The Windsor Star from Windsor, Ontario, Canada • 10

PAGE TEN: THE WINDSOR DAILY STAR, WINDSOR, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1940 French Vessels Destroyed or Captured by British THE SURCOUF, the world's largest submarine, was captured of the Germans. The submersible was one of the French by the British to prevent it from falling into the hands warcraft seized in British ports. A BOVE is a view of the harbor and town at Oran, naval units. The battle resulted in the sinking of many ships. Algeria, where British warcraft opened fire on French The names of the two above are not given.

THE French battleship Provence was set on fire during the battle took place when the French refused Britain's six-hour battle between British and French fleets off Oran. The ultimatum to surrender control of her fleet. DRETAGNE (above), French battleship, is believed to have major naval engagement between French and British fleets been sunk either by a mine or by shelling following the off Oran, on the North African coast. 002. THE flotilla leader Mogador was set afire at the same time firing on French men-o'-war at Oran.

Commander of the as the Dunkerque and Provence by British warships French fleet refused to surrender his ships, Germans reported. Capital -Ups By Ross Munro Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA, July Mobilization Bill was by Parliament with comparatively little debate but it's big question again on Parliament Hill as members it all in private discussions. There is no particular criticism heard apart from demand of many that prompt action be taken. Like body else legislators are anxious mainly to know just and how the Act will be enforced. CALL TO FIRST GROUP THE Liberal caucus presumably has reviewed the measure and the general opinion is that the first group of men will be called in about six weeks or two months, either for important industrial work or for home defense with the armed forces.

It might not necessarily be the army, for the navy and the air force may need recruits for special duties. Mobilization details are being completed quite apart from national regated after the first group is mobilized. istration which will likely be inaugurOne suggestion is that there will be no exemptions for military service because of family responsibilities. Men engaged in essential work likely will not be called even for training in camps if it interferes with their work. These persons, however, will have to train in militia units several hours 8 week if they can arrange their work.

The whole plan will be outlined by the government before long and put all speculation to rest. WAR NOTES War notes: Army men here are watching development in the United States of the new armored corps of two It is like the powerful German panzer unit with mighty striking power. Once the Canadian Army gets a few more divisions ready for action some new experiments in mechanization are to be tried. In militia circles here there is continual talk of new plans to meet problems of the new They would break radically the old traditions. Officers in naval headquarters have donned their new white summer uniforms.

Smartest looking in this city of uniformed A friendly feud is on between the press liaison departments of the air ministry and the Both striving to publicize their growing branches of the fighting forces. Air Vice-Marshal W. A. Bishop will tour the West soon to tell the prairie folk about the air training plan. Bands will be heard in the streets of THE French battleship Strasbourg went down during the part of the French fleet was either captured or immobilized by struggle off Oran, on the North Africa coast.

The major the British. Several units were badly damaged. 80 SEES 103 1 88 8 DEPORTED sunk by a mine off the French coast, the for several days. The boat is seen arriving at New French liner Champlain has been missing York on her maiden voyage in 1932. Promoted MR.

MILTON F. PUMMELL Principal of Marlborough School i in Ward 5, has been appointed inspector, administrator and superintendent of schools in St. Catharines, effective August 1. Coming to Windsor from Brantford 16 years ago, Mr. Pummell was for a number of years supervisor of schools in the former Town of Sandwich, in addition to holding his position as principal.

He holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Pedagogy. He is a member of the Windsor Kiwanis Club. Reunion Cancelled LONDON, July in charge of the Exeter Old Boys' picnic plans, under the chairmanship of C. S. MacKenzie, decided that due to world conditions the outing planned for July 17 at Springbank would be cancelled.

This decision was reached after lengthy discussion and upon receipt of word that several families would be unable to attend. Mrs. F. X. Gendron Attica, Ohio, and Mrs.

Donald Hand. Mrs. F. X. Gendron, 84, resident in this district for 15 years, died today at the home of her son-in-law, L.

P. Pinsonnault, third concession, Tilbury North. She had been ill for about six months. Mrs. Gendron was born in St.

Hugues, Quebec, and lived there until coming to Tilbury North. Her husband died twenty years ago in St. Hugues. Mr. Gendron was a member of the Ancien Zonaoe Pontifical.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. J. L. Gauvin, of Jonquiere, Mrs. L.

P. Pinsonnault, of Tilbury North, a nephew; Bishop Aldee Desmarais, Amos, and one brother, Joseph Desmarais, of Anesbury, Mass. Funeral will be Monday at 9 a.m. from the house to the Church of the Annunciation, Stoney Point, at 9:30. Interment will be in the church cemetery.

Janisse Brothers Funeral Home is in charge. Thomas E. Keating OBITUARIES Windsor: two sons, William of Royal Oak, and Clifford Windsor; two sisters, Mrs. Cook Wright, of Amherstburg, and Mrs. John Coburn, of Garden City, one brother, Charles Edgworth, of Otter and 10 grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at the Morris Funeral Home, 1624 Wyandotte street east, Monday at 3 p.m., with Rev. Harry R. Nobles officiating. Interment will be in Rose Hill Cemetery, Amherstburg. Thomas Hutnik Thomas Hutnik, 53, of 1536 Langlois avenue, died today at the Essex County Sanatorium, after a lengthy illness.

A native of Poland. Mr. Hutnik lived in Windsor for 27 years. He was a member of Holy Trinity Church. He is survived by his wife, Annie: a daughter, Mrs.

Herbert Vollans, of Windsor; and three sons. Anthony, of New Liskeard, and Bernard and Joseph, at home. Funeral will be from the James H. Sutton Funeral Home, 937 Ouellette, Monday at 8:30 a.m. to Holy Trinity Church at nine.

Interment will be in St. Alphonsus Cemetery. Malcolm S. Beard Malcolm Shaw Beard. 41, of 447 Victoria avenue, died suddenly today at his home.

Mr. Beard, a native of Merritton, lived in Toronto for 24 years, and in Napanee, for 12 years, before coming to Windsor three years ago. He was a salesman for the Electrolux Company, and was active in Maccabees Independent Lodge, Number 325, Windsor. Surviving are his wife, Alice Imelda Evelyn; one sister. Miss Jean Beard, of Kingston; and three brothers.

Maitland Benjamin and John all of Toronto. Funeral services will be conducted at Anderson's Funeral Home, 3184 Sandwich street west, Monday, at 2 p.m.. by Rev. Dr. H.

M. Paulin. Interment will be in Greenlawn Memorial Park. Many Mechanics Still Required Third group of skilled mechanics to enlist with the Army Field Work Shop, Canadian Ordnance Corps, recruiting office at the armories, a dozen skilled mechanics left Windsor yesterday for district headquarters at London. The Ordnance Corps still needs over 100 skilled tradesmen, and the recruiting office is being kept open from 8:30 a.m.

until 10 p.m. daily, including Sunday, to give opportunity to all interested to apply. 520 Veterans Registered FOR HOME DEFENSE Organization Seeks Help of All Who Served 1914-18 Registration of Windsor ex-servicemen for the Veterans' Civil Aid is continuing at the office set up in the Y.M.-Y.W.C.A. and 520 have offered to serve for home defense. The registration by wards is as follows: Ward One, 47; Ward Two, 153; Ward Three, 139; Ward Four, 133: Ward Five, 48.

Veterans' Civil Aid is particuJarthe have all ex-soldiers of the last war leave their names with the organization sO they might be called upon for anti-fifth column and a help. The office. in charge of Harry Aikman, is open from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

daily except Saturday and Sunday. Saturday it is open from 9 a.m. to noon. Admiral Somerville Has 'Nelson Britons Say enacted the review the everywhen PASSPORTS many Canadian cities soon, as the army drums up recruiting for the nonpermanent active militia. Picked up in passing: The boom in the passport business in the external affairs department keeps up.

The new downtown office is jammed every day. Speaker Glen's headache is trying to prevent members reading speeches. He to order Hanson carefully entire frequently. Conservative, Leader same privilege, however, as the budget speech. He enjoys prithe minister.

When this war is over, some spy thrillers will be told. Work of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police will make fiction look amateurish. Business in the Parliamentary Library has fallen off this session as far as light fiction and the like is concerned. Members just haven't the heart to indulge in popular reading. PAN-AMERICAN Canada's foreign affairs experts will watch the Pan-American Union conference in Havana closely when it meets the end of this month.

The Dominion won't be officially represented because Canada is not a member. President Roosevelt's plan for a huge trade cartel interests officials here not a little. And the defense plan is another important Bombing raids over Britain won't budge Right Hon. R. B.

Bennett from his Surrey home. He writes staunch, encouraging words to friends in Canada. Daily he goes to London to aid in war work such as the Red Cross. Careless Driver Timothy Gray, Sandwich East, was today fined $10 and costs when convicted of careless driving by Magistrate Hanrahan in city police court. Gray was charged as result of a minor accident at McDougall and Elliott streets.

James Hughes, 680 Pelissier street, was the complainant. LONDON, July miral Sir James Somerville, who directed the British withdrawal from Dunkirk and the destruction of part of the French fleet at Oran, is regarded by Britons as having "the Nelson maker of salty phrases as well as an able officer. His broadcast account of the Flanders campaign last month brought him forcefully to public attention. The 58-year-old admiral reached the rank of commander at 33 and distinguished himself shortly afterward in the World War Dardanelles campaign. was mentioned in despatches and awarded the distinguished service order.

He became a vice-admiral in 1937. Commander of destroyer flotillas in the Mediterranean in 1936-38 and commander-in-chief in the East Indies in 1938-39. he retired before Britain entered the war but later returned to duty. In naval language, he is called a was known as an able broadplain "salt horse." For the Young Miss Worried about being too skinny Curves are decidedly popular and with the bathing season approaching, you have to consider how you are going to look in a bathing suit--in a modern bathing suit. Under these circumstances Dr.

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Chase's Nerve Food CONTAINS VITAMIN B1 caster even before the eye- witness account of the defense of Calais in the battle of Flanders in which he drew a word picture of the Allies' retreat. Characteristically, he prefaced a recent broadcast with the aside: "Good God. they've given me bottle of water to drink." Board Examines Naval Reservists Drafted for service with the Canadian navy, 30 Windsor Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reservists were examined today by the medical board presided over by Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Poisson, M.C., at the armories. Largest group to be drafted since the R.C.N.V.R. was organized here, the men were part of the company inspected at the Howard avenue naval headquarters by Commander Brock last night.

Thomas E. Keating, 66, formerly of Windsor and trainer and manager of stables for the late Wallace W. Gauthier, Windsor, died from a heart attack Thursday night in New Orleans, it was learned here today. Prominent in the racing world, Mr. Keating was associated with Mr.

Gauthier for many years a and was well known in Windsor. He traveled throughout Cuba, the United States and Canada with a number of famous horses. Mr. Keating formerly lived here and later spent his summers in this city. He was born in Toronto, moved to Bay City, when a boy and attended Detroit schools and the University of Detroit.

One of Mr. Keating's last triumphs was the winning of the Louisiana Derby on St. Partick's Day, 1935, when "McCarthy" romped home with Jockey Paul Kester. He won a handicap at the Detroit Fair Grounds in 1937 with the horse "Eniz." He was trainer of "Pacheco." which won a two and a half mile race at Latonia in 1936. Among the famous horses he trained were: "Inflate." "Uncle Vealo," "Popular Vote" and "Bosto." Mr.

Keating also trained horses for the late Jimmie Hendricks of Windsor. Mrs. Isabell Groh Stricken suddenly, Mrs. Isabell Groh, 67, of 325 McKay avenue, died today at her home. Mrs.

Groh was born in Windham Centre, and came to Windsor 39 years ago from Anderdon Township, where she had lived for some time. She was a member of Temple Baptist Church, and belonged to the Ladies' Aid Society of that church. Surviving are her husband. Andrew: two daughters, Mrs. John Fisher, of U.

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