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Newspaper

Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Aug 21, 1941

Page

6

Flying Over Ontario With Australian Student Observer

Visitors from Australia observe a Malton Air Observer School flight in Avro Anson training. Hugh Temelin details the navigation from takeoff to landing over Toronto and Malton, noting landmarks, instructor roles, and plans for bombing and gunnery training before potential deployment to Germany.

Ontario Traihing Command At Teranto Montreal Toronto Avro Ansons Awai Tt Credit River Aston Orangevile Towan Arthur Grand River Camp Borden Great Holland Marsh Lake Shavone Yonge Street King Malton Brampton Calerton Lake Orangeville Aurora Lake Ontario Malvern Wooodbine Dundas Street Tonece Humber River Weston Great Malton Joceling Jarvis Germany

Flight Training Ends In Parachute Exercise Tale

The narrative follows Flying Officer McLeod and Australian student observers during a rough training day. They endure delays, wind drift, and a tense simulated navigation exercise with sparse instruments and a remote cockpit, highlighting helicopter-like planning and the pilots’ calm amid discomfort.

Pitot Jocetin McLeod Mornong Gunfry Great Lakes

Dutch Indies mobilizes for war effort under Dutch East Indies

Thousands of Netherlands and Dutch East Indies volunteers join defenses for Batavia and oil regions. A home guard is armed and 600,000 natives are slated for call up as war service expands across the colony.

Batavia Dutch East Indies

Scrap Aluminum Drive Aids War Effort Across Canada

A coordinated drive unites the Canadian Aluminum Refineries and the Canadian Association of Secondary Materials with the Metals Controller's Office in Ottawa to collect all scrap aluminum for Red Cross funding. The program emphasizes non profit operation, minimizing segregation and transport costs, with all collected aluminum weighed on public scales and shipped freight collect to refineries.

Canada Metals Controller's Office Ottawa Rad Cross Society Secondary Materials Association Offic Association Red Cross Sera Jess Den AU Secap Aluminum Collected Sin

Ottawa Report On Wartime Unity And Postwar Aims

The eight point declaration by Prime Minister King and President Roosevelt, issued in Ottawa, London, and Washington, signals wartime unity and plans for a postwar world. It envisions equal rights, world peace, and social justice, while North American defense coordination moves forward.

Ottawa G.P Churchiffe Roosevelt Ovensburg Mackenzie King Roanseavelt Opdensburg N.Y Canada United States Great Britain Churchill Roosevell London Washington Germany Eplc Sen King Jin Marshal Philippe Petain France Rene Ristelhueber Ristelhueber St. Pierre and Miquelon Newfoundland Tabor McLarty Cape Breton Nova Scotia Capointe Aluminuum Company of Canada Arvida Que Arthur Purvis British Supply Council North America United Kingdom Howe Macdonald Percy We Nelles Naval Staff Hetp Duke of Kent Toronto Oshawa

London Attacks Prompt Probe Over Uniforms and Coupons

Officials investigate a reported attempt by unidentified individuals in Britain to secure uniforms using counterfeit or unusable clothes coupons. Police urge vigilance as inquiries continue into how such schemes were planned and who was involved.

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Corn Growth Experiment Stuns Nebraska Farmers

In Omaha the radio engineer Frank E. Shopen demonstrated a device amplifying sounds at 2,500 times with a microphone placed at the base of a corn stalk. Spectators including Milas Jackie Machiride and farmer W. F. Woodward watched ears grow at about one inch per day while the earphones barely carried the sound.

Omaha Neb Frank FE. Shopen Paudo Milas Jackie Machiride W. F. Woodward

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