World War II Happenings Briefly Told
Lt-Gen. FB Morgan, British officer who planned the western front invasion, has been enlightened. Canada will emerge from the war with electric power production facilities 21 percent higher than 1939, according to munitions officials. The air ministry announced Joseph Berry, who brought down 60 planes in the Battle of London. Australia will continue postwar plane production for defence and civil aviation. Sen. Donald Cameron, aircraft production minister, noted Black market penalties totaling $500000 paid by New England rationing violators. The de Gaulle regime said 1496 Frenchmen killed and 7552 wounded at Paris barricades during the liberation battle. Sir James Grigg reports German desecration of churches. Nazi authorities warned against desertion. Royal Indian Navy personnel now exceed outbreak figures fifteenfold, Indian officers rising in command. A Johannesburg medical collection features a Livingstone pill bottle for interior fever treatment.
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Royal Indian Navy
Johannesburg
South Africa
David Livingstone
Not Wanted Here and Hidden Prices in War Time
A wartime column contrasts Allied soldiers in Naples facing steep local prices with Canada fearing price instability. It warns readers to monitor community spending, underscoring price controls as a fence against inflation while noting Romania’s beech forests and Paraguay’s rain rule as side facts.
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Germany
Canada
Edna Jacques
British pilot Geoffrey Cheshire earns Victoria Cross honor
Wing Commander Geoffrey L. Cheshire of the British Royal Air Force, aged 27, is awarded the Victoria Cross Britain's top gallantry decoration. He also holds the Distinguished Service Order with two bars and the Distinguished Flying Cross, highlighting a record of exceptional valor and achievement.
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Geoffrey L. Cheshire
Royal Air Force
Britain
Cmdr
Cheshire
Big Ben Broadcasts From Clock Signal Empire’s Tune
The first Big Ben broadcast aired December 31, 1923, and since then the clock itself has provided the signal. A microphone above the hour bell at Broadcasting House in London allows instant transmission for BBC listeners across the Empire up to 43 daily broadcasts.
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BBC
Big Ben
Broadcasting House
London
British Broadcasting Corporation
Light of the world lesson on blindness and works of God
Sunday School lesson centers on John 6 12 and related scriptures. It discusses Jesus healing a man blind from birth, challenging disciples assumptions about sin and suffering, and stressing that divine works are to be manifested in life while daylight remains. The devotional reflects on Jesus urgency to complete his mission.
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Ianiah
Corinthians
Ephesians
Jesus
Job
God
Resourceful Scientist Scored Radium From War Time Ruin
During the Leningrad siege a radium shortage affected the front. A building with twenty years of radium use was scraped clean and plaster removed to extract substantial radium from waste. The responsible scientist received the Order of Red Banner of Labor.
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Leningrad
Soviet Information Service
Order of Red Banner of Labor
Australian War Charities Use Queen's Fund For War Help
In 1942 the Queen's Canadian Fund allocated £5000 for Australian air raid relief but unused funds were redirected to Australian war charities. The first £1000 financed a new Missions to Seamen Club at Williamstown Melbourne, opened by T Davis the Canadian High Commissioner.
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Queen's Canadian Fund
Australia
Wiliamstown
Melbourne
T. Davis
Crossword Puzzle Clues From Our Paper Page
A clipped crossword puzzle list presents obsolete clue fragments and partial answers including obscured numbers and broken words such as Great Lake War god Biblical heroine Greek letter Samos seaport Solar disc and several garbled entries indicating missing letters and uneven typography from an old newspaper page.
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Great Lake
Samos
Seaport
Odin
Also Mentioned on This Page
FB Morgan
Ofcer
Munitions Department
Sydn Lnr
Joseph Berry
Air Ministry
Donald Cameron
Ald
New England
de Gaulle
Paris
James Grigg
France
Allied
Italy
Naples
Texas
Romania
Paraguay
Jesus the Light OF the World
By William Ferguson
Sho Ey
Reio Luginguel
VINIT
Helahoma
Gene Byrn
South Amer
Zoaiae Fean
Meraial
By Fred Neher
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