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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 12, 1943
Page
2
The article highlights the Merchant Navy as The Silent Service and notes its vital role in supporting Allied efforts. It praises gallant conduct since the war began and cites recently released English figures illustrating the service's transport of men and materials aiding Britain's offensive.
A wartime briefing notes Britain’s Merchant Navy carries twenty to thirty million tons of raw materials to factories annually and ferries troops. In 1942 one million tons of stores and half a million men were sent around the Cape, with North Africa campaigns moving over a million tons and another half million men before November 1942. About two thousand Merchant ships remain at sea, with convoy loss under one half of one percent and survival rates at eighty seven of a hundred for damaged vessels. lifeboat and raft losses stay under two percent.
The Merchant Navy ferried large war materials to the Commonwealth and Britain's allies. From June 1941 to December 1942 Britain shipped 2 974 tanks and 3 080 airplanes to Russia, with 19 major convoys safely reaching the northern route. Seven hundred officers were made OBE and 2 551 received gallantry awards. among them 200 foreign nationals serving with the Merchant Navy. A British writer credits the service with preventing Britain’s starvation and keeping supply lines open to allies.
The Royal Ontario Museum spider expert T B Kurata identifies two indoor cobweb spiders. The domestic spider is common indoors and harmless, though seen by many as a nuisance. It preys on flies and clothes moths and may be kept in a kitchen for observation.
Charles C. Price of the University of Illinois reports that chemicals derived from shoe polish and photographic developers may help develop new plastics methods including synthetic rubbers.
A brief note states that ten feet constitutes a length in a horse as recorded in item 2515. This description clarifies a measurable dimension used in equine measurements and stables terminology.
The Huron Expositor notes Britain’s war reshaped daily life yet Britons still play. It highlights a Glasgow England–Scotland football match drawing 105,000 spectators, showing public leisure remains strong amid wartime effort.
A report states rheumatic heart disease occurs more often in fair haired people than in dark haired people. The article notes an observed correlation without asserting causation.
The list covers graduates from service Flying Training School Man and vice Flying Training School Man with pilots from Brandon to Yorkton and many other Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta venues. Newly commissioned airmen include N F Beatty WE Parsons T R Hodgson W A Marjerrison and others from Manitoba Saskatchewan Ontario and Alberta.
A Sheffield man Corporal George Simpson RAF walks into a Cairo cafe and offers to teach pancake making in exchange for food spurring a busy pancake trade for British troops. Studies show stopping a car on ice takes nine times longer than on dry pavement.
Prairie born youths feel an intrinsic link to the sea through their wide vision and prairie winds. The vast plains foster a mindset akin to sailors of the main, while Eastern Ontario youths with closer horizons may not share this affinity.
Wing commander Paddy Finucane held the D.S.C. and triple D.F.C. and filmed his air battles using cameras fitted into the wings of his Spitfire. The July incident described shows pilots watching air drome movies of his actual fighting as he shot down enemy planes.
Ottawa chief insurance officer Eric Stangroom said the federal unemployment insurance fund holds 120 million dollars and grows by five million each month. Benefits paid total 500 thousand and earnings from bonds and investments total one million.
Suburban electric trains on the Euston to Watford lines coast down gradients to conserve power. Signals indicate when to cut power, with authorities estimating the practice saves nearly nine tons of coal daily.
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