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VOL. LVHâ€"NO. 26 When United Press in the Unitâ€" ed States and Britain United Press in Canada flashed the eight p.m. bulletin Monday night, December 22nd, that Prime Minister Winston Churchill was in Washington, a naâ€" tion was electrified; and the holiâ€" dav season had its radio interâ€" in history, as a result. ‘The Christâ€" mas Eve treeâ€"lighting ceremonyâ€" Friday‘s Churchill speech to the US. Congress, and the regular -@wwm‘m many of the highlights. Christmas dians by the news of the surrender =~) The Grimsby Independent | of Hong Kong. CKOC and a great network of Cansdian stations use British United Press Newsâ€"one of the world‘s truly GREAT newsâ€" gelneins SBemEie 4 I ~Keis *\ known method of land and . air| ‘T‘wo more of the giant tanks reâ€" mu‘.,‘,mmmmfimmmmmmu&mm”fi‘ radio marches on â€" undaunted by | firm in the trackless desert and the | ed uncertainly now, like bewilderâ€" the new demands of this cortinent| Southern county regiment, which| ed beetles being attacked by mosâ€" at war; unsfraid of the hect cally |for the moment for military reaâ€"| quittes they cannot see. . Within wmumuwuummmwnmmamm been the months to come. ‘The favorite stead of playing a defensive role is| destroyed as we watched. This m k shows â€" the standard of m_,'.nmugn -'fllfl“‘ll :mmmwmm standard of performance for 1942. local stetion productionâ€"the news coverageâ€"ALL the various phases ¢‘nao--;muiimm. have been keyed to the highest picture with Carole Lombardâ€"To Be or Not To Be. Has a Shakesâ€" pesarean title, and Jack as Hamâ€" let, (seriously too, mind you!) is a startlingly attractive sight. In wdmmm-mnu- ny‘s pennyâ€"pinching, ‘"Rochester" is one of the wealthiest comedians in the movieâ€"radio colonyâ€"and a TeE C eneiitest ay on your dial: ~Be listening Sunda; night, January 11th, at 9.30 D&.T. for a.new program . surprise on CKOCâ€"follows Charlie McCarthy, which show, incidentally, has gone into the new year with a few changes in the cast and setâ€"up. Dr. Saimon‘s commentary on Sunâ€" aymnmmâ€"mâ€" the following halfâ€"hour periodâ€"it‘s daily schedule now, _with the Christmas rush over, are Walitzes and Song at 11.30 a.m., Music for Everyone at one o‘clock, and the Five O‘clock Show at 5.00 ~pm. Record of the week is out of the brilliant regro contralto, singing "Carry Me Back to Old Virginy" â€"â€" truly beautiful, with the deep sou) of the southland caught as never before in song. Jack Benny, star of the Sunday oht eight o‘clock funfest on the A few listening: tips~fromâ€"1150 This boy is having a Whereuu® "A0> """, ) ""If the rest is posits ehcther he bas bees exposed to tuberculosis. sns sativr and done any mm-i-“""""“' mhm ye apk an (uuâ€"l-hl#‘fl'"“'u tests and K878 on Christmas day was darkened for Canaâ€" Making a tuberculio test, one of the uipueed to tabcreutoals, it ie ver LCC br 0000 has anaink & Test for Tuberculosis MODERN DESERT BATTLE CALLS FORTH HUMOR, PATHOS, WHEN INDIANS, AUSSIES, IMPERIALS CRACK ROMMEL‘S TANK FORCES I have just returned from the mmxw.mwm:‘ an Indian division. The division has been seeing heavy action durâ€" ing the past five days at Sidi Omar, a week ago just a dot on a war map, but now one of the focal points of the entire Libyan For weeks the Indians, and esâ€" pecially a Southern County Engâ€" lish regiment, part of the division, have been bearing the brunt of General Rommel‘s attack on Sidi Omar. ‘The attack came by land and by air, Thousands of shells were hurled at this mile. square plateau in the desert. will have s# + nâ€"artil E tanks limpâ€" man tank and infantry forces.| ed across the horizon, but the guns saga be written. â€"Afterâ€"two days of heavy shelling â€"Afterâ€"two days of heavy shelling | any wounded tanks they could find during which Italian: 105‘s sent| out of their misery, lest the Nazis more than 1,000 sixty pound shells | come back during the night to apâ€" screaming into the plateau known | ply first aid. as Sida Omar, the German tanks| Rommel is generally considered swung into action against.us. The|to be German‘s. best tank comâ€" general commanding the division | mander. We had seen artillery supâ€" smiled a bit grimly when he waSs|ported by nothing more substanâ€" "Attack and Pursue." This was his command, the only command. tanks were.en route, and. then he We were isolated on a oneâ€"mileâ€"|Sikhs, their black beards and square island on this dezert,sea,| white turbans seeming part of the with scanty â€" communications ~and | dessert:~ ‘T‘wo formidable groups of short food rations. But there wias|determined men, looking for no thought of defensive fighting in ! trouble. Their job was to pick up the minds of either officers or men.| prisoners and mop up enemy ‘This desert army is an attacking | patrols. mwuumuwl The rest of us slept, trying . to of defense. dodge the numbing cold of the At noon on Tuesday, November\|desert night by huddling together quick, sharp reports of tank guns, and we knew that the attack had begun. ‘Within an hour word came to us that seven â€"Naziâ€"tanks had themselves came into view, moving in single file, a new departure in German tank tactics. ‘There weren‘t fifty of them, there were twentyâ€"three, and seven had been the British artillery supporting the Indian division held its fire. ‘Then came the order and the guns left smoking behind. ‘They started to fire at 7,000 yards with their heavy 75‘s, They We stood on top of lorries there on our plateau, watching this amazing battle between artillery and tanks.. Even when the Italian shells came whistling over, feathâ€" ering their way over our heads to land about 150 yards from us, we couldn‘t tear our eyes away from the amazing drama being played less than a mile and a half away. fdence that ere long they | others had been so badly damaged Grimsby, Ontario, T hursday, January 8th, 1942 $2.00 Per Year, $2.50 In U.S.A., 5¢ Per Copy he will ‘The shells bit into the ground inâ€" front of the tanks raising buge clouds of desert dust. ‘The intense sun of the midâ€"day bathed the whole scene in a golden setting. ‘The shells were burstiriy â€" closer now and the tanks were hidden in \eloudlofM and smoke from bre ze swept over the battiefield to cless the air, which revealed the It aiso revealed three tanks, leanâ€" entire theatre of this desert drama. ing drunkenly, with heavy columns of smoke spiralling from them. . | Cheers from "X" County ‘The southern county soldiers I was standing with broke out into cheers, derisive cheers. We might have been watching .\ soccer match sappers snaked through the mine tial than our enthusiastic cheers, put most of his command out of action. ‘The patrols went out at members of the southern county dodge the numbing cold of the: desert night by huddling together in the bottom of the shallow trenâ€" ches the Eycties had so obligingâ€" ly dug for us a few weeks before when they held this plateau. Our awakentng â€"was #ude, â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" â€"â€"â€"~~] Just before 5 o‘clock Wednesday morning five Nazi planes zoomed down at 500 miles anâ€"hour, their machine guns and cannon creating a hideous cacophony in the chilling desert dawn. For forty minutes they dove at us furiously and the early morning became a nightmare that will live with us forever, A lorry thirty feet from my tenâ€"foot stretch of trench went up in fiames, and they used it as a target. Again and again they dove, and each time it was more. hideous than the last. | "Anybody Hit?" ; Finally, the Nazi planes dropped 100â€"pound iiigh explosives on us and then â€"Jeft. â€" ~Weâ€"lay thereâ€"for time, too exhausted to move, and too dazed to know whether or not we‘d been hit. ‘The light brightenâ€" ed, Ambulance drivers appeared, asking anxiously; "Anybody hit?" When a lad from the southern county regiment in the next trench roared out, ‘"The dirty blighters made us late for our morning tea," the spell was broken. Now. we could climb out of the trenches, laugh at the flth of our clotkes and our cuts and bruises from fly« Ing stones, and say weakly and quite untruthfully that it hadn‘t been so bad, after all. This is the ruthless, Bsartan» like toughening that Britain has been waliting for, During the past four days this small segment of 1t 1 was with took more than 1,000 prisoners in the vicinity of idl Omar, It m« â€" w‘d eightcen tanks and Its losses beyond the tank jJoss in the attack on Bidi Omar, have been negligible, Two or three Itallan arunory batteries were utrongly cmnndud‘ on two aldes of us, Groups of Gere mans with tanks and armored card were wandering about the denert on all alden. A Reporter‘s Dash ‘or Chire 1 talked to the gene! W ednes« day morning und asked him the askuation,. Me amid: "We have Lhat M'-Mlnowwtm‘- webld Inshing . Out with . bis . tail." 1 three Italian â€" artillery ere strongly entrenched m of us, Groups of Ger« tanks and armored card oring about the desert MeNAUGHTON, Canadian Corps Commander in Great Britain. wanted to get out with the story of the four days‘ intense fighting but the nearest cable office was at Cairo, 400 miles away. The comâ€" manding officer said that he was sending an officer out that night with dispatches, and if I wanted to run the gantlet, all right. T did. We were very couscious of the fact that the noise from our motor could be heard for miles in the now still desert air. Once three Nazi iIIndependent 1 WANT ADS drove past them, trying to appear nonchalant. ‘They didn‘t stop us. We made it finally, after an allâ€" night drive. Then I got to Calro. I have only one regret, that is that for military reasons I cannot name the southern county regiment with the Indjan division. Its name «should be shouted so loudly that ‘the four winds wil} carry it to ments of the past dwell in immorâ€" tality. There are still giants in the INDEPENDENT WANT ADS GET RESULTS â€" AS HUNDREDS WHO HAVEUSED THS HMEDIUM CAN o TESTIFY. TRY A CLASSIFIED NEXT WEEK SEE WHAT A QUARTER WILL DO! Do YÂ¥ou Need Any Of These Things? In Either Case 1 ell Your Story W here it W ill Bring Best Results. The Grimsby Independent Vacant Lots Unused Furniture Garden Produce Where Buyer and Seller Get Together | All the sad things of the year, all the proud things; Let me weigh them to see if they Or if they are heavy. My heart Over the fire on the hearth, that is Over the sparks that upward are As the year falls from my sight. Is my song sad? Is my ‘There is a multitude of thoughts Like children waiting about the Is my heart rich? Is my heart méumlyutnyuupn? What can my heart say‘as it sees the day close? ‘That all has been said before? ‘That none can say more? Yet shall I say this, touching softly Looking quietly through the winâ€" dow where the blast Carries the snow swiftly against ‘The days have not been in vain." Of all that has come, of all that Each sad thing and each joyful Only the good shall remain. ~~~~ moment that lingers, Yet so swiftly will pass? f ‘They are like the snowflakes melt ing upon the glass. And here I stand with the year that is gois, ‘The tides move um‘ _ my hand, but where are the Jowing? (Salute to the Democracies) . me take up in my : fing NEW YEAR‘S EVE are like shadows, these things that I hold in my fingers. Niagara Fruit Growers Met FOR SALE At an executive mecting of the Niagara Peninsula Fruit Growers Association last week at the Vineâ€" land Experimenta; farm, the proâ€" gram was planned for the annual convention to be held at Victoria Hall, Vineland, Thursday and Friâ€" day afternoon, January 22 and 23. Mr. G. F. Perkin, Secâ€"Treas. of the Ontario Fruit Growers Association, sat in with the executive at the meeting. Programs for both penâ€" insular and provincial conventions were arranged so that there would be no conflict in date or material. The Ontario Fruit Growers‘ conâ€" vention will be held the following week at Hamilton, January 28, 29, 30. At the peninsula convention the main topics for discussion will be spraying problems, fruit packâ€" ages, and labor camps, Reports | will be made by the various comâ€" mmou'ww coâ€"ordinate arrangements for fruit packages. ‘The question of the marketing of fruit at‘the proper stage ofâ€"ripeâ€" \ ness will aiso be given consideraâ€" Each man has an aptitude born with him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. Do your work. I have to say this often, but Nature say it oftener. "Tis clownish to insist on doing all with one‘s own hands, as if every man should build his own clumsy house, dough; but he is to dare to do what he can do best; not help others as they would direct him, but as he knows his helpful power to be. Out of the strivings, the triumphs, ‘This can I say, this will remain: "These days that I weigh in my finâ€" ‘ gers have not been in vain." â€"A. Jacqueline Shaw ADVERTISED â€"R,"W, Emerson.