World Happenings Briefly Told
Summary of varied items: Alexander to have British aides as Canada’s governor general. Norfolk magistrate fined for car policy lapse. AP to distribute world news directly to Turkish newspapers. Nigeria has 106 trade unions with 10 to 3000 members each. US may ship up to one million bales of cotton to Japan under new policy. MacArthur approves program. Arethusa training ship returns to Medway. Canadian RC AF bombing ranges reopened. 110 U boats destroyed by British Navy, 30 remain from wolf packs.
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United States
Japan
General MacArthur
Germany
Bottles Adrift Show Vast Ocean Wanderings and Drift Rates
A 28 year old bottle message delivered to Aylesbury shows how bottles drift across oceans. Historical examples include a 1913 Studland Bay bottle reaching New Zealand in 11 months and a 1912 Cape Town bottle found in Port Philip Australia in seven months, while others took years. Captain Simpson launched 10,000 bottles with about 10 percent making shore.
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South Australia
Aylesbury
Studland Bay
Dorset
Christchurch
New Zealand
Capetown
Port Philip
Australia
South Africa
Shetlands
Stewart's Island
Simpson
Manchester Guardian
Fruit Motifs Cross Stitch Pattern for Kitchen Linens
A brief note advertises a fruit motif cross stitch pattern 7301 from the Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union. It includes seven motifs averaging 4 by 8 inches and costs twenty cents. requests mailing to Winnipeg address with name, address, and pattern number. Snakes use venom defensively in ordinary circumstances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
A New Year plan for healthful meals with weekly rations
A suggested seven day menu using weekly meat rations to craft simple nutritious meals. Sunday minute steaks with rice and creamed celery, Monday sausage and jacket potato with cabbage, Tuesday fish steak and baked vegetables, Wednesday lamb chops and kidney stew, Thursday leftovers with salad, Friday eggs Florentine, Saturday beef burger with tomato sauce. Ends with token savings feeling.
Daylight Saving Pioneer Sir William Willett Recalls Legacy
The British Kent County Journal highlights Sir William Willett born 1856 in Farnham who lived in Chislehurst and sparked daylight saving after observing summer hours. His pamphlet Waste of Daylight influenced Parliament in 1908 and 1916, long after his death, with memorials including an obelisk at St Nicholas churchyard and a Willett Way on a nearby estate.
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British
Kent County Journal
Sir William Willett
Farnham
Surrey
Willett
Chislehurst
Kent
Chislehurst Common
Robert Pearse
St. Nicholas
National Trust
War brides in Canada prefer happiness with Canadian soldiers
Rumors in Canada claim British war brides hate living in Canada and want to return to Britain. About 9,000 British girls married Canadian soldiers in three years, but only 29 sought return passages. Most brides remain content with husbands and life in Canada.
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Canada
Britain
Vancouver Sun
War cost four times prior conflict says BIS report
The Bank for International Settlements publicized a BIS study estimating global war costs at 650 billion dollars, more than four times the 1914 to 1918 war, with future wars seen as potentially ruinously expensive. The Winnipeg Tribune notes this pessimistic view and adds a note on the world’s oldest book from China dating to 100 B.C.
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Treasuries
Bank of International Settlement
Winnipeg Tribune
The Hong Kong Icicle That Vanished in Heat
A legendary single icicle said to have formed in Hong Kong was found by a coolie on a water pipe near a hotel at the hilltop. He ran downhill to share it, but the melting diamond slipped away as bystanders laughed at him.
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Hong Kong
Postwar Britain Goes Mad Over Art Treasures
Antique furniture paintings and ornaments attract strong demand in Britain with prices rising two to five times prewar levels. Sotheby’s and Christie's report buyers from the United States, small items outsell grand works, and items like Chippendale tables and writing desks show sharp gains while Audubon prints and Dresden china fetch premiums.
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Britain
United States
London
Sotheby's
Christie's
Charles Des Graz
Des Graz
Alec Martin
Lost Treasure Hidden by Two Men Found Dead
The Oxford Museum of History and Science safeguarded relics including Cardinal Wolsey’s clock face and ten ancient astrolabes. Dr. R. T. Gunther and Albert Joyce hid the items at war’s start. both died in 1940, taking the secret to their graves.
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Oxford Museum of History and Science
Cardinal Wolsey
R. T. Gunther
Albert Joyce
Gunther
Mr. Joyce
London Daily Mail
Diamonds Prepared for Aga Khan Jubilee Ceremony
Britain constructs weighty containers to ship thousands of diamonds to India for the Aga Khan diamond jubilee ceremony in Bombay at Bradbourne Stadium attended by about 40 000. Diamonds sourced from London syndicate with gov support, with Africa ceremony planned and vast Ismaili following.
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Britain
India
Aga Khan
London
Bradbourne Stadium
Bombay
Dar-es-Salaam
East Africa
Africa
Asia
Europe
Bees and honey theft at Olean NY house
A ceiling tear in a house at Olean reveals a honey comb eight feet long and forty two inches wide with more than 125 pounds of honey. Hundreds of bees were killed with a blowtorch as investigators describe the theft and the improvised hive discovery.
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Olean
N.Y
Tetanus does not respond to penicillin study finds
Dr. W A Altemeier of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine reports that penicillin fails to treat generalized tetanus in a clinical study of 16 cases. He notes tetanus is caused by Clostridium tetani toxin and warns that small wounds often receive no care while large wounds get antitoxin to prevent toxin spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Altemeier
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati General Hospital
Journal of the American Medical Association
Altemeier
Nelles Silverthorne
Toronto
The
Health League of Canada
Health
Plastic bodied cars predicted by aviation pioneer Stout
William B. Stout, famed aviation engineer, predicts major manufacturers will soon build cars with plastic bodies stronger than steel, half the weight and twice the fuel economy. He argues such cars will improve driver visibility and reduce accidents, noting China uses dancing in soldier training raise notes.
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William B. Stout
Mr. Stout
Buffalo Courier-Express
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Norfolk
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Chatham
England
R.C.A.F
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Alice Brooks
Lol L
Floren
Beefburger
China
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F.D.R
U.S
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wealth League
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Fie Air
San
Aleutians
Hawaiian Islands
Rosamond M. Paley
Gene Byrnes
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