Missionary rescued from Arctic coast after distress signal
Father C. Adam Oblate priest stranded near Coppermine in the Arctic is healing in Fort Resolution hospital after a CPR Airlines rescue flight. Pilot Erle Boffa and mechanic Thornton Tweed aided by receiving faint signals at Yellowknife then flew Father Adam 150 miles to hospital following a Burnside Harbor illness. Weather note adds that Martinique has seen 33 hurricanes in 300 years, plus earthquakes, tidal waves, famines, and a drought.
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Autme Omeisle
Father C. Adam
Arctic
Coppermine
N.W.T
Fort Resolution Hospital
Canadian Pacific Air Lines
Erle Boffa
Thornton Tweed
Eamonton
Yellowknife
Father Adam
Burnside Harbor
Bathturnt Inlet
Buffa
Tweed
Fort Resolution
Martinique
Education In Canada at Winnipeg Meetings
The Canada Newfoundland Education Association held meetings in Winnipeg to study Canada’s educational challenges. A Dominion-wide survey led by Dr W P Percival urged funding reforms, higher education costs, longer schooling, a $1321 teacher minimum salary, and focus on practical crafts alongside academics. The report also calls for moral and citizenship emphasis to prepare youth for postwar reconstruction.
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Canada-Newfoundland Education Association
Winnipeg
Canada
W. P. Percival
Quebec
British Columbia
Dominion
Wartime Needs Met Through Canadian Education Plan
Canada meets wartime educational needs via the Youth Training Plan and university programs training technicians for the armed forces and war industries. Naval and military personnel receive technical schooling while discussions grow on teacher salaries school unit expansion and curriculum redrafting.
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Canada
Royal Canadian Navy
Royal Canadianir Force
Army
Canadian Universitie
Yale Young Man Morin Shown As Having A Future
Experts review Morin works and declare Yale youth has a future. His productions are described as well above the ordinary and he is noted as a capable union bricklayer.
Winston Churchill’s Pronunciation as Cultural Symbol
The New Yorker contrasts Churchill’s emphatic “Naazzy” with radio announcers’ cautious “Notay” to suggest a plain man cannot grasp foreign worlds. The note celebrates expressive speech as a marker of decisive leadership and cultural distance.
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Winston Churchill
Naazzy
New Yorker
Britain’s population shares in regular contributors
More than 10,000,000 people nearly 20 percent of Britain’s population contribute regularly to the...
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Britain
Garden pests protect young plants from cutworms
The Dominion Department of Agriculture suggests methods to shield gardens from cutworms. In small plots wrap stems with loose paper or tin lids buried in soil. in larger gardens use poisoned bran bait mixing bran Paris green and water before transplanting.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
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Airmen Commissioned in Canada Named by RCAF HQ
The Royal Canadian Air Force Headquarters announced a list of recently commissioned airmen across Canada. Hydon Million Odense and J. Strong lead a roster including MacKeracher Plate Sask ME, Bertram Shyiega Rivers Sask, G Guenrist Foam Lake Sask, Wyllie Prince Albert Sask, Britton Eston, Rennie Gull Lake Sask, Golborne Stour Lookout Ont.
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Canada
Royal Canadian Air Force
S Hydon
Odense
MacKeracher
Plate
Sask
J.strong
Areyle
Bertram Shyiega
Rivers
Man
Healing Wounds with Sterilized Cigarette Wrappings
Lagos hospital doctors report success using boiling water sterilized cigarette wrappings on wounds and ulcers. The dressings are non irritant and allow wound inspection without uncovering. British Colonial Medical Service notes faster healing rates. article cited from the British Medical Journal. In a separate note, Alaska district records Swan Lake freezing in January 1940 impacts school attendance.
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Lagos
Nigeria
M. Ellis
British Colonial Medical Service
Elis
Alaska
Swan Lake
Bitka
Catholic Bishops in Holland Defy Nazi Threats
Dutch Catholic bishops publish a pastoral letter condemning conscription for forced labor and read it in churches on May 16 despite Nazi reprisals. The move follows a wave of strikes and executions earlier in May and counters the Nazi crusade against Bolshevism, arguing Christianity must be protected without using violent means.
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Atholic
Holland
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