World Happenings Briefly Told
Natural and artificial ice come under the price ceiling an official of the wartime prices and trade board and The New York Daily News has put 70 horses and wagons into service for delivering papers in four boroughs. Another 10 000 ton freighter the Fort La Prairie has been launched at an eastern Canadian port. Immediately after the launching the keel of another ship was laid. The admiralty has announced that 194 officers ratings and others are missing and presumed killed in the loss of the destroyer HMS Jaguar. More than 300 Ontario girls have been assigned to eight farmerette camps to be opened in the Niagara peninsula fruit belt early in June. US war department officials said Henry Ford's Willow Run plane factory has started production of bombers for the army. Two hundred twenty branch offices of German banks are being closed for the war duration. The Marquess of Linlithgow returning from a 3000 mile airplane tour of India's eastern defences said workers in that zone are on their toes for the war effort.
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Fort la Prairie
Admiralty
Ontario
Niagara Peninsula
United States War Department
Henry Ford
Willow Run
Marquess of Linlithgow
India
Customs seize goods from rail excursionists at Dundalk
Customs officers at Dundalk Ireland near the Northern Ireland border confiscated butter sauce sugar canned fruit razor blades and silk stockings from about 500 rail excursionists preparing to return to Belfast. The seized items filled the station platform.
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Dundalk
Eire
Northern Ireland
Belfast
New Charm For Matrons Pattern 4039 by Anne Adams
New spring wardrobe pattern 4039 by Anne Adams designed for larger figures. Center front panel cut in one to reduce inches, lace trims for collar effect, contrast options shown. Sizes 34 to 48 available. twenty cents request. mail to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Jolly Jests and Wartime Facts Weave A Light Air
A mixed page of light humor and historical notes shows gags about stage nerves hospital misdirections and a few quips on marriage and manners. It closes with a brief nod to England’s militia origins and ancient Chinese leather tanning practices.
War Work Draws Queen Victoria Jewelry Craftsmen Back
London workshops recall aging diamond experts to fashion parts for airplanes tanks ships and weapons joining the war effort. Some craftsmen date to 80 with one shop housing about 30 veterans. R C Antrobus, wartime organizer of jewelry trade, has returned to bench and recalled the Napoleon necklace sale of 1830.
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London
Britain
R. C. Antrobus
Antrobus
Napoleon
Napoleon I
Marie Louise
Rome
General Lee In Powhatan Store Encounter
After the Civil War General Robert E. Lee visited a Powhatan County shop and spoke with the owner about crops. A large crowd gathered hoping for a glimpse of the beloved figure, who apologized to the stunned storekeeper and hurried away.
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Robert E. Lee
Powhatan County
Virginia
General Lee
Mr. Sanders
Lee
Coin-operated mailbox stamps and mails letters in Chicago
A new device in Chicago automatically stamps postmarks and mails letters. The gadget promises hands free mail handling as it processes letters at the curbside.
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Chicago
British Army Rolls Out Mobile Bath Houses
The latest precaution against typhus sees mobile bath houses accompanying troops with portable laundries that clean clothing and bedding while soldiers wash. This effort aims to reduce disease risk and maintain hygiene among units.
Offence Expanded as Scrap Rubber Regulation Issued
The Department of Munitions and Supply announces broader rules making the destruction of all scrap rubber illegal. The order bans burning cutting or destroying tires tubes and other rubber products and directs authorized tire dealers to maximize reuse by repairing reselling or selling to qualified collectors or scrap dealers.
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Department of Munitions and
Agony in Gethsemane and Pilate’s Crucifixion Demand
The lesson centers on Jesus in Gethsemane with Peter James and John as he prays in distress and asks them to stay awake. It covers the trial before Pilate, the crowd demanding crucifixion, andJesus silence amid accusations.
Industrial Health Morale Key to National War Effort
Dr. A C Ivy of Northwestern University told the Congress on Industrial Health in Chicago that morale and physical fitness are essential to productive industry. He cited fatigue as a major problem and urged enforced rest periods, recreation rooms, and ongoing personnel experimentation to boost worker welfare and output.
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A. C. Ivy
Northwestern University
Congress On Industrial Health
Chicago
Ivy
Congress
Sees Record Boom After War Predicts U S Prosperity
New York economist Paul F. Cadman warned 500 New Jersey bankers that wartime production will spur a postwar boom if the United States survives the conflict. He said munitions work lays groundwork for peacetime industry and world property destruction will create demand for American goods.
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Paul F. Cadman
New York
American Bankers’ Association
United States
New Jersey
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Jove
Old Boy
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King Alfred
Dewellers of
Queen Victoria
BY Wiliam Ferguson
San Francisco
Oakland Bay Bridge
ALA
Ala Bastrlm
Air Training Plan
Saskatchewan
No. 7 Service Flying Training School
McLeod
Alberta
S. M. Moore
Moose Jaw
G. H. Kruesel
Kerrobert
W. D. Hunter
Saskatoon
G. Towell
Prince Albert
By Fred Neher
Clark Gable
Weef
Fred Weber
Gable
Gethsemane
Jesus
Mount of Olives
Peter
James
John
Pilate
Daily Mail
Cal
Gene Byrnes
New York Economist
Mickie
S.a
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