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Britain Checks "Careless Talk" Enemy Sples Alert For Mention of Ship Movements With the U-boat menace still the greatest threat to the United Netions' war éffort, the British Ad. miralty, bas stepped up its efforts . to beat the U-boats. by launching a new offensive against "careless talk," "about the movements of merchant shipping. Merseyside, Liverpool, is the scene of the new drive and a number of nayal officers, alded by a detachment of detectives, - has been sent there where, it {3 belleved, Innocently intended but nonetheless dangerous mention of ship movements has been par- ticularly rampant. Because of its proximity to neutral Eire, the work of enemy agents on the Merseyside is particularly easy, it was pointed out, . The men chosen for the job of sealing "loose lips" were all chos. en for thelr tact In handling men, The officers give lectures during meal hours in the canteens, where 6,000 meals are served dally to men engaged In government ship- ping, visit the wharves and sheds, to seek out men at control points and tell them about Nazi methods and tricks to gain Information. Some of the officers put on little acts In which they play the role of enemy agents to demonstrate how apparently harmless answers to seemingly: Innocent questions can be pleced together to give a ship's probable destination and salling 'date--all the enemy sub- marine..needs to know. The detectives pass their time "fn bars, restaurants, dance halls .and other popular resorts where seamen ' congregate, suspicious characters who eaves- drop on seamen and their friends. They also, on overhearing a sea- man mention anything that might lead to vital Information for the enemy, take careful note and warn the talker. -~~The Admiralty believe that it is seldom the dockers who do the . - careless talk, their information in- dicating that it comes from sea- men, to whom a natural question when they return to port after long periods is: "When do you eal again?'--which, they say, is _ too often answered in all Inno- cence. As for the dockers, there have been several Instances where too Inquisitive strangers have been roughly handled around the docks before -being turned over . to the police. The Admiralty is also extending _.--#ts. drive to men in position ot responsibility in the shippng world, whom they fear are also [ndulging in careless talk, it was learned. 'Big Turtle Makes Attack On Dinghy Airmen, Forced Down, Find New Peril In Sea To all the dangers and hard- ships endured by the {fighting pilots Who defend Malta has been added a new Mediterranean men ace, according to the aeronautical correspondent of The London Times, who writes: \ "The first to experience it were a squadron leader and a Scottish pilot officer observer, who were forced to alight in the sea near the island and had to take to their dinghy. "They knew that help would not |. be long in coming and, fortified with this knowledge, settled com. fortably in the bottom of their rubber dinghy. Suddenly a thump- ing noise came from under the dipghy, and the airmen were as- ~ sailed from below with vicious Jabs. They thought of mines, sub- marines and other marine perils, and hastily shifted position. But still their dinghy was prodded by the unseen foe. 'Seeing Things" ° Soon a cool and supercilious face regarded them with a baleful eye. It was a strange face, and the airmen's thoughts turned to ° sea serpents and the Loch Ness monster, Having completed its dis- passionate survey, the intruder disappeared again, and the air- men were left wondering whether they had been 'seeing things." Not for long, however, for the face reappeared on the other side of the dinghy, and this time they eould see that it was attached to a wrinkled 'neck and an armor- Plated. "fuselage." The_observer soon dentitied it a8 what he described as a Peon pletely operational" turtle, ..Yenemy"" then began a series The head-on attacks on the dinghy, __from time to time coming to the surface as though to gee what damage it had done, When the airmen attempted to drive the - turtle off, it took hold of the drogue-rope in its Jowerfol Jaws and spun the dinghy round and 'round. The "enemy" did not cease « its attacks until, two hours later, the inghy's occupants were res. 'oued by a launch, spying out ° LOOK OUT, ALASKA . You're apt to get your signals crossed up there, now that these comely young ladies, recruited for civil service jobs with the Signal ~ Corps, are heading northward. every woman in the frozen north, Hum-m-m, and there are 26 men to Restrict Air Mail Service To Britain Public Asked To Use. Alr- graph Service For Messages "Postal patrons are especially requested to note that effective Immediately trans-Atlantic alr mail is now confined to aircraph and armed forces air letters. The increasing demand on trans- Atlantic aircraft capacity for vital war supplies has created an al most complete absence of space on aircraft. Conditions have be- come 80 acute in recent weeks that practically all correspondence prepaid at air mail rates has had to be dispatched from Canada to Great Britain by ship. The same situation has obtain. ed as regards: the dispatch of air malls from the United States and also In the reverse direction from Great Britain to both Canada and the United States. Welght Limited In these circumstances, the Can- adlan public Is asked to uso the airgraph servico for messiges to civilians and members of the arm- ed forces in Great Britain and other places to which this service is available, A limited amount of space "has been reserved on aircraft for arm- ed forces alr letters which wlll be accepted and dispatched by air subject to space available, The. public is therefore asked to send their messages by airgraph or surface transport, but, if de- spite this advice the public insist on sending their mail by air in its original form then the Postal De- partment will give it the most ox- peditious treatment which the clr- cumstances permit. No guarantee of afr transport can be given. It is to be remembered that no such {tems must exceed two oun- oes In weight. If any item exceed- "ing two ounces 1s prepaid at afr mall rate it will be forwarded to destination by surface means. Turning Wheat Into Livestock Prairle Farm Set-Up Ex- plained by Lethbridge Herald Those who do not understand the Prairle farm set-up will say, why. do not farmers turn their wheat into livestock for which there i8 a good market, and then they could pay their debts. Let us look at the suggestion. We raised over 600,000,000 bush- els of wheat in the West this year, We have a market for 280, 7000,000--that is all the Govern. ment has obligated: Itself to take. That leaves 320,000,000 bushels surplus in the farmer's hands. Buppose we divided this equally - and fed 160,000,000 bushels of ft to hogs and the other 160,000,000 bushels to cattle, It takes 16 bushels of wheat to produce a 220-pound hog worth $26. That means we would be able to fatten 10,000,000 more hogs. The whole of Canada will not produce 8,000,000 in the next year. We couldn't possibly find the breeding stock to produce another 10,000, 000 hogs, and we couldn't process them if we did produce them. It takes a ton of wheat, about o% bushels, fo. fatten a two-year- « old steer. So 160,000,000 bushels would fatten almost 65,000,000 beef cattle. There were only 8,800,000 cattle of all kinds, including near- ly 4,000,000 milk cowe, on all the farms of Canada in 1941, Where 'would the Western farmers get 5,000,000 beef cattle' to fatten on their surplus wheat? So it is not as easy as it sounds to convert wheat Into pork and beef. It would: be fine it we could do it during the war, but what would wo do with all that Prodsiction after the war? "s Rural Sociability Still Flourishes A writer laments the decline of the old-time community spirit In the rural districts, and claims that with the passing of the barn rafs- ing, the husking bee, and the saw- ing bee among men, and the pating bee and the picking bee, and the: lke among the women, there is not the spirit of soclabllity that should prevail, says The Chatham Nows, 'He seems to overlook the fact that time has only worked its" change here as elsewhere, and that now, we have the church tea, the garden tea, the family reunion, war work, women's institutes and clubs without © number and sporting leagues of all sorts. Wo fall to see where the rural, or any other sections of the coun- try are suffering from a lack of get-together functions. Most people find it dificult to keep in touch with even a small portion of what is golng on about them in the way of recreation and amusement, Douglas Fir Used For Aircraft Skin Several Veneers Bonded With Resin Glue Make Flat Panel of Plywood Paper-like sheets of Douglas fir wood, one forty-eighth of an inch thin, are now being shipped East 'to be fabricated into "skin" for plywood gliders and planes, These shipments, as yet, are ¢ neither large nor many, but they are seen as highly significant, The = standard plywood = for which Oregon and Washington have become the world eentre and which i8 being used so extensively in the war effort of the United Nations is the familiar flat panel made up of several veneers bonded with resin glue and of steel-liko strength. Many a person has tried futilely to visualize this sturdy material as a substitute for alum. inum in the covering of planes. The plywood used: for "skin" involves an entirely different pro. cess, This plywood region, while it has had an extensive part in supplying manufacturers of both metal and wood planes with such parts as bomp doors, wing tips, structural members, floors, and gusset plates, has not, until re. cently, had part also in supply- ing plane and glider coverings. That is why this paper-thin fir ply is seen as so important. The regulation plywood is pro- duced by pegling the great fir logs with a rotary lathe much like unwinding a huge roll of paper, By the new process the veneers are sliced vertically with the grain of the wood. In the regu- lar plywood of the region the liquid glue is smeared. on the plies; in the new: process the glue is used in sheets: like paper. The regulation plywood may be curved or molded after it is fabricated; in the new process it is glued and molded in one process, A Specialty Job This plywood that .takes the place of aluminum for covering the fuselage and wings of planes is a specialty job which is done in the plywood plants of the East, using mostly hardwoods, Mahog- any, birch, spruce and walnut are the favorite woods, sliced into thin veneers for this purpose. It was not until after Presi- dent Roosevelt set. the goal of THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William erguscn LAVAL IS STILL. LAVAL WHETHER YOU READ HIS NAME Zack) OR. FORWARDS, corm 1942 ov NEA service, me. 520 = ToTEMIsy, THE BELIEF IN RELATIONSHIP WITH CERTAIN ANIMALS, 18 NOT JUST A NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN IDEA/ IT HAS BEEN FOUND IN ONE FORM OR. ANOTHER IN AND MELANESIA. WHAT sHOT IN GOLF IS PLAYED WITHOUT THE CLUB HEAD TOUCHING "THE BAL] i ANSWER: The explosion shot. The club head hits into the sand * back of the ball, and the ball is set In motion by the impact of the BA . ey NEXT: A new use for golf balls, Exit 1942, inter 1948, The turn of the year is usually a period of review and resolution, As we come to the close of an- other year, it might be interest. calendar. of radio broadcasting during. the past twelve months. . . . Fom the standpoint of the aver- age radio' listener in Canada, few changes have been visible, * With scarcely any major exceptions most of the popular national and international 'broadcast features have been maintained. the rigors of war the customary on a scale comparable with simi- Jar services during days of peace, Radio has continued to provide a rapid means of dissemination of war news, and # has been exten- sively used as a medium of pub- lic information on questions re- lated to our war effort , . . per- haps even more so than was the caso in 1941, About the only out- ward and visible indication of change has been the shortening the United States production of planes per year at 125,000 that the industry began looking about for new materials. Metals, it was enormous order, not even with the increased production of alumi- num, = Not even the favored woods would fill the bill. The supply of mahogany from South America is limited by restrictions on cargo vessels, and the supplies of spruce and other woods are limited for large-scale production. Other woods have had to be considered, among them Douglas fir which has the advantage of being both an abundant and permanent supply. One method is to save mahogany for surface veneers and use other woods for inner sheets. The Douglas fir industry of thin northwest region is far too busy just now to stop and tinker with this new process. With labor shortages, labor = freezing and stretching of the work week, it is difficult enough to fill the mass production orders for military construction purposes. But the industry is intensely interested in the newcomer as a challenge to meet. Already four mills in Ore- gon and Washington and two in British Columbia are equipped with slicers and are shipping these new, vertical, paper-thin veneers to castern plants. Started in World War 1 The region was deeply inter ested in plywood aircraft during World War I because of the pro- duction of spruce for this purpose on the Olympic Peninsula, A rail. road was built into the forest wilds and there was considerable activity, but not much came of it. As a result there has never been much faith in "wooden airplanes' of recent years. i In Western Flying for July, Stratford Enright explains that the fault with these early air- planes was in the glues that were used, The development of syn- thetic resin glues in the two de- cades since accounts largely for the improvement in plywood fa- brication which, under heat and pressure, become impregnated with the wood and forms what ls fairly a new, steel-like material, water and weather resistant, "The boom .of plywood aircraft construction is now on," Mr. En- right writes. "This boom is seen in use of wood in metal planes wherever it can save aluminum." The article speaks of 'the phe- nomenal speed with which the all- metal aircraft industry has sud- denly started producing all-wood aircraft." Cargo ships, twin - engined bomber trainers, and gliders are all being constructed of plywood, 'using both the flat, regulation ply- wood, and the new process molded "gkin" type. | RADIO REPORTER & rose | ing to look back briefly into the In spite of routine of news, entertainment, education and instruction has continued over the ether waves - seen, could not supply such an _ most > e of the hours of broadcasting by certain stations across the Domin- fon. Even this has been accom- plished without any undue incon. venience to the listening public, Certain stations have opened up a little later in the morning, and signed off somewhat earlier at night, That's about all, . . Le Behind the scenes of radio, however, 1942 has seen many changes apd many causes of anxi- ety. - There has been, of course, a period of transition of working staffs due mainly to enlistment in the armed forces. This has been particularly true of engin- eering staffs, The armed ser- vices have sought technicians for special duty, particularly. with the Royal Air Force and its branches. The radio broadcasting industry, frequently to its' embarrassment, has responded loyally to the call, Often young, inexperienced en- gineers have stepped into the breech and carried on. In sev- eral cases young women, with brief training have successfully taken over the control panels from the men. There are now several young women in sole charge of the engineering and transmission equipment of the smaller radio broadcasting units in Canada. The transition has taken placo smoothly, and, in most cases with surprising effici- ency. * LJ . But the big headache, the great anxiety of radio in 1942 has been replacement . equipment, The huge transmitting tubes used on broadcasting equipment, costing, incidentally from $800 to $1,000 -each, are becoming very few and far between. In their construction, alloys and metals of a strategic war nature are re- quired . .. alloys and metals which are urgently needed for the manu- facture of direct fighting equip- ment." It has been necessary the conservation of radio trans mitting tubes, © Many firms who formerly manufactured parts and equipment for broadcast transmit. ters have discontinued their former activities. One; for in stance is now solely engaged in making fine electrital parts for depth bombs, the terror of the enemy submarine, Another is 'making electricdl panel instru ments of a precision nature for army bombers and fighters, Al the present time it- is impossible to get repairs made to micro- phones without taking some teche nician *away from a direét war job. . . . . So behind the scenes of radio broadcasting, the business of cars rying on has become increasingly difficult. My guess is that it will become progressively more diffi- cult in 1943. The larger net- works of the United States, as well as individual stitions in Can- ada have found it necessary to establish a "pool" for replacement equipment, and it is becoming Quite. the vogue for stations to "swap parts and technical appar- atus, 1942 has scen extensive plans put into effect for the safeguard- ing of radio transmitters. Radio is too important in the national life of our Country to permit sabotage or carelessness to inter rupt the flow of news, of relaxa- tion and inspiration. Inconspicu- ously, but nevertheless effectively, every radio transmitter is guarded td the teeth. Radio's resolution for 1943 is "To carry on." 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