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1 tfc- ii .22 SENDS 3OO BRITISH CONSOLS", "LEGION", "MAC DON AID'S MENTHOL", 'SCOTCH BLENDS" or "EXPORT" Cigarettes or 1 Ib. Tobacco BRIER SMOKING or any MAC DONALD'S FINE CUTS (with pop.nl alia DAILY MAIL CIGARETTE TOBACCO PoUpoM to Soldiwt In th Canadian Army OVERSEAS and CANADIANS IN UNITED KINGDOM FORCES. Mall Order and Rtmrrtanc* to: ThHOwb|(>cttiaircMnl Gimnminl Rif.lalli OTTAWA REPORTS That The Ceiling Prices On Apples Will Stabilize Prices During the Marketing Season The ceiling prices placed on apples formed one of the main orders established by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board during the past week. According to the Board, the order nade very little change in the prices that were prevailing In the industry at the time the order was announced. The main effect of the order will be to stab- ilize prices for the period during the marketing season when prices generally rise. In the light of a short crop this year and of Increases In the costs of production, the Prices Board feels that the prices set by the order will give growers In the three main producing zones In Can- ada a satisfactory return. Provision was made to allow dealers to dispose of stocks already on hand and they were given until October 9 to do this, regardless of the fact that the order went Into effect September 22. Growers and shippers who sell apples direct to consumers through the public markets or from door to door will be entitled to the lame price that retailers receive In their own districts. That la they receive their basic growers' price, plus both the wholesale and retail mark-ups. Sales to retailers are to be made at the wholesale celling price. Included In the first group for the purposes of the order are the Oravensteins of Nova Scotia, all the members of (ho Mclntosh fam- ily, the Fameuse and the Snow, the Northern Spy, the Golden HUH- set, the Dcllrlon?, the Newton and the Wlnesaps. The second group Includes all the other varieties. * In the zoning, Ontario and Quo- bee have been placed together un- der the order. A uniform ceiling price has been set for this zone which Is to be thn grower's or shipper's rolling prlcea at all <lls- trilnitliiK points In Ontario on the south of the main line of tho C. P. R. as far west as Sudbury. This Is also the basic celling price at Montreal. Tho Maritime Provinces form zonp two, and Kentvlllo, Nova Scotia, headquarters of the Nova Srotla apple marketing board and centre of the Annapolis valley aj>pli- Industry, Is the basic price point. Zone three Is British Columbia where the prices are set on the basis of the standard box wrapped and on a f.o.b. Kolowna basis. In all three zones, the whole- sale and retail ceilings are set on the basis of the basic celling price at shipping point, plus transporta- tion rosin wherever necessary, anil plus mark-ups of 12\' s per cent of tlin soiling price for whole- salers and 20 per cent of the sell- Ing price for retailors on unbrok- en packs and 25 per cent whoro retailers have to break parks Into broken lots of apples for salo. Shippers and dealers may nrtd storage and nhrlnkngn allowances after Derenibor 1st at the rate of 30 <entH a barrel per month, or 86 cents a hamper or crate. 'Flying Flea Details on the perforn mice of Ilritain's secret "Flyinjc Flea" were made public by the Air Ministry last week for the first time, although the 'plane has been in acticn on all fronts since the war began for artillery spot- ting and observation work. The tiny 'plant, a low-winjf monoplane, has a maximum speed 01 125 miles an hour and can tako off from rotulx, fields or wherever there is a 60-yard run- way. The "Flying Flea" is unarmed and depends entirely on man- oeuvrability to escape enemy fighters. THE WAR WEEK Commentary on Current Events In Allied Air Superiority Lies The Promise of Ultimate Victory After magnificent victories which drove the Invader back for hundreds of miles but failed to crush him, the Russian summer offensive appears to be slowly grinding to a halt because of au- tumn rains and stiffening German resistance. The Red Army con- tinues to advance into White Rus- sia and the Germans are evacuat- ing their last positions in the Cau- casus; but Moscow also reports that the major part of the front along the Dnieper River is being "stabilized." This would mean that the Germans have escaped a threatened catastrophe and that hopes for a further Russian ad- vance In force might have to be postponed until the Red Army is able to launch another winter of- fensive, says the New York Times. Air Front Carries On But one front carries on irrres- pectlve of rain or mud or the season. That Is the air front, which the Allied advance in Italy Is steadily expanding In range and effectiveness. Despite low clouds and fogs which made September a had bombing month, the British Royal Air Force was over Nazi- dominated territory every day and twenty-five nights last month. Though the total bomb load it was able to drop decreased by nearly one-third as compared with the previous month, the United States Eighth Air Force was able to exceed all previous records. Berlin Munich, Hannover, Kassel, Frank- fort and many other towns have felt Its blows. And during the last four days and nights the air attack has been pressed home with pven greater vigor. 3,000,000 Nazis Tied Down But so new and so debated Is this front that the world In general, and the Russians In parti- cular, keeping their eyes glued to the struggle on the ground, are prone to overlook both Its size and the effect It already has pro- duced. According to the best estimates, the air front alone has tied down some 3.000,000 of Ger- many's badly strained manpower 1.000.000 for anti-aircraft guns and 2.000,000 for related tasks. Num- erically, and disregarding quality, this figure begins to approach the total of German soldiers engaged on the whole Russian front. And the manpower and productive energy required to maintain this front on the Allied side Is of siml- l.'ir proportions. numbs Plus German Winter Tlie air front has knocked out thf industrial capacity of some of Germany's leading cities. Ac- cording to the most conservative estimates It has reduced Germany's war production capacity by at least 15 per cent ami is continuing to reduce it Instead of permitting the enemy to recuperate. The effect of this will become more notice- able when German supply reserves bogin to run out. It has forced Germany to shift from bomber to fighter production nnd to con- centrate tlio larger part of her fighter strength In the wost. Above all, It Is the one front which Is bringing the war home to Ger- many herself, with telling effect on Gorman morale. And this effect should Increase when to the blast of the bombs Is added the severe cold of a Gorman winter. Lass of War Averted How much all tills has helped to relieve pressure on the Rus- sians cannot be calculated In figures. Hut there can be no doubt that the Hhare of the air front In Unsaid as well as other Allied victories on land has been substantial and sometimes even decisive. Kor a land front with- out sufficient air coverage is as vulnerable today as a similar naval front on the sea. The nlr front nlone will not win (he war, but It has already averted the loss of the war. And In the Allied air superiority, which Is growing despite all German counter measures, lies the promise of ujtlmnte Allied victory. Corsica Is Ours It will not lie long before Hitler feels the IOSH of Corsica. The Is- land commands the European count of the wnstern Mediterranean as Crete. cominaiuln tin- cnslern roast. Crete, however lies at the tip of tbe JuUcan peninsula. Corsica rises near' trie top of the Itatllan boot like a salient thrust at the German "blood line" Hitler Ii building on the River Po. Bastla, where the French are still mop- ping up, is only fifty miles from Italy and 110 miles from the French coast. It Is within 240 miles of Marseilles and leas than that from Rome. Bombers from this anchored carrier could sweep all southern Germany. Unfor- tunately. Corsica Is a tangle of mountains. The airfields there are few and small. But they probably can and will be develop- ed. Perhaps what happened to Cor- sica gives us a preview of what will happen In France. When the Germans started to withdraw they found themselves struggling through an angry population al- ready armed. Many were ambushed and annihilated before the French "Goums" and American Rangers arrived from Africa. There Is a trail of German blood along the whole length of the island. Get- ting out of Bastia was like escape through a burning doorway. Allied Prisoners Reported Free The Morocco Radio said 20,000 American and British prisoners had been liberated by the Italians and have joined Italian patriots despite Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's offer of 1,800 lire re- ward for each prisoner handed over to the Germans. SCOUTING . . . Overheard at the wedding of a former Boy Scout and a "Wren". A fellow Scout wishing the bride- groom "Ail the best" with the hope that he wouldn't be "wren- pecked!" * * * In a letter received at Dominion Headquarters of the Boy Scouts Association at Ottawa, Lady Bad- en-Powell, widow of the founder of the Scout Movement, and Chief Girl Guide of the world, expressed the hope to make a tour of Can- ada after the war. * When hooligans made trouble In a section of Trinidad, British West Indies, and police reserves were not large enough to handle the situation, T6 older Scouts, Rover Scouts and Scoutmasters were enrolled as special con- stables. The trouble has been cleaned up and the Scouts com- plimented by the Commissioner of Police for their splendid service to the community. * A British Boy Scout, now serv- ing as an officer with a Ghurka Regiment fighting the Japs who has Just been awarded the Military Cross, writing to his mother said: "My Boy Scout Training has prov- ed invaluable out here. It Is know- ing how to take care of yourself in the jungle that means the dif- ference between life and death when you are fighting in country." this Harvesting Frogs' Legs By The Bushel The story is told about the Alberta farmer whose crop failed to grow because of too much rain, a strange thing there. Hu fields were drowned out. To make EAU CLAIRE DISTRICT Between North Bay and Mattawa GLENDORE MICA PROSPECTING SYNDICATE MUSCOVITE White Mica The Preferred Type . . It is Superior to Amber Mica (Phlogopite) SYNDICATE CAPITALIZED AT $10,000 divided into 4,000 units UNITS ARE NOW C J OFFERED AT - - - ** PER UNIT - Full Information Without Obligation Glendore Mica Prospecting Syndicate, 184 Bay Street, Toronto Address Name matters worse, a plague of frogs arrived to inhabit the pools that day round his farm. Then sud- denly winter came, as it does in Alberta, and just as the frost hardened the surface of the sloughs, the frogs leaped into the water and were frozet: solid with their hind feet in the air. The farmer merely toon out his lawn mower and cut himself 10 bushels of frog legs to the acre and lived lusciously through tha winter. Winnipeg Free Press. (SERVING THE UNITED NATIONS WITH WAR ALCOHOL WAR ALCOHOL PLAYS ITS PART There goes a barrel of grief for Hitler . . . a dose of concentrated high explosive to blast some skulking U boat into sudden oblivion. Relentlessly, month after month, th grim submarine chase goes on ... and in that hunt of death, Alcohol has its part to play. The "xplosive with which the "ash cans" arc charged utilizes War Alcohol; .ven the propellanf that lobs th depth charge overboard contains his same critical war material) Alcohol is proving its worth i 'ht,se al var days ... in the factory, the laboratory, on the field of ttle itself. To make explosives and plastics, a tremendous quantity Alcohol is needed. Aerial compasses and other delicate instru ents are sealed in alcohol. As a practical disinfectant, Aicoho! is the constant ally of docton and nurses. In the welding of our fighting machine, Alcohol has a myriad of uses; every ounce that can be produced is needed now. That is why all our plants are on 100% war production, for the duration. GOODERHAM & WORTS, LIMITED HG-W REG'LAR FELLERS Best-Dressed Man By GENE BYRNES LOOKIT THE SWELL HORSESHOE SET MX MOM BOUGHT ME.' RUBBER HORSESHOES AN', EVER/THING .' -Vt COME ON, LE'S PLAX A GAME.' ALL YA DO IS CHUCK 'E/v\ LIKE THIS .' fl"i 1' K HOLD EVER/THING RIGHT BACK.' / I THINK A FELLER ORTER V BE DRESSED RIGHT FER, \ THIS KINO OF A SAME .'