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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1942-05-14, Page 6PAGE SIS, THE SEAFORTH NEWS' THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1042 CRQMIARTY The "Women's Missionary Society held :their meeting at the home of Mrs: T. L. Scott. The president, Mrs; Jamieson, was h the chair. The scripture lesson was read- from the lith chapter of Hebrews, by Mrs. Jamieson, followed by prayer; The 'roll zilli was answered by fifteen members, Mrs. Russell Scott read the minutes of the previous meeting, Mrs, Hill gave the treasurer's report, Mrs. Roy McCulloch took the Glad Tidings prayer, .A. choice of subject Was offered by Mrs. Thomas Scott, The study book by Mrs, Keith Mac- Laren, dealing with some of the journeys made by Dr, and Mrs. Go- forth in their missionary work prov- ed interesting. A miscellaneous shower was held Thursday afternoon at the home of Erie Treffry, a bride -elect. A num- ber of friends and neighbors gather- ed to honor her on the occasion of her forthcoming marriage. She was the recipient of many beautiful and useful gifts. The gifts were brought forth in a beautifully decorated bas- ket by Mrs. R. Macdonald and Mrs, Dick P.insman. Lunch was served. Mrs. Agnes Tufford is ill in St, Joseph's Hospital, London. Her sister Mary B. Currie, accompanied her and will remain there for a time. Signalman Ross Houghton • who was stationed at Camp Borden, is at Hebert, N,S., where he is convalesc ing in the hospital after an attack of the mumps. Mrs, Macintosh, Mrs. Alex. Ram- say and children at Acton with I?Irs. H. Bennie and family. Rev. H. Bennie is in a. Toronto hospital where he recently underwent an operation. Joseph Speare, Richard Sptare and Lindsay McKellar are spending a few days at Harriston. CANADA'S SOLDIER BUTCHERS Are Aptest Pupils in London Army School Men from Canadian Army units stationed in Britain are the brightest Pupils among the Empire and Allied troops learning to be regimental butchers at Smithfield, London, in peace time the world's greatest meat distributing centre. This is the verdict of the instruct- ors at the London Cousty Council's Smithfield Meat Trades Institute, which normally trains students of the' meat trade from all over the world. Some of these young Canadian are former employees of such enterprises as Canada Packers. Swifts. Burns and Safeways. There is a long waiting list of men for the three -weeks' course, the ob- ject of which is to save meat, and incidentally, shipping, by using eco- nomically all of it which comes to the Army cookhouse. With 33 hours of instruction each week, the students learn about the use and maintenance of butcher's tools and equipment characteristics of the various breeds of cattle and sheep and of fresh, chilled and frozen carcases, methods of slaughter and flaying, division of quarters and car- cases into various joints, cutting, boning and general preparation, Much importance is attached to the using of fats and trimmings, and the students are taught to make fresh and cooked sausages and galantines, brining, curing and seasoning. Hyg- iene is not neglected, istruction be- ing given or methods of preventing contamination in the handling and transport of meat. This opportunity of studying at the Mecca of the world's meat trade will be useful to these soldier butchers when they return to civil life. The Smithfield Institute claims that the meat trade never has a real un- employment problem, meat being the last commodity to be affected by de- pression, Molasses Ginger Cup Cakes 1/3 cup baking fat 1 cup boiling water 1 cup molasses 1 egg beaten ,4 tsp. salt 1 tbs. ginger 3 cups flour 1 tsp. baking soda 2/3 cup granulated sugar Melt the baking fat or butter in the water. Adtl the remaining ingredients in the order given, beating thorough. ly. Pour into small oiled cup -cake pans. Bake 15 minutes in an electric oven at 375 degrees. Two women were discussing the hest method of getting rid of un- welcome visitors. Said Mrs. Brown: "My dear, it's quite simple. I always put on my hat and coat when I hear the doorbell. Then if it's someone I don't want to be bothered with, I just say, 'What a pity, I'm just going otit':" "And suppose it's someone you do want to see?" asked the other. "Oh, then I say: 'How fortunate, I've just come ire." Madeleine Charlebois is the charm- ing young lady behind the pleasant voice now heard from CBC's Ottawa studios announcing the BBC News and other important network origin- ations from the capital, Weather Instrument Found In Usborne Township— Mr. Norman Passmore on Sunday afternoon pcked up on his faint a balloon and instrument that had been sent up by the U.S. Weather Bureau from the Wayne County Airport at Romulus, Mich, According to the information on the side of the package the balloon had been car- ried to a height of about 12 miles. The balloon burst and the instru- ment acted as a radio brgadcaster of the temperature, pressure and moist- ure of the air through which it pass- e(. The balloon was sent lip at 11,45 a.m. Sunday, May 3rd, and was found by Mr. Passmore about five o'clock that same afternoon, It had conte across Lake Huron in its travels. It was returned to the 'Wayne County Airport.—Exeter Tinies-Advo- cate, JAPANESE FLEET RETIRES AFTER LOSING BATTLE The running sea and air battle that was in progress for six days in the Cora] Sea northeast of Australia ended with the Japanese fleet turn- ing back. In cautiously worded communiques General McArthur's headquarters headquarters announced that the enemy had been repulsed, While • the announcements were careful to avoid any claim of a de- cisive victory, they nevertheless hint- ed that the Japanese might have suf- fered a defeat of the first magnitude. The communiques set forth these basic claims: "The great naval and air battle off the northeast coast of Australia has temporarily ceased. "Our naval forces fought with ad- mirable courage and tenacity and the enemy has been repulsed. "Our attacks will continue. "The enemy version of the battl- ing is entirely fictional and has no semblance to a true communique of fact. His claims of damage inflicted on our naval forces are fantastic. "Our losses compared with his own are relatively, light." On the basis of all available infor- mation the score in the battle would appear somewhat as follows: Eleven Japanese ships sunk, in- cluding an aircraft carrier, a heavy cruiser, a light cruiser, 2 destroyers, 4 gunboats and two cargo or trans- port ships. Six Japanese ships damaged, in - eluding an aircraft carrier, a heavy cruiser, a light cruiser, a seaplane tender and 2 auxiliary ships. The only losses announced by the United Nations have been three planes. If a heavy defeat has been inflict- ed upon the Japanese, a serious threat to Allied communications will have been relieved, the Australians will have less cause to fear invasion and the striking power of the Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific will have been increased substantially. In Europe the series of devastat- ing attacks by the British RAF on German -controlled territory contin- ued with a heavy raid on Warne- mude, Baltic port for Rostock and site ,of large aircraft works as well as a seaplane base. Meanwhile Prime Minister Church- ill of Great Britain broadcast a stern warning to Hitler that if the Germ- ans use poison gas against the Rus- sians, Britain will retaliate by bomb- ing German cities relentlessly with poison gas. A woman was asked by the Cust- oms official at the landing post., "Anything to declare, madam?" "No," she replied sweetly, "noth- ing." "Then, madam," said the official, "am I to take it that the fur tail I see hanging downunder your (oat at the back is really your own?" S.O.S. BY PRESSING BUTTON Portable Lifeboat Radio Signals 60 Times Over 200 Mites Every. ship in the British merchant service Must now carry an 'ingentous addition to its lifeboat equipment in the forst of a portable wireless' trans- mitter by Which anyone oan send out a radio distress signal just by press- ing a button. An S,O.S, call is then radiated for two minutes over a distance of More than 200 miles, And the portable transmitter can repeat it 60 and '70 tithes at intervals of an hour. Long sustained signals are also given auto- mattoally so that rescuer's can take their bearing to pick up the lifeboat. The transmitter is fitted with a Morse key for a wireless operator. Although 'it weighs less than 60 lbs. the transmitter is exceptionally strong and if a ship is sinking can be thrown into the sea where it will float wtihout damage until picked up by the lifeboat, Out of 24 entries, the device has been awarded a prize of £50 by the Council of the Royal Society of Arts, London.' BEER MUGS COME BACK Included In Britain's New "Austerity" Pottery Beer and cider mugs once popular In old English taverns are coming back into 'more general use, There is a shortage of drinking glasses and this is also causing restaurants and licensed houses in Britain to go back to the drinking cup or pottery beaker of the 17th century, shaped exactly like a tumbler. Beakers in pottery are one of the new lines in "utility" crockery work- ed out by tate British pottery industry to meet the scarcity of domestic ware due to labour shortage, Makers of famous china like Doul- ton, Royal Worcester, Shelley, Spode and Wedgwood are now concentrat- ing upon simple plain white work all in one shape and neither too light nor of the heavy "workhouse" type The -twelve different standard art- icles include cups and saucers, plates, teapots, pie and vegetable dishes as well as mugs and beakers. The new designs for them are far from un- attractive. The designers have used their skill to such good effect that although the results are as "austere" as the times demand, they are far more pleasing to the touch and sight than the cheap badly decorated im- ports which came to Britain in peace time. Iu quality as well as quantity they will satisfactorily meet the re- quirements of the British housewife until peace comes again. NAZI AIR SECRETS Secret information about German aircraft engineering was secured by the British Government when t South Wales engine overhaul factory rebuilt a complete German aero- engine from a quantity of spares and salvaged parts. Five complete engines were eventu- ally assembled, all of them passing PACK FOOD PARCELS Behind the barbed wire of German and Italian prison •camps thousands of British,. Canadian, Australian and New Zealand prisoners of war look forward to the weekly food parcels they receive through the Internation- al Red Cross at Geneva, The Cana- dian Red Cross is now packing these parcels at the rate of 2,000,000 per year and hopes to increase this to 4,00,000 by the end of 19.12. Above: British prisoners of war are seen be- hind the barricade in a German pri- son camp. Lower left: Canadian vol- unteer workers man a modern assem- bly line in a Toronto Red Cross de- pot. Lower right: A shipment • of Canadian Red Cross food parcels ar- rives at the International Red Cross ware house at ,Geneva, Switzerland. superintendent, received a letter from the British Ministry of Aircraft Production thanking him for what they described as "a remarkable achievement." This factory is one of twelve run by the British Overseas Airways Cor- poration, whose wartime work has earned for it the nickname "Merch- ant Air Service." Over 40,000 miles of British air routes from Sweden to South Africa and the United States to India, these unarmed ships of the air maintain vital communica- tions of Empire through all the the- tres :of war. Last year they flew 5,500,000 miles; in 1042 the figure will be round about 8,000,000 miles. Regardless of weather and risks of enemy interference these 'planes carry vital messages, important per- sonnel, films and written propa- ganda. The urgency of the work is giving the Corporation much valuable data for use after the war when eng- ines will do more for the same weight, and radio and other de- tests, and Mr. G. Hmntnerstone, the vices will open yup an era of safety for commercial flying which have seemed impossible in time. would Peace INVISIBLE TANKS Cross Briain,. by the T,rainioed in the Night Tanks are now being carried by "invisible" routes to Britain's ' ports on special wagons in trainloads of 24 at a time. Production is so arranged that batches of the mare ready nt right, when they are loadedon the rains and sent to the pots by spec- ial routes sous to arrive there in the dark. The result is that very few people in Britain have an inkling of this "invisible" traffic. The new 'rectank." or flat wagon on, which two heavy Valentines can be carried, is a special feature of these tank trains. Where there is not a loading clock a ramp is used, but the tanks can, if necessary, climb aboard themselves. Worked out by the railways operations experts in conjunction with the War Office. these "iectanks" allow the full widh of the railway gauge to be used so that with the larger tanks there are only inches to spare. Shopwalker — "That customer was hanging around for a long time. What did he want to sae?" Pretty Assistant (coyly) —"Me,. sir.' Rant and For Sale Ads, 3 'weeks 50c AUCTIONEER F. W. AHRENS, Licensed Auction eer for Perth and Huron Counties Gales Solicited. 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