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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 06, 1944
Page
5
Canadian aviation research advances in flying suits and helmets to suit extreme temperatures and pressures. Developments include double pile wool interlining, tighter helmets, and standardized headgear from 18 measurements per 1,000 air crew to six sizes.
The British government reports Nazis plan to keep most of their merchant fleet after the war by creating private neutral shipping companies to buy German vessels. The agreements supposedly allow repurchase within five years. Allies will void such transfers and force surrender of the property once proven.
Carrie Hutchins aged 83 of Bangor Maine has completed her 1 000 000th surgical dressing for the Red Cross. She began making dressings in World War I and continued through the present war marking a remarkable charitable record.
Russia credits women with major roles in the current offensive and home front. Women pilots down Nazis while others blockaded Leningrad and Sevastopol. Officers and nurses support medical and technical work, farming, mines, oil, fleets, and railways. A women‑crewed train arrived in Moscow to mark Women’s Day.
British soldiers will soon mail home small voice records using compact recording machines and 300000 five inch records. Each record costs one cent to produce and a hand telephone avoids microphone fright. Overseas recreation centres will handle the recordings. A wounded Italian hospital patient found life aided by a mother's voice on mail. Java relies on bicycles for transport.
The London French Provisional Government delegation exposed a Nazi fake film showing British and American prisoners parading before a hostile Paris crowd. The report notes Allied prisoners were later moved through East station where workers cheered, revealing the demonstration as staged. Cited notes mention the June 6 landing and a planned June 29 Paris arrival.
Editor and Publisher contributor R J Loy Maloney argues that Britain’s ruling class controls the press, and notes similar tendencies in the United States with owners wielding power over coverage. He warns both nations’ papers magnify wins and downplay losses, shaping public opinion in wartime.
Lieut. D. M. Disney of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry recalls a December Ortona scene in Italy where a shrapnel torn photo of two Canadian tank corps soldiers beside a CP railway locomotive became his wartime keepsake. Disney, later invalided home to Kelowna, had CP links from Revelstoke to Calgary and regards Engine 2364 roaming Moose Jaw to Broadview as the probable photo spot.
A frail old woman cured by a renowned doctor offers a hand embroidered purse as payment. The doctor refuses gratitude as payment, says fees must be in money. She asks his fee, and after selecting two hundred dollars from the purse she leaves a Saturday Review and departs.
British soldiers wounded in Normandy and on other fronts receive penicillin as it is flown to German prison camps. An eminent doctor warns that crossing the legs may cause a paralysis lasting months.
Hundreds of Germans captured in the Canadian advance in France display low morale as shortages and cold rations bite. Russians and Polish POWs are among the detained, many doubting relief and accusing officers of abandonment. A common question among prisoners is when they can go home, with one German guessing the war would end sooner than Christmas.
Britain’s wartime savings by July end total 12 billion dollars, per the National Savings Committee. The sum comprises Savings Certificates, Defence Bonds, and higher Post Office and Trustee Savings Bank deposits, with rapid growth in recent periods.
Towels Mexicana celebrate a riot of c for in these south of the border tea towels featuring gay caballeros and senoritas in cross stitch. Pattern 7159 offers seven motifs across 6 by 7 inches transfer design. Submit twenty cents to the Household Arts Department at Winnipeg Newspaper Union for pattern 7159 with name, address, and pattern number.
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