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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1944-05-18, Page 211.Doed bth hn The Pick of Tobacco OTTAWA... REPORTS That Canada's Output Of Farm Machinery In 1945 Will Equal Average Of 1940 and 1941 Good news for farmers is the Wartime Prices and Trade Board announcement that total tonnage of farm machinery to be produced in Canada in 1945 will equal the average output of 1940 and • 1941, and there will be no rationing of farm machinery repairs, and no restrictions on the quantities of these to be manufactured. The administrator of farm and con- struction machinery points out, however, that rationing of equip- ment will still be necessary next year and only the most urgent and essential needs can be met. In addition to the tonnage of farm equipment being made available for ordinary domestic use, the ad- ministrator said that Canadian manufacturers will produce an ad- ditional tonnage specifically for the establishment of war veterans on farms. Canada's contribution of farm equipment for rehabilitation under the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Association pro- gram also wilt entail an additional tonnage. * * A former Senior Livestock Field - man at Moncton, N.B., who has taken an active part in boys' and girls' farm club promotion, Ed- mond F. Pineau, has been appoint - eel Associate Chief, Livestock and Poultry Division, Production Ser- vice,. Doininion Department of Agriculture. Mr. Pineau will: be in charge a£ co-ordinating boys' end girls' farm club policies throughout the Dominion. He was 3ntong the first to form boys' and r iris' clubs lit New Brunswick. and .oached several provincial..:.. ehenn.. lion teams. for the annual compet- ition in Toronto. X* Arrangements been been com- e-a-n.s wnn the British Food Mis- Aion for the purchase of any dried white peas produced in Canada in 1944, surplus to Canadian require- ments, the Agriculture Department has just announced. • * * * Canada's plan to deliver G00 mil- lion pounds of bacon to Britain during 1941 seems welt on the way to fulfillment. Since the first of this year inspected packing plants have processed more than 200,000 bogs •a week on an average top- ping the record of last fall when for the first time the weekly num- ber was 180,000. In order to meet British and domestic needs, the 1't' onifniori Department of Agri- culture advises that every good quality hog that car. be produced will be required. * * * Bean seeds of the green podded varieties may have to be used this year instead of wax or snap beans. T, F. Ritchie of the Central Ex- perimental Farm horticulture staff says that a number of the green podded varieties are equal, if not superior, to the wax beans which are in short supply, * * * All the winter and spring care expended ori Imes mals easily be 4 y stayingat FORD HOTELS Modern, fireproof, ionvaniondy 'Fray Parking ars row as sip no higher than — per person FDR MAP or FOLDER, writ,* He HOTIU Ca. Montreal THUMBS HER WAY Leave it to woman's ingenuity to transfer the lowly thimble to war- plane production. Hazel Porter- field, worker in Douglas Aircraft Company's Santa Monica plant, is pictured with thimble screwdriver she devised because her work in- volved holding large pieces or metal in one hand and awkwardly balancing screws and -screwdriver with the ather. Her gadget, which won a plant suggestion award, is now used extensively throughout the plant. wasted if the colonise are not closely watched during the period between the early flow from dan- delion and fruit bloom and the main flow froth clover, advises C. B. Gooderhatn, Dominion apiar- ist The early flow stimulates the colony to its maximum production of brood but seldom - pa-• - {C°''14nt"' chat. t...lh'nfiz.+cca` for emergencies; Any shortage of food at this time results first in a reduction of brood rearing which in turn means fewer bee; for the harvest, and secondly it may end in starvation and death of the whole colony, A few lbs. of sugar given. at this time may save a colony of bees and a lot of honey. k * * To •shorten milking time, the Dominion Experimental Station at Normandin, Que., has tried to do away with stripping tate cows by hand after milkng them by machine. j. A, Belzite of the Normandin Station says, "We have not suc- ceeded entirely with the old cows, that is, those milked by hand before a milking machine" was installed, but heifers started on the milking machine at their first lactation do not generally require stripping by hand." Output Of Aircraft Soars In Australia Australia's aircraft industry is still expanding, with at least two plants having turned their 1,000th plane over to the Ro}'al Australian Air Force. The Federal Depart- ment of Aircraft Production, which is manufacturing Beaufort bom- bers, delivered its 500th plane as long ago as last November, Both British and American -type planes are being built. Before the war the men who build them work- ed on farms, in shops and in of - flees. The Government' has spent about $175,000.000 in promoting the aircraft industry in .Australia. Since 19.19 more than one-third of the population of Britain has been rehoused. THE WAR .. WEEK . , Commentary on Current Events All People In Britain Calmly Await Hour of Coming Invasitn of Europe 1,Vltile' the Continent shook to the thunder' of bombs and the Berlin and Vichy radios stepped up their warnings to the captive peoples, the atmosphere of -13ri- taui, staging area for the Inva- sion of Europe WILS one of Calitt and confidence, comments The New York Times. Observers in London noted that on the Sur- face there was nothing, to indicate the final stage of preparations for - the great test had been reached, tl?at in various headquarters scat- tered throughout the city • invasion plans `were receiving a last care- ful scrutiny, that in the country- side around the capital as • welt as from the northern tip of Scot- land to the westernmost ,point of Cornwall Britain was one Vast armed camp, thronged with sheat awaiting the .signal- to go. Mood In -Britain • Londoners, and all Britoil`s'; have been "sitting oh tonof a volcano" so long they are neither particularly excited nor especially nervous, The. horn: when haven sion becomes possible has ' been longed for as One wliieh: will • mean the • beginning of the end in a war which for the British ha, lasted nearly five years. Tin; view the coming Allied assault with a mixture of gladness, i elaef' and worry for their fighting meti. Tania Long, a member of The New York Times staff in London, cables this description of the • pre- invasion scene: "The war of ner- ves from the German side is hvaing no effect whatsoever. This is partly because the British have heard it •a11 before, partly be-. cause everyone is so busy there is no time to worry now about what the Germans may do, partly because of the British lack of im- agination, which stood them in such good stead in the. earlier and darker periods of the war. • "On the streets, in the trams ar,d buses and restaurants, it is not invasion that is the topic of conversation but such things as the tulips in Birdcage Walk and the price of lettuce. There is practically no speculation as to the date of D -Day. Londoners know it is coining and .are ,•willing to leave the date to General Eisen- hower. People preserve their nor • mal appearance. Reports from: New York appearing in B. papers, depicting the Aa�.erican re -ease as -agar/7 tzit""the trig,. 01 their chairi, are read with asitonishment and persons arriving is Britain remark with some be- wilderment on the calni normality. Except for the newspapers there Is little to remind a Londoner of flte great drama about to unfold, Railroads Blasted The blasting of railroads- went into its third week and British transportaton experts said that every railroad yard of any impor- tune in 'a 100 -mile deep stretch HONORS HEROES Photo above is the latest camera portrait of Lt. -Gen Walter Kreuger, commander of the 6th Army in the southwest Pacific, taken when he recently pinned 'a "streamer" award on the colors of the Head- quarters 1 Corps of the 6th at an advanced base. Corps was w s erten for action in defeating strong jap Forces on Papua, northern New Guinea. I of Europe from the Bay of Bis - city to -Cologne. ;had teen lift. In their judgment there was itut a • single place in this area that c•uuld now handle even iruderate- ly heavy military traffic. Trains could still run, but the systems could no longer support emer- gency mobilization and inove- itient. 1Zeconnaissaace photo - 'graphs shcnved storage and load- inn yards crated from end to end by bomb;, complicated -snitching arrangements and 'choke points" ripped up, roundhouses and heavy turntables obliterated, hundreds of pieces or rolling stock smashed or burned. The simultaneous attack on air fields in western Europe was equally methodical and tar -rang- ing. Fro'.0 the English Chan- nci to Clermont-Ferrand, in cen- ti al France, the ,.Luftwaffe's • bases and.. facilities were •being smashed. ' While runways can' be quickly restored, the damage done to parked aircraft and to service and -repair haugars • cuts Heavily into the, operational value of these fiends, :and to observers in Lon- don it seemed likely the Germans would have to rely • on more re- mote bases for their main air ac- tivity. The Fortress Garrison By the latest estimates the Ger brans are supposed to have sixty- nine divisions — 760,000 men — stationed or in reserve in Western Europe, Some of these are air forces. Fifty-nye° divisions -572,000 - men—are beieved to be in France and the Low Countries under Field Marshal General Karl von Rund- stedt, Within this command is - separate s separate field army, of nide to twelve divisions, to ' be moved wherever it is needed, probably un- der, Field Marshal General Erwin Rommel. In Norway there ars per- haps twelve divisions and in Den- mark five. Against this the Allied have in Britain forces numbered in the millions, representing British, Canadan, American and other Al- lied armies, and with countless weas pons of all kinds. More than that, there is for Ger- many the great threat in the east. All signs point to a large-scale pre- paration for a new Red Army ofe- fensive to start at the same time -u the invasion front the west. •Most +'•servers feel the train weight of eattack, will h,o.: et, -.l it....,,,.se, olalyu."Supporting this •view have en fire heavy Russian air assaults during the last ten . days on Ger matt communications,centere behind the front. Threat of Encirclement Finally there is the prospect of an Allied move in the south coincident with D -Day in the west. The Ger- mans openly predict such an attack but are as unsure of where it will "come as they are in western Eur- ope. Last week they claimed to have taken new defensive measures in southern France, central and' nor- thern Italy and in the Balkans, , Throughout this area Allied bom- bers were pounding hard at large rail centers. This encircling threat, protracted day after day, emphasizes the Nazis' problem, Not knowing the "Where, when and how much" of the Allied plan they cannot make final disposition of their defending forces. They must be prepared for a fluid situation, for diversions, feints and secondary attacks. They must be able to keep their mobility to meet the chief threats as they develop. The air attacks on their communications are designed to. prevent just that. Princess Beatrice. Princess Beatrice, ninth child of Queen Victoria, and last surviving • nnember of her generation, was 87 en• April 1.1. She is now at the former residence of the Earl of Athlone, 13rantridge Park, Sussex. It is 19 years since she married Prince Henry of Battenberg, and since his death in 1806 she has been Governor of the• Isle of Wight. Her widowed • daughter, the for - met Queen of Spain, lives abroad, and is not likely to return to Lon- don until after the war ends. 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The Fighting French are at war only with Germany and Japan. India and 'Norway arc at war only with Germany. - Brazil, India, Norway, Greece and Russia are the only United Nations not at war with Japan, The United States is at war with Albania, but. not Finland;: Great Britain with Finland, but not Albania. Thus, although the United States and Great Britain are both fighting eight out of the nine Axis Nations, there is a dif- ference in which ones. Approximately 7,000 calves were vaccinated against Bang's Disease in British Columbia during 1943. BREATH OF LIFE Girl Scout life-saving training of Mrs. Davis Evans of Chicago, saved life of her 15 -months -old daughter, Margaret, with whom she is pictured. Baby was choking with convulsions, and Mrs, Evans breathed into her mouth until in- halator squad arrived. VOICE OF 1 H E PRESS Rare Birds A centenarian says the secret of living to be 100 lies in the minding, of one's own business. And that„ of course, is what makes the ecu- tenarian virtually as . rare as 'the dodo and the great auk. —Ottawa Citizex.. Lack of Space . When we told a lady subscriber the other day we didn't have ,space to print a long story about her club's doings, she replied. ' "I don't sea why- not; you always have plenty of space for that old war and•=thol'r old politics." —Brandon Sun • Is That ;New? Equipped with the Latest acien- tific knowledge, according to a wri- ter, a 98=pound woman can throw a' 190 -pound man to his knees. What's so new about that? Hun Hides For Sala Relieved of air attacks, Malt* will soon resume the shipping of hides to Britain. The Maltese must have a lot on hand, principally of German and Italian fliers, —St. Thomas Times -journal Or 10, or 1O And, it there is, a •caetp for giv- ing the ballot to the 18:yeareold, why not at 17., when die—and she-- knows everything? . —Edmonton journal :another Green « • ,. Unless you get busy, the first thing to turn green this Summer will be your envy of the neighbor's gardens. --Kitchener hetero • And Deep • The sante slogan is appropriate for Victory Bonds and Victory Gardens ----dig down; —Stratford Beacon -Herald Do not discard the outer leaves of lettuce, cabbage, escarole, tur- nip or beet tops, They contain more healthful iron than the inner leaves. LOADING A THOUSAND POUND BOMB A one thousand pound bomb on its way to the under -carriage of a Kitty - bomber operating from an advanced airfield in Italy. y The wing to which these men belong has, in one day, operated in support of the 8th Army, 6th Army, over the beach -head south of Rome, and helped the Partisans in Yugo-slavia. REG'LAR FELLERS -Eternal Spring Problem EVERY SPRING IT's TH' SAME. PRO$LEM-- AN' I'M STutne A USUAL t SUPPOSE. jfaPla.Y GUY IS 1N -n4' SAME, pr ABOUT THIS Time OF TO' YEAR.! 'IN •nee. SPRUNG A YOUNG MAN'S KANty - WE#AT DID I TELL Y4? Ti -HERE'S NO HELP FOR IT --{'Lt. 44P FTA GET MY NERVE. UP At'' ASr HER. POINT— BLANK--IT SP..EMS TO BE TH' ONE.Y WAY, By GENE BYRNES HEY MOM! KIN 1 TAKE OFF MY HEAVY 'INTER O,)NigAWAQ1. PLOW -- CAN 1, MOM ? 'nee Mtr. P P. PM m .ry.. ,l:.....r ......�. Ate.,