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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 15, 1942
Page
2
In the past three years nations faced Axis aggression and learned the hard lesson of unity. The text notes how smaller Old World countries fell when unprepared, while free nations now cooperate to prosecute the war. It highlights Canada and the United States working together in production and defense as a positive example.
Through the Joint War Production Committee Canada and the United States coordinate productive capacity to maximize war material output. All U S priority orders apply automatically in Canada, showing equal access to this production factor across both nations. The Joint Production Board, modeled on the Canada United States agreement, reflects Britain and the United States collaboration.
Edward A. Locke, assistant to Donald Nelson, discusses the Canada United States wartime collaboration. He cites joint production and defense efforts, a plan of collaboration for free nations, and a collective security model shaping postwar peace and regional cooperation.
Two unnamed British and South African sailors sacrificed themselves to destroy German supplies at Tobruk by detonating five tons of explosives under the docks. From Tobruk Harbor a witness recalled the blinding flash and the shipboard concussion that leveled the town.
A health note from Canada discusses the beri-beri tale and the outer grain shells carrying vitamins. It urges eating real whole wheat bread to meet thiamin needs, noting a slice yields about 30 IU compared with 5 IU in refined white bread. Other bread types are ranked by vitamin content.
To achieve a five percent rise in milk production Canada needs a strong hay crop. A rule of thumb estimates on hand hay as 24 percent tons per cow, 12 for yearlings, 0.5 ton per heifer 6 12 months old, and 0.5 ton per calf under six months, guiding winter feed planning.
Wartime steel shortages push hotels and railways to sell old blades at 25 to 50 cents a pound. Firms recondition and resell them as new blades. A new question arises about handling blades that have been twice used.
This column argues civilians share war effort via small sacrifices like voluntary rationing. It cites Paul V. McNutt on doctor shortages and stresses everyday acts, such as cutting tea consumption, can free cargo space for military needs, framing citizens as an army supporting soldiers in big battles.
War time health warning stresses the danger of flies as disease carriers on fronts and in homes. It warns that manure piles and garbage attract flies carrying germs that cause infantile paralysis typhoid and diarrhoea. It promotes Wilsons Fly Pads as a safe effective method to kill flies and ants.
About 500 enemy aliens Britain sent to Canada for internment were returned to England as free men after review found the original evidence insufficient. The process, costly and complex, underscores the challenges Nazis would not grasp in moving such groups across the Atlantic.
The Ministry of Food announced a ban on ice cream production after September 30 to save fats and sugar and free more than 1,500 makers for war factory work. It will conserve transport space, refrigerated storage, and thousands of tons of wrapping paper.
A collection of brief reflections from Chapin Eddy Thoreau Eliot Confucius and Mary E. Mizer on inner goodness individuality and the rewards of duty. The lines urge wholehearted effort and the belief that character shapes success and life outcomes.
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