Civil Observer Corps Watches Britain For Enemy Planes
Across Britain's coast towns, Civil Observer Corps volunteers endure four hour duty shifts watching the skies and listening for enemy aircraft. From lonely posts they detect aircraft sound and notes, sometimes identifying British or foreign planes before sight, aiding civil defense and potential fighter interception.
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Ater
Britain
Civil Observer Corps
Great Civil Defense Organization
Fire safety urged to protect school children nationwide
A historical piece warns that fires in schools kill and injure many children, citing the 1 000 school fires study by NFPA. It stresses better exits, fire prevention, and responsible trustees and parents to reduce risk in both rural and urban schools.
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National Fire Protection Association
Boston
Massachussetts
Canada
United States
National Fire Protection Relocation
Zoo Cat Nicx Key Teaches Patience in Bird House
The Philadelphia Zoo reports its long term feline Nicx Key has spent 18 years chasing mice in the bird house but was trained as a kitten to ignore the binds and focus on other activities.
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Philadelphia
Nicx Key
Moscow switches buses from gasoline to coal gas
Reported in wartime dispatches that 125 Moscow buses altered from gasoline to coal gas due to shortages of petroleum products, even as Russia boasted of oil and gasoline deliveries from Baku wells.
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Russia
Baku
Moscow
Left Large Patate Princess Louie Dies At 91
Wealth and succession details show Left Large Patate Princess Louie Duchess of Argyll died December 31 at age 91. Estate valued with residue and duties noted. grand-nephew Duke of Kent and the Duchess expected to inherit major share. Italy’s 1938 population rise cited at 424,394.
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Louie
Duchess of Argyll
Duke of Kent
Nothing Cheap About It Navy Minister Urges Armament Bonds
Cesar Campinchi urged purchase of bonds with an itemized broadcast detailing sea warfare costs to France. The list includes a one-minute volley from the 26,500-ton battleship Dunquerque at $27,000 a 400-pound depth bomb at $135 a mine at $1,688 and a torpedo at $11,825.
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Cesar Campinchi
Republic
Dun- Kerque
Airmail and Passenger Service Stats for Trans-Canada Air Lines
Over the past year air mail carried 702 291 pounds and air express 40 216 pounds. Passenger service has run six months with 16 606 revenue passengers at about 500 miles each. Also note: Johann Schmidt, a German, was shot in the heart during World War I and still works with the bullet embedded.
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Trans-Canada Air Lines
Air Express
Johann Schmidt
Guatemala distributes toothbrushes to needy schoolchildren
Guatemala launches a program giving 0,000 toothbrushes to disadvantaged students. Officials say the effort aims to improve oral hygiene and school health, with distribution across multiple rural and urban districts escalating in coming weeks.
Britain Canada on equal footing with Germany in war science
Dean C. J. Mackenzie of the University of Saskatchewan told the Canadian Institute of Surveying in Ottawa that Britain and Canada are fully mobilized scientifically for the war. He cited peacetime organization and broad industrial research collaboration as reasons for rapid rearmament and readiness, with 60 war problems under study by the National Research Council.
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Britain
Germany
Great Britain
Canada
C. J. Mackenzie
University of Saskatchewan
National Research Puncil
Canadian Institute of Surveying
Ottawa
England
National Research Laboratories
Dominion
National Council
National Research Council
Dean Mackenzie
A. G. L. McNaughton
Gratuity Rules Vary For Meritorious Service Medal
National defence headquarters in Ottawa says a pension does not accompany the Meritorious Service Medal for Canadian forces. In contrast the British army awards the Meritorious Service Medal after 21 years with a gratuity of 10 per year to the recipient.
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National Defence Headquarters
Ottawa
China launches world-range radio war against Japan
The Chinese government started a radio offensive claiming a station with world reach. Details and location were undisclosed but it began 24 hour service in 16 languages including English French German Japanese Dutch and Arabic.
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Japan
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Review at Aldershot
The Princess Patricia's regiment paraded for their colonel-in-chief Lady Patricia Ramsay at Aldershot. The Princess Pat, daughter of Canada's wartime governor general the Duke of Connaught, gave the regiment its name in early 1914 and received cheers and toasts after the review.
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Princess Pats
Canada
Princess Patricia
Canadian Light Infantry
Aldershot
Patricia Ramsay
Princess Pat
Duke of Connaught
Japanese Casualties Reported in China War
The Central News Agency cites Chinese government figures claiming about 1.4 million Japanese casualties since the start of the war with China on July 7, 1937, with around 20 percent reported killed. The agency says these figures come from Japanese documents seized on various fronts.
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China
Central News Agency
Observatory Mount Palms California Reflector Mirror Support
About eight tons of 36 percent nickel-iron alloy castings were used to construct the supporting structure for Mt. Palmar Observatory’s new 200 inch telescopic mirror in California.
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Mt. Palmer Observatory
California
Insects Identified Amid Snowy Sidewalk Etiquette
The article notes seven hundred thousand insect varieties identified, contrasting with people who leave snow on sidewalks. It presents a quirky comparison highlighting biodiversity versus common urban behavior.
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