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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 29, 1940
Page
7
In a London restaurant the caller Mr Harlow questions Miss Mercy about a burglary and family ties. Jim Carlton, seeking details, presses her about her uncle and possible investments, while a planned meeting with Elk and emergence of the uncle loom.
A dinner scene unfolds with a former Scotland Yard officer who calls himself a hunch merchant. He chats with a tired business girl over Sole au bonne femme while offering his contact details and joking about telepathy and premotions as the story hints at future continuation.
The piece argues that past hopes in democracies failed to curb Nazi aggression and warns that the complete recklessness of Hitler and his leaders threatens European civilization as the war looms, with witnesses like Rauschning supporting these views.
The Colonial Secretary introduced a British Parliament bill outlining a decade of colonial investment. Annual £5,000,000 for development plus £500,000 for colonial research would be spent, with £11,264,488 in recent colonial loans forgiven as grants. The Ottawa Journal reports the empire-wide commitment amid war prep notes.
Ministry of supply experts study using 3,500,000 silkworms at Lullingstone Castle run by Sir Robert and Lady Hart Dyke. The silk farm with 250,000 mulberry trees produces enough for 200 parachutes annually and has passed the official 41 pounds per square inch tensile test.
A dialogue between an explorer and a savage chief on receiving news from beyond the sunset mentions radio programs. The piece notes the Barbary ape on Gibraltar and asserts seals feed polar bears.
University of Toronto professors caution that atomic power remains unproved with no immediate chance of a taktape like use. They say coal and gasoline will dominate for years and that uranium deposits are scarce, with 200 pounds needed for one pound of U-235. Great Bear Lake and the Belgian Congo are cited as the only real sources.
Paris reports disclose new oil deposits in Southern France potentially large enough to meet national petroleum needs. France’s prior output exceeded 500000 barrels annually, a find that would ease Allied supply concerns if Mediterranean tensions hinder British imports.
War trophies and scrap metal from Ulster are sent to Britain as war material. The Bel fast government notes trophies won by Irish troops are acceptable contributions. Guns tanks and other souvenirs will be forwarded as part of the drive. Temperatures of stars vary. the sun's surface is about 10 000 degrees and its core around 72 000 000 degrees. A huge river was found off California, flowing about a half mile below the Pacific surface.
In Central Park New York a blind man with a sign "Help the Blind" taps for attention yet is ignored. Nearby another blind man earns more with the sign "It Is May And I Am Blind," drawing many coins from passersby.
A collage of quotes on fidelity and duty from Cicero Bona venture Henry Van Dyke Mary Baker Eddy Longfellow and Kingsley. The text also notes grizzly bears reach speeds of 35 miles per hour.
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