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Gallagherâ€"Semchison Nuptials Take Place at United Church cap of lace, of Briarcliff theâ€"valley or Miss Rose brid floo1 inse! Miss Ann Semchison Becomes Bride of A.C.1 Kenneth Roy Gallagher, of the R.C.A.F. on Saturday. Reception at Home of Groom‘s Parents. hey the TYoOYV «C "A hC REALSTATEundINSURANCEINZUJ,BRANCHES 13A Pine Street North Timmins Phone 112 OOOQOQQOQQOOOQOOOQMWOMMW Langdon Langdon skirt. The gown featured a of small buttons from the neckline the waist"at the back, and she wore mall flowered cap in matching pink MacBrien Bailey JAMES R. MacBRIEN FRANK H. BAILEY, L.L.B. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 23RD, 1941 NOoTARY PUBLIC Hamilton Block, 30 Third Ave. Telephone 1M5 Res. 51 Mountjoy St. S. Phone 1548 Empire Block _ Timmins â€"14â€"26 Dean Kester, K.C. BARRISTERS and SOLICITORS 21 Third Avenue full "lin Third Avenge 3 Third Ave. â€" Timmins â€"14â€"26 J. E. LACOUKRCIEKRE a f Every dayâ€"Wherever you areâ€"these calamities face you. Many of them you can‘t avoid, but you can be protected against all of them at low cost.â€" Simms, Hooker and Pickering offers you comprehensive insurance that protects vou azainst misfortune. Telephone 112 for further inforâ€" mation BARRISTER pinkK Barrister, Solicitor, Etce. Bank of Commerce Building Timmins, Ont. Fire! Death! Robbery! Accident! â€" DR. E. L. ROBERTS sPECIALIST Eve,. Ear, Nose and Throat $. A. Caldbick :lrristcrs. solicitors, Ete. MASSEY BLOCK TIMMINS, ONT. and south Porcupine M Instit Simmsâ€"Hooker Pickering Swiss Watchmaker e of the Famous Horologihal stitute of Switzerland Phone 1365 SHOPPING DAYS TL s United Church was the ovely wedding on Saturâ€" at 3 o‘clock, when Miss mn. eldest daughter of Mr. son, of Kapuskasing, and Semchison, became the Kenneth Roy Gallagher, .. stationed at Yarmouth, ldest son of Mr. and Myrs. 167 of 24 Floral avenue, Rev., W. M. Mustard ceremony, during which msay presided at the orâ€" Warren Tansley sang "I rriage by her father, the charming picture in a )wmn of white sheer, with n the fitted bodice. The fell into fitted lace cuffs, as fashioned in a V, and fell softly from a fitted loorâ€"length veil of white t in a heartâ€"shaped halo id she carried a bouquet pink roses and lilyâ€"ofâ€" ho white satin streamers. jeinchison, sister of the 1 Porcupine, attended as ir, dGaintily attired in r,. fashioned with a high op sleeves, slight shirâ€" aistline from which fell The gown featured a NOTARY SOLICITOR Empire Block â€"14â€"26 Mr. Logan 3 Kerr, of Timmins, wa and in blue. Her shower bouquet wa made up of yellow roses. Following the ceremony, a reception | was held at the home of the groom‘s parents, 24 Floral avenue, where his mother received the guests in a becomâ€" ing frock of printed mauve silk, with black accessories and a corsage of yelâ€" low roses and pink ‘mums. She was : assisted by the groom‘s grandmother, who chose an ensemble of mauve crepe, with black accessories and a corsage of yellow roses. Miss Aileen Maher and Grace Sinâ€" clair poured tea, and serving were Miss>s Winnie Atkinson, Beatrice Atâ€" kinson, Dora Hamilton, Daphne Galâ€" laglhner (sister of the groom), and Mrs. G. Gates. After his leave, the groom will return I to the RCAF., the bride to remain in | Timmins. | Among outâ€"of{â€"town guests were the bride‘s father, and her two sisters, Misses Lena and Alice Semchison of Kapuskasing. Prior to her marriage, the popular bride was entertained at numerous shower events, including one at her home, at the Williams‘ home on Hemlock street with Misses Ida and Mary Williams as hostesses, and at the home of Mrs. W. P. Barkwell. Members Hope That Bale Will Reach Ship in Time for Christmas. Mrs. C. Briggs, of 19 Commercial avenue, was hostess on Priday afterâ€" noon to the members of the Women‘s Institute, of which organization she i93 war services convener, at an afterâ€" noon of packing a bale for the sailors of the ship which the Institute adoptâ€" ed several months ago, the "Gaspe." Thirteen quilts were also packed for shipment to the Red Shield of the Women‘s Institute Packs Bale for Sailors of "Gaspe" Salvation Army, which systems Installed Income Tax Returns Filed Phones 270â€"228â€"286 P.O,. Box 147 Some people are puzzled about the exact reason for invoking the price ceiling law and for setting up the maâ€" \chine required to make it work. Mr. â€"es=â€"seee | GOrdon has explained the threat of i ||spiralling prices and the havoc that J. J. Turner SOI\S, Ltd. would be wrought without control: "Inflation shows itself in a vicious We Manufacture and !Zirclc of Lr.ising prices and rising costs. * 5 a nation at war we must spend Carr Y ‘An StOCk lhuge sums of money to buy the materâ€" AWNINGS ials f t FLAGS PACK BAGS aal;i of war, We soon begin to bid HAVERSACKS EIDERDOWN gainst ourselves for materials and Dsrzl;ow?}éogs SKHISIOBES Icommodmes which we want to have, 0G _ _sLEIGHS both for war and for ordinary TOBOGGANS DOG HARNESS | ry uses. TARPAUL[NS HORSE !We «bid agalnfit OurselVeS and pnces TENTS BLANKETS ||Slart to rise. Since one man‘s prices Ask Your Local Dealer for Prices or |are another man‘s costs. each price send your order direct to ! increase generates other price increases PETERBOROUGH, ONT. ,leading to wage and salary increases. Agents Everywhere | This starts the wvicious circle. As nc in uies en W io Wce Pa en nfi [wages and other costs rise in the chas> after prices, we have more rmoney to spend in bidding against ourselves and we thus force prices higher and higher. iWagcsz and salaries are always bound After a long talk on the value of peace | to lag behind prices We soon have goodâ€"will and disarmament, a history disputes and confusion, with hardships teacher asked the class if they objected |falling more and more unfairly on to war. §m0p1e with small incomes and modest Pupilâ€"Yes sir, I do| savings. We begin to find Teacherâ€"Good! Now tell me why. Pupilâ€"Because wars make history and I hate history.â€"Exchange. e LOOKING AHEAD tion of its original value in terms of that our| possibility gollar of savings has shrunk to a fracâ€"| necessary. wWaLr, 1t wWOuld mean GdeffAt C effort and later a swift tobogga: to a state of collapse." Mr. Gordon adds that the realized fully that no halfâ€"way ures would do. Failure in p attempts in other countries to c inflation were due to the tende compromise. "You do not brak car gently if you are headed precipice," Mr. Gordon remarke knew it would mean losing the before it had even started if w porized. Such an approach wou viously result in increased retail thus increasing the cost of livi: putting the whole cycle of inflat action again. Retail prices can allowed to rise. The celiling solute. They must be held level which prevailed from Sep 15th to October 1l11th." The Chairman predicated t} increasing number of restricti( consumer goods could be expec order that war supplies mig maintained, ewsjecially since t had now entered "the grand He said there was no immediate age of consumer goods of an es character, but there was alwa that rationing WO ‘The worldâ€"wide na! the conflict today made it certa living costs. We have a country seized‘ imports of goods would beâ€"curt Arch.Gillies,B.A.Sc.,0.L.8. Registered Architect Ontario Land Surveyor Building Plans Estimate: 23 Fourth Ave. Pho P. H. LAPORTE, C. G. A. 10 Balsam St. North, Timmins, Ont. Accounting Auditing FLAGS PACK BAGS HAVERSACKS EIDERDOW N sSNOWSHOES ROBES DOG s8LEIGH3S SKIIS TOBOGGANS DOG HARNESS TARPAULINS HORSE 0. E. Kristensen CHMHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 60 THIRD AVENUE Phone 640 CHIROPRACTOR Xâ€"RAY NEUROCALOMETER Bank of Commerce Building PHONE 607 Estimates, Etc. Phone 362 Timmins, Ont. will forward the articles to the bombed victims in England. ‘The members hope that the bale for the sailors will reach them for Christâ€" mas, as this ship claims an eastern Canadian port as its home port. Inâ€" cluded in the bale were eight turtleâ€" neck sweaters, two sleeveless smoeaters, three scarves, thirteen pairs of socks, five helmets, five packages candy, five boxes of homeâ€"made candy, thirty packages of gum, seven boxes of cookâ€" ies, one fruit cake, twelve chocolate bars, fortyâ€"one packages of cigarettes, eight packages of tosbacco and papers, five packages of razor blades, one shavyâ€" ing cream, nine packets of playing cards, three jigsaw puzzles. Among those present were Mrs. W. H. Doughty, Mrs Surman, Mrs. J. Mcâ€" Nulty, Mrs. J. Dicker, Mrs. F. Henderâ€" son, Mrs. E. Brand, Mrs. H. Read, Mrs. 8. L. Whitehead, Mrs. W. Rowe, Mrs. B.Ellis, Mrs. N. Young, Mrs. G. Kirk, Mrs. A. M. Olson, Mrs. A. J. McDonald, Mrs. W. Crispin, Mrs. R. McTaggart, Mrs, B. Kempers, Mrs. J. Kinsey, Mrs. J. McGarry, Mrs. P. G. Howard, Myrs. A. McCharles, and the hostess, Mrs. ‘C Briggs. Calling All Good Housewives in War on the Home Front Canada Depends on t he Housewife to Prevent Inâ€" flation, Says Chairman of W.T.P. T. Board. WAR ON THE HCME FRONT: This is the second in a series of articles concerning the new price ceiling law, written for the weekly press by Bruce M. Pearce of the Simcoe Reformer. (By Bruce M. Pearce) "To beat inflation Canada depends on the housewife. She has the bigge:st single part to play in holding the price ceiling." Asked for definite suggestions as to what the housewife can do, Mr. Gordon elaborated. "We would like every woman who does the family shopping to keep her own record of prices at the different stores where she trades. ‘Such a record will enable her to work with the storeâ€" keeper in watching that prices do not go up. We also ask housewives not to insist on having goods extravagantly packaged and to be ready to accept fewer lines. This will ease the storeâ€" keeper‘s position as he must make economies and restrict varieties of merchandise in order to offset the reâ€" duction of profits which he will have to accept. By shopping carefully the housewife can do much to make the plan of price control work efficiently and thus will make a major contribuâ€" tion towards winning the war." The Board has issued an official statement appealing to all Canacdkn women to get behind the price control programme and setting forth some of the things they can do to make it sucâ€" ceed. The statement is appearing in the weekly press and in daily papers throughout the country. Donald Gordon wants to make clear that the Board has not fixed one level of prices for all stores. Prices may vary from store to store as in the past, or as between towns and cities or proâ€" vinces. *"The important point‘" he emâ€" phasized, "is that prices obtaining in each individual store during the basic period must not be exceeded in that store. He points out that there has always been a variation in prices in different stores, even in the same loâ€" cality, depending on the kind of serâ€" ‘ivice the store gives and the way it operates. These competitive variations will probably continue. Therefore housewives are asked to bear in mind that the prices of similar commodities may vary in different stores; that a merchant may reduce his prices for sales or other reasons and may also raise them, but not above the basic period level: that variations may occur in seasonal prices on such items as eggs, vegetables, fruits, etc. Particularly should every housewife remember this fact: "Theâ€"prices YOU will mark down will be the highest prices charged at the stores where YOU shop.:" Chairman Gordon told a press conâ€" ference recently that retailers were coâ€"operating well in the price control plan. The majority of them are deâ€" termined to make the price ceiling work. The housewife who checks prices carefully will help the retailer who is complying with the law and will also deter any who may be trying to evade it. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TTIMMINS, ONTARIO Christmas Services at St. Matthew‘s Church Gregory McGuire, of Timâ€" mins, a Son of the Late J. J. McGuire. Christmas services at St., Matithew‘s Church will be as follows: Christmas â€" Eveâ€"1130 pm.â€"Carol sorvice, followed by Holy Communion. Christmas Dayâ€"11.00 a.m.â€"Morning Prayer and Holy Communion. Death of J. McGuire Postmaster for 30 Years at Eganville Pembroke, Dec. 23â€"Impressive triâ€" on the del bute was paid the memory of John J.| the Fergus McGuire, postmaster of Eganville for the past 30 years, at his funeral, which In a prey was held Tuesday morning at 9 o‘clock | about the to St. James‘ Church and cemetery.‘ The subjec The pastor, Rt. Rev. W. P. Breen, reâ€"|on the peo ceived the body at the church and |to dismiss Rev. M. T. O‘Neill of St. George‘s|or has bee Church, Ottawa and brotherâ€"inâ€"law of | ture of the deceased, celebrated solémn requiem | London | mas, assisted by Rev. R. E. Dillon |The raids < and Rev. P. T. Jeffrey of Pembroke|a year ago as deacon and subdeacon respectively. or May, 19 Rev. F. A. Flynn delivered an inspirâ€" | became to ing and consoling sermon. Other|the enemy clergy present in the sanctuary were| which can Rev. J. N. George of Cormac, Rev. T.|ting partic G. May of Killaloe and Rev. J. Marâ€" |summer, t coux, assisting at St. James‘ Church | have stop] for a few weeks. Honorary palibearâ€" | the planes ers were Dr. M. J. Maloney, Dr. J. A.| command Lambertus, Dr. James Reeves, R. the Warren, M.P.; R. G. Boland and Alex ‘more num Mills. The active pallbearers were'Air raids c Herbert Maloney of Kirkland Lake, along the | IMark Tait of North Bay, W. J. Contâ€"| I think way, Pembroke, Henry O‘Neill, Douglas, | had expect \Nelson Stirling and Frank Foy, Eganâ€" |pect to se | ville. The local Knights of Columbus | St. Paul‘s attended in a body. ‘The late Mr. Mcâ€"|laid waste Guire was born in Adamston 70 south of t ago, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John |ime a:s ter McGuire. He married the former|it was litt Elizabeth O‘Neill and took up residâ€" | had suffe ence in Eganville. In early life he had | worse tha been closely associated with the lumâ€"|cient lanc bering industry in Renfrew county, but ] because th in 1912 he became postmasiter in Eganâ€" }|loss of lif |ville, which position he capably filled | selves, son ever since. Mr. McGuire was a memâ€"|and the I ber of the Knights of Columbus, the | will impro Catholic Order of Foresters and St.| Why James congregation. Thouzsh in fail-‘ I have hb ing health for the past four years, his|tions atbot death occurred suddenly at his home lother read Sunday. Besides his wife, he is survivâ€" |few of the ed ‘by two sons and two daughters.| Is it tru: 'Gregory of Timmins, Michael of Haliâ€" E‘dl'f? almos fax, NS.; Mrs. F. A. Nugent and Mrs. |iinportant J. P. Howard of Eganville; two broâ€" | It is tru thers, Harry of Montreal and Patrick ; adian in of Armstrong, NM.T., and two sistoess, |Canny un Mrs. Alex Tait of Eganville and Mrs.| In Lond John Curran of Chicago. |cities, it 1 Outâ€"ofâ€"town visitors attendingzg the | damage w funeral of the late J. J. McGuire in | They are cluded: Mr. and Mrs. W. Collum,|Parts of |Petawawa; Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Contâ€" Icylindrica] way, Pembroke; Rev. Sister Mary meter an | Alexis, Pembroke; Mark Tait, North | thing like |Bay: Herbert Maloney. Kirkland Lake: |head is f1 Mr. and (Mrs. Gregg McGuire and | of a high family, Timmins; Mr. and Mrs. J. F.) heavy end ONéeill, Douglas; Mr. and Mrs. Henry |Kkeep the ONeill and ‘Mr. and Mrs. Arnold | Propped { O‘Neill, Douglas; Rev. T. G. May,| <O. an inCc | Killaloe; Rev. M. S. McNamara, Barryl‘s f through a John Carty, Brudenell; H. Car. lei |McGuire, Montreal; Very Rev. J. jJ. | not go thr Hogan, Brudenell. Telegrams were reâ€" iig‘nit(’s tw [ceived from Mr. and Mrs. John Curâ€" | develops : ran, Chicago; Mr. J. J. Contway, New | Derature Miss Anna Lacey, Ottawa; large bom Mrs. Alex MacDonald, Ottawa:; my. | incendiari and Mrs. J. D. Bertrand, Sudbury; Mr. |Uy by th l and Mrs;. Ernest Carr, Sudbury. ; | _ Nowada and Mrs. J. D. Bertrand, Sudbury; Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Carr, Sudbury. Baby Born With “~V” Sign Plainly Marked on Brow Reports have been many indeed of the many peculiar places the "V" for Victory sign has been noted. Here is the latest. The item in The New Lisâ€" keard Speaker is as follows:â€""A Dyâ€" mond township baby girl born with a distinct "V" on her infant brow came into the world on the same day that the United States declared war on Janpa. The Speaker was told this week by the attending physician. The child is the daughter of Mr. Maille, who live on a farm on the and Mrs. Fred ‘allx by the ton. | _ Nowadays, the British know how to figsht the incendiary bomb. Volunteer |fire watchers are always on the lookâ€" |out for bombs. They have the simple equipment to render bombs harmless ‘uefow they can develop heat. But even yet, the churches are not safe. The beautiful Wren and other great architects, have slate roofs. Inâ€" side the building is another false roof, icften of lead. The incendiary goes through the slate, but hasn‘t force enought to penetrate the s2cond roof. Before it can be reached, it has exâ€" ‘ploded and started a fire. Sometimes, there was an oak celling as well. No nmttm how faithful the watchers at tho churches might be, it was imposâ€" llb‘e to rip off the slates and the lead North Road out of New Liskeard, and |in time to reach the bombs. Dr. D. R. Fleming, who was in charze | of the cass, said that the baby‘s foreâ€" ;m'ately attacked. I6 | head bore the sign noted ahbove. was a red mark in the form of a "V", Dr. Fleming said, and of the type that disappears in time. This week, he deâ€" clared, it was already fading in part. The young lady who bears it is doing well." It wasn‘t that churches were delibâ€" Everything was atâ€" tacked. It was simply a matter of the way the churches were built. Faclories Have Really Escaped The story of the factories and the production of war materials is someâ€" thing else again. It is literally true that many of the important ones have never been bomibed. I saw a great Chatham News:â€"A prominent physiâ€" |aero engine factory in the Midlands, cilan says that all men over 40 years of | built age should wear girdles. womemn are taking jobs in factories and squeezing men out of the sphere reâ€" since the war started. It was Now that |undoubtedly the finest factory I ever saw. It was built by a large autoâ€" mobile company solely for the proâ€" garded as their special domain, it will duction of radial engines of 1.500 h.p. Chatham News:â€"A prominent physiâ€" cilan says that all men over 40 years of age should wear girdles. Now that womemn are taking jobs in factories and squeezing men out of the sphere reâ€" garded as their special domain, it will serve the ladies right if they find part of their equipment missing after hubby goes to his office. with fear and disruption. In such state no country can hope to wa war. It would mean defeat of w effort and later a swift toboggan sil to a state of collapse." possibility that rationing necessary. The the conflict today made it . imports of goods would be endency brake vyo e lumâ€" |cient landmark nty, but | because there m i Eganâ€" |loss of life; as y filled | selves, some of i memâ€"|and the buildi: us. the | will improve th and â€"St.} Why Chw Boar meas eviou 11 Canadian written f Canada } on the c the Fergt In a pt about th Why British Churches Are Burned and Factory Buildings Escape Harm New Factories are Well Protected Against Bombardment, ; 'f[\ While Churches are Not. Hugh Templin Writes of What || He Saw and Decided on Recent Visit to Britain for Canadian Weekly Newspapers. Is\. The subject of on the people to dismiss in or has been, ture of the w London has The raids on | a vear ago al otner readers few of the an It is true. It is so covious to a Canâ€" adian in England that it seems unâ€" canny until one knows the reasons. In London and other badly bombesd cities, it is Oobvious that most of the damage was done by incendiary bom‘bs. They are small and light. I brought parts of one home with me. It is cylindrical, not over two inches in diaâ€" meter and about a foot longâ€"someâ€" thing like a fat Roman candle. The head is flat, not pointed like the tip of a high explosive bomb. That is the heavy end. The tail has fins on it to keep the bomb upright as it falls. Dropped from a height of 10,600 feet or so, an incendiary bomb will penetrate through a slate roof or the â€"fender of a car, leaving a small hole. It will not go through a brick wall. The bomb ignites two minutes after it strikes and develops a fiame said to have a temâ€" perature of alout 5.000 degrees. A large bomber might carry thousands of incendiaries and drop them out literâ€" This is the fifth of a series of articles out conditions in Great Britain and her countries visited by a group of anadian newspaper editors. It was ritten for the weekly newspapers of anada by their special representative i the delegation, Hugh Templin, of e Fergus Newsâ€"Record. jrerature OI arge bombe ncendiaries illy by the Nowadays ight the in watcher a previous story, I told something | t the bomb damage in London. subject of bombing and its results he people of England is too large ismiss in a few sentences. It is, as been, the most important feaâ€" of the war s‘nce Dunkirk. ndon has been seriously bombed. raids on the city began more than ar ago and continued until April 1941. When daytime bombing me too costly for the Germans, enemy turned to night bombing. h cannot be so effective in hitâ€" particular targets. _ Since early mer, the night raids on London _ stopped. Hitler no longer has; planes to spare: the RA.FP. has mand of the air over Britain and ind the coasts; inland defences are e numerous and better organized. raids continue, but they are mostly g the eastern and southern coasts. think London looked much as I expected to find it. I did not exâ€" to see such a large area east of Paul‘s Cathedral so thoroughly waste. In two other areas, both h of the river, the damage struck as terrible. In both these cases, ‘as little houses by the score that suffered. which seemed to me e than old office buildings or anâ€" t landmarks. Thatw as simply use there must have been so much of life; as for the houses themâ€" es, some of them are better gone the buildings that replace them improve these districts. Why Churches Are Burned have been asked hundreds of quesâ€" s atout bomb damage. Perhaps r readers; would like to know a until one London and it is Obvio f radial engines of 1,500 h.p. t is several miles from the nstance, that churches iriably destroyed and ies escape? is so covious to a Canâ€" id that it seems unâ€" knows the reasons. nearest city. Every precaution has been taken to see that a bomb dropâ€" ping nearby won‘t affect the people instde. If one makes a direct hit, a series of blast walls will minimize the damage. But there has never been a direct hit. Twice I passed the original Hurriâ€" cane factory. This is an older one and still makes the famous fighting planes which the R.CA.F. uses. It was pointâ€" ed out to me by a, ferry pilot, who was going to the factory to take a new plane to a fighter station. Above the factory floated a group of barrage balloons, an unusual sight away from the large cities. T would have known it was an important factory. Yet the pilot told me that the Germans had never found it. It sounds mystifying. Actually, it is simple. The cartoonists love to show a man or building so camouflaged that it looks ludicrous. That is actually what happens. At night, these factorâ€" ies literally cannot be found. Some of the Bomb Damage It is imposisible to mention many of the buildings that have been damâ€" aged, but I might list a few. By this time, the streets have all been reâ€" paired, railways are in full operation, and there is little or no sign of bom‘> damage in the railway stations. The docks, which must have suffered, are in operation again. Barges, drawn by tugs, are continually going up and down the Thames at Westminister. I saw a convoy going out the mouth of the Thames one day that I visited the East Coast. As I said before, all the bridges over the Thames escaped damâ€" age. On one of our first days in Lond the editors were conducted throt the Houses of Parliament by two teresting and humorous guides, L/ Snell, representing the House of Lo: and Sir Patrick Hamon, from the House of Commons. They took us even into the basement rooms where Guy FPawkes stored the gunpowder to blow up Parliament centuries ago, and into the underground chapels where Cromâ€" well stabled his horses to show his contempt for the institution of parliaâ€" ment. ‘The chapels are lovely. There is no longer any horsey smell. Here and there, I saw the damage done by bombs. In the great Westâ€" minster Hall, where the bodies of the kings lie in state, workmen were reâ€" pairing a broad hole in the roof where a bomb came through. Big Ben has almost escaped. One corner of the clock tower and one face were damaged but the clock still goes. The wors; damage is in the House of Commons chamber itself. It simply does not exist any longer. There is no roof, and only a small pile of rubble and twisted girders marks the stop where many a great debate has taken place. Yet, strangely enough, the rooms around it are almost unâ€" touched. St. Paul‘s and Westminster Abbey It seems impossible that St. Paul‘s Cathedral should have survived. when all the area behind it is bare and dreary. ° I visited the cathedral and found only one large hole in the roof, made by a high explosive bomb that shattered the altar beneath. Again it was explained that the roof structure supplied the answer. The incendiaries bounced off the great dome and the arched roof. Fire engines and fire fighters are massed all the time in the square in front of the cathedral. If Westminster Abbey was hit, damage must have been repaired though one portion was closed on Sunday afternoon I visited it. Fleet street, with most of the dai newspaper officers grouped togeth: suffered much, yet not one daily pap ever missed a single edition. T. editor of one of Lord Beaverbroc! papers told me that £75,000 had be spent to protect the two buildings owns in that area. I saw the resul The record of the newspapers is 1 marka‘ble, but no more amazing th the attitude of the people at lar; It is said that it was a great help morale when a householder came his front door after a night of terr and found both the daily paper a the bottle of milk on the doorstep. At Buckingham Palace, only small building has been hit, bu iron fence is being removed | used to make munitions. Many . on Oxford and Regent streets suffered. Tenants in rich apart in the West End have lost every they owned just as thoroughly a London two in ep Best WisHes ror the New YEAR rrRom Your ®NEIGHBORLY NEWS" . _â€"_‘REPORTER ... all ho * 1€ t 11 11 mt WE h 1 11 i W an Bu TJ 11 11 in the moonlight, and even h they had immense luck, for irge water main was broken by explosives and three lucky shots e canal bank and drained away rcondary water supply. â€" buildings which made up the ‘ss section are gone, and s0 are of the houses. The hospital and ithedral and the Roman Catholic h are but shells But amazingly h1, only 1246 persons; were killed th raids, and I saw with my own the war factories going again‘ in 1 Counci} suppile id Canadian e s. I admired countryside an ience of the P their second c tted with plans HC vafTC terncon, before we left to nber station, a dainty young d tea to a dozen editors, I ae lived in Coventry during She did. She wasn‘t in a her. It was her turn that e on Air Raid Patrol. She through those streets with d death all around and the { enemies. She was terriâ€" admitted, but she never 1 taking shelter. Anyway, o home to go to that night: first bombs got it. ‘t defeat people like that. hey?" T answered: "Canâ€" e nearest woman with a her arm responded, to my h. "God bless Canada!" understood, Mayor Mosley ; in a room which had and a large vegetable marâ€" table, symbols of greater Mrs. Pearl Hyde, head of ‘s Voluntary Services, told iny of the people of Covâ€" clothed in Canadian garâ€" they had been fed for days { mobile canteens, donated »und by various Canadian Canada ranks high in the f Coventry. nutes later, I stood amid in the ruins of Coventry m one side stood Mirs. n the other, Captain S. A. f of Police. Both, I learnâ€" > members of the Order of Empire because of heroic formed. iTistie., St. John, N.JB., ngs in the heart of Covâ€" terally wiped out, in two one in November, 1940, ier in April. 74,000 houses tal of 91,000 in Coventry red. "It was a beautiful ight," said Mayor Mosley, beautiful I think I ever Ife." ristie, of St. John, N.JB. ich the rutble with the he Cathedral and laid on d altar a wreath which iad brought from London. ‘re moist and I thought ped away a tear. Two days Minister Churchill visited d asked about the wreath. it a splendid idea and the vo more arrived to place own, one from Winston ie other from Mrs. Churâ€" Coventry now is depresâ€" it would seem, the Gerâ€" Te really succeeded,. didn‘t, even though they 0 planes to mob for 114 ie moonlight, and even Mailâ€"There is signifiâ€" ‘eport that British prisonâ€" by Axis forces in Libya harge of by a company by a German corporal, in colonel in a secondary areas, though not rtion, perhaps. to find many Lonâ€" g in air raid shel« onths of immunity I visted the groat