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jt Uoedhdk innbih The Pick of Tobacco STTAWA^EPORTS That Canada's Output Of Farm Machinery In 1945 Will. Equal Average Of 1940 and 1941 Good news for farmers is the Wartime Prices and Trade Board announcement that total tonnage t)f farm machinery to be produced In Canaua in linri will equal the average output of 1940 and 1941, â- nd there will be no rationing of farm tiiachinery repairs, and no restriction; on the quantities of tlicse to be manufactured. The administrator of farm and con- itructioii machinery points out, however, that rationing of equip- ment will still be necessary next year and only the most urgent and essential needs can be jnet. In addition to the tonnage of farm equipment being made available for ordinary domestic use, the ad- ministrator said that Canadian manufacturers will produce an ad- ditional toimage specifically for the establiiltnient of war veterans on farms. Canada's contribution of farm egiiipinent for rehabilitation imdcr the United Xations Kclief and Rehabilitation .\ssociation pro- gram also will entail an additional tonnage. * it * A fornur .Senior Livestock Field- man at Moncton, N.B., who has taken an active part in boys' and girls' farm club promotion, Ed- mond 1"". i'ineau, has been appoint- ed Associate Chief. Livestock and Poultry Division, Production Ser- vice, Dominion Department of Agriculture. Mr. Pincau will be in charge of co-ordinating boys' and ' girli' farm club policies throughout the Dominion. He was among the first to form boys' and girls' clubs in New Brunswick and coached several provincial cliam- lion teams for the annual compet- ition in Toronto. • » • Arrangements have been com- pleted with the British Food. Mis- sion for the purchase of any dried white peas produced in Canada in 1944, surplus to Canadian require- ments, the Agriculture Department has just announced. • ♦ ♦ Canada's plan to deliver 000 mil- lion pounds of bacon to Britain - during l'jl4 seems well on tlie way to fulfillment. Since the first of this year inspected packing plants have processed more than 20(1,000 hogs a week on an average top- ping the record of last fall when for the fir-.t time the weekly num- ber was 1SO,000. In order to meet British and domestic needs, the Dominion Dejiartment of Agri- culture advises that every good 4]uality hog that can be produced will be required. Bean seeds of the green podded varieties may have to be used this year instead of wax or snap beans. T. F. Ritciiie of the Central K.x- pcrimental Farm horticulture staff says that a number of the green podded varieties are equal, if not superior, to the wax beans which are in short supply. • * » .\ll the winter and spring care expended on bees ma/ easily be SAVf MPWfK hy staying af FORD HOTELS iiii Modsrn, Hriproof, Iwsltrf. toy P>lii>4 ffs /tw as SISO «• higher perpmon Montreal Toronto and the LORD ELGIN •^Ottawa per person, No higher! , 400 lovely rooms with rodio! THUMBS HER WAY Leave it to woman's ingenuity to transfer the lowly thimble to war- plane production. Hazel Porter- field, worker in Douglas Aircraft Company's Santa Monica plant, if pictured with thimble screwdriver she devised because her work in- volved holding large pieces oi metal in one hand and awkwardly balancing screws and screwdriver with the other. Her gadget, which won a plant suggestion award, ii now used extensively throughout the plant. wasted if the colonies are not closely watched during the period between the early flow from dan- delion and fruit bloom and the main flow from clover, advises C. B. Gooderham, Dominion apiar- ist. The early flow stimulates the colony to its maximum production of brood but seldom permits a sur- plus to be stored for emergencies. Any shortage of food at this time results first in a reduction of brood rearing which in turn means fewer bees for the harvest, and secondly it may end in starvation and death of the whole colony. A few lbs. of sugar given at this time may save a colony of bees and a lot of honey. * * To shorten milking time, the Dominion Experimental Station at Normandin, Que., has tried to do away with stripping the cows by hand after niilkng tliem by machine. J. A. Belzile of the Normandin Station says, "We have not suc- ceeded entirely witli the old cows, that is, those milked by hand before a milking machine was installed, but heifers started on the milking machine at their first lactation do not generally require stripping by band." Output Of Aircraft Soars In Australia Aiiilraii.i'i aircraft industry is still exiniuling, wiili at least two plants having turned their I.OOOth plane over to tlic Royal .Australian Air Force. The Federal Depart- ment of .\ircraft Production, which is manuiacturinii Beaufort bom- bers, delivered its .5(IOth plane as long ago as last November. Both Biilish and \mcricaii-ty|ie planes are being built. Before tlie war the men who luiild llieiu work- ed on farms, in .shops and in of- fices. The lii)x erniucnt has spent about $173,000,000 in promoting the aircr.ift indlistrv in .XustiM'.ia. .Since l'.no more than one-third <ii the population of Britain has liceii rilir.n-.cd. THE WAR . WEEK â€" Commenlary o n Current bvenls All People In Britain Calmly Await Hour of Coming Invasion of Europe • While the Continent shook to the thunder of bombs and the Berlin and Vichy radios stepped up their warnings to the captive peoples, the atmosphere of Bri- tain, staging area for the Inva- sion of Europe was one of calm and confidence, comments The New York Times. Observers in London noted that on the sur- face there was nothing to indicate the final stage of preparations for the great test had been reached, that in various headquarters scat- tered throughout the city invasion plans were receiving a last care- ful scrutiny, that in the country- side around the capital as well as from the northern tip of Scot- land to the westernmost point of Cornwall Britain wa.s one vast armed camp, thronged with men awaiting the signal to go. Mood In Britain Londoners, and all Britons, iiave been "sitting on top of a volcano" so long they are neither particniarly excited nor especially nervous. The hour when inva- sion becomes possible has been longed for as one which will mean the beginning of the end in a war which for the British has lasted nearly five years. They view the coming .\llied assault with a mixture of gladness, relief and worry for their lighting men. Taiiia Long, .a member oi The New York Times staff in London, cables this description of the pre- invasion scene: "The war of ner- ves from the German side is hvaing no effect w-hatsoevcr. This is partly because the British have heard it all before, partly be- cause everyone is so busy there is no time to worry now about what the Germans may do, partly because of the British lack of im- agination, which stood them in such good stead in the earlier and darker periods of the war. "On the streets, in the trams ai.d buses and restaurants, it is not invasion that is tl)c topic of conver-iation but such things as the tulips in Birdcage Walk and the price of lettuce. There is practically no speculation as to the date of D-Day. Londoners know it is coming and are wilting to leave the date to General Hiseu- hower. People preserve their nor- ma! appearance. Reports from New York appearing in British papers, depicting the American people as sitting on the edges of their chairs, are read with some astonishment and persons arriving ill Britain remark with some be- wilderment on the calm normality. Except for the newspapers there i* little to remind a Londoner of the great drama about to unfold. Railroads Blasted The blasting of railroads went into its third week and British transportaton experts said that every railroad yard of any iin|)or- taiie in a lOO-mile deep stretch HONORS HEROES Photo above is the latest camera portrait of Lt.-Gen Walter Kreuger, commander of the 6th Array in the southwest Pacific, taken when he recently pinned a "streamer' award on the colors of the Head- quarters 1 Corps of the 6th at an advanced base. Corps was citeo for action in defeating btrong Jap forces on Papua, northern New Guinea. of Europe from the Bay of Bis- cay to Cologne had been hit. In their judgment there was not a single place in this area that could now handle even iroderate- ly heavy military traffic. Trains could still run, but the systems could no longer support einer- gtncy mobilization and move- ment. Reconnaissance photo- graphs showed storage and load- ing yards crated from end to end by bombs, complicated switching arrangements and 'choke points" ripped up, roundhouses and heavy turntables obliterated, hundreds of pieces or rolling stock smashed or burned. The simultaneous attack on air- fields in western Europe was equally methodical and lar-rang- ing. Fro.;i the English Chan- nel to Clermont-Ferrand, in cen- tial France, the Luftwaffe's bases and facilities were being smashed. While runways can be quickly restored, the damage done to parked aircraft and to service and repair hangars cuts heavily into the operational value of these fields, and to observers in Lon- don it seemed likely the Germans would have to rely on more re- mote bases for their main air ac- tivity. The Fortress Garrison By the latest estimates the Ger- mans are supposed to have sixty- nine divisions â€" 760,000 men â€" stationed or in reserve in W'estern Europe. Some of these are air forces. I'ifty-two divisions â€" 572,000 menâ€" are beieved to be in France and the Low Countries under Field Marshal General Karl von Rund- stedt. Within this command is a separate field army of nine to twelve divisions, to be moved wherever it is needed, probably un- der Field ^[arslial General Erwin Rommel. In Norway there are per- haps twelve divisions and in Den- mark five. Against this the Allied Iiave in Britain forces numbered in tlie millions, representing British, Canadan, American and other Al- lied armies, and with countless wea- pons of all kinds. More than that, there is for Ger- many the great threat in the east. .Ml signs point to a large-scale pre- paration for a new -Red Army of- fensive to start at the same time as the invasion from the west. Most observers feel the main weight of the attack will be airped through Poland. Supporting this view have been the heavy Russian air assaults during the last ten days on Ger man communications centers behind the front. Threat of Encirclement Finally there is the prospect of an .Mlied move in the south coincident with D-Day in the west. The Ger- mans openly predict such an attack but are as unsure of where it will come as they are in western Eur- ope. La.st week they claimed to have taken new defensive measures in southern France, central and nor- fliorn Italy and in the Balkans. Throughout this area Allied bom- berj were pounding hard at large rail centers. This encircling threat, protracted day after day, emphasizes the Nazis' problem. Not knowing the "where, when and how much" of the .-Mlied plan they cannot make final disposition of their defending forces. They must be prepared for a fluid situation, for diversions, feints and secondary attacks. They must be able to keep their mobility to meet the chief threats as they develop. The air attacks on their communications are designed to p-evcnt just that. Princess Beatrice Princess Beatric^c, ninth child of Queen Victoria, and last surviving member of her generation, was 87 on .\pril 14. She is now at the I'ormcr residence of the Earl of .\thlone. Brantridge Park, Sussex. It is 50 years since she married Prince Henry of Battcnberg, and since his death in 1800 she has been Governor of the Isle of Wight. Her widowed d.iuglitcr, the for- mer Cuecn of Spain, lives abroad, and is not likely to return to Lon- don imtil niter the war ciids. PruritlS-lntense Itching Refieved quickly by llilt Medicinal Oinfmenf There are two forms of itching which ar» especially distressing. First pruritis vulvaeâ€" from which only women siiffer and Becond pruritis aniâ€" itching at the rectum from piles, pin worma or varicose veins. The causes of both these forms of intense itcliing are often difficult to locate but what youdo want, at once, is relief from th» severe and depressing itching. Then let Dr. Chase's OINTIVIENT help you for it brings relief almost as quickly as appUed. Once tised it will always be kept at hand for quick use when the need arises. 60 ctfl. a box. Economy size Jar S2.00. Dr. Chase's Ointment Who Fights Wh6m? There are now 33 United Nations and nine Axis Nations. Germany is the only .\xis Na- tion at war with all 33 United Nations. None of the United Nations js at war with all nine Axis Na- tions. Australia is tlie only United Nation to declare war on N'ichy France. The Fighting French are at war only with Germany and Japan. India and Norway are at war only with Germany. Brazil, India, Norway, Greece and Russia are the only United Nations not at war with Japan. The United States is at war with Albania, but not Finland; Great Britain with Finland, but not Albania. Thus, although the United States and Great Britain are both fighting eight out of the nine Axis Nations, there is a dif- ference in which ones. VOICE OF 1 H E PRESS Rare Birds A centenarian ^ays the secret oi living to be 100 lies in the minding of one's own business. And that, of course, is what makes the cen- tenarian victually as rare as the dodo and the great auk. â€" Ottawa Citizen Approximately 7,000 calves were vaccinated against Bang's Disease in British Colu.mbia during 19-43. BREATH OF LIFE Girl Scout life-saving training of Mrs. Davis Evans of Chicago, saved life of her 15-months-old daughter, Margaret, with whom she is pictured. Baby was choking with convulsions, and Mrs.' Evans breathed into her mouth imtU in- halator squad arrived. Lack of Space When we told a lady subscriber the other day we didn't have space to print a long story about her club's doings, she replied. "I don't see why not; you always have plenty of space for that old war and those old politics." â€" Brandon Sua Is That New? Equipped with the latest scien- tific knowledge, according to a wri- ter, a 98-pound woman can throw a 190-pound man to his knees. What'* 10 new about that.' Htm Hides For Sale Relieved of air attacks, Malta will soon resume the shipping of hides to Britain. The Maltese must have a lot on hand, principally ot German and Italian fliers. â€" St. Thomas Times-Journal Or 16, or 15? And, if there is a case for giv- ing the ballot to the 18-year-bld, why not at 17, when he â€" and slie â€" knows everything? â€" Edmonton Journal Another Green Unless you get busy, the' first thing to turn green this Summer will be your envy of the neighbor's gardens. â€" Kitchener Record And Deep The same slogan is appropriate for Victory Bonds and Victory Gardens â€" dig down! â€" Stratford Beacon-Herald Do not discard the outer leaves of lettuce, cabbage, escarole, tur- nip or beet tops. They contain more healthful iron than the inner leaves. LOADING A THOUSAND POUI^D BOMB A one thousand pound bomb on its way to the under-carriage of a Kitty- bcmber operating from an advanced airfield in Italy. The wing to which these men belong has, in one day. op«rated in support of the 8th Army, 6th Army, over the beach-head south of Rome, and helped the partisans in Yugo-slavia. REG'LAR FELLERSâ€" Eternal Spring Problem By GENE BYRNES