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RCAF Airlift Squadron Has Remarkable Record Legion Campaign For Reading Matter to Korea | Now Paying Dividends Ottawa--Army Headquarters an- nounced today that the Canadian Legion's campaign to provide read- ing matter and writing materials for Canadian servicemen in the Far East is now paying off handsomely. The Legion ships out monthly batches of pocket books and digests and weekly shipments of magazines and stationery, on the scale of 30 pocket books per 100 men per month, 20 magazines per 80 men per month, and two envelopes and four sheets of writing paper per man per week. Since shipments started last De- cember, army shipping records show, the Legion has sent out to the Canadian ground forces in Korea and Japan some 10,000 pock- et books and digests, 8,000 maga- zines, 300,000 sheets of writing paper and some 150,000 envelopes. These went to the army. The Legion has a separate but similar scheme for supplying the Royal Canadian Navy destroyers and RCAF personnel stationed in the Far East. For a short time earlier this year some of the shipments of books and writing paper, forwarded from a west coast port under army arrangements, bogged down at the port of entry in Korea. The books were just not going forward to the front, and it was at that time that soldiers in the field were complain- ing of a lack of reading material. That situation has now been cor- rected and shipments now flow smoothly direct from Canada to servicemen in Korea and Japan. While the Canadian Legion de- pends to a large extent on public donations for its supply of pocket books and digests, it uses its own funds to provide the writing paper and envelopes and also buys some 40 subscriptions' to 24 different magazines for the army alone to augment the donations and provide current copies for the troops in the field. Many of the publications sent are in the French language, earmarked specially for the Royal 22nd Regiment and French-speak- ing members of other units, Radar Helps | Phenomenon London, Ont. (CP) -- Radar is playing a part in scientific study of the aurorae -- one of which is the northern lights -- P. A, For- syth of McGill University, Montreal told the conference on auroral physics at the University of West- ern Ontario here yesterday. Radar echoes have been received from some types of aurorae at ranges of 500 to 750 miles, he said. He lectured Tuesday at the con- ference about research being done along this line at the University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon, close to Canada's far -northern auroral area. The first report of a radar echo from the aurora was in 1939, in the early days of radar develop- ment. It was an accident, he said. Since then, and particularly since 1947, scientists have been seeking echoes in the hope that they may help explain some of the mysteries of the upper atmosphere. The Saskatchewan experiment * was started in $949. Mr. Forsyth, in an interview following his lecture declined to describe the type of radar being used: He emphasized, without elaboration, that echoes at 500 to 750 miles are coming only from 'particular types" of aurorae. He said in his lecture that radar observation of the aurorae at 3000 megacycles . made it "fairly cer- tain' that radar echoes do not oc- cur at that frequency. But it was evident that short random pulses of radiation were emitted by the aurora and picked up by the ra- dar receiver. It was believed this "noise" resulted from action set up by particles of matter "enter- In Studying of Aurora ing the earth's atmosphere," he said. (Many scientists believe that particles -- probably hydrogen -- come from the sun, striking the eath's upper atmosphere at tre- mendous speed and causing dis- plays such ds the northern lights and similar aurorae in the south- ern hemisphere.) With 100 -megacycle equipment, Mr. Forsyth said, no auroral noise was detected but echoes were pick- ed up immediately. Power Demands At High Level Power demands in Southern On- tario were maintained at a high level for the week ended July 22, 1951, with average week-day pri- mary demands 13 percent higher than the corresponding week last year. Primary energy demands con- tinued their seasonal decline, but week-day averages exceeded those of the same period last year by 14.1 percent, Consumption of energy in the Southern Ontario System exceeded the week ended July 23, 1950, by 25.2 percent. On July 19, a 15,000-kilowatt generator was placed in service at Ontario Hydro's Chenaux Genera- tion Station on the Ottawa River. The seventh of eight proposed units, it will supply power to the Southern Ontario System. 2, World News In Brief BELL PIONEER DIES Toronto (CP)-- Thomas Alexan- der Stewart, 91. who joined the Bell Telephone Company when there were only a half-dozen tele- phones in Toronto, died Thursday NEWSPAPERMAN RESIGNS Port Arthur (CP) -- Angus C. MacKay, news editor of the News- Chronicle for many years and pub- lisher and president of News- Chronicle Limited since the begin- ning of the year, announced his re- signation Thursday. He has accept- ed a position with the sales de- partment of Port Arthur Motors Limi ASK 'BARGAIN' RIGHTS Toronto (CP) -- The Toronto Mailers Union No. 5 (AFL) Thurs- day applied to the Ontario Labor Relations Board for the right to act as bargaining agent for stencil and -addressograph workers em- ployed by the Toronto Telegram. At a hearing before the board, the newspaper agreed that the union should be recognized as bargaining agent. BUILD. BIG TRAILERS Woodstock, Ont. (CP)--A local firm, Truck Engineering Ltd., has Just bullt two trailers, each design- ed to haul 40 tons of pulpwood, are for Consolidated Paper Corporation on the island of Antiscosti, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence river. ENGINEER BURNED Sarnia (CP)-- Ross A. MacMil- lian, 27-year-old son of Sir Ernest MacMillan, conductor of the Toron- to symphony orchestra, is in hos- pital here, with caustic burns re- ceived at Dow Chemical of Can- ada Ltd., where he is employed as a chemical engineer, hospital au- thorities said Thursday. He will be released "within a few days." . HOTTEST DAY Toronto (CP) -- Thermometers reached 89 degrees here Thursday tb record Toronto's hottest day of the year, topping the year's pre- vious high of 87 on May 15. The BL Was general all over southern ntario. * BUTCHERS REMANDED * Toronto (CP) -- Five Toronto butchers charged with selling horsemeat as beef were remanded for the third time Thursday at the request of crown counsel' Waltey Martin, Their case will be hear Sept. 6. Charged with misrepresen:- ing horsemeat are: Percy Boyd and R. F. Newton, John Hauseman . and Service Meat Supply Company, aad Chris Johns and Will Aziz, 16 POLIO CASES Windsor, Ont. (CP)-- A total of 16 poliomyelitis cases have been reported this year, 11 of them this month, Windsor Board of Health officials stated Thursday. 'HOLD MY TOOTH' Kitchener (CP)--Robert Cardy superintendent at the Kitchener municipal swimming pool, has been asked to keep all kinds of trinkets for children entering the pool but Wednesday was the first time any- one ever asked him to "hold my tooth." The tooth had been pulled en route to the pool and its owner wanted it for a keepsake. STOLE BRITISH TANK Bad Oeynhausen, Germany (Reuters) -- Two German scrap iron merchants have been arrested here for stealing a British tank and cutting it up for scrap iron. The tank's engine was out of order. MASS RED TROOPS Taipeh, Formosa (AP) -- The Chinese Nationalist defence minis- try reported Thursday Chinese Communist troops are massing at various points inside China proper in readiness for speedy movement to Manchuria. PROTEST BLOCKADE New, York (AP)-- Israel formally asked the United Nations Security Council Thursday to stop Egypt's interference with ships passing through the Suez canal with cargo bound for Israel. Egypt replied that its blockade of Suez shipping it necessary for self-survival in' the face of Israel's hostility. PUBLISHER JAILED Lima, Peru (AP) -- Leonidas Rivera, publisher and parliament- ary deputy, was sentenced Thurs- day to four months in prison for reprinting an article from Life ma- gazine which authorities described as offensive to Eva Peron, the Ar- gentine president's wife. PROBLEM FOR RUSS Bonn, Germany (AP)--The west- ern allies said Thursday they will not allow signature of a new east- west German trade agreement until the Russians lift their restrictions on shipment of goods out of West Berlin. DESTROY FORTRESS La Rochelle, France (Reuters)-- The fortress on the Ile d'Yeu. where the late Philippe Petain spent six years imprisonment, will be destroyed by French army en- gineers, it was announced Thurs- day. Everything else connected with his life on the island will be | burned. THF DAIL LY TIMES-G The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle AZETT WHITBY VOL. 10--No. 175 OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1951 PAGE NINE Ontario Spotlight CAMPAIGN RAISED Toronto (CP)--The Community Chest of Greater Toronto has drawn up its highest campaign ob- jective in history. It hopes to raise $3,121,938-4-$687,746 more . than last year -- to be divided among 66 Red Feather agencies for charitable work in 1952. RIVER POLLUTED Brampton (CP)--Lime con- centrate dumped by a truck in- to the Etobicoke river Thurs- day, killed hundreds of fish, conservation officer Victor Seddon said. He will ask that swimming in the river be for- bidden until it is clear. POLIO INCREASES Toronto (CP)--Twenty-two cases of poliomyelities among Toronto residents have been reported to date to the city health department. Sixteen have no paralysis while three others show only signs of weakness in limbs. Nine cases are confined to hospital. A year ago at this time there was just one case, YOUNGSTER DROWNS Wasaga Beach (CP)--Brian Young, 10, of Stoney Creek, Ont., was drowned in four feet of water Thursday while play- ing in the water with another boy at this Georginan Bay re- sort. The boy got into diffi- culty about 100 feet out and succumbed before John Eng- land of Hamilton got to him. IMMIGRANT KILLED Trenton (CP) -- Johanese Abbe- ma, 77, who came to Canada from Holland only two weeks ago, was killed Thursday night when struck by a truck while crossing No. 2 highway just west of here. He apparently became confused while crossing the highway as he return- ed home from a visit to his daughter. 50 Thousand Pilgrims Pray At Shrine Ste. Anne de Beaupre, Que. (CP) ~Fifty thousand pilgrims -- rich and poor, walking and confined to wheel chairs -- crowded this St. Lawrence river hillside village Thursday to pray to "La Bonne Sainte Anne." They had come from near and far for the feast day of the Mother of the Blessed Virgin, Quebec's most fevered saint after John the Bap- Tradition holds that America's oldest shrine Began 300 years ago when Breton sailors, saved from shipwreck, built a chapel in honor of Saint Anne. Their log chapel has given way to a sumptuous temple where hun- dreds of crutches, Iimb support and canes have been left by ailing and crippled pilgrims, mute testimony of the faith of thousands, . Sixty-five years ago, Pope Leo XIII proclaimed Saint Anne "Queen of Quebec," and now celebration of the feast is surrounded with more splendor and pomp than before. Pontifical high masses -- infre- quent events in most Roman Cath- olic churches -- have been a daily occurrence for the last nine days in the white stone basilica, built with donations from Canadian and United States visitors. Each day of novena -- nine days of prayer -- ceremonies have been conducted in French and there have been evening torchlight processions on the mountainside overlooking the mile-wide St. Lawrence Litur- gical celebrations of the feast -- a holy day of obligation in the days of New France -- began yesterday with the chanted vespers of Saint Anne conducted by = Archbishop Maurice Roy of Quebec. Today, the highlight was an out- door procession of the Host in a jewel -- studded gold monstrance through the square in front of the shrine. There the sick waited and prayed. ; 'during her Canadians Continue Barrage In Eastern Korea E GE, While U.N. and Red negotiators at Kaesong struggle over questions of peace or further bloodshed in Korea, Allied soldiers have been attacking a 1,000-foot hill in eastern Korea, 27 miles north of the 38th parallel. Here a battery of 2nd Royal Canadian Horse artillery support forward patrol positions of A and B com- panies of 2nd Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment with a heavy barrage of artillery fire. --~Central Press Canadian. Position Is Perilous As Attlee Commences His 7th Year London -- (AP) -- Clement R. ently on their plan for making Attlee today entered his seventh year as Britain's prime minister-- the longest one-man run in that of- fice in the last four decades. The political fortunes of the mild- mannered, 68-year-old Labor party leader could well make the seventh year his last. World and domestic affairs certainly make it appear it will be the hottest. Iran and Egypt are 'giving Bri- tain a bad time. The national eco- nomy is feeling the pinch of big- scale rearmament. Aneurin Bevin, the silver-tongued idol of Wales, is challenging Attlee's leadership of the party Britain's international trade gap is widening. This is vastly differént from the optimistic days of 1945, when Att- lee first swept Mato power. Germany was newly beaten then, Japan was collapsing and world peace was in sight after six dark years. Labor took over the government with a crushing majority of 193 in the House of Commons. Attlee and his followers set off confid- Britain the socialist welfare state it has since become. Now, the effective majority in Commons is down to five. Prices are rising. The people are grumbl- ing at the prospect of still--more austerity to support the arms pro- gram and maintain vital money- earning exports Winston Churchill's 'Conserva- tives can hardly wait for the next test at the polls. Attlee is believed to have decided that October is the earliest he can get ready to face another big showdown with the voters. Meanwhile, he has the problem of what to do about Bevan and his strong bloc of left-wingers in the party. Unless Attlee can placate Bevan, the party's chances in a new elec- tion--generally regarded right now as poor--probably would be nil. The last British prime minister to hold office more than five years was Herbert Asquith, a Liberal. He headed the cabinet for 8% years, ending halfway through the First World War. Festival of Britain Girl To Make Tour of Canada Twenty - year -old Judy Breen, the London stenographer who re- cently became Btitain's "Festival Girl" as a result of a nation-wide competition, will put in personal ap- pearances in . Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver roundthe-world air journey, one of the prizes of the competition. Fair-haired and hazel-eyed Judy, who was chosen from over four thousand competitors on the basis of attractiveness, intelligence and personality, leaves London on August 1st for New York. She will arrive in*Toronto August 3rd by TCA and leave for the west August 4th, Judges of the contest included film stars Googie Withers and John McCallum, film producer George Brown and Daily Mail columnist Iris Ashley, The J. Arthur Rank Organization, through its Odeon Theatre chain, provided the facili- 4 ties for staging the preliminary and final competitions. Y Miss "Festival" Breen will leave Vancouver August 6th for San Francisco. She will then fly east, touching down at Auckland, Syd- ney, Singapore, Colombo, Karachi, Cairo and Rome before arriving home in London on August 28th. No Canadians Yet Korean Prisoners Ottawa (CP): -- No Canadian troops have been taken prisoner to date in the Korean fighting. Thus, Canada will not come within the scope of point four on the Korean cease-fire agenda greed upon today -- that of Making '"'ar- rangements relating to prisoners of war." Total Canadian casualties to date are 222, including 57 dead, 148 wounded and 17 injured in battle accidents. There are no men mis- sing or taken prisoner of war. 1949 CHEVROLET SEDAWETTE In top condition , . . excellent tires. 1948 MERCURY A clean car . , . almost new. $1350 SISSON'S GARAGE" SEDAN SEDAN tires re-conditioned. 1946 DODGE Radio and Heater . . $1195 1939 CHEVROLET SEDAN Needs minor. body re- pairs . . . good =otor and tires. MILE SOUTH OF ORONO HIGHWAY 35 Orillia Council Approves Grant To Hospital Wing Orillia -- Following approval from the Ontario Municipal Board, the Orillia Town Council passed a by- law giving approval to the issuing of debentures in the amount of $90,- 000 toward the cost of the construc- tion of the new Princess Elizabeth wing of the Soldiers Memorial Hos- pital, The bylaw had been given two readings before and had then been sent on to the Municipal Board. Reeve Hugh Johnston told the Council on Monday that he under- stood that the Board had also given approval to a proposed grant from the County to all hospitals who are undertaking construction programs. "If the County and Provincial and Federal Governments are giving help to 'the hospitals, it is only right that the town should help 100," the Reeve argued, pointing out that the $90,000 grant was a rea- sonable request. Mayor Cramp expressed his gen- eral approval of the grant but won- dered whether the Council was wise in not holding a vote of the rate- payers, pointing out that last year the ratepayers had turned down a vote on a larger grant, Deputy Reeve A. J, Truman said that one of the biggest factors was that almost every other hospital re- ceiyed some kind of financial aid from the municipality while Orillia had not had to make up operating deficits. Other Councillors expressed ape proval of the grant and urged im- mediate cction, whereupon the Mayor put the vote and the bylaw was passed without a dissenting voice. Victoria, B.C. (CP) -- Clayton Trott's line went limp as he played a sizeable salmon. A shark's fin flashed and Trott reeled in a dead Bh with a 10-pound chunk mis- sing. In Korea Over 2,750,000 Miles of Flying In Year's Period Dorval, P.Q. -- The RCAF's 426 Thunderbird Transport Squadron, noting a full year on the Korea airlift, today paus- ed to add a few figures to the record book. Since the big four-engine North Stars of 426 took off from McChord Afr Force base, near Tacoma, Washington, on their first airlift flights July 27, 1950, the squadron has rolled up 2,759,000 miles of flying. Nearly 250 trips have been made, carrying more than 6,600 personnel and almost 2,700,000 pounds of freight and mail. Flying in all kinds of weather® betwen the West Coast and Japan, over strange routes, the Thunder- birds have carried out their diffi- cult task with airline precision, Their year of operations has been unmarred by a single flying casualty or serious flying accident. START OF SERVICE Under Wing Commander C. H. Mussells,. DSO, DFC, a 30-year-old wartime bomber pilot from Mont- real, the squadron left its Dorval base just before dusk on July 25, 1950, and put down the next morn- ing at McChord. Orders for the move had been received only a few days previously but the squadron was ready, and made the shift as a complete unit, flying out its ground crew and necessary servicing equip- ment. Following briefings at McChord, three of the squadron's North Stars left the US base the following day for Haneda airport, between Tokyo and Yokohama and the Thunder- birds had begun their part in the Korea airlift. ' First flights were made over the northern route, via Elmendorf Field in Alaska and bleak, fog-shrouded Shemya in the Aleutians. One-way distance of this initial route flown by the Thunderbirds was just under 10,000 miles. VARIOUS ROUTES USED Since then, according to circum- stances and weather conditions, the Thunderbirds have used varied routes. Adak, also in tie Aleutians, has been used as a stopping point over the northern route, and the 426 North Stars have flown the mid-Pacific route, via San Francisco and Hawaii, with stops at one of several tiny island points between Hawaii and Japan, including John- ston, Wake and Iwo Jima. As 426 completes a year's airlift operations, it is flying the northern route on both west and east crossings. When the Thunderbirds moved to McChord they took with them their own administrative staff . and groundcrew, and handled all main- tenance and servicing jobs on their aircraft. Because of differences be- tween the North Stars and eom- parable aircraft operated by the Americans, servicing detachments of Thunderbird ground crew were established at points along the way, to re-fuel and service the aifcraft as they landed on their way to or from Japan. These detachments are presented located at McChord, Shemya and Haneda, and have been stationed also at Adak and Hawaii. There's little doubt which spot was the most popular, but a six-week rotational shift of crews mixed the good with the bad and gave as many technicians as possible valuable op- erational experience on detachment work. MEANT BUSINESS The Thunderbirds soon showed they meant business after starting on the airlift a year ago. Beginning the lift with 6 aircraft, they were shortly afterwards given two more, and their total was then increased to 12. During the critical days of the Korean war, when the overseas sup- ply problem was acute, 426 was fly- ing a one-a-day shuttle run out of McChord. A slip-crew system was adopted to allow the utmost to be gained out of every aircraft, Om the basis that perfectly maintained and serviced, the aircraft could stand more than could their crews, the North Stars put down at Shem= ya or Adak where fresh crews took over as soon as re-fuelling was com= plete. The newly arrived crews had a quick meal and rolled into bed, to be ready to fly the next North Star on to Japan. This system, pose sible only through exceptional work by ground crew personnel, and the splendid performance of the North Stars and their Rolls-Royce Merlin power plants, allowed 426 to roll up an impressive total of flying time, Taking off «from McChord, the North Stars put down at Haneda airport in Japan about 25 hours later, landing their loads of troops and badly-needed supplies. On the return trip the 426 North Stars have carried back large numbers of wounded, in addition to personnel returning on leave and duty, and mail and equipment. NEW COMMANDER On June 1, 1951, a new command ing officer too kover. Wing Come mander Mussells, under whose gui= dance the Thunderbirds had flown the lift for more than 10 months, relinquished command to Wing Commander J, K. Macdonald, 34, of Antigonish, NS. a wartime Coastal Command pilot. Approximately two weeks later the squadron left its Mec- Chord base and returned to Dorval, outside Montreal. One reason for the shift back to Dorval was the growing need for more operating space at McChord by United States units. Services of the four-engine North Stars are also required on domestic runs and support flights to the United Kingdom, with the buildup of RCAF fighter squadron RCAF AIRLIFT (Continued -on page 16) Firestone TIRES on TIME -- Because you can buy new Fire- stone Tires from us -- on the easi- est terms in town! You'll get long- er, low-cost mile- age, greater saf. ty, more carefree performance from Firestone. And, you will get the best in budget-wise pay plans from us! 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