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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 06, 1944
Page
8
The women of Canada have joined the women’s divisions of the armed forces and filled roles in industries and business to support the war. Thousands volunteer in diverse capacities, showing resolve and sacrifice while proving women can contribute valuably to the national effort in times of need.
The article highlights women's heroism in Russia and occupied countries and their vital support to Allied efforts. It notes underground movements largely run by women, their varied participation including military operations, and the honour they deserve after victory. It also describes Britain and Canada expanding women’s roles, from clerical duties to front line support, with a Ministry of Information statement praising their indispensable contribution.
The article notes encephalomyelitis or sleeping sickness in horses, its typical timing, and that no cure exists though early vaccination by a vet is best. It urges preventive insect control, selective vaccination, and prompt action if the disease appears near farms, especially for valuable pure-bred stock.
NBC war correspondent John MacVane landed with the first wave on the Normandy beachhead and passed through mortar, machine gun and shell fire unharmed before stepping in a hole and fracturing an ankle two days after the assault began.
A Flying Fort Teese uses 250 gallons of gasoline per hour at cruising speed. At full throttle the fuel burn roughly doubles, increasing to about 500 gallons per hour.
Eyewitness accounts from underground sources in occupied Belgium describe an American parachutist during a raid on Haren near Brussels. He landed on a roof in Avenue Rogier, was greeted with cheers, booing from German soldiers, and shown bouquets of lilies of the valley as he was taken away.
The Bee Division of the Dominion Experimental Farms Service operates experimental and demonstration apiaries at farms and stations nationwide, in addition to the central apiary at the Central Experimental Farm headquarters in Ottawa.
Not a coherent readable article. The fragment mentions a gun hidden in a skin handbag and a shooter who wounded several American soldiers by smiling, implying a New York Times source. No clear event date, names, or place are provided to construct a solid summary.
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board advises readers on rationing for babies, coupons, and exchange rules. Expired coupons must be destroyed by the holder. retailers cannot reuse them. F coupons for canning sugar became valid May 25 and may be exchanged for preserves coupons at local boards. D preserves coupons cover canned grapefruit. grapefruit juice requires no coupon. Discharged servicemen can obtain ration books at any coal ration board and will receive canning sugar coupons with the book. Send questions or request for Consumers’ News pamphlet or Blue Book to the nearest wartime board office in your province.
Walter Callow of Parrisborough Nova Scotia, a blind and paralyzed veteran of the First Great War, proposed a cigarette depot over seas to speed deliveries to Canadian troops in Italy. Defence Minister Ralston adopted the plan during his Italian visit, allowing cigarettes to be air mailed to a tobacco bank for soldiers three months sooner.
Hollywood actor Laird Cregar, seen in The Lodger, reportedly slimmed from 350 to 260 pounds after overhearing a remark about meeting him in ten minutes. The anecdote suggests a superstition about a box turtle not eating for six months following the incident.
Wing Commander J M Growse commands the RCAF mobile field hospital unit now at Normandy shores. Since D-day plus one it has treated over 100 front line casualties under canvas with surgeons operating amid shell fire. Nursing sisters Molly Mulholland and Pitkethley first reached the beachhead.
A captured German source labeled the claimed big rocket gun to destroy England as propaganda. It also said the supposedly invisible planes Goebbels touted for troops were so invisible that no German had seen them. In China’s Sinkiang Altai region, indications of rich gold deposits were found.
The New York Herald Tribune reports Sir Nevile Henderson recounting a meeting with Adolf Hitler on a late August day in 1939. Hitler claimed the war was England's fault and preferred war now rather than at fifty-five or sixty, signaling a grim view of the coming conflict.
Firemen digging for bombing victims in southern England heard a hoarse cry from beneath rubble. After half an hour they uncovered a parrot in a cavity, still screaming “Blimey what blooming war.”
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