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108,000,000 Coins Minted Last Year Process of Producing New Coins Is Described The Victory five-cent biege is. pued at the Mint in Ottawa'saves 60 tons of nickel yearly for war production. Made of «six metals, the new nickel combines the sym- bolic "V" motif with the Torch of -Sacrifice. The '12-sided . design dates back to the Middle Ages and is still used for some EKuglish Coins, First step 'in producing new coink is the cutting of dies. Skilled engravers make a meticulous check Letore dies are hardened. Work- ing dies are punched by a 500-ton power-driven press. . Bullion to be worked on {3 checked on balances carrying up to 3,500 Troy ounces and turning to the one-hundredth part of an' ounce. The finished work at day's end plug bullion retrieved from the floor dust-must equal that re- ceived, 2,000 Degrees of Heat The molten metal is poured into moulds for subsequent rolling into strips. At 2,000 degrees of heat asbestos apron and waters soaked mitt must be worn. .. In 1938 the Mint produced 30, 1000,000 good coins; in 1942 work ing 24 hours daily, seven days a week, it had increased to 108,000, 000 pieces. Gold color of coin "is obtained by a process of acid-dipping fol lowed by wash in aluminum col- anders. . Gauged by an accuracy of one one-thovsandth of an finch, a cut- ting machine punches out blank coins at the rate of 300 a minute. The new coin is made of "Tom- bac" alloy. The word is from Malay "Tombaga," used as imi. tation gold jewellery in the East Indies. 200,000 Per Day Coins are examined by a Mint expert through a magnifying glass. The Victory nickel fills prerequis- ftes. It is easily distinguishable from other coins, and is cheap of manufacture. Moreover, it intet- feres little *with automatic coin machines. Coins receive a final minute in. sgpection before they leave the ~ They pass before trained eyes of inspectors-on a large con- veyor belt at the rate of 4,000 in 90 seconds. The slightest flaw or chemical stain brings immediate rejection. The battery of presses at the Mint, operating up. to a speed of 100 coins a minute, can strike an average of 200,000 pieces a day. Repair Factory 1,500 Miles Long Roadside Workshops In Africa Refit Damaged Equipment i* Ce -- A dispatch to this newspaper from Cairo reveals a factory more _ than 1,500 miles long spread out behind General ontgomery's vet- erans, states'the New York Times, All the way back to Alexandria .- the roadside workshops are busy refitting damaged equipment, re. . packing captured supplies and re. conditioned newly arrived ma. terial, so the 8th Army may con. tinue its advance. The Mediterranean sea lanes to Montgomery's new base at Tripoli are not yet completely open; ship. ping space is too limited to kee an avmy supplied and fed. communication, probably the - est Jand communication iW the 'world, is still largely over the black ribbon of paved road that winds- along the African shore. Traffic pours over this road night and day in both directions. Huge convoys of-trucks hurry munitions to the front; other conveys haul away smashed tanks, damaged guns and equipment of every kind discarded ~in 'Rommel's retreat, Bombs "from the sky no longer. blast this traffic. It is becoming orderly despite road blocks. Native 'Labor Used This whole coastal road was a battlefield. 'Both sides of it are scattered with weapons 'of war. All along it reclamation stations have now sprung up. They may not, like Aladdin, be giving new lamps for old, but they are re- conditioning everything that can be salvaged, from rifles yo water bottles. One typical workshop operates in the stables vacated by a dismounted<'cavalry regiment. It. is restoring electric batteries for planes: and tanks. ln many of the recaptured towns the Brit. ish have set up stations to sort out and redirect their own stores, lost to them in Rommel's earlier advance. . . The work is so urgent and rapidly expanding that native la- bor has been impressed on a wide scale. This whole system of way- side reclamation and long-dis- « tance traffic underlines the reed for keeping seven men at work behind the lines to @wupply one man at the front. . te ------ ~ Valuable nylon is being re- claimed from discarded stockings by dissolving them in sulphurte acid, : Shielding themselves from the tropic sun with umbrellas, as imperturably as if being lowered over WITH CALM BORN OF FAITH TL 5 < Gl i the side of a warship in a battle area were a commonplace occurrence, sisters of the Catholic Order of Mary Immaculate are picturéd arriving at Guadalcanal. Stationed on another Solomon Island, they were captured by the Japanese and held until rescued by American forces. Two priests and a nun were killed before the Americans arrived. Plane Flies 2,000 Miles Without Pilot Crew and Passengers Bail Out---Plane Flies On This is the story of a United States Army plane that flew 2,000 miles with jo one aboard. She reversed course and flew by herself to crash in Mexico. after her crew and passengers bailed out because tail flutter vibrations threatened to tear the ship apart in the air over Florida waters. Two men are missing, The four-engined plane took "off the night of Feb. 9 from Southern. Florida on a routine flight to South America. Ahoard were the crew of six, two passen- gers, and considerable cargo. The plane was 80 miles out when a bad flutter had developed in the tail. Losing altitude rapidly, the plane dropped from 9,000 to 5,- 800 feet, while the crew and pas- sengers jettisoned the cargo in an dlttempt to stop the vibrations. "Automatic Pilot Set Insead, the vibrations increased and the pilot turned back toward Florida. When the pilot thought he was over the coast, he ordered the others to use their parachutes. " Then-he headed tho plane out to sea, set the automatic pilot for level flight so the craft would not become a menace ashore, and bailed out. ' Shortly after noon the next day Mexican authorities reported a plane had crashed in the moun- tains of Northern Mexico -- a re- port which gave the Air Trans- -- port Command a first-class mys- tery for several days, because no such plane was supposed to be in that part of the world. Men on foot finally reached the plane and' an investigation pro- duced serial numbers which iden- tified it as the ship abandoned off the Florida coast. Somehow, its course out to sea had been re- versed, and it cut across hundreds of miles of ocean with no one aboard, crashing when its gas tanks were empty. Liner Yields Steel For War Effort The naval training ship Cale- donia, formerly the Cunard liner Majestic, has been raised from the Firth of Forth to furnish nearly 40,000 tous of steel scrap for the war effort. She sank after a fire Septem- ber 29, 1939, but she wa: raised on_the first' attempt after 1,800 portholes and all openings in her hull -were- sealed for the project, She had been towed: inshore, About 13,000 tons of high qual- | ity steel have been removed from the hull and at her breaking-up berth it is expected she will yield 26,000 tons more. ' 200,000 Square Miles Recaptured An indication of the extent of the great Russian "successes of the past three months is found in the statement from Moscow that 200,000 square miles of Soviet territory have been retaken from the invaders -- the equiva- lent of a tract 500 miles long and 400 miles deep, criss-crossed with railroads and studded with im- portant towns, says the Ottawa Journal. It is a tract one-half as large- as all Ontario, land and water; which has 407,262 square 'miles, and roughly would cover the area from the Quebec border to Windsor, North to Sault Ste, 'Marie and the vicinity of James Thay. Plight of Poland Under The Nazis a The barbarous Boche conceives of a Made-in-Germany "new or- der" as a long series of restric- tions on all the European peoples crushed by the Nazi war machine and savagely policed by the in- famous Gestapo, says the Strat- ford Beacon-Herald, Poland's pitiful plight is a fair example of Hitlerism running amok in a Ger- man-occupied country. To pursue any professional ca- reer except medicine under Ger- man law. . To enter any public park or garden or sit on any beech in a public place. To eat in vestaurants or cafes. To visit barber shoj except those partitioned off to segregate Poles. : : 2 To travel without permit, or to use express trains and motor buses, ) To use automobiles or ride bi- cycles, except for eyeling to work, To use playing fields or swim- «new offensive in the nn THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events The Race Betw en United Nations And Axis Powers for the Offensive Following up the recent state- ments of both President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill that the United Nations~axill.now carry the war to the enemy, American and British generals and admirals announce that their armics, navies and air force are poized to strike on all front, says the New York "Pin Admiral Ninritz's forgcast of af early d nusal_ offen rinst i is marched by mdot. broaden to the "tha date. of of Luiope. is French an Allad invasi rot ifr off." puwple UThis isthe crucial psychologle- al time at rich to strike. To de Lay mieh longer may cost ud dears ly titer on, For our enemies are not standing still, On the contrary. Although Timoshenko is staging a rih, the Germans, aided by new aid General Mud," have already succeeded ine slowing up the main Russian drive, and in the critical Donets Basin have checked it com: pletely, wt least for the present. And the Japanese are not only driving ahead in China, but aro also massing forces noith of Aus. tralia for what may be an attempt to invade that continent. urther- wore, while the Japanese are rap- idly developing the regions they have conquered and are thereby growing stronger day by day, the Germans have started ont to mo- bilize the last reserve of the whole Fuvopean Continent for a final desperate effort in the same all out fashion as the Russians did in their own country. Finally, Germany is obviously to strengthen her polit align ments, amd has apparently sues ceeded in Italy, and tightening her hold on possibly Finland. Axis Possibilities German Propaganda Joseph Paul The ister, Min- Goebbels, has leserves™ wan aie observers had seen active ity 'in British harbors pointing to- ward an audacious attempt to fu- E vade the Continent, 'he calculations of both sides, hung largely on what would hap- pen along thes vast Eastern Front, . Crymans' ability to launeh I EH} would ¢e; | ot theh \ voy alt Hin offens ive Red I'ha Allied | Jaded con Hu Va oabil Hy "ie down boge numbers of ( no divistons - General Mud Enlists fhe first signs of ving were seen last week on tho southern reaches of the Looanile Russiau battlefront. On the Ukrainian vis The snows were melting oviet soldiers took off their cloth Imets, baed their heads to soft ids from the Black Sea. The rich earth, hard as ron during Janpary, was beginning to clog the treads of Red Soon Russias ally, General Wine ter, wonld way to Russia's foe, General Mud, I'o itary obscrvers the ap proach of Spring in South Rus. sie was important. © ks probable effect would be io slow the Rus- sian olfensive, already one of the nost sustained drives in the his tory of nodern war. Since Nov, 19 Soviet armies. trained and cipupped for Winter fightNg, had been rolling over suowy plains and fjozen rivers that offered few natural obstacles. Their avowed purpose wai to throw the Nazis ont of Russin The attack had broken a formidable enemy do fensy system the Donets River, had sms forward in plicces 00 miles from its starting point at Stalingrad. "But ahead stretehed another {00 miles of Russtan sofi and another great defense system based on the Hae of the Duieper River. The task facing Russian generals already Aviny tanks, zive VOICE PRESS SUPPLY OF WHITE FLAGS If you have read Hitler's Mein . Kampf, you will recall that the Fuéhrer has a hankering foi white silk shirts, He<wrote that he en- vied. people who could wear them,' Laval bas sent, Hitler 356 white ik from the silk mills of shirt 1 Hitl'r does not last er hi to wear all those its, th will make good: white fi 1 iicate surrender of Che 1 \Y v Star, WORDS OF WISDOM wd Mine, Chiang: Kai-Stek's ad- ss to members of the United ~3 was one of the most cloquent that august cver heard. Among man ble passages was 5 one: "We in China are con- yw d that it is the better part hal of wisdom not to accept failure ahi i ignom sly, wusiy Ot it to risk it glor- va Citizen, O SWNT AT NOT CHOICE OF WORK I'he Ottawa Journal states that we may hope for employn.ent for all, but we can never bope for choice of cuployment for all. Even the merit system in Soviet Russia does not provide any such Utopia as that. And they have the erit system of reward in every factory of the State.----St. Catharines Standard, dfs OUR COMPETENT WOMEN Worwen are stepping into so many wartime jobs and perform- ing then with such acceptance that man may be fortunate if he is allowed to take charge of the Kitchen after the war.--Peter- borough Expminer. : = o-- + CURE FOR SPRATTS As time goes on and rationing becomes tougher, it is believed the Spratts, Jack and the missus, hon Tali i ming pools. ws promised-that the- Wehrmacht will erale pate A will 'be pretty well relieved of The Polish Review sts some of ad Li 0 . again thrust east this vear to seek | Strussiing with a major supply their respective allergies. -- Wine ¥ the cruel restrictions decreed by fk health resorts or bath. Mie {inal victory which Hier las probleme was to crack the second nipeg Tribune, { Cor ities 3 dav _ing beaches... : Lil oT 1 dense li fore Sorine peg Ae be hs German authorities in enslaved % : h Lolli n " said Ves 'here. TIGL diofg wets defense lina before Spring thaws weil oi Poland -- the same brand of o buy clothing or footwear, sinus pat Grrmony would 1 could bog down the Red Army's ; of tyranny as Canada would suffer | except work clothes and wooden a : 2 an Molar x i momentum WASHDAY IN RUSSIA ~ Us t - ot whi in the Fast while she turned i : The Germans are being washed a in the event of an Axis victory. | shoes. a RS, Words From the East fe LICZARS Are hong wash CASON Yoreuiiter wre hunted same of the To shop except in certain stores her main forces west against. (he Laat Sa FY . up in the Donets Basin, And the uh strictly forbidden" rules im- | and at certain hours set Fside for armies of Britain and America. | rast Mast Promie: Jaseph Stat: Russians are proving very good iy d ¥ the Polisi le } Poles # Tho Fuehrer himself, in a message | 10 Ban order of tire day marking washer-uppers. -- Stratford Beacon ES posed on %, 5 Toe pas who Te buy imported foodstuffs to his old party comrades on the the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Herald. i are not a re y their Pp To nid cameras. radio els or twenty-third anniversary of na Red Army, noted once again that R Coie pe) masters to do any of these things: phonograph records : fii tional socialism, promised only Ritssiv was bearing tho main MEMORY LINGERS ny To speak Polish in public, or | I To own or use hots on and be- | Mobilization "to an extent exceed. | Weisht of the war and that a - . : use Polish names of cities or | AN Hin] a Ty Il bei ing that of any war in history." second front had not ret been es- An old-timer is one who asso. streets. 4 nen ie -Qder. and Vistula - In the West, two directions of | "tablished iu the wost. At Ue, sane cites a board of education with To print any book, magazine or To own land or any real estate attack were available. One led to- Hine he declared tial the Red he i Sele on hy vies paper in Polish, whatsoever! ' ward the British Isles, bristling 2a had been created as an in- shed. Kitchener Record. R § : ) Ji stim alens f To play or sing any Polish mu- The surest proof of the mad- | With suns, guarded by millions of con 8, Sloss: 30d, toy of co sic, or patriotic song. ness of Hitler and his ilk-is their determined men. Britain was the oP, saw in thi " . . + > I ar chic i i : s Se SO SAW gr os an '32 R Io worship in chureh, I" belief that a Lurope robbed of Bub Bropnd waieh oi the Aflted indication that the Russians would British Alcohol To belong to any religious, s¢i- | overy vestige of human liberty | Military projects for Europe re- | 070 0 0 en } Distilleries Idle * entific or social organization. will accept the "New Order" °| Volved. or that reason the temp- they reached | igi slo fo) 1stilleries © hi oo . tation to risk an all-out attempt yo reached their old borders, {| To attend any school or college. which the Nazi gangsters are en- rss ol ain thus frecing German troops for Most Bri istilleri To go to operas, theatres or forcing on helpless Poland. Free- to tako it might prove irresistible operations in the West. With (hi Most British alcohol distilleries, "concerts. dom cannot be obliterated for to German military leaders, who view President. Roos: it x ok fling Shave pariaaliy use) tor Se y " y . : ' -_ " ----_ esldent VOSHVEe 1] , cv are . To visit museums, libravies or long by bandits--as Hitlerite Ger- pe EN Lhown themselves sharp issue. From py i ar whisky, are out of use and are educational centres, ) many will oie day realize. ne oy "o pope the cost | (iirces came predictions of a being ed 2a, storage, ye In- = The soon lay a th th Joint victory by the United Na bo ls Ci SY prow ' B SCEQIY. Jay-toward-thie soul. tions that seemed to set asid ae a ) , LIFE S LIKE THAT y Fred Neher I's objective would de to drive fears that the Red pon a whisky muking plants ° for tho . . the Allies out of North Africa and slacken its efforts N manufacture of alcohol for mili- secure the southern shores of i ) : tary purposes, the government Europe against invasion from that EE. prefers" to import aletohol from quarter. It might take the form . the United States and Canada, as of a on? pincers, one arm of THE BOOK SHELF a Gi saving of Supping - which would go through Spain, I A is effected by importing alcoho! goa bypassing Gibraltar, to EVERGREEN HOUSE rather than He raw materials re- rocco and the supply routes of B quired to make it. ) yl the | ried itish and Ire dein A a Es Ahura Bar CS 1: ating L] Sia, fe k i. stow 13 very hospitable o ature the other pressed through Turkey io) ¥ pit Dy nature, . and along the eastern shores of the fhe welcomes, therefore the as. I Saw The Morning Mediterranean into Egypt. From sortid Teitives, whe have been - Break Switzerland last week cams re. | TWH to the nearby city to en die fz ports that Germany was trans- gage in odetense work, into the Y hat have fai i 3 . 2 5 vl ave faith to look with ferring troops through France to- fuibling 4 house which she [ have oi to look ward the Spanish border, and shares with her grandmother, Vous Le Lon rE Turkey's President warned his Thongs Al Bose) young men panne praseds ot oF his country that the "wii contagion" who have been unabie to find bat thay ior rm | 4 Hiviog qunriers. olsdwle re. The Baa Guay hay out of night and X Co resulting situation inevitably pro ueasp shah Toe ¥ Med Bassiblities duces daily problems and comp yup dawn of dmpley life; On the Allied - side, too, there cations, but Cynthia revels in Rejoice, whatever anguish rend were two possible moves, One was solving them, Even Evergreen wt your heart, an assault upon 'the northern or House iiself catches the excite. hat God has given you for a Rosters Shores of Ewope. from ment and fosters several love af- : prleclens dower the British Isles. The other was fairs, not the least of which is Fo live in these great times and i invasion from North Africa to Cynthia's own unexpected ro- In Fr Save von pant ward what Winston Churchill has mance. no Freedom's crowning hour; vallod the, soft underbelly of the Evergreen House . . . By Louise -. ) i B lg | he Sa Lares of Platt Hauck ++. Dodd, Mead & That you rid i vour sons who urope. 'ombined, 1050 two Company + . . Pri $2.35 see the hight moves could form a grandiose pany Rta = x High in the heavens--their heri- pincers aimed at driving the ' tage to take: Welrmaclit back from all the Eu- Enlistments of Canadian Na- "I saw the powers of Darkness ropean countries it has conquered tional men in the active army are put to flight, - onto German soil~ From Sweden sufficient to form six infantry I saw the morning break." "No, we don't know thd game . . » but we know the neighbors." last week came reports that" Ger- battalions. Sir Owen Seaman, 1861-1936, h TN " . o * . j 2 3 Bluey and Curley of the Anzacs He-Man stuff By Gurney, (Australia) L " : . H ry ~N HEY LOFTY, HOWS ABOUT COMING NO GOOD To ME, k whee | COME FROM IN QUEENSLAND THE BOYS OVER To TH TWO-LP SCHOOL. AND , Tossin' PENNIES 15 A || ARE 50 TouGh Tuey PLAY Two UP WITH po HAE A GO AT TossING THE PENNIES. FLAMIN' CISSIE GAME: \ 7 MAN-HOLE COVERS Z . y me M - % ---- N: (3 ». \ Sy : i i) : . NN A IRS > EIN, ho NY od