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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 18, 1945
Page
2
The wartime food situation in Canada shows no real hardship despite stricter restrictions expected after the European war end. Rationing may widen but Canadians will still secure a sufficient diet, especially when compared with liberated Europe and other nations.
The message urges sacrifices to provide food for Europe’s starving populace, noting Allied nations including Britain and the United States share in the effort. It clarifies Germany will receive no outside food aid and highlights Europe’s wartime malnutrition and the goal to restore health through sufficient nourishment.
We note that other nations will face acute shortages during rehabilitation. Britain kept rationing tight with smaller meat, sugar, fats supplies after the war. Canada and the United States also experience meat and food shortages, signaling no peace and plenty until global conditions improve.
The Admiralty revealed the long campaign of British minesweepers in Europe, noting 16 000 mines cleared and 237 vessels lost, with 99 sunk by mines and 68 by air attacks. Early 1940s German minelaying blocked ports, prompting a major naval effort as the fleet grew to 1 350 minesweepers and 60 000 seagoing personnel. A stray line on birds and feathers ends the report.
Royal staff dismantle the Curzon House flat in Mayfair once used as a bomb shelter and temporary residence for the King and Queen. The 30 room royal quarters were assembled from eight merged apartments with fittings from Buckingham Palace. Only permanent resident was housekeeper Mrs Freeman who kept reporters at bay with a regal glance.
General Electric research notes that a lit cigarette end can reach a temperature slightly above the melting point of aluminum or magnesium, yet the tobacco acts as insulation, protecting the smoker’s lips from burns.
British industry faces a peace-time bill of about £50 million aimed at abolishing the blackout. Most funds would go to cleaning thousands of acres of glass in plants and factories as the nation shifts from wartime measures to peacetime production.
Question and answer style notice explains temporary labour rations for farmers hiring help for under two weeks, and that under twelve meals total are not granted. It covers summer cottages rent limits, hotel coupon needs for monthly stays, and sugar coupon values after a cut. Readers are directed to contact Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices for pamphlets.
A string of humorous lines features a grocer and customers debating best tastes, a driving lesson mishap with Mrs Johnson, a judge quipping at a tramp, and witty banter about fashion, romance, gender, and travel. The items read like a lighthearted random humor page from a newspaper.
A giant battleship inhales and exhales air daily amounting to 24,000 tons, roughly half of her 48,000 ton displacement.
An anonymous donor pledged five pounds weekly for every week of danger during the height of the V bomb attacks. For 41 weeks he funded aid to Soldiers' Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association, despite damage to his home. He sent his cheque to the SSAFA to support a service member's education or a war widow.
Marine Lieut George Thompson and four marines encountered 350 Japanese soldiers in a Okinawa clearing. While contacting command via walkie talkie he offered cigarettes to induce docility, then the Japanese attackers blew themselves up in a mass suicide as the U S unit watched.
About 75 geese died near Devil's Lake North Dakota raising a question. North Dakota Outdoors says officials are baffled by the case. A General Electric Research Laboratories note asks how a goose could be struck by lightning, comparing it to a plane and noting metal protection could lessen harm.
Arthur William Keep, a Birmingham merchant with no interest in sport or travel, left most of his £168113 fortune to Birmingham Corporation for playing fields tram and bus shelters and swimming paddling pools. He was moved to fund shelters after observing people standing in the rain waiting for transport.
A German prisoner of war on a farm near Nampa Idaho recalls Hitler claiming a world conquest but notes the plan would be carried out on their hands and knees as he says.
Blend shortening and sugar then add egg. Sift flour salt and baking powder, fold in All-Bran and mix with milk. Fold in cherries and bake two thirds full in greased muffin pans at 400 F for about 25 minutes.
Oakville Ontario hosts a women’s service centre established last January for Wrens CWACs and W Ds. It offers rest and relaxation with crafts dancing swimming and films. Capt Betty Anderson oversees fitness while minimal military discipline is kept. Cpl Avis Spencer and Sgt Spencer family noted. Royal Canadian Artillery CWACs at Halifax Citadel disbanded after three years.
Oliver E. Ebel of the Kansas Medical Society says a new chlorophyll based drug is performing curative miracles at Topeka army hospital. He claims the medicine will stop wound drainage and is among the most potent wound healers discovered.
A collection of lines from various figures urging justice over force and universal peace. It names David Lloyd George John Galsworthy Alfred Lord Tennyson William Ellery Channing Mary Baker Eddy and Madame Chiang Kai shek. The passages advocate forgiveness truth and the influence of religion on peaceful ideals.
The Windsor Star describes a 96 year old Michigan woman as still strong and active, noting her decades of domestic work cooking washing ironing and raising eight children rather than engaging in social activities.
Among the Romans fire towers and signal lights played an important part in military campaigns.
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