The Wingham Advance-Times, 1940-11-07, Page 3A
Thursday, November 7, 1940 WINGHAM ADVANCB’TIMKS
Petain to End Free French
Vichy, France Henri Phillips Per
tain, marshal of France, told his de*
feated people that the Vichy Govern
ment kept “at least our sovereignty,”
in the deal with Hitler, and hinted
that his negotiations with the Axis
would spur new steps to unite the na
tion and stamp out the ‘‘Free French”
movement in the colonies,
To Make U.S. Type, Planes
New York — A decision by
Canadian Government to concentrate
all Dominion, aircraft production on
planes of United States design, which
might have far-reaching effects on de
fence of the Western Hemisphere,
was reported in United States avia
tion circles.
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Roosevelt Endorses Additional
Planes
Boston — President Roosevelt dis
closed that he has asked the National
Defence Priorities Board to give
“most sympathetic consideration” to
a British request for permission to
buy 12,000 additional planes in the
United States.
U.S. Navy In Secret Move*"
Washington — Secret movements
of United States naval forces in the
Eastern Caribbean area stirred consid
erable interest here. Warships and
planes appeared to be gathering in the
area of French possessions at the east
ern end of the Caribbean but there
’ was no explanation in official quart
ers.
join them, or. be assigned to similar,
duties beyond their present sphere of
.usefulness.
Not Going to U.S.
London — Neville Chamberlain is
sued a denial of a report published in
the United States that .he had gone
or is going to’ California. “I’m in
England,” he said, “and I haven’t the
slightest intention of leaving,”
British Mine Bay of Biscay
London — Laying of”a great new
minefield which closes the English
Channel and the Bay of Biscay to en
emy shipping was reported by the
British Broadcasting Corporation,
quoting an announcement by the Ad
miralty.
British Troops Land on Greek Islands
Salonika — British troops have
landed on Greek islands from troop
transports guarded by warships of the
British Mediterranean fleet, it was
learned authoritatively. The number
of British troops involved and the am
ount of equipment they brought could
not be stated, nor could the location
of the islands where they made their
landings.
Charge Police Asked Bribe
Port Credit — James Howard,*, a
Brantford businessman, said at a pub
lic inquiry here that two police offic
ers, Night Constable Harry Block, of
Port Credit, and Provincial Constable
Fraser Bell, asked him. for $10 to free
him from deten'tion on October 9th.
Turkey Continues Soviet Friendship
Ankara — Turkey will continue her
relations with Soviet Russia despite
all other occurrences,” the Turkish
radio announced. “Turkish-Russian
relations in this confused period are
unique,"
country,
es, will
Russia.
informed the Nationa’l Assembly that
Turkey would follow Russia’s lead
and stay out of the war for the pres
ent.
the broadcast said. “Our
despite all 'other occurrenc-
continue its relations,” with
The Turkish president had
Canadian Fells Nazi Plane
London — Leading his squadron for
the first time, a daring Canadian —
whose name may not be disclosed —
sent a Messerschmitt 109 plummeting
into the channel as his squadron form
ed the spearhead of a British counter
attack against Nazi planes striking at
a convoy in the Thames Estuary.
Sick Student- Wins Scholarship
Written while he was convalescing
from a serious operation,, the upper
school papers of Ralph Stanton, R. R.
No. 1 Lambeth, have netted him a to
tal of $700, according to an announce
ment made public. Already winner of
a university scholarship, the 16-year-
old graduate of the South Collegiate
has been awarded the Carter scholar
ship for having obtained the highest
standing in Middlesex County in ten
upper school papers.
Aircraftsman Killed
Kitchener — Leading Aircraftsman
Ross Armstrong; 23, of Winnipeg, a
member of the Royal Canadian Air
Force at Camp Borden, was killed
instantly when his R.G:A.F. training
plane crashed in a field near New
Dundee, 15 miles west of here.
Urge Training for War Industry
Toronto — Hon. Duncan McArth
ur; Ontario education minister, in an
address prepared for delivery here at
a meeting of the Public School Trust
ees’ Association, issued an appeal to
senior high school and collegiate boys
to fit themselves for productive work
in war industries.
Fleet Prepares for Drive
London — The naval correspond
ent of the Press Association said that
the 'British Mediterranean Fleet is
“passing from its present phase of ac
tivity to large-scale offensive.”
77 R.C.A.F. Men Casualties
Ottawa — The Royal Canadian Air
Force issued its ,18th casualty list con
taining the names of two men killed
in a flying accident and reported ;t.wo
other deaths in automobile accidents.
All deaths, 77 in number, occurred'in
Canada.
Canadian* Troops'May Go To Balkans
Ottawa — War reaching out into
the Balkans and the Mediterranean,
may take Canadian troops to one
place or the other, Australian and
New Zealand troops nOw are down in
Egypt or adjacent territory. Reports
circulate in what really are “inform
ed” circles here, 'that Canadians may
Canadian Ship Makes Two Rescues
Ottawa — A Canadian destroyer
has made two rescues in British wat
ers, Navy Minister Macdonald an
nounced in a statement issued at his
press conference. In two days, he
said, one destroyer rescued 118 per
sons from the S. S. Eurymedon and
S. S. Sulaira, both torpedoed by Ger
man submarines.
70 Days in Drifting Boat
Nassau, The Bahamas — Two Brit
ish seamen from the freighter Anglo-
Saxon, reported sunk by a Nazi raid
er 500 miles southwest of the Azores,
came to the end of a 70-day 2,500-
mile odyssey in an open 16-foot boat
during which their five companions:
perished. Their principle article of
diet had been seaweed. Two of their
companions, wounded when the raider
machine-gunned’ the boats, died. Two
others, crazed by heat and. thirst,
jumped overboard. The fifth cut his
throat with a razor. When their wat
er sup'ply was exhausted they manag
ed to catch some rain water, but dur
ing the last eight days they had no
thing to drink. Supplementing their
diet of seawbed had been one flying
fish and one gar fish which they were
able to catch.
Canadian Ship Lost
Ottawa — The former French
freighter St. Malo has been sunk by
enemy action while flying the Canad
ian flag and 28 of her crew, most of
whom were Canadians, are missing,
the Transport Department made
known. The vessel, a ship of 5,770
tons, was en route to the United
Kingdom, at the time* slie was .lost.
Selassie Plans to Lead Fight
London — Emperor Haile Selassie
of Abyssinia is now in the Sudan-pre
paring to lead the Abyssinian people
in their struggle against the Italians,
the British Broadcasting Corporation
reported.
the farm about them. His favorite
story concerned when he first settled
in the bush here and spent one win
ter on corn meal cakes and boiled po
tatoes with salt but no butter.
“You take a potato and cut it
and plant it in the moist earth,”
would say, as he helped himself
dinner-time to another plateful,
you get your seed back ten-fold and
the finest food" that it’s possible to
have come to your table.”
Just after dinner Grandfather would
light his pipe and picking up the hoe
from where it stood by the garden
gate he would stroll out to the potato
patch, With smoke eddying up from
his pipe he would hoe and carefully
tend to the tender young plants which
were just springing up through the
earth’s crust. Later on, as the weeds
became more troublesome, lie would
spend more time in the patch and, by
the “bug” season he was downright
busy. But the potato patch —was
grandfather’s kingdom and woe betide
anyone who strayed in there without
his permission,
Grandfather was prouder of the po
tato blossoms than any florist could
be over a rare flower. He was an ex
pert on the color of blossoms and he
would predict the crop from the size
and colour. '
How we delighted to tease him m
early summer about the neighbours
having new potatoes. The first time
we did fool him, and he went right ov
er to Neighbour Higgins’ place and
demanded to see their new potatoes.
That anyone could have new potatoes
before him was unthinkable. The nei
ghbours looked surprised, and Grand
father tanned us that night . . not
hard, but just enough to work the
edge off his temper. Of course, he
was sorry afterwards and we got nic
kels for candy.
How proud he was that first day
when he came in with the old granite
dish filled with new potatoes. He
washed them and put them in the pot
and boiled them himself with just the
proper amount of salt. He beamed
with happiness that day and made a
special trip in to the village to tell
the crowd at Murphy’s General store
.... in a very casual way of course
. . . “We had a nice meal of new
potatoes today.”
Grandfather anxiously scanned the
skies for rain in those last few weeks
before the stalks wilted. He dreaded
what he called, the “plague on the ta-
ers,” but I can never remember his
crop having"it.
On picking day he allowed us in
the patch. But he always took the
plow handles for the plowing out of
the potatoes. He hated to see potatoes
sheared by a plow, because to him
that was a waste of time and effort.
Grandfather stored the potatoes.
There had to be just so many in
each bin . . . and he put so many in
the pit ' carefully prot'ec'ied by
straw before the earth was thrown in
on top of them. As Spring approach
ed he could be found “snagging” the
potatoes and picking them over . . .
and as he used to say, '“Just sort of
enjoying myself.”
The potato crop at Lazy Meadows
Was poor this year. Somehow I think
that if Grandfather had been he’re . ,
weather notwithstanding . . . there
would have been a good >crop.
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money?
VEGETABLES NEEDED
AS PART OF DIET
Why—the money in the banks! The money care
fully put away by you and your neighbours in savings accounts. The
money you could have spent today but wanted to keep safely against some
future need. The businessman’s money for use in his normal operations.
There are more than 4,846,000 bank deposit accounts, savings and current.
Within these two classes the great majority of deposits are small or of
moderate amount. <£ But you’d be wrong if you assumed from this, that
the rest of the deposits are owned by the few! Quite the contrary! The
railways, for instance, have deposits in the chartered banks — and that
indirectly includes the whole population of the Dominion. The trade
unions have deposits. Millions of policy-holders share in the ownership
of insurance companies’ deposits. <I,And don’t overlook the deposits of
wheat pools; farm co-operatives; churches; municipalities and municipal
hydro commissions, school districts; school children’s penny bank savings
deposited with the chartered banks; and commercial and mining corpora
tions with very wide lists of shareholders, large and small, all over Canada.
Truly, money on deposit in Canada’s chartered banks is owned, in fact, bjr
you and your fellow-Canadians..
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Buy $5,000,000 Daily In U.S.
Washington — Canada and Great
Britain are spending about $5,000,000
a day in the United States for war
materials to aid in their death-struggle
with’ Hitlerism and its allies. They
would spend more if the needed air
planes. and other equipment were av
ailable in greater quantity—as they
soon will be.
Women Received M.M.
London — The Militay Medal has
been awarded to three women of the
W.A.A.F., it was announced. It was
the first time such a decoration has
been awarded to the women members
of the Royal Air Force.
PHIL OSIFER OF
LAZY MEADOWS
By Harry J. Boyle
“POTATOES”
Potatoes are one thing on the farm
that seem to be taken for granted.
Such was not the case when Grand-
■father was alive. In the bright, warm
sunshine of the early Spring we cut
them up. Sitting on the upturned nail
keg at the door to the root house,
basking in the sunlight and deftly slic
ing the potatoes so as to have an eye
in each piece, Grandfather was his
happiest.
With fingers grimy and stained lie
would pause to illustrate his yarn by
waving the stubby, sharp knife with
Which Ito was Cllttftig tlto “paddies”.
Grandfather was one man who apprec
iated potatoes and, on that planting
day he nttattaged to tell everybody on
Do you eat enough vegetables?
Valuable as they are in minerals and
vitamins, vegetables must be included
in the things we eat. So states an ar
ticle in the current issue of the maga
zine “Health”, prepared by 'the nutri-
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The other 32 grams will be obtained
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In war, as in peace, Canada’s Chartered Banks maintain, uninter
rupted, their useful services — safeguarding depositors’ funds;
J the nation’s business — looking forward to peace
freedom as the only sure basis of enduring prosperity.
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ition committee of the Health League
of Canada.
• Not all vegetables are equally valu
able from a nutritive point of view,
the article points out. Some vegetab
les supply iron, others do not. We get
Vitamin A from one kind of veget
able and vitamin C frorq another.
Cabbage, spinach and carrots are
goo d sources of vitmain A, which is
necessary to maintain normal vision
and to prevent disease. Green cab
bage is much richer in vitamin A than
white cabbage. The outer leaves of
cabbage are more valuable than the
inner part.
Without vegetables and fruit, peo
ple would be deprived of the import
ant vitamin C, which safeguards us
against scurvy. Tomatoes, cabbage,
turnips and potatoes are chief sources
of this vitamin. Orange juice and to
mato juice also are good.
Cabbage and green leaved veget
ables are valuable in their iron con
tent, needed to prevent anaemia.
Dried beans are also good iron pro
ducers. At least two vegetables should
be served every day.
Among the necessary body mater
ials are: proteins, certain minerals and
vitamins. Proteins may be obtained
from many sources, but not all are of
equal value as body building material.
Those obtained from meat and veget
ables are superior to those we get
from grain, vegetable and nuts, for ex
example. Meat and fish, therefore, are
advisable In our regular diet.
The average man needs about 70
grams of proteins a day. Experts
agree that a large portion 'of these
should be drawn from milk, cheese,
eggs and meat or fish, The following
table shows the quantity derivable
from each!
glasses of milk ..... ..........18 grams
one-inch cube of cheese...6 grams
egg ................... ...........„.....6 grams
normal slice beef ..................... 8 grams
STANDARD POTATO
BAGS“TABLE
POTATOES*’ TAG
Now that the height of, the season
for potato grading, packing, And ship
ping is here, the Bruit and Vegetable
Division of the DomifriOii Department
of Agriculture offers the reminder
that a change in standard potato bag
sizes became effective last season, It
became illegal to use the old SO and
90 pound potato sacks.
Standard potato bag weights are
now 100 pounds, 75 pounds, 50
pounds, 25 pounds, and 15 pounds.
When potatoes are packed in paper
bags in retail stores for sale conven
ience, they should be packed in mul
tiples of 5 pounds, that is to say, 5,
10 or 15 pounds. All potato bags must
be properly marked to indicate the
name and address of the packer, the
proper designation of the grade, and
the net weight when packed.
The Marketing Regulations contain
a new stipulation to the effect that
tags attached to potato bags, or to
branded potato bags, must include the
words “Table Potatoes”. This proced
ure was found necessary in order to
prevent the sale of table potatoes as
seed potatoes, and to establish the
fact that potatoes grown and packed
as table stock must not be sold as cer
tified seed potatoes.
. The 1939 regulations also include a
standard potato crate. This crate is
commonly called the Argentine Crate;
and was standardized With the dim
ensions 28 inches x 14 and a half in
ches x 14 and a half inches with a.
centre partition three-quarters of an
inch thick for the export trade of cer
tified seed potatoes, principally to the
Argentine. However, this package has
become popular and is now used in.
other channels of trade.
Buried under the debris of her home which was Wrecked by Nazi-
bombs, this girl comes up smiling after being rescued by Air Baid Pre*
caution workers, a grimy fate was the extent of the damage suffered
by her*