World Happenings Briefly Told
Major Benott leaves Ottawa for a Paris press attaché post at the Wartime Information Board. Fleming wins the Nobel Prize in medicine for penicillin. In Britain 32 of 155 blinded by bomb attacks. Lord Mayor of London elected Frank Alexander at 63. RASC motorcyclist breaks ankle to avoid Bowes-Lyon. BC buys land near Duncan for a 6,000,000-tree forest nursery. Britain expects more fish this winter. trawlers released from Navy. National Selective Service manager says postwar employment won’t drop drastically.
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GR. Benott
Wartime Information Board
Ottawa
Paris
Britain
Fshing
A.C. Bricault
Montreal
National Selective Service
No Respecter of Persons Lesson on Acts and Peter
Devotional lesson on Acts 10 34 35 Luke 10 25 37 and 17 22 31 noting that God accepts all who fear him and do righteousness Peter learns that Jewish purity laws do not apply to people when God cleanses what he calls common A vision of unclean animals leads to the inclusion of Gentiles in the church at Cornelius house and confirms the abolition of ethnic barriers in God’s plan
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Peter
God
Ges
Joppa
Meders
Sita
Palestine
Jerusalem
Simon the
Petey
Innes
Ghote
Cornelius Tuved
Cuenaren
Cornelian
Mary
Children skate on German occupation playgrounds
The final months of the German occupation of Belgium saw children using newly built concrete highways as playgrounds and for skittering, as German transport moved along these routes.
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Belgium
Reciprocal military tribunals stated for US Canada UK
The Federal Gazette reports a presidential order granting Canada the United Kingdom and the United States reciprocal rights to hold their own military tribunals in cases affecting their armed forces on U S soil. The order also grants the United States similar powers over its forces in Canada and the United Kingdom, and was formalized in publication after being in effect for some time.
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Canada
United Kingdom
United States
Federal Gazette
Washington
Nazis Plan New Flying Fields Outside Germany
Allied governments report that Nazi interests are seeking to bypass postwar aviation limits by establishing airlines abroad. Secret inquiries have been made in two neutral nations to invest in flying grounds and potential new airfields to form a future Luftwaffe.
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Germany
London Daily Sketch
British Lancasters Ready To Cross Atlantic As Civil Airliners
British Information says Lancasters, four Rolls Merlin engines, have bomb carrying capacity about double any other machine. They can be converted to carry 30 to 50 passengers and, with long range and high speed, would become world leading civil airliners as soon as the war ends.
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Atlantic
Japan orders compulsory sale of family platinum
Tokyo radio reports the functions ministry has ordered the compulsory sale of all family platinum to offset an essential war material shortage. The directive frames platinum as vital for national needs during the ongoing crisis.
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Japan
Tokyo Radio
Solar Converter Melts Iron in New Paraboloidal Mirror
Refugee scientist Federico Molero in Tashkent describes a paraboloidal solar converter with a 33 foot diameter reflector of window glass. He claims it can heat water to thousands of kilograms hourly or produce steam at 470 degrees Celsius able to melt iron, usable for irrigation pumps and regional cooling in sun rich areas.
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Federico Molero
Tashkent
Usbekistan
Moscow News
Molero
Central Asia
War trophies to enter Canada duty free for airmen
Hundreds of Canadian airmen plan to bring home trophies of war with duty free entry. Items include German motorbikes swastika buckles sugar pistols Mauser rifles SS Death Head badges and tin helmets. Some suggest camouflage scout cars and amphibious ducks could count as trophies of war.
Father Learns Of Son's Death In Battle
A father, told his rector his brilliant son was killed in battle and asked where God was. The rector answered that God was where He was when His own Son was killed. The saying closes with a note on whistling swans and screech owls.
Alaska Postwar Growth Outlook Prompts Migration Hope
Governor Ernest Groening, speaking en route to Washington, predicts Alaska will gain 1,000,000 in population after the war as thousands of servicemen, inspired by northern opportunities, intend to settle there. An educational expert notes youths change vocation about four times by age 20.
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Territory of
Alaska
Ernest Groening
North
Washington, D.C
Our Crosswords Puzzle No 4007
The page presents a crossword puzzle with numbered across and down clues. Clues include moccasins cry of crow style of performance and many others referencing animals plants and common words. Answers align to classic puzzle entries and span various parts of speech and themes.
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