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the georgetown herald wednesday jung 24th 1942 the georgetown herald nwt l owkm html gba ww thiais i mntolfll saw f mia btosaoriptloh batss oudt tad tis united butt tus s yr fi4 oecsa se al mi w willi w it stius in iirf1 mujtbi o maw oiaraid u uotnlmi p u loir oumor broo oabw tsupbokx k i of tri osnsllin weakly hvpair aiawitrun sal was octxrlaqaabae onuses of fa owha utre editors corner something we all want georgetown has certainly put her ihoulder to the wheel in the task of supplying men to our forcei and in common with a great number of the women of town we have joined the ranks of war widows our men have gone to serve their country in capacities where their services can be of the greatest value some of them overseas others to distant training centres and fortunate few to depots near enough home so that we may see them fairly often we are left to face the prob lems of home life and this we do with our courage high for it is by solving these problems wisely living sanely and economically and keeping life at home on an even iceel that women at home make their supreme contri bution to the national war effort each woman has her own individual job to do ours as you already know is to carry on the publica tion of the herald for the duration it will no doubt be hard at first and in order that the high standard which our husband has set for us may still continue we would osk the co operation of all herald readers we know most of you personally and hope you will not hesitate to inform us of news which has interested you and therefore will interest others if you have had guests or have been away for the weekend call us on the tele phone either at the office or at home 444w and tell us about it of course if you happen to be down town you can always drop into the office and if you have some constructive criticisms bring them along too all these things will help us to continue giving you a good hometown paper and when alls said and done thats yrhot every subscriber wants isnt it little miss june has come back to town the first line of a song we used to sing in public school reminds us that monday the 21st of june heralded the official arrival of summer gardens have have been planted and grounds set in order sunshine and rain are all that is necessary before the fruits of labour can be seen with the government urging everyone who can possibly do so to plant a victory garden and gas and rubber rationing making it impossible to take a great many trips out of town more people than ever before are making a hobby of beautifying their own back yards and tryng their luck at planting a vegetable gar den we ourselves have been doing our bit along these lines and apart from whatever other values may le placed on gardening and there ore a great many nothing in our opinion exceeds that grand thrill of satisfaction experienced when the first tiny shoot of green peeps through the brown earth and tells us that our planting has been successful judging from the general appearance of the grounds of the homes in georgetown we can see that we ore not alone in our opinion that keeping our yard beautiful is its own reward let this summer be one in which we surpass all others in this respect lovely sur roundings lift the morale of all who look upon them ond the harvest of a wellcaredfor garden will help lighten the economic burden which wartime needs place upon us new milk regulations the wartime price and trade board has issued u new decree which will affect every milk consumer in the province of ontario in the interest of greater econ omy in milk distribution they have decided that when milk or a rnilk product is delivered to any person and another milk bottle is not given in exchange a deposit charge of five cents must be made in addition to this stipulation milk and milk products can only be sold for cash or prepaid milk tickets townspeople are already familiar with the elimination of credit in the sale of milk but we believe the 5c deposit charge on bottles is some thing which has not yet been brought to their attention figuring it out the following item from a toronto paper attracted our attention and we thought you might be interested too somebody who is intrigued by figures has worked out a curious coincidence in the lives of the five men most in the eyes of the world at the present time hitler mussolini stalin churchill roosevelt in column under each name he has put the year of the leaders birth then the year he came into power then ike number of years he has been in power and finally his mm which makes the columns read like this you may fsulate them for yourself hitler 1889 1933 9 s3 mussolini 1883 1922 20 59 stalin 1879 1924 18 63 churchill 1873 1940 2 69 roosevelt 1882 1933 9 60 each of these columns added up produces number 3884 and 3884 divided by 2 is 1942 ytf 1 1 wna mean if anvtnin mora about bombs and bombing juuc u k ts by iiuoh tcupun since the new lactic of the rofts air forct hate tern demonstrate lately against s number of oermmn induttrul dtlm there 1 a renewed lniereat in bomb and bomof jjt we i wrote abojt toe planes used by the royal air torre and by the rcap in iu1 la in this week i vul carry on the subject a bit farther bombs dropped from plane of land are of two general ty incen diary and higheiploaltea the tacen- dlartr are meant to start fire and the power of the biam and the dam age done by flylnff fragment consti tute the menace of the hlfh etpio- ive bomb among the souvrnlrs i brought home are the two rnds of burned out german incendiary bomb it u comparatively unal wrlghng only two pounds and s quarter before it burrw it is a oclindrr less than lit inches in diameter and probably be tween fourteen and eighteen inches in length the centre portion of this one la gone th head ts heavy being of teel and lhr uu has ftn on k to insure that the bomb drops so that the heavy end hit first and sets oft the fuse the central portion it said to contain therm lie which generate a high degree of heat setting fire to the magnrsuum portion of tha bomb which constitute the centre it ts said it bums with a temprrturr of 1600 dg fahrenheit entlrly different typ or rather of two distinct typm ftt least other ar variation th bomb are usually pointed have fairly heavy twti of metal carry fin on heir tails some of which produce quite a loud whittle while other give mora of a whoosh sound- they vary considerably in sre at the air training camp in canada the little practice homjb weigh about 14 pounds in actual bombing lev weigh leas than 10o pounds they may weigh up to a ton apiece it u possible may be even heavier by this the explosion ts varied by means of different kinds of fuse uost of them eiplode on contact or socn afterwards thr- oermans use some delayed action bomb which may he for hour or even day before they go off creating a mental haxard the other main type of high evnlo- ive u the land mine or parachute bomb the are tnvarlahly urge and come floating down on big parachute the casing seems to be of fairly light thin metal judging by sample i pick ed up after seeing twr of these ea- piodr at fairly close range they de pend for their effect on the blast force alone the fragment being fairly light and not travelling far they usually weigh from 1040 pounds to a too apiece otven favorable condition one of them can level several city block easy t tfl dtfirtttee looking at the ruins of a building mflk frit ms in mutea ami acton an erder his just been received by th tunc control bowl ot ontario which nli the retail priea of rank in bett nuttu co lie or quarts and 1 far pints tnlt increase also pro- rldet or an increase to th producers who ib firtar will reeel in the uuton ctuirlrt tj19 ewt at th arm or ilmllir euallly milk th allsbtl low er return to producers in th acton district u understand due to the art that aetna dlttrlbotore alto retail a portion of tbetr milk to kulaburg and ertn where cwtng to local con dition slightly lover prion prrrell thle bring the pi ice to the consumrr and th return to the producer to point where it u comparable to that existing in the surrounding markets of burlington oajrain and oeerg town the order has been concurred in by the wartime price and trade hoard and went into effect co june 13th gams oi orricii semnusrt nests mvaatm octti tosaccohiitt rttctclthos and of incendiary bombs they are dropped out in whoinalr quantltle often in sticks of ten or so at a time palling rrom a height of 13 000 feet more they have power to go through a slate roof the fender of a oar or anything of similar resistance it take about two minute for this type of incendiary to really get going in the early das of the bombing of bjiutln most of the damage was done by tncendloxlr they do not kill people though a direct hit by one of them ould certainly or fatal and of course man died in flrm of burning buildings but their prlmr aim is to start ire fltlng incvndury tusbb a thorough trm of flghtm the incendiary bomb hai bern built up in britain now o that i don t think nrurl so much damage can be done b them in future except in home case fchlch will br mrntlonrd later ilocnb- lng by incendlarus if morr or le ln- disrrlminatr and for that rciaoti the civilian population kulfrrn the bomba drop on all paru of u clt if the bumb can br found ond fouirht mllhln the first to minute there li a good chancr of controlling it it cannot be put out b pnaruiq vuler caused it deatructioo by ixiceodlarlet look like any other building gutted by fire ucit likely the wails alone remain standing and the are likely to be blackrned thooe struck by high csposlve bombs show no sign of re a a rule but they do how the power of the blast there a great deal of chance about what happen when a big bomb roe off in some case it amaxlng how little damage la done por instance i saw what had once been a garden in front of a little suburban house a bomb of considerable aise had burled itself deep n the earth before it ex ploded and when it went off the gar den simply disappeared to a depth of ten feet or more but the house ausn t dsmaged- domba may explode against an out- tldr wall or in the street taking out one wu of the house but leaving the floor in place the furniture in the rooms and een clothe hanging on hooks on the walls in other instanoea a bomb may penrtrate the roof and explode in the interior bjowinji rer- thlrur to b u or pouibly leaving the outside wals but nothing inside whole uoclu of london have evidently been planned and built at one time with roma of ipartmrnt for irulancr five or six atorle high one portion may nor uppurrntiv b lhr utr of be blown out fairly cleanly and others chemicals tht firr li too hot dut t be little afrected pau of hand droivrd on lhr bomb i but it would be a mistake to think confine it water prard on it f rom that the rrull of bombings are al- the hose of a ilmip pump lo con- ways localized a big explosive may fines the flrr and makt the bomb burn out more quickly pouring a pall of svuter on the bomb will make it explode and scattrr as a result oil drttlsh houses have palls of sand hond at various place around lhr prvmuca and the bath tub is kept full of water with water in pal li to be uied with stirrup pump in the vurioua roomi as i have said incendiaries are drop ped overboard in mhotale faihlon moat of them are wasted the fall on gardens ntreets parks and other open space they may even bounce off ruofi of a certain shape i believe it is figured that if 13 per cent are ef fectue it is a fair average the load from one bomber may set 75 fires multiply that by hundreds of rmnber and you can ee how busy the fire- fuhters have to bt the destruction in the older part of london u as mostly from incendiary bombs aa i have pointed out before the damage in the old city behind st paula cathedral was due in part to the fact that it happened on the after- christmas weekend a hen the buildings were not txtng watched as they should have been often a failure of the water supply usually due to thr bu rating of hlghexplomve bombs has been a factor nowadays old cellar arc cemented to hold surplus water and huge tank stand in the middle of wider fjondon street some buildings provide extra good targets for incendiaries because of the way they are constructed that ln why so many old churches were burned they had two or three roof usually of slate on the outmde with lend coat ed over timber below and no room to get in between to fight a rire the in cendiary bomb aould go through the slate roof stop at the second roof and burn where no one could reaoh them once a hot ftre like that get under way theres nothing left to do but call the fire brigade with several hun dred fire biasing at one time the firemen are obliged to go where they think they can do the most good high explaslre mixed in it la the unpleasant custom of bomb er to mix high explosives with tha incendiaries after the fire get going the next round of plane may start to drop explosive there are several tea sons the fire light up the neighbor hood and show up the factories and buildings like that which are normally hidden in the blackout that mokes them easier to hit but generally speaking the high explosive are drop ped to discourage the fire fighters and to drive people into aheuers so that the fire can burn unhindered it u bellevedthat on the raids over london in december ifho a deliberate at tempt was made to uu off the liondon firemen and destroy their equipment by having them concentrated in a small area where they could he effec tively bombed a change in the weath er helped to thwart the oefman plans high explosives also burst water mains and make it harder to fight the fires that was one reason why coven try was so badly damaged the water mains were burst near the pumping stations and the canal that flows be side the city was drained by well- placed bombs along its banks high kxslatite biab high explottv bombs are of or directory f r- watson dstm mjvs hours to s thuradar axufnaoea dr j burns milne derrsx spmotoh xatat clifford a reid uj dm dswtibt prion 410 ualn street o ahake tile housea for half around breaking most of the windows nnd shaking loose uic plaster from vails and ceilings plaster may keep on falling for hours as the buildings gradually settle back into place x saw one of the smaller dure the rooming after two land mines had exploded there dldnt srem to be a square inch of plate glass left tn any of the stores windows miles away were cracked no4 8 many caswaltlea how do people live through auch terror i used to wonder about that but the fact ts they do and the number of casualties is surprisingly small at least x wns surprised the total num ber of casualties in britain to the end of the year 1m1 was less than 100000 that is a small percentage of those leu than 45000 were killed and the number of injured was slightly more in the last war at the front i think the mounded numbered about four times as many as the killed in bomb ing or cities the proportion seems to have been about 44 to ss in most cases after seeing the aholrsale destruc tion in coventry a city as large aa hamilton it amazed me when i heard that less than 1300 people had been killed in all the raids i heard of only two cases where persons in shelters were killed in large numbers by un lucky direct hits people in shelters are secure against injury by bomb fragments tailing walls and similar hazards llremen air wardens tondon firewatchers and those forced by their duties to emaln in the open are in the greatest danger what a bombing leeks like many canadians are curious to know what it is like to be bombed in an earlier article i have already trjd about a bombing with land mines in nournemouth i never saw an incen diary bomb falling one night in lun- don i watched the defences at work against a lone raider while i stood with roof watchers on top of a news paper office the antiaircraft fire was continuous though x doubt if any bombs were dropped it would have been impossible to distinguish between the sounds bcoept there was no rain it was much ilk s bad canadian thunderstorm both to watch and to hear the flashes from the ground and in the clouds were much like sheet lightning acompanted by the low roar of thunder i was reminded of that night during the recent heavy storms st home specially while the hydro was off next week i will write something about defence against bombing leroy dale kc m syfca bennett bjl barttstm uu bsatettan sail street 0si is kenneth m lemfcloa bafttatsr rubettsr neusy raaile first uortcas uoay to loon ooe oratory thaotr bvtt ihu strwt j frank petch uoknttd aocnonssb aj xlolsvsaca oronxmjwcm prompt senrlc ml o po box 411 meibwobien0ver40 feejwekwornow wslkwrrtalvrtjk a m nielsen curofstmtar xray dnifteu tbertpttt lav irnsm obc ow norntntna stofw 0 hours 1 s tja k sa cusaa t radio r we specialize in this work u tsar ftttiliain j sanfordson atostoctown it monuments and pollock a ingham gait ont inspect our 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