Atlantic Transport group expands transatlantic air ferry network
No. 45 Group RAF Transport Command grows a vast ferry system with No. 231 Squadron linking Montreal base to Newfoundland Bermuda Nassau Trinidad Brazil and Africa with rapid crew returns. Deliveries exceed 100 transatlantic flights daily acrossAzores to French Morocco Cairo and West Africa while a Labordo Labrador shuttle speeds crew turnover. plans look toward a westward route to California and Australia via Honolulu and New Zealand.
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Montreal
231 Squadron
Labrador
Newfoundland
Elizabeth City
N.C
Bermuda
Nassau
Trinidad
Brazil
South
Dorval
India
No. 45 Group
California
Australia
Honolulu
New Zealand
Uncle Jack Miner Remembered As Bird Sanctuary Founder
Pratt Kuhn recounts the sudden death of Uncle Jack Miner of Kingsville Ontario and notes his lasting legacy. Miner founded the Migratory Bird Foundation Inc. and donated 400 acres to feed birds, earning the Order of the British Empire. The piece urges continued support for his principles and sanctuary work.
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Jack
Ohio
Canada
Western
Uncle Jack
Order of the British Empire
Migratory Bird Foundation Inc
Migratory Bird Foundation, Inc
Kingsville, Ont
Military Rockets Chivalry In War
Professor A D Low former president of the British Interplanetary Society said Britain tested military rockets before the German V 2 and that it is unfortunate rockets are not travelling the other way. He warned armies within 300 to 500 miles will soon be in range altering war attitudes and envisioned a 1000 mile range war tracked by rockets. The society backs rocketry for travel and postal service to inaccessible areas.
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A. D. Low
British Interplanetary Society
Britain
Professor Low
Interplanetary Society
Front line warfare and war zone mindset in wartime ethics
An essay reflects on World War I experiences and civilian views, noting how front line despatches reveal mud and hardship, the odd humane acts by enemy forces, and the contrast between military aims and civilian understanding. It ends with a geographic aside about King Rudahigwa of the Watussi.
German Prisoners Work For Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway
H Cavanagh says about 60 German prisoners of war from Monteith internment camp have been employed in maintenance work in Northern Ontario since September. The men, mostly captured merchant seamen, work eight hours daily under a railway foreman and are guarded by the Veterans' Guard. They live in boarding cars north of Tomiko after finishing near Englehart.
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H. Cavanagh
Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway
Monteith
Ontario
Cavanagh
Tomiko
Englehart
Tact and social missteps in a dinner scene
A lecturer extols tact as essential to good entertaining. The narrator recalls dining with a hostess who lacks tact and a quiet man who turns red at her blunt remark to her husband about Mr Brown. The hostess scolds Charlie for inattentiveness while claiming to help him.
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Charlie
Brown
German Industrial Offensive Has Hampered Allied War Production
A People London analysis warns that Germanys wartime industrial offensive through cartels patents and dummy companies weakened Allied output. It argues the United Nations must curb monopolies remove patent barriers and regain leadership in science and technology or face a renewed German effort to shape the war through big business.
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Germany
Junker
Gestapo
American Office of Facts and Figures
United Nations
People
London
Predicts light winter clothing from constructive research
A Department of Commerce expert predicts a future of light weight winter wear. He cites warmth with comfort and stylish ease, envisioning light slacks and a sport jacket for winter travel and public life.
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Christian Science Monitor
Imports Bring Bigger Lions to African Zoos
African zoos frequently import lions raised in European menageries because they are larger and have finer manes than those raised in Africa.
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Africa
Stocking Gifts Baby Pets from Cloth Scraps
Baby gifts pattern describes stocking toys 5 by 5 inches stitched from cloth scraps with outline stitch edges. Pattern 7281 includes transfer and instructions for eight toys. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union to obtain pattern. include name and address.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
A Good Policeman Millie Cat Protector of Birds
Mrs. Roland Grant of Singac New Jersey owns Millie a house cat trained to guard birds. Gib Swanson writes in Capper s Farmer that Millie keeps neighborhood dogs and cats out of her yard during feeding and even shares a bird bowl with canaries without protest.
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Millie
Roland Grant
Singac
N.J
Gib Swanson
Capper
Farm machinery needs in liberated Europe cited as modest
James Duncan of Toronto chairs the farm and food machinery committee of the combined Production and Resources Board and told a London gathering that requirements in France and Belgium are far below expectations despite shipments from Canada and the United States.
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France
Belgium
Canada
United States
James Duncan
Toronto
Farm and Food Machinery Committee
Combined Production and Resources Board
London
Railwaymen Debate Transportation of the Future
Discussion centers on the steam engine as the cheapest and most economical method of hauling, touted as the key future transport solution by railway workers.
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North America
Newfoundland-Scotland
North Africa
No. 45
Atlantic Transport) Group
RAF Transport Command
No. 231 Squadron
British Overseas Airways
Jack Miner
Pratt Kuhn
Manly
United Church of
Kingsville
Ont
Paul Gabriel
Bridgeport
Conn
Rochefort
Dunkirk
Red Cross
Jerry
Heine
Fritz
Rudahigwa
Central Africa
Northern
Hero
MONG
Farbenindustrie
Department of Commerce
Alice Brooks
Canadian Army Overseas Photo
Gnr
M. R. Jeffery
Halifax
W Weston
Hastings Ont
Gmr
G. E. Keeshig
Wiarton
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