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People Flee South Italy, Fear R.A.F.
London — Great numbers of civil
ians are leaving southern Italy "fright
ened by the activities of the Royal Air
Force against objectives close to their
cities,” the BBC reported. The BBC
added that reports from the Italian-
Swiss frontier speak of “growing un
rest” in Italy, There also was unrest
among Albanians serving against the
Greeks, the BBC said.
Wilkie Back Roosevelt To The Limit
New York — Challenging Socialist
leader Norman Thomas’ opposition to
the president’s “Iease-|ehd” proposal
for aid to Great Britain, Wendell L.
Wilkie called upon "all Americans” to
give President Roosevelt all the power
he needs so "that we can debate with
him again in another free election.”
Britain Stole Canada from France,
Says Vichy
Vichy**-— The Vichy Government
propaganda ministry which for more
than two weeks has taken a violently
anti-British tone, asserted that Britain
stole Canada and Egypt from France
and the an'them--"God Save the King”
as well. The words and music for that
hymn, the statement asserted, were in
fact written for Louis XIV.
Nazis May Absorb Rumania
Belgrade—-Reports of repeated bor
der clashes on the Russo-Rumanian
frontiers, cancellations of passenger
rail traffic in Hungary and’ reports
that Germany would take over Ru
mania combined to keep the Balkans
in anriety. •
Americans Freed in Spain
Reach Homeland
Washington — After many months’
captivity four American citizens who
have been prisoners of war in Spain
since the downfall of the Madrid Re
public returned to the United States
as free men. Sixteen other Americans
still are held in Spanish prison camps,
but their release- is expected as a re
sult of negotiations under way between
the United States and Spanish Gov
ernments.
Liberal Party Scored by Hanson
Toronto — Hon, R. B. Hanson,
Conservative House leader, said in an
.address here that “subversive, elements
within the Liberal party” and lack of
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national leadership were to blame for
the abrupt ending of the Ottawa con
ference on, Dominion-Provincial rela
tions.
ther left an old tin box, but it was
locked and,there was no key, so it had
never been opened. The box was bro
ken open and deposit notes and Gov
ernment stocks, worth £20,000 ($89,-
000)- were found. /
Hepburn Never Hinted Election
Toronto —- I’remiep Hepburn said
that “I have neither said nor hinted
that there is going to be an election
and neither have my ministers.” The
premier’s statement was made in an
swer' to a request for comment on re
ports that his stand against the recom
mendations of the Royal Commission
report on Dominion - Provincial rela
tions indicated a spring election in
Ontario. u
Two Men Entombed
In Mine Cave-In
Timmins — One man is dead, two
still buried, and one telling of a nar
row escape from death following a
cave-in at the Hollinger Consolidated
Mine workings near here early Friday,
The body of Fred Ladoucer, 45, was
recovered shortly after the accident,
and workers still were digging Friday
night, in the vicinity of the cave-in,
in an attempt to discover whether the
two other men caught in the slide of
sand are alive,
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$re safer more modern
1,900 U.S. Aircraft
Sent to Britain, Canada
New York — The Aeronautical
Chamber of Commerce of America an
nounced nearly 1,900 military aircraft
were turned over'to Britain and Can
ada in 1940, compared with approxi
mately 300 in 1939. Basing its reports
on United States Government statist
ics compiled at Washington, the
chamber said acceleration in delivery
was particularlj’- marked during the
last half of the year.
U.S. Troops Sail to Newfoundland
New York — ‘The first contingent
of American soldiers to leave for mili
tary bases recently acquired from Gt.
Britain, sailed for Newfoundland from
the Brooklyn army base on the old
German liner Amerika, seized by the
United States in the First Great War
and refitted as the “swankiest” army
transport afloat.
BLOOD DONORS WANT
ED
Predicts . France May Again Be
Britain’s Ally
Ottawa — Genevieve Tabouis, form
er French ^newspaperwoman, predicted
that France may become an Ally of
Britain again by spring. Speaking at
a meeting of th'e Women’s Canadian
Club, MMe. Tabouis forecast that af
ter the defeat of Hitler, France would
form a “fourth republic” with a con
stitution resembling that of Britain.
Canada Is Represented
At Radio Conference
Washington — Representatives of
Canada, the United States and four
Latin-American countries opened a
radio engineering conference at the
United States State Department to
harmonize actions of the radio admin
istrations of the six nations. The other
countries represented were’Cuba, Do
minican Republic, Haiti and Mexico.
The main purpose is to consider as
signment of frequencies to broadcast
ing stations in the standard broadcast
ing band.
Early Ontario Election Looked For
As Result of Hepburn Stand
Ottawa — Political circles in the
capital kept an alert-watch for devel
opments in the Ontario political situ
ation as a result of Premier Hepburn’s
stand at the Dominion-Provincial Con--
ference. In some circles' an early an
nouncement of a provincial election
was looked for. ' It was thought Mr.
Hepburn might seek the endorsation
of the voters of the province for his
action in opposing implementation of
the report of the Royal’ Commission
on Dominion-Provincial relations. The
last Ontario general election was *in
the autumn of 1937 and the present
Legislature still has nearly two years
to be gefore an election is necessary.
Bonus On Cheese If Butter
Pegged Price Is Removed
Two moves in the battle of butter
were made Friday. Acting on.the re
commendation of Hon. J. G. Gardiner,
based on a-promise made to the farm
conference last week, the federal Cab
inet, by order-in-council granted the
-'War Prices Board power, along with
other new powers, to fix a minimum
price for butter. But the situation was
further complicated by an offer from
Premier Hepburn to Mr. Gardiner of
a two-cent a pound bonus on all Ched
dar cheese produced in Ontario if the
board would remove the fixed maxi
mum price on butter and permit a free
market. Mr. Gardiner said the offer
would be submitted to the Cabinet.
Lived as Pauper But Had $89,000
London — Elizabeth Perrott lived
in poverty for 26 years, earning her
living as best she could, sometimes
selling flowers in the street and some
times working as an office cleaner.
Her father, Nathen William Perrott,
had been a wood turner and lived in
a frugal way. He died at 90. The cur
ate asked Miss Perrott if she had any
relatives or papers. She said her fa-
Dr. Sirois Dies in Quebec City
Quebec — Dr. Joseph Sirois, 59-
year-old chairman of the Dominion
Unemployment Insurance Commission
and former chairman of the Rowell-
Sirois Commission on Dominion-Pro
vincial relations, died in hospital here
Friday. 'Dr. Sirois had been ill several
weeks. His death came less than two
days after he had been ^informed of
the collapse Of the conference between
Dominion and Provincial authorities
called to discuss recommendations of
WHEN HARMONY REIGNEDAT OTTAWA CONFERENCE
support from Premier Pattullo of British Columbia
and Premier Aberhart of Alberta. Mr. king told thei
Premier Hepburn of Ontario, Prime Minister king
•nd Premier Godbout of Quebec are pictured here It?
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bf their more happier moods at the opeftitig of assembled provincial leaders, “We meet here a*
the D^Mmon-provlfteiftl oonfeteiiw at Ottawa. Pre- partners in the great enterprise of * furthering the
micr Hepburn was the bitterest opponent of the
Sirois recommendations and hi* Objectloru received
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common interest of out country,"
V
It was the late Dr. Bruce Robert
son, of Toronto, working in a casualty
clearing station in France during the
last war,' who developed the use of
blood transfusion for the relief of
shock and loss of blood, which since
that time has saved countless thous
ands.
Until quite recently the blood used
was required to be from persons of
the same blood type as that of the re
cipient, that is, if the latter’s blood
was of Type A, the blood of the donor
must also be of Type A.
Now, thanks to researches made in
the Connaught Laboratories, Toronto,
by the phsysiologl&t there, Dr. Charles
Best, and his associates, a new and
much simpler product is come into
general use. This is the dried serum
or plasma of the blood. Dr. Best has
been sending this dried blood plasma
overseas for the last year. Plans are
now underway for an extensive sup
ply, and in order to facilitate the pro
vision for this spuply blood is being
called for from 2,000 donors.
Fluid blood, in what is known as
blood banks, will keep only for about
2 weeks. The plasma—the light-color
ed fluid which rises to the top of a
collection of blood — is drawn off and
dried to a powder. This powder con
tains all the requisites needed for
transfusion. It keeps indefinitely and
all that is necessary to make it ready
for use is to add the proper amount
of sterile water. The new product is
convenient, readily transported and
■the doctor using it may forget all he
has learned about the former necessity
of using only blood from a person
with the same type of blood as the pa
tient.
Three months ago the Connaught
laboratories obtained a vacuum mach
ine for making the powdered bioocL
This machihe — the first of its kind
in America *— cost $5000. By means
of this machine the blood serum is
rapidly separated from its contained
water and dried in the frozen state.
There will be no difficulty in obtain
ing the needed 2,000 donors. The stu
dents of the University themselves
will be able to provide a large number
of donors. It is impossible to envis
age the importance of this discovery
to soldiers, sailors and others who suf
fer from the consequences of war.
ANOTHER LETTER
' • FROM ENGLAND
The following letter was received
recently by Mrs. George Williams and
tells of the spirit of the people of
Southampton.
The Laurels, Southampton,
Dec. 9th, 1940
My Dear Emily:
(Mrs. Geo. Williams)
You will like to know that we are
all safe and well after that dreadful
blitz of a week ago. Ethel and I had
gone to spend a week with Mabie at
Leues. I had five days leave and as
luck would have it, I decided to leave
at the last minute. We also had a very
nasty time the previous Week. I was
out with an ambulance while bombs
dropped all around me. My dear, the
devastation in^the town is appalling,
long stretches of the main shopping
centre without a building standing. All
the large stores are flat. I can think
of eight churches straight off destroy
ed. Out new Civic Centre with its
towers and clock and chimes which
played "O God, our help in ages past’'
four times a day, is also ruined.
We have no gas, and all water has
to be boiled 20 minutes because of
contamination through burst mains.
However, the military people ate busy
blasting down shells of buildings and
tidying up, though the task is colossal.
The biggest store of ail in town, where
they sold anything and everything in
their various departments, and is burnt
completely out, nothing left standing,
has already filled three small shop
windows a short distance away and
NO “SITTING
OR LOITERING
Ever return to your cpr
and find a stranger — or
strangers—sitting on the
running board? It can't
happen here, for Chevro-
let has no running boards.
SAFER, EASIER
ENTRANCE & EXIT
Simply open the door and
take one step out — not
two — cither UP into the
car or DOWN on to the
pavement. You'll find It
much safer, much easier.
put up this notice in very bold type,
“EDWIN JONES STARTS AGAIN’’
and that, I think, is the spirit of South
ampton. The telephone exchange had
a direct hit, so all telephones are use
less. What a tale to tell.
Good-bye dear, for the present. 1
hope that you and yours are all well
and happy, and have a nice Christmas
together.
Much love, affectionately yours,
Lome Waller,
PHIL OSIFER OF
LAZY MEADOWS
By Harry J, Boyle
“HOME-MADE HAIRCUTS”
A gentleman in New York City,
raised on the back concessions of On
tario has written to this column ask
ing, “Where has the porridge bowl
haircut gone to? I was particularly
disappointed on my last trip home to
find that there wasn’t a single lad at
church on Sunday with one of the
old fashioned haircuts.”
The porridge bowl haircut is not as
common as it once was, but it’s still
in style on our concession for at least
one family,
farm to us,
with times
money for
doesn’t come too easy.
Last week there was a patriotic con
cert at the school house and I hap
pened to be over at the Jenkins home
in the afternoon. Sitting on the nail
keg in the back kitchen was the oldest
boy, just turning fourtoeh, .while the
head of the household was sitting on
one of the kitchen chairs plying his
trade of household barber,
With one of his mother’s aprons
wrapped around his shoulders, the lad
sat hunched forward while his Dad
had the clippers and a substantial-
looking bowl of some kind,
"I guess the lad will have to start
The Jenkins family, next
is a rather large one, and
as they are at present, the
haircuts for seven boys
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going to the barber for his haircuts,”
remarked
the bowl
bowl and
for it.”
Sure enough the bowl sat up pretty
well on his head. I noticed then a
stack of bowls of the same color on
the table, and as the afternoon pro
gressed, saw the Dad use different siz
es as the buys were called in their
turn fur the hair-cutting process.
Ed Jenkins is not what you would
call an artistic sort of person, I not
iced that he sheared up to a certain
point at the bowl’s rim. When the
bowl was removed the fringe was
trimmed off straight around the head,
leaving the impression that the lads
were wearing skull caps.
Growing quite emphatic in his argu
ments over the Hon. Jimmy Gardin
er’s farm conference in London, the
bowl slipped on the head of the third
lad, and he sliced a white strip almost
to the top of the head. Ed looked al
it for several minutes, muttered to
himself and pushed his glasses back
up on his nose and then proceeded to
trim the hair up to a tidy top knot.
The results were startling to say the
least, and hot unlike those lurid pic
tures of Apache Indians. The Jenkins
boy has freckles and two rather preem
inent teeth, and I must say I had rath
er a hard job to keep a straight face,
when he slipped off the nail keg and
grinned, when he found that his cap
was too big for his head which seem
ed to shrink after the clipping process.
A home-made haircut was a badge
of courage in my day. It seems like
yesterday to consider the times we
went into the village on a Saturday
afternoon and, with that trait of all
boys wanting to explore the store win
dows alone, my cousin and I wander
ed off by ourselves. In front of the
Murphy Emporium two of the village
boys started yelling, "The rats been
at your hair?” This taunting cohtin*
ue’d down past Miss Abigail Farnoon’g
Millinery and the old creamery and
Ed Jenkins as he clamped
down, “That’s our largest
he’s getting loo big a head
then on the broad expanse of a vacant
lot we settled the question.
We won the battle. I believe to this
day that the advantage of not having
hair to grab, over the two village boys
with ordinary, tairly long hair, was
what won the day for us. We didn’t
mind the home-made haircuts in those
days. There came a day, however,
when a certain, pert, little miss on the
Main Street looked at me and smiled
. . , and tor the first time I was thor
oughly conscious of the haircut. After
a persistent campaign, Father handed
me a quarter, one day and told me to
get my hair cut at Jim Slick’s barber
shop . . . reminding me as I left,
“Tell him io cut it up fairly high so
the haircut will last lunger.”
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