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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 13, 1942
Page
2
The Canadian Red Cross is lauded for its wartime and peacetime relief. It aided crippled children, provided clothing and medical supplies to Britain, and mobilized women and rural donors across Western Canada in a vast humanitarian effort.
The Canadian Red Cross aims to ship two million parcels of food to British prisoners of war by year end. Since packing began last year the pace reached 22,500 parcels weekly, totaling 612,944 by 1941. Parcels are received and acknowledged by prisoners with a card system. The work is described as among the Red Cross’s most important, continuing the 1864 Geneva origin.
Sergeant William Garton of Winnipeg served as rear gunner in a Royal Air Force Coastal Command Hudson raid on Aalesund Norway. The mission featured a dramatic engine cut and dive to evade flak. Britain’s Air Ministry sent personal congratulations to all involved. Garton recently joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in Britain and will fly alongside the squadron commander. Wing Commander A C Brown, later wireless operator, also joined the unit after air gunner training and service with RAF Coastal Command.
Ultraviolet lamps developed by engineers illuminate aircraft instrument dials. The four watt bulbs cause fluorescent coatings on the dials to glow, enabling visibility while keeping the pilot’s cabin in near darkness.
A historical note records seas described by colors Black Red and Yellow. The entry links color naming to sea regions, highlighting a curious labeling tradition and geographic curiosity without detailing exact locations or dates.
One of Wise Men Winston Churchill is described as tapering off exercise with age. He played polo late, did bricklaying but disliked bending, and now takes only brisk walks. He appears livelier and lighter than in earlier protestations during the First Great War at Camp Borden.
The list records graduates from the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan at No. T Bombing and Gunnery School Paulson Manitoba and No. 7 No. 3 No. 5 Bombing and Gunnery Schools with names including D O Bevan Hae DHH Popplestone Foran Fowler Reid and others. The CBC national farm radio forum will continue in a new 15 minute monthly format during summer addressing wartime agricultural problems and CBC news will shift to new daily times with regional and London BBC broadcasts.
The Mines and Resources Department reports more than 1200 Indians enlisted in the present war with expectations for a larger total after final agency reports. A traffic officer quips to a motorist about using a noodle as the lady searches for it. A Chilean law now requires 19 percent of building costs be devoted to sculpture and decorative art.
A collage of light jokes and exchanges about love, banking, and odd questions fills a humorous page. A man seeks a salary job over a commission, and letters from a president surface in a playful tale.
An Ottawa Red Cross article urges readers to join the Individual Citizen's Army through voluntary blood donation and healthier living. It notes donors sometimes faint, explains sugar hoarding laws, and highlights a wartime sugar windfall funding plasma shipments to support soldiers and civilians. It ends with a call to walk more and train for self sufficiency.
A collage of quotations on moral judgment and integrity from Phelps Spurgeon Eddy Lowell Lincoln Romans 6 16. It notes India's 390 900 000 people include 45 races and ends with a reflection on cleanliness and washing.
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