Aircraft cannot replace ships for freight transport in war
Oliver Stewart argues aircraft will augment but not supplant ships for freight. While big planes can move heavy loads and speed supplies, ships’ capacity remains far greater. production, strategic priorities, and the pace of war will keep ships essential despite expanding air transport and growing aircraft fleets.
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Oliver Stewart
British Air Authority
United Nations
Britain
United States
Canadians Learn from War Experience Warns Kingston
The Kingston Whig Standard notes that learning from wartime hardship comes at a cost as old customs are disrupted by rationing. Moral complacency fades as lingering supporters of the can't happen here mindset fear further unsettling outcomes from a world war’s impacts.
London workshop turns out novelties for Army use
A London workshop produces a one man carry stretcher made of leather webbing and cane enabling a wounded Commando to be carried while keeping hands free for a rifle. It also makes petrol tanks to be jettisoned from aircraft wings in emergencies and converts webbing into army anklets at 20 000 per week. Scabbards for machete knives and a few baseball gloves for Canadian troops are also manufactured.
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London
Britain
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Floating islands aid Japanese war planes in Pacific
A Chinese military spokesman said floating islands in the Pacific, possibly bamboo, large enough for war planes to land, are used by Japan as refueling depots and rest stations for aircraft and crews, with Chinese intelligence photographing the sites.
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Pacific
Western labour moves to eastern war plants
The Edmonton Journal reports that protests against draining western manpower for eastern war industries have influenced policy. Dominion aims to move work to the man where feasible, following the Edmonton conference, while ensuring it does not hinder the overall war effort and is not sectional in motive.
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Manning
Albert
Ottawa
Edmonton
Dominion
West
Canada
Edmonton Journal
Maine farmers boost war effort with beans and seeds
More than 325 Maine farmers doubled garden and field seed acreage this year. They aim to raise 2,000,000 pounds of string beans for government shipment to needy nations. Nearly 30 vegetable seed varieties are grown in 62 towns under government supervision and contract.
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Maine
Toronto accountant elected Dominion Assoc of CAs president
Kris A. Mapp of Toronto was chosen as president of the Dominion Association of Chartered Accountants at the 40th annual convention in Calgary. He has previously served as president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.
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Kris A. Mapp
Toronto
Dominion Association of Chartered Accountants
Calgary
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario
Century-Old Cache of Silver Coins Found at Plymouth Beach
Ben Lay and his son Fred found a buried box at Pilgrim's Beach near Plymouth Massachusetts. The trove contained 400 silver half dollars 38 silver dollars 50 in gold coins and 16 foreign pieces with dates as early as 1795 and 1834. The treasure, believed buried around 1846 47 during the Mexican War, was wrapped in Boston newsprint and offered for 2000.
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Pilgrim's Beach
Plymouth
Mass
Ben Lay
Lay
Fred
Boston
Pioneering Rust Research By Dr Margaret Newton
Dr Margaret Newton, Fellow of the Royal Canadian Scientific Society, leads rust research in Winnipeg. Her work on Puccinia graminis tricitis helped identify multiple rust races and the windborne spread from barberry hosts. She values collaborative lab effort over individual credit and continues studying grain diseases.
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Margaret Newton
Winnipes
Royal Canadian Scientific Society
Canada
McGill University
University of Minnesota
Government
Winnipeg
Red River Valley
Newton
Nipeg
Russia
Univesity of
Manitoba
Czar’s Palace
Margaret
Crocheted Baby Set Inexpensive To Make
Crocheted mainly in double crochet this baby set uses Shetland Floss with white flower stripes embroidered in lazy-daisy stitch. A new mother will be proud to own this pattern 7379 with stitch directions illustrations and materials. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermott Avenue FE Winnipeg Man to obtain.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermott Avenue
Winnipeg
Propaganda judged by results urges caution in Britain
British MP Harold Nic holson argues propaganda should be judged by outcomes not intentions. He laments a habit of disparaging British actions and recalls wartime misjudgments about their own propaganda, warning it cannot be judged by incidents alone but by results. He also recalls Norse sailors naming Nova Scotia Markland.
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Harold Nicohlson
M.P
Jamies
Hitler
North Pole Lacks Midnight Due to Customary Time Rules
The article notes that conventional local time concepts do not apply at the North Pole where there is no midnight. It discusses time-keeping peculiarities in polar regions and how day and night cycles differ from settled latitudes.
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North Pole
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Duke OF Kent
Prince Michael George Charles Franklin
Canterbury
Roosevelt
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Prince Edward
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Iceland
Alice Brooks
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Markland
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