World Happenings Briefly Told
A prefabricated wireless station weighing 2500 tons is shipped from England to the Far East. South Africa stops cake and pasta production May 1 due to wheat shortage. British War Office tests metal coats from secret alloys for soldier protection. March wheat flour production rises to a record high since 1920. Hitler’s marriage certificate and political will are shown at the National Archives in Washington. A Kent woman finds a four dollar note replacing a sheet left on a clothes line. Viscount Alexander becomes honorary president of South Africa veterans in London. Britain seeks 30000 more girls for the Women’s Land Army and 150000 harvest workers. Gen Crerar receives the Legion of Honor at the French embassy in Ottawa.
Montgomery bids farewell to troops after Western Europe victory
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery pays tribute to the 21st Army Group in his farewell message from Germany. He recalls crossing the Channel and defeating in Normandy, then advancing through France Belgium and Holland, culminating in Germany’s surrender.
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Field Marshal Montgomery
Viscount Montgomery
Europe
Germany
Lord Montgomery
Imperial General Staff
21St Army Group
Channel
Normandy
France
Belgium
Holland
England
Army
Navy
Air Force
Crystal Palace Plans Unveiled For $60 Million Exhibition Complex
The proposal replaces a building destroyed by fire in 16 and features a half mile front with a 500 foot tower. It would host 250 000 visitors with a 17 000 seat skating rink a 4 000 seat concert hall an 11 000 amphitheatre and a 100 000 stadium. Amenities include indoor pools two boat lakes an amusement area restaurants cricket field gardens and parking for 5 000. Architects Herbert Jackson and Reginald Edmunds won 12 000 dollars for plans announced by Sir Harry Buckland.
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Herbert Jackson
Reginald Edmunds
Harry Buckland
Dental Health Measures to Improve Teeth Population Wide
The article urges early treatment and dental care, balanced nutrition, and proper home hygiene to prevent decay. It notes crowns form before birth, sweets increase decay, and early prevention lowers future costs, citing Canadian and U.S. surveys on treatment access and public education needs. It emphasizes ongoing prevention over cure and public health awareness.
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United States
Canadian Dental Hygiene Council
Hitler’s Sunday Invasions Across Europe
The text notes Adolf Hitler believed Sunday to be auspicious for invasion, with strikes on Poland the Low Countries Yugoslavia Greece and the Soviet Union all occurring on Sundays.
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Hitler
Poland
Low Countries
Yugoslavia
Greece
Russia
Purse Found by Girl Reveals Hidden Treasure
Dolores Fitzgerald found a damp purse in her Washington backyard. Inside were eye glasses gloves beads and 4000 dollars in a bag. Police traced the owner Celia Sparrow who said a thief took 1000 but missed the 4000. Dolores earns 50 for honesty.
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Dolores Fitzgerald
Washington
Annette Fitzgerald
Celia Sparrow
Dolores
New Ration Books Issued For September Purchases
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board regional office says the first coupons in ration book number six will be valid for butter meat preserves and sugar on September 19. Last coupons in book five will expire September 12. New books are planned for the week of September 9 with distribution run by Consumer Branch representatives.
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Prices and Trade Board
Portrait of Churchill Sold to Bern on $25,000 Bid
Douglas Chandor, the Roosevelt commissioned artist for the Yalta canvas, says Bernard Baruch bought his Winston Churchill portrait for 25000. Baruch plans to gift it to an American museum, Churchill called it a masterpiece, and Chandor hopes to visit Russia to paint Stalin.
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Douglas Chandor
Roosevelt
Yalta
Bernard Baruch
Winston Churchill
Chandor
Baruch
Churchill
England
United States
Russia
Generalissimo
Stalin
Truman
National Capitol
Heatherford
Texas
Stamp collecting and great philatelic treasures recounted
The New York Times recalls Philippe la Renotiere von Ferrari’s 1917 Lausanne death and stamps sold for under 2 million, a two-stamp envelope near 50 thousand, Tapling’s 100000-stamp bequest to the British Museum, and President Roosevelt’s wartime leisure with stamps as sleep comes.
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Philippe la Renotiere von Ferrari
Lausanne
Tapling
British Museum
United States
Roosevelt
New York Times
Red Cross enrolment hits record in Canada
Dr. F W Routley Toronto national commissioner told the society's central council that more than 3 060 000 members comprise the Canadian Red Cross, with wartime contributions exceeding 80 000 000. Seventeen calendars are used in India.
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Canadian Red Cross
F. W. Routley
Toronto
Barite Shortage in Canada Despite Rich Deposits
Canada holds some of the world’s richest barite deposits yet mining remains light. Before the war most needs came from Germany and the U S, but now Germany is out and the U S struggles to supply itself. Lack of processing plants and a barium chemical industry, plus focus on precious metals, keep barite underdeveloped and bring awareness low among ordinary workers.
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Canada
Germany
United States
Heaviest Mail to UN Secreteriat From 2000 Weekly Messages
New York secretariat receives about two thousand communications weekly. Letters, cards, telegrams, clippings and pamphlets arrive under Suggestions, political criticism and eccentrics. Eccentrics dominate, with many English or French pieces and occasional Esperanto submissions. The letter asks What is going to happen.
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United Nations
New York
Garden Notes Warn of Pests and Hot Weather Planting Tips
Garden experts urge vigilance for insects and diseases as weeks of work could be lost. Healthy seed and early countermeasures, plus proper soil preparation, help defend crops. Plant cucumbers melons and squash in warm hills with manure and mulch, thin seedlings, and keep weeds down. Quick growth preserves crispness in lettuce and roots, while a cow needs over 100 pounds of grass to make 20 to 25 pounds of milk.
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Far East
Union of South Africa
British War Office
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Adolf Hitler
National Archives
Cliffe
Kent
Viscount Alexander
The
South Africa Veterans of London
Women’s Land Army
Ministry of Agriculture
H. D. G. Crerar
Legion of Honor
Ottawa
Jean de Hauteclocque
Crystal Palace
Rocky Mountains
New Mexico
Colorado
Arctic
Canadian Army
Canadian Women's Army Corps
Jean McDonald
Ogema
Fay Glover
Kelvington
Regina
Mth
Jurn
New Ration Books
RED Cross
India
US Moderns
By Fred Neher
By William Ferguson
MEA Ec
ARS. H.L. Morgan, Kjoust
Oty Tex F
Love
Jimmie
Gene Byrnes
Winnipeg
Dorothy Patrick
Hollywood
MGM
Norma Shearer
Deanne Durbin
U.N. Secretariat
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