World Happenings Briefly Told
Chinese interests establish air and passenger service linking Chungking to Rangoon. The Treachery Act imposes the death penalty for aiding the public or enemy. The Brazilian Red Cross gifts over 30,000 pounds of sugar to Britain. BBC reports air mail link U S to New Zealand completing round world route via Australia. Griffith Brewer, aviation pioneer, elected president of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Beaverbrook says public has donated about 9.16 million dollars for British warplanes. Leiston senior school pupils contribute 585 pounds during Savings Week. Kenneth A. McLey, Edmonton native and longtime Vancouver contractor, dies at his home.
Scrap Drive Fueled by War Effort Across Ontario
Scrap metal from helmet trophies to tin foil for Red Cross funds is collected as children stage circuses and garage sales for ambulance funds. Women. and men organize drives, with Hamilton Scouts selling scrap for 700 dollars to aid Red Cross and home guard while Toronto forms Save Your Scrap League and Port Credit women prepare 3090 tins of jam for soldiers in Britain.
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Red Cross
Ontario
Kitchener
Stratford
Hamilton
Home Guard
Save Your
Toronto
Port Credit
Britain
Man Wins Suit Over Tennis Club Ball Discomfort
C. M. DeYoung sued a Halifax tennis club for nuisance after members continuously hit balls into his yard causing substantial discomfort. The court awarded him damages of $100, confirming the club’s responsibility for the nuisance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. M. DeYoung
Halifax
N.S
Maps Shape War Time Curiosity Through History
The piece traces how geography interest surged during conflict from Anaximander to Mercator and Strabo, noting Rome’s roads and Islam’s Crusades. It cites that 40 years ago African interior maps were still labeled unknown, framing maps as evolving with science and exploration.
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Narvik
Beverioe
Rethel
Norway
Split
Petsamo
Hansa
Famagusta
Memel
Murmansk
Albania
Babylon
Egypt
Phoenicia
Anaximander
Strabo
Ptolemy
Italy
Malta
Cyprus
Palestine
Mercator
Africa
Manchester Guardian
Girls' style has waistband by Anne Adams
This Winnipeg pattern notice promotes Anne Adams pattern 4495 for girls and juniors in sizes 8 10 12 14 and 16. It highlights a front pointed waistband a flaring skirt panel two neckline options pockets bows lace or ric rac edging and two sleeve styles. Instructions include fabric amounts lace edging price twenty cents and where to send orders to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Temporary silos built fast to save surplus crops
Farmers can quickly create several kinds of temporary silos to prevent feed loss. Trench and pit silos topped with straw and soil have long been used, while modern practice includes three or four rounds of snow fence lined with roofing or heavy building paper.
Ban on Ship Ping Affects North China Goat Farmers
North China farmers refuse to raise goats and sheep citing a ban on ship ping of livestock. The measure pressures herdsmen, disrupting local markets and futures.
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North China
British patents protect inventors only in the British Isles
A regional patent rule in force limits inventor protection to the British Isles rather than the entire British Empire. The policy implies inventors may need separate protections for colonies or dominions beyond Britain. Analysts note potential gaps in imperial IP coverage.
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British Isles
Empire
Tin types and Byrd cruiser in global and local notes
Sidewalk tintype photographers pitch paper prints at 15 cents and rapid delivery. Admiral Byrd's heavy snow cruiser fails in Antarctic conditions but may work when the ice freezes solid. In Western Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, youths join Junior Achievement to form small companies with sponsor support, learning business through real production and sales practices. Paganini centennial notes recount his legendary prowess and tales of demonic myth around his virtuosity.
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Admiral Byrd
Antarctic
South Pole
Charles Meyer
Meyer
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Government Turns Old Letters To Cartridge Wads
The British government launches a program to repurpose discarded materials. Old love letters become cartridge wads and meat bones are processed into explosives, with tin recycled for tanks and garden tools converted into weapons. Supply Minister Herbert Morrison announces the drive to make every item useful.
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Herbert Morrison
Vancouver Man 77 Seeks RCAF Pilot Role
Edwin Baggs of Vancouver, age 77, offers his services for Empire defence. Rejected for World War I service due to age, he writes Air Minister Power claiming peak fitness and urging a pilot role. Power replies that RCAF age limit for pilots is 28.
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Edwin Baggs
Vancouver
Air
Power
Baggs
Empire Defence
Royal Canadian Air Force
Sunday School Lesson on Gods Law and Souls
The devotion centers Psalm 19's description of Gods law as perfect and reviving the soul. It contrasts the old Testament Scriptural authority with an emphasis on God’s majesty, sin, and the path to repentance through Christ’s Incarnation as taught by R Bruce Taylor and biblical references Psalm 19 Psalm 119 Psalm 11 1-6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philips Brooks
Christ
God
R Bruce Taylor
No Longer Free France vows no quarter to totalitarianism
The Christian Science Monitor argues that democracy cannot tolerate fascist aggression. It warns that fascist leaders will target free institutions and collaborators, asserting that France’s ideal of Liberte Egalite Fraternite endures beyond Nazi phrases and remains a universal beacon for liberty.
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France
Europe
Paris
Christian Science Monitor
Synthetic rubber via US oil wells touted by Dr Gustave Egloff
Nationally known petroleum scientist Dr Gustave Egloff asserts the United States can produce all the rubber it needs from its oil wells. He estimates potential synthetic rubber supply at 200 billion pounds, about 200 times the natural rubber used domestically last year.
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Gustave Egloff
United States
Canadian dairy output valued at 1939 figures with declines
Dairy products produced in Canada in 1939 are estimated to value 217 716 029 dollars, down 8 439 267 or 3.7 percent from 1938. All provinces reported declines except British Columbia. The Venezuelan government cut import duties on crude rubber and related fabrics to promote a tyre plant is set up in that country.
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Canada
British Columbia
Needs No Runway Plane Demonstrated At Willow Grove
The Pitcairn Autogiro Company showcased a rotor craft that takes off without a runway in Willow Grove Pennsylvania. Harold F. Pitcairn described the aircraft as independent of ground obstacles and as needing only one eighth the space of a standard field for takeoff and landing. The "jump take-off" allows vertical rise about 20 feet before a normal climb, with potential use in military scouting and contact work.
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Willow Grove
Pitcairn Autogiro Company
American Rotor Plane
Manufac
Harold F. Pitcairn
Giro
Farmer fences 15 acres to protect wildlife on ND farm
A North Dakota farmer plans a 15 acre enclosure to nest and shield wild life including grouse Hungarian partridge pheasants and other birds. He believes the habitat will help control farm insect problems.
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North Dakota
Torpedoes Travel Fast in British and Canadian Navies
A type of torpedo used by the British and the Royal Canadian Navies features a hollow steel body and an explosive head. It is cylindrical, 22 feet long, 21 inches in diameter, and weighs over one and a half tons. It travels at about 50 miles per hour.
Night driving hazards and safety measures from 1939 report
The report notes 19,200 US deaths in 1938 night driving and 1,545 in Canada. It cites low headlight efficiency, improper aiming, and glare as key hazards, urges sealed beam lamps, cleaner lenses, correct high and low beam use, and improved city lighting to cut fatalities. It warns against delaying lights to late darkness and calls for safer signage and further studies.
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United States
Readers invited to request cancer articles free of charge
Editorial note invites readers to obtain a set of articles on the Cause and Control of Cancer from The Health League of Canada W.N.Y. Dept. at 111 Avenue Road Toronto. Request by writing Please send me Dr. McCullough's articles on Cancer and print name and address clearly.
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The
Health League of Canada
Dept. W.N.Y
111 Avenue Road
Toronto
Ont
Flag display urged as war effort in Brantford Expositor
The Brantford Expositor urges Canadians to fly flags to show patriotic spirit during wartime. The piece argues the Union Jack embodies ideals worth showcasing in Canada and inspires Britons and Americans visiting the country.
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Brantford Expositor
Jamaica Ships Over One Hundred Thousand Banana Bunches
Jamaica sent more than 1 100 000 banana bunches to foreign markets in the first five months of the year, reflecting strong export activity with bananas as a key commodity and major trading partners amid growing demand.
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Jamaica
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Chungking
China
Rangoon
Burma
Senate
Brazilian Red Cross
British Red Cross
British Broadcasting Corporation
New Zealand
Australia
Grifith Brewer
Royal Aeronautical Society
Lord Beaverbrook
Leiston
England
Kenneth A. McLey
Edmonton
Alberta
Mickie
Coney Island
Junor Achievement
Nicolo Paganini
Paganni
Paganini
Satan
Henn Ernst
Word OF God
Hickey Rooney
Wiley
Ben
Gear
Rutherford
Turer
New York, N. Y
Fay Holden
Hardy
Filey Padan
Judy Garland
Andy
Diana Lewis
Lewis Stone
J. W. S. McCullough
Sape Driving
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