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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 30, 1940
Page
3
Arthur Weuters argues that Nazi success creates mixed psychology but Britain remains resilient. He praises Royal Air Force pilot losses inflicted on Germany, outlines Britain's global reach and free press, and asserts public resolve, discipline, and vigilance as keys to victory with Allied support and democratic values enduring.
Percy Whitebread and his wife Evelyn, amateur wireless operators, run a free evening school in their two room Winnipeg apartment teaching lads to become wireless operators for the war services. Since October they have graduated 45 students and a new batch begins every five weeks. Graduates serve across the Dominion and five recently left for further RCAF training in Toronto.
Canada exports two cockerels and six pullets of Canadian Record of Performance stock to South Africa at 25 and 15 dollars each fob. The order echoes repeated shipments to British Guiana Trinidad and the United States, validating high egg production and meat breeding appeal.
Mrs Winston Churchill touring damaged areas in her husband’s constituency learned of a dish named bombed chicken at a school housing 150 homeless. A Phoenix firm, Aziz, markets sun stoves that cook meals using solar heat.
Saskatchewan branches report rising donations with wheat gifts surpassing cash totals. Kincaid and Springwater each sent carloads, Sceptre remitted 1284.65, and Rose Town district expects more. Dr Routley, National Commissioner, praises Canadians for faith and small contributions fueling the campaign.
Internees held by Canadian authorities at Britain's request are being released in batches as cases are reviewed by the British home office. Some may return to England where enemy aliens were rounded up. Canadian authorities do not grant releases. No counts on released or awaiting embarkation figures are available.
Sunbonnet Sue, a favored rag doll, is stitched quickly with leftover fabrics. Pattern 6797 provides doll and clothes patterns plus directions and materials list, available for 20 cents mailed to Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
Describes how ordinary British civilians in London and other cities have shown resilience and courage under nightly bombing. Citizens assist at fires, aid the injured, and demand stronger action against Germany, signaling a transformed national resolve and sense of purpose.
American inventor Harry N Atwood proposes plastic warplanes built from British Columbia waste wood and thermoplastic, claiming a 30 day plan to produce 90 planes and a unit cost near 6000 dollars including a lighter 1250 hp all steel engine from Vancouver firm Alex Johnson.
Diego Rivera compares Mussolini Hitler and Stalin with stark death and imprisonment tallies. He cites Mussolini executing 2000 and jailing 40000, Hitler killing about a million and imprisoning three million, and Stalin claiming 2700000 killed and 6000000 jailed. He notes Russian famine deaths not included in those figures.
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