HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1939-10-12, Page 3THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1939
THE SEAFORTH NEWS
PAGE THREE
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK
Sunday, October 15,
1.1.50-11.30 a.m. Sixth World Con-
cert, Special Hawaiian broadcast,
front IIonolulu.
3.00-056 p.m, Philharmonic -Symphony
of New York,
510-6.00 p,n1. Ten Musical Maids.
From Toronto.
6.30-0.45 p.m. The World To -Day, A
review of the week's news, by R.
O. MacFarlane, from Winnipeg.
Monday, October,
7,00-7,15 p.m. Histories of Canadian
.Regiments. Talk by R. 13. Farrell,
from Ottawa,
Tuesday, October 17-
4,15-4,30 p.m. Sociable Sports. Talk
on various winter sports by Els-
peth Chisholm, from Toronto,
Wednesday, October 18-
7,00.7.80 p.m. Dancing Strings, Vocal
trio and instrumental group.
8.00.8.30 p.m. The Air Force Sings.
Informal sing -song directed by
George Young, from Halifax..
9.30-10.00 p.m. The Cosmopolitans.
Orchestra and soloists directed
by Percy Faith, from Toronto.
10.30.10.46 p.m, Old Country Mail.
Talk oncivilian life in England,
by R. S. Lambert, from Toronto.
Thursday, October 19-
4.15-4.30 p.m. Movie Reviews, Talk by
Mary Lowery Ross on • current
motion pictures, from Toronto,
7.90-7.30 p.m, The Crackerjacks, Voc-
alist and novelty instrumental
group direction Lou Snider, from
Toronto.
Friday, October 20-
4.15-4.30 p.m. Canadian Ballads, Talk
by Ruth Walker Harvey, Toronto
8.00.8,30 p.m. Miss Trent's Children,
directed by Rupert Caplan, from
Montreal,
9.10-10.00 p.m. The Story of Furs.
Feature presentation produced by
J. Frank Willis, from Toronto.
Saturday, October 21---
7,00.7,30 p.m. Cameos in Swing. In-
etrumentai group directed by Al-
bert Pratz with Phyllis Marshall,
vocalist, from Torolto,
"ALONG THE AIRWAVES"
The Canadian Broadcasting Corpor-
ation announces that the opening
concert of the 1939.40 season of the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, under
the conductorship of Sir Ernest Mac -
Malian, will be producer in charge of
the broadcast arrangements. On Tues-
day, Oetober 31, at the same hour,
CBC will carry Les Concerts Syml-
phoniques de Montreal.
In (arranging for the further exten-
sion of its plans to presentthe sym-
phony orchestras of Canada in nation
wide broadcasts throughout the sea-
son, 0130 will bring to the listening
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public many leading Canadian solo.
ists and outstanding artists of other
nationalities. Georges Enesco, the
world-famous Roumanian violin vir-
tuoso, conductor and composer, is the
first guest conductor announced for
the Toronto Symphony series, '
Happy Gang's "Goon Club" is uow
300 strong and Hugh Bartlett, the
programme's popular announcer, re -
Ports that since the Club was first
started in September, "goon" stories
(pointless as possible) have been
pouring in from Vancouver, San
Francisco and all points east, The
Happy Gang programme, heard five
clays a week on CBC network stations
at 1 to 1.30 p.m„ from Toronto, pres-
ents "goon" stories on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays at present.
Continuing its highlight series de-
voted to the natural resources of
Canada, CBC's feature department'
announces "The Story .01 Furs," dra-
matic sequences with music, dealing
with the story of Canadian furs.
Frank Willis is producer in charge of
the series, which has included a
broadcast devoted to gold, and one
giving the story of wheat. "The Story
oof Furs" will be heard over the
national network on Friday, October
20, at 9 p.m.
Somewhere In Canada: "A Day In
The Life of. A Recruit," sound pic-
tures presenting incidents and rout-
ine in the young soldier's day from
reveille to lights out, will be the sub-
ject of a special series of broadcasts.
The first broadcast, to be heard the
latter part of October, will explain
just what happens when Mr. John
Smith 'becomes Private Smith, J.
With the use of concealed micro-
phones, the actual scenes of the re-
cruit's first day will be presented,
from the time young Smith offers
himself at the recruiting station to
the moment of attestation, when he
takes the oath of allegiance, Later
broadcasts will carry forward the
story of his training, with the raw
recruit emerging a healthy, alert,
'well -disciplined soldier.
CBC is scheduling the following
daily news periods: S to 8.15 a.m.,
12,15 to 13.30 p.m., 6.30 to 6.45 p.m..
and 11 to 11.15 p.m. The news is
heard on Sundays at: 9 to 9.05 a.m.,
12.30 to 12.35 p,m., 6.45 to 640 p.m„
and 11 to 11.15 p.m, These periods
leave been arranged in co-operation
with the Canadian Press. The special
rebroadcast of 13130 news, from Lon-
don, England, is heard every day ex-
cept Sunday from 4.45 to 5.15 p.m,
Wedding bells will ring for Robert
Farnon, one of radio -land's most
gifted young artists and Doris Veal,
firmer staff pianist for CBC, at Tor-
onto. The marriage will take place
in Toronto, October 20, Bob Farnon
is one of the original members of the
"Happy Gang" and has achieved not-
able success during the past two
years as an arranger. 1300 bas hie
Own weekly feature this season, dir-
ecting and arranging the music: fur
the `Six Spades," a novelty instru-
mental group heard Mondays at 7.30
p.m. from Toronto, with Lucille Cam-
eron as vocalist,
'"Tile Road 00' Yesterday" is again
listed among the Sunday night pro-
grammes presented by CDC. A large
vocal chorus, including a number of
the leading Toronto singers, and an
orchestra, under the direction of Ro-
land Todd, are presenting a half-hour
programme of old favorite songs,
Sundays at 9.30 p.m, Mr. Todd has
been a prominent theatre and clioreb
organist in Canada for near 20 years.
A gift from the Arctic to a CBC
producer was unexpectedly presented
during a studio rehearsal recently. A
visitor was announced for Syd: Brown,,
producer of Percy Faith's programme
"The Cosmopolitans, and to his stir -
prise and pleasure Mr. Brown learn-
ed that Miss Florence Hirst, a nurse
from the Church of England Mission
at Pangnirtung, Baffin Island, was
there to present Iritic with a beauti-
fully mounted sealskin rug, In apprec-
iation of CBC's "Northern Messenger
Service," which has been broadcast
to men and women in the far north-
ern outposts for the past live years..
Miss Hirst, 'who has "come out" this
summer so that she may go to Eng-
land to be married, explained that
the gift was on behalf of all those
stationed on the fringe of the Arctic
who had relied on CBC's annual short
wave broadcasts for news of home.
Mr. Brown has been the "Service"
producer since its inception. Plans
for this year's "Northern Messenger"
will be announced shortly.
HURON NEWS
Appoint Equalization Appeal Court
The Goderich town council was in-
formed on Friday in a letter from the
Department of, Municipal Affairs
"that Judge Edwin W. Clement of
Waterloo County, and Robert: John-
ston, Sheriff of Huron County, and
Judge T. M. Costello of Huron, shall
form a court of appeal and determine
the said tt'ppeels (Godot'ic'h au(1 Ste-
phen Townships) to equalize the
whole assessment of the County of
Huron and to report the same to the
said Comity Council as the etatnte
directs. The Minister further recom-
mends that the court so formed be
directed to Hear and determine the
said appeals'8t-such time or bines ar
may be necessary in order to dispose
thereof before the 1st day of January,
1940, and for such purpose to sit at
the court house at the tawu of (lode -
Grain Arriving At Goderich—
The A, M. Hudson arrived at Gode-
rich Friday morning with 122,000 bus.
of wheat and oats for the eleva-
tor. The Ayling was in port on Thurs-
day night with 105,000 bushels of
wheatand screenings. The steamer
Algosoo was in port over the week
end with 200,000 bushels of wheat for
the elevator and the mill.
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO,
AS RUSSIA SEES 17'
The Washington enbaseies and le-
gations where the atmosphere is
tensest are not those of the belliger-
ents, but of the neutral countrio
along Russia's European frontier,
says a Washington correspondent.
Their .home governments, 1 learn,
have sent secret Inquiries to Moscow,
asking what Russia's intentions are,
As this is being written, there bas
been etc reply, 'At least some of the
diplomats here feat- a Russian in vu
in the immediate future. (This move
into Poland has since taken place.)
My informants are, of course, un -
disguisedly anti -Russian. Neverthe-
less, their reasoning furnishes et co-
herent explanation of why Josef
Stalin agreed to the recent Remo -
German treaty. For what value it
may have, it is here briefly summar-
ized. It is based almost wholly on the
supposed military vulnerability of
Leningrad. AS you will recall, Lenin-
grad lies at the, end of the narrow
Gulf of Finland, the north and eolith
shores of which are held by the weak
states of Finland and Estonia. Estonla
runs to within less than a hundred
miles of Leningrad, a half -boor's hop
for a bomber. Russia's only other
gateways to western Europe are
three railways, all now dominated by
Great Germany, and the Bosporus -
Mediterranean route, controlled by
Turkey and the British fleet,
Once you accept this premise—that
Leningrad at present would be diffi-
cult to defend, and, additionally, that
its temporary loss in war might en-
danger Stalin's 001118stfc position --
the remainder of the argument fol-
lows easily. As proof that Stalin him
self has been immensely preoccupied
with the protection of Leningrad, my
informants point to the Russian gov-
ernment's abrupt, unexplained an-
nouncement, about two years ago,
that it meant to have a great navy.
You may recall that this was follow-
ed by attempts to buy 40,000 -tan bat-
tleships in the United States ---ships
that were to be made in sections 111111
later fitted together in Russia. This
almanncement, my informants say,
constituted a turning -point. in Baltic
diplomacy, It was taken to metra that,
at the earliest opportunity, Russia
meant ito challenge Ger'many's control
of the Baltie Sea, But it meant more
than that. Battleships floating on the
Neva river at Leningrad would he
merely ridiculous. To tight Gernetes
in the Baltic, it would be necessary
for ltussitt to possess control of the
Gulf of 'Finland, and, in addition, free
use of the port of Riga. It would glee
mean that Estonia, Latvia and poee-
rhly Finland must become Russian
allies anal satellites.
At the tilne of the tlueelee an,
Uolncement, Nazi parties had attain-
ed luxuriant growth within all the
Baltic countries. Last spring, the Nazi
Mattie fleet, with lfitler on the bridge
oi' the foremost ship, sailed into
a relrlciant Nazi pr'otector'ate, It was
an object lesson for the reniaining
Baltic states, and most of all for
Russia.
The speech of M. Molotov on the
ratitication of the Russo -Cie -matt
treaty, just at the outbreak of war,
Mee been 11,1iutely studied by dipia-
mate here. His two reasons, or ex
cues, for not reachinganagreement
with Britain and France have been
received with a certain amount of
contempt. The first --that the British
negotiators, Messrs. Seeds and
Strang, did not have plenary pokers
—is called a shuffling of words to
fool the innocent. Envoys almost
never have plenary powers, strictly
defined, except at full-dress confer-
ences, such 40 the 19141 -Paris confer-
ence. Messrs. Seeds and Strang had
exactly the same powers, no less and
no more, as Count von der Sehulen-
berg. who negotiated the Russo -
German treaty, and Herr Ribbentrop,
who signed it, M. Litvinov, *hen he
came to Washington in 3033 to nego-
tiate the United States -Russian
treaty, lacked plenary powers and
had to cable his government continu-
ously, but no one suspected him of
double-dealing.
M. Molotov's second excuse was
that the British 001 not force their
allies, the Poles, to agree to lest Rus•
01011 armies fight on 'Polish soil. It is
readily admitted that this w00 the
crucial 0181118110 in what probably
wits, for sheerly geographical rea-
Solis, an insoluble problem. M. Molo-
tov's statement ie consldered disin-
germons, for a small nation never
wilfinl ly admits the troops of It great
power to its territory. The Russians
knew beforehand that Colonel Beek
would seek to make terms with Hi: -
ler before he would let Russian troops
occupy Poland.
Nevertheless—as • my informants
agree' --unless; the Russians could de.
fend Leningrad somewhere along the
line cf the Vistula, the value of join-
ing an Anglo-French alliance became
extremely small. A1I possible cont -,
promise,.. -that of sending a limited
Russian expediticner-v force to aid
the Poles, or of the assignment 0,
Russia of a front of her awn, perhaps
the Villa corridor opposite East: i'ru.s-
ses -;were, frons a soldier's point Id
view. 1nlpt'OOlicable, 7'he Russiluls
0(10111 foresee the probable (18001(3 of
the Poles. 1111(1 foresee that, once they
01801ly joinedliitler's enemies, thee-
:20111d
heyt20111d he obliged to meet a (ler;i(an
blockade of the Gulf of Finland and .(
German thrust overland thrnngh 1-Is-
teele. It w•:to j•l`weirlt1y this, eveortling
to Gar prendse, that Stalin was deter -
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tion 1s had. your
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cuvcry Iron, y ,r druggist today.
mitred 01 avoid at any cost.
His alternative was an agreement
with Hitler. As citizens of Baltic
countries, my informants are obsess-
ed with the fear that the Russo-
German treaty hides an understand-
ing that Estonia and Latvia have been
apportioned to Moscow. The more im-
aginative diplomats add that Russiia,
will also be given the Polish Ukraine
as an earnest that Hitler no longer
supports the Ukrainian nationalists.
Since the outbreak of war. there
have been -repeated reports that,
within a few months, the Russians
will swing away from Germany to the
Auglo-French side. These reports are
taken by my informants as proof of
their interpretation. The phrase,
"within a few months," they say,
means as soon as Stalin feels 11110801!
master of the gulfs of Finland and
Riga, and is confident of his ability
10 defend Leningrad. Whether the
Russians will find it easy to dis-
entangle themselves from the Nazi
embrace, however, Is something that
time will show.
Plowmen To 'Carry On As Usual"
Official announcement has been
made that the international Plowing
Batch scheduled at Brockville from
Comber 1010 to 1:1t11 would be Heid as
originally planned.
J. A. Carroll. manager of the On-
tario Plowmen's Association under
whose auspices the match is held
each year, stated that the holding of
111e event would not be affected by
Canada's retry into the European
war. He Bald the decision to go ahead
with the 'match lead be''n reached af-
ter the government's request that
citizens 011onhl "carry en" as in nor -
nett time. Mr. Carrel] said the eeeee.
s of the Plowing hatch lied con-
ferred with Dominion and Prnvimeiul
agricultural heads before reaching
their (le deism.
;t 4d,.:i week, 0c
HAWAII TO PRESENT SIXTH WORLD CONCERT
On Sunday, October 15, 11 to 11.30 asp., the Sixth W
Broadcasting Union, will be heard over CBC's hatior-wi
adian Broadcasting Corporation, on behalf of Canada. pr
Hawaii's turn. Bina Mossman's Troupe of Hawaiian onto
shows the Male Hawaiian Orchestra to be heard in the fir
devoted to an outline of Hawaii's musical history. Vocal
30 voices and an orchestra of ancient and modern instrU,
orld Concert under the auspices of the International
de network, and throughout the world. Last year the Can-
esented the Fifth World Concert. and this year it is
rtainers is seen in the top picture. The bottom photograph
st half of the programme. The conciudng period will be
soloists with Alfred Iieoloha Perry's Hawaiian Chorus of
ments, will conclude the special broadcast.