Canada to Be Air Centre of Empire Training War Pilots
Canada steps toward becoming the Empire air centre with the RCAF expanding training to produce up to 6000 pilots annually. British, Australian, and New Zealand pilots will train in Canada at Camp Borden and Trenton with 22 weeks total instruction across elementary to advanced levels and new bases across the Dominion.
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R.C.A.F
Great Britain
Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
Empire
R.c.af
Air Force
Camp Borden
Ont
Trenton Ont
RCAF
Dominion
Trenton
Ontario
Prairies
Quebec
New Brunswick
Veterans Aid Set For Canadian Service Force Auxiliary
Brigadier W.W. Foster announces a joint plan by the YMCA Salvation Army and veterans groups to give war veterans preference for paid helper roles in the Canadian Active Service Forces. The program covers camp services entertainment refreshment hostesses for families and MOS guard duties under RCMP control as crews are released. Local branches of cooperating organizations will hire veterans for auxiliary services.
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Young People’s Christian Association
Salvation Army
Veterans Organizations
WW. Foster
Auxiliary Services
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Nickels Dominate NYC Public Telephone Coinage
New York City public telephones collect about 91 percent nickels each year while dimes and quarters make up around eight and one percent respectively. The New York Telephone Company uses mechanical tellers to sort and count coins, with checkers reading daily totals directly from these machines.
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New York City
New York Telephone Company
Aylsham Beekeepers Lead Provincal Honey Drive
Mr. Dunn and partners George Grant Regina and Robert Hamilton of an Aylsham Saskatchewan farm expect to ship 100000 pounds of honey this year. Saskatchewan has 4500 producers sending three to three and a half million pounds annually. The Aylsham district plans 120000 pounds this fall. a 33000 pound carload was recently shipped. Yorkton’s new processing plant produces standard grade pasteurized liquid or solid honey.
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Mr. Dunn
George Grant
Regina
Robert Hamilton
Aylsham
Sask
Dunn
Yorkton
Canada
Overseas Military Hospital Plan At Cliveden Estate
The Canadian Red Cross Society accepts Cliveden estate in Buckinghamshire England as site for a 300 bed overseas military hospital. Work starts immediately with Canadian government approval. Nurses and staff will use several estate buildings while the mansion remains excluded.
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Canadian Red Cross
Astor Estate
Fingland
Canadian Red Cross Society
Toronto
Cliveden
Lord and Lady Astor
Buckinghamshire
England
British Medical Services
Clivedeh
Norman Sommerville
Coffee and Colonies Prompt Vacation Letter
A note from Gretchen’s sister laments coffee quality abroad and jokes about colonies. Gretchen replies that Swiss coffee is fine and she will bring some home. Also recorded: the Reverend Aid married Mr. John Lemon to Miss Mary Sugar in Wooster Ohio in 1938.
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Gretchen
Germany
Switzerland
Aid
John Lemon
Mary Sugar
Wooster, O
Psychological Tests Value In Army Recruiting
Psychologists offer their services to the defence department proposing general psychological testing for all recruits and pilot candidates in the Royal Canadian Air Force. They say tests will become standard as medical exams are, aiding selection in a technically demanding war. The Canadian Psychological Association notes fitness alone does not guarantee an efficient pilot.
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Defence Department
Royal Canadian Air Force
British Army
United States Army
RCAF
Canadian Psychological Association
Mama of the Canadians Mme Urbain Gaucquier Dies in Brussels
Mme Eugene Urbain Gaucquier aged 88 known as The Mama of the Canadians died in Brussels. In 1918 during the Mons offensive she buried seventeen Canadian soldiers with her own hands, honoring those who fell in battle.
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Mme
Eugene Urbain Gaucquier
Mons
Brussels
Urbain Gaucquier
Dr George Washington Carver Wins Theodore Roosevelt Medal
Dr George Washington Carver, famed agricultural chemist and son of enslaved Africans, receives a Theodore Roosevelt memorial medal for distinguished service in agriculture. This honor recognizes his pioneering work in crop rotation, peanuts, and soil health.
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George Washington Carver
Theodore Roosevelt
Not Neutral In Thought About War Aides Hitler
The Ottawa Journal notes that US citizens are morally against Hitler yet domestic politics and diverse European ancestry complicate active aid. It asserts strong moral support from the United States and world opinion, while acknowledging internal constraints on intervention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
United States
Hitler
Maine
California
Michigan
Texas
Republic
Ottawa Journal
Five new stainless steel processes from MIT scientists
The Chemical Foundation announced five methods to produce corrosion resistant stainless steel. The advances deepen both surface and core properties, with one process giving lustrous jewelry like finish. Inventors Herbert Uhlig John Wulff Albert Kaye and Robert Williams assigned patents to the foundation.
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Chemical Foundation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Herbert Henry Uhlig
John C. Wulff
Albert L. Kaye
Robert S. Williams
The
Pattern 6424 Cats in Wool or Silk Transfer
Pattern 6424 offers a transfer image 15 by 20 inches with stitch illustrations and a color chart. It lists materials and costs 20 cents sent to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Soviet Russia resumes forward march to gain territory
The piece notes renewed Russian expansion in Poland and the Baltic region. It cites historical ambition from Peter the Great to Tsarist reach and argues Moscow has regained influence in Estonia Latvia Lithuania and Mongolia while extending control in Chinese Turkestan.
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Soviet
Russia
Poland
Baltic
Dardanelles
Ukrainia
Sweden
Lithuania
Peter the Great
India
Turkestan
Alaska
United States
Great Russia
Pacific
Japan
Great Britain
Middle East
Sakhalin
Siberian
Port Arthur
Manchuria
St. Petersburg
Finland
Estonia
Latvia
Ukraine
Bessarabia
Roumania
U.S.S.R
Europe
Mongolian Republic
Chinese Turkestan
Footprint Footwear Reform Considered for Troops
The Defence Department weighs whole troop footprinting to align shoe needs and detect foot faults. Vancouver MLA Helen D Smith asks if new lasts could improve army footwear. Officials say boot pains recur among recruits and civilians before and after service. The council backs badges for those in essential home work if large scale recruiting is delayed.
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Defence Department
Dominion Council of Health
Canada
Helen D. Smith
M.L.A
Vancouver
Taller But Fewer Children Are Larger and Taller Today
The Peterborough Examiner notes that today’s men are larger and heavier than those who once wore armor. It cites a Tower of London exhibit and a Canadian comparison, yet warns Quebec has 54 000 more school children than Ontario despite a smaller population.
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Tower of London
Quebec
Ontario
Peterborough
Detroit Woman Sings Birthday Song 30 Times a Day
Mrs. Betty Irwin of Detroit sings Happy Birthday by telephone as part of her telegraph job. She averages 30 performances daily and sometimes switches to Happy Anniversary and For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow, but never sings other songs.
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Betty Irwin
Detroit
Racialism a Myth Says Julian Huxley
Julian Huxley states that racialism is a dangerous and unfounded myth. He argues it serves selfish economic aims and has no scientific basis as modern Europe shows no separate human races.
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Europe
Julian Huxley
Weakfish Name Sparks Curious Etymology
The name weakfish stems not from lack of gameness but from the fish’s soft bony mouth. Its delicate mouth tears easily when a fisherman jerks the hook too abruptly, giving rise to the term.
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Saskatchewan
Overseas Military Hospital
the Star
London
U.S
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Alice Brooks
Dominion Grain Research Laboratory
Committee On Melilot
Family Herald and Weekly Star
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