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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., FEBRUARY 17, 1944 PruritlS-lntense Itching Relieved quickly by this Medicinal Ointment There are two forms of itching which are especially distressing. First pruritis vulvae-- from which only women suffer and second pruritis ani--itching at the rectum from piles, The causes of both these forms of intense itching are often difficult to locate but what you do want, at once, is relief from the severe and depressing itching. Then let Dr. Chase's OINTMENT help you for it brings relief almost as quickly as applied. Once used it will always be kept at hand for quick use when the need arises. 60 cte. a box. Economy size jar $2.00. Dr. Chase's Ointment THE WAR • WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Ships of United States Fleet Ride At Anchor In Japanese Harbor The war in the Pacific last week entered a new phase. Gathering enormous forces, including the largest fleet the world has ever seen, the Americans struck at and Won Japanese territory for the first time. Ships of the United States Pacific Fleet rode at anchor in a Japanese harbor, says the New York Times. The victory was gained at Kwajalein Atoll in the heart of the Marshall Islands. This direct assault, cracking Japan's main outer Shield of defenses, brought to full Scale the offensive which has been So long in preparation and which in its preliminary stages has meant long, hard battles on the outer fringes of Japan's conquests. Strike For High Stake Invading the Marshalls, the Navy was striking for the highest stake yet in Pacific strategy. Japan holding the islands under mandate since World War I, had made them |nto air and sea, bases and knit them into her great scheme for war. About 2,150 miles from Tokyo, they flank the sea road to Hawaii and may have been the rendezvous for the fleet which attacked Pearl Harbour. They also flank the route to the Solomons. In American hands they will flank the Japanese positions in the Carolines, due west, where the great bases of Truk and Ponape are major bastions. "Softening Up" That the attack on the Marshalls was coming could hardly have been In doubt to the Japanese. Long-range Arm}'- and. Navy planes had been bombarding the islands steadily since mid-November, a campaign stepped up through January. It was "softening up" on a scale greater than the Pacific had ever seen before. Shipping, shore defenses, docks, runaways, seaplane ramps, hangars, fuel and ammunition dumps and gun positions were blasted day after day. For two days before II-hour came, carrier planes, long-range bombers and heavy units of the fleet subjected the islands to a staggering bombardment. The Fleet Moves In The invasion came in the form of a great two-pronged attack from north and south. Carriers, the largest and newest _ battleships, landing craft for tanks and infantry--a total estimated as at least 2,000,000 tons--had been drawn front the mainland of the United Stales and from every large Pacific base. When the landing forces swept ashore they encountered stiff resist- limitcd to small-arms fire. Artillery had apparently been blasted out of existence. Not one enemy plane was sighted during the approach to the islands or during the mcnt of airfields throughout the Marshalls kept down the threat of aenal counter-attack. What was gained was of first importance. Kwajalein Atoll is fact tne largest in the Voii'd. ' At its northeast corner are Roi and strip and a causeway. On Roi was New-fanglec field telephone device but the same "Old Bill." It has been a great growi g season in Italy as Capt. Perry Cadegan of Glace Bay, N.S. (the man behind the moustache) can testify. the largest Japanese airfield in this area. It was captured in four hours. Winning Kwajalein knocked out the keystone of the Japanese structure in the Marshalls. Battle for Japan Up to the present the Japanese Navy has been the principal inhibition on the full, development of our amphibious strength. But with the taking of Kwajalein, we are reaching the point at which it can be effectively -neutralized; either Japan will have to risk it in battle or it will sink, Tike the German Fleet after Jutland, into strategic impotence. In the Pacific, the battle of the remote outposts is beginning at last to give way to the battle for Japan. .And the Pacific is still only one side of the equation; for all this says nothing as to what may be preparing in India and the Bay of Bengal. Japan Itself Attacked Last week United States naval forces, for the first time, steamed within shelling range of Japan itself and bombarded Paramushiro, at the extreme northeastern end of the Kurile Island chain. Paramushiro is not a part of Japanese conquest. It always has been Japanese soil. It is Japan itself. It has been reached and hit now--not only by long-range bombers, but also by American surface vessels. It is nearly a thousand miles north of the main, thickly inhabited parts of the Japanese Archipelago. But it is Japan. The Japanese Fleet is no longer able our naval forays. What does it mean, this unexpected and only twenty-minute-long attack on Kurabtt Point? Was it just an isolated hit-and-run affair designed to befuddle an enemy at a time when he has reason to be looking for blows from the South and East; or was it the prelude to all-o drive, ssibly landings on this farthest North of the Japanese bases? The War Lords of Tokyo will ponder this one carefully, for it might be either. It is no secret that the United States has been building up Northern bases, including, no doubt, substantial improvements to the Aleutians. The memory is'said to be at its best between the ages of 11 and OTTAWAREPORTS That Present Coupon Value o£ Maple Syrup Is At Rate of One Coupon Per Quart Watching • the weather signs, maple syrup producers arc beginning to wonder about prospects for the coming season. Ottawa has nothing definite to report on that score, but with this commodity now rationed, "Wartime Prices and Trade Board requires that produc- The rate, now in force, is one coupon a quart, (40 ounces), or four coupons a gallon. Come the first of June, when the main marketing period is over, the value will revert to 24 ounces per coupon. The coupon value of maple sugar, now two pounds per coupon, will remain in effect throughout the year. Gummed sheets for pasting up coupons are available at local ration board offices. This season's prices per gallon for maple syrup set by Wartime Prices and Trade Board (producer to consumer, including container) are: Canada fancy $3.40, Canada light $3.15, Canada medium ' $2.90, Canada dark $2.65, Canada ungrad--ed $2.40. Farm families who have not used their preserves coupons will be able to use these to obtain extra canning sugar w h e n summer comes 'round (at the rate of one half pound for each coupon), in addition to the ten pounds canning sugar allotted as last ye^r. The first of this latter amount will be available June J, and is obtained through surrender of ten F coupons in the present ration book. Last month's mild weather sent egg production soaring in all parts of Canada according to a report of the Special Products Board which buys for British contract purposes. Up to January 22 the total number of cars offered to the Board was 284 compared with 121 for the same period last year. All provinces shared in the increase. On selecting hatching eggs, Dr. S. S. Munro, Poultry Division, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, advises, "Don't incubate eggs weighing less than 24 ounces or more than 26^ ounces .a dozen. Pullets hatched from the smaller eggs will tend to lay small eggs' while large eggs will not hatch well on the average. Eggs with sound strong shells should be' chosen." Fight down that urge to start indoor seeding that comes with the arrival of the first seed catalogue. About six to eight weeks before plants are set- out in the field is about right time for sowing indoor seeds, accordinr to agricultural experts. Further advice is to choose only the best seed of recommended varieties. Mai ! last sidies on dairy products paid milk producers throughout Canada have totalled approximately $25,000,000, Dr. A. E. Richards, Secretary of the Agricultural Food Board announced recently at the annual meeting of th Dairy Farmers of Canada. He stated'that distributors and manufacturers acting as agents for the government in making claim for the subsidy and distributing the subsidy payments to their producer patrons are not paid for this service except for in- Sufferers of Painful I Just a Few Drops Relieve Stuffiness .. Make Breathing Easier. . Give You Comfort It's grand how Vicks Va-tro-nol clears congestion from nasal passages--gives sinuses a chance to drain. Results are so good because Va-tro-nol is specialized medication that works right where trouble is--to re~Bff Iffelffft lieve painful congestion and make breathing easier. wllvKw Try it--put a few drops up each nos- mm mi im an ah tril-follow directions in folder. VA'TRO'NOI. --Copyright by Karsh, Ottawa. FIRST PORTRAIT OF THE KING by a Canadian photographer is this camera study by Yousuf Karsh of Ottawa, reflecting the quiet, graceful courage and resolute strength of His Majesty, a spirit which throughout the war has been a symbol of hope and encouragement to the peoples of the British Empire. It is one of a series of photos of war leaders of the United Nations made by Mr. Karsh during his recent visit to British Isles. The King is wearing for the first time, on his sleeve, the insignia of the Fleet Air Arm. direct compensation insofar as the subsidy has maintained or increased their volume of business. The whole program has been carried out without adding to the prewar executive staff of the Dominion Department of Agriculture. Asked in the House of Commons if he has received any request from Britain to increase Canadian exports of butter, Hon. J. G. Gardiner stated, "Last year we shipped from this country to Great Britain since the beginning of the war, (7,000,000 pounds). The shipment was not made as a result of any intention on our part, or any desire expressed previously by the British Government. Our present position is that Britain desires all the cheese she can get from Canada, and has expressed no desire that we should take any milk from cheese production in order to produce a supply of butter for her. Our present intention is to follow her wishes in that regard, and to produce as much cheese as possible." Gyros Help to Keep Planes on Course Electrically-driven gyroscopic flight instruments help keep airplanes on their courses under conditions so confusing that pilots "might fly in circles and not realize it," the American Institute of Electrical Engineers was told Jan. Describing the working of the gyroscopes, Albert Hansen, Jr., of the General Electric Company, explained: •'Any pitch, roll or yaw--that is, lengthwise or crosswise tilt or turn--produces an electric signal in the automatic pilot. This signal if amplified and converted into elevators, ailerons and rudder to bring the airplane back to its VOICE OF THE PRJ^SS OVERDOSE OF NICOTINE Reporting the theft of a large quantity of tobacco at Simcoe, The St. Thomas Times-Journal says, the thieves must have "puffed" quite a bit in carying it away. ■ On the contrary, we understand they used a plug to pull it. When he lit out they just stood by and watched his smoke. Or are we pipe-dreaming? --Ottawa Citizen. THEY WON'T CHANGE Tokyo announces that the Japanese policy on the treatment of prisoners will not change. No one expected it would. After all, a polecat retains the smell through life, unless it is subjected to a surgical operation.--Windsor Star. BETTER NOT TO KNOW "Animals do think," asserts The St. Thomas Times-Journal. In that case, one wonders rather apprehensively what they must think of some human beings.--Brantford SILENCE OF IGNORANCE If folks refrained from talking about things they do not understand, the oppressive silence of this world of ours would become insufferable. --Kitchener Record. WILL BE NO TERMS Goebbels savs peace terms will never be discussed in Berlin. No, they will be settled in some small town where there is still a good hotel. -Brandon Sun. CAN'T BE WRONG A Canadian in Italy has learned to forecast their weather; if the tops of the mountains are visible it is going to rain, when they are invisible it is raining. -- Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. Don't Worry About That Little "IP If your efforts are criticized you must have done something worth- If someone calls you a fool, jo into silence and meditation. He might be right. If the world laughs at you, laugh right back. It's as funny as yoa If you have tried tc do something and failed, you are vastly-better off than if you had tried nothing and succeeded. -- "The Hub," Boston. TOLDUP BOAT Photos above show half-size, rough model of new assault boat developed by Travelodge Corporation, Lynchburg, Va., makers of pre-fabricated housing. Folded as in top photo, six of the new boats would occupy space on mother ship taken by one of assault boats now in use. Transformation from flattened package tc navigable boat takes three minutes, with no bolting necessary. REG'LAR FELLERSA Family Affair By GENE BYRNES SEE THIS QRL COMIKl' DOWN THE STREET ? THAT'S JESSIE ^COy- HER FATHER OWNS THE CANDX STORE WHERE XXI , GET FOURTEEN J€LLy ~~ ' 6EAN5 FOR A CENT /