The Lucknow Sentinel, 1943-03-18, Page 7rFt
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X93
"r.
10000,000 Coinns.
Minted Last Year,
'.Process of Producing New
Coins ls., Described
•
T'ite. 'Victory ave -cent piece is-
sued at the Mint in Ottawa saves. •
60 'tom`s ..et .niehet yearly for War
production. Made ot•..si'x metals;
the new . nickel ' combines the sym-
bolic "V".•motifs with the Iorelisof
Saer}fi.ce, The 12 -sided design
dates bacli to the Middle Ages and
' i$ ; still used' for • some English
• coins. .. -
First •step in' producing :pews
Coin:s'is•the • cutting 'of dies. Skilled
engravers make a•metieulbus check'
ittefore dies 'axe 'hardened. Work -
hag dies ,ars winched PV-- 600 -ton
power-drive"tt press. • .. •
Bullion•to be worked on is
checked en balances' .carrying up
to 3,500 Troy ounces and 'turning
to the one-hundredth pert of 'au
ounce. The finished •.work • at day's
end 'plits-"builioii eretrieved—frOnee-:
the floors dust meet .efoal that re-__
ceiveel.
• 2,000 Degrees of ',Heat .
The molten metal, iss poured
into'moulds 'for subsequent rolling'
into•strips. At 2,000 • degrees • of
heat . asbestos :apron . and water-
soaked' .mitt' must .be.
In 1938 the Wilt' produced. 30,-
00,000 good. coins; •in 1942- work-
ing 24 .hours daily, .seven. days a,
.week, it had increased. tri 108,000,-
' .00Pieces.. • •
Gold: color o'f ,coni iseeobtained
by a process ' off"; oeid-d Aping let=
lowed by wash in aluminum col-
anders.. ' .
Gauged' by an accuracy' of one •
one -thousandth of an, inch, a eut-
, tine machine' ,punches .opt blank '
Cottle at the rate of .300 a minute.
The new coin is made of "Tom -
bac alloy. The' word is from
. Malay "Tombaga,", used as .imi-
. ration. gold jewellery in 'the East
Indies.'
'200,000. Per, Day ; •
• ae--.'Colt s•--axe-s eeeen itredeel y ae- int-•-
expertthrowgh• a -magnifying glass. ,
The Victory nickel fills prerequies
.Iter. It }s easily ,• dis'ti•ngitis-hable
• from other coins, and is. cheap of
manufacture. •Mrireovere it inter=
fares little with r automatic.; coin'
ma,chine.s.
Coins receive a final minute 1 i-
spection, before "they.. leave' the
Mint, They pas .. before trained
•eyes of iteepectpls_on 'a large. con
•eveyiir, belt' at the at• of 4.000'-ia
90 seconds. • Tule slightest' flaw 'or
chemical stain brings .immediate
.rejection.'-:
•
• The battery eta presses at the
Mint,. operating uii to• a .Speed., of
100 coins aminute, can •stieike .an •
average. bf 200,000 pieces a day.
Re air Factory,.. „ .
' 1,590• Miles:'Lon
Roadside Wo r k eh o p's.,
Africa, Refit•'Damaged
' ' Equipment
• A dispatch to this new. spap.el.
• froom. Cairo reveals a factory more.
. 'than 1,500 miles long spread out
behind General ontgo•rnery';; vet-
'. •erans, states the New York Times. '
All the way back to Alexandria
the, roadside workshops. are busy
refitting damaged equipment, re-
• packing captured supplies and, re-
conditioned newly arrived ma-
terial, so the, 8th Arnsy may -coie
tinne its advanco. • •
The'3editerranearb sea lanes to
'Montgomery's new baseat Tripoli
—are not yet completely open; ship.
ping space "is too liniited to keep
an army supplied and fed. , So
' communication, probably the long-
est land communication in 'the
world, is Atitl largely" over the
black ribbon • of paved road that
winds ;along the African, shore:
Traffic pours over• this road night,
. arnP day in both directions. •Fuge
convoys of, trucks hurry munitions "
. • to the .front; other • convoys haul
away :smashed 'tanks,. -.damaged
guns and equipment:of every kind
discarded in Ronlmel's retreat.
Bombs "from the sky:, no longer
blast thio traffic. It is hccoming •
orderly'dettpite road blocks. ' s
Native •Labor Used .
This whole coastal road eves a
battlefield. Both sides of it are
scattered with weapons of war.
All' along- it reclamation stations.,
have now 'sprung_ up. They may,
not, like • Aladdin, be giving new
lamps for olil, but they "are re -
:seer -17th; g
e-
--eer-17thitig that- can -
be salvaged, from rifles YO water
" bottl'ea; ' 'Otic • typie>it workshop.
operate&'hi thestables. vacated by
a dismounted cavalry regiment.
rs res oring e ec ric tatteries
for "planes and tanks. In many
of the r'ecapturecij'towns the Brit -t,
ish have set- up .stations{ to sort
out and redirect their ,own stores,
lost to them, in 'Rommel's earlier
advance: '
le The work is so 'urgent and
repidlt expanding :that 'native foe
WITH, CALM BORNOF FAITH
Shielding' themselves'from the tropic sun with -umbrellas, as itnperturably as if being lowered over
the side' of a warship .in a battle; area were a commonplace occurrence, sisters of the .Catholic• Order. of
Mary. Iinmaculate ere pictured arriving at Guadalcdnal. Stationed on 'another Solomon Island, they
werecaptured by the Japanese and• held, until rescued: by ,American forces. Two priests and a nun were
killed before. .tl e "Ainerieans arrived,_ '• r•
Plane Flies . 2}000
Miles: Without Pilot
Crew ' and Passengers 'Dail
Out --Plane Fiiea On
This is th.d story of a United
States Army ' plane that :flew.
-,2;000 iniles with .no one aboard.
She reversed' course and flew . by
herself to crash in -Mexico after.
`-be7' creW-tint--liassengei 15101ed'
out because tail.flutter vibrations
threatened to teat ,the .ship apart
in • the .air. over Florida • *ateis.
Two men ane ntissitig: • .
'The • four -engined plane • took
off, the, night of Feb.•.• 9 from
So,utherie Floeida on. a' . routine
flight to South America Aboard
were the crew of 'six, two passen-
gers, and considerable cargo•: The
plane was, 80 miles but when a
"bad 'flutter had developed in the
. tail. Losing altitude rapidly, the
:plane 'droppe'd .from 9,00.0 ..to 5;
300 feet, while the crew and pas-
sengers jettisoited.•the cargo in an
attempt, to stop the vibrations.
Automatic Pilot Set
Itisead, the vibrations increased
itnd the., pilot. turned back towara
Florida. When the. ni:llet thgi ghts.
he was over the coast, he ,ordered
the others to use their parachutes.
Then he headed the plane out to.
se , ' set t e" automatic pilot, for,
. level flig,l°it so • the ` craft, would
not .becoine a menace ashore, and
--krailed
.out.
. 'Shortly after noon the next day
• Mexican authorities reported • a
Plane had crashed in the moun- .
tains of Northern Mexico - a re -
pert ,Which gave the A'fr Trains -
port` Command a, first-class mys-'
tery, , for several days, 'because no
such, plane was supposed to ' be
in • that, part -of. the: world. '
• ken on foot. finally reached the
plane . and an investigation ' pro;
ducc& scrial numbers, which iden-
tified it as the ship. abandoned
off the -Florida coast.' Somehow,
its course out to sea had been re-
versed, and•it cut.across hyndreds'
of miles of ocean with no- one,
aboard, crashing when its gas
tanks were empty.
•
Liner Yields Steel .
For War Effort
The naval training ship Cale-
donia, formerly the Cunard liner
• Majestic', has been raised, from the
Firth of Forth to furnish nearly
40,000 tons of steel scrap for the
war effort. • '
SShe sank after a fire Septerii- •
her 29, 1939, but she was raised
.cit the first attempt after 1,800•
.portholes and all openings in her
hull were sealed 'for tate project. '
S1ie ;had been towed •inshore.
About 13,000 tons of?it'igh qua1-
ity, steel have been removed 'from
the Irt.il and at her breaking -up
. berth it is expected ,she. Will' yield •'
'-25700-tons-.zrrare:
200,000 Square
Ll alis-^ ecaptuarec °
An ihdication Of the extent of
the groat Russian . successes of
the past three months is found
. in the statement from: Moscow
that 200,000 square utiles o€
Sovietterritory have been retaken
from �tehe•isvnderss the equiva-
ITYP' =a�•31r'tt •"arty eteleredihr 'eat-:'1L'r'.eleT'1•la.:littr •
-40.0 lata:levy lleop-ertsteseet eeeelevith --
railroads find studded with . im-
portant towns, says the Ottawa
Journal. It is a tract one-half as
large, as all Ontario;, ialid and
water, which has 407,262 'square
miles; and roughly Would cover
the area from the Quebee border
to Windsor, 'North to Sault Ste.
-Marie and the vicinity of James'
Pits.
reale: "r`]riseWitcrie-systeneettf--wage
side i°eclamation and long,dis-
ta•neee traffic u'ridorlines the 'need
for keeping seven. men at ',need
•
:..behind the lines to supply ono•
rime at the front,
Valuable nylon is being re-
elainied fronn. discarded' Stockings
by dissolving theist in sulphitrie
agicl.
4„ lt[r�:i F. v' .Rwa
,.r
Plight of Poland M�
_Under The Nazis.
The barbarous Boche conceives'
Of aMade-in-Germany "new or-
der" as a long series of:restric-
tions.on. all the European. peoples ,.
crushed by the Nazi war =machine
and. savagely policed..by. the• .in-'
•famous Gestapo, says the Strat-
;ford Beacon -Herald, Poland's
pitiful• plighi'.is a"fair eiiantple o
• Hitlerism -running amok in a •G'er- '
man -occupied -country..
The Polish Review ,lists some 'of'
• the cruel ' restrictions 'decreed by
'German • authorities. in: eaislaved •
'Poland -= the 'same „brand of
tyranny as Canada would suffer
• in the event .'of an Axis ;victory. .
• Hereunder 'are .quoted some of •the. .
"strictly forbidden" rules
'posed, on' the Polish people, who
are • not allowed .by their • German
masters to, do any of,these things:
To a eak Polish ` in public, . or
use Polish names of cities or
streets.. '
To print any book, magazine or
paper in .Polish.
-To, -play -or sink ;any Polish mra-
;sic, or patriotic song.
To-Vv'orship, iichurch.
To belong to any religious, sci-
entific or social organization.
arty wale a'} or ollege:
To go to operas, theatets or
concerts. .
To.,. visit_nmseaznrs,-lihaataes or--
,edlicational centres,
To pursue any professional ca-
' reer 'except medicine under Ger
-
Tolaw:
To enter any public park or
garden or. sit •on. any ,bench in as
public place. . • '
To eat in restaurants or cafes.
To visit barber shops, :except
those partitioned off to' segregate
Poles,
To travel' without permit,or to
.' use express trains and motor
buses. ,. ••
, To use automolsiles" or ride—bi=
cycles,,.except for cycling to work.
To use playing. fields or swim-
ming pools. . • '
To visit'health resorts or bath-
ing . beaches. . '
To buy ' clothing or footwear,
except- work .clothes and wooden
'shoes.'
To shop except in certain stores
and at certain hours set aside for
Poles., .
To buy imported foodstuffs.
T� own cameras, radio sets or
phonograph records.
' To 'own or use boats on and --be °-
,tween 'the Oder and. Vistula riv-
ers. ..
To own land or any 'real estate
whatsoever!
- The surest - proq f of The :Mad
ness of Hitler andk his i i their
belief that a Europe robbed of
every vestige of . human liberty
will accept . the •"New Order"
whieh the Nazi"'gangsters are en-
forcing on helpless Poland. Free-
dom cannot .be . obliterated for
g.. -by bandife-e-•as-Ilit1cr-ate--Ger_
many will one day realize.•
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
By Fred' Neper'
• "No, we don't know the game ... but we know the neighbors." ,
.t3
THE WAR - WEEK Commentary on Current Events,.
The Race Betw mens United Nations
Anti. Axis Powers for -the Offensive
Following ;up ' thea -recent state-
ments of both President Roosevelt
• and Prime Minister Churchill that'
• the United Nations will now carry
. 'the war to the . enemy, American
and British' generals and admirals
anno`un'ce that, their armies, nattiest'
'•and air` forcerare, poised to strike
+
ou all 'front, says the New York
Times. Admiral Nimitz's . forecast
of an `early air and • naval offens-
ive against . Japan is matched 'by.
'the,'' Landon • "broaci�c'ast ... to. the'
'French people .trhat'..°'tihe 'date'
au Allied invasion -bf Europe is •
not far off "'
This is lite crucial . psychologic
al Iirfre et which to strike. To de-
• lay much Monger may cost -us dear-
. ly later on. For our enemies are
not standing still..Qn, the contrary..
Al.t'hough Timoshenko is..staging •a •
.new offensive in the-eorbre °the
(ei'tuans, aided by; new'reserves
and "General Mud," ha'e already,
succeeded in siowi.ng up tffe rain
Russian drive,. and in the critical
. Donets: Basin have checked' it com-
pletely, at least' for the `present.
Acid the. Japanese . are hot 'only
drivilig ahead in China, but are
also. massing .forces north • of. Aus-
tealia for:what'may bean attempt
to •invade that coiftfnent. Furfh'er-
niore, while 'the Japanese are rap-
idly developing the: regions they
have -eonquered•-and rare thereby
' growing stronger day by'.day, the
•Germans .have .started out to Moe
l ilize the last reserve°of the whole
European Continent far 'a final'
desperate effort' in, the same all-
_out fashion as the Russians did
ln: their own country. Finally,
Germany is obviously trying to
strengthen her. political align-
ments, and -, has apparentey sec
,ceeded. in tightening .her hold on '.
and pteesibly . Finland.:
Axis. Peesi�b•i•1-ities=`--
• • The • Geernan 'Propaganda •Min-
ister; •Joseph Paul Goebbels; has '
promised. that the \Vehrmaeht will
again thrust east this year to"seek
• the. final victory which Hitler has
i;did lies„ there. 'But there were
, sins that Germany would -'try to.
Bold in the Eastwhjle she turned •
her main fopces • west against the
arinies of, 'Brittain and .America.
The Feehrer hftns'elf,. in a message
!'to. his• old party" :comrades on the
twenty-third ' anntveesary of na-
tional socialism, promised Only
mobiiization"`to an 'extent exceed- •
ing: that of .any war in history."
'•M1In the West, two directions of
att.eek were available.; One -}ed' to= •.
ward the British Isles; brisfling
-With' get.tss,• guarded b.y OM-6ns of . •
determined nieu. Britain was the_.
hub .around which all the Allied .
Military • projecte for klerope •, re-
volved For that reason .tte .1einp--
e-teti&nr--to-•rel ahri ll -out iTtOmpt .
. to' take. it •inight Pi%O able
to German • mllittu•y leteleri, who
have neer _ alionet. e_thsetnect-lesee---
.lacking du' boldnoes,• But .the cost
was certain to `he high. • .
Thea second lay tnwai•d the south.
Its •obJective would be to drive
-the-Allies: out of. North .Africa and
secure the southern shores one
1.urolie against invasion train that
quarter. It" might tette the- foam
of a giant pincers, one, arm of
which ,would go''througli Spain,
perhaps-byita•ssing Gibraltar, „to
Morocco anis the supply routes of .-.
the American, British .and French
forces. operating in Tufiisia, while
the older pressed• through Turkey:
'_and along the,'eastern shores of the
111edi.terranean into Egypt. Prom
Switzerland test. week . more re-
ports that Germany vti,as trans -
revving troops through France to
ward • the Sea,nish border, and
Turkey„s President ;warned his
country that the "war .contagion”
aligle 'spread.' -
Allied Possibilities
On tee Allied -side, too, there •
were two possible. moves. One was •
an' assault uiiotn''the northern, or'
western sherc-ss of Eurolte,, .front
the British Isles,• Tile other was
an invasion from North Africa to-
' ward whet .Winston ('hu+chilf has
called "the soft underbelly of the
Aeis.e ;he southern shores of '.
Europe. ' . Cdnihiued, 'these two
moves could. form a eraediose
pineers aimed. , a:t driyieg the
We•Itrniucht back from all the Eu-
ropean countries it has conquered
onto. Gei'inan spit. From Sweden
last week' carne reports that Ger-
•
Bluey and Curley Of the 'Anzacs
HEY C.OFTY,r Hc1ii5 MINT COMilaifr
OVER, Yb' . : - 1;00- LIP 'SCHOOL. AND 1
NAVE A ,(Q , A1' 1''ssuNE THE PENNIES•
man air observers had seen activ-
ity in British harbors pointing 40.-
• ward ann audacious attempt to in-
vade' the Continent.
.7 The '•calculations .of both 'sides
hung largely on what w.ouid . baps
pee along. the vast Eastern Front.
Phe iGerma. ns' ability to • launch
new titrusts' would. depend on their
• abilvty to, half the rolling offens- -
"' f;ve, of the Red .Army. The Allied '
plans 'depended -on Russia'sabil-
ity: • VI jje down targe numbers of
German" divisiolts. '
',General Mud Enlists .
The fleet signs .of Spring we're,
. seen last week on the southern
eeabhes.af,the 1,000-riiile •Russian
. battlefront. On . the. Ukrainian •
`plains the snows, were melting.
Soviet soldiers took off their 'cloth'.
heltnets;hared 'their heads to sett
winds froth, the -•Black Sea I ae. ;.
tt ipli earth, hard as iron ' during
January, was beginning to clog
• the treads.. ' of° Red Army tanks.
Soon •Russia's rally;' General Win -
tel•,.' would give way to Russia's
foe, General' Mu:d.
To military observers the ap-
preach Of Springen' South Rus-
sia Was important. Its probable
effect • would be' to slew. •.the 'Rus-
sian offensive, already' one of the
most sustained drives in the his-
tory of modern war: Since Nov.
19 Soviet. •armies,• "trained ,and
equipped, for Winter fighting., had
been• rolling over snowy plains
and .frozen rivers that offered few'
natural obstacles. •Their . avowed
purpose was to. throw ..the Nazis
out of Russia The attack had
broken. a fo neidable enemy • .de -
:tense system, along the Donets
River, '•,had smasiied : 'forward in
places ,400 miles from Lte startilig
,point at 'Stalingrad, Btt .ahead
stretched =lather, 400. fn.iles . of
--.Ruselan-soli==ate -another- -great
defense sestet* based on the line
of the Dnieper River. The task
facing Russian generals --already •
:'struggling Leith .a major supfply •
problem—was 'to 'crack the second:
defense line befeile Spring thaws••
i*onld•bog down, the Red Army's
• itontentun►.'.
• Words From, the East .
Last- week Premier Joseph Stal-
in, in an Order of the day marking
the tvventsereft•11-anntvei•sary of the
Red -Almy, 'noted once. again that
Russia. was •bearing'. the main
weight of the. war' and that a
-second front had net •yet , been es=
tablished in ' the west. -At the same
time he 'dec'lared that the .. 'Red
•Army had been created as an: in-
. •nttitnrent of defense anu not 'of •
conquest;
VOICE
OF H E
PRESS
SUPPLY OF WHITE. FLAGS
If you have reed Hitler's Mein
Kampf, you will recall that • the
Fuehrer has .a 'hankering foi whits
silk shirts: He wrote that he en-
vied people who could wear them. .
• Laval 1,as sent' Hitler 35 .white.-
silk shirts, from the' 41k,. ns of
Lysis: If 'Hitlee_ floes not last
long • enough to wear all those •
' "shixts.,'they •will make 'g o.d white
• flags tot indicate atirrender of• the •
' Reich.- -Windsor Star. . ' '
' s • • WORDS OF WISH
Mine, Chiang ICai-Shek':s • ad-
dress to members, of the• United • •
States Congress ' was one of the
most' . stirring and eloquent; that
• august body ever heard: 'Aniong
many .. memorable passages was
this .one: "We •in• China are con-,
vinced that it -is., the better part
of -wiedenia nest .to •aecept=farlage'
ignominiously, but to risk ••ft glor;
lonely." — Ottawa Citizen,
•
moo-
NOT CHOICE OK WORK
The Ottawa Journal states that
we inay. hope.for employn.ent for
all, hut. we can never hope for
choice 'of .employment for. all. •
Even the' merit system in •Soviet
Russia does not provide any such
Utopia as ;that. And 'these have
the 'Merit system of reward, in
every feet -dry • of the -State.=S
Catharines.' Standard. _ '
OUR :COMPETENT WOMEN
Worren are •stepping into so
° many wartime jobs and perform-
• ing them., With such acceptance
that man may be • fortunate if he
is allowed to take charge of the
kitchen after the war.—Peter-
borough. Examiner. ° ..
• • -o-
URE FOR•SPRATTS
As• tune goes ori and rattening..
becomes' tougher, it is ''''believed
the . Spratts, Jack and the mirror
will be pretty ' well relieved of
their respective allergies..-- Win-
nipeg Tribune.
—o= '
• WASHDAY IN RUSSIA
The 'Germans axe being washed
up,iti the Donets Basin. And the
Russians are proving very'good:
washer -uppers. Stratford Beacon ..
Herald.
MEMORY • LINGERS ,
4n old=timer is onewhoassn.
crates . a board of 'education with
the shin'gle--wielded in the' wood
shed.=Kitchener. Record. i
some Observers saw In 'this. an `
indication that the Russians would
u halt ' their .a.dvanee when and if
they' reaehede-theireeoiet 176Tders,
- thus freeing German troops for;
operation's in this, West,•. With this
view ' President R eekeselt toolc.-•-
sharp issue.. From other Russian
sources came predictions of a
joint victory by the .United Na-
, foes that seemed to • set aside
fears." teat the- ?-ed- Arnty: would
• slacken its efforts.
•
THE 'BOOK. SHELF
EVERGREEN HOUSE
By Louise ,Platt Hauck.
Attractive young • Cynthia "Bar-
stow is Very, hospitable by 'nature.
She welcotites, therefore. -the -as-
sor'ted' relatives; • who Iia vt • .beer,
drawn to the' nearby . city to • en-
gage iri'' defense work, into the
.rambling' old 'house which she
shares with' her grattuniother.
•Then,•she adds aeveral .younti intuit
who have 'been unable' to find
livirtir quarters • elsowle re. e The
resulting situation inevitab•le Ort
duces daily probletes 'rind• comp,'
cations; but Cynthia revels in
solving them. Even Gvergeee r.
House 'itself catches 'tile excite;
Inent end • fosters several love af-
fairs; not the' least of which is
Cynthia's own. ;uneripe,ted ro-
mance. •
Evergreen House,... By Louise
Platt Hauck ... 'Dodd, 'Mead .&
' Company° t ... Price. $12,35:'
•
Enlistments of Canadian Na-
tional men in' the active army are
siiffieient to form six infantry °
battalions.•
British "Alcohol
Distilleries.. Idle "
Most British alcohol distilleries.
including ,those •normally used' for
wheisky., are out of use and e
being used in storage, •;says In-
dustrial ,and. Engineering Chem- •
istiy.. Instead of _taking- over tile.
whisky •making• ,plants for the
Manufacture of, aleohol for mill
tary purposes, the government. '
prefers to 'import alcohol from
the. t•nited Suites and •Canada, as •
eeconsid.crable saving of shipping •
is effected by ,importing,alcohoi , .
rather than the. raw materials re-
• gulled to stake it.
1..'__Sa>!h- The Morning
Break
Ye that„have faith 'to : look with'
•' farless eyes .
Beyond the :tragedy • of a world
at strife, •
And trust that out of eight and •
death Mall rise
The .drawn • of tender life; •
Ileoicr,exhalever anguish rend
our 'heart.
That :C;od• has given you for a
priceless dbwer
Te •live ih these great tunes and
• have your; part .
In Freedom's crowning hour;•
•
TWO you niay;tell your sons who
see the light
High iri• the heavens= -their heri-
tage to take:
"I ••§aw the. 'powers of Darkness
put to flight, •
1,saw-tlte morning break.”
—Sir .Owen Seaman,. 1861-1936.
• He -Man stuff
NO GOOD To ME„
TbSSi,i" PENNIES 15 A
FLAMIN• CISSIE GAME
{ . By Gurney, (4 ustralia)
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