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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1943-09-23, Page 6CHIEFS AT FRONT Right at the front in New Guinea are the Australian and American commanders Gen. Sir Thomas Blarney, left, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Blarney di- rected the Allied amphibious landing near Lae while MacAr- thur personally witnessed the 'U.S. paratroop attack near that Jap base. OTTAWA REPORTS That Canada Closed the Last Crop Year With a Carry -Over of 601,500,000 Bushels of Wheat Canada's piled up wheat surplus, once a. bewilderin, and almost embarrassing factor in domestic affairs, stands as one of ,,the world's greatest food assets, when war-torn humanity finally settles down to save stricken nations from starvation. Despite the increased use of wheat for other than human con- sumption during the past year or more, Canada closed the 1942-43 crop year with a record carry-over of 601,500,000 bushels of wheat, Dominicn authorities have just reported. This ca: y -over was approxi- mately 177,000,000 bushels greater than the surplus remaining at the end of Jury, 1942, and 121,000,490 bushels more than the previous record carry-over on July 31, 1941. A feature of the 1943 situation, according to official report at the capitol, was the large supply of wheat still in farmers' hands at the end of the crop year. More than 197,000,000 bushels—almost one third of the total carry-over —was held on the farms. * * * The use of wheat for animal feed was one of the outstanding developments of the past year, and promises to figure promin- ently in the present c}iop year. Use of wheat by distilleries to make industrial alcohol has also con- sumed a large proporton of wheat in the Canadian domestic market. During the past crop year the people of Canada consumed only about one-half as much wheat as went into animal feed and alcohol production. More than 650,000,000 bushels of wheat are likely to be used in the United States, Canada, and Argentina during the next 12 months for the feeding of live- stock. the production of Industrie.] alcohol or for heating of hones and buildings. * * This is more wheat than was moved in international trade In most of the years between 1929-30 and the outbreak of the present war. Shipments of Canadian wheat flour exported eluring the first nine months of the crop year 1942-43 totalled approximately 137,000,000 bushels compared with 169,000,000 In the corresponding period the previous year. Flour shipments in terms of wheat were 6,000,000 bushels larger than In same period of the 1941-42 crop year. Wheat grain exports were 37,500,000 bushels smaller, American farmers produced more than four million acres of i'laxseecl in 1942. DEAFNESS SURVEY * Whether you are a mild, Inc. * dium or severe case...whether * you use a hearing aid or not * ... important discoveries make * * possible the greatest help ever * * offered to the hard of hearing. * * ACOUSTICON INSTITUTE * .,;II I:,na' S111.e1. - ToriinI.3 * 1want acola ofthe FREE J3oo4onlbsU.S, * Government National Deafness Sarver. * Nine * *Street *City *. THE WAR • WEEK Commentary on current events The Bulk Of The Italian Navy Now Safely Anchored At Malta Varying in details, but with an inexorable logic that was be- yond the calculations of the dic- tators, the present war is being fought to its predestined conclu- sion in an almost uncanny par- allelism to the course of events in the last war. This is again em- phasized by the dramatic surren- der of the Italian Navy, the bulk of which is now safely in Allied hands. Thirty-two Italian war- ships, including four battleships, six cruisers, eight destroyers and fourteen submarines, are now anchored at Malta, in fitting homage to that indomitable is- land. More war vessels are expect- ed if they can escape the Ger. man clutches. The Germans, hav- ing seized the northern ports of Italy, may have succeeded in capturing some of . Italy's fifty to sixty submarines, as they have probably seized a part of Italy's merchant fleet. But it may be doubted whether they will be able to make much use of them. The Italian Navy, in any case, is either "present or accounted for," especially all of its remain- ing battleships, and presumably all of its remaining. cruisers. And, according to Allied spokesmen, they are first-class and ready for immediate action, which will be greatly facilitated by the Allied seizure of the naval base of Ta- ranto, which presumably is stock- ed with all necessary naval sup- plies. Scapa Flow Inevitably, thoughts go back to Scapa Flow, where a once proud German Navy surrendered after the last war, Once again it has been shown that an inferior navy is little more than an expensive luxury, and in a prolonged war even a danger point. For, as in the case of Imperial Germany, the disintegration of the Italian fighting spirit also began in the navy, which, even more than the Italian land and air forces, was reluctant to face the overwhelm- ing odds of Allied superiority. The only service it could render to the Axis cause was to immob- ilize a large part of the British fleet tri the Mediterranean. But it could not and did not stop either the Allied invasion of North Africa or the invasion of the Italian homeland. And this re- fusal to face suicidal odds was one of the main causes of the Italian collapse. But the surrender of the Ital- ian Navy is both more and less than Scapa Flow. It is less be- cause Germany, the main enemy, still continues the fight, and has even succeeded in seizing the ma- jor portion of Italy, from which it will take time and trouble to dislodge her. But it h also more, because both General Eisenhower and Admiral Cunningham have al- ready made it clear that the Ital- ian Navy will become part of the Allied naval forces, to be used against both Germany and Japan. Mediterranean Highway Surrender of the Italian fleet has finally cleared the Mediter- ranean of even a potential men- ace. It has thereby opened up an unimpeded highway for even greater attacks against the re- maining Axis partners. From now on, Allied convoys can move freely through that lifeline of inter -Allied communications for landing operations at any point along its shores on which the Al- lied command may decide. From now on, supplies to Russia, to In- dia and to China will find an easier and shorter route than the long way around the Cape of Good Hope, Finally, from now on, a large part of the British fleet can be transferred to the Indian Ocean or the Pacific, for operations against Japan in con- junction with the American forces. And though a prediction made by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in his opening speech to the Kuomintang executive com- mittee that Japan "would be de. feated in possibly six months, and certainly not much longer than one year," may prove to be too optimistic, the Japanese mil- itary masters know what the Ital- i Ian surrender means to them, and rage accordingly, Result of Armistice The surrender bf the Italian fleet with all its consequences, is one result of the armistice ar- ranged by General. Eisenhower with the Italian King and Marshal Badoglio. And, as General Eisen- hower said, the armistice is worth while even if it nets the Allies nothing more than the fleet, Of course, it nets then much more than that. It eliminates a nation of 46,000,000 from the fight, to- gether with its manpower, its resources, and the millions of bayonets of which Mussolini used to boast,—New Yoi'k Times. They Were Just • Nice Little Snakes A little girl entered a store in Midland. She carried something that looked sinister and terrify- ing to the women shopping in the store. They huddled in cor- ners and would have run past the little girl into the street if they had dared. But they didn't dare to move. And it wasn't a couple of guns that the Tad car- ried. She had a pair of live garter snakes, which she held tightly in her little fingers while they writhed and squirmed and tried to get away, and she didn't mean to scare all the ladies. She was just looking for her another to show her the nice snakes she had caught. "No," said the store- keeper, "your mummy isn't here. Please go away." And since the merchant was polite, and said ' please, she went. VOICE OF FHE PRESS A WISE MOVE The managements of three local theatres have announced that they intend to clear • all children who are not accouipanied by their parents out of their theatres. at nine o'clock every night, In other words there is going to be a strict enforcement of the curfew law. We-coml./lend the theatres for this action, for if the patents of these children do not take sufficient interest in their welfare to see that they aro home, someone else must. Peterborough Examiner, WHAT'S THE USE? With junior away in the Air Corps, the family again has the use of the car. However, as it turns • out, junior has the gas. —Milwaukee Journal. ALSO CANADIANISNI Americanism: Farmers scolding workers for hindering the war ef- fort to get more money; the nation pleading for corn and beef while farmers hold for a better price. —Victoria Time.s ANGLING GARDENER She said her husband's garden wasn't much of a success because every time he starts digging he finds worms and goes fishing. —St. Thomas Times -Journal. BARK TO BITE War sacrifices are passing from the bark to the bite stage as the hot dog becomes a war casualty —Kitchener Record. NOTE TO BLOOD DONORS Army doctors talking to a news- paper correspondent in Sicily on the subject of blood plasma said: "Write lots about it; go clear SIDE GLANCES '.1 By Galbraith .. COI l4 1939 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M. RCC. U, 5. MT. OFF, "By the gods, I didn't know the stores sold pants for boys until I had outgrown my father's!" overboard for it; say that plasma is the outstanding medical discov- ery of this war." This will be of interest to the public generally and to blood donors particularly. DOINGS AT THE SOO There is no hay fever at Sault Ste. Marie, according to F. W. Collins, Canadian Pacific Railway Industrial Commissioner. New, if we only could be sure we would not be "et by a wolf," the Soo would sound like a healthy srot.—Windsor Star. A joint statement issued by the Prices Board and Transport, La- bor and Munitions Departments, last week said shortage of labor and transportation would result in no Christmas trees being cut this year. SERVING THE UNITED NATIONS WITH WAR ALCOHOL fr `j 1004 tie is THE RADE OE DEATH IS DEADLIER BECAUSE OF AR AL coHOL 4 - r a basis for ether, widely used in the manufacture of high explosive. It keeps planes ice -free. It keeps trucks and tanks rolling in zero temper- atures. It is used in the production of synthetic rubber and plastics. It serves doctors, nurses and field dressing stations as a practical dis- infectant.'Alcohol is now in Battle Dress 24 hours a day. All of our plants are producing it ... to 100% capacity ::: for the duration. Here is a Toad of grief for Hitler ... 1000 pound packages of concentrated destruction, made with the help of 'War Alcohol, and powerful enough to flatten whole city blocks. Due to its "stabilizing" influence, alcohol is also used in tremendous quantities in the making of smokeless powder and other war materials. It is HIRAM WALKER & SONS LIMITED /' ft -N\ REG'LAR FELLERS—Carne and Get It IT'S YOUR JOB TO FEED THE ARMY WHILE IT'S ON THE MARCH, SO FIGGER IT OUT YOURSELF! /WELL/ ONE WAY WE WORK IT IS TO HAVE A 'FIELD KITCHEN TRAVEL. WITI4 US! THAT SAVES VS 'FROM EATIM' IN $UM RESTAI/RANTS !' 50 THAT'S WHAT A FIELD KITCHEN LOOKS LIKE, EH? OH, BOY! HAVE I GOT A IDEA: By GENE BYRNES MR. O'HOOLI HAN, X HAVE A PROPOSITION FOR YA 11i lerik