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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Oct 04, 1941
Page
4
The Twillingate Sun announces its policy on notices and announcements including notes of thanks memoriam and other items. It states publication rules and deadlines while clarifying it does not guarantee late letters and distances itself from correspondent opinions.
A long discussion argues for teaching democratic principles across schools and colleges. It compares democracy with dictatorship, urges understanding liberty and civil rights, and stresses educating future generations in government science to avoid poverty and ensure prosperity.
The former commissioner James A Winter, K C, is appointed Registrar Supreme Court. His brother B A Winter succeeds him as head of Home Affairs and Education.
The notice announces a period labeled Summer Daylight Saving Tithe ending this year on Sunday, November 2nd. It provides dates and the deadline for contributions or actions related to the program.
A wartime editorial praises Russian resilience against Germany, notes Leningrad and Odessa holding out, and predicts a long winter campaign. It condemns Nazi occupation, quotes opposition across Europe, and asserts Europe will endure and survive the tyrants.
At a Tuesday meeting of the N P A a bond drive was approved to fund Christmas gifts for all active service and trainee volunteers in His Majesty's Navy Royal Artillery and Royal Air Force. The public is urged to donate cash by October 11 to listed association members across Twillingate including Gilesport Durrell South Side Hodae Wild Cove Backer Little Harbour Purcell’s Br Gillard’s Cove Ragged Point Bluff Head Cove and Ragged Point.
Citizens urged to report the address of their boys serving in His Majesty's Services to Rev J Goottann chairman and C L Howes secretary at the entertainment committee in Twillingate dated October 11 1941.
Names of people visiting and traveling from Port Hope Simpson Grand Falls Boston and Dalhousie University are listed. Individuals include Archibald Loonen Claude Young Donald Jenkins Eleanor Hawking Harold Wood Gladys Boyd Cyril White Alison Loveridge Veron Boyd and others with notes on destinations such as McGill University Dalhousie University and airports.
The Christian Science Monitor notes Brazil and Argentina moving toward anti Nazi, pro United States positions. It claims that governments fear Nazi influence and see neutrality as dangerous, with Brazil especially returning to traditional democratic moorings amid world events.
Mark Warr died Saturday at 98. his wife, 88, who suffered a paralytic stroke, passed away Monday. He could still recall old times and attended Little Harbour United Church. survivors include sons Edgar Oliver Joseph daughter Leah Mrs Samuel Roberts and many grandchildren.
Post gale on the 9th, better weather has returned though fishermen have faced poorer conditions due to high seas and winds. Some good fishing days reported. Gardens suffered from summer rain and frequent frosts with cold nights. Potatoes delayed by frost but faring better than other farm crops.
Three Greenspond men Benjamin Stanford 19 Maxwell Osmond 18 and James Pond 60 reportedly missing since the 19th after going out in a 25 foot motor boat. Local crews search as weather allows.
A notice warns stamp sellers not to ship stamps unless cash is paid in advance. The article recounts a Toronto House of Stamps scam where a seller lost thirty dollars to a fraudster who used several aliases to dodge detection.
Mr S LeGrow was married at Howley on the 2nd inst., as informants state.
News reports Harry Colbourne, brother of Mrs Wot Harnett, died in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan on Monday at age 56. Public notices indicate the death occurred recently and the family is notifying acquaintances.
Speed Queen arrived Tuesday with 325 gallons of codfish in her second trip of the season.
The open season for shooting Starmigan and partridge runs from October 1 to December 20 on the Avalon Peninsula through November 15. A license is required to hunt these birds and others under the Game and Inland Fisheries Act 1934, obtainable from local officials for 55 cents for Newfoundland residents. Hunting without a license constitutes a breach of the act.
Advertisement for Gillett's Pure Flake Lye touts simple weekly use to keep closets clean and odor free. It promises to scrub away grease, clear clogs, and save hours of heavy work without removing contents.
British and Russian officials rush plans for joint defense of oil regions in the Caucasus via General Wavell and Colonel Novikov while Wavell forms an expeditionary force for Southern Russia. Leningrad defenders repulse German advances as Vichy rebels set up a Paris tribunal. McNaughton foresees a European invasion, Canadians raid a French port, and Liberty Fleet Day launches 14 merchant ships with 1200 more to follow. An Atlantic convoy is torpedoed off the Azores. a postal office opens at Marquise. RAF and Luftwaffe aerial battles intensify over the Channel and Baltic fronts with raids on Hamburg and Cherbourg signals.
Reports say Russian defenders recaptured towns around Leningrad and dug in along a new line. In Ukraine the southern army withdrew from Poltava moving to Donets Basin. Hostages executed in Bohemia and Moravia push Nazi terror in the Czech revolt.
A reader notes criticism of terms like ripe old age used for elderly deaths. The letter cites a recent piece calling an aged native’s passing a ripe old age and observes similar wording in the paper and in Canadian papers.
An incoming official, P. D. 8. Duan, OBE, arrives from England to succeed J. H. Gorvio as Commissioner for Natural Resources in Newfoundland. He previously led Newfoundland Customs, chaired the Board of Liquor Control, and earned an OBE for service before later roles in the Ministry of Food and the Fish Branch.
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