PAGE FOUR {Ji EDITORIAL MINI: ’ .-:;__1 _- "was. PAGE SIX THE CI-IARIDTPETOWN GUARDIAN IFELP MAKE THE HARD ROAD T0 BERLIN SHORTER-“BUY BONDS! line For Each 0f Provincesll Nine Insignia C Be Made 0f Chestnut Wood_ Novel Idea to Promote Sales II Instituted by Loan Authorities] ln Canada. A GREAT explosion rent the air of war-battered Ortona, on Italy's Adriatic coast, last; December 21. German paratroop units, laying waste the town as the Canadians approached, had blown up the historic Bascilica of! St. Thomas, the Apostle. It! happened, incidentally, to be thel feast day of St. Thomas, the day] when for centuries pilgrims had; flocked to the apostles crypt for‘ prayer. 1 The Canadians, as all the world knows, finally captured Ortona, after a grim, bloody, house-to-‘I house fight in which many of the» Dominion's troops gave their‘ lives or suffered wounds. _, And now, from the shattered‘ crypt of the Bascilica, several fragments of chestnut wood have come to Canada. Nine insignia of the Sixth Victory Loan— one for each province — have been fashioned in the form of shields, with the “winged V" symbol andl f Sixth l.oan To the inscription “Sixth Victory Loan - April-May-1944" super- imposed on each one. The face o! the wooden base of each shield is made from the ancient Ortona chestnut wood. At a national ceremonial on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, at Sat- urday noon, April 22, the nine insignia will play a dominant role. Prime Minister Macken- zie King will deliver an address. and Hon. J. L. Ilsley, minister of finance, will ask Graham F‘. Tow- ers, Dominion chairman of the National War Finance Commit- tce, to accept as head of a volun- tary people's organization the responsibility for carrying out the pledge symbolized by the in- signia — the pledge to back the armed forces to the fullest de gree by all-out support to the Sixth Victory Loan. Representatives of the forces will then receive the insignia from Mr. Ilsley and Mr. Towers and will hand them to couriers, who in turn will transmit the insignia immediately by air to TIIE STORY 0F TIIE 6th’ LGAN SLUGAN _ IN SIGNIA Channel Islanders Watch Closely The Second Front To Free Them 0f Nazi Rule them are in an intemsient near Munich. They include about 1,00,] m“ and women and 200 children u; London-Though _th°“““‘:d‘: the occupied countries IN I ing the Second front, "Pl"! b5“ a greater cause for anxiety than h t Id l thwe British subJc-cts in the t e camp o e cry men, The, Channel Islands’ overrun by thejcook their own food in a central Nazis since the full of France. lcookhouse but cat _iii the" o“ "Any ‘moment new" they wmk rooms. Rations include m“, toes daily, meat on \vt‘lilli"1d5 , 1i , "As soon, V — Y! “so _ n iiips, carrots and sauerkraut the?“ be mmmg _ twice a week and bread nwl m". No one can fllllllfllllle What t“? ‘garine once a week. Second Front will mean to these‘ But they are better w’ than P901119 hem" than thmlselvem Ithose who remain on th» hm!‘ Te", of priyaflgng i, ltations are even show-z Th, _ ‘black market is the m‘ v _=,. Tll° smry "f hm" u.” ‘Bland-m; lof supply for these poi: 1' are llVlllE lllldel‘ Nazlwccupauon iblack market price. EVA! “n”: was told by ll 33'Y°"r'°1d nutivefthan those charged in iii-ruin‘: of Guflfllfieyr J°lm Hubert’ ‘ black market trade. Ear: iit prosperous wme°°-8"°“°' M“ at“... apiece, whisky $511 !\ i»: the “W3 “h” escaped from theitle and tea $40 a quart-r. Nail! ll few vleek“ 33°‘ l Unless you buy these m“. He, along with three other men from illegal sources, it is lliipog. and three women, one of them 65 sible to get them. Tl» hi“; years of age, crossed the Channel market traders are fluiiplipd by in a boat, but how he did so will French fishermen mostly, w)" remain a. secret till after the-bring it or smuggled it in fro“ war. They were chased by E- the mainland. They pru" y,‘ boats amid a Nazi fichter b1" ‘ ins: paid in English non». ‘y ,||_ underlying the present loan is that of placing patriot- ism ahead of self-interest—the The psychology the insignia for winged Victory represented by the “V" of the insignia is plac- cd bcfore the “I” rcpesenting the individual, thus dramatiz- the respective provinces. Island Girl, Shipyard Worker , l Who Christens Ship, Invests Her Earnings in llalifax, April 21—-In a cor-‘ vettc bouncing upon the waves somewhere at sea today rides a! lad of the Royal Canadian Navy, while in the Halifax Shipyards a slim, pretty girl of 21 works on ship patterns for destroyers, hoping, she says, to do her part toward hastening his homecom- ing. The girl is Rita Gallant, of Ilowlaii, Prince lidward Island, whose philosophy is that the more ships that are built by_ herself and others the more men may get into the fight and the sooner victory will come. Besides she like; the work. Rita is somewhat of a “first lady" in the shipbuilding busig ness in Canada. The first wo-‘ man to work on the construction of destroyers in Canada, she‘ will christcn the second Tribal, class destroyer to be built in Canada, ILMAIZS. Nootka, to be launched here on April 25. i“ “ml: “s I can", have more mone saved when the i “m” vicmr-Y “mm lmrcimsos‘ i .i final victory that lrlftlili . Y . Don St. Ongc. Montreal. isHvar ends than you had when itl\i>ur loans m your govurnmvnt "HM bvcmne q“ i" ‘View ll"? lllll "f llle Navy 1'01” Wllomlstarted-n- produced ‘he gopom-nglnicim mnn- than an investment" ‘ ‘ l~ “"'" ~ she is waiting. Her happienss resulmf in victory, they mean the rcsur- , “llll- would be complete if he were ' rcclinn of blighted peoples every 3,, (jmmda My‘, H“. plum] there for the launching. “l; Y9! - 33 P" cell‘ whore. llumankind was never h, 10",] its nun“, m “m” u, only wish we could put the] N9 ~ ‘H p" cent accuirli-d a grcatc-r privilege. ,-,,,,,p],_.g,.]_v rout i)“. NHZR Th, She is the daughter of hlrwships out faster,” she said, as‘ Same _ - 15 P" “In llnriiinioii suggests that ivt- put and Mrs. S. Gallant, comesi sht- nicntionctl his name." Ulldcclded 3 F" cent ‘Vicmry first from a farming family, she‘ -\\'hole Responsibility. when those who answered ‘ Of the mold loft, she said; ‘Hyesll to the abcve question’ and thil~iu:tirut.licleycr_y)r_ illgllllglylllfqfg .. -, . , . . _, . ' inc .i l _Pl'll_°il°jlll.\ lhfi filwlfl rehllllll those who said they would have Blind big “Imps m‘ mm" sibility is upon it. If we goyuabout the same amount of l ‘ 3 l . h_.- _ . d w ‘ n first; we would IIGVVI accept wrong. i llvrt virorig o mmoney when the war ends, are _ _ m ,h_ u rm f i f t “m i" hem" A llllscillcllllltm" °f a added together, the poll indicates (Cmmnuw hm" ' ' ' , 1mm“ _ ,3 f9 c? r‘ the fraction of an inch, might that 53 p" can; of ‘he people park; m, the warmth of his girpsbui lrLtllila. . on we .Pl\\ says, had no thoughts about‘ the shipping business whatever until on coming to Halifax to‘ seek war work; she and n girl friend were sent by National Selective Service to the Ship- yards. Before that she had been a domestic. After 19 months at the Ship- yards she likes the work "fine." The “mold loft." is her head- quarters, where the wood tem- plates that form patterns for various parts of the ship are made, to be later reproduced in steel by the plate shop workers. Seeking her out, a reporter was told she would be found in the “mold loft." After climb- hig many stairs he came to the spacious room so designated, only to find that she had "gone out with Charlie." As it hap- penned, this did not signify she had gone out to have a 800d time with the gentleman men- tloned. "Charlie" was located and he in turn showed the way to where Rita was working do-L , clsc. laccuse me of talking about it iminmme group might not be a Victory Bonds iiig some fitting on the hull of the next destroyer to slide down the ways after the Nootka. She told the reporter she was "simply thrilled" about the prospect of the launching, and could talk or think about little “In fact,” she said “they my slut-y." Her fnllii-i" and lllO-‘ ther are coming to Halifax es-, pecially’ for the launching. Besides working on the ships, Rita is buying thi- bonds that‘ help to build them. She has bought $400 worth already. “I‘ wouldn't trade my job for any- thing tilsc," she dcclarctl. “If they are still hiring girls after the war. I will stick out the job throw one side of the ship out of proportion feet, she said. On arriving at the Shipyards, she and her friend were given a course for several weeks. “Up until that time I hadn't seen s blueprint." The first thing she was shown was a “scrieve board," which sounded to the reporter-—un- skilled in the mysteries of ship- building\—like some sort of ouija board through the use of which one determined the pro- per place for placing certain pieces which, fitted together, made a destroyer. According to her, she st first was just as confused by it as the reporter W85 when she tried to explain it to him. "I knew there was such a thing as port by a number of JIIODQ)‘ saved at the war’! 911d than they had when it started“ The question “Do you 6W1" W‘ iiig the slogan of the 6th Loan _ _ n managed to reach the Englishyer as it fetches a high price i. —-“Put Victory First. Co“; IFrance, three timcs its ma, i. More than 2390 Channe1,i5_ l Reich marks or francs. landers were deported to (ler-i _Cignmttes are Yllfllrlll-ll to 2C many soon after the occupationpcigarcttcs and a quflrlir uunc. about 18 months ago. Half of of the tobacco per fan-mph; Hitler Wrong BIG PURCHASES CONTEMPLATED AT END or WAR THROUGH SAVINGS (Continued from page B) goods in Canada. The men and NO COMPROMISE! 5 women interviewed by the Gallup Tlicre can be no compromise P l] . ‘km to name the with duty! Its rcvcalinircuts a __ _ F‘fns‘-‘lteriigaapurchase they plan. t-lczir pathway of Obllglll1f1ll._ (Ulllllllllml frlllll W?‘ 2) “ed to make, and since many 1110112‘ wlhitili zzlhl olfhuzf (treat Britain beaten. .\'~r m "°°"‘° “m i” biymg T?” °Z 31T§§;ii..."§§‘ii...§i$‘Hines. mt“ =-1~>=111<-d by the "lore of the goo S name ' 50m those of us at lioniv it demands "r m" “Mlillli” “f lll" ‘c1109 ' ' ' t ' th , g$ilecaiifiregljgixggiiilosg "llbigs full financial support. For all llmYPPflll 1‘ "mill -'ll"lll.\'<- - y purchase to a man in the 10w" of U5 it is the urgent cull to arr‘ llilir-r allies have wqvzirod, iinn‘ tsohict each “f.[u.T_“i_""Ii“-‘; and among tlicm was lat . llit big lvtlrClltlSe in the upper income TN‘ ‘i 11>‘ l‘1‘-*'l'"ll*l ll l -‘> l“ -,_, i,“ L)“. ,,],| (M,- ,4. Ffrllllll and. therefomi some of ‘he each M. us mm" ‘we and kn?“ , The Luftwaffe has i lower-cost items might not be lllll‘ lllll.\'- lit‘! vzicli of Us 10- > __ ‘~ - mi-ntiivned by middle and llPller'>l‘llllll~ WM‘ “m”! vim" m“ “l-l“! ‘"11 income group people. » llll‘ dri-arl (wriniiii aim;- mi. More people in the middle and‘ unvT QM.“ vliinrr stopped in its trail... MC" more than a thud o‘ m2‘ \lcii and ivoincn of Canadmi m“ h“ has "W" 1mm “Pmixh people expect m have mo, your government is appealing todll-‘t i" Sloll “ll adwlllfl‘ "l “ll you hut to jeopardize this cru- cnc111.\- llc must be sadi- of iiberzilion by curtiiilini:_ compelled to retreat; and in urdcr to pain opportunity to show the whole world what we can do. Elwmifl as well as allies will watch this loan campaign for any sign of weakening by the 001111- try. _ Let us all tell tho world low we feel by making this 9"" vince the first in Canada to I1 over the top of its objective Let us show them by beatinl our quota so badly and s0 flfi that even Hitler will .1109 lll his tracks to consider who! l" i, facing. Islanders can be the inoll potent factor in this var i119‘ by lending their money Willi"!- ly and quickly. Let's do it to- dayl Let's put Victory first b! so wide s margin that no 011' will ever again dare to chil- lengc. expect to be better off, or at least as well ofl, financially at the end of the war as they were before. good-night kiss. It would be a shame if he did not know those pleasures again. Ho wants all those things and he has earned the right to have them. He has given up four years of his life to keep them safe. Wouldn't it be pitiful if he should die in that last unnec- essary hour just when ‘home was within reach once more’! Help him to come home that one hour sooner which may mean his life. Send your money to fight at his side. Your Vic- tory Bonds bought today might be just enough to tip the scales in his favor. That youngster dreaming of home would then see his dream come true before he became Canada's last casual- 1y More than 2,000,000 little yel- low anti-malaria tablets went down the threats of Canadian soldiers in North Africa. l-‘AIY and Sicily, thereby reducing the malaria death rate to lam than .25 per.l.000 men. Our purchase of VICTORY BONDS will pro- vide more pills and save more lives. and starboard, but I didn't know which was which, lot to learn." Learning her trade, she said Wig "just like school. . . _ t? I still have a 801m! back td only ii little harder." After all, he may be your son.