Future cars to include newsprint facsimile and radio police
Dr Orestes H. Caldwell of Electronic Industries says postwar cars will print newspapers via facsimile radio and show newsreels by TV. He adds automatic lights, dashboard traffic signals, and voice reporting photocells to police, discussed before the New York Electrical Society.
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New York Electrical Society
Orestes H. Caldwell
Electronic Industries
Christian Science Monitor
Be with Her Princess Heir to a Blood Bought Throne
Poem praising a young princess on coming of age. Edna Jaques reflects on duty and heritage as she prepares to rule. The speaker asks for guidance and wisdom for the new queen, amidst royal splendor and burdens of leadership.
Scotland Yard uses dipstick to curb cabbie fuel raids
Inland: police operatives in London reportedly arm themselves with a gas tank measuring device called a dipstick. When cab drivers avoid long hauls by claiming near empty tanks, officers allegedly insert the tool to gauge fuel supply and press for longer trips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland Yard
India’s 1944 45 aid to USA tops 242 million
India plans to provide the United States with goods and services totaling 242 million dollars under Reciprocal Aid by the end of the 1944 45 fiscal year. The agreement underscores wartime assistance and economic cooperation between the two nations during World War II.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
U.S.A
Honest Jim and the Texas coast purse
Jim a respected local shoeman on the Texas coast finds a purse containing ten hundred dollar bills and a photo of a frail woman. He wrestles with keeping the money for his ill son James in medical school, but later decides to return it, advertising without identity. A ranchman owner appears searching for the lost billfold, reinforcing Jim’s honesty.
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Jim
Texas
Honest Jim
James
Jackson's Point
Nothng
Promotion chief pilot named assistant superintendent at TCA
A senior TCA pilot, Western Division, is named assistant superintendent of flight operations with headquarters in Winnipeg. He began service in December 1937 flying Winnipeg to Vancouver, Vancouver to Seattle, and Vancouver to Lethbridge. Born in Winnipeg in 1912, he started flying at 18 and worked as bush pilot and test pilot before joining TCA.
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Western Division
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Winnipeg
T.C.A
Vancouver
Seattle
Lethbridge
Winnipeg Flying Club
Ronnie Johanneson
Wings Limited
North Country
German officer diary fragment condemns Nazi regime
A captured German officer in Italy writes of breaking with his past and hating German army brutality. He questions the Nazi cause, longs for collapse, and notes personal transformation while vouching for diary authenticity. The Leeds Yorkshire Post cites the document. Experience is praised as a teacher, but common sense yields similar results with less publicity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Leeds Yorkshire Post
Air Cadet Summer Flight Program Announced
The Air Cadet League of Canada announced a 1944 summer camp plan giving familiarization flights to senior cadets who qualify. Flights up to about thirty minutes will occur within twenty miles of RC AF stations, with a parent waiver required and command approval. Arthur L. Melling praised the move, noting large parental support in a survey and expecting several thousand cadets to fly in service aircraft.
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RCAF
Air Cadet League of Canada
Air Cadet League
Arthur L. Melling
Montreal
Canada
Mr Melling
R.C.A.F
The Age Of Chivalry Has Not Passed Is Opinion Of Eastern City Newspaper
The Edmonton Journal cites the London Free Press retort to claims that men seated in streetcars end the age of chivalry. It praises men who wash dishes, tend the baby, heat the home, paint, carpent er, pay taxes, guard against bill collectors, and care for their families even at night.
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London
Ontario
Free Press
Edmonton Journal
Pattern 4719 for children's button front frock and sunsuit
This Week's Pattern presents a dainty button front frock slip pan ties and sunsuit for ages 6 months to 6 years. Simple sewing with easy laundering plus early self dressing lessons. Send 20 cents for Pattern 4719 to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Manitoba. orders include size name address style number.
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Pattern
Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Vitamin B1 Bread Compared Favorably In Test
A Dominion Department of Agriculture panel in the Experimental kitchen found loaves baked with Vitamin B1 white flour compared very favourably with those made from the corresponding all purpose flours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Canada to supply wheat as UNRRA sets postwar aid plan
UNRRA estimates total postwar import needs at 45 million tons covering food feeds oils fats chemicals fertilizers rubber wood paper hides leather clothing coal metals minerals machinery vehicles seeds drugs and hospital supplies. Canada pledges major food aid, especially wheat, with Dr G S H Barton leading the agricultural food board after attending the Hot Springs conference in 1943. The UN seeks immediate relief for war victims upon liberation.
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United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
UNRRA
Europe
Canada
G. S. H. Barton
Dominion
Agricultural Food Board
Hot Springs
United Nations
Selected Recipes Spare Rib Dinner
Spare ribs baked with onion slices and tomatoes in a tomato cider mixture. The recipe uses mazola for searing, then bakes the ribs with crumbs sprinkled on top to brown. Potatoes may be parboiled and added with the crumb layer for extra sides.
Chocolate Milkshake Recipe Steps
Measure 1 cup cold milk and add 1/12 teaspoon vanilla. Stir, then slowly pour in 2 tablespoons chocolate syrup. Mix until blended. Chill then pour into a glass and serve cold. Serves 1. Multiply as needed.
Measuring pole shadow confirms North Pole position
A measuring rule can determine location at the North Pole as shadow length remains constant over 24 hours. The article notes plastics reduce the weight of magnetic compasses in Allied tanks by seven pounds.
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North Pole
Buck deer rescued after antlers pinion leg
Game wardens near Mesa Verde in southwestern Colorado freed a three year old black tail buck whose left front leg had become caught over his head by its antlers. The deer had moved on three legs for about three months before rescue and was later seen bounding again.
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Vic Steele
Steele
Mesa Verde National Park
Colorado
Help For Refugees Britain’s wartime refugee record
Britain admitted about 60,000 non-British refugees from May 1940 to April 1943 amid strict wartime controls and shortages. An announcement last December noted the average intake since then was around 800 per month, highlighting the ongoing effort despite crowded conditions and war priorities.
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Britain
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Haarlem
God
San Juan
Mary
Herbert W. Seagrim
SLOAN
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FEC Zed
Ema
Acon
Miles Nervine
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