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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 07, 1942
Page
9
Harold J. Laski lauds Winston Churchill as a towering British leader whose energy imagination and will unite a nation in wartime. The piece contrasts Churchill's bold courage with his faults and praises his ability to inspire loyalty and fuse his aims with Britain’s tradition.
A posthumous portrait by Frank O Salisbury portrays an unnamed airman. The painting, shown at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition at the Royal Academy, uses a snapshot and bears a letter inscription to his mother about sacrifice. It will hang in the RAF mess until the war ends.
Herpetologists of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service say a rattlesnake’s age cannot always be read from its tail rattles. The age can be determined from the rattles only if the snake still has the first or true button, which is often knocked off when the snake strikes.
The Federal Government in Australia is establishing a southern hemisphere explosives factory network with £16,000,000 spent on new plants and expansions. The Commonwealth Explosives Factory in Melbourne grew from 50 workers before the war to over 5,000 now, reflecting rapid industrial expansion as part of the war effort.
Dr. Frederick M. Boyce of New Orleans told the Southern Medical Association that human bites pose greater danger than animal bites. He cited 24 of 90 treated cases needing amputation over 11 years, and noted knuckle bites on the hand are especially prone to serious infection.
The Cooper Union Museum researchers trace collars and cuffs to the age of undergarments. They explain how early wearers allowed edges to show at necklines and cuffs, prompting separate collars and cuffs. The first collars mirrored Elizabethan styles and later evolved to wide, turned down forms.
A Sheffield Telegraph piece argues punishment not appeasement for Germany, insisting the German people must learn through suffering that war does not pay. It notes the Maginot Line cost about 150 million dollars and mentions Washington becoming the U.S. capital in 1800.
Six months to build large steamers and motorships has shortened to five and a half through inland hull fabrication and rapid assembly. Welding saves steel and dominates the hull debate while ferro concrete barges free shipyards to tackle ocean going tonnage. Kenneth Horsley of Coventry, aged sixteen, rescued four people and received the British Empire Medal for bravery during an air raid.
The government to issue tinted ration books and coupons next April to differentiate gasoline users. Doctors and commercial travelers would receive priority while those driving mainly for pleasure face restrictions. The approach aims to ease ministering to varied categories.
The article notes widespread shortages in France with soap, leather, stockings, and shoes becoming unobtainable. Laundries refused washings without soap and shoemakers halted repairs due to leather scarcity while many women wore bare legs or wooden footwear. A Cairo dispatch describes Italians in a frontier strong point being coerced back by German fire when attempting to surrender.
The piece argues that wartime cooperation between Canada and the United States has blurred the border, viewing North America north of Mexico as one production region. It highlights the Hyde Park agreement, joint boards, and air-field construction from Edmonton to Alaska to defend and supply wartime needs.
Barley serves as hog feed like oats and also feeds beef cattle and lambs. It is widely used by mills and malters to make breakfast foods barley flour and malt products with many industrial applications. In 1940-41 Western growers produced twenty one and a half million bushels for use.
Reports from London say Dutch citizens replace the Orange greeting with Hurrah for Carrots to dodge Gestapo bans on mentioning the royal color. The carrot, orange in color, has become a shared act of anti Nazi solidarity as authorities arrest those who utter Oranje Boven.
Foreign military attaches in Berlin estimate the German air force totals 200000 men. About one fifth are paratroops leaving 160000 air-borne troops. Each glider carries 10 men while a Junkers 52 can carry 25 and tow two gliders, making 200 Junkers able to transport 9000 troops.
A Bergen market quarrel between two Norwegians escalated to a fist fight until a German soldier intervened. The men then united to thrash the German, drawing cheers from onlookers. When reinforcements arrived, the pair fled, and since that day they have become the best of friends.
Agricultural expert W H Alison of the University of California says cows on dairy farms respond to named or numbered milking, suggesting a new phrase cow sense. A food chemistry writer notes medieval England knew only three vegetables beets leeks and lentils.
Farmers in Loon Lake and Meadow Lake report rabbits shifting from pests to major income sources. Large shipments head to market with Meadow Lake drivers conveying about 70 000 skins. A Loon Lake farmer set a weekly catch of 365 rabbits earning 27 89 in revenue.
The article notes that egg drying in the United States has become big business in recent months due to improved methods and large purchases under the Lend-Lease program. It states a Mediterranean distance of 2,300 miles from Gibraltar to the Syrian shore.
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