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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 09, 1944
Page
5
Captain Frederic John Walker, commander of the Kite and other ships, led a killer pack that sank 17 U boats and 3 probables by hunting rather than guarding convoys. His teams shifted from defensive lanes to offensive patrols in the western approaches, ending the U boat menace. He died of a heart attack and was buried at sea.
A 1856 inaugural run of the Dorchester on a 16 mile wood bound track linked Laprairie and St Johns in Quebec. The two hour voyage sparked a railway boom, shaping the St. Lawrence division and aiding Confederation push 81 years later.
Records from the old New Hampshire jail recount a 1860s execution in which the surrounding sermon lasted two hours. Seventeen pages delivered a lengthy address, three directed to the condemned and thirteen to the audience.
A report asserts Africa's Victoria Falls are more than twice the height of Niagara Falls, highlighting the waterfall's vertical scale and prominence in tourist and geological discussions.
Lt Cmdr S C Dickinson of Toronto has chased Germans over the Atlantic for four years. His London parents have been bombed out four times since 1940, with their Wimbledon home flattened and later flats wrecked, though all survived each incident.
Leopold Arnaud announces at Columbia University that a postwar Lidice is being designed in Czechoslovakia under the government in exile. The rebuilt town will replace the Nazi-wiped settlement in reprisal for a German officer's death.
Eleven Scouts won the Victoria Cross in the First Great War. Ten awards were given to former Boy Scouts including PC Cyril Barton RAF who received a posthumous VC. The piece notes 90 VCs awarded in this war and adds a remark: sound travels about fifteen times faster through iron than air.
A wartime columnist urges practical pre positioning of household tasks to save time and fatigue. The piece lauds Merchant Marine crews for immense logistics to Normandy, with millions of items and heavy casualties, calling them the mother of navies and highlighting global supply routes and risks. It notes Canada’s 1871 rural population surpassing urban dwellers by over two million.
Soviet release highlights women doctors serving under fire from dugouts to demolished buildings. They rotate shifts, manage regimental and brigade posts, and receive numerous decorations for courage and medical skill amid air raids and bombardments.
Berlin radio reports Mrs. Hanna Reisch received the Iron Cross first class after flying an experimental robot bomb with no instruments during 1942 test flights. She was seriously injured on landing though an emergency device aided the craft and she endured high speed dives and nearly horizontal flight under periscope guidance.
Lieut. Adrian Schultz, 26, wounded piloting a Liberator in England last January, lost memory for over four months. He learned English with a British accent after head injuries. A letter with his sister Joan’s photo helped him recall his Omaha family. Aviators face the bends if altitude rises too fast.
The U S army says well trained dogs locate non metallic land mines that machines miss. They also find metallic mines trip wires and booby traps. On six foot leashes the dogs map mine fields lead troops around danger and show safe paths through.
This item advertises crochet butterfly motifs with a lacy design. It notes Pattern 7141 has four motifs 5 by 11 inches, requires twenty cents, and requests name address and pattern number to be sent to the Household Arts Department in Winnipeg. An aside mentions Mont St. Michel on Normandy coast as an imposing medieval monastery on a rock.
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