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THURS., NOVEMBER l8th, 1943 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMAN VILLE, ONTARTO PAGE THREE Soldiers' Letters Letters received by Mr. and Mrs. John Living fromn their son: LICpI. A. H. "Bud" Living, B Company, West Nova Scatia Regt., Can. Army Overseas, Central Mediterranean Farces. Sept. 30 I started out in Africa wlth tbe good intention of numbering my letters but I hst the paper on wbich I did my bookkeeping and now I'm smack back where I started. Ghad you recelved the pictures I sent yau. Whiîe dolng patrol duty the other day here in Italy I met a chap fromn the H. & P.E. Regt., wha said brother John was in the best of bealth. Now the casualty reportbi been published I can tell yout'at wbile in Africa I knew uiat John Ireland was woundéd and was in a baspital about a mile from aur camp, but I made the discovery taa hate be- cause the next day the haspital was maved. There is nothing but praise for the Medical Corps here. Some casualties are flown from here ta SiciIy and Africa, others go by bospital sbip. I didn't know about Ah. Densemn and R. McKnight being waunded until meeting up with John in Sicihy. The afficer I used ta go an trips with in Prince Rupert was alsa waunded. SPeaking of food-one of my favorite subýjects - we eat very wehl bath in and out of action. Surprisinghy enaugh it seems that wben in a rest area and the C'y 1 goes back on bulk rations the food doesn't go dawn as well as when eacb section draws its own campa rations. In campa there is eitber ready cooked bacon or sausage for breakfast; for dinner there is steak or kidney pudding or meat and vegetables, Irish stew or saups with marmalade, pudding, fruit pudding or raisin pudding or fruits, peaches, etc. The tea cames already mixed witb milk and sugar. For supper we get buhhy beef or sardines. There is also a can of jamn or cbeese in each box, a chocolate bar and five or mare cigs per man and a tin of army biscuits. Eacb box of rations is packed ta feed 14 men and everything is in tins -ahl yau need is a can opener. Please don't misunderstand me, everything I mentianed doesn't came in the box, each box is let- tered A.C.E and sa an. Eacb is different, for instance, C is steak, sardines, jam pluîs cigs, bars, bis- cuits, tea, margarine, etc.; E ra- tion is ox-tail soup and F is bully beef. In time you get to knowing what is -in eacb ration and the Sergt. does bis best to get the best, or perbaps I shihd say 'fav- orite' because they are all good. During one or two short stops we bave rhet a couple of friendly Italian familles and have spent several pleasant afternoons daing aur darndest ta converse with tbem. The familles we bave met were in the country taking refuge fram the bombings and bave ask- ed us ta visit their cassa (home), but that is impossible because allc towns are "out of bounds ta all ranks." The anly tawn we bave Many thrîfty housewives are finding it to their advant.age, with the rationing regulations ini force, to buy- some of the baked goods at our store. It aloo adds variety to the daily menu and satisfies the hungry appetites of the fanrily. fo !J'go gewiaUozl» SERVE CARTERS WHOLESOME BREAD AT EVERY MEAL Canada's Housoldiers know that custards and blanc- manges, quickly and easily made with pure, high quaity At this tine when Canadian8 are urged ta "Eat Right to Feel Right-, these delicious demsrts will prove a * welcome addition ta the nutrition foods featured by the National Food for Fitness Campaign. h'ollow iCanada's Food Rules for Health and Fitness. CA NADASARH A pfoduci of the CANADA STARCH COMPANY, Llmted been in we were tbere on picke and patral. Some of these Italia gals would give the Canadian gal a run for the money wheni cames ta, goad looks. A pal wbo badn't seen me fo two montbs claims I'm- putting oi weigbt.-I might be at that. Airgraph Letters Oct. 18 Once again we are having a bi of a rest af ter engaging the eneui with success. It must seem ta yci that we are always resting bu it is only when we are that I hav( the apportunity of writing. M3 penmansbip may be a bit affectec due ta my rigbt band swatbec in bandages because of a fem "desert sares." As far as I kno' John is okeh. I'm trying ta cor. tact hlm as bis Regt. is alsu tsiI. ing it easy. Wbile in Sicily1 spent an afternoon in Catania and went ta the cinema, also bad somE phony ice cream. Spent two day. in Messina before gaing ta, Italy It was quite demolished. Yester. day we were able ta buy tbreE Canadian chocolate bars from thE K. of C. canteen set up ina vacant bouse. There were alsc a few books and magazines tc read. We are very fortunate. Oct. 19 In yesterday's airgraph I for- gat ta mention that about a week aga I met Bill James. He was going the opposite way in a Bren Carrier. We were so surprised for a second or twa that there was only time for a bearty salutation and a happy grin with "best of luck" yelîed by botb af us as the carrier sped on its way and I kept marching an. It certainly wasa happy surprise and it baosted m' morale up about 50 points. It is always a happy experience to meet a friend you haven't seen for some time, especially wben you least expect it. Have just bac a snack of toasted Italian bread, sans marj, or butter, and a cup af tea we brewed in a jam tin aver an open fire. Cheeria and love. BUD. Received by Mr. Melbourne J. Wight from C4464Pte. Austin, L.A., Hastings and Prince Edward Regt., lst Can. Division, Cen. Mediterranean Farces. Sept. 15. Hello, Melb.: I'm stîhl kicking right in the thick of things in Itahy. We land- ed here in broad daylight and met no oposition. The Yanks dida great job of bombing ta open the way for us. The caast tawns ane fîattened out, trains are bhown off the tracks and everytbing is twisted and tom ta pieces. Ger- mans have retreated ta the north and the Italians are coming back fram the front and falling behind us. They are helping repair roads that Germans blew up in their re- treat. People in tawns nearly go wilc as we pass tbrough, some laugb- ing and cbeering, others crying, tbey seem glad ta be freed again. Ten boys went out an recon- naissance yesterday and we cap- tured six Germans and an officer who had been left bebind ta blow Up ammunitian trains. We went in an armoured car witb Rus: Candher fram Bowmanvihîe driv- ing. I had nat seen hlm for about a year. We are right up in the mauntains now getting in position for the main attack which we hape wihl end the war in Italy. Ihad a few close calîs in Sicily.I got caugbt between twa artilhery fires. We were up on a ill wbich we attacked just at daylight, Ger- rnans were trying ta shell us off and aur. awn were sbelling Ger- mnans and there I was in the milddle of it, and don't tbink I wvasn't plenty scared! We cap- :ured the bll and aur casualties were very light. One German we captured asked if we had auto- matic artillery because aur boys had sa much lead in the air at one trne. I made myself sick eatlng fruit but stihl keep at it. The peaches are at their best now, also the grapes and oranges. Lemons are ike small grapefruit. Weather is bat in the day but very cool at night. Gen. Montgomery visits us often. He gave us great credit and seems ghad ta bave the Cao- idians witbhlhm. Oct. 6. A few lines between battleà to let you know I'm still okeh and we are pusbing on. We are up past Naples naw travelling mostly in the centre of Itahy. Even thaugh our guns ruin towns and homes the Itahian peo- ple weîcome us. At present the second brigade bas moved up ta give us a breather. We climbed et 0= ý [0 "This British Empire il 0 That You TaIk About" ot 0 - RlhW. Carney, an industrial- OSHAWA, ONTARIO ito îhta, Kansas, gave an ad- >" Pone 011 Fre Paring dress before the Empire Club of Canada in Toronto recently, con- Q Friay, aturay othe British Empire. This tribute it 0 November 19 - 20 fl 1 reprinted here with bis kind 'ly STFR >permission: )u flTFR Have you ever tbought of what ,e Leslie Howard, David Niven that you talk about, hear about d tstue hilng rmn over the radio, read about in his- d do' us.Tetry of gteane tory, and that in personification, ad dus.Tesy the laitz. ak God to save, in yu ýw0that busted theOUasz W oaous song? ri- Well, let me, an American, re- Mon., Tues., Wed., spectfully salute you, bid you Nov. 2, 23 24 Ingood-bye arnd thank you for your I No. 22 23,24 Oattention bere today, by telling id The new Warner Bros. bit you what I think it is... le i Ys MISSION TO MOSCOW The British Empire is the Y- 0StariIl "Sleeping, Appeasing Giant" rt-in among nations, suddenly trans- ýe0 Walter Huston, Ann Harding 0l formed by bombs on Warsaw into le n The true adventure of 0 a Smasbing Colossus and a ter- o l Joseph E. Davis vengeance; the joy-rider turned Lo 10,000 times stranger, 1(),000 Pilot and the R.C.A.F. and the U stronger than fiction R.A.F.; the jazz orchestra becomes [the fife and drurn corps. o t is Piccadilly Circus and the à Thurs.. Fni.. Sat., Savoy, suddenly warmed by the 25 - 61- 2 Spirit of Waterloo and the defeat ýn Nov. 2 6-2 of the Spanish Armada; it is the )r Ch Oarles Boyer, Joan Fon- nigbt club, the hunting-lodge andc is t aine, Alexis Smitbh f the country club discarding its ,n U1nf play clotheÈ 'for uniform and )f Injumpers, and the Red Cross upon tn THE CONSTANT NYMPH its sleeve. a r With It i waltz music and the rhum- Y' Charles Coburn, Peter Lorre,n ba, shifting to the blare of bugles; BredaMarhalDam My0 it is aIl the trivial ditties of TinC Il BrnaMasal Dm a Pan Alley welling into "Oh Can-1 ;0Whitty ada" and "God Save The King."C n The kind of love story you It is the soda clerk dying for id dream about democracy, the fat man on the golflnks flinging away his clubs to become an air warden; the r youth on a tennis court suddenly flasbing tbrougb the air to bomb mountains for two days witbout the Bismarck.c food or blankets. Americans are It's the cry of "Gimme, Gimnme"1 pusbing up the coast and doing a chnigo"TkalIhvef T.fine job. hnigt TkaiIhvef *Germans are getting short of you need it" and the slogans, "Every nman for himself" and food as they are stealing it fromn "What do I get out of it" became Itallans. We chased tbem out of aan "nln xet vr one town 50 fast tbey lef t pigs that aaî,m Egan d expects every. they had killed and started to eut Iman te do bi duty." ure up. ItcteMyarpabytre MW've just got orders for our parachute troaper; a grimy coal- platoon to go out on a patrol and town laborer leading a suicide eit is pouring ramn but tbat's tbe squadron to retake Singapore; the -way of war. village ne'er-do-well on a mine ýt Hope this finds you and the sweeper in a raging sea; tbe tap a family all well and making the dancer stripped to tbe waist in a ebest of things. blazing gun turret; the ex-gang- _____ ster finding bis soul in the emula- Ef Extracts from airgrapbs re- tion of Air Marshals Bisbop and s ceived by Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Fleming and, Flying Officer Beur- 1James from their son, llT1g. h Capt. Win. G. James, It is a cocktail lounge trans- i k "B" Squadron, formed into a barracks; a youtb d l4th Canadian Tank Regt., idling on a Newfoundland beachc s Can. Army Overseas, suddenly giving bis life in defense I - Central Med. Forces. of a lonely colonial outpost; it isC Sept. 26 laughter in a western cbuck-t] d Dear Folks: wagon, turning into a boarse - Today is certainly a happy day shout of "Let 'em have it" from a I not only do we get a rest but alsý Cburchill tank. i mail. I was glad to get letters It's the club car fading into an6 -from home as tbey are practically armored car-the deluxe sleepern -our only diversion over here and into an ammunition train and the h ave a terrific -effect on morale, porter into Gunga Dmn; the Timid TThings bave been going very well Soul laying down bis life for a Sfor us the last couple of weeks pal. ýand we are getting lots of excite- The street corner idler winning1 -ment and at times it is pretty a citation for valor; the "boy wbor t tougb going. Yes, that was my wasn't mucb use" sticking to the1 epicture in The Statesman witb guns of a flaming, sinking cruiser,6 General Montgomery. I've sbook- taking one last defiant shot before3 hands witb himi twice wbicb equals «a cold and pitiless ocean closesd my score with Gen. Andy Mc- over ta strangle out bis life. c Naugbton. Parcels and fags are It is the -tbree-hours-for-lunch coming over fairly well. I've been fellow carrying a sandwich and *glad ta see quite a number of telbruin epn hi Bowmanville boys bere and they promises that there shaîl be no fail seem ta be enjoying them- more strikes. selves as much as possible. The heat isn't too bad but aur anîy It is Clive of India, Kitchener of wisb is for a decent bath, but we Khartoum, Wellington of Water- aIl smell the samne sa it doesn't loo; Sir Douglas Haig, Wavell and make it too bad. Thanks agaîn Montgomery, Lord Nelson, Henry for the letters, keep tbemn coming. Morgan and AdmiraIs Jellicoe Octaber 8 and Beatty; Gladstone, Disraeli 3 Sorry I baven't written before and Edumund Burke; Henry VIII but as you can prabably guess and Cromwell and William the from the news we bave been kept Conquerobr; the Arcbbisbop of rather busy. The weatber bas Canterbury, William Shakes- certainly changed. Instead af bot, peare, Robert Burns, Charles dry climate we are getting lots of Dickens, and Browning and Sir rain with cold winds. Tbey say Walter Scott; Queen Victoria and tbis keeps up until next spring. Lady Astor; Gracie Fields and Tbanks a lot for the parcels, tbey Sir Harry Lauder and Noel Cow- were swell. Food of any kind is ard; Robert Bruce and Sean always welcomed by the men, as O'Malley; and Lloyd George; the well as clothing. Mail is certain- Welsh miner inf the coal-blacken- ly a Godsend out here. We get ed bowels of the eartb and bis lots of sîeep now that the ýnigbts thundrous chorus, the sky-.Écraper are getting longer. One of the scrub-woman and the colonel's Living boys is out bere, but I can lady! neyer quite find hlm. Airmail It's Westminster Abbey, Scot- letters stili come over very good land's moors and its heather- 50 keep tbem coming. Received Ireland's shamrock and hier songs your telegram on day of my birth- -Limehouse, the Lions of Trafal- day. ger Square - Big Ben and the October 16 Tower of London-Nova Scotia's Again we have a brief respite fishing banks, the mines of Kim- from the toils of war soamar mak- berley, Australia's sbeep and bier ing the best use of it. The weatber figbting beart - New Zealand's bas definitely changed and bas lonesome bravery-the Canadian become bitterly cold but we can Rockies-Lake Louise and Banff take it. I saw "Bud" Living the -Montreal and Quebec a ndi Ot- co~~~dajio~grt ' - - -- rat, is the British Empire! Mr. . J.Hodertwhoresign- That. too, is Canada, and ti ed as superintendent ast July 0W- for that, we work, and pray, and ing to ill-healtb, bad beld this figbt! and unto whom we sur- position for nine years. Since bis render up our sons! resignation Mrs. Hodgert bas been __________ carrying an as Acting Superin- tendent. Read the Cîassified ads- I F000 MERCHANTS Iu 9: o To 0CLOSE 7.0CLOCK[ I SATURDAY NIOHIS Commencing Saturday, November 20, 1943, the following Food Merchants have agreed to close Otheir stores on Saturday nights at 7 o'clock, butj wilremain open the last three Saturday nights of0 December until 9 p.m. no N. J. ALLIN R. H. DILLING MRS. A. B. HOBBS o A & P STORES DOMINION STORES HARVEY JOINT0 GERECAWKER MMS W. MAYNARD T.W. CAWKER MRS. F. FERGUSON MRS. A. MITCHELL cF. S. COU LTER H. C. OSBORNE MRS. M. NELLES olu0 LIST 0F BLOOD DONORS Wed., Nov. 10: Rena Fowler, Mrs. Mary B. Cochran, Mrs. Syd- ney Bond, Carol Martyn, Bow- manville, 3rd donation. Elsie Geddes, Bowamnville; Mrs. Mary Lubman, Margaret Alldread, Mrs. Gea. Alhin, Newcastle, 2nd dona- tion.9 Fr1., Nov. 12: Rev. Carman Lynn, Bowrnanville, 7tb donation. Kennetb Hopkins, Bowmanvilhe, 6th donation. Bert Jobnston, Bow- E R TI N manville, 5tb donation. Wm. Pen-HAE NJYDI bertby, Courtice, 2nd donation. Fred J. Thomas, Newcastle, lst ÀY0 esfaortt donation. histepeeec Mon., Nov. 15. J. C. Samis, John ORAIGEPEKOE odth re f ereine R. Nichols, M. W. Tamblyn, Baw-esDy' cho manville, 7tb donation. Leonard E Bartan, F. Hobbs, Bowmanville, oemsb xt- 6th donation. Melville Dale, W. ricly od. t J. E. Ormiston, Bowmanvilhe, 5tb s r t.Akyu donation. Frank R. Miller, New- castle, 4tb donation. Elmer Pal- rc frDl'Tu lard, Courtice, 3rd donation. TRURS., NOVEMBER 18th, 1943 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO PAGE THREE