HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1944-11-30, Page 3Rail Workers Set All
Canada Loan Record
IN TIM Seventh Victory Loan, the
largest aggregate subscription to
be made by any group of employees
came from the mon and women of the
Canadian National System. Investing
$13,733,550 they exceeded their Sixth
Loan record by $4,606,450 and set a
new record for all Canada. Including
employees of Trans -Canada AirLines
and National Railways Munitions,
Limited, there were 90,779 sub-
scribers, 8,411 more than in the
previous loan campaign.
Total subscriptions by Canadian
National employees in the seven loans
amounted to $49,785,250. With
purchases of Victory bonds by the
Company, aggregating $90,556,900
the grand total was $140,342,150.
The photograph, showing a cross-
section of C.N.R. workers gathered
about the Railways' newest 6060-
type engine, is symbolic of the Rail-
ways' united effort. Train crews, shop
forces, roundhouse workers, office and
station staffs, maintenance of way and
yard workers, telegraph, express,
cartage, hotel and steamship work-
ers—men and women all over the
Dominion threw themselves en-
thusiastically into the campaign.
Before the loan drive ended, they
were away over the top.
R. C. Vaughan, Chairman and
President of the National System;
when the final returns were in, issued
a message of congratulations to the
2,500 volunteer canvassers and their
91,000 fellow employees on, their
record performance.
D. C. Grant, Vice -President in
charge of finance and accounting,
headed the -system campaign organ-
ization. The loan drive in the Rail-
ways' three regions—Atlantic, Cen-
tral and Western—was personally
supervised, by the vice-presidents in
charge, J. P. Johnson, J. F. Pringle,
and W, R. Devenish respectively.
BOMBS BRING BRICKS -FOR PLAY
Most children build their "castles" from sand, but these Dutch
kiddies in war -scarred Hertogenbosch, Holland, construct their
"play houses" from bricks of their former homes, shattered by
bombs, The children ventured out into the streets again after the
town's recent liberation by the Allies.
PRIZE KITTY
Trying out the microphone above,
for taste only, it seems, is "Merry
Mounts Blue Mist," a Persian
kitty which won the blue ribbon in
the kitten clss at a show staged
in Ivew York City.
ALL WHITE ON TI -IE WESTERN FRONT
The first snows of winter are already blanketing battlefields on the Western Front, as the Allies
mass for all-out -attacks against the Nazis. Past one of Holland's famous windmills, Polish tanks
move up to .the front lines, 400 yardsfrom the enemy at Hooge-Zwaluwe. Two kilometers away are
the two great bridges which span the Hollandschdiep, which is the key to Dordrecht and Rotterdam.
Winter snows and ice have set in on the Metz front,
but artillery units continue to move up in support
of General Patton's drive on the fortress city,
Soldiers of the First Army in Germany lay down
lethal weapons to have a lot more fun staging a
snowball fight during the first heavy snow of winter.
EN ROUTE TO GERMANY
First jeepacrossthe Moselle River leads the way for Patton's ThirdArmyas troops crash into Metz.
Patton's drive pushed across the German border for the first time.
NOBEL MAN
Prof. I. I. Rabi a native of Aus-
tria who is now a member of
Columbia University faculty at
New York City, has been
awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize
in physics, says an announcement
from Stockholm; Sweden.
MAY BE ENVOY
Henri Bonnet, formerly Com-
missioner of Information in the
French Committee of National
Liberation in Algiers, will be
the next French ambassador to
Washington, it has been re-
ported. He has visited the U. S.
several times.
BRITISH KEEP 'EM FLYING
A Lodestar aircraft of the British Overseas Airways Corp. is shown
silhouetted above the buildings of colorful Cairo, Egypt, just before
it comes in for a landing, proving that war has not hampered the
work of the British Imperial Airways. Planes continue to traverse
the Empire's great air routes as usual.
WAS THIS A V-2 BASE?
England guesses that the current shower of German V-2 robombs
come from somewhere in northern Holland or from the fringe of
Germany from massive, launching platforms, such as above struc-
ture, which was nipped in the bud before it was completed when
the Allies captured Normandy, France. Germans were ready to
pour cement on the steel suppports when Allies arrived.
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