Chinese Patience and Russian Dandelion Rubber Story
A Scottish trader extols Chinese patience in rebuilding industry after Japanese advances, recounting a 500 mile boiler haul with a slow two miles a day. A Times-Journal report on Soviet kok-saghys dandelion rubber notes its climate resilience and 7-9 percent root rubber yield, with potential 200 pounds per acre, aiding rubber independence.
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London
China
Sgt. Thomas Times-Journal
Soviet Union
Russia
Sprivachenko
Bukanevitch
Central Asia
Titenshan
Russian Turkestan
Moscow
Rodin
Georgi Pavioff
Agro-Technical Administration
Pavloff
New War Ailments Delve Into Shelter Foot And Immersion Foot
London physician Dr. Raymond Greene in Modern Medicine cites shelter foot as a civilian war ailment from air raid shelter confinement. Symptoms include leg swelling pain red shiny skin, linked to prolonged seated rest and knee pressure from deck chairs. Immersion foot affects sailors from time spent in cold water, causing numbness swelling and severe pain due to poor circulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Raymond Greene
Modern Medicine Magazine
Greene
Remarkable Career of D Cyril James Tours London
Londoners learn from D Cyril James now visiting from Canada. Born in London and trained at Barclays Bank he shifted to shipping and academia in the United States. He served as Professor of Political Economy at McGill and became its Principal and Vice-Chancellor. He chairs Canada’s Reconstruction Committee and seeks British postwar planning insights.
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D. Cyril James
Canada
London
Barclays Bank
America
University of Pennsylvania
United States
McGill University
James
Dominion Committee of Reconstruction
London Daily Sketch
Gave Us Civilization A Sun tribute to Greece on Greece 1821 anniversary
The Chicago Sun recalls Greece’s 1821 revolt ending Turkish rule and credits ancient Greeks with civilization. It praises Greek democracy philosophy and military prowess and urges perseverance as today’s Greece fights oppression toward a victorious outcome.
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Chicago Sun
Greece
Edgar Allen Poe
Helen
Olympus
Thermopylae
Chicago
Impertinent Bus Boy Wins Irish Sweepstakes
Orson Welles references a Dublin bus boy who won 5000 pounds in the Irish sweepstakes. When asked if he would quit, he replies he will stay employed and become awfully impertinent. The note mentions Japanese fishermen and a viewer’s discovery. Insects have eyes with thousands of facets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orson Welles
Ireland
Churchill Orders Brief Government Communications
The British prime minister orders all government and departmental writings to be concise. President Roosevelt faced similar complaints of polysyllabic prose and rewrote a technical blackout memo to urge clearer wording. He advised actions to keep work going by lighting or lighting out in appropriate buildings.
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Mr. Churchill
Britain
Roosevelt
Associated Press
Washington
Hamilton Spectator
Nazis Pay Land Rewards to Fifth Columnists in Occupied Lands
Newsweek reports Germany is delivering promised land rewards to loyalists in Czecho Slovakia and Austria. In recent weeks hundreds of Austrian and Sudeten farmers have moved onto farms in Luxembourg and Northeast France, with some owners evacuated. In Ardennes resistors were met with deadly force as a farmer and his son were shot by German supervisors.
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Newsweek
Germany
Czecho-Slovakia
Austria
Luxembourg
France
Ardennes
Too Comfortable Canadians urged to back war effort harder
Harold Fair former Canadian Press London Bureau says Canada must show urgency and sacrifice warns of over comfort and danger. cites General McNaughton calling the Canadian Corps a dagger toward Berlin and praises London's stoic resolve despite bombings. He returned from 20 years abroad reporting on Britain’s troubles.
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Canada
Harold Fair
Canadian Press
London
Guelph
McNaughton
Berlin
Mr. Fair
London Bureau
Free French Welcomes 186 Youths in Britain
Charles de Gaulle greeted 186 youths from St. Pierre-Miquelon upon their arrival in Britain to join the Free French. He inspected the volunteers outside the reception centre, spoke with each person, and praised 14-year-old Rene Etcheverria as a stout-hearted fellow. Six girls from St Pierre will join Les Volontaires Francaises at a naval training school.
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St. Pierre-Miquelon
Britain
Charles de Gaulle
Rene Etcheverria
St. Pierre
Les Volontaires Francaises
Prairie Wheat Income Share Falls Across Prairies
A Dominion Bureau of Statistics review shows prairie wheat accounted for over 70 percent of cash farm income in the 1920s but 43.6 percent in 1941. Saskatchewan Led with 83.1 percent in 1926 and 56.1 in 1941, Alberta from 66.7 to 36.7, Manitoba from 46.6 to 31.9. Livestock income rose, with 1926 94.8 million to 1941 174.8 million. total prairie cash farm income fell from 539.6 million in 1926 to 385.2 million in 1941.
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Prairies
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Manitoba
Prairie
Intruder Squadron Boosts Royal Canadian Air Force Presence
The Royal Canadian Air Force expands with an intruder squadron shadowing enemy airfields in Britain. Pilots include Samuel Malatt Lilooet, Norm Mapes Raymore, and Earl Anderson Edmonton, all former teachers turned navigators. The unit, based at a Britain airfield heavily bombed in the Battle of Britain, seeks action to balance German activity.
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Royal Canadian Ai Force
Britain
Samuel Paul Malatt
Lilooet
B.C
Norm Mapes
Raymore
Sask
Earl Anderson
Edmonton
Mapes
Air Training Corps
Anderson
Clarence Scott
Tisdale
PO. Art Persian
Bowman River
Man
Churchill
Handicapped Royal Canadian Air Force Stalwart Builds Warbird Schools
Warrant Officer H. V. Clendenning of Gunton Manitoba is the only physically handicapped man to enlist in the RCAF in Canada. He joined in February 1941 and serves seven months in the motor transport section. Now foreman of works at No 1 Air Navigation School in Rivers Manitoba, he aids in engineering for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. He studied engineering at the University of Manitoba.
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H. V. Clendenning
Gunton
Man
Royal Canadian Air Force
Canada
RCAF
Department of Transport
Manitoba
Clendenning
No. 1 Air Navigation School
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Rivers
University of Manitoba
Ocean travel forecast reshapes postwar transport in Canada
Sir Edward Beatty of Canadian Pacific Railway predicts after the war air liners will replace oceans and railways may lose liners as great passenger and freight planes serve vast routes. He cites four continent air service plans and envisions planes carrying both passengers and freight to northern Canada.
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Sir Edward Beatty
Canadian Pacific Railway
Vancouver
Sir Edward
Lethbridge
Canada
Great Northland
Mussolini’s Fate and Hitler’s Hopes for Succession
The London Daily Sketch reports Hitler, fearing Mussolini’s decline, contemplates a successor to Mussolini. He is said to favor Prince Umberto, Manuel II’s heir, to unify Italy, while Mussolini appears indifferent about his posthumous legacy.
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Hitler
Mussolini
Piedmont
Emmanuel
London Daily Sketch
World Wheat Situation Mixed Across Regions
The current review notes feast and famine in global wheat markets. Abundant supplies in North and South America and Australia contrast with famine in Greece, Spain, and Ireland. Bread grain shortages exist in France and other occupied nations with rationing common across Europe including Italy.
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North
South
America
Australia
Greece
Famin
Spain
Eire
France
Europe
Italy
Canada
Canadian loaf weighs 20000 tons bought for forces
A vast bread piece described as 20 000 tons and stretching from Toronto to Toprak was purchased last year by the department of munitions and supply for the Canadian armed forces.
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Toronto
Toprak
Department of Munitions and Supply
Canadian Armed Forces
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Cyril James
C.W.A.C. Girls At New Training Centre
C.W.A.C
Ste. Anne de Bellevue
Que
J. Ritchie
Top Bank
T. Hamilton
Quebec
M. Lloyd
Winnipeg
Speaker
St. Pierre- Miquelon
R.C.A.F
No. 6
Manning Depot
A. M. Hill
Ottawa
E. A. Collier
Watson
P. G. Watson
Toron
M. Taylor
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