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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 01, 1945
Page
2
The article notes Canada’s wartime maturity and rising prestige as it ranks among the top nations in service to the Allied cause. It cites Bretton Woods placing Canada seventh in wealth and influence, and the San Francisco World Security Conference showing Canadian influence in discussions.
The piece notes that predicting the future is difficult and warns against optimism, recalling unemployment woes before the war. It urges Canadians to build on wartime resilience, tackle postwar labour needs, and adapt to changed conditions in production, shipping, and markets with cooperation and determination.
Dr. Eric Englund of the US Department of Agriculture told the Saskatoon gathering that Canada must widen foreign markets and boost food consumption to sustain farm prices. He warned that results may be slow and farmers should not expect a magic formula for instant market expansion.
Sir George Binney recalls leading about 400 British and Norwegian seamen who for over four years ferried 35 000 tons of scarce Swedish materials through fog and ice. The shipments included high grade steel items and 20 aircraft engine machines that boosted British production by 400 percent and needed protective shelters from air raids. The supplies aided war industries in the United States and the British Commonwealth, enabling reproduction of Swedish equipment.
Soviet News reports that forty percent of blinded soldiers treated by Russian doctors during the war left hospital with sight restored to a considerable extent.
Watercolors and sketches by Canadian war artists from the Canadian Field Historical Section were exhibited at the Amsterdam Municipal Art Gallery drawing many Dutch visitors and army personnel. Maj. C. F. Comfort Capt. G. D. Pepper Capt. O. F. Fisher Capt. C. P. Tinning Capt. D. A. Colville and Lieut. B. J. Bobak contributed subjects ranging from portraits to battlefield landscapes. The exhibit will travel to Ottawa and other Dominion cities after its Holland run. Assistant curator van Leyden praised the works for directness and action reminiscent of the soldiers themselves.
The admiralty prize court has earmarked £19,000,000 from enemy ship cargo sales for distribution among Royal Navy seamen. A tradition grants a handsome bounty from war booty, with total payments now promising exposure to a jackpot surpassing £19,900,000. The note highlights tiny tunnels in China’s tin mines as a stark contrast in scale.
Questions and answers outline Wartime Prices and Trade Board policies on P coupon sugar preserves, meat rationing timing, home slaughter for personal use, labeling of apparel, and restaurant butter quotas. It directs readers to request pamphlets and visit local Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
A collection of light jests and quips about marriage work labor and daily life. A wife debates supply and demand with humor while a cashier chase ends in a punch line. A Yorkshire traveler asks where the War Office stands and learns the joke is on him.
J Wendell Reid of Sydney Nova Scotia now with Trans Canada Air Lines flies Winnipeg to Toronto. At 24 he is among the Empire’s youngest wing commanders and was decorated in Ottawa by the U.S. ambassador for extraordinary Normandy patrols. His squadron has shot down at least 20 enemy planes since D-Day.
Mary Scholey of Regina Sask leads No 12 CWAC Composite Stores guiding outfitting and issues. Betty Scholey serves in England while Mary rose from corporal to sergeant in Regina. The No 1 Canadian Women’s Army Corps trained a large graduating class at London Ontario, with Capt Phyllis Laird praising the cooks and the health of servicemen and women.
Lieut Hans Pingel, awaiting demobilization, was sentenced to 10 years by a Flensburg military court for leading a 12 man raid that seized hair from two German women Musche and Schippe aged 35 to 40. The victims were dragged by the hair along a road and their hair was stuffed into their mouths.
Jimmy Osborne, a nine year old English piano prodigy adopted by members of the United States Ninth Air Force in England, is enrolled at Perkins Institution for the Blind. He has composed music after arriving in the United States and has begun formal studies while the American airmen fund his education.
A compact collection of quotations about pleasure and truth by John Selden Francis Bacon John Foster Mary Baker Eddy William Collins and Bovee. It contrasts true and false pleasure noting prepayment of price for truth and the temperate nature of lasting joy.
H. A. Innes of the University of Toronto says free scientific knowledge exchange between Canada and Russia after the war will significantly influence the Canadian Arctic's development. The economist notes collaboration could accelerate research and exploration efforts.
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