World happenings brace for war era shifts in transport and defense
Nazi needs drive reduced train schedules in France while Australia prepares a 13 million dollar Air Force budget. A Canadian Army recruitment boost and a Canada US naval build pact accompany a Danube era note on exporting cargoes to keep allied supply lines open. Prof Schuetz, famed linguist, dies.
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France
McEwan
Royal Australian Air Force
Johannesburg
Hefmeyer
Denmark
Holland
New York
Russia
Japan
Dreadnaughts Planned Under Two Ocean Fleet Program
U S naval experts say five new super battleships will join the two ocean fleet. They would weigh 58000 treaty tons and displace about 65000 tons when fully armed. Rep Melvin J Maas notes the ships may carry 18 inch guns or keep 16 inch guns with more units.
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United States
U.S. Naval
Melvin J. Maas
Minnesota
House Naval Committee
Maas
A Timely Question On Worthiness Of Dominion Sacrifices
The Toronto Evening Telegram says Canadians must prove worthy of British sacrifice by backing the war effort with immediate financial support. It urges total effort at home, stressing loans with full return and readiness to make greater sacrifices if needed.
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Winston Churchill
Dominions
Great
Toronto Evening Telegram
Advances in Canadian Gardening Varieties and Catalogues
The article notes Canada has expanded vegetables through new varieties and improved known types with longer seasons and better flavor. It highlights Brussels sprouts, broad beans, broccoli, sugar peas, Chinese cabbage, chives, endive, eggplant, leek, peppers, and Swiss chard, plus corn and seed catalogues offering planting guidance and frost resistance.
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Canada
Coo
California
Bank of England Staff Gift Spitfire Named The Old Lady
The staff of the Bank of England presented Lord Beaverbrook with 5000 pounds for the purchase of a Spitfire and requested the aircraft be named The Old Lady after the bank nickname The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.
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Bank of England
Lord Beaverbrook
Threadneedle Street
Just-right frock pattern 4705 by Anne Adams
Pattern 4705 by Anne Adams offers a practical day dress with a front buttoned opening and scalloped edging. Includes darts for a smooth waist fit and options for self fabric or contrast cuffs and collar. Available in misses and women sizes. order from Winnipeg Pattern Dept. Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermott Ave
Winnipeg
Matches rationing in Britain still leaves ample supply
The text notes that matches are rationed to two thirds of normal in Great Britain but denies famine. About 85,000,000 boxes remain available, each with about fifty matches. It also mentions 165 Lords and 116 Commons members currently serving in the armed forces.
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Great Britain
House of Lords
House of Commons
Sunday School Lesson April 6 Theme of Acts Commission
Sunday School lesson outlines Acts 1 to 12 with Golden text but ye shall receive power when the Holy Spirit is come upon you. The sermon contrasts visible expectations of earthly restoration with the spiritual transformation Jesus seeks in believers. It covers witness in Jerusalem Judea Samaria and the uttermost part of the earth.
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Jerusalem
Judea
Samaria
Earth
Israel
Jesus
Jowett
Rome
Ireneus
Christ
Foreign Missions
M D Babsock
Pigeons Sought to Aid U S Air Force Appeal
The committee to defend America by acting with the Allies requests 3,000 young homing pigeons to reinforce British military communications. Two hundred birds are to be shipped. Thomas E. Black president of the New York and New Jersey centre of the American Racing Pigeon Union says Royal Air Force planes carry homing pigeons and a pigeon is released if a plane is forced down.
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U.S
America
Thomas E. Black
New York and
New Jersey
American Racing Pigeon Union
Royal Air Force
Health Tonics and Bacteria The Bacteriology Keynote
A Health League of Canada spokesman outlines bacteria types as harmful and beneficial and notes their role in soil fertility and industry. He details how germs spread by coughs and sneezes and offers simple daily precautions to avoid infections and transmission.
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Health League of Canada
Leeuwwenhoek
Pasteur
Lister
Farmer Wins Return of Wandering Pig After Lawsuit
Artemus Knuckles of Fort Wayne sued in justice court to recover a pig confiscated after wandering onto a neighbor farm. His lawyer David Hogg cited a similar case ruled by Judge Martin L. Pigg from Sullivan Court, based on an Indiana Supreme Court opinion by Judge John G. Berkshire. the matter was settled privately with Knuckles paying $5 for the hog's keep and receiving the animal.
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Artemus Knuckles
Fort Wayne
Ind
Justice of the Peace Court
David Hogg
Hogg
Sullivan Coruit
Martin L. Pigg
Pigg
Indiana Supreme Court
John G. Berkshire
William Moberly
Knuckles
Guildhall Roof Plan After Fire Keeps Halls Ready
The Guildhall in London survived the great fire started by Nazi bombs. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott oversaw debris clearance and proposed a temporary steel roof to restore use of the hall by the end of the war, especially for victory celebrations.
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London
Giles Gilbert Scott
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Belgrade
Hitler
Great Lakes
Defence
Ralston
Berlin
Ludwig Harald Schuetz
Commonwealth
Australia
New Zealand
Canberra
Ackie
Anne
Air Force
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