World Happenings Briefly Told
The Risting Iceland dissolves parliament and calls general elections for June 20. Churchill era notes include church elections postponed to autumn and royal moves to York House. British crewmen arrested in Hakodate for photography in a fortified zone. Canadian pension applications congestion cleared with 601 before quorums. Winnipeg urges Dominion loan of $400,000 and housing aid of $100,000 to ease slums and unemployment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hakodate
Japan
Canadian Pension Commission
Manitoba
Winnipeg
The
Dominion
Estate Taxes Debate Over John J S Role in Taxation
Windsor Star argues against imposing estate taxes on successful individuals. It contends the state provided opportunities, not credit, and that a hardworking person like John J. paid taxes, funded employment, supported charities, and aided public projects, only to be asked to surrender wealth after death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J
Windsor Star
Durability of World Peace Tied to Democracy and Cooperation
President Roosevelt told the Pan-American Union board that durable peace rests on continued maintenance and improvement of democracy. He warned that insecurity breeds militarism and restricts freedoms, urging mutual confidence and positive cooperation as essential guarantees of international peace.
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Roosevelt
Americas
New Canadian Coins To Feature King VI Portrait And Voyageur
Finance Minister Charles Dunning announced a new Canadian coin series this year. Denominations range from one cent to one dollar and will bear the king’s effigy designed by T. H. Paget with minting in London and Paris. Each reverse has distinct wildlife and symbols including a Voyageur canoe, caribou, fishing schooner, beaver, and maple twig, with the year and edge grain.
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Charles Dunning
Ottawa
King VI
T. H. Paget Mint
London
Wo. Sya
Itos
Canady
Paris
Canada
Ensigns Armorial of
Home Improvement Plan Aims to Build Home Consciousness
The Home Improvement Plan promotes a home consciousness as a remedy for neglected home comforts. It links improved housing with construction employment and relief relief-to-work schemes, urging building trades to act quickly to boost jobs and local economies. Woodstock Sentinel-Review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion
Canada
Woodstock
London wife appeals to queen over husband missing in Singapore
Appeals to Queen Elizabeth are made by Mrs Alice Barnett of London seeking the return of her husband from Singapore where he was ordered as a soldier three days after their marriage. He is to remain in Singapore until 1942 as the couple hopes for reunion. A relic from Egypt, a 3,000 year old face cream jar, is noted as a curious aside about wrinkles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Barnett
London
Queen Elizabeth
Singapore
Barnett
Egypt
Fishing Ban Lifted Allows Sturgeon Catch in Manitoba Lakes
E. M. Stevenson announces lifting a decade long ban enabling sturgeon fishing in two northern Manitoba lakes and the Nelson River. Quotas set at Lake Winnipeg 100000 pounds Cedar Lake 20000 pounds and the Nelson River 50000 pounds near Hudson Bay. The meeting followed ten years apart.
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Manitoba
E. M. Stevenson
Lake Winnipeg
Cedar Lake
Nelson River
Hudson Bay
Charming Miss in Pattern 4366 Sewn for Boston Girl
Anne Adams Pattern 4366 offers shirring details with two rows of shirring on a demure round neckline yoke and puffed or flared sleeves. The pattern includes fabrics in floral prints voile eyelet batiste silk crepe and more with sizes 12 through 40. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for order details.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Glacier Priest Plans 11th Northland Expedition
Reverend Bernard R. Hubbard the Glacier Priest announces a year and a half long expedition to King Island in the Bering Sea to seek a preventative for tuberculosis in collaboration with Dr. Victor Levine. They will study 190 tuberculosis afflicted Eskimos using seal oil as a basis for potential remedies.
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Bernard R. Hubbard
King Island
Bering Sea
Victor Levine
Creighton University
Omaha
Neb
Call of Abraham and the faith to obey the call
Devotional study traces Abraham’s call from Ur to Canaan, the promise to make him a great nation, and his faithful obedience at Haran and beyond. The lesson emphasizes faith, divine prompting, and the founding of Israel through Abraham for world blessing. It notes Terah's death at Haran and states Abraham was 75 when he set out with Sarai to Canaan.
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Palestine
Abraham
Terah
Haran
Jehovah
God
Professor Kent
Hamon
Israel
Christ
Sarai
Canaan
Airplanes Of The Future A Winged, Tailless Concept
Lawrence D. Bell, Buffalo airplane maker, envisioned a flying wing with no fuselage weighing fifty to five hundred tons and speeds over two hundred miles per hour. Passengers would sit in the wing, engines fourfold, reducing parasitic drag and aiming to render dirigibles obsolete.
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Lawrence D. Bell
Buffalo
Kindness in Social Service Advocated by UK Official
Sir Francis Floud told the Victorian Order of Nurses meeting that 20 percent ofEngland’s people are underfed and 25 percent of families live in one room. He urged personal and voluntary aid beyond taxes to ease deprivation. He noted Britain’s limited telephones and medical instruments.
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Francis Floud
United Kingdom
Victorian Order of Nurses’ Board of Directors
England
Lre
V.O.N
Gardening tips for spring lawn and flower bed care
Readers are advised to use started annuals from seed stores or florists to fill gaps among tulips and bulbs. Quick growing annuals help beds after a harsh winter while fall plantings and late season perennials may come cheaper. Maintain weed control, fertilize yearly, and use sharp mowers for early cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Defence Against Air Attack New Method By Which Britain Is Able To Deal With Hostile Phlines
An extraordinary report from Halifax Chronicle describes a perfected range finder that directs anti aircraft shells to moving targets with unerring accuracy. It claims to have zero misses during tests in 1918 against fourteen German raiders and during maneuvers with fifteen shots at fifteen moving objects. The device is electrically controlled and supposedly makes flying safer, reshaping air warfare prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
London
Halifax Chronicle
Louise Boyd Plans Arctic Sea Floor Mapping Expedition
San Francisco heiress Louise A. Boyd, already decorated for Arctic work, will sail from a Norwegian port aboard the Veslekar to chart the sea bottom north of Norway and test for a submarine ridge linking Greenland and Spitzbergen. She will be photographer on the voyage.
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San Francisco Society
Louise A. Boyd
Veslekar
Norway
Greenland
Spitzbergen
Miss Boyd
Joad Amundsen
The
Hobby
Dirigiie Italia
Amundsen
Boyd
Franz Josef Land
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Risting
Chtef
Otto Dietrich
National Zeitung
Fasen
Committee of Imperial Defence
Hitler
Duke of Gloucester
York House
St. James's Palace
Duke of Windsor
Prince of Wales
Patth
Great Britain and Ireland
San Francisco
South America
Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
Henry VI
Eton
King’s College
Cambridge
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