BBC Monitoring Service Keeps Axis Propaganda In Review
Wartime BBC monitors listen to broadcasts from 40 countries in 30 languages to assemble a daily digest of significant items. The team, drawn from many nationalities, analyzes propaganda and reports back to government departments, while programs continue around the clock in 34 languages with 78 bulletins totaling 250000 words daily.
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Europe
British Broadcasting Corporation
Britain
England
BBC
North America
France
India
Indiana
Burma
Thai
Ceylon
Atropine From Jimson Weed and Nightshade Noted
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that atropine can be derived from ordinary jimson weed and deadly nightshade belladonna. It notes accidental discoveries of drug quantities and cautions that handling the plants with bare hands can risk poisoning.
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Germany
Bulletin
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Youth Service Corps Grows Amid War Effort Support
The Youth Service Corps nears 250000 members with many teens teaching Home Guard members. Veterans from the First Great War pass on stalking and woodcraft skills learned in Boy Scout days to younger recruits.
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British Board of Education
Youth Service Corps
Home Guard
Button-collecting warning voiced in Scotch church
A church bulletin urges worshippers who have been placing buttons in the collection plate to instead contribute their own buttons and also collect loose buttons from cushion seats. The humorous note underscores a common small theft problem at services.
Wartime Land Girls Drafted for Timber Survey Work
Yorkshire forestry drive recruits land girls to measure timber as part of wartime operations. The program channels rural labor into forest surveying duties to support timber production and wartime needs.
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Yorkshire
England
Mushrooms Reported to Lower Blood Pressure in Trials
Dr H A Schroeder of the Rockefeller Institute says a natural mushroom extract reduced high blood pressure in 95 percent of patients tested. The method requires direct bloodstream delivery via vein, not ingestion, prompting a wry note about ideal alternatives like spinach extract and mushroom butter on steak.
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H. A. Schroeder
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
New York World-Telegram
Hinged Car Lets Front End Turn on Gas in Australia
An Australian inventor Cornelius Murnane unveils a hinged midsection car design that allows the front of the chassis to steer when the wheel is twisted. He claims the vehicle can travel about 60 miles per gallon of gas.
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Australia
Cornelius Murnane
Coffee rationed Norwegians face black market surge
Norwegians are restricted to 10 grams of coffee weekly while German soldiers enjoy a ready supply. Reports say a brisk civilian trade thrives, with coffee selling for as high as 25 crowns per pound, about six dollars in American currency.
Hoover warns US unprepared for war
Herbert Hoover says the United States is not prepared to go to war. He notes that Britain was similarly unready in 1939, yet eventually engaged in conflict, underscoring concern over complacency amid rising tensions.
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Herbert Hoover
United States
Britain
Carrier Pigeons and Far-Flung Agricultural Trade Echoes
The British government registers homing pigeons to safeguard wartime and postwar communication as wires falter. Photographs and relics in London honor a pigeon mortally wounded delivering a front line message. The piece recalls pigeons used by reporters in earlier wars and at Scottish football editions. It notes Britain’s aid to overseas agriculture with design for Turkey, and Britain’s role introducing steel plows to yet poorer farming regions, plus heavy disc plows for the poorest natives.
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United Kingdom
London
Britain
United States
St. Thomas
Turkey
Great Britain
South Africa
Rhodesia
Burma
India
Egypt
Prisoner Provided Temporary Parole to Open Laporte Safe
William Shutter a life term inmate at Indianapolis state prison received a temporary parole to open a safe at Laporte, a task that baffled locksmiths. He had been borrowed before to open a safe for a sheriff and removed the Laporte safe’s lock with a drill.
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Indianapolis
Laporte
William Shutter
Maori Officer Heroism Against German Counterattack
A British officer in a Cairo hospital salutes a young Maori officer who, with his right hand blown off and four more wounds, led a small New Zealand force in a counter-attack that repelled a German company. He notes the invaders included large groups of Nazi youths aged 16 to 18.
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Cairo
French Farming Concept Requires Revision Says German Expert
Despatches from Paris quote Dr. Schneek, a German economics expert, saying the French concept of farming must be revised. He argues the countryside has relied on production for exchange, and future focus should shift to production itself.
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Paris
Dr. Schneek
Alunite Deposits Pose Australian Aluminum Promise
Western Australia shows alunite deposits from Lake Campion that could meet the nation's aluminum demand after laboratory testing. The report notes the find's potential impact on industry and future supply. The text also recalls Marseilles forming its first chamber of commerce in the 15th century and comments on compliments exceeding their face value.
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Western Australia
Lake Campion
First Chamber of Commerce
Marseilles
Pattern 6968 crochet jewelry for summer outfits
Quick to make inexpensive light wear, Pattern 6968 offers a leaf necklace and lapel pin in gimp with pom-pom necklace and a wool bracelet. Directions, illustrations, stitches and materials are listed, request 20 cents in coins to Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Alice Brooks
Salvage Drives Canadian War Aid Emphasized by Dr Thomson
Dr James S Thomson of the University of Saskatchewan urged using salvage work to boost the war effort. He noted radio and cinema as powerful educational tools and outlined steps to expand public involvement, including open broadcasts, dramatized education, and organized listening groups.
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Jamess. Thomson
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Canadian Association For Adult Education
Thomson
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Cartoons Lampoon Food Rules In French Press
A satirical cartoon depicts a French artist revealing a memory based feast on a canvas while a friend questions the culinary feast he has painted. Another panel features children asking Grandpa to recount the indigestion from five years ago.
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C.P
Novel RAF pilots fined for moustaches and recognitions
At a Royal Air Force station in southern England a system of fines raises funds for treats or airmen in need. Fines apply for moustache growth 35 cents monthly for incomplete growth 50 cents. decor or mention in dispatches 2.50 dollars. name in newspaper 60 cents. photo publication 1.25 dollars.
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Royal Air Force
England
Dispatches
Menton
Sir Robert Clive Praises Canadian Soldiers in Luncheon Visit
British diplomat Sir Robert Clive visiting Hamilton attended a luncheon in the Lorne Scots officers mess. He watched the regiment march by, saluting as they passed and declaring Canadians produce a fine fighting force.
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Robert Clive
Hamilton
Lorne
Sir Robert
Australia faces population limits amid propaganda claims
Acting Prime Minister Fadden rejects German propaganda's 100 million figure and states Australia could sustain up to 30 million with current living standards. He places the present population at about 7,000,009.
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Australia
Fadden
The Age Of Wisdom In Footwear
A quip notes a wise woman avoids squeezing a larger foot into a smaller shoe. It contrasts common folly of women forcing a No 6 foot into a No 5 shoe with the more sensible choice of proper fit.
His Only Objection Daniel Webster Facepay Dispute
A historical anecdote recalls Daniel Webster being sued by a butcher over a bill. Webster confronts the storekeeper in public, saying not to starve him while accepting the suit. The tale centers on his defiant stance against debt pressure.
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Daniel Webster
Cattle Sales Rise in Early 1941 at QCana Yards
Sales of cattle in the first four months of 1941 at QCana yards and plants run slightly higher than 1940. Calf sales are below 1940 levels, suggesting breeders hold back more young cattle to build herds, per the Current Review on Agricultural Conditions.
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Qcana
Girl Scouts Help Plant 1800 Red Bud Trees in Wichita
A Wichita nursery owner donated 1800 red bud trees enabling 1400 Girl Scouts to plant trees in a citywide one day effort. The drive spread across neighborhoods as scouts contributed to a civic greening project.
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Wichita
Kas
Girl Scouts
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