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The Seaforth News, 1941-07-31, Page 7THURSDAY, JULY 31, i941 THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE SEVEN 7. RI BB ENTROP I often used to see Soachi.m von Ribbentrop when he was ambassador la London, pass by my club on his way to the German Bmbessy iu Carlton House Terrace. Usually he cane by car, but occasionally he waited, accompanied by one or more of his unit, or by a woman, says E1- Nott O'Donnell in the Newcastle Sunday Sun. Tali, . slender, clean- shaven, with rather large eyes, hair brushed back from a high forehead and parted on one side, and what some women might term handsome in an uninteresting way, Ribbentrop is what he looks, a snob, a mass of conceit, a reservoir filled to over- flowing point with pomposity and self esteem. The idoa came to nee to try and get an interview with Ribbeu- trop. Knowing his reputation for ex- treme snobbishness, in my letter to the Getman Embassy h crammed in the names of as many titled people as possible. I believe this was mainly responsible for my receiving a polite request to call at the Embassy. I did so, and was ushered in by a porter. Seated at a table was a Mir -haired rune with a typical Pruss- ian poker face and Hun head. "I ant afraid His Excellency is engaged:, he said. "He has deputed hie to act for him. So long as you don't touch on politics and anything of too intim- ate a nature," he observed, "I will endeavor to satisfy you." Anxious to deal with a lesser known side of Ribbentrop in this country, I asked if His Excellency was interested in sport. "Certainly," was the reply. "He takes a great interest in all kinds of sports and games, but chiefly in hunting, fencing and football." He went on to tell me Ribbentrop had fought several duels when a student, that be was a very good billiards player, and that when a guest in the Southwest of England he had sometimes ridden to hounds. All this is Ribbentrop tho sports- man and games lover. I witnessed smother side 01 him when I was about to leave the Embassy. As I was in tate act of leaving the Secretary's room, Ribbentrop crossed the hall Mand with a tall, fair'haired woman. The two hall attendants discreetly looked the other way wbeu he press- ed the lady's hand to his lips with something more than mere gallantry —at least so it seemed to me, She said something to him in German, and, greatly to my surprise, gave him a playful little slap on his cheek, Siie then entered a car that Was waiting outside and drove away. Curiously enough, some weeks later, I was introduced to the fair- haired lady at a club in Mayfair. She told me site was studying for the stage in London and that she hailed froth the United States, She admitted she was of German extrac- tion, indeed, she could scarcely have done otherwise, as her head and face were typically pruseiatl. Later, from a trustworthy source. I learned she had been seen' in Berlin and Moscow with well known Ger- man and Italian spies, and that she was strongly suspected of being iu the Nazi Intelligence Service. With the idea of finding out all 1 could about her I visited her fiat in Chelsea, 'Wherever I looked I seem- ed to sea pictnree of Ribbentrop, There was a large photograph of Joachim 011 the mantel shell and au - other on a little table near the win- dow. As I was leaving the house a handsome car drove -up tothe door. I turned to look at it and was just in time to see Ribbentrop enter the house after using itis own latch -key. That is another side to the real Joachim, Fran Von Ribbentrop is a brun- ette with dark hair and eyes, and a retrousee nose. Though not pretty, she is by no means plain. Her loolts are marred by her expression which le somewhat hard and bitter, No wonder, considering tate disposition of her husband. The fact that he owes his rise in life largely to her stakes this all the worse. When he first met Ilaethe Henckell at a party at her father's, a champaigne magnate, Ribbentrop was a penniless adventurer. Learning she was an heiress he made desperate love to her, with the result she mar- ried hint in spite of family opposi- tion. She has been the driving force behind Joachim, and has furnished him with ideas and ambition. He is a linguist and is extremely cunning, but he has no great intellect. Re has always taken care not to be present at any of her "blue stock- ing" tocking" gatherings, preferring beer par- ties, night clubs and other places not frequented by the more intellectual element. Since his marriage to the wealthy Kaethe, Ribbentrop has acquired all tate pomposity and swagger of the new rich and has displayed an arrog- ance that has made him many ene- mies. He has acquired a veneer of polish, but not enough to prevent him making very bad mistakes. The World's News Seen Through THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR An International Daily NewsPaher u Truthful—Constructive—Unbiased—Free from Sensational. ism --- Bditoriale Are Timely and Instructive and Its Daily Features, Together with the Weekly Magazine Section, Make the Monitor an Ideal Newspaper for the Home. • The Christian Science Publishing Society One, Norway Street, Boston, Massachusetts Price $12.00 Yearly, or $1.00 a Month. Saturday Issue, Including Magazine Section, $2.60 a Year. Introductory Offer,6 Issues 25. Cents. Name Address SAMPLE COPY ON REQUEST Ribentrop is utterly lacking in NteitieWWIWWWWWINIWANIIIP delicacy of feeling. He behaves to been known to stripe them, so It is small wonder they hate and fear his dependents with the utmost hau- teur and contempt, and has even him. Like all the Nazi leaders Rib- bentrop protesses intense animosity towards tate English, but it is dubi- ous if, ie his heart of hearts, he feels a really deep antipathy for them, He enjoyed the time he spent in Eng- land and expressed regret, which I believe to have been sincere, when he left to take up his post as For- egin Secretary in Berlin. As a diplomatist his natural Macltiavelian qualities have rend- ered him good service. He was sign- atory to the German Japanese Auti- Comintern pact and probably largely responsible for it. Also, he played a big part in bringing about the Fascist International, and in black- ening England in the eyes of Mos- cow. Complicity in at least one deed of cruelty and blackness eau ,be charged to his account. One of the most beautiful cities of Austria is Salshtu'g. Ribbentrop had long covet- ed the Schloss Fuscbi in time wood- lands of this city, and mainly at his connivance, and in order for hint to get possession of it, the owner of it was arrested on a trumped up charge and put in the concentration camp at Dachau, There he was starved and so cruelly tortured that he died, The records of the Nazi regime include many crines, but this is one of the foulest, Does Hitler altogether trust Rib- beutrop7 I don't think so. Can you trust an adventurer and fortune hunter? I believe I am right in say- ing none of the Nazi leaders trust Ribbentrop. BASEBALL The last chance :Fans will have to see the !Newark Bears, Jersey 'City Giants and !Baltimore Birds this sea- son wall come in the melt couple of weeks when those clubs make their !farewell visits to Toronto's Maple 'Leaf Stadium. Netviark's final series with the 'Leafs in Toronto starts with a tflood- light ;game on July 'dist, 'followed by another on August at and winds up with a daylight doubleheader on Sat- urday afternoon, August 12. Jersey City 'Giants open a three-day stay with a daylight double !bill on civic holiday, (August 4, and 'conclude with a (floodlight game on August 5 and a twilight-+floodligh't doulble.header at 6.30 (p.m. on August i6. (Baltimore Birds 'finish off the week with the floodlight -games on August 7 and August '8 and play a doubleheader on 'Saturday afternoon, 'A'ugust 9. All floodlight games start at .8.30 pm. and the 'afternoon doubleheaders at '145, If you are ourioue to 'know what it takes to make a winning club to .the Lnte•rnainonal lLeagtiue, helve a look at those Newark Bears, The New York Yanks' No. d( farm club 'has power, good ,pitching, a tight defense and speed on the (bases --all the necessary ingredients and in proper !balance. 'They have the 'home run power to pee up high scores when runs are needed in quantities, and they have great pitching to win the close ones. The Bears have no less than four reliable starting ,pitchers in 'John Lin- dell, George Washburn. "Fordham Hank" Borowy arc rookie Russ Christopher. The last named 1s one of the finds of the seasa.l. They .lave power in :Francis Keneher, Tommy Holmes, Sven Sears and 'Henry 'Maj. eski. Kelleher 'is leading the league in home runs and in runs 'batted in while Holmes is leading in the number of hits made. George Stirnweiss, youth- ful second !baseman who was plucked right -off :the campus of 'North Carol- iia University, leads the league in stolen bases. With this array of talent nothing bet an accident will -keep the bears from copping another !pennant. New York :Giants, parent club of the Little Giants, have strengthened their ;JerseyCity off -spring in the tat- ter's !bid for a playoff spot by turning Nick Whitek over .to them, The Pal- ish lad from Pennsylvania was some- thing of 'a disappointment to Bill Terry v ho thud figured 'flim to sue- oeed IB'urgess 'Whitehead. Bat Nick didn't hit well enough to satisfy ,ma- jor league requirements. He 'wall un- doubtedly help :the Jersey ;City Club as the :proved ltintsell a standout in Datable -A company when he 'was with Newark in '1939. The Little iGiettts, incidentally, ,have a starry young infielder in Sid' Gordon, .who may, get leas chance on tole nemt spring, The 'Giants have 'been searching for years for Jewish ballplayer •who would be big box of- fice in. New 'Yoek. They failed first with Andy Cohen, and later with Snooker 'Arnovich. Gordon may he the percentage player. they're looking ;for. If they 'hand out any mmedals .in the International -League this summer for managerial (magic, they should pin them on Tommy Thomas, the jolty skipper; 'of ,the ;Baltimore 'Birds. The team is' nee' ev;eti a contender Ibut so MiNUTE MINIATURES Brief Backgrounds in the Careers of Canada's Captains in War Commodore Howard Emerson Reid Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Commodore Howard Emerson Reid is now deputy chief of naval staff at Naval Headquarters, Ottawa. For the first full year of the war he was commanding officer "Atlantic coast, a post which made him responsible for all shipping out of Eastern Canadian ports. The vast lob of expanding Canada's peacetime harbors, with their limited docking space and mea- gre loading machinery, into ports ranking among the world's busiest, was carried out in the midst of many wartime difficulties. It was accomp- lished while dangerous enemy aliens were arriving by the shipload, while vessels and crews put into port car- rying the registry of one nation af- ter another that had fallen under Nazi domination and rumors of sub- marines off shore were cropping up almost daily. Convoys made up under Commod- ore Reid's jurisdiction `included ships and strongminded ship's captains from the four corners of the earth. Upon his shoulders fell the safe dis- patching of our own soldiers, airmen, nurses and all their equipment for overseas service. Reid first went to sea at 16. He was born and brought up in Port du Fort, P,Q., educated at Ashbury Col- lege, Ottawa, and Royal Naval Coll- ege of Canada. He was posted to i?. M. S. Berwick as nidsbipman six months before the world war started. His first two years of war experience Included chasing the Karlesruhe, capturing and delivering three prizes to Santa Luca, and even on the Can- adian cruiser, Rainbow, he assisted in the capture of two prize vessels. Hardest work of his life came at .the age of 20 on H. M. S. Attack on convoy service out of Plymoutb, with continual fatigue, no leave, bitter cold hours on duty, complete exhaus- tion at the end of it due to bracing oneself continually against the swift movement of the turning twisting naval craf in sub -infested waters. In 1917 this stern experience ended. with his' being blown up when the "Atfaek" struck a mine while on convoy in the Mediterranean. Reid as first lieutenant, second in com- mand, in the new British destroyer THE SAGA OF SILVER ISLET F1'o111 Weekly Road Bulletin 01 Ontario Sunrise over Thunder Bay! It is et sight not easily forgotten. 1n the gray dawn the foreboding' outline of the Sleeping Giant, rising out of the depths of Lake Superior, bulks in blurred silhouette against the eastern horizon. Then, in an epoch of show- manship, with the dramatic sudden- ness of a rising curtain at the thea- tre the sun, a ball of fiery red, ap- pears from behind the Giant to cast golden shafts of lights upon the tur- enoise waters of the hay.The shroud is whisked away from the Giant and it now stands forth in hold relief, every detail clearly outlined, even to the tiny islet off the farthest tip of the sphynx-like lteadlaud. That tiny island is known as Silver Islet, a barren spit of rock, only eighty feet in diameter, jutting up above the surface of Superior. but which, in days gone by. sparkled in silver radiance, and the story 01 this islet reads like' one out of "The Arabian Nights." There are stories that cannot be told on paper, stories which, in their writhtg lose that dra- matic intensity of sudden hopes and tragic ends that is revealed only in their telling by word of mouth. The story of Silver Islet is one oY these. Here is how we heard it. It was evening and sitting there on the shore at the foot of the Giant we had watched the sun sink into Lake Superior far to the west. And although there was no wind the waves of these never still waters surged up and receded in soft toned accents over the crocks at our feet and against that lonely island off the shore. "Among the many stories that are told of Lake Superior that of Silver Islet is the greatest of them all," The voice of the narrator fell soft on our ears as he continued. "It was in the year 1868, nearly three-quarters HAVE YOU RADIANT Lovely, shintmering hair is a sign - most •.of youthfulness, yet so malty are content with dull and faded hair, often specked with dandruff. 'With very little trouble, hair can be made most attractive, (Brushing, is the .first step. Use a itrus:t with really strong ;bristles, and go: a: the roots and scalp. Iii:!, faded hair meds tonin up with a ;,nod hair tonin. Sprinkle some t..ntic over :cap, and 'hair. loosen hair from a , the':, placing y)ur ;finers firmly 7,1 the Acatli, vxate the .scalp itself. :ci^tout rot: rnf, Finally (brush vigorously. I you've very greasy hair, don't force: 'ia a gerraan.ent wave tends to dry- Lip snrplas 011, Dry hair needs occasional massage with warm olive oil. For very ;brittle stair, try an egg shampo.o occasionaliy. Take t,t) eggs, (beat whites and yolks separately, then fold together. !Wet hair and scalp with lukewarm water (not hot water; it congeals the eggs). ;Cover head with sufficient mixture to work into 'hair and scalp, then rinse thoroughly with clear teipiel water. Re- peat process several times. Of course, whatever the condition of your hair, you need a shampoo at least once a week. Halo shampoo is just the thing, :because it suits any type or colour of hair, is simple to use and makes the hair lovely and refresh- ingly clean and glossy. Halo shampoo will maike a halo of your head! Write .for confidential personal ad- vice, enclosing four one -cent stamps for my interesting ,booklet, Beauty of a century ago, 'when two surveyors Care, Address: Miss Barbara Lynn, landed on that barren point to plant Raz 715, Station 13., eteontreal, Qoe, their stakes. But no stakes were planted that day. For, with the first POSTMARKS blow of their pick, they unearthed silver, And I do not mean silver ore, Are the Collector', Latest 'War Time but silver nuggets in nests like Craze gulls' eggs. Remember, Superior is In war -scarred London sits a man ice cold. Well those two Seotchmen whose preoccupation is not with fall - spent the rest of the day wading fur ibonebs, but battered envelope„ about in those icy waters and digg- He is the originator of a ,new war- ing out nuggets by the hatfuI, time rogue which is growing in pope - "Never had such a silver deposit larity ;front month to month from one been unearthed, nor, for that matter, side of the Atlantic to the other, has there been another since, but the I When you get an out-of-the-way Montreal Mining Company which.envelope you probably 'glance atit owned the property figured that the :twice and throw it away. In doing so cost to protest a mine from the ang- you throw away a curious object ry waters of Superior was too great },which has a market value and is to - and so they sold out to two I day being sought after by collectors Detroit - era, a Major Sibley and a Captain in Britain and overseas, particularly Frue. Now Sibley and Frue fully in the United States, realized the difficulties they faced ; tIt is ,claimed that postmark collect - but they were the sort of men who .ittg is more amusing, instructive ate backed away from nothing. fascinating than ordinary stamp coil - Right down the centre of that islet ecting. they sunk a shaft and to protect it 'Many of the postmarks are indeed from the waters, of the lake they curious. built around It an encircling rock- For example, letters transmitted filled crib ten times the size of the from enemy territory via the Red rock, And beyond that breakwater. Cross Geneva or through 'Cook's rising twenty feet above the level of Travel Agency, Lieb,an, show from the lake, The mining plant they er- .stampings that they have been ouen- •by bath 'German and British censors. They will become rarities. Again. in war letter, are some- time transferred at sea When they are, they are so sun:barged and be- ; me, for the collector of postmarks, prized acquiiitiona. "Viscount" in 1918 with the Grand ected on that tiny island was an un - Fleet, went on a mission into the Baltic to Copenhagen, Ravel, Libau. After' a leave in Canada in 1919, Reid went off on the depot ship at a submarine flotilla to China, to be stationed at Hong Kong. which was good travel and lots of fun. The rest of Commodore Reid's service up to the outbreak of the present war alt- ernated between missions with the Royal Navy and commands in Can- ada, including a.turn with Naval In- telligence, Ottawa. In command of H.M.S. Sepoy in 1929, he became one of the first Canadian officers to command a British destroyer, There was Royal. Staff College in England in 1932, and then Reid became staff officer on the "Warspite,". great is Tammy's magic that the !Baltimore fans are ;proclaiming hint the (best all-round manager the clulb. has .had since the day's of Fritz Mais- el. el.. Here are some of the :feats Tommy has ,performed to date: He has taken a couple of Beltimore high school boys, '118 -year-old 'Val -Flanigan and !lie -year-old Russ Nilier and made. winning tpitohers out of them. ,Hie has developed Hal Sieling to 'the point where the peppery short-stop is now (being . eyed by half a dozen maij0r league scoots,' He has 'filled in this (pitching staff by converting Tont Hafey, an 'indifferent third 'baseman,• 'into a'p.romising 'hurler and ,then 'con verted catcher. Kracherinto a suc- cesslul third baseman. Notice to Creditors 3 aka. for $2.50 posing one and included docks for shipping the ore, boarding houses and even a club house. Over here on the mainland a small town grew for the miners engaged in this venture numbered nine hundred, But • most important of all were the giant pumps they installed to keep the • water of the lake out of the shaft.' OLD-TIME SAILING SHIPS Consider all the other installations as various organs of the body, the Now Give Britain Wartime Cattle pumps were the heart, the very driv- Fodder ing force of the entire enterprise.' Seeds accidentally taken to Eng - Day in and day out, year after year, land last century in the holds of their monotonous rhythm was as re- American sailing ships have given assuring as the `All's Well' on a ship Britain's farriers a valuable war - at sea. time cattle fodder. "It was thirteen years later and It is rice grass, or "Spartina town - the shaft was down thirteen hundred sendii," a plant flourishing on coast - feet. Three and one-half million dol- al mud -fiats or river estuaries where itaway of lars worth of silver had already been recovered and the vein showed no signs of petering out. It was tall and the autumnal gales raged over the lake. Out from Houghton, across the lake, a fleet of colliers set sail with the winter's supply of coal. Many stories are told of what happened to those colliers. Some say the skipper got drunk. Anyway they went aground and before they could be freed ice formed over the lake: ""Out there on the island they never knew what happened. They only. knew that the coal did not arrive. When their existing supply was ex- hausted x haunted they tore down every build- ing -and fed the wood' to the fires that the pumps might be kept work ing. It was March before the last bit of firewood was used up. But one day in March the fires died, the ,great pumps stilled. There is plenty of sil- ver there yet but to get at it you would have,, to puree out Lake Super- ior.,, prevents the washing banks by the action of tides and cur- rents. Much rice grass has spread naturally, but in recent years exten- sive plantations have been made for coastal protection. The modern English variety, dis- covered at Hythe, in Southampton water; in 1870, is a cross between the native species and that brought from America, and is so vigorous that whenever it comes into competition with either of its parents it elimin- ates them completely. Agricultural experts who have car- ried out cattle feeding trials with rioe grass have found • that under good conditions it makes splendid', hay, It is also grazed readily by 'all classes of livestock, - In New South Wales rice grass has been planted as fodder in the ex- tensive saltlands of the Rivel'ina dis- trict, where it absorbs the overflow from artesian wells. Experiments with it are also being carried out in South Africa, India and the Sudan. Want and For Sale Ads, L week 25c Duplicate pcate Monthly Statements We can save you money on Bill and Charge Forms, standard sizes to lit Ledgers, white or colors, It will nay you to see our samples. Also best quality Metal Hinged Sec- tional Post Binders and Index The Seaforth News PHONE B4 The World's News Seen Through THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR An International Daily NewsPaher u Truthful—Constructive—Unbiased—Free from Sensational. ism --- Bditoriale Are Timely and Instructive and Its Daily Features, Together with the Weekly Magazine Section, Make the Monitor an Ideal Newspaper for the Home. • The Christian Science Publishing Society One, Norway Street, Boston, Massachusetts Price $12.00 Yearly, or $1.00 a Month. Saturday Issue, Including Magazine Section, $2.60 a Year. Introductory Offer,6 Issues 25. Cents. Name Address SAMPLE COPY ON REQUEST Ribentrop is utterly lacking in NteitieWWIWWWWWINIWANIIIP delicacy of feeling. He behaves to been known to stripe them, so It is small wonder they hate and fear his dependents with the utmost hau- teur and contempt, and has even him. Like all the Nazi leaders Rib- bentrop protesses intense animosity towards tate English, but it is dubi- ous if, ie his heart of hearts, he feels a really deep antipathy for them, He enjoyed the time he spent in Eng- land and expressed regret, which I believe to have been sincere, when he left to take up his post as For- egin Secretary in Berlin. As a diplomatist his natural Macltiavelian qualities have rend- ered him good service. He was sign- atory to the German Japanese Auti- Comintern pact and probably largely responsible for it. Also, he played a big part in bringing about the Fascist International, and in black- ening England in the eyes of Mos- cow. Complicity in at least one deed of cruelty and blackness eau ,be charged to his account. One of the most beautiful cities of Austria is Salshtu'g. Ribbentrop had long covet- ed the Schloss Fuscbi in time wood- lands of this city, and mainly at his connivance, and in order for hint to get possession of it, the owner of it was arrested on a trumped up charge and put in the concentration camp at Dachau, There he was starved and so cruelly tortured that he died, The records of the Nazi regime include many crines, but this is one of the foulest, Does Hitler altogether trust Rib- beutrop7 I don't think so. Can you trust an adventurer and fortune hunter? I believe I am right in say- ing none of the Nazi leaders trust Ribbentrop. BASEBALL The last chance :Fans will have to see the !Newark Bears, Jersey 'City Giants and !Baltimore Birds this sea- son wall come in the melt couple of weeks when those clubs make their !farewell visits to Toronto's Maple 'Leaf Stadium. Netviark's final series with the 'Leafs in Toronto starts with a tflood- light ;game on July 'dist, 'followed by another on August at and winds up with a daylight doubleheader on Sat- urday afternoon, August 12. Jersey City 'Giants open a three-day stay with a daylight double !bill on civic holiday, (August 4, and 'conclude with a (floodlight game on August 5 and a twilight-+floodligh't doulble.header at 6.30 (p.m. on August i6. (Baltimore Birds 'finish off the week with the floodlight -games on August 7 and August '8 and play a doubleheader on 'Saturday afternoon, 'A'ugust 9. All floodlight games start at .8.30 pm. and the 'afternoon doubleheaders at '145, If you are ourioue to 'know what it takes to make a winning club to .the Lnte•rnainonal lLeagtiue, helve a look at those Newark Bears, The New York Yanks' No. d( farm club 'has power, good ,pitching, a tight defense and speed on the (bases --all the necessary ingredients and in proper !balance. 'They have the 'home run power to pee up high scores when runs are needed in quantities, and they have great pitching to win the close ones. The Bears have no less than four reliable starting ,pitchers in 'John Lin- dell, George Washburn. "Fordham Hank" Borowy arc rookie Russ Christopher. The last named 1s one of the finds of the seasa.l. They .lave power in :Francis Keneher, Tommy Holmes, Sven Sears and 'Henry 'Maj. eski. Kelleher 'is leading the league in home runs and in runs 'batted in while Holmes is leading in the number of hits made. George Stirnweiss, youth- ful second !baseman who was plucked right -off :the campus of 'North Carol- iia University, leads the league in stolen bases. With this array of talent nothing bet an accident will -keep the bears from copping another !pennant. New York :Giants, parent club of the Little Giants, have strengthened their ;JerseyCity off -spring in the tat- ter's !bid for a playoff spot by turning Nick Whitek over .to them, The Pal- ish lad from Pennsylvania was some- thing of 'a disappointment to Bill Terry v ho thud figured 'flim to sue- oeed IB'urgess 'Whitehead. Bat Nick didn't hit well enough to satisfy ,ma- jor league requirements. He 'wall un- doubtedly help :the Jersey ;City Club as the :proved ltintsell a standout in Datable -A company when he 'was with Newark in '1939. The Little iGiettts, incidentally, ,have a starry young infielder in Sid' Gordon, .who may, get leas chance on tole nemt spring, The 'Giants have 'been searching for years for Jewish ballplayer •who would be big box of- fice in. New 'Yoek. They failed first with Andy Cohen, and later with Snooker 'Arnovich. Gordon may he the percentage player. they're looking ;for. If they 'hand out any mmedals .in the International -League this summer for managerial (magic, they should pin them on Tommy Thomas, the jolty skipper; 'of ,the ;Baltimore 'Birds. The team is' nee' ev;eti a contender Ibut so MiNUTE MINIATURES Brief Backgrounds in the Careers of Canada's Captains in War Commodore Howard Emerson Reid Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Commodore Howard Emerson Reid is now deputy chief of naval staff at Naval Headquarters, Ottawa. For the first full year of the war he was commanding officer "Atlantic coast, a post which made him responsible for all shipping out of Eastern Canadian ports. The vast lob of expanding Canada's peacetime harbors, with their limited docking space and mea- gre loading machinery, into ports ranking among the world's busiest, was carried out in the midst of many wartime difficulties. It was accomp- lished while dangerous enemy aliens were arriving by the shipload, while vessels and crews put into port car- rying the registry of one nation af- ter another that had fallen under Nazi domination and rumors of sub- marines off shore were cropping up almost daily. Convoys made up under Commod- ore Reid's jurisdiction `included ships and strongminded ship's captains from the four corners of the earth. Upon his shoulders fell the safe dis- patching of our own soldiers, airmen, nurses and all their equipment for overseas service. Reid first went to sea at 16. He was born and brought up in Port du Fort, P,Q., educated at Ashbury Col- lege, Ottawa, and Royal Naval Coll- ege of Canada. He was posted to i?. M. S. Berwick as nidsbipman six months before the world war started. His first two years of war experience Included chasing the Karlesruhe, capturing and delivering three prizes to Santa Luca, and even on the Can- adian cruiser, Rainbow, he assisted in the capture of two prize vessels. Hardest work of his life came at .the age of 20 on H. M. S. Attack on convoy service out of Plymoutb, with continual fatigue, no leave, bitter cold hours on duty, complete exhaus- tion at the end of it due to bracing oneself continually against the swift movement of the turning twisting naval craf in sub -infested waters. In 1917 this stern experience ended. with his' being blown up when the "Atfaek" struck a mine while on convoy in the Mediterranean. Reid as first lieutenant, second in com- mand, in the new British destroyer THE SAGA OF SILVER ISLET F1'o111 Weekly Road Bulletin 01 Ontario Sunrise over Thunder Bay! It is et sight not easily forgotten. 1n the gray dawn the foreboding' outline of the Sleeping Giant, rising out of the depths of Lake Superior, bulks in blurred silhouette against the eastern horizon. Then, in an epoch of show- manship, with the dramatic sudden- ness of a rising curtain at the thea- tre the sun, a ball of fiery red, ap- pears from behind the Giant to cast golden shafts of lights upon the tur- enoise waters of the hay.The shroud is whisked away from the Giant and it now stands forth in hold relief, every detail clearly outlined, even to the tiny islet off the farthest tip of the sphynx-like lteadlaud. That tiny island is known as Silver Islet, a barren spit of rock, only eighty feet in diameter, jutting up above the surface of Superior. but which, in days gone by. sparkled in silver radiance, and the story 01 this islet reads like' one out of "The Arabian Nights." There are stories that cannot be told on paper, stories which, in their writhtg lose that dra- matic intensity of sudden hopes and tragic ends that is revealed only in their telling by word of mouth. The story of Silver Islet is one oY these. Here is how we heard it. It was evening and sitting there on the shore at the foot of the Giant we had watched the sun sink into Lake Superior far to the west. And although there was no wind the waves of these never still waters surged up and receded in soft toned accents over the crocks at our feet and against that lonely island off the shore. "Among the many stories that are told of Lake Superior that of Silver Islet is the greatest of them all," The voice of the narrator fell soft on our ears as he continued. "It was in the year 1868, nearly three-quarters HAVE YOU RADIANT Lovely, shintmering hair is a sign - most •.of youthfulness, yet so malty are content with dull and faded hair, often specked with dandruff. 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Of course, whatever the condition of your hair, you need a shampoo at least once a week. Halo shampoo is just the thing, :because it suits any type or colour of hair, is simple to use and makes the hair lovely and refresh- ingly clean and glossy. Halo shampoo will maike a halo of your head! Write .for confidential personal ad- vice, enclosing four one -cent stamps for my interesting ,booklet, Beauty of a century ago, 'when two surveyors Care, Address: Miss Barbara Lynn, landed on that barren point to plant Raz 715, Station 13., eteontreal, Qoe, their stakes. But no stakes were planted that day. For, with the first POSTMARKS blow of their pick, they unearthed silver, And I do not mean silver ore, Are the Collector', Latest 'War Time but silver nuggets in nests like Craze gulls' eggs. Remember, Superior is In war -scarred London sits a man ice cold. Well those two Seotchmen whose preoccupation is not with fall - spent the rest of the day wading fur ibonebs, but battered envelope„ about in those icy waters and digg- He is the originator of a ,new war- ing out nuggets by the hatfuI, time rogue which is growing in pope - "Never had such a silver deposit larity ;front month to month from one been unearthed, nor, for that matter, side of the Atlantic to the other, has there been another since, but the I When you get an out-of-the-way Montreal Mining Company which.envelope you probably 'glance atit owned the property figured that the :twice and throw it away. In doing so cost to protest a mine from the ang- you throw away a curious object ry waters of Superior was too great },which has a market value and is to - and so they sold out to two I day being sought after by collectors Detroit - era, a Major Sibley and a Captain in Britain and overseas, particularly Frue. Now Sibley and Frue fully in the United States, realized the difficulties they faced ; tIt is ,claimed that postmark collect - but they were the sort of men who .ittg is more amusing, instructive ate backed away from nothing. fascinating than ordinary stamp coil - Right down the centre of that islet ecting. they sunk a shaft and to protect it 'Many of the postmarks are indeed from the waters, of the lake they curious. built around It an encircling rock- For example, letters transmitted filled crib ten times the size of the from enemy territory via the Red rock, And beyond that breakwater. Cross Geneva or through 'Cook's rising twenty feet above the level of Travel Agency, Lieb,an, show from the lake, The mining plant they er- .stampings that they have been ouen- •by bath 'German and British censors. They will become rarities. Again. in war letter, are some- time transferred at sea When they are, they are so sun:barged and be- ; me, for the collector of postmarks, prized acquiiitiona. "Viscount" in 1918 with the Grand ected on that tiny island was an un - Fleet, went on a mission into the Baltic to Copenhagen, Ravel, Libau. After' a leave in Canada in 1919, Reid went off on the depot ship at a submarine flotilla to China, to be stationed at Hong Kong. which was good travel and lots of fun. The rest of Commodore Reid's service up to the outbreak of the present war alt- ernated between missions with the Royal Navy and commands in Can- ada, including a.turn with Naval In- telligence, Ottawa. In command of H.M.S. Sepoy in 1929, he became one of the first Canadian officers to command a British destroyer, There was Royal. Staff College in England in 1932, and then Reid became staff officer on the "Warspite,". great is Tammy's magic that the !Baltimore fans are ;proclaiming hint the (best all-round manager the clulb. has .had since the day's of Fritz Mais- el. el.. Here are some of the :feats Tommy has ,performed to date: He has taken a couple of Beltimore high school boys, '118 -year-old 'Val -Flanigan and !lie -year-old Russ Nilier and made. winning tpitohers out of them. ,Hie has developed Hal Sieling to 'the point where the peppery short-stop is now (being . eyed by half a dozen maij0r league scoots,' He has 'filled in this (pitching staff by converting Tont Hafey, an 'indifferent third 'baseman,• 'into a'p.romising 'hurler and ,then 'con verted catcher. Kracherinto a suc- cesslul third baseman. Notice to Creditors 3 aka. for $2.50 posing one and included docks for shipping the ore, boarding houses and even a club house. Over here on the mainland a small town grew for the miners engaged in this venture numbered nine hundred, But • most important of all were the giant pumps they installed to keep the • water of the lake out of the shaft.' OLD-TIME SAILING SHIPS Consider all the other installations as various organs of the body, the Now Give Britain Wartime Cattle pumps were the heart, the very driv- Fodder ing force of the entire enterprise.' Seeds accidentally taken to Eng - Day in and day out, year after year, land last century in the holds of their monotonous rhythm was as re- American sailing ships have given assuring as the `All's Well' on a ship Britain's farriers a valuable war - at sea. time cattle fodder. "It was thirteen years later and It is rice grass, or "Spartina town - the shaft was down thirteen hundred sendii," a plant flourishing on coast - feet. Three and one-half million dol- al mud -fiats or river estuaries where itaway of lars worth of silver had already been recovered and the vein showed no signs of petering out. It was tall and the autumnal gales raged over the lake. Out from Houghton, across the lake, a fleet of colliers set sail with the winter's supply of coal. Many stories are told of what happened to those colliers. Some say the skipper got drunk. Anyway they went aground and before they could be freed ice formed over the lake: ""Out there on the island they never knew what happened. They only. knew that the coal did not arrive. When their existing supply was ex- hausted x haunted they tore down every build- ing -and fed the wood' to the fires that the pumps might be kept work ing. It was March before the last bit of firewood was used up. But one day in March the fires died, the ,great pumps stilled. There is plenty of sil- ver there yet but to get at it you would have,, to puree out Lake Super- ior.,, prevents the washing banks by the action of tides and cur- rents. Much rice grass has spread naturally, but in recent years exten- sive plantations have been made for coastal protection. The modern English variety, dis- covered at Hythe, in Southampton water; in 1870, is a cross between the native species and that brought from America, and is so vigorous that whenever it comes into competition with either of its parents it elimin- ates them completely. Agricultural experts who have car- ried out cattle feeding trials with rioe grass have found • that under good conditions it makes splendid', hay, It is also grazed readily by 'all classes of livestock, - In New South Wales rice grass has been planted as fodder in the ex- tensive saltlands of the Rivel'ina dis- trict, where it absorbs the overflow from artesian wells. Experiments with it are also being carried out in South Africa, India and the Sudan. Want and For Sale Ads, L week 25c