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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 24, 1944
Page
2
Canadians abroad by visitors have noted the nation’s strong war commitment. Public figures show about 60 percent of those 14 and older are in the armed forces or at work. Women’s labor rose to 1,075,000 in October 1943 from 635,000 in October 1939, with expected labor shortages ahead in 1944 across armed forces agriculture munitions and mining sectors.
Canadian farms face a critical manpower shortage as war production remains high. Since the war began, 145,529 eligible workers have postponements for farm work, with soldiers and airmen allowed to take special leaves to help. Canada now fields its largest fighting force, while industry grows to unprecedented levels as Dominion Day approaches.
A reader endorses Kellogg's All Bran as a gentle cure for constipation caused by low bulk in the diet. By eating All Bran regularly and drinking water, the cereal helps create bulk for easier elimination, with the promise of pleasant relief and regularity. Made by Kellogg's in London Canada.
The Maple Leaf explains that three cheers plus a tiger is not standard. If an extra cheer is needed, the command becomes four cheers. Tiger tanks are no longer called tiger but four cheer tanks, per Winnipeg Tribune.
In Fanning Island the first air raid warning sends residents to slit trenches as hot sun prompts umbrellas. Missionaries react as locals crowd the British administration with savines to aid the war effort, hoping redemptions from a war loan fund will fund bicycles for men and sewing machines for women.
The piece highlights the Nurses Of the Air drawn from Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. It praises their service ferrying badly wounded soldiers from the front, noting they lack formal flying training unlike American counterparts.
Seventy three civilian planters and many native laborers along the south coast of New Guinea are restocking rubber plantations and expect to produce about 1,200 tons in the first postwar year.
Enough lumber is used in crating a bomber to build a five room house. There are about 150000 war refugees in Great Britain.
Readers sought guidance on wartime price controls including whether one cup of coffee or tea is affected and if blackstrap molasses is rationed. The pamphlet explains rationing rules, asks to bring ration books for long hospital stays, and details evaporated milk coupon values and how many tins a coupon covers.
A detailed roster lists No. 5 Air Observer School Winnipeg No. 3 Bombing and Gunnery School Macdonald No. 7 B and G School Paulson No. 1 Central Navigation Rivers No. 4 Service Flying Training School Saskatoon No. 10 SFTS Dauphin No. 11 SFTS Yorkton No. 17 SFTS Souris with officers, air bombers and wireless gunners by town and province. If you sailed directly north from Hawaii, you'd strike Alaska.
A major from Londons Chelera stirict tract aloud from Gibbon's Deciiice and Fall of the Roman Empire to keep awake as British Army headquarters trundled across Italy at 10 miles an hour. The 150 mile march through snow and ice tested planning, with sapper teams strengthening roads and diversions used to ease wear. The commander praised the move as smoother than any desert operation, despite cold and blizzards.
Lt George Buzz Beurling, returning to Canada for RCAF training, says the Germans are beaten. He prefers fighters, noting bombers drive the action while fighters fight only on occasion. He laments no fun, observers few enemy sightings since his return to Britain.
The Montreal Star editorial lauds India's wartime role across army navy air force and industry. Government figures from India information services in Washington are cited to prove India’s heavy, official commitment and pride in war achievements.
Victor B. Newman is promoted to supervisor of Fire Protection Western Region for Canadian National Railways succeeding the late W. H. Kilby. Born in Portage la Prairie he began with Grand Trunk Pacific in 1913, moved to Transcona as a stenographer, joined Winnipeg Fire Protection, and rose to inspector and assistant superintendent before his latest appointment.
A compilation of aphorisms on choice of company and character. Cited voices include Coleridge Bacon Mary Baker Eddy Jeremy Taylor Bruyere and J B S Haldene. The quotes stress discretion, measured admiration, and permitting individual development within society.
Scientific Agriculture reports grasshopper bait using one part low grade flour to 13 parts sawdust works as well as bran and sawdust bait. This finding applies under conditions typical of the Northern Great Plains.
A collection of humorous exchanges from service life. Include a recruit joking about cease fire and pudding. A medical professor and student debate poison mushrooms and sedentary work. A private and corporal joke about joining the army for opposite reasons. A captain wishes for promotion and the sergeant answers with courtesy.
Dr. Lewis M. Hursthal of Boston told the New York State Medical Society that a new form of drug abuse involves secretly taking thyroid gland hormones. He said his experience suggests more people misuse thyroid for nonmedical reasons.
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