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Odd Freight Flown By the Aviation Editor of The Christian Science Monitor I Csi 'Air freighting--including every- jbhirg from being messenger to Cupid to carrying articles weigh. ing several tons--played 'a major role in the building of the huge . [NS - wer dam on the Shipshaw River - IY Be in Northern Quebec that today is . helping (anada to meet its ware thea requirements for aluminum, ' - * Whet is sald to be one of the a largest single air freighting con- tracts in Canada's long history in £ il this type of work--about 800,000 E vounds--was carried out by Cana. dian Pacific Air Lines in the course of the construction' Of the dam, ' This mighty dam on the Ship. shaw, a tributary of the Saguenay, will develop 1,000,000 horsepower, according to Canadian Pacitic Afr Lines, who also claim that it will generate more power than Boulder Dam on the Colorado River. The Shipshaw dam will supply the elec. _ trical energy for a huge aluminum reflinery--Canada's second largest v --at Arvida, junction of the Ship- ; shaw and Saguenay Rivers. Bulls Transported Some of the oddest shipments ever called for In air history were flown into the Shipshaw site. Among these were eight horses and four live bulls. The bulls, in particular, were carried quite eas. ily, being loaded into the plane cabin and bales of hay packed in around them to keep them from moving while in transit, I ----------------------A motorboat, 20 feet long and 1d welghing approximately 1,600 -B pounds; three tractors, caterpillar y treads, a tractor engine, air com- § pressors, diesel engines, an elec- 1 tric plant, and a complete steam 5 2 shovel were among the larger items flown in, "Many kinds of tools, narrow gauge dump cars, f hose and fittings, pneumatic drills, . and hundreds of other {tems need- ed on such a joh were also freight. ; ed according to demand. f In addition, the eight planes as- i signed to the task carried in staff provisions, baggage and hed- --_ ding, 'and. other miscellancous ! household items, } "The romantically-minded com-. - pany even-- accommodated the 'lovelorn laborers, flying them out to keep a date with thelr. girl friends," the Montreal Star re- 2g . Dborted in its account of the dam ya oy construction, ol : Preliminary = photographl. BUT- fi : veys of the dam area were first made by "the aerial surveys di. vision of Canada Pacific Air Lines. ; Land "contours were charted on 0. hundreds® of mosaic maps and riy- i er diversion routes were captured on Tilm, and pieced. together to atd the construction engineers to be- gin their fask. The dam site itsel? was photographed in detail as well Ey at : . as the pipe line route which car- ried precious oil for construction i and the use of the construction i gangs. As one result of this photo- graphic work the river was di- verted over a mile and a halt through a man-made channel 300 feet wide and 30 feet deep, ac- cording to the official account, The jmmense freighting task 3 was begun fn 1940, Much of the / traffic was moved either by ski- equipped planes in winter or on float-horne planes in summer, Ca- nadian Pacific established its own loading base at Beauchene, Que- bec, where "there is fa large lake which can be reaglied by road from Chicoutimi. Construction ma- terials then had to be air frelght- ed In to Lake Manouan in North- eastern Quebeg¢, about 100 miles -- north of the nearest railroad point. Into Shipshaw Site | ~~ Ultra-Violet Lamp Reduces Sickness Absenteeism Checked -In Bri. tish Blacked-Out Factories The British have found that ultra-violet lamps reduce absent- ' eeism in blacked-but factories by ' as much as 60 percent, says The New York Times. American war plants are now following the ex- ample set. For Americans a "merry-go-round" has been de- vised which consists of a revolv- ing platform .on which ten work- ers ride at a"time, In this way about 100 workers an hour are irradiated. Thus resistance to fa- tigue and colds, the principal cause of absenteeism, is built up. : Eig At Cadbury Brothers' works at G : ""%. Bournville, England," Dr. J. B. weg Sherman, the medical officer, ""made elaborate and careful tests on 1,636 employees 'with various methods of preventing colds. He ~found that the annual average ab- sence due to colds was reduced by ultra-violet lamps from 106 days per 100 workers to sixty-six days, From the Harland Conipany's 'works at Alloa come © even more amazing figures. Since een the firm's solarium in an under. 4 + ground first-aid post was installed : sickness has been reduced among the office staff by nearly sixty percent and among the works staff by over thirty-five percent. Engineering BR A A TOA ANS WA - - _ SCOUTING... When Troop 42 Boy Scouts of Pendleton, Oregon, learned that the Boy Scouts of Canada had a fund to aid British Scouts who had lost homes and equipment in the blitz, they dipped into their Troop Funds and sent along $5.00 to help out the cause, They des- cribed their gesture as "a friend ly handelasp stretching to the north." Nearly $35,000 has now been = forwarded by Canadian Scouts»to their brothers in Great Britain, Boy Scouts of Ridgetown, Ont, recently staged a one week cam- paign to raise funds to ship secds to Great Britain. At the end of the week they had $101.38 with which they bought garden' seeds to be used by British Boy Scouts in their "Dig for Victory" gar- dens, LJ . . Boy Scouts of Halifax, N.S,, op- erate' the Tweedsmuir Room, a rest- and recreation centre for former Scouts now in the armed services, In the first two years they entertained more than 1,200, While the majority of the visitors came from Canada, the log book reveals visifs from Scouts of' Great Britain, - Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, the West Indies, India, Newfound. land, British Guiana, Brazil, Hol- land, Argentina, Belgium, France, Latvia; U.S.A, and Norway. * * * . A Rover Scout Crew in Gibral- tar meets each week in a packing case. However it isn't as cramped as it sounds. The packing case is an airplane case and is really quite roomy, The boys have add- ed a verandah and an awning. All niembers of the Crew are in the armed forces stationed at the - fortress. oe Because of their special train- ing in observation, Boy Scouts of Nova Scotia are likely to be taken into the Aircraft Detection" Corps as plane spotters. In this work they will be emulating the ex- ample set-by Boy Scouts of Eng- land, who 10,000 strong acted as coast 'watchers during the first. Great War, and who in larger numbers are doing the same job again in this war. VOICE "PRESS DUMB CLUCK A White Leghorn pullet named Vitaminnie was entered in an egg- laying "contest in Passaic, New Jersey, by her North ranch owner. She laid an egg a day for 140 days and ran up a State record. From latest reports she had of- fered no comment about time and a half for production over that made in a forty-hour week. --New York Sun --_---- LITTLE SERVICES By carrying her shopping home, the British housewife has helped to save 10,000,000 gallons of gasoline a year, as well as a good deal of manpower. In fact, this war will be won by the accumula- tion of "little services" which are contributed by all the people who make up the. nation. --Chatham News i HARD TO ANSWER Why is it that women who in civil life can't run a furnace or operate a lawn-mower have no difficulty in servicing aireraft-or _ running complicated machinery when they become war workers? --Brockville Recorder and Times v ---- COMPLICATED OUTLOQK We have always wondered what ~ would EAppen ft a war went on so long that therd were more prison- ers on each side than there were people to guard them and do the fighting. . : --Toronto Saturday Night els . 0 ESSENTIALS ~ You are not fully into a total war until you forget all about prices and worry only over whe- ther there is enough to eat and a place to sleep--alive. - --London Free Presa ---- SPRING FEVER "Absenteeism" is just a fancy word which covers such things as plain flaziness, indifference to the war, and a profound distaste for a regular job, . CRT Saab Al pists THE TIME COMES { War or no war, the income | t a x es notwithstanding, there _ comes a time in a man's life when a woman has to have another hat. ~--Stratford Beacon-Herald --) , HOW TO REDUCE i A noted physician says the best | reducing system is described fin | four words: "No more, thank | you." = { _ ~~@alt' Reporter 0 MORE ERSATZ Dog hair is being used for knit- ting in Germany. Making "fleas- lined" garments? - --Peterborough Examiner WEAN aa AT Two "drops" in the rain 6f bombs that the U, S. Army's 8th Air Force poured on Germany recently are seen plunging toward Ger- man U-boat yards at Vegesack, on the Aller River, noithwest of "Bremen, damaged by the Yan Eighteen og shops and the power house were severely s' precision bombing in the daylight raid. THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Rommel's Retreating Armies Travel Northward Over Historic Roads Field Marshal Erwin Rommel re- treated north last. week through Tunisia, says the New York Times, Between Gabes and Bizerte the gnarled trunks and dome-shaped foliage of 16,000,000 olive trees dominate the land over which his. forces moved. From the south the British Eighth Army, with Its deadly train of 3,000 guns, pressed closer. In the hills to the west American and French troops work- ed their way through his mine fields to threaten his flank. His northern stronghold was under at- tack by the British First Army. Overhead American aircraft In 100-plane flights hammered tho highways along which his desert. dusty tanks and trucks pounded, swept out to blast his base at Cag- liar and Messina across the Medl- térranean in Sardinia and Sicily. The objective of the Allied armies was crystal clear. They proposed to destroy his army and drive him across the sea, back into Adolt Iitler's Fortress Kur- ope. To do that would be to win two of the greatest goals in the global strategy--of -the United Na- tions. It would permit launching drives into Southern Europe, through France, or Italy, or the Balkans, without fear that a Ger- man force might menace the African bases of the attacking armies. And it would open the Mediterranean to Allied shipping, "which "pow must travel the long, --Renfrew Mercury : 14,000-mile route around Africa to reach the Middle East and India, The Marshal's Task The marshal's job was to stop the Allies short of these aims. It was a galling, thankless task, far different from the glorious des- tiny that seemed reserved for him nine months ago when his Afrika Korps thrust to the gates of Egypt and the laurels of 'Alexan- der the (reat were almost with- in his grasp. He worked hard at his undertaking, exhausted every stratagem at his command in or- der to carry it out. He tried first to build a stronghold stretching the length of Tunisia's_east coast, linking a tough center of resist- anco in the Tunis-Bizerte region of the north to another based on the Mareth fortifications in the south, with a battle line strung 400 miles through the hills west of the coastal plains. : That failed when his old foe, the British General Sir Bernard . L. Montgomery, turned his south- ern defenses and forced him to withdraw northward to escape en- trapment. British troops, drawn from all parts of the Empire, first stormed the Mareth Line. Desplte heavy rains that hampered the forward movement of their artil: lery, they made steady progress. The cost in lives and smashed ma- terial was heavy. Around The Flank Then General Montgomery, as full of tricks as his German op- ponent, gambled to save lives. He ordered heavy reinforcement of a column of troops he had sent through the salt deserts around the German flank. This column, under the colorful New Zealander, General Sir Bernard C. Freyberg, veteran of Mexican revolutions and hero of the first World War, met the Panzer unils sent to inter- cept it near the oasis of El Ham- ma. The battle took place at 4 o'clock ip, the afternoon. The Brl- tish, their backs to a low, blazing sun, throwing a heavy smoke screen before. them, charged. The German troopers, staring into the sun and smoke, often did not see their opponents until it was too lato to fire. : Overhead a screen of alreraft, specially armed to fight tanks, swooped to the attack. In this ~ fighting American planes played a part, making as many as 1,399 sorties in one -day. American ground attacks farther: north help- ed draw off some of Marshal Rom-: mel's strength and this contributed to the British victory. Over Historic Roads . Under this combined attack the Germans broke and ran. From that moment it became necessary for the Nazi marshal to retreat. The roads his columns took northward were historic. They had known the tread of Hannibal's elephants, the soft shuffling of St. Augustine's sandals and the hoofbeats of Roger the Norman's armored horse. They led through a countryside low and flat, a corridor varying fn width from twenty-five to fifty miles between the hills in the west and the sea In the east: Along it were the towns of Gabos, Sfax, Sousse, that- had been the strength, of Carthage, colonial centers of the Roman and Turkish Empjres, One of them, Sfax, had trembled under the fire of modern warships when the French Fleet brought French colonial rule and nineteenth century civilization to Tunisia, A Where along that corridor Mar. + shal Rommel would stand and fight was the chief problem for the Allied commanders. North of Gabes his rearguard showed signs of holding once, then moved far ther back where again {t appeared ready for battle. Many. observers thought the marshal would moye all the way, as slowly as possible, to his northern defense golte) in ¢ thie Tunis-Bizerte region whére he would try to hold. The Allies would give him no respite there. Last week the posi tion was under heavy attack by' the British First Army which reached Mateur, but eighteen miles from Bizerte. But the land remained in the German favor, much as the land favored the Am- erican and Filipino forces on Ba- taan. Their flanks were guarded by the Mediterranean Sea, just as General Douglas MacArthur's flanks were protected by the South China Sea and the Bay of Manila. A low, rough, broken line Honor To "Number 10" =~ Let's have less nonsense from the friends of Joe, We laud, we love him; but the nonsense -- no, In 1940, when we bore the brunt We could have done, boys, with a Second Front A Continent went down a cataract, But Russia did not think 'it right to act, - £ Not ready? No. And who shall call her wrong? Far better not to strike till you are strong, Better perhaps, but this was not our fate, To make ney treaties with the man you hate, Alas, these Ely manoeuvres had to end, When Hitler leapt upon his largest friend. (And if he had not, I wonder, by the way, If Russia would be in the war to-day?) - But who rushed out to aid the giant then, A giant rich in corn, and oil, and men Long, long prepared, and having, so they say, The most enlightened ruler of the day, * This tiny: Island, antiquated, tired, ) Effete, capitalist, 'and uninspired; 4 This tiny wy wounded in the war . Through taRing tyrants on two years before; This tiny Isle of muddles and mistakes, Having a front on every wave that breaks; We might have said: "Our shipping's on the stretch, You shall' have all the tanks that you can fetch," But this is not the way we fight this war; We give the tanks--and take them to the door, Honor the Kremlin, boys, but, now and then, Admit some signs of grace at No. 10, --A. P, Herbert, in Punch. ot hills threw a protecting arm across much of the Nazi northern stronghold, but the hills fail to a narrow doorway which must be closely guarded. . Tunisia's Chief Cities Within this Axis stronghold were Tunisia's two chief cities. Bizerte's lake, connected with the field which the Germans had plenty reach the northern coast, leaving of time to load with explosives. From now on Rommel must do his hastily, though 'he is re- ported to be manufacturing var- fous types mining Lend Garden Tools When - your neighbor asks in considerable quan- of Siclly. One thing, To Your Neighbor borrow your lawn mower, you say tity from materials shipped across |-you are using it and he replies, the Strait _ United soa by a channel running through the city, contains a naval base second only to Toulon among France's Mediterranean bases. Tunis, near the site of anclent Carthage, Is Tunisia's capital. Un- der its walls, St. Louis of France died attempting tg storm the city. Beyond this position there {8s no reteeat this side of MKurope for Marshal Rommel. And thero were no signs last week that he intend ed to leave Africa. Syong forces, estimated at 200,000 men and 1,- 300 airplanes are at his command. From Italy he was presumably receiving reinforcements estimated at from 500 to 1,000 men a day and from 76 lo 125 tanks a month. They crossed the Sicilian Straits, favorite hunting ground for Allied submarines and aircraft, in giant Messerschmitt 323's, six-engined planes believed capable of carry- fng 250 soldiers, and Siebel fer ries, shallow-draft pontoon boals difficult to torpedo. In the back- ground was the oft-beaten Italian Fleet, now perhaps under the com- mand of German officers It might emerge from its Adriatic bases to fight. Marshal Rommel, it seemed evl- dent, planned a stift battle before relinquishing the Axis Tunisian bridgehead. Allied commanders saw a possibly long slege beforo selves this example of reverse Ans 3 3 Teo ae Bath catered. hia Jeet { i Wiis Eales depot, : ase." - oss thal ft ve: northern defense positions. That oN . osSTAaan yg Your old, The train is built to run on any It will be some before sicge might .be costly in lives, they warned. But on both the Allied and German sides there were evl- dences of belief that the end was not too far off. The Germans were ruthlessly pressing the labor of their captive countries to the task of building foftifications along the shores of Southern Europe. In Northern Europe they were clear- ing civilians out of areas that might become battle zones in the event of an Allied invasion. In Nations countries there was "a helghtened air of expect- ancy. The Spring was growing older. Good fighting weather was near. Rommel's Rear Guard For 'five months the Germans- have been planting land mines-- along every approach to the Tun- isian coast. They cannot be dug up in five hours or five days. This mechanical rear guard which Rom. mel left behind him has served him as well as Axis tanks and guns to delay our attacking col- ~-umns. No defensive weapon of the war has proved more useful on a re- stricted fibnt than the land mine. On a vast front such as that of the Russian Winter offensive it is not so effective, siinply because there is too much ground to cover. The whole world could not produce enough mines to neutralize 187, =000 square miles of territory. But in Africa- the land mind has help- ed Rommel to escape his pursuers again and again. The rovte of his retreat from Egypt had great length but vedy. little width; he could mine thé shore road almost anywhere, In Tunisia every moun- tain pass was. a potential mine 7 however, seems certain. When he fs driven back to the beaches ft will do him no good to mine the sea. As early as 1939, during thelr drive into Poland, the Germans used land mines to hold the French on the Belfort triangle. Yet no fully successful counter to this weapon has thus far been deo- veloped. Clearing mine fields fs "well, you won't be needing your hoe, then," pleaso bo patient. The Prices Board, among others, has cast a mantle of respectable ity over the man who owns noth- ing but a chunk of land in his back yard. . "It you have not gardened be- fore, and have neither the tools vor the experience, offer your ser- vices as a 'digger' to your nearest neighbor or community contre still a slow and costly process, U. K. Lendivdse To United States board oflicials said. The first hospital train built in be wasteful. Britain for the United States Army Medical Department was formally handed over recently to Brig.-Gen. Paul R. Hawley. tl Tho train of six ward cars and a car for sitting-up patients can carry nearly 300 wounded. It also includes a pharmacy car dening "tools are in amd operating theatre, two kit. ply. chen cars and stores, offices, © medieal nurses and attendants. Brig.-Gen. Hawley said this "is an example of the close co-oper- ation wo have received through- out. I wish the people in the Utiited States could sce.for them- officers, flowing into gauge railroad--in Britain, North Africa, or on the continent. Al though the cars were prodiiced in Britain, the train is powered by an American locomotive: for an all-out offen Jupanese flow for nonsoons., other cars for rR Tons Of Material Flow Into India where there is already a vegetable parden established or projected," "Every and every sced has got to show results this year, and ments of the amateur are apt to the exporl. Besides connmunity effort there will also be door-todoor co-oper- ation in garden production, is, of necessity, will require tol- erance: in the loaning of garden tools to those who lack them. Be- canse of war requirements, limited Tons of vital war material are Eastern China daily from this huge Amer- India quantities of supplies large enough ve against the ard, time" is coming as surely as the but "1 feel guilty layin' here when I think of my ol' man out trudgin' from house to' house tryin' to sell brushes for a livin'!" 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