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t V EDDIE RICKENBACKER RESCUED IN PACIFIC Looking a little skinny, but with his famous smile still in evidence, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker was ready for a jeep ride to his first square meal (soup and ice cream) In three weeks, after his rescue from a raft somewhere in the South Pacific. The plane in which he was making an Army inspection tour WM forced down in the ocean after running out of fuel. Two companions on the raft were rescued with him a third died at sea. Photo was radioed from Hawaii to San Francisco. VOICE OF THE PREJSS HITLER'S CONTEMPT Louis Lochner, former chief of the Associated Press in Berlin, de- serves credit for revealing Hitler's pronouncements regarding his Axis partners. In many speeches before the war, Hitler denounced the leaders and rulera of Italy and Japan. He called the King of Italy "that nitwit of a King," and he spoke of his ion as "the treasonable scoundrel of a Crown Prince." Of Japan's Mikado, he said: "The Emperor is a counter- part of the last Czar. Weak, cowardly, undecided. May he fall a victim to the revolution." The Argonaut HOLD THEIR AFFECTION The soldier who mails his girl friend * letter now and then has better chance of finding her waiting for him than the fellow who forgets his sweetheart. That's the position of most businesses today. They've got to write "ad- vertisements" to their old loves If they wish to hold their affection till and after the war it over. Midland Free Press Herald. A VERY GOOD REASON We have been asked: When the Nazi* art sinking so many ships in the Atlantic, why aren't we do- ing the same? The answer U: The British Navy swept the Atlantic of enemy merchant vessels long ago, so there are none left to sink. Windsor Star. o LIGHT AS BOGEY-MAN Leaving a light on all night will not keep the bogey-man away, be- cause our biggest bogey-man threat today is hydro shortage. So keep this bogey-man away by turning out lights at every oppor- tunity. St Thomas Times-Journal. IT'S ON HIS MIND Hitler promises that he will never flee across some neutral frontier as the Kaiser did. But, all the same, his utterance shows that his mind Is dwelling on the thought of a getaway. Hamilton Spectator o "WAR THEATRES" "War theatres," the fighting fronts are called. Since lots of people still think of the war as a how to be watched and enjoyed, why not? New York Times LONDONER Here's new definition of the Londoner a man who hopes for the best and prepares for the burst. Montreal Star LET HIM HAVE IT Field Marshal Rommel's army may break the speed record in re- treating, for all we care. Stratford Beacon-Herald Soldier Puts Pay Into War Bonds When pay day rolled around the other day at the United States Army Ah- Forces Technical Train- Ing Command School, Private Mathlas Brantner, a Link Trainer tudent, didn't show up for _ his money. Officers questioned Private Brantner, a former lumberman and tudent flyer from Portland, Ore. He explained that the army cloth- ed and fed him. he didn't drink, smoke or gamble so what d'd he want with money? At tine officer's suggestion, he purchased war bonds with bis ac- cumulated $100 in pay and allotted almost his entire futua-e pay also te was bonus. Rommel Barely Escaped Capture Nazi Marshal Brwin Rommel barely escaped capture near To- bruk. the Berlin correspondent of tine Swedish Telegraphic Bureau said In a broadcast by the Vichy radio. The correspondent quoted Ger- man military authorities as saying Rommel had been directing the rear-guard defence personally and bad gone back to look over the situation when several British tanks appeared suddenly. The tanks were near, the corres- pondent said, and It was only by fleeing with the greatest speed that he managed to escape. Churchill Wins By 100 Per Cent Lady Montgomery, 78-year-old mother of General Sir Bernard Montgomery, commander of the rapidly advancing British 8th Army In Libya, telegraphed him birthday greetings and said: "I am tempted to address It Tripoli." Sir Bernard, who was 55 on November 17, told Prime Minister Churchill before he was appointed to the command: "I don't smoke, I don't drink, nd I am 100 per cent fit." Military circles say Mr. Churchill replied: "I smoke, I drink, and I am 200 per cent fit." Mr. Churchill will be 68 Nov. 80. Canada Sends More Supplies To Greece Two Swedish freighters the Akka and the Arrowange steam- ed out of Montreal harbor last week for Piraeus, port of Athens, with Canadian wheat, powdered milk and large quantities of medi- cine for the oppressed people of Greece. They have been guar- anteed safe conduct by all war- ring governments. The wheat was the gift of the Canadian government through an international arrangement whil the powdered milk, totalling 3*3 tons, and medicines were supplied by the Greek War Relief Fund of Canada. Three New Types of German Bombs The Germans have introduced three new types of bombs. One welgJifl five pounds with an incen- diary section that ignites on land- ing and * larger charge that goes off seven minutes later. A second also combines incendiary and ex- plosive material, so that on Im- pact sixty small metal containers filled with thermite and six larger fire-pots containing pre-lgnlted magnesium filling are thrown out. The third Is a phosphorous-oil bomb which Ignites spontaneously and which later explodes to scat- ter Its sticky liquid contents. The heavy delayed - action explosive charges axe Intended to prevent attack on a fire so that it can gain headway. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher "They keep giving me tbe buy signal. When Automobiles Were Not Popular Life AS It Was Lived Here 45 Years Ago We came across the following item, in our twenty years ago files, says the Hanover Post. It had been reproduced then from a fifteen-year-old paper, and had appeared originally in one of the Walkerton weekly newspapers under the headline "The Auto- mobile Nuisance." "In Kincardine one day last week, an automobile frightened a horse, the horse ran away, the driver was thrown out of the rig and had his leg broken. It is be- coming very apparent from incid- ents like this that something will have to be done about these auto- mobiles. For several years past the farmers in the vicinity of To- ronto have been agitating for a law to restrain automobiles from using the public highways but so far have not been able to accom- plish anything. But gradually the nuisance is becoming more gen- eral. "Nearly every town in the prov- ince has its Automobile now and ome of them have more than one. The machines go scooting through the country in all directions and no road is sacred to them. Horses that are easily enough controlled in the presence of a railway train will go crazy at the sight of an automobile and accidents such as the above are happening all over the country. It will not be long before the automobile will drive the farmers off the public high- ways altogether unless something to done to restrain them. "The farmers built these- high- ways in the first place and are taxing themselves every year to keep them in repair and it must be more than a little annoying to them to be thus dispossessed by this new machine. What they ought to do is to pledge every candidate for parliament to use his vote and influence in favor of a law prohibiting automobiles from using the public highways altogether, or at least under con- ditions that will not interfere with traffic." SCOUTING A refugee Boy Scout from Ger- many, now a Patrol Leader In a British Scout Troop, lias been awarded the Certificate of Gal- lantry for extinguishing several ftres during an enemy air raid. An officer of the local fire brigade related bow fine lad, Herbert Br- mann, aged 16, took considerable risk >ut the incendiary bombs were of the explosive type. Boy Scouts of Thorold. Out., performed a useful service for the local Kiwanis Club, making a com- plete survey of their town to as- certain the names of all men on active service, so that each might be sent a Christmas box. Whilst hurrying to work one morning, British Boy Scout James [Mien, aged 15, heard Uiat bombs had dropped neux his home and demolished some houses. He ob- tained permission to return, and pent seven hours at considerable risk to himself assisting in res- cue work. For a great part of the time he worked In a space too small for a man tc enter. When enemy aircraft bombs de- molished a school in the south of England recently, the head master died with many of bis pupils. At Imperial Headquarters of the Boy Scouts this headmaster Is listed with a record of 18 yeurs devoted service as Seoul mas tor of Ills local troop. Richard Todd, a Mortli Van- couver man now wiUi the Mer- chant Mai hie, had a uiontli to spuie in tlio Midule liast while waiting (or a ship. He sjiunt that moiil.il organizing a Hoy Seoul Troop among British boys who were stranded there ior tlie dur- ation of tlie war. He uucurud per- mission to organize the Troop trow British headquarters, and bought uniforms for the' boys from the Boy Scouts Association of India. THE WAR - WEEK Commentary on Current Events "Hitler Must Defend 6,000 Miles Of Land and Seacoast Frontier forces, attacking souUi at Stalingrad and In the groat loop of the Don River, have penetrated the German defensive lines, taken great numbers of prisoners and war material and threatened to out all tile whole of th Nazi forc- es between Stalingrad and the Don River. German forces In the Caucasus are being held to a standstill as the severe Russian winter sets In. Three mouths ago tlie Luftwaffe mado its first concentrated attack on Stalingrad with orders to mash resistance and open the way to the panzer divisions. To- day, dispirited and exhausted Ger- mans are fighting desperately, not to occupy the city, but to pre- vent a major disaster by Red Army encirclement. The German Triangle It is two thousand milee from th German outposts on the Span- ish border to the North Cape of Norway, says the New York Times. It Is another two thousand miles from the North Cape to the Caucasian oil fielde. It is two thousand more miles from the Caucasus back to the Spanish bor- der. Within those lines lies the triangle of German power as the fourth Winter of the war begins. Hitler stands behind a three- cornered frontier with six thou- and miles of land and seacoast to defend. At nearly every point along these lines the German position Is, or soon will be, exposed to direct attack. On the west side of the triangle Britain already dom- inates both sea and air. What re- mains of the German Navy, ex- cept or submarines, is bottled up in continental ports. The Initiative In the air attack has passed to Bri- tish hands. There are a hundred points on the Bay of Biscay and the loug Norwegian coast that can be hit by commando raids in steadily greater force. War, Cold, Hatred On the east side of the triangle there is war every foot of the way across the plains of Russia. There Is war; and there IB cold; and there Is the fierce hatred of people who have scorched their land rather than let It yield an ounce of sustenance to the Invader. On the south side at the triangle the line is safely anchored, at its eastern end, in the neutrality of Turkey. But west of Turkey lie Bulgaria ami Rumania, fair-weath- er allies of the Axis; Yugoslavia, already in revolt; Italy, smolder- Ing with trouble; the Inadequate- ly protected southern coast of 'France;, vulnerable to attack by a series of island stepplne-stonei across the Mediterranean Com Africa. Within The Triangle Hitler must mount guard over a front Hue six thousand uuli-s In length. And even then his task is only half completed. For tibis Hue along which he fights to defend his power faces in both direc- tions. It faces out, against en- emies who are in an UKTeusingly favorable position to deal him heavy blows. A ad it facet) in, against enr-mics who will give Uiim no quarter when lie falters. W may be sure that the coincidence of throe great historical facts Rommel's rout ill Egypt, the suc- cessful landing of tho Americans In NorU) Africa and tlio final smashing of Hitler's 1942 oifrns- ive by the amazing Russian arm- ies has fired the people of every temporarily conquered nation la Europe with fresh faitli in an Al- lied victory and new courage for the unrelenting war of sabotage in which they are engaged. From this point forward Hitler will meet with even more determined op- position from within his triangle than any he baa yet had to face. Hi.- will have to make war upon whole populations. He will have to arm his soldiers against death and terror ID the dark. He will have to beat do<wn the mounting double of bis own people. And he will have to mobilize, for a war of defense on many fronts, a German Industry and a German transpor- tation system which have already felt the weaixmd-tear of three hard years of war. Design of Winter This U the situation as Hitler enters the fourth Winter of the war of his own choosing. But the design of this approaching Winter is not of bis own choosing. He did not plan the war this way. It was hie purpose and his plan to Iso- late bis enemies, destroy them one by one. flud Quislings who could do his work for him suc- cessfully and harness a great com- pany of slave states to the Ger- man Reich. Now he finds this pur- pose thwarted, and opposition mounting on all tides. There will be long, hard fighting before this war ends In the destruction of Hitler and his armies. But w now have reason to believe that this fighting will take place whol- ly within, and at no point outside, the present triangle of German power. THE UNCONQUERABLES Through Storm and Gunfire To Service Ann; Jensen was 22 the day the Germans invaded his native city of Bergen in Norway. "I tblnk maybe It was that morning I be- camo a man," he said later. "It Is a terrible thing to realize an enemy lias invaded your home- land and that you can do nothing. I hope you people In the United States realize what such a thing mins." Ai-ne knew he could never sur- rendiM- or accept the Nazi rule. Some iluy, be realized, he muat escape* and carry on the tight for a tree Norway. One nijjlit a member of the Nor- wegian "Underground" told him to hurry to a waterfront rendez- vous. Waiting hi a 52-foot fishing boat wiUi a buttered olil motor were six other men and two wom- enone a nurse, the otliur the wife of an American-Norwegian. * With the stealth of a lengthen- ing shadow in the evening sky, ibe little hout slipped out. ;<> sea to begin a voyage of 300 miles. Ital'ore long the boat was tossed about In a sudden storm. "The tta.o* dashed ui. ;. the sldos," Ann- said. "We lulled iurimisly to keep from l/eing swamped. livery minute we thought we would siuk." When the storm ended at dawn, everyone, was exhausted. liui there was to be no rest. A G 1 rnian patrol plnn dived out of the morn- ing *uii "nil machine gun bullets splattered all about Uieni. Three times the plane dived to the at- tack. When it soared off, one pas- senger bod beeu killed, and water was pouring through millet holes In the bottom of the craft. While Arne ami a companion plugged i,p tlie holes with pieces of their clothing, someone said a prayer. The old motor sputtered on, carrying tlu'in steadily closer to Uie Shetland Islands. Tliat night another storm blew up. The little baud struggled through the long hours once more to keep their craft afloat. "At times,'' said Arne, "it sermcd almost h";u'Iess. But we kept bulling." Tlie storm wore Itself out at dawn on t.he second day, and a few hours luur they sighted tiie Shetland Islands. There friendly hands helped t;n-.m ashore, fed t'leui, and K-UO them shelter until tlie authorities cosild invustlgate their papers. For Ariir. it was just tin- be- giuiiing oi his e---m ad von lure. 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