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. | dividuals, One of ‘the most im- Preimar Drew Urges portant considerations was the possible “usurpation of the att rights. of the Provinces — since! Dominion Conference they affect every person in this room.” TORONTO Mareh 7 (CP) ve sier Drew of Ontari ee onme feetn? Distillers Report nvening of the reial = conference i val conference Increased Profits of a strong nat-

MUST BE FOUGHT FROM THE FIRST SNEEZE—AND HERE IS AN EFFECTIVE

WAY TO DO IT the present epidemic of riding, gcippy colds, don’t sneeze, ache or shiver 1, At the very first ckley’s Cinnamated end Buckley's Mixture. This double treatment acts fast. Buckley's Mixture eases the eough aimost instantly end helps correct ¢ 3 Cinnamated ce you the benefit of t ONE but FOUR ) pain-

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relieving, cold-dispelling ingre- dients. The first ingredient relieves aches, pains and feverish- ness FAST. The second prolongs that relief. The third gives you the lift you need. The fourth—Oil of Cinnamon—is grand for grippe and similar maladies. Be prepared. Get these two dependable Buckley remedies NOW. If feverishness persists call your doctor.

removing local de- ; . work. of the Fed- |!

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» the Toronto Board | vinilted end an sie. premnie “| Limite s itaniand fae te De | ported a sharply higher net profit a ad Pe j at $ f for the three months ed. to bring paca ended Jan. 31, 1947, Net profit for an t '"™ | the same period ti revious year rned “to examine | we ener the previous year mine our witole taxat-| “profit after all o} ( nd to try to | AT9.677 ‘ den of taxation.” , can eer u pam and Nova | es totalled $11,18 inst $8- differing = with | 165 for the like quarter in 1946, , political points of | Net profit for the six months end- rath ‘viewed with ed Jan. 31, 1947 was 831,834,858 as ble changes in the) ¢cenpared with $13,194,441 for tihe ivil rights of in- corresponding half-year in 1946.

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| Masters Of The | Parachute Mail |

By Peter Benedict

In The Track of the Tyres

the car had been there. And then she thought again ; which she had forgotten compl. ly; the aeroplane. It was uta onable, perhaps, to connect the two; but coincidence surely had not not dropped all these unusual trifies

She wondered if that was Wy |

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The Evening OF

March 27th

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into her lap in one morning for nothing, There must be a connex- jon, or at least the possibility of a connexion must be taken into con- sideration.

What it was, what it could be, she had no idea, But crooks — the vague terms which she had borrow- ed from the films, to which this affair seemed to belong, covered ie multitude of possibilities in the | Personality of her enemy—Croxks ‘do not drive out to the middle of ,one of the loneliest places in Brit- jain in the middle of the night for j nothing, There had to be a connex~- j fon,

Already she could say truthfully that she was nearing the middle of the moor. She herself would have been so anxious to at night, but this man knew way all right. He had done the journey before. And why? Why was this place ehosen, if not for | its very loneliness, ‘and the fact that there were no houses within ‘sight or earshot, | Cars could camp here for

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the night, and be noticed by no one. Aeroplanes could land—no, oy see jond thought that was impossible;

landing was, she remembered, a delicate business, and undertaken at yight only on properly lit flying-

fields, unless a mischance made it

necsesary to take a big risk in or- der to avoid a bigger. Besides, the aeroplane last night had not land- peas she had been awake for some ! me, listening to the hum of it as jit cruised about over the moor, and tching the lights at its wing thps.

Now that she came to remember | it so vividly, the, lights at the wing- tips had gone out very quickly; that meant they had served their purpose; and their purpose had heen | 'simply to identify the machine to! its confederate below. All of wh ch was very pretty reasoning, but s0 far need not bear any relation to hat facts she had.

; Then she found the place where ‘a car—she could not be positive’ (of the tyve-patterns here, but she _thought it was the same—had left the road, and taken to the grass. There was a cart-track here, grassed over, but usable,

; probably much more usable than it Ihaa been before the grass covered | its it had once led dowy to one of; the claypits; but the pit had never been more than-a shallow and broad removal of the turf, and was now green as ever it; had’ been,

It lay in a great natural ampht theatve, a perfectly regular oval jn shape, and about yards across at. its broadest. eart-tiack made a lead down into it, andsthat was the only break in a ring of young birch trees which rimmed the top of the slope thickly, hiding kt from anyone who did not actually thread their silvery trunks and look down into the hollow.

She found a place in the grassy slide down to it where a more lush growth, fat with milkweed, invaded the grass; and it was easy there to see that something heavy had passed over the trailing stems and crushed them, for they lay flatten- ed and dark against the resilient under-carpet of grass.

Peggy walked slowly all round the arena, all over it, across it from

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!six-heart contract.

!/on dummy’s tricks. Conversely, it:

Contract Bridge

| By Josephine Ciwbertson THE SIMPLE WAY

; There was a_ straightforward, | Simple line of play available in to- day's deal, but the declarer evid- eptly did mot think of ft and, as a

‘consequence, lost his slam con- : tract. | South dealer, Both sides vulnerable. | aj | yw74 | @AKQ98T \ dhAK 105 Q 105 @K6 * 743 N | 9105 , @1832 |W El] 910648 @5 Ss 2 &64 &I983 @A952 | @AKQUG | o3 | AQT2 } The bidding: South West North East 1@ Pass 36 Pass | 3@ Pass 406 Pasa 4@ Pass Sd Pass) 5N T Pass 6y@ Pas# | Pass Pass ' The final — contract obviously

should have been six diamcnds, but North got mixed up and interpret ed the five-notrump bid as a Black- wood request for aces, When he re- sponded with six hearts, blissfully feeling that he was showing two j aces when, as a matter of fact, he was belatedly raising hearts, South was. of course, glad to accept the

West opened a low spade and the king forced South's ace. was promptly ruffed; them South re-entered his own hand with @ diamond to the jack and ruffed another spade inv dummy. Fast over-ruffed, end since West had a sure trump trick the guarded jadk, the slam was good as lost,

South's proper play at the second trick was’a low trump! The Icgic of this phey was Simple, If the six ad- verse trumps broke 3-3 Gr 4-2, de- clarer could control eny return from the opponents, draw, the rest of the trumps, and get plenty of discards |

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her wrist.

Finds a Parachute

to be a small parcel wrapped. in strong greyish paper, and attached to the cloth by a whole complicated system of thin: cords. Small it might be, but # weighed heavily for its size; her practised hand tossed it, and haz- arded a guess of a pound, more of less; maybe an ounce or,so one way or the other, but certainly not more than that. A compact sort of content to it, like a slab of butter but rounded in shape instead of cut off clearly.

A spade,

was picked up, swingmg a-

The cloth baffled her unti she wrenched herself out of the gorse} bushes, and threw herself down in| the grass to spread it out before| her to its fullest extent, It proved; to be round, or, more properly, semt-| spheroid in shepe, like the half of}

side to side, and saw nothing out of the ordinary. She went higher,| Into the lower fringe of the young; trees, and walked round once again. | There were furze bushes there in| plenty, low-set into the longer grass, so that -she trod warily among | them, twisting her dress closely round her legs. Halfway round, and

‘ asa {she had found nothing to excite; or sfy her curiosity. Naturally Jeno , he had taken away with}

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him whatever he had come to get,! whether it was mere information} by word of mouth, or something, more substantial, ‘ |

Then she caught a gleam of some- | thing lying among the gorse branches, something dully white, | which showed only as a crumpled} picce of tissue paper left from ene last picnic might show. She part=| ed the stems over it, gingerly, with} her hands, and it assumed a more | intriguing shape. It was a hand- kerchief—no, it was the wrong mas terial for that, éoarser, harder, like unbleached calico. Peggy put her hand down to, pick it up, though she had little fropes of it; and un-

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across, though she had not believ- ed it could be half so large; and the cords were attached to rmgs|{ all round its edges. She knew whrat| it was. She had actually seen para-| chutes in use, not only on |

a balloon; it was quite three ev

screen, but actually in real life, on one of her rare holidays, \ And this was a parachute for) merchandise, and merchandise of a clandestine kind, something which! could not be sent by post, which! could not travel by road transport} in safety, which could come only direct from supply to demand, and without the knowledge of a third) party. Hence the hollow on the moors, ideally designed for dropping | things from ‘planes; for given a little bombing experience on the pilot’s part, and a light shown from below by the confederate, the arena was large enough to receive all missiles, and smooth enough to conceal none of them once they were received. There could be fow places so perfectly adapted to the pur pose. (To be continued)

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