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Clinton News Record, 1944-03-16, Page 2PAG 2 The - Clinton N ew-.record with which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year in advance, to Can- adian addresses.; ,'2.00 to the U.S, or. other foreigncountries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the pub- lisher. The date to which every sub- scription 'is paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING RASES' — Transient advertising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8e for each subse- quent insertion. Beading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed, one inch, such as "Wanted," "Lost", "Strayed", etc., inserted once for 35e, each subsequent inseritiol 15e. Rates for display advertising made' known on application. Comrunioations intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name, of the wrier. G. E. HALL - - Proprietor SILVER STUDIO "Portraits of Distinction" For Appointment Phone 259 Clinton Ii. T. RANCE NOTARY PUBLIC Eire Insurance Agent Representing 14'Fire Insurance Companies Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. Sloan Plod: .... .... Clinton, Ont. H. C. MEIR Barrister -at -Law Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Outer& Proctor in Admiralty. Notary Public and Commissioner Offices to Bank of Mo'n`treal $adding Hour*: 2.00 to 5.00 Tuesdays aril Fridays. D. H. McINNES ,.CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Hylton Street, (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) ' Hours—Wed. and Sat., and by appointment FOOT CORRECTION by Manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 HAROLD JACKSON ' Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in Farm and., Household Sales. Meensed in Huron and Perth Counties. Prices reasonable; sada- faction ada. fa i n . ct o •guaranteed. For information ete. write or phone 'Harold Jackson, R.R. No. 4 Seaforth, phone 14-661. 06-012 DR. G. S. ELLIOTT Veterinary Surgeon Phone 203 Clinton, Ont. ERNEST W. •HUNTER CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 57 Moor Str. W. Toronto Ont. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD TWENTY FOUR HOURS LEAVE don't' get into such a state. I shan't bind doesn't know you're lunching • CHAPTER V say a word Tell ane, is your husband (with, nip today?" ! uncertain about her death' too ?" ,1.1'0,x+ Cherry Pyecroft, member- of the } ` No, he, certainly isn't." "I guessed as much at Valerie's Waars, hurries to London to the! She could have ' bitten off her party. Next time we'll make it, apartment of her friend, Denise, who tongue the moment the, words were dinner. I'll drop down tp the air - hod married the ratan she loved. On spoken. Now she had really been dronie one evening, . " . arriving she learns that Denise no trapped into an admission. She! She' said quickly, angrily, "I shan't longer, loves Sinton, and that she is tried - to recover herself but only dine with you, Jerry." • leaving that night to avoid meeting floundered helplessly`+ "Neither: 'anr He raised his eyebrows. "Won't hint on .his return from a ,trip to 1, Jerry. It's just . . . well, I you? We'll see. How ,'about it if America. Cherry admits she had been wanted to know how it all happened. 1 have some news that might be of in love with Simon. Denise asks her I—I thought, if you were on the interest to you? Supposing I wore to stay and greet her husband with spot. ..' , to hear, shall we say, that. Denise the bad news. Simon arrives but Jerry touched her hand, "Listen, is still alive?" Cherry withholds the news. 'Learning nttY pretty one, don't you think you that the train to Bristol bad crashed may as well tell Uncle Jerry all Her hands twisted and turned in -the train that Denise took—Simon ! about it P'.ter lap.. He wouldn't, ' of course. and Cherry drive there, . identify! He couldn't! She didn't really think Denise's charred suitcase, and assume Cherry drew a quivering breath.'for for a moment that Denise was still a badly burned body is hers. Months She felt suddenly cornered, as if alive. It was only that she wasn't she were treading on thin ice and quite certain, that there was this .later Simon and Cherry are married, but Cherry's ha podared neither go forward nor back. horrible underlying doubt. finding De tise'sp•engagement ring n l "Maybe," Jerry said, "I can help a drawer . . . proving to Cherry that you in some way. I believe Toddy i "After •all, Toddy Schenck should Schenck has gone back to the States. know if anyone does. Mind you, Denise is still alive. Cherry meets That's the man I'd say Denise made he may be able to tell me that she Jerry Miller secretly (Jerry had isn't which case: run away with Denise) 'and asks if he a bolt with. I could try to get in you needn't worry was witness w to the accident asks which hh touch with him and find out if he can any longer. Funny' if old Toddy met Denise was killed. tell us anything:" your husband. That's something we "Us." That linked them togeth- ought to prevent at any cost. Imag- er. -That meant she'd have to see ine if your husband were to hear !see him again and she. didn't want to that he and Denise had made a bolt Cherry said quickly. "No, of do it. She'd been prepared for only of it together. Still, there's no reason course he didn't. Simon had no this one meeting; she'd been will why he should, is there? Don't look idea that Denise was _running away ing to keep the knowledge of it '50 alarmed. I don't likel to see you with anyone. Its something he must from Simon. looking so worried." never know. I --I told him she was! on her way to meet hint..:' � "Don't bother;" she said flatly.' "I m soxry. I won't again. 1 was "You mean when she met her, "I—I wasn't really worrying." really teasing you. Come along, let's death in the railroad accident? I` "Oh, yes, you were." He looked get hold of a newspaper and see if read about it in the papers." at her quizzically. "You're very there are any good pictures. I'm"Yes."{ sweet, . you know, Cherry, I mean' afraid its a bit Iate for a show, but "And you thought sh'e'd gone off spa •t from your being so easy on if you feel like a movie..." . with me?" the eye and all the rest of it. I. She didn't. She felt like walking take it you'd rather die than Int out on him right at that moment. `I was pretty sure of it."your beloved husband know tthe kind She longed above all else never to "Why.?" "Well, I knew, she and you were, of woman he was really married to?" have to see him again. But an nn - I believe I would," said Cherry easy fear told her it. might be poI- always together:' simply icy to hide her true feelings, "Did she tell you she was going Jerry sighed. "I wonder }why A waiter had brought them a pap - away with me? I ! some' men have all the luck." er. Jerry was running his finger "Well, 'no, actually now that I! "I don't think they do. But I think down the fist .of films, "There's a come -to think about it. she didn't. a man like Simon deserves it." new Walt Disney at the Carlton But she allowed it to be understood "I'd'say he's got it." He laughed that's been very well reviewed. How when I asked if it were you,' shortly. His voice was sincere about that?". Jerry's mouth twisted in an odd enough. So was the expression in+ Smile. "She would..: No, I didn't his eyes. "I'd like to see you now "I don't really think there's time. have that honor. But I did intro- and again, Cherry," be. said, `Be- I'm due back at the station at six. "duce herto a pal ofAmer- b"That will be all right. We needn't mine, an ma Ye I can find out some -I. lean who was as -rich. as Croesus. thing from Toddy. The. mote I,see it all tIu'ough. I'll see you're not Here, I don't think I've got all think about it, the more convinced late;' He signalled for, his bill as he this quite clear. Supposing you lay I am he's dust the man who could.spoke and they emerged` from the. all your cards on the table." tell us what the want to know." !subdued light. of the restaurant into Cherry wished ` she. hadn't come. I "Are you normally in touch wititt the brillance of afternoon sunshine. "Yoy didn't meet me for my ir- him?" asked Cherry. )The doorman called a taxi for thein resistible charm. We've • already . , and Cherry got in. As she sat down gone into that. But you very def-' Moro or less. He's a correspon-'� she suddenly saw a man standing on v T finitely wanted to .see me. You dent for one of the New York papers, !the opposite pavement. was Simon. wanted to ask me, one or two quos- you know. Rather a similar sort of job He stared at her with obvious amaze - tions. So far you've asked me . , to my own, We chaps get about. For rent. Her heart stopped. She what was it you said •just now? all I know he may be back in England went to leap from the. cab, to rush Was I with Denise when she was again. At any rate, I'll find out and over to him to try and explain. But killed? Did I actually see it happen?" then the next time we meet ..." ' at that moment Jerry sat down ba - He broke off, staring at her once She shook her head. "There isn't side her and they drove . away. She again, "Holy smoke, you don't iu - going to be a next time, Jerry." • looked out of the little window at agine fax one moment that she "Well, I've said already that he's! the back of the taxi to sed Simon still isn't dead after all, do you?" a darned lucky man." He smiled! standing looking fixedly after her. and shook his head. "Look here, I Jerry had seen Simon too. He "No, of course I don't," said Cherry .I ought to have soiree sort of say in glanced sidelong at Cherry. "Well;" angrily. "What an outrageous sug- this . little matter. What's more,'be said, '92 that isn't just too badl" gestion!" But inwardly she was quak- I'm going to. We're not living in' Cherry stared ,straight before her. ing. Jerry had guessed her secret. I the eighteen eighties. There's no Tears stung her eyes. Her throat "I have a pretty shrewd suspi harm in a married woman lunching felt dry and parched, She felt an cionthatyou're notaltogether sure." or dining with some man other than arm glide around her waist. She "I am, of course I am. . But . . oh, Jerry, do stop looking at me as if you've caught me, out over some- thing!" "But ni,y -, sweet girl, I believe I have. I've never in my born days seen anyone look more guilty. But THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. OFFICERS—President, Alex McEw- ing, Myth Ont; Vice President, W. R. Archibald; Seaforth; Manager and Secretary Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Sea- forbh, Ont. DIRECTORS - Alex McEwing, Blyth, Ont., W. R. Archibald, Sea - forth, Oht., Alex Broadfoot, Sea - forth, Ont., Chris Leonhardt, Born. holm, Ont„ E. J. Trewartha, Clinton, Ont., Thomas Moylan, Seaforth, Ont., Frank McGregor, Clinton, Ont., Hugh Alexander, Walton, Ont., George Leitch, Clinton, Ont. AGENTS. --John E. Pepper, Bruce- field, Ont., R. P. McKereber, Dublin, ' Ont., J. P. Prueter, Brodhagen, Ont., George A. Watt, Blyth, Ont. Any money to be paid may paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderieh. Parties desiring . to effect insur- anae or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applica- tion to any of the above officers :ad- dressed to their respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected by the director. CANADI L) TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows; Toronto and Goderich Division Going East, depart . 6.43 a.m. Going .East, depart 3.03 p.m. Going West, depart ...1:12.04 p.m. Going West, depart 11.10 p.m. London and Clinton'' Division Coming North, arrive ... 11.20 a.m. Going South, leave 3.10 p.m. 11 amour her husband. If I were 'married, I'd like to think other 'men wanted to take my wife around, It would show I'd picked a winner." Cherry made a little gesture. "You/don't understand, Jerry." "Maybe not. I take it your bus - flung -away from it, turning on Jerry furiously. "I wish I hadn't met you today. I was a fool. I• didn't really want to." A dull red flush rose in his cheeks. "Well, Pm dashed! What a way to turn on a fellow!" Then his tone Allied Eighth Army Carry major River Barrier in Italy In ; spite of appalling weather con= ditions which turned rivers to torrents and made the battlefields into seas of mud, the 8th Army have. carried the major river barrier ' of the River Sangre by storm and are making deep inroads into the Kesselring• line hope of the German armies for winter !defence. Towns and villages north of 1the Sangre have fallen ,one after another. Allied troops are now (7.12. (' 43.) within a few miles of the major port of Pescara. Picture Shows: En route for the Sangro: An, 8th Army A. A. gun set up and manned on the main road p • through, the village of San Salvo, The local Itialian people living in the houses nearby were delighted to have this 'personal' form of protection, and spontaneously adopted both the gun and the crew. Some of the villagers are seen walking past the gun site. THURS., MARCH 16 1944 PASSENGER GET YOUR 1944 MOTOR VEHICLE PERMIT I1944 motor vehicle permits are now on sale. NOW is the time to purchase yours. You may recall the long line-ups of other years. Do not wait until the last minute to get your 1944 permit. Do not mutilate or destroy your 1943 plate Wartime restrictions . require that it be used another year. • Your motor vehicle permit fee remains the same. 'A windshield stamp will be issued with your 1944 motor vehicle permit, validating the use of your 1943 plate. The application for 1944 is provided on the back of the 1943 permit. This is the only form that may be used. Renew your driver's license at the same time. GEO. H. DOUCETT, Minister of Highways DO YOU KNOW— There are over 36,000 persons in Ontario whose licenses to drive are under suspension because of their inability to secure insurance or file other proof of fin. ancial responsibility? They were convicted of offences against the motor vehicle laws following accidents. It is better to drive safely and avoid accidents than to find yourself unable to drive at all. 244 v,A' C . *y. `"'` sa : �:gr' r< "t"' ..YcE.'rc i4"a:' `usL";:,t <xL?.•ciS:s. 3���. . actzf'ff•'�sias..�..i.�,y,�^.``•..,y.•'P.!?a:`+�'�,�E�J"��a''. FFF�'r":�`t`.',✓.'42'' : �'s>s. v.x ie. `�f'�s: �5^S, \ t � .aSiz. a�� �3..`i����n> i��e�5 s:. changed, a conciliatory note coming into it. "Have a heart, Cherry. It wasn't any fault we came out of the confounded restaurant at the wrong Moment. It's just one of those un- fortunate things that sometimes happen. But the world won't come to an end." Cherry felt at the moment that it already •had. She'd destroyed Si- inen's'trust in her and that was more important than anything ease. Without it no marriage could be happy. ' "I wish I hadn't met you," she repeated distractedly. Jerry laughed shortly. "Flatter- ing aren't you? What have I done to you? I've behaved darned de- cently. Here, let me dry those tears, Gosh, what a silly girl it is!" Again' he would have put his arm around her. Again she flung away from him. She leaned forward and tapped the window, motioning to the driver to stop. "Here, what's all this?" Jerry asked shortly. "I'm .sorry, Jerry. 2 don't want to go to the picture with you." The taxi 'was drawing into the curb. Jerry's face was ugly with its resentment and anger. "You mean you're walking out on me?" "Yes, if you choose to put it like that. I want to see if I can catch Si mon•before he goes into his office. I must have a word' with him." Jerry Iaughed sardonically. "You know, I'm beginning to wonder why I -casted even one lunch time with you. I wouldn't have had I known you were only meeting me for what you could get out of "tie." "I'm sorry, Jerry." "The devil you are! It's written all over you. All right, out you 'get! If Toddy Schenck tells the Denise is still alive I'll sent you a postcard. It'll look well coming that way, won't it? People always >read. postcards. Maybe that : precious husband of yours will seeuit before he hands it to you." Cherry 'Was tumbling out of the taxi as he spoke.. The taxi driver looked at Cherry uncertainly, wondering 'what had happened. It was rather strange to pick up a man and a girl at a rest- aurant, be told to drive to a theatre, end" have the 'girl get out halfway down Shaftesbury Avenue. Another taxi was slowly passing. She stopped the man and jumped in. "Charles Street, please.' "Very good, Miss." She had never been to , Simon's office and wouldn't dream of actu- ally presenting herself there. So she loitered in the shadow of the m. doorway; , watchingfor hi Then he • heartgave leap.He was cros- s a sing the street now.. Only he looked so different—not the kindly, friendly Simon whom she knew and loved so well. This map's face was white and set. He walked along, looking neither to right nor left. A sob rose in her throat. She moved forward. But even as she did so, a man walking' close behind Simon, overtook him. A man in uniform with a quite terrifying amount of gold braid. She heard him say, ""dello Lindon, you look pretty grim. Wax getting you down? You shouldn't let it, old fellow." Cherry fell back as. Simon passed by. How could she stop him now? That other man would think it odd that site, Simon's wife, should be ly- ing in -wait for him. She watched them disappear through the har- riers guarded by soldiers and po- lice, saw the men salute briskly. (TO BE CONTINUED) OLD VIRCINIA PIPE TOBACCO It's a real pipe smoker's tobacco 80th Birthday Congratulations are extended to Mrs. Dan. Davis, of Exeter, who on Sun- day celebrated her 80th birthday at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Geo. Clipson, of 'Ingersoll. To mark the occasion a family reunion was held and among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Otto ,'Walker and children and Mr. Lorne Wassman, of Crom- arty, Mrs. Isaac Stratham, of Arkona; Mrs. Alvin Cornish, of Exeter; Mr. and Mr's, Frank Irwin and family and little Caroline Wassman, of Putnam; Mr. and Mrs, Donald McInnes and son Gordon, of Woodstock and Mrs. Robert Graves, of St Thomas. Piot Officer —Exeter Times Advocate. A release from No. 1 Training Command, 11.C.A.F., to this office on Wednesday, announced that Flight Sergeant Frank Gerrard Devereaux, had been commissioned overseas. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Dever- eaux, Huron Highway East, near Seaforth. Pilot Officer Devereaux en- listed two years ago this March, and has been overseas piloting four - engined bombers.'on invasion raids over Europe. —Huron Expositor. V Prisoner of War Fit. Sgt. Robert Browning Becker navigator of one of the heavy bomb -1 ers in one of the 1,000 -plane, raids deep into Germany . was reported missing ,on January 21st and is now reported by the Red Cross to be a prisoner of war. He is the only ion of Mr. and. Mrs, 0. H. Becker, New Hamburg;' and brother of Mrs. A. J. Taylor, of London. Before enlisting in the .R.C.A.P„•he was a student of Queen's University, Kingston. Mrs. G. A. Hawkins and Mr. Percy Brown- ing, of Exeter are aunt and uncle. Exeter Times Advocate. V Seaforth Soldier Receives Award The late Cpl. Norman M. McQuaid son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Me - Quaid, R. R. 5, Seaforth, and Hon. Capt. J. Fred Goforth, Toronto, son of the late Dr. Jonathan and Mrs. Goforth, for 50 years missionaries in China where he was born, have been decorated in •connection with tld Italian campaign. The former was a member' of the Royal. Canadian En- gineers and the latter with the Cana- dian Chaplain Services. Official announcement of the award of the Military Medal to the late Cpl. McQuaid and the Military Cross to Hon. Capt. Goforth, was madethis week by defence' head- quarters, at Ottawa. Born at St. Colutnban, June 22, 1914, Cpl. Norman Michael McQuaid, Royal Canadian Engineers, enlisted with the Active Army, November 2, 1939, and proceeded overseas Decem- ber 18 of the same year. —Seaforth News.