World Happenings Briefly Told From The War Fronts
The fleet reshuffle moves the flagship from King George V to Duke of York. Stalin approves restoring the Orthodox church's pre revolution status. British naval losses in Sicily include two submarines, three motor torpedo boats and one motor gun boat. Over 200 books missing from public libraries in Britain. 184000 salvaged at East Ham. Polish officials report 500 professionals and families killed by Germans in July. British Columbia fisheries reach a value of 38,059,559 dollars in 1942. Canadian whalers report 42 whales caught by Aug 14. Sgt Leslie Thompson, blinded at Alamein, "saw" his investiture through his wife's account.
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Leslie Thompson
FE Alamein
Royal Navy replaces losses with new battleships and carriers
The Ottawa Citizen notes that five battleships lost in the war have been replaced by 35 000 ton ships. Over 80 destroyers were sunk, but more than double that number were built. At the war’s start Britain had six aircraft carriers. after three years only HM S Furious remained, yet American landings in North Africa showed Royal Navy carriers present.
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Ottawa Citizen
Royal Navy
Britain
Hm.s. Furious
North Africa
Britain reports 1943 air craft output up 44 percent
Air Strength Captain Oliver Lyttelton says British aircraft structure weight in the second quarter of 1943 rose 44 percent from a year earlier while total munitions output increased 25 percent. He notes UN war output now equals three times the Axis and will reach four times next year. He adds six month production matched plans and Britain plans further aircraft expansion in 12 months. A stray line urges linoleum repairs by melting wax into chips.
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Oliver Lyttelton
United Nations
Axis
Lyttelton
Britain
Pinafore or Jumper Pattern 4373 by Anne Adams
Pattern 4373 offers jumper and blouse outfit and pinafore in one design for children sizes 2 to 10. Instructions specify yardage for jumper blouse and pinafore in 35 inch fabric and back button detail. Mail order address is Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Manitoba with note on mail delays.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Pillars of Security by Beveridge
Beveridge argues postwar planning failed due to lack of public debate on the future. He says returning to the old days is impossible because they were rife with unemployment and economic strife, urging a forward path to a better system.
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Sir William H. Beveridge
The Sin of Moses and Aaron in the Wilderness
A Sunday School lesson on Numbers 20 recounts the Israelites at Kadesh in the fortieth year. Moses and Aaron defy God by claiming credit for water from the rock, leading to their punishment and the denial of entry into the promised land.
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Israel
Kadesh
Miriam
Milton
Children of Israel
Moses
Aaron
Tabernacle
God
Relic King Sweyn’s Tomb Reinterred in Thetford Chapel
A stone coffin said to hold the remains of King Sweyn, father of Canute, long neglected at Thetford gasworks in Norfolk, will be re interred in the ruined Canons chapel at Thetford after 35 years.
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Thetford
Norfolk
Sweyn
Canute
London luncheon reveals Sweden uses sewer gas in cars
Prof. William Holford told an Anglo Swedish society luncheon in London that during a recent visit to Sweden he found sewer gas compressed into cylinders being used to power automobiles, providing locomo tion.
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William Holford
London
Anglo- Swedish Society
Sweden
The Only Exception A Sentry Duty Mixup
A sergeant meets a new sentry and demands orders. The sentry reads routine instructions but cannot distinguish a special order allowing no questions except the colonel's wife. The exchange exposes a tense misinterpretation on the line.
Red Cross Parcel Loss Odds Highlight Prisoner Aid
A British Red Cross statistic notes that among thousands of parcels sent to British war prisoners in Germany and Italy, only one in 750 is lost, underscoring aid efficiency amid conflict.
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British Red Cross
Germany
Italy
Camouflage Drama Plays Out Under Brash Army Officer
The Saturday Review of Literature notes a Texas tale of poetic justice from a former New Yorker cartoonist in a camouflage unit. An overbearing officer berates the entire company, boasting they could not fool a one-eyed Japanese soldier, then drives into the camouflaged headquarters hut setting off the scene.
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Bennett Cerf
Saturday Review of Literature
Texas
Paraguayans Consume Many Oranges Daily Amid Abundant Fruit
Residents in Paraguay commonly eat six or more oranges each day as the fruit remains plentiful across the country, reflecting broad availability and steady consumption patterns.
Crossword puzzle with mixed clues and scrambled entries
A jumble of crossword clues covering biblical names ages and common words. fragmented list includes King of Israel Babylonian root preposition and various nouns adjectives and verbs with apparent misprint and overlapping rows. The page presents multiple columns of overlapping entries.
Hitler Funds Dublin Synagogue Named After His Planes
A wartime incident recounts German planes mistaking Dublin as an enemy target two years ago, bombing a synagogue. De Valera protested to Berlin, Hitler apologized and promised full compensation, with a new Jewish synagogue funded by German money now known in Dublin as Hitler’s synagogue.
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Dublin
de Valera
Berlin
Hitler
London
Financial Post
Decorate Training Centres With Donated Art
Twenty five Canadian artists donated works to dress-up huts at many Canadian Army training centres. The earliest pieces are believed to depict water birds.
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Josef Stalin
Admiralty
East Ham
Montreal
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
British Columbia
Pacific
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C.W.A.C
England
Canada
Canadian Women's Army Corps
P. M. Peake
Salmon Arm
B.C
M. Scott
J. E. Lemire
Ottawa
S. A. MacDonald
West Bay Road
N.S
I. I. Sciley
Whitewood
Sask
CWAC
BY William Ferguson
BLACK
Thomas Jefferson
America
Europe
NEA Service, Inc
Gene Byrnes
Wes
King of
Spain
No.e
Aii
Sun God
Glass
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Goddess
Doda
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Sugar
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