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himself denounced as an :idiot, as ceiling fell below two hundred feet
as an enveloping fog swept; in off
the bay.It was the "unpredicta-
ble" ia the flesh. While there stil1
was room and time, I dove down
and executed a rough but harmless
landing. In :aroth:ei minutethe ceile
ing fell to zero,
On the corner of the field was a
telephone shack. UnIookdng.the con-
trols, I scrambled over to notify
the authorities of my doings. That
was what a wise old :hand always
did in such eireumstances.
Above the telephone wasinstruc-
tions. Somearle wibh an eye for
simplification had written, "Raise
the receiver and ask for Chief of
Operations."
I complied and was immediately
connected 'With a languid voice, as
Firs
L:�ve
,
By Charles Spalding
and Otis Carney
CHAPTER' VIII should ,have his license suspended. I knew he would.
Ab ten -fifteen the opus ended on 1 swrayod weakly in the hemp.
Larr'ed from the Navy's V-7 pro -I the appealing note of taps. ,What My' legs shook and I fell, the last
gram .because he lacked two years r ever its shortcomings might have twenty feet.
been, the entire program ''vas free "Down at the bend there is a bar -
from the career of adverit'sing, In ricade. You gotta hurry. T•ie ene-
my- bunk'I often conjured uli the my is right ,behind," he revealed.
dreadful possibility of younger gen- "Where *are the Marines?" I
erations marohing off to squadron whispered inaudibly, unable to
an old friend of the family, endea- through the courtesy of Princess speak.
vers to get a waiver for Lester so Pout Bath Salts. That must .never When I got t the +barricade
he can join V-7. but after weeks of happen here; Rings4 0 + my
and man candles �
ing off just Bind my eyes.
of; college math, Laster 'Dowd tries
to enlist in the Coast Guard but is
turned down because of a ""facial
squirt". The doctdi 'refuses even to
examine him. Commander Whitman
waiting Lester learns they still were busking everything ryas
Hr T Rt�N __ black,1 Ro ' were go-
- on two years •of college math,
NOTARY. PUBLIC i_ He is successful in joining the V-5
Fire lnsuriince'Agent . Naval Aviation and is sent to Ana. Admittedly, it pilot must be in "Everything is all right now
Represen'tingl4-Fire insurance g his ki
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castle avaase, After man
Companiesprize physical condition. The ath: sang an •angel voice. "There are
Division Court Office, Clinton
Frank FiigIand, B.A.; LLB.
,Barristr, Solicitar, :Notary Public
Saiccessor to W. Brydone, K.G.
Sloan Block . , . Chilton, Ont.
H. C •MEIR
Barrister -at -Law
Solicitor of ttiei Supreme Court of
•Onta'io
+ Potter in Admiralty.:'
Notary Pubtic'and Commissioner
)ffices..an Banic of Montreal Bail
Hours;" 2;00 to 5:0* Tuesdays
' ' and Fridays.
first solo flight 'he gets a three-day letic period that induced this state your old friends. This is camp."
furlough find visits his folks in Ohio of .being was a model of Spartan "Good," I croaked. "Tela the
beggars there's a stranger at the
door suffering .from shock and ex -
memo."
go. The furlough mated, he leaves severity.' Most of the program was
for Corpus Christi. • drawn from the Inquisitign, and that
'part of the day when everything
stopped for muscles was glumly an -
The others from Anacostia had ticipated like a plague yeas. "'You squirm under."
arrived before neo. All were im- Charged with the "toughening -There is no friend
pressed by the station's vastness, »
up process was a commissioned friend.
its •organization and smartness. Ge- Apollo of large and lovely, pro err
ographically, the new location. had I tions, which he marvelously main- "Now you finish by. running two
such a heady effect . upon Tim Car- rained. without doing the exercises. hundred yards to the Office of the
penter that he continually gazed at: Wear and tear strikes a gym mar- Day's shack and announcing your -
the Gulf and 'muttered rapturously,' ter most frequently in the larynx, self.''
Sandhi "Jeez, we're in Use horse Latitudes! and our Legree, be long and faith- "The hell I do!" I panted out -
like an old
Dr. F. G. Thompson
House.. and Office, Ontario Street
Clinton. Telephone 172
OFFICE HOURS: 2-4 in the after-
noon and 7-8 in the evening daily.
Other hours by appointment.
D. I•I. McINNES
CHIROPRACTOR
Electro Therapist; Massage
Office: Huron Street, (Few Doors
west of Royal Bank)
Hours—Wed. 'apd Sat., and by
appoidtment`
FOOT CORRECTION
Manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment'
Phone 207
HAROLD JACKSON
Licensed Auctioneer
Specialist in Farm and Household
ales.
Licensed in Huron and Perth
unties. rapes reasonable; satis-
etion :guaranteed.
Per information etc. write or phone
erold Jackson, R,11. No. 4 Seaforth,
hone 14-661, 06-012
DR. G. S. ELLIOTT' '
Veterinary Surgeon
hone 203 Clinton, Ont.
ERNEST W. HUNTER
CHARTERED. ACCOUNTANT
Bloor Str. W. • Toronto Ont.
IIE McKILLOP MUTUAL
Fire ;Insurance Company
Head Office, Seaforth, Ont.
OFFICERS— President W. R.
rehiliald, Seaforth, Vice -President
rank McGregor, Clinton, Manager
cy-Treas. M. A. Reid, Seaforth.
DIRECTORS W. R. Archibald,
eaferth; Frank McGregor, Clinton.;
lex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Chris
eonhardt, Bornholm; E. I. Tower -
la, Clinton; John L. Malone, Seaforth
lex. MoEwing, Blyth; Hugh Alexan-
er, Walton; George Leitch, Clinton.
AGENTS John E. Pepper, Bruce-
ield; R. F. McKercher, Dublin; J. P.1
'rueter, Brodhagen; George A. Watt,
tlyth:
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Parties desiring to effect inane -I
nee or transact other business will
e promptly attended to on applica-
ion to any of the above officers ad-
ressed to their respective post offi
es, Losses inspected by the director,
ANAD AN ` ..., laItA i AXs
TIME TABLE
Trains will arrive at and depart
rom Clinton as follows:
Toronto and Goderich Division
;cling East, depart 6.43 a.m.
;oing East, depart 3.03 p.m.
;Mug West, depart.......,12.04 p.m.
icing West, depart , 11.10 p.m,
London and Clinton Division
inning North, arrive 11.20 am.Going South, leave 3.10 psi.
- The Navy functioned, ' to do it ful service, had literally* blown his raged by a false paradise. "I na
credit, just as it did in the Tem- lungs out. His assistant, a junior- � send lain a tinging telegram,
send tip smoke signals, but I cou
not move another inch."
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perate Zone. We were assembled, grade lieutenant, and a bluepirnt
greeted, and told that the first week for the strong, silent type, strolled
was another stretch of indoctrina- among the toilers watching to see
tion. Far a cadet indoctrination is that no sinew flagged. He spoke on l "You got an important message
a recurrent holy period in tvltich he an average of` once every three with you, you gotta get through,"
humbles himself for seven days be- days. When the company was re- he coaxed' 'cunniggly, ."Others are
fore one novelty after the other.
duced by exertion to gaps and counting on you."
This had inoculative powers, and gaoane, he made a' very real eon-, +'When, they get , to ten :they'll
by graduation we •had all attained tribution by snarling:• stop,' f 'groaned, graveling en the
the saiagfroid of the hardened be- "'pipe down over there." i ground`
Ia
ford whom the world stretches like 1 He bent•d'own to sue and whis-
an old sock. After the hell of calisthenics we pered,. "What will Crocus do? What
were run over to the commando will Comiulnch think?"
The prime object of indoetrina- course, designed - by some twisted •
ion here was to acquaint oneself mind to produce in a short time 1 !naked the tvreteh squarely in
with the jangled jargon of the pub- in a small space, on a large number, lase watery eyes, made a final des -
ie -address system which controlled the effect of crossing' the Sahara pmate effort, and •
tottered drunkest
• entneday; d on rokler skates: First there was .a ly to:•the,fini it lint.;
,r �,, short address by Apollo.
There it .goes again. cried Red I' What beating the mission had on
un in the terror of ignorance. "The beauty of this thing izzat it's the tempestuous course of events is
We watched a group, for wheat' practical," he beamed. , "No empty difficult to assess, but at any rate,
tis esoteric pealing held special theory. Frinstance, let's take you my conscience is. elear,,
leaning, take up their belongings there as an example," . He motionodi The next. stage of training was
04 move crisply to a scheduled ac- me out of ranks.
rutty. called basic and regarded' those
"Let's suppose • your plane has a who handled it as a finishing proe-
"It's like 'Finnegan's Wake,'! , I crashed," he said fancifully. ess,
id in ' exasperation. "You're twenty Guiles from camp 1 ,,Ycu boys hpye completed pea
-
Finally, the riddle solved itself and a hunert Japs are ricin' up the
symphonic form. It all originated beach.- You got one chance. Yoti`ntary and you are supposed to kaioxv
the battalion riffice, At 'six o'clock make a break for the jungle in the I ;low to fly," the flight commander
the niorning.a, bugle opened the idireetion of your lines.. •Git gain'," explained, tivithout any great conic-
ovement with a strong presents- he ordered g tion. "Here you will improve your
on of ' the eyes -endearing reveille. i • (technique, learn how to handle your-
"Andhis gave way to the brassy "Pall the camp only twenty miles self in the unpredictable,. develop
ut for chow. After breakfast the away," I b • tl 1 1.i a style of your own,
tv moan of a st icken thing was The' course curved and doubled! • Civilly, it had its counterpart in a
ray reproduced as the' wood- back so tint ,no matter how fast I semester at chasm school. Much
inds took up the theme and an- ran he could always keep pace-by'speciorts talk was devoted to the
unced "sick call." For the next walking . across the different logs. j "unpredictable,'' lively, . elusive
tvelve hours the merry din of "bells, When I got to the first obstacle he topic, discusso3 in the most ab -
lis, belts" told of ground+.. school, Iwas .there' with instructions. I street ' terns The best minds in
thletics, drill, study period, and a ' 1 the squadron were unable to cor-
ary mutters, a routine varied First you.come upon a log Your
feet high, You hoidie it." ler, capture, and pigeon -hole the'
ly by a utile solo interrupting in "i'•ou lover o aiotmcl it'?" 11"unpred•]ctable." It might be a cow
robust }bass with the 'charming asked- 8on the runway, a .snowstorm in
Al
entitled, Will Cadet Mason 'June but whatever form theun-
11 Amber 3200 end ask for Miss ( "You hoidie it," he said, ' `
I "houlled" and went on, 1 predictable" took, the well-trained
ore." "Now 'cadet was supposed laver to turn
you stuanble on .a• huge
The third movement was tinged mace o.f•pipe" la hair. We were taught to sniff the
experimentalism. The psyehia- "How did that get here?" 1' asked i
'unpredictable."
ist on the .base had succeeded' with unevenly, expo:iencing some diffi- i Another feature of basic training
theory that music improves di- culty in' breathing. • was an introduction to service -type
stion and had a•rangecl to :have lairara£t,. In this case, the service
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evening meal formation con- 0k'Iassionaries, I guess. You crawl
i;roo at," he sand, type aircraft was a Vultee inter -
ti a Milit • f t • d
"You never go around it?"" 1 a e tea nes, an all -metal con-
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chided with. some celebrated eelec-
the morern ballad softened+ the tis-
sues of fighting men and determined
instead on John Philip Sousa. Here,
I thought the ecnipusitlou failed
miserably. After dinner is the last
time to remind a volunteer wartier i
Cif his trade. Any ,practising spe- 1
cialist who believes a gastric juice
is hoodwinked into working over -1
time by the demoniac strains of
The Black ' Horse Troop March
OLD
VIRGINIA
PIPE TOBACCO
It's a real
pipe smoker's
tobacco
"You' crawl tree it."
I crawled and raced ahead."Here ` you discover a shalloW
stream eighteen. feet .wide: 'You leap
across it.".
"You never wade?" I' heaved, try-
ing to catch a second wind.
"You always leap."
Back in the, clear again, I stum-
bled • blindly ahead until a cargo
net stretching eighty feet in the air
made progress overland impracti-
cal.. '
"Mango trees," ' said the travel
guide solemnly. "You climb up
hand' over hand. Wild country, isn't
it?" '
"What did we come this way for?"
I complained brokenly. "Route 4
is clear all the way."
"Git gain', The Japs' are geinin'
all the title."
"How about you?" I asked -as if
I cared.
"Don't worry about me. I'll make
it all right."
traption, equipped with some of the
i,echnieal improvements, such as a
I controllable - pitch propeller, radio
equipment, flaps and tabs, and one
flow wing. All this bric-a-brac lead
to be handled with some degree of
competence,. for , the Vultee, was a
much more sensitive creature this
the bions' "Yellow Peril:" If you
neglected the cheek -off list, ,a com-
pact set of •comanandments to fa-
cilitate landings and take -offs, and
determined on a high pitch when . it
should, have teen low, :and rolled
your flaps up instead, of down,
you entered upon a course of wild,
uncertain. adbenture When this
happened, a plane' ostensibly poised
to take of would' be seen to speed
happily into the Texas plain as 'it
afflictedwith a ' -desert madness,
Then 'the radio control tower, judg-
iaLg from the madcap performance
that the American Dream was be-
ing willfully betrayed, would
screech formal invectives, and :a
well-intentioned, • badly coordinated
'lad from South Dakota would Bear
blockhead, and obstruction to they
w'ai• effort,
After some preliminary instruc-
tion which attempted to 'develop a
classical restraint in my landings,
I started to use up the, allotted solo
periods.
"Practise diose landings," the in-
structor advised. I; had a ,habit of
coning thirty feet over the run-
way, and dropping on it from that
height like a plummeting bawk.
"More swoop," said the instrue-,
tor.
One morning I was dutifullyP rac.
tiring any scales on an outlying
field when the weather, which had
been cloudless and bright since
dawn, turned genuinely vile: The
of a child who had adapted her:
easily to our, age of vioI<:nee,
"Is this heah, ,.a crash call?";
drawled with a minimum of 'int
"No, it, isn't. I want to get
Chief of Operations,"
"That's all you -all can get fr
heah," she said sadly. "Ale ca
ring . anyone else: Not allowed;"
"All youdo is ring the Chief
Operations?" I asked, a little
palled by such' specialty,
"Not allowed m ring anyth
else," she said drowsily,
"Oh, that's too .bad:"
"Ah'l ring," . said the opera
and she sounded ,sadder than a er�
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(To Be Continued)
German Prisoners a
Dieppe.
'Mania Harbour is now in working demolitions and Aillied bombing 'had leased.
order again. (October, 1.944). Con -Ito be repaired, the first pictures of Picture shows ---The Prisoner
siderabie damage done by 'German tots work in progress are now re- War .Camp.
C:P.R. Car Has First Automatic Door,, Wider Windows
4004,
aiitiataateaaaa
IN MODERN, MANNER; Rebuilt las part of the
Canadian Pacific Railway's program for imine,.
diate rimprovement and refinement of existing,
cars and radical changes in new rolling stock to
be :built when -pease comes; the sleeping car
"Valois" has many new, features, with special
consideration for the comfort of women and
children.' The 'first automatic door opener in a
Canadian railway car at left has a pneumatic -
electric arrangement, visible at the top of : the
rear of tyhe door, to do the work at the first touch
of the luggage -laden passenger's hand. Top
right is one of the wider windows in the car with
one large window of the observation car type
installed in each section to give an unbroken vieW
of the countryside and replace two smaller windows
which served before. Bottoau right is the powder
nem of this model' for rngdernization where inno-
vations include tubularlighting, which is carried
through the whole car,ains a powder table and
handbag shelf in black' plastic.Other departures
in the car include improved springs and anti -noise
attachments on the triieltfi as aids to smoother
riding and•: undisturbed slember, illtuninated car
numbers to prevent confusion on dimly Iighted
station platforms ' and an interior finish winch
employs metal trim •and pastel paint.knd uphol-
stery in a pleasing "combination, The 'ear, which
now is in service, also has outlets for electric
razors, two-tone chimes to summon the porter and
high-frequenty bittzers for wake-up calls, with
their installation being standard practice on all
Cars of this 'IYPe shun e1