waw the night of October 1st, and, as it happened ,the anniversary of my wedding --.the first time I had been away from home on that date in 20 years of married life. It was my turn to broadcast a message to Can - eat that night and I had' sent my wife a cable to be listening. I hoped. she would hear my voiee, at least. The British Broadcasting House is in the West End of London. Perhaps you have seen pictures of it in days of peace. It has been a enemy target and it looks rather different now, but we thought it had been designed with bombing in mind, for much: of it is underground. We decided that when the Hun knocks a bit off the tap, the staff just moves down one storey farther into the cellar, but I cannot! vouch for that, It isn't an easy building to enter, for it is guarded by both police and soldiers. One has to have a pass and a definite appointment to get past the soldier who stands with fixed bayonet beside a portable bomb shelter in the main hallway. It was about 10.30 when I came out, showing another pass at the door before I could get out. I had dune my broadcast from a basement room, two storeys below the surface of the earth. It hadn't been an ordeal, in spite of the sign that said that we would he warned if enemy bombers' Were directly overhead, and would ' we please continue as long as pos- sible after the first warning sounded There is much less: formality about the broadcasting in the B.B.C. than in studios on this side of the ocean. I soon felt quite at home. When the director learned about the anniver- sary, he insisted that I add a personal message to my wife. I appreciated his thoughtfulness. There was no taxi in sight as I came out into the blackout, but it was a moonlight night and I was used to the blackness by this time, so I started off. It isn't hard to find one's way in London. The moon nus in tae south and the Thames lay in that di- rection. At a ,dorner in Regent street, I stop- ued to check up with a polieeman. Iie was, standing outside his little brick bomb -shelter, Everymaincor- ner has one of them.. They would not hold more than two or three persons, huddled elose together, but they do give protection from blasts andfly- ing splinters. The constable seemed surprised when I asked if I was headed in the right direction for the Savoy. "Yes, sir," he said. "You are—but it'9: a song way sir. You wouldn't be thinking of walking that far!' I assured him L was and wondered if any eonstable in any other large city in the world would) have been so polite about it. I had my little pocket torch—the kind we tall `pen -lights" in Canada, Even' that was too bright for the Lon- don blackout, unless covered with a layer of blue tissue paper. That night, I hoe no need of it. The moon gave light enough, The main streets in the West End have suffered from the bombing. As Miss B. MCCaamelI has been spen- ding a few days in town, afterat- tending .the millinery openings in London, prior to leaving for her pos- ition in Heosall.' Miss Verna Stench returned to town on Saturday last to resume her old position as head milliner in New- combe's stare, after spending her va- cation at her home he Detroit. On her way here she attended the millfn cry openings in. London. Mr.'. H. E. Hedgers is in Toronto this 'weelc . visiting the wholesale houses in search of: the • • latest and best for the patrons' ef the Palace, Miss Randall of Paris, who will. have charge of the millinery ,department this season„ hao! been attending: -the big millinery openings and, will have 1 h kf h 1 r walked along, it ;seamed that vacant spaces were at more or less re- glar distances. It 'seemedas though a German pilot might have gone up one side of the street' and down the other, letting his high explosives ilawpj ale quickly as he could turn the bomb lev. I was passing a block of stately apartment houses. Most of therm tip - peened, to be intact. Then there Was a gap where, several had been blown out into the street. The rubbish had been cleared away, but the moon 1 shone dpwn on a blank white wall, studded here and there with little fireplaces' and against the sky a row of about 20 chimneysstood silhouet- ted against the midnight blue. In the next block, it was stores that Well suffered. Sometimes the window was just a great ,gaping hole and the inside of the store wasn't there. On either side, the windows had been boarded wee but the stores were evidently Harrying on, though I couldn't read what was on the little signs nailed to the boar& No Iights of any iti&id were to be seen except the traffic lights at the main cornea and the single, shaded headlamps of approaching ears. The traffic lights were tiny red and green crosses cut in sheets of metal that had been fitted over the lenses. The red ante green looked rather decor- ative, but when the yellow came on, it looked unlawfully bright for the five seconds it remained:. The ear lights made only dim moving trireles on the pavement as they passed. I found myself, bye and bye, in Piccadilly Circus. Loyal Londoners claim that this has the busiest traffic of any place on earth in normal times, It certainly hasn't now. Occasional taxis slipped past, and buses with their windows covered with some opaque substance withtiny holes scraped, inthe centre of each window pane so that passengers can look out a single eye. The statue of Eros is no longer seen in the centre of the Cirrous. It is covered with .a cone-shaped protection against bombs and the boards on the onside are plastered with signs' advising the on- looker to buy bonds. (I saw thein In daylight several times.) I had missed a tour of the air raid shelter a few nights before, but I recalled that the most famous of them all was in the Underground station below Piccadilly Circus. I went down the stairs and into 'the bright light of the station. My travelling before that time had been above ground, This was my first visit to the Underground. The streets may have seemed deserted but there were lights and action and teaowds below the surface. A long line moved sIowly past a window marked lie and another line past the 2d wicket. Moving stairways seemed' to go down into the bowels of the earth, in every direction. Evidently this was just the vestibule. Sleeping Under the Ground I appealed, to another constable. I explained who I was, where I had come from and what I wanted to see. He called to another man in blue uniform: "Here, mate, will you watch things for me for a few minutes," and then herded me past a ticket turnstile and down, an escalator. It was 75 feet long or more, bat that was just the beginning. We walked dorm some stone steps and, took an- other escalator for another 80 feet or so, past rows of theatre posters and other advertisements. I really wasn't prepared for what I saw. London, hadn't been Loaded i., months, yet there were several hun- dred people sleeping beside the sub- way track. The trains came raking out of the darkness, like great catie- pillars, stopped; a moment, and went on again. The platforms, were none too wide, but all along the walls were rows of men and women sleeping on the tiled floors, with, blankets, eve.. and under them. In some parts of the "tubes," there were raves of douirle-deck cots along the walls. The cots bore numbers and the same people occupied them night after night. Some of them had been fixed up a bit, with blankets hanging down in front, like the ,curtains of a berth on a train. But most of teen: were open to the gaze of hundred)& •who passed! by. There_ were more women than men and they were invarious stages' of undress. Some. never took off their. clothes at all other women were coming out of the lavatories' with pyjamas or nightgown showing ,be- low their dressing gowns. I saw ne children, over a year old, but there were three babies), one •of them Ver;; tiny. An old couple, well dressed; sa together on the stone floor, taldng their things out of an •expensive looking suitcase. A stone stairway ran up. 20 steps or •so. Lying on it were six ot see, men. They weren't crossways on tie steps, because, that would have im- peded traffic, but they were lying ,,; the stairs. The sharp, metal-lioune edged;' dugin• f ce their sides in tees., four places, but they, -•i pat ,', lentdrredus wanted east them u, s:' trains, thundered 'b 20 fed 'i • y` t ,.tiv,y.:. would not have believed it i. not seen, it. PAGE 3 Mfg FOR vlcIvoIIY if every one of Canada's new army of wage-earners saves more, the country's effort toward winning the war will be greatly helped. Every dollar you save means more tabour and materials freed for making the war goods so urgently needed. These savings, lent to the country in the purchase of War Savings Certificates or Victory Loan Bonds—lent to intensify Canada's war effort --will bring victory— and peace—nearer. vi/V G �✓�%i73.-te?,,e..Mae7; My guide took me down to a lower level, There were more bunks. At the end of the row was a temporary first aid post, with two nurses in uniform,1 At a counter nearby, three girls were ceiling tea, toffee, cakes and sand- wiches, I was more moved by these things than I had been since I arrived in London., but to the constable it, was a e was scornful• "A n old sto&y H come tax was unfair, he said. Here he was, working for two days out of every week for the Government. He had been retired on a pension and they called hint back tc work—and then taxed his pay and pension as well. Yet he had a young nephew on the south coast—a publican, lie was -that didn't have anything to do be- cause iris pub was in a prohibited area. He got a job as a carpenter, though he had no training, Building defence works, he was, and stilt at it. and he gets £8 or 410 a week. He keeps changing from one job to another and nobody ever checks him upand he never paid• any taxes. They say Bevin favors the trade unions anyway, It sounded familiar. I thought of the carpenters at Camp Borden anal a number of other complaints back home. lot of foreigners what hasn't got any guts, sir, or lodging house folk what won't pay their rent. You can see for yourself, sir!" 1 could see—a. strangely assorted folk. They looked different to me than they did to him. He may haysl been right, but I thought T saw be- hind it the homes that had been de- stroyed and p,eopls with no place to • go where they felt safe. Surely It took more than an ordinary terror M make people live like tliat. Yet he may have been right; after all, it was five months since the last bomb- ing of that part of London. As we went ba•k upetaks, my new- foun" irian:l, and guide complained, about the Government in a way that.' sounded thoroughly Can::.'ian. 27a, i i - OntiMilIWOMMilixnaerteTett The constable had other eriticisins to make while he had the ear of the Press. The Army should be hc•lpioe the Russians. He had a son in the army for two years, just doing noth- ing. Conscription wasn't fairly en- forced. A lot of young fellows g:t free, though they are calling up inn of 45 now, Ile pointed to two young chaps in evening clothes (about the only ones I saw so dressed in Lon- don), They were drunk and leaning on each other. The constable said he saw the same ones every day. Why weren't they in the Army? I didn't know, so I said good-bye and reached the upper air again. Walking along Piccadilly, I passed' several groups of loving couples. The men were mostly sailors. Some of them were singing. They had their' arms around the girls. It was just. dark enough for that, I caught up to a pair not so loving: There was moonlight enough to see that he was an officer in the R.A.F. The woman said: "Well, I hope you are proud of yourself after that ex-• hibitionl" The voice was full of bite terns&. I thought he night hit her, but they turned in a doorway an& were gone. At Leicester Square, I paused, for there are several streets, (You know the lines of the song', of course— , "Good-bye, Piccadilly; farewell, Lei-• «ester Square.") I stood at the +Curb• looking at the streets across the ' circle. A shortish lady came along. (continued on page 6) Lieut. -Gen. McNaughton Inspects C.P.R. Tanks THill stepped-up tempo of tank production at Angus Shops, Montreal, was evident everywhere when Lieut: Gen, A. G. L. Me - Naughton made a detailed'inspec- tion of the big Carmelan Pacific !plant; whose machinery is turn- ing ; out. increasing ; numbers of mediate weight Valentines for the armed forces. • ` Accompanied by, ranking offi- cials of the Canadian Army and senior officers of the' Canadian Pacific Railway, Canada's No;'t soldier received a first hand pic- ture of tank construction from the smallest parts to the finished product. He displayed keen in- terest in the Construction et the speedy war machines, a type that has been highly praised 'by the Russians on the field of • battle. Highlight of General Mc-. Naughton'S visit foiloived" the shops inspection when' six cif the khaki -painted• :"Valentine" tanks; fresh from the :Angus.. shops, as - scroll., line, raced out ed on the shops Midway, where they: wheel- ed,,. plunged, ' and :; went 'through various other tactics to show their manoeuverability. Above scene shows a group of Angesseuilt tanks: awaiting ship rent for "active'service". Inset:• Gen. McNaughton comments 'on, • some detail' of tank, conbtrtiction.. Others., in, the gx`oup, include (left • to right) H. Bs Bowen chief' of motive powers tied4ollinge steeket Brig.Gen. 'D tie 33:+•Piteeteeei ..:: fiver Commanding„M di, Berry, direct4 r,e :o mobile 'an„tan ksire " fn$r de � tt - Gen. curet Stteit'bin t s" , Ca adianIGe eral`'Staff$"ricec.. Coleman vice-president, Cemad Pacific Rainr ailway.