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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 12, 1945
Page
4
Sir Harold Spencer Jones says Greenwich mean time now relies on two distant observatories in the country. Quartz crystal clocks replace pendulum timepieces, offering about one thousandth of a second accuracy in 24 hours, a major wartime and postwar advance.
Lowell Thomas revealed in a recent broadcast how the Soviet government honored its obligations in a 1941 food shipment dispute. Moscow requested 90 days to ship gold to the value of 6,000, but allied actions delayed the deal. A new 90 day extension led to gold arriving via Alaska and U S planes, with treasury officials preventing loss of the heavy cargo. The Moscow regime is praised for honoring its own debts while the Czarist debts were never fulfilled says the St. Catharines Standard.
A Toronto reader recalls a Woodstock tale from 1834 where a grieving husband inscribed a memorial for his wife claiming she was all that a wife should be. The rector doubted the claim and the inscription briefly vanished with the coffin before being reburied and still visible today.
The Red Navy Handbook lists the 29 150 ton battleship Royal Sovereign later named Archangel after delivery from Great Britain to Russia during World War I. It also notes accompanying destroyers, submarines, and U S vessels lent to Russia including Milwaukee and mine sweeping craft. The U S Navy confirmed a cruiser was lend leassed to Russia last June.
East Suffolk chief constable Lieutenant Colonel A F Senior told the County Standing Joint Committee that crime had risen by three hundred percent since 1938. Indictable offences reached 1,988 last year, a county record, with youths under seventeen responsible for nearly one third of crimes.
At one time Spain asserted exclusive rights to navigate the northern Pacific and issued a ban on other nations trading in those waters.
Ensign S Jerome Tamkin, 18, of Los Angeles, a former UC student, is credited with an explosive gas detector that automatically activates safety devices when it detects any gas. He began work at the United States Rubber Company plant in Los Angeles and, after nightly lab time, produced the detector in three months. The invention, valued at $10,000 a year, can be used on ships, aircraft, garages or battlefields to prevent explosions.
Lulu Farley of Canoe Lake Ontario drives a dog team eight miles daily to Smoke Lake to pick up mail weathering rain snow and subzero. Her father Everett Farley is postmaster. Dogs Balto Ralto Togo Sammy and Selah haul mail through frozen bushman trails to the hangar four miles from town.
A Quebec beaver, timed by a stopwatch, powered through two inches of branch using a 50 second effort while dam building. X ray skull studies reveal efficient biting: upper incisors form a semicircular arc and lower incisors run full length, anchoring under molars. Insects have hinged jaws that bite inward like pincers, while wasps pulp wood for nests.
The EC Electric Company confronts gas leaks and theft affecting Vancouver mains. An employee recounts a case where a man tapped in below the meter and used gas freely until during a cold spell he complained of low pressure, prompting a service visit that uncovered the fraud.
General MacArthur in a Philippines communique reports only 18 Japanese captured, with 4,215 killed and hundreds sealed in tunnels and caves. The text also notes 675 cases, 136 of which were killed.
A Victoria Colonist report notes a Douglas fir reaches full size after about 200 years with a three to four foot diameter at 150 years and that no process can hasten its growth. The piece also mentions that only five per cent of Filipinos are employed in industry, largely around Manila.
A new commission led by Albert Hernaux to locate and recover art stolen by the Nazis operates with Allied support. Floriscono serves as secretary general while Louvre curators join the effort. Francis H. Taylor estimates losses at 2.0 to 2.5 billion dollars, largely from Jewish dealers and families, with Jacques Jaujard credited for maintaining clues.
A Tokyo radio broadcast reports Japan has formed The Association of the 20 Years' War led by former foreign minister Hachiro Arita. The group pledges to continue the war for the next twenty years as public sentiment grows there. Spinach is traced to Persian roots and entered Europe around the 15th century.
Guided crossing troops forged across the lower Rhine with air support from the City of Toronto Reconnaissance Squadron. Unarmed Spitfires at 25 000 to 30 000 feet photo mapped 16 000 square miles of Germany over a month. FO Paul Barton of Oshawa supplied a pivotal dispatch shifting attack plans. Tony Stephens of Leader Sask and G A Hozy of Scarboro Junction Ont handled high altitude photo work under heavy flak and fighters.
The article details the collaboration of George Wright of the University of Toronto with Dr. J. H. Ross Dr. S Sutherland and WE Machmann on producing RDX the highly potent explosive. It notes the 1940 41 start at Toronto and the 1942 adoption by the United States leading to large scale production and export.
The New York Times argues China shows the strongest communist bid, claiming control over vast populations and a peasant society, while Yugoslavia is seen as guided by an avowed Communist Marshal Tito despite non Communist nomenclature. It notes the Spanish Civil War Republican leadership was Communist.
Parsley, now common as a garnish, was valued by ancient Greeks as a victory wreath. The herb tied to triumph and honor in early athletic and ceremonial contexts is noted in historical accounts.
A London Daily News fragment portrays five year old Hugh Caldwell from Ayr Scotland showing unusual skill at a blacksmith shop. The boy acts as an apprentice, lifting a Clydesdale gelding’s hind leg and paring a hoof with ease. He stands three feet five inches tall and weighs about fifty pounds.
W J Botwright a North Bay ski shop owner reports finding two and a quarter ounces of a mysterious metal in furnace ashes over two weeks. A jeweler says the alloy resembles silver but questions its origin in coal. A sample is sent to Hamilton for analysis. Nearby residents joke about husbands cleaning furnaces.
Mrs. Maria Page Bristoy of Charleston road Eastbourne died aged 90 after being told at 17 she would not live long. She moved to Eastbourne, married a cousin two years later, and outlived her husband by 22 years with 11 children, five surviving. The note appeared in the London Daily Sketch.
In the House of Commons Prime Minister Church calls a plan "silly" while Sir William Brass argues Allies should keep a four square mile ruined zone in Germany as a permanent war record. The controversial proposal targets territory badly bombed since 1939 as a reminder of the start of the war.
The British order of the Bath was instituted by King Henry I. The order required every man to serve himself thoroughly before receiving the accolade.
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