Fighting Ships Of Canada Navy Commanded By R C M P Officers
The article recounts how the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Marine Section personnel joined Canada’s Navy during wartime. It notes 87 percent defected to armed forces, mostly to the Naval Service, and details the Marine Section’s role in port defenses, patrols, ship conversion, and training. It cites 66 coastal and fighting ships under RCMP officers, engine room leadership in 28 vessels, and multiple decorations for RCMP at sea. It closes with a Dutch relief anecdote and a transfer to Mrs. L A Weston.
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Canada
R.C.M.P
Cpt
W. E Beil
RCMP
Naval Service
R.cmp. Marine Section
Armed Forces
Air Force
Canadian Army
R.C.M.P. Marine Section
Mid- Atlantic
R.c.mlp
Has More To Offer Scientists Think Universe Has Some thing Better Than Atomic Power
Physicists at the 1946 American Physical Society meeting discussed cosmic rays and high energy particles as a frontier beyond atomic energy. They urged industrials to apply known atom splitting while researchers pursuit further power in the universe, focusing on mesons and cosmic radiation for future uses. The sun completes one orbit every 25 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Physical Society
No Compulsion on Forced Repatriation of Refugees
Canada urged the United Nations Economic and Social Council not to compel genuine refugees to return to their homelands. Russia pressed repatriation as a priority while Canada insisted no refugee be forced to return against their will. Canada outlined four principles including international responsibility and opposition to aiding war criminals or traitors.
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Lake Success
N.Y
Canada
United Nations Economic and Social Council
Russia
Europe
Paul Martin
Nicholai Feonov
Soviet speed Arctic five year plan launches expeditions
The Soviet Union accelerates Arctic development under its new five year plan. Expeditions depart to survey minerals and climate while ships equip for advanced radio navigation. An Arctic Institute team conducts long term weather and geology observations near Laptev Sea led by Victor Buinitsky.
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Soviet Union
Arctic Zone
Siberia
Arctic Institute
Laptev Sea
Leningrad
Bering Sea
Victor Buinitsky
Arctic
Ussr
Chinese Ex-Servicemen Press Vote Rights Case
Frank Ho Lem leads Vancouver veterans as Branch 280 presents to the Army Navy and Air Force Veterans convention in Edmonton. They argue Chinese Canadians, active under the Canadian Mobilization Act, deserve full citizenship rights including the vote.
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Canada
Frank Ho Lem
Vancouver
Bisley
Army, Navy
Air Force
Edmonton
Veterans’ Organization
Ho Lem
Vancouver News-Herald
Soviet Climbers Plant Flag on 20000-Foot Peak in Tian Shan
Soviet mountaineers planted the Red flag on a 20,000 foot peak in the Tian Shan range in Kazakh SSR, part of Soviet Central Asia. The feat came on the third attempt to conquer the peak, reputed to be the highest in the chain.
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Moscow
Tian Shan
Kazakstan
France's Germaine Degrand Sees Women and Food Policy
Mme Germaine Degrand, a 30 year veteran of the French Socialist movement and chair of the nutrition committee in the National Assembly, advocates greater female spokesmanship in world affairs. She notes the difficulty of balancing politics with family duties while urging women to judge their own paths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
Mme
Germaine Degrand
French National Assembly
I &Mm
Socialist Party
Card players' train journey ends with clash over crooked hand
A group returning from the races argued over a poker hand on a train. One player cried the game was crooked and accused another of not playing the hand he dealt, sparking a heated exchange among the party.
Grand slip-over for YOUR MAN Pattern 7337
Easy knitting pattern for a cable stitch garment offered by the Household Arts Department of the Winnipeg Newspaper Union. To obtain pattern 7337 send twenty cents in coins to 175 McDermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man. Include name address and pattern number clearly.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue E
Winnipeg
Man
Sperry gyropilot tested for safe automatic landings in fog
United Airlines sponsor W A Patterson outlines a plan to install gyropilots on four engined jets within 18 months to two years. The system uses ground beam transmitters to guide the plane through fog to a safe landing, with a human ready to retake controls if needed.
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Sperry Electronic
Sperry
Army
Navy
W.A. Patterson
United Airlines
United
Puttees Return To Service Praised By W L Clark
Windsor Star column argues puttees are practical in combat defending feet from sand and mud. They wrap around boots to shed sand aid wading through muck and mice, offer drying and comfort when unwinding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Clark
Windsor Star
No-Return Belief Sparks Camp Debate About Reincarnation
In an Army camp dining group a firm believer argues for reincarnation while the corporal and another soldier express skepticism. The exchange centers on whether one could return as a worm or any other creature, with quips about never being the same twice.
Influenza virus potency and danger noted in study
A historical brief discusses the influenza virus as a powerful agent with potential lethality demonstrated in animal models and the implications for public health and research.
Items Of Interest From An Early 20th Century Compilation
The British museum houses a 14 foot tall prehistoric elephant fossil. The Pythagorean school of Greek philosophy traced the earth’s sphericity to 500 B C. A new paper adhesive tolerates 4 to 48 hours soaking without losing grip. Krakatau eruption dust circled Earth for months after 1183. Before the Empire State building Eiffel Tower was tallest. A mail plane on large liners is catapulted from ship about 00 miles from Southampton saving time on mail deliveries. 2692
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Southampton
England
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Dutch East Indies
Willie
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The
United Nations’ Food Organization
Him
Alice Brooks
Long Island
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Voice OF Canada AT
Welland
Ont
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Esual
British Museum
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Java
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