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MSrM Return From jjjj IEUT. COL. J. W. Ellintnorpe, Roynl Canadian corps of Signals (lrfl) and Liout.

Col. G. F. Dudley, Qurrn's Own Campron Ilichlnndors of Canada arrivod In Winnipoc this morning nflrr srvoral months' sorvup ovprsons. "The boys over thore if' A y.

Minister Says Deeds, Not Words, Needed Now is no tlmo for extendodiwith a child and to he firm; a time 1 speech, but rather for sacri ito help certain people in need and ficial effort and action." Rev. J. L. ia time to compel them to help Mclnnis, minister of St. Andrew church, River Heights, told his congregation Sunday morning, commenting on the news of Singapore's fall.

Recalling that Trime Minister Churchill was to broadcast to the Empire from London in the afternoon. Mr. Mclnnis said he hoped Mr. Churchill wouldn't speak, adding: "The time calis for deeds, not words." One cf the most important lessons of life was to know what time it was, Mr. Mclnnis said.

There was a time for parents to be gentle Army Men Join R.A.F. To Get Quicker Smack" EX ARMY mm from India and France were among the 101 R.A.F. trainees who spent 40 minutes here Saturday morning on their way to training camps in Alberta. "We wanted to get our smack In a bit quicker," was the explanation of the leader. Sgt.

Sydney Gulliver, himself a Dunkerque man, "so we transferred to the air force." "Gulliver you know, same as Gulliver's travels!" smiled the sergeant jovially. "We're all on our travels and so far, everything's fine." Asked how they fell about the turn of events the past week, a Ring On String Airman "Best Man" Plays It Safe "T'm going to take care of the ring Jkgi 1 and the minister's going to ta care of me: we can't lose," said an Prof Pecls coining officially has airman Saturday morning at the'been done and it is only In the talk Royal Alexandra hotel news stand. He was to do nest man ai a wedding of a fellow R.C.A.F. man at 5 p.m. and he was taking no chances with that wedding ring: he borrowed some green string from the news stand attpndant, tied the string firmly to the ring and wound it all around the button of his breast cor.t pocket.

inerer' he said with satisfae en: by frrcd Petruga will par tion, buttoning the flap over the tieipate on the C.B.C. "Dance of pocket. He ticked his arm through all Nations" program today 7 7.30 that of his fripnd the bridegroom, i p.m. George Frederick will be the and walked away. 'soloist.

Gin Rummy What It Is This is one of a series of articles on Gin Rummy, the card craze now sweeping the United States.) By WILLIAM E. MeKENNEY America's Card Authority yESTERDAY I spoke of the 1 popularity of Gin Rummy and explained the general character of all Rummy games. Today I will tell you how Gin Rummy is played. The game has two players. Some groups nlav a four handed or partnership game which is ac tuully two two handed gimes as, I will explain later.

The foil' bridge pack of 52 cards is used. The cards in each suit rank as bridge, except that the ace ranks below the deuce. Ten are djalt to each player, one at a time, and the remainder of the pack is left face down in the centre of the table. This packet Is called the stock. To commence play, the top card of the stock is turned face up and placed beside the stock, to mark a second pile call the talon.

The dealers opponent has the right to take the first talon card if he wishes. If he savs "no" or i "pass." the dealer then may take other has the privilege of playing of the Irirh Protestant Association this card If he wishes. ihis odd cards on the sets of thejof Manitoba will he held in the If both playrs rject this card, down player, if he ran. Thus, a Royal Alexandra hotel on St. Pat the non dealer the top card "ve spot can be played on three rick's day, Tuesday, March 17.

rf the stock and places it in his'flvps: the seven of clubs can bej hand without exposing it, and thfn1 added 'o a sequence of eight nine 1 Frank Dowsett. Toronto, will ad discards any carl from his hand ten of clubs. This privilege has ness the Gyro club at 5 30 p.m. face tip on the talon. He can.

if to be kept in mind when a pU. erTupsdav in the Roval Alexandra he chooses, discard the card just picked up from the stock. Overseas l' it are in good shape and ready and waiting for the big show they feel will come." they said. Npither wished to he quoleJ further. Col.

Dudley lives at 523 Raglan road and Col. Ellintnorpe lives at 520 Jubilee ave. They a' baclc in Canada on duty. themselves. There was perhaps a time "when we were complacent about our national situation and not too concerned about the future of humanity.

But now we see that the hands are pointing to just five minutes before midnight." he said. It was not a time to be grieved because evil seemed so powerful but rather to see to it that the good triumphed. "Time and again the cry has bPen raised "too little and too late. We are now resolved that that harsh verdict will not be passed upon our action." Yorkshireman said frankly, "Things will be worse before they're better. But they won't gpt away with it forever.

We're going to A'in this war, you can tell the people of Winnipeg." "The Battle of Britain showed we could take all the Germans had and come up for more," said a Winchester man, joining In the conversation in the C.P.R. rotunda. The group has spent three weeks in Moncton, N.B. The Women's Air Force auvli ary served mugs of tea and trays of buns; the Wartime Pilots' and Observers' club gave out cigarettes. The R.C.A.F.

band entertained the group. Tea, Spice Rationing Possible In Canada fFrom The Tribune Ottawa Burta Copyright by Th Southam Co. LI 11 OTTAWA, Feb. 16 Rationing of tea and spices as well as ot sugar loomed up today as possible 'stage, The Idea derives from the fact i that the countries from which these things come are either hard pressed by the enemy or else because transport facilities are deficient. The Ukrainian male choir direct The play continues in the same way.

Each player alternately taKcs one card Into his hand either the top card if he likes It or the top card of the stock. Then he reduces his hand again to 10 cards by discarding one card onto the top of the talon. If the entire stock is exhaustPd and neither player "goes down" to end the game, then the talon turned over, without shuffling, tojsK.p Sunday but pnve no indica serve as a new stock and play con tne main was tir.ues. The object of play, as I ex iP'ainei1 yesterday, is to form tne band into sets, each of three or more cards. If all 10 cards are included in sets, the hand is "com HprP example of a complete hand: three jacks, three tens, and the aee two three nui of hearts.

It is not necessary to complete the hand before going down. At any time that his odd cards total 10 points or less, the player may lav his hand face up on the table and so end the play. When and whpther to go down is a matter ot i judgment, for the p.yer will lose points if his odd cards total more itnan the opponent's odd cards. When one player gops down, the consinrs going down. tCopynght by N.E.A.

Service School Teachers Of Moose Jaw Co On Strike TVTOOSE JAW, Feb. 16 IV 1 Moose Jaw's first strike of school teachers in 20 years1 started this morning when1 12.1 members of Moose Jaw Ircal, Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation, absented themselves i from classrooms in protest against refusal of the Saskatchewan Local! Government Board to restore salary cuts. About ten percent of Moose Jaw's 1.500 srhool students turned up for classes at the nine public and three high schools, but all trHchers were alisent One school principal, G. G. Harris, Oxford High school, attended at his office, saying he was operly against the strike.

did not teach, however, as eiflers from th superintendent of schools. A. E. Ppcock, advised thei students to get warm and then return home. Temperature here dropped to below zero Sunday night and this morning.

"How Long Students of Cpntral Collegiate dropped in to get their books. They rr.y they will study at home until the teachers return. S. H. Gutheridge, tecretary of the school boards, when asked hew long he thought the strike would last, stated he did not know, but said "Teachers may be asking you for a dime for a cup o' coffee." The sti In 1921 was over similar demands, and the walkout continued for three days.

Both Moose Jaw school board (trustees and teachers are meeting separately todav. The school board will consider what action to take, bile the teachers will make plans for continuance of the walkout. Living Bonus Refused The dispute Is of long standing. A salary increasp of five percent included in the 1041 school board's estimates was disallowed by the Saskatchewan Local Government board which ruled that the teachers be paid a cost of living bonus. The ruling was not accepted by the teachers.

Minimum salaries paid by the public school board are 1730 a year with a maximum of $1,108 while salaries of principals range from $1,572 to $2,100. Collegiate salaries range from $1,100 to $1,700 fot women and from $1,200 to $2,100 for male teachers. Collegiate principals receive up to $2,500 yearly. The St. Boniface Kiwanis club made Its annual visit to the Old Folks Home, Sunday, and presented tobacco to the men and candy to the women.

Entertainment was provided by the Thumbs Up revue. Russians Hinder Hitler's Spring Offensive Plans IBy The Aenoclaled Free OSCOW, Feb. 16 Rus sian soldiers striving 1 onensive even before it starts have smashed into Hitler's basic winter defenses, meeting Nazi reserve troops in furious battle and throwing back counter attacks with heavy losses to the Germans. Dispatches from the front today said the Russians had advanced 30 miles during the last few days in one sector. It was not identified Offensive Continued (The Red army driving through White Russia within 72 miles of the old Polish frontier and the Vilna district on the southeast frontier of Lithuania, a Stockholm dispatch broadcast by the B.B.C.

said.) Red Star, the army newspaper. Jubilantly said that "our troops have come Into contact In many sectors with the basic German fortified lines which have been built in the rear in the last few months. "Hitlers generals realze the jumping off place for the spring offensive is slipping through their fingers." Thft mlftnlfrM vSmmtinlmii niH IsU. iinnoH ih.ir i(Iai. progress.

Rouphlv sneaking, reports Indi rated the line ran southward from Leningrad through the Lake Ilmen sector east of the old Latvian border: thence thrnurh what is 'known as the Kalinin front to the; central sector, where the Red army is threatening Smolensk from the north and south. Then it runs southward fowurd Kharkov, in the Donets Basin, bulges westward toward Dniepero petrovsk curves back to th southeast to reach the sea oi Az east of Toganog, Under the patronage of the lantanopt.nmrArnnp rtt KfnnifAhn Hjs Honor McW1iiiams. K.C.! the 20th annual St. Patrick's hall hotel. His sublet will be The Walls! 'of London.

First Bond Buyer 1 ii til i nl an Mrt mi 1 1 A "newsie" arvPortage ave. and Main for 29 years, Morris Striker was the first to purchase a bond in Manitoba's second Victory Loan campaign which opened today. Born in Odessa, Striker came to Canada at the age of nine. His honor certificate is seen above on the window of the restaurant in front of which he works. Salary Adjustments Needs Board's Consent 'PHE Regional War Labor board, alteration in bonuses now being 1 through its chairman, Hon.

S. J. Farmer, todav warned employ ers that they could not make wage or salary adjustments without the board's consent. with Inquiries which Indicated confusion end misunderstanding of recent orders issued from Ottawa, the board issued a statement to clarify the situation locally and in it stressed two points, namely: 1. No employer may either Increase or decrease the amount of any cost of living bonus now being paid, If hi it subject to the wartime wages and cost of living bonus from Ottawa.

2. No employer not now paying bonus may commence to pay one without consent of the regional board. The Dominion board last week announced that for the current three month period dating from Fehruary 15, there would be no Storebreaker Gets Two Years Convicted by Judge Whitla In County court today, on a charge of store breaking and theft, Harry Trojan, 519 Jamieson East Kildonan, was sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary. Trojan, on Jan. 17, while under suspended sentence, used a stick of cordwood to smash a plate glass window and break into the store of McLeods Higgins ave.

and May st. He stole two radios but was apprehended soon after the theft. C.WAC. Unit Will Be Sent To Shilo Camp PLANS are under way to "considerably enlarge" the Canadian Women's Army Corps in M.D. 10.

The announcement came from the public relations office this morning. Additional details will be announced inter by Junior Commander Alice Sorby, C.W.A.C. staff officer, M.D. 10. Proposed changes are: Establishment of a W.A.C.

detachment it Shilo Camp. Formation of a new platoon at Brandon and two new platoons In Winnipeg. Establishment of schools for training officers and other ranks. When Shilo into a rmo.l mililarv ri.nlrl'",c worn IM Kiuuurti.n. this summer it is expected that a detachment of at least 100 C.W.A.S.'s wi be Special barracks will be provided for the women.

posted With the announcement thatjw.jngS Bt Brandon in September new. platoons will be estanusnea nere and at Brandon, tne Lorps.that month. also released postings of two new subalterns, Frances Riley and Ali son Grant. Other officers will prob ably be appointpd as the corps en larges. Subalterns Riley and Grant, sts nt a Winninnn mc ra rr motPd from the ranks.

irmin fnr officers and ranks will open at! I I i and five sisters, Mrs. A. Iff tit Vnnt Mr. T. Snncrin Pin 1 daughter was definitely glad Falls; Mrs.

G. Burhan, Winnipeg: Winnipeg. McDonald college, Ste. Anne de! Sister St. Patrick and St.

Mark of I Bellevue, Feb. 23. The first 'the Oblate Sisters; and class (administrative duties) from here to take the two week course Sgt. Pilot Viau was a memheriin town, such as Margaret Hamil will be SuhaltPrns Daisy Royal andior iiacrea Mean cnurcn ana ne 14 other ranks, who will leave longed to the young men's athletic. Wednesday night.

Jr. Cmdr. Sorby club, will accompany them. Sgt. Gertrude eldman.

K. Com 1 "A Company. Central District. C.A.F., wplcomed the girls ns pany, has been reposted to the ad District. Manitoba Volunteer Re ithey came smartly through the ro ministrative staff of McDonald col serve, will parade at 8 p.m.

Tues tunda, three In row, swinging lege and is expected to leave Wed ncsday. paid. The bonus increase was to be based on the increase in the i cost of living Index over that of last October and up to the end ot January it was not enough to warrant any increase. For January it was a 10th of a point below that for last October. Employers wishing to make salary adjustments may, however, apply to the regional board here and if they make out a case and get written permission, they may make any reasonable adjustment.

Application forms for this purpose are available at the board office, 250 legislative buildings. The statement issupd by the board today again pointed out that orders issued by the fpderal board do not apply to Dominion, provin rial, or municipal employers nor their agencies; nor to agricultural; and kindred employment; nor to hospitals, charitable or educational institutions, whose work is not carried on for purposes of gain. Killed Overseas Son of Mrs. D. Vlau, St.

Boniface, SGT PILOT JOSEPH RENE VIAU, 27, was killed on active service Jan. 20. He was previously reported missing. Local Airman Killed Overseas Sgt. Pilot Joseph Rpne Viau, 27 brother of Pte.

Armand Eugene Vlau, who was killed in England Jan. 20, is now reported killed on active service, according to word received by relatives Sunday. Son Of the late Mr. nnd Mrs. D.

Viau, of St. Boniface, Sgt. Pilot Viau was born in St. Vital and received his education at St. Boni Hp was emploved with the Dun op Tire and Rubber Co.

prior to I viifl)t i i jf 1... R.C.A.F. at Brandon. n0trii. a 1041.

He arrived in England later Another brother, Tte. Fernand Viau, is attached to M.D. 10 head quarters in Winnipeg. He was unmarried and besides his brother, Fernand. he Is sur i fori tr nnnllnr ltrllhT day.

Feb. 17. at the Danlelitheir arms breast high. The Win Mclntyre school. Daily Prayer Navy Has Answe For Loud Mouths A NAVAL commander, here or.

leave from an East Coast port. has the answer to all civilians who chid him about British shortcom iinss in the Battle of Dover Strait, He qotcs this "Daily Prayer" which hangs on a wall of naval headquarters at Ottawa: Lord grant me courage to keep my big mouth shut until 1 know what I'm talking about." Singapore's Loss Another Call To Duty dis 1V1 trict recruiting officer, charged today that in the face of the Empire greatest loss in the Far East it is the duty of the fit to be In the army. "Another outpost has gone," he said, "and it means that the threat to Canada Is just so much more certain and so much closer. "Surely the people of Canada now realize that the only place for a fit man is in the army preparing himself to defend his home. "Nothing else matters.

"If the fate of Hong Kong and Singapore overtakes our cities the responsibility will rest with the fit men of Canada who delayed taking their places until too late. "Now Is the time to train to meet the enemy not when he arrives. If we can meet him before he reached our shores so much the better, but even now It may be too late to do that. "For us the war has ww become a very simple tning we musi fight with all the men all the resources we have. The job we are faced with is too big to permit any man to leave his duty for another to do.

"Recruiting In the last few weeks has dropped instead of picking up. Saturday only 12 men volunteered. We must have the men for the army and we must have them now." The total number of recruits for the 12 recruiting days of February Is only 438 as compared with 616 for the same period In January, Major Carton revealed. Delongchamps Funeral Rites Florentine Delongchamps, 56, of 551 Broadway died Sunday in St. Boniface hospital.

She was horn at St. Lin, and had lived here 30 years. She was a member of Sacred Heart church. Miss Delongchamps is survived by two adopted daughters: Misses Annette and Rolande Delongchamps, of 551 Broadway three sisters: Mrs. Joseph Dubule, Mrs.

Joseph Champagne and Mrs. T. Allard, all of Montreal, and two brothers: Leo and Elzebert Delongchamps, Montreal. The funeral service will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. in Sacred Heart church, with burial in St.

Boniface cemetery. The Despardins" funeral chapel Is In charge of arrangements. J. F. MacKinnon, of the consumer credit division of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board at Ottawa, arrived in Winnipeg this morning over C.N.R.

lines to confer with board's local representative regarding consumer rredit con 'ml. He will spend two days In the city. Winnipeg Girls Airwomen TINNIPEG welcomed its daugh ters in uniform whpn tho third drart of the R.C.A.hV women's division arrived hpre Sunday morning over C.N.R. lines They were mostly local girls, and have been posted to Dauphin for ground crew and office duties. They had a 12 nours stop over.

Wing Commander A. J. Taunton, D.S.O., welcomed his two daughters, Mary and Corporal Nancy. "I have no sons to fol. low in my footsteps," he explained to the press, "so my daughters must do it." The girls laid they were "certainly glad" they joined up.

Marjnrip and Kathlpen Mann, twin daughters of Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Mann, had parents and aunts and uncles at the s'ation to see them.

Margaret Skinner had her sailor brother, Able Spaman Jack Skinner, in the family party that met The sailor arrived home on force she went into the service. Blanche Stewart had a happy. family group to receive her. As for tn, Eir, who didn't live tnni 0f Keyes, they wpre tnkpn care 0f for the day at the home of auxiliary members. The band of No.

2 command, inipeg Women's Air Force aux M. of In Reece Heads dependents' Advisory By The Canadian Pre.l TTAWA, Feb. 16 Appointment mil tee for the Manitoba area do you KMO I All our Kitchen. Proved pift are tpeeially takd for homemade gcojnei dellciouaneit? 5A TOO; DKItt HOMEMADE fcj BREAD ft nitCEDtKJT 53rd Year Read the Want Ads. Today WINNIPEG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1942 Page 13 No.

40 I we IS Weir, chairman of the Dependents Board of Trustees, In Ottawa. Chairman of the local committee is Rupert C. Rcece, Winnippg. honorary director of the Canadian Legion War Services For Manitoba, vice chairman of the Council of Social Agencies, Greater Winnipeg, and a member of the board, Win nippg Community Chest. Members who will serve under Mr.

Reece are: Mrs. A. H. Warner, honorary treasurer, Victorian Order of Nusps; hoard member of the Council of Social Agencies, Greater Winnipeg; the Central Volunteer Bureau, and the Winnipeg Community Chest. Mrs.

John G. While, a member the board, Winnipeg Community Chest (representing labor bodies); honorary treasurer of the Central Volunteer bureau, and a memher of the educational committee, Canadian Legion War Services, and ot the Wartime Prices and Control regional committee. Major J. C. Fuller, district superintendent of Soldier Settlement ot Canadn.

John R. Lindsay, honorary trea surer of the family Bureau oi Winnippg. Capt. Harold D. Barbour, presi dent of the Children's Aid Society of Winnipeg.

Capt. L. A. Masterman, department of pensions and national health. Maior C.

Rhodes Smith, second vice president. Canadian Legion. member of board, Children Aid Society of Winnipeg. Capt. H.

L. Thompson, Depend ents' Allowance Board representa tive in M.D. 10. 1 BEFORE THE MAGISTRATE 1AST Wednesday night two members of a police cruiser car crew saw an auto being driven along Dufferin ave. by a man who looked to them like a well known bootlegger of their acquaintance.

The policemen decidpd to stop the car and question the driver. But as soon as they attempted ta overtake their suspect, he put on speed. A chase ensued. It ended when the policemen found the car pnrked on MrKenzie id. with no driver.

In the car they found two good looking young women and 18 gallons of home brew. The two young women, who said they were turprised to learn there was 18 gallons of brew In the car, told police they didn't know the driver's name or address. He was just a fellow named Joe, as far as they were concerned. Police reasoned that, seeing they now had the car, some one would claim it sooner or later. Today the fellow named Joe turned out to be a gent nnmed Paul, who paid a tine of $500 when his coun spI pleaded guilty, before Magistrate R.

B. Gruham. to having illicit liquor in a motor vehicle. He will now get the car back, but not the liquor. Thief Wriggles In, Takes $140 Out An agil burglar, who wriggled his way through a transom to gain admittance, stole $140 from the of a Dependents' Advisnry com as announced today by Dr.

George 4 KfA A RUPERT C. REECE Regional chairman. The new committee Is one of a number of regional committees being set up by the board of trustees across the Dominion to deal with applications for supplementary aid for dependents in special cases of hardship and necessity. Legislature Meets Tuesday Adjourned since Dec. 16, the Legislature meets again Tuesday when Premier Bracken will ask a further adjournment to give tho government time to prepare its expenditure estimates for the 1942 43 fiscal year.

The date for continuing the session will be decided by the Houso itself. Tho intention is to fix it about two weeks hence, possibly a few days sooner. The government's decision to consult its supporters on how it should allocate Its revenues for new expenditures facing the province, Is the reason why the estimates are not ready Tupsday. Increased appropriations are needed for school grants, road maintenance, hospitalization, public health needs, and cost of living bonus to the civil service If consideration Is given them all none can get the amounts beirj; asked because the province hasn't sufficient revenues in sight. The government supporters will meet In caucus at 10 a.m.

The caucus will adjourn for the afternoon House session but the sitting will likely be only for a few minutes, long enough to allow Premier Bracken to make a statement. The opinion of the members will determine what monies will be ap portioned to the different service. Once tha. decision, is made about ten days' will' be! jequlred to print the estimates'. Dr.

F. D. White, assistant pro fessor of biochemistry, Winnipeg. 8.15 p.m. Thursday in Theatre F.

Broadway buildings. University of Manitoba. His subject wl'l be Tha Present Status of Gas Warfare. up song a'ter song. Then they men who hnd traveled with them joined in with a gruurt of R.A.F.

Toronto; the men were bound for Portage la Prairie. tilltmore beauty parlor, 806 Boyd win address a meeting of the Asso Saturday night. jciatlon of Professional Engineers Entrnnce was made by way of ajand the Winnipeg branch of tha coal shute at the home of E. S.i Engineering Institute of Canada at Braddell, 248 Ashland where a burglar got away with a small sum of rash and a quantity cloth 'ing. R.C.A.F.

Go To Dauphin School ir4i Na iv V' s. Both the son and daughter of Mrs. A. B. Skinner.

404 Rose dale are in uniform. Here she is with Margaret, of the R.C.A.F. women's division, and Jack, Able Seaman in the navy. iliary had downstairs. tea and cookies ready As they snrtPd out their friends! in the huge mob, the girls struck I Group mm 1 1 1.

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