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â€" Says Government To Study Farm Workers In Eactories * Vol. 85, No. 14 THE WATERLOO CHRONICLE Kitchener Seeks More War Orders; City Council to Aid In Industrial Coâ€"ordination Ald. Alfred Mustin, labor \ member of City Council, told a ; meeting of 50 Kitchener indusâ€" . | trialists last night, the federal | department of labor has agreed to study the labor situation as it applies to men who have left Waterioo County farms to work | in Kitchener factories. Over fifty Kitchener inclustriali:ts‘ last night delegated Mayor Joseph Meinzinger and Ald. A. J. Cundick.\ president of the Board of Trade, to appoint a committee to coâ€"ordinate Kitchener industries with a view to securing war orders. _ _ c 4. 2040 : Mhaarediihit dacirrint 1 M The meeting last night was sequel Fflad to see that so many of the to a rceert ecnforence held in girls who served last year are reaâ€" Ottawa attended by a delegation dy to serve again this season. The from city council ard the board of girls leaving today are Misses Lois trade. with Hon. C. D. Howe, Weber, Enid Thompson, Susan minister of munitions and supply, Schreiter and Lorraine Voelker, and _ Mon.â€" Humphrey â€" Mitchell, students of the Kâ€"W Collegiate. minister of labor, over the labor They will be expected to serve 13 situation in Kitchener. | weeks since they have been perâ€" The joint delegation pointed out mitted to leave school, according that due to curtailment of supplies to the regulations. to the four Kitchener rubber inâ€"| Miss Augustine, dean of girls at dustries, labor backbone of the city.l the Kâ€"W Collegiate, expects that possibly â€"2.0090 â€" male employees, there will be afiom 50 girls regisâ€" might be out of work by the end| tored this year. of the year. â€" . | _ e "While the unemployment situaâ€"| tion in the city at present is not bad, it certainty locked as though il‘ would be a week ago," stated Mayor | Mecinzinger, lauding the reception ; given the Kitchener delegation by | federal authorities. _ _ _ i "When we got to Ottawa and preâ€" sented our case, Munitions Minister Howe and Labor Minister Mitchell were simprised to know that so winy wire «irplaved in Kitchener tubber industrics," he continued. The chict magistrate said the delegation was assured that anyâ€" thing Kitchener factories can proâ€" duce for the war effort, orders will be granted at once, and that indusâ€" tries 1c ding assistance to expand to accept war orders, will be "given every assistance". _ 8. "I‘m pleading with you indusâ€" trialists to survey your plants and see if there isn‘t seme article you can make in your plant," Mayor Meinzinger declared. {Continued on Page 10) Girl Guides Would Do Farm Labour KITCHENER. â€" The Canadian | Girl Guides wartime emergency service reports that the Girl Guides hope to be able to relieve the farm | labor â€" situation this spring_ and summer,. sccording to Mrs. G. A. Heather, division commissioner for Watorloo County of the Girl Guidel Association. who was present at ; the annual meeting of the Ontario | Council of Girl Guides held in | Hamilton â€" Mrs. Heather was pre-; sented with a medal of merit for| lone service to the association. | The wartime emergency service wuins to teach the girls both the theoretical and practical angles of food production in a course of at least one month‘s full time work. Many and varied are the services that the Girl Guides can contriâ€" bute to tho war effort. They are trained for message corps work, transportation _ service, . first aid, home nursing. child care, volunâ€" teer work with nurseries or moâ€" thers in their homes, and houseâ€" hold repiors and mending. Housewives‘ S.0.S. a Of No Avail, Says _ Bureau Manager The majority of "S.O.S." calls to the Kitc rer Unempioyment Burâ€" eau these days come from Twin City howsewives "pleading" for a capable woman to assist them in houseel srung .. Boyet, managelt We have a rreat many women capaile of tackling heavy houseâ€" eleataras oodâ€" ut pust now they are emploved dong war work in local mdustin staied Mr Bovyer. Phe mana»er said since war inâ€" dustrrs~ began oatling for women, domestic service has slumped "Unless she can c mpel friend hushual to help l am afraid Mrs. Housewife will have to do all her own houseclcaning this spring," he mdustin Phe n dustii~ domesth "Unles No Help Available In Twin City For Housecleaning. Appoint Mayor Meinzinger and Trade Board President To Form Coâ€"Ordination Committee; Seek to Forestall Unemployment In Rubber ll_ulustries. ran oedis. hout pust vid doing war an staied Mi manset said y be gan eatlhe tie servace has Tess she can a wl to help J â€"an vBy Staff Writes» Features WILL SURVEY PLANTS rding to C thos«»« Honour Secretary W*** | _ KITCHENERâ€"The first Kitchâ€" ener girls registered for 1942 farm strialists service left Wednesday for the r Joseph camp at Winona. Cundick,| The Farm Service Department [rade, to of the Ontario Government | is ordinate proud of the Kitchener girls, deâ€" view to clared Miss Olive Thompson, a provincial placement officer, a.nq_‘is hrgelt(limnhfionolmy- WuterlooConnty'nHyfifiw Kâ€"W Girls Of For Farm Service Miss Augustine, dean of girls at the Kâ€"W Colleg‘i)nte. expects that there will be about 50 girls regisâ€" tered this year. "Unfailing courtesy ‘ and "consciâ€" entious service" of Edmund Pequeâ€" gnat, secretaryâ€"treasurer of the Kitchener public school board for over 37 years, were lauded by all who were present at the testimonial dinner tendered in his honour. Mr. l;equ;gna! retired recently from the oard. J. F. Carmichael, chairman of the board last year, recalled that‘the retiring _ secretaryâ€"treagurer â€" and Fimself started on the same day, Feb. 1, 1905, he as principal of Margaret Avenue school and Mr. Pequegnat as secretaryâ€"treasurer of the hoard. s _ "Since that very day, he has alâ€" ways been fully conversant with all schcol affairs," stated Mr. Carâ€" michael as he, on behalf of the gathering, presented Mr. Pequegnat with a silver tea service and a testimonial. â€" â€" ho "This is my toughest assignment," | stated the retiring secretary in acâ€"; cepting the gift, telling of the "dais‘ when school children were brought | un to be seen and not heard". "Any| who showed vanity were quickly, squelched," he laughed. _ _ _ _ _ ; Cuects were welcomed by Rev. J. N. H. Mills, trustee, and among the guests were all but three men who were chairmen of the school bfr;n‘d since Mr. Pequegnat took office. Overseas Cable Is Birthday Surprise To Woman, 82 A cable from her grandson, Bud Ray. who is "somewhere in Engâ€" land,; was a pleasant surprise for Mrs. F. Forler, Fischer street, Waâ€" terloo. celebrating her 82nd birthâ€" dav. The cable sends: _ "Loving birthday greetings. You are more than ever in my thoughts at this time. All my love." Me said that citizens have also answered appeals for equipment ‘for the clinic such as couches and pillows. Rapid progress is being made on organization plans and it is expected the clinic will soon be able to handle between 50 and 100 donors each day. It will be open tw& days each week, the chairman | smi Blood Donors Offer Services to Clinic "Unfailing courtesy" and "consciâ€" Franks of the Kâ€"W Red Cross blood donors‘ clinic, said today many volunteer donors have come forward On Retirement From School Board KITCHENER.â€"Chairman Warernroo, Ontamo, Famar, The Week in Pictures Flames Destroy House on Hespeler HESPELER. â€" Fire, â€" believed caused by an overheated stovepive in the kitchen, gutted the interior of the farm home of Irvin C. Fromm and caused damage estiâ€" mated at several thousand dollars The fire, which broke out about 5 o‘clock Tuesday afternoon, was prevented from razing the stone constructed farm home, at Groh‘s Corners, through voluntary fireâ€" fighting action of neighboring farâ€" mers, and the speedy response of the Galt fire department to the emergency. The loss is partially covered by insurance. _ _ A total of 1,800 turkey egfi: were rescued from an incubator ‘.“;,%“&‘.‘.‘.“’i."."“ t nu%r ho is gare . w employed there, were engaged in duties at one turkey eolon{' house rlose to the farm house when the ~lose to the farm house when the fire broke out When they came out of the colony house they noâ€" ticed smoke curling over the roof of the farm home. At first glance Mr. Fromimn thought it was smoke from the chimney swirling over the roof. Running to the front of the building he saw flames shootâ€" ing through the roof as the fire, starting from the kitchen had swept â€" through the twoâ€"storey dwelling and roof. ; An emergency call was placed with Galt fire department and work was immediately started in removing the furniture from the burning home. Neighbors, noticing the smoke, responded immediateâ€" \ _ Following the fire, farmers of the ‘district worked for several hours teaming the furniture to a barn on \the vroperty where it was stored. ‘During the course of this work fire broke out in a turkey colony buildâ€" ing where many young turkeys were housed. It was quickly exâ€" tinzuished by volunteer workers. ly and assisted in the work of salâ€" vaging furniture. Every window in the home was broken as furniâ€" ture was dumped from the first and secondâ€"storey windows in an effort to save it from the flames. The pumper on the Galt truck was brought into vlay and the fire with Would Nip Gas ‘Cheating‘ In Proverbial ‘Bud KITCHENER.â€"Any attempt at cheating under the gas rationing glan should be "nipped in the ud", declared Twin City spokesâ€" men today. They endorsed the Windsor proposal that the category of each car be designated on windâ€" shield stickers. s _ _ "An excellent idea", declared President Arthur Sandrock of the North Waterloo Automobile Club. _ Mayor W. D. Brill of Waterloo ‘said he did not like the windshield \sticker idea. "I think the present |coupon plan started by the governâ€" ment is sufficient to prevent any cheating," he stated. "I don‘t anâ€" prove of anything stuck on car ‘"The Government, however, needs the assistance of patriotic citizens and organizations in order to proâ€" secute the war to a successful conâ€" clusion". "% _ Gordon Thompson, president of the Kâ€"W branch of the Canadian Legion, expressed the belief that "a lot of people are trying to get more gasoline than they need". Mayor Josech Meinzinger termed the Windsor suggestion "definitely an excellent one," as did President A. J. Cundick, of the Kitchener board of trade. "Anyone cheating should have his or her license cancelled." asâ€" serted Ford S. Kumpf, president of the Waterloo Red Cross. "I cerâ€" tainly think rationing should be enforced to the hilt." Snow Forces Plane Down at Breslau windshields." â€" Flying a light twoâ€"passenger plane, owned by the Kâ€"W Flying Club, the pilot set the plane down without difficulty in the field. He flew it back to Kitchener two hours later when the weather cleared. â€" BRESLAU.â€"A brief snow storm compelled a Guelph pilot to make a forced landing in a field 10 miles east of here, Sunday. without difficulty in the held. He 6 n flew it back to Kitchener two s::":) * En on;l:lnlliy‘eoh;)‘u:ehcn: hours later when the weather|OW" y Constable #mngr cleared. |of the Kitchener police force, does Flying Instructor Gordon Munâ€" ’ not usually find his way back home roe, of the Kâ€"W Club, said late in a day or two after he leaves it, last week a Hamilton plane stuck |but Monday night he did. Residents in the mud as it landed at the airâ€" }of the apartment building in which port here, and turned over on ‘L“Constahfe Reinhart and his wife, nose, breaking the propeller No}|live, owe their lives to that fact! one was injured. |\ _ Carl Rothman, a neighbour of the According to the instructor, airâ€"| Reinhart‘s, heard the cat‘s cries men passing over Kitchener should about 8 a.m., and awakened to find Turkey Ranch (By Mrs. Roy Schiedel) Continued on Page 10) _ his apartment filled with emoke and hart‘s "Sport" Councilâ€"Trade Board Delegates Claim Success at Ottawa (B" su' 'r‘"r) \l;;u wvu’w n"'u'.l\w\- P Aroinliintse Boitiniadiiccind Kitchener city council Monday night unanimously passed |" is thire solg was damaged and a resolution of "warm appreciation" to Hon. C. D. Howe, minisâ€" ‘two others turned back into Goteâ€" ter of munitions and supply, and Hon. Humphrey Mitchell, borg, the Swedish west coast port minister of labor, for the "time and courtesy" accorded a |Where they lh"d been Hied up. Kitchener delegation at Ottawa, last week. A similar motion j oi pee Lt Nhe nthers reach. thanked L. O. Breithaupt, M.P. for North Waterloo, for his| The sunken shins were identified consideration. :sztzl‘;etlz,?é‘is-ton Skyqfill'ent. and the Appointed by city council and the board of trade, the sevenâ€" a‘%,;, on Budcanaer, Thc IOfMEL. 8A man deY:gation was in Ottawa to discuss ways and means of ?331'.'"“3,3:" ,";;‘;,2;2}2&"3;{0"‘;;‘5”;‘; llsvinting Kitshener‘s lahnr situation. It nolinted out to the the Buccaneer, a tauker Ap?olnted by city council and the board of trade, the sevenâ€" man delegation was in Ottawa to discuss ways and means of alleviating Kitchener‘s labor situation. It pointed out to the federal officials that due to curtailment of supplies, male emâ€" gl:yeu of the city‘s three large rubber industries would soon unemployed. _ Mayor Joseph Meinzinger reâ€" ported to council that the governâ€" ment officials promised "every posâ€" sible coâ€"ovberation with Kitchener". He said the delegation was assured that the city will receive all war contracts it can handle. o0 The chief magistrate said that| Mr. Howe urged Kitchener manuâ€", facturers who believe they can proâ€" | duce certain types of war material to visit Ottawa immediately in an attempt to secure qrder‘s. | "Kitchener will be given everyâ€" thing to make she can make and all possible orders in future, and in addition, if any manufacturers here wish to expand so that they can handle war orders they will be given every â€" assistance," Mayor Meinzinger stated. |____________ "I think the Celegation is to be cemplimented," stated Ald. Henry Sturm. _ "They _ accomplished | a great deal. "They did a marvellous job‘ there‘s no queÂ¥tion about it," stated Ald. Gordon Honsberger. _ Ald. A. J. Cundick, who headed | W3 the delegation from the board of| Alr trace, of which he is president, reâ€"| Dur verted that the council and trade the board crepresentatives merged and ing "worked in Ottawa with a unaniâ€" hay mity of purpose". h | fur '"7:1'\/[;3;0; Meinzinger presented our case and he was a great credit to| (Continued on Page 10) Kâ€"W Kinsmen _ Show at Capitol Sunday April 12 | _A resident of Waterloo for ‘over 72 years, and director of the Orpheus and Concordia singing soâ€" lcieties in the days of the "saengerâ€" fests", Baldwin Poehliman, one of the town‘s oldest residents, died late Tuesday night. __ _ _ _ _ _ The Kinsmen Club are holding a Theatre Night, Sunday, .}}»ril 12. at 8.45 p.m. in aid of the "Milk for professional vaudeville show feaâ€" Britain Fund". This will be an all turing Ella Shields and other acts. In addition to vaudeville they will present a full length feature and cartoons. Tickets are now on sale at the Cafitol, Lyric and Waterloo theatres. Mail orders will be taken care of direct from the Capitol. There is one performance only and it is certain to be a near sellâ€"out, therefore the Club requests you purchase _ tickets _ immediatelv. Prices are 50c and $1.00 per seat. This is a worthy cause, and, the stage show presents much variety, and is all professional. Saengerfest Condector Years Ago, B. Poehiman Passes _ _Born in Germany, Mr. Poehlman was in his $2nd year. He operated was in his $ind l{m Hie operated barber shops in Kitchener and Waâ€" terloo for years, retirln*nls years ago. Over 40 years ago, Mr. Poehiâ€" man was chosen to conduct the massed â€" "saengerfest" choirs at Cleveland, Ohio. _ _ â€" _ At ome time, deceased was diâ€" rector of the choir at St. Peter‘s Lutheran Church, Kitchener, and Constable‘s Cat Saves Lives i; In Gas Filled Apartment‘"" See Alleviation of Rubber Industry Employee Situation:; Thank Howe, Mitchell, Breithaupt for Courtesy. After Conterence on Labor County News ',| .. According..to the chairman, the ; scarcity of building materials and ‘| wartime regulations will seriously ‘hamper efforts at rebuilding the ,|church. He vointed out that beâ€" â€"|cause the building permit is in exâ€" , | cess of $5.000, it has to be approved \by Ottawa. | ‘Interior of the building had no »‘i'sooner cooled from the biaze, then a Kitchener contractoring firm ;flwas at work, according to Dipnel f/| Already charred beams which .‘hurtled into the auditorium from e the blazing roof, severely damagâ€" j ing the interior of the building, â€" have been removed. To prevent further damage, the roof will be r replaced first, he said. _ _ | KITCHENER. â€" George Dippel chairman of the board of trustees, expressed the belief today that the | auditorium _ of â€" Zion Evangelical ‘Church, badly damaged in a $50,â€" 1000 fire last week, will not be {ready for use again before Oct,. 1. Believe Church Not Ready Till Oct. 1 ® Receives Thanks of ‘Lord Mayor In Manchester, Eng. "Fortunately, our organ, worth over $30,000, does not appear to have been damaged," Mr. Dippel told The Chronicle The asbestos curtain which we had erected months ago to nrotect it from winâ€" ter temperatures, served to save it from a drenching by firemen durâ€" ing the fire." (By Noah Stroh) CONESTOGO.â€"A vinage > lady who does not want her name made public, recently received the folâ€" lowing letter from the Lord Mayor of Manchester, England: "The Lord Mayor desires to exâ€" press his sincere thanks to â€"â€"â€" for her kindness in sending parcel of knitted clothing, mittens, etc., which have arrived safely. The gifts are most welcome and will be distributed amongst those families who have suffered distress as a result of the bombing attacks on the city. ___ (Signed) Besides his wife, he is survived by three sons, W. Baldwin and Carl J. Poehliman of Detroit, and Oscar, of Ecorse, Mich., and by three daughters, Mrs. W. Hemsath and Miss Bessie Poehiman, R.N., of Philadelphia and Miss Elsie ‘Poehliman, at home. twice daily, he would walk from his home in Waterloo, to the church in Kitchener, several miles distant. A veteran member of Waterloo Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Mr. Poehliman was a notâ€" ed stamp and coin collector, and was intensely interested in these hobbies right up until he became gas. Rushing into the hall, he found the rest of the building in the same state. After awakening every occupant of the building, Rothman fought his way into the cellar through t%]e pas and smoke and found the automatic stoker attached to the furnace empty. Smoke and gas were billowâ€" ing from it, he told The Chronicle. Three families live in the buildâ€" ing, and all today claimed they owed their lives to Constable Reinâ€" Lord Mayor, Manchester, England." $1.00 per Year U.S. Blasts 3 More Subs; Brings Total to 28 WASHINGTON.â€"Donald Francis "sighted sub, sank same," has done it again, the United States Navy anâ€" nounced today, and for his double success has been awarded the nulvtlent of a second Distinguishâ€" ed Flying Cross and given an Mason, the naval pilot who recently officer‘¥ commission. Mason‘s second successful attack was one of three submarine sinkâ€" ings reported by the navy today. The three, two in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific, raised to a grand total of 28 the number of Axis undersea craft announced as "sunk or presumed sunk" by United States military and naval forces thus far in the war. Of this total. 21 were blasted in the Atlantic and seven in the Pacific. to immediate battle training of the most intensive type so they may \resist with maximum endurance |the Jananese invasion which daily \threatens this continent. e 10 Norwegian Ships Make Daring Run to Britain STOCKHOLM. â€"Ten Norwegian ships berthed in Sweden since the German invasion of Norway, made a dash for,Britain last night, and at least two of 10,000 tons each were trrpedced as soon as they cleared the limit of Sweden‘s territorial waters. it was disclosed tonight. All had been held at Goteborg, on Sweden‘s west coast, since war came to Norway. The torpedoed two were attacked just beyond the threeâ€"mile limit. _ â€" A third ship was damaged. and two others turned back into Goteâ€" berg, the Swedish west coast port where they had been tied up. _ Aussies Call Men J8 to 45 For Armvy tious objectors to war. MFLBOURNE. â€" All Australia‘s | land forces were brought un to full Standard Oil Company war strength today and ordered inâ€"| Denies Rubber Charge to immediate battle training of the ols . wanct intanciva iwna en thav mavi WASHINGTON.â€"W. S. Farish, Single men between 18 and 45 and all married men between 18 and 35 were directed to report imâ€" mediately. Believe Cripps To LONDON.â€"The "Cripps mission to India is on the brink of failure," the New Delhi corresnondent of the Lobrrite Daily Herald said today, adding: o "It is now fairly clear that the «ituation can be saved only if the British Government makes further concessions about Indian control ~f defence and immediate adminisâ€" tration of the country pending a zrant of dominion status. The correspondent said the vowerful All India Congress had ‘ald Sir Stafford Cripps unofficlally that it "regrets the plan is not wweeptable." and "throws reevonsiâ€" ilitv for the failure on the British Cabinet." The attack was made as Prime Minister Curtin announced that in two days Allied planes probably {had knoecked out 18 enemy aircraft, jdamaged a Japanese ship and scored direct hits on invasion base buildings. Convict Six "Conchies" Who Failed To Report TORONTO. â€" Six young men vere ennvicted trday of failing to report for alternative service after hey had been granted exemption ‘rom military service as conscienâ€" ‘ious objectors. All were fined $100 or three months determinate in jail ind six months indeterminate. Allied Bombers Continue Offensive in Guinea MELBOURNE, Australia.â€"Allied ‘ombing planes, continuing an unâ€" ‘emitting . acrial offensive aganst Tapancse invasion bascs, bombed he enemy airdrome at Salamaua in New Guinea toâ€"day, scoring direct hits on runways. _ h Say Japs Treat Canadians Better at Hong Kong _ CHUNGKING.â€"Canadian prisonâ€" ers at Hong Kong are generally healthy and are getting better food than at first from their Japanese captors, three Canadian refugees from the captured British colony said on their arrival here toâ€"day. _ | "With the hour of liberation of |Vitebsk not far off, the inhahitants bave intensified their guerilla acâ€" ‘tivities. harassine the Germans," {Radio Moscow said The refugces are Agnes Mark, of Toronto, and Enoch and Luke Bun, of Vancouver. With them was FPhilip Chai, Chineseâ€"Amcrican cmâ€" plovee of Panâ€"American Airways. They said that British, Canadian and other foreien doctors were atâ€" tending the sick in the Canadian colony, but added that supplies were lacking. To put their time in, Canadians were studyving Chinese in classes. Russians Cut Deep In North ‘ The plan was reported to be inâ€" cornorated in a resolution of the | working committee of the Congress |imnlicitly rejectin@ the British offer partlv becavse it insisted on British 11:0'_'-n||on _of responsibility for the LONDON. â€" Radio Moscow indiâ€" rated today that the recapture of Vitebsk. cnly 75 miles east of the old Polish frontier, was near, as military experts bredicted that the Cermans in a few weeks would throw perhaps 1.250.000 men and nowerful concentrations of tanks and planes into a final, desperate effert to win the costly Russian cumPaign. \ vepmarlar c q 000 CR qs 0000100 O India Offers Counterâ€" Pronosal to Great Britain NEW DELHI, Indiaâ€"Leaders of the Nationalist Allâ€"India Congress were reported today to hbe studying a plan drafted by Mohandas K Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru as an alternative to the British Cabiâ€" not offer of postâ€"war dominion statns for India defense of India. WORLD‘S WEEK THURSDAY WEDNESDAY Fail In India Its News at a T HE ce bresident of the Standard Oil Comâ€" ly nany of New Jersey. described toâ€" |dav as without "a shadow of founâ€" 45| Cation" testimony that the company 1g!b~4 nrovented or delaved developâ€" y,. ment of synthetic rubber in the Think India May Reject British Offer NEW DELHI, India â€"Growing indications that the proposal to g_nnt India dominion status nnfit reak down over Britain‘s insistâ€" ence on retaining control of India‘s defence d% war came today from the Allâ€"India Congress Party Mohandas Gandhi‘s son Devadas wrote in the Hindustan Times that ‘he defence issue might cause the Congress, dominant political party f the subâ€"continent, to reject the nfier Sir Stafford Cripps brm%l: from the British Government. vounger Ganhi said opposition was strong in the Congress. British, U.S. Bomb New Guinea; Japs Retaliate MELBOURNE, Australia.â€"Seven Japanese bombers subjected Darâ€" win to its ninth raid today, Prime Minister John Curtin said in a comâ€" munique. Full details were not known, but no casualties or damage had been reported, Curtin said. »xecutive committee and other MFELBOURNE, Australia. â€" New aerial hammer blows on the Japanâ€" ese invasion base of Lae, mw Guineau, were announced today as reports told again of Allied airmen ~learlv stamoing their superiority over the enemy. Send Actor to "Conchie" Camp HOLLYWOOD. â€"Lew Ayres as the bovish. warâ€"hating German solâ€" dier who died while trying to catch a butterfiv on Noâ€"Man‘s Land made screen history a dozen years ago in "All Quiet on the Western Front". It was a poignant scene, that death on the battlefieldâ€"a dramatic snremation of the hate that young soldier had for war. s Wyeth. near Portland, Ore., to take his plare in a camp for conscienâ€" tious objectors to war. _ Today handsome, moody Lew Avres was speeding by train to TUni*~d States. "The facts and the record," he told the Senate Defence Investigatâ€" ing Committee, "are exactly to the contrary." Asserts France May RTOM, 1norcupied France.â€"Bul}â€" ~a~*e4 former premier Edouard Daladier, irritated over charges that France‘s tank force was inferior to "erm>ny‘s. shouted a public warnâ€" ing tnday that the French may beat the Germans in another war. _ _ ‘"Never mind about who got lickâ€" ed." the irate defendant told Genâ€" eral Josebh Keller who had just finished saying German tanks outâ€" numbered the French about 2 to 1. _ "It will not always be the same ones who will get lfc‘l‘ced.” Believe Big Naval Base Crippled For Year IONDON. â€" Photographs taken ~fte» Satnrday‘s Commando raid on the Nazi base at St. Nazaire showed ‘nday that the lock gate was missâ€" ing and that one of two ships in the fi'*j:;n was listing, British authorities said. R A naval officer who had a leading ~art in the exploit said the lock sate, rammed by a former United States destroved loaded with five ‘ons of explosive, "probably would "e out of use for a year." No trace of the H.M.S. Campbelâ€" ‘ownâ€"the former United States deâ€" ~trover which was turned into a huge time bombâ€"was seen in the photographs. The naval officer said she probably sank at the lock enâ€" trance, further complicating the German repair problem. Chinese Still Block LONDON.â€"Chinese defenders of the Mandalay road have counterâ€" attacked Japanese troops at the eastern anchor of the Allies‘ Burma front, recapturing Nangyun and Kyungon airfield 10 miles north of Toungoo, a Chinese: communique declared today. It said Chinese defenders at Toungco "continue to repulse the Japanese attack, which has become stronger â€" because of _ reinforceâ€" ments." The â€" annorncement . from _ the Chinese field beadquarters said the Chinese had imposed tight military control of the Pyinmana area, 50 vilos north of Toungoo. because of reports that "a mob of more than 1.000 Burmans" was robbing the bullo k carts of Indiai refugees, had killed 12 Indians, ard destroyed a section of railroad. Wilm>t May Form Plow â€"Association (By A. R. G. Sinith) NEW HAMBURG â€"The offivers and directors of the Wilmot Agriâ€" cultural Society held a meeting for the arrangement of prize lists for 1942 in the librarv hall on Friday They also heard the president‘s and secretary‘s reports as delegates to the annual meeting of the On tario Association of Apricultural Societies which was held â€" last month A subject of interesting discus sion was the advisab.lity of or ganizing A plowmen‘s associatica in Wilmot township. All of the townships in Waterloo County with the exccption of Wilmat hold plowing matches in the fall It was docided to hold a imeet ing at the township hall, Baden, on April Ist to discuss the matter more fully. E1 McLoughry -&n cultural representative and im Bu;rie of Galt are expected to r* tend. TUESDAY Yet "Lick" Germany MONDAY Japs In Burma