Indian War Effort Grows With Allied Commonwealth Support
Sir Girji Shenkar Bapjai, India’s Agent General to the U.S., reports India's war effort expanding from 170000 troops to over a million with potential to reach eight million. India supplies textiles, sandbags, shoes, steel, coal, and food, while equipment gaps slow full mobilization. The nation stands united with the Empire and Allies, pledged to defeat the Axis.
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Commonwealth
Girji Shenkar Bapjai
Kbe
Cle
India
United States
Canada
Sir Girfi
Sir Girji
Suez
Heavy War Labor Duty Bans Civilians From Leaving Batavia
The Batavia decree bans all civilians fit for war work from leaving the city under penalties up to five years and 10000 guilders. It covers those assigned to civilian war work and others with vital roles or special non military duties. A Birmingham case noted workers harshly treated by a firm needing their skills.
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Red Cross
Brule Alberta Town Faces Demolition for War Salvage
Brule Alberta once thriving coal town 178 road miles southwest of Edmonton lies deserted as the government tears down buildings. Salvaged metals and lumber will be scrapped for war needs to support the ongoing war effort.
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Brule
Alberta
Edmonton
The Individual Citizen's Army Explained
The piece argues Canadians misinterpret Army terms in press coverage and promotes proper usage of K P and A W O L as Canadian soldiers understand their own military system. It frames the Individual Citizen's Army as a key investment for freedom and urges public knowledge of the enterprise.
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A.W.O.L
U.S. Army
United States Army
Halifax Mosquito Fleet Drives Busy Harbor Taxi Trade
The Halifax harbor hosts a lively taxi-boat scene amid war-time activity. About 200 small craft ply midstream routes carrying seamen to and from ships and delivering supplies. Fares run from one dollar to five, with some boats fitted for passenger comfort including auto heaters.
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Halifax Harbor
James
Halifax
Trafic
Middle Harbor
McNab Island
Outer Harbor
Inner Harbor
Bedford Basin
Corn Harvest and Kindness in Local Community
Neighbors gathered at Mrs. Ella Lenz's home near Holstein Iowa to harvest a 3300 bushel corn crop with corn pickers tractors and wagons. Women prepared a fine dinner and the piece extols mutual kindness as a healing social force echoed by Romans XIV 7 and the parable of the Good Samaritan.
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Ella Lenz
Holstein
Iowa
Charles Fletcher Cole
Selected Recipes 1 Tri navy beans and tomato mix
A bean pot recipe combines navy beans bacon onion tomatoes brown sugar syrup and seasonings. Beans soak and simmer then layered with the bacon tomato mixture in a quart bean pot and baked until done serves six. A note mentions a horned turkey-like bird in Bolivian jungles and muscovy as a former name for Russia.
Norway’s Merchant Marine Still Serves Allied War Effort
An Associated Press tally as of December 14 1941 shows Norway has lost 24 ships to sinking and others seized. About 80 Norwegian merchant ships remain in Allied service, totaling roughly 5.5 million tons deadweight, making Norway’s fleet the third largest among Allies after Britain and the United States.
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Norway
Associated Press
Great Britain
United States
Italian tank captured in Libya reveals speeds and humor
The piece recalls a captured Italian tank in Libya with three reverse speeds and one forward. The British captor teases the Italian commander about the forward speed while the Italian jokes the rear attack. It also notes Halley’s comet and its predicted periodicity in 1704 with verification by 1759.
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Libya
Halley
Fine Yet Flawed Machinist and A Dormant Giant Haleakala
A Canadian editor visits a gun plant and learns a machinist cannot explain tolerances of five thousandths inch. The editor probes how many five thousandths fit in an inch, while the workers guess there are millions. Haleakala on Maui is cited as the world’s largest known dormant volcano.
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Haleakala
Island of
Maui
Hawaii
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Adlerika
Russia
Kellogg’s Corn
Kellogg’s
Kellogg's
London
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