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\ THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1940 PAGE THREE IGHT RESTORED TO MAN BLIND FOR 52 YEARS Cleric Regains ower of Sight by Use of Contact Lenses Winnipeg, Aug. 26. -- Rev. John inte; stal City, Man., last his power of sight re- ter he had been almost years, contact lenses closely H er his eyeballs brought he transformation to the 66-year- d man, who is pastor in a mission h h in the little town, 130 miles puthwest of Winnipeg. for a time by the sud- in change the lenses had made to im, he gazed at W. N. Fowler, ptician who had advised him to try INNIDEe X he lenses, and at Dr. A. F. Macneil, he oculist, then said: "I had for- ptten humen beings looked like " he lost his sight in a car- shop accident in Glasgow he was 14 years old, Mr. Hun- r had been able to distinguish man beings only by their voices. cally all he could do was to Hin daylight from darkness. could tell when an object was tly in front of him but could ever tell what it was. ' Restoration of his sight came just er a month too late for the pastor b.see his son, Private Ferguson unter, 20, who died July 13 in an crash at Brandon. The day of his son's funeral he told of Mr. Fowler, whom he isited. Dr. Macneil examined the han's eyes and found no patho- bgical defects which might impair vision, aside from the scars ich were left when surgeons at- mpted to save Mr. Hunter's sight hen he was a child. He encourag- d him to try the contact lenses. Contact lenses have been known 100 years but the kind which re- ored sight to Mr. Hunter are of he type developed in recent years yw. Theodore E. Obrig, of New York. After wearing the lenses for an and a half, during which time was able to read magazines and dozens of articles he didn't mow even existed. Mr. Hunter re- noved the lenses, and they were nt back to New York for delicate inding. While he had them on his vision In one eye was almost normal and In the other better than normal. The lenses are made of an un- h ble transparent plastic and bnce fitted to the eyeball they can be seen. A Churchill Speech Not Edited First, Mr. Churchill's habit in his early Hays of memorizing his speeches re- hinds a colleague of a newspaper tory that is told of the Prime Min- "Mr. Churchill was speaking in his punger days at a West Country own, and a reporter from the local yening paper met him at the sta- on and asked him if he could sup- bly a copy of his speech in advance. [r. Churchill took a copy from his pocket and said: "You can have his: I have memorized the speech nd shall not need it again." Delighted, the reporter bore the popy off to the office; and it was mmediately got into type so that ihe newspaper could be published th a full report as soon as Mr. hurchill had finished speaking. In hose days reports were not sub- dited with the care given to that now; they were often sent di- t to the printer. That was what happened to Mr. Churchill's speech. The result caused consternation n that newspaper office when the per appeared. Mr. Churchill in hose days was coping with a slight p which, by dint of Churchillian oggedness, he managed to get very wmly under control. To remind himself to take care with his esses he had written them all in red ink. nd the printer, determined to take gual pains, had printed all those sses in italics. Sheep of the Republic of Lebanon have such large fat tails that herd- provide. small wagons in which p sheep rest them. A harness nables them to pull the wagon, and e fab in the tails provides energy n 'their natural food supply is U.S. Mmbers of Defence Board Capt. H. W. Hill Lieut.-Gen, 8. D. Embick Find Many Relics Of Arctic Journey Relice of the American Arctic | @pedition of A Fiala, which were found recently on Rudolf Island have been assigned to the Arctic Museum in Leningrad, Russia. Among them are a note in a tin box, a French thermograph with a drum and clock mechanism, an iron medicine chest, an American flag, three diaries in English, an English porcelain plate, the plan of the par= ty's dwelling house and the expedi- tion's seal. The Fiala expedition was unsuc- cessful in its attempt to reach the North Pole. Its ship sank in Tep- litz Bay, Rudolph Island, and in 1905 the members of the party were rescued by the Norwegian steamer Terra Nova. Rangers Parade To Camp At Peterboro Fair Grounds Peterboro, Aug. 27.--Looking very mart and soldierly, although all but a few of them are newcomers to y life, 500 men of the Prince of Wales Rangers (M.G.), under the command of Col. J. A. Dewart, M.C., ched from the wrmories yester- day morning to 'he Exhibition [irounds, where they will train under licinvas for the next two weeks. .The battalion is actually 800 strong, but it. was tinought advisable Q take only 500 men to camp &t the present time in order that local in- tustry night not Le disorganized. Despite the early start, large Prowds of spectators lined the route as the Rangers marched into camp th the regimental band st their head. . Probably the busiest . man iu Peterboro over the week-end was Capt. D. A. Loomis, M.C., the Ran- Ber' quartermaster. Since Friday, Ath the assistance of 100 men of the Stormont, Dundas and Glen- garry Highlamders, who were detail- ed to help him, he has provided liv- ing, sleeping and dining quarters for a small army. Scores of reguiation bell tents have been erected in the eastern half of the grounds, while to one side the camp kitchens and mess tents have been laid out. The Manu- facturers' Building has been trans- formed into camp headquarters, and now houses the orderly. room and other regimental offices as well as stores and food supplies. The camp will be entirely cell-conteined. A recreation hut Tor the use of the men in their off-duty hours is being conducted by Adjutant Norman Buckley of the Salvation Army, and a good public response has been made to his appeal for books, maga- zines and games. Tie loan of a piano Is also being arrauged for the hut, which will occupy the flower show U5. 15 TESTING TORPEDO PLANE WITHOUT PILOT Television Operated Bomb- er Cheap Means of Ob- taining Data Chicago, Aug. 27.--Dr. Lee De Forest, inventor often called the "father of radio," said that develop. ment of a pilotless television torpe- do plane on which he has been working might be completed within a year. The device, he said, would provide the United States military forces with an inexpensive means of Ob- taining information by aerial sur- veys and also would act as a robot bomber, Dr, De Forest came here from his home in Los Angeles and conferred with U, A. Sanabria, president of the American Television Laborator- fies, whom he credited with being the originator of the idea. The de- vice is being tested at the army's Wright field, near Dayton, Ohio, Dr. De Forest said. The torpedo plane could be made | from inexpensive plastics and would require no armor because it would Carry no passengers, the inventor explained. The flight could be dir- | ected by radio from a mothership 10 miles or more away and out of danger, he added. Television cam- eras could be placed in the nose and a bomb carried beneath the fuse- lage. A television fransmitter in the device could send pictures of the terrain below to the ground base and the mothership, where opera- tors would be able to sight for | bomb targets and manoeuvre the | torpedo plane to avoid attacking fighter craft. | The inventor explained the ship | would be defenseless and probably | would be shot down, but it would | be inexpensive and that "the cost | of training pilots, not to mention the loss of life, would be saved." THIRD SOLDIER IN TRUCK SPILL DIES OF HURTS Ottawa Man Succumbs--4 | Other Injured Soldiers Progressing Favorably | Toronto, Aug. 27.--With the death | during the night In Christie Street Hospital of Privaile J. L. A. Massey. R.CASC. of Ottawa, the toll of those killed in thz automobile accl- dent near Churchiil on Friday whe: | a truck loaded with soldiers left the highway and struck a hydro pole, is now three. Four olier soldiers and a civillan were seriously injured. Two soldiers died shortly after admittance to Christie Street Hos- pital. They were Privates J. Mc- Cabe and L. W, O'Connell of the Royal Regiment of Canada. Charles A. S. Hunt, 42, of 70 Shields Avenue, driver of the lsun- dry truck in which the soldiers had hitch-hiked a ride, is still in a critical condition in the Royal Vic- toria Hospital at Barrie. . The other injured soldiers in Christie and the Toronto Military hospitals, are reported as progres$- ing favorawly. Hunt has as yet been unable to say what caused the tragic accident. It is believed thai something went wrong with the steering. The truck, travelling south, left the highway crashed into two guard posts, and then careened over a steep bank, cut down a hydro pole and then turned over several times. To Ship Hospital Overseas The US. Red Cross and Harvard University will establish and oper- ate jointly a 100-bed hospital in England to study and treat com- municable diseases under war-time conditions. The hospital will be a hut type to be fabricated in the US. and transported to England. U.S. Mystery Plane Unveiled for inspection by William S. Knudsen, Gen, Henry H. Arnold, air corps chief. Lockheed Aircraft Corp. at Burbank, Calif., brings out what is called the world's chairman of the national defence advisory commission, and Major- The twin-engine interceptor pursuit ship fatest military airplane, carries a onelpound rapid fire cannon and five machine-guns, is said to have a speed of 500 miles an hour, climbing 4,000 feet a minute. . 'We Sinned Against Duties But Hun Is Sure To Perish' Letter From France Assures Peterboro, Aug. 27.--From a little village in Nazi-occupied France has come a letter to a relative living here pleading for confidence in ulti- mate victory "though we have sin- ned against our traditions and our duties." The letter from a French woman, dated June 20, concludes: "I write this letter from my window ledge. Across the road is a little church, emall and plain. In two or three years, by the grace of God, the bells housed in its whitewashed walls shall join the bells of Canada, Eng. land and France in a carillon of victory." "Events and accidents of march- ing have brought us to this little village of Lot et Garonne, where the inhabitants are doing their best for us, so here in southern France "French people say: 'War is only started. We are out for a while, but fighting goes on, and before many | months England and America will we are waiting for orders," the cor- | respondent wrote "The situation is sad, painful' We have sinned against our traditions and our duties. In spite of the ex- treme heroism of our soldiers, the huge number of our enemies has overrun our armies--had it not been for their speed and their wavs we wculd have been able to reform our lines; but confidence in the future and in France {s intact. send us the means to start again; occupation and political domination are only temporary. The day will come when we shall make the Huns give up their arms.' "I am convinced that we shall still get at them. You may think, after all that has happened, my hypothesis js crazy, but Germany shall perish through Italy. Many others before Hitler have dreamed of an immense continental empire unsuccessfully. Their attack was powerfully manned, well executed, and their technique remarkably wonderful, bug its value is in its continuity. The advantages of their methods will yet turn against them. "All France looks toward Petain, To the hero of Verdun fell the heart-breaking duty to ask for an armistice Years of bad politics | could not be erased in a few months I Today we are paving for the follies | of '36 and '37. May this cruel lesson give back to the Frenchmen the feeling of thelr responsibilities" (Fear that she may suffer repri- sal prevents publication of writer's name.) MAKE TYPEWRITER WITH 80 LETTERS Used to Write Sinhalese, Dialect Spoken in Ceylon -- Intricate Machine After long research, a British firm, at the request of the Ceylon Government authorities, has suc- ceeded in building a typewriter re- producing the complicated symbols of Sinhalese, the language of Cey- lon. Sinhalese has baffled crafts- men for many years because there are no fewer than 80 letters in its alphabet, and, in addition, a large number of combined symbols. Germany designed a typewriter which made a very fair attempt to reproduce the characters of Tamil which is spoken ir. South India and Ceylon, but it has been left to Bri- tish craftsmen to evolve a machine for Sinhalese, where one character has, in effect, to be imposed on an- other to produce certain symbols. This central problem has been solv- ed by a typewriter so designed as to permit, where necessary, a fur- | | ther character to b> superimposed I'n spite of this complicated work which it is called iinon to perform, the new machine has precisely the same number of keys as the English keyboard model. Other intricate alphabets. included | in the range of which the Sinhalese is one are Thal (Siamese) | Hebrew, Large shipments of British type- writers continue to maintain the HEART ATTACK 5 FATAL TO BELLEVILLE MAN Belleville, Aug. 27.--In apparent good health on Saturday when he attended Belleville market, Michael Haley, Pinacle Street, Belleville, and | died at his home eary Sunday morning following a' heart attack. | He was 78 years of age, and was a native of Hungerford Township. For the past ten years he had | lived in Belleville, previously resid- | Ing on the 9th concession of Thur- | low Township. Deceased was a member of St. Michael's Catholic Church. Surviving are his widow who be- fore her marriage was Lily Moreau, four daughters, Margaret Haley, of | Toronto; Irene Haley, of Hamilton; Mrs. Frank Armstrong, of Guelph, and Nora Jlaley, of Toronto, | three sons, Stafford, of Frankford: | Franklin, of Rochester, N.Y, | Farley, of Toronto. | and | the standart of living. PRICES INCREASE WAGES DECREASE IN NAZI GERMANY Y.W.C.A. Report Reveals Lowered Standard of Liv- ing.in Reich A glimpse of living conditions 17 Nazi Germany today is s!forded by a monthly news leiter issued by the YWCA. in London, England, . It was quoted as showing how the health and welfare of the German | ; _ blood vessel: Such missiles are people are being sacrificed to. the ambition of their leaders. : Old age pensioners, even though over 70 years of sge, have been medically examined 'and: sent back into industry. More than 500,000 women of 60 years old or more, have been employed as full-time farm laborers. Long hours in mining and similar industries have doubled dis- eases and accidents since Hitle: came to power. Such deficiency dis- eases as rickets, and Tuberculosis among children are incressing steadily, the news lerter shows. German farmers are forced to sell their products at low prices to Nazi suthorities, who resell them to the public at an enormous profit. Even 80, ration cards perinit the buying of only six eggs in four weeks, and similar restrictions are placed on milk, bread, butter, inargarine, lard, sugar, cheese, meat and other neces- sary foods. Tew, coffee and cocoa are unobtainable; tut "chocolate powder" is prepared from ground acorns and tea from blackberry leaves and apple peel These were the conditions before the actual start of the war. They are far worse now, the Y.W.CA. re- port declares. Pr izes now far exceed the pre-war Jevel, but wages have been lowered and extra taxes im- posed. A 50 per cent increase of in- come tax for incomes of more than 50 marks a week Js one example. But, bad as are conditions in Ger- many herself, they are far worse in countries which Hitler has in- vaded and subdued, the news letter asserts. Commenting on this report, ob- tained from reliable sources con- nected with the Y. W.C.A. through- out Europe, Dr. Bates urged that everything possible be done in Can- ade to maintain ana even improve The issue of any war depends largely on stay- and | ing power, he declared, and Canada A sister, Mrs. | is building up hers while Hitler is Annie Donoghue, of Erinsville, also | doing his utmost to destroy that of mourns, his own people. Light Breastplate - Proposed for Troops Serious consideration is promised by the British military authorities to, the provision of light armor for the fighting services. It is proposed to set up a commit- tee on which surgical experts will confer with army, navy and air force authorities in reviewing the experiences of the last war and the latest ' discoveries of protective science, . * "In"modern' warface many men are killed by small pieces of shell which, although impelled a com- paratively low veloefty, pierce 'the fleshy parts of the body and sever often stopped by wallets and cigar- ette cases, A light breastplate, it is suggest~ ed, would be an effective protection against these flying fragments. Various types were on the market during the Great War and, it is claimed, their use saved many lives. Should armor of any sort be offi- cially provided it will probably in- clude protection for the eyes as well as for the chest, the eyes being par- ticularly vulnerable to flying par- ticles. A duralumin visor attached to the steel helmet would, it is claimed, prevent more than 50 per cent of all war blindness. What is certain, however, is that nothing will be adopted which in the least degree diminishes mobil ity, Fruit Paradise A former Sultan of Zanzibar de- cided to destroy every tree in his domain which was useless to man, and in its place plant a fruit-bear- ing tree. This policy proved a wise one, and so cheap and plentiful is fruit on the island that families pay men about $1.50 a month to supply them with every kind of fruit growing locally. Zanzibar is so rich in spice that it can be smelled on ships miles out at sea, far beyond visible range. RELIEVE SUFFERING QUICKLY WITH KELLOGG'S the | You can STILL volume of exports de.pite the reduc- | tion of European markets. They are BOINg out not only to the British Dominions and Colonies but also to foreign countries including Portugal, China, Thalland, Netherlands East and West Indies, Egypt, Iraq, Mdtocco, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Venezuela and Peru, Composite Picture Made of Chronic Alcoholic in U.S. -------- ' The average chronic alcoholic, ac. cording to the National W.C.T.U, is a professional man, past 30, father of at least one child, an in- cessant smoker, nervous, tired and under-nourished. The composite picture is based on a statistical study of 400,000 cases treated during the past 60 years at the Keeley Institute, Dwight, Ill, British Coastal Guns Hurl Shells Across Channel British long-range guns, of the type pictured ABOVE, on the into action in answer to Hitler's "Big Berthas," According to a statement issued by British military authorities, fired opposite Boulogne and Calais, wreaking considerable damage on enemy positions British coast, their steel flanks streaked with el few days, building, tiles and hitting a target accurately miles away, southeast coast, which have been trained on the camouflagnig paint, are c are reported to have gone British Isles for the past guns of the type shown have been The guns on the visit in the H. M. BLACK apable of hurling gigantic ee Manager. riends or relations in the United States. 7 p.m. and all day LONG DISTANCE Here's a happy thought! Call your friends (After Sunday, rates are 'ower.) Take them by surprise! Tell them to come "North" for a visit. Explain that it's still easy to cross the friendliest border in the world, and that there are no irksome regulatiors to restrict their freedom here. Be thrilled by the quick and easy voice-to- voice exchange of greetings and goodwill,