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The Seaforth News, 1946-01-03, Page 2BATTLESHIP WASHINGTON ENDANGERED BY GALE An Atlantic gale that forced the American cruiser Augusta and the aircraft carrier Wasp into South England for repairs has seriously endangered the 35,000 -ton U.S. battleship Washington, according to, reports from Lisbon, Portugal. The Washington, which went through the entire war from Scapa Flow and Murmansk to the Japanese theater without a scratch, ie. reported in trouble. off the Azores, VOICE OF THE PRESS USEFUL FARM GADGET Mrs. Gladys Strum; M.P., in a recent speech, described the farm- er's wife as "the most useful, gen- eral purpose,, labor saving device on the farm." Young farmers who have not availed themselves of this g^tiger are reminded that it usu- ally can be had for the asking. —Toronto Saturday Night WHAT GRANDSON THINKS Grandfather cut firewood in the timber. Walkedbeside the wagon in zero weather. Carried _ lines of er his shoulder and whipped his hands around his body to keep from freezing. Now his grandson thinks he is roughing it if he has to drive a sedan without a heater. . -Guelph Mercury Maybe Heli Understand A little patience and understand- ing should enable returned men to get along with civilians who have been reading books on how to un- derstand returned men. —Edmonton Journal THE VERY IDEA It is predicted that nylons will eventually sell for 25 cents a pair. Yes, but try and get a girl to wear anything as cheap as that. —Ottawa Citizen STEERING COLUMN A scientist says that a dog often steers himself with his tail—using it to guide his wandering bark, in fact. —Peterborough Examiner - crops, as a result of increased pro- duction, -were higher. Compared on a Provincial basis, the most significant change in value occurred in Saskatchewan, where, the decrease amounted to $153,700,000, a reduction of 24 per- cent from 1944. The onl; Provinces showing in- creases in estimated values are Ontario, British Columbia and Prince Edward Island. Tuberculosis is recognized as the most destructive of all infectious maladies; it causes the death of more children and young people than all other contagious diseases together. Nazi's Produced Synthetic Butter - and Egg Powder Recent developments in the manufacture of real and synthetic butter in Germany may have a far- reaching effect on Canada's export of butter, it was revealed at a press conference by Dr. W. H. Cook of the National Research Council. In one section of Germany which he visited recently as a special Can- adian Government investigator, Dr. Cook examined a butter -making machine which was small in size but turned out high quality butter at the rate of nearly 1,000 pounds an hour. Apart from this high-speed but- ter -maker which is vastly ahead of Canadian practice, Dr. Cook said, the Germans had gone far in the manufacture of a synthetic butter or margerine from petroleum. This product is edible and nutritious and one plant in Germany alone made 40,000 tons of the "ersatz" butter every year. Germany also had made marked steps in the manufacture of syn- thetic powdered eggs, Dr. Cook said. At the Herman Goering Foundation, no less than five types of egg powder had been developed, for varying uses. For cooking and bracing purposes, he said, the Ger- man powdered product had proven even better than eggs laid by the hen. Field Crops' Value Lowest Since 1941 Gross value of principal -field crops produced on Canadian farms in 1945 was estimated by the Do- minion Bureau of 'Statistics at $1,- 098,859,000, lowest since 1941, but still almost double the 100.0-39 average of $583,260,000. The 1040 total was a decrease of $222,449,000 from the 7944 revised estimate, with most of the decline dt.e to smaller production, particu- larly in Prairie Province grain crops. The 1945- wheat crop was valued at 9326,800,000, 2138,600,000- less than the revised 1944 value of $460,400,000 and a .reflection of drought conditions in Saskatche- wan and Alberta.Other. principal grain crops, oats, barley, rye and flaxseed, showed appreciable 'de- clines., Slight reductions were indicated for potato and root crops, some- what lower production in these cases being offset by increased prices. Hay and clover and alfalfa Record. of Safe Railway Travel Last year only 12 people in all were fatally injured on United Kingdom Railways; that is, one person in 150 million carried. Only two railway accidents incurring loss of life occurred during the whole year. This unusually high margin of safety was attained despite the fact that the war had led to a terrific overburdening of the staff and stock. )'t is to be expected that the corresponding peacetime figures will be even more favorable. FASTEST,FARTHEST, FIGHTIN'EST TIbo�T>lypedobs': This is the Navy's new Neptune patrol bomber P2V, which Navy claims ,is the fa test; most far- ranging and ,heavily. armed search plane ever devised. Built by Lockheed ofBurbank,rd with the the arresit t a crew of seven with sleeping accommodations and an all -electric galley, is radio -radar equipment. The "varicam tail,' a mechanical devicefor varying the curve of the horizontal tail surface, allows the pilot to balance a heavy load in one part of the plane and keep it in level flight. Javanese Rebels Trained by Japs Those who criticize so sharply the despatch of small British and Dutch forces to try and bring or- der out of Japanese -promoted up- heaval in Java, might reflect for a moment that the Javanese insur- gerts are no angels, says the Ot- tawa Citizen. An official inquiry into the deaths -' of five Royal Air Force men and 18 Indian troops who made a crash-landing from their aeroplane near Batavia a fortnight ago, discloses thata niob of Indo- nesians, including many women, massacred every one of the sur- vivors. The details of the massacre are too horrible to print. It is enough tc say that airmen's. and soldier's hands, feet and arms were cut off with swords and spears and dag- gers while they 'ran the gauntlet of a -savage mob .of natives in the prison yard. Then , they were de- capitated. These murders were the work of ar. 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