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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 17, 1945
Page
4
A mix of items notes self inflating bicycle wheels from a Liverpool firm, cargo totals at Southampton docks through Sept 23, radio warnings of a Japanese rocket bomb, Wales recruiting a national choir for troops, Edinburgh cooks aiding bomb repair crews, a 1905 Muniginde card delivered in Crowcombe, a RCMP upgrade to assistant commissioner, Japanese movement in 1944 vs 1943, and F W Lanchester honored with the James Watt International medal.
A cooperative study by the Division of Animal Pathology and the Manitoba Department of Health shows horse sleeping sickness vaccine elicits weaker responses in humans. While not as regular as in horses, the vaccine appears to offer reasonable protection and potential immunity for people in infected regions.
Watermelon seeds are valued as tidbits in China with some growers cultivating melons chiefly for seeds. To obtain seeds, farmers give away melon meat to diners, harvesting at low cost. Timber wolves in North America rarely attack people, unlike their European counterparts.
Gordon M. Hutt, formerly Winnipeg assistant development commissioner, becomes Montreal development commissioner for the Canadian Pacific Railway. Hutt, a geology and chemistry graduate with 20 years in industrial development, succeeds G G Ommanney. Winnipeg sees H. W. Gillis appoint W G Cowie as western assistant development commissioner. Cowie is a Western Ontario chemistry graduate and former Beatty Brothers and Johns Manville executive.
Windsor Star columnist W. L. Clark argues that Field Marshal Montgomery proved a superb attacker from Egypt to Tunisia and Sicily, helping drive German forces back and later pushing into Italy. He notes Americans benefited from Montgomery’s offensives and asserts critics underestimate his aggression. Army war dogs added as specialists in sentry, attack, messenger duties, silent scouting, casualty relief, and pack work.
F. J. Forty told The London Society that London is not a city of only ancient buildings but hosts many treasured heirlooms. He noted that from 1905 to 1935 a quarter of the city was rebuilt with a taxable value of £4,000,000 as reconstruction plans follow wartime destruction. Training of homing pigeons begins at about four weeks old.
A historical overview of the British Admiralty Hydrographic Department noting its long lineage from 1795, origins with Dalrymple and Hurd, and the global impact of its charts. It highlights wartime production for amphibious operations, D-day involvement, and the vast page stock and yearly output now totaling millions of charts and a central archive of centuries-old maps.
The planet Mars is named for the god of war and its two moons Deimos and Phobos carry meanings of dread and terror.
Readers solve a mixed difficulty crossword with across and down clues covering measures money food materials and geography. Notable entries include 100000 rupees printer s measure and ancient Irish capital with several chemical and linguistic terms interspersed among common words.
About 150 Sudetenland refugee families settled on land at Tupper Creek near Dawson Creek close to the Alberta border in 1939. They became substantial Canadian citizens with paid farms neat homes and ample farming equipment. A separate note says railroad passenger safety improved threefold over 25 years and railroad workers’ safety doubled.
The London Daily Mail reports Sir Charles Tagert, famed for police actions in Palestine and India, heads a new drive against Britain's black market in food with a secret staff of ex Army officers. The operation aims to uncover a nationwide network amid a national scandal.
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