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(AGE FOUR CL sp THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1940 3 ° The Oshawa Daily Times * Succeeding * THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) WSpa| lished every week=- i Sune, iki her pas at Oshawa, Cane ada, by The Times Co. of Oshawa, 'Limited. Chas. M. Mundy, Pres.; A. R. Alloway. Managing Director. p Osha Dally 'Times is a member of the or Newspapers Association the On- fario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby and suburbs 10 cents per week; $2.60 tor six months, or $5.20 per year if paid in advance. By mail anywhere Im Canada (outside Oshawa carrier delivery limits) $1.25 for three months, $2.25 for six months, or $4.00 per year if paid in advance. Py mail to U.S. subscribers, $6.00 per year, payable strictly in advance. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1940 Empire Shrine Damaged News that Westmister Abbey's noble east end has been badly damaged by the near- by explosion of an aerial bomb, dropped by a German air raider, will make all lovers of Britain regret that the enemy countries do not offer a comparable target for re- -prisal. ' Westminster Abbey is unique among the world's sacred edifices. The damaged east end contains the Henry VII chapel which is the chapel of "The Most Honourable Order of the Bath". Each knight of that chival- ric company has a stall in that chapel and over each stall is the banner of a knight either living or recently dead. In December 1914, the banner of heroic Earl Roberts, V.C., was still in place. In due time it was removed as His Majesty was graciously pleased to appoint another faithful servant to fill the death-created vacancy. Westminster Abbey can be restored, no matter what Hitler's vandals may yet do to it. But the damage already done and that which threatens teaches the lesson that Lord Roberts tried so hard to incul- cate. The lesson is preparedness. Britain has had and will have too much to lose, both in visible and invisible values, ever again to be complacent over the rise of national gangsters to threatening power. We know now or will never learn that while national shrines may be restored, the rebuilding of last liberties is something of which men, in general, are incapable, Our part in this war is a life-and-death struggle for British freedom. Won again, by grace of God and British valor, it must never again be put in such fateful jeapordy. Soft for the N.P.A.M. Soldiers Jo more shining brass buttons, peeling potatoes or scrubbing the floors for the modern soldier. No siree, he's going to spend his full thirty days in military train- ing. So says a report from Ottawa which points out that a special staff will under- take the kitchen duties for the members of the Non-Permanent Militia in camps so as to leave them full time for training. The modern soldier may have to take his turn at keeping his accommodation and the grounds clean and carry stores around, but even in the regular army many of the chores which were called "fatigues" in the last war are now being done by hired civi- lians. Stories one could hear former soldiers tell of fatigue duties would be interesting in the light of the new order from Ottawa. Probably the real dirty fatigue duty that might be imposed was scrubbing the wet canteen. Somebody had to do it, but when a white-collared and weak stomached in- dividual with lily-white hands had to grope around among the cigar and cigaret butts, with hot suds and a scrub brush, with the smell of stale beer spillings in his nostrils, it was a real "gag" for him. We remember the old song "A Sailor's Life is the Life for Me," but with fatigue deleted from the ordinary soldier's routine the new song could very well be "A Sold- fer's Life is the Life for me." Conviction Disallowed Two members of the now illegal Jeho- vah's Witnesses, arrested near Beaverton on July 5, at 4.30 p.m. daylight saving time, charged with an offence against the De- fence of Canada Regulations, and who were convicted in a magistrate's court, appealed their conviction and won the appeal, the time element entering into the cage in their favor. The appeal was heard before His Honor Judge D. B. Coleman at Whitby recently when counsel for the two men admitted they had been members of the organization which by order-in-council had been made illegal at 5.00 o'clock on the day they were arrested at 4.30 p.m., just half an hour previqus. This half-hour saved the men from fines or possibly imprisonment. The principal witness in the appeal pro- ceedings was R. Larochelle, principle clerk of the King's printer at Ottawa, who stated that copies of the Canadian Gazette, con taining amendments to the Defence of Can- ada Regulations making Jehovah's Wit. nesses an illegal organization had not been placed in the mails until 5.00 p.m., daylight saving time, July 5, which was half an hour after the time the men were arrested. It was argued before court that an Or- der-in-Council in this case did not make an organization illegal, but it depended on pub- lication of that Order in the official Canada Gazette, and further that publication could not be claimed to have taken place until such papers had actually been placed in the mails, It was at that point Judge Coleman made the comment: "An organization could be legal at 4.30 and illegal at 5.30," and coupl- ed with that the announcement: "It is with the greatest regret that I disallow a convic- tion against this unpatriotic and illegal or- ganization . . . I have no option but to allow the appeal." Challenge and Inspiration With a splendidly edited 52-page "Sou- venir Edition" to tell a remarkable story of brilliant newspaper achievement in North- ern Ontario, the magnificent new home of the Northern Broadcasting and Publishing Limited at Timmins is to be officially open- ed the week of October 14. The Oshawa Daily Times is glad to join a province-wide chorus of congratulation to Roy H. Thomson, president of the company which operates Radio Station CKGB and publishes the Timmins Daily Press, virile daily of "The Golden Area of Northern Ontario". Mr. Thomson, who had a small broad- casting station in Timmins prior to his taking over a struggling weekly paper there in the spring of 1934, has proved what vis- ion, courage and executive ability can do with an opportunity even at the blizzard peak of a continent-wide economic depres- sion. His genius was put to a particularly severe test in April 1939, when the com- pany's publishing plant at Timmins was completely destroyed by fire. The new building now in use is a master- piece of modernistic architecture. Its story is a challenge to Canadian enterprise, and will long be an inspiration to Canadian youth, Editorial Notes Says the Peterboro Examiner, "The big problem is to take the germ Germany." Yes and the hit out of Hitler, the muss out of Mussolini. : When gangsters begin to show their heads in threes, like Berlin, Italy and Japan has done, it gives the .freedom-loving democracies something to shoot at. The Chief Scout of Canada, the Earl of Athlone, has appealed for men to take training as Scout leaders. The good work of this great youth movement in Canada should not be neglected. Tinned apple juice is just as palatable as any of the imported variety of citrus fruit juices. A growing demand for this product would assist Canadian apple growers and at the same time keep Canadian funds at home. The recent reported population of 131,- 409,381 of United States as compared to the population a decade ago indicates the smallest percentage of gain in any decade of American history. The birth rate shows a decided trend towards smaller families or none at all. Hon. T. B. McQuesten, Minister of High- ways has taken on the portfolio of Minister of Mines as well. This has caused the Peterborough Examiner to remark, "if the miners now work with the speed at which the people drive on our highways then production should come forward with re- markable impetus. A Bit of Verse A DAILY PRAYER Calm Soul of all things, make it mine That there abides a peace of tHine To feel, amid the city's jar, Man did not make and cannot mar, ~MATTHEW ARNOLD. "A Bible Thought for Today SUPPLY IS SURE: Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou be fed. Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart --Psalm 37:3, 4. Sly out of' AIR PLAN HERE WILL BE VITAL, "V.C. DECLARES | Air Marshal Bishop Back From England With "New Conception" Ottawa, Oct. 8.--Ailr Marshal W. A. Bishop, V.C, always "high" on the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, returned to the capital Saturday night from the United Kingdom and told newsmen his visit gave him a "new concep- tion" of the plan's importance, "The plan is even more important than I had previously imagined," sald the Canadian ace of the first Great War, now director of Royal Canadian Air Force recruiting. "It will be a vital factor in winning this war." Air-Marshal Bishop flew back across the Atlantic in the British flying boat Clyde, landing at Bou- cherville, Que., Saturday afternoon. for the rest of his journey to near- by Rockcliffe air station. Optimistic about the progress of the air war, he said Britain was on the way to gaining numerical super=- jority over the enemy. British fig- vative, and a "definite under-esti~ | mation." Amazing Work "In addition," he said, "we have superiority in our machines, and in the quality of our personnel. "As for the Canadian flyers in the Royal Air Force and the R.C. AF, their work has been perfect- ly amazing. All Canadians have galned a tremendous reputation." Air Marshal Bishop was himself a fighting ace in the last war, He brought down 72 German wa~ officially credited with more than 170 air battles. Recently he went to Britaln to inspect Canadian and British air facilities. During his stay in the United Kingdom he went through numerous German air raids ana piought back the impression that the Nazi bomb- ings "don't worry any one over there." Won't Fight Openly Air Marshal Bishop sald German fighter pilots would not fight openly with the British, "They usually keep up at a high altitude and open fire from long range," he explained. "If they come in close, they're finished." He described a new German method of spotting objectives. A fighter machine circles at an alti- tude of about half a mile, and leaves a ring of smoke which high- flying bombers use as a target, However, British fighters are usual- ly able tointercept the bombers be- fore .the smoke ring can be used effectively. Although he did not see any Ger- man prisoners of war while in Eng- land, Air Marshal Bishop said that from all reports they are a "bad, truculen{ lot." Air Marshal Bishop described his return trip across the Atlantic as "delightful, but cold." The Clyde left Thursday, but had to return to its British base for a day, leaving again on Friday. Has Souvenir The Air Marshal brought with him copies of four 'London newspapers dated October 4. He also brought Then he boarded an R.C.AF. plane | ures on enemy losses were conser- | planes on the western front and was [ There Shall Be No Night If the prophetic utterance, "lights , whipped-up enthusiasm, no blatant over | are being extinguished all Europe that may never be re-light- ed in our time" what a terrible and completely bar- barous fashion do they apply in these present fateful days. However much we may be affect- ed by the red glare of destruction | rising from flaming ruins, outrag- | ing the star-studded peace of an | English heaven; however much the | bright days of our civilization has | | been clouded over with an ever- | | increasing pall of savage incense | from the altars of Mars; however | | much our light of life has been | eclipsed, giving place to this deep- | ening twilight of hatred and de- | struction, there still | amongst us triumphant bearers of | the light of life. Two hundred and twenty-five young people, delegated by "their | home organizations to act a# repre- | sentatives of thousands of others | | in their respective groups, met in | | King Street United Church for the | closing dedicatory servife of the | Annual Convention of the Bay of | Quinte Conference on Sunday night and attested in a very slgnificark way to that fact. The flickering candles which sur- rounded the auditorium. were but symbols of the flame which these young people cherished. Symbols, | scarcely needed, for they themselves | were radiant. It was good to be one of them, glad, free, sincere and earnest as they were. The joy of | Lite was theirs, yet they were not unmindful of the sterner realities of life (two of their number on the | pulpit platform in the uniform of | the RCAF, gave witness of that) hut there was no regimentation, no was true in the! | carly days of the 1914-18 conflag- | ration, how much more true and in | remain | catch-words, - only a quiet confid- | | ence and a growing enthusiasm and a dedicated purpose that their lives thould show the pattern, of the Master of men. Some there be who scoff at pray- | er but these young peoplg knew its | power and born of that 'knowledge | they gave a darkening world the | challenge of their re-kindled flame. | It was Tennyson who once said | "more things are wrought by prayer | alone than this world dreams of." | The thing we witnessed on Sunday | night was surely wrought by that | power for song and spoken word | and quiet-voiced petition combined | to frame bulwarks, great spiritual | fortresses on which hate and force | and destruction would one day be | shattered. It seemed almost paradoxial that such strength should be symbolized | | by a single flickering candle yet | those with eyes to see were given | assurfnce that in some not-to-dis- | tant'future a new world would rise from the ashes of the old, a world | whose "builder and maker was God." | We were given the hope out of | that frail flame that as long as | young men and young women, for- | getting race prejudice and narrow | nationalism, and taking as their {only armour weapons not forged | in the fires of hate but with breast- | plates of truth and love and sick- | ness, then the light of humanity must still flame in a twilight world. | We were given hope that the time is marching on when the peoples of this earth "need no candle, neither light of the sun, for the Lord God giveth them light, and there shall be no night there." Thank you, for your heroic vision, Young People of the Bay Confer- cnce, -Jas. E. Young. hack a section of the tail assembly of a German Heinkel bomber, shot down over Britain last Tuesday. About three feet square, the piece was of metal light enough to lift | easily with one hand. In the centres was a black swastika on a white circular background. He plans to add it to his First Great War trophy collection. "Our boys are sweeping the skies," he declared. "The Germans, a little less doughty I think than their pre decessors of the last war, simply refuse to mix with our grand Spit- fires, Hurricanes and Defiants and the bold lads who zoom them. When they are finally forced to do battle their tactics seem to be to find a hole and run into it." LIKE POWER PLAY He said the only time the Ger- mans really attempted to put up a fight was when they greatly out- numbered their British opponents. He described modern air duels he had witnessed over Britain as "nat- urally much speedier than any- thing we had to deal with last time," and said they reminded him of a terrific power play in a hockey game with buzzing British Spit- fires converging on. the goal--lum- bering German bombers--while de- fense Spitfires chased the protecting Messerschmidts. He talked to the King in Bucking- ham Palace while the air raid sirens wailed. The King was sitting in the same spot he had been just a few days before when bomb crash- ed into the palace 25 steps away. The King spoke calmly of his ex- perience and said he was surprised at the bombing that day because the warning had been given he didn't bother going to the palace shelter. Air Marshal Bishop sald new British air equipment now being developed , "makes for increased confidence in the future." | TO FACE COURT the weather was bad and that after | CAMP GUARDS OVER ESCAPERS Defense Official Will Try to Place Onus in Case of German War Prisoners Ottawa, Oct. 8. -- Two guards charged with responsibility for the escape of Ernst Nueller and Rudolph Rauschenbach from an internment camp in northwestern Ontario last Friday will be court-martialled, Defense Minister Ralston announced yesterday. When Nueller was shot dead on Friday evening, Rauschenbach sur- rendered. The attempt of Nueller and Raus- chenbach to gain their freedom brought the number of attempts to break out of internment camps in Canada to 14, However, only one man who tried to escape managed to evade Cana- dian authorities. He is 29-year-old Manuel Fischer, held at Interna- tional Falls, Minn. Nueller died under rifle fire when he resisted capture by an intern= ment camp guard who came on the German sallor and his companion in a trapper's shanty not far from the place where they broke away from an internment camp work party. Gold production in Canada set up a new high monthly record in July when the output totalled 456,- 626 ounces, compared with 420,925 ounces in the corresponding month of last year, ar. Port Hope Militiamen Absorb Military Lore Port Hope, Oct. 8.--Classes of in- struction in military procedure are being held here two evenings a week, attended by 30 members of "C" Company, Midland Regiment, 2nd Battalion, NP.AM., including officers and N.CO.'s. During the evening two lecture periods are held and a third period is devoted to elementary drill, The lectures include instruction on army organization and how it functions throughout; composition of the various units and arms of all all units, duties of officers, N. C.0.'s and men, map reading, field engineering, military law, protection against gas and military tactics, The classes will conclude with examina. tions in December for those try- ing to qualify as lieutenants and non-commissioned officers. JUNE CENSUS OF CANADIANS 10 BE EXACT Nothing Approximate About It, Ottawa Says Ottawa, Oct. 8. -- There will be nothing approximate about the 1941 Canadian census, which starts next June 2. A. J. Pelletier, chief of the census board, Dominion Bureau of Statis=- tics, gave this assurance yesterday. He described it as "the most de- tailed census ever to be taken in Canada." Some 16,000 enumerators, with the various districts to which they are assigned, will conduct it. These men will work on a "commission basis," receiving so much per person, house and so on, "Peoplésprobably wonder," Mr. Pelletier d, "if the enumerator secures an exact count when he calls or if it is only approximate. Be- lieve me, the count is pretty well up to its mark. "If a person is alive one minute before midnight on the day the census is taken, he will be enumerat- ed. But if he dies one minute after midnight, then he will not be en- umerated. The same thing applies to a baby. If it is born after mid- night, then it is not enumerated. Mr. Pelletier explained that no- tice of births and deaths is sent by mail to the Census Board from ail points in Canada. "That is the way we keep our figures up to date," he said. A suryey of housing Mkely will be intluded in the 1841 census if plans now prepared are followed. Enumerators will follow certain rules when they jot down their re- cord of Canada's population. If a person is away from home when the census is taken, parents or relatives will be permitted to fill in the forms, providing they can answer all the questions. However, operators of boarding houses will not be permitted to fill in any form for a boarder who is away.. Instead, the enumerator will leave an "individual sheet" for the board- er. It is to be filled out and left in a sealed envelope for the enumer- ator to pick up next day. GOPPER GOING: T0 JAPANESE | IRKS VETERANS Flying Column of Vancou- ver Wires Premier They Might Prevent Shipment | Vancouver, Oct. 8. -- The Flying Column, an ex-servicemen"s organi- zation formed here after the out- break of war, in a telegram sent to Prime Minister King at Ottawa, urges Government action to pre- vent the loading of copper concen= trates on Japanese ships here, and. state that "several thousand ex- servicemen plan to prevent further loadings if such action is not taken." A copy of the telegram also was dispatched to Premier T. D. Pattullo of British Columbia. The telegram to Mr. King read: "Soymei Maru, Nitsul Line, load- ing copper concentrates at Van- couver for Japan. Much hostile comment, Several thousand Van- couver ex-servicemen planning to prevent loading if another Japanese ship comes here. (Signed) Flying Column." Vancouver city police said that any attempt to interfere with law- ful commerce would have to be prevented in the usual way." SUNDAY SCHOOL BY POST Toronto, Oct, 8. -- The Sunday School by Post, an organization through which the Church of Eng- land in Canada keeps in touch with young people in the isolated see- tions of the Dominlon, has now been: taken over by the Anglican Young People's Association, it was announced. The willingness of the AY.PA, to assume financial re- sponsibility for this important branch of the work of the church was expressed by its spokesman at the recent annual meeting of the Boards of General Synod in Stys- ford, Ont. MONTH OUTPUT NOW EQUALLING PRE-WAR YEAR Number of Planes to De- crease Due to Switch From Trainers to Service Craft Ottawa, Oct. 8--Increase in pre - duction of service aircraft and & decline in production. of training planes will mean increased produce tion "expressed in pounds of air- craft" though it also means a de- cline in number of planes produc- ed, Munitions Minister Howe said yesterday in a statement on Can- adian aircraft production. The Minister said the menthly rate of airplane production new equals the annual output of the pre-war period, But he added it was inevitable that there would be a decline in the number of planes produced per week or per month when the pro- duction of primary and elementary trainers declines and the output of service and fighting aircraft in- creases. "Expressed in terms of man hours involved, one flying boat such as is used on coastal patrol is the equivalent of 60 trainers," Mr. Howe said. "The actual volume of produce tion, expressed in pounds of afr- craft produced, will continue to rise at a rapid rate, as we swing from the primary and intermediate train- ers into the larger service aircraft. Deliveries of the elementary training planes required under the joint air training plan are being maintained satisfactorily, the min- ister said. More than half of the 808 elementary trainers required al | ready have been delivered. aid of 18,000 maps outlining the | More than 100 training planes are being delivered monthly and the minister said it was expected they would all be delivered by the end of January. The Fleet trainer and De Havil land are the two planes being used for elementary training. A BIT OF CANADA RIGHT IN THE HEART OF LONDON Work of Salvation Army Goes On Despite Bomb- ings in London Air raid relief is now the daily work of the Salvation Army in all stricken cities of England, and es- pecially. in tne City of London, where the Army is a great force covering the whole London area. Slum districts, especially devas- tated, have attention, because the Salvation Army has its slum posts everywhere for service to those in need: During the past ten days, 14,000 persons have been helped at the Hoxton Goodwill Centre. Fortye three of these slum good-will cen- tres of the Salvation Army have been damaged by bombs. Several Social Service Hostels, both for men and women, have been damaged, but work in them continues unflagging. Few fatalities have occurred among the Salvation Army personnel and no headquar- ters building, of which they are many, has been directly struck. One --the Trade and Supplies Head- quarters--however, was damaged by a blast by many windows being smashed. ' The Salvation Army hostel for Canadian troops, called "The West Central Hotel" at 101 Southampton Row, was rocked by a blast and many windows broken, but the work goes on without ceasing and hun- dreds of Canadian troops stay at tite hotel when on leave in London. They say it is "a bit of Canada right in the heart of London." The hopfields of Kent have had a tremendous influx of refugees journeying from the devastated homes of London slums. As in normal years, the Salvation Army is active solving problems created by the changed, and chang- ing, situations. Thousands are without clothing, blankets and boots, which Salvation Army offi-- cers are supplying, The Army Good- will Centre cars are working day and night and the Red Shield am- bulance is in constant use for first. ald cases, including childbirth, ap. pendicitis and cases of malnutrition, which are numerous. Cat Returns Home Travels 100 Miles Boston, Oct. 8--A white unpedi- greed cat was back in the home of Mrs. Thompson Boyd yesterday after apparently travelling 100 miles on foot from Mystic, Conn, to Boston." The owner was convincea it was the same cat she left with a friend nine months ago because it has one brown and one blue eye. The feline"s paws were raw J swollen, THE CENTRE OF CONVENIENCE IN PM [mitreal OF INTERNATIONAL FAME = HOTEL de [A SALLE DRUMMOND & ST. CATHERINE