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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 27, 1944
Page
2
Allied needs for air routes drive opening of new bases across Labrador and the North-West. Lands formerly wilderness become hubs for men and materials, linking war strategy with post-war aviation prospects. Canadians foresee continued prominence in air transport and pacific growth.
Britain built a chain of air bases in Africa to back the air route to the Middle East. The bases along with new roads and thousands of trained Africans as radio operators, mechanics, and drivers accelerated war effort and linked West African colonies to Allied supply lines since 1940.
The British Ministry of Information notes air route bases built by British engineers twenty years ago in jungles and swamps, aiding Mediterranean strategy. Takoradi on the Gold Coast became an assembly depot with 1500 R A F planes sent to the Middle East in three months, reflecting the wider colonial development fueled by British enterprise.
The Odorizzi brothers of Staunton Illinois turned their 15 room hotel into a self-serve inn with envelopes a public register and keys to rooms. Guests register deposit money and take a key then the desk is unattended. The system has kept the hotel full and intact over a year with no losses. The piece also notes cautious optimism about Allied victory in Europe and cites factors delaying the war’s end.
Alberta contributed 2,261,000 hogs to commercial markets by September, leading Ontario 1,553,000 Saskatchewan 1,484,000 and Manitoba 636,000. Alberta’s marketings rose by 640,000 year over year as production wanes. Some 35,700,000 miles separate the sun from Mercury.
India hosts the world’s largest dairy operation, built as six military dairy farms created years ago to provide fresh milk butter and cream to military families and Europeans in the Civil Service. The vast complex covers about 96000 acres.
A Wartime Prices and Trade Board update answers reader questions on tea and coffee limits and sugar usage, essentiality certificates for furnaces, butter ration reductions, evaporated milk coupons, and where to obtain the Consumers News pamphlet.
The Manchester Guardian notes a memorial in France for Maggie the mule who kicked two colonels, four majors, ten captains, twenty four lieutenants, forty two sergeants, and four hundred and thirty two other ranks, plus one Mulls bomb.
The British fought Hitler, nearly alone for two years before Japan’s attack drew the US into war. If readers tire of practice blackouts, rationing, casualty lists and high taxes, consider how the British endured. They stood up magnificently against every weapon Hitler used.
British archaeologist reports traces of ancient civilizations in Zimbabwe Mashonaland. Excavations uncover irrigation terraces with efficient channels, stone and bronze age relics, Chinese inscriptions, copper and gold diggings possibly 2000 years old. Engineers admire the builders’ ingenuity as spectulation links to Solomon’s mines.
A wartime booklet answers questions from British wives planning to join Canadian servicemen in Canada. It covers travel, customs, immigration, luggage, money, government, provinces, distances, weather, wartime efforts, shopping, schools, churches, clubs, and a glossary of Canadian terms. The guide, titled A Welcome to War Brides, will be distributed in the UK and to every bride considering the move.
A. M Shaw head of the agricultural supplies board asserts Canada will have ample food in 1945 to feed civilians, armed forces, and overseas contracts. He notes 1944 consumption rose 10 percent from prewar levels and 4 percent from 1943, with steady expectations for March 1945 pantry levels.
A man stands accused of misappropriating a pig as a witness testifies about his confession. The lawyer asks for exact words and the judge refines the question. The witness repeats the prisoner said he took the pig, with no reference to the judge's name.
A long standing prewar custom in Holland involved presenting the first plover egg of the season to Queen Wilhelmina, marking the start of springtime tradition.
Queen Elizabeth was enrolled as a Middle Temple student and called to the bar becoming the first woman bencher at the Middle Temple. The ceremony lasted ten minutes and honored her historic legal milestone though the post call dinner was canceled due to bomb damage to the law courts.
A string of lighthearted quips and social witticisms unfolds. The dialogue covers job bids at a sign, wardrobe and budget humor, a road collision joke, a one leg joke, a librarian gag about Dante, a Sleeping Beauty wake up question, and playful exchanges about bus timing spouses and future wealth appearance.
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