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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 08, 1942
Page
5
Local families and visitors from Toronto Galt Bracebridge Hamilton Detroit and Acton gathered for Christmas and New Year celebrations. Several individuals attended services funerals or visited relatives in Milton Heights Waterdown Minto and Manitoulin Island.
The Murra and McCutcheon families thank friends and neighbors for sympathy flowers and cards after their bereavement. Your gracious words will be remembered.
W B Rumley chairman reports 1942 school board meeting praising large attendance good discipline and satisfactory building and staff. Inspector Skuce notes long service of secretary McDonald and welcomes Middleton as successor.
The Gregory Theatre presents Fred MacMurray and Madeleine Carroll in a London billing with cartoon numbers Way of All Pests and Unusual Occupations. Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold star in a melodrama. Basil Rathbone and Ellen Drew billed with Hal Kemp Orchestra.
A Ginger Farm Chronicle laments rough election day weather and narrow rural roads that hinder turnout. The writer notes a safer car rescue, praises a new schoolhouse, discusses costs of roads and machinery, anticipates draft calls, and urges rural residents to balance taxes with needed services while suggesting practical home farming fixes.
The bulletin outlines Allied advances and setbacks from multiple theaters. American air forces claim direct hits on a battleship and destruction of a destroyer in the South China Sea while Libya and Russia face pressure against Rommel and German forces. Soviet offensives push on Moscow’s approaches as Bardia falls, and sea actions claim Neptune and destroyers Kandahar and Stanley with Allied subs and bombers claiming successes.
Erin Alexander Hillock 70 of Caledon township died Saturday at his home near the Caledon Club. Lieut J M Abbott Camp Borden and Mac Abbott Moncton NB visited their parents Dr and Mrs J M Abbott while Mr and Mrs Weasley Robertson Guelph received a letter from their son Robert Robertson RCA AF stationed in England. Ratepayers and village constable attended a 7 pm meeting in the village hall.
Toronto-born British M.P. Beverly Baxter impressed during a Canada and U.S. visit with the development of air transport and suggested Britain should consider building civilian aircraft.
A gunner charged with desertion at a court martial testified he left his unit to join the navy because army life did not agree with him. He gave no further details about his discharge plans or future service.
A wartime report quotes a German radio operator remarking that attacking British ships in convoy feels like entering hell. The description underscores the fierce air assaults faced by the convoy as they sail under heavy anti aircraft and escort.
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