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The Seaforth News, 1943-06-17, Page 6T IE SEEAFO TN NEWS THURSDAY, dU 7, 1944 HAVE YOU RADIANT HAIR Lovely, shimmering hair is a sign- post of youthfulness, yet so many are content with dull and faded hair, of. ten specked with dandruff, With very little trouble, hair can be made most attractive, Brushing is the first step, Use a brush with really strong bristles, and get at the roots and scalp, Dull, faded hair needs toning up with a good hair tonic now and then. Sprinkle some tonic over scalp and scalp, rotate the scalp itself hair, loosen hair from scalp, then, placing your fingers firmly on the scalp, rotate the scalp itself, without rubbing. Finally, brush vigorously. If you've very greasy hair, don't forget that a permanent wave tends to dry up surplus oil. Dry hair needs occasional massage with warm oil, For very brittle hair, try an egg shampoo occasionally. Take two eggs, beat whites and yolks separately, then fold together, Wet hair and scalp with lukewarm water (not hot water, as it congeals the eggs!). Cover head with sufficient mlxur to work into hair and scalp, then rinse thoroughly with clear tep- id Water. Repeat psocess several times. Of course, wnatever the condition of your hair, you need a shampoo at least once a week. Halo shampoo is just the thing, because it suits any type or colour of hair, is simple to use and makes the hair lovely and re- freshiagly clean and glossy. Halo shampoo will make a hola of your head! Write for confidential personal ad- vice, enclosing five one -cent stamps for my interesting booklet on Beauty Care. Address: Miss Barbara Lynn, Box 75, Station B„ Montreal, Que, W. M. S. Executive Meets — The June executive meeting of Huron Presbyterial of the Presbyter- ian Church was held in Clinton Pres- byterian church on June 8th. The meeting opened with a devotional period conducted by the president, Mrs. H, Jack of Seaforth. The treas- urer, Mrs. T. Swan Smith, of Sea - forth, reported a decrease in giv- ings of $143, and members were ask- ed to take this information back to their auxiliaries. The literature sec- retary, Miss E. Somerville, said there was still a need for good reading material for men and women in the various camps. Those sending books and magazines were asked to report this at the end of the year. Mention was also made of the "Four -book shelf" for auxiliaries, and all memb- ers were urged to read "On This Foundation," which gives a splendid picture of work in Latin America. Mrs, Jack asked that each auxiliary would plan a Family Night in *Sep- tember, with each branch of the The Flight That Was Impossible China National Aviation Corpora- tion was just one of those up-to-date concernsthat the New China was developing -0 --when the Japs carie along and tried to smash'evei•ything, It used big' Doaglasair linens to fly passengers around China. Hand- some, gleaming things, those Doug- las machines, each able to early 21 passengers at a maximum. The Japanese soldiers poured like a yellowflood into China, and the air liners performed miracles evacu- ating women and children to Burma. But the Japs hadn't finished. They came down through Indo-China and into Burma, mopping up Malaya and Singapore on their way. Ahead of them, as always, ran, rumors of their doings; bayoneting, burning, crucify- ing, torturing, Once more a vast -winged Douglas air liner stood quivering on the tar- mac, ..waiting to help in an evacua- tion. That tarmac was pitted with bomb craters. The smoldering and twisted ruin of another air liner ,still smoked on an edge of the field where a bomb from a Mutsubishi had caught it. The liner that remained was the last one that would leave Burma be- fore the invaders completed their sweep through the country. It was operating from an airfield too small for it, and further imperiled by the pitted runway. Already the shudder of gunfire could be clearly heard. At any mo- ment more Japanese aircraft night come over, perhaps with paratroops this time, But the problem that confronted the skipper of that aeroplane• was apparently insoluble. His machine was built to carry twenty-one people. Twenty-two small children waited patiently on the airfield, and about seventy other people, many of them women. Captain Charles Sharp, Chief Pilot and Operations Manager of the C.N.A.C., had stayed behind, like the commander of a stricken ship, to take this last load himself. He stared round at the people, the wo- men with their drawn faces, the chil- dren frightened because their elders were frightened . . For no reason that anyone could see, he began to sort out the mob into groups of fat, medium and thin. His brain did swift and exact calcu- lations with figures — figures on which everyone's lives depended. He was working out the approxi- mate weights of the passengers. When you overload an aeroplane, you can't put people in as you would in a crowded bus. For the • aircraft has to be trimmed so that it main- tains flying stability and keeps an even keel. 'Pull the arms and upholstery off those seats!" he commanded shortly. Men started to ask questions, but were silenced by Sharp's fierce, ab- sorbed face. The inside of the luxury liner soon resembled a boys' dormi- tory after a pillow fight, with rags and stuffing and dust everywhere, and splinters and twisted metal and ruins in that once -perfect interior, where pretty air -hostesses had ,walk- ed. Everything that could be torn or levered out .was ruthlessly put out- sideW.hLS. taking part in the meeting, on a rubbish -heap that grew every moment. Sharp calculated its It was decided to pay the expenses weight, and bit his hp. of a girl to Bintail camp in July, the privilege going to Hensall this year. As the office of Mission Band secre- tary was vacant through the removal of Mrs. W. Weir to Hespeler, Mrs, D. J. Lane agreed to carry on the work temporarily, The fall rally will be "You!" he said, jerking a thumb at the women„ There were twenty- one of them. "But—the children ..." a moth- er began, gripping her little girl. painfully, tears welling in her eyes. "Do as you're told!" Sharp order - held in September. The program and, ed, "Get in!" arrangements for providing a speak—They filed in, while the distant er were left in the hands of the pre- guns rumbled. They crammed silent and corresponding secretary, against oneanotheralong the seats Mrs. Jack gave a number of interest- ing items from the Provincial meet- ing held recently in Guelph, and ask- ed that each Society would do all in its power to help in the work of the mission bands and girls' camps, The meeting Closed with prayer by Mrs, Thompson of Seaforth. So It Was In 1924 — Yes, the season is very late, but so It was in 1,24, and that year, from the agricultur'ist's standpoint, was quite a successful one. Mr, John R. Martin, of West Luther, as a hobby keeps records of such things. The year 1924 was the latest since he commenced farming. In that year he slid his first work on the land on May 29, He finished seeding on June 11, and on September 19 took out his binder to do his first cutting. His crop was a good' one, but when it was safely harvested and threshed there wasn't much of a breathing spell before winter set in. Last week, on Saturay, May 29, he did his first. cultivating of the season, Good crops may still be in store for Wellington North. That does not mean that a late season is net without its disad- vantages, — Arthur Enterprise -News, whose arms had been removed. "Now you—you—you -- you — youyou!" Seven men, some of them wound- ed, followed the women into the seats. Sharp picked them, frowning, each according to his guessed weight so as to trim the ship. He looked them over, moved one and another to different places. "Now you children," he said. His grim face relaxed into half a smile as the youngsters Red, like chicks beneath a mother hen, to the aching arms outstretched for them. "You'll have to shuffle out a bit," he added. "That girl further along, Hight! Now then, young shaver, move to the end. Yes—and you. Ah! That looks all right," Fifty passengers already in the machine designed to carry at most twenty-one and the pilot, There were still some wounded men, quietly waiting, thinking their chance had gone. Some were white, some colored. Sharp pointed to four of them, "In the lavatory," he said. "You'll have to crowd a bit," They went obediently along the gangway and took their places, "Some of you in the forward Mail' eompartinent, How many will it take? :You—yes, you—you two , They got six men in the mailbox "with a. shoehorn," _ as some of th'e passengers said afterwards "Now some along the central gangway, between the seats. Come along. You wounded fellows Right! Now you—you,.,, " Fourteen men were crammed al- ong the gangway, tightly pressed against one another. "We can't fall, anyhow," one said, grinning. "We ,can't -but the ship might!" came the whispered answer, Seventy-four passengers aboard. Sharp had still to take his place at the controls, He walked around, admiring his, handiwork. Those who were left be- hind began to melt away. They had to think how they could get to India on foot. "Sorry," Sharp said. "She won't trim, You'll have to go forward. Change places with that fellow there —and you. Yes—that's right." The aeroplane spewed out people and took them in again in a'd-ifferent order. At last the pilot was satisfied. He went forward and sat down in his place, $is hands flitted over the controls. The passengers felt the big machine quivering, like a thing imbued with a life of its own and gatherilg its strength to soar. They did not know what Sharp knew—that to get them off the ground at all, he would have to push the engine revolutions far above the safety maximum, and force the man- ifold pressure clean beyond the dan- ger line. They trusted that hard -faced pilot absolutely, never dreaming that he was trying to do a thing the designer of that machine would have said was just impossible. She gathered her strength, and the motors thundered to a tune they had never known. No one but a mad-' man—or a man inspired—would have dared to sit behind them when they sang that note.. . Still the aircraft did not move. And then it began to move. It wobbled forward slowly, then faster. A huge black blot of a bomb crater slid past like an inky splash beneath one wing, and the aircraft tilted a little as the wheels rode over some rubble at the edge. Only Sharp knew that anothery foot of tilt would have dug a wing into the ground and sent the mach- ine spinning around in a flaming circle of burning gasoline and ruin. The end of the runway approach- ed, and the machine was not- air- borne. Not a chance to stop now , . Give her the gun! She ploughs on, gets her wheels off the ground, heads dead at some trees with her throttles wide and no man on earth able to do any Amore. At the airfield, spectators are screaming at the impending tragedy. And then she is over, her wheels cutting away boughs from the tree- tops. She won't rise, but there is no other obstacle immediately in her path. She roars on. HURRIBOMBERS SWOOP ON ENEMY ON N. AFRICAN FRONT Picture shows: Ar eourers of an R,A,F, Bomber Squadron operating on the North African front, loading up a, Hurn'ican ready for a sweep over enemy territy. „+arca,.. .`�"�.`„+.'•k `i<,K�; a DUTCH SUBMARINE RETURNS TO :BRITAIN AFTER 3 YEARS OF SUCCESS IN THE EAST The Dutch Submarine 0.19 returned to Britain for a long overdue refit after three years of successful service in the Dutch East Indies, Singapore and the Indian Ocean. This big minelayiug submarine, built for service in the East Indies, had remarkable escapes in the Java Sea, Singapore and Soerabaya, before reaching Colombo. She sank her first ship on 10th January, 1942, the Arita Maru, a 4,000 ton troopship, Her crew believe that a 5,000 tom supply ship was also hit by their torpedoes, but could not confirm its loss. When the 0.19 at last reached a Brit- ish port, she was greeted by Rear Admiral J. W. Termijteien, R.N.N., Commander in Chief, of the Netherlands Naval Forces in the United Kingdom, The Admiral decorated the Captain of the submarine with the Netherlands Bronze Cross with Honorable Mention, the equivalent of the D.S.S., and the First Lieutenant, the Chief Engineer, three Petty Officers and one rating 'with the Bronze Cross, the equivalent of the D.S.C. Picture shows the 0.19. • Sharp, at the controls, shakes the sweat out of .his eyes, and licks his lower lip. It is bleeding freely, where his teeth had gripped it. Behind him, a child laughs with glee. I Seventy-four passengers instead of a maximum of twenty-one. Will she keep up? Will she be spotted by a Jap fighter? Will bad weather de- velop, because in that case everyone aboard is for the high jump! There are still air experts in Bri- tain and America who say that flight could not have been made. But it was made! Sharp got his machine safely to India,. found an aerodrome, and loaded as it was, in a perfect landing after flying over some of the worst mountains in the world. The courage and faith of this man achieved the impossible. Joins The Wrens — Last week Miss Velma Scott Of Wingham left for Galt to start her career as a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service. Miss Scott until she resigned recently was a member of the staff at the Queens Coffee Shop. Miss Scott is the fourth to join this service from Wingham, the oth- ers are Miss. Muriel Redmond, Miss Doris Fells and Miss Iona Terry. Miss Jean Wehvood, who has a bro- ther a prisoner of war in Germany, has also enlisted in the Wrens. She reports at Gait for duty.. July 1st. Broke Both Arms On Swing — It is considered very 'bad luck to have one arm broken, but John Ha11, " son of Mr, and Mrs. George Hall, John street, did one worse than that at the park swings on Thursday evening. He was using one of the swings and. kept going higher and higher until it swung right over, throwing Trim to the ground, with the result that be fractured both his arms. He is walking around but it will be some time before he gets his aims free of the casts,— Wingham Advance -Tinges. Purchases Residence Mr. Norman Rintoul has purchased the residence of Mrs, W. H. Willis, corner of John and Shuter Streets, Wingham. Want and For Sale Ads, 1 week 25e. Counter Check Books We Fire Selling ' Quality Books Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. All styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prices as Low as: You Can Get Anywhere. 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