Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (1912), 14 May 1941, p. 6

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I I l • I I : I . I i I J .... J l r •. I PAGE TEN THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1941 · Ralston Launches Canada's First Recruiting Campaign, Want 32,000 Men at Once Thousand Oshawa ·Bowlers Assist Fund Most of Them Wanted for Technical Services, Including Armored Di· vision - Skilled Men Not Needed Ottawa, May. 12-CCP)-Canada's first recruiting campaign or the war was launched today, Its objec- tive 32,000 more men In the Cana- dian <Active> Army within two months, 90per cent or them "in the technical services. "It 1s not a bme when men can carefully calculate and measure and balance the advantages and disad- vantages o! remaining In clvlllan llle or going ipto uniform,'• De- fense Minister Ralston said las' night In a broadcast address open- ing the drive. . "In the scale pan on tne side or enlistment there 1s a heavy weight. It bears the words 'Canada needs men for the army and needs them now.' My. friends, Canada has BAY OF QUINTE MEETING JUNE 3-8 BellevUle, May 13-The 17th an- nual meeting of the Bay or Quinte Conference of The United Church of Canada will be held at Bridge street United Church, Belleville, rrom JUne 3rd to June 8th, It was announced to-day. President of the Confer- ence Is Rev. H. Welsford Cliff of Kingston. Secretary Is Rev. James E. Beckel of Stirling. Rev. Dr. JaJDes Semple Is mlnlster of the conference church. Devotional pe- riods will be held dally under Rev. Dr. G. G. D. Kilpatrick. Principal of United Theological College, Mont- reaL The first session will open TUesday, June 3rd, at 4 p.m., when the Conference President will be In charge of a communlon 'servtce. The Moderator of the Untied Church, The Right Rev. Dr. Aubrey S. TUttle, will give an addres . on Thursday evening at a laymen's banquet. never called to the brave and tru~ main for artillery units, the armor- in vain." ed units, eliglneers, ordnance and He asked "my !ellow Canadians other technical services. Only about who are fit and strong and young 10 per cent would De needed In the to: jolp the army. And he appealed Infantry. to all Canadian men and women, COL Ralston's address was heard particularly to veterans of the first In the Maritime Provinces In the Great War, to help make the cam- early evening and later In the rest Palin a success, for "this Is every- o! Canada. Air Minister Powe, body's job." associate defence mlnlster, read a Col. Ralston disclosed that "there French translation of the speech are positions In the fighting ser- over the French network. viCes which women ~ flU" and Col. Ralston sald there "Isn't any that plans are In hand for filling sign" of a shortage of manpower in them. Canada. He had been assured that "We have decided to ask now at the needs of the navy, army and air one call for the men to complete force could be met without pre- the formations we have pledged for venting a "full program or neces- overseas this year and for the •th sary Industrial production." Division and also for the reinforce- "Already many women are tak- ments required for the !:).ext two lng places in the factories," he sald. montils," Col. Ralston sald In an "Again, there are positions in the address broadcast over facllltles of fighting services which women can the Canadian Broadcasting Cor- fill, and which will be !Wed under poration. arrangements which the Depart.. Motor City Bowling Club of Oshawa raised o-ver ""~tor The Brltls.h War VIctims' Fund In a rtanl tournament·. In which over a thousand local bowlers eompeted. Shown at top Is the hardworking committee which made the tournament a success. Left to rlcbl pley are Eddie Franklin, secretary; CUff Rendell, man- ager of the 1\lotor City Bowling- Club, and Harold Dram, all watch.in&' Treasurer !\Ianning- Swartz si~ the cheque for the Fund. The lower picture shows Merle Corrin; wilmer of .top honors in the tournament, laying down a perfect bowl whUe the six other men fillallsts wauh. They are CecU Dodwell, Fred Parsons, Harold Lemon, B.S. \Vinsley, Dave ~ynon, TOI'Onto, aud Joe Partridge. · "Afte.' that we shall be wanting ment of National War Bervtces, In men !rom month to month to meet collB'boratlon with the defence ser- the normal wastage · of our active vices, have in hand." the reinforcements for the next two months and In addition there arc vacancies In the 3rd Division and In a number of smaller units- which require to be filled up now." uult.s and their reserves, and we A month ago, Col Ralston said, shall want to be ready to meet ad- he had told Can!lillans about 8,000 dltklnal ·,requirements should the men would be needed each month need · &tiae." to provide replacements and keep He said the men wanted In the up the strength of active service units. He said the army needed trained men to operate the machines . of JACK HOAR'S TAXI-· But. a lot had happened alnce war but It was not necessary for a then. The Hun had overthrown man to be trained before he was Yusoalavla. Greece, too, had fallen. qualliled to eullst. It would be use- despite the reao'lute &etlon of Brit- ful but "we now can take green Ish, Australian and New Zealand men and train them In our army forces. trade &ehools.': "HHtler now threatens the Mlddle CO!. Ralston said arrangements East and SUez," he saki. "Equip- had been made whereby the em- ment which could ill be spared has ployer of a key industrial worker been loet. The ahlpplna altuaUon who enlisted could a'pply to a baa ll'OWD mare aertoua.• board, .which would have power to Plans had been changed, "not be- advise that the man be given leave cause or .certainties but because or from the army for an "approximate the unc:ertalnUes." period" to continue his work, If the For Reliable Tazi Service "Conlequently," ·he aald, "we are man himself were wU!Ing. going to accelerate the !1111ng up of the armored division-Instead of doing It gradually we are going to do it now In this lnunedlate call. .. PHONE 610 "Aealn, certain unlta o! the 4th division were ahllorbed Into the Armored Dlvlalon; we ·are going to replace them now Instead of later 8.8 or1ginal1y plannect • • • AIRMAN INJURED IN 4-STOREY E~LL IS MU£H BETTER "And we are going to as1t now for Mll1rBE you want to buy a cow. or a hone. or • Pill. or ..•• MAYBE • • • • you want to sell a aheep. or • roat, ~ a chicken. or MAYBE • • • • you want to buy a ear, or • bicycle, or a tractor. or MAYBE. y~nt to aeU -~~e· ·~b. or . aome potatoea, or aome wheat, or • • • MAYBE • • • • you want aome money, and you have aomethini' you don't need MAYBE • • • • you'll call 703, and try Sir Keith Fraser Out of Danger - Mystery Element in Mishap Montreal, May 8 - (CP) - Con- dition of Leading Alrcraftman Sir Keith Fraser, 29-year-old Rdyal Canadian Air Force pilot, was re- ported "much Improved" today o_t . St. Luke Hospital, where he had been in semiconscious condition after a mystery-shrou:ied plunge from an east-end hotel window. Sir Keith, critically hurt In the !our-storey fall Monciny, " ·as said to be "out of danger unless compli- cations set ln." Attendants added he had amplified a muttered state- ment which led pollee to In vestlga.te posslblllty of foul play. Hotel attenaant.s expressed belief the young baronet wns alone In his room at the tlme of the fall, but pollee pressed their lnvesttgntlon because of a muttered statement In hospital that fOunded like: "Get Von Izenhart." Friends or Sir Kelt!\ knew of nobody by thnt name. Sir Keith, sixth Baronet ol Le- declune and Morar and n nephew of the Earl of Coventry, joined the R.C.A.F. last year. He received his wings June 13 at the Jarvis, Ont., Bombing and Gunnery School and was reportedly due for a commis- sion shortly. According to pollee. he h ad regis- tered at the hotel here Monday morning after rtturning from a visit to his wile. the fom1er Blanca de Undurrage Y Sandlford of Paris In New York. He remained lfl the room all day and ntlendnnts sola he plunged !rum the window about nine p.m. The attendants ndded they knew or no visitors to the room during the day and poll ee said Sir Keith was appnrenll;· a lone at the time or the plunge . The screen of one window about thrt>e tee t !rom thg floor hod b~en un l nlr!~ed from the" bottom r. nd 1l J Siwd outward w!1!1r there were no signs ol vi o l cn ~e on MAKE EVERY WOMAN AND MAN SERVE NATION, HON. . . G. D. CONANT TELLS GROUP AHomey·Gen~ ':Ad. d r e a s e ~ :Jtri.viric:ial Council of .WGdten1 at Peterboro; F 61'~ o ~ England in MobOIU.ing Man-Power, ii~_(Jrga Peterboro, May · 9.-Tbe scioner . ~ ' Canada follows the example of Eng- land and makes every" al)le-bodled man and womap sUbjeet to the re- quirements o! the nation; whether In munition factoriea, iD' auxiliary What Ho! Heave Ho To Madame Ho Has Y: ank Marines on Go Shanghai, May 14-{AP)-United States marines were called out to restore order today after a spectac- ular gun battle on Bubbling Well Road, near their barracks, resulted In the wounding of at least 10 per- sons, one of them an American police sergeant. One of the wounded, a Chinese coolie, died Ia ter. war services, or In any other ca- pacity, . the sooner will. appear the The wounded American 1s Ser- geant A. Wlckdall, 25, of the Inter- dawn of victory, Attorney-General national Settlement pollee force. Gordon Conant said here last night. Wickdall was struck In the neck by Addressing the Ontario Provincial a bullet, but seriousness of the tn- CouncU of Women at· & banquet, Jury could not be learned at once. the Attorney-General declared tha~ Among those wounded was Ma- in order to place Canad& on llil all- dale Ho Sze-Tao. wife of the pollc:e out basis, there must be complete chief of the Japanese-sponsored moblllmtlon of manpower ti.nd wo- Nanking administration, and two or manpower. . her bodyguards. "We cannot Ignor-e the , rae~ thai The shooting beg a n w h en all our resources of men, women Madame Ho·s car was stopped by and materials will be required Jl we International Settlement pollee for are to emerge victoriouS In this a routine Inspection at barbed-wire struggle," said Mr. , conant. "We: barricades dividing tile settlement must !ace realities as they have beett from the adjacent "badlands'• area. !aced In Great Britain, if we are to survive. The eomplete 'mcibUbaUon of our enUre manpower ~d woman- power Is one of the mo5t important' things yet remaining to be done to put our nation on an all•op t war basis. This . ,...ou1d Jndlcate the recognition and treatment gf wo- men's organizations In Canada bl' the Dominion Government 10 tha~ their status wouid be the same as or slmllar to their position In England. "The moblllzation o! our material resources has assumed enormow; proportions In quantities of war ma- terial produced and expense in· volved. The sooner we follow til~ example of England and make eve~f able-bodied man and woman sub• jcct to the requlrementa of the na.~ tlon •.. the sooner will appear the dawn of victory." Speaking of the proposed leglsla.- tion which would gll·e women the opportuni ty to act ~ 1urors, the at- torney-genera! said U1a.t tn ontario, although we have recognized the ability and the capacity of women to vote, to sit In our legislative bod· les, to act as la wyers and JPagli:. t.ra tes, we have not ounllfled U1ep1 to · act as ;urors . He said- he falletl to understand tile objections th'-l had been raised to women· jurors, a,o; he believed tha 1 the addition of wo- men to juries would not only be .talr to women, but would ma_ke·. justlcl! surer and swi fter. He pointed out •hat If he was to approach the m•'t- ter again he would make provision whereby any \\oman could be eli- cmpt by filing wi th Ule clerk In h~r munlcJp!l.!!ty tlu t she did not desire t o ,s~ l"\'C 011 jli L'.:'S . OSHAWA INE4NT GHRISTENED .4T GAMP BORDEN An unscheduled mUitarv chris- tening featured sunday 's :.MDLher's Day" reunion of Oshal\-a relat.lves with officers nnd men of the First Battalion ot the On tarlo Regiment. {Te.nkl, at Camp Borden. The Infant. oaptized by Captain ~he Rev. C. M. MacLean. senior Protestant chn i>Ia ln at Camp Bor- den alld chaplain ol the First Batt- alion, Is Angus William Macdonald Milne, born April 19. In Oshawa. who Is the son of Sersc:~ n t William James Milne of th e First B3ttallon and Mrs. Milne. who lives at 90 Olive A\'enuc. Oshnwn . Sgt. J . R. Homes. who.."C Oshawa address 1s 162 Albert Street. Is the godfatJ1er. The godmoU1ers are Mrs. Homes of the :>receding ad- dress. nnd Mrs. 0 . E. Parfitt of 75 Avenue Street. The ceremony was performed In the beautiful chapt>l ol tl1e Red Shield Hut, claSt; t.o U1e Fi rst Batt- alion's barracks nt Camp Borden, which Is stllflccl and opera tffi by the S alva tion Army. a Gazette and Chronicle Classified, weD there won't be any maybe about what'll happen. Hundreda will the sill. COSTS UP - WAGES LAG Lieut. Col. G . Y. Masson. com- manding tl1e First Battalion, ex- pressed keen regret t h~ t he had not !mown that n christening was planned so that he could have at- tended. He nnd lht• batta lion 's orti- cers In gcn~rn l fdt that honor had been done to the R ~ ~ lmcnt through having Sgt. and Mrs. M!lne'R ln- f!Vlt son chri ste11cd in Camp Bor- den on :' d ay of sllrc inl s ignificance Lt· all rank!; a t tile unit. teH you 110. Sir Keith, who suff ered head ln· Shnng: La l - tCPl - Living cost juries and n !J rukP n nnn In the !or Chinese workers Is •·~ times plunge. succcr dcol to the l:nronc~ \· that of 1936 b:~t real wages "lagged alter t he <l cr. th nf h i ~ fo. t '1c r, Major I .-cnsit!.crnbly" : he Municipal coun- Sir Keith Fraser, In ln:i . cil reportctl . l \ NATIONAL DRIVE . FOR RE~RUITS TO LOWER BARS Will Accept Every Man of Category A; Require Large Number Toronto, May 12 .~Vllth J he na- tion-wide drive for rec'rult.s to start with aPProprla.te official ceremonies almost any day now, the recruiting staff of MD. No. :1 Is working long hours preparing the Toronto end of the set-up. It was revealed at District Heal:lquarters. Full details ll"' ,.e not · been work· ed out as yet. but the plans so far approved call for the immediate establishment of twenty-four special recruiting and Information bureaus in this city. The March of Science WARTIME TELEPHONE TRAFFIC PROMOOD l\IUL TI-CHANNEL CIRCUITS As the national war effort reaches its climax, government and industry alike have turned to the telephone to get things done quickly. The urgent need for more long distance facilities has promoted the use of methods of obtaiiling additional voice chan- nels without erecting m·are wires. Several conversations are sent over one pair of wires at the same time, yet they do not inter- fere with one another in the least! grams interfere with one another. Ordinary telephone com•veJra·tioll& are also transmitted at a ~'ra1n1• frequency-one kilocycle. other conversation tnL!UJmittecll through the same higher frequency, it. tenere with the fim tion, any more than one tion interfel!;ll witlt anoU1er ating at a "ilifferent :~:~~~ These high-frequency currents are knoW'Il aa current.<. By this means, three channels were provided tnin pairs of wires on the atlmd,-11 These bureaus will be set up !n vacant stores on Yonge street, and other shopping dlstrlcf.!:. so that a maximum of prospective recruits will learn of the special appeal !or men. The drive Is expected to las.~ two months, Lleut.-CO!. w. w. John- son, district recruiting officer, said. Each of the reserve units in the Toront.o area wm look after at !east one of the twenty-four bureaus, it was explained. Bands and other agencies are expected to be used to stir enthusiasm. Imagine two trains running abreast on a double track rail- road. Then imagine a Ghost Train running between them, using all four tracks! Such a feat is in- conceivable in railroading, but sending three telephone conversa- tions at once over two pairs of wires has been in practice since 1900. Moreover, the "phantom" channel superimposed on the two physical channels not only does not interfere with them, but is it- self a better conductor a f voice currents than they are! This .ap- parent miracle is achieved by in- serting special equipment at the ends of the .two physical circuits. This equipment switches the phantom voice current off the wires at the end of the line to connect with its own telephone. ard pole line, increasing the city of the original 20 to S. ......... ...,.._ nels. On ne'l\' lines, specially Colonel Johnson announced the main bureau at 61 Albert Stree1 would be stepped up with extra faclliUes and personnel so that up. ward of 400 men per day could be handled, instead of the 100 to 150 now being enlisted there. All the bars will be down during the campaign, It was pointed out. Every manor Category .. A .. will be accepted, regardless of civilian ex- perience. This time, It was explained, it L~ not a case of picking and choosing young men of technical skill. The army wants a certain number of men and it wants them quickly. A standard telefhone pole line carries 20 pairs a wires, provid- ing 20 ordinary telephone chan- nels. By superimposing phantom channels on the physical ones. ten more voice paths are pro\'iaed, making a total of 30. Wonderful? The engineers have still more wonders in store! Every radio user knows that a broadcasting station transmits at a certain "frequenc;v". measured in "kilocycles". Stat1ons near one another do not broadcast nt the aame frequency, lest. their pro- signed for the purpose, 68 chan- nels can be pro,;ded on 20 pain of wires. The development of the earrier system illustrates the extenabe and continuous research earrietl out by the telephone indnatry in behalf of better telephone. 8l!r'riee at less coat. In times of """'cr· • gency, such aas:se~dtJhi':;~~.:::ijl value of this r. many fold. Recently, new carrier have been developed carry still more conver:sa1~1ona through one pair of co-axial cable-a wire in a tube--ean carry 480 sations simultaneously. It in very highly-populated of th• country that theae IIY11telill! are required. However, axial cable can also ~!n_!:miit complex currents .Yo"hich tele,;sion images. Thus the UltlJIII-·• mission of several convenatioos through one wire bu led to fm~ proYements in the new art of tele- vision, the uses of which open up immense possibilities to the ~ ination. Colonel Johnson also said that every reasonable effort would be made, In case or a rush of men too great for the bureaus to handle on any one day, to prevent disappoint- ed men from out-of-town being turned away at night without food or lodging. The new plan 1s designed t.o allow a hearing as quickly as pos- sible for every would-be recruit. [ No. f of " mit1 />r<P•wl 67 H. G. 0-] •I t6• 8<11 T<l<pho•• c •• ,.., •I ~ MORE IMPORTANT JOBS FOR YOUN6 STAFF OFFitERS Wonders of Constructional Engineering on New Bridge At Pickering Outlined Western Unit Names Its Bren Gun Carriers After Warships By ROSS MUNRO Canadian Press War CorresliOndent Somewhere in Engl.and. May 12. (CP>-Offlcers who graduated from the first course or the Canadian Junior war Staff College here now are being placed in different head: quarters and formations, most C'! U1em doing much more Important work than before they took the course. (From Plckerlnr News) Through the courtesy or Mr. Well- ingLon Johnson and Supt. Allan Reed, we were, this week, given the In terestlng story of the more In- timate details of th1s 488 foot bridge at the foot of Church Street '<whlcl: Is In real! ty two bridges for · the two- lane Super Highway, each bridge •l7 feet t.o outside edges, and 17 feeL between each bridge). Beginning with the erection of the foundations or piers and abutments (of which there are five piers and one abut- ment at each ·end ), the material Is very carefully chocen - the sand and gravel Is washed and screened so that there will not be any stones over a required size. The Ingredients of the concrete - 33 cubic feet of Seven came to corps headqu9.r- ters-Capt. K . H. Tremain, Lieut. R. G. Klngstone, Capt. J. R. R . Gough. Capt. R . w. Monee!. all of Montreal: Capt. \V. S. Murdock, vancouver: Capt. G. E . Simmons. sand and stone, 5 bags of cemcm, Toronto: and capt. D. K. R.obert- and S 1-8 gals. of water for each . son. calgary. bag of cement (5 ba.gs for footings A western Infantry battalion and 6 for the superstructure> are views Its Bren gun carriers as land thoroughly mixed In the huge con- warships of . the regiment ... The crete mixers. and conveyed by carrier section officer. Lieut. Gor- the large shovel or cart, to the c!on Davidson of Winnipeg who 1 forms. which were previously erect- played on the Winnipeg Blue ed with gre:t care. <the abo\'e mL'I- Bomber backfield when the team ture produces only 27 :'cu. feet uf "·on the Dominion football title In concrete). During the pour\ng or 1935. named them after famous the concrete Into these huge box- Brl!lsh fighting ships The like forms, plumb bobs hang all "flagship" Is the Renown and they around the form. and watched care- J:D right down the list-Nelson. fully to see that the pressure InSide Rodney. Ajax, Hood, Iron Duke. does not force the walls out. The Revenge. Dauntless · · · as a pralrle bobs are Inspected regularly by an touch one Is called Asslnlbolne. instrument man. In the laying of Maj.-Gen. P . J. Montague, senior the superstructure and floor of th~ officer nt Canadian Military Head- bridge 672 piles <long poles a to 10 Qunrters. London, hasn't time to Inches' In diameter) will be driven corry out many Inspections but he took the salute and looked over the lntD the ground by a 2700 pound troor.s at a s!)eclal parade of the hammer and another 672 piles plac- Cen a<ilon Provost Depot Men . . . ed on top of the first lot, all to Troops were commandffi bv Lieut. support the framework and forms w. c. Graham of cornwnil. Ont.. Into which the connecting arches and lJeut. Charles Wood of Cal- and floor concrete will be pourned. 'cary. These upper piles are removed after First officer of the Canadian the Job Is complete. The floor will Auxiliary services to be married In be 8 Inches thick and running Enghnd Is William Shea of Chat- U1rough same wtll be miles of steel ham. ont. ... His bride 1s an ~o:- rods - those running lengthwise, I 1'. !Ish girl . . . The senior engineer of- ln. ln diameter, and those across, '!!. fleer at 2nd Canadian Division, a Inches. An Interesting method of colonel. has been promoted to a hocking these rods to one nnothe• new job. constructil}g buildings to through the cement Is used to hold accommodate the steady flow of the floor In place - cement without new Canadian troops from the D<>- the steel ~unnlng through It would minion . . . Mnj. A. J . Kerry of not support Its own weight. Montreal and TOronto Is his chief With such a tremendous mass ol Mslstant. moving from Canadian material. One cubic yard of cement Corps headquarters .. / He WIL'l sue- weighs 4.280 pounds and Is mixed w ceedect by Maj. N. J. Fraser of withstand a pressure of 2.000 Ibs. to Halifax. and Kingston, Ont.. the square Inch In the rootln.J!s and Beatrice Llll!e c:~me to the camps 2,500 Ibs, In the superstructure (a and sang her songs for officers or a central Canada permanent force sample Is sent r egularly to the regiment. government for testing). During the An old stage coach stands by a frosty weather the tilled forms I'OBdslde near billets of a medium were covered with large tarpaul!.ru, regiment of the Royal Canadian completely enclosing them, and the Art Ulery . . . ·A relic of the old concrete kept at a temperature or posting. It still bears the sign on 6S degrees the first day <by forcing the diXlr "London, fas t. coach to steam through pipes In under the " The destlnaUon Is tarpaulins), and lowering the temp- palnt.ed out for security, because It erature 10 degrees en'* day unUI Is nearby, but the Canadian gun- equal to the temperature outside. ners chalked "Berlin" In the blank. The piers are, In some Instances, 22 feet below ground. The brlge wW require '1,000 cubic or concrete and Slll tons of forcln& ateel rod. 4.3,000 ball. cement. ElQlanalon and contracUon Wtth variations In tempera lure have provided for In the completed and this Is done at two Qli:JIII:ca.• i points In the bridge !loor, by lng an absolute break across · bridge, from one t!lde to the ·In the form of two steps, one ted and resting 011 the other, bronze plates In between the allowing the break to oPen and with temperature varlatioiu. are called fioatinc jolnt.s. On floor or roadway will be. placed, l'ach side, a curb and :!-foot way. Along the sides of the will be placed 1 foot 8 Inch concrete posts, 10 feet 3 ln. and joined by a steel handrail. The bank at each end will be ered, at the east likle about 10 Inches and the west bank 10 feet, to be level with the floor. 22,000 cubic yards of wUI be required, not Including of the creek diversion. Ontario's Best Preparirtg For race day. 11King's As the rail-Jockeys watclltd thoroughbreds sluLrpen unditJ'Io training during the {,ut few some have believed the power to !le w!Lb Undlatur'bML ers fayored Bupath or WI~-· A solid, If comparatively lion of track opinion Skyllner, and the filly D~po.tiltor 'J:!ICI some support. I · ~

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