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CHAPTER. XIII (CONTINUED)
"You're a lucky fellow, Mosson. I'd
willingly sacrifice six months pay for
such a chance. Not many greater
thrills in life than to be in an aero-
plane going into a power dive
straight for a pirate boat,while a
warship pops away .with a six inch
gun: to add extra spice."
"Gunboat," the major corrected.
"Good enough,". Caythers said
enviously. "Something different to
sitting in an office in uneventful
peace."
"That's exactly what I thought at
the time, though not, in such nicely'I acknowledged when Major Mosson
chosen phrases," the major retorted. came aboard to inspect the result of
"The words I used while I tried to the timely insurrection. "Better than
keep my heart from jumping right the rough house in Reykjavik last
out of .my mouth were terse and to Lammas."
the point." "Where is the young lady?"
"At all events the pilot played al "Snug and well out of it. Yon
trump hand." scum threatened to do her in if they
six weren't allowed to go scot free, On
my ship, too. We'd ha'e had some-
thing to say about that. What •are
they—escaped lunatics?"
"At present they look like lumps
of raw meat," Mosson replied, but he
expected to 'sit in this den of yours had no pity for the men who had
"Oh yes, but I'd have given
months of my salary to ,have been
anywhere else. One minute we were
high above the Emily and Vera, the
next our propeller was scraping the
wireless aerial. Believe me, I never
again, calmly swapping eongratula i only received a tithe of the punish
tions.' ment they deserved. Eventually the
The Clinton News -Record "Which reminds rte," Caythers law would take its course and they
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THURS.,, OCT. 1t, 1940
The Man Behind The Air Training
Plan
Canada Needed a Big Job Done. And 1900 sold out to NI II. and became
a Rig Man Appeared — James' the firm's 'manager for France.
Duncan, a Director of the Joint J. S. Duncan_ was born in Paris in
Air Training Plan 1893, wns educated there, spent a
year in Germany learning German.
His destiny was already fixed; he
was to ,become a farm implement
man. The then head of the firm, the
late Sir Lyman Melvin ;Jones, later
a Canadian senator, on his annual
trips to France, saw to that. When
he was 17, Jim Dungan, more French
than Scotch, more European. than.
Canadian, which he wasn't at . all,
found himself in Toronto working
with his hands in the home plant.
When he had grimed himself suffic-
iently he was given a job as an' On-
tario traveller. That may have clip-
ped any boulevardier but it brought
out the Scot in him and taught him,
Canadian.
He was just •past 21 when war
broke out and he was sent back to
Paris to help his father carry on the
French business.
In 1915 France was short of farm
implements. But in a warehouse on
the outskirts of evacuated Arras,
right by the front line, lay 293
Massey -Harris reapers, binders and
the like. Young Jim Duncan, begin-
ning to show initiative,. decided on a'
coup.
He put it up to the military auth-
orities, was given a working party
of British soldiers and—working at
night for three weeks in a blackness
lighted only by flares and the burst
of -shells—he saved all the implem-
ents. Legend says that he only sav-
ed 292 and that when the late Sir
Lyman received the report he wrote
asking what' had happened the 293rd
—since the records showed 293 stor-
ed in the warehouse!
Shortly he join i the British army,
was posted as gunner to the heavy
artillery; in two months was sent to
school to become an officer; went to
France at the end of 1916 as a Lieut-
enant in the R.F.A., became a cap-
tain and adjutant of his brigade; was
mentioned in dispatches,
ised usage. But he would be able to
look back with pleasure on the sorry
human wreckage to which they had
been reduced by the righteously
wratful seamen as a preliminary.
Felicite was flown back to Ghost
Island, a strange venue for a senti-
mental re -union. To all intents and
purposbs the Wade kidnapping case
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"In the fog!
"Sun was shining brilliantly. Glor-
ious morning, with hundred per cent
visibility."
"No doubt the light was so bright
that. it dazzled the pilot's eyes and
when he'd finished rubbing them you
were threequarters of the way to
Ireland. Strange habits these flying
chaps have. Or is it that they carry
unreliable compasses?"
Mosson/s left eyelid fluttered
momentarily. "You're quick on the
uptake," he murmured.
Diplomatically the mac' escapade
was being overlooked in high quart-
ers. Luckily it had marked a turn-
ing point in the fortunes of the case.
Aboard the drifter the appearance of
the seaplane caused the more con-
sternation than the overtaking gun-
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Six mouths ago few people in Can-
ada outside his firm—and, a select
few in Ottawa—knew much of James
Stuart Duncan, vice-president and.
general manager of the Massey -Har-
ris Co. As for Mr. Duncan, while he
had without doubt an acute sense of
the war, his absorbing interest was
agricultural implements.
Today, as volunteer deputy min-
ister of the national defence depart-
ment for air, he ranks as one of the
absolutely key men in Canada's huge
arms `program. He came to the job
an• a pinch -hitter basis for three
months, without pay, without ex-
penses. He is now on his second
three months ditto. In that time all
Ottawa has become aware of his elec-
tric thrust. More and more Canad-
ians are learning of this J. S. Duncan
whose name is becoming a synonym
for getting big things done in a
hurry.
"Och • aye, 'tis a pleasant story-
book ending."
Although it was from the skipper's
point of view there were a lot of
loose ends to be tucked in before the
case could be filed away in the arch-
ives of the Police, the R.A.F. and the
Admiralty—to say nothing of Somer-
set House.
Perhaps we Canadians have compo
to expect our go-getters to be tough
two-fisted guys -with spitfire tongues.
At first sight, Mr. Duncan seems too
good-looking to be true, too softly
spoken, too charming, with a profile
and manner that might have been.
made for Hollywood.
It is only when you learn on all
sides of the part he has played in the
recent drive to lift the Joint Air
Training Plan literally up by the
rudder— of the part he is playing
generally in other aspects of defence
and supply—that here is no dilettante
but a doer of deeds.
Mr. Duncan is 47. He is one of the
younger generations of tycoons who
have come to fill the gaps left by
the Flavelles and Bradshaws.
He is a Canadian by adoption and
a business connection with Canadians
made farm implements which goes
back to his Paris birth and boyhood.
He is a Scot by race and instinct;
his roots are Highland. But his im-
agination is French -quickened, his ex-
perience has been basically European,
his view is worldwide. Perhaps no
man in Canada has more right to be
called a cosmopolitan.
Scranton and his gang had broken
so many laws and introduced so many
novel legal complications that the
trial inevitably became a matter of
major public interest. An odd side -
issue arose from the arrest of Philip
Rolham, alias Brown, to whom
Scranton had relied up to then on Broome had presented £25,000 of Sir
making terms with the basis of Timothy's Wade's money in exchange
Felicite Delbos's safety as the decid-
ing fector.
Whether he would really have
harmed the girl was always open to transaction. "It was worth it," he
doubt. Certainly it would not have argued. "My secretary acted exactly
as I would have wished."
"It doesn't alter the fact that he
were bloodcurdling. was an active member of the gang,"
Captain Marley's clenching fists the assistant commissioner pointed
users., no good for the man if op- + out. "We caught him trying to leave
portunity arose to get at him, but the the country with ill-gotten gains.'
firearms continued. to dissuade any «payment for information reeeiv-
active intervention. ed.,
ATTACK FROM WITHIN "No, Sir Tiniothy, it won't do."
"I refuse to assist the prosecution
From the time it became apparent in regard to the money. It is all
that the Irish coast was barred Scran- very well for you to tell me I have
ton had been the only one who prefer- a public duty, but I am not forgett-
red to go on at all costs. He believ- ing that it has been well spent so
er that the gunboat dare not shell far as I am concerned."
the drifter in case of hurting his "Naturally it will be returned af-
prisoner, though they would not, of ter formalities."
course, know the position so far as "Certainly not. Would you have
the crew was concerned. me go back on my future son-in-
Thorwell and Vincent wanted to law's pledged word?"
throw up the sponge as soon as it
became necessary to change course. BERENICE AGAIN
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Head Office, Seaforth, Ont.
Officers:
President, Thomas Moylan, Sea -
forth; Vice President, William Knox,
Londesboro; Secretary -Treasurer, M.
A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors, Alex. so can we, he raved. He was glaring
Broadfoot, Seaforth; James Sholdice, like a madman, intoxicated by ex -
Walton; James Connolly, Goderieh; citement.
W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris. Commonsense should have told him
Leonhardt, Dublin; Alex. McEwing, that the Vera and Emily was not
Bi-"`th; Frank McGregor, Clinton. equipped for a long voyage. And the
Liss of Agents: E. A. Yeo, R.R. 1, fishery protection vessel was only
Goderieh, Phone 603r31, Clinton;i the forerunner of others that would
Jamas Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper,inevitably close round.
for information as to the kidnappers'
lair.
Wade was anxious to confirm the
been with the consent of his confed-
erates, But the threats he uttered
With the gunboat heading them away Captain Caythers would, but it was
from the Irish coast, the increasing no use. A compromise was effected
restlessness of the coerced crew, and by Rolham turning King's Evidence.
realization of the hopelessness of After serving a comparatively light
aimless wandering the end seemed sentence he would be able to retire
inevitable. in affluence.
The Chief cursed them as fools and "Most reprehensible," Caythers
cowards. "If a similar ship to this complained. "Now that we've round -
one sailed half -way round the world, ed up the fellows everybody puts
difficulties in my way."
"Well, you don't get cases like this
every day."
"No, thank goodness. Only pleasing
little tasks like finding out who shot
an unidentified man at Wellingham
Major Mosson slid unobstrusively
into the room. "Where?" he de-
manded.
"Wellingham."
"I used to stay with some people
just outside the town. Know' it like
a book."
"Nothing. doing. We haven't been
called in yet and if we are there will
be no representative of our Legal
Department given leave of absence
to turn detective."
"Who solved -the Wade case?"
The assistant commissioner's hand
absently strayed towards a heavy
volume of Stone's Justices Manual. "I
wish I knew," he said. "The judge
will want to know, the jury will want
to know and so will the newspapers."
Mosson sighed with relief. "For a
moment I thought you were going
to throw that book at me," he re-
marked.
"For, a moment 1 had that very
sound intention," Caythers. admitted,
"on mature consideration I have de-
cided to hand it over so you can take
Brumfield, R. R. No. 1: R. F. Mc er-
cher, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; J. F.
Preuter, Brodhagen; R. G. Jarmuth,
Bornholm, R. R. No. 1.
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,CANADIAN ;� ATION> 1 w AILWAYS
L— TIME TABLE
'trains will arrive at and depart from
Clinton' as follows:
Buffalo and Gaderick Div.
Going East, depart 6.43 a.m
Going East, depart 8.00 p.m.
Going West, depart 1.1.45 a.m.
Going West, depart
9.50 p.m.
London, Huron & Bruce
Going North, ar 11.21, lye. 11.47 a.m.
Going South ar. 2.50, leave ' 8.08 p.m,
Out of the blue came the seaplane.
Scranton leaped from the radio cabin,
pistol is, hand. Later he admitted
dreading being machine gunned, or
even bombed. At such a moment
there was no time for cool thinking.
It was unnerving to see that great
machine hurtling clown like a falcon.
after her prey.
Capt. Marley had waited such a
glorious opportunity. His attack was
launched at a moment least expected.
The gangsters were foolishly wasting.
ammunition, and were too much oc-
cupied to protect their rear.
Pandemonium reigned as the crew
went joyously into action, snaton1ng'
at whatever weapons come handiest,
content with bare knuckles so long
as these could thud against enemy
flesh. There was, no necessity for the
gunboat to intervene. Marley and
his men were quite capable of doing
their own, mopping. up.
"Man;' it was grand," the captain
A precise thinker, who has read
much and well, he speaks flawless
English. -But when he does a prob-
lem in figures, which is often, he does
it in French, the language in which
he was educated. When, however, at
home he speaks with his wife, a lady
of Spain, it is in the tongue of Cer-
vantes. In German too he is fluent
and he can toss Italian well enough
to talk back to a black shirt.
He's A Cosmopolitan
Let me first set out his facts of
life. His father, born, in Australia,
returned to Banff, Scotland, as a
young man where his own father be-
fore him had run a foundry making
farm implements. His mother was
also A Scot.
Ilis father went to Paris, became
general manager of an American
farm implement firm, set up in busi-
ness for himself, in time introduced
Massey -Harris machines there, about
From friends I learned a couple of
incidents of his war service which
throw a light on the stuff inside the
elegant Mr. Duncan. In the March,
1918, retreat of the 5th Army he
survived some of the deadliest fight-
ing of the war.
At Messines ridge, which his bat-
tery had to fire with open sights on
the oncoming Germans, he "observ-
ed" from a pillbox door, holding a
dead body on his knees as cover
against shrapnel!
At this same Messines young Dun-
can was awakened from a tired sleep
by the sudden German onslaught. In
his pyjamas, plus a sweater which
was all he had time to don, he hopped
on his horse to go into action, In
his pyjamas and sweater he stayed on
that horse and commanded his guns
during four days of ceaseless fight-
ing and movement.
At no time has Mr. Duncan picked
his spots.
it back to your department where
you'll probably need it in the busy
days to come,"
t * * * *
All adventures come to an end
sometime or other. Six months later
Sir Timothy Wade had grown tired
of discussing it, although he was
prepared to wager that his health had
benefited by it. "Thrills, my boy,"
he told Brooms, "and a touch of
hardship are worth bottles of doctor's
medicine."
"Bill has something more import-
ant to talk about," Felicite said
shyly.
"Yes sir, I—I—"
"Out with it, Broome. Not an in-
crease in salary, surely?"
"Not exactly, sir,"
"Then you want to marry my niece.
For two pins I'd refuse my consent.
What would you do?"
"Marry without it."
"Of course you would, or I'd want
to know the reason why. What beats
me is that there should be all this
delay. After the way you young
people acted when you got together
after the rescue I quite expected this
to have been settled weeks ago."
He leaned back • in his chair, regard-
ing them with contented approval.
There was only one stipulation. The
bride must wear a bouquet of Odonto-
glossum Berenice Farlane, the orchid
which first gave news of Sir Tim-
othy's kidnapping.
Which made a pleasant touch in
the newspaper accounts of the wed-
ding, although,' to be sure, there was.
plenty of picturesque descriptive
matter supplied by the presence of
Major Mosson, several uncomfort-
able Scottish seamen who could hard-
ly be left out of the picture, and
Captain Caythers, in the background,
as usual but hardly tobe mistaken
for other than a guiding genius.
(THE END)
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up for his country in an hour of dire • fluent for the air officers charged
with the training of pilots, air observ-
ers and air gunners by. the thousand
and a host of aircraftmen.
Then he set out to simplify, to get
action. He pays glowing tribute to
the quality of the officers he found
in the air service. He was delighted
to discover that many of them were
technical crackerjacks — but in the
R•C.A.F. of pre-war days these ca-
pable officers had not had the op-
portunity of gaining' experience of
big business. And this was big busi-
ness.
In order to short-cut, simplify, de-
velop an organization in which tliere
would be no waste moves, he brought
in four men, two from the Bell Tele-
phone Co., an efficiency expert and
H. G. Norman, senior partner of
Price, Waterhouse & Co., to go over
the new set-up in detail and smooth
out the snags.
need." Working daily from 8 o'clock
to midnight as often as not, or later,
he is giving all he las to the Joint
Air Training Plan whereby Great
Britain hopes to receive a mounting
supply of crack -Canadian pilots, air
gunners and air observers to help
whip Hitler.
Mr. Duncan knew nothing of the
duty ahead of hint when hi April he
left, with Mrs. Duncan, on a busi-
ness trip to California. But be had
scarcely arrived at Stockton, Cal., be-
fore the late Norman Rogers, then
minister of national defence, called
him by telephone, and asked him to
become deputy minister for air with
the specific task in mind of shaping
the destinies of the gigantic British
Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
Mr. Rogers said that the request
came directly from Mr: King, that
it was backed by the desire of min-
isters Ralston, Howe and himself
that he should serve—for the dura-
tion of the war.
The war over, he slipped back to a
business life. He went to his firm's
London office—he was then 24—and
became its continental traveller front
Spain to the Near East, from Scan-
dinavia to North Africa. Next he
was posted to Paris as assistant man-
ager (to his father) of the French
branch. His father died,and at 27 he
became manager, of the very large
French business which included Bel-
gium and North Africa. Two years
later, at 27, he became general sales
manager for all Europe, He built
two factories, one in Germany, the
other in France. Then, at 36, he be-
came general manager of manufac-
ture and sales for Europe, He had
SUIT ' travelled far and fast.
The next move took him back to
the new world. The depression was
on; his firm was meeting trouble in
the Argentine; itt 1932 he was sent
there as general manager to reor-
ganize the business. It is no secret
that he i•e`volutionized it and made it
pay well.
Keeping Public Informed
From the start he was acutely con-
scious that the Canadian public had
The call put Mr. Duncan on a spot. not been adequately informed and
He had a deep duty to his firm, fac- held erroneous views of the J.A.T.P.,
ing as it did war problems in'whioh its basis, program and objective. The
his own wide experience up through plan involved an expenditure of $600, -
its ranks had immense value. He felt 000,000, of which Canada was to put •
he could not leave it. But Mr. Rog- up $350,000,000.
ers would not take "no"; he asked That's money in a big way, Mr.
hien to think it over. Mr. Duncan Duncan reasoned, and the public has
thought it over and he talked it over a right to know what it all means,
with his wife. Here was a war call "Very little in this world is usefully
that, whatever the cost, he could not
fail to face.
That night he flew back to Toronto.
He placed the problem before his
fellow directors. They felt that he
could not leave the company perman-
ently, with things as they were in
Europe, but that he should serve
his country, too. They offered to
Id him go to Ottawa for three
months to organize the ,new air min-
istry and aid the Joint Air Training
Plan.
Called To Ottawa
It is also no secret that abotit that
time Massey -Harris at 'tome was in
the doldr'uins. In March, 1935, shortly
before his 41st birthday, Mr. Duncan
was brought to Toronto as general
sales manager for Canada. The gen-
eral manager was ill and in August,
1935, he- was made assistant general
manager, and in December, 1935, he
was made general manager. In the
next year or so he was named a di-
rector and vice-prmnidgnt of this great
company which, it is once again no
secret, he had lifted back to life.
That was J. S. Duncan until April
of this year. He built an ultra-
modern home in the Bayview district
of Tornto where he surrounded him-
self with beautiful things, for he is
by way of being an exquisite. He
has a fine taste in books, in painting,
in cut glass. He loves intelligent
conversation. He is devoted to his
wife and his two small daughters.
Ho was absorbed in the big busi-
ness which has been his life. He had
no interests outside. He was no
socialite, though he had many friends.
He took no part in politics. He did
not throw his weight around, Suffic-
ient to him were his job, his family,
his home and his intellectualpursuits)
That is the man 0£tawa called to
national service. Today, in the words
In Ottawa, Mr, Royers took him
to meet Messrs. King, Ralston and
Howe. The prime minister heard his
statement, expressed full understand-
inf of his business duties and accept-
ed his offer to do an organizing job
for three months.
Thus Mr. Duncan became acting
deputy minister in the new depart-
ment of which Hon. C. G. Power lat-
er became the minister. The three
months passed all too soon in a period
of ]Hectic work which included the new
phase of things which began when the
Germans launched their drive at the
Low Countries and France on May
10th. At the end of them, in July,
Mr. Duncan agreed to stay for anoth-
er three months. In October, when
they end—who knows?
It is a safe bet that this dynamic
man will find it hard to let go the
giant air scheme which he has gal-
vanized into smooth and pulsing life.
What did he do in Ottawa? What
has he done? Hosv could a farm
implement man, however good, come
into a' miltary air service and make
things move?
When he went to Ottawa, he moved
at once- to the Jackson building on
Bank St., which is air force head-
quarters. With him there was going
to be no remote control. When. he
had measured -the needs of the task,
he preceded to bring other civilians
into this air department.
This Joint Air Training Plan, he'll
tell you, has a military aim but it has
to be organized and run on business
lines. Therefore, he brought in oth-
kept secret," he argued, and he set
out to overcome the harm done in the
public mind by the hush-hush policy
of the past.
He first got the approval and con-
sent of the prime minister to setting
up a public relations office in the
department. Then he called in John
Martin, puclicity director for Massey -
Harris. Together they decided what
was needed to inform the public.
As a result Joseph W. G. Clark, a
brother of Gregory Clark, a distin-
guished R.A.F. veteran and an ex-
perienced advertising and public re-
lations counsel, was picked to take
charge of the task of airing the air
plan and air force, and Norman
Smith, a fine newspaperman, son of
the editor of the Ottawa Journal, and
others of ability were appointed to
the staff.
Their job was not to propagand but
to make available to Canadian and
United States newspapers the reser.,
voir of action and human interest up
to then kept carefully concealed.
They were to aid and abet working
newspapermen,'motiott picture men,
and radio "nen rather than face them
with a blank wall of official reticence
such as in the past they had only too
frequently met with. They were also
to publicize the feats of Canadian
pilots in the last war, to inspire pride
.and a spirit of emulation in today's
Canadian youth.
Soon the public began to know that
the scheme, far from failing or fumb-
ling as ignorant critics accused some
months ago, was ahead of schedule.
Lately they have been learning that
the original schedule of three years
has been pepped up beyond all hopes.
Hardly had Mr. Duncan got things
going when the blitzkrieg began in
May. As a natural sequel, with every
plane of every kind needed over there,
Great Britain' sent word that she
would. have to suspend contributions
for two months. In other words, the
training planes which were to be her
main contribution of 3180,000,000,
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