Page 8 | THE STRATFORD MIRROR Friday, July 27, 1945. ~ STRATFORD CHIT CHAT (Continued from Page 1) *This is the Air Force, Mr. Jones" We wish we could mention names in this, but perhaps you'll have fun guess- ing who, and anyway, names or no, it was a very interesting collection we Baw the past week.sent home by an airman stationed in India to be for- warded to him at a later date. You always think of tropical gear containing lots of mosquito netting, etc., but accompanying the tents made of this were heavy woollen blankets against the mountain cold at nights, we were told. Something that would catch the eye of any woman shopper these days was a pair of cream-colored, pure silk gloves, lined with silk inside ... the kind you just don't see any more. There was also a full length, padded, silk flying suit with the usual lengthy zippers ... the kind you used to be able to get for housecoats .. . remember? Medicinal kit contained quinine and antidote for snake-bite. As a further protection from the latter were boots looking like Dad's soft leather slippers with knee-high canvas tops. There was also a wicked looking knife--a machette, we think they're called, for slashing the undergrowth. All the launderable pieces among personal effects had more than their fair share of India ink. Mrs. P. says she thinks they must have had an ex- tra supply in deference to the coun- try, no doubt. She says she was so pleased to see the big tin box full of her son's things arrive home, but like many a mother before her, felt some- what deflated at the laundering job it presented! They'll do it every time. * * * Vacationing Wren Beth Simmons, daughter of Mrs. J. Simmons, 45 Blake street, is spending part of her three-week fur- lough at her mother's summer cottage, Port Stanley. Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. E. W. Brown and children, Beverley and Bobby, of Ottawa, are holidaying with Mrs. G. S. Atkins, 257 Ontario street. GERM INVADERS STOPPED BY UNCLE SAM Japs can't invade America, and neither can germs, reports Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, in The American Weekly with this Sunday's (July 29) issue of The Detroit Sunday Times, reporting how army doctors are preventing diseases spreading to the United States, Get Sunday's Detroit Times. Capital Correspondent (Continued from Page 1) from abroad as well as attending to other such duties pertaining to de- fence department affairs. It is ap- parent from this brief summary that the ministers have had little or no chance for rest or holidays since the close of the last session and the start of a new gathering next month. * * * Weekly Wind-up Headed by Reconstruction Minister C. D. Howe, Canada will have a strong delegation at the meeting of the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization which will meet in August in this country, with Canada having been given the assign- ment of setting up a small temporary secretariat for this international civil service. . . Most interested in the ef- fects of highway and airway compe- tition against the railways of Canada in the future, it is revealed in Ottawa that the C.N.R. has named two assist- ant transport economists to study these effects. . .. A grand national convention is planned to be held in Canada's capital by the Indians of this country in September in order to dis- cuss disposition of about $15,000,000 held for the Indians by the Govern- ment as well as other questions con- cerning problems of Canada's Indians. The extent of the movement of Cana- dian servicemen from abroad to their homes is stressed in the report in Ot- tawa that present plans call for 126,- 000 servicemen to be brought back in the last six months of 1945, includ- ing the return of about 26,000 men in each of the months of July, August and September. . "The world eco- nomic problems are terrific, particular- ly for great exporting countries like the United States and Canada. If nothing is done now we will have economic chaos and a world depres- sion worse than the one that follow- ed the last war." These words were said in Ottawa by a top ranking Bri- tish Commonwealth statesman, who was passing through this capital, in offering partial reason why there was need of calling an immediate confer- ence of United Nations to study world economic problems. .. A delegation of Dutch bulb growers will visit Canada shortly and it is said that millions of these spring flowering bulbs will be supplied Canadian seed companies, with the remark that be- fore World War II both the United States and Canada used to buy about 18,000,000 pounds of spring flowering bulbs from The Netherlands. INTERNATIONAL PICTURES. INC and JOAN BENNETT in wots, RAYMOND: MASSEY sna: comond:'seeon Directed by FRITZ-LANG- + EDWARD G. ROBINSON DAN OURYEA A NUNNALLY JOHNSON "Production Released by: RKO RADIO PICTURES. INC WARNING! Don't Give Away the Terrific Climax of This Picture ! 5000 ENTERTAINMENT « ~ 1S JNTERWATIONAL? Fy CDS. , SEMI-ANNUAL FEATURES BEGINNING Friday, July 27th to Saturday, August 4th Fashions look Fall-ward to chic suits, coats, pretty hats and bewitching*blouses . .. . you'll find all of these being featured in our Women's dress department--second floor. PHONE 2500 <: CANADIAN DEPARTMENT STORES sniieo a Counsel was cross-examining a wit- ness in an important case. He asked: "And on the llth June you say you called upon Mrs. Murphy. Now, what did she say e "I object to that question, my lord," interrupted the opposing counsel. Then ensued an hour's fierce argu-- ment between counsel, and in the end. the judge allowed the question. "And, as I was saying," continued counsel, "you called upon Mrs. Mur- phy. Now, what did she say?' "Nothing -- she was out," was the: reply. have returned. Mayor's Office, Stratford, July 26. CITIZENS OF STRATFORD To give outward expression to the gratitude that is in our hearts that the European phase of the war is over and our beloved onesare re- turning home, and to make their homecoming a more joyous one, I hereby request that al!) citizens decorate their homes and business places with flags and other patri- otic emblems and that such decor- ations be allowed to remain up or be replaced from time to time until all our fighting sons and daughters J. Waldo Monteith, Mayor