Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (1912), 21 Aug 1940, p. 6

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PAGE TEN S·PO·RTS . . . . . _SOFTBALL The finals In the Town · SOtiOau League got away to a poor start last Wednesday night, when John's Place -got 10 runs from 6 hits and Bluidel Bees getting a runs from 5 hits. Errors were a big factor In the game. An error to Pugh In the lst ·inning from E. S:uuanskl's fly ball, With two on base-;, permltte,d three ~ : =th~t!;:, :~hp~~· o~ e~= to V. Bye and Brown, allowed four runs tO eros sthe plate. The Bees were without th~ services ·of Bas :-_ Bye who is always a tower of strength on any team. It is to be hoped he will 'be he~t:.Friday. night. J.-Heard substitut.ed for him behind the plate playing a nice g&m~. John's Place played the usual air- tight ban, BID Kapusklnski pitching 'a steady _game and getting lots of support: - Score by Innings: -k. John's Place' •.... __ . _. 301 o:zo f--10 ~and~· se~. E';~ .8c!.~ oto o.- 2 : Tlie • Bandel Bees evened the ser- ies up 'last Friday night, when they · won Irom John's Place by a score Of· 4~1. It ,was -8. real game to' watch , An de with ~ Bye !lehlnd the plate - and Mlll~r pitching, it was a steady •. P,l!le. _ --lloth teams. played scoreless ball ·!:. imtli the :h·d tnniug, when Spencer, · . ~ .• ~e Bee:;, .g~t 1!- safe hit and stole arO\Uld to 3rd; J . Heard came to the plAte with 1 out &nd sacrificed, . lir!ngJng Spencer home. The ne:,; _ fWoDitters flyed out. John's Place ... ~ . -~ BRITA-IN ORDERS t-allied their first run of the game In the first of the 6th Innings. E. samanskl got a '>Bfe hit to 1st steal- Ing around to 3rd. Mayne came to the plate, and with two out, batted 'l a-bagger bringing S:unanskl homt: Next man flyed out t.O left neld making 3 out and Mayne left on. In the last half of the 6th lnnlnl!l>. with the score tied, the Bees came to bat full of det'!rrulnation. Brown got a 2-base hit, V. Bye came next with a 2-base hit also, brlnginJ Brown home. B. Bye came up nex; with a pop fly to the pitcher tor the first out. Watsou, who was up next, got a safe hit bringing V. Bye home. An error to Htrcla put Wat- son on third. Mille~ hit a fielder bringing Watson l\(lme. Adams and Speocer were struck out, _ewllng the Inning. - Both t-eams were held scoreless for the balance cif th~ game. It will be a real game on Wednesday nigh~ next. - Score b7 J'JiDIDc5: R. Joim's Place ..•..••.. 000 001 o- 1 Bandel Bees ....... - . 001 003 0- 4 BandT.Prentice, ~ho Is a golf en- thusiast, attended lhe open Cana- dian Golf champion..'lllip at ScarbOro 18st week. and wt~nessed the par shattering round of 66 played by Sam Snead. Jug MeSpaden put up a sensational performance to tie Snead's total, but lost the play-off a.fler a dramatic fmJm on the last green, when he missed an 111-lnch putt which would have pocketed him S1,0oo. All the leading proo obllged Sandi wiUl their autographs. . . ' t •• t:. \·\ 1-la t B, . Gleeson, of the Cblcaro Cubs, slldes safely bacli pe~ to CamUIJ at first in vain attempt a& tn~pp•IDI(.JiiiDiL{_oU Fifth Column Ring ·In Nazi Officer nel Dug From Ice House; Believe Outside Help Aided German Somewhere in Ontario, Aug. 20.- Pollce reported last night that a powerful .!hort-wave radio transmlt- ler set had been discovered In the prison barracks of an Internment camp In Northern Ontario after a German officer escaped. and a high mllitary authority said that an ex- tremely dangerous gang of fifth columnists had planned and aided the escape. . ~'MILITARY TRU~KS · . .FROM DOMINION ·simelech Bids Adios To Race Fans ~-------------- The prisoner, a young. sullen, neurotic, troublesome lieutenant of the German navy. escaped through a tunnel which led directly under one of the guard rooms. Guards Laiger .• Contracts Due for • · ~adian Transpc)~ Ottawa· States Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Aug. 20.- who were off duty were IL!leep Blmelech struck his sllb forever above him as he crawled a1on11 t<1 yesterday. fredom. · Ceil. Edward Riley Bradley an- The German officer. a ht~<ky. nounc:fld that Xray i:botographs tough fellow of 28 years, n3med W. dlaclosed a broken bone In the Xoche, escaped at 3 o'clock Mon- , J Ottawa, Aug. 16. _ The British colt's foot, and that he would be day morning. He was not missed -- -war. ,Office has_ ordered 10,000 mJU- retired to stUd In Kentucky at ooee. unut Reveille was sounded at 6:30 The aged owner said the veterln· a.m. · and when pollee searched the :tary motor transports of a type pro- arian who !lllipected the hatte, and barracks where he slept they found ..:~ced ln _Cana.da for the Canadian th p1 ••.• _.... th • .....__ h .... ~leading .f.~ctl:ve Service . Force, and Is now e c .... e ~ e -..- w lch wu= to the eaves and. fur- , pJaCing ·an additional order for connects the, frotr to the side wall,. ther search revealed the radio. • • . had been mapped; He explained So carefully was the .tunnel exca- • .' , · ~ ~uch.larger number, the Depart- that n would take at least llx vated there 1s a possibility that :~. ; ment, ~ National Defense announc- months for the !:lu to crow back IDIW escape was planned. The tun- , .. · C!cl .'~. O.rdera liave ..., been .and at least another four mon~ e1 th 100 f t 1 _;'ii::Celr~~ trom India, SOUth Afrtca' !or 1t to "muscle" to a degree where eas ~=· It~ed fro: t~~~ • ~. ~· and the Canadian Btmelech could stand hard tralninlt. ~ouse to a point 1ust beyond ., '-! · ~a,C~ are working ~ and The long period of conva1escenoe guardhouse on . the northern side of - ••· '""•c-'-" · ~Shuts producing- the vehicles. meant that the .son of Black Tim- th Poll It t • : 'Jlhe ";tiefense . Department sta~ could not _.._ to the tra·'- · ... --::__ e camp. ee say mus have -1 · ......... ...., """" taken two months to dig. which - ··~t· ..,..d that defecttvp metal had tore 11M2 u *' aD. «t ;aracne, Aid means that the prison~ phlnned ,. ~Uiecl>bre.altdown of axles on the he would be retired to the ltucl their escaPe almost as soon as they · mo~ transports first manulac- block at Idle Hour P&rm. entered: the prl.son. • .. t)Jred, but that the fault wu dis- 'Ibe Idle Hour colt, bred b7 the Evl~ence that the escape or Koche co~ and new.pal"U provided l?e- Ccilonel, and balled u the greatest was the wort of fifth columnists ·f~. any of ~e .C.A.B.P.'s -cars J?.ac1 honse. he eTer bad owned, Injured was attested lest night by a mlll- been assembled In England. himself durlnc a ,workout Saturdu. tary authority whose word could not 'lbe statement wa3 luued In ~ At ftrst the hurt ' wu dlacnoaed as be questioned. •They are undoubt. · ply to a despatch from Londm, a bruised bee1. but Jater tbe photo- edly Jn the country-It doesn't re- ilat.ed tYatetda.Y. from Allen H. Bill, BJ'aphs dlsclased t.he ·break. The. quire any imagination to tnow -i'peclal corresdondent of the A.uo- Idle Hour entourw;ae said the colt that" he saki elated SOutham' Newspapers; de- mar have been suffertna for .!OIIle •1' haven't ~ny ~clflc Jnforma- sctlllJng alleged weaknesses In Cana- time, and hJa poor &howJna 1n bls tloo, but they <the prisoners) have dian mecbaD.tcat, equipment and last raoe. the Ar!Jncton Cluslc in friends outside Ill all these caSes • claiming that Web equipment f'>l' which he ran third, m.Jaht be at- he added. ' the men· wa3 too amall In size. trlbuted to the Injury. - The pollee ·alSo gave·· the opinion ' Flrit.' brealt Jn the motor equip- Blmelech reUres as the sixteenth that there was outside help on the merit espec~lly designed for army richest money-winning hone pro. job. They saU they believed It uae,l was ~ a car that had been duced In America. One of the great to be a very carefully prepared plot driven 14,000 rillles, the departzDent- 2-:year-olds In hl.story, he won six aided by "NazJ sympathizers out- 11,1 statement said. Examination by -nce.s without defeat. last aeason, side:·~ Domlnlon Government meb.llurg- and earned *135•090 l>y scoring In '~'he tunnel- through which Koche < such events as the Sar&top Spec- escaped was ttyee feet high and lal, the Hopeful, the Belmont and pollee saki that the prisoner 01 Plmllco Puturltle3. prisoners had stolen the t-Imber. ists revealed that materl&l axle wa:s faulty. piece by piece, from Canadian workmen who are building addi- Jn the tiona! barracb In the camp. Within nine days from the brealt a new axle bad been deslcned, Ju twehe days It wu Ill production, and Jn thirty-one days the replace- ments were In England, It was st-ated. · With ~pec:t to the Web equip- ment. the· department said lhb was made In two B1Rs, the smallest beU belnc adj_ustable irp to 40 Inches. No comPlaint had beei1 reeelved from headquarters tn· England. · Otber c:oznmmts by Mr. Bill are ·being Investigated and a further .statement may be Issued, "If war- SAY HEADLI6HTS CAUSE ·MISHAPS Cobourg Car Goes Into Ditch; Newmarket Car Hits Pole Bowmanvllle. Aug. 19 - Glaring headlights on wet pavement caused two automobile accidents east of Bowmanvllle last night. At. Br&as' HJll Cyril PhJUJps of qobourg lost control o! his cu and It cruhed In· to the ditch. Mrs. P~ps sustain- ed a broken arm. She wai attend- ed by Dr. Rundle and later able to proceed to her home. Mr. PhlllJpa was uninjured. · On the highway near Cream of Barley C:1mp. a man believed to be Rev. Robert CUilJllniham. of New- market-, ran his car off the high- wa,y and Into a telegraph pole. The pole was sna.pped right o!f but none of the occupants ot the car ~ Injured. Chief· Sidney Venton, of Bowm:mvllle, J.rweaUgated both the , ccldents. • From the cookhouse It crossed an open stretch of ground and came out directly behind one of the guardhouses. When Koche stepped out of the tunnel he discarded hL' camp clo~hlng- khaki ~hirt and blue trousers-and changed to civil- Ian clothes. The shirt and trousers were found 100 yards from the tun_ Champ of the Soap Boxer~ --J~Al~lN6 \~ENTRES WARN~ PEOPLE . -"FOIFN:P~A~M, NAMED TRAITORS AIJIVE I GltJen Release SWORN IN A ~ROWD CHEERS LUSTILY _Governor Takes Oath F:ew Minutes After " Landing Eleve~;~ Tra~ Camps &lect~ f9r Militia in Ontario Ottawa, Aug. 19.-Locations or the thirty-nine training centres at which members of the Non-Per- man~nt Aotive Militia called up by age groups will receive their basic training were announced last night by the Department of National De- fense. Work , on getting the centres ready for use in October is under way. They vary In size from a centre accommodating one com- pany, or about 250-men, to one ac- commodating !our companioo or about 1,000 men. . 'The sites are: Ontarlo-Kltchen- er, Woodstock, Chatham, Brantford, ~ng Branch, North Bay, New- market, Brockvllle, Cornwall, Peter- borough, Fort William. - Quebec - Farnham, Hunflngdon, Jollette, Sherbrooke, St. Jerome, Sorel, St. Hyacinthe, Valleyfield, Valcart!er,• Chlcout!ml, Megant!c, Levis, Montmagny, R!mouskl. Nova Scotia-Yarmouth and New Glasgow. Prince Edward :Wand---Chlirlotte- town. , New Brunswick-Fredericton and Edmundston. Manitoba-Portage Ia Prairie and Brandon. British COlumbia - Vernon and VIctoria. Saskatchewan-Regina and Dun- durn Camp. Alberta-Red Deer, Camrose and Grand Pralrle <Peace ·ruver Dis- trict). The administrative _stat! for a four-company centre wUI be about 200 of!Jcers and men and smaller staffs will be stationed at smaller centres. ACROSS GANADA Transport Minister Appeals to French-CaDadians of Fifth Columnists Ottawa, Aug. 1~Transport Min-~ lster Cardin appealed to French- Canadians to register "as good Can- adians" this week and warned that 1 fffth columnists were operating in I Canada. I "It Is a pity to have to admit It, 1 but the !nlli.mous fifth column Is : operating In our country." Mr. Card- in said In an address broadcast o~ the French network of the Cana- dian Broadca.!tlng Corporat-Ion. Scoring separatists as real en- emies, Mr. Cardin saki . "hatred, bllnd jealousy, ambition and pride are used in attempts to destroy our internal peace and the good com- "Sad Sam" Jones, eoach of the radeship between the sons of Can- Toro.,to 1\laple Leafs, has been ada. . _. his rei Ill "The fifth columnists-that ~;mall .,.ven ease • moYe which band of tralto~are per~;ons who was explained as - ecoDelll3' haYe abused. and are stlll alluslng, measure. Jones eame - of n- ot the democratic Uberties of our tlreme-.l& to eoach &be -Toronto chlb regime to spread the theories of and also aeted -as relllef pltoher force which they themselves refUlie for the elub in seven pmes. t~ accept. "They would have Canada become an Independent nation or have Que- bec leave Confederation instelld of helping England fight for all that Is dear to Canadians. "The ~orlty of Canadians do not want Independence, and neither do most cJUzens of Quebe~: want to leave COnfederation. "We have not changed our policy. It still is: 'Compulsory training tor all able to defend Canada. In Can- ada. and .-oluntary enlistment for service outside Canada.• It Is clear. It 1s the law.• us than at present," he said. M And if there is hope .In this world of bit- ter st-rife In which we are Uvlng, surely It is the example of friend- ~-hlp. or mutual esteeem and or un. derstanding which characterbJes th-.l relationship between your country and this ~minion." The British Commonwealth Air Tralnlng Plan, he said, resembled a great, na tlon-wlde university Jn which students would assemble from all parts of the Em:plre. The object was to turn out airmen BRITISH BOMBERS AIR TRAININ6 , trained under Ideal conditions, free from Interruptions nnd difflcultie! inheN>nt In training In the United Kingdom. SMASH PARTS OF PLAN EXPLAINED NAZI.4KMS PIA~ TO U.S. EDITORS Swiss Report Hea-vy At- 3,500 Air Crew Students to tack. Across Borden- Train in Empire Common. Raids On Italy wealth Scheme Baste, SWitzerland, Aug. 2G-Brit- 1sh airplanes early yesterda.y bomb- Ottawa, Aug. 19 - More than ed a German aluminum works and 3,500 air crew ~;tudents will be study- arms plants across tlie border in ing In 60 establishments in opera- Germany from Rhelnfelden, swtt- tlon throughout Canada by Sept. 1, zerland, as well as Industrial centres James 8. Duncan, . Deputy Minister In North Italy. for Air, today told a group of Unit- The bombing took place shortly ed Siates weekly newspaper edltott. after midnight and German antl- alrcra!t guns !lri!d at the raiders Tbe edtl!>rs were ~tt~ests · of ·the untU the alarm ended at 1 :CS a.m. C&nadlan Weekly Newspapers Asso_ One shed o! the large aluminum clati<>n and the Hotel Association of works was destro~d and -other Ontario ·at lUilCheon was burned following the explosion Mr. Duncan 1nvtied Americans of a delayed-action bomb, It was botb "oft1cla11y and unofllclally'• to reported. "come over here and study our plana Japanese are urged b7 the gov- ernment to eschew rice for at least or.e or two meals a week because of the shortage of the grain. Reports from Romanshorn said and discu&s your problems wltb us." bombing planes struck at German "There never was a time In the armaments plants along · Lalte hl.story of our two peoples when a Constance, Including the Zeppelin more ~m}llet.e underst&ndtna and works 11t Friedrlchsha.fen, during · community of aplrlt exlated Jletween • ~~ 1' ~om is on- the sou~ ';F~~~~~~~~~~~ei~~~~~~~~~~~~~!ll!l or Swiss shore of the lalte dlre<:Uy 11 opposite Frledrichsha.fen. The reports came s!multaneo1161y M e · . with a Swiss high command an- "I ste r n9uncement that unldenttned · · planes had dropped bombs on the . - railway on the Swiss side of the lake durmg the night. The communique said there were L 1· no casualties and the railway line oc • was.not cut but that telephone and - . telegraph IJnes were broken. Announcement of the bombing, said to have occurred shortly after M h mldnight, followed tlle army staff's e rc . n t ! disclosure that fotelgn airplanes, flying in the direction or Italy, h&d violated Swiss neutrality at &everal points. · SEGOND··WAR L0,4N EARLY NEXT MONTH Set ·Over $250,000,000 as Mark for canada's Second War Flotation Ottawa, Aug. 19. - Canada wUI Issue a &econd war loan early next month, seeking & total ol from $250,000,000 to $300,000,000 ror war funds, Finance Minister Ilsley an- nounced over the wel!k-end. Holders or Dominion of Canada 4 1 ~ per cent bonds maturing Sept. 1 Will be given an opportunity or excha.nglng their maturing bonds tor bonds of the new Issue. This wi!l be In a.dditlon t~ U1e total of $250,000,000 to $300,000,000 In new money. The first war Joan was Issued In January, when a total of $200.000,- 000 was sought. The loan was heavily oversubscribed and the Gov- ernment accepted subscriptions !or more than $3_00,000,000. 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Terms of the loan, it Is expected 1 will be ann.ounced .Sept. 6, probably 1 ha v~ "a,sur- being followed 'by the opening of • that none or the · the books for the loan Sept. II. II I l ,_ ,t.re~~res wlll be harmed e\"en this schedule is followed it Is likely 1 ~ taken back t.o Paris , he that Ute new loan wJIJ be dellveretl Eli;perie!lce has taught that adverttsing payl and 1f .national adv'ertising in the Gazett and Chroni~le is increased you KNOW that e your aalea wtll show a sharp upswing. •.• . ,,_,& GIBL BORN IN SBVE~~ENERA TIONS lndlanapolfa.-Arrlval or a baby ·at th• John K. Ruckelshaus to purchasers about Oct. 1. We're partnera, - yo~ know, ao let' 1 co- operate. . WhUe neither Is ~ any liJore . for . the . Hamble&onlu . a& Goshen, N.Y., both Greyhound, world chllmplon trotter, and flier Astra, 1930 -;y!.!her of &be rich harness classic, will occup7 the apot- ll.ht at , Goshen for tbe GraDd (llrcult meellnr there. The two will meet in a match rae .. ~ :ct·bnlila 10 amued her parents that tiii.J haven't been able to select a Daql.l. The father explained ht.o; daupter wu the first girl born in tlie Ructelsh&us family for seven poeraUODI, Gaaett_,e_an_d_C_hron--i-cl-e-CiassUJed Twelve-year-old Tommy Fbher, of Detroit, winner of the AU-AI .. Ads will get '"'· "e·'·ed r-~t. ericu Soap Box Derby, face.< a barrlare of mlcrophonea alter wtlulllllr While holders of Dominion of Canada 4 Y.. "\>er cent bonds lll!ltur- lng on Sept. 1 may, of cour&e, ob- tain repayment of their bonds on that date, -Mr. Ilsley said it Is ex- pected a lartte number of such holders will wish to renew their Investment in Domlnlon Of Canada securities and wUI ther1'fore not present their maturing bonds fot· pa.yment until the terms of the sec- THE WHITBY CAZEnE AND CHRONICLE ...,. .. .... ~ the annual clualc al AluoJI, Ohio. ond war loan have been announced. lll!!!!!!!ilii!i!!i!!!i!!!ililiil!!!!ii!!!!!i!!!!!!!!!!!!i!iii!iiiiiii!iii~!!!!!iiiiiii!i!l~i!!!i!!!iiiiiiiiiii!!i!lil•.ll . . .... t ' 1 l

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