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MARATHON
KEN. MacLEAN
EGMONDVILLE, ONT,
ORICH FAMPLY 'REUNION
The Crich 'reunion was (held in J'ow'-
ear's grove, Bayfield, Wednesday, One
hundred and'twenty-three members
the family were present. Those from
a distance (were Mr. and Mrs. ,Clay -
eon Martin, Englehart; Mr. and Mrs.
'Ernest Crich, Ferndale, IM.ich.• Mr.
and Mrs 'Jos'eph 'Crich, 'Mr, and; .Mrs.
Harold Crich .Landon, A patriotic
!program was presented, An address
was 'given by the president, 'Samuel
'Whitmore; a recitation by Helen
Crich; nw•sical selections by members
of the Coleman family and Hellen
Brown, Pontiac, A minute of silence
was observed in ,memory of the pass-
ing of Mr, an'd Mrs. IW. A, ,Crich,
• Seaforth, both of .whom were present
at the 'picnic oast year..Mrs. Fletcher
Townsend read a poem; Mrs, 'Cl'ayton
Martin contributed a selection.
The sports committee carried out a
dim program of sports.
The wintnersrn the sports were,
gilds under 6, Elizabeth Townsend;
boys under 6, •Jadk Cole; girds 15 Ito •8,
.Margaret Oole, Gladys Pepper boys
5Ito 8, Harold 'Giblbings, /Mgurray
Crich; girls 0 to ]m, Anna Cole, Helen
Brown; boys sack race, 8 to 12, Don-
ald Crich, 'Herbert Black; young
ladies race, 'Helen •Crich, Margaret
C:rtclh; young men's race Clifford Pep-
per, ,Norman Pepper; kicky spot, Vera
Crich; (potato peeling for married amen,
1 I+, Ball paper 'bag relay race, Ald-
en Crich's side; slipper scramble, Ere
lin Whitmore, 111r •. G. Editiott, Viola
Pepper, Clifford Pepper,
Officers for the 1'041 .outing, (which
will 'be- hold in Iladbor Park, God-
erich, on the third Wednesday in
July are: :president, Samuel Whit-
more, re-elected; vice-president, Mrs.
I fetcher Townsend Secretary, NLrs,
H Fowler; treasurer, Ernest Crich,
Tuckersutith; luaneh committee Con-
vener, Mrs. John Turner, members,
Mrs. Jame, Manning, Mrs. J. SI'ugi'll
.Mrs, Rot Pepper, Mrs. Malvin Crich,
rs, _lames 'Carnochan; program com-
mittee, Mese Howard Crich, Mrs. E.
Cud, Ferndale Mrs E. Oriole Tack
-
ermine Mrs. Ezra Ellis; sports, Mr
and firs, Melvin Crich, Mr. and Mrs
Ernest •C rich, Mr. and Mrs, Herman
Goch, IMr. and 'Mrs. J. IW. Crich, Ald
on and Margaret Crich, Erlin enid
Fdo'renee Crich,
BAYFIELD
Cpl, C. J. "Pete" Johns, formerly of
Bayfield and now serving with an
anti-tank battery with the British Ex-
peditionary Force tells of the fighting
and flight from Flanders in a letter to
his mother at London:
Cpl. Johns ,writes; "We went into.
Belgium the day after the 'German's.
From Douai stat we went through Taur-
nal, Ash, EnIgthlen and finally ended 'up
m,•Brussel's. We .went into the aline
there with the Belgians on our left
'flank and the Frenoh on our right.
Jerry pushed pretty ]nand on all 'fronts
but .for some reason (both the French
and Belgians !gave way with the BE-
V', left with their aflanks.exposed.
This.forced .us to drop (back in- line
with the French and :Belgians' to
maintain our line.
"7.rhis happened all elle way Ibaok Ito
'i'ournai where we took'tep a 'stand
and held him off very ,well. We were
there for three days and he gave ars
heli .
From there we moved lbaok to Ar-
'p1entiers, and .hence to P'gperinghe,
Rommel, 'Nerve, I?:glise, •Plaegseert
and telenin. 'We finally took op .pos-
ition oe the Allbent'Canal at Houthem
just o.utside'Yore.
"We also spent three days there and
if I described the other 'palace as hell,
words can't explain this last .position.
1 -Ie flung everything 'he dad .at us and
we held him. My gun and lorry .were
!blown sky high by trench mortars
and we took up defences with the in-
fantry to hold dem (hack. Out d two
enmpanie1 I. went in the dine 'with
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ROYAL CIANADIAN AIR FORCE
' 'function with the team work and pre-
cision of a star'forntatron ,flying squa-
dron ,at a peacetime air display.
Gunners are wireless operators, too.
By their radio they keep in touch with
- ground control s'tation's and 'with other
planes in Rine ,formation. 'While war
planes keep radios silent as touch as 1
.possible to avoid detection, once the
e, enemy is sighted, the radio 'craokles I
1 orders, The voice of the 'formation
.commander issues movement orders
e just as a naval commander marshals
ry his tessele into Ibettle array,
00 more prosaic missions of en- -
operatin°; with army and navy, the
•eirsie s operator relays to artillery
-; 'batteries and ground commanders
\that those in 1u, plana can see spot-
, ting artillery fire and re t ealing meve-
f nrele of enemy forces, cxptraturs
working .with the fleet or en convoy
daily relay information Of an enemy
sullentrine or other railer sighted.
Air observer become navigators -
and air bomber wlmen their trained
.
eye, are not weeping the wot-M'
hc.11rw, 'kctchi lg flap r taking a
aerial photograph,. 1, navigator.,it,
is their responsibility to lay the
course through fog and rain inMeek-
n'es of night from the 11, 1111
(base to the objective, and, 'once there,
to dead .the crew safely home again.
They are also skilled in fusing the
bombsight, ombsight, dying 'prone with
an eye glued tui the bombsight aim- 1
ing through a 'glass window in the Cleaned and oiled, the machine guns go into a British bomber before it
Roar, A finger 'touch gen a 'button seta out over Germany. They are the bomber's sting and will pour a deadly
c1o'se at hand opens the bomb ,parts, hail of bullets into any attacking aircraft.
•sending 'the missiles 'pkmgirtg to the
target.
'Arduous training goes into :the
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.Air Gunners and Air 'Olbservers,
gumugumheroes of (the first great •war
loge come into their own in the mod
ern style of 's'ky' 'fighting. A - Roya
Canadian Air 'Force crew works ,wit'
all the .close co-ordination of a '1ootbai
team in this new war,
Thegaurtners and observers sitar
the ,penes of Air Force 'gallant
along with the pilots. It is 'ill' for one
and one for all", since the pilot of to
day cannot carry out Iris mission with
out the aid of 'his gunners for protect
ionand wireie s communication arc
his o'hsen e e for navigation, dontibing
photography anti Observation.
The loyal Air Force innovation o
a multiple -gun power turret mounted
in an aeroplane has enabled keen -
eyed air gunners of the Empire air
fortes to stake deadly toll of enemy
aircraft .with sl•tvlun:g broadsides of
leaden goo n fire like a salvo .Cram a
battleships heavy twins.
The four -gun turrets make :Britain's
latest lighters and bomlucrs literally
batt'leship, of the air. Jost as the RA,
]
.was .first to arra single Seat fight-
ers with a devastating Toluene of fire
Brom eight machine guns mounted in
the wing, the power tarots now pro-
vide the 'larger ;planes with a .deadlier
weapon than their antagonists.
'.rhe air gunner is of tremendous im-
portance in this war. Bombing and
re0onnarssauce la'irleraftt ca'nnyieg the
Empire's insignia 'an their wings snake
a formidable foe, as tremendous Ger-
man air dosses in 'recent massed 'fight-
ing over France indis'puta'bly proved.
The .Boulton and .Paul Defiant,
newest two seater 'fighter, is essent-
ially an aeroplane for the ;gunner, The
shooting is left to the gunner closed
inthe power turret ' e'hi • the
sP we to lust b Ind
'pilot's %seat. Four :mac'hin'e (guns each
capable of a rate of 41,200 mounds a
min rte poke 'rant The turret, twhidlt
revolves automatically at the 'touch of
a control. He can fire !forward, 'up-
ward, dotwnnward on each side, and
sweep a 'hail of nickel-jackettecl 'death
at the rate 'af'80 )butllets a second at
any plane 'crossing the tail of his own
,machine, As the line of 'fire crosses
Itis own rudder and tail 'fins, the guns
cease - fire aattonnetically, resuming
'their clatter when safely past the tall
assembly.
Defiants, similar iu appearance to
the single 'seater Spitfires, mixed with
spitfire 'formation during' the fierce
air fighting over Dunkirk. Swarms of
German lighters .dove at the "S'p'itfire"
front the rear in anticipation of easy
victory, ibut meet a stinging .fire 'from
the Defiant's' fottregun turrets twhidc
the real spitfires, secure as go defence
'behind, opened 'up (with their wing.
guns at anything that lay in front of
the nixed formation. One squadron
of !112 Delimits knocked down 50 Ger-
man planes in (two days.with:out losing
one of their own nu'eriber.
Big British Bombers and flying
boat% mount power turrets in their
nogg a'blisters" on the top of the
fuselage, and as 11 sting in etre. tail.
I heir ,gunners settling against a mem-
• enemy, have
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made -store ensile utntparthle to tine
utdividntal tallies of the fighter pilot.
iu Hnrricaues and epttfiree.
Batt gunners, like air .1bserver
have more than one job to do in the
modern air force, 'Phe aircraft's crew
there were :1L of ue scraped through
and thank God may whole team 'af cite
were among the 12. 1 can say now
that although we had /become .eepar-
ated in the line ;and I had re'p'orted
them lulled, they Inc!'adone the same
a!baut ,me. We cried ecu 'eac'h other's
srhotikders 'when we got together on
the road to Dunkerque and ave met en-
tirety accidentally,
"J'erryte planes made ms sit up sod
his shells on the ;beach made a lot of
noise but awe •felt as safe as houses
when we could see !lie sea. .Although
he shelled our ship with 'shrapnel just
as .we were 'pulling .out it .didn't dam-
pen our spirits' in the least,
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THE STING GOES IN
snaking of tie ,gunners and observers.
Thousands off .physically fit 'young
amen from 18 to 312 will receive sudh
(training under the British Common-
wealth Air Trainiog Plan in Canada.
The no• ectty air gunners n
s e unit r and
P P
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observer 'report to a mnanntnig depot,
where they 'receive 'uniforms and kit,
leant to salute and drill for two
weeks or so. The next step is four
week- in an initial training sohool
for a more .formal introduction to Air
Force life.
They nest go to specialized sehools.
Air Observers proceed to one of 1110
air .observers schools for 12 weeks of
intensive ;,tidy of the intricacies of
air .navigation, reconnaissance work
and photography. Then 'boliow six
weeks of !hom'hing and :gunnery
school, of 'which there are ,10, and
then a course of four (weeks at one of
the two air navigation 'schools for
advanced studies in that sulbj'ecit. The
total course for an air .observer takes
NAZI BOMBER SHOT DOWN IN SCOTLAND
26 ltveeke, shortest of all air crow This photograph shows part of the German bomber which was brought
men. clown after an attempted raid near the Firth of Forth in Scotland the Other
The facture air gunners are posted, day. The nose of the machine is severely crashed, the propellers bent and
to one of the four 'wireless schools the undercarriage completely wrecked. The pilot was severely injured and
for 2t !weeks ',if - radio work, both his two air gunners were found dead.
code and •write. They get a more in-
timate knowledge of air marksman-
ship and boatel) dropping at t'he'bomb-
•iu'g and winery schools, a eottrse of
four weeds in their ease, ;before they
proceed to join the observers and
pilots in the .pool to await a draft
to 5:111 them .for overseas seeviee.
COLONIES GIVE FREELY
TO HELP BRITAIN WIN
T
"As the fret tele 't .111..tpirilt
fri,nr haunt"tan I i, now 'keine eft,
I. eel.,. Griffith. Paramount thiel of
11.0„1 0111, .n1 behalf of the chic i
,mh.ri efs. and !Mono nation (lege,.
to reiterate wir eepre- inn of unswer-
ving. 0,.yitlty to lik el•ajeety the
King and his Government, and to ex -
Inge, tire. hope that fur ,mall cimtri-:
wh•irh is made with sincerity
and is entirely voluntary, may 'bel Of
assistance in this great struggle in
w'hic'h .the British Empire is engaged
against Germany. His \lai'esty's
Government is justly fighting this
war and God will the with its,”
And 'with this inspiring message,
the Bes t'to chief sent a ,gift of.ap-
proximately $ 25,000 'from his native
community,
The gift was ty'pica'l of the spirit of
encouragement and assistance that
.courses through the great colonial
empire. .Cash sums exceeding in all
three .millions sterling have been sent
to Great B'rita'in, But .the story does
not end there. Gifts have been made
in war .material, 'foodstuffs, even
cattle,
Se far, nine motor ambulances,
costing over £500 apiece, have been
given to (the .British Red Cross IhY
people in the !Colonies. Two of
theft were given ;by the Chinese
community. in Trinidad, two 'by Toc
1-1 in Bermuda,two ,more by th
Good Coast and three, specially fa
the R.A.F., by Hindus in Salisbury,
S. Rhodesia.
The .people 'of •M'auritins stave, in
addition to :heir cash contribution o
£14,11110, 'imposed a special duty on
their sugar exports to 'provide' th
!funds 'for a warplane for Britain,-
Children of 'Jamaica saved op their
.pocket -money and sent £(100, ail in
pennies, as a !birthday ,present R
PrincePrincessEiizabetth for 'her 'favourite
wee charity.
The island of Grenada ,made a gif•
of '80,000 tbs. .of cocoa .4 or the eight -
lag !forces, and Trinidad is sending
'grape fruit (for .the same (purpose. In
Jamaica they are planning gifts of
rum, 'preserves, cigars and citrus
fruit for the .Addled ,Armies.
Berntatda [will Ibe 'sending all her
surplus potato crop 'free . :the
Motherher Country. Recently 'Benpud-
am
ds sent one of the ,strangest,st, though
by no means 'least acceptable near
'gifts --,11,•500 'tons of 'scrap metal col-
lected in the !Colony.
...Among war gifts ;from the Gold
Coast and Nigeria have 'been 40 'head -
loads 'af 'foadstuilfs for the serving
and 'co'ntribu'tions of anoney
down to as tittle as 3d. a month,
In East Africa native 'chiefs have
given rice, 'maize, (bean's an'd potatoes,
mn
specially gnaws 00 a .comonal basis
as a 'wear ,contribution 'from their
tribes,
(One chief aoontributed 94 head of
.cantle and another 1100 bulls, This was
in .acoordtanece with the age -Old Afric-•
an 'custom'custom.of supplying the 'fighting
men with meat. ,But, in .this .war mon-
ey is 'more needed td.an .meat, so, with
itdie Chiefs' approved the 'cattle were
.sold, The 1001'bulls realised £300,
In
South ;E'ho'de'sie, one ,old Afric-
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Parachute troops are organized in
battal'ionLs acrd for ca'ch !battalion there
is a .contp'lenten't of auxiliary .weaponscomgprieimg; A 33 -inch mountain gun;medium and 'light mortars; heavy
machine.guns; light en'achin•e ,guns,
and machine-gun pistols.
The objectives ,of [parachute troo'p's
are: To organise 'local mentlb'ers of
"'fifth .column" and arm wheal; to
create 'panic and •cotrfuslon sand spread
false news amongst the .civil .p'o,pailat
ion; to harass eines .of econunnnication;
to deantage !bridges, power stetton.s,
I wireless and telephone exchanges,
stores amid 'champs: to gyve informationto aircraft by.neeans of signals,
'German ;parachute 'troop's are cob
enteens .who have stndengone a spec-
ial training designed to ,develop their
owrn •initatigve arid power of inddpend•-
,ent 'action. Their .object is toibe of-
fensive ander all conditions, and to do -
ars ,unfelt 'damage as possible- in the
time .du'rin'g whichthey hopeto be
an, a cousin of •the late Kong hdben'-
gala, trove .up his whole herd of M0
cattle to the District l'ottmmissioner's
tinge and stated they were Ra be seat
to e eoree" mealtime King goggle
rge,
hr help .pay iter the ri'ar. He eve, with
_ diffi ultt pereeaded to make a ur„rt•
10,,! sl . coif le.
'others sent girt, of money. urn
leading lege ,Mucci sear t'. Ile lead
na hien reading' tut in -Meet h utu".
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that t cos a ,,into to 'i-t'.,•e l r..•.
tins.
PARACHUTE TROOPS
It has 'become t nonce ,t th ,r•'r
in'''mance :e s,ud� rho mc[hol ad
pled by t;ernian parua:lt:nr tr,..,p+
and to consider hoe t[u e are'
11wa• they n'0 +'lu1;.;, 1 an+l ea.thed,
turd .chat their abjccti• e, are.
The parachute.; i• attached 11, his
parachute dy a cord 'which in turn in
seethed to the aeroplane. As scion a>
t}te ngtt jesnips, the pull of the curd
from the plane .Miens the pariahrrte
and he is thus aide to jump eafely
a height which may 'be as little as ,1511
feet,
The speed of the ;planes nut .of
nvbicin
,parachutists jump is roughly 70
utiles per hour and the flights eef
gglanes are often 500 yard's agent. The
aim appears to ibe to :land a company
.within a space 200 by 400 yards and
to get the com,lrany assembled within
a quarter of an 'hour.
The official uniform for the 'par-
achutists is as :follows: Sited helmet
differing from the normal German
steel helmet in Chat it is rouade.r, nar-
rower, has neither neck shield nor
,peak, and fits closely to the dread (not
tioli'ke a motorcyclists crash he'Intet).
The helmet is affixed to the head by
two tramp on each side, one in front
and one behind the car, the traps
jeining beneath the ear and passing
under the chin; tunic, rlonble-breasted
of Ole ,blue -.grey Gemini air force
color. cut loose with the collar turned
down and Open 'at 1110 neck 11ta htnt-
toit.. of t o : trousers of the 'plus -four
type, teked in ever home half -knee
high ]aced at the side: gml titlet', l} •,.
The egntipnten' carried by each man
is -light and ton ists of; A 'knife for
elisentanglement, a respirator, a 'haver-
sack, hand grenades, and a ,gun cap-
able of .firing 4st111 rounds a minute. In
addition .to the eelttipment and arms
carried thy each 'man, there are other
•tveanons and 'egetfp•nentt dropped in
sp'eeiad containers attached to self -
opening Ip'araohutes, one for every
four or five men. These containers are
filled with ammunition, rifles, field
,glasses, compasses, spades, smoke
candles and wire.
supported 'by air -transported or
ground reins lrcenlents, The Germans
'wee made snecessful use of their par-
athixte trcnr.ps in Poland, Norway, and
in 'the tow Countries; and in the ease
of Noland tins has .been. sp'ecia'lly te-
cognizeei Iby tine German High Com-
mand 'when bestowing decoration on
the commanders of'parachute troops.
The introduction tie ,his Meg me-
thod .renders ace „
,arc . new tape ,:
defence whirl' in cesential a a,
in the na•tr tinea,..f the ante conntry.
gone
in mind:
Before pararhn-e t t..';.;ended,
a r1': on-n.tissanoe is usually :rade by
nailer aircraft.
Nemerone Lases have 1. 1fl a ltinn-
ticattd-int w}ueh German pci—cel rats
have landed !wearin;., clothes d ifering
from the uttifornt specified above.
It has !been reported that parachute
troops .giving• the appearance of coffer-
ing to surrender have 'held grenades
in each hand and thrown 'them at per -
eons .preparing to a'pprehen'd them,
LADDERLESS 'STOCKINGS
A new raw material .which is so ver-
satile that it can replace textile fibres,
gut and hogs' !bristles is to the made
on a large scale in Britain. A .factory
is (being (built for producing yarns and
is expected to be in.'prodnrction Iby the
end of the year.
The material is called nylon. a gen-
eric term covering the whole family
of synthetic ,compounds within its
range. It 'can the .produced in file -
meats as fine as a spider's web, :from
:which yarns can he spun, or it can :ap-
pear as sheets. mods, or stiff ibrisrles
for brushes,
4s a yarn it is claimed to he
stronger and more els tic than any
!textile fabric including ilk: Women's
'stoc'kings, sewing thread and under-
clothes of nylon are already- arousing
'pottier interest in America. The stock-
ings rival real silk rather than rayon,
since they compare in fineness an'd
elasticity t and are sold in a comparable
,crottle
price range: but 'having thread ,which
break less easily than silk of the ,ante
weight, they are not so likely to "lad' -
der.
I'n the form of 'bristles, nylon is now
on the market in Britain for tooth-
Ibnushes, one of its great ad'vantatges
Ih'eing that the bristles do not fract-
ure like hog's bristles, and (having
smooth surfaces aborib only one -filth
of the moisture of "'real" (bristles, so
that they do not (become goggle or
dirty in use.
Even fishermen are lbenefitin.g •fsomt
this new material, for it is available
in
.fishing casts; compared with silk-
evoeni gait, nylon has greater tensile
strength and needing no 'soaikin'g to
straighten it. is always reafm
dytor -
mediate use. e
Nurse (suspiciously)—"What have
you been doing, Ellen?"
Ellen—"Rover's eaten my dolly's
slippers, so I've been punishing
him."
.Nn rse—"How?"
Ellen—"I've been to his kennel
and drinked his milk."
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