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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 17, 1945
Page
2
The article discusses demobilization planning as the war ends and emphasizes the growing number of discharged service members. It notes Canada already offers assistance for veterans to establish trades or professions, with several schools providing special courses to resume interrupted studies or pursue new programs.
The British War Office announced a plan requiring all United Kingdom forces to study while in service. Recruits receive chosen career courses or refresher study for those away from work, with six to eight hours weekly. Advanced students may sit exams for university entrance civil service or professions.
A vast program expands the Army Educational Corps with officers receiving special training and civil education authorities taking active part. Over a million textbooks and large stocks of films tools and equipment are being assembled. Courses cover six headings Technology General Science Domestic Science Sociology Arts and Crafts Commerce and the Professions.
Reports from liberated Slovakia claim German forces are moving suspected war criminals to new posts with forged papers and new identities. The operation includes transferring personnel, reassigning them, and notifying next of kin they were in action.
A collage of light humor and quips with punchlines about ships, cheating, amorous promises, nuts at the counter, and jokes on government ownership. Quick exchanges include a sailor riddle, a woman overboard with a shark, a wife and husband banter, and a grocer mispronouncing Swiss imports.
The term Hallelujah is a common European name for the wood sorrel in the geranium family. The name arises because the plant flowers between Easter and Whitsuntide, marking a festive season.
Readers receive guidance on renewing evaporated milk ration cards by mail or in person and on keeping ration books. Schools may obtain sugar for cocoa for hot lunches. individuals may obtain civilian ration books with release certificates. Sugar for industrial use will be reduced early in 1945 and readers are urged to request Wartime Prices and Trade Board pamphlets at local offices.
FBI reports detail two German operatives landed from a submarine on Maine coast. They carried forged 1946 dated identification and draft papers, birth certificates, discharges, $60,000, a pistol, and gear. Gimpel posed as a Connecticut native, Cole Paugh as William Candwell, both tied to Niantic Connecticut.
A Berlin dispatch reports Germany will ration false teeth, requiring official permission for issuance and for dental repairs. Applicants must prove an imperative need and surrender old fillings. Dentistry has been a major problem since Allied bombing in 1943. Napoleon was 27 when he led the army of Italy, and 36 when he crowned Emperor of France.
Soviet radio man Mikhail Mikhailov rejects English language critics of the Red Army and asserts Stalin’s warning that the USSR will emerge stronger. He cites New York Times analyst Hanson Baldwin and defends the Anglo Soviet United States alliance as essential to ending the war quickly.
An infantryman in France asks the Massachusetts Audubon Society for a bird guide. A Marine in the Mariana Islands notes a flock of 40 Pacific golden plover on a beach. An Army lieutenant near Gala pagos Islands recalls spotting about 60 flamingos from a low pass during a graphic mission.
Thousands of British women have undertaken diverse roles since the war began. They perform tasks like tanning and chimney sweeping along with steeple jacking and bricklaying. Women also fill professional posts in geographies at the Admiralty, meteorology at the Air Ministry, botany for new crops, and chemistry producing drugs for Allied forces.
In Alton Hampshire Eng a church pew was lengthened to seat the 15 members of a local family who attend services regularly, reflecting their strong parish involvement and large household.
When fully developed a typhoon or hurricane may span about 900 miles across with a 30 mile center of calm. The description highlights the vast cyclone size and the distinct eye or interior calming area within the rotating storm system.
The report notes Switzerland pioneered the use of nickel in coinage, marking a milestone in monetary metal choices. It highlights the shift away from traditional metals and the impact on coin production and durability.
Brig Gen Anthony G McAuliffe acting commander of the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne Belgium is credited with the classic reply nuts to German demands for surrender He is 46 years old and among the youngest generals in the forces.
About 900 tons of soap destined for liberated Europe will be stored in Winnipeg warehouses pending overseas shipment. The Canadian Export Board arranges the stock from factories in Vancouver and Edmonton for transport to Europe.
At Syracuse University College of Home Economics Dr. Ruth Nason leads a project testing freezing of apples and pies for home use. Phases include freezing apples unbaked pies and baked pies with a April locker opening and December preliminary results.
The Agricultural Supplies Board estimates 1945 honey production near 36 600 000 lb, similar to 1944, with indications of a heavier year if the 506 000 bee colonies in all provinces deliver average yields. A full year output could reach about 48 560 000 lb if yields improve.
The famed Black Stone in Mecca has been kissed by millions over 1,300 years since Prophet Muhammad reportedly kissed it. The ancient relic remains a focal point of pilgrimages in Islamic tradition.
An advertisement promotes Hem-Roid as an internal medicine for piles claiming lasting relief by treating the cause. It touts a 5 day home trial with money back guarantee, urging readers to buy from drug stores in Canada and test the product.
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