World Happenings Briefly Told
A block of 32 Canadian stamps from 1908 sold in London for £206. Prof Ho Massey said atomic energy will take 16 years to reach industry. Sir Herbert Baker, famed London architect, died at 83. Canada’s 1945 wool output rose to £19,626,000, up £347,000 from 1944. The Rodney may be scrapped next. Princess Margaret Rose appeared at a Bethnal Green children's club. Britain loses 20,000 people yearly to avoidable accidents. Winston Churchill gifts a Kent mansion to the British Legion for veterans. Canada launches its second national clothing drive June 17 for war-damaged Europe beneficiaries.
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Herbert Baker
London
Bank of England
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
London Daily Telegraph
Princess Margaret Rose
Bethnal Green
Britain
London News Chronicle
Sevenoaks
Kent
Eng
British Legion
Winston Churchill
Europe
Educating Canadians on Maintaining Peacetime Reserves
Brigadier G A H Trudeau urges education of the public through associations like United Service Institutes to support recruiting and sustaining naval, army, and air force reserves. He notes five reserve army commands, an active core for training, and the need to avoid isolationism as science advances.
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Canada
G. A. H. Trudeau
M.D
Brig
Trudeau
Navy
Army
Air Force
United Service Institutes
Brig. Trudeau
German scientists aided Allies with atomic hints and censorship
The article claims German nuclear physics work aided Allied progress as scientists leaked treatises abroad. It notes Allied voluntary censorship, Goebbels’ exclamation on intellectual theft, and urges Canada to back Britain while stressing the Commonwealth as a stabilizing force in a tense wartime world.
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Oscar Mollari
U.S
Britain
The
Montreal Star
Bracken
Canada
Great Britain
United States
Soviet Union
British Commonwealth
Commonwealth
Wellington's Apsley House Sells Outlook Sparks Legislation
The historic Piccadilly Apsley House once home to the Duke of Wellington is offered to the government by the present duke. The royal grant forbids new builds on the site, drawing clubs’ interest for redevelopment while the sale would require legislative action.
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London
Piccadilly
Duke of Wellington
West End
Green Park
Rotten Row
Hyde Park
Apsley House
George Tl
Great Britain
Apsley
Wellingtons
Brandon Sun
London Guild Pageantry Survives War Bonded Traditions
Substantial London pageantry persists as wartime losses fade, with the Worshipful Company of Stationers led by Ash Wednesday processions once tied to John Morton’s 1612 bequest. Though gowns and guild halls suffered in the blitz, customs endure with delegates collecting cakes or new commemorations amid altered conditions. The piece closes noting a sun spot temperature of about 4760 C, cooler than the sun’s quiet surface by roughly 1000 C.
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London
St. Paul's Cathedral
City of
Unique 1942 Queen Elizabeth paint job recalled in Canada
Canadian Paint and Varnish Magazine recalls the 10 ton paint project on the Queen Elizabeth at Esquimalt B C during 1942 conversion to troop transport. 20000 pounds of paint and 24 dozen 4 2 inch brushes valued at 4000 dollars aided camouflage and corrosion resistance for ship safety. A London firm introduces a self contained electric organ using a flat aluminium diaphragm and mains plug with cost under 1000 pounds.
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Esquimalt
B.C
Canada
St. Thomas Times-Journal
London
Exeter man buys 105-foot infantry landing craft
W. H. Hobbs of Exeter Devon England has bought a 105-foot infantry landing craft for his family. After conversion it will feature a bath hot and cold water and electric light.
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W. H. Hobbs
Exeter
Devon
England
Conservatory of Music and Art Opens for Canadian Forces
A new Conservatory of Music and Art at Aurich Germany operated by the Canadian Army Occupation Force offers 55 pupils in nine classrooms with eight German instructors. Veterans praise it as a rare opportunity to advance musical education amid wartime constraints.
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Conservatory of Music and
Aurich
Germany
Im.c.a
Super
Harvey Hodgins
Vancouver
Pte
C. J. Homick
Windsor
Ontario
Queens Own Rifles
Cpl. G. Tostowaryk
Arbakka
Manitoba
Royal Winnipeg Rifles
Frank Haufek
Winnipeg
Conservatory
Ratzeburg
Lubeck
Holland
Knights of Columbus Instrument Depot
London
Rm. L. Massey
Montreal
Canada seed potatoes to test at Vicosa Brazil
The agriculture department announced the Superior School of Agriculture at Vicosa Minas Gerais Brazil ordered a sample shipment of Canadian seed potatoes for testing in an area 2000 feet above sea level where potatoes have not been grown before.
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Agriculture Department
Superior School of Agriculture
Vicosa
Minas Gerais
Brazil
No Shortage Seen in Salt Resources Across Ontario
The editorial asserts Ontario’s salt beds lie between Goderich and Amherstburg, 1000 feet thick and spanning about 3000 square miles, enough to meet global needs for 90,000 years. It notes modern mining via brine pumping and evaporators and cites historical salt taxes and salt’s role in advancing agriculture and trade.
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Kitchener Record
Canada
Ontario
Goderick
Amherstburg
Moose Jaw
Abyssinia
Africa
Tibet
We Are a Nation of Food Wasters
The Vancouver News Herald laments wasteful eating habits and spoiling attitudes. It argues Canadians waste food, spoiling both meals and future generations. The piece notes children rejecting meals and adults overindulging while criticizing habits in restaurants. It closes with an odd note about music printing starting in 1465.
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Vancouver News-Herald
Health League backs mandatory milk pasteurization in Canada
The Health League of Canada urges provincial laws for compulsory pasteurization arguing pasteurization is safe and effective. Ontario already requires it and reports fewer milk born diseases. The group says clean milk alone is not reliably safe and promotes home methods if commercial pasteurized milk is unavailable.
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Health League of Canada
Ontario
Health League
111 Avenue Road
Toronto 45
Unknown Soldier Misconceptions Highlight Cold War Echoes
An American correspondent in Berlin reports a Russian soldier who believes Churchill is American and is unaware of Truman. In a separate vignette, a Northumberland farmer in Gladstone’s era had never heard of the statesman, underscoring gaps in public awareness.
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Berlin
Winston Churchill
President Truman
William Ewart Gladstone
Northumberland
Gladstone
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