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'170 &lila °Ad
From New York
To Buehos Aires
• 12 '000 Miles. Long, It Will Be
' - • Opened on AnniVersary �f
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Over! rniles-higb rtionntein peaks,
. across plateaus both arid and fer-
tile and. titroagh see -lever swarnp
and ',jungle, m'en, arrried With
, spades, tikes, picks and bruah-
ltniees, aided by oxen, horses,
blares and rriaehines,, are building "
• ' a roed in South America.
" "Peut-Aniericen Highway"
When completed, ;this road will
. • be ,a .thin white, ribbon stretch-
• ing from Buenee Aires 12,690 ,
Miles north • to •New York CitY,
iays a carntrientatMe in The New. •
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Columbus' ArriVat.in Arner-
It isto be' Called the ParOknier
lean Highway an& its Official op- , •
ening, qa.set for ()ctoher 12; 1942,
the 450th anniversary of the dis-
covery of the Western world by
Columbus. • .
• The project is rapidly becoming
• feasible reality irestead pf a wild
ot the imagination.
• The first northern link of this
great international highway is al-
teady familiar to thousaride . of
American tourist e who' have trali-
led over it from the United
States to Mexico City. Equal.
thousands of South Americans
hive enotored over :tile southern
portion, how 'complete, from Buen.
os Aires to Linia,•Peru. The corn- ,
p e ion of the westerinost rn o
this highWay connected with the
• existing roals from Lima, Peru,
•to' Quito, • EqUador, and thence
nOrtheast to Bogota, •Colombia.
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Colombian • highwaye carry the
route to a point near the Pan-
amanian •border.
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Pretty Canadian Girl 18 Instructing Future.of
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4blowin 'up in. order that the secrets,
of her e'oastruction'ttligia' not •fall,'
into. enemy hands? With regard to
thee aetion taken at Ge/ifevaamany
PeoPlie felt regret and an; •
. nciyance that „thee League had aot
seen ft. previously to doe something
about the aggeessiPns of Hitler,
the rape of Albania by Mussolini,
(The Le,ague had never even dis-
cussed the disappearance : of Aus,
tria, Czechoslovakia or Poland
from.themap), Looking plat; too,
the world wondered whether, Rus-..
sia's eapulsioe would not throw
the U.S.S.R. end G-erniany closer
together. , . ' • _
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Italian Foreign • Minister Count •
speech to the Fascist
Cha er- embodied the first clear
and comprehenstie , statement Of.
Iraltan
po-lity-eg nning
oat, the war. He asserted, first of
all, that the. Rome -Berlin Axis rek
mains strong as ever despite.Italy's
neatrality. Extenuating Hitler's
pact with Stalin, he declated that
Italy knew of the accord in ad-
vence Fuether; hei 'Paid, Italie in-
formed the Reich lest May, that
Owing to the effects of the cam-
paigns in Ethiopia and Spain, she
would- not be prepared to engage
in warfare • for three years. Such\
a statementappeared to end fOr
• the moment any hope that Italy
•could bp induced to come in on the
Allies' El1de. (Same Week: Virginia
Gayda, one of Mueselini's• Mouth-, .
Piecee, • in a radio aderees declare,
.ed that Italy mast have sea otitlets
at Gibraltar, the Dardanelles, and
E1.
, The' Second Gre'at War broke a
record in its fifteenth weok -- for
extitement. Two events, ofie. of un -
welled, dramatic iutereat, theotli-
er world-ehaitiug'. ii importancp,
held the spellbound attention of
neWepaper readers, radio hounds,.
of 'all. ccientries. We eefeir VP the
"seicide" of• theGraf Sae, the ex•
pulsion of Russia from the League
of Nation.'
What a .weelth• of speculation
hinged, on these 21eappenings: Had
Hitler himself Pedered the seettl!
Jag of the.Spee? Wes it a gestete
of g eat bravado, „ wee,: eke
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Chicago Show •
, Sets Records
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Smiling Canadians Leave Live •
• Stock Exposition.'With25
Titles and 507 Firsts.
, Prize-winning aristocrats of the
•• agricultural world paraded at the
1939 international livestock show
at Chicago the last night of the
• e:appsition, while exhibitors cram-
med $1,000,000. in sales and prize
• money into the Nvallets. •
• • "It 'was the greatest show in
• the. 40 -year history of the e4Posi-
seid B. fl. Heide, general
.itenager.' •.
Thirty states, four Canadian
provinces and Argentina werepree
genteelamong the top winners.
The Argentineans Won one first
place,' Canadians took 25 champ
• pionships and 507, firsts.
Knighted For -Exploit
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Admiral. Sir H. H. Harm:rod,
former Commodore in. command
of the British squadron 'which put
Germany's peeltet battleship "Graf
Spee" out of 'commission. Hg has
:been. knighted by King 'George
and promoted to •rank of. Admiral
following the yietory. • . •
• Does Hitler. Eat
Too Much Fat ?
Expert on Diet Declares Man
With Torpid Liver It Bid -
Tempered
Suez). •
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' During the week U.S:.Ambassae
,dor konnedi. returned to 'Washing,'
top fromhie post at London. to• •
give, a report on the war' by word-
ofebOuthto his chief: He emphat-
ically urged the States to stay rut'.
of the conflict' 'at"all costs. "This e
' is not our fight," he 'said, '
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At Home in Canada, • the final
' draft of the nionfentous Empire
• air training plan was 'completed-.
Highlights: estimated eost' of, Olen
for three" years, 000000,000, with, •
Canada's -hare, $350,000,000; re-
quired establishment in Canada of
67 schools of all types; nearly 40,- •
000 men .requiae.d to carry, out plan,. '
eirdpsive of students; • about .60
new air fields to be constructed and
20 ekisting fields enlarged; United '
Kingdom to supply:most., of alt -
craft, fnciding engines and spares,'
'as her .sharein cost; Cattada, Atis-
tattle and New Zealand to contri-
buteeto total cost in proportion .to;
use made Of plan by pupils from
those countries; excluding cost of
aircraft • supplied' by Britaiu, Can.
ada to bear cost of initial and ele-
Mentara 'training in Canada ' and
about four-fifths of remaining costs
of program; program to be admin...
istered , by Dominion Government',
with supaervisOry board composed
.of repreatrYttatives from. four .coun-
teles, lavoleed; great mit)ority of
pupils will be : 'Ca.nadians; pilot
training . to take about 26 weeks,
many thousands .of pilots to be
tterried out each year.
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The Wer at the end of 1939 . was
not one war, but three! between
the Allies and Germany; 'between
Russia and Finland:, between Jan',
an ad China Wester, Eastern,
Far Eastern.
• "If Hitler had fewer eggs and'
less butter and the German people ,.
had more, the world would be a
more 'Peaceful place," said Mrs.
Eileen Murphy, of the British
, Commercial G Association,
speaking at Stoke, Eng., on mod-
ern laime-making. , •
"Hitlerloes riot dririla'attfolet d
eat Meat," the said. "BIM his diet
`eontains too Many eggs and too
much fat. ee
"His chef hag t� cook .eggs in
pairty different ways, and he is
very fontleif vegetables done with
fat. •
•"Eggs 'and fat are toed.- when
eaten ill Moderation, 13 ut too beech
tecads to ist the
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, • . • Determined to - show the air 'force. that women instructors •Can turn :out'llre gird a•pilet as male...M.4rue-
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telt, pretty Helen Harrison is. busilyengaged in ,giving instruction, to pilots who ,have their eye e on the R.C.
A.F. She is teaching flying at Kitehener-Waterloo Flying' Club after helpg turned clown when she applied
for work 'ferrying military planes. Her record includes the instructing of militari pilots in ,South 'Africa .
and test ,pilot for 'a Canadian aircraft company., Pigttired With her is Previsional Pilot , Officer Paul.Hender-
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Grand Titles Go.
To 8 Canadians
' • William 'Rogers of Tappen,
was aeiard'ed the. grand mpion-
ship. for rye' at the twenty-first •
international „train aed leaY Show'
Rogers' victory . btought the to-
tal number of : grand ehamplon-
shipS won by' Caned 4 -his year at:
Chic,ege .to eight. , • .
The other grain grand awatds
were wheat, field beans and Oats
to' Alberta; _alfalfa to Saskatch-
ewan; soy beans and field peas
to Ontario and tirnotheY se'ed to
British Columbia. '
• Ontario BOyi, 13e'st' Corn •
Twci youthful Writers, members
of the Canadian BoYs' and Girls'
Farm ,Clubee GeraldeHemenatier:.of
Rodheyrbrit.,' and Garnett linist-
At International Hay and Giairt
Shew, Chicago Winners
in Live Stock Sectiun Also
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er, ofeRttecom ,
in 'corn.. Hessenauer trealt first in
RegiOn 1 and Knister..first in •Re-
gion 2. :These youngsters wona
against a big field of entries from
a wide area in the United States.• ,
In'. the • live etock. se.ctien,
wards Brothers of • Watfaird,-Orit..„,
.5618..at &aid prices eight of the s'
thirteen head of eaberdeeneArigus
:cattle brought to the exhibition.•
Fs' G. TeddeLocknoW, Ont., veho
'showed at the international fct the
first. time this year, scored twice
in•the Aberdeen-Anens class. Lin- •
• coin sheep. classechampionship ram
• 'was exhibited•by H. yL tee, High-
gate, Ont...• .
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Eastern Canada Winners :•• •
Other Eastern Canada winners
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. Breeding ..sh'ortherris --- Two -
tear -old • heifers, F.' H. Deacon ,and
. Son, 'Unionville,Ont„, third; ,•sen-
. ior yeareold hiker, T. A. Russell,,
• Downview, ,Onte. second; junior
aorta; .eeniere'l‘ifer „celteeDouglas
yearling.. heifer, James, . Douglas •:.
• and Sens, Caledonia, - Ont., 'sec -
.• and •Sons, first.
Film Hero Dies Suddenly
• Will Get View•
of Six Planets
Astronomer Says Unique
• Grouping In February D.
play Is Seen Only Every
Few Thousand Years
The people ofeetodaY will be
privileged to witness',• something
which neither their childrennor
their great-grandehildren Will see
•e —a . trouping of six planet§ in
the western sky next Pebruary,
Dr. ' t - --S. Rogge -profeesee-ad.---
astronomy at the David Dunlop
ObeervatorY, Toronto, told the
Boyar Canadian Institute in an
addrees last week.. ,
"It's only 'every few thousand
years that you find as many as
tiX planets in the same region of
the eltiesr• he said ,"Along with
eetth, there Will appear in the
western' sky during th latter days
,.;-- •-- ,,,, ,:-gt._. 4.07, .• •
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Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, 1 ars 1
fraritia." 1 `
illad.tenipered, unreason.
ablee and hard to live wait"
Douglas Fairbenks, great Star at
the silent screen and renowed for
his. adrobatic 'ability' ' before the,
camera, died suddenly, from a
heart.. attack at his home in Santa
Monica, Calif. He as 55.
• Makes Tomatoes
O. A. C. Lecturer Plans to De-
velop New Types — Takes
• Seven Generations to Fix the •
• Variety • •
C. E. Migittone of Guelph. is
, young Plant wizard who has set
himself to perform ..a real feat of'
legerdemain two of theme in
facealie.has determined to be he.
Burbank•4. of the tomato.
This •yOun&;., lecturer at the Ont-
ario College of Aerieulture promises
to Teach into his, scientific hat an •
• pull out a bigger. redder, juicier
tornato,than any now grown in Ce -
nada, and present it to the catsup
preservers and tomato juice‘ squeez-
ers of Western. Ontario.
• "Small,. Round, Firm," Wanted
He promises to reach into ate
.other hat aod..pull out a little, ,firm
round tomato, more prolific than
. any •grown in Canada, and to pre-
sent it to eastern .Ontario eapeere
• who. have been looking, for a torn- .
1ton., that won't go squashaT in the
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• "There'll be no thocus-p ells or
'abracadaara' about it," said
recent address at Toeonta. •
"We are working along strictly
scientific lines, and I think we are
me e! hig . success. • ••
Strictly t Clentifle •
"Once you haveefound the char•
acteristies youwant,• it takes from
six to ninegenerations to fix
them," he said. "At we
grow two generationa year, one
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outside and one in a hothouse, so
it will 'take fhree, to five years to
fix our variety o eeye find it."
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egut e.
industry-
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Ottawa Acts to Prevent Scand-
als 'Like ink Last War
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. Blanket regulation -of. Caeada's
hog industry --deigned to gneed
against: any repetition of the bacon
•..ecan•dais.of the laSt war is to be
• ankinimediate 'result of the arrange-
ment new: concluded with the Bate
ish Government for large-scale •pur-
•..2 hases • of Canadian baCen'a last
week, 1d a story In the •WIndsor • .
• 'Daily • Sta .•• .
To Supervise Industry•
. A :bacon. contol board 'is being
Set'.up- by the federal governinent
• to supervise all phaees' pf the na-
, • tioe's hog.industry. It will regulate
not only the price to be paid to the
• priniary farodueer,. but also the Op-
• eeations ofthe; packing Plants, The,
spread that the packers will be al -
.!owed ' to .er.ta will be rigidly. speci-
' fid by the federat bacon, author
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So fat . as the •farroms are cen-.
cerned, it is likely. that. the Scheme
will return thenabput an average
• Price of .nine cents perpoUnd or a
llttle better over the year fortb.eir
bacop. hem
• . 'Called Adequate ..
The hog .population Of the, Dem-
' einion at the peesent tinie' is four
and one-quarter .,million.•' animals.
This is adequate to th0\produetive
requirements of • the new • British •
'arran.gem.ent., • '
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INTERESTED SPECTATORS
Ethiopians will be interested in
• Italian indignation :over Russian
lerbarities in Finland, - Brandon
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SUPPORTINg TI4 TOWN BAND
• Interesting • is the ' :result, the
passing of a by-lew, at Fort Erie
to.spend a. quarter 'of aereill annum-
bY for. the town ,bantleand- that IS '
iiPt,a. big price to pay for band -eon-.
eerts. it,j8..possible Fort Erie -maYe•
sset2a fashion erisewhere in . the
• ProVineee-sHi,,Nlagara .
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If there is .to be. deneocraey';after.
the -War is 'Oever., deineeracy
'tfot be abandoned While the. war
on. The, spirit of democracy mut
• be respected, not seppreesed, witla•
in the demberaeles themselees.
:The thing for which 'the war is
•fOlight abroad, nuist net be lost at
• 'home.. Toronte Star:
WARNINGS. UNHEEDED
Another case of: poisoning by
monoxide gas has been reported.
• 'It is regrettable that,, in spite of all
, the warnings Altaihave. been pub-
lished for years regarding the clan-
' ger ' of this dead»' gas, fatalities
•still occur to those who thought -
1y tinirer-With7elteir
• in clos'ed garag,eiewhile the engine'
is rUnninge---;'Brentforil ExPoittor. '
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Urges.New. 5ystent,
• Of: Ontario. Relief
, Norfolk Children's Aid Society
Superintendent Says Prob.-
leni"Big Business"
• A 'cap for a complete overhaul-
ing of the 'previnee's • relief sys-
tem as 'it affects the rural areas
• was made in. Woodstock by Thern-'
as Phillips, superintendent of the
Norfolk Children's Aid Society ad-
dressing a ineteing of the Wood -
tock .Rotary Club.
"This question has now enter-
ed the realm of big business,"
said 'Mr. Phillips, 'and it is 'time
to take its administration away
froin • the munidipalities• that are
,ill-equipped to raise the necessary ,
taxation . or to appoint persons •
skill enough to administer, such
a problem. Federal and provincial
p,articipation have made the lot of
municipalities Osier but the .tnach- '
inery is .creaking hadly."
• Mr. 'Phillips ,advocated that out-
side of the large urban centres
no unit for .relief should be less
than country -wide and the admire
• 1st -it -lion Placed in charge of speC-
ially trained, persohs. .
Nobteman Gave
"Sandwiches" rki,arne
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tereeting. In the reign of "King
.•nGoebeliernanwilo
geII,ItherweasNryf
lived.,anient nof
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gambling. He passed whole days at
• the card table and would not leave.
• his 'genie even for .a - meal., -Nate
urally he found playing on an•
empty stomach.. • uncomfortable • .
work, and se devised . a Plane by •
which he might .eat- .with as little
trouble as possfielee '
• He ordered hie, servant to idt • ..
two thin. slices ot bread and place
meat between. The . meal proyed.
satisfying. ''• .
- The famous noblernan was the
, Earl of •Sandwitheand po popular.
dkFhis Ogee. of :breed, and meata . •
become that they wereaealled 'her •
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,Jticy. SAealca and roasts tut-
'faloaneat. about 35 'cents 'a pound
are available all over Canada now. • e
As a -war measure there hes'be-en.,
a .slaughter of buffalo ,at the Do-• '
minion Government perk at Wain-
wright, Alta:, and 3,000 buffalo '
• are •being dressed to provide 'ap-
proxiMately, 1,00,0,000 pounds ,of
meat,. ,which. will. be dittributed
nationally.• •
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Big trees of California are said
te have no natural enemies and .
none 'of, these trees has .tease•bsen
known tO le or insect or.
•attack,
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•-LIFE'S LIKE THAT
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•tiloote”, AO, by _ •'/•.:".•11,-cK
"I -Want You To Tell Me How ,You Managed to Get Into
• Without Waking My Wife." .e '
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• REG'LAR FELLERS -Get the Broom
POP' DROPPED HIS
MEERSCHAUM PIPE •• ;-
AN' IT SMASHED,
IN SMITHEREENS!
YOU COULDA HEARD
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BUT HE INVENTED A
HOLDER
FOR RM. NEV./ l:,113?
Lo NOW •CAN'T
FALL AN HE DOESST
MAFIA
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• MY POP JNOKE
•die Alf PI PES
AN! WHEN THEY FALL
HE DOESN'T MAFIA
PICK 'THEM UP
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