World Happenings Briefly Told
Woolwich Arsenal receives first large war medal order totaling 6 225 000 pieces and will take two years to fill. Fleming awarded Moxon Medal by Royal College of Physicians for penicillin work and Nobel prize collaborator credits. US FCC predicts several TV stations to go on air in 1946. Canadian Army hands over nearly 10 000 captured vehicles to Dutch officials. Martin says statutory holidays being reconsidered for wartime suspensions. Paris dispatch reports France pursuing atomic bomb tests in Sahara. Fleming Florey and Chaim Nobel laureates for penicillin work. One in five Merchant Navy officers lost at sea in wartime, says Capt. Coombs. Japan population at 77 997 042 per Home Ministry census figures.
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Woolwich Arsenal
Merchant Navy
W. H. Coombs
Mercantile Marine Officers’ Federation
London
Worshipper's Vision and Call in Isaiah 6
Devotional reflection on Isaiah 6 1-8 focusing on God's holiness, Isaiah's purging, and the call "Here am I, send me" as a response to vision and salvation. References include Psalm 111, Nehemiah 8 1 2, Acts 2 46-47, Ephesians 5 15-20 and Isaiah 61 8.
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Council of the Upright
God
Isaiah
A. B. Davidson
Jehovah
Peter
Moses
Gideon
Jeremiah
Professor McFadyen
Regular Route Near Miss on Main Street
A motorist in a Stratffordshire town narrowly avoided a collision when a coal cart ahead swung into a side street without signaling. The driver dismissed the concern claiming he always goes down that street. Pumpkins were cultivated by Indians long before Columbus sighted America. Early settlers found them growing in New England.
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Stratffordshire
Columbus
America
New England
Sunken Tirpitz to stay in fjord near Tromsoe as tourist lure
Commodore Peter Bredsdorff says the Tirpitz remains in a Norwegian fjord near Tromsø after RAF bombs. British divers inspected the wreck and salvaged materials, leaving a rusting hulk with many German sailors aboard. Tromsø, a popular tourist spot before the war, could resume excursions to the ship.
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Tromsee
Norway
Peter Bredsdorff
R.A.F
Tromsce
Agin
Bredsdorff
Tirpitz
Retiring Major McIlvena led CWAC posts across Canada
Information from National Defence Headquarters shows Major Mary L McIlvena of the Canadian Women's Army Corps is retiring. Home in Lethbridge, she served since Sept 10 1941, held posts in Calgary Victoria and Regina, overseas in 1943, commanded No 112 Depot Company CWAC Regina, and previously worked for Canadian Pacific Railways.
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National Defence Headquarters
Mary L. MclIlvena
C.A
MclIlvena
Lethbridge
Alberta
Canadian Women’s Army Corps
Calgary
Victoria
Regina
McIlvena
Canada
No. 112
C.W.A.C
Sask
Major McIlvena
Canadian Pacific Railways
Auxiliary Territorial Service
Lo.d.e
Hugh McIlvena
Customs Office
Alta
Discharge Policy for CWAC Married Personnel
The Department of National Defence announced early discharge for CWAC personnel who wish to establish homes, with accelerated discharges already granted to those married to discharged servicemen. Applicants must prove intent to set up a home and, if their services can be spared, discharge will be expedited.
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Canadian Women’s Army Corps
Department of National Defence
CWAC
Coast Watcher Heroine Aboard Vanikoro Island
Ruby Boye, honorary officer in the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, served as a lone white woman on Vanikoro in the south Pacific. She relayed weather and enemy movements by radio, aiding Allied bombers, while coast watchers and scouts across allied nations fought Japanese forces and rescued airmen. A Japanese commander warned her off air, but she remained undaunted as Allied opposition grew.
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South Pacific
Ruby Boye
Royal Australian Naval Service
Vanikoro Island
South Africa
Indonesia
Malaya
Philippines
British Carrier Implacable Loses Souvenir Cargo at Vancouver
The Implacable opened to the public on October 14 in Vancouver when souvenir items worth about 5000 dollars vanished. Portland officers prevented a repeat in New York by stationing sailors at the gangway to inspect departing visitors. Within an hour sailors collected steel helmets hats rope and other bric a brac from departing guests.
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Vancouver
Portland
New York
Atlantic Ferry Service recalls Wartime Roosevelt idea
The North Atlantic Return Ferry Service marks its fourth birthday born from President Roosevelt's pre war pledge to supply Great Britain with warplanes. Over four years more than 20,000 passengers and 3.5 million pounds of freight crossed the Atlantic with a westward record of 12 hours 26 minutes and eastward 10 hours 9 minutes. Ten British pilots logged over a hundred crossings with one achieving 150 trips.
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North Atlantic
Roosevelt
America
Great Britain
R.A.F
United States
London
Ottawa Journal
Atlantic
Colonel Bogey Tune Writer Ken Alford Dies In 1930s
The pen name Kenneth J. Alford creator of the Colonel Bogey March, died recently. The tune widely played by British soldiers since 1914 originated on a Scottish golf course after a day on the links when a whistled two note motif sparked the composition. The work has endured through two world wars and remains linked with Major F. J. Ricketts, R.M., in public memory.
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Colonel Bogey
Tipperary
Kenneth J. Alford
F. J. Ricketts
R.M
Radio Times
Scotland
Alford
Air Sea Rescue Service Saves RAF Crew in War
The Air Sea Rescue Service of the RAF, aided by lifeboats and planes, saved nearly fourteen thousand aircrew from the sea during World War II including RAF RCAF and US personnel. The service operated with minimal equipment yet achieved high efficiency by 1942, earning praise from the Halifax Herald. An unrelated note states the law requires planes to fly at least 1,000 feet over contested areas.
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Britain
English Channel
R.A.F
Channel
Dieppe
Air Sea Rescue
R.C.A.F
United States
Halifax Herald
Veterans ease civilian life says rehabilitation report
A Health League of Canada committee report on veteran rehabilitation states most returnees from combat are energetic, conscientious, loyal and cooperative at work. It notes a few require handling but can be helped with common sense and good foremanship, no psychiatry needed.
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Committee On Rehabilitation of the Health League of Canada
Jade Carving Techniques and Discovery of Potatoes
Jade carving requires fixed tools and a movable jade block, cut by sawing drilling or grinding with water sand paste fed to shape the stone. The craft demands precise judgment and skill as the jade block is brought to stationary tools. Potatoes were first discovered by white men in Colombia in 1538.
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Canadian Mining Journal
Colombia
South America
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Royal College of Physicians
Moxon
Sir Alexander Fleming
U.S. Federal Communications Commission
The
Hague
Martin
Ottawa
Paris Daily Mail
Sahara
Sir Howard Florey
E. B. Chaim
Sir Alexander
Mainichi
Japan
Home Ministry
Afpijord
Cw.a.c. Overseas
M.D
Lois A. M. Botterill
Red Deer
Botterill
SHELL
Pte
Buttercup
G F. Grimshaw
Tommy Burns
Mr. Grimshaw
Pacific
Byfred
Will-Yum
Atlantic Ferry Service
Major Ricketts
Reg'lar
Jim
Gene Byrnes
Gen. Eisenhower
W.A.C. Pte
Betty Rising
Middletown
Conn
Gen
Eisenhower
Betty
Germany
By William Ferguson
Alaska
Maes
Hugh Tarpley Quint
Illingcis
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