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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1941-08-15, Page 3•e it ., s r m it r " -4 .4 4t _ A TGU$T 15, 1941 Mrh Years Agone interesting Mine Flogged. Frew The Huron Expoelter of FHty end Twentrily. Years Age. q (Continued from Purge 2) Varha and did much damage by twist- ing and destroying trees. In the vil- lage a buggy was caught and carried about four rods. Mr. J. Noble, of Toronto, and Miss Hattie Love, of Seaforth, are `et pres- ent guests of Mr. James Armstrong, of Varna. • Mr. Peter Tully, of McKillop, sold three handsome young mares for something over $400. Mr. Timothy Curtin, of McKillop, has built a handsome •'residence and dame rumor has it that Tim is not going to occupy it alone. "Florence G." was shipped to Ro- chester, N.Y., on Monday where she takes part in the races Feiday. She will be sent from there to Independ- ence, Indiana, where she will compete for a $5,000 prize. The public 'school at Varna is be- ing overhauled and repaired) by Mr. James Armstrong. On Tuesday- last the Rev. J. Walker, Mrs. Robinson and Miss Gibson, of Varna, left Clinton for various parts ip Manitoba. On. Friday evening last the Scots ,of Little Scotland 'and the Oaks . of Seaforth played the final lacrosse game, which was to decide the cham- pions of the town. It was seen be- fore the play had gone very far that the Scots `had the best of it and the score was' 2-1. Mr. D. McDonald re- fereed the game, while . Messrs. R. Logan and J. Weir acted as umpires. A melancholy and fatal accident oc- curred in the Township of Grey on Saturday by which Mr. Daniel Ross lost his life. Leading a young, „stal- lion by the halter, and having the rope around his hand, the animal be- gan to play and finally threw him on the .ground. The horse started tp run and he was caught in the fence and was. so badly injured he died almost instantaneously: Mr. Roderick. Grey, of McKillop, near Seaforth, who by the way is one of the best farmers in Western On - tar e, has left in this office a sample of ,white velvet chaff wheat of this year's growth. Mr. Grey sowed 70 pounds of seed and reaped. 50 bush- els and 36 pounds from one acre. CKNX — WINGHAM, 920 Kcs. 326 Metres WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Fri, Aug. 15-8.05 a.m.; Break- fastC' lub; 6 p.m., George Wade; 8, On with the Dance; 8.30, Grain's Gul- ley -Jumpers. Saturday, Aug. 16-8 ,a.m., Howard Bedford; 9.30, Kiddies' Party; 6.30 p.m., Blyth Sports; 8, Barn .Dance. Sunday,' Aug. 17-11 a.m., United Church; 12.35 p.m., Mail Bag; . 1.30, Melody Time; 6, "Gracie Fields. Monday, Aug. 18-12.30 p.m., War Savings Club; 6, George Wade; 8, Songs by Sarah; S-30, Ranch Boys. Tuesday, August 19-10.30 a.m., Church of the Air; 6.15 p.m., Howard Bedford; 8, Captains of • Industry; 8.30, Piano Ramblings. Wednesday, Aug. 20-8.05 a.m., Breakfast Club; 6 p.m., Geo. Wade; 8, Sewers Brothers; 8.30, Clark John- son-' Thursday, Aug. 21.7.45 a.m., Hymn Time; 10.30 aim., Church of. the Air; 6.30 p.m., Baseball Scoreboard. Worth should warrant welcome. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.—Johnson. r,. \, WILL KILL MORE FLIES THAN ' SEVERAL DOLIARSWORTH ',OF ANY OTHER ,FLY KILLER; 1 Oc WHY PAY MORE Beet of all fly killers. Clean, quick, sure. cheap. Ask your Drug- gist, Grocer or General Store. THE WILSON FLY PAD CO., HAMILTON, ONT. eeriear Sales Books are the best Counter Check Books made in Canada. They cost no more than ordinary books and always give satisfaction. We are agents and will be pleased to quote you on any style or quantity required. See Your Home Printer Find Ohre lfez" !. (0.44.040.0, -page l{) our experienced "bush fliers," we had a great s et, r The Ain, pbserver. Scbpol at Malton is operated by a civilian voliapanY, Dominion Skyways Training 'Ltd., Wi- der -der an arrangement somewatiat sim- ilar to those whereby Frying Clubs operate the Elementary Flying Train- ing Schools for Pilots. That enabled the R.C.A.F. to take advantage of the experience of older •Canadian pilots, and it speeded up the early stages of the British Commonwealth Air Train- ing Plan. The company looks after mainten ante of flying aircraft, buildings and .flying in general. It supplies the experienced pilots and the repair men. The R.C.A.F. takes over the ground instruction and the discipline. Squadron Leader G. W. Jacobi is the Commanding Officer. •A Specialized Job The course lasts twelve weeks. A new class comes in every month and another graduates, but there are al- ways three distinct classes at -the school at one time. The educational requirements for an Observer are higher than for a Pilot. The course is stiffer and entails. more hard work, though it undoubtedly has its share of thrills, even in Canada. The future Observer has a specialized job, and he must make no mistakes. Sometimes, those who start the terse as Pilots and fail to make the glade, are shifted to the Observers' course: At first, they are disappoint - c ,l, but Mr. Woollett says that invar- iably they are all glad "they changed before -they have ,. half -finished their enurse. The Air' Observer must learn sev- eral things, and all of them must be done well. • Rather, they must be .done perfectly. He must learn to fly out an exact course, in spite of wind and weather, that will take him where he is ordered to go. More important, he must return again and know when he gets (home. He must learn to, operate a tricky bombsight, so that his bombs find their target. And he roust learn to use a machine gun if need be. At the Malton School, he learns to navigate. Everything else is subor- dinate to that.• He does not have to worry about piloting the plane: that is done by an experienced pilot who knows Ontario as you know your own home. The Observer charts the course for 'him to steer and the Pilot carries nut those instructions to the letter. unless they may result in possible clanger to the aircraft and the crew. Apart from that, .he follows the course the student gives him, even if he knows. it is at right angles to the direction in which he ought to be going. At the end of each trip, he hands in a detailed report. It omits nothing even noting whether the. student became sick, and whether he carried out his exercises in spite of his sickness. • A Rainy Day At Malton f,H; It was raining .when I arrived at Malton, but a few planes were up. The big silver liners of the Trans- Canada and the even larger American Airlines planes were arriving at, and leaving, 'the nearby commercial air- port, and the little yellow elementary trainers from another R.C.A.F. School were in the air, but the Avro Ansons of the Observer School were being- call,ed home from the wireless room: Perhaps that wasn't entirely a dis- advantage. Mr. Woollett was able to spare: hours -to the visiting newspaper man, and when he had to keep an- other appointment, Duty Pilot Smuck acted as guide. All down one side ,of the control room were wireless sending and re- ceiving sets,. ,Two-way conversation can be carried on from anywhere in Southern Ontario. Later, I saw the wireless equipment inside the Avro Anson plane and marvelled at its compactness and efficiency. But that is not all. Recently a direction finding station has been installed. A lost aviator can send in a call for help, and when the answer goes back,; it will tell him exactly where he is and how to get back home in any kind of weather. Laid out on a large table in the centre of the room was a map of On- tario. On it was marked the exercise for the day. Colored pin's were stuck in the map at half -a -dozen placers and a black thread was wound from one, to another. This marked the course the planes would be taking that day. It was not a straight trip out and back, but had several turns and angles. The student must learn to navigate such a course accurately and he should be able to tell to the minute when he will be back at Mal ton again.. He may have travelled 300 miles or .more. &miler exercises are conducted at night. ,I W io EX.S O$l l OR eaforh a Ontario 'loon den • "HERE'S HOW," SAYS CANADIAN rite. H.''N. Norris, stationed at a -cross-roads post, as his Central Ontario infantry battalion takes up a position during practice man- oeuvres, of the grid Canadian Division, pauses a moment to show an English youngster how a tommy-gun operates. Free France On The Congo (Condensed from The Living Reader's Digest) Age in weak ol# i 1eat 1,4jKe •Fraaee for er it Halals killed the .OM ; c i`raacee'4 ,dere, l renchanen-.of alk classes tour eYor;' Part of the emrp o PAY that Petai' not only betrayed Fiancee.'but,neW is willingly handbag aver. "what is lett Meanwhile this -straggling little set, Clement, sueldenly beeome the capital of an empire, le working feverishly night and day, building encarnpmlents, assembling material, improvising equipment ,out of native resources and sometimes, it' seems, out of the steaming air. There is a. school for officers, a little West Point of Free France with well over.a hundred stu- dents, including many ,who once were cadets at St. Cyr. , Its first class al- ready has been graduated and is serv- ing at the front. There are troops, of all kinds—how many I may not say. But on the coast one encounters bronzed Norman mar- ines manning great guns. One sees sailors of patrol 'boats or destroyers that are refueling at. Douala. The uni- form of the devil-may-care `Foreign Legion is no longer a novelty on for- est trails. Negro troops are on every hand— great tall men from the Tchad in 'flaming red uniforms, and the native militia, their black faces tattooed with strange designs that indicate whether they are of the tribe of Batiki or Basoundi or Madoumi. Their camps dot the country everywhere. In the deep forests they are little straw villages like those Stanley saw when.. he searched for Livingstone. In Prazzaville they are tall cones of adobe; painted in brilliant' stripes of white and scarlet. Every married na- tive has his own little dwelling where his wife prepares his meal of manioc and papaya. Every night when the moon is full Lean hear them dancing to the tomtom in rhythm identical with the jazz of a New York might club. ', The number of troops increases each day, making it difficult to get a bed and the essential mosquito net. New buildings are hurriedly built of timber from the towering forest. This activity under a sun that burns like a blowtorch is rich testimony to the power of the human spirit. There is no machinery here, no equipment, rip money. The little shops have long since been empty. The breaking of a cheap dish becomes a calamity, for it cannot be replaced. Yet with infinite patience, with cleverness, with gaiety, castoff sewing machines are made to fashion uniforms; rifles and water bottles are conjured up somehow, and a Few more young men eagerly,go off ' - to battle. The'story of how Brazzaville, nerve center of all his activity, was seized for Free France is indicative of the aririt of its leaders. A group of French officials of the • region—chief of whom was an army doctor with the rank of general, a tall, blue-eyed Breton 'beloved of whites and natives alike—decided they would never obey the armistice; .- if necessary they would join the British to continue the fight. A few days later the appeal of Gen- eral de Gaulle came 'over the radio( efrom London. Through the,.. jungle these patriotic Frenchmen sped to the most remote outposts to rally their comrades to join him. The Gov- ernor, to crush the movement, order- ed the troops be suspected to sur- render their ammunition. The offi- cers emptied the ammunition boxes and sent them to'iieadquarters filled with stones. On the day set for the revolt De•,Gaulle soldiers surrounded the palace of the Governor and or- dered him to surrender. The Gover- nor prepared tb open fire, -but When emissaries of De Gaulle forces infordn- ed him of the real situation he capitu- lated. Without the expenditure of ev- en a blank cartridge, the Congo was saved for De Gaulle. Already Free Frenchmen there have made a beginning toward building a new and better France. Brave young women teachers are ,arriving to estab- lish schools for the children of the whites and natives. Scientists and doctors are experimenting with chem- icals to wipe out the maladies which scourge this fabulously rich region, that it may become a promised land where peaceful, intelligent individuals can fulfill their destiny. " Outside my window women have come with frenzied beating of drums to exhibit newborn twins; lying nak- On the palm -fringed river Negroes between the two pillars of British ter - glide past in a dugout, chanting as they ply their long paddles. On the shore women in fantastic costumes are talking in their curious liquid languages that rushes like a water- fall. Deep in the forest I hear the throbbing of a tomtom, .beating out its mysterious message.. This is the Congo; heart of the darkness of Afri- ca. Suddenly the sharp beat of military drums drowns the far-off throbbing. Troops march past,white soldiers with gay young faces, singing "Made - Ion." An airplane marked with the cross of Lorraine appears overhead. Here, astride the equator, France mir- aculously survives. In Paris the spirit of France is en- tombed beneath the swastika. In Vichy, the old men johf hands with their conquerors. Here in Brazza- ville, capital of "De Gaulle's Free France, brave melt, are rallying and taking oath never to return to their native land so long as a single Ger- man soldier stands on its• soil. It is stirring, it is moving—and im- portant. De Gaulle Africa is a ,vast empire, stretching from the busy At- lantic ports of Pointe Noire and Dou- ala 2,000 miles across forest and • des- ert to Egypt- It 'controls the .Tchad, keystone of an arch formed by' the British colonies fringing both coasts of the continent. Should this key- stone fall the Nazis could push down out of a Heath Robinson cartoon," make many of the repair parts out of easily obtained materials, saving more money and keeping the planes flying. Planes are overhauled in two huge hangars. y9fter so many hours flying, the Armttrong-Siddley motors are overhauled; Each Avro Anson has two of these big engines, giving a.,top speed to the altered planes of 200 miles an ,hour. At longer intervals, the whole plane is torn down and re- built. That days there was a visiting plane in one of the hangars, a huge Douglas bomber,, belonging to the American Army. A committee from the Air Corps was visiting Canadian schools and gathering information. The vis- iting bomber dwarfed the Avro An - sons, but it was somewhat older and lacked something of their sleekness. The buildings at all Air Force camps are much alike, but two things impressed me at Malton. Though. officers, civilian personnel and men all have separate mess halls, their food comes from the same central kitchen. And there is a hospital with space for 25 beds, yet it has never had a crash to handle at this school in ' 20 months, though an ambulance always stands ready, , and two crash beds are always kept warm with hot water bottles. In the men's mess hall a full-size propellor hangs on the wall, backed by a square of blue carpet used in Westminster Abbey when the King and Quail were crowned. On the Chub is a silver Avro Anson, and on• the blades are replfcks in silver of the Observer's badge, each one bearing the name of the highest ranking graduate in a class. In' the office are pietures of the graduates, and scrap books• with clippings and more pictures of students—Winston Chur- chill's nephew, the brother of a fam- ous opera star, and so on, Many of them are in Britain now; a few are dead in the battle for freedom. ritory and -take the heart of the con- tinent. The Belgians frankly admit that but for the Free French their colony- just across the Congo River would long ago have been seized by the Germans, covetous of its rubber and metals. • Moreover, the Tchad, with its form- idable Arab and black warriors,, holds a sword,against against the side of the Ger- mans and Italians in Libya. It is a dangerous sword, for the desert of Tibesti is a• weird land out of which warriors who know its mysteries sud- denly materialize, strike, and disap- pear. The Germans and Italians have felt the sting of De , Gaulle fire at Tobruk and Bengazi, at Keren and Addis Ababa, at Cufra and Murzuch. Moreover the De Gaulle African troops have provided a rallying point around which France can gather the remnants of her strength. More patriots arrive each day— rich and poor,, young and old, from Aries and Amiens, from Perpignan and Paris, from the Alps and the Pyrenees. An aged and famous sci- entist has • stolen past the German lines to make his perilous way south- ward. A simple Breton fisherman somehow bas managed to sail his own c'r'aft to, free soil. Twelve Catholic priests have laid aside their robes and serve as soldiers. Others • have come from Martinic(ue, and Madagas- car, "from Algiers and Angkor: Each man's -tale` is a saga of pa-, tience and courage, often' high melo- drama. Take Captain Dupont,•a jolly, bearded aviator, who set out from Indo-China with 20 fellow officers and men, on. bicycles, to reach a friendly frontier several hundred miles away. They lost their way. in the tingle, ran out of food. A itiger got 'one. An- other died of fever. That left 19 -- for a little while. Then there were 15, 12, 11. At last, after weeks of journeying they saw the frontier which mean safety.. But as they stole through the woods one of them stum- bled noisily. A Vichy border patrol captured all except Captain Dupont; he got -to the sea, saw an, English de- stroyer on patrol, and is now here. Then there is Corporal Gilbert, a French boy too young for the army when war began. With some soldiers he started to leave Paris as the Ger- mans were nea'Iring?"One,,of the sol- diers who had worked for the French railways guided the others to the yards where they seizeda locomotive. It' carried them until they came to a bombed bridge. They found an aban- doned automobile and begged enough gas to get a few miles farther. Then on foot to the coast, where their pool- ed cash bought a small boat from a fisherman. After five days in a heavy fog they reached Cornwall— seven more men to serve under the cross of Lorraine. The exodus from France to this Free France has become so serious that Vichy has barred all males be- tween 19 and 41 from the coastal re- gions and the frontiers. Vichy con- siders all men here traitors. Their property has been confiscated, many are under sentence of death. But they are the men 'to whom France some day will erect its monuments. Ironieally, some of them are the cons of Viehyl generals who, in court martial, sentenced De Gaulle , leaders to death. Many bear assumed names, for. obvious reasons. But young Be- cour Foch, of the famous general's family, does not. Petain denounced the youth of l+'rance, who, he said, had failed the country in.its crisis. They retort in one voice, "Tell Alnerlea It was the. Out on the edge of the runway, a long line of . Avro Ansons was drawn up, mostly yellow, but some silvery and a few camouflaged. Some of them had seen active service. They are altered for use in the school. The gun turret is removed and some of the windows taken out. Guns are not needed for protection here, and the pane gains speed and saves fuel as a result of the changes. Everywhere around the Observer School at Malton were evidences of similar economies. The oil Is all filtered and reclaimed, and when tested, 88 per cent is as good as new Ohe serious problem at all schools us ing British or American planes is the obtaining of repair parts. At Malton most of them are manufactured in a little workshop. A mechanical gen- ius, and a small staff, using machines of their own designing, 'Ohlch look, vts the bisee'ter Put it, "like spinetlti.ng NEXT WEEK—"Bombing and Gun- nery School At /tirade." ab', ay$e 0010 04, the XFtlitY0 snake her Iias kille0.4% de' t1W `11 ultte oa*lte" said, to Shope Flt+ ,secoader Black clottda are ..:erin; overhead for the daily stoe ThQ•; room is stilling. I repot} for p4)r •4O,PA' ine. This is the Congo, the Cleary ok", darkness. , . To the beat of mi'iitary drus, young French soldiers. March pact with the flag of the gross of Lorraine flying'proudly, 'I see the light in -their faces.. In far-off France' men talk., .of helping their country's invaders. Here they talk only of how to defeat them. This is ne longer the heart of dark- ness. This cis the Congo, the cradle of Neee France. 01‘44, daY' eYeix}> by wotiam F miles' -east o • the ,car into fence, the 019 0*, ti4T41 „ ed and: 1.he ga>lal'ine d;allli out. Mr. Thiel - had A fill). t Hing' to attend thealli[el 1re]Il oli, the Blight accident nae idiVel in own car imposslbie. -'llfit,ctell: 1>kt cote. Pavement Being Repaired No. 8 Highway from Clinton to Goderich is undergoing repairs. The highway is half blocked at several points, where new stretches of high- way are being put in.—Blyth Stand- ard. COT COARS, E FOR rim_ ad* OLD, CUT FINE _FOR 'CIGARETTES The March of Salience TELEPHONE RESEARCH mos HARD OF HEARING A new and improved audiphone —the "orthotronic"—has recently been designed by Bell Telephone Laboratories: Utilizing three midget vacuum tubes, this., new hearing aid gives ' powerful am- plification without distortion over a very broad range of tones. A tone discriminator suppresses low-pitched background noises, making speech clearer. The vol- ume can be turned up without in- troducing sudden blasts from loud sounds. Stylish, compact, durable, with long battery life, it sets a new standard of excellence in its field. Early hearing aids were of the trumpet or the sounding board type, which were helpful but which distorted sound badly. When the telephone was invented, partially Beat persons found it an "aid" to 'hearing, and often used it 'in. preference to direct conversations. This fact suggest- ed the use of "portable tele- phones" as hearing aids, and the first practical set of this type was produced about 1900. When Bell Telephone Labora- tories developed the audiometer, it became possible to .obtain a more exact knowledge of hearing impairments. Through an ear- phone, a patient listens' to "tones" of gradually decreasing volume until he can hear them no longer. By this method, the extent of his hearing loss can be measured. With the audiometer, the widest survey of hearing ever made was conducted at the Bell System exhibits in the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs. More than 750,000 visitors, aged from 10 to 60 years, took these tents. Results of this survey in- dicate that only one out of every 400, persons has hearing impair- ments that interfere with the use of the telephone, one out of 125 has difficulty in hearing face-to- face conversation, and one in 25 has trouble in hearing in an audi- torium, Women generally hear higher tones better than men, who excel in the lower range, and as hearing deteriorates with age, this difference between the sexes is accentuated. The survey could find no indication Of hearing "fatigue" toward the end of the day, although loud sounds tend to deaden the hearing for short periods. Noise has a "masking" effect on hearing, and low or high-pitched noise interferes less with conversation than noise hav- ing a medium pitch of 800 to 1,600 vibrations a second. To assist the hard of hearing, the audiphone was developed. In the simplest type, a very small microphone attached to the user's coat lapel picks up the sounds, which are then amplified (if ne- cessary) and transmitted to a receiver inserted in the ear. The receiver is specially moulded to fit the individual's ear. In cases where there is an obstruction in- side the ear, the receiver consists of a vibrating plate pressed against the head on the mastoid bone,- through which the vibra- tions are carried to the 'auditory nerve. Group audiphones are used in churches and' auditoriums. Although .the telephope aids most persons who are hard of hearing, some with very severe impairment require special equip- ment for telephone talking. A small box installed beside the tele- phone is provided with a switch), by means of which the user can amplify sounds coming over the telephone to any extent required. A small auxiliary receiver may also be obtained, and with a re- ceiver over each ear, the user can converse comfortably innoisy locations. For persons who can- not hear the ordinary telephone bell, special gongs and visual. lamp signals are available. Here is an interesting example of the way research in the tele- phone field has led to develop- ments in other fields. These, in turn, have helped to provide a broader and more efficient tele- phone service. LNo. 9 of a series prepared by H. G. Owen, c/ the Bell Telephone Company of Canada" 67.E IU MEMBER: the liaises* you drive, the atone floss • save! Gas burned up while standlaq still totals a • staggering Indianola. So nbv'er 'lettve your car , -- even for . a 'few whitings —Wachs )h i otbx ruining. It i japed tis lost to s+arit i ,it :,iottand sow* gasolit►ii: t llsrnoibez lour 8O/5O 7l if tlgrat don't lot your Motet i81fo. VICTOR ,Y !