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lb ---- a ve $Y, Na Old Sea Dogs _ Bark Defiance Navy Record * Books Show, That Old British Sailors Never Say Die : . A ------ ' The Royal Navy, stretched across the Atlantic to Mold together Bri- tain's lifedine to America, is get. . ting a hand from its grizzled, old seadogé. | ~~ 'These old-timers: have seen Bri-. tain through otlier dark times. They have -eome qut of well ~ earned retirement stirred by the knowledge of her need in the big Battle of the Atlantic," and haps; too, bu' the *hate of Inaction. Many are doing landlubibers' work at all-important maintenance bases where they put thelr 'exper- fence behind * industrious crews that keep the navy's ships in tip. top fighting trim. Others are back' "at seapon patrol duty and know once nire the roll of a ship.. The story of heir return to ac- ive duty is toJd coldly in navy record hooks, 1 rd i . The books | ot'a -70-;ear-old, the chief engineer of a patrol boat. Before he retired he had been with the navy for almost 30 years-- from 1892 to 1921, } During the First Great War, he served on a' minesweeper. - When this war broke out, he -pestered & i ge ad - © GREETED BY INDIAN CHIEFS per- ° the navy until he was taken back. - He went aboard the patrol ship early in February last year,. He has been at sea ever since. In the books, too, is the record of another, 66 years old, From 1892. until 1901 he was with the Royal Marines. In the Royal Navy Reserve from 1911 to 1931, he served through the Fi Great War. > He also-is a patrol 'ship's chiet engineer, returned to duty in Jan- vary last year, | Since they /have béen on duty, neither of thé two men has had a day's sick leave! The books tell of others. The navy has 27 men who are more than 60. There are nearly 400 be- tween '45 and 65. Ee Blast at Halifax " Worst in History No Single ERIS "or Destructive Than Halifax Disaster of 1917 There has never yet been a war in which explosives. played go great a part as in the present war, yet so far we have nevet had one single explosion to match that which occurr at Nova Scotia, in the year 1917, The steamer Mont Blane, loaded with thousands. of tons. of trinitroto- luene, picric acid and benzol, was rammed by the Imo. In a. single ~ moment. 2,000 people were killed, } seven million 600, maimed, and pounds' worth of property destroy- "ed. Windows were broken at Truro, - fitty miles away, and the concus- sion was felt even in Cape Breton Island. They still. show you the shank of an anchor weighing a ton, which was hurled to a dis- tance of threo miles. At the same time a six-inch gun from the Mont Blanc landed at an even greater Halifax, ° distance, in one ofthe Dartmouth - lakes. 2 : Ships and Men | Pay War's Price s War Sinks 1,813 Ships and Takes Toll of 14,859 Lives : 48 As the 101st week of the war ended August' 9, Associated Press records showed that at least 1,813 ghips of all nations had been lost with 14,859 casualties in the con- flict at sea. From the sinking of the 13,581; ton liner Athenia on Sept, 3, 1939, the day that Britain declared war. on Germany, to the newly reported torpedoing of the 3,676:ton Greek freighter Nikoklis, a known total" bt 6,820,004 tons of merchant and naval shipping has been sunk or gkuttled. . This represents an average of two ships each day, The tragic toll also includes the listing of 9,217 persons as missing. "Britain 816 vessels, far more than any other nation, the compilation revealed, and It has be¢n no. re- specter of neutrality, for such non- combatants as the United States, Egypt, Sweden, Portugal and others have all seen merchantmen flying thelr flags sent to the bot. tom, Wy tedster \ Trend is Toward Shorter Hair-Cuts Hairdressers gay there Is defin- ftely a trend awhy from that lovely, gleaming, shoulder-length curtain. of hair which has floated fn the winds these many winters. Although hair fs still shaped and tapered as caréfully as for that long bob, many an angelface this fall will be framed in brushed and burnished locks as short as a cherubim's, with just a brief little turnover of curl at the tips. bitter. struggle. has cost] ry War-bonnetted chiefs of the Stoney Tribe fu by \ Reserve, greeted His Royal Highness the 1 ry aay Duke of Kent when he spent a two-day respite at Banff Springs Hotel, breaking his arduous aerial inspection tour of the "dian Air Force stations, Johnny Bearspaw (left) Commonwealth Air Training and Royal Cana- Here the prince is seen chatting with Chief and Chief -Waving' Feather, His stay in the Canadian Rockies resort was the Duke's first real holiday in many months and he made the most of it, motoring, picnicking, riding, and walking just like any other resort visitor. _ See French People ~ Turn to Britain Authoritative British circles said recently that Chief of State Petain's" new policy underlines "the determination' of* the Vichy. Government fo align itself more closely" with Germany and Italy. These circles said Petain's plan is 'designed for the purpose of subjugating. the French people and forcing upon them a policy which they detest." ; 3 The French people's own ten- dency, these quarters said, is "to turn with growing hope towards Britain and her Allles and to de- sire ardently a British" victory," ' LORD BEAVERBROOK 7 go anil half-kobold, Lord Half-Tycoon, Beaverbrook is a strange man to be in- charge of getting 'the tools" into. the hands of British -.goldiers--and---civilians: He isn't .even British, but the son of a poor Presbyterian minister who emigrated, to Canada from Scot- land . .", in Ontario William Maxwell ("Max") Aitken was -born;-i-s rw. Sot fe . Knack of acquisitiveness was strong in Aitken; he moved to New Brunswick, quickly made a fortune in utilities . . . took the fortune, went to England and quickly made another in news- paper publishing . , . followin American methods, and using h publications as political stepping- stones, " Prankish, unpredictable, capri- "cious, his methods of work are er- ratic but effective'. . . they made him. Lord Beaverbrook, . . . Churchill turnéd to him to straighten out -the airplane pro- duction mess, though Beaverbrook as late as mid-1939 had been. "isolationist," . . . He made good, _ was entrusted with virtual eco- nomic dictatorship ., . . plunged into the battle of production with characteristic wild energy and unpredictable methods. Uwan co I ~ - HAVE . YOU HEARD? = Arthur Riscoe, the stage come- ~dian, 18 making London laugh with this story: "A crowd of German alrmen arrived at the gates of heaven and clamored to get in. 'Who -are you? asked St, Peter. 'Wo're the [fifty German airmen who were shot down today by the, R.A, was tho reply. Said St, Peter: "AValt a minute while [ have a look at the German com- munique," After came back and announced: (It says: here that only two German air. men were shot down today. So two of you can come In and the rest of you can: go to hell" The young man 'went Into _the shop and sald to the cash- "ler: "1 want to pay the last Instalment on the perambul- ator." The smiling cashler handed him his receipt znd asked: "And how Is the baby?" "Oh, I'm feeling fine, thank you," was the reply. According to one of the latest anecdotes from Norway, a young sailor In: Bergen was eitting on his front porch reading a day-old copy of the London Times when along came an agent of the Ges: tapo. The mere eight of this news- paper was enough to enrage the German, When he digcovered how recent its date was, his wrath boiled over in gutteral invective. "How did you get possession of - that verboten and verdant paper?" Tet it?" calmly - replied the sailor, "I didn't get it. 1 subscribe to it." . iT \ Diring a natural history examination a small boy was asked which of all the crez- tures eats less food than any other, He replied that it was the moth, because It eats holes, A small, shy man leaned con "fidentially across the desk at the United States Consulate at Lisbon and asked: "Please, sir, is there' -any possibility that 1 could get entrance into. your wonderful _ country?" k The attache, pressed by thous: nights, roughly: "Impossible mow. Coma back In ten years." The little re. fugese moved towdfd "the door, stopped, turned and asked with a. smile: "Morming of after noon?" Speed Fiend: "It's great speeding along like this. Don't you feel glad you're alive?" Passenger: "Glad Isn't the word; I'm amazed," (FEMALE PAIN Women who suffer painful, Irregu? lar periods with Hetyous, osdy spel 8s due to functiona 8 ould find Lydia BE. pin kham's (4 ble Compound simp] vefous to relieve such t1 t reading - it he | "Missed The Bus" While in a provincial town, Lewis Thompson writes in Cor- onet, Richard Wagner attended a performance of -his "Lohengrin" by a troupe of strolling players. To his surprise, the singers and orchestra "were definitely above average, but the -tenor, as the - opera progressed, was becoming Jincreasingly inebriated. . By the end of 'the fourth act, when he. was supposed to step into the boat drawn by the "white swan: and" mike. his- exit in this manner, he was so staggeringly drunk that he missed the vehicle--the swan was pulled off the stage without him. Paying no attention to the.mur- "murs of the audience, he pulled a watch from his pocket .and turn- [ing to Elsa, the heroine, he asked 'in the most matter-of-fact voice: . "Pardon me; madam, do you know what time the next swan leaves?" F How Can I? BY ANNE ASHLEY - - A Q. How can.I remove varnish stains from fabric? : . A. Rub the spot with tine or benzine, fabric thoroughly, Q. How can I remedy, has become hard and #fugary? A. The. jam that has become hard and. sugary will be almost as good as new by placing it in the oven until the sugar melts, Then take out and put aside to. cool, ~~ Q. How can I, remove match scratches from painted surfaces? A. Rub them with the cut side of a lemon, and then rinse quickly with cold water applied-~-with a cloth. Q How can I treat perspiring hands? A. Use -an astringent lotion "made of one part of boric acid © to twenty parts of water; dust thé turpen- Then wash the am that hands --afterwards . with talcum powder. AQ. How can I clean brown lea ther "shoes that have become stained with salt water while strol- ling: on the beach? A. Dissolve a large piece of washing soda in one cup of hot milk and rub this solution weil into the leather. Then polish with a good leather polish, Would You ol Do Likewise? You have an appointment with your lady friend at your favorit® meeting place but find yourself, at the last minute, unable to keep it. There is no apparent way to let her know. What would you do? Well, here's what a Cana- dian National Telegraphs messen- | ger received by way of an-assign- ment recently: "Go to the corner of blank and blank streets (a busy intersection) and-look for-a short, nice looking girl, wearing glasses. Tell her that her boy friend said for Htr not to wait for him as he is unable to keep the appointment but for her to go to his mother's hoje ~ She will know where it is"! The young lady was found and the message delivered, to the satisfaction of all parties. Old Pigeon Post + Now Used Again The "new" system of photo- graphing letters from the forces in the Middle Fast to lessen .weight of air mail is described by "Peterborough," London. Daily. Telegraph columnist, as "just 76 years old." . " Delving- into the post office archives, he discovered that the first time the system was used was in maintaining communica- tions between London and Paris in 1870 when the "pigeon post" made history. ' : = Letters intended for this novel mode of transmission had to be sent to headquarters of the French post at Tours. Here they were copied in consecutive order and by a photographic process trans- ferred in reduced form.to a dimin- utive piece of very thin paper such as a pigeon could carry, The photographs were enlarged on ar- rival and a legible impression ob-- tained. ' A _eling on a train? y Etiquette 'BY ROBERTA LEE 1. Is it permissible to ask for a second helping of any particular dish when attending a formal din ner? : 2. Is it sufficient to send a print ed card of thanks in acknowledgo-. ment of a wedding gift? 3. What should be done {if 'an out-of-town . friend, to whom. we are" sacially Indebted, comes © fo town? I 4. What is considered - the ap propriate dress for a womun trav. lf 5. When 'Bpeaklng of sgrvants as individuals should ono say "the servant" or "the help"? 6, Ig it obligatory to retirn a eall of condolence? ANSWERS 1, "No; second helpings are ser- ved only at informal dinners, 2. No; the donor Is always en- titled to a personal letter of thanks: 7 : ~ 3. It ts imperative that we call on her at her temporary place of residence, and, it possible, Invite her to our. home or to some sog¢lal affair, / 4. The woman travels in street clothes, wearing dark colors or dark mixtures, because they show Httle evidence of wear when she' reaches her destination, 5. No; use their titles as "the butler," "the cook," or "the maid.' Nor should one say "Hired man" or "hired girl," as they are the © names given to servants on a farm, 6. No; calls of condolence need not be returned, Pr -- {What Science) : -- AIR-CONDITIONED SUITS Workers in boiler rooms and large enclosures containing -open- hearth furnaces often labor in unhealthy and uncomfortable heat, Although it is often economically impossible to air-condition the en- tire factory room, scientists are studying ways of air-conditioning. the worker" } One effective method has been to attach a flexible hose to the back of a worker's coveralls and run the tube to a cooling unit. When the cooler was switched on, it pumped air at 80 degrees Fah- renheit and 50 per cent relative humidity through the hose into the garment, and workers in such ventilated suits were practically free of perspiration at- tempera- C: "It DOES taste good in a pipel" HANDY SEAL-TIGHT POUCH--15¢ ¥2-LB. "LOK.TOP"/TIN -- 65¢ also packed in Pocket Tins" Picobac GROWN: IN. SUNNY; {SOUTHERN "ONTARIO * ' tores up to about. 100 degrees. : Equally good iesults were obtain- ed by shooting blasts of cooled air through nesig placed close to 'the worker, : : -- k - DOUBLE PLAY ON WAX The - RCA - Manufactaring Co." announced a new phonograph record changer, called "the Magic Brain," that plays both sides of a record without turning it over. Invented by B. R. Carson, RCA ~Victor design 'engineer, "it. has a turntable no bigger than the label in the centre of the disk and two tone arms, one playing on the top side: of the record in the ordinary manner, and the other then pick- ing up the sound from the under surface with the turntable revolv- ing in reverse. r wn (fe NEW PRODUCTS A new plastic mender for metal pots and pans,-called So-Luminum, will withstand heat indefinitely. Its applied by squeezing a drop on the hole or crack and leaving it to dry over night... . The Ten- nessee Kastman Corp. is bringing out a plastic gadget that tarns an ordinary milk bottle into a pour- ing pitcher . , . Researchers at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, have discovered that paper spe- cially treated with-diphenyl, when. used as fruit wrappers, will re- 'duce orange spoilage by more than 509% . .. There's now a light- weight rubber device. that can be attached to French phones, per- _mitting the instrument to rest on your shouldex™so that both hands ore left free. ' - Russian Women Building Ships Russian women and girls "are building and repairing ships, hav- ing learned in a few weeks work which everyone had thought could be done only by men, an official of the Soviet shipbuilding indus- try said a short time ago. in a broadcast of the Moscow radio' heard in London, x : C.N.R., Announces New Appointments Announcement was made on August 11 by R., C. Vaughan, President of the Canadian Na- tional - Railways, of the appoint- ment of D, McK, Ford, General Purchasing Agent, to the position ~ of Vice-President in Charge of Purchases and - Stores. KE. A, Bromley, formerly Assistant ta the Vice-President, will succeed Mr, Ford as General Purchasing Agent, the announcement stated. oth appointments take 'effect immediately. | . Post Office Using V Mark on Stamps Canada's Post Office 1s going to take a part in the Empire's "V for Victory" campaign. City post offices across the country soon. will be using a new form of stamp cancellations, bear- Ing a clearly-marked "V" followed by the now-familiar Morse coda dot-dot-dot=«lash. . "The new impression will be used in-place of the standard form with the horizontal black bars," sald C. C. McGrail, district director of postal. services. "It with-ho used alternately, week by week, with the 'Enlist Now' impressions introduced some time ago." . HEY! SARGE WHERE'S YOUR ...CLASSIFIED ADVERTI 3 EMENTS... AEROMATIC METER PRESERVING LADELS AEROMATIC METER FOR AUTO- mobile, Truck, Tractor, Bus and Marine Engines. More Power! Stops Carbon! 25¢ More Mileage. Airmail for quick Information! Agents, write for territory. Dept. 9, Box 163, Vancouver, Cannda. T AGENTS WANTED ANKER-HOLTH CREAM SEPAR- ators and parts stock moved from Sarnia to. London. Order from "John C. Dent, 387 Central Ave, London. Canadian Distri Supervisors and Agents warf MGH-CLASS REPRESENTATIVES wanted to sell every family a health appliance attachable to eleetrie lighting circuit. i COOPE REMEDIE Y ze Strect Tor NABY CHICK REMEDY SAFEGUARD YOUR POULTRY with Chicko Solution. Prevent white diarrhen in baby chicks, for Blackhead disease and réemov- ing cecal worms from your poul- try. Postpnid, 50c, A. -G. Cowtun and Co, Chemists and Druggists, Roblin. Man. FREE GIFT OFFER LADY'S OR GENT'S WATCH, CAM- era, Clock, ete, given for selling Dr. Lyon's Shampoo in your dis. trict. Write now, Normand Pro- ducts, 1405 Peel Street, Montreal HOUSEWIVES! FOR MODERN CANNING OF fruits and vegetables and pre- venting from spoiling. 2 packages ostpald 25c. Western Canning fompound Co. Box 2101 Winnl- + peg, Manitobn! - . FARM FOR SALE TWO HUNDRED ACRES GOOD rain and dairy farm, good bulld- ngs, running water. Situated forty miles from Toronto, near ~ _Sandford..vil|age, « Apply. - George - Sth, Uxbrdge, LR. 1, On- arlo, ATTENTION HOUSEWIVES--Know your Preserves and Plekles, 100 Assorted Labels 10e, 500 Labels 25¢ postpaid. Lewis Printing, -8tatlon H, Toronto," Canada, RIIEUMATIC PAINS MIGHLY RECOMMENDED -- Every sufferer of Hheumatic Pains or Neuritis should try Dixon's Item- edy. = Munro's Drug Store, 333% Elgin, Ottawa. Postpaid $1.00, ro PE ONTAMPS WANTED: « LV COLLECTOR OF CANADIAN Stamps will pay carh- Tor old lesues on or- off envelope, On envelope worth more. Only inter- ated in the so-called Young Queen Victoria issucs which includes "the Beaver, Prince Albert and Cartier. Need King Edward fifty cent. Write mg describing what you have. All letters will be ane- wered, , Hunter, Morpeth, Ontario PORTANLE SILOS "PAY FOR THEMSE first year In many cas Hfouph, fnecrensed gnilk froduection, and thier--eatile By feeding ensil- a instead . of carn fodder. KEENAN'S PORTABLES SILOS will keep ensilage perfectly and last Indefinitely. The cost la small, and they can be easily erected in a few hours on any level ground." Made in 10,712, U4, and 16 foot dinmeters holding up to 38 tons. Approved by all dairy anthorities, For full information and prices, write the KEENAN FENCE COM- pany, Owen Sound, Ontario." 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