Russian cargo ship underlines women doctors at sea
Dr Vera Ivanovitch Baden, a 7 year old in a rare description, serves as medical officer aboard a Russian cargo ship in Burrard Dry Dock Vancouver for repairs. She is joined by a largely female crew with young officers and a strict government education policy highlighted by the interview.
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Burrard Dry Dock Company
Vancouver
Vera Ivanovitch Baden
University of Tomsk
New Siberia
Vera
Mona Clark
Russia
Heart Locus of Courage: Sargeon Survives Shell Fragment
An infantry sergeant treated for a chest wound carries on duties for four months with a half-ounce steel fragment still lodged in his heart. X ray discovery led to surgery that freed the slug. three months later he walked out fully recovered. Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps officers cite such cases to show heart resilience and medical skill.
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Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Ottawa Journal
Monty's bold team beats German visitors 35 to 0
As a young lieutenant in India, Montgomery chose a full British side for a courtesy match against the German warship Griesenau. The British dominated 35 to 0, prompting a stern rebuke from the regimental commander who questioned the selectivity.
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Montgomery
India
Griesenau
Monty
London Daily Express
Prohibit Eviction Urged for Soldiers Families in Toronto
The Toronto District Trades and Labor Council asked the federal government to ban evictions of servicemen families. A resolution by the municipal committee warned of a dangerous situation, urging wartime housing to build enough homes and Ontario to enact special legislation for low rental housing to shelter soldiers families.
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Toronto
Ontario
Forest Fire Opens Seed Bank In Pine Cones
A forest fire passing through pine timber leaves seeds unharmed inside cones, ready to germinate and start a new crop of trees once conditions allow regrowth.
Guam Island Thirty Miles Long and Strategic Description
Guam the southernmost of the Marianas is a 225 square mile island with rugged southern hills and arid northern plateau. Agana sits on a bay on the east. Apra harbor forms a key western port. Ceeded to the United States after the Spanish American War, Guam fell to Japan four days after Pearl Harbor in 1941, becoming the first U.S. possession lost in World War II.
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Guam
Pearl Harbor
Marianas
Agana
Apra Harbor
San Francisco
Wake Island
Hong Kong
Manila
Yokohama
Tokyo
U.S. Navy Department
United States
Spain
Paris
U.S. Navy
U.S
Too Far Away The Globe Examines Pacific Bombing
The Detroit News editorial argues B 29 raids offer a decisive way to bring the war to Japan yet notes great distances from allied bases limit mass bombing effectiveness. It weighs landing points near Formosa and the Shantung peninsula, Japan’s industry, and the strategic value of blockading the China Sea to shorten the war.
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Detroit News
Globe
Pacific
Japan
England
Italy
Russia
Europe
Asia
Luzon
Formosa
Tokyo
China
Germany
Shantung Peninsula
Chicago
Boston
Eliot
China Sea
Jao
British colonial research fellowships to train scientists abroad
A program offering 25 colonial research fellowships funds training of scientists in medicine sociology fisheries animal husbandry archaeology and related fields at British expense. Fellows from Commonwealth and Empire may study with complete freedom of inquiry, two year stipends around 1600 dollars, and schemes include African languages hydrographic surveys and Jamaica coconut research.
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Commonwealth
Empire
Jamaica
Ottawa Citizen
Flag For Eisenhower D plus one day
While aboard a small British naval craft near the enemy coast Eisenhower found no General's flag. The Yeoman of Signals found a red flag and added four white stars. The flag was raised on the bridge beside Admiral Ramsey's St George Cross flag.
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Eisenhower
Yeoman
Admiral Ramsey
Britain
Farm Accident Toll High in Canada Says Survey
The Collingwood Enterprise News notes that preventable farm accidents are highly prevalent in Canada with hundreds killed and thousands injured yearly. Machinery and livestock are major causes, with falls also common. Emphasizes safety, fire hazard checks, and avoiding labor shortages to protect food production.
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Canada
Collingwood Enterprise News
Six Crops A Year From Steam Soil On 11 Acre Scottish Farm
A British farm near Edinburgh uses steam warmed soil to grow six to eight crops annually, a system called soil sterilization. David Lowe and his brothers heat soil for 85 minutes, fertilize heavily, and harvest lettuce, turnips, carrots, cauliflower, leeks, radishes, celery, onions, marrows, cucumbers, beans, and tomatoes. The operation expands to 40 more acres as surveys plan the new plots.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Jack Tait
New York Herald Tribune
David Lowe
British Isles
Women calculate wartime material needs in 30-member group
A group of thirty women chosen for their mathematical skill handled all calculations for war material needs in the invasion effort. A correspondent notes typewriter legibility as a drawback, while Radio News reports a shellac shortage spurring synthetic shel lac for phonograph records and longer lasting new records.
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Vera Ivanovitch Sadon
Paul L. Davoud
D.F.C
Kingston
Normandy
Edmonton
Davoud
Royal Air Force
Royal Canadian Air Force
France
R.c.af
Gen. Montgomery
Robert Fulton
Napoleon
Guam Island
Marianas Group
North Sea
Baltic
Slovakia
Bulgaria
Black Sea
Supreme War Council
Madrid
Hitler
Balkans
Norway
Baltics
Ene
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