World happenings briefly told in wartime notes
Government sponsored concerts commence in Newcastle costing threepence per ticket. Penalties for unregistered rifles and shotguns rise under an order in council. Petain voiced support for American arms defences. Manchester plans to recover 2600 yards of WWI aluminum cable. MP Morgan toured Doncaster during an air raid and sheltered a bomb in a tub. French sailors join Gaulle in England. Two chickens killed by Nazis fetch Red Cross funds. RAF pilots and new aircraft kept in reserve for surprise. Knox says US Navy won’t take over the New York world fair site for a training base.
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Newcastle
Dominion
Philippe Petain
Vichy
France
Manchester Corporation
Doncaster
John Morgan
Aurigny
Formose
Buenos Aires
England
Charles de Gaulle
Navy
Frank Knox
United States Navy Department
Ambulances From Canada Enter Service in Britain
Twenty two ambulances donated by the Canadian Red Cross are in use with the Canadian Active Service Force in the United Kingdom. They were handed over to the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps on arrival without ceremony. Col. R. M. Luton, director general of Canadian Medical Services, said the units are very helpful and well equipped.
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Canadian Red Cross
United Kingdom
Britain
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Col
R. M. Luton
Canadian Medical Services
Justice Minister to report internment figures in Commons
By order in council the Minister of Justice will begin each session with a report to the House of Commons detailing the number of persons detained and, when applicable, cases where the Minister did not follow the Advisory Committee on internment.
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Minister of Justice
House of Commons
Color and bridge paint change linked to suicide toll
The paint industry notes a decline in self harm deaths at Blackfriars Bridge after painting it green instead of black. The observed toll dropped by about 40 percent following the color change.
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Blackfriars Bridge
London
Hitler seeks U S propaganda drive says exiled French commentator
Madame Genevieve Tabouls told the Canadian Institute on Economics that Hitler plans to send two new propaganda agents to the United States as a last stand effort to present him as a pacifist and great European writer. She warned of a failed invasion plot and cited reasons including naval capture, Mussolini’s promises, and a German Japanese dispute over French Indochina.
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Genevieve Tabouls
Canadian Institute On Economics
Hitler
United States
Europe
Mme. Tabouls
Institute
Mussolini
British Africa
War Saving Stamp Drive Gathers Momentum Across Canada
Air supremacy efforts spur war saving stamp purchases and donations nationwide. Pensioners offer to forego portions of pensions to aid the war, with donors from individuals and groups contributing about 60 000 dollars in ten days. Notable gifts include 25 000 US dollars from an anonymous supporter and 15 000 dollars from L A Agassiz of British Columbia. Four eight year olds in Toronto raise 4.20 dollars, underscoring broad public support.
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Canada
United States
L. A. Agassiz
Agassiz
Toronto
Hitler swindling France with token Reichsmarks
An American correspondent reports German forces in France pay with worthless sounding token money called kassanscheiner and drain French stores. About 120 trains carry French goods to Germany weekly, leaving France denuded of consumer items. The piece calls Hitler the world’s worst swindler as he funds occupation and commerce.
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Germany
France
Hjalmar Schacht
Kassanscheiner
Bank of France
Hitler
Lyon
St Thomas Times-Journal
Canadian Mills Run Full Blast in War Effort
Department of Munitions and Supply figures show mills producing for the fighting forces at full speed. In two weeks 22,000 full battle dress uniforms were made, along with 91,000 pairs of socks, 90,000 shirts, 40,000 underwear sets, and 69,000 pairs of boots.
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Department of Munitions and Supply
Fightig
Razor blade production up 25 percent in Britain
Since general war mobilization began Great Britain has seen a 25 percent rise in razor blade manufacturing. The increase reflects wartime industrial adjustments and heightened demand for personal care items.
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Great Britain
Bolero and Dress For Pots By Anne Adams Pattern 4515
A vintage Anne Adams pattern 4515 offers a double panel dress with a front waist seam tip and a prim collar with tie and braid trim. Includes a matching bolero option in wool challs. pattern sizes 2 4 6 8 10. Cost 20 cents. orders to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg
McDermot Ave. E
Canadians in Aircraft Industry Reach 17 000 Strong
About 17 000 Canadians are employed in the aircraft industry, with 8 400 in seven plants and the rest in parts and equipment factories. The count excludes Canadian Associated Aircraft Ltd workers assembling planes for the British Government. This marks a 20 percent rise in four weeks.
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Canada
Canadian Associated Aircraft Ltd
Insect Study at National Museum and Photo Snapping Trends
The National Museum in Washington houses about five million specimens from 300000 known varieties and 60 years of study by 20 staff. The text notes shifting wartime insect inquiries to the museum and surveys camera use from amateurs to professionals. It mentions new hearing eyeglasses using lenses as microphones, RCA patents, and a vanishing cream mixing sodium perporate to counteract poison ivy.
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National Museum At
Washington
Germany
Museum At
Washington Museum
Sunday School Lesson Psalm Text and Devotional Readings
The item presents a Sunday school lesson centered on Psalm 34 verse 3 with the motto Oh magnify the Lord with me. It lists devotional readings from Psalms 67 96 and 98 and Isaiah 2 2 4 for contemplation.
Inviting All Nations to Praise Jehovah
From Psalm 96 and related verses the text urges universal worship of Jehovah. It calls the earth to sing praise to the Creator, recounting God’s daily mercies and wondrous works. The threefold “ascribe unto Jehovah” echoes the call to tell all nations that the Lord is King.
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Jehovah
F. B. Meyer
Moffatt
Parrot Imitates Siren Triggering Local Shelter Rush
A southeast coast town reports a parrot that mimics an air raid siren and anti aircraft fire. Its startled owners dash to shelters repeatedly, only to find the culprit is their bird. The humor suggests the bird may become a casualty of the wartime scare.
England Under Queen Elizabeth and the Armada Recalled
The article notes England’s population at about three and a half million during Elizabeth I’s reign and compares the Armada’s initial impression with modern aerial fleets, suggesting Hitler should realize the breed has grown and air armadas are no more impressive than King Philip's sea fleet.
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Elizabeth
England
Hitler
Philip
Birds with Human Habits Cited In Animal Behaviors
The rhea, an ostrich like South American bird, sleeps lying down with legs stretched straight out behind. This observation highlights surprising parallels between human and avian rest postures.
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South America
Worthy Cause Attracting Tourists Through Miner Sanctuary
The Dominion government has 35 million dollars invested in National Parks yet Jack Miner’s bird sanctuary draws many tourists with no capital expenditure. Miner spends 15 thousand annually and donates 400 acres of corn land for feed. Ottawa cut his federal grant from 4 thousand to 2.5 thousand, prompting Miner to urge aid matching contributions. He opens the sanctuary to the public daily October 1 to May 1 as US visitors flock to Canada.
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Dominion
Jack Miner
Ottawa
M.p.’S
United States
Canada
London dustbin brigade saves waste for pigs in Stow project
London by the borough of Walthamstow organizes a 250 woman dustbin brigade to collect waste food and bones from neighbors. Each volunteer family places two labeled bins in front gardens and only the bins are emptied. The plan aims to feed about 4000 pigs when fully developed. A new life saving raft uses air chambers as seats mounted on a frame for rowboats and canoes.
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London
Eric Bell
Walthamstow
Living conditions in Nazi Germany cited by YWCA newsletter
The YWCA London newsletter quoted by Dr Gordon Bates of the Health League of Canada portrays worsening German living standards under Hitler. It cites aging workers, many women in farming, long mine hours, rising diseases, rationed foods, scarce tea and cocoa, and high prices with lower wages and higher taxes. It argues conditions worsened as war looms and urges Canada to sustain living standards.
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Nazi Germany
Y.W.C.A
London
England
Gordon Bates
Health League of Canada
Hitler
Germany
Europe
Bates
Canada
Request for Cancer Articles From Health League of Canada
Readers may obtain a series on the Cause and Control of Cancer free of charge by writing to The Health League of Canada Dept W.N.Y. 111 Avenue Road Toronto Ont. Include a request for Dr McCullough's articles and print name and address clearly.
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The
Health League of Canada
Dept. W.N.Y
111 Avenue Road
Toronto
Ont
New Use For Glass In Reinforced Concrete
Abraham Lincoln's grand nephew John Abraham Lincoln and his partner A W Soden have developed glass reinforced concrete as a substitute for steel. Their tests show glass is cheaper and offers technical advantages, capable of carrying four times the load required for air raid shelters.
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Abraham Lincoln
John Abraham Lincoln
A. W. Soden
A.rib.a
Soden
Lincoln
Home Office
Canada to produce 360 airplanes monthly in 1941
The forecast expects Canada to manufacture about 360 airplanes each month early in 1941, totaling roughly 4 320 planes for the year. Types include Fleet primary trainer, Tiger Moth trainers, Fleet 60 advanced trainer, Anson twin engined trainer, fighting planes Lysander and Hurricane, Bolingbroke Bomber, Hampden Bomber and Stranraer flying boat.
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Canada
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London Daily Mail
Ambulances For
Mickie
Canadian Mills
Radio Corporation of America
R.C.A
GOD
DR. J. W. S. McUllough
London Dustbin Brigade
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