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Civilian Industry Too, Aids
ightily Canada's War Effort
BREWERS OF CANADA. PLAY IMPORTANT PART
a-
A NEW CLASS OF
ARMY MECHANICS
... arrives for a course of prac-
tical instruction in the Army
Mechanics Trade School, car-
ried on by John Labatt Limited
since 1941 as a contribution to
the war effort.
MAKING THE TOOLS
. . that will finish the job.
Employees of John Labatt
Limited turn out parts for
weapons of war.
The "non-war" industries of Canada today are
making a very definite contribution, in many
different ways, to the successful prosecution of
the war. Not the least of this extra help for the
war effort comes from the breweries of Canada,
which, apart from their intrinsic value in help-
ing to maintain the morale of civilians and
fighting men alike, are making noteworthy
direct contributions as well. Here, for example,
are some of the things one Canadian brewery
is doing to help win the war:'
At John Labatt Limited, century-old brewing
concern of London, Canada, all the usual ways
of helping the war effort—Victory Bond and
War Savings subscriptions, "backing" for the
men in uniform, advertising in aid pf war pro-
jects, and so on—were cheerfully undertaken
by both management and employees . . . then
they looked around for other ways to help-
TRAIN ARMY MECHANICS
In days of peace, a welcome sight to many a
motorist in distress were the huge streamlined
transports of Labatt's, which never failed to
offer practical help to a car in trouble. Behind
these trucks was a highly efficient maintenance
service audit was this service which suggested
an important part of Labatt's extra war effort.
Back in 1941, arrangements were completed
with the military authorities to operate in the
Company garage a trade school for army motor
mechanicS, utilizing the facilities of the garage
and the services of the Company's expert
mechanics as instructors. Since then, seven
classes of skilled mechanics have graduated
from this school, and a great deal of mechan-
ized equipment for the Arrny has been repaired
and overhauled by the student mechanics.
MACHINE SHOP INSTALLED
Then Canada's "bits and pieces" programme
offered an opportunity for a further contribu-
tion. Equipment for a complete machine shop
was purchased and installed in the Company's
garage. Employees of the Company's Hotel
Service Division, released from their regular
duties through restrictions on services, under-
took an intensive course of machine shop
training. Machines and men are now engaged
in turning out a steady strew.. of materials
for weapons of war.
CONSERVE RUBBER AND GAS
Months before restrictions were imposed on
the use of trucks, Labatt's began transferring
the bulk of its shipping from road to rail and,
even now, are far ahead of the regulations in
this respect. The mileage covered in the past
six months is less than one-third of that covered
in the same period of last year, and represents
a saving of almost 9,000,000 tire miles.
ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY
The management and workers of this Company
know that the present British Government,
remembering the experience of Britain during
the last war, regards brewing as an essential
industry. Munitions production, it has been
proved, is damaged if the working man is de-
prived of a reasonable supply of his beer.
a.
irk
THEN AND NOW
One of Labatt's famous stream-
liners in all her glory and.
another on the blocks in the
garage. Labatt's wholesale con.,,
version, from road to rail has
saved something like 9 million
tire miles in six months.
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TinursdaYI January 28, 1943 • WINOTIAM ADVANCE-TIMES PAGE 1.11'1
W .Wide .Ne:ws In Brief form
RedietriNtiOn Qf Seats?
Toronto, A Teronto paper said in
a news page story that .redistribution
of 'ridins to reduce Ontario Legisla-
tUre seats .from 9f to 75 is. reported
-te be -wider .consideration by Premier
Gordon .Conant's Cabinet In the last
Ontario redistribution the r. egislatere
was reduced from 112 to 90 seats in
TM,
Found Dead In.. 'Trailer
Brantfbrd Vernon Cormack, 39
and his 15,-year-old son, Russell, were'.
found dead today in an automobile
trailer,- believed to be victims of mon-
oxide poisoning. Their home was -,in
Embro.
Famous Persons Autograph Quilt,
Ottawa, — Canadians soon will have
an opportunity to see a collection of
more than 2,000 autographs of such
notable persona as Winston Churchill,
President Roosevelt, Princess Juliana.
Of the Netherlands 'and her husband,
Prince Bernhard, and Wendell
The autographs, embroidered on a
quilt, have been collected from all
parts of the world during the past year
by the wife of Air Marshal W. A,
(Billy) Bishop. • Recently the quilt
was assembled by nuns of die Good
Shepherd here. The design is based
on the shape of R.C,A.F. wings.
Berlin Gloomy Over Red Front
London, — Gloomy assessments Of
the-situation on the eastern front came
from German military commentators,
following the high command's admis-
sion that the German army at Stalin-
grad has been forced back several ,kil-
otnetres by a Russian breakthrough
from the west and that other Nazi
forces are retreating in, the Caucasus.
Clear Papuan District •
Allied Headquarters In Australia,-•
Exactly six months after the Japanese
began their Papuan campaign with a
landing at IGona, New Guinea, Allied
forces practically .ended it Friday by
shattering the last organized' resistance
around Sanananda. Point. Thus be-
came the first complete geopraphical
unit to be won back from the 'Jap-
anese. It consists of about 90,000
square miles and has a population of
about 300,000, mostly natives. -
Hope For Much Farm Aid
Toronto, — An army of farm help-
ers expected to reach 100,000 is to be
directed to aid in the farm labor short-
age in Qntario this summer, Alex Mc-
Laren, director; of farm services of the,
Ontario ,Government, said, clarifying
,an earlier statement that the entire
100,000 'would be school children. Mr.
McLaren said this figure •would in-
clude 25,000 or 30,000 high school
children and the balance would be
young men, women, older men and
others who' volunteer for the work,
,Rommel Flees From Tripoli
The British 8th Army have. taken
Tripoli and Rommel's forces are in
full_ flight into Tunisia in, an effort to
join other Axis forces there. It is es-
timated that he has 6 of the 12 div-
isions that he had at Alamein.- •
Plane With 19 Missing
Washington, — The United 'States
Navy announced that a large naval
transport plane with 19 persons aboard
is. more than .24 hours overdue in a
flight from Pearl Harbor to 'San
,Franciseo.
Food Shortage Getting Worse
Toronto, — Food shortage in Can-
ada is bad and it is getting worse, •M.
M. Robinson, director of the Ontario
Food Distribution Council told the.
final sessions of the two-day confer-
elide of the Ontario Fruit Growers'
Association. "It will keep on getting
,worse until the end of the war, and
for some time after," he added. "It
is due greatly to an experiment in•
„economics which fell down because in
application of the policy df price con-
trol the operators have fallen down."
May Be Shifted Into jobs
Ottawa, — New Selective Serviee
regulations providing for compulsory
transfer in civilian employment of per-
sons ha age groups subject to military
service were annoktneed by Labor
Minister Mitchell, The revised Selec-
tive Service civilian regulations, which
are effective immediately, consolidate
exsieting regulations and give new
power to. the labor minister to confer
with the armed forces and other.
Government departments and make
roCommendatiOns for co-ordination ,of
manpower programs,
U. 8. Plane Crashed
In New Guiana
Wasbingtort,-L-Thirty-five men Wire
killed when a 'United States transport
' plane bound for Africa crashed out the
deselat6 toast of Dutch Otilatta hi
South America, the War Departinelat
annotinced. It was the worst disaster
iii American Aviation history, 'Never.
flt,,..101,"91"-"' •
before had a single crash cost so many .
American lives, The victims included.;
Eric Reight„ English-born novelist
who wrote "This Above AM"
Tew Canadian-Designed
Plane Approved
Ottawa, — A Canadian designed
Flying Classroom is the "Mark V"
Anson aircraft which .received its. first
test flight under R,C.A.F, auspices'
here, Designed specially for training
navigators, wireless operators and
bomb .airners, the aircraft has a fusel-
age made of moulded plywood veneer
and two Pratt and Whitney engines
which replace the Jacobs engines in
the Ansons now in use in -R,C.A,F,
training establishments,
Employ Interned Seamen On Land?
Toronto, — Provincial GoVernment
authorities are negotiating with the
Federal ,Government to obtain 3,000
interned merchant seamen for use on
Ontario farms, A. McLaren, director
of faym training for the Provincial
Department of Agriculture, told the
afternoon sessions of the Ontario Fruit
Growers' Association conference,
Sink 5 Axis Subs
Rio De Janeiro, — Rear-Admiral
Jonas H. Ingram, commander of Unit-
ed States naval forces in the South
Atlantic, 'announced that five Axis
submarines have been sunk 'in the last
Month in the South Atlantic. .
Miners Back To Work
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., — Striking Pen-
nsylvania anthracite miners, obeying
President Roosevelt's order to "return
at once to the job of producing vitally
needed coal," ending their 22-day
strike.
To Re-Examine Rejected Volunteers
Ottawa, — Men in the age groups.
eligible for compulsory military serv-
ice who have already volunteered for
active service and been rejected for
medical reasons will have to undergo
another examination to establish their
status under the new registration, of
eligible men, labor officials' said.
Defense Minister Injured
Ottawa, — Defense Minister Ralston
suffered a fractured right' wrist and
cuts, one of which 'required six stitches
to close, in an automobile accident on
a snow-covered road just outside Ot-
tawa. The minister and his d'e-puty,,-Lt,-
Col. George S. Currie, suffered what
attending physicians described as
"painful injuries."
School Children Bombed
London, — German roof-top raiders
killed at least 30 school children and
buried 30 to 63 more and three teach-
ers beyond hope of life under tons of
debris in a swift but relatively small-
scale attack on London at noon. It
was the worst blow suffered by Lon-
don schobls since the blitz attacks be-
gan.
Nazis Have Many Subs
London, — In an attempt to keep
the tremendous output of Allied war
factories from the battlefields, Hitler
Was said by .British naval obse'rvers
to be maintaining 200 U-boats of his
fleet of perhaps 500 at sea all the time.
Dutch Princess Born In Ottawa
Ottawa, Princess Juliana of the-
Netherlands gave birth`, at Ottawa.
Civic Hospital to a daughter weighing
seven pounds, 12 ounces —• her third
girl and the first royal child ever
born in North America, Prince Bern-
hard, who flew from London to be with
his wife when the baby came, was the,
first to be informed and he said he•
was,"very happy and very-glad."
ShiPWreck Takes t5 Lives
Vancouver, Fifteen British Col-
umbia seamen perished when the
coastal freighter Nertholtit Was sunk
irt a wild Pacific storm, foundering
Se (middy that nine of them went
down with the ship. Of the eight who
escaped in a lifeboat, only two sur-
vived, •
PHIL OSIFER 'OF
LAZY 'MEADOWS
By Harry 3. Boyle
• Isn't it .Strange the way the world
changes. You can just take the case
of our Own township here. A few
years sago everybody made their own
br'ead and ehurned their OWIt cream
to make butter, /t was so handy to
have the trucks calling at the gate and
it got so that a fellow had to tell a
lie to get a reasonable excuse to go
into town, You know they even had
a 'fellow who came out here and chop-
ped the grist in the various different
barns,
It was certainly a handy way ot liv.
ing, Some of the farrnerS hi the
township evert sold their horses and
bought tractors and of course &every.,
body had to have a tat, The town-
ship plowed all the roads and it seem-
ed foolish for a fellow to keep horses
around the place eating their heads
off,
Along came the war. At first it .
• didn't affect us very much. Oh, we .
.a 0 t all worked up about it and started
each other bow patriotic we,
were, , load meetings and we hat-
ed the Hum and we said a lot that.
didn't mean very much when you took
it all apart, Soon the boys front the
farms around hero started going away,
Yap started missing them at church
and at dances. Then the hired men'
became scarce and you - could atardly
get on for love or money, We start,-
ed doing a little more thinking about
the war ,and started digging' down . a
little deeper when the Victory Loans'
came along.
Then we started to have rationing.,
We started to think ,about .food and
gasoline. We started thinking about
the people in Europe who have so lit-
tle to eat, We began thinking about
the war in an entirely different way.
It started coming home to us, Some
of the people started laying in sup-
plies, weak ones were beginning
to hoard.
Now you can take a look around
the township. The bread trucks are
still running on a sketchy sort of
schedule. Folks are ' thinking in
terms of -baking their own bread, Even
the newlywed who lives down on the
Second Concession has been into The .
village knying flour and asking people
for instructions as to how she can
bake bread. You never know when
the bake-wagons are going to stop
punning,
I just wish you could see our church.
shed on Sundays now, There's two
horses for every car, The older folks
like Gus Sandvich who never did.
bother to get a ear feel a lot better
'how. For yee.r:; Gus has been .telling, the older ways of living. It
us that the, automobile is only.a pass- me that the (elks in the village apt
mg fancy, I know he's going to say' till-Mug their garages- into hen-hollat*
The banker has two, hens set NM(
hatching eggs, Tim Murphy is having
a -chicken.house built in the 14,CIP•
yard. lies .11Qt going to, 'take ay
chances, Iie wants to be aUre•4
having eggs and the odd chicken to
eat in the ,coming year.
It seems funny. to know that many
of these ways are coming back,.. They
may be a .odd-fashioned but
they're dependable. I think we're dge#.
for a lot more .changes before the
war's
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the same thing about private air-
planes when. they cause i.nto force at
the end of the war.
Mrs, McGinnis bought. a Churn in
town the other day.. Mrs. Phil; had
me bring ours out of the woodshed.
where it's been in sort of temporary
retirement, She's going to make but-
ter tomorrow. As a matter of fact
butter is still being said in the full
rationed quantity but folks areh't -tak-
ing any chances,
A lot of people are going back to