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The Seaforth News, 1960-02-11, Page 6Turned Bigamist to Savo Nurse The attractive yurz erinan nurse looked With loving eyee the wounded soldier. She had nursed him devetedly, but now all was chaos. The lied Army had stormed into her native city cif Mecklenburg, It was a time PfpiUage, plunder and agoniz- ing rumours. Soon, as many feared, curt orders came from the Russian Commander, requiring all single Women between twenty-one and thirty to report to their local labour offices, bringing only personal belongings in readiness for their deportation to Siberia. It would be better to be killed the nurses whispered among themselves, But there Was a way out, at least for one lucky girl. A hospital official told August Schroeder, the wounded soldier: "You can save that nurse if yeti marry hen" August furrowed his brows, for he had a wife and children in 'Upper Silesia. But he quickly subdued his conscience, reflect- ing that they would probably have been killed as the Soviet panzers crashed triumphantly into Germany. So, relaxed and sniffing, he took the girl into his arms, Af- ter all, but for her devotion and care, he told himself, he would not be alive. The pair quickly found a pries t who married them. Thus, bigamy spared the nurse the terrible fate that befell so many of her colleagues. August moved his new "wife" westwards to the safety side of the Iron Curtain For a time the pair were very happy. Then August discovered that his wife and family were still alive. He sent them money and food par- cels, but not even a regular supply of gifts eased his troubl- ed conscience. At last he sur- rendered to the police and con- fessed to his "crime." The sequel came recently, when he was brought for trial as a bigamist before a Cologne court. The judge heard his case sympathetically, remarking that It revealed a "refreshing touch of romance and pathos." The court, compelled to take a serious view of bigamy, sentenc- ed August to eight months' -im- prisonment, but this was sue - ended and he was released im- mediately on probation. Now his advisers believe that his wife will divorce him. He will then be able to put his marriage to the nurse on a pro- per legal footing. Conscience has a very strange power. In another recent case, a priest at Casale, a town in North Italy, went to a worker and handed him a silver watch. "Why, that's mine!" said the Cut A Slim Figure PRINTED PATTERN 4956 SIZES 121/2-24% /1-4.44/4.$ Slim and trim under your coat now—smart enough to take you right through spring. Curved collar, wise seaming on bodice help to narrow your waistline. Printed Pattern 4956: Half Sizes 12%, 14%, 16%, 18%, 20%, 22%, 24%, Size 16% requires 2% yards 54 -inch fabric. Printed directions on each pat. tern part. Easier, accurate, Send PIP T Y CENTS (500) (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pettern, Please print plalnly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Seed order to ANNE ADAMS, Box I, 123 righteenth St, New Toronto, Ont HAPPY BIRTHDAY — Princess Margaret Francisca of Holland is shown in an official portrait for her 17th birthday. She's one of four daughters of Queen Ju- liana and Prince Bernhard. worker, examining the watch carefully. "It belonged to me when I was a boy. You don't mean to say you've suddenly found it, Father, and by some miracle identified it as being mine?" The priest shook his head. "No my son," he said, "the man who stole it from you eighteen years ago asked me to return it to you. Apparently, the thief could not sleep properly. Gradually, over the years, his dreams came to be haunted by watches. He awoke in a cold sweat, a ticking sound throbbing in his brain. "So, he made confession, brought the watch wih him, and hoped that by restoring it with my help, he would once again sleep quietly and at peace." To go on "living a lie" proves in the end, too much for many people. It proved too much for a young infantryman who in. April, 1948, after serving for a year in Palestine, deserted from a famous regiment. Later, he joined the Jewish Army. Then, in 1950, he married an Israeli girl and worked on a collective farm. Twelve months later, he inherited by his mar- riage a farm of his own. He and his pretty young wife, working long hours, and in all weathers, made it pay, too. But deeply embedded in his mind was the thought that he had let down his country. Finally, his conscience troubl- ed him so much that he could ignore it no longer. So, much against the advice of his new Jewish friends, he brought his young wife with him to England and surrendered. Court - martialled, he was sen- tenced to a year's detention. Sometimes a man's conscience speaks through a girl. A 21 - year -old Glasgow boy deserted from the Black Watch. Though he kept his equipment, he re- sisted the idea of surrendering to the police, determined to keep his new-found freedom. He now had a civilian job bringing in £8 a week, and with his father and mother both seri- ously ill, he was able to send them £3 a week instead of the 7s. he'd been able to spare them from nis national service pay. But he'd won the love. of an honest girl. She knew that, deep inside him, he was a very troubled man. "Why don't you make a clean breast of it?" she wards." But he still shook his head dourly. Without saying another word to anyone, she went to the pre lice and got him arrested. He was courtmartialled, and given nine months' detention. To -day however, he is very glad that his girl had the courage to act on her own, and remove a great weight from his mind. Among the spate of robberies now troubling the police, mean thefts occur almost daily. Old people and even disabled ex - servicemen are robbed of their life savings. But sometimes the thief is troubled by conscience and makes amends, returning a batch of savings certificates or a cash- box. Sometimes tragedy results be- cause someone allows a trifling matter to prey on the conscience until even health is undermined, A greatly respected nun had given the date of her birth as 1894 although she knew it was 1891. To her, this fairly common feminine deceit appeared as a heinous crime. She confessed it to her convent priest who told her not to worry. But the went on fretting, feeling that her whole religious life had been a lie, Finally, she went to oris of her convent's outhouse e where she splashed coal -oil over her clothes and set light to them. It was her conscience that killed her. ttsSitta%,, 14-. ANYBODY GOT A YACHT'? — Freda Jones ts all set to go yacht - Ing le Florida waters. Just one small detail is missing. We are buying eggs now in- stead of selling them as we were a few years ago. Even so I would much rather eggs' were sixty cents a dozen than forty, which is what we are paying at the present time. At sixty cents a farmer has a certain margin of profit but at forty he has none. Even at sixty cents it should be remembered the only time a farmer gets top retail. price 'for his eggs is when he is selling to privae customers, going from door to door with his produce. But for every far- mer who has his own route there are scores whose only market is to wholesale shippers. Collec- tors pick up the eggs ungraded, returning the following week with a cheque and a grading slip showing the eggs have been can- dled and graded according to quality and size. The charge for this is four to five cents a dozen, irrespective of the wholesale, and retail selling price. Naturally if the price is low —. say twenty-- five cents to the farmer — the charge of five cents a dozen for grading is more noticeable than if the price is fifty cents. And the farmer is entirely at the mercy of the grader. If he is honest, well and good. If he is not, the farmer has no proof that his eggs should have been given a higher grade and consequently a better price. Even Gordon Sin- clair is concerned over the pre- sent low price of eggs to the far- mer and quoted one farmer's wife who shipped a large quan. tity of eggs and received an average of 18% cents a dozen. Sinclair mentioned the ,coat of feeding, raising and caring for poultry — and other farm stock — but he didn't mention, what a lot of other people also forget, that is, the cost of veterinary services. The terribly high cost of drugs hits the farmer not only for members of his family if they are sick but also for the animals. The last' year that we were farming we were down to five or six head of cattle in- cluding two milk chws. One of our grade cows had trouble calv- ing and our subsequent veterin- ary bill was $64, or about half the value of the cow, But you know how it is, if an animal gets sick, whether she's a grade or registered beast, doesn't make any difference. A farmer can't y 4 Sugar Popsy has remarkable will poWer. He'a willed every- thing to me." bear to see an animal suffer and he certainly can't afford to lose her. So he is trapped, both from a humanitarian and a fin- ancial point of view. Traditionally, the farmer is supposed to be a born grumbler, and believe me, at the present time, he has something to grum- ble about So, those who have to buy farm produce, shouldn't be too happy when the price of eggs drops far below normal. A reduced farm income naturally results in less purchasing power. You can't spend what you haven't got — even on the in- stalment plan the day of rack- oning finally comes. Or else ... Well, in our family the first month of the year brought a casualty. Eddie was playing around a pile of cement blocks in the yard next to his home when one of them :fell on top of his foot, fracturing three toes. A cast will be necessary but must wait until the swelling has gone down for the doctor to set the toes. Poor little chap, he has been so good, both at home And at the hospital emergency ward. In fact, at the moment, 1 think he is rather enjoying all the attention he is getting. How- ever, two of the others are mak- ing a claim to fame too. David by cutting his first permanent teeth and Cedric his baby teeth. Yesterday they were all here — all five grandsons and their par- ents. One family stayed for sup- per, the others went home. How often it happens that the grand- parent's home is the halfway house for.other members of the family. We are glad to have it so, it is one way of keeping the family together. I remember it was never the same for my fa- mily after my widowed mother died: 'We were pretty well scat- tered by then but mother was the medium who got us in touch with one another. Right here we are kept in training by neighbourhood chil- dren, especially three-year-old Julie who lives next door. The other day the front door bell was ringing like mad. Julie had heaved the mat off the steps, and dragged a box up to the door. That was also shoved aside and a chair we leave for the cat was brought into service, Later Julie's mother asked if her daughter had been ringing our bell. Partner laughed — "Ring- ing it — she just about tore the place apart! Why — did you see her?" • "No, but Julie said sbe push• ed a button at Mr. Clarke's door and th en she heard 'jingle bells!'" There is never a dull moment with children around. Bless their mischievous little hearts. "I want a very careful chauf- feur, my man, one Who takes no risks whatsover," said the pros- pective employer. "Then I'm just the chap you Want for the job, sin Can I have my wages in advance?" How Kiniborloy Gets Its Dionlomis The Rand is the basis of South African power and prosperity; but Kimberley is the basis. of the Rand, for its diamonds financed the great gold magnates, bolster- ed,the ebullience of Rhodes and heers,, and enticed the first vivacious flood of adventurers and fortuiie InInters to South Africa, They find diamonds in many other places, too. They even manufacture them nowa- days. The Cullnan, greatest of them all,' was discovered in the Transvaal. In South-West Africa they pick them up in handfuls from the beach, In Tanganyika they guard the deposits with radar mechanisms. But Kimber.. ley i s the most famous, the most suggestive of all diamond cities, and to the world at 'large its name remains more or less syn- onymous with the allure of pre- cious stones.... A plateau of bleak no-man's- larid surrounds, your mine at Kimberley, .. , Within its fences the whole process of diamond production is conducted. There are the Mine -shafts (for it is underground mining nowadays, down the deep diamondiferous pipes); and there are the big crushers which pound the rock when It comes tb the surface (so hard are the diamonds that they are •hardly ever broken in this brutal process); and there are the little trains which, ,clanking mildly, bring the crushed rock to the washing plants; and there is the series of pots and pans and weirs and screens that re- duce the crushed, washed, sort- ed rock to the smallest concen- trates. Finally they .extract the dia- monds. In a long unpretentious room, not unlike a printing shop, there stand a series of machines like linotypes. Five or six eld- erly operators, of .unspeakable integrity, tend these machines and greet the visitor with grave incorruptible smiles. The crush- ed rock arrives down a chute and is poured over a sloping table lined with petroleum jelly; and if you watch this operation very closely, and scrupulously obey the instructions of the ma- chineman, you may see a petit - point of tiny speckles ornament- ing the surface, of the grease. The muck runs away ant of sight, ,to be returned to the earth again: but the diamonds, those. unshakable cores of bril- liance', 'embed themselves in the vaseline like oysters, and sparkle away merrily when the operator, seizing a trowel, scrapes the grease from his table and de- posits it in a nearby pot, So they get their diamonds. The grease is boiled away and next door four men and a girl, in clinical white coats, pick up the gems in frying -pans and sort them on a table. There are greenish diamonds and yellow ones, brown and white and an occasional heavenly blue: there are little flaky unpretentious diamonds, and diamonds that seem to have been chipped with a penknife, and diamonds of ulti- mate perfection of symmetry. They examine these treasures with their eye -glasses, and they sort them by shape and colour: but at the end of the day, for all, ISSUE 6 — 1960 the , shaking and the cu Ug and the greasing and the boiling and the Sorting, ont) two little piles of stones,' like magical Molehills, lie on that table Cool. plaeantly,—From "South Alrican Winter," by James IVIerris, /0*p1ern kliquette By Roberti) Lee Q., is it considered excusable now to "reach" at the table? A. While the old "boarding- hoese reach" is still considered the sign of a chowhound, we can properly reach for things that we can get as easily as our neigh- bor can — instead of being over - genteel and bothering lihn need- lessly to pass them. Q. When there Is to be a sup - Per for the bridal party after the rehearsal at the church, is it necessary to invite the clergy- man — and, if so, his wife? A. If you know the clergyman well (in which case you would probably know his wife well, too), they would both be invited. Otherwise, no. Child's Favourite (Ni Liao Ingel. Make a picture or a cushion of each of these cuddly kittens. Just the thing for the nursery! The kittens, entirely in cross- stitch, can be done in six -strand cotton or in wool. Lovely baby gift. Pattern 668: transfer of two 10% -inch squares. Send THIRTY - WE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAMZ and ADDRESS. New! New! New! Our 1960 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book is ready NOW! Crammed with exciting, unusual, popular de- signs to crochet, knit, ,sew, em- broider, .quilt, weave — fashions, home furnishings, t o y s, gifts, bazaar hits. In the book FREE — 3 quilt patterns. Hurry, send 25 cents for your copy. FEAR BENEATH THE GAIETY ? — Dr. Bernard Finch (left) and his wife, Barbara, are shown with atter Mark Stevens — all seeming to be having a fine time — in•this picture taken at a party Aug. 20, 1958. Eleven months later, on July 18, 1959, Mrs, Finch was found slain in their home and shortly after- wards Dr. Finch arrested for her murder. Stevens testified Jan. 20 at the trial that Mrs. Finch confided to him she was afraid of her husband. •