Harvest scrap drive urged by Canadian Harvester dealers
International Harvester Company of Canada announces a Dominion wide scrap collection drive from farms through 3 000 dealer led depots. Farmers bring scrap metal to local depots for quick shipment to war factories. no fees or commissions are charged, farmers paid promptly. The campaign has official sanction and aims to speed steel production for guns tanks and other war materiel.
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Farme
H.C. Ray
International Harvester Company of Canada, Limited
International Harvester
Jay
J.T. Thorson
Department of National War Services
Harvester Company
Ray
J. T Thorson
National War Services
International Harvester Company of Canada
Lumited
Canada
A. W. Wright
W. O. Maxwell
World happenings briefly told
BBC dispatch reports Red army and civilians ready for gas warfare. Belgian Congo vice governor says tin production to triple with rubber and quinine output rising. Tin size reductions for canned seafood and ban on tinplate for clam chowder packaging announced. Rosa Mark of Toronto and his ter Mrs Moon Mark escape Hong Kong and are safe in Chungking. Alan King 16 earns Scout Silver Medal for raid bravery in Islington. Katowice may be moved 30 miles south by Germans to exploit coal deposits. Quisling Norwegian Nazi party split leads to district leaders deposed and sent to camps.
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BBC
Moscow
Red Army
Belgian Congo
Rosa Mark
Toronto
Philip Chai
Hong Kong
Chungking
Moon Mark
Cable
Katowice
Upper Silesia
Reuters
Stockholm
Quisling
Nazi Party
Real Patriotism Polish Mother Gave Dead Son Insurance Cheque
A Polish immigrant mother in Creson Pennsylvania refused a $5000 federal life insurance payout for her son who died in the Battle of Java. She said the government needed the money and that she and her coal miner husband could get along without it. The Miami Herald notes her sacrifice as a warning against grumbling over rationing.
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Creson
Batte
Java
Miami Herald
Snorre the Seal Fable Tops Norwegain Sale Before Nazi Crackdown
A historical note describes an allegorical children's tale Snorre the Seal selling well in Norway until German authorities detected the allegory. The tale features a small seal captured by a killer whale, aided by Uncle Walrus from England, who outsmarts the whale and is freed. Sea gulls named Quislings with red eye marks betray the seal, culminating in the killer whale’s capture in a rock fissure.
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Norway
Snorre
Germany
Walrus
England
Cain
Sunday School Lesson Reflects Passover and Lord's Supper
A brief lesson discusses Luke 22 passages detailing Jesus sharing the Passover with disciples, instituting the Lord's Supper, and the betrayal announcement. It links the old covenant deliverance with the new covenant sacrifice and notes the close timing to Christ's impending suffering.
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Jesus
Dack
Egypt
A. E. Garvie
John
Matthew
Mark
There Are More Than Forty Square Miles of Glaciers on Rainier
An article notes Mount Rainier hosts over 40 square miles of glacier ice. The detail appears amid a narrative about an actor and his son discussing a tailor shop order and fabric.
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Tommy
Mount Rainier
Regular students train troops in army education lectures
The article notes more than one million troops attend army education lectures with about twenty thousand aiming to become professionals such as doctors, bankers, lawyers and engineers. It also cites a ballistic example and factory water usage for air purification in shipyard paint shops.
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Alan King
Islington
London
Reg'la
R Fellers
Mickie
The
Dominion
Oie
Paper Producte
Racor
Gene Byrnes
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