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As (.aim and peaceful as if the war were on another planet is the scene above, which shows some of Gen. Claire L. Chennault's fighters in the China-Burma theater of operations relaxing at Camp Schiel. Located on one of China's most healthful plateaus. Camp Schiel is equipped with basketball courts, boats, hunting facilities and tennis courts. /?: CHRONICLES of GmGER FARM By Gwendoline P. Clarke ^Viil yciu conic exploring with uic â€" ju.st you and I and Tippy. You will? â€" that's fine, then let's be ?jing. But wait, we had better take that mosquito dope along â€" na!;;y little animals, those mosqui- toes, they can sure take the joy ou: oi life. It's pretty warm, you think? Well, yes, but then it's ruin:r:ertime, isn't it, so what else can one expect? Ccnic along, \vc wiU start up the back lane, through the pasture field, acrcss the bii.sh and over to the track. Yes, ynu guessed it â€" T^c're to go exploring for wild strawberries. Wiiat a wondoriul growth of gra's there is in the lane â€" that's bccau.se the cattle have not yet beer, pastured here. â€" next week it â- will be a different .story, and t'le â- walking a little easier. See how well the spring crop looks. . . yes, there arc thistles there â€" and chicory too, along the fences. We don't like the look of them at all but still there is a limit to what one man •nd liis wife can do on a hniulred acres. Look â€" do look â€" over there near tliat blackthorn tree... TITO'S RIGHT HAND Responsible for planning} of many of the Yugoslav guerrilla battles against Germans is Maj. Gen. Araa Yovnnovich, above, chief of staff for Marshall Tito, famed Partisan chieftain. did you ever see a wild .canary quite so yellow... and hear how sweetly he sings. • * • Now we must hunt for that place in the fence where we always get through to the track. How the years fly. . . such a little while it seem.? since daughter and our wee son came exploring with me. And how .soon tlicy tired of picking ber- ries â€" the creek was a much great- er attraction. There was far more water in the creek in those days and in it both the children learnt to swim. Right here at this bend â€" we called it "tlie ra.^pherry cor- ner" â€" is where Bob nearly drowned. He was about three years old and was playing happily at the edge of the creek while I was leach- ing sister to swim. But he didn't stay there. . . and be went down tv/ice before I, reached hitii. W»ii, here we are at the track. Mercy â€" wlierc's T'ppy? I hear a train coming â€" it will scare the life out of her. "Here, Tippy. . . come here little dog. Yes, we'll pick you up and hold you good and tight initil the train has gone by. Don't tremble so, little dog, noth- ing is going to hurt you. Sec, there's the engine driver waving to us." * * * Well now, we hact better start looking for strawberries in real earnest. .-Vfter all, that's what we came for, wasn't it? Or was it? Strange how even a wild straw- berry patch will run out. This is the place where the berries were so thick year after year â€" and now there is hardly a berry. But here is a new patch. . . "No, Tippy, I am not kneeling down to play with you. . . scram now. . . go chase a rabbit. How can I pick berries if you sit down 0:1 lop of them?" And so it goes... we wander arntind, picking where we can, climbing fences when we come to them, swatting, every now and tlien, at mosquitoes which |)ersist in attacking us despite our attempts to repel them. We are enjoying our rende-zvous with nature, and we don't want to go home. But we must. There arc hens and chickens to feed and, on a- hot night like this, I'arlncr will be looking for a drink while he milks. Come to think of it, we could do wilh a drink ourselves. THE HITLER GANG "Four heads ache worse than one" might be the title of this new photo, just received from neutral sources, showing Adolf Hitler with military, naval and civilian chieftains during recent inspection at the Fuehrer's headquarters. Left to right are Hitler, Field Marshal Keitcl. chief of â- taff. Admiral Donitz, navy commander, and Hcinrich Himmler, licad of the Gestapo. How many berries have we gotf Is that really so important? Well, if you must know there are enough to make a goou teed lor two peo- ple for dinner tomorrow! Was it worthwhile, did you say? â€" wouldn't it have been more practi- cal to slip down town and buy a quart, even at :ijc? Vv'cll, that de- pends on one's sense ol values. Out here where, as one looks to- wards the far d'stant horizon-' â€" which doesn't seem so very distant after all â€" earth and heaven seem to merge into one. There is a "peace that passes all understand- ing" and one's faith is once more restored, i'aith that somehow, some- time, all the ugliness and suffer- ing that is in the world today will come to an end. That out of the maelstrom of human misery there will emerge a better world in which all men may live in peace. » » * You see what I mean? One can- not buy hope and a new faith with a box of berries from a store, but one can find them out v/herc the wild berries gtow, out where the birds sing .â- ;on',-s of freedom for all who wish to hear. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON July 9 TAKING POSSESSION OF CANAAN. â€" Joshua 13, 14; Judges 1:19-21, 27, 28. PRINTED TEXT, Joshua 14:6-U; Judges 1:20, 21. GOLDEN TEXT. â€" Thou hast wholy followed Jehovah. JosViua 14:9. Memory Verse: The Lord is my helper. Hebrews i:i:r). THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time. • â€" The exact time of our lesson cannot he definitel.v deter- mined, hut must be located some- where between i;i'JO aiul KITO B. C. Place. â€" While many geographi- cal terms arc mentioned in this lesson, the princi^)al place is Heb- ron, south of lernsalein, sti'l a great city. The Portion For Caleb "Then I he children of ludah drew night unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb (he son of leplumuch the Kenizzitc said unto liiin, Thou knowesf the thing that Jehovah spoke unto Moses the man of God concerning nie and concerning Thee in Kadesh-barnea." Caleb niccts his old comrade and leader, and reminds him of the Word which Jehovah bad .spokVn to Moses con- cerning them both (14:'J4. :'.()). "Forty years old was 1 when Moses the servant of Jehovah sent me from Kjidc-h-barnea to spy out llic land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart." Well would Joshua and t'aleb remember the day when they were sent by Moses to spy out the land. They saw all the difficulties and dan.gers, but in their vision they saw that with (lod on their side all wduld be well. Blessings for the Faithful "i\cverlbeless my brethren that went up with me. . . because Thou hast wholly followed Jehovah my Cod." Caleb aiul Joshua Ihrew their whole power into the etf.irt to save the people from cowardice and di- saster, wholly following the Lord. (ireat blessings arc promised to the faithful >ho follow the Lord, not partially but wholly. "And now behold Jehovah, hath kept mc alive. . , even so is my strenglb now, for war, and to go out and to romo in." Cod not only prolonged his life hut had pre- served his strength in full vigor. There is no doubt that (iodlitiess lends to congevlty, or thai by liv- ing for self and >in we sborten life. Caleb's Inheritance "Now tberefv<ro gi^i• li'e I'l'- THE WAR â-  WEEK â€" Comnienlary on Current tvents New U. S. Superfortresses Strike Mighty Blow At Industrial Japan America struck a niijjhty blow against Japan last week, says The .Sew York Times. Making their first offensive thrust against Nip- |ion's home islands, the new B-39 Superfortresses, operating from bases in China, struck at industrial Japan in the longest-ranged air raid in history. The air blow at Japan brought into play a battlesliij) o! the air that reduced llie Flying f'orlress, Liber- ator, Lancaster and Halifax to the status of medium bombers. De- signed and built under uartime inessure, the Superfortress' 141.2- foot wingspan compared with the lOli feet of the Fortress; its 98- ioot length to the Fortress' 73-foot length. It is armed with .'iO-caiiber machine guns and 20-nini. cannon mounted in jjower turrets that can be swung in all directions. Powered l)y four !i,i:nO-horsepower Wright engines (the Flying Fortress uses tour l,2n0-liorsepower engines) it is reported able to carry more bombs farther and faster than any other plane in the world, perhaps reach a fifth of the way around the world. Days of Preparation .\ trejnendous effort was re- quired to bring these huge planes into combat. In India tens of thou- sands of Indians and tliousands of .\mericans labored building rear bases for the big ships. The .Ame- ricans worked si.xteen and eighteen hours a day and astonished British "old India hands" by persuading Indians to work similar hours. In China, where advanced bases were built, the task was even more dif- ficult. The story of how the B-29 bases In China were built is one of the most inspiring of the war. Plans for the bases were developed in Washington in the fall of 1943. In mid-JanuaVy, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek ordered the greatest con- scription of man-power in Chinese history since construction of the Great Wall 2,000 years ago. Witliin 17 days, an initial force of 200,0011 Chinese peasants and been assembled at the site in West China and the work began without cement mixing, rock crushing or road building machinery, or other mechanical devices. The power was provided by hu- man beings; the equipment was their hands. The force sometimes numbered 4:i0,000. The crushed rock used for each of the fields was enough for a 20- foot wide highway 60 miles in length. Teh Chinese also built bar- racks for crew^s of the B-29's but material was scarce so tlie build- ings were primitive affairs. 2600-Mile Trip .\lmost a year to the day after the first Superfortresses rolled off the assembly lines, the Twentieth .\ir Force, set up especially for these huge aircraft, to employ them for strategic purposes anywhere in the world, sent them out for their first major mission over the east China Sea to Jai)aii, a trip out and back that could not have been less than 3.ii00 miles and was probably much more. Long-ran.ge flights in the European theatre seldom ex- ceed I.'IOO miles. The first Superfortresses arrived over their target. Yawala, center of the Japanese steel industry, source of perhaps 80 per cent of Japaii's pig iron, at 10:,10 in the evening, sent huge blockjnisters down on the forest of chimneys below. Japanese searchlights sought nut the tiny specks that may have been :!0.0()0 feet or more in 'he air. bill-country, whereof Jehovah spoke in that day; for thou heard- , e.>.l in that day how^ the .\nakim were there, and cities great and fortified: it may lie that Jehovah will be with mc, and I shall drive tliein out, as Jehovah spoke." The liill-ccnintry was still in the hands of the enemy but Caleb knew that if (iod was with him, and he had no doubt about this, then none Could w.itlisl.ind him. ".\nd Joshua blessed him: and he gave Hebron unto Caleb the son 01 Jephunneh for an inheritance. Therefore Hebron became Ihe in- heritance of Caleb the son of Je- plumnoh to l<cni-,!-/itc unto this ilay; because that he wholly fot- lowcd^Jehovah, The God of Israel.** b'or the third time we are re- minded of Caleb's whole-hearted allegiance lo the Lord, and this time we are lold it was Uecausc of this that Ibis special inheritance was granted to him. *" Success Through Faith "And iliey gave llebriin unto Caleb, as Moses had spoken: and be drove out tlicncc the three sons of .'\nak. .'Xnd'the children of Ben- jamin in Jenisnlcm unio this day." Caleb was a man of faith and com- pletely succeeded in the ditficnil tasks which he believed (iod led !\lm -to umlertake; the children of Israel ecjually proniised victory over their enemies, did not complete Ihe victories as they should, but i.-''ed to utterly dr've init the ene- my, -ii'p!'- !:-â€"•.•.«â- ? t'-i'V Ml n<il •.' â-  r'lv f, I'ow t!:e Lord. .Anti-aircraft fire filled the skies. Night fighters roared to the attack. All But Four Return .Ml but tour of the Superfortress- es came back safely. Two were lo.st in operational accidents and the crew of one was saved. One was downed by the Japanese. The fourth is listed as "missing." Jap- anese propagandists told their peo- ple: "We should not tliink that we have been passively attacked, but that we have actively pulled the enemy toward us." .Allied observ- ers estimated tlie raid had knocked out 15 per cent of Japan's steel production, at least Icmporardy. The attack opened the possibility that soon Japan would suffer the same kind of strategic bombing that has cut so heavily into Ger- man war production. Japan, ex- perts have pointed out, is more vulnerable to air attack than Ger- many. Japan's industry is largely concentrated in si.x major areas, four of them on the island of Hon- shu and two on the island of Kyu- shu. It would take less effort to spread havoc here than it did to damage Gertnany's more widely scattered industrial centers. _ BEMEDALED PADRE Iceland Severs Denmark Ties The people of Iceland, one of the world's oldest democracies, voted 70,536 to 363 to sever their 700-year-old ties with Denmark and form an independent republic, final figures on last week's plebis- cite just released showed. -About 98 per cent of the eligible voters on the island participated. The young republic probably ivill be proclaimed June 17, an Iceland national holiday. The .Althing, Iceland's. legisla- tive body, prepared to convene June 10 to name the island's first President, who will serve for one year. Thereafter, a president will be elected by the people for a four- year term. They Were Waiting To See Montgomery That's a nice little story which has tickled out of Denmark re- garding Rommel's anti-invasion inspection. A crowd of Danes filed the street in front of Rommel's hotel in Copenhagen, but remained af- ter he had come out and had driv- en away. The police tried to move tiiem on, but withou' success, and finally they asked them why they waited. "We're wailing to see Montgo- mery", several of them replied. "He always comes along right be- hind Rommel." Most decorated chaplain in thi« war is Albert John Hoffman, above^ of Dubuque, la., awarded the Dis- tinguished Service Cross at th« Percy Jones General Hospital, Battle Creek, Mich. Award wa« given for extraordinary bravery in Italy, where Chaplain Hoffman lost his left leg. He also holds Purpla Heart and Silver Star, latter given for bravery in African action. VOICE ^. OF THE PRESS I'roduction of dates in the Un'ted States has increaS'-J to an annual harvest of about 1,->,000,000 pounds â€" three times as much as 10 years ago. ^ FINAL DOWNWARD STEP Marshall Petaiu has orderedFrench- men to obey all orders of the Ger- mans and to co-operate with them against the allied invaders, an order which must forever remove th« name of the aged marshall from the French hall of fame. â€" Niagara Falls Review â€" o â€" TIP TO DEMOCRACIES This century isn't half gone and already the Germans have started two world wars. Perhaps hereaft- er the democracies will have sens* enough not to pussyfoot when Ger- many begins to goose-step. â€" Kitcliener Record â€" u â€" â-  TWO EXTREMES Korean women wear hats thre« feet in diameter. The other ex- treme is three inches, and our own darlings have gone thither, â€" Ottawa Citizen â€" o â€" â-  â€" SOMEWHAT ALIKE Hitler says he has no intention of winding up his career as Napoleon did. Neither had Napoleon. â€" Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph Chinese Use Pigeons In Jungle Warfare That the Chinese have used car- rier and racing pigeons for hund- reds of years is pointed out by a British officer in Calcutta, India, and he tells of one firm that has used them 500 years without inter- ruption. The Chinese division he had been with in Burma had great success with them in jungle war- fare. BOO! HORIZONTAL 1 Pranksters' night. 8 Bull (Sp.). 9 God of love. 1 1 Ocean. 12 Stable division. 13 Color. 15 Deficient. 17 Penetrates. 20 Male parent. 21 Drone bee. 22 College cheer. 23 Paid publicity. 24 Railroad (abbr.). 26 Form o£ "be." 27 Mimic. 29 Peruse. 31 Musical composition. 32 Let fall. 34 Old Testament (abbr.). . 36 Three-toed .<^loth. 38 Storehouse. 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