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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 14, 1945
Page
7
American pilot Boyd Carr, born to missionaries near the Yellow River, returns with Soo Ling to a village where rebels are said to raid. He lands near the mission building, faces a threatening crowd, and his past friendship with Soo Ling is recalled as danger rises.
Boyd, captured by Chinese rebels, is rescued when Seo Ling slays the rebel leader and sabotages the floodgate. The escape unfolds as Soo Ling confronts his oath to guard Boyd, then the plane door is opened and Seo Ling returns to safety. A moth’s wings explain the air inflation.
Stanislaw August Poniatowski, last king of Poland who died in 1798, left a heritage for descendant Prince Marienandre Poniatowski. Escaping to Britain in 1940 he joined the Polish Army, earned a commission, and died aged 23 on the Western Front defending a homeland he never knew.
Garden notes divide vegetables into three planting groups from hardy to tender with sowing in multiple rounds to extend harvest. Early crops include peas onions carrots beets radish spinach lettuce while semi hardy cover potatoes corn beans cabbage and tender fruits like melons cucumbers tomatoes pumpkin. Nursery stock shortages this year from labor gasoline and imports demand careful handling of roots and soil, with prompt planting and thorough root room and wind protection.
A report notes giant Chinese green onions growing to two and a half feet in length with a diameter near two and a half inches and individual weights exceeding three pounds.
Dr H Hill of the Dominion Department of Agriculture explained soilless culture at the Manitoba Horticultural Association convention in Winnipeg. He described hydroponics and sand culture, noting roots absorb nutrients in solution whether soil or medium, and detailed outdoor sand beds used for Royal Canadian Air Force vegetables in Labrador.
The United States announces a broad new lend lease pact with the De Gaulle government to extend civilian shipments to France totaling 2.575 billion dollars. Supplies continue after the war unless Roosevelt cancels contracts as not in the national interest. France will pay over 30 years with 2 percent interest.
St Joseph county paid 15 dollars after a locksmith checked an old safe slated for sale. The three cent stamp was recovered from the safe during the evaluation. The locksmith submitted a 15 dollar bill for his services.
Dr. George Wright of the University of Toronto, renowned for developing RDX, the world's most powerful military explosive, has become a Canadian and received a new permit for his public safety device after prior refusals.
Dr. A. G. Henderson told a Winnipeg CN railway officers meeting that Red Cross parcels were crucial to his survival as a prisoner of war. He recalled receiving food medical supplies clothing and books that helped him endure captivity after the Zam Zam torpedoing and his escape from a French prison camp. He noted he lost 25 pounds in one month without parcels.
Mysterious radio messages picked up by an RAF flier led to the rescue of about 250 Allied airmen behind German lines in Yugoslavia. Stranded crews used inventive slang to signal Allied HQ in Italy, avoiding detection. A British operator decoded the SOS and fueled repeated raids, freeing the marooned servicemen. Dame May Whitty, nearing 80, faced a department store incident with a sharp salesgirl exchange.
The article argues beavers play a key role in forest preservation through dam building which controls rain and snowmelt runoff. It notes ponds stabilize streams, conserve moisture for trees, and aid power development. An anecdote from Algoma guides warns that trapping beavers would end routes for canoe trips due to reduced water levels.
An electron microscope capable of 50 000x magnification was installed at McGill University and will support war related scientific study. Weighing about three quarters of a ton, it sits in a six and a half foot high console cabinet. RCA Victor engineers described it as a large vacuum tube akin to those in radio sets.
Anne Adams Pattern 4897 offers a men's suit style cardigan with collar finish. Includes sizes 11 through 18, size 13 requires 2 1/2 yards of 54 inch material. Order by mail with name address and style number and send 20 cents to the Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg. Delivery may be slow due to mail delays.
The white chalk cliffs of Dover England consist of fossilized shells of tiny organisms. More than a million are needed to form a cubic inch of chalk.
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