Achievements of the Royal Navy in 1944
The year-end review hails the virtual defeat of Germany as a naval power and the Pacific push. Britain plans two carrier fleets under Fraser and Powers to fightJapan with American allies in 1945. Navy gains include fewer sinkings, no battleships or aircraft carriers lost, U boats crippled, submarines sinking 400 ships, and the Channel victory aiding the invasion. By September 1944 the fleet moved 10.6 million British Army personnel at sea with 2,978 deaths.
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Royal Navy
Germany
Britain
Pacific
Indian Oceans
Japan
Bruce Fraser
East Indies
Sir Arthur Powers
Indian Ocean
Singapore
Admiral Fraser
Atlantic
North Atlantic
English Channel
Solar Stille turns sea water to drinking water for downed airmen
Sun Is Helping Allied Know How describes a 30 inch envelope life raft device called Solar Stille. An inflatable tube with a plastic screen and sponge uses sun rays to evaporate sea water, leaving salt behind and condensing fresh water into a reservoir. It helps downed airmen survive at sea by providing drinking water.
War's Effect How The People Of Britain Have Met The Conditions
British civilians cut overall consumption by 21 percent and now spend 54 percent of income on essentials with taxes and savings absorbing the rest. Butter margarine and cheese use down 14 percent. fresh meat bacon and ham down 24 percent. fruit and juices down 51 percent. Clothes down 45 percent. boots and shoes 27 percent. furniture 77 percent. One in three houses damaged and one in 30 destroyed or uninhabitable. No warmth difference between cotton and silk hosiery of similar knit and thickness.
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Great Britain
London z0c nut and fruit consumption noted
A London z0c report lists annual consumption in normal times of 6 inches of nuts, 184000 bananas and 19800 eggs, highlighting large scale staple usage.
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London
Ancient Footprints Reveal 200 Million Year Old Amphibian Tracks
Royal Ontario Museum displays fossil footprints from two amphibian species found in a coal swamp near Parrsboro Nova Scotia dating to about 200 million years ago. The prints show ripple marked sand left by a shoreline and tides that preserved them for posterity.
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Robinson Crusoe
Royal Ontario Museum
Parrsboro
Nova Scotia
Finland signs $300 million indemnity agreement
The Moscow radio said Finland signed an armistice pact on December 17 in Helsinki obliging Finland to pay Russia 300 million dollars in goods as war indemnity. Deliveries will occur over six years in 50 million dollar installments. China Japan and Germany are credited with introducing macaroni to the world. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Finland
Russia
Helsinki
Moscow Radio
China
Japan
Germany
Carbon Monoxide Warnings for Motorists and Vehicle Checks
A memorandum from the Industrial Accident Prevention Associations urges motorist safety against carbon monoxide poisoning. It recommends ventilation in garages, not running engines in closed spaces, ensuring complete fuel combustion, inspecting exhaust systems, and exiting a vehicle at first symptoms of poisoning. Drivers should ventilate their own cars and avoid sealing them with windows closed.
Canada Pays Life Gratuity To Victoria Cross Winner Smokey Smith
Private Ernest Smokey Smith of New Westminster BC becomes the first Canadian Victoria Cross recipient to receive the 10 pound life gratuity from Canada. He will get a $25 government cheque twice yearly on March 21 and Sept. 30, with the gratuity valued at a fixed five dollars for purposes of the payment.
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Canada
Pte
Ernest
Smokey) Smith
New Westminster
V.C
Brig
James Melville
Canadian Pensions Commission
Smith
Vancouver to get Institute for the Blind at $100000
Captain M. Robinson, national director for Western Canada at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, announced plans to build an Institute for the Blind in Vancouver with a cost of 100000 dollars.
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British Columbia
Vancouver
Capt. M. ©. Robinson
Western Canada
Canadian National Institute For the Blind
The Cross as Ancient Symbol in Indian and English Lore
An old symbol is described as a religious emblem used before Christianity. Indians saw it as a mystic four points compass sign. The text notes King Canute prohibiting English parents from selling their children to the Irish as slaves around 1017.
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Canute
Swansea rescues eight sailors from sinking Caisson off French coast
The Canadian frigate Swansea under Cmdr A L Layard rescued eight British navy and army men stranded on a listing Caisson as darkness neared. Lt J T Band led a six man boat crew attempting to retrieve the men, with Lt Band later acting captain. The operation required careful edging and backing the frigate to reach the men on the shell.
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France
Swansea
Normandy
Navy
A. L. Layard
John T. Band
Toronto
Callsson
George Ardy
London
John Berryman
Stanley Millions
South Porcupine
Arthur Coveart
Wonder Drug Proves British Penicillin Lead In War Wounds
An account credits Britain with surgical mastery and penicillin development by Florey and Fleming. Between D Day and Oct 31, 1944 British Canadian forward surgeons treated 2712 abdominal wounds with a 72 percent recovery rate, 759 deaths. One case saw a soldier saved after nonoperative penicillin and rations. Also noted is Billesden district council in Leicestershire losing a long used crown seal for lack of permission.
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Britain
Germany
Florey and
Fleming
Billesden District
Leicestershire
England
Billesden
Canadian business shows expansion in 1944 despite war output dip
Dominion Bureau of Statistics data indicate national income rose 67 percent in 1944 amid stronger consumer spending. Retail sales up 8 percent and wholesale up 11 percent, department store sales 10 percent higher. Bank deposits hit a record as Victory Loans absorbed funds. Hog prices up while cattle prices weakened. hog carcass gradings 8,333,728 in 50 weeks versus 6,545,316 in 1943.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Victory
Wealth Found in Hamilton Home During Removal to Hospital
Police uncovered about 35000 in bonds and cash hidden in a cold cheerless Hamilton house while removing an elderly woman to the hospital. Eight bank books showed over 2000 in each, plus more cash and bonds in trunks and under flooring. The husband, unaware of the wealth, said her business affairs were private and that he had no knowledge of legacies.
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Hamilton
Joseph R. Croker
Gems of Thought: Reflections on Experience and Learning
A compact anthology of maxims from Beattie Coleridge Mary Baker Eddy Longfellow Terence and others. The quotes emphasize experiential learning shaping future judgment and enduring guidance from past trials. It presents a meditation on how experience informs wisdom and growth.
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James Beattie
Mary Baker Eddy
Germans Boost V-2 Production In Shielded Factories
The Berlin radio reported that over 1,000 V-2 rockets have been launched at the Allies since the rocket campaign began. It claimed Germany had begun producing large quantities of the weapons in factories safe from enemy attack.
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Berlin
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Ness
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Institute For the Blind
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W. R. Franks
O.B.E
Regina
Franks
R.c.af
Rockcliffe Air Station
Ottawa
J. A. Carr
Clinical Investigation Unit
Wieland
Coleridge
Terence
Longfellow
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