Romantic Hero Wienholt and Secret Mission 101 Revealed
The Supreme Court of Queensland accepts Captain Arnold Wienholt DSO MC is presumed dead in an Ethiopian jungle. The story recalls his guerrilla campaign against Italy in 1935, his bushman leadership, and a vanished bushland estate tied to the case. It notes his role aiding Allied efforts and his mutilated remains found a year ago under an Ethiopian moon. The piece also mentions Lawrence of Arabia and famed readers like Robertson Nicoll in a broader literary section.
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Supreme Court of Queensland
Australia
Arnold Wienholt
Wienholt
Wienolt
Addis Ababa
Mussolini
Gondar
Harrar
East Africa
Alan Cunningham
Middle East
Weinholt
Robert Graves
Peter Crispin
Chambers’ Journal
William Robertson Nicoll
J. W. McAfee
Toronto Globe and Mail
Nazi Deception Strains Italian Oil Coal Pact This Winter
The Nazi regime again dodges its trade pledge with Mussolini delivering olive oil but sending only a portion of coal. Germans withheld freight cars, worsening Italy’s coal shortage amid winter. Peasants cut olive trees for fuel, aggravating tensions as Nazi demands for oil rise while deliveries fall.
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Mussolini
Italy
Winnipeg Free Press
Canadians in U S May Join Canadian Forces
Negotiations between Canada and the United States address allowing Canadians in the United States to serve in Canadian forces when drafted under U S laws. Estimates suggest at least 15 000 could join Canadian services with potential higher totals. There are about 450 000 Canadians in the U S and possibly 150 000 others never registered.
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Canada
United States
Navy
Air Force
Giants In Army Recruit Trio Stand Tall At Windsor Barracks
In Windsor at St Luke Road Barracks three recruits loom above the rest. Privates Gerald Woodside 22 6 feet 7 inches from Windsor Scotty Putman 22 6 feet 6 inches Ardmore Oklahoma and Craman Allan 6 feet 5% inches from Durham Ontario. Shortest is Private Edward Vargoreski 5 feet 1 inch Windsor who jokes his steel helmet is for shrapnel protection not stepping on.
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St. Luke Road Barracks
Windsor
Gerald Woodside
Scotty Putman
Ardmore
Okla
Craman Allan
Durham
Ont
Edward Vargoreski
Humor in Old London Carriage Displayed With Chalk Words
A wedding carriage seen in old London streets bears the chalked message Result of Careless Talk on its back. The display reflects a lasting sense of humor amid urban scenes.
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London
Willing to Obey Judge’s Odd Punishment Swap
A courtroom exchange sees the judge impose a reversal of the sentence. The prisoner receives a strikingly harsh shift to fifty years and a dollar fine, while the lawyer pleads for reversal. The dramatic swap highlights courtroom theatrics and legal paradoxes.
Tallest Smokestack in the British Empire
The tallest smokestack in the British Empire stands at Copper Cliff Ontario. Built of brick and weighing 15 000 tons it rises 510 feet with a base inside diameter of 65 feet.
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British Empire
Copper Cliff
Ont
Pensions for Blind in Canada Reach 6122 as of Sept
The report shows 6122 blind persons receiving pensions in Canada at September 30. This figure reflects ongoing government support for visually impaired individuals across the country.
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Canada
British Reconnaissance Corps to Lead Tank Force Expansion
The new British army reconnaissance corps is described as a hard hitting, highly mechanized force with unprecedented armament. Each infantry division will receive a battalion capable of stealth probing or decisive action, equipped with anti tank guns, .55 rifles, mortars, tommy guns, and fast armored vehicles.
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Reconnaissance Corps
Press Council Closes Agencies and Bans DNB Operations
The Brazilian press council announced Trans ocean and Stefani news agencies closure along with German and Italian groups. It refused permission for D N B to continue operations. The note also mentions tonal varieties in Chinese and that frogs hibernate and respire through the skin as winter nears.
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Brazilian National Press Council
Transocean and
Stefani
D.N.B
Has Hed Varied Career Yet Churchill's 20s of war and public life
From the Toronto Telegram, a portrait of a rare career path for Winston Churchill, spanning soldier, sailor, war correspondent, politician, writer, artist, pilot and more. His early decades featured front line service in the Indian frontier, Sudan, South Africa and Cuba before parliament. war set him on a path to leadership and prime ministership. Don Marquis notes a typical success as moving from farm to city and back again through hard work.
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Winston Churchill
Sudan
South Africa
Cuba
Toronto Telegram
Don Marquis
Perennial Grass Aids Prairie Soils And Navy League Expands Hostels
The article notes the Navy League of Canada funding hostels at two eastern ports to aid Allied merchant seamen and describes drought year impacts on the Canadian prairies. It discusses crested wheat grass as a soil conditioner and efforts begun in 1935 to breed a large seeded perennial grass for deeper sowing. Research across Ottawa Saskatoon and national councils produced fertile hybrids through colchicine treatment with ongoing field tests planned.
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Navy League of Canada
Canada
England
Navy League
Allied Merchant Services
Norway
Free
France
Czecho-Slovakia
Poland
Belgium
Holland
Canadian Prairies
T. M. Stevenson
Dominion Experimental Farm Service
Prairie Farm
Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
National Research Council
Division of
Forage
Dominion Forage Crops Laboratory
Saskatoon
Sask
Woman autoist poses near fallen temple pillars in Greece
A woman driver takes a photo in front of the ruined temple columns in Greece. She warns, Do not include the car in the shot or her husband will think she hit the site.
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Greece
Canada Produces Army Mechanized Transport Varieties
Canada now manufactures an array of army mechanized transport including load carriers dental equipment carriers refuellers and field artillery tractors. The note mentions 90 different bodies on 12 chassis and adds a fragment about Yankee as an American term with Dutch origins.
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Canada
Time selections crown Roosevelt but hail Hitler as top personality
The excerpt notes Franklin D. Roosevelt as 1941 Man of the Year while declaring Adolf Hitler the world’s No 1 personality. It praises Churchill as “wholly British and half American” and calls him a true “Man-and-a-half.”
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Time
Franklin R. Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
Churchill
London Engineer Leads 1200 Women in Aircraft Factory
Mrs. E. Nugus, who fled home 32 years ago over gender roles, began as an apprentice in a London firm and is now in charge of 1,200 women workers at an aircraft factory. Her rise highlights changing roles for women in industry.
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E. Nugus
London
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Equatorial
Africa
John Buchan
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Red Sea
India
Oxford University
Lawrence of Arabia
Union Library
Windsor Barracks
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Axis
Western
Royal Navy
Royal Canadian Navy
Mercantile Marine
Empire
Seven Seas
St. Thomas Times-Journal
R.A.F. Fighter Command
Sholto Douglas
Fighter Command
RAF
W. Elliot
A. D. Cunningham
Sir Sholto Douglas
H. W. Nicholl
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