World Happenings Briefly Told
Channel Islands returned home since June. John D Rockefeller Jr gives 1 million dollars for a Christian vocation in Europe. Refugee diamond workers present a diamond worth 800 pounds 33 600 to London Lord Mayor regalia. Honey demand outruns supply despite rationing per Ottawa agriculture report. King George Jubilee Trust has spent nearly 500 000 pounds on youth grants in 10 years. Ernest Mayne demobilized after 28 years. to work for a Kent auto firm. Sleeper seats designed for overnight coach passengers by pulling down leg rest. Vienna University closed mid term for fuel shortage, reopening hoped mid January.
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London
King George's Jubilee Trust
Lord Portal
Great cave arms factory found in Japanese mountains
Army patrols uncovered a 1,000 room cave complex used by Japanese forces for arms production near Otsu. Col Cavenee notes signs of picric acid storage and gear moved to civilian use. In the area, Allied forces have destroyed vast stocks including 20 million rounds from nearby caves and tens of millions of rounds of ammunition.
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136Th US
Raymond Cavenee
Cavenee
Otsu
Japan
6Th Army
Navy Reveals Bat Guided Missile in Pacific War
The U S Navy states it used a radar guided self steering missile named The Bat against Japanese ships and coastal targets in the late Pacific war. Launched from a carrier plane the weapon steered itself to the target and tracked dodging moves. Rear Admiral George F Hussey Jr says it was the first fully automatic guided missile used in combat and that newer developments have made it obsolete.
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United States Navy
George F. Hussey, Jr
Navy Bureau of Ordnance
Where Milk Goes Statistics Show Products Use 17 Billion Pounds Yearly
Statistics explain the 17.0 billion pounds of annual milk production in Canada, with about half going to butter, a fifth to fluid milk, ten percent to cheese, three percent to concentrated products, and fifteen percent fed on farms. Production rose from 15.8 billion pounds in 1939 to 17.6 billion in 1944, an 11.6 percent gain. Brockville Recorder and Times.
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Canada
Brockville
Transfer of 6.5 Million Germans Into Occupation Zones Revealed
An Ottawa Journal analysis notes Berlin's announcement of the Allies begin transferring 6,500,000 Germans from Austria Czechoslovakia Hungary and Poland into the four occupation zones of Germany. The piece asks Germans to grasp the scale by imagining mass relocations across Canadian provinces and highlights overcrowded refugee zones already filled with roofless and disease struck inmates.
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Berlin
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland
Germany
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Europe
Earth
Heaven
Ottawa Journal
Balloon land near Oxford House first eastward find in Canada
The Beaver reports a Japanese balloon with bomb landed near Oxford House Manitoba about 350 miles northeast of Winnipeg last April. Hudsons Bay Co post manager acted quickly placing guards and sending a code to head office then military authorities assumed control after radio coordination.
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Oxford House
Winnipeg
Canada
Beaver
Hudson's Bay Co
Hudson's Bay Company
Australian official to advise on health service control
Frances H. Rowe, director general of social services, will shortly visit Canada at the Dominion government invitation to discuss divided federal and state control of health services. He will explain Australian social services and administrative methods and their proposed expansion. He will also visit New Zealand and the United States.
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Frances H. Rowe
Canada
Dominion
Australia
Rowe
New Zealand
United States
Canadian Wool Firm Promises Unshrinkable Socks Soon
A Toronto manufacturer said that by late spring or early summer Canadians will be able to buy socks permanently unshrinkable and that by September baby clothes sweaters fabrics and hand knitting yarns made from unshrinkable wool will be on the market.
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Toronto
Artificial Light Boosts Winter Egg Production In Poultry
W T Scott of the Dominion Experimental Station Harrow Ontario explains that artificial lighting in hen houses during six winter months stimulates ovulation and improves egg fertility and disease resistance. He notes 14 hour daily periods in fall to early spring, two 60 watt lights per 400 square feet and the need for a reliable timer to ensure regular roosting and feeding.
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W. T. Scott
Dominion Experimental Station
Harrow
Ont
Canada
Russian Couple Demobilized After Tank Feat
A Russian married pair who bought and used their own tank to kill 160 enemy soldiers were demobilized from the Red Army. Lieut. Ivan Fyodorovokh Boiko and Senior Lieut. Alexandra Boiko fought from Poland through Germany Romania and Czecho-Slovakia with Alexandra commanding the tank and Ivan driving.
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Red Army
Ivan Fyodorovokh Boiko
Alexandra Boiko
Soviet Union
Poland
Germany
Romania
Czecho-Slovakia
Solemn Thought Echoes on Atomic Bomb Permanence
The Philadelphia Record asks if humanity can endure the atomic bomb while many philosophers scientists and H G Wells share the same contemplation. It reflects a grave, wide running concern about nuclear weapons and human resilience amid looming threat.
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Philadelphia Record
H. G. Wells
Brantford Expositor
Lamb and varied meals curb ration week with coupons
The article outlines a week of meals using two coupons for lamb shoulder three pounds to cover three dinners with roast dressing and gravy. It suggests cold sliced Monday, lamb pie midweek, egg and noodle casserole Tuesday, hamburger Thursday, un rationed fish Friday, pickled tongue Sunday with cranberry sauce, and a ready start for next week.
Fruit Danger Warns British Troops in New Guinea
Scientific adviser Charles D. Torrell told a Liverpool service club that 27 British servicemen returned from New Guinea totally blind after eating finger cherry. He noted one or two are harmless but nine or ten cause sudden blindness within hours.
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Charles D. Torrell
Far East Forces
New Guinea
Liverpool
Torrell
Ghi and Koumiss in Commerce Across Regions
The article notes ghi, clarified butter from boiling, used in India and neighboring areas. It also highlights koumiss, mares milk fermentation popular with Central Asian nomads and valued as a tuberculosis remedy. Imitations from cows milk are produced in other countries.
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India
Central Asia
Bond doubled in value after years in biscuit tin
A Lethbridge workman believed a First Great War Victory Loan donation was a mere gift. He saved a $1,000 bond in a biscuit tin for 25 years, then discovered it had grown to over $2,000 when a Victory Loan canvasser retrieved it from the tin and guided him to the bank.
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Lethbridge
Lethbridge Herald
Vermeer Paintings Sold Under Other Artists’ Names
For two centuries the works of Dutch master Jan Vermeer were marketed under the names of more popular painters. The practice misled buyers and blurred authorship, with Vermeer works passing as those of celebrated contemporaries.
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Jan Vermeer
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