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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 19, 1942
Page
2
Commissioner ST Woop of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police urges Canadians to avoid spreading rumors during war. He notes Hitler uses nerves and uncertainty as a weapon, and warns that belittling the war effort or faith only aids the Axis by sowing seeds of doubt.
The piece stresses total war beyond soldiers, urging Canadians to curb rumor and support morale. It cites England’s film The Next of Kin Have Been Notified to show how careless talk costs lives and reinforces the United Nations unity against Axis forces. Commissioner Wood is urged to heed his own counsel.
Pravda reports Smolensk province partisans led by a patriot called Batya have expanded from hunting weapons to thousands of fighters with machine guns automatic rifles and seven tanks seized from invaders. In a year of activity they captured 300 villages and killed 6000 Germans.
During a visit to a women’s institute canning unit in Reading England the Queen praised a perfectly sealed canister then attempted canning. Within 30 seconds she produced a perfectly sealed tin of plums with an automatic sealer for her own use.
A list of Royal Canadian Air Force personnel who completed courses under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Graduates include LACs and Sergeants from No. 12 Service Flying Training School Brandon Manitoba No. 5 Air Observer School Winnipeg and No. 10 Service Flying Training School Dauphin Manitoba plus No. 7 Bombing and Gunnery School Paulson Manitoba among others. Names span Winnipeg Estevan Dauphin and other Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta towns with ranks LAC and Sergeant.
A collection of brief maxims from Bulwer Lytton, Horace Greeley, Gamaliel Bailey, Epictetus, Mary Baker Eddy, Whately, and Barrow. The excerpts emphasize purpose over talent, honest labor, application, sowing to reap, and the value of industry in securing blessings and rewards.
The Argonaut argues that English spelling simplification may hinder American spelling ability, noting Englishmen spell more accurately. It cites a logistics fact that 71 trains move 15 000 troops and weapons, and mentions the Murmansk to Leningrad railroad at 925 miles with 1 110 bridges.
A narrator argues for a broad civilian mobilization beyond prizes of daily life, urging all Canadians to join the war effort. He contrasts civilian behavior with military duty, cites overseas sacrifice in Hong Kong and England, and calls for Active Service or Reserve enlistment. He warns against complacency and questions wartime price controls.
The writer argues that those hindering wartime economic measures, from illiterate traders to large corporations, deserve court action. It calls for private citizens to report infractions to the Wartime Prices and Trade Board to preserve the economy and fight inflation.
Craft a homemade scrapbook for your son joining the service filled with humor cartoons jokes and magazine clippings. Include local newspaper clippings snapshots and travel notes noting the 3600 mile route from the Bering Strait to Murmansk.
The Saturday Evening Post describes tank rides as thrilling aural experiences where steel armor amplifies engine noise, likening it to a mouse inside a kettle drum with Finlandia playing. It recalls days of steady pay cheques for earned money.
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