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oa ALE | v. FR ARAN \ Lads) * " ARTS whe FIVER RIS ENOL An ATU FAS DALARD AL MBL GR S.-Y MF DOIN ELR TE Shh Se Prov "Four heads ache worse than one" just received from neutral sources, THE HITLER G ANG Bley might be the title of this new photo, showing Adolf Hitler with military, naval and civilian chieftains during recent inspection at the "Fuehrer's headquarters. Left to right are Hitler, Field Marshal Keitel, chief of staff, Admiral Donitz, navy commander, and Heinrich Himmler, head of the Gestapo. | | CHRONICLES By Gwendoline P. Clarke LJ [J] ° ° ° Will you come exploring with me -- just you and I and Tippy. You will? -- that's fine, then let's be going. But wait, we had better "take that mosquito dope along -- nasty, little animals, those mosqui- " ¢oes, they can sure take the joy out of life. It's pretty warm, you think? Well, yes, but then it's summertime, isn't it, so what else tan one expect? i * i * * Come along, we will start up the back lane, through the pasture field, across the bush and over to the track. Yes, you guessed it -- we're to go cxploring for wild strawberries. What a wonderful growth of grass there is in the lane -- that's because the cattle have not yet been pastured here -- next week it will be a different story, and the walking a little casier. Sce how well the spring crop looks... yes, there are thistles there -- and chicory too, along the fences. We don't like the look of them at all but still there is a limit to what one man and his wife can do on a hundred acres, Look -- do look -- over there near that blackthorn tree... TITO'S RIGHT HAND - Responsible for planning of many . of the Yugoslav guerrilla = battles against. Germans. is Maj. Gen. Arsa Yovanovich, above, chief of staff for Marshall Tito, famed Partisan chieftain. of GINGER FARM did you ever ste a wild canary quite so yellow... and hear how sweetly he sings. . * * in the fente where we always get through to the track. How the years fly... 'such a little while. it seems since daughter and our wee son came exploring with me, And how soon they tired of picking ber- ries -- the creck was a much great- er attraction. There was far more water in the creek in those days and in it both the children learnt to swim. Right here at this bend -- we called it "the raspberry cor- ner" -- is where Bob nearly drowned. He was about three years old and was playing happily at the edge of the creek while I was teach- ing sister to swim. But he didn't stay there... and he went down twice before T reached him, Well, here we are at the track. Mercy -- where's Tippy? I hear a train coming -- it will scare the life out of her. "Here, 'Tippy... come here little dog. Yes, we'll pick "you up and hold you good and tight until the train has gone by. Don't tremble so, little dog, noth- ing is going to hurt you. See, there's the cngine driver waving to-us." * Ld * well now, we had better start looking for strawberries in real carnest. After all, that's what we came for, wasn't it? Or was it? Strange how even a wild straw- berry patch will run out. This is sa thick year after year -- and now there is hardly a berry. But here is a new 'patch... not kneeling down to play with you... scram now... go chase a rabbit. How can I pick berries if you sit down on top of them?" And so it goes... we wander around, picking where we can, climbing fences. when we come to them, swatting, every now and then, at mosquitoes which persist in attacking us despite our attempts to repel them. We are enjoyiug our rendezvous with nature, and we don't want to go home. But we must. There are hens and chickens to feed and, on a hot night like this, Partner will be. looking for a drink while he milks. Come to think of it, we could do with a drink ourselves. = Now we must hunt-for-that-place --|-- the place where the Derries were' "No, Tippy, I am. THE WAR - WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events New U. S. Superfortresses Strike Mighty Blow At Industrial Japan America struck -a mighty blow against Japan last weeks says The . New York Times. Making their first offensive thrust against Nip- pon's home islands, the new B-29 Superfortresses, operating from bases in China, struck at industrial Japan in the longest-ranged air raid in history. The air blow at Japan brought into play a battleship of the air that reduced the Flying Fortress, Liber- ator, Lancaster and Halifax to the status of medium bombers, De- signed and built under wartime pressure, the Superfortress' 141.2- foot wingspan compared with the 103 feet of the Fortress; its 98- foot length to the IFortress' 73-foot length. It is armed with 50-caliber machine guns and 20-mm. cannon mounted in power tyrrets that can be swung in all directions. Powered by four 2,200-horsepower Wright engines (the Flying Fortress uses four 1,200-horscpower engines) it is reported able to carry more bombs farther and faster than any other plane in the world, perhaps (reach a fifth of the way around the "world. Days of Preparation A tremendous effort was re- quired to bring these huge planes MARKED MAN Among many French traitors marked for death by the French Underground is Jacques Doriot, above, pictured in his Nazi uni- form as lieutenant in the Legion Francaise, pro-German military or- - ganization which has taken leading sart in suppressing French patriots, How many berries have we got? is that really so important? Well, if you must know there are enough to make a good feed for two pea- ple' for dinner tomorrow! Was it worthwhile, did you say? -- wouldn't it have been moye practi- cal 'to slip down town and buy a quart, even at 35c? Well, that de-' pends on onc's sense of values. Out here where, as one looks to- wards _the far distant horizon -- which doesn't seem so very distant . after all -- carth and heaven seem to 'tiierge into one. There is a "peace that passes all understand- ing" and one's" faith "is once more restored. Faith that somehow, some- time, all the ugliness and: suffer- ing that is in the world. today will come to an end. Fhat out of the maelstrom of human misery there will emerge a better"world in" which all men may live in peace. . * You sce what I mean? One can- not buy hope and a new faith with a box of berries from:-a store, but one can find them out where the wild berries grow, out where the birds sing cones of freedom for all who wish to hear. 2 As calm and peaceful as if the war were on another planet is the scene Peace--It's Wonde rful@ # x FRR ed > a above, which shows some of Gen. Claire L. Chennault's fighters in the China-Burma theater of operations relaxing at Camp Schiel. Located on one of China's most healthful plateaus, Camp Schiel is equipped {acilities and tennis courts, with basketball courts, boats, hunting \ into combat, In India tens of thou- sands of Indians and thousands of Americans labored building rear bases for the big ships. The Ame- ricans worked sixteen and eighteen hours a day and astonished British "old India hands" by persuading Indmans to work similar hors, In China, where advanced bases were built, the task was even more dif- ficult. ' The story of how the B-29 bases in China were built is one of the most inspiring of the war. Plans for the bases were developed in Washington in the fall of 1943. In mid-January, Genéralissimo Chiang Kai-shek ordered the greatest con- scription of man-power in Chinese history since construction of the Great Wall 2,000 years ago. . Within 17 days, an initial force of 200,000 Chinese peasants and been assembled at the site in West China and the work began without cement mixing, rock crushing or road building machinery, or other. mechanical devices. The power was provided by hu- man beings; the equipment was their hands. The force sometimes numbered 430,000. The crushed rock used for each of the fields was enough for a 20- foot wide highway 60 miles in length, Teh Chinese also built bar- racks for crews of the B-20's but material was scarce so the build- ings were primitive affairs, 2600-Mile Trip Almost a year to the day after the first Superfortresses rolled off the assembly lines, the Twenticth Air Force, set up especially for these huge aircraft, to employ them for strategic purposes anywhere in the world, sent them out for their first major mission over the east China Sea to Japan, a trip out and back that could not have been less than 2,600 miles and was probably much more, Long-range flights in the European theatre seldom ex- ceed 1,900 miles. ' The first Superfortresses 'arrived over their target, Yawata, center of the Japanese steel industry, source of perhaps 80 per cent of Japan's pig iron, at 10:50 in the evening, sent huge block-husters down on the forest of chimneys below. Japanese searchlights sought out the tiny specks that may have been 30,000 feet or more in the air. Anti-aircraft fire filled the skies. Night fighters roared to the attack. All But Four Return All but four of the Superfortress- es came back safely. - Two were lost in operational accidents and the crbw of one was saved. One was downed by the Japanese. The fourth is listed as "missing." Jap- anese propagandists told their peo- ple: "We should not think that we have been passively sattacked, but that we have actively pulled. - the enemy toward us." Allied observ- ers 'estimated the raid had knocked out 15 per cent of Japan's steel production, at least temporarily. The attack opened the possibility that soon Japan .would suffer the same kind of strategic that has cut so heavily into Ger- man war production, Japan, ex- perts have pointed out, is more vulnerable to air attack than Ger- many. Japan's industry is. largely concentrated in six major areas, four of them on the island of Hon- shu and two on the island of Kyu- shu. It would take less effort to spread havoc here than it did to damage Germany's more widely scattered industrial centers. VOICE OF THE PRESS -* FINAL DOWNWARD STEP Marshall Petain has orderedFrench- men to obey all orders of the Ger- mans and to co-operate with them against the allied invaders, an order which must forever remove the name of the aged marshall from 'the French hall of fame, --Niagara Falls: Review --0--. TIP TO DEMOCRACIES This- century isn't half gone and already the Germans havé started two world wars, Perhaps hezeaft- er the democracies will have sense enough not to pussyfoot when Ger- many begins to goose-step. --Kitchener Record an () es TWO EXTREMES Korean women wear hats three feet in diameter, The other ex- "treme is three inches, and our own darlings 'have gone thither, Ottawa Citizen wn () -- SOMEWHAT ALIKE Hitler says he has no intention of winding up his career as Napoleon did. Neither had Napoleon, --Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph - "Oia DEFINITION OF OPTIMIST The true optimist says the bottle is half «full when it is half empty, «Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, bombing, $d <. HK t - eo Endless lines of troops and supply trucks head into the hills of Normandy, as reinforcements pour in to sup- port the front lines. Note the German pillbox at right; of the 82nd Airborne Division captured the vllage of St. knocked out by. advance units, American infantrymen Jacques de Nehue and members of the 8th Division have captured Barneville, on the west coast, to cut off the Cherbourg Peninsula. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON SUNDAY SCHQ@OL LESSON July 9 0 TAKING POSSESSION: OF + CANAAN. -- Joshua 13, 14; Judges 1:19.21, 27, 28. PRINTED TEXT, Joshua 14:8-14; ) Judges 1:20, 21, g GOLDEN TEXT. -- Thou hast wholy followed Jehovah, Joshua 14:9. ! Memony Verse: The Lord is my helper. Hebrews 13:6. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time, -- The exact, time of our lesson cannot be definitely deter- mined, but must be located some- where between 1390 and 1370 B. C.. Place. -- While many geographi- cal terms are mentioned in this lesson, the principal place is Heb- ron, south of Jerusalem, still 3 great city. - The Portion For Caleb . "Then the childrei of Judah drew night unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that Jehovah spoke unto Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning Thee in Kadesh-barnea." Caleb meets his old comrade and leader, and reminds him of the Word which Jehovah had spoken. to:-Moses con- cerning them both (14:24, 30). "Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of Jehovah sent - me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I brouglit him word } again. as it was in my heart," Well would Joshua and Caleb remember the day when they were sent by Moses to spy out the land. They - saw all the difficulties and dangers, but in their vision they saw that of Anak. And the children of Ben- jamin in Jerusalem unto this day." Caleb was a man of faith and com- pletely succeeded in the difficult tasks which he believed God led him to undertake; the children. of Israel equally promised victory over their enemies, did not complete these victories as they should, but failed to utterly drive out the ene- my, simply because they did not wholly follow the Lord. : They Were Waiting To See Montgomery That's a nice little: story which has tickled out of Denmark re- garding Rommel's anti-invasion inspection, 4 A crowd of Danes filed the street in front of Rommel's hotel in Copenhagen, but remained af- ter he had come out. and had _driv- en away. The police tried to move them on, but without success, and finally they asked them why they waited. " "We're waiting to see Montgo- mery", several of them replied. "He always comes along right be- hind Ronimel." } } . Iceland: Severs Denmark Ties The people of Iceland, one of the world's oldest = democracies, - voted 70,536 to 365 to sever their 700-year-old ties with Denmark and form an independent republic, final figures on last week's plebis- cite just released showed. About 98 per cent of the eligible -voters on the island participated. The young republic probably Iceland national holiday. The Althing, Iceland's legisla- tive body, prepared to convene June 10 to name the island's first President, who will serve for one be elected by the people for a four year termi. . year. Thereafter, a president will: .BEMEDALED PADRE pone. Most decorated chaplain in this war is Albert Johif Hoffman, above, of Dubuque, Ia., awarded the Dis- 'tinguished Service Cross: at Percy Jones General Hospital, Battle Creek, Mich. Award was given for extraordinary bravery, in _ Italy, where Chaplain Hoffman lost his left leg. He also holds Purple for bravery in African: action. r Boor with God on their side all would - -- : u- be pn nll times Suid HORIZONTAL . Answer to Previous Puzzle 11 Blemish, essings for the Faithfu ranksters' y thecaries' "Nevertheless my brethren that night, SRA 104m £ welgh went up with me... because Thou - 8 Bull (Sp.). (W[e) i unit of weights hast wholly : followed Jehovah my 9 God of love. AE 15 Spain (abbr), Gog." Cale and, Joshua tiffew their 11 Ocean, PlEINIS) 16 Centers, whole power into the effort to save 12 Stable 18 Nominated, the people from cowardice and di- division. Dl IE] © 19 South Dakota * saster, wholly following the Lord. 13 Color. LTE sy (abb: Great blessings are promised to the 15 Deficient, Rm _ p Sou faithful who follow the Lord, not a GE partially but - wholly. : +8 "And now behold Jehovah hath 2 Drone hee, DEEP EIA}'26 Pictured veges kept me alive... even so is my 23 Soles pear, E Si table promi- strength now, for war, .and to go 24 Toi city. [BIA] A nent this day: out and to come in." God not only | , (abbr). 40 Malicious VERTICAL, a. soe prolonged his life but had pre- 26 Form of "be." fafty of this 1 Hidden supply 33 Te an. Servo his SoRgHH jn full vigor. "97 Mimic. night. 2 Land measure. 34 Whirlwind. tere is no. doubt that Godliness 20 Peruse. 42 Sturdy tree. 3 Not a winner. 35 Expression of tends to congevity, or that by liv- | . 31 Musical 43 She rides a 4 Harangue. repugnance . ing for self and sin we shorten composition. broom tonight. 5 Eel-catcher. 37 Opposed to life. , : 32 Let fall. 45 Electrified 6 Comparative out. Caleb's Inheritance 34 Old Testament particle. suffix. -- 39 Swiss river "Now therefore give me this ® (abbr.). 46 Edge. 7 Direction, 41 Not high 4 hill-country, whereof Jehovah 36 Three-toed 48 Canon, 8 Afternoon 44 Also f spoke in that day: for thou heard- sloth, 49 Adherent party: 47 Form of "I." est in that day how the Anakim 38 Storehouse. of Nestorius, 10 Perceive. 43 Musical note, were there, and cities great and . 2 fortified: it may be that Jehovah J ti = : - will be with me, and T shall drive 9 : 10 i them out, as Jehovah spoke." The X : hill-country was still in the hands 2 : of the enenty-hut Caleb knew that " ia! if God was with him, and he had 15 ; \ "1 + io "doubt about this, then none ; 9 could withstand him. FA) ¥ 3 "And Joshua blessed him: and he he aim - gave Hebron unto. Caleb the 'son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. : Therefore Hebron became the in- heritance of Caleb the son of Je- : 3 : phunneh td Kenizzite unto this : ; day; hecause .that he wholly fol-: 31 oe : 3 i lowed Jehovah, The God of Israel" 2 - : - : For the third time we are re- peer 37 minded of Caleb's whole-hearted Ls allegiance to the Lord, and this ; 3 ! { time we are told it was because of x this that this special inheritance : = i ba ; was granted to him. : Success Through Faith P "And they gave Hebron unto ) . Caleb, as Moses had spoken: and he drove out thence the three sons the \ will be proclaimed June 17, am - 1 Heart and: Silver: Star, latter given -- Br Bp