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i KE} ~ay NOR (Tr LOLA h ¢ 372 Grid) Er a a a 7 Tet en FS AAs % 5 ' of, Ui Na A Be tes ot: Care Of Civilians Soviet's Big Task Food and Clothing Situation For People Is Serious As summer nears its end, the Russians are preparing for a third winter of war. It will not be easy The most difficult problems are civilian food and clothes, accord: fug to William . McGaftin, As- sociated Press correspondeut who has just come out of Russia, The people are sacrificing glad. ly for the Red Army. It is well fed and well clothed. People are trying to help themselves with little Vie- tory Gardens which they tend fn their spare time. Lend-lease food has helped, too. It Is generally agreed, however, that the food situation {s very serious--the most serious problem confronting Russia today. "3 A thousand persons starved at Leningrad before the seige was broken. Elsewhere in Russia you see evidences of malnutrition. Nevertheless, the Russians are confident. Despite the food scarcity, they still have thé energy to work at top speed 11 hours daily, six days a week, In the factories. Rationing, of course, is in force in Russia as in other countries, Black bread-and soup are the Rus. sians' chief fare, Other things can be bought in the free market it you have the cash. Peasaits -who bring produce to the market get 15 rubles--nearly $3 at the official rate --for a glass of milf; 600 rubles or mare than $300 for a kilo of butter.' Such profifs put "the peasants among. the richest people in Russia. It comes back to the Government, however, in the form of donations and purchases of War Bonds. While T was in Russia one girl on a collective farm bought a fighter plane from her savings and presented it to the Red Air Force. "One farmer bought rubles worth of War Bonds. The shoe scarcity is the 'most difficult aspect of the clothes prob- Ah average pair of woman's boi about 2,500 rubles. Russians are ingenlous people, they will manage and don't care how habby they look as long as- they are certain "Mother Rus--- sia" will be saved. NAZI CHIEF Nazi Field Marshal Gen. Albert Kesselring commands ~ German forces in Italy. He just missed death when Allied planes bombed his headquarters south 6f Rome. Warmth In Layers Of Thin Clothing Grandmother's Numerous Petticoats There is a great deal in this business of wearing more clothes in the putting on of an extra thick garment. Both indoors and outdoors, it is not the weight of clothes or the thickness of the one outer garment that does the trick. ' . Lord Lister, the famous Brit- ish scientist who put theories under test in practice in other directions, evidently did a little. research on the subject of clothes for warmth. On one occasion on a sea voyage during a blizzard he appeared on deck comfortable in a reefer jacket and no topcoat while others were huddled up and shivering. The explanation given by his lordship was that he had on seven layers of thin cotton underclothing. » --. His theory," which seemed to work, was that it is not. the weight of clothes which counts x but the amount of warm air that "can be trapped around the body. Obviously seven layers of warm air are going to provide more heat than merely two or three. Grandmother's -- or was It - great-grandmother's -- succession of petticoats all down to the ground must-have been another version of "Lord Lister's seven layers. It might be an idea worth putting into practice next winter. What is saved on fuel. can be" spent om. extra thin layers of clothing--if the clothing conser- vation. officials don't object. 1,000,000. Not A Bad Idea s¥0. keep warm, says The Ottaws Citizen. But it does not lic merely \ ----- This _ca.. y-over- - mately 177,000,000 bushels greater CHIEFS AT FRONT ' Right at the front: .in New Guinea are the Australian and American commanders Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey, left, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Blamey di- rected the Allied amphibious landing near Lae while MacAr- thur personally witnessed the U.S. paratroop attack near that Jap base. OTTAWA REPORTS That Canada Closed the Last "Crop Year, With a Carry-Over of 601,500,600 Bushels of Wheat Canada's piled up wheat surplus, once a bewilderin,; and almost embarrassing factor in domestic affairs, stands as one of the world's greatest food assels, when war-torn humanity finally .settles down to save stricken nations from starvation. Despite the increased use of wheat for other-than human con- sumption during the past year or , more, Canada closed the 1912-43 crop year with a record carry-over ot 601,500,000 bushels .of wheat, Dominicn authorities" have just reported. ' d was approxi- than the surplus remaining at the end of July, 1942, and 121,000,000 bushels more than the previous record carry-over on July 31, 1941. A feature of the 1943 situation, according to official report at the capitol, was the large supply of wheat still in farmers' hands at the end of the crop year. - More than 197,000,000 bushels --almaqst one third of the total carry-over --was held on the farms. \e * * The, use of wheat for animal feed was one of the outstanding developments of the past year, and promises to figure promin- ently in the present crop year. Use of wheat by distilleries to make industrial alcohol has also con- sunfed a large proporton of wheat in the Canadian domestic. market, During the past crop year the people of Canada consumed only about one-half # much wheat as went into animal feed and alcohol production. More than 650,000,000 bushels. of wheat are likely to be used in the United States, Canada, and Argentina during the next -12 months for the feeding of live: stock, the production of industrial alcohol or for heating of homes and buildings. ) * * * This is more wheat than was moved in international trade in most of the years between 1929-30 and the outbreak of the present war. Tu : Shipments of Canadian wheat flour exported «during, the sfigst. nine months of the crop ye 1942-43 totalled approximately 137,000,000 bushels compared with 169,000,000 in _ the corresponding period the previous year. Shipments In terms of wheat were 6,000,000 bushels larger than fn same period of the .1941-42 crop year. Wheat grain exports were 37,600,000 bushels smaller, American farmers produced more than four million acres of flaxseed ih 1942, y * U.S. GOVERNMENT NATIONAL DEAFNESS L10):1874 0 ¢ * . * * Whether you are a mild, me x, * dium or severe case...whether ,, you use a hearing ald or not + + + important discoveries make * possible the greatest help ever * « offered to the hard of hearing. * * ACOUSTICON INSTITUTE * 330 Day Street - Toronto & [want a'copyo/the FREE Bookom the U.S. 4 Server, Government National Deafness Nae Ro TP SPOR x Street : EE * CHP ini cn avionics ers. W Wl Flour THE WAR = WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events The Bulk Of The Italian Navy Now Safely Anchored. At Malta - Varying in details; but with an inexorable logic that was be- yond the calculations of the die. tators, the present war is being-, fought to its predestined conclu-" | sion in an almost uncanny par- allelism to the course of events in the last war.®This is again em- phasized by the dramatic surren- der of the Italian Navy, the bulk of which is now safely in Allied hands. Thirty-two Italian war- ships, including four battleships, six cruisers, eight destroyers and fourteen submarines, are now anchored at Malta, in fitting homage to that indomitable is- land. More war vessels are expect- ed if they can escape the Ger: man clutches The Germans, hav- ing seized the northern ports of Italy, may have succeeded in capturing some of Italy's fifty to sixty submarines, as they have probably seized a part of Italy's merchant fleet. But it may be doubted whether they will be able to make much use of them, The Italian Navy, in any case, is either "present or accounted for," especially all of its remain- ing battleships, and presumably all of its remaining cruisers. And, according to. Allied spokesmen, they are first-class and ready for immediate action, which will be greatly facilitated by the Allied scizure of the haval base of Ta- ranto, which presumably is stock- ed with all necessary naval sup- plies: Scapa Flow Inevitably, thoughts go back to Scapa Flow, where a once proud -German_ Navy surrendered after the last war. Once again it has been shown that an inferior navy is little more than an expensive}. = luxury, and in a prolonged -war even a danger point. For, as in the case of Imperial Germany, the disintegration of the Italian fighting spirit also began .in the navy, which, even more than the Italian land and air forces, was 'reluctant to face the overwhelm- ing odds of Allied superiority. The only service it could render "tb the Axis cause was to immob- ilize a large part of the British fleet in the Mediterranean. But it could not and did not stop either the Allied -invasign of North Africa or the -invasion of the Italian homeland. And this re- fusal to face suicidal odds was one of the main causes of the Italian collapse. But th? surrender of the Ital- ian Navy is both more and less. than Scapa Flow. It is less be- cause Germany, the main enemy, still continues the fight, and has even succeeded in seizing the ma- jor portion of Italy, from which it will take time and trouble to dislodge her. But it i. also more, because both General Eisenhower and Admiral Cunningham have al- ready made it clear that the Ital" ™) ian Navy will become part of the Allied naval forces, to be used against both Germany and Japan. Mediterranean Highway Surrender of the Italian fleet .- has finally cleared the Mediter- ranean of even a potential men- ace. It has thereby opened up an unimpeded, highway for even greater attacks against the re- maining Axis partners, From now on, Allied convoys can move freely through that lifeline of inter-Allied * communications for landing operations at any point along its shores on which the Al- lied command may decide. From now on, supplies to Russia, to In- dia and to China will find - an easier and shorter route than the "Hope. "Finally, from now on, a large part ofthe. British fleet can be transferred to the Indian Ocean or the Pacific, for" operations against Japan in: con- junction with the American forces. And though a prediction made - by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in his openling speech to the Kudmintang exccutive com- mittee that Japan "wolild be de- lo, way around the Cape of a a ry fan surgender means to them, and rage accordingly. . Result of Armistice The surrender of the Italian fleet with all its consequences, is one result of the armistice ar- ranged by General Eisenhower with the Italian King and Marshal Badoglio. And, as General Eisen- hower said, the armistice is worth while even if it nets the Allies nothing more than the fleet, Of course, it nets them much more than that. It eliminates a nation of 46,000,000 rom the fight, to- gether with its manpower, its resources, and the millions of bayonets of which Mussolini used _ to boast.--New York Times, They Were Just Nice Little Snakes A little girl entered a store in Midland. She carried something that looked sinister and terrify- ing to the women shopping' in the store." They huddled in cor- ners and would have run past the little girl into the street 'if they had dared. But they didn't dare to move. And it wasn't a couple of guns that the kid ecar- ried. She had a pate of live garter snakes, which she held tightly in her little fingers while they writhed and squirmed and tried to get away. and she didn't mean to scare all the ladies. She was just looking for her mother to show her the nice snakes she had caught. "No." said the store- keeper, "your mummy isn't here. Blease go away." And since the merchant was polite. and said please, she went. . VOICE OF THE PRESS A WISE MOVE The managements of three local theatres have announced that they intend to clear all children who are not - accompanied by thelr parents out of their theatres al nine o'clock every night. In other words there is going to be a strict enforcement of the curfew law. Wo commend the theatres for this action, for Jt the parents of these children do nét take sufficient interest In their welfare to seco that they are home, someone else must. --- Peterborough Examiner. series WHAT'S THE USE? With junior away in the Air Corps, the. family again has the use of the car. However, as it turns out, junior has the gas. { -- Milwaukee Journal, i ALSO -CANADIANISM { Americanism: Farmers scolding workers for hindering the war ef- SIDE GLANCES ATW eS ¢ "fort to get more money; the nation hE2SS pleading for corn and beet while sh 5 farmers hold for a better price; & --Victoria Time.s foe FA ' Ef AN LING GARDENER 3 She SAT hor husband's garden COPS 1915 OV NEA STAYICE, ING, TI. 8E0.1. 3 IY OFF. \Y Wasat brio dowd " sid Because "By the gods, I didn't know the stores sold pants for boys A! avery Lume ho siaris cigping he until I had outgrown my father's!" - finds worms and goes fishing. } --St. Thomas Times-Journal. T - 3 : -- overboard for it; say that plasma New, if we only could be sure Jp BARK TO BITE is the outstanding medical discov- we would not be "et by a wolf," ROSS War sacrifices are passing from ery of this war." This-will be of the Soo would sound like a healthy 2 3 the bark to the bite stage as the interest to the public generally spot.--Windsor Star, a _ hot dog becomes a war casualty and to blood donors particularly. Ea Wo --XKitchener Record. NOTE TO BLOOD DONORS Army doctors talking to a news- paper correspondent in Sicily on the subject of blood plasma said: "Write lots about it; go clear DOINGS AT THE SOO There is no Ay fever at Sault Ste. Jacgdrding to F. OW. Collins, Canadian Pacific Railway Industrial ) Marie, Commissioner. A joint statement issued-by the Prices Board and Transport, La- bor and -Muritions Departments, lust week 'said shortage of labor and transportation woyld result |= in no Christmas trees being cub this year. SERVING THE UNITED NATIONS WITH WAR ALCOHOL ag D0) THE RAIN-OF DEATH'IS NN 4 Die ON Z DEADLIER BECAUSE OF WAR ALCOHOL | --3 [4 Here is a load of grief for Hitler ... 1000 pound packages of concentrated destruction, made with the help of War Alcohol, and powerful enough to flatten whole city blocks. ANN \ A Due fo its "stabilizing" influence, alcohol is also SN "OM i : ie . CORA AEN used in tremendous quantities in the making of Np smokeless powder and other war materials, It is a basis for ether, widely used in the manufacture (( ne ; of high explosive. It keeps planes ice-free. rt, Vs TN rt keeps trucks and tanks rolling in zero temper- atures, It is used in the production of synthetic rubber and "plastics. It serves doctors, nurses wre and" field ~dressing 'stations "asa practical dis- infectant, Alcohol is now in Battle Dress 24 hours a day. All of our plants are producing it . . i |, to 1009, capacity . . ; for the duration. 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