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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1943-08-26, Page 30•11•••• MAYBE you're making bombs or tanks or plane pairs or ships—but the real 013, the big job today is delivering the stuff right into the heart of enemy country. No job is more essential today than sweeping enemy planes from the skies; than blasting half-Made U-boats back into scrap petal. If you're a fit, young Canadian eager to do your bit, there's a place for you in aircrew. There are fast training planes and skilled instruc- tors waiting to help you get wings and get into the fight more quickly than ever before. And the specializedtraining you get today as a member of an R.C.AX. Aircrew will help you take your place in the skyways of tomorrow. Make up your mind to get into the fight now. See your nearest R.C.A.F. Recruiting ,Centre today. if you are phvically fit, mentally alert, over 17 1/2 and not yet 33, you are eligible for aircrew Iratning. You do not require a High School Education. You can be in uniform at once! Aircrew Needed Now for immediate Training as PILOTS NAVIGATORS BOMBER'S AIR GUNNERS WIRELESS OPERATORS (AIR GUNNERS) CANADIAN Recruiting Centres are located in the principal cities of Canada. Mobile recruiting units visit smaller centres regularly. AC..5W YOU ARE ELIGIBLE An TIRES • We can tell you in sixty seconds whether you are or not;; whether you're entitled to retreading or tire repairs in accordance with the regulations. But regardless of your rating, you can do yourself and your tires a handsome favour today by coming in to discuss the very best ways and means of keeping your present tires "going" to the very last thread of vitality that's in them-- and there's probably lots of it. Not tomorrow—come in TODAY: BERT ARMSTRONG Phone 181 MURRAY JOHNSON - Phone 62 Wingha,m, Ontario Thursday, August 26th, 1943 WINGIIAM ADVANCE-TIMES PAGE THREg cmincHaa Go MINE IN A CA41,47W LETTERS FROM OVERSEAS IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND This is a letter from Ken. J. Pen- nington, R, 'C, A. 5, C., which was . written to his wife at Goderich, Ken, prior to enlisting was manager of the" Wingham l3ranch of the Dominion Stores, His wife was the former Louise Dore of Wingham, The letter is copied from the Goderich Signal- Star, Ken recently arrived in Eng- land, He writes in parts; The scenery is really 'beautiful over here; it is so different from anything I have ever seen before, In' the out, shirts of the towns the arouses are very large, with „high stone walls around. them, They are called estates. They' have around twenty rooms in them and. all rooms ,have a fireplace, In the towns they are very close together and. are more like apartment houses, all exactly the same. The streets are very narrow and the cars are much. smaller than ours and travel on the opposite side of the road. There are just about as many bicycles here as there are people. Most of them are double bikes, called tandems. A lot of .them have a side-car for the baby, I forget to mention that the houses here do not have shingles; instead they use red tile, It's really beautiful, The trains here are quite small com- pared with our own. The freight cars are about the size of our garage, only not so wide, They are On spoked wheels and look quite strange. We got one pound'in English money on the boat; that is equal to $4.47 in Canadian money.,Cigaretttes were sold on board for ten/cents a large package, so I got quite a few packages. They are hard to get over here and very ex- pensive. Clothes and shoes are very nice; but they are also very expensive, and are rationed. It is very common to see a woman walk down the street with ka cigarette in her mouth, and they never wear stockings, as they can't get them. People go into the pubs and buy a drink just as you would go for a coke. They serve it from a bar and men and women drink together._ You also buy whiskey or gin or anything you want. I was in, town 'Sunday night and tasted the beer. I walked out and left it on the bar. It certainly tastes awful, so you won't have to worry about me drinking. While on the-boat I met quite a few people you and I know quite well. I Will try to name 'as many as I can. 'They were Tapper Grey, Dave Murray; `Frank Hopper, Ted Elliott, Porky Mitchell, Geo. Tervitt and Bob Heth- erington from Wingham, and Neil Thompson, Bob Mahon, Harvey Kirk, Wr1d Wide News In Brief Form Mrs. Winston Churchill and her daughter Subaltern Mary Churchill of Britain's A.T.S., take a ride in a picturesque Quebec calech4 10,000-ton freighters down The ways Within four 'hours, and placing another in the water in the rocord time of 39 days. The previous 47-day keel-to- launching record was held by a Van- couver shipyard. ed, but still not as good as we had in Canada. We don't have butter, but margarine instead. There is no white' bread in England; it is brown, called "Hovis". I have heard of it in Canada. Shy Held in Canada Ottawa—Royal Canadian Mounted Police authorities confirmed that. Bar- on Hans von Kotve, German reported involved in an Axis spy ring smashed in Brazil, had been detained in 'Can- ada, but declined further details. Editor's Note—The following letter is from DeWitt Miller, stationed in Ceylon, to his mother. We are sure it will prove interesting to our readers. At the station where De is located they issue a paper called "Tropic T9P- ics." It is a breezy interesting sheet and De is one of the three editors. The letter: 4E143 Dear Mother Well I met another fellow who has heard of 'Wingham. His namens Mac- Nall :and he just came to this squadron from England. He was on the same squadron with Charlie McKibbon.. As soon .as he heard I was from Wing- ham he asked me if I knew Charlie. Apparently they were very good friends and have been together for Some time. He was saying Charlie was always talking about good old Wingham on the Maitland and he thought that prettty nearly everybody in the town sent parcels to Charlie be- cause he received more parcels than all the rest of them put together. Well right then 'and there I took over where Charlie left off and I told him the people of Win.gham Were just like that. They were the finest people in the world and they really did look after their boys. I too get more parcels and letters from home than perhaps any- one else in the camp. Some of the boys asked me if I am being paid by the Wingham Chamber of Commerce to advertise our little town because I am talking about it all the time. When anbyody asks me where Wingham is I tell them it is the biggest little town in Canada and is the closest place to Heaven in this old world. A town is not judged by the number of people it has but by the kind of people who live in it. That really shakes these city slickers, I felt sorry for these boys. They have never had the op- portunity of living in a small town where you know everybody and every- body knows you. Well so much for Winghain, How are you getting along. Your letters have kind of fallen off lately. I know you ate writing all the time and some of these days 1 will The Pas, Man.—Electors of the far- get them altogether. I received a flung northern constituency of The grand big pareel from you the other day. Everything arrived in pretty good condition considering the dis- tance it had to come and the rough landing it would get, Would you thank all those swell people for me who help- ed make the parcel up. I wish I could write to them all personally but it costs so much filmic yto sent air let- ters and sea mail takes such a long time, I along with the rest of the boys in our house have enjoyed every bit of it and extend our thanks to my friends. Things are much the same as ever down here. It gets pretty monotonous soinetintes but we are hoping this old War will soon be over and we will he home again. Please take good care of yourself and reineiriber what the Happy gang used. to sign off with,. "Remember above all to keep Happy won't you," Please write 'real soon arid often, I Was very sorry to hear of Mrs, beans* death in Ottawa, I She was just like mother OthCr to me when I was 'Stationed there, Shorty Stoddart and Alvin Gilders from Goderich, also Fred Mundy and the General Foods traveller I used to buy groceries from. I don't know where any of them are now, as we are all by ourselves at present. Soap is very scarce over here and you have to have ration coupons to get it. I don't know whether we get coupons or not, but if you send a par- cel. you can drop a couple of cakes in. The meals are better than I expect- Badoglio See Return Of Sicily Berne—Admitting Allied Might had forced Axis abandonment of Sicily, ,Marshal Pietro Badoglio,• Italian pre- mier:, implied future return of the war- torn isle of •Italy and brought the country's First Great 'War Leader, Victor Orlando, out of his anti-Fascist retirement to .cheer his fellow Sicilians. Sicilian Casualties •It has been announced that Cana- dian casualties in the Sicilian cam- paign from July 10 to August 4 total- ed 1,895 men—made up of 385 dead, 1,200 wounded, and 310 missing, ,Sicilian Conquerors Ready To Go Allied Headquarters In North' Af- rica—Two superb armies in Sicily—the British 8th and American 7th—are "ready to go :at any minute" in bold new offensives, Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hower declared, reporting that the Axis 'Post more that 17;000 men killed wounded and captured on the island up to August 10th. Drill For Gas Under Lake Chatham—Sponsored by the West Petroleum, of Toronto, an ambitions project for drilling a gas 'well a mile off shore in the bed of Lake Erie will get underway at the end of the present week. The locatiOn will be opposite the Romney or southern end of the famous Tilbury ,gas field. This is not the first time a gas well has been drill- ed in the bed of Lake Erie. Preach, Refuse Crops Berne--French patriots have inten- sified their activities, burning crops in the fields and in the bins and destroy- ing German threshing machines, de- spite the Vichy Government's order applying the death penalty to saboteurs reports reaohing here said. C. C. F. Won Manitoba' Seat Pas elected 29-year-old l3eresford F. Richards, C. C. F., to the Manitoba Legislature, succeeding John Bracken former Liberal-Progressive Premier, who represented the riding for more than 20 years. New Commander At Port Albert There has been a change in com- manding officers at No. 81, A. N. S. Port Albert, Group, Captain A. V. Box, A. F. M. 'of the. R. A. P. succeeding Group Captain R. L. Crofton, who is returning to England after two years spent in Canada. The new C. O. has seen considerable tornbat service in the present conflice, war, Besides being used for uniform fabrics, it is made into anti-gas 'and camouflage cloth, aircraft fabrics, web equipment,. tire,fabric, powder bags, rifle slings and Parachute stratmings. These are but a few of this war pro- ducts being funned out ht increasing quantities by the cotton mills of Can- ada, Record Gas Coupon Theft Harbilton, Ont., — Thieves made Hamilton's third largest gasoline cou- pon theft of the year-41,900 loose coupons, largely uftcanceled, the equiv. alent of 148,700 gallons of black mark- et gasoline, when they broke into the Cities Service Oil Company office here, 'Combing is not a ritual reserved for blue-ribbon show dogs or for some young thing's tresses, It is 'one 'of the ,proeesses by which the finest cot- ton textiles are prepared for war p'ur- poses, In' the picture above, a wo- trait worker Is making certain that her eortibing inachint removes all impuri- ties from the cotton rolling off the fuzzy bales. Cotton i'S'fighting in rtfriS Love, 'be Harmony At Quebec Conference QUebcc, — Indicating complete har- mony among the chiefs of staff and rapid progress in drafting a victory blueprint foi- Europe, President Roan- volt and Prime Minister Churchill took to 00 quiet Laurentian country above Quebec for relaxation in fishing and to spend a few hours in the open'. air, R. E, I, E lection Sept, 15 Charlottetown, — A general election has been"called for Sept. 15, in Prince Edwar,d Island, it was 'announced. Premier J, Walter Jones, sworn in as head of the Liberal Goevrnment only three Months ago,' will lead his party to the polls for the first time. Pos. In Retreat From Salamaua Allied Headquarters In The South- West Pacific,—Japanese jungle troops are in full flight from the mountain ridge defences before .Salarnatia„ New Guinea, and, are falling back on the inner. defences of the ,air base, Allied, headquarters announced, Denmark Leaders 'May Back Rebellion Stockholm, ---Danish political lead- ers met in Copenhagen to consider the Government would back an open re- hellion of the people against the Nazi occupation and 'war services, or yield part of its justice administration to the Germans. Italian King Spoke To Sicilians London, — King Victor Faninanuel told Sicilians in a Proelamation broad- cast by the Rome radio that the pres- ent isolation of Sicily from the rest of Iitaly "will not last for 1,eng" and he made no mention of continued prosecution of the war. 40-itt Beat Japs Washington—The British informa- tion service said that ,a .special British mission -headed .1),y 'Maj,-Gen. S. .Letlihridg.e, Royal Engineers, has .ar- rived ,here for studies looking to "max- ianum British co-:operation with the United States in future operations against Japari.7 WillvDestroy Enemy Quebec—The Military plans being prepared at the Quebec conference are designed "'to bomb, burn, mid ruthless-: ly,',destroy, in ,every way available to us, the people responsible for this war" Brendan Bracken, British minister of information said here. May Head Invasion Army 4 Lt.-Gen. A. G. L. McNaughfo-n, commander of the Canadian Army in Britain,' who according to a, London report is reported likely to be selected by Quebec conference to head Allied invasion of Europe. Navy Helps Blast Italy ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA—British and Unit- ed States warships freed front coastal duty by the conquest of Sicily • have joined Allied heavy artillery and battle planes in the swelling bombarchnent of the Italian mainland, it was disclosed. A group of small islands North of Sicily have been occupied. been occupied. Each Province To Have Coal Contr011er Toronto—Mayor Fred J. Conboy, said that E. J. Brunning, Dominion coal controller, had told him that coal controllers "with wide powers" will be appointed in each province in Canada. Report German Government Left :Berlin London—An unconfirmed, round, .about' report said that "the whole Ger- man Government has left Berlin," and the Nazis were also said to be rushing troops from their Atlantic wall to .de- fend bases in Northern Italy. Greece. Needs 'Help Badly London—Georges Exintaris, former •IGreek minister of state, who escaped from Athens on July 15th, 'declared that unless liberation or help arrives within the next ' few months Greece will al-moSt certainly perish." Record Launching Montreal—Workmen: at the United Shipyards aimed their sights at the shipbuilding -record of Henry Kaiser, United States builder, after breaking all , Canadian markS by .sending .three COMBING WOOL TRESSES