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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 14, 1944
Page
2
The article notes rapid wartime scientific advances in Britain with major impact on the war effort. It highlights government backing, including Chancellor Sir John Anderson’s budget proposal for central research funding and Oliver Lyttleton’s claim that 35 percent of British output in 1943 comprised weapons previously only imagined.
British scientists perfected many weapons for defense and offense. Radar, shared with Allies, helped win the Battle of Britain. The Z rocket gun aided night bombing defense and Group Captain Whittle's jet propulsion opened new flying possibilities for war and peace.
Hon. James A. MacKinnon outlined wartime science work in Canada. The National Research Council now has a staff four times larger than in peacetime and operates nine stations beside its Ottawa lab. Projects cover medical research, night vision, fatigue, diet, secret instruments, photography, and other combat needs.
Dr Theodore Goldschmidt who came to England in 1933 faced charges after police used three men to obtain medical certificates by feigning illness. The magistrate found the doctor acted in good faith and condemned agents provocateurs as contrary to English law, dismissing the case and awarding 10 guineas costs. The ruling asserts equal protection for strangers and natives under English law.
An advertorial promotes Kellogg's All Bran as a cereal for bowel regularity. It advises eating All Bran daily with ample water, describing the product as a cereal not a medicine and noting its Brand and origin in Landon.
The Montreal Star notes Alcock and Brown traveled from Newfoundland to Ireland in 16 hours 12 minutes. It mentions a medium bomber completing the same hop in under seven hours and muses that UK to Montreal could be done by breakfast or even a second breakfast with time differences.
The excerpt argues pride leads to mistakes and misjudgments, while humility cultivates wisdom. It juxtaposes views from Pope Lord Halifax Colton and Mary Baker Eddy, ending with Micah 6 8 urging justice mercy and humility before God.
A historical note states the Red Cross flag is the Swiss Confederation banner mirrored. The description emphasizes the red field with a white cross as a reversal of the Swiss flag.
Answers clarify price tag rules for garments effective June 1 and license or brand disclosure. Notes for No 4 ration book recipients losing coupons, dress length restrictions for dressmakers, and tenancy notice rights in shared housing. Readers urged to request Consumers News pamphlet or Blue Book from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
The article credits British scientists with pioneering weapons from radar to big anti aircraft guns and a 12 000 pound rocket gun. It notes radar’s role in the Battle of Britain and the degaussing girdle helping ships against German mines as major wartime advances. Peachy Lemon operates as a front dealer in Medford Oregon.
Ottawa posted Vernon BC pilot Captain Tom Watson RCAF reports from Malayan front line that Japanese crews are medically unsound due to venereal disease malaria and other illnesses. He says scarce medical supplies threaten Japan and predicts Allied strength will overcome in Pacific island fighting.
A Canadian veteran reports on China’s priceless goose feathers grown since the Japanese invasion. A Chengtu peasant woman owns a goose laying daily eggs, refusing $300000 for one. Hatchings occur in warm pockets between women's chests, creating income for rural families as clans support the labor.
The New York Times reports that eleven of twelve patients slept after lowered salt intake. Dr. Michael M. Miller of United States Marine Hospital Ellis Island notes six patients were marines and six morphine addicts. all benefited. An accurate one second pendulum would be longer by one fifth of an inch at Spitzbergen than at the equator.
Since 1942 CWAC units formed abroad, over thirty CWAC weddings have been reported. A recent ceremony united Pte Eileen Uren and Tpr Ronnie Mace, both of Hamilton Ontario, with Capt Cynthia Gough of Montreal officiating, noting the CWACs are in demand but keep a war first motto.
RS.M. Fred Purkis of Edmonton who trained the CWAC precision squad at Vermilion is gifted a large florist box by 26 squad members. Inside a card features a motherly rocking chair image and a note praising his nickname Ma Purkis with a humorous line about his face.
A humorous look at Canadian Women’s Army Corps routines as beauty classes prove popular and Mahitabel the goldfish sparks debates on Army suitability. Cpl Margaret Leslie’s mishap with a goldfish bowl leads to the creature spending a night in a wash basin.
American soldiers in Northampshire contributed to fund a memorial window to be installed in an 18th century church at Cransiey Eng. The window depicts President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill seated on a warship deck.
A collage of light humor and social scenes paints a slice of daily life. Jests about neighbors buying guns and quirky exchanges at shops mix with a church’s nudist remark and a hat price mix up. Observations on children’s growth close the vignette.
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