World Happenings Briefly Told
The British government pays 177 million annually for food subsidies with freight and war risk insurance. Germany faces serious financing troubles as pre war food supplies dwindle. Alaska sourdoughs form guerrilla units described as fighting, shooting. Lt Col Willson, 73, journalist, dies in unoccupied France after serving with the Canadian corps. Japanese rail lines between Tientsin and Peiping double tracked to aid military movement. German occupation authorities will strip 2,200 miles of French railway to Russian territory. China to nationalize silk production for export in 1943. Desert sand disrupts aircraft mechanisms hindering Allied air power in North Africa.
New Chilling Method Helps Surgeons Perform Amputations
Dr. Lyman Weeks Crossman and Dr. Frederick M. Allen describe a portable chilling technique at the American Congress of Physical Therapy in Pittsburgh. The shockless amputation uses a mobile refrigeration unit to numb limbs without freezing tissue, allowing lower amputation and reduced infection and blood loss in army and navy hospitals.
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New York
Pittsburgh
Apy
Congress
Lyman Weeks Crossman
New York City Hospital
Frederick M. Allen
New York Polyclinic Medical Hospital
Crossman
City Hospital
Panelled Housefrock Pattern 4206 by Anne Adams
Anne Adams Pattern 4206 features front and back panels and sleeve tabs with a square neckline and ric rac for a tailored yet playful look. Available in women's sizes 34 to 48, size 36 requires 3 1/2 yards of 35 inch fabric. send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Comic weekly teaser hints at shortage hurting teacher
Johnnie, famed for handling comic weeklies with a secretive flair, says he will not be sorry if the shortage deprives a teacher of her rubber heels. Cebu, noted as a village when Magellan landed in 1521, is cited.
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Johnnie
Christian Science Monitor
Cebu
Philippine
Magellan
Russian woman sniper defends uniform amid American critique
Lieutenant Liudmila Pavlichenko, credited with 309 Nazi kills, told radio interviewer Alice Hughes at the Soviet consulate in New York that American women judge uniforms by silk underwear and skirts. She said the uniform stands for honor and has the Order of Lenin, stained with blood.
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Liudmila Pavlichenko
Alice Hughes
New York
America
Australian cooks court martial for firing on enemy
Four Australian cooks in New Guinea were court-martialed for firing at the enemy without permission after joining front line troops without leave. The battalion’s action left them behind in Port Moresby where they later fought the Japanese. Verdict: do not do it again.
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New Guinea
Port Moresby
Canadian social workers arrive to aid Britain's welfare drive
Eleven Canadian social workers arrive under the Ministry of Health evacuation scheme. They will attend lectures and visits to learn English conditions, live in London settlements, and then undertake several months of practical welfare work before taking evacuation welfare posts with local authorities.
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Ministry of Health
London
London Times
First European Convert Lydia and Romans Faith Promise
Sunday school lesson outlines Paul in Philippi Acts 16 11 34 notes Lydia of Thyatira as Europe’s first Christian and a prosperous convert The lesson links faith justification Romans 5 1 5 and the Holy Spirit’s love Ephesians devotional reading and explains how religion begins in the passive voice with acceptance before action.
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God
Lord Jesus Christ
Europe
Paul
Macedonia
Troas
Samothrace
Neapolis
Philippi
Thyatira
Lydia
Christ
Halford E. Luccock
Jesus Christ
Windsor Great Park Converts To Corn For War Effort
Windsor Great Park in England is turned into a cornfield by royal command to support wartime needs. The King’s arable farm will grow 330 acres of wheat and 147 acres of oats and barley along with root crops and clover.
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Crown Lands
Castle Tower
G. H. Elsbury
Norfolk
George III
Elsbury
Great Park
Selected Recipes and Pigeon Drinking Fact
Butter sugar eggs cocoanut milk lemon extract mixed with flour and baking powder then rolled in corn flakes and baked into small cakes yields four dozen. Beef corn flakes evaporated milk catsup pepper salt baked loaf yields six servings. A note claims pigeons swallow liquids by suction while other birds lift heads to drink.
Milk in Shell Cases Aids Ship Space From Canada
A Canadian plant devised a plan to export 180000 milk cases to Great Britain in empty shell-labeled boxes. Two cans fit in one case, saving space as 2000 quarts are sent monthly for British children. The blue M marks these shells. News, Toronto.
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Canada
Great Britain
News
Toronto
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Germany
Reich
Alaska
Ernest Gruening
Beckles Willson
France
Coll. Willson
Central Daily News
Tientsin
Peiping
Mickie
By William Ferguson
Manitoba
R.c.af
No. 5 Air Observer School
R.C.A.F
M. Gedsel
Polson Ave
C. M. Hay
Manitoba Ave
R. Rawsthorne
Roseberry St
St. James
P. R. Galan
Wisla
V. R. Folkersen
Dauphin
Britain
Suez
England
Royal Park
Windsor Great Park
Windsor
London Daily Sketch
U.S
Tokyo
Japan
Joseph C. Grew
Syracuse
Grew
Berlin
United States
Nese
China
By Fred Neher
Reg
Wash
BIG Fist Tiley
Gene Byrnes
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