HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1946-01-03, Page 2BATTLESHIP WASHINGTON ENDAN GERED BY GALE
An Atlantic gale that forced the American cruiser Augusta and the aircraft carrier Wasp into South
England for repairs has seriously endangered the 35,000 -ton U.S. battleship Washington, according to
reports from Lisbon, Portugal. The Washington, which went through the entire war from Scapa
Flow and Murmansk to the Japanese theater without a scratch, is reported in trouble off the Azores.
11 VOICE OF THE
PUSS
USEFUL FARM GADGET
Mrs. Gladys Strum, M.P., in a
recent speech, described the farm-
er's wife as "the most useful, gen-
eral purpose, labor saving device
on the farm." Young Farmers who
have not availed themselves of this
g^dgct are reminded that it usu-
ally can be had for the asking.
—Toronto Saturday Night
WHAT GRANDSON .THINKS
Grandfather cut firewood in the
timber. Walked beside the wagon
in zero weather. Carried lines
of er his shoulder and whipped his
hands around his body to keep
from freezing. Now his grandson
thinks he is roughing it if he has
to drive a sedan without a heater.
—Guelph Mercury
Maybe He'll Understand
A little patience and understand-
ing should enable returned men to
get along with civilians who have
been reading books on how to un-
derstand returned men.
—Edmonton Journal
THE VERY IDEA
It is predicted that nylons will
eventually sell for 25 cents a pair.
Yes, hut try and get a girl to wear
anything as cheap as that.
—Ottawa Citizen
STEERING COLUMN
A scientist says that a dog often
steers himself with his tail—using
it to guide his wandering bark, in
fact.
—Peterborough Examiner
Nazi's Produced
Synthetic utter..
anegg ?owder
Recent developments in the
manufacture of real and synthetic
butter in Germany may have a far-
reaching effect on Canada's export
of butter, it was revealed at a press
conference by Dr. W. H. Cools of
the National Research Council.
In one section of Germany which
he visited recently as a special Can-
adian Government investigator, Dr.
Cook examined a butter -making
machine which was small in size
but turned out high quality butter
at the rate of nearly 1,000 pounds
an hour.
Apart from this high-speed but-
ter -maker which is vastly ahead of
Canadian practice, Dr. Cook said,
the Germans had gone far in the
manufacture of a synthetic butter
or margerine from petroleum. This
product is edible and nutritious and
one plant in Germany alone made
40,000 tuns of the "ersatz" butter
every year.
Germany also had made marked
steps in the manufacture of syn-
thetic powdered eggs, Dr. Cook
said. At the Herman Goering
Foundation, no less than five types
of egg powder had been developed
for varying uses. For cooking and
baking purposes, he said, the Ger-
man powdered product had proven
even better than eggs laid by the
hen.
Field Crops' Value
Lowest 'Since 1941
Gross value of principal field
crops produced on Canadian farms
in 1945 was estimated by the Do-
minion Bureau of Statistics at $1,-
098,859,000, lowest since 1941, but
still almost double. the 1035-39
average of $583,260,000.
The 1945 total was a decrease of
X222,449,000 from the 1944 revised
f the d
et;hne
i Most o
estimate, with
dt.e to srnaller production, particd-
larly in Prairie Province grain
crops.
The 1945 wheat crop was valued
al 8326,800,000, $133,600,000 less
than the revised 1944 valae of
$460,400,000 and a reflection of
drought conditions in Saskatche-
wan and Alberta. Other principal
grain crops, oats, barley, rye and
flaxseed, showed appreciable de-
clines.
Slight . reductions were indicated
for Potato and root crops, some-
what lower production in these
cases being offset by increased
prices.. Hay and clover and alfalfa
crops, as a result of increased pro-
duction, were higher,
'Compared an a Provincial basis,
the most significant change in
value occurred in Saskatchewan,
where the decrease amounted to
$153,700,000, a reduction of 34 per-
cent from 194$.
The onl, Provinces showing in-
creases in estimated values are
Ontario, British Columbia and
Prince Edward Island.
Tuberculosis is recognized as the
Most destructive of all infectious
maladies; it causes the death of
more children and young people
than all other contagious diseases
together.
Record of Safe
Railway Travel
Last year only 12 people in all
were fatally injured on United
Kingdon Railways; . that is., one
person in 150 million carried. Only
two railway accidents incurring loss
of life occurred during the whole
y ear.
This unusually •high margin of
safety was attained despite the fact
that the war had led to a terrific
overburdening of the staff and
stock. It is to be expected that the
corresponding peacetime figures
will be even more favorable.
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This is the Navy's new Neptune patrol bomber P2V, which Navy claims is the fastest, most far-
ranging and heavily armed search plane ever devised. Built by Lockheed of Burbank, Calif., it carries
a crew of seven with sleeping accommodations and an all -electric galley, is equipped with the latest
radio -radar equipment. The "varicam tail," a mechanical device for varying the curve of the horizontal
tail surface, allows the pilot to balance a heavy load in one part of the plane and keep it in level, flight.
Javanese Rebels
Trained by Japs
Those who criticize so sharply
the despatch of small British and
Dutch forces to try and bring or-
der out of:J.Apanese-promoted up-
heaval in Java, might reflect for a
moment that the Javanese insur-
gents are no angels, says the Ot-
tawa Citizen.
An official inquiry into the
deaths of five Royal Air Force
men and 18 Indian troops who
made a crash-landing from their
aerop'.aae near Batavia a fortnight
ago, discloses that a mob of Indo-
nesians, including many women,
massacred every one of the sur-
vivors.
The details of the massacre are
too horrible to print. It is enough
tr, say that airmen's and soldier's
hands, feet ane. arras were cut off
faith swords and spears and dag-
gers while they ran the gauntlet
of a savage mob of natives an the
prison yard, Then they were de-
capitated.
These murders were the work of
a;. Indonesian secret society
known as the "Black Buffaloes,"
Japanese -trained and maintaining
their power by • sheer terrorists,
over a large part of Java.
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the embraces of lovely_ Isabel-
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quest across the world
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