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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1942-01-16, Page 7__... LEGAL L E Rr1):wBEi b ,B . 190 Darrlater 'and Solicitor SEAFORTH - TEL. 173 Attendance in Brussels Wednesday and Saturday. 12-86 McCONNELL & HAYS Barristers, ,Solicitors, Etc. Patrick D. McConnell - H. Glenn Hays SEAPORTS, ONT. Telephone 174 3698- K.. L McLEAN Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. SEAPORTS - - ONiTARIO Branch Office - Hensall Hensel' Seaforth Phone 113 • Phone 173, MEDICAL , SEAFORTH 'CLINIC DR. E. A. MoMASTgR; M.B. Graduate of University of Toronto PAUL L. BRADY, M.D. Graduate of University of Toronto The Clinic is fully equipped with complete and modern X-ray and other up:to-date diagnostic and therapeutics equipment. • Dr. F. J. I,. Forster, Specialist In diseases of the ear, eye, nose and throat, will be at the Clinic the first Tuesday in every month from 3 to 6 bice Well -Baby Clinic will be held on the second and last Thursday in every month from 1, to 2 P.m 8687 JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon IN DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE, Phone 5-W - - Seaforth TIN -W. STAPLETON, B.A-, MW. Physician and Surgeon ' Successor to Dr. W. C. Sproat Phone 90-W - Seaforth DR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear; Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthal-. n•ei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's -Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos pital, Londirn, Eng; At COMMERCIAL • HOTEL, .SEAFORTH, THIRD WED- NESDAY ineach month, from 2 p•m, to,, 4.30 p.m.; also at Seaforth ,Clime lirst Tuesday of ' each month. 53 Waterloo Street South, Stratford,. 12-37 AUCTIONEERS • '°PiAROLD, JACKSON, Specialist in Farm and F,iousehold ;Sales. Licensed in Huron arid Perth Coun- ties. Prices reasonable;+••. satisfaction guaranteed. - Fbe information, etc., write or phone Harcild Jackson, 12 on 658, Seaforth; R.R.• 1, Brumfield. 3768 - HAROLD DALE • 'Licensed Auctioneer Specialist- in 'farm and .household sales. Prices reasonable. For dates and information, write Harold Dale, Siaforth;or..apply at The Expositor ('ifflce- f . EDWARD W. ELLIOTT.' Licensed.'Auetioneet- For Huron . Correspondence promptly answered, to arrangements can b•e made for Sales Date, at The Huron: Exposi- tor, Seaforth,, or by calling Phone 203, Clinton. Charges moderate 'and satin faction guaranteed - 3829 -62 LONDON and WINGHAM NORTH ' A.M. Exeter • - ' ' 10.34 Hensall ,, t; 10.46 liippen, • 10.52 Bruceileld 11.00 Clinton - 11.47 SOUTH P.M. - Clinton 3.08 Brucefield 3.28 Kippen 3:38, Hensall , 3.45 Exeter 1'.,., 3.53. t,,„ C.N.R. TIME ' TABLE EAST A.M. P.M, Glod•erich- ..........:. 6.15° • 2.30 Hohnesville 6.31 2.4E Clinton 6.43 3.00- Seaforth - 6.59 ' 3.22 St. Columban - 7:05 3.23 Dublin 7.12 3.29 Mitchell 7.24 3.41 1Mitohell 11.06 9.28 Dublin 11.14 9.36 Seaforth ' ' , 11.30 9.47` ;Clinton •11.45 10.00 Cod'grleh . 12.05 10.25 WEST C.P.R. TIME TABLE EAST P.M. Goderich 4.20 Menset .., 'c` ..,• , • 4.24 McC1hee4,32 Auburin'4.42 1 yth ; , - • 4.52 'Walton - '6.0`5 MeNatight ,. 5.25 Taconite • ' 9.00 -WEST Toronto Me/4411g1t ...::,e.:'eV •r Warton Binh Meat* et • •••Yf.•.Pd✓.•Y Ytk-i^► e4Giro 0.$0• • A.M. 8.80 12.03. 12.19 1228 i 2140 4.40 'tl 55 CHAPTf' R IX SYNOPSIS Harley Longstreet, broker, dies on a, trolley car 'from poison scratched into his hand by a needle -pierced cork in his pock- et. He was taking a party of friends, In celebratioe of his en- • gagement to Cherry Browne, an actress,- to his West Englewood home, His partner DeWitt, De- WItt'sl e-ife Fern and his daugh- ter Jeanne with her dance, young Christopher,;.Lord, Cherry's va`<i:de- vine friend Pollux, Ahearn, friend of DeWitt, Imperiale, middle-ag-. • ed Latin and Michael , Collins,. brawny Irishman make up the group. District Attorney Bruno and Inspector Thumm, aided by Drury Lane, retired Shakespear- ean actor, investigate. Each mem- ber of this party seems .to have sortie ' grievance against Long - Street but Thumm and . Bruno ' think DeWitt guilty. Longstreet had.•had an -affair with Fern .De- ' Witt and he had a sinister hold on DeWitt. Lane declares he • knows the murderer, • but identi- fies him only as Mr. X. Later a • man is • murdered on a ferryboat while Bruno, Thumm and Lane are waiting to meet the writer of an anonymous letter. DeWitt, whom they meet there by chance, joins them. The murdered..man is Coiitiffbfor Wood of the fetal tree, ley. Evidently it was he who had `written the anonymous note. Lane learns that Felipe Maquinchao of Urquay are staying at DeWitt's house. Quacey, Lane's attendant, investigates. DeWitt admits he and Longstreet made their for-. tunes miningin Uruguay, but re- fuses further information. DeWitt is tried for .Wood's murder, but , the defense brings out the fact , that . he eeuld not have murdered .' ' Wood and pushed his large body overboard without disturbing "a badly cut finger which several witnesses remember seeing that night. It was Lane wino pointed • out this line of defense to De- -Witt's attorney. "That was 'a,,... remarkable align- m'e'nt .of, facts,, Mr. Lane. Remark, able."- DeWitt's sharp eyes fluttered. "Yet perfectly ; obviqus-" "Not so obvious." ',Dewitt sighed happily. "You Can't know how hon- ored I am by your- presence. I know how few - public appearances' you mane," "Tole," smiled Lane, "but after elf. beside the point, Mr. DeWitt. You' see I'm afraid my presence is net en- tirely induced, bythe earnestness of your invitation. • It 'occurred to me that you might have...something to tell me." •• "But I can't say 'anything now• It's led, and. said to the clerk: "Six sin gle-trip tickets to West Englewood please." "There are seven of us, John," pro tested Ahearn. , "I know, but I • have a fifty -tri book.". Then• he said dryly: "I sup pose I should silo the State for th value of my old trip -book. It expir ed while I was-" "He stopped and added abruptly: "Let me have a new fifty -trip book, too." DeWitt tucked the six single tickets and the trip -book into the upper left pocket of his yest as he and hie party walked down the long cogcrete plat- form. The last car 'was tlara,,k, and they boarded the second car from the end. •They split into two groups: Jeaane, Lord and ),mperiale -sat well forward in the coach, chattering; DeWitt, Lane, Brooks and Ahearn took places nearer the"center•, in facing seats. A tall burly"'man, hat pulled low over his eyes, face white .and pinch- ed, had entered the car from the for- ward end.. He lurched over to the - four conversing men and glowered at DeWitt. .'..---- • Lane glanced up as Brooks said, "You're drunk, Collins. What do you Want?" ,"Not talking to you, shyster," said Collins' in a thick voice. His eyes focused with difficulty on DeWitt, like -to see' you alone." He pushed his hat back on his- head; endeavor- ing to smile..... "Now, look here, Collins," said De- Witt. "I've told you repeatedly I can't do anything for you, You know wby, and you're"making yourself very disagreeable. - Can't. you a• see that you're interrupting a privat. party?" Collins' red -rimmed eyes became teary. "Listen, DeWitt," he mutter- ed, "you've got to let me talk to you. It's -it's Ce.,or death-" .DeWitt -.rose with 't` sigh, excused himself; and the tWo men, DeWitt with bent head,' Collins speaking rap- idly, 'violently, gesticulating, pleading, peering into DeWitt's averted• face -- walked toward the rear" df the car. DeWitt suddenly left Collins and re- turned to his three companions. The broker put hishand into .li's upper ' left vest-pocket, took out °th,o siti 'single tickets, leaving the new trip -book in the pocketoity,gsy,e them to Ahearn.. "Here 'you are, I don't knoar hew long this pest will take. Conductor will get me later." DeWitt retraced his 'steps to where Collins stood in an attitude of dejec- tion. They passed through the door- way to th'rear platform, where in- distii ctly visible for a moment, then the 'three men saw them cross over to stand on the front platform of the last, dim car, passing from view. At this moment' the conductor on - Bred from the forward door, begin - ling to collect and punish tickets. Lord •eferred the conductai''•fo them, look - ng around and seething -surprised at DeWitt's absence. The conductor 'an-• reached': Ahearn offered him the ;ix ickets, etpiaining there Was anot or tan in the party who had,Tstepped out t motnent and would be back short: Witt's .abstracted. eyes there was a 1Y. ` vision. He wasestare, of.Fern DeWitt. The conductor moved' up the car. Lane' felt certain that, in his quiet The .three men engaged in devil - head a'biMptly, sucked le his- -breath To.the left of the door was the u ual 'cubicle found at the entrance o - day -coaches. On the seat opposit the front wall, head on breast, wa p the figure of John DeWitt. Lane's eyes narrowed, "DeWitt: o he said in a steely voice, shakin - the' quiet figure. : The head rolle alightly, bringing into view the blain eyes of a corpse. Lane crouched and his hand ,hovet ed about the man's heart: He straight ened up, rubbed his fingers togethe and backed out of the compartment "There's blood on my hand," he' said / Please :i cep that door open, ]VIr Brooks; we need light.' At least on til we can get someone to turn U the proper switch." He stepped pas Ahearn and Brooks to • the platform "Do not touch hi l ither of you,' he said sharply. • • Looking, overhead, Lane pulled th emergency signal -cord•., . With a grind ing of brakes the train Jerked to a stop. Ahearn and Brooks clutched at each other to keep from falling. Lane stepped across the car punc- tion and opened the doer to ,the car in which they had beers. seated. Th'e door .at'lthe opposite end burst open and two conductors ran up the• aisle. Instantly the passengers sensed something wrong. Jeanne and. Lord looked up, startled; Imperiale got to his feet, a questioning look on his face. . ,.. - Who- --ptillesl that emergency?" cried the ,. first conductor, a small choleric man. Lane said in a low voice: "There has been a serious accident. Please come back here with me." Jeanne, Lord;" -and Imperiale had run toward 'them; the otherpassengers thronged about,." asking bewildered .questions. "Mr. Lord, take Miss peWitt back to her seat. Mr.' Imperiale, you might stay here also.!', . Lane looked signift- cantly. at Lord; the youlig man paled, then forcibly conducted the bewilder- ed girl back through' the car. The second., conductor, a tall heavy man, began to push the,,.crowding- passen- gers. "Back to your seats;" Lane, accompanied liy:the two eon - {lectors, returned to the Tear car. One 'of the- conductors manipulated a switch. and the hitherto dint[ coach sprang -into clear' view. The smaller and elder conductor edged into the compartment pointed to the left • breast of the. dead man. "Bullet-hole!"'`']ie -exclaimed. "Mur- der , ." He straightened, up. "Well, I'm senior conductor on . this train, and the law. says I'm in 'charge in any emergency , . ." "Look here," broke in Brooks, "this is Mr•: ,Drury Lane, end. he has been helping on. the' Longstreet and Wood murders. You must . have read about' them. This dead man'- is, John De- Witt, Longstreet's partner!" "You don't say," exclaimed the con- ducter. Tie. looked doubtftlily at De- Witt's ° ' half -hidden face. Theo he brightened. "Come to think of it. tie does look familiar. peen taking this train a, long , time. Okay, Mr, Lane. What do you want us to do?" "Make sus -e that all doors. and ev- en" windows are kept-. locked 'aril guarded, at once.'" Instruct the en- gineer to run this train to the near- tetstation-" , • "There's 'Teaneck, next stop- along he line,'' volunteered the tall con- ductor. "' "Whatever -it is," continued Lane.' "make ail the speed you. can. Arrano.ra to call the New York police-inspec- tor:T,'humm, either at headquarters or his home -and Dist �. nay Bruno of New York County, 1 os- •sibie. Also secure ' wahatev ity is necessary.to shunt this trt off the main track into a',giitlig i�L• Teaneck." "Ahearn. as DeWitt's beet, friend, it will' be yottrztiMpleasant duty t;i break•the news .to his daughter," said Lane. Ahearn stiffened, moistened' ,hi s UPS, but left. the .ear without l ivoi is The train, lights blazing, lay like :n helpless, caterpillar 'in the darkness of the ,dist, 'sid'ing. The station it, self was alive with scurrying figure;, A roaring automobile rushed our of the nightand soon Thunim, Bruno and 1313. ,Schilling were in the rearcar. . "-Murdered, hey?" Thumm looked at. Lane. "How the devil did this .hau- pen.?" Lane moved slightly. "I shall nev- a forgive myself, Inspector . carved features had aged. Dr. Schilling dropped to his knees' beside the body. "Plop-through-iriscoat, vest, shirt, undershirt and heart. Clean wound, all• right," he announc- ed. "Dead about an hour, I'd say." He consulted his wristwatch, than felt the muscle; of the dead arms and legs. "Yep, died about 12:30. May - ire a few minutes before." Then he tittered lin exclamation and held up the left hand of the corpse. "Look at these fingers." They looked, The middle finger was twined tightly bier the forefinger in a peculiar sign, the thumb and remaining -two • fingeas curvedinward in death.-', • "What the devil- ." growled unTlrtiriiaia, Bro Tient lower, "It's, impossible," he erled, "'Phis isn't the Middle Ag- ee- that'e the ; prote'otionefigil ageinst the '60 .'060. 60 •rtcofiltiwl-d •, C n x. s - f e 9 g d k r t a 't a long sordid story, and I don't waht i to spell 'your evening -or my .own. 1 It's a special sort of night for me. ; I've esdaped ti horrible thing. Jeanne t --my daughter . ." and Lane nota- 1 ded slowly. 'Behind the mirror of De- . r 4 ;Mho head rolled aligptip, bringing tete pigw 1419.1)431k eyes of itelMlara uncomplaining way, DeWitt stilll lov- ed the woman who had betrayed him. "Won't' you come down with the rest• of my Tract tonight?" the broker said. 'We're al oing out, to my place in. West Engle ood-I've arranged a little celebration -if you don't care to Stay for the .week -end I'll make any further arrangements you may please to comm-anrI. Brooks le staying the night, and we can accommodate you as well as him with linen :"' He added in quite another tone: "To- morrow morning we -can have to our- selves. And then I will tell you - what by some magical quality b"f in- tuitibn ycltt expected me to tell you .tottigh t," - Lane planed his hand lightly on the s,}rreir "man's eboulder; ` "I fiuite • un - d rstand. Forget everything - until tomorrow morning," At a few minutes- after mideiglit the DeWitt party entered the West Shore Railroad terminus in Weehaw- ken. "Well, our train doesn't leave tin£il" 12:13,v he said cheerfully, and step-, Ped • to the ,racket ivinder*. Ahearn �' grasiped De'Witt's lrtfn. "dere, Johti,, let • me." .D&Witt chuck. tory•cenversation. Twice Lane peer- ed backward; but neither DeWitt nor Collins was visible. The local staggered to a stop at Bogota, a suburb of Hackervsack, then started again. Lane -glanced•'•' t" -°'kris watch, saw it was 12:36 and got to his feet so suddenly th tt Brooks .ut- tered a grunt, "Please excuse mss, Mr. Brooks," Ire said. "Perhaps my nerves. are 'ragged, but I am disturb- ed by the failure . of DeWitt t6 re- turn." "You think there's s'omet.hilg Wrong?" Brooks :-strode • up the aisle with Lane. "Come along, Ahearn." They went to the rear door of their car. There Was , no- one on the plat- form. They looked at each otiaer as Lane went fiver and peered through the 'glass into the dim rearcar. It was evidently an extra coac,h being hauled to the end of the line Eor an early morning rush, -His. jaw harden- ed, and he said distinctly: "I am go- iriif' 111 hbre,- gibrx'°iletneu. 1Vtr'. raob1 4, Will you please •hold the '[lit' open? 'there's very little light." [tor a niettent the three men stood •evitui'trting. ''paten, -Late turned 'lie aking snow Rcillers Day and night shifts are now work-- irg at the plant of the Dominion Road Machinery Co„ rushingcomixletion of snow rollers for the .Degartment of Transport, the order for which has been held up from time to time' by the tardy arrival of steel. Sufficient material to complete the cinder isnow, on hand. The snow rollers, or sets 1 of rollers, are now being" made, as- 'isembled and shipped at the rate of Iwo every three days.. One freight ear is required. to ship one gang of three, roller's, with frame. Each .rol- ler is ten feet long and -fifty-six inches in diameter, and each gang of rollers weighs six tons. 'Assembled in trian- gular fashion, the two rear rollers y6lil�lttly,. overlap whole,. nu1h ii by a caterpal path abptrt twenty five feet ip010:19e. has i� oxo lids[ ,axle runways net ,eoiy Are• on laoal but also maks the 440 10. whiter; "landing= stripe for atriiliteee. So faun eight coatplete units of `rollers have'' been shipped tq,airports across Gale, ada. All told, fifty -few WAS are tq be manufactured here.---Godericlt Sig- nal -Star. A 'little buoy in an American school refused to seer, thinking„ it • beneath the dignity of a l0;year.old Mian. "George Washington sewed," 'said the principal, taking it for granted that a soldier must, "arid dp you cote eider -yourself better than George Washington?" • '.1,don't know; time will tell,' said the boy seriously, AMiDi P1 M', +TIM�� it P • . , , C.O`7Na►6.RiiINTltf LOi T ip ��IIo•F..ytp �eha y5ti�191�- �c' Shopping District, Wholesa% House, TRte¢.t , et'N .... of Ever' Dcaomwisgoa A M. Powse-r.. ptgidgat IIIIIIi11111T7i11111tilligt1111th[llllfi)f�114RCfilillhtliii11J1tliii'11ttI1Hli#h,} NIIIiII 111111110111P1010111P110111P10 peull 1iq..eea,re. 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J11111111111i0111))i!J� !►1►111111!1(III 111111111 tI 11; Throughout ,i the .first German war there were no battle scene where hu- man courage had to rise higher, where the British soldier's fortitude was more harshly tried and his' .valor- ous spirit was more weighed down by mud, rain and weariness, than in the Battle in the Bog; which wan Passch- endaele, There was little to" inspire great deeds ..and spectacular .episodes -at-' arms in that shell -stirred sea of slime where the Canadians fought for a foothold on asssheadae r ge, The unceasing, dull .autumn rains- cast a generel 'pall of gloom over the cav- , ing, mud -walled trenchworld, and the tread -weary m en who struggled through the desolate' wa's`te of water - filled crater's would ,have been foi'gi3'-' en if they had''been at their, lowest ebb of heart and•'morale. It 'is to the eternal honor .of the Australian, New"Zealand, British and Canadian soldiers that they 'were of- ten able to rise, high. above 'mere - duty in that desperate fight in the. mud. They seemed to disdoaer new and unplumbed springs, of courage and de- fiance •within them to answer the combined 'challenge'. of the enemy and the elements. At Passchendaele, un- der conditions so terrible that'Luden- dorff' described unspeakable," a num- ber of Canadian officers and men achieved what is, perhaps, the most glorious series- of heroic deeds that is -recorded-in the battle story of the Canadian Corps. It was in that dispiriting fight In Which all hopes for dash end .swift - moving action should have.,been bog- ged down• and dissipated in the rain and 'gloom, that Corporal Calin Bar- ron, a powerful, broadshouldered young Lewis -gunner of the 3rd Cana- dian. Battalion', first stalked a heav- ily -manned German machine, gun nest and then went berserk -among., the crews. Barron's was a deed. of reckless bravery • and furious hand -to -Gland fighting, the kind which most oT ; s conjure in our imaginations as one which most naturally fits the besto- wal of a Victoria Cross; It was sud- dtn and spectacular, rather than' in t`nhievement 'of sustained courageand' fine leadt'rship,' and it was [fortunate. that it did not go unobserved in the heat of aetibn nr pass unseen in' the confusion of night attack.' - After" Barron Charged headlong in= tq a Strong -post manned with three machine-guns and their crews; he had no means of shooting. His only wea- pon was a rifle without a bolt. With the bayonet and butt -end he disabled four Hun gunners, killed four others outright, put the third; crew to flight and thus captured the post, -•-single- nded. ,'• The lst Canadian Division had dif- ult cdiint•ny tb,,,iiandle that gray No- vember day. `Tire going was atrocious over. terrain that •had become an .all bag -impassable swa,nip; pill=boxes rigid strong -points were thickly dotted across their front. The 3rd Battalion •was on the extreme left of the Cana - tan Corps for the day's attaVk (Nov. 6, 1917), which had• jumped -off at six a,m, under the usual- 'steady drizzle.. The Battalion's most formidable ob- 1 W ■111111111i. llilllllii IIGi,.•; r,: ,: I+ , 11111111111111111111113111111111111111111111111111111s111111tnat natuuuuuuni,um• COLIN BARRON, V.C. stacle was a redoubt manned by, the aforesaid three machine-guns, and built amid the stone foundations of a vanished farm house, It was known in Operation Orders and on military maps as "Vine Cottage" though the verdure which must have inspired its dubbing had long `since vanished un- der the prolonged barraging and the mud. Two previous major attempts to advance the line' in the area had been held up and then blocked in. front of Vine Cottage. For a week ' destruc- tion of the strong -post had been the object of,-;bo'th Canadian infantry and artillery. Shells..bounced off it, or harmlesslyexploded in 'the sodden earth, with -even the• sound cif their ;burst muffled and smothered. It stub- bornly held 'out to exact a terrible toil _from minor attacks 'and raiders try- ing t.o encircle it or bomb it into sil- ence. Now it threatened to slow, or even halt, - a third major assault by stepping,' the 3rd Battali.op, .in ,ins tracks. A dangerous .situation was -1- ready developing on the unit's flanks. 1 • I1 was then that the young S-ottis'i Canadi'au', ,`rose magnificently to the- o(•casion-" Barron led his Lewis -gun crew on a precarious passage of open ground to reach a flank. They made it .without being .observed, by the rc doubt's machine -gunners. Then, nom- Islefely exposing himself to their al- most point-blank fire, Barron' opened his Lewis -gun on them. with sharp bursts. Two Maxims were silenced in the short ,furious duel,, as their startled crews too,- lover, The third gun, blocked 'fedin Barron's view. hammered on, keeping a full company pinned down.' Before the German machine-gunnc,s •ot' the two nearest Maxims 'could re- cover from their surprise, Barron toll his crew to cover. him as best th••r could and with reckless lmpetposi:'•' charged roto the redoubt alone. There was a Wild melee in the confined space of the strong -post for a fc MOM ents, with• Barron using the ba'r• onet and clubbed butt of an o.fd rifle a he had 'picked up, with terrible effect. He killed or• wounded every man in two machine-gliii crews.. •As the third crew bolted M terror from the mud and blood -splashed Canadian, the` sup- porting .German, infantry bloke with them. As they streamed back "Bar- ron mounted the parapet and turned their own •Maxim ion them, achieving„ "more execution and preventing quick recovery, from their panic. With the strong -point ,.ca,ptured through Corporal Barron's lone -hand- ed fight" and great gallantry, the whole • assaulting line was able to. sweep for- ward. As the official words of :his citation read "The- remarkable dash and determination displayed by this, N.C.Q. in rushing the guns produced far -retching results, and enabled the • advance to' be .continued." .Perhaps of even greater moment to the ' fighting' machine-gun corporal than- 'diose recorded words which re- veal his immense personal vatise •in the day's' operations, was the corn- vlendatio.n of his senior officers that • night in tired hut triumphant 3rd Bat- raiion Headquarters. Before t h e front had fully quieted, down, the Of- ficer Commanding, Lt, -Col. "Bart" Ro- gers, D.S.O„ ,,called .Barron to H.Q. dugout for congratulations, and then, saw to it that a special' leave was ' gr+rrted "before accidents. could hap- pen.- In ap-pen-"In the interval between the, two Germano wars, Barron served in both the Toronto Regiment and the 48th Highlanders of Canada, and establish- ed a successful trucking' business in Toronto. For a period he was em- ployed by the Ontario Department of Highways.. Still powerful and built for hand-to-hand fighting, the stalwart hero of Passchendaele was the first- Canadian holder of the Victoria Cross, not a member of the Canadian Per- manent Force, to be sent on active service. He first sensed in .Iceland and is now Provost Sergeant-Major at let Divisional H.Q. in England. He is married •and_.,has two _pretty daughfer•sJiving with their mother in Toronto, it