British Raids on Enemy Coastline Could Reshape War
Analysis notes potential Allied raids from parachute landings to naval diversions along 4000 miles of coastline. It cites operations from Zeebrugge and Ostend in 1918 and March 4 raids on Lofoten with ships, prisoners, and Norwegian recruits.
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Royal Air Force
Norway
France
Britain
Continent
Zeebrugge
Ostend
Netherlands
Italy
Lofoten Islands
Narvik
Flow of Money Keeps War Effort Moving
The article argues that six essentials man power materials industrial capacity ships seapower abroad purchases and food require continuous money flow. It notes public misunderstanding of wartime finance and warns against barter as a supposed fix, citing Britain’s exchange of bases for destroyers as cited by the Hong Kong Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Hong Kong
Woman Sews for a Living Earns on Wardrobe Repairs
Mrs E R Defoe, left alone with only her needle, builds a paying business by sewing and repairing worn clothing for bachelors in New York. She gathers clients via clubs and apartment hotels and charges weekly based on workload and wardrobe size. A university speech teacher notes stuttering tends to begin in fifth grade around age 10.
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E. R. Defoe
New York
Western expansion of air training sites under Commonwealth plan
Air Ministry officials plan new air schools this spring on prairie sites as part of the Commonwealth Air Training plan. Future expansion is expected to focus on the west due to superior prairie conditions. Spring breakup worsens eastern conditions, while western weather allows quicker landings and minimal disruption. Announcements will be withheld for strategic reasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairies
Air Ministry
Canada
Out West
Promotion by capture under Geneva terms in wartime Italy
Italian officers captured by the British receive an allowance equal to their British rank pay. An Italian general can gain roughly double by becoming a prisoner of war. The system turns capture into a promotion factor, while posters in German-occupied Norway warn against espionage. Pollinators include ants bees flies moths and a bat species.
Standardized Gasoline Plan Aims for Two Public Grades
Dominion oil supervisor G R Cottrelle says Canada will soon standardize gasoline coast to coast. Two public grades will be sold: premium with ethyl and a standard grade. fuel standards will cover farm tractors. He cites wartime energy conservation and potential price controls, and urges Turner Valley gas waste stoppage to save oil for wartime needs.
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Canada
G. R. Cottrelle
Dominion Oil
Cottrelle
United States
Alberta
Turner Valley
Western Canada
Conservation Board
Census Enumerators to Record Religious Belief in June
Ottawa issues instructions requiring enumerators to record specific religious bodies for every person. Entries must state the religion or affiliation, noting if children follow a different faith from parents or are being raised in a particular belief.
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Ottawa
Wasted Words at the Barbers
Jackson, delayed and irritable after missing his train, demands a silent cut and rejects all products. A fellow customer hints that Jackson is deaf and dumb, prompting the barber to write details on a slate.
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Jackson
Cattle on Canadian Farms Rise Overall Milk Cows Dip
Canada’s total cattle on farms at December 1 1940 exceeded 1939 levels while milk cows fell from 3 933 300 in 1939 to 3 917 100 in 1940. Gains in Ontario Saskatchewan and British Columbia were offset by declines elsewhere.
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Canada
Ontario
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Pattern 6931 Sampler Transfer for Home Needlework
Colorful cross stitch sampler pattern 6931 with transfer image 12 by 14 inches. Includes materials, stitch illustrations, color schemes and instructions. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg for pattern, no Alice Brooks book published.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Britain Builds Merchant Ships In Inland Factories
The British Admiralty plans to tap new tonnage by assembling ships in inland steelworks and transporting sections to coastal yards. Vessels of about 8,000 tons will aid convoy work, with mass production experience from WWI helping speed build. Also noted are Iraq cement plants, increased pencils exports to South Africa, and vast fitting of shipping resources amid war.
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British
Admiralty
Britain
Iraq
Kenya
Great Britain
British Isles
South Africa
Pioneer George Bugnet develops hardy red rose variety
George S. Bugnet of Rich Valley near Edmonton has developed a new red rose that withstands northern Alberta winters with little care and blooms for about two months. The 62 year old pioneer crossbred cultivated and native roses for 16 years as a hobby. The semi double blooms measure 3 to 4 inches across in various red shades. He plans no sale of the roses and is already pursuing a yellow rose with an estimated five to six years to reach the same standard.
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Alberta
George S. Bugnet
Rich Valley District
Rich Valley
Edmonton
Bugnet
Pepper Calls Hitler The Most Sinister Genius In History
U S Senator Claude Pepper declares Adolf Hitler “the most sinister genius” and warns of the Beast of Berlin. The piece notes Pepper’s strong stance amid wartime rhetoric and references critical comparisons to German leadership.
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U.S
Claude Pepper
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
World’s only newspaper library bomb damage hit Colindale
The British Museum newspaper library at Colindale near Hendon England was damaged by a bomb. The F shaped building built 1903 with top stroke from 1932 housed about 75 000 volumes in the old part with less than half salvaged. The library totals about 50 000 volumes with 20 000 publications represented and adds 5 000 volumes yearly. It holds all English provincial Irish and Scottish papers from 1718 onward and London papers from 1801 along with many colonial and foreign titles.
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British Museum
Colindale
Hendon
England
Baltimore Sun
London
Great Lakes Seamen Pur chase Ambulances for Navy Aid
Three ambulances for the Royal Canadian Navy funded by Great Lakes seamen through the Seaman's Ambulance Fund announced by Captain Frank Harpell secretary. The fund began last season with one unit in Vancouver and two in Halifax.
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Royal Canadian Navy
Vancouver
Halifax
Great Lakes
Seaman's Ambulance Fund
Frank Harpell
Veterans recall war trenches and luck while noting snakes
A veteran recalls narrowly surviving the war and contrasts his luck with another’s claim of constant trench duty. The passage also asserts Madagascar as the only large country in temperate or tropical zones free of dangerous snakes.
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Madagascar
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Hitler
North Cape
Germany
Denmark
Flanders
Air Schools
Far West
Christian
Totalitar Astism
Christian Science Monitor
Ever $O Humete
COPE
Spain
von Ribbentrop
Madrid
Serrano Suner
Neville Henderson
Poland
Suner
Franco
Fuehrer
Berchtesgaden
Mussolini
Gibraltar
Pyrenees
Axis
Toronto Telegram
Pioneer
London Times
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