National Film Board Created to Represent Canada abroad
Hon. W. D. Buller announces the National Film Board’s formation by order in council to coordinate government film activities. The board will centralize distribution and public information without affecting commercial film groups, with Euler as chair and Parmelee as a member.
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Trade and Commerce
National Film Board
Euler
King’s Privy Council
T. A. Crerar
Mines and Resources
Canada
Department of Trade and Commerce
WD Euler
J. G Parmelee
Penalties for Impersonating Military Officers Increase
The Official Secrets Act raises penalties for wearing a military uniform to gain access to restricted areas. Offenders face up to a 2000 dollar fine and seven years in prison. Previously, penalties were a 300 dollar fine and 12 months. Harmless masquerade cases may still fall under the criminal code.
Plenty Of Food Britain Has Surplus War Stocks
Britain could be fed for over a year even if no ships could reach ports with foreign supplies. Government stocks in silos and granaries exceed 11,600,000 hundredweights, up 73 percent from a year ago, with flour stocks 40 percent higher. If Ireland is included, wheat stocks are 170 percent higher than last year.
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Nohip
Ireland
Safer Cars and Roads Face Human Driving Challenge
The text notes cars and roads improve yearly to reduce hazards while highlighting that the hardest safety factor remains the driver’s behavior. It emphasizes the danger posed by reckless or inattentive driving.
China vows continued resistance against Japanese invasion
Hong Kong Press asserts Chinese resolve under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as China endures bombing, murder, and misery. It claims Japanese militarists are mad, combat methods cruel, and that China will persist for two more years, united behind the leader in the hope of victory.
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Japan
Asia
China
People of
Not Taking The Axe Sambo’s Work Week
Sambo had found a weeklong railroad section gang job and was saying farewell to his family when his wife urged him to stay and split wood for the stove. He protested with feigned innocence asking what was being implied about him taking the axe.
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Sambo
Sam
Ahi
Essential home services urged during wartime by Victorian Order
Mr. Justice H. H. Davis of the Board of Governors pushes renewed vigor for essential home nursing in Canada. Lady Tweedsmuir attends as honorary president, stressing consistent home nursing in towns and rural areas. The Victorian Order vows to maintain its long standing home nursing work through war and peace. An electrical sound analyzer is used to study violin tone complexities.
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Canada
Justice H. H. Davis
Board of Governors
Executive Council
Victorian Order of Nurses For
Lady Tweedsmuir
Order
Mr. Davis
Victorian Order
Eye Ailments Not Always Corrected by Glasses
The article notes that faulty sight cannot always be fixed with glasses and that eye conditions may originate outside the eye itself. It also mentions North America hosting over 500 native tree species.
Regrassing Experiments In Prairie Lands Across Canada
Regrassing under the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act aims to establish and improve grass cover on marginal farmland. In Western Saskatchewan and Southern Alberta, extensive trials over three years test seeding dates rates and methods for crested wheat grass and compare with brome grass. Late fall seeding outperforms early spring and both surpass other timings, with crested wheat grass displacing Russian thistle at several sites. In Alberta Special Areas, six locations cover about 2 450 acres.
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Saskatchewan
Alberta
Free State rejects use of Irish ports for belligerent actions
The government in Dublin will resist any attempt to base belligerent operations from Irish ports. Official circles deny rumors of German submarines visiting ports in southern Ireland, circulating in London. A saxophonist developed an electric device to sound his instrument, drawing public curiosity.
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Free State
Dublin
Ireland
London
Pattern 6470 Nursery Stitchery Transfer
Advertisement for pattern 6470 offering a 12 by 14 inch transfer panel with a color chart and stitches illustrated. Includes materials list and requires 20 cents in coins sent to Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave E, Winnipeg. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave E
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Conscience Fund Started in 1811 Under Madison
A mysterious donor began the U S conscience fund in 1811 during Madison’s presidency. The fund, held by the Treasury, has grown to more than $650,000 today. Another writer notes that honesty tends to be higher among heavier people, suggesting it’s harder for them to stoop to low actions.
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Madison
U.S. Treasury
Food canning owes its start to war and industrial growth
The Stratford Beacon-Herald notes that Napoleon offered a prize in 1785, leading to Appert's glass containers and Durand's tin can patent in 1810. Canning then grew with North American industry and colonial wars cited, but the main driver was 19th century industrial and agricultural expansion creating new markets for home grown produce. Canada began commercial canning with a Grimsby factory in 1878 and remains a leading producer of canned vegetables and fruit.
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Nicholas Appert
Paris
Peter Durand
England
North American
Imperial Economic Committee
Canada
Grimsby
Ont
Canada's oldest storekeeper celebrates 94th birthday
Miss M. E. Giles of Port Dover Ontario marked her 94th birthday while continuing to run her dry goods store on Main Street. In business over 50 years in the same location she plans to retire only when a suitable buyer arrives and remains active with biannual trips to Toronto for merchandise.
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Canada
M. E. Giles
Port Dover
Ont
Main Street
Miss Giles
Toronto
Island of Sylt Points to Unique Baltic Charm
The Island of Sylt, the fortified North Sea island off Schleswig visited by British bombers, is the largest German island though its 38 square miles barely exceed Torontos. It measures 23 miles in length and narrows to half a mile in width in places with notable place names ending in um such as Keitum Timmum Morsum and Rantum.
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Sylt
Schleswig
North Sea
Toronto
Keitum
Timmum
Morsum
Rantum
Toronto Star
Prediction of Russia’s Democratic Restoration and Stalin Collapse
In New York a figure forecasts the fall of Stalin’s dictatorship linked to the non aggression pact with Hitler. He cites a potential restoration of a strong national democratic Russia and cites historical parallels with Kerensky and the 1917 provisional government.
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Alexander Kerensky
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Fuehrer
Hitler
New York
Speed Of Planes Stresses Manoeuvrability Over Speed
Military observers say warplanes may gain more from agility than sheer speed as pilots clash in close quarters. French and British fighters of slower speed reportedly held their own against German Messerschmitts that boasted world speed records. A French despatch notes a pilot downing three Messerschmitts. On April 27 in Augsburg Fritz Wendel set a 469.2 mph speed record for a Messerschmitt pursuit. RAF planes twice outmaneuvered German craft over the North Sea.
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Augsburg
Germany
Fritz Wendel
Royal Air Force
North Sea
Moose encounter on Nova Scotia lake ends with swim to shore
Ronald Feindel, a Lunenburg County guide, paddled home with Ford Spider after a fishing trip when four cow moose swam near his canoe. He straddled one to ride across the lake but the animal submerged, pulling him under. They surfaced near the opposite bank as the moose swam away.
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Nova Scotia
Lunenburg County Woods
Ronald Feindel
Ford Spider
Feindel
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American Bank Note Company
National Film Society of Canada
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Essential Home Services
North America
Alice
Brooks
Moutehowe
Ann Rutherford
Stratford Beacon-Herald
Island of
German Islands In the
Stalin
Aconcagua
Andes Mountains
Arizon’s
Panama Canal
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