World Happenings Briefly Told
A Trans-Canada air service to Newfoundland is due April 1. Mussolini orders public officials into armed forces. Alice Hogan Rice, author of Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, dies in Louisville. About 45,000 Canadian servicemen discharged since war start. Typhus deaths total 960 in Hamburg in January. Fire orders 600 more air raid shelters for 30,000 people. 22900 shelters already done. Netherlands East Indies official calls Japan a gangster.
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Rome Radio
Mussolini
Alice Hogan Rice
Mrs. Wiggs of the
Louisville
Kentucky
Mackenzie
House of Commons
London
Hamburg
Netherlands East Indies
Japan
Figure Camouflage For Matrons Pattern 4909
Anne Adams offers pattern 4909 to camouflage waist and hip width with princess panels and a low waist seam. The dress includes optional contrast panels and a half belt, with sizes 34 through 50 and size 36 requiring 4 yards of 35 inch fabric. Send 20 cents to the Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union Winnipeg Man.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Substitutes for natural rubber may surpass it say chemist
Professor G L Clark of the University of Nineis predicts that synthetic rubber will soon outperform natural rubber in America. Beginning in 1925 he built a lab to X ray rubber molecules, showing crystallization during stretch and a rugged un stretching curve. He revised the molecular weight estimate to 500000, enabling production of useful synthetic rubber.
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G. L. Clark
University of Nineis
America
Clark
British sailor wins empire medal for SOS deck sign on San Casimiro
Thomas Hugget, steward aboard the San Casimiro, painted a three foot SOS on an uninhabited deck to signal British patrols. A German prize crew attempted to sail to a German port before Ark Royal air cover aided Renown in recapturing the tanker in the western Atlantic last year.
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Thomas Hugget
Atlantic
Otto Grenz
England
Ark Royal
Huggett
Lieut
Grenz
Renown
War Breathing Life Into Geography Says Dr Murphy
Dr Raymond E Murphy of Pennsylvania State College says war pumps fresh blood into geography rekindling national interest. He notes geography boomed during World War I but stagnated afterward with declining student interest.
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Raymond E. Murphy
Pennsylvania State College
Dr. Murphy
Murphy
Venus Flytrap Refuses to Respond After Repeated Touches
The Venus flytrap in Carolina closes on stimuli it dislikes but reopens quickly. After being fooled two or three times in a row, the plant stops responding for a period, researchers note.
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Carolina
Spices and Pearl Harbor Reflections Across Ages
The piece notes spice production in the Orient, outlining Indonesia, India, China and nearby islands with emphasis on the Moluccas. It adds a Pearl Harbor reference from Justice Roberts urging sacrifice for democracy and cites Herodotus on Xerxes' vast army.
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Orient
Netherlands East Indies
India
China
Japan
Malay Peninsula
Africa
Madagascar
Pemba
Zanzibar
Molucca Islands
Spice Islands
Jesus appoints the twelve apostles from diverse backgrounds
The lesson recalls Luke chapter six when Jesus prays all night and selects twelve apostles. The Twelve symbolize a new Israel and affirm Jesus as Messiah. Fishermen, a tax collector, and others form three groups: leaders, contemplatives, and practical politically minded. Their calling follows Jesus baptism and temptation.
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Jesus
Luke
Israel
J. D. Jones
F. B Meyer
Peter
John
James
Andrew
Philip
Bartholomew
Matthew
Thomas
Thadoeus
Simon
Judas
Air Force Graduates No. 2 Wireless School Calgary 1942
Western Canada graduates of No. 2 Wireless School RCAF Calgary receive badges from Group Captain E. R. Owen. The list of graduates spans British Columbia Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba and includes towns such as Salmon Arm New Westminster Banff Turner Valley and Prince Albert among others.
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Canada
No. 2 Wireless School
R.C.A.F
Calgary
Alta
E. R. Owen
British Columbia
J. A. Lindsay Armstrong
A. W. McComb
Steveston
L. E. McDonald
Salmon Arm
W. N. Nelson
New Westminster
Alberta
H. C. Austen
Owen
W. G. King
Jeepee Creek
J. A. Lineham
Turner Valley
D. F. MacDonald
Banff
J. P. Boueche
Gleichen
I. D. Tenove
Rimbey
J. W. Unilewski
Kinsella
R. J. West
Forestburg
Saskatchewan
W. P. Bethune
Kelfield
G. H. Dancer
Unity
C. P. Gossard
Shackleton
Gray
Stoughton
G. G. Harvey
Duval
E. R. Kraeling
Prince Albert
W. L. Martin
Nut Mountain
G. M. Pederson
Big Beaver
J. A. Reynolds
Bryant
C. M. Rutherford
C. A. Walsh
Lindaw
R. Whidden
Beechy
N. Zamolsky
Vonda
R. S. MacKay
LaFleche
D. K McMillan
Kennedy
Manitoba
H. Bryson
Manitou
W. K. Hamilton
Vista
R. A. Livingston
Rosebank
F. W. Skinner
Morris
R. T. Sterling
Melita
C. P. Stewart
Franklin
O. K. Jensen
Carman
Power From Earth Drives Tides Not The Moon
The article explains tidal power arises from Earth's rotation. It argues the moon's gravity is not the source of energy. without Earth's rotation the tides would be a stationary water bulge with no power.
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Earth
Moon
Dairy Board schedules to Britain exceed cheese quota target
The Dairy Products Board plans shipments to Great Britain and holds enough cheese to surpass the 112 million pound quota by March 31, 1942. This shows an increase of about 14 million pounds over the prior fiscal year.
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Dairy Products Board
Great Britain
Epidemicsnarrow avoided in wartime Britain report says
Sir Wilson Jameson, chief medical officer, notes Britain avoided major epidemics during wartime. A network of over thirty emergency public health laboratories ensured early diagnosis, with each health officer gaining access to a first class lab within 30 miles. Typhoid fears from bomb damage did not materialize, while paratyphoid linked to bakery premises caused some outbreaks.
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Sir Wilson Jameson
Ministry of Health
Britain
Health League of Canada
England
Sir Wilson
Medical Research Council
London
Soybean Protein Boosts Canadian Livestock Rations
Stockmen increasingly rely on soybean protein to balance coarse grains such as oats barley corn used in rations for growing and fattening cattle and for egg and milk production, boosting Canadian soy bean production.
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Canada
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Pearl Harbor
Chicago Sun
Herodotus
Xerxes
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