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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 16, 1944
Page
4
A devotional study based on Mark 9 and Mark 10 45 explains the disciples disputing who is greatest on the road to Capernaum. Jesus teaches that true greatness lies in humble service and caring for others, symbolized by receiving a child in His name.
Protection of wheat for 1344 15 Australia is estimated at 97.9 one Dushels Lifeboat of the royal national life boat imstitute rescued 31 men from planes and vessels in distress during November. London s anti aircraft barrage for one might costs $450 000 Sir Harold Mackintosh chairman of the national Savings committee disclosed. Berliners call their city Reichs city of ruin a Budapest despatch to the Gazette de Lausanne said. The number of claims for unemployment insurance benefit was larger in December than in any previous month of 1943. The first South African waals have arrived in Britain and wear khaki uniforms with an orange shoulder strap. Hon Herbert Amscoms said Japanese will not be allowed to return to British Columbia after the war. 37 German prisoners of war who tried the examination of the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers 34 passed. An official of the National Jewellers Association estimates at least 500 000 watches and clocks in Britain are out of service.
Newsweek reports Japan’s war shipping is strained with annual shipbuilding at about 1.3 million tons while losses reach 2 million tons per year. Southwest Pacific garrison of 135,000 troops faces supply crunch as Australians take prisoners and push toward surrender or death.
Polish air squad rons based in Britain report more than 500 Nazi planes shot down since forming Polish flying forces in 1940. Poland's air strength in Britain numbers 12,000 men, and total Polish airmen have claimed upwards of 1,500 Nazi planes since the war began.
The government plans to erect thousands of short life postwar homes designed to last about ten years to house civilians and returning soldiers. Housing experts say sturdy long term homes will follow when conditions permit and the exchequer has already secured over £57 million in interest free loans.
Two thousand Brahmin priests gathered on the Jumna River shores to chant prayers to the sun god for world order and happiness. It marks the first such assembly in 300 years, a mahayana rite aiming to purify the world following centuries of upheaval.
Major Patricia Curtis the only woman lawyer in the CWAC serves on the Judge Advocate General staff in Ottawa. A CWAC poll shows domestic life remains a favored postwar goal for most members. Corporal Gertrude Wurtz from Kelvington is promoted in the CWAC and works as a stenographer in Ottawa. Sergeant Joyce Hodgins, Moosomin, promoted from Lance-Sergeant and employed as a Hollerith operator in Ordnance Services Store in Ottawa. Trucks gain detachable ambulance fittings, and a new medical journal will update troops in Canada and overseas on medical advances.
The Queen held her first meeting with repatriated POWs at an R C M C depot in southeast England. She listened to their camp life stories and urged them to fill the blank in their lives with new purpose.
Chinese actors in Hollywood decline taking Japanese parts in atrocity pictures. They fear such films will heighten prejudice against people of the yellow race, not from resentment but from practical concern.
Rayon is now the world’s second most widely used fibre after cotton, which remains the leading fabric by usage. The shift reflects growing demand for rayon in textiles and its expanding applications across industries.
Military authorities report that thousands of Canadians who served in England during the war married English girls. The statistic underscores social ties formed abroad and the wartime exchanges between Canadian servicemen and local communities.
The London Daily Mail reports British aircraft production will cut labor as the program is in a healthy state. Workers long employed in the industry may be called into service or reassigned to other war work after the biggest output year in British aircraft history. The note also oddly mentions footwear.
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