World Happenings Briefly Told
Construction plans are filed for a 4625,000 fenichin factory in Glasgow. A former Methodist chapel in London Street, leased to Christman Carelie by Charles Dicker, is up for sale. A cenotaph to memorialize Franklin D. Roosevelt was unveiled at the National Cathedral in Greece on the anniversary of his death. Group Captain Douglas Bader has left the RAF after notable service earning two DSO and two DEC awards. Middleton village will remain blacked out for another year as parish meeting deems street lighting nonessential. The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert is too old to return to prewar duties, according to officials. Viscount Alexander is the 18th governor-general of Canada since Champlain in 1608. Fishermen in Dungeness Bay report damage from sunken wrecks of bombs and shot-down aircraft off Hythe.
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Glangow
London Street
Charles Dicker
Roswevelt
Greece
Victoria and Albert
Viscount Alexander
Canada
Champlain
Dungeness Bay
Hythe
England
Eccentric English Blacksmith Built Harvest Home Church
Isaac Bennett of Stockport spent a decade financing a singlehanded church project called Harvest Home. After his death 18 months ago two sisters who housed him, Betty and Florence Marsland, sold pews and instruments and may sell the building, despite his will naming the sisters as heirs.
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Isaac Bennett
Stockport
England
Bennett
Betty
Florence Marsland
Betty Marsland
Lost custom of giving thanks before meals noted
Fort William Times Journal laments decline of asking the blessing and belief that Providence provides food. The piece contrasts North American indifference to blessings with alarm over daily bread and cites a long piano recital aboard the liner Aquitania where Shane, 10, son of Canada’s governor general, impressed a mainly British audience with the Blue Bells of Scotland.
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North America
Fort William
Shane
Canada
Aquitania
Scotland
Britain
Canada Needs These Men Moral Spiritual Leadership Says Editorial
An editorial urges Canada to seek moral and spiritual leadership citing a history of rise and decline. It discusses a United Church booklet on pension needs for aging ministers and a drive to fund retirements from April 28 to May 16, arguing such leadership is essential across creeds and denominations.
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Canada
Mubeeribe
Reece
Rome
United Church of Canada
United Church Pension Fund
Dominion Experimental Farms Show Science Aids Farmers
A Ottawa Citizen summary notes thirty-one Dominion experimental farms and sub-stations form a global system aiding farmers. Activities span developing early maturing vegetables, hardier roses, better jellies, and inbreeding of field corn. Recent work includes tomato and tomato byproducts, irrigation effects on onions, apricot canning trials, and high-yield wheat lines. Poultry data show laying flocks averaging 246 eggs per bird.
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Dominion
Manchuria
Ottawa Citizen
Fair Exchange Across Border Pranks Amid World War II
A historical anecdote recalls German and Swiss border troops exchanging gifts under Nazi rule. A fertilizer box to Swiss officers was returned with a platter of Swiss butter, the note praising mutual exchange of the best from each land. The tale ends with a note on misread signals and distant echoes of diplomacy.
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Empire Digest
Belgian Woman Wins George Medal For Heroic Aid To Allied
Mlle Andree de Jongh, a 20 year old Belgian artist, helped hundreds of Allied airmen and soldiers via the Comet Line from Belgium across the Pyrenees to Spain. She made 34 dangerous journeys, even swimming the Somme 20 times when no boat was available. Arrested in 1943, she endured Ravensbrück and Mauthausen. her family suffered arrest and imprisonment.
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Belgium
Pyrenees
Spain
Europe
Mlle
Andree de Jongh
Mlle de Jongh
Somme
Line
Paris
Gestapo
Germany
Ravensbruck
Mauthausen
Suzanne
Manchester Guardian
Mysterious Milk Bottle Message From Pacific Waters
A milk bottle retrieved after Pearl Harbor yielded a water soaked note. After FBI tests and acids, six words emerged stating Two quarts of milk no cream followed by a claim about the cabinet of gems in Florence Gallery Italy containing a cherry stone carved with a chorus of saints and seventy heads.
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Pacific Ocean
Pearl Harbor
FBI
Florence
Italy
World Police Force Proposed by United Nations Charter
The United Nations charter provides for a world police force with member nations offering troops and equipment as determined by the U N military staff committee. Talks have begun and a temporary force may be needed in coming months while plans are finalized. The Providence Journal notes April as the ancient Roman month.
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United Nations
U.N
Security Council
Military Staff Committee
Providence Journal
Long Flights From Canada Tie Shorebirds to Global Journeys
L Snyder of the Royal Ontario Museum explains shorebirds migrate vast distances, with Least Sandpiper nesting in northwestern Alaska and wintering in South America. Some plovers travel to Europe and Asia, and Aleutian nesters head south along the Asiatic coast, with adults migrating before the young.
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L. Snyder
Royal Ontario Museum
Arctic Circle
Alaska
South America
Europe
Asia
England
Aleutian Islands
Asiatic
Battleship Iron Duke Refloated for Last Voyage to Scrap Yard
The 24 year old HMS Iron Duke, veteran flagship of Britain’s fleet, was refloated at Orkney after being beached since October 1939. It will now sail to the scrapping yard. The ship once flew Admiral Jellicoe’s flag during the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and has waited for sale as the Second Great War opened.
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Britain
Iron Duke
Orkneys
Jutland
Jellicoe
Conflicting Views on Women Education and Skills
Robert Watson Watt argues in London that women in radio and science should receive rigorous technical training for atomic power work. Dame Louise Mellroy counters that cooking is the key subject for girls, citing malnutrition concerns and urging cooking education before other studies.
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Robert Watson Watt
Ventor
Radar
Women Engineering Society
London
Dame Low
Mellroy
Sir John Orr
Louise
Defence Is Weak Wild Game Versus Modern Hunter Equipment
The article argues that advances in firearms and optics have greatly boosted hunter effectiveness while game defenses lag. It contrasts ancient weapons like slings and bows with automatic rifles and telescopic sights, noting camouflage and speed still rely on instinct to protect game. A short Fish and Game Bulletin note mentions submarine hull sounds resembling ship noises.
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Fair Exchange
Manitobawan
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Yorkton
Sask
Albert Houston
George
Congress
Katherine Falvey
Somerville
Mass
Nuremberg
World Police Force
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Gene Byrnes
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