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Lightning Bolts Debunk Adage struck Twice in Same Place Near Campbellford, Ont., All Within Five Minutes Michael Moiau is not ko sure BOW about tbat adage which says that lighlniiiK never ttrikea twice l> the BHQio i)lace. During a violent eltxlijcal atorm ta June, Moran'a home on the Brighton road, near ('HmpbeUfoid, Ontario, waa struck twice within five niinute«. One bolt fol- lowed an aerial wire niid ruine<l a radio aet and the othiM' took ibe Kydro wires and blew a fuse in the houce. No fir© resulted however. The (torm waa ko severe thai 12 tolephoiie poles were blown down In the district, disrupliiiK service In â- â€¢neral. The Book Shelf MINE INHERITANCE By Frederick Niven Frederick Niven, In the front rank of contemporary writers, tells In his nfc>w novel, "Mine Inheri- tance", the story of Ihe first im- IM>rtant Hriiish settlement In the Canadian West â€" sn epic In the klatory of Canada. J-Yoni the first days of this ven- ture, when Ihe settlers put out from Scotland under the leadership of their governor, Miles .Macdonell, to the final achievement, after un- â- I»eakable hardship, of liieir great ambition â€" "to establish them- a«!ves in a part of the world where they could own their land, from which they could never be evicted, that would be an inherltiince for their children" â€" the stoiy is told of David Baxter, a young clerk In the service of Miles Macdonell. jhrough his eyes we Bee the ^i- fl'ble SirUKgle foi' existence (bal confronted the settlers. "Mine Inheritance" ... by Fred- •rick Niven . . . Toronto: Collins Publishers, 70 Bond St $2.76. Character First, Then Education Windsor Magistrate Says Ad- vantages of University Edu- cation Are Secondary Re- quirement In Young Citizens Cbaiacter comes first, edu- catkin second, Mauistrate David M. Broiie, of Windsor, told members of the graduating class of the extension department of Uie University of Western On- tario of Windsor. "The young man or woman who would fill a leading place in life needs more than the ad- vantages of a university e<iu- ••^on," declarad tihe Windsor Magistrate_ "I suggest to you that characit.- is the foundation of any career you may choose to follow if you would be sue- «ewful." Guest speaker at the banquet which was attended by nearly 200 including many alumni of tlie extension department, Mag- latrate Brodie declared his ex- perience on the bench hifs taught Wm that the young person who can take the hard knocks and not succumb "to the blandish- â- ents of tho.«e who point the «asy way" is most likely to make a success of life. "I have learned that the tUngs which come easy to young |)eople are not always good for them," he warned, re- calling that many of those born to good foitiine and ready fac- ilitie.s for a high education often fail. A weak character, he said, i-. m greater handicap than a lack «t education. Vancouver Air Traffic Grows Airpo.t There Has Become One of the Business Com- mercial Terminals in Canada As westei-n anchor of Trans-Can- ada Airlines, the Vancouver airport scBiK'rienced u rapid rise from an out-of-the-way landing field Id oni» of the busiest commercial lermln- ala In Ihe Doniluion. lu the flist tlireo monllis of this je.ir, Hivplanes •arrted 69.008 pounds of mail, 14.- M7 pounds of freight, and 4,»i07 paasengiM'K into the airport, a com- bined lau<l and water base not far from Iho City's center. This was nn Increase of 54 per cent, in mail. 17t per cent in freight, :iiut 148 pei cant. In passengers. Inauguration last year o( Trans- Canada Airlines national service kad much lo do with the growth. Only a few barnstorminc pilots were the customers when (he Cily wont .n for airport developmenl a few years .igo. United Airlines put H on Ihn mav by making a side I rip from lis HHnscnntlnental lerininal at Seattle. Nowadays, an airliner takes off for some dislanre point of the continent, or lands from one, •»*ry 81 minutes between early dawn aM well Into the Bight. Vacation Delights In the Canadian Rockies f--*^**«^l *'-.: "^ ^r-mi^^^mmi^ :*:t»^^. .W*«~W««i**.Al.t,. ./. â-  Mr. and Mrs. Kobert L. .Sianficld, of Truro, N. .S., vacationing in •he Canadian Rockies, are seen in the corral at Banff Springe Hotel just after their return on horse-back from a visit to Sunshine Lodge. Guide who accompanied them is on the left of picture. â€" Canadian Pacific Photo. THE WAR. WEE Kâ€" Commentary on Current Events Latest Soviet Move Blocks Hitler^s Pathway To East The centre of crisis in KurQpe. !asr week shifted overnight from west to east. The Imminent Invas- ion of Britain by Hitler's hordes was relegated to the background of the world's attention by the swlft- luoving events In the Balkans that changed the shape of the conflict between Britain and Germany, en- dowing it with an entirely new set of possibilities. To many, the Sov- iet success In Rumania meant that It would be In the east that Hitler might meet his final defeat. THE VITAL STRAITS The small agricultural province of Bessarabia was seen as of little importance to the Immense Soviet Union. Rather the significance of its seizure lay in the strategic new position Russia was enabled to ac- quire thereby â€" the Reds were now- encamped along the vital Danube, right In line for cutting off Ger- many's Rumanian oil supply; they had stolen a march on Hitler in the direction of the Dardanelles, and could easily gain control of those straits which are the key to the east. MIGHT BE.'VT HITLER TO IT From a certain well-informe<l quarter in Washington came the prediction that the war would shift eastward in September with a head- on clash betwc-en Germany and Ruseia. Would .BHta;,i Ti.ot be bliij:krieged?^Or would Hiticr spare Ihe British Isles in view of the new threat in the east'.' Did Stalin ejpect to be the next Axis victim? It so, might he not be getting ready now to attack first, catching Cer- many at !\n unprepared raomt>nt, eihausted from battle in lite west'.' Fear of the conflict spreading all throughout the entire Balkan area was largely iliscounteil last week. Russia had Bulgaria and Yugoslav- ia pretty well in hand. C.reece was frightened. Hungary was being held back by German desire ft) keep that country at peace and in a pos- ition to supply all the agriculturri! products likely to be needed this fall iin<l winter in the Reich. GIBRALTAR MENACED Ou tlie other hand, an Axis piisli in the Spanish peninsula was nut iiltogether unlooked-for. Loudon diplomatic commentators suggested that Hitler might senil troops lo .Spain to attack t^.ibraliar in an at- tempt, to cut British communica- tions into the Mt-(literriine;in. Tliey expressed the belief that the fall ot Prance and the German occupa- tion of Ihe French side ot Ihi^ Sptui- Ish frontier had completely swung General Franco over to tlie side ot Germany and Italy. The .Madrid newspaper Alcazar hiiilr-d at a pos- sible Spanish attempt to seize Gib- raltar. "The rock has lost almost all Us strategic value," Ihe paper contended. "From the Moroccan coast or from Ihe nearby mount- ains, Gibraltar could be shelled mercilessly aiul effectively." OtlST "MUNICII MEN' : During the week wild rumoi s went the rounds of peace negotia- tions between Britain and Ger- many. These were all categorically denied, former Prime Minister Chamberlain even going to th» trouble of making a radio apeecti to refute them. Nevertheless there were powerful forces at work In Brl- tp.ln anxious to remove all iae ''men ot Munich" from public life, at any raLe from the Government. A move was under way to make luro that there are no "appeasers" In the Cabinet waiting to seize power as Retain did in France and conclude an ignominious peace with the enemy, Peter Lyne, Christian {Sci- ence Monitor correspondent In Lon- don, quoted Lord Strabolgi, prom- Ineut debater in the House ot Lords: "Unfortunately the past of these two statesmen (Chamberlain and Halifax) Is so Identified with the appeasement policy that, so lon.^â-  as they are in the Inner War Cabinet, the German propagand- ists will find credence for their fairy tales about Britain suing for an armistice." Alternating with talk ot peace with Britain, came Nazi press re- ports that the drive against Eng- land was almost ready. "The joint forces of Germany and Italy are uniting for the final attacks," de- clared the Boersen Zeitung. "The .^tlantic coast front Brittany to Norway is being organized into an aggressive front against Englantl. Every category of arms is ready. The Reich's military resources are being reinforced daily and army, navy and air force are being con- centrated to an extent never before witnessed." R.A.F. TAKES INITIATIVE Britain seized the initiative dur- ing the week with sea and air raids on German continental coastal bas- es, and Germaii-ofcupicd industrial areas in Franco, Belgium and Hol- land. Information leaking out of Germany indicated the R.A.F. at- tacks were tal.ing their toll ot in- dustrial production, with many fac- tories being forced lo abandon the night shifts. At the same time, (ierman planes flew daily over the British Isles, drojiplng a deadly iord of bombs. Watch Ireland, warned the Tx)n- don News-Clironicle. This widely- read Liberal paper demanded that the Govornment forestall possible German plans for invasion of Ire- land ilipuce striking at Britain IhrouKh the back ilonr) by provid- ing "sufficient' forces in Northern Ireland. Groat Britain was worried about the Far Eastern situation, as the .lapancse land blockade tightened around Hong Kong. The Japanese .Army was reported moving troops down from the Yangtze area, with 100,0(M) already billeted ou Hainan Island. The French Indo-Chinese lU- fensp, 50,000 mostly native troops almost entirely unsupported by air- planes, would probably not last long against Ibe Japs without help from British Singapore. WHITE MAN ON SPOT "To Japanese militarists, occti- pation of French Indn-Clilna was a delightful prospect. It would shor- ten both tho long faces of discour- aged civilians at home and the China campaign â€" by cutting Chiang-Kai-shek's chief supply lines. It and when the United States fleet were sblfteil from the Pacific to the Atlantic, Japan could begin her long-planned campaign to drive the white man from all Asia." ("Time", July 1st.). INDIA: Mohandas K. Gandhi em- erged from silence last week with an appeal to all Britons to cease hostilities with Germany, urging that they settle their differences with "non-violent methods." The leader ot the millions of India urg- ed Britain not to enter "undignified competition with the Nazis In des- tructive power." Gandhi said he was placing his services at the com- mand ot His Majesty's Government to "advance the object" ot his ap- peal. The day previous, Gandhi's Leftist rival, Subhas Chandra Bose, had been arrested under Defence ot India Regulations. JEALOUSY? ITALY: Marshal Rodolfo Graz- lani, chief of staff of the Italian army, took command last week ot all Italian forces In Libya, which formerly had been commanded by the late Italo Balbo. Balbo three days previously had met his death In an air crash under peculiar cir- cumstances. The British Foreign Office news department suggested that Balbo was deliberately killed because he clashed with Mussolini personally as well as over the dic- tator's policy of tying to Germany. Might not Grazianl also hare been jealous ot Balbo? U.S. PLACES NEW EMBARGO UNITED STATES: Two very Im- portant moves were made by Presi- dent Roosevelt last week. First he invoked the power to seize foreign- owned shipping. Second, (serious for Britain), he placed a virtual embargo on the sale to foreign countries ot any munitions, mater- ials or machinery needed in the tj. S. national defense program. Fear of a Nazi revolution In Mex- ico Immediately following this week's election continued to per- vade the U. S. Fear ot German ec- onomic domination of South Amer- ica through barter prompted the loan of ?20,000,000 to Argentina for purchases to be made In the United States. , In the field of domestic politics, the nomination of Wendell L. Win- kle as Republican Presidential can- didate overshadowed all else; con- firmation ot the appointment ot Henry L. Stimson, Republican, to the vital post of U. S. War Secre- tary, took place with little or no fuss. CANADA: Succeeding boats dur- ing the week landed very differ- ent cargoes on our shores. The first Nazi war prisoners arrived in Canada for internment here, "sul- ky, swaggering louts" . . . Frau DoUtuss and her two children de- barked from the ne.\t ship amid a crowd of wealthy refugees from the United Kingdom . . . Two people the boats did not bring were the Princesses Elizabeth and Mar- garet Rose "who will share the fate ot other British children" remain- ing at home . . . the full influx of evacuee children from the United Kln.gdom was reported delayed sev- eral weeks due to a mixup in red tape . . . which gave Canadian homes and foster-parents longer to prepare for the reception ot new- members into the family . . . The Western wheat problem mov- ed into the limelight again as the prairie furmers bcgau to wonder what woitld become of the .good crops they expect this year. Eleva- tors were still ftiU of last year's wheat . . . and nowhere to dispose ot It, unless we should suddenly find ourselves trading again with Hitler, wlio needs ihe grain badly . . . In Ontario a serious shortage of farm labor was beginning to be felt, since so many I'ornu-r ' hired men" had joined the army . . . The Federal Cabinet changes forecast for the week did not mat- erialize, although a Wartime l:idus- tries Control Board was establish- ed, with sweeping powers to mobil- ize the industries ot this country for war purposes . . . announce- ment was made that Britain would build ;>5 plants here, at a cost of $50,000,000, to turn out explosive, guns, shells and small arms am munition â€" total output to rcac'.i a quarter of a billion dollars an- nually . . . Conservative M, P.'s and C.C.F. leaders in the House assail- ed Henry Ford for refusing to man- ufacture plane motors for Britain . . . during the week a new trade treaty was signed with Pa''agnay, a step which was taken in view ot the increased trade opportunities to the south ot U8 since the otubreak of war in Europe . . . A tragic event ot the week was the Einkii>g ot the Canadian des- troyer Fraser following a collislo;i off the west coast of France; forty- five were dead or missing, 116 res- i:ued . . . Premier Mitchell P. 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