Britain erased signs to hinder invasion scouts
A World War II era piece describes widespread removal of road signs and landmarks across Britain to confuse enemy parachutists and fifth columnists. It notes stripped station names, altered street boards, hidden post offices, and reduced visibility of local identifiers, causing travel confusion and heightened suspicion of strangers at night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
London Passenger Transport Board
Piccadilly
Marble Arch
Northtown
Southtown
Inland Revenue
Grey fox clings to home at Transide Museum instead of freedom
In Bear Mountain NY, a grey fox kept in a spacious kennel refuses freedom when released with three red foxes. The fox returns to the museum, eats from a keeper, and makes a lair among hemlocks, preferring captivity to the wild life of Trailside Mountain. The piece argues sympathy for captive animals is misplaced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Transide Museum
Bear Mountain
New York
Mountain Park
Brer Fox
Grey Fox
Trailside
St. Thomas Times
Concrete pillbox built in five hours for war department
Karl Billur of Philadelphia demonstrated a concrete pillbox before war department officials and congress members. The structure included gun apertures and a trench approach and hardened enough to support several men on its roof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Congress
Karl Billur
Philadelphia
French Sailors Switch Sides Aboard Meknes
Several hundred French sailors aboard the Meknes, a merchant ship torpedoed by the Nazis, abandoned returning home and chose to serve under Vice Admiral Muselier in the Free French navy, announced by The Press Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Muselier
Free French Navy
Britain seeks Canadian fibre flax to boost war industries
Dominion Agriculture Department and Ontario Quebec researchers expand flax acreage by 100 percent to 21 000 acres, aiming for 4 500 to 5 000 tons of fibre flax export this year. New Belgian machinery, saved after a torpedoed voyage, expedites pulling scotching and threshing for linen threads and war canvas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Dominion Agriculture Department
Russia
Balkans
Ontario
Quebec
Canada
Belgium
Flanders
Maurice Sonenens
Antwerp
Plessisville
Que
Northern Ireland
British film stars donate to war relief efforts
Actors Gary Grant and Charles Laughton lead Hollywood and radio donors, giving substantial earnings and salaries to British war charities and the Red Cross. Many others also contribute generously.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary Grant
Charles Laughton
Red Cross
No Swastikas Removed From Whittier Building
A Whittier California business spent 2500 to remove 45 large brick swastikas chiselled on the front and side of its building. The symbols were once thought to be Indian good luck marks when the structure was built about twenty four years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whittier
Cal
Viewpoint on Armistice Delusion in German Press
The London correspondent for the Ottawa Journal argues Hitler's press distinguishes France seeking armistice from German surrender claims. He states Goebbels inflates a German victory myth, while 1918 German troops suffered a crushing defeat with Ludendorff urging immediate peace as camps collapsed. Eyewitnesses note German delegates at Foch's rail HQ trembled with anxiety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ottawa Journal
Hitler
France
Germany
Goebbels
Lie
Ludendorff
Britain
Foch
Comedy rescue at sea after air raid near torpedoed ship
German marksmen score hit on RAF reconnaissance aircraft causing fuel leak. Pilot steers toward England but runs out of fuel and lands beside a small naval vessel. Sailors scramble onto the wing to rescue both crews, then a destroyer arrives to complete the rescue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Accidents In Farm Work Highlight Hidden Dangers
The Peterborough Examiner warns farms are not free from hazards as Western Ontario reports show five local incidents. A hay forked fall leaves a farmer with a serious back injury, a 12 foot shed fall injuries another man, a hay loft collapse causes concussion, a fall from a hay rack breaks an elderly farmer’s leg, and a mower incident leaves a man with a cut foot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peterborough Examiner
Ontario
Soviet Navy to add 168 ships this year, Kuznetzoff says
Admiral Nikolai Kuznetzoff, chief of the navy, announced that Soviet Russia plans to add 168 warships to its fleet this year and called for strengthening naval power to match the army and air force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nikolai Kuznetzoff
Soviet
Russia
Valuable Portland Vase Highlight of Glassware
The Portland vase, a Roman glass artifact praised as possibly the most valuable single piece of glassware, sits in the British Museum and is hailed for its exceptional worth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Museum
Parachute Use Saves RAF Pilots and British Food Drive
The article highlights parachutes saving many Royal Air Force pilots in combat and details Britain's push to increase food production. It cites plowing over vast acreages of grassland and converting clay under grass to suitable crops, aiming to sustain Britain and support Allied resistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Air Force
Duncan Marshall
Owen Sound Sun-Times
Britain
George Stapleton
Optimistic Nazi Germany hedges on Latin American orders says New York exporters
Very optimistic New York exporters report German agents in Latin America assuring customers that the war would end by September and that Germany would rush large quantities of goods to Europe. German owned firms in Argentina Mexico Brazil and other South American nations are placing orders in the United States for chemicals metal products and other merchandise with advance cash payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Latin America
United States
Germany
Atlantic
Argentina
Mexico
Brazil
Gifts For The Treasury And Public Spirit Of Donors
A Times letter by Ten percenter describes sending £2500 to the Chancellor as part of war funding. Sir Kingsley Wood notes others giving freely, including a £250,000 secret donation and smaller gifts from a disabled ex-soldier and a pensioner. The piece recalls a 1919 Times letter by F. S. T. that led to Lord Baldwin funding a loan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Times
Kingsley Wood
Times
Treasury
The
Lord
Stanley) Baldwin
Climate effects on paint durability in local conditions
The text notes that yearly climate variation can alter how durable paint lasts in a given locality. It implies weather shifts influence coating performance and service life over time.
Exiled Norwegian King Haakon VII Refuses Abdication
King Haakon VII, crowned in 1905 at Trondheim Cathedral, rejects German demands to abdicate while Norway is under German occupation. The Danish prince notes his loyalty with the motto Everything for Norway and recalls the coronation crown slipping over his ears as a possible omen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trondheim
Norway
Haakon VII
Haakon
Mercury From B C Mine Ships to Montreal For War Needs
First shipments of mercury from a British Columbia mine have been sent to Montreal. The ore may meet Canada and part of the Empire's wartime needs. Hay storage practice notes rising sharply as farmers store dry hay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Columbia
Canada
Empire
Montreal
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Bristol
Moreton-in-the-Marsh
Stow-in-the-World
Pauline Berube
Canadian Small Bore Association
Dominion
Comedy Rescue
Gilad
Navy
Alice Brooks
Alice
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Wisques
St. Omer
B.C
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