World Happenings Briefly Told
A hot mid day meal costing pupils one penny a week is provided by authorities of a vocational school. Researchers in Britain say a potato resistant to blight may be developed after 73 years. A giant silk floor form for a future flat is shown in London. New Zealand offers to panel and furnish a room in Guild Hall rebuilt after the blitz. Air Ministry reports North Atlantic loss rate under one half of one percent for the year to Sept. 30. Paper fuel tanks with gelatine and glue are carried by British fighters. US and UK shipped civilian supplies to French West Africa in early 1943. London taxi supply dwindles to 4,500 with demand up 50 percent. Cmdr Stephan King Hall cites war cost at 50 000 dollars per second.
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New Zealand
London
British Air Ministry
Women Photographers Train With Royal Canadian Air Force
Women airwomen complete four and a half months of dual ground and aerial photography training at Rockcliffe, Ottawa. They perform ground prep, learn lab processes, and gain flight experience under RC A F instructors before posting to stations across Canada to free air crew for service duties.
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Royal Canadian Air Force
R.c.a-F
Rockcliffe Air Station
Ottawa
Canada
New Ideas in Making Curtains and Draperies booklet offer
A Winnipeg Home Service notice promotes a 32 page guide with step by step directions and diagrams for making fresh dimity curtains and window treatments. Send 15 cents to Winnipeg Newspaper Union for the booklet and include name address and booklet title.
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Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Jesus Expands the Seventh Commandment in Sermon
The lesson discusses adultery, purity, and inner thoughts as taught by Jesus in Matthew 5 27-30. It explains hyperbole as a method to stress discipline, warns against desires and occasions of sin, and contrasts Christian asceticism with eastern views while urging radical self-denial to avoid hell Gehenna.
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Jesus
RAF training maps reveal remaining targets from aerial photos
At a survey training centre personnel of the A T S the UK equivalent of the WAC learn to revise maps from reconnaissance photographs. The RAF uses these revised maps to determine exactly what remains to be destroyed at the targets shown.
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A.T.S
United Kingdom
C.W.A.C
R.A.F
Fireproof clothing and vaccines in wartime health drive
The article discusses a new chemical fire retardant CM that can make fabrics fire resistant without changing feel or appearance, with military uniforms and war machine textiles a primary early use. It also reports Saskatchewan nurses and staff vaccinated against tuberculosis, vaccine efficacy, and mass screening aids like miniature films and photofluorographic imaging.
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John Hartwood- Jones
Ferguson
Saskatchewan
Crossword Puzzle Grid Clue List Horizontal and Vertical
A scrambled word list presents across and down clues for a crossword. Across clues include Wading bird passing fancies ax handles of no avail likely the nostrils to clip French article scattered pronoun soft stone exists more painful to preserve preposition and Russians play without dialogue stride symbol for iridium washed surmounted whether. Down clues cover to say again music high four loaned merges preposition faint hampered steps Hindu women's garment to not many pitchers replacing smooths by abrasion torpid galloped old English bailiff printer s measure sacred Hindustani word note of scale Italian to rise smaller simpler falls meted fright poetic over vehicle with nine L social insect owing Hebrew letter Odin s brother.
Princess Elizabeth Presents Prizes at Royal College of Music
Princess Elizabeth, not yet 18, officiated her first grown up social engagement by presenting prizes at the Royal College of Music while Queen Elizabeth II attended in the background.
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Elizabeth
Royal College of Music
Free Legal Advice Expands in Britain for the Poor
Since the outbreak of war the United Kingdom extends free legal help to those unable to afford it. The Poor Man's Lawyer Association run by the Law Society continues to offer free advice to the poor, while the Poor Man's Valuer Association set up by surveyors provides free guidance on the War Damage Act.
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United Kingdom
Poor Man’s Lawyer Association
The
Law Society
Poor Man's Valuer Association
Montgomery speaks to Amesbury school boys in Britain
Gen Sir Bernard Montgomery told Amesbury school pupils before departing for Sicily that the main difference between German and British soldiers is that the German laughs at others misfortunes while the British laugh at his own misfortunes.
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Sir Bernard Montgomery
Amesbury School
Great Britain
Sicily
Helicopter Aims for Wide Use Despite Early Limitations
Experts note big future potential for helicopters as a versatile craft not requiring airfields. Production costs remain high and refinement is ongoing. trained operators find it safe when properly used, but mass adoption awaits further development and price reductions.
British War Bond Contributions Totaled 27 Billion
The British public funded war through loans, savings, and government funds from November 22, 1939 to August 24, 1943, totaling 27,222,825,120 dollars. Of this, 260,431,840 dollars were lent to the British Government interest free.
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Post Office
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Britain
United States
French West Africa
War Cabinet
Stephan King-Hall
M.P
Empire Club
Toronto
Home Service
God
North Atlantic
R. G. Ferguson
Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League
Canadian Public Health Association
Pasteur Institute
Paris
Canadian Rail Chief
U.S. Colone
Manitoba
J. P Fraim
United States Army Forces
Central Canada
Washington
Canadian National Railways
Northern
R.C. Vaughan
Bonaventure
Kentucky
Mississippi
Fraim
Beverley Hills
Calif
Odin
Fir
Ugal
BY William Ferguson
Great Barrier Reee
Australia
the Poor Man's Lawyer Association
By Fred Neher
AJAX
Reg
Gene Byrnes
Yascha Bazonski
Carnegie
Lekowski
Martin Baloney
Yoseff
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