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BR ETT Rn ikl a INVASION PREVIEW: ARMY'S BIGGEST 'WHISPER SHIP" i LEN | MCRL 8 Here's the United States Army's new glider--biggest of its "whisper ship" fleet, recently displayed at Laurinburg-Maxton Air Base, N.C. The CG-18, which will caryy 20 men and cargo, . is pictured taking . aboard, a iteld gun-and its six-wheeled motor unit. Empty, thé giant craft, weighs 7200 pounds, with maxi- mum gross weigat of 17,000 pounds, has a wing span of 85 feet, u inches and a tow speed of 150 m.p.h. OTTAWA REPORTS ply of sugar is such that great cconomy in the use of sugar is a i real contribution to the war effort, while the immediate postwar needs, as far as can be judged at present, will call for continued co-operation i for us all" : It begins to look as if sugar, J. A / first commodity to be rationed," will Ranking third of all countries in be last on the list when ration ve- | the production of gulations are removed, fourth in the production of war The preseat world supply is in-- | supplies, Canada's external trade is sufficient to meet even essential at present the fourth largest in the needs without strict rationing, ac- world, Canada is now also "the cording' to Sir William Rook, third largest naval power among British sugar controller, in dis- | the United Nations. Irom the out- cussions with Wartime Pricés and |. break of war until the end of Feb- Trade Board officers. He termed | roar, 1944; 585 vessels, --including "incomplete and inaccurate" the fighting craft and cargo ~ vessels, view that all that is lacking is | were delivered from Canadian ship- That Strict Rationing Of Sugar Is Necessary To Meet Even Essential Needs cuough shipping "space to trans-. | yards. portrsugar from producing to con- Tok ek - suming countries, Potato cyes sold for planting dn the United = Kingdom, he this year must conform to require- pointed out, sugar has been entirely ments of -an order of the Dominion eliminated for making .ice cream Minister of Agriculture, . just pas- and table jellies, and soft drinks | sed. The order and fruit juices have been cut to these must be cut from certified one-third prewar usage. The Rome seed, must average not less than canning allowance of one 1b. per per- son in 1942 and 1943 will not he in- more than three-quarters of an creased this year, antl even that inch in depth. A label issued by much 'may not be available. "1 can- the Department of Agriculture. not emphasize too strongly," Sir | must be attached to each container William said, "that the world sup- stating that the eyes conform to - ~regulations under the order, and MEET SGT. JONES name of 'the variety of certified seed potatoes from which the eyes "were, cut. Chief purpose of the order is to give greater assurance of quality to purchasers. 0 ® El In view of the need for food and feed conservation, farmers are "rats. © An 'average rat cats or destroys about $45 worth of food a year, and in"a year a normal fe- male has five to 12 litters totalling 120 baby rats. Here are some ways to discourage "see that all sources of food are re- moved; make: huildings rat-proof; "and keep cats and dog that are good rat hunters, Fiji Islanders Fight ~ For Allies In acific Fiji Islanders, equipped with mo- dern arms. including automatic weapons, are helping the Allies ex- terminate Japanese in the South Pacific. } The War Department reported recently that in one continuing ac- tion the fierce warriors, led by New 2 © 4 His own mother: wouldn't recog- to enemy territory in the Bougain- nize the jeatsome, figure Shave a ville "area 'and returned after kill- {ginny Jonge 32 a pe ing 179 Japanese while losing only fancy: outfit. It's a mask and pad- one killed and three wounded. ded uniform, worn by Jap soldiers for bayonet practice, 'modeled' by .Sgt. Jones after 7th Army Division captured it on Kwajalein Islands * FINE, UPSTANDING YOUNG MAN Omar Khayyam was an astrono- a poet. : : "Tuffy," otherwise Known as Louis Pethro, 3d, stood up on} his own feet three months andj one day after he was born, which was Dec 4, 1943. Husky, 'son of Pvt. and Mrs. Louis Pethro Jr, of East Chicago, Ind, he's pictured showing off, with his" 19-year-old mother. foodstuffs, and ' "device, prescribes that half an ounce in weight, "and not' showing the certificate number and urged to keep a vigilant eye for the rodent: - . Zealand officers, penetrated deep in- | mer and mathematician 4s well as -shoprage. high standard, Net Speeds Up Rescue At Sea New Rescue Gear "Scoops Up - Survivors In Quick Time A, new rescue gear which oper ates on the principle of a giant fish- net, scooping exhausted oil-covered survivors out of the sea, has been devised by Acting Capt. Paul B. Cross of Saint John, N.B,, the Navy announced last week. Many Canadian corvettes and de- stroyers already are carrying the known as the "Rosthern rescue net" after the corvette Rosthern, of which Capt. Cross was commading officer when he first conceived the idea. The net speeds gup rescue work and obviates lony stops in sub-in- fested water by scooping up sur- vivors as the vessel moves along slowly. Experience has shown that survivors "often are too numb to help themselves, or are too grease- covered to be pulled aboard by hand. © The net is operated by a line from a boom, which extends about ¢ight feet from the side of the ship. Af- ter netting, the survivors is hoisted inboard. One reasonably husky rating can handle the nct, guiding it under the body of the survivor, General practice is for the rescue ship to pass at windward. of the stricken mien at slow speed. They are scooped in single, head and shoulders first. Then they are rais- ed in the manner of fishermen un- loading, a catch of salmon. In experiments with 173-pound dummies, the general size and shape of a man, the Rosthern re- covered four in five minutes in its first run, later reducing this to 3 1-2 minutes, less than one minute a man. -_ It often takes 20 minutes each to pull sucvivors out of the water by hand, over scramble nets, The net also is useful in recov- ering U-boat damage cvidence and lost gear. Shipping Losses Slightly Higher ferchant shipping losses in March were "a little higher" than in February, President" Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill: re- ported jointly April 9, but in gen- eral the war against the undersea. raiders" continued successful, "THe rate of sinking of U-boats was fully maintained," said their joint statement. The text of the statement: "March was an active month in the war against the U-boats which operated m widely dispersed areas from the Barents Sea to the In- dian Ocean. y "The. enemy. has persevered vainly in strenuous endeavors to disrupt our flow of supplies" to Russia by the northern route. "Our merchant --shipping losses were mainly incurred in far dis- tant seas. Though a little higher than in February, they were still low and "the rate of sinking U- boats was fully maintained. "The Alled merchant fleet con- tines to improve both in quantity and quality, but the strength of the Ushoat force remains considerable and calls for powerful efforts by surface and air: forces." - Married Women . Drafting married women for ur- cnt' domestic service jobs in hos- pitals and institutions is the latest example of Britan's womaii-power Since single women are in 'essential war jobs, married wo- men are now "being called to fill the critical need for 30,000 women in this , work, Minimum wages and working conditions for these "directed" will be mantained at a' and experimented witle \ VOICE P RES S MAY BE A SUCKER Lake Erie fishermen have been reporting - small "catches of perch, leading The St, Thomas Times- Journal to observe that "the perch = aren't perched where they're easily caught." Whereupon the" King- ston Whig-Standard rises to re- mark that from their scarcity on. the market "the pickerel have picked out a place where hey won't be picked" We may he a sucker for dipping our net into this, but it's evident those twa pikers would go after pike with a pike pole, --Ottawa Citizen, wi Chin BUTTER SHORTAGE Many people are grumbling at the difficulty of rationing butter under present allowances and one reason "for the shortage is the fact that the Canadian Red Cross Society is slip- ping 100,000 pounds a week to pii- soners of war, That surely should reconcile us to the need of spread- ing our butter just a little thinner on bread for the duration. -- Niagara Falls Review, ---- SCANDALIZING! The latest NN Y, rage is a dress naterial with "I Love You!" print- ed all over it. Who now renem- bers 40 years hack, when Grandpa, the frisky old devil, came home from the Elks' convention with "1 Love My Wife But Oh You Kid!" on the band of his straw hat? - And was Gradma scandalized! ? --Ottawa Citizen. ---- TRIP CALLED OFF The Tirpitz seems doomed to "look like the Wreck of the Iesperus before the war ends. And at one time the Fueher hoped to steam up the Thames in her! -- Hamilton Spectator. re (Yee, PRIVATE LANGUAGE The women of one upper Amazon tribe speak a private language, un- intelligible to the other sex., [Like the high school miss on a telephone. - --Winpipeg Tribune. . . Invasion Larders _The second front, when it opens will have repercussions on the home front. Women of Britai/ have been warned that whei--the zero hour approaches they will he asked to stock their cupboards with two weeks' emergency supply oi food. This will prevent shortages if com- munication sytems become dis- rupted. THE WAR « WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events They _can probably guess the strength of the invading force, War of Nerves Keeps Nazis Guessing When, Where, How We Are Coming Speculation in this countiy as to when the invasion of Europe will begin can be answered truthfully out of information available to any newspaper reader: it has already begun, states the New York Tines. The air attacks, rising in fury day by day, arc invasion. Every thous- and planes 15 at Kast the equivals ent of an armored division roam ing at will through the cnemy's country. The planes actually in- vade, though they cannot accupy. The invasion has begun mn other ways. We are working on the Ger- mans' nerves. The closing of the Eire border, the curtailment of di- plomatic messages and the suspen- sion of travel WiTe~all practical measures to prevent leak- age of information, bit they were also stages in psychological wac- fare--for why go to all this trouble now, rather than six months or overseas three months ago, if thele were not © something to concead now that did fot exist six or three months ago? "The more mystery we manufacture the more jittery the Gernfans are bound to be. Nazi Troop Dispositions The kind of nervousness this, state of mind produces must show itselt "i thes Germans' troop dis- HEMISPHERE BASES Ok} U.S. Bases New York "UNITED STATES YL YBERMUDA = BAHAMAS } Ae : Qe Atlantic Ocean "4 } : . HS Nm re ea.. _ PUERTO "go « Jamaica Rico ~ €)Antigua Caribbean Sea £35. Lucia Panama Canal Trinidad i iy £3 hh SAN Hr. Guiana y VENEZUELA. a? COLOMBIA Map above shows location of the eight United States Atlantic bases, now under 99-year lease from Great Britain, whose acquisition in per- petuity was recommended to the House Naval Affairs Committee. Sang and will "thing ever before attempted by any army." What they don't know and can't guess is when, where and how, Hitler Inspects West Wall A London, source having close. connections with the European Underground said that Hitler is making a secret inspection of the. West \Wall defenses. It was said to be made in com' pany with an inspection party in cluding Grand Admiral Karl Doe- held outposts, with small, tactical nitz; Gen, Guenther Korten, Chief reserves scattered along its length of Stat of the Air Porces, and and heavy strateyiq reserves to be Professor Tann, originator of . the thrown in if a major break-through flake towers which arc .an.import- thigatens at one or more points. ant part of the West Wall Where had these troops better be? defenses : The Germans don't know. Have I'he Germans announced that we sufficient air power and air- Hitler has met Mussolini recently borne power to impede or prevent at a secret" meeting place--per- their movements to points where haps the Brenner Pass, the hal- we don't want them to go? We ian or French Riviera, hope sotand the Germans can't Neutrals reaching the Swiss bor« be sure Neda der reported that "everything is Nazis Forced To Guess beng organized as though Lyon, i. ; 175 ides up the Rhone River in Chey cannot plan their battles, . i Southern France, would become a tor they ame on the receiving end, : ; o : . centre of huge operations." Lyon We can plan ours, since we are ' f i he ut has been a target of Allied bomb- on the delivering end. It happens ° Cl . . . He ; : rs in recent weeks, as have other that the German military mind is \ : : - & possible concentration points for best to planned battles, least of- . . . wy : a German reserves, fective 1noimprovised battles, The war of nerves forces the German I commanders to do some wild guess- force them to ini provise in a hurry, And perhaps we can hope that this invasion of Ger- man-occupied Europe by the forces ot psychological warfare has al- ready moved German troops "to places where they "can he cut off and defeated. positions--concerning which we are undoubtedly well informed. The Nazi defense of the Continent must consist of a long, thin line; of a long line of separate and scantily Lanolin used in cosmetics is re- fined wool grease, ' SAFES Protect your BOOKS and CASH (rom FIRE and THIEVES, We have n size nnd type of Safe, or Cablnet, for any purpose. Visit Nazis Welcomg To News ua, or write for prices, ete. te Jept, W, Putting mystery aside Anglo- i H! 8 mystery aside, the Angle 115 Front St. I, Toronte . American command almost mgenu- Established 1855 ously reveals plans to drop air- horne troops on oe Continent. 3 J.6cJ. TAYLOR LIMITED TORONTO SAFE WORKS a despatch to this newspaper states, "on da more massive scale than any- These troops will have 75- millimeter guns, bazookas, 37-milli- meter anti-tank © guns, machine guns, explosives, jeeps and "even baby bulldozers" A few weeks ago if would have heen treason to h- mention these facts. Now the Nazis Friend are welcome to them. This, teo, t hewe change is part of the war of nerves, able dayn! 11 helps protect When, Where, How? them from worm _-- : ©. 3 trouble, un n.d I'he war ol nerves, novcoves, 1s other children's not merely a matter of reducing fly. Keepan Cerne Ydiet 3 I. bere them regular. rerman soldiers to a state where So sovthing too! they can'y sleep nights and worry Now try It. um the morning. Nepvousness of this sort may exist in any army and is not inconsistent with good {ight- mg qualities. The nervousness our general staft evidently aims to ing spire arises out of uncertainty, and shows itseli fn tangible ways. The Nazis know we arc-coming. They know where men, engines of war amd ships are being concentrated. "Worm Trouble . CHILDREN REALLY NEED MULVENEY'S Viother's OINTMENT \ «& Burns, Sores, Gufs, Elc THE CANADA PAINT CO. Cryin. ® Cie MARTIN-SENOUR Go. LIMITED UE, TOGETHER WE Put VICTORY First! We've got to keep delivering the goods to back up the final mighty attack that will bring Victory. That means curtailing pleasure and luxury; it means still more saving and working. It's the only real way of showing our appreciation of what our : fighting forces are doing. Let's match their great spirit of unselfishness with another over-the-top Victory Loan! * al owe ¢ Ihe SHERWIN-WILLIAMS Co. of Cono {7 el