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Bl Bd EET o.a0) 1 ly ) FRESE AE FINCA Si E Tok . | 8S aT 4d R.C.AF. Buying Six Helicopters Machine Can Land, Take Off on Twenty Square Feet The R.C.AF. has ordered six helicopters from the United States, air fgree headquarters. ? The air force statement said there wouldrbe an immediate use for these flying machines, which can land anywhere and take off anywhere, in rescuing airmen fore- ed down in otherwise inaccessible areas and in serving outposts now dependent on irregular sea commi- cations. i Mail, supplies. and personnel generally are delivered to inacces- sible outposts by sea. But storms, "high winds, ice or other condi: tions might make it impossible to get a boat there. A helicopter, ac- cording to its inventor and those who have flown it, could do the job. With its huge horizontal revolv- ing blades, the helicopter lands like an elevator, straight down. All it needs is 20 square feet. If there is no room for it to land, tho machine" will hover motionless in the air and a passenger can step down a step-ladder or slide down a rope to the ground. May Fight U-Boats Britain is contemplating use of helicopters with convoys to com- bat the submarine menace and-air - force headquarters said if the R. A. F. experience proves valuable, the R.C.AF. might use them in the campaign grains U-boats oft Canada's east 'coast. "The helicopter would certainly be of great help to us," said Sqdn. - Ldr. Hump Madden, veteran bush- pilot who now is- comminder of the ferry squadron at Rockeliffe air station near Ottawa. He said ferry pilots frequently were forced down or compelled to bale_out, in rugged country, where -airplanes could not land and so remote that rescue parties on foot would take days to reach them. One man was picked up last winter, unconscious, with both arms and legs frozen. "It was 14 to 16 hours in bitter cold weather before the rescus squad could reach him, With a helicopter we could have got him 114 hours after he went down. : In other intances it had heen four or five days before airmen could Le rescued. Then, said Sqdn. Ldr, Madden, "we had to foot- slog them out." Hundreds Of Tons 'Of Maps For Army American Forces Carried 110 Tons of Maps to Africa AH we think of the increased VOICE OF THE PRESS Uisictn the Mais The story is told of the farmer "who went to the air station and enquiring for his daughter was "informed that she was in the mess. "That would be Lizzie," he said, "she was always in a mess around home." But to offset that, "a-girk came out of the city "to" help on the farm and she was taken into the cow byre to be shown how to milk a cow. She looked the big cow over wtih. much trepidation and then turning to the farmer said, "Could [ not start on a little calf first?" --Trenton Courier-Advocate, Make It Unanimous The putting into circulation of the new five-cent piece with its 12 sides has allowed the Govern- ment to save 60 tons of nickel a year, an appreciable saving. Now if, for their part, the citi- zens will- save the five cents, everybody will be better off." --Le Progres de Hall, How Rumors Grow The trouble with rumors is that instead of going in one ear -and out the other, they go in both cars and out the mouth, and shortness of the journey docg not prevent them growing en rolite, Slak and Slacks "Don't Call "Em 'Factory Girls," Engineer 'Told; They're 'Industrial Workers' Who Cry for More Work." There's nothing slack about 'em but 'the slacks, and sometimes even the ks aren't so-slack.--Windsor Star: "Be Careful, Girls A well-known writer of things for the lovelorn tells her clients that it's "a misfortune to marry an icicle." That's tight, girls; he's almost sure to become a drip. -- Ottawa Citizen. 4 Britain's Preference ' It's said people in Boston pre- fer brown-shelled eggs; people in New York white. In Britain they prefer eggs--if they can get them. --Owen Sound Sun-Times, Personal Item Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, "who has been spending the wine ter on the south shore of the Mediterranean, is .expected soon td leave for home. --Christian Science Monitor. Make Ice Cream In Flying Fort Jive Sung In Old Castle In Scotland Whistl It's Coast Guards Entertaining The Duke Four United States Coast , Guardsmen, who barged up to a . British castle and 'knocked on thé door, not only were invited in but also sang jive songs for a Duke and got to blow a horn their host told them started the Battle of Waterloo. The story of thelr visit to the Sgottish castle of the Duke of Ar. gylo at Inverary was told by Do- minick Vilardi, New York City, on his return from the North At rican campalgn. He said the four slipped past members of the Scottish Black Watch Regiment on guard at the castle and were fnvited in by the Duke himself. Coast Guard Chap- lain Paul Townsend had rushed after the four to halt them but went along when they wero in- vited fin. 'Coast Grardsman Vilavdi sald that, after a lunch of fish. and chips, the Duke sang them somo arias from Italian opera and ask- cd them to sing. - SPD we sing?" he continued. "We gave him a jam session like he never had heard and he was tickled pink. When we left ho seemed sorry to seo us go." The Hurricanes Saved Britain Letter to London Daily Tele. ro--During the Battle of Bri. tain there were five Hurricanes for every Spitfire, and the Hurri canes shot down more enemy air- craft than did all the other fight ers our own and the enemy's put together. This is due not only to Mr. Camm, the designer, but to Mr. T. (0). M. Sopwith who, while the Air Ministry were wondering whether to order a couple of dozen lur- ricanes or_ a couple of hundred, signed ag order to the works lo. produce 1,000 Hurricanes. 1 believe the Hwrricaus saved Britain in her darkest hour and not the Spitfire, . ~ HUGH MITCHELL. Midhurst. 200,000 Muskrats Are Sold As Food Ofticials of the Ontario Depart. ment of Game and Fisheries said recently that about 200,000 of the ~700,0000 muskratsTeayght in Ontario annually are sold for use as food. There has been no appreciable increase in je demand for the animals despite approaching meat rationing, these officials said as production required to execute a gigantic war program there is one item most of us pass over hn without which an army and navy would be lost, literally and fig- . uratively, says Pathfinder. That = item is, of course, maps. Map making has expanded al- mot unbelievably since the start of the war. In the issue of aero- nautical charts, for instance, there has been approximately a 250 per- cent "increase. An additional sign of the times is that now familiar spectacle of women at jobs forme erly held by men and thought to be their special province. Both the ~chart division of the coast and geodetic survey and the arniy map service have brought in women Amarican Fliers' Method of Mzking Their Favorite. Dessert First he walks, then he talks, and the first two words he puts together are ice cream... That fs, It he's an American youngster. From then on, it's His favorite dessert. And now he thinks of it -- mountains" of it.-- when he's fighting in Africa, or building afr- fields in the jungles. ._ The story Is told of a Marine in . Guadalcanal who discovered an ice cream freezer. There was high excitement in the camp. Some- one rushed for Icé which he found and girls by the hundreds to do everythinz from the initial photo. graphy and research to final print. ing and folding. An army advances on its maps; a war's progress is followed on maps. When American forces land. nan {ce-lious Japanese. Everyone fought for a chance to turn the freezer, -- ---- There was a gallon and a halt to be divided between 85 Marines. It wasn't much. It wasn't frozen 'very stiff, "but it was the best thing we ate on the island," vowed abandoned by the | thiey commented on an Ottawa de- spatch which mentioned the use of 'muskrat for food. Lo Ts a , LX8 . ; AOS SX JOR Pn Bappad & Naiss suf LP Thoruon, dussale Are The arehitect has submitted plans and we spend many an hour making little changes in order to have everything just as we always wanted it. Perhaps you will say we are dreaming but we know that we are not. Georgo and I, like thousands of newly married couples, always wanted a home of our own, but it seemed to get farther and Llecty farther away, Our bank account never seemed to grow----now we know why, It was too casy to write a cheque for all the things we desired. But since we have heen investing in Victory Bonds and War Savings Cer- tificates our savings have grown with remarkable' speed. The reason of cause is that we think twice before we "cash in" a hundred dollar Victory Bond for some small purchase, because we know that the rest of the money will be wasted on things we do not really need. That is why we will be able to build our dream-house right after Vietory is achieved. TO YOU WHO ALREADY OWN OR ARE BUYING YOUR HOME --This 1s What Victory Bonds Mean: A Victory Bond is a promise of better times. It means buying power for you aftes the war... + « « for things you are now doings, real cash to spend ond, buying oy dean -houde of Fnovsow without, It means a nest-egy for use at any time to tide you over sickness or other emergeney, It 1s the best see curity it. for a loan. Any bank will accept It means Capital to start a business of your own, money to learn a wew trade, to send your child to University, to buy the modern" things designers aro preparing for you . . television lation or to above in the . plastic cars... frequency . . . qodu- radios . . . air conditioning buy anything you desire. But all, it means that your heart is right place in this grim struggle, and that you are behind our men BACKING THE ATTACK, TO CANADA a Victory Bond means the pledge of your wholehearted sup- port in the nation's all-out offensive, It is to go to your Victory dollars your personal order to Canada aliepd on all fronts. So held on Bonds. Keep your righting until Victory is won, ECR RTE A a a 5 1 ed In North Africa they carried with them some 110 tons of maps. The additional hundreds of tons which have been shipped to the "front since the landing have play- ed no small part in the advance and in the planning for a Euro- pean front. 2 Throws $25,000,000 In The War Jackpot The C.N.R. has thrown' $25,000, 000. into the Government's lap, says M. Grattan O'Leary, It seems like only yesterday when many in Parliament and outside it were de- nouncing the National as a "white elephant"; saying that it was go- ing to bankrupt the country, and that the only thing to do with it was to tear up thousands of miles of fits track and amalgamate It with the -C.P.R. Now they know they were wrong. They have seen the Canadian National play a mighty part in war transportation; seen it earn, money at the rate of $1,000,000 a day; -and now they applaud the fact that after paying all taxes and all interest on {ls investment it has in a single year $25,000,000 to throw into the war jackpot. Incidentally, Trans-Can- ada Alf Lines, also denounééd by some prophets of gloom, has come 'up with a good story, financial aid otherwise. ! 4 _ Sun spois are dark, cloud-like re. gions from. 500 to 50,000 miles in diameter which last from a day to a week, one Marine, American fliers in Britain have discovered an ingenious way to make their favgrito dessert. They mix the fce cream in a large tin can and anchor It iit the gunner's compartment of a Flying Fortress. Soaring high over enemy territory, it is well shaken and frozen to perfection, Upon return to base, a successful raid is celebrated in true American style. The Flowers Bloom Where Women Work -~British- women may not-be bet- ter soldiers 'than men; -but they are beyond question tidier in some regards. Their - greatest triumph was seen in their taking over of searchlight stations. A good many of these are set in lonely and muddy fields; but since the women were - 'installed - these patchwork deserts have begun to blossom like the rose. The paths grow neat and tidy;. and besides the potager proper, where vegetables are being grown successfully, small cottage- like' flower gardens embrace the army huts. C ONTRIBUTED BY DAWES BLACK HORSE BREWERY - DOW BREWERY - FRONTENAC BREWERY, Montreal; BOSWELL BREWERY, Quebec oe nh