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x THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1940 y'PAGE TEN | NPAM 'HOOKEY' | WILL GO TO DRAFT CAMPS Boys Who Tried to Beat Conscription Are Due For Nice Little Sheck From Army Toronto, Dec. 12.--Those young men who joined NPAM units last summer to avoid oeing called for 30 jays' compulsory training, and who have since failed to parade with their milit:a units, are due for a nice little shock which the army is COOKNE up. The shock is that they are going to get the 30 days' compulsory training anyway, if not next Jan- uary, then within the next few meaths. A few have already fliscovered that they did not "put one over," put the majority won't feel the blow until after Christmas. The surprise is being prepared at the Naticnal War Services Board's ofiices at 65 Victoria Street, and at the head- guerters of M.D. 2 on Bay Streeu. Two Checks Made «There are two checks made," R A. Irwin, district registrar of the | National War Services Board, ex- plained. "In most cases, we notify sheze men they are subject to the 30-days' training. Then they apply for exemption cn the grounds they are already receiving training with the NPAM. In order to get off our lists, they must produce a certifi- catz from the officer commanding thet unit. For the time being, they are not called, but if they do not | attend, parades with the militia | unit:, they are struck off the | streasth and we are notified. Then the:r names gc back in our lists | and they get a call with everyone else in their age group and dais- trict." At the headquarters of records are kept which show whethier men nominally on the strength of the various militia units are attending parades. 0.C. May Suspect "What happens is this," explains | Col. A. E. Duncanson, representa- tive of the Department of National | Defense on the National War Ser- vices Board. "The officer command- ing an NPAM unit may find that he has half a dozen young men who have not taken regular training since they joined last August, and he may have good reascn to sus- pect that the only reason the men joined was to escape the 30 days compulsory training period. He notifies us that such men have been struck off the strength of his | unit, but that they have not com- | pleted their military training. They | are therefore classed as untrain. ed, and we notify the War Services | Board to place their names back | on the lists of those subject to | compulsory training." The system of checking takes a | MD. 2 Wittle time, and even the men in charge do mot maintain that it is | 100 per cent. effective. But a great many young men who haven't been out to parade lately are going w | find they will have to wear a uni- | form every day for 30 days. ULSTER PEACEFUL T0 SECOND GEAR EAR OF |ONDONER Belfast Has Had Only Four Raid Alerts Since Air Blitz Began Lditor's Note:--Sam Robertson, superintendent of The Canadian Pr2:s London Bureau and war cor- dent, made a 500-mile tour rthern Ir>land and describes it in this article, second of a series ef three. | cause it { that they should be fed, but it would ! By SAM ROBERTSON Canadian Press Staff Writer Beifast, Dec. 11 (CP)--Nor then | Ireland is only an overnight boat | trip from Englend, or an hour by | air, but as a haven of peace it might | vee be 1000 miles away from the rest | of the Uniled Kingdom. Ii; picrucesque coastline is pat- | rolled by :2a and by air. A strong militery feice under the ale com- mand of Lt.-Gen. Sir Henry Pownall is encamped among the hills and valleys that have inspired so many bards. It is ready today to meet any encmy thrust and there is the bustle of battle-preparedness about the place. Yet it is like a dream of rest- fulizess to the visitor from London whcse ears have reverberated to so zny air-raid alerts that an auto- mcbile grinding in second gear seems to be just another warning. Th:t condition has come to 'be kncwn as "second gear ear." The people of Ulster: scarcely kncw the sound of the paid siren. During four days I spémt touring the country's defen the siren wailzd once--by misjéike. There have been four brief al since the war sta:ied but no b has scarred Ulsier"s beauty They have fodic rehearsals to male certain jsirens are in working order. On syeh occasions notice is given in th¢ newspapers that a practice airf raid warning will be sounded at h-and-such an hour. in England, Scotland fore Jerry-of-the-air over in earnest. That time ago. tioning of butter and gp few other foodstuffs. unreal to the visitor -sugarbowl and heap- before him. standing of each other's vie: ! for a few more generations | Ronald H. Cross, | enemy, | | dren.' For war- -time PLAYERS good holiday trade, even though there are strict regulations about entering the country fror: across the Irish sea or stepping across the border -- not a border of bayonets but of political and religious differ= ences--that separate Northern Ire- land from neutral Eire. There is no war tempo about the resort hotels and there is no half- measure about the way the guests holiday. A chalked request on the morning call-board in one hotel read "Rcom 18: call at 10 am. Two brandies and soda." One hears almost as much talk of the differences with Eire as about the life-and-death struggle against Germany and Italy. The refusal of President Eamon De Valera to lease to Britain the four naval bases Bri- tain returned to Eire in 1937 caused deep bitterness in Ulster Discussing this and the knotty question of partition as a whole one high Protestant churchman, who spent much of his clerical life in Eire, told me: "North is north and south is south and never the twain shall meet in Ireland. The pclitical, cuitural and religious differences between the peoples are as wide as the Atlantic." However, 'a young Ulsterman, a captain in the Royal Artillery, was less certain. He didn't believe union | would come, nct for many years, ai any rate. But he added: "The bitterness our fathers knew has only been passed along to the present generation in a half mea- sure. We have a greater under- | rpoint improvement continues a uniied and if this Ireland perhaps could emerg MUST KEEP FOO) FROM NAZI LANDS 10 SAVE BRITONS Prefers to Starve Nazi- Conquered Lands Rather Than Prolong War 12, (CP)--Britain's is not conquest or London, Dec. sim in the war | gain, but establishment of the right in freedom, says minister of ship- of men to live ping, This is the way Mr, Cross des- cribed the British aim in a broad- cast last night to the United States: "We seek no conquest, we seek no gain. Ours is a war of sacrifice We shall end it poorer in wealth and mourning our dead. Our goal is. to establish for ourselves and others the natural human right to live as free men." He said that/ every strain put upon the enemy by keeping from him raw materials and foodstuffs brought him nearer to "the crack- ing point." "The more we can deny the the shorter the war and the sacrifice of blood and Food could be pi our treasure," he said. sent to people now under German » "only at the cost of the lives i British men, women and chil- The choice was between "their stomachs or our lives." "We put the lives of our peopl: first," Mr. Cross added Discussing the Mediterranean situation, Mr, Cross said Mussolini had been "discredited" in the eyes of his people, and his position could be restored only by the success of Italian arms. "Mo German help would vindicate him in the minds of the Italian people," he continued. "If there is one people the Italians hate, it is the German people." Germany had to feed the people in countries she had occupied "be- suits the German book own suit Germany far better that some- | body else should undertake the task and leave Germany with a greater margin of foodstuffs for her own "And the greater the margin of | focdstuffs at Germany's disposal, | | the longer sh» can carry on the war." He said if there is want in ter- | ritories occunied by Germany, Bri- | tain would like to relieve it--'pro- viding we can be sure that the food we send is eaten by the vic- tims of the 'German eagle. "But you cannot feed some of the people under German rule without adding to the total German food supply." The more vegetable fats the Reich had, the more she would be able to spare for high explosives. "So the choice lies between hun- gry Germans--women and children included--and the lives and limbs | of our own people--women and | children included. "We put the lives of our people | first." Mr. Cross suggested the lack of food in Nazi-conquered regions might lead to uprisings against the Germans, since "highly civilized | people don't. just wait until they're | so starved that they haven't the | strength to make trouble, and Ger- many can't | .-stand over them all." RADIO CLICKS ON SPLINTERS London, Dec. 12--(CP)--A corre- spondent describes in the British Medical Journal how a radio set can help surgeons detect small bomb or shell fragments in the skin. The radio is switched on to a spot where no station can be heard and the volume contrcl turned to full. A few feet of wire, ending in an in- sulated probe and atiached to the aerial terminal or socket, complete the apparatus. { brain, ! the girls' | School, | School; | shows a slight decline. JURY EXONERATES DRIVER OF CAR IN FATAL ACCIDENT (Continued from Page 3) you" but he never stopped walking," she related. "The car's horn blew and he step- ped to the left. Then he suddenly stepped to the right and in front of the car. If he'd taken another step to the left it would have missed him for sure," declared Mrs. Marks, who said Wall's sight and hearing had been alright as far as she knew. McGuire stated that he was on his way to Uxbridge at the time of the accident and that he was only driving at about 25 to 30 m.p. h. due to the bad condition of the toads. McGuire said he blew his horn twice at Wall after coming over a rise in the road and that as Wall then appeared to be step- ping off to the roadside he did not blow it again. "The left front fender hit him just as we were trying to get back | on the left side of the road," stated brakes did | McGuire who said his not "work very well " His sister, Miss Geraldine Mc- Guire said she had rendered first | aid to Wall after they carried him into the Marks home. "I am a graduate nurse," she stated. Miss McGuire, who corroborated her brother's evidence, was sitting the front seat at the time. Her evidence was borne out by two other sisters who were sitting in the back seat of the car. Received Hard Blow Dr. William Baldwin, Brooklin physician, told the inquest he had been summoned to attend Wall ana found the injurcd man in a semi- conscious condition. Death next day wrs due to a haemorrhage of the a frac d leg. shock, and ries, Dr. Baldwin stat- ed "Were those injuries consistent with a slowly moving vehicle?" en- aquired the Coroner Dr. Baldwin replied that they might well have been caused by the impact throwing Wall up into the hood of the car. Provincial traffic officer Waude stated. that he had found marks in the snow where the car stopped and that the loft front fender of the car snowed the effect of the crash Offi Waude said the evidence given by the McGuires correspond- ed with their story of the accident at the time. The jury returned in five minutes with a verdict of accidental death completely exonerating McGuire. Examination of witnesses was con- ducted by Crown Attorney Allin. F Annis, an OSHAWA SGHODLY MADE PROGRESS IN 1940 PROGRAM (Continued from Page 3) mental shrubs planted as pas extended agricultural cours Major Repairs Cited A list of major repairs and alter- ations undertaken by the 1240 Board follows: Cedardale School, weather- stripping all windows , a new light placed on the cast side of the school lighting improv ed in six classrooms, Centre Strcet School, new doors at entrance on the west side; Mary Street School, new entrance to basement, new -door training room; Ritson Road &chool, alterations to heating system, weath- erstripping for all windows on east side, installation of six bulletin boards; South Simcoe School, new blackboards for the front of four classrooms; Collegiate, painting of exterior, painting of cafeteria kitchen, new book shelves for $ix | classrooms. an:d repairs to terrazzo floors. In addition to these im= provements, manual training bench. es were made for six school sand gravel was placed on the play- grounds of all city -schools, which resulted in greatly reducing the nuisance caused by mud being | tracked into the buildings. During the year leave of absence was granted to two members of the teaching staff. They were Mr. Fred | Lycett, principal of Mary Street who is now on active mili- tary service with The Midland Regi- ment, and Mr. C. E. Burton, instruc- tor in the Electrical Department of the Collegiate whose services were requested by the Department of Education. He is now at the Cen- tral Technical School, Toronto, in- structing classes in war work. The following teachers resigned during the current year: public schools, Misses E. Kift, E. MacDon- ald, M. Twillev and C. Stinson; Col- legiate Institute, Miss D. Dandeneau and Mr. O. C. Simmers. Teachers who received appointments to the public school teaching staff were: Miss R. Grainger, Centre Street Mrs. G. Penman, Cedardale School; Mr. D. Thompson, Ritson Road School; and Miss B, Johnson, South Simcoe School. At the pre- sent {ime there is one vacancy on the public school teaching staff which will be fiiled in the very near future. Mr. Jos. Walsh was appoint= ed to the Collegiate staff. Attendance Down Slightly Attendance at the city schools In January, 1940, when the present board came into office there were 3,538 pupils in public school classes. On Novem- ber 30 this had dropped to 3,493. Figures for January, 1940, show that the Collegiate and Vocational In- stitute then had 1,383 pupils while on November 20 there were only 15320. Figures for October 31, 1940, show that there were 715 students registered for evening classes at that time, First Aid To Civilian Rescue Workers in | letter charged | inz bribed not to prosecute offen- t of an | to manual | \. ! ie | EASTERN PORTS BOOM WITH WAR THROUGH 1940 Maritime Cities Alive With Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families By JOHN LeBLANC Canze an Press Staff Writer Halifax, Dec. 12 (CP)--War's de~ mands have called forth an unpre- cedented expansion of Canada's At- lantic ports. Cities and towns along the sea-_ board, bulging with populations augmented by the military and sea. faring men, are humming with ac- tivity. Business is bustling and in- dustry is swinging aleng under the impetus of orders brought them by the war. Harbors where the comings and goings of a comparative handful of merchantment and fishing .vessels formed the bulk of the pre-war business ncw are geared to a new tempo. Halifax and Saint John al- ways were major ports, but they too, are operating now at a new pace. Both have gone through their greatest periods in many years. "And this winier is going to eclipse them all," predicts one Saint John port official. Men of the pioneer corps, workers who with pickaxes and shovels, were working all night searching for | men sad women trapped in a razed block of London office buildings, are pictured receiving some first aid. Scores of workers were rescued from their debris covered shelters, by the civilian rescue squads, as a daylight | acrial bombardment by Hitler's Luftwaffe, laid waste an entire city block, recently. LETTERS ASK CANCELLATION OF SLOT MACHINE LICENSES |3.MONTH TERM Bowmanville "Council Thinks Letters From "Cranks" -- Mayor But Not Plays, to Excess 12--Chief Con. to Bowmanville, Dec. stable 8. Venton reccmmended 'Bowmanville Town Council that all lot machine licenses in {ne muni- cipality'be cancelled, alter receiving anonymous letters comnlaining "slot machine gambling and brib- ina of police." In a communication to council. chief constable disclosed that cne of the anonymous letters was irom a {ha nt Another nolice were be- chine gambling the by 51 m ders. the chief constable disclosed, "No on» has ever offered to bribe tha police in this eonnection," de- clared the chief constable. Resve Edmonstone was of the opinion the letters were "honeys" and the werk of "cranks" He de- be taken, Mayor Jcnes said it was un to council to find out if the slot ma- chinss were being used for gambl- inz. "I often play the ma-hines, but not tn excess." he said a fact there are som~'l=ds who wou!d kel on them." Thoare ora 17 slot machine licences in tha town from which the muni- cipality year. The recommendation of the ehief is, to have the: lizenses can- celled at the end of this vear. The matter was deferred until after tha new vear for decision by 'he 1241 council BRICKS FROM COFFEE Rio Janeiro (CP)--H. S. Polin, an American physicist in Fy has discovered '"cafelite" a plastic sub- stance made from coffee cheaply enough to use for construction blocks, furniture or buttons. of | soldier who claimed that he | | and his buddies were being ruined clared the police hed the situation | in hand and that no action ho | "T know for | in town | ~amble their last nic- | collected in fees $850 lost | Lindsay Mayor Says | Soldiers Not Forced | To Vacate Arena | Lindsay, Dec. 12. Correcting a | misapprehension which he 'said | existed, Mayor A. T. Claxton states the 45th and 56th Batteries (Re- | sexve) had voluntarily withdrawn from the skating arena. It had been charged, he said, the town | had forced the batteries out of the arona, halting their training. Early | in the year, he said, the batteries were given the use of the arena, | They withdrew voluntarily the ice season arrived, "and were not fcrced to vacate," he said. "No 1epresentations were made to the Council of the Town of Lindsay with regard to securing accommo- dation for these units," The Mayor stated it would appear that the Department of National Defense should provide training quarters, or should make the arm- ories available to the units. 4:30 pm. to 10 p.m, and "it would appear reasonable that arrange- | ments could be made to let the reserve units drill there." | Veteran Rural School Teacher Dies, Age 88 | Stouffville, Dec. 12.--Isaac Pike, 28, for forty-three years a teacher in School Section No. 12, Whit- church Township, and prominent in church and eommunity life, died | yesterday at his home at Lot 8, Con=- | cession 5. He had been active until a few months ago. During the cele. bration of King George V's Jubilee, he was honored with the King's medal for his services. He was a life-long member of the Mennonite Church, For more than half a cen- tury he served as superintendent of the Union Sunday School of Bethes- da Church, resigning this office only a year ago. Born in Markham Township, Mr. Pike received his ed- ucation in Markham, Hamilton and Victoria University. He taught for forty-three continuous years in the | one country school and he was the when | he sald, | He | sald he believed the drill floor at | the armories was not in use from | WONT APPEAL INROD ATTACK Conant Content With Sentence But Asks Farm Home to Be Probed Toronto, Dec, 12--Attorney-Gen- eral Gordon Conant said vesterday that no appeal would be launched by him on the three-month tence given by Magistrate C. F Bick at Midland recently to Sam | fax, | merchants, But the business is not only afloat. The m2n of the convoys, who handle the seaborne commerce of the Enpire; the thousahds of navy men guarding the convoys and the shore, and the other thousands of the army and airforce, are bringing a new era to business in the ports. They throng the streets of Hali- Saint John and Sydney with- out l2tup, and, on a smaller scale, thosz of other waterside towns. Their dollars clink out a welcome symphony in the cash registers of theatres, restaurants and other business, and in the pockets of the landlords. Population Problems Just about every available lodging in some areas has been taken up. In Halifax alone, city officials esti- mate the population has jumped about 30,000 to 100,000. The city, al- | ways afflicted with a housing short- sen- | age, doesn't know how it is going to jam in any more. On a lesser scale, it's the same story elsewhere. An indication of the flcod of add- | ed population pouring through the Losko for wounding Mildred Grko- | vich, 6-vear-old caughter of Losko's housekeeper cities is seen in Halifax where more than 80,000 persons have slept in the | YYM.C.A. hostel in the last year. The child was struck with a cur- | tain red which inflicted a weund in | her head as she ran from Losko on his farm in Tay Township. At the same time Mr. Conant raid he was concerned with the home "in which this most unfortunate affair occurred" and he Is request- ing the Welfare Department to in- vestigate it. Ontario provincial po- lice will also keep the premises un- der cheervaticn. The evidence, him, while Losko as submitted \ intended to chastise the child, he did not intend to Ine | flict "the rather serious injuries | which resulted from his action." | Losko, Mr. Conant explained, has | been in jail since Oct. 13 and will from the dat~ cof conviction, on Dec. 3. He will suffer imprisonment | from Oct 13 to March 2 next, or a period of almost five months, Sentences in such cases are for the discretion of the court, Mr. Co- nant stated. While in this case the court might have imposed a more severe nenalty in nroper exercise of that discretion, Mr, Conant added: "I cannot say the sentence was so inadequate or inconsistent with the facts and circumstances as to justi fy an anpeal. I doubt whether the Court of Appeal would interfere with the sentence imposed, under all the circumstances." teacher of three generations of pupils. A sports enthusiast, he coached his pupils in football, hockey and baseball. be confined there for three months | | TRAILER HOMES | when he was about to chastice her, | to | Mr. Conant said, shows that | Twenty-six thcusand entered the main Y.M.C.A. building in a single month--the population of a fair- sized city. The working man is getting on the boom, too, as employment rises. Thousands are at work on war con- struction projects, with the result that direct relief has been cut every- where. In some municipalities, the number on the rolls has fallen so low it has been discontinued alto- gether, One of the industries to enjoy a revival is shipbuilding, which had | fallen to a low ebb after the lush days of the last century. Now in Nova Scotia alone, 64 vessels were on the ways at the last count; :34 had been completed. DODGE BOMBERS London, Dec. 12--(CP)--Trailers have become a popular alternative to country houses for many Lon- doners whose homes have been bombed Hundreds of people who normally live here and in other bombed areas are living in trailers in quieter spots in the country. They chose the trailer because of the shortage of housing accommo- dation in many country districts. Karn's Drug Store FOR PROMPT DELIVERY Phone 78-79 NEXT P, O. Every Country But Australia Boasts Holly The holly, that emblem of the Christmas spirit, has many differ- ent specs25--145 in all, with a dozen or more right in England. The only inhabited continent in the world which has no holly--real holly that is--is Australia. But they have a substitute down there, some- thing called "native holly," which is a very satisfactory replacement for the real thing, It grows in Vic toria and New South Wales mostly. Its leaves are shaped like those of the holly, and as a result it is used a lot for Christmas decorations. Ivy is another plant which does not flourish in Australia as it does in England though in the hills you find a kind of {vy with odd, wing= shaped leaves. But the housewife preparing her Yuletide show has no true holly or ivy to hang on the walls. Yet there is no lack of green stuff for Christmas decoration in the Australian Commonwealth. The. favorite plant is the she-oak, the' tops of which are useful for feeding cattle in times of drought. There is also "celery-top", with its big, handsome leaves and various pines such as the Huon and Kinw Wile liam pine. Acaca is also popular. New Zealand has an ivy-tree, a real tree with a good stiff trunk of its own stout branches and large evergreen leaves. If you want its botanical name, this js Panax Col- ensoi, and it is found in both the North and South Islands. A favorite plant for Chrictmas decorations in Australia is the Mac- quarie Harbor Vine, which is a na- tive of Tasmania, but is grown in Australia and New Zealand. It has a currant-like fruit, with a delici- ous acid flavor which is used for making tarts, puddings and pre- serves. The long, graceful branches make beautiful and distinctive de- corations, FATAL GRAVITY LAWS Wazhington, (CP)--It is figured here 30,000 Americans die each year from acute attacks of the law of gravity--falls in the home--and at least half these accidents are pree ventable. d NE JITAMINS --don't forget her daily HALIBORANGE The Nicest Way of Taking Halibut Liver Ol Preserve the good health she has built up in summer by giving her a daily dose of Haliborange. Halib- orange contains the natural vita- mins A, D and C. It works wonders * in warding off all kinds of ills and chills and will quickly help to re= store a child to health. Haliborenge is twice as rich as cod liver oil in vitamins A and D. The addition of fresh orange juice, vitamin C, makes Haliborange delicious to take. It helps to keep youngsters right on top of their form. Adults, too, find Haliborange splendid for warding off winter's ills and restoring vitality. Try it. 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