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The Brussels Post, 1942-9-30, Page 1POST PUBLISHING HOUSE Wednesday, Septemlbelr 30th, 1942 o '•t forget the Mile Of Pennies To be held in Brussels on Saturday, Oct. 3rd Please Help This Worthy Cause In Aad ® Brussels Reol Cross "Build Life On A Good Foundation" Melville Church 10 A. M. Sunday School and Bible Class 11 A. M. "The Christ of The Broken Heart" 7 P.M. Evening Service with- drawn in favor of -the Anglican Harvest Festival Service. United Church Minister --Rev. Hugh C. Wilson 10:45 A.M. The Session will meet. 11 A.M. The Holy Communion At this service we join in Spirit with an Christian , Churches to the Communion. The evening service is with. drawn that we may worship with St. John's. Church of England Parish of Brussels Rector: Rev. M. F. Oldham 18th Sunday After Trinity October 4th, 1942 ST. JOHN'S BRUSSELS Annual Harvest Thanksgiving 8:30 A.M. Holy Communion 10 A.M Sunday -School 11 A.M. Morning Prayer and Senmon 7 P.M. Evening Prayer - and Sermon Preacher the Rector ST. DAVID'S, HENFRYN 2:15 P.M.•Sunday-School and Bible Class 3 P.M. Evening Prayer and Sermon ST. GEORGE'S, WALTON No Service on this day on ac- count Harvest Home in St. John's Church. Wed., Oct. 7th 8 p. m. in St. John's Church to form A.Y.P.A Lieutenant R. Stewart Now Prisoner-Ofd-W.ar Lieutenant It. S. Stewart of To- ronto, son of the late Wililam•'Ste!w •art of Bluevale and nephew of Mrs. A, Procter, 3'rd line of Morris town- ship, previously believed missing, is now on cia'➢ly ,reported a prisoner -of - war in Germany. He served with the Royal Regiment ofCanada at Dieppe. Mrs. G. Gallagher of Brus- sels is a casein. REGENT THEATRE, Seaforth, Ont. NOW PLAYING— DOUBLE FEATURE— Victor McLaglen Edmond ,Lowe Call Out the Marines sa Romance. Revelry! Five sparkling song hits. —Also A thousand lives depend on Tim Holt's guns. " Riding the Wind Mon., Tues. and Wed. Dorothy Lamour William,' Holden Eddie Bracken The Fleet's In Unalloyed entertainment! Laughs, thrills and tropical tunes! Next Thurs., Frt. & Sat.— DOUBLE at—DOUBLE FEATURE George Sanders. Wendy Barrie Gay Falcon —Also— Land of the Open Range New Rules To Gi;vern Routs Retail Stores may Do Busmess EFFEC9 iye OCTOBER 1 Tt is quite evident that the People of Canada are gotag .to feel the 11!nch' i of war conditions as the clays anti. weeks go by. In addition to restrictions on gas, tires, hydro and telephone calls, it was announced last week that the Wartime 'Prices and Trade Board or - I der governing the hours during which retail stores may be open for ,business bus been drafted and may 'Come into effect on October lst. .Preparations of the order tollows consultation with the retail trade Stores May Do Business." This is throughout Canada. The draft pro- ;supposed to come into effect October vides that no retail establishment, 1st and as we understand it Brussels apart from drug stores, restaurants, willl come under this order the same gasoline sedans, railway ,or steam- as any other village town or city, slip establish•emen.ts and hotel ser- Until reit week, when we hope to vices may remain open later than be 'able to give our readers a more 8 p.m. on any day except that 01} any definite outline of the situation hers one day of each week they may we asks that reference be made to an - remain open until 10 p,m, other column on this page under the dlistabitshments may remain. open a breading "New Bayles To Govern second night in the week until 10 Hours Retail Stores May Do p.m., but the additional two hours in Bushiness." the evening must be. deducted from the morning opening. If the n'orinal Tickets On Sale the evening must be deducted tram For Legion Dance hours were from 1a sant to 8 pmt. Hole make it Possible to send a they would IUs from 1 p.m, to 10 PM.,Cht•ietmas parcel to each of our The draft provides that retail stores shall remain open not more Coming— My Favorite Blonde When double features are shown last show starts 8:45. When single features are shown last show starts 9:16 Look At Your Label — INGO! .DINGO! BINGO! In Aid of the Christmas Parcel Fund for Boys Overseas from Brussels, Morris and Grey. COME EVERYBODY ( ME Saturday, Oct. 3rd No More Open n Wednesday. Nights • With the Fall sonars at hand and the new ruling to save. Hydro issued,. Wednesday night of this week was the last open (Wednesday) night. The Thursday afternoon closing will continue until further notice, Thelocal newspaper Is the medius Span winch the people of elle sun *rounding country depemO, to keep them posted in regards to local affairs and the staff tries to do so but at antes it is quite a struggle. However a tom' of the steres wan made this week and as yet, we aro unable to supply any information about the hours pertaining to the "New Rules to Govern Hours Retail boys from .Brussels, Morris and Grey, who are serving, overseas. The local than 58 hours from mtdnght Sunday legion has taken this task U3100 to midnight the following Saturday tbemselvee, knowing from their own 3n any one. week, 11 it is required by past experience, `what a. thrill getting provincial statute or other legislation a parcel from home would have been. to close on Sundays; or for more Many folks of the community have than 52 hours in any one week if already bought, at least one and there is no legislation requiring Sup. some more, tickets, but in order toe' day closing. . I; reach thoitjective, a lot more w111 Drug stores may remain open for have to be bought, and soon, as the six hours on Sunday if this le anon -dance is to be held Wednesday, Oct. ed {by municipal regulations, Drug 7th -dust one week. Numerous stores will be unable to sell meals or purchasers. of tickets stated that refreshments, for consumptionua they would be unable to attend. the the premises after house. ° dance but were anxious to help and at was understood that retailers in thought one anyway various camntuntties are being ask- ed to agree an ictus within the to get parcels from home, the Legion limitations of the hours' ceiling, is doing the work and it takes quite When 75 per cent. agree on these a sew dollars as there are more hours, the board order will make ,oveiseas this year than last—so buy them compulsory. a: ticket anyway, and if possible at - The draft order sets forth the put- , tend the dance in Brussels Town pose' of reducing. the consumption Of Hall on October 7th. electrbofty and fuels, and. 'the release ",a man power for the war effort, The order will cover any building or por- tion. of !building, booth, stall; place or premises where goods are exposed or Obituary Mr. John Wright BRUSSELS, ONTARIO FIours in Dieppe By Wallace Reyburn The Montreal Standard's War Correspondent; Who was the only reporter to enter the town of Dieppe—he was the first Inandlast out. Following presents his stirring account of the Dieppe landing In place of the usual short Story. The troopship in which wo had left 17ngland let its over the side in our Invasion barges about twenty miles oil' tke coast of France, It was a beautiful, starry, moon- light eneht. It was warm, and the bows of our barge threw up a re- freshing cloud of spray in our faces. We crept along through the dark- ness and longed to ease the tension by having a cigarette. But we could- n't—in case we gave away our presence to enemy patrols on shore. As we came closer to the beach one of the boys remarked: "If there are a couple of lovers having a bit of fun 011 the beach they're going to get one bsllluva surprise." The first light of dawn, was begin- ning to break now. The regiment I was attached to were the first to go in to the beaches of Dieppe. As we got almost to the shore line we could pick ant the shapes of the houses on land. From the win- dow of one of these houses came a beam of light and the man next to me ejaculated in a hushed voice: "Pct that light out." We took Jerry completely by surprise. Our landing craft touched on. the beach, the front flap was lowered and we dashed up the fifty yards to the base .of a twelve -foot beth to ribbons. Leaving the bodies there, be re- joined lila comrades without saying a word and marched to battalion headqual•ders as if nothing unto- ward bad happened. By now the Germans had started pnundhrg us. Mortar shells began burstinlg over and round us and we decided to move headquarters decors the grass patch behind the hoarse. Established there, we were interrogating prisoners when a mortar shell landed slap, bang is the middle of the grass square. Luckey I was lying down. The blast sent me flying and I felt what seemed to be pebbles hitting my back like little stones thrown up from• a motor car wheel, I didn't think anything more about that until later when my trousers and shirt began to feel damp. It was blood and the "pebbles" were shrapnel. My ears were singing from the blast of the explosion and, in fact, my ears weer Pinging throughout the whole sas+and-a-half hours I spent: amongst the street fighting in Dieppe, ren"•+nt^'^ row of our men were casualties from this particular ex• plosion, but four German prisoners were killed and 1 saw their bodies lying there stiff and pallid when 1 departed many hours later. 'By now, ,Terry had his artillery batteries behind the town and H.E. shells were added to the bursting mortars; machine guns, snipers' pinging bullets and the thunder of aircraft overhead. parapet under the promenade. In the midst of this terrific din Our army boots on the pebbles , I heard a famttl+tar sound which was steamed to me to make a terrific din .so unexpected that you couldn't and I felt sure we must have , help laughing. Tt was the alarm awakened the whole of the town. 1 clock of some Frenchmen in a near- But earBut as we lay crouching under the I b9 house going off. shelter of the parapet there was still Jerry was using mortars with no sign that the enemy knew we deadly accuracy and did so through were there, out the operation. Wherever we in battalion headquarters. went he Our wire cutters went to work on seemed able to drop mortar shells the barbed wire entanglements. lerrht 011 top of us.' sl They worked and worked at it but We were moving now along a nt wasa tough job, It Was vera street tlo*arcis 'dies main part of heavy wire but at last one wire cut- Dieppe. We came to a-.s„ide, long ter managed to get through and concrete bridge across tile, ,}•,Iver. • . just as he did, Jewry's machine The bridge was about two .hundred guns started at us. From further yards across, and was being blasted along the beach we heard a shout continuously by mortars, machine A fife -long resident of Brussels, that someone had found an easy offered for sale at retail, or services Sohn Wright, passed away in theguns and snipers, are supplied, way to get up the parapet. Some of our men tried to go Wtnghamt. General Hospital on Mon- We dashed along under fire and s;croes and I watched them mown "Services" covered by the draft day night, Sept. 25th, in his 81st clambered up the brickwork into an ' hoard are laund clog, cleaning, tail- year Mr, Wright, although going empty pilltbox. It was quite de• dawn, „iStretack parties dashed aring and dressmalcinig, hairdmessing I about until recently, had been ailing ,out to bring back the wounded and serted'and looked as though it had I joined them dragging bank our and beauty parlor services, barbering for some time. been, empty for a coneiderable and ,lhoesltiniug, repairing of all The deceased was born in Scot men trader a hail of fire, Made, supplying of meals, refresh- time. When I got there, there was As we sheltered in an alleyway land, the son of Mr,Thomas Wright a whole bunch of us in this block- ment,s and 'beverages and supplying , and Ann Robertson. His parents house ansl it suddeul oacurred tot{ between. two buildings tending the of services performed by optome- y l wounded, Lt. -Col, C. C. I. Merritt, ,came to this country, when. he was Pte that this might be a trap. ) the C. O. of the regiment came up, • trist and opticians. If the order is made effective every store will be required to post at each entrance to its place of busi- n,ese a schedule of hours during which it wfil be aper., A copy, of the schedule will be flied with the Prices board, and it, may not be amended wiitilont authority of 'board repre- sentative except that modifications may be made on a public holiday. -The regulation's would not apply tinning the rush period of Christmas shopping from Decemfber 10th to De - russets Town Hall comber Slot, inclusive. COMMENCING AT 8 O'CLOCK SHARP • GOOD PRIZES Candlepower Cut On Local Street Lights The local. Hydro su'per'intendent, Jos. Thuell, changed the bulbs on the street lights last week, 'Previous to the •change, on main street '200 - watt 'bulbs - were used• and on back hase, been t These streets' 1004wat, cut by half and, although somewhat ,dimmer, it is. thought that the public Will get used to it, or at least will have to, if the saving of power for More essential work, 10 to he accom ,pllshed. - Our forefathers got along without tate bright lights, so :why can't we! As a result Of the change., the ,consumption on street tight 15 1.590 watts less, malting a - consicler+aibte Owing, as weal a,s being abbe to ,anew that much power to divert ed to .war, work, ' , Also in taking on' the partniotie attitude of saving power' we tented that 101110 stores` tried leaving their winnow lights out. Rnssel's• Reel Bald Store and DtekO'ol1'b 5e to 31.09 store are two of"then. • pat Legion Dance -- IN — Brussels Town Hall Wednesday, Oct:. 7th Help Buy Christmas Parcels For the Boys Overseas from Brussels, Morris & Ore*. Music by Brown's Orchestra Admis.iosl . ;,w 25 10 years old. They settled in Sea- It bail: been too easy getting in. I'll talcs time out here to tsR forth later going to Jamestown, He I thought it might be mined and the He's a terrific guy. A young man married Lue Gillette who prede- nosed hint in 19'22. Two children also predeceased hien, I3e was the local C,OLR, expressman front 1912 until 1941. He was a great lover of . 'flowers; his favourites -being Gladioli of which her grew many ;beautiful varieties, He gave many of there lovely blooms to the sick ,and others. Ile will be missed from the brisin.ess section of the .town where he has long been a 'familiar ,Ierrys were letting us into it and , only 'thirty-three, he has a boyish when they feat . sure we were all yin, athletic louOld, Iris, broad there they would just pa'ess a but shoulders. with square -oat features. ton and blow us up. He's from Vancouver and was a Later isr the day I was to learn lawyer before he joined the Army that the blockhouse was mined and in, 1985. was a trap. Why they didn't blow The beat way to describe the type us up 1 do not ltnow but some of of soldier this Colonel Merritt Is, the Caliterons Regiment who fol is, for me to repeat what I heard one lower! ns cause up the same way and officer remark on the ship leaving the whole lIlocklreuse was blown to England. He said: "You have to 1t1 tl m inside put a drag rope on the colonel to figure.• We did not stay in the irdoedchouse keep: up with him," He leaves to mourn his passing cnte sister, Mrs, J. M. Pauper of Clarkston, Michigan and 2 nephews Thomas Wright, Wroxeter and 'Robert Laird' of Edmonton, Alberta aatd one melee in Scotland. Funeral services were conducted, under the anspiices of St. ' John's the Masonic Lodge Brussels, from D. A. Rann funeral parlour by Rev. H. Wilson on Wednesday afternoon. :Interment was made in the Brussels `cemetery. Psila eorers were: Pah.ri-11 winan, Wm.. Gillespie, {Clarke Matheson, John Simmons, A. Wood and Thos. 171t4s. - Red Cross Notes Titers will be no salvage soitenstiotl els Saturday of SIAAS week, as the conisnittee 'has decided to di5eon- tlliue this service during the Fall and Winter Menthe, �Citisens are; stoke/' ti dove their ribber, rags, paper and metalunit long because other men were From the street, the colonel coming tip, turned to his men, saying: "Come With battalion headslual'te15, I on men, we are going to cross this clashed across the promenade to a bridge. Don't bunch up. Here we deserted hoose where headquarters go!" were establelted. (Soon troops With that, he set off walking were home clearing and bringing across the bridge, stn• hat 1.n hand, back German Plri'conems, twirling it as 11e walked, erect, not It was a. thrill to 000 the Santatits least bit concerned nlbottt the ehewan Inds bringing in, at bayonet "muck" flying round him. Ho Point, fourteen sullen; hancte.raised and most of the men got across this Genm•an soldiers. time, The 'bayonet on, the title of one Watching this display of bravery, t;anadian was covered with blood, 'I telt proud to {be with the and later ' I leartl:ed+ the story be• Canadine, 'rhroughoitt the en, Itifind that, gagedtlent this was the sort of thimlg As titer were bariaiging in Ntese they olid continually, without prisonersi this private; a Moose altotrgirt of the oonsequeness to jsw le:: umiretman; halipened to Urentselves. Thep' colane�l's Mader- tl�otice tie. Germinal soldtern in the ship was alt instiratlon tloorsvay of a nouns-, bo•tk holding a etiolt giensl4le Iii each hand sari Colonel Merritt has not returned, vvdht a rifle duvliped against the Last thing that WAS :S0011i of him doorway waiting for 11L was his going bank front Ube beach after he had helped to get his: oxen tit the Sed 1 himself Troia the gratin and' blade Oct. when it will again, be •eolieeted if ' a headlong dash. et the Germane. •1 deeded. •..: , > 'sjiittir' `61n lYdd'lestrG*t!,blixii�rltai .k esontinated on Heide- Page