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The Seaforth News, 1945-02-15, Page 3NEW WRINKLES ON LAND, SEA AND IN THE AIR Jeep in photo above was turned into highly mobile rocket -launching platform during recent experiments at the Inyokern, Calif„ govern- ment reservation by Navy and Marine Corps engneers. Inyokern is one of the principal Navy and Marine rocket experimental stations. Something new in razzle-dazzle camouflage is used on the 2200 -ton. super -destroyer Hank, pictured pready for action at U. S. Steel's Federal Shipyard, Kearny, N. J. Note heavy armament, which includes batteries of 5 -inch, 40 to 20 -mm. anti-aircraft guns. To expedite loading of big high -tailed cargo planes, Air Transport Command is now using the self -jacking truck seen in photo above. At Fairfield-Suisan Army Air Base, Calif., it loads a giant C-154 Slrymaster with mail for units in the Pacific. Top photo, showing a Parisian carefully filling a suitcase with his month's supply of coal aroused sympathy for the poor, coalless people of Paris: But folk in Albany, N. Y., are not much better off, judging by lower photo which shows residents; caught short on fuel due to . freight tie-ups, filling paper sacks as they scrape coal dealer's pile to the ground. CANADIAN PARATROOPERS IN BELGIUM This picture shows a section of Canadian paratroopers in action in Belgium being led into a Belgian town by Sgt. T. H. Pasquel of Neepawa, Man., Pte. L. L. Gagnier, Valleyfield, Que., Pte. N. Cahute, Toronto, Pte. R. C. Feralice,-Hamilton, Ont., Pte. H. L. Anderson, St. Thomas, Ont. and Pte. J. Blois, Shawinigan Falls, Que. AWAIT ORDERS. TO MOVE ON COLMAR Allied infantrymen take cover in shallow trenches on the outskirts of besieged• Colmar, France, as they await orders to move up. French -manned tank in background is ready to support attack. CAPTURED ENEMY EQUIPMENT Captured enemy clothing, weapons and equipment are carefully studied by Intelligence Officers of the Canadian and. Allied armies. Dgn't let the picture on the left fool you. The lad seen here is NOT a Jap, but a Canadian soldier dressed in a quilted Japanese winter coat, with fur collar and cuffs, steel helmet and a Jap "Bren" gun, with bayonet attached This equipment was captured in the Pacific theatre of operations. At the right, a Canadian Army Officer looks over a German 'sub -machine gun captured in North Africa. German and Japanese shells and land mines are seen in the background. BONDED BABY James Doolittle III, grandson of the famous commander of the U. S. Bth Air Force, and son of Capt. James Doolittle 2nd, poses with his mother in their San Antonio, Tex., home with the war bond little Jimmy III recently received from his grand- mother. Photo above was sent to General Doolittle following his request for "some good pictures of the baby." WITH MASTERLY SKILL ...Maxwell House Coffee is blended from rare extra -flavor coffees. More people buy Maxwell House than any other brand of coffee in the world. Have you tried it? Get quick relief from HEADACHE this way . e . WHEN you suffer from an annoying, aggravatingheadache, getgusck, action relief relief just bytaldng afast-acting prescription -type Instantine tablet. This tested and time proved remedy is specially compounded to ease your headachefast: 1. Speedily eases pain. 2. Prolongs relief from pain. 3. Reduces "depression." Gives mild, stimulating "lift." Take Instantine for other pains. too: rheumatic, neuralgic, neuritic suffer- ing, or the misery of colds. All drug- stores have Instantine. 12 tablets 25¢. a product of The Boyer Co. ltd. A . ...AAA... Last Year We Saki Ilourlaauaque will be the outstanding camp for 1944. We Recommended: AUMAQUE SULLIVAN LOUVICOURT All of which hit new highs We are now making another definite recommendation in Bourlamaque— GILBERT GOLD MINES LIMITED adjoining Sullivan Consolidated on the North. Members Ontario Security Dealers A„s ciation fyaldough Securities 67 longe Street Toronto Present Market 33.35 CALDO.UGH SECURITIES, 67 Yonge St., Toronto, Ont. 0 Please send informational bulletin. p I wish to subscribe for shares of Gilbert Gold Mines Limited, Treasury price, BSc per share. I enclose my cheque for $.........., in payment Name Address