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| PAGE TWO THE OSHAWA DAILY TIM S, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1940 RED CROSS SEEKS 9,000 DONATIONS OF BLOOD WEEKLY (Continued from Page 1) wounded by enemy action," Mackenzie's statement said. The minister said the plan was made possible by improved blood- storing methods "developed by Canadian scientists." The research was initiated by the National Re- search Council's associate commit- tee on medical research. Treatment and storage would be carried out at Connaught labora Mr, tories of the University of Toronto. | Professor C. H. Best, "foremost in * this work in Canada," would re- -majn in charge of the blood bank already operating there on a small | | United found by | scale. The Canadian scientists storage solution is based upon separating the blood cells and dary- | ing the plasma or serum, some- . times both, to powder form, Mr. _ Mackenzie said. The powder keeps indefinitely in vacuum glass flasks. The Canadian Red Cross Society | has already initiated "on a small ~scale" a blocd storage plan in To- ronto and vicinity, to help build up a quantity of the dried product for "the National Defence Department "For the needs «®f the Defence # Department, 500 donors weekly are . required," the minister said. "For ..the broader needs of providing a store of the dried serum or plasma for use in Canada and Great Bri- tain. It is estimated that 2,000 " donors (instead of 5500) weekly will "be required." Mr. Mackenzie's statement said the Red Cross So v had under- taken to organize the blood dcnors for the new program, It said Mr. Mackenzie had been © assured that "no time will be lost in providing the necessary staff and * equipment ahd in calling for don- ors, so that storage may begin at the earliest possible moment." The Dominion government will pay for the needed eguipment by 'a grant to the University of To- ronto. Funds also will be provided to meet operation and maintenance expenses invelved in processing the blood "for distribution by the de- partment and national health precautions among Canada and overseas The Red willingness of its of pensions air civilians in for raid Cross has indicated its appropriate . $25,000 tc orzanize donor ser- vices "all across Canada." Mr. Mackenzie said the dacision to extend the existing "blood bank' plan made 'after representa- tions from a meeting of a repre- sentative medical committee under chairmanship of Dr. J. B. Collip of McGill University, Montreal. Begun In Oct. 1939 Toronto, Dec. 23 sent development in the field o! blood serum grew largely from one started in » department of physi- ology a 1e school, of hygiene in the University of Toronto in Octob- <0 funds was blood donors student taken ni- the de- were body 'of the versity of Toronto, but as mand gre greater the branch of the Red Cross took over the job of enlis donors. - Since last January between 60 and 75 vol- untary donors have attended twice weekly 1 provided by the Red Cross for S purpose. By means current equipment here'it is poszible to freeze the blood serum and remove the water and the of >i | run (CP)--The pre- | Toronto | Traffic Toll Far Too Heavy IY dry it in the frozen state. The blood powder then is made ready for use by dissolving it in the prope: amount of water. An announcement last week said the equipment could be stepped up several hundred per cent to care for expansion in the field. SPY RING BROKEN BY ITALY, 2 SHOT (Continued from Page 1) Taranto, and Francesco Ghezzi, a naval officer, were shot by a firing squad at dawn yesterday, only a | few hours after they were con- demned and before any official an- nouncement of the trial was made. In another ment, Virginio Gayda, Fascist edi- toria! voice, suggested the possibil- ity of 'complications" with the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis should the States permit belligerents' merchant ships now refuged in her harbors to iall into British hands. "It could not be imagined that these more or less North American interventions in the war would continue in the long without complications with reference to the three-power pact of Berlin," Gayda wrote in the newspaper La Voce D'Italia (This statement followed a de- ¢laration by a German foreign of- fice spokesman that Ronald Cross British shipping minister, was "in- citing America to commit a warlike act" against ine axis by suggesting assignment to Britain ents' shins in United States harbors and that the US. reaction was "be. ing awaited by Germany with ex- traondinary interest." (United States State Cordell Hull declined comment 1 Berlin assertion.) Those who stood trial for spying were memuoers a network of informers which acted in our coun= try in the interest of foreign pow- er" the government said only ree of the 27 persons tried were acquitted. Anoth naval cfficer, the em- ployee of a naval const tion. firm and the latter's wife were sentenced to prison for life. The were given shorter of Secretary on of others con- victed terms. It was the first such case to come 6 public notice since Italy the war ahout six mon The Italian magazine Italiana. expressed belief that the Viehy government is plot- ting with Gen Charles de Gaulle leader of Free French forces, to re. unite French African territories for resistance to 'any eventual foreign intervention." The article pointed out that such a combination. couvled witn British African territories, would be a "gig- antic bloc" for an offensive against Italy and urged vigilance to see fhat 'this bloc does not spread and ahsorb other territories of still more vital imporcance." v entared s ago Rassegna yesterday REDUCING RECIPE After Boston Bruins scored in a National Hockey League game Goaler Earl Robertson of the de- feated team stepped on the scales and discoiered he had lost ten pounds. Robertson said no team had ever scored more than seven goals against him until the Boston aval- anche broke. PAIR OF RED SOX SIGN Boston, Dec. 23--Boston Red Sox management announced Friday that Emerson Dickman, veteran righthanded pitcher, and Lamar Newsome, shortstop purchased from the Baltimore International League club, have agreed to terms for the 1941 season. »o BHARTMENT OF ATTQUNAT-GINTNAL dreds of well-meaning but careless Don't let yourself get into a sitnation where thers may be a price on your head. REPORT any motor accident in which you are involved IMMEDIATELY. Hun. h the sib, Ontario traffic toll on record . kh +h op to November 30th this Year! ! "Jt is the duly of all citiugsls using the & to prevent accidents i 'a or and vigil aball times , . . and to co-operate with al} of ToRONfO, DECEMBER 18th. 1940 ' Attorney: "traffic postdrs, convictions ggainst persons the circul Ontario, citizens to give information in any provincial police headquarters at 'mined by police g care ors of {he law In the enforcement of our traffic regulations, Queen's Park, tficials and a judge, will be given for such information. | Thursday. . vy PL oni SH Frege Commictwnice, Quterie Pruginei! Police General Gordon Conant has directed distribution: of 12,000 shown above, urging citizens to aid police to secure violating the traffic laws. holds, are responsible for this year's record traffic toll in h has taken 666 lives up to Nov. 30. Careless motorists, Mr, Conant urges case to the nearest police officer or Rewards, to be deter- clandestine | PAGIFIG COAST STATES COUNTING DAMAGE BY STORM Worst Wind in 20 Years Wreaks Much Havoc Seattle, Dec. 23 (AP)--Western Washington and Oregon started cleaning the debris of the United States Pacific northwest's worst | general windstorm in 20 years, to- day, with estimates of total damage | still only guesswork. week-end develop- | The known toll included deaths, a dozen persons injured, a ship disabled, several buildings smashed, three airplanes wrecked and thousands: of windows broken, power and telephone poles toppled and trees uprooted. The hurricane struck Saturday night from the Central Oregon coast to the straits of Juan de Fuca, roar- ed inland at velocities up to 85 miles | an hour, ripped at cities and event- | | ually against the barricade of the Cascade | blew itself into impotency | Range belliger- | ten | goals against New York Americans | | The dead were Raymond E. Den Hartog, 20, of Sumas, Wash, and his 17-vear-old brother, whose nam¢ officers could not supply. They were | both electrocuted yesterday when a high .tension line fell on their auto- mobile near Mt. Vernon as they strove to clear a storm-blocked road The injured included three per- sons struck by a tree which crashe into a crowded rural dance hall near Kelso Saturday night. A Ft. Lewis broke his lef atempting to keep a huge theatre tent from blow- ing away The schooner soldier at umber 200-foot 525-ton into por! after losing her deck load of lumber and taking feet of water ir her: hold. The Los Angele answered her ristress Signal 15 miles off Heceta Head, Ore, earl vesterday and icceeded In gotth in raging seas. im: beli>ved safe. 20 cities in San Francisco Davenport, a vessel was towed eight tanker a towline abo crew wa Nearly Washingion were r fail Oregon blacked ures during out complete power storm. Wind velocities ranged down from p at Westport, Wash in Tacoma the 85-mile t and new Seattle and Oy mpia. PLANE VANISHES ON DELIVERY TRIP Being Flown to Montreal From Cali- fornia Factory Dec. 23 disappearance set records Las Vegas, Nev, The mysterious of | Pilot Bud Hussey and a North-Am- erican Aviation, Inc., combat train- ing plane bound for the Royal Can- adian Air Force apparently Is a sec- ret of the vast California desert The craft, due here Thursday morning on a routine delivery hop, was unreported since a few minutes after the takeoff from Palmdale Calif. The flight should have re- quired less than two hours. Hussey's plane was being ferried to Montreal. North- American's chief pilot, Paul Balfour, ordered an air search abandoned last night and the other stantly since Thursday, covering more than 20,0600 square miles fan- shaped south and west of here. Last report of the missing craft came from another pilot, who said | he and Hussey were together until they encountered a cloud bank over | a mountain. He turned south around it, he added, and Hussey headed | north. 0.H.A. BULLETIN CS | Six games are scheduled in the O.H.A. tonight as follows: Senior "A" Marlboros at Oshawa. London at Niagara Falls. St. Catharines at. Port CoM:ne. Senior ""B" Brantford at St. Thomas R.C.AP. (London). Junior "A" no Marlboros at Native Sons (M.L.G.} Junior "C" Southampton at Lucknow. Marlboros and Native Sons will play a Junior O.H.A. game tonight at Maple Leaf Gardens, starting at 8:30 o'clock. On Wednesday (Christmas Day) the Senior Marlboros and Niagara Falls will play a Senior O.H.A. game at Maple Leaf Gardens at 8:30 o'clock. GOMEZ GOOD SALESMAN; YANKEES WILL KEEP HIM New York, Dec. 23 -- Vernon (Lefty) Gomez got a Christmas present from New York Yankees Friday in the form of a promise that they would take him off the market and give him a chance to stick with the club through 1941. COACH IS FINED $50 FOR ATTACKING REFEREF 8t. Paul, Dec, 23.--Coach Billy Hudson of Kansas City Americans was fined $50 Saturday by George Higgins, president of the American Hockey Association, for an attack on Referee S'an Swain during the St. Louis game at Kansas City last two | (AP) -1 one of 16 | 15 ships | made ready to resume their journey | today. All had been in the hunt con- | Brit this Italian Equipment Abandoned After Attack By British Here is a scene on a battlefield at the Libyan frontier with Italian motorized ish section as the units. British A British drove soldier the Italians into the interior of Libya. kage. equipmeat strewn after an is examining some of the wre The gins attack by two forces clashed in OLD ROMAN VILLA 10 HOUSE BRITISH HELD BY TALIANS Prisoners Taken tc Remote Mountain Camp --Complain of Cold By G. C. Jordan Associated Press Staff Writer Fonte D'Amore, Dec. 23 (AP) | Italy 1s converting an 18th century | villa of the old Roman Orsini fam- | ily | tor Jritish officers near this moun- tain prison camp where. some 350 | French and British captives are | shivering in quarters built during the first Great War, ; - With | ent I toured camp today Marshal ! tured when his plane down in Sicily, Nov. 21, he was oppointed deputy command- er of British ari forces in the middle would be brought to the villa soon 'with other officers The other foreign the and Owen correspond- villa and the learned that Air Tudor Boyd, east, birth- n poet Ovid. The 18,000 Austrian he first Great uburb, the name of love be- here which Ovid villa is at Sulmona, Rom to nh e of the built fountain of waters climate is harsh here in mid- the location was consid- al for a prison camp be- security It is from Rome and but its great 120 mile linked with nearby towns only by a few mountain roads. An Italian official said greater freedom therefore was allowed pris- oners and that officers were per- mitted to take walks, under guard, outside the eamp. Some Greek prisoners are expect- ed to be brought here soon. We were told the camp was run in accordance with the International Geneva Convention of 1929. Officers are paid allowances corresponding to those paid to Italian officers of similar rank. They are given rooms but pay for their food and clothing. British privates get food, lodging into a prison residence for sen- ; cap- | was forced | French, who were bewildered at be- soon after | and clothing, but no pay. By an agreement with France, French pri- vates also receive the same pay Ital- ian soldiers are given. We were told Britain declined to make such an agreement with Italy. (Perhapsp this was because the number of Italians held by Britain is much larger than the number of Britons --a mere handful--captured by | Italy.) Visiting journalists found the morale of the British prisoners ap- parently higher than that of the ing held when they considered the war over for France. The Britons complained vocifer- ously at the lack of heat and delays | in the mall. They and that Italian Britis] seemed otherwise generally the cheerful healhy, and noted no coider bv ville Edward comed- The British prisoner airmen ar of submarine Fi two of them were savas ed from the submarine Oswald, were mostly member cree 0D BLED EVERY ONE" nthe beloved words of Tiny Tim -- so expressive of the feelings of all at this particular' Christmas -- General Motors joins Canada's most famous daughters, in saying: a ISS US - Photographed for General Motors-- Copyright King Features Syndicate Inc. All rights reserved, CANADA, LIMITED