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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1942-12-03, Page 7E+DDIE RICKENBACKER RESCUED IN PACIFIC Looking a little skinny, but with his famous 'am ile still in evidence, Capt, Eddie Riekenbacker was ready for a jeep ride to his .first square meal (soup and ice cream) in three weeks, after his rescue from •a raft . omewhere in the South Pacific: The plane in which he was making. an Army inspection tour wax forced down in the ocean after running, out of fuel. Two companions on the raft were rescued with him—a third died at sea. Photo was radioed from Hawaii to San .d rancieco. VOICE OF TH PRESS HITLER'S CONTEMPT Louie Lochner, former chief of the Associated Press in Berlin, de- serves credit for revealing Hitler's pronouncements regarding his Axis, partners. In many speeches before the war, Hitler denounced the leaders end rulersof Italy and Japan. He called the King of Italy"that nitwit of a King," and he spoke of his son as "the treasonable scoundrel of a Crown Prince." Of Japan's Mikado, he said: "The Emperor is a counter-, part of the last Czar. Weak, cowardly, undecided. May he fall a victim to the revolution." —The Argonaut. ---o— HOLD THEIR AFFECTION The soldier who mails his girl friend a letter now and then has a better chance of finding her waiting for him than the fellow who forgets' his sweetheart. That's the position of most businesses today. They've got to write "ad- vertisements" to their old loves if they wish to hold their affection till and after the war it over. -Midland Free Press Herald. —0— A VERY GOOD REASON We have been asked: When the Nazis are sinking so many ships in the Atlantic, why aren't we do- ing the same? The answer is: The British Navy swept the Atlantic of enemy Wherchant vessels long ago, so ere are none left to sink. —Windsor Star. —o— LIGHT AS BOGEY -MAN Leaving a light on all night will not keep the bogey -man away, be- cause our biggest bogey -man threat today is hydro shortage. So keep this bogey -man away by turning out lights at every oppor- tunity. -St. Thomas Times -Journal. —o— IT'S ON HIS MIND Hitler promises that he will never flee across some neutral frontier as the Kaiser did. But, all the same, his utterance shows that hie -mind is dwelling on the thought of a getaway. —Hamilton Spectator — o-- "WAR o—"WAR THEATRES" "War theatres," the fighting fronts are called. Since lots of people still think of the war as a show to be watched and enjoyed, why not? - New York Times —4— LONDONER Here's a new definition of the Lo hopesfor adduct—a man who the best and prepares for the burst. —Montreal Star —e— LET HIM HAVE IT Field Marshal Rommel's army may break the speed record in re- treating, for all we care. —Stratford Beacon -Herald' Soldier Puts Pay Into War Bonds When pay clay rolled around the other day at the United States Army Air Forces Technical Train- ing Command School, Private Mathias Brentner, a Link Trainer, student, didn't show up far, itis money. Cancers questioned Private Brantner, a former lumberman' and ettulent flyer frons Portland, Ore. He explained that the army cloth- ed and fed hint, ho didn't 'drink, awoke or gamble -6e what did he want with money? At the oillcer^s suggestion, he purchased war bonds with his ao- cuntulated 8100 in pay and allotted almost his 'entire futru•e pay also to war..;bonde. Rommel Barely Escaped Capture Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel barely escaped capture near To- bruk, the Berlin correspondent of the Swedish Telegraphic Bureau said in a broadcast by the Vichy radio. The correspondent quoted Ger- man military authorities as saying Rommel had been dfreoting the rear -guard defence personally and had gone back to look over the situation" when several British tanks appeared suddenly. The tanks were near, the corres- pondent said, and it was only by fleecing with the greatest speed that he managed to ecape. Churchill Wins By 100 Per Cent Lady Montgomery, 78 -year-old mother of General Sir Bernard Montgomery, commander of the rapidly advancing British 8th Army in Libya, telegraphed him birthday greetings and said: "1 am tempted to address it Tripoli." Sir Bernard, who was 65 on November 17, told Prime Minister Churchill before he was appointed to the command: "I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I am 100 per .cent fit." Military circles say Mr. Churchill replied: "I smoke, I drink, and I am 200 per cent Mr. Churchill will be 68 Nov. 80. Canada Sends More. Supplies To Greece Two Swedish freighters — the Alcka and the Arrowange—steam- ed out of Montreal harbor last week for Piraeus, port of Athens, with Canadian wheat, powdered milk and large quantities of medi- cine for the oppressed people. of Greece. They have been guar- anteed safe conduct by all war- ring governments. • The wheat was the gift of the Canadian government through an international arrangement while the powdered milk, totalling 36 tons, and medicines were supplied by the Greek War Relief Fund of Canada. Three New Types of German Bombs The Germans have introduced three new types of bombe. One weighs five pounds with an !noen- diary section that ignites on lane- ing and a larger charge that goes off seven minutes later. A second also combines incendiary and ex- plosive material, so that on -im- pact sixty small metal containers .filled with thermite and six larger firepats oon,tatniug pre -ignited magnesium filling are thrown out. The third is a phosphorous -oil bomb which ignites spontaneously and which later explodes to scat- ter its sticky liquid contents. The heavy delayed - action explosive charges are intended to prevent attack on a fire eo that it can gain headway. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher / - ,,,,, 1 or# ,.... - 1111‘.\- J -"---i (Oopyght. 1990, by reed Mahal '-'<-'....---'-'.."'.---.............--** 'CS . /2 Y7•'"04"• "They keep giving me the busy signal." Where Automobiles, Were Not Popular Life Asit Was Lived, Here 45 Years Ago We came across the following item, in oar twenty years ago files, says the Hanover Post. It had been reproduced then from a fifteen -year-old paper, and had appeared originally in one of the Walkerton weekly newspapers under the headline "The Auto- mobile Nuisance." "In Kincardine one day last week, • art automobile frightened a horse, the horse ran away, the driver was thrown out of the rig and had his leg broken. It is be- coming very apparent from incid- ents like this that something will have to be done about these auto, mobiles. For several /years past the farmers in the vicinity of To- ronto have been agitating for a law to restrain automobiles from using the public highways but so far have not beenable to accom- plish anything, But gradually the nuisance is becoming more gen- eral. "Nearly every town in the prov- ince has its automobile now and some of them have more than one. 'Phe machines go scooting through the country in all directions and no road is sacred to them. Horses that are easily enough controlled in the presence of a railway train will go crazy at the sight of an automobile and accidents such as the above are happening all over the country. • It will not be long' before the automobile will drive the farmers off the public high- ways altogether unless something le done to restrain them. "The farmers built these high- ways in the first place and are taxing themselves every year to keep them in repair and it must be more than a little annoying to them to be thus dispossessed by this new machine. What they ought to do is to pledge every candidate for parliament to use his vote and influence in favor of a law prohibiting automobiles from using the public highways altogether, or at least under cone ditions that will not interfere with traffic." SCOUTING A refugee Boy Scout from Ger- many, now a PaM+ol Leader in a British Scout Troop, has been awarded the Certificate of Gal- lantry foe extinguishing several fires during an enemy ale raid. An officer of -the local fire brigade related how the lad, Herbert Br - mann, aged 16, took considerable risk as the incendiary bombs were of the explosive type. Boy Scouts of Thorold, Ont., performed a useful service for the local Kiwanis Club, malting a com- plete survey of their town to as- certain the names of all men on active service, so that each might be sent a Christmas box, Whilst hue:wing to wank one morning, British Boy Scout James Eden, aged 15, heard that bombs had. dropped near his home and demolished some houses. He ob- tained permission to return, and spent seven hours at considerable risk to himself aesieting in res- oue work. For a great part of the time he worked in a space too small for a man to enter. When enemy aircraft bombs de- molished a school in the south of England recently, the head master died with many of his pupils. At lmperial Headquarters of the Boy Scouts this headmaster is hated with a record et 18 years devoted service as ;Scoutmaster of his local troop. - Richard Todd, a North Van- couver man now with the Mer- chant Marine, lead a month to spam in the Middle East while waiting for a ship. IIe spent that month organizing a Boy Scout Troop among British boys who al a were tranded there for the dur- ation of the war. He secured per- mission to organize the Troop hole British headquarters, and bought uniforms for the boys from the Boy oouts Association of India. THE WAR . WEEK'-- Commentary on Current Events Hitler Must Defend 6,000 Miles Of Land and Seacoast Frontier Rueelan forces, attaeking south of Stalingrad and, in the great loop of the Pon liver, bave penetrated the Germandefensive lines, taken great n'umlers, of prisouere and war material and threatened to out oft the whole of the Nazi forc- es oraes between Stalingrad and the Don River. German' forces in the Caucasus aro being held to a standstill as the severe Russian winter sets in. Three months ego the Luftwaffe made its first concentrated attack on Stalingrad with orders to smash resistance and open the way to the panzer divisions. To- day, dispirited and exhausted Ger- mansare fighting desperately, not to occupy the city, but to pre- vent a major disaster by Red Army encirclement. The German Triangle It is two thousand miles from the German outposts .an bhe Span- ish border to the North Cape of Norway, says the New York Times. It is another two thousand miles from the North Cape to the Caucasian oil fields. It is two thousand more miles from the Caucasus back to the Spanish bor- der. Within those lines lies the triangle of German power as the fourth Winter of the war begins. Hitler stands behind a theee. cornered frontier with six thou- sand miles. of land and seacoast to defend. At nearly every point along these lines the German position is, or soon will be, exposed to direct attack. On the west side of the triangle Britain already dom- inates both sea and air. What re- mains od the German Navy, ex- cept or submarines, is bottled up in continental porta. The initiative in the air attack has pa -used to Bri- tish hands. There are a hundred points on the Bay of Biscay and the long Norwegian coast that can be hit by commando raids in steadily greater force. War, Cold, Hatred On the east side of the triangle there is war every foot of the way across the plains of Russia. There is war; and there is cold; and there is the fierce hatred of people who have scorched their land rather than let it yield an ounce of aus'tenance to the invader. On the south side .m the triangle the line is safely anchored, at its eastern end, in the neutrality. at Turkey. But west of Turkey lie Bulgaria and Rumania, fair-weath- er allies of the Axis; Yugoslavia, already in revolt; Italy, smolder- ing with trouble; the inedequate- ly protected eoutherm coast of Prance, vulnerable to attack' by a . series od Wand stepping eboiies. across the Mediterranean ib'one Merica, Within The Triangle Hitler must meant guard over a front line' six thousand miles in lotgth.•:And even then his trek le only half completed. For Wile line. along which be fights to defend his power fades in both direc- tions. bt faces out, against, eu emcee who are in an increasingly favorable pusitiou to deal hien heavy -blows• And it faces in, against enemies who will give him no quarter when he falters. We may be sure that the coincidence. of three great historical facts-- Romanel's rout in Dgypt, the sue - cess ul landing of the Amerlians in North Africa and the final smashing of Hitler's 1942 oliens- ive by the amazing Russian erne- les—has fired the people of every temporarily conquered nation in Europe with fresh faith in an Al- lied victory and new courage' for the unrelenting war of sabotage in which they are engaged, From this point forward Hitler will resit: with even more determined. op- position from within bis triangle, them any he has yet had, to face: He will have to make war upon whole populations. lis will bane to •arnt his soldiers against death' and terror in the dark, He will :have to beat down the mounting doubts of his own people. And he .will have to mobilize, for a war of defense on many fronts, a German industry and a German transpor- tation system which have alroady Belt the wear -and -tear of 'three hand years of war. Design of Winter This is the situation 'as Hitler enters the fourth Winter of the war ofhis own choosing. But the design of this approaching Winter is not of his own choosing. He did not plan the war this way. It was his purpose and his plan to iso- late hisenemies, destroy 'them one by one, find Quislings who could do his work for hire suc- cessfully and harness a great com- pany of slave states to the Ger- mem Reich. Now he finds this pur- poee thwarted, and opposition =mating on all sides, There will be long, hard fighting before this war ends in the destruction of Hitler and his armies. But we now have reason to believe that this fighting will take place whol- ly within, and at no point outside, the present triangle of German pourer. THE UNCONQUERABLES ABLES Through Storm and Gunfire To Service Arne Jensen was 22 the day the Germans invaded his native city of Bergen in Norway. "I think maybe it was that morning I be- came a man," he said later.. "It is a terrible thing to realize an enemy hos invaded your home- land and that you can do nothing. I hope you people in the United States realize what such a thing • means." Arne knew he could never sur- render or accept the Nazi rule. Some day, he realized, he must escape and carry on the fight for a Free %Norway. One night a member of the Nor- wegian "Underground" told him to hurry to a waterfront rendez- vous. Waiting in a 52 -toot fishing boat with a battered old motor were six other men and two wom- en—one a muse, the other the wife of an American -Norwegian. * * * With the stealth of a lengthen- ing shadow an the evening sky, the ]title boat slipped out to sea' to begin a voyage of 300 miles. Before long the boat was tossed about in a sudden storm. "The waves clashed over the shies," Anne said. "We bailed furiously to keep from being swamped. Every minute we thought weN ould sink." When the storm ended, at dawn, everyone was exhausted: But there wee to be no rest. A German patrol plan diced out of the morn- ing sun and machine gun bullets splattered all about them. Theeo times the plane dived to the at- tack. When it soared off; one pas- senger had been killed, .and water, was pouring tht'ough bullet holes in the bottom of the craft. While Arne and a companion plugged tidy the holes with pieces of their clothing, someone said a. prayer. The old motor sputtered on, carrying them steadily closer to the Shetland Islan;is. * M That night another storm blew up, The little band struggled through the long hours once more to keep their craft afloat. "At times," said Arne, seemed almost hopeless. But; we kept bailing." The storm wore itself out at dawn on the second day, and a few hours later they sighted the Shetland Islands. There friendly bands helped them ashore, fed them, and gave tient shelter until the authorities could invest teate their papers: For Adore, it was just the be- ginning of. his great adventure. 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