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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, THURSDAY,SEPTEMBER 27th, 1945 THE NAZIS DID THE DIRTY WORK Clothing and footwear in the Netherlands are scarce and their quality, when they can be obtained at all, is bad while leather for shoes is rarely obtainable. Supplies of bedding not be renewed and sheets and blankets, which cannot be replaced, are worn threadbare although som stocks of the latter are kept serve for new households. The amount of fuel distributed is not sufficient to keep one room of a house warm throughout the winter and many families pool their fuel and live together in order to keep warm. To alleviate this serious situation action has been taken in Canada -and the United States. A national clothing collection was held in the United States last April, yielding millions of pounds of blankets, clothing and footwear. In Canada a similar nationwide collec--tion of serviceable used clothing will be staged next October under sponsorship of Canadian United Allied Relief Fund on behalf of UNRRA. All clothing stocks gathered will be ■distributed by UNRRA free to people of allied nations in distress as a result of German occupation. Even it that the combined U.S.-Canadian aid will by no means fill the bill--but t will help. The European situation has arisen from the lengthy and merciless German occupation. Last March an order of the German occupation authorities, prohibiting the purchase of women's clothing and household linen in Holland, resulted from Allied bombings. The Germans' textile shortage originally resulted from the need for clothing for < who had lost their belongings in the bombings of cities in the Reich. This was made still more urgent, however, when Allied airmen wiped out 80 per cent of the production of the German textile industry around the cities of Gronau and Muenchen-Glad-bach. Subsequently the Germans announced that Netherlands textiles, equivalent to 300,000,000 points, about half the quantity previously rationed to Holland, would be requisitioned, threatening confiscation of the entire Netherlands production and emptying shops and even private wardrobes if the deliveries were not made on RED CROSS NEWS CABLE SERVICE TO FAR EAST Toronto, Sept. 17, 1945--Next-of-kin of Canadian civilian internees in jthe Far East are requested to get in touch at once with their nearest Red Cross Branch as arrangements have been made whereby they may receive from and send one free cable to their relatives who are interned. This is a service which has been arranged by Canadian Red Cross in co-operation with the Canadian Government. Red Cross branches are in possession of the personal cable forms on which these messages can be written. Messages may contain ten words, exclusive of the address and name of the sender, and must be submitted in duplicate. Branches will forward via air mail to the Rec? Cross Enquiry Bureau in Ottawa whence they will be transmitted to Manilla. No Branch certificate or verification is necessary so .far as these particular messages are concerned. British next-of-kin who have elatlves interned in the Far East are included in this free cable arrangement. CLOTHES CHEAPER IN CANADA Before the war many Canadian women bought clothes every time they crossed the U. S. border because they could get up to the minute fashions and save a few dollars on them. Now the situations is reversed. A New York designer, who recently visited Canada, said he was amazed at Canadian Prices. "If it wasn't for the tariff, I'd stop designing and become a jobber. I'd buy my suits here and sell them in the States. I've seen some beautiful new spring suits here, costing less than half what we'd charge for them." Just another of our friends from U. S.A. who marvels at the success of Canadian price control. schedule. As a result many clothing and textile wholesalers and retailers were obliged to close and the dealers were unable to purchase new stocks as the ration points they had collected in the course of their transactions were now invalid. NATIONAL (CLOTHING COLLECTION Ottawa. -- Postal officials across Canada will form an important part of the machinery set up to collect used clothing during the forthcoming National Clothing Collection for liberated countries which begins on October 1st, as more than 12,400 Post Offices have been designated as receiving depots, particularly where local committees are not organized and there are no other depots established, it was announced today at headquarters in Ottawa of the National Clothing Collection. People in rural areas and out of the way places far from railroads and centres of population can take their gifts of used clothes to their nearest Post Office which will forward these to central warehouses of National Clothing Collection that have been established across the Dominion But in cities and towns, people will be abked to use the central collection depots established by local committees instead of taking their gifts of clothing to Post Offices Thus this great humanitarian appeal which aims to accomplish a maximum collection of serviceable used clothing for people of war-devastated lands will reach every home in Canada from the Pacific to the Atlantic and from the International Boundary to the Arctic, giving every man and woman an opportunity to participate in this gjeat crusade. But it was pointed out today that all people taking gifts of clothing to Post Offices should see that such garments are tied up in neat bundles and that all footwear, including shoes of any kind for men, women or children, should be securely tied in pairs so that there will be no loss in sorting or in shipping. The tying of footwear together in pairs was viewed by National Clothing Collection officials as extremely important to avoid wastage of goods, time and effort. Preliminary studies on the cribbing of corn by the Division of Forage Plants, Dominion Experimental Farms Service, indicate that corn containing 35 percent moisture can be safely stored for feed by this method. BELLEVILLE FAIR Northumberland County Juniors turned out in full force to numbers of over 50 for the Junior events planned at the Belleville Fair Tuesday, September 18th. The wet weather made the carrying out of the programme very difficult and quarters secured for the contests were not too pleasant. However, the girls' work, in charge of Miss Florence Eadie of the Women's Institute Branch, and Miss Verna Bambridge, coach of the counties interested carried through successfully and the boys' activities directed by Mr. A. H. Martin, assistant director of Agricultural Representatives, was adjusted so that the young men had an interesting contest, an examination on agricultural subjects. The most pleasant feature was the evening banquet donated by the creameries which serve the communities from which the young farm ers come, namely: Trenton Dairies, Swifts of Belleville, Belleville Creameries, Carr's Trent Valley Creameries, Campbellford. President Sandercock and Secretary E. S. Denyes of the hibition, spoke briefly welcoming the young people. The feature of the ning was an address by J. Owen Herity, Belleville Chamber of Commerce, who told an interesting travelogue of his visit to Mexico. We were surprised to learn that Mexico was nearly as large as all Europe withdut Rusia, but had only about the same population as Canada. Wesley Down, president of the Northumberland Junior Farmers' Association, thanked the fair board, agricultural representatives assisting, the creameries, and ladies of the Holloway United Church and all others who had contributed to making a difficult day a satisfactory Junior event. NEW RATION BOOKS Persons discharged from the Armed Forces are entitled to their civilian ration books imemdiately. They should apply to their nearest local ration board, taking along either their Department of National Defence discharge papers or a letter from of the Armed Services certifying to the discharge. We had if before wow/ 'The Worst Inflation came after the last war NOW is the Real Tesfcinq time • • • The only controls that are being maintained are those that aid the production of needed supplies and their speedy and fair distribution to the public, and which prevent an inflationary price rise. As soon as conditions warrant, these will be dropped. Until industry gets back to normal production, price ceilings, rationing and some controls are a necessary safeguard for everyone of us. Keep them working. IT'S YOUR JOB AND YOUR SAVINGS THAT ARE AT STAKE mphash me of a series being issued by > the importance of preventing i le cost of living now unemployment latei Announcement! To the People of Our Community: We are pleased to be able to announce the completed alterations of our store; also the installation of refrigerated counter service. We wish to thank all who have patronized us for their patience and kind consideration during the period of remodelling. We are now in a position to offer you the MOST MODERN SERVICE at NO EXTRA COST to you. Come in and be convinced! Stan. Robinson* Butcher PHONE 74 King Street COLBORNE The $gxa&L Drug Store NEXT WEEK October 3-4-5-6 Rexall One Cent Sale See hand bill for EXCEPTIONAL VALUES W. C. GRIFFIS, Phm.B. YOUR DRUGGIST Phone 85 Colborne "Colborne Stores Contain Goods Sold Elsewhere and Prices are No Higher" Redfearn keeps Coiil keeps Redf earn ORDER YOUR COKE NOW Stove and Nut Sizes on Hand LADIES'HOSE 65c -- WHITE SOCKEES LADIES' DRESSES -- CHILDREN'S DRESSES --V-- ENGLISH CHINA AND GLASSWARE CUPS and SAUCERS -- PLATES and NOVELTIES --V-- MEN'S WORK GLOVES AND SHIRTS MEN'S OVERALLS and WORK SHIRTS BOYS' COTTON PULL-OVERS GOOD ASSORTMENT OF PAINTS & VARNISHES Jas. Redfearn & Son PHONE No. 1 KING STREET COLBORNE "Yon Need Colborne Stores as Much as They Need Yam" need newTRACTOR TIRES? 1 $# 4#\ TRACTOR i TIRES ! ! i ! 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