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Life Boat Reaches South Seas Island An extraordinary story of 13 men battling the open sea for a month, which may become one of the great small boat sagas of maritime history, was reported by 'the - United States Navy Depart. ment tonight on the = basis of fragmentary information received from Wellington, N. Z. The 13 men in a' lifeboat erossed 2,500 miles of open. sea from near Honolulu to on o the Gilbert Islands northeas Australia, At 5.30 in the wining of Dee, _ 19, the steamship Prusa, owned by the Lykes Brothers Steamship Company of Houston, Tex., was 'torpedoed 100 niiles frofh Hono-. lulu. Eight were killed, the io 3 operator was lost and two Alife- . iE, Pere launched. In one boat \ were Capt. G. H, Boy and 12 men, and in the other were the thief mate and 12 others. § 2 The Prusa sank - within nine minutes after the torpedo struck, and those who succeeded in launching the two boats held a hurried consultation and decided to set a course for the Marshall Islands. In a few days the two life' 3 boats hecame separated. The ; "chief mate's boat was sighted by \ scouting planes which directed x : United States Coast Guard cutter 4 Tx to its assistance, On Dec, 27, i after eight days in. the boat, the ii chief mate and his 12 men 'were | ; 3 picked up and taken to Honolulu. i : No trace of the second life- 1 boat containing the captain and. : 12 men. was obtained, and for more than a month their fate was unknown, Then, from Wellington, came the story. that. the second life- boat, after crossing "some 2,500 miles of open sca, had landed "Jan, 19 on tiny Nukunau Island, one of the Gilbert group approx- imately 2,500 miles north of New Zealand, rl They had been-in the opgn + boat from Dec. 19 to Jan, 19. 'Shortly thereafter, the fourth officer left Nukunau and reached nearby Beruin Island. The in-- Sormation did not state whether "this officer was alone -or accom- | pigs panied. . At this island he made i p contact with British communica- tions, and his message reached ; Wellington . for- transmission to ' the United States. LE , 'Nu other details of the voyage : were known. The greatest feat of small boat navigation in history is commonly ~ * eredited to Captain William Bligh, a British naval officer who, in 1789, following the mutiny of his ' erew aboard H.M.S. Bounty, sail- f: oy ed with 18 others from the South { Sea island of Otaheite to" the 3 Netherlands island of Timor, a dis- | tance of 4,000 miles. r-- ing brass and pounding percus. AIFS SRR ont ae Se F Econom 'mig Advantage of Small Farm - Operated by Parmer and Family The United States Department of Agriculture, through radlo.pro- prams and othier media, 18 impress. "ing dpon ruralists the: practicality of the small agricultural tract which may" be operated by the farmer and his family with little recourse to hired help, That the plan is feasible, thou. ands. of farmers whose modest acres enabled them with a mil mum of hardship to weather the bleak perlod of 1931 to 1033, can testify, This feat entailed no wisi ardry, financial or otherwise. In most cages it meant that the farm. er had realized theseconomic ads vantages of the family-size tract . long before the Department under. took to point it out. For ytars he had followed the policy 'of not putting all his agri cultural eggs 'into one basket, He ralsed wheat, corn and oats, but in judiclous quantities, maintained a farm flock and 'sold poultry and eggs; he raised pigs and livestock, kept cows and marketed milk and cream, In stort, years before the phrase grew to its present popular- ity, he practised diversified farm. ing. Largely because of these small but steady sources of revenue, he was able:when the slump came to meet his tax and other obligations while his more "progressive" neighbors who, lured-by high grain prices, had acquired land beyond their power to pay, saw thelr farms foreclosed. Thanks to lessons learned dur- ing the depression, the farmer ls regaining much of what he had lost, "Chain store" agriculture, groups of. farms owned by non- resident investors and operated 'by pald labor, is gradually becoming - a thing of the past. In calling attention to the prac- - ticality of the famlly-size farm, the Department of Agriculture not only points out the solution.of an agronomic problem, but guards against a repetition of 'the catas- trophe which befell ruralists after the First World War. Skirl O' The Pipes Cheers Fighters On Scots The World O'er Will Thrill Wi' This Stirring Tale The harsh, compelling sound of ] the bagpipes is not every one's music; there 1s a story of a Frenchman who fainted when the pipers played behind his chalr as a mark of honor at a Scottish din- ner. But to those who are con. scious of i113 appeal the skirl of the pipes is heart-stirring beyond all telling. Even the finest military band, with full apparatus of shout. Collective Farming ~ Russia's Salvation ER the world will have to thank if 3 the Russlang ultimately defeat Hit- : les forces in the Soviet, accord- ing to Maurice Hindus, noted author. / : He stated that collectivization ___ of the land is what is really sav-/ .ing Russia now, and that the Rus- sians took the idea. of large-scale mechanized farming = from the { first man to practice: it, Henry . Ford. Declaring that the initial driv- ing of Russian peasants . and people into collective farming was "one: of "the most extraordinary AE and brutal. things in history," : H Hindus added, however, thatreolr - lectivization of the land can hdres defy the world. Millions of Russian young "people had to learn mechanics, he ' said, or they wouldn't, } have been BTR able to work the 300,000,000 'acres: of land between 1928 and v | I ! 1939. Previously, Russian labor oh had had no mechanical experience. Rot --~Without--it,--Russia._ today would ' | Bh not have had the skilled médn-~ : power necessary to build and op- Cw erate guns, tanks and planes. Millions of young women, Hin. "dus said, had to' learn to under stand and operate complicated A. ; farm machinery. Today, milliogs: HB 5 of women are running the collee- : tive farms, - releasing men for | military: service, pre Sno "<The collective farms have" for d : years been schools of defence, FR 'giving men; women and children | training in guerilla warfare and 4 marksmanship, £ Ei "Even ten-year-old = children a % were' taught to hunt parachute i 27" troops," said 'Hindus, = "All the : apt people, were taught to become sharpshooters. The Nasi para- chute troop Sones of Crete could not be repeated in Russia." 4 The collective farins also en- : TH able the 'magnificent Russian Sra =i ~gabotenr" to destroy food supplies / hi might otherwise fall into 5 the hands 'of tha Nazis, the spay, er asserted. 0h barge. coal. doposits, estimated 10 yleld 6,000,000. to) 12,000,000. tons, have just been found in Sweden. Henry Ford, no_less, is the.man- | | EE FE [ glon, cannot compete with the elemental drone and wail that . sends the blood tingling and. calls --up an-involuntary cheer, Emphati- lly the pipes are Instruments war, meet to sound the charge, to hymn the victory with wild abandon and to mourn the fallen. i In this war, it seemed that the pipes: would: be stilled, that Scots- men: would: fight without thelr eery summons---just as they were sent ito: battle: without' the: treasured | - 'panoply of kilf, bonnet and sporran. But when the comniandos struck at Naz! garrisons in Norway, lo, it was _ & bagpipe that spurred them on! True, {t was an Englsihman who carried it--Major Jack Churchill (a | good name; Corporal John bore ft before they made him Duke of Marl. borough), who had learned the art of piping in' France early in the .! war But.the effect upon the young commandos was the same as if a pipe-major of purest Highland an- cestry had: ofticiated. "As the bar- ges touched shore," one of the men who took part in the rald oxplained, "most of us were slightly scared, - but fright disappeared when Major Churchill leaped ashore with his bagpipes: and began to play. know what the pipes be to a Bcot, "Tho change was remarkable Every one of us was full of confidence." , There is a lesson here, although + unfortunately Major Churchill was badly wounded in driving it home. The dehumanization of war has not yet progressed to such a degree that the music that makes soldiers fight can be fgnored. Major Chur- chill, Southern though he may be, : deserves an honored place in. the long. roll of pipers who have made military "history. And the pipes have displayed again thelr strange power 'over the hearls of men, Canada To Add ; 1 12,000 To Navy Canadian Naval strength, now standing at 27,000 officers and « vatings, will be increased by ane other. 12,000" by March, 1948, avy Minister Macdonald "told "press conferencd recently. d this would mean that in just "over three years the navy, would ~ hisve grown from: less than 2,000 officers and men to: 40,000. The output of ships was "excellent" and daring the past summer had averaged two a week of all types. Farm To Solve Preblem "right on the button. You ° He Malayan séamen ins 'guarding channels into Si h cathe EE TP PRY | 2 ect spiked floats of the "boom" defenses ngapore harbor, "Floating Dry Dock For Atlantic Coast Two million rivets and 10,000 tons of steel plates are being' put together to make a floating drydock at Halifax, the first on the Atlantic coast. Already the three base sections of the huge 'drydock have been launched and the job Is expected to be completed this spring. Up- perwork of two of the sections is nearing completion. Launched separately, the two have been joined together and may be used to repair ships before the third is added to them, From the end the floating dry- dock looks like a huge "U". A ship going into the dock floats into the "U", the tanks are pump- ed out, and the dock rises with the ship high and dry "inside. ( The "huge structure, which looks somewhat like an aircraft carrier, will be moored to a dock. Heavy anchors will be placed on the harbor bottom, and. lines ashore will lead to one 112-ton concrete block and six 80-ton blocks, . Spiking Rumors Members of the American Leg- jon are smacking war rumors anti-rumor campaign, the Legion- naires listen patiently to tale bearers, then flash a button with the inscription: ""How Do YOU Know?" Under their Says Price Ceilings Have Aided Farmers Price ceilings have bgen of ma. terial beplefit to farmérs, Profes. sor W. M. Drummond of Guelph recently -told members 'of the Ontario Vegetable Growers Asso- ciation in annual convention. Professor Drummond, head of the agricultural economics de- partment of the Ontario Agricul. tural College at Guelph, said the price ceilings halted the tendency towards widening the disparity be ~ tween prices of farm products and: those of commodities the farmer himself had to buy. During the First Great War only 10 per tent of the national income: was spent for war pur- poses, he added. The present fis- cal year would show 45 per cent of the national income spent for war. ° Agriculture had not been considered a war industry until recently, but was gaining rapidly in this Fespess; They Are Prepared The story is being told of an Italian .tank captured in Libya which was found to have three' reverse speeds and one forward, .The British captor thought he would have some fun with the Italian in charge. "Why", he in- quired, "do you have that forward 'speed on there?" "Well¥, replied the Italian, "we might be attacked from the rear." ("Tis Curious You By William Ferguson BLOOD = SLCKING on SVAMEIRE 8AT: "HAVE SUCH. Fis GULLETS TRAT THEY CANNOT SWALLOW (oT --r se mgt a DATE THEIR YEAR. FROM THE HARVEST OF TH , al FRLIIT OF THE CACTUS: 2. D. LINDSAY took home a porcupine from the Canadian woods some seven years ago, and the animal, "Rusty" by name is an affectionate pet, which, according to-Mr. Lindsay, refutes:-the contertion' that "porcupines are too dumb lo be tamed," Another porky, recently nequired, already jo is quite tame, NEXT; What are the Iaverile im times of day for anow ho fall? Me Ye] DRA R RTT SESS A Sy wii a vin te ere $e LESSON. iL THE HEALING MINISTRY OF JESUS 'Mark 1:35--3:12; Luke 4:42.44; 5:12.39, PRINTED TEXT, Mark 2: 1. 12; GOLDEN! TEXT.--He had com. passion gn them, and he d their sick, Matthew Hid, + THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time.--Th Spring and early Summer ot A D, 28. Place.-~For the most part, Ca- pernanm, though the. préaching tour, of course, covered a great part of Galilee. Our entire lesson will reveal an unceasing activity on the part of our Lord, and the accomplish- ment of a vast amount of work, in a very brief space of time. The lesson opens with our Lord far out 'in the desert place alone, early in the morning, praying. That hard long day in Capernaum necded sleep to restore His physi- cal power 'but more than that it needed "solitary prayer and con. verse with God. The harder our and prayer. By saying that He could not tarry any longer in the spot where He had just been ministering, but must go on to other cities, Jesus laid down a principle which it would have been wise had the church followed throughout all the conturies of its history. He wish- ed 'to preach where the message had never been heard; he desired to save those to whom had been given no opportunity for life. 1. "And when he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was noised that he was in the "house, +2. And many wére gath- ered together, so that there was no longer room for them, no, not even about the door: and he spoke the word unto them. 3. And they come, bringing unto him a man "pick with the palsy, borne of four. 4. And when they could not come . nigh unto him for the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they,let down the bed whereon the sick of the palsy lay." To understand the scene, it is negessary to remem- ber that thie' house was niost like- ly a fisherman's cottage, low and flat-roofed. The roofs were made by laying first large beams, and then across them rude joists, On them were laid flat stones or which was spread earth or gravel © rolled hard. The men first dug through. the carth and then pulled up the tile slabs thus easily mak- ing an opening. The roof is only a few feet high, and by stooping down and holding the corner of the bed (merely a thickly-padded quilt) they could readily let down the sick man. 5. "And Jesus seeng their faith saith unto the sick of the palsy, son, thy sins are: forgiven." Jesus recognized the faith both of the "man and of his frienda: quest had been made but Jesus ing of the sufferer for healing, not only of his body but of his soul; he recognized the sorrow for the sin which had produced the sickness, and thé 'anguish of remorse; and at once he spoke the ward "oT pardon and of peace. 6. "But there were certain of soning in their hearts, of why doth this man thus speak? he blas- phemeth, Who can forgive sins : but one, even God?" The scribes would not speak out like men and call on Jesus to defend His words. If they had been sure of their ground, they- should have boldly charged him with blasphemy; but "perhaps they were afraid that He speech, Perhaps they were afraid to oppoee the tide of enthusiasm ~for him: selves with comparing notes among themselves, and affect to despise Him, 8. "And stralghway Jesus, per- ~{---eceiving-in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, saith unto them, why reason ye these _is.easier, to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins are forgiven; or to say, .Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? 10. But that ye may: know that -th@ Son of "man (1) _ ducting, work, the more we need solitude - --slabs of tile -or--dried--clay;--on--- "No re- | "read the heart; he saw the yearn- the scribes sitting there, and rea- : could show good cause for His - So they content them- - things in your hearts? 9. Which RADIO REPORTER DIALING WITH DAVE: With Daylight Saving Time now general throughout the Contluent, listeners in the Eastern Daylight Saving Time zone, will actually get the benefit of an extra hour of radio. entertainment, for a large majority of the American network shows coming into" Canada, now come pne hour earlier than former- ly. Charlie McCarthy' is 'heard on Sundays now at elght o'clock ~~ followed 'by the' Inner Sanctum at elght-thirty, Dr. Hagen's TYue or False show will' bé broadcast at 8.30 Monday nights, Instead of 9.30. The Radio: Theatre ---- the Music Hall and many of the day. time shows, will come fito your home the hour earlier, If, of course, you've been on standard time, such shows will be heard as usual. : . - . There have been a number of important tlme changes In Can- adian Network shows, which affect all listeners: The daily Happy Gang show is now broadcast at 1.16 to 1.46 p.m. -- three quarter hours earlier than before. The Musical Heauty Box with Bob Farnon con- has been jhoved ahead one hour on harsher nights ---- to ten o'clock, E.D.S.T, Share the Wealth, howéver, will be broadcast at the usual time, fn its accustomed Tuesday night 8.30 time. We wlll pass along news of further expected changes. Freddie Martin, whose sweet band was the sensation of 1941, really has the knack of picking the 'Splotlight' tunes: He was the first 8.30 Saturday . - nights, Blended Rhythm also stays to. record Tschaikowsky's Pians Concerto in the modern form =» and around four months ago, did a nice ¢iscing of Rose O'Day the to that's topping 'em aM d like wildfire today, And an added | | note: Freddie is now playing a8 New York's elite Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and Dinah Shore, NBC's 'Time to Smile' songstress, has opened 'an extended engagement with the Martln Band. Freddie 1s" featured, by the way, on CKOOs dinner hour Parade of Bends, oe ery Friday at 6.30! . . . 1150 listening tips: | With the Happy Gang "going [13 1.16, CKOC's Telequiz, - which popular program, by the way, has drawn close to 3000 letters during fs first two weoks on the alr, goes to 1.46 o'clock, and is shorts ened to a daily quarter hour, With the Breakfast - Club going across the board at nine in the morning, some changes have taken place In the nine to ten a.m. shift, Jean Gillard 1s now heard .at ten and A new show, the Record Album, will feature Jack Wilkinson dally for half an hour at 10.30 -- other ~ fixtures in the nine to ten hour have efther been discontinued or shifted. Eight to nine on Monday evening 1s a stand-out quiz hour --~- with the new streamlined "What's On My Mind" being heard from 8.00 to 8.30, and Dr. Harry Hagen's national "True or I'alse" show following 8.30 to 9.00! Record of the week Is Freddle Martin's "Rose O'Day!" hath authority on earth to for- give sins (he saith to the sick of the palsy), 11, 1 say unto thee, Avise, take up thy' "bed, and go unto thy house. 12, And he arose, and straightway {ook up his bed, and went forth before them all, insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it 'on this fashion." Strange it was that these so-called spiritual leaders of the people should be so bitterly opposed to the One who was bringing such great spiritual blessing to multi- tudes of people, which they them- selves could - not confers = But Jesus knew how to silence their questionings, Of course only God could forgive sins. His declara- tion. that the man's sins were for- given had to do with an, inner matter, and his critics could deny that such an absolution had been accomplished, But for this man, helpless with paralysis for years to now stand up, leave his Tea and walk away, was an external fact, which no man could deny. Jesus certainly meant, by pir forminje this miracle, that He, who had power to deliver this man from his paralysis, was also the One, and only" One, who had power to actually cleanse a man fyom his sins, FRONTIERSMAN HORIZONTAL Answer to 5 Basins "Puzzle 19 Bird. > 1 6 American --frontiersman.-- 10 Biscuit. 11 Branches. 12 Refrigerant. 14 Sphere of action. 16 To possess. 17 To depart. 18 Scarlet. 19 Humor. 200n, 22 Percéiving beforehand. 21 One timé "22 Opposed fo con. 23 Mooley . apple. 24 Teller of tales 25 Three. 26 Thick shrub. 27 Nostrils. 29 To damage. 30 Oak fruit. 32 Golf club. ..33 Goddess of 50 Mother. 51 Shoe fitter 53 Measure of area. a 54 He was an vegetation. or 35 Torso for searcher for 36 ha of ad- new lands in vance. 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