World Happenings Briefly Told
Ange Orfanidis a Greek resident of Punta Arenas Chile has made 25 lying makte and donoted them to air men in England. Herbert Morrison announced plans to relax the blackout in London but Piccadilly will not become a great white way again. The King's head coachman Frederick Mould has retired on pension after 24 years in royal service. Police pulled a neat double play when they found a stolen automobile parked at a service station containing a safe. The FBI turned over to the U.S. treasury $174588.62 in cash seized with eight Nazi saboteurs arrested last June after landing from German submarines. A British firm produced an automobile gas plant burning sawdust enabling a car to run 20 miles at two pence. Oliver Lyttleton said 1943 would be the peak year of British war production with munition employment greatly exceeding 1942.
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Ange! Orfanidis
Punta Arenas
Chile
England
Herbert Morrison
Home Security
London
Piccadilly
Federal Bureau of Investigation
U.S. Treasury
Ministry of War Transport
Oliver Lyttleton
House of Commons
A Smart Neat Apron Pattern 4246 by Anne Adams
Colorful apron pattern 4246 by Anne Adams features long smooth bodice lines and optional scalloped or straight straps. Available in small medium and large with yardage for views A and B and sizes 32 to 42. Send 20 cents coins stamps accepted mail orders to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Feeding of the Five Thousand Lesson Summary
A Sunday School lesson recounts Jesus feeding 5000 men plus women and children with five barley loaves and two fishes on the hillside by the Sea of Galilee. Jesus tests Philip, supplies abundance, and twelve baskets of leftovers are gathered. The crowd declares Jesus the prophet.
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Jesus
John
Sea of Galilee
Jerusalem
Philip
Philp
Andrew
Peter
Jehovah
A Tough Life United States Wartime Restrictions
John Q. American in 1943 sketches daily wartime hardships from radio to shower. He endures failing radio, thin blankets, leaky plumbing, and meagre soap as a humorous portrait of American life under wartime deprivation.
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Joan
U.S
John Q. American
Eagle Magazine
Author Says Writers Should Not Perform Free at Parties
The anecdote recalls Alexander Dumas arguing that writers and actors should not perform gratuitously at social events. He quips that he was waiting for the general to fire a cannon, implying each man has his own trade and duties at the party.
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Alexander Dumas
Madam Aubernon
Dumas
London Answers claims Germans pulped Shakespeare works
The article reports LondonAnswers stating Germany ordered all copies of Shakespeare burned after earlier praising him as Aryan literature. It notes a shift in view, joking that he is no longer considered literature. It adds Argentina’s corn output at 9,000,000 tons for last season.
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London Answers
Argentina
Sea hero Captain Kelly and crew awarded for gallantry
The London Gazette lists Captain P. A. Kelly chief officer of the SS Lady Hawkins and three crewmen Robert Clayton Charles Bolivar and William Burton for bravery after the lifeboat voyage following the sinking by a U-boat. Kelly is named a member of the civil division of the Order of the British Empire for leadership and resourcefulness during the crisis.
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London Gazette
P. A. Kelly
Lady Hawkins
Canadian National Steamships
Robert Clayton
Hantsport
N.S
Charles Bolivar
Upper la Have
William Burton
Carpenter
Hamilton
Ont
Kelly
Fax
Most Excellent Order of the
Atlantic
Quiet Minds Echo Stevenson Quote on Fortune and Pace
The passage cites Robert Louis Stevenson noting that quiet minds remain unfazed by fortune or misfortune and proceed at their own private pace like a clock in a thunderstorm.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Too Big an Order Boots Size 13 Recruit Faces Shortage
The Air Ministry and War Office claim they can fit airmen or soldiers with any boot size. The Admiralty, however, was challenged by a recruit wearing size 13 who was sent to buy his own footwear.
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British
Air Ministry
The
War Office
Admiralty
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Windsor “Greys
Mickie
R.C.A.F
R-C.a F
Anna Neagle
Great Britain
R. L. Sanderson
Elstow
Sask
J. W. Russell
Speers
A. F. Birkbeck
Welwyn
J. A. Wise
Vancouver
B.C
10Th Ave
J. H. Bambridge
Waskada
Manitoba
BY William Ferguson
F. Mori Suarez
Ivokoe
Finland
Wome
By Fred Neher
Jesus the Bread OF Life
United States
SEA Heroes
Hali
Toronto
Montreal
Reg
Gene Byrnes
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