Canada at War The Automotive Industry's War Effort
A brief tour through Eastern Canada's auto plants shows vast output for the war. Factories on 200 acres with 13,000 workers, 4,200 machines, and daily motors pour from foundries and machine shops. Universal Carriers and four wheel drive Artillery Tractors lead units bound for Britain and battle fronts.
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Canada
Army
Universal
Assembly Iinea
Britain
Roos
Ian Way
This Inc
Ita
Cca
British Empire
Fall Planting Spring Blooms Ottawa
A Canadian gardener guides fall planting with bulbs and hardy shrubs. Plant now in October and November, protect late blooms from frost, burn diseased tops, stake new trees, clean up beds, and plant grass to beat weeds.
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Dame Nature
Hull Heroes to Queen
Queen Elizabeth and the King visited Hull, meeting air raid heroes amid bombed districts. They spoke with residents outside shattered homes, quipping about missing windows as the Queen called Hull one of the worst district towns in the country.
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Hull
England
Elizabeth
Make Old Furs Work for You In New Shape
A fashion feature urges women to repurpose old furs into new items. Citing examples from hats, cuffs, gloves, and bags, the piece highlights dyeing fur, decorating with color, and using scraps to create stylish, budget friendly pieces. It notes designers’ uses like Persian lamb sleeves and fur trimmed accessories, encouraging improvisation and resourcefulness.
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New York
Gas masks still in fashion amid London shortages
Government provides pads to help thin-faced individuals fit gas masks better as demand remains high.
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London
Widow fined for refusing evacuees in Stratton-on-Fosse
A 30-year-old widow in Stratton-on-Floss was fined £15 for refusing to admit a bombed-out grandmother and two children to her seven-room house. The case highlights wartime conscience and housing duties during air raid warnings.
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Stratton-On-Floss
Eng
C. P
Week at Ottawa reports tighter price controls in King plan
Prime Minister Mackenzie King unveils wartime measures to curb inflation with ceilings on finished goods and processed commodities. Finance Minister Ilsley notes steps to aid prairie grain growers and Eastern Canada users of Western feed grains, costing about 110 million in the current crop year. A labour conference signals a compulsory wages policy to restrain costs. The Naval Commission reports sabotage concerns in the Chicoutimi strike, stating it could have been avoided with better emergency provisions. Civilian badges for discharged and refused enlistment personnel are to be issued by the Defence Department.
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Ottawa
Canada
Mackenzie King
King
Ft Wu
Tme
Yisleyan
Moncey
Aida
Wan
Aame
McLarty
Naval Commission
Chicoutimi
Que
Arvida
Aluminum Company of Canada
Severin Letourneau
W. le Bond
Quebec
Armed Services
War Service Badge Names and Enlistment Badges Defined
The article states that qualifying veterans will receive badges soon. Honorably discharged personnel will be labeled War Service Badge General Service Class. Those who were refused enlistment will get an Applicant for Enlistment badge.
Fibre Flax Seen as Profitable Cash Crop in Fraser Valley
The Agriculture Department reported fibre flax could become a profitable cash crop across the Fraser Valley British Columbia contingent on available harvesting machinery and a modern mill. In 1941 about 80 acres were grown on select farms with 80 percent rated highly satisfactory for yield and quality. Poor results tied to identifiable, avoidable factors.
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Ottawa
Fraser Valley
British Columbia
Agriculture Department
Uaid Tnom
Franer Valley
Lower
M. F. Clarke
Dominion Experimental Farm
Agasalz
B.C
Auckland Fire Chief Pleads Guilty to Arson
Supt. B. C. Edwards aged 27 from Auckland admitted setting fires in three buildings to prove his brigade's prowess. One building burned completely. He pleaded guilty to arson, received three years probation and a three year suspension from the fire brigade.
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Auckland
N.Z
B. C. Edwards
Radio’s wartime rise in Britain and remote control warfare
Britain has advanced radio use in war, enabling radio location to detect aircraft and guide operations. Techniques include fog safe landings, radio controlled aircraft experiments, and centralized tank formation control. U S Army Air Corps began similar trials over six years ago.
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Britain
America
United States Army Air Corps
Radio advances: portable train receiver aids military use
New midget valves enable a truly portable train receiver and the army is using it for field and coastal defense communications. Each technical advance expands radio use in war, and the British radio industry is at the forefront of this applied science development.
Quislings Doomed Says Norwegian Government In Exile
London report notes King Haakon and the government in exile announce no mercy for Norwegians aiding Nazi criminals. The death penalty is authorized for those who act as voluntary instruments of the occupiers.
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London
Haakon
Norway
Sugar beets in Skane show good sugar content
Stockholm report notes most of Sweden’s crop is below normal but in Skane the sugar beet harvest averages well and yields high sugar content.
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Stockholmn
Sweden
Skane
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