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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 03, 1945
Page
5
Ottawa plans to mail about 35 000 cheques averaging $100 to discharged personnel or dependents of those killed in service. 25 000 cheques go to former army members and 10 000 to former navy and air force personnel.
Wildlife authorities report a strong prospect of increased bird populations for returning service members in Canada. Both nations see flourishing wild fowl due to reduced hunting pressure, ammo limits, and Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act dam projects creating new feeding and resting sites for migrating waterfowl.
The forces fund mailed two parcels to Roland Weaving serving in the Middle East, one in October 1942 and another in October 1943. He received both in October 1944.
The Canadian agriculture department announced a farmers gift from March 1 to October 1 totaling about 200 tons of milk powder for penicillin manufacture. Around 1,500 farmers in Ontario and Quebec supplied 60 million pounds of whey to produce milk sugar and whey powder, enabling higher penicillin output. Penicillin plants currently require about 45 tons of milk sugar monthly, with 1945 demand possibly exceeding 60 tons per month.
Overseas despatch reports German Elite guard troops killed 55 men and women and children of Madonna dell Albero near Ravenna on November 24. Villagers say the Germans were angry because they suspected some men had gone to the Allied lines with information.
Lt Col Harold Hacking, a former Vancouver man, leads Allied salvage in Dieppe harbor to restore port operations. He works with Maj E T Clendinning of Vancouver and Maj Bob Hunt of Toronto to clear mines, wrecks, and repair quays as navy and army engineers discharge ships and reestablish the port for European operations.
A London doctor describes penicillin as a new nasal treatment for the common cold. He notes the virus causes susceptibility and bacteria buildup in the nose. penicillin would destroy those bacteria and shorten the cold, but drug supplies will be limited until after the war.
A Natal native herdboy bitten by a mamba recovered after 24 hours. He killed the snake, cut out the poison sacs, and swallowed the venom to neutralize it, a move believed to have saved his life.
Norwegian prime minister Johan Nygaardsvold urged an immediate Allied invasion of Norway from the west to break Germany's power in the north and save the country. He said the government had presented arguments to Allied leaders and stressed the need to relief areas razed by the Germans, with aid already sent and housing materials obtained. The government plans rapid trials of traitors and aims to restore a free Norwegian press, with elections held as soon as possible and Norwegian interior forces active.
Negotiations proceed to transfer the Nutritional Laboratory from the R C A F to the University of Manitoba after Ottawa's closure order. The Manitoba government and local groups appeal to keep the lab open for post war nutritional research and to preserve equipment. The National Research Council reportedly favors the transfer, though no final decision has been made.
The First Canadian Army issues a Canadian made nine millimetre automatic pistol to troops replacing the .38. It resembles the American army .45 and uses a ten round butt clip. The weapon, built by the Bren gun firm, was first tested in action during the Trent Gap operations and the drive on Rouen. Britain earns praise for documentary films from Robert Riskin who notes the British mastery of such films.
Supreme Headquarters announced the first German spies captured in American uniform were executed in Paris. One officer candidate and two non commissioned officers were shot by firing squad.
Ambassador L B Pearson aged 47 has been named Canada's ambassador to the United States after Leighton McCarthy's resignation. He previously served as minister at the Canadian legation in Washington and chaired the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration council meeting in Montreal.
Rear Admiral Douglas B Fisher of the Royal Navy recalls the northern convoy route to Murmansk delivering vast British and American war supplies to Russia. He states the aid supported the battlefronts during and before Stalingrad as equipment was moved from convoys to trains and on to the front.
Descriptions from front despatches indicate a self-propelled shell barrage weapon not V-3 or V-4 but V-113. It is characterized as a small V-2 rocket with features of both V-1 flying bombs and V-2 long-range rockets.
Military strategists in Washington tentatively lengthen the estimated date of victory in Europe by three to six months. Optimism fell as Allied plans shifted from last fall to spring, with a bleak view that success hinges on Russian moves and German resistance in the east.
General Eisenhower told the German people via Luxembourg radio that the Allies will ban teaching in German schools of military subjects or anything dealing with the art of war, as part of postwar controls and denazification efforts.
In Zurich reports claim Dr Krupp Von Bohlen head of Krupps armaments firm and one of his two daughters with her husband were arrested for defeatist utterances.
In Cowes Isle of Wight authorities report 115 air raids from June 1940 to February this year with 199 people killed and 249 treated in hospital.
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