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Oshawa Daily Times, 6 Sep 1940, p. 5

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THROUGH THE EYES OF THE CAMERA "One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words"--Chinese Proverb French African Colonies Join Britain French Equatorial Africa and French Cameroons have joined the French Territory of Chad in repudiating the Vichy government of France and announced their intention of fighting with Britain under the leader- ship of General de Gaulle. This development forms a bulwark com- pletely across Africa, linking the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, cutting off any connection between Italian troops in Libya and the East Coast, Film Players Report for Service Well known to movie-goers in many scre roles, these three men henceforth will have every right to the natty uniform they will wear. They have been accepted by the R.C.A.I. as aircraftmen, second class, and reported for duty at Manning Pool, Aug. 28. From the LEFT: Patric Knowles, Robert Coots and Colin Eapley. Crown Princess Welcomed to New York Crown Princess Martha of Norway is shown here chatting with Wil- helm Morgensteirne, Norwegian minister {o the United States. He wel- comed her as she arrived in New York on board the United States army transport American Legion after voyage from Petsamo. The Flying Pencil -- Erased In England they have their own names for the various German type planes. The Dornier is called the "flying pencil". This one, engines afire, is roaring to destruction in southeast England after being shot down, Represents Ontario TI Chosen from more than 1,000 of the province's loveliest girls, Mary Allen Batten of Thorold has been named "Miss Ontario". She will meet beauties from the other eight provinces in a street-clothes contest at the C.N.E. for the title of "Miss Canada', D.S.C. FOR CANADIAN Sub-Lieutenant Leslie McLernon of the Royal Canadian Naval Vol- unteer Reserve has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross 'for courage and resource in the withdrawal of troops from the neighborhood of Le Havre." It is not known whether he was serving on a Canadian or a British war- ship. His father, 8. A. McLernon, lives in Montreal CONFIDENCE BETRAYED Authorities are investigating charges made in the U.S. Senate by Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Montana isolationist, that Sir George Paish, British economist, told him he was visiting the U.S, to draw that country inte the war, Paish denied the charge and said anything he told Wheeler was in confidence. A London spokesman described him as "an elderly gen- tleman with a distinguished record who has no connection with the government," WON V.C. IN BELGIUM Eighth winner of the Victoria Cross in this war is Second-Lieut. Richard W. Annand of the Dur- ham Light Infantry. Twice in one night, during the British with- drawal from Belgium, he went for- ward single handed with grenades to delay the advancing Germans and returned to lead his platoon, although wounded. Ordered to fall back, he learned that his batman had been left behind, He returned and brought the man back in a wheelbarrow before collapsing from his wounds. Lieut. Annand is a nephew of Major James Annand, now director of a Kingston radio station. The Duke of Windsor, dressed in tropical garb, holds a scroll swhile the Duchess accepts a bouquet of flowers from two native girls during a. welcome celebration for the new governor of the Bahamas at Clifford Park in Nassau. British and Canadian Troops Encamped In Iceland This ito fust received via. transatlantic clipper and passed by the British censor shows a group British and Canadian troops encamped on a road near Reykjavik, Iceland, which the British oc ind Hitler's bloodless invasion of Denmark. Members of Movie Colony Comrades in R.C.A.F. as enlisted aircraftmen. Here the happy four-some yarn about old times in the film capital. The actors are (left to right): Colin Tapley of New Zealand and Hollywood, Patrick Knowles and Robert Coots, hoth of England and Hollywood. 'The actors played in such famous filins as' "Robin Hood," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "A Yank at Oxford" and "If I Were King." To Study Administration of Internment Camps A special board of experts comprised of, LEFT to RIGHT, Warden G. 'T. Goad, of Dorchester penitentiary; Col. P. A. Puize, chairman, and Col. Thomas Dann, former deputy commissioner, R.C.MLP., has been appoint- ed by Defence Minister Ralston to study the organization and administration of interment camps. New Dive Bombers For U.S. Navy a sm emp eg r . '; an artist's conception of the new low-wing all-metal Curtiss 220-1 dive-bomber which the Curtiss-Wright Corporation re- developed with the U.S, navy and which is now nearing completion in the Curtiss-Wright Buffalo factory for early delivery to the U.S. navaj trial board for flight tests. The new plane is powered with a 1,500 h.p. Wright double-row cyclone 14-cylinder engine, and establishes new standards for aircraft of this type by having unusually heavy fire power, increased bomb-carrying capacity and general per- formance PREDICTS WILLKIE WIN Confident that his vounger bro- ther, Wendell, will be the next pre- sident of the United States, Robert Wit ef Lon Ka visited Ont r. Wilkie is exe- tant to another younger \ vice-president Distilleries. HOME FROM THE WAR ZONE Mrs. Florence Harriman, U.S SEES VICTORY IN STARS minister to Norway, is shown with The war will end by Nov. 15 her dog Bart, as she reached home rs > Sounding bs fish Yetors Ht aboard the refugee ship American , N in. . ( 4 S PAC 1 : : of the stars is correct, Horas Legion. Declining to discuss mill. who comes from Windsor and is tary or political subjects, she said now overseas with a Scottish regi- she was certain there would be a ment, clzims to have foretold the shortage of food, fuel and fodder beginning and end of the last war. in Norway this winter. Supply and Salvage Mr. Merpert Morrison, Britain's Minister of Supply, discussing salvage collection with a London refuse collector -- a picture of democracy that could not be obtained in many European countries today.

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