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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1940-04-25, Page 6NEWS PARADE The battle for control of the North Sea and of Europe entered its second week with the fate el in Scandinavia still hangingthe balance. The important port rt an d railhead of Narvik was in British hand;, and Allied forces were: landing at a number of coastal points in northern Norway, but Denmark was gone; southernN Nor- waywaswas fast falling under Ger- swastika, with the invading; Ger- mans using the same blitzkrieg tactics so devastating to Poland --Berlin insisted that the portion of Norway necessary to assure the success of the German mission was firmly in Nazi hands. Swed- en's dilemma meanwhile had ach- ieved the nightmare stage—athe e least, the country could exp ect t be encircled; at the worst, it fac- ed becoming a main battleground in the new and fiercer European conflict. The Navy In Action The one ray of hope that the tide might be turned against Hit- ler in Scandinavia was the agg t - Sive new policy of the British War Cabinet. Here was action at last, meeting action. The brilliance of the Skagerrak, l vy in the battle of the when one-third of the German fleet was reported Junk; the capture of Narvik; the laying of British nines in the Bal- tic which could ymean the cutting- off tin o off of GermanYs supply lines ;the army in Norway gave ample reason for belief that Hitler's lat- eet. yenture might yet and in frus- •ratiori, • { A Spreading Conflict The extension of the area of eon'tbat to Scandinavia did not necessarily mean that the war ,mould henceforth be confined to The north. On the other hand, last week the ...onfiict gave new evi- dence of spreading east, west, and south, to bring more neutral The na- tions within its scope warning spee.:h of a high Italian authority, eonpled with Italian naval manoeuvres off the Dode- canese islands in the Medit rrans ean, presaged that Italy might soon be in the war • • , Allied fleet movements were reported de the -vicinity of Salonika, a likely spot from which Britain and France might jump off into any Balkan war . .. The lid ap- gteared to be off in the Balkan, too, with Germany making fur- ther economic demands on Ru- mania, Yugoslavia and Hungary, and seeking to police the Danube. aegion from the BlackSea Bart of the German border . • ' neon a Nazi plot to kidnap Q Wil- helmina and Crown Princess Jul- iana of Holland linked up growing fears that the Low Coun- tries were shortly to be invaded ud by the German armies . in Berlin (wired New York Times' correspondent Brooks Peters) the belief persisted that the final de- cision in this war must come on the Western Front, and that steps designed to force it might come very shortly .. , In Canada the home front was quiet. Prime Minister Mackenzie Ring was off on a brief holiday in the States, incidentally calling on President Roosevelt Ot- tawa was preparing for the open- ing of the House May 16, expect- ing a session which would deal chiefly with the war, secondarily with unemployment insurance Spring was coming to Ontario and farmers were getting ready once more to go out on the land. , Problem for North Amentia With Hitler In Denmark, ��`� Greenland Presents New "r a s aeereeece VOICE PRESSOF min RADIO, PHONE NUISANCES Why be so particular in shoo-ing peddlers from your door when you let them in. on the telephone and radio? -- lirandan Sun. EXPENSIVE ENDORSEMENT The election coat Canada $3,000,- 000. 3,000;000. That is a lot of Money to pay for getting back what we had be. fore. • - Kitchener Record, ONTARIO HOTELS A survey shows that only 28 out of 1,185 hotels in Ontario are fire - idea, proof. Not a very conorting iea for the travelling public, King- ston Whig -Standard. PAMPER YOUR LAWN This is the time of year when delivery boys and others on bi- cycles should keep off lawns. A little carelessness causes a great deal of damage to the wet soil and tender grass blades. — St, Thomas Times -Journal. of the, war will have to• be decided oe id siat north Whthe eth- er countries which throw their i °doin with r the durationranY will forfeit their Danrshsp possessions. S 1e n of cl the forfeitureewill conflict. pee Britis oh onve y occupied the Faroe Isla : Scotia of the eladhas nounsh have secession government. , another boats are posseeen s here and Iceland has announced its ire tion off the Canadian rule. er tint. fishing boaatstoucl ed natural ,h , wScotlandprovince is wealthy ini1 the probably Seoresbysurrddministered n Greenland. This immense Arctic p' resources. The mines, discovered first last winter at Steep Rock Lake in Northern Ontario, were estimated to contain about 100,000,000 tons of the best ore, containing very little phosphorous and sulphur. OF TEE, REST ORS Some time ago hematite was found on the south shore of the lake, but the deposit was detach- ed. Then last winter, under the leadership of Dr. A. A. Brant, the scientific party used special in- struments whish enable the in- vestigator to determine the mag- netic properties of rocks, their el- ectrical resistance and their pull of gravity. Operations are carried on during the winter because the ice on the lake makes a steady base for the instruments. The exact geological structure of the bottom of the lake, to a depth of about 2,000 feet was de- termined. Dr. Brant indicated where test drills should be made through the ice and hematite was drawn to the surface. Gutt,ening QN�RRIO UTDOORS Sy VIC BAKER one to keep the hoe going all Sum- mer --far from it. But they do re- quest that the garden be dug once thoroughly first thing in ethe Spring, then cultivated once r ser twice afterwards. With p' i tools, the work need be no more than healthy exercise, For the purpose there is nothing better than a little "three or five fing- ered c.'ultivator or a Dutch hoe. Either of ehese implements will make short work of a vegetable or flower garden. Cultivation serves a double purpose, it keeps down weeds and it conserves moisture. Lakes Expect Busy Season Feed The Lawn. No garden is complete without a lawn and the richer, greener and softer that lawn is, the better the whole picture. The average person forgets that grass is an ordinary garden plant requiring food and caete est as much as flowers or u g as im- Seed selection is also j - portant. ,Good lawns are produc- ed rim- portant. ed from top quality, packaged lawn grass mixtures, which con- tain proper proportions of the finer permanent grasses. Seed should be sown liberally and th Rollinge ground fertilized.gniaine. are Spring and watering also advisable. Sometimes tree roots work up towards the surface simply be- cause there is watertherertg d none beneath. Heavy lawns once a week rather ethan tint light daily sprinkles will pT this danger and will also be best for the lawn. itself. This treatment will k egaing ns ass a rich, dark green and keep outro fast enough to the weeds. Patches of the latter in old lawns are usually a sure sign that soil is wearing out and needs fertilizing. In hot weather grass should not be cut as short as of- ten as in the Spring and Fall. Speedy Vegetables Are Ter Tender vegetables are quickly grown. A check by dry weather or anything else invariably causes woodiness. To eliminate suchdaen - ger, experienced mrkgarden- - with ers push their plants frequent applications of commer- cial fertilizer. This must be ap- plied ,.'arefully so as to be close to but not actually touching tens or roots. Cultivation Is Vital and wide from the planning :i intin.g no early gardening job ':pares with cul- .:t„t. Speckled Trout Season Extended Opening of the Ontario spectk- led trout season has been tad Hon. nc- ed from May 1 to Ap Harry Nixon, provincial minister. • of game and fisheries, announc- es. "May 1 :s on a Wednesday and by advancing the season to the preceding Saturday, we will be able to give anglers a little break over the week -end," he said. "We expect it to be an exceptionally , good season. There was a _` tra- menriout alit:bution of sizer} tr)t) der ng the late fail." Cargo Ships on Great Lakes Are Moving Out of Their Res- pective Docks Hundreds of Great Lakes cargo vessels, trim and ready for one of the busiest seasons in their his- tory, are once more riding at their moorings in a score of lake 'and ri- ver ports, free of the ice which has locked them in position during the winter. g official opening date Following for navigation April 15th, they are moving out of their respective docks to take on their heavy loads of wheat and ore, automobiles, package freight, lumber and the various products of factories turn- ing out war materials. OLD VESSELS MADE TRIM Every possible step has been ta- ken to insure the maximum enum- ber of ships being arge sums and a good part of theave spent le winter months reconditioning vessels that hate not moved for years. SCOUTING Boy Scout. of Sudbury, Ont., recently aided in counting traffic arterialitinigconnectionways dtlg with a the city, town planning survey. The Boy Scout junior firemen of ICentville N. S., had their "bap- tismal fire” when they helpedthe senior firemen battle a winter the blaze that partially destroyed Iientville ignited Church. The Sunagadh Boy Scouts As- sociation of India is carrying on a competition to inspire the Scouts of the state to concentrate upon village uplift activities. The work y thein differentes l�ractical � village work by troops in education, in demonstra- ting healthy village activities and attacking in a practical way the problems of village sanitation. Ontario Iron Being Assayed Members of, Physics D+ ear t meet J. of T, Are Steep Bock Lake levesiigai- mg Rich Deposits lion ore ,i, },oche which are tee ;•oaed to i3O among the bobs"t fir, ihp world ate beim, investigated ,nembc ,' : u; this Physics De- :;I:iniettt fr1' 111( 17'ftit`c')' ity of To - !nit). Movies Teach R.A.F. Skyhawks p t v Numerous public service activ- ities of the Boy Scouts of India are similar to those of the Scouts of •Canada. At the great annual festival at the Mahankali Temple the Secunderabad Scouts gave particular attention to first aid and the finding of lost children. Altogether 16 lost children cases were dealt with and many minor injuries were treated by the Scout Ambulance Division. e CHEAP BUILDING Of all the building trades in C m- ade, character -building seems to be the lowest paid, According to fig- ures presented to the OtnariO Se- condary Schools convention, 13,000 of the 64,000 teachers in the coun- try's public school systems receiv- ed less than $10 a week in 1938, with but slight improvement since. -- Ottawa Citizen. * The seven boys of a Lone Scout Patrol at Steinbach, Manitoba, are operating a free library for the people of that little country community. The library is located in the home of two of the Scouts who are brothers. Incan Empire Totalitarian $loa SENDS 300 CIGARETTES or 1 Ib, Tobacco/1/4— BRIER SMOltlt,l4 ?, or any MACDONAL ' Y F NECaCUT � �# S (with papers) to Soldier in Great Britain ar Prance, Mail Order and Remittance to OVERSEAS DEpARTMEtaT :r: W. C. MACDONALD INC., P iiox 7929, Place d'Ar 94, Montreal, This otter subject to any change In Government Ret:ulatiens' 3%3f,.: Guard Secrets, Farmers Urged Quit telling everybody all your business secrets", farmers were advised by R. A. Stewart., presi- dent of the Barrie Tanning Com- pany. He was speaking at the luncheon of the Ontario Chamber of Agriculture. "If there is overprL.i:a:tion of some farm commodity, everybody has access to the statist.e show- ing that," he said. "The millers and other interests can thus take advantage of the over -production, to the disadvantage of the farm - 1 everybody Business sdoesn't n g. I"arm e rs what it'either." shouldn't, To see a totalitarian state from start to finish turn back all the atwAnleto riea,istory declaresdtake a look Science Ser- vice, comparatively Incan Indians, �• small group, conquered tribe after tribe of Indians over a huge area of South America and set up a rigid system to control life down to such matters as what people might wear, where they might live, whom they might marry, and what they mat do for a living. It sounds very ern. • SPIES UPON SPIES Incas moved subject and o lesforall about, placing new gn groups among those et trained loy- alty. An official watched every -ten. households. Higher officials watch- ed them in turn. All true to totali- tarian otals tarian form. Speaking of this prehistoric Incan Empire -- not modern Germany or RusSia — Dr. Edwin M. Loeb of the University of California, once said that even an individual's very "expres- sion of joy or sorrow, nay, ed utterances m matters nd ot timporta importance etoeem- the publie weal." They Learn Their Mistakes From Films Shot During Act- ual Aerial Dog Fights Exams Aren't Sole Standard The Test of A School is the Type of Citizens It Produces, Ottawa Educationist Believes Dr. Florence S. Dunlop, supervis- or ot auxiliary classes and psychol- ogist of public schools, Ottawa, captivated the large gathering of British fliers are learning fight -n men and women who attended the ing tactics from action Tams taken 21st banquet of the Ontario Federa- enemyenry dogifights in the air against tion Home and School Association. Oaircraft. Dr. Dunlop spoke on the "Handl- tacking such film, taken from the at- capped Child." tacking British machine, shows the ppe Do what you can to break down interception and shooting down o.. the false social notion that only a German raider. children who pass examinations and The device consists of a ilia tn- o on to university are the worth- pictuflghter camera lined up wi$liophe S fighter pilot's eight guns. It,, open• while citizens; also to encourage a ates automaticallyets when the triacggn' standard which will appraise a button sets the eight guns in action. ta�ue i, but by the t re st'oothwhf es at - c t• 'Ween the , the gakss his finger off izens it produces," she urged, par the trigger, the guns s to firing pica The combined help of g and the camera stops taking p ents and teachers and access to tyres, It operates with every burst plenty of the right kind ot reading cation of fire. material are necessary The Shaw only arts about a mfg ute. 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