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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1942-09-17, Page 3RUSSIA'S ACE GIRL SNIPER Lieut. Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Russia's famed woman sniper, is eeted on a recent visit to New York by Victor Fediuchine, Soviet Tonsul General. In the background is her fellow delegate to the nternational Student Assembly, Lieut. Vladimir Pohelinsev, sniper credited with killing 152 Germans with 154 bullets. I$DIYIDUAL it1ieiX$ rm. N II N��I- Weekly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Array A suit of battledress, as the niy uniform available to a sol- er, can be expected to last six months. If it is eked out by the issue of a cotton drill uniform in the summer the length of time before replacement becomes necessary is lengthened by a few weeks. When, in addition, a sol- dier is issued with a "walking out" uniform to wear in the fall and winter months the battle - dress can be expected to last at least nine months. What is all that about? You ask. Just that when you are cloth- ing or equipping • an army you think of durability, utility, and the public purse. The main idea is to give each soldier everything he needs — but nothing more titan that. Which is a good target for us soldiers in the Individual Citizen's Army to aim at. In other words, let's buy only what we need and preserve what we have. There are many organizations in the Army charged with seeing that soldiers have everything they need, that they take care of what they have and that what is no longer usable for its primary pur- pose is salvaged for some other use. We have dealt, from time to time, with the Ordnance Corps, the "Q", or Quartermaster -Gener- al branch and the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps but so far we haven't got down to the housekeepers of the different units yet. These "housekeepers" are the, Quarter -Master Sergeants. There are two varieties, Regimental Quarter -Master Sergeants and Company Quarter -Master Ser- geants. I nearly forgot the top man, the Quarter -Master who is the responsible commissioned of- ficer in • each unit. The unit organization is: Quart- ermaster, a commissioned officer, who is usually a Captain; R.Q.M.- S., a warrant officer, second class and a Squadron, Battery, or Com- pany Quarter -Master Sergeant who is the senior non-commission- ed officer of the company rank- ing next below the Company Ser- geant-Major. These men function as a supply service for the unit and are re- sponsible for obtaining all arms, clothing, equipment and rations for the men in their care. But, and this is a big "but", they are also responsible for the care, maintenance and return of those articles or for a satisfactory ex- planation of clearance of them. Thus, through this chain of re- sponsibility, the people's purse is watched, care is taken of the peo- ple's property used or worn by the soldiers and provisions is made — through the chain of responsibility —• for the collection and return to. the SalvagEe Branch, R.C.O.C., of used or worn articles that can be repaired or otherwise salvaged. "If it's good enough for the Army, it's good enough for the taxpayer." That would be a good motto for us to adopt. Then, 'conversely, "if it's good enough for the, taxpayer, it's good enough for the Army," must be true, too. That refers to material things. As regards the preservation and conservation of material things the Army can show the rest of us the way. A full record of everything is - Sued is kept in the Company and Regimental Quarter -Masters store. That record shows just when Pte. John Canuck was issued with his coat or his battle -dress or his boots. It records the loss by Pte. Canuck of any of his equipment —and passed that information to the Paymaster so that deductions can be made. Do we do that in our homes? In other words are we taking enough care of what we have to enable us to play ou: part in blocking the infiltration of inflat- ion forces? Or are we rushing off to the store to buy something we dont need because the style has changed — or because we just plain want it? I heard an indignant citizen (feminine) say the other day that she saw dresses in a window that "certainly had not been simpli- fied." Sure! Why not? There are still many retailers who have clothes in stock that were manu- factured before the simplification orders were made. Are these to be wasted? These are the things we must guard against. Turn that spare money for a new suit or coat into War Savings, or save it for war taxes — in other words, do as the army does, make what you have last by taking care of it, by buy- ing carefully in the first place. The Wartime Prices and Trade Board has stated emphatically that the rationing of clothes is not imminent. But that does not mean we should go on buying sprees. It means that we should be good enough soldiers of the Individual Citizen's Army to ra- tion ourselves. Huns Stop Work For Civilian Uses Fritz Sauckel, Nazi high com- missioner for the employment of all labor, has announced that all industrial production for civilian purposes in German - occupied countries must cease immediately, an Exchange Telegraph despatch from Zurich said recently. Only factories supplying the German army and the German civil and military occupation authorities will be permitted to operate. Working hours in the occupied countries have been increased to 54 hours weekly and a decree subjecting workers in the occu- pied countries as well as foreign workers in Berlin to "the most severe military discipline" has been enforced, the Exchange Tele- graph report said. VOICE PRESS COWS GO TO WAR In 1939, dairy farmers were pro- vid'ing the people of Great Brit- ain with 750,000,000 gallons of milk. In 1941, in spite of labor shortage and restrictions on im- ported feeding stuffs, they produc- ed 940,000,000. In May last fear, in Wre month, they provided 103; 000.100 gallons and now they've beaten even that high level. As a result of this record the ministry of food has been able to announce recently that, unti- further notice, there will be no restriction on the wale of milk. — (Brandon Sun) JEEPS AND BEEPS First we had jeeps and now we have beeps. A jeep weighs more tlhan two tons but a beep weighs about 500 pounds. It Is capable of high speed, uses comparatively little gas and can climb an accliv- ity that would be impossible for an automobile or a truck. The beeps are likely to be highly use- ful for certain military purposes and are being used already in United !States training camps.— (Fort William Times -Journal) HONOR. THEM Look for a small silver badge in the lapels of men, some in non- descript clothing. The badge with a orown on top carries the letters "M.N." It stands for the Merchant Navy, and those lads you see wear- ing it are in port after being tor- pedoed or running cargoes through submarine -haunted seas and dodg- ing dive bombers. Honor them! —(Vancouver Sun) LACKING Elocution is a good thing. But it doesn't go far enough. It merely teaches a man how to speak— not when or how long.. — (Kitch- ener Record) GET IDEA ACROSS TO COWS The milk bonus to farmers may do much good.. The farmers know about it, the dealers, too, but do the cows know? — (Niagara Falls Review) MAKING REDUCTION English wives are starting a campaign for an equal share of their husbands' pay envelopes. What moderation! — (London Free Press) AGE OF CHIVALRY Or courtesy, 1942 -model: A man giving up his seat in the bus to a woman who is taking his job away from him. — (Windsor Star) CURE FOR AILMENTS Fi yon get out and work to pay the doctor, 1. may cure your ail- ments. — (Calgary Albertan) Rockefeller Center, in New York, is the largest privately - owned business and entertainment center in America. Fine Wool Cloth Made In Canada 1,00 Percent Canadian Worst- ed Is of Superior Quality With wool taken from Alberta sheaf, Canada can now produce *meted cloth which compares with the finest type produced any- -where, according to experts who have examined samples submitted by manufacturers, says the Ham- ilton Spectator. Canadian woollen interests are proud of this ach- ievement and state that it repre- emits a concrete fact which justifies the claim: "From the eiheep's hack to yours, 100 percent Canadian." For Armed Services This cloth will not be available to civilians while the war lasts, as the mills are being employed almost exclusively in filling the needs of the armed services. When a victorious peace has been won, however, woollen men are confl. dent that this all -Canadian product will hold lte own with the best. British woollens, which enjoy a high prestige throughout the world, may not be seriously af- fected by this competition, as they cover the entire field of cloths and the range of their weaving Includes almost every type that the ancient art is capable of pro- ducing. As long as Britain has access to Australia's choice wool clip, her markets are not likely , to be threatened. Of Superior Quality Canadian suit lengths in the past have had to overcome con- siderable prejudice from discrim- inating buyers, who usually chose the British product because of its softness and general excellence, as compared with, the hard and wiry feel which often marked the do- mestic product. The disadvantage from which Canadian cloth suffer- ed lay in the combing, a process that was not successful in this country. This lack has now been overcome, and the result is a fin- ished material that redounds to the credit of every group concern- ed, front the farmers who raised the sheep to the spinners and weavers who have demonstrated that worsted of superior quality can now be made in Canada. Future For Textiles Under the stimulus of govern- ment help, sheep raising in the Dominion is becoming an import- ant phase of agriculture, and farm- ers throughout the country are rearing more of the animal that is a dual source of profit from wool and meat. It is interesting to ob- serve, too, that Alberta is well adapted to this vital porduction. If the prairie provinces can be used more largely as grazing lands far sheep, the soil's fertility should soon be restored and the danger of dust bowls removed. It should all make for a balanced farm economy in the West and at the sauce time ensure a good fu- ture for the Canadian textile in- dustry. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher "Know anything about fixing a watch?" REG'LAR FELLERS—Fair Enough WHAT DOES )OUR MOM GIVE YOU FOR YOUR WEEKLY SPENDING ALLOWANCE? Cir Fri CENTS GWAN: L THINK I SLEEVE -, THAT? t--' 'oma epe-ae 8, THE WAR WEEK --- Commentary on Current Events Present Situation In Air Greatest Reversal Of War On the night of Sept, 7, 1940, planes from Goering'a Luftwaffe reported to number 700 bombed London in what Berlin described as the heaviest air raid in history, writes the New York Times. They killed 806 persons and wounded 1,800, It was one of those frantic blows which were to knock Eng- land out of the war and destroy the British Empire, Only a mir- acle of defense forced the Nazis to quit on the verge of victory. Today, two years later, the sky above London is usually serene. But night after night the dark sky over Germany is filled with hostile planes dropping loads of explosive which Goering's fliers of 1940 never dreamed of. Shadows Over Reich Two shadows stretched across Hitler's Reich last week. One was the shadow of Red Army bombers, striking from the Russian steppes 1,000 miles east of Berlin. The other was the now -familiar sha- dow of the R. A. F., reaching out from British ai fields 600 miles or more to the west of the German capital. In a surprise attack Soviet planes smashed at Berlin, at the sprawling port of Stettin on the flat shore of the Baltic, at nearer targets in Warsaw, Danzig and the East Pensalera Lite of L:oenigs- berg. In the west Sterling and Lancaster bombers of the Royal Air Force blasted Saarbruecken, coal and steel center of the highly industrialized Saar Valley, whose inhabitants in 1935 voted to end French control and return to the Reich. Later British planes wing- ed south over terraced vineyards of the Moselle, on up the Rhine to drop destruction on Karlsruhe, communications center near the Black Forest. Budapest was bomb- ed for the first tame, Bremen was hit again. Bombs Talked British sources called the raids highly successful, reported small losses. Moscow spoke of many fires set by Red airmen. But to military observers the Soviet op- erations. were chiefly important as proof that Russian bombers can now strike effectively at the heart of the enemy land. The R. A, F. had already reached out to Berlin and beyond. Now it was Russia's turn. The shadow from the east had met the shadow from the west. Where they merged they blotted out the last German hope of es- cape from aerial bombs, turned a one front war into ail -embracing war from the air. The fact lent weight to Moscow's warning that e'Long nights of terror" lie ahead for Germans. The Russian aerial operations appeared to be on a scale com- parable with heavy R. A. F. raids of the past. The achievement aroused speculation in many quar- ters. Were the new long•tbomber, fleets products of Ruselan face topes? Were they American -built Flying Fortresses sent to Russia via Africa and the Near East? On these questions, as on the location of the bases whence the bomb- ers came, Moscow remained silent —let bombs do the talking, No Relief For Germans This situation in the air is the greatest reversal of the war. Not until the war ends will we know what Germany has suffered, We can guess what a 1,000 -plane raid on Cologne means by multiplying the 'explosive load dropped on Lon- don two years ago by possibly five or six. When Russian planes bomb Koenigsberg, Warsaw, Buda- pest and Berlin, and British planes bomb Duisburg, say, and Frank- fort, Leipzig, Hamburg and Brem- en, all in a single week, we can guess the effect on German mor- ale by considering what might have happened if the Luftwaffe had been able to scatter bombs on. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Birm- ingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Southampton even while it was punishing London. Every Ger- man must know today that there is no relief in sight. All fear that • he America can bring its air force across the ocean such a storm will be unloosed as never broke on any nation. Air Concentration Urged It is these considerations which lead certain observers in London to urge the utmost possible con- centration of air power on Ger- many now. They feel that the air over Western Europe is the sector of the front where Germany is weakest, and the only sector where the sear cau be won or lost in the next few months. They com- plain of the dispersal of planes on secondary fronts, especially American planes. They deplore the fact that we are still able to operate from England only three squadrons of Flying Fortresses and one of medium bombers. If we followed these critics com(7letely we could lose the war on some "secondary front" like Egypt, China or the South Pacific. They forget that Russian planes which are bombing Berlin were possibly built here or in England. Never- theless, there is much merit in their contention. There is no doubt some unwise dispersal of our own air power and of British air power. It is probable that too many of our planes are either immobilized at sleeping fronts or not put to their most effective use. There should be a stern reallocation. Ev- ery ounce of power that can be brought to bear on Germany's open flank should be flying in to the attack. United States Has Wild Meat Supply You vee been hearing about this incipient neat shortage? Well, just in case it comes, na- ture—assisted by the federal for - entry service — has cached away some emergency rations in the eastern woods. The annual big game surplus in the area of Helena, Mont., could feed 5,000,000 soldiers for two months without touching the basic herd stock, federal officials esti- mate. The surplus in Montana, alone, could supply 2,300 tons of dressed meat annually, releasing sufficient beef, mutton and pork to feed more than 340,500 soldiers for one month, says State Game War- den J. S. McFarland. This surplus represents the nor- mal annual increase in elk, deer, bear and antelope, and would leave the herds at normal size for reproduction. Should an extreme food emer- gency arise, McFarland figures the stocker herds could bo cut in half to release enough meat from We state, alone, to feed well over 90,000 soldiers for ane month. And there would .till remain vast untouched flocks of wild sheep, mountain goats, moose, grizzly bear, birds and fish—po- tential food for thousands more soldiers and civilians, all protect• ed by the forestry service. Can Now Order Peace-Tirrie Homes How would you like to order your peace -time home now, along with that car or those tires you probably intend to get when they become available? In Britain they're making plans for 4,000,000 houses to be built when the time cones—after the war. The Ministry of Health says they'll be built along the lines suggested by the people who will live in them. The Ministry has been collect- ing ideas from the public to help it decide what type and size are wanted, and how they will be out- fitted. To double-check 'against the public's whims. it will issue a booklet of architectural drawings based on public suggestions, thus giving everyone a chance to com- plain about features he thinks were omitted or should have been omitted, Sept. 1391 At 5:20 a.m. Friday. Sept, ,1, 1939, a lone German bomber raid- ed a Polish air base on Ilei Penin- sula, and with mounting violence tho Nazis swept on toward War- saw. Two clays later Great Brit- ain and France entered the con- flict with normal declarations of war on Germany. SEVENTY- FIVE CENTS DOr11 MAKE ME vd i.._ By GENE BY NES -r. WELL, IF YOU COME DOWN A LITTLE I'LL COME DOWN A LITTLE t, iii 17' 71 %.7-1/ ((!(//; 4 • �„�"'+''''1 rot. ttiaaiM, All rlikt. rete c r37 Rr��'s •_