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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1940-06-27, Page 3f Thursday, June 27th, 1940 WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES PAGE THREE S/F-"JWJMV ........... \ ★ We pre* scribe insur- ■ ance by ana-^, lyzing whaf . you need — and by sell­ ing you only what yow need 5 Canadian Fascist Chiefs Interned Ottawa—Justice Minister Lapointe in the Commons announced the in­ ternment of Adrien Arcand, of Mont­ real, leader of the National Unity par­ ty, and 10 other members of tthe or­ ganization, including Maurice Scott( of Montreal, and Joseph C. Farr and John Lorimer, both of Toronto. COSENS & BOOTH Wingham We Represent—1 English Parents Anxious London — Police were called to control crowds of thousands jamming a narrow street off Piccadilly where a Government offi’ce is ladling out in­ formation on the evacuation of child­ ren to Canada and the other domin­ ions. PILOT INSURANCE COMPANY Writing selected risks in — Automobile, Fire, Plate Glass, Burglary, Public Liability, and other general insurance, Head Office, Toronto. Japs May Link With Nazis Tokyo —'■ Cricles close to the Gov­ ernment indicated Japana’s policies now are crystallized around a prog­ ram calling for .closer relations with Germany and Italy, possibly direct ac­ tion in British-French possessions in the Southern Orient and a negative attitude toward any United States ef­ forts toward rapproachment. tawa and were sworn in Thursday jtfst previous to signing the bill, ■ I.x>nil,I (■(■■..M , » Say Britain Has French Navy New York — The New York Her­ ald-Tribune says in a .dispatch from Washington that' high officials of the United States. Government have re­ ceived information that Great Britain has taken over the French navy “vir­ tually intact” and “as a going con- lAlcern.” Bennett Scores Fifth Columnists Taunton, England — R. B. Bennett, former prime minister of Canada, said that he did not believe “halfway mea­ sures. with respect to Fifth Column­ ists are any good at all. Our vast empire cannoit be destroyed,” he said. Athlone Gives Assent to War Bill Ottawa — In one of his first offic­ ial cats as Governor-General of Can-? ada the Earl of Athlone gave royal assent to a rj.ew.ly enacted bill to mob­ ilize all the human and material re­ sources of Canada for the prosecution of the war. His Excellency and his wife, Princess Alice, arrived -in Ot- Rumania Going Nazi Bucharest, Rumania — King Carol began formation of a new totalitarian party on the German pattern and, it was reliably reported, drafted decrees to turn his country into a state of the Nazi-Fascist type. The (.Nazi Iron Guard will play a part in ithe new set­ up and the strong peasant party will be in it. The Iron Guard organiza­ tion was banned for years and a vig­ orous attempt was 'made to wipe it out, gut recently, “penitent” members have been pardoned. Wants Roosevelt’s Resignation • Washington—h. demand, that Pres­ ident Roosevelt resign lest his foreign policies bring “disaster” upon the United States was made in the Sen­ ate by Senator Gerald ,Nye while at Hyde Park, N.Y,, the president ac­ cused his critics of partisanship. More Canadian Troops in England England — Thousands of reinforce­ ments for Canada’s army and air forc­ es in this island fortress have .crossed the Atlantic safely despite a Nazi threat that the German navy would see that they'- did not complete .the voyage. They disembarked smiling, Cbnfident1, and full of the ‘‘Let us at ’em” spirit. The contingent included 129 nursing sisters. Named to Defense Post Col, Allen A. Magee, of Montreal, a native of London, has been appoint­ ed executive .assistant to the'minister of national defence. Col, Magee is head-of Barclay’s Bank (Canada). He joined the miliitia before the First Great7 War, raised and commanded a battalion for overseas service and ser­ ved in important posts with the Can­ adian Division and Canadian Corps in France, Belgium and Germany. He was born in 1881 the son of the Hon. Justice Magee. - , :. , Roosevelt Names Republican to Post Washington — In a move (that cre­ ated a profound .sensation, President Roosevelt appointed Henry L. Stim­ son and Col. Frank Knox, Republic­ an advocates of unstinted material os- slstance to the Allies, to be secretary of war and secretary of the navy, re- pectively. ‘ President Roosevelt declar­ ed he had appointed the Republicans to his cabinet “in behalf of national defence” and that the action is “in line with the overwhelming sentiment of ithe nation for national solidarity in time of world crisis,” Yugoslavia On The Spot Belgrade,' Yugoslavia — A German- Italian diplomatic drive apparently- designed to break Yugoslavia’s new friendship with Soviet Russia was re­ ported authoritatively to have resulted in demands from the axis powers for a new Government sympathetic with their 'cause. Raise Money by Sunday Shows Toronto — Attorney-General Gor­ don Conant said that officials of .his department had conferred with motion picture operators and owners through­ out Onltario in connection with a pro­ posal of the« Canadian motion picture industry that it raise money for Can­ ada’s war effort through .a special I 1 H 1Wk ■ WW®* ’ •pal GUARANTEED at money saving prices • Make sure this coming holi­ day is free from bothersome tire trouble! Let us replace your smooth, worn-out, unsafe tires with brand new Goodyears today. We have a large stock of fully guaranteed Goodyears at diff­ erent prices. Remember! Lowest price or highest price ... no matter what you pay . . . you can’t buy better tires, or get better value than Goodyears. Drivein for prompt, money-sav­ ing Goodyears . . . at the price you want to pay . . . today! The Tube Is the Heart of Any Tire For top service from new tires be sure to equip them with new, low-cost Goodyear tubes<' s Murray Johnson Wingham,, Ontario MASTER HAND USES I MtGIL PainTS For Sale By MACHAN BROS. Sunday .show in every Dominion the­ atre. Admission would be through purchase of war savings stamps and certificates and $1,000,000 has been seit as1 the objective. Mr. Conant said that ‘‘nothing should be allowed to interfere" with so .splendid a gesture,” but added that federal and provincial laws forbid. I Anzacs Arrive in England A Northern British Port — Thous­ ands of fighting Anzacs, who sailed all the way from Australia and New Zealand in great liners without see­ ing one German plane, have thronged into the British Isles, shouting for “a chance at Jerry.” It is estimated that 50,000 troops landed. Killed Following Police Murder Navan — About an hour after Con­ stable Harold Dent, of (the Ontario Provincial Police, was fatally wound­ ed, a posse o.f police and farmers cor­ nered his assailant in a woods near the village 16 miles east of Ottawa and shot him to death. Sergeant Al­ lan Stringer, of the Northern Ontario division of Ithe Ontario provincial pol­ ice shot at out with the murdered and killed him with a bullet through the head, ' Swiss Interned 50,000 Soldiers Goumois — A Franco-Polish army more than 50,000 strong, gave up its arms to Swiss soldiers and crossed ov­ er the mountainous border Ito be terned. in­ Britain’s Interned for Canada Ottawa — Canada is prepared meet the wishes of the United King­ dom Government and have enemy al­ iens and German prisoners now held in Great Britain moved to Canada, Prime Minister King announced in the House of Commons. to relations wouldn’t much of Canadians Were Close to Paris Somewhere In England — The detachment of the spearhead of Canadian First Division which reach­ ed a point within 25 miles of Paris on­ ly to be ordered to start an immedi­ ate strategic withdrawal without en­ gaging the enemy, arrived in the di­ visional camp.. They returned with­ out a single battle casualty, but minus some of their transport and stores’’ which they had brought a distance of 350*miles to the port of embarkation, only to discover there was no avail­ able transport to take it off. last ■the Bagged ’Chutist Somewhere in England — Private C. L. Dolson* of Galt, did noit bring back any souvenirs from France, but he can claim the distinction Of being t'he only Canadian to have taken a prisoner. Dolsott’s .captive was a Ger­ man parachutist who landed in dark­ ness near a small French village, where the Canadians*were mustered. PHIL OSIFER OF LAZY MEADOWS By Harry j. Boyle “HONESTY" Fletcher Wiley has quite a reputa­ tion as a man of level thinking. lie once spoke of there being few honest men, and I father laughed at the idea. After thinking it over, however, with a certain amount of naitural evidence, I've had some interesting thoughts. Mrs. Phil was shocked beyond words last night when her commercial travelling ‘cousin popped in for the night tie presented her with a pair of bath towels, and she was pleased until she found themame of an hotel on them. However, he just laughed I 3 out of 4 Jam and Jelly Champions use CERTO Writes Mrs, G, H. McLachlan of Magnetawan, Ont., Prizewinner at Magnetawan Fair: "I have been using Certo for a number of years arid would not think of using any other method for making my prize-winning fams and jellies/’ CERTO is concentrated FRUIT PECTIN ».. the natural jellifying substance extracted from fruit, Sty C^^aves Time—Energy— With Certo you give only a one to two-minute full, rolling boil for jam .., for irily only a half-minute to a minute. Better Taste anti Colour—Because of the short boil the fresh natural taste and colour remain un­ spoiled in the fruit, whereas long- boiling affects both taste and colour. Sure Results—Follow the recipes given free with Certo and you can be sure of lovely jams and jelly. EI40 B°ok . for I0’1'* Re‘d iel’ips ‘ bott’® * every Certo- ot n More Jam or Jelly- So little juice has time to boil away that you get up to half again more jam or’ jelly From an equal amount of fruit. PUT CERTO ON YOUR. SHOPPING LIST TODAY and said “Oh, they’re just souvenirs. You pay for them in your hotel bill I” This souvenir-bunting business may be perfectly legitimaite, but somehow it doesn’t seem honest. It makes me think of the time that we raised six fine collie pups from infancyOto a point where they could be sold. Com­ ing out of Tim Murphy’s store the sound of a pup yapping in a tourist's car attracted my attention to where an overgrown boy of fourteen or fif­ teen was holding on to a pup, It was certainly one of the collies from Lazy Meadows, and the tourist who was having the car filled with gasoline ar­ gued that it was a souvenir they had picked up an a farmer’s laneway. Af­ ter several minutes hard argument he handed back the souvenir. Banks seldom make mistakes, In the village branch bank yesterday a man orated loudly on the swindling (tactics of the bank and cited the case loud enough for everybody to hear how he had just been cheated, The teller i checked up and paid him out foruteen cents of a mistake which he had made. That man was quite right in demanding his full amount, but it seems strange to recall how just a few weeks previously he cashed a cheque and received an extra Itwo dol­ lar bill. He didn’t take it back' be­ cause, as he expressed it, “The banks make it out of us anyway. They’ll make a mistake some day in their own favor and I won’t notice it!” Something for nothing! That’s the rule of the day with a great many people.. Of course, there’s always ap argument to make it seem honest. Take a day off in the Fall and come back in the middle of the afternoon. The chances are you’ll find somebody filling the back of their car with ap­ ples. Generally it’s some folks from the city . . some distant who say, “We knew you mind because you’ve got so this kind of stuff anyway.” Another very honest kind of man is the one who borrows you tools. He’s generally in a hurry . . . and he’s broken something ... or he’s going to town in the afternoon to. buiy one , . . and could he borrow such and such. Yes; he’ll bring it back aiti such and such, a .time, He’s- always careful to tell the exact time when it will be returned. Days' go by, and weeks . . | and years . . . and when you try to claim it he’ll profess ig­ norance of having ever borrowed' a certain hammer or saw. He claims to have the bill in the house showing where he purchased it. Perhaps he forgets!- How many men doctor up a heavey horse and then after propping him up in a corner say without flinching, “Sound as a dollar.” ‘It’s all in the spirit of good clean fun known as horse-trading. There’s no -harm in do­ ing it, of course; because the fellow you’re dealing with would do it to you. How many pounds of clay and sand have been sold as potatoes? We won’t discuss.' the men who fill up the centre of (the bags with a stove-pipe and stones. That’s dishonest. But it’s per­ fectly all right to sift four or five pounds of clay or sand into a bag of potatoes and sell it all by weight. Perhaps! The church is another institution in which .there’s fun to be had. Some men take the most delight in pawning off slugs and plugged nickels on the church. I guess they must think that clergymen have the right to use that kind of currency without danger of being classed as dishonest. My, oh my, but the human race has strange codes of .scruples. A maij who would take you to the Supreme Court "if you mentioned his being dishonest will do the strangest things just be­ cause he feels nobody knows the diff­ erence. GREAT BRITAIN’S UBIQUITOUS NAVY By “Taffrail” the famous British naval writer During the last few days brief Brit­ ish Admiralty communiques have told that strong naval forces have continuously been employed in the face of repated ^bombing attacks by German aircraft. Operations on land have been supported by gunfire from the sea. Parachute troops landing on beaches .and aerodromes have been shot up. Refugees in their hundreds have been brought to* England, from the Low Countries. The, details of this work are nat­ urally lacking, and the full story may never be known until tile end of the war. But one may imagine the instant readiness for action, and the intense watchfulness, Working off coasts. There can one in ships tions hi the face 6f a sudden, though not altogether unexpected, emergency, with tremendous things happening al­ most every minute. Apart from Ger­ man action, there are the navigation- required of the ships tho Dutch and Belgian be no real rest for any- working iin such condi- al dangers as well. Lighthouses and lightships have probably been exting­ uished, and buoys removed. The coasts of Flanders and South Holland are studded wi'th shoals and sand­ banks, Thick weather is not infre­ quent, and the tides are strong and uncertain. Though the Navy occasionally achieves a blaze of publicity with its more spectacular exploits like the de­ feat of the “Admiral Graf Spee”, the two battles of Narvik on April 10 and 13, and the hair-breadth adventures of .certain submarines, its daily work does not excite the imagination of the reading or listening public as do tales of personal gallantry or German sihips sunk. The number of mines swept up or destroyed is not published, and for very good reason. Nor are many ac­ counts published of U-boats attacked and sunk, or the total number des­ troyed since the war began. Reticence in this respect is enforced to avoid giving valuable information to the Germans. z Yet the Navy, every section of it, and the Merchant Navy as well, has been in action .since the war started. Consider the incessant work of the minesweepers and the patrol craft off the shores of Britain. They sweep the channels, and guard and protect Brit­ ish ports and coastwise shipping. Many of-these little, vessels, have been taken over from the Merchant Navy and the Fishing Fleet, and are man­ ned in great part from the officers and men ,of those Services. Their names sometimes appear in the Honours Lists; at other times as casualties. \vhich is inevitable. But we hear little j are yourself!” of .their work. Think also of the convoys and the convoy escorts, which must continue to run. if Britain is to be fed and main- • tained, whatever other active naval operation may be in progress in the North Sea and elsewhere. Their work has now been arduous and incessant for nine months, and if proof of their success be needed it is known that up to May, 8, 19,922 British, Allied and Neutral ships had been escorted in British convoys with a loss of thirty- one (ships. This works out at a loss of one ship in every 642. Take again ithe magnificent work of the British Fleet Air Arm, .that' comparatively young service manned by young men. In its thousands of miles of flying over thie open sea; in the defence of British (troops and ships in Norway; in its attacks upon Ger­ man bases, warships, transports and supply ships, the Fleet Air Arm .has -taken up into .the air the naval fight­ ing tradition of centuries. The Navy rather shuns publicity, and so does its sisiter Service, the Mercantile Marine. But of a truth the Grace before meals that some of us. were taught in our childhood may' well be taught again today: “For what: we are about -to receive, thank Godl an.d the British Navies.” “If I were you I wouldn’t be a fool,” said one man to another with whom he had been having a heated discus­ sion. “True,” replied the other, ’calmly, “The unfortunate part of it is that you AS BRITAIN SPEEDS HER TANK PRODUCTION Great Britain is making a mighty effort to meet the Nazi tank menace by putting her factories on a 24-hour working schedule. At TOP here you see an assembly line in one of the big English plants where these jugger­ nauts are turned out BELOW, a new tank is put .through its paces on the testing grounds, It is reported that English factories are rushing produc* lion on a new tank, one with a revolv* ihg turret whence caffigQfl can be fired at all angles and in all directions.