World Happenings Briefly Told
The plane carrier Eagle and 15 other naval vessels arrived at Singapore raising the base's defenses. William McKay of Timmins. One man suffered 156 stitches after being thrown through a windshield. Dr Nicholas Murray Butler conferred honorary degrees on Earl Baldwin and four other European statesmen. Canada sees a new inflow of capital in securities in early 1939. Preliminary relief figures show 845.44 thousand people in Canada receiving aid, down from May and June 1938. Iraq to pay £20 000 to the widow of George Monck Mason killed at Mosul. Rural mail carriers to get metal markers with a royal crown. Germany orders wooden street signs to replace iron ones as scrap metal drive continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Singapore
William McKay
Timmins
Hne
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Earl Baldwin of
Bewdley
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Labor Department
Iraq
George Monck-Mason
Mosul
Norman McLarty
Ottawa
Germany
Eskimos Observe Ice Filling On Viceregal Train
A party of Eskimos touring the viceregal train at Churchill watched Canadian National car service men store ice in the air conditioning bunkers as heat continued inside. They found the contrast between heating and icing baffling and will recount the scene as they travel on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churchill
Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir
Eskimos
Canadian National Car Service
Not A General Failure In Wheat Crop West
The Lethbridge Herald notes the West will not see a 400 million bushel wheat crop yet says 300 million could suffice. Every region reports some grain with seed and feed in sight despite earlier pessimism about bumper yields fading after June rains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lethbridge
Shipwrecker crew rescued after desert island exile
After months on a desert island a large liner anchors in the bay and a small boat lands. An officer hurls ashore a bundle of newspapers saying the captain sent them for the castaways, unsure if they would want rescue after reading them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Desert Island
Vitamin C not stored in body like other vitamins
The body does not store up vitamin C found mainly in citrus fruits tomatoes and green vegetables unlike other vitamins. This water soluble vitamin must be consumed regularly to prevent deficiency.
High standard of living noted by British poultry official
Percy A Francia, Britain’s Poultry Commissioner, told a Connecticut service club during his World Poultry Congress visit in Cleveland that Americans and Canadians enjoy a high standard of living and a wealth of comforts not found in many lands. He contrasted perceived prosperity with unemployment and reduced industry elsewhere, noting his travels showed little sign of a low mood in North America. The Brantford Expositor attributed the remarks to a favorable abroad view of the United States and Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy A. Francia
Great Britain
Connecticut
World Poultry Congress
Cleveland
Francis
Britain
United States
Canada
Brantford
Carved Swedish Clock Remembers a Lost 1767 Romance
A miniature three story wooden home carved by Gustav Elishoff near Stockholm in 1767 serenades with 13 glass windows two doors and a grape vine porch. A man and a girl emerge when the clock strikes as four love tunes play, recalling a fiancé thwarted by illness and amputation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Horvath
Miami
Fila
Gustav Elishoff
Stockholm
Elishoff
Ejilshoff
Taj Mahal
Indian farmer wins best dressed prize in Merritt parade
An Indian woman farmer, aged 102, won first prize as best dressed Indian in a Merritt stampede parade in British Columbia. She declined a 50-foot garden hose prize and took cash instead. Her farm water comes from wells and irrigation ditches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merritt
B.C
Britain’s nine month session builds war readiness and aid
After prorogation Britain outlined near 3.5 billion for rearmament this year. It pledged military help to Poland Romania Greece and Turkey. Conscription rises to 200 000 annually and the territorial army doubles to 340 000. Britain aims to have 1 000 000 under arms this fall with 24 hour readiness. A 19 division field force forms as nucleus of a continental expedition. A Ministry of Supply oversees 500 million yearly purchases of war materiel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poland
Rumania
Greece
Turkey
Britain
Ministry of Supply
Munich
Chamberlain
Ottawa Journal
Canary Witnesses in Court Reported in Strassburg
London Listener recounts a 1928 Strassburg case where a canary served as decisive evidence in a separation suit. The judge had the wife pretend to strike the husband, the bird flared with frenzy, and after the canary’s dramatic display the wife confessed, yielding a ruling for the husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancelot Robson
Strassburg
London Listener
Popular Cowboy Songs Booklet Offers 19 Tunes
Home Service advertises Popular Cowboy Songs with 19 tunes including Home on the Range In the Gold Fields of Montana and The Stutterin Cowboy. It invites readers to send 15c for a copy to Winnipeg Newspaper Union with additional 15c booklets such as Hand-Made Gift Novelties and The Meaning of Dreams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gold
Montana
Bill
Texas
Home Service Dept
Winnipeg
Union
McDermot Ave. E
Soft Becoming Shirtwaister Pattern 4185
Anne Adams Pattern 4185 offers a slimming shirtwaist with a gored front skirt for smooth lines. Choose air cooled sleeves or tailored cuffs, scalloped collar, and tiny waist buttons to break width. sizes 34 to 48 with fabric guidance from a sewing instructor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Selected Lemon Custard Recipe for Six Servings
A dessert recipe uses 2 eggs separated, 114 lemons juice and rind, cup sugar, 2 tbsp corn starch, 1 cup milk, 144 cup corn syrup. Bake at 325 F for 45 minutes in a prepared 10 by 6 inch dish in a water bath until set. Serves six.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benson's
Canada
Crown Brand
Mazda
Ham and Mushroom Omelet with Tomato Sauce
Slice ham and mushrooms and brown in butter. Mix crumbled crackers with milk and beaten eggs. Pour over ham and mushrooms. cook slowly until set. Prepare tomato onion sauce by frying onion in butter, adding tomatoes and simmering briefly. Fold omelet, turn onto platter, spoon sauce over, and garnish with parsley. Serves six.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christie’s
Civil pilots sought as Britain offers well paid posts
Britain advertises civil air pilot vacancies paying up to 5500 dollars yearly with two months holiday. Demand for pilots remains high while the RAF retains qualified flyers, keeping many from civil service. Britain runs forty reserve schools training thousands of Volunteer Reserve pilots and seeks more instructors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
RAF
Trade Ties Tie Silk and Cotton Flows Between Nations
Japan sells 85 percent of its raw silk output to the United States. The dollars earned from silk sales are used to buy cotton from the United States, linking the two countries in a circular trade flow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
United States
Uzziah's Pride and Fall In 2 Chronicles Tale
The lesson recounts Uzziah's youth and piety under Zechariah, his prosperous reign, and his downfall after pride led him to defy priestly limits. Leprosy struck as he attempted incense offering, forcing his removal from the temple and lifelong isolation. His son Jotham ruled as regent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uzziah
Amaziah
Judah
Jerusalem
Jehovah
Zechariah
Azariah
Bennett
Jotham
Record Strength For Canadian Legion Seen At Kamloops Meet
Brigadier W. W. Foster of Vancouver told delegates at the British Columbia command’s 13th annual convention in Kamloops that the Legion has strengthened through consolidation and unity. He outlined a national veterans survey and offered veterans’ services to the government, stressing the Legion’s objective of peace and readiness to act if liberty is threatened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Legion
W. W. Foster
Vancouver
Dominion
British Columbia
Kamloops
B.C
Foster
Canada
National Veterans
Mackenzie King
Legion
England’s Women Farmers Profit at Windsor Centenary Show
At Windsor’s Royal Agricultural Societies centenary, one in twenty GB farmers is a woman and nearly all are profitable. Mrs Enid Southey, ex-London actress, runs a 500 acre Lincolnshire weed farm, mechanizes operations, and breeds belted Galloways and hunters while growing pedigree wheat and barley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Royal Agricultural Societies
Windsor
Enid Southey
London
Lincolnshire
Nice Irishman Mistakes Gulls for Pigeons Aboard Ship
An Irishman at the rail misidentifies gulls as a flock of pigeons, prompting a fellow passenger to correct him. The piece then notes the beehive composition with 50,000 to 75,000 workers, drones, and a single queen.
Insulin Patent Shielded Public Benefit and Mining Device
Toronto researchers protected insulin with a basic patent to guard public access and deter profit driven piracy. The 1922 first use led to a 12 year later patent for a silicosis reduction machine to prevent excessive royalties and keep the device freely usable worldwide through the Ontario Mining Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Frederick Banting
Dr. Best
Toronto
American Medical Association
Chicago
F. Lorne Hutchison
Connaught Laboratories
Insulin Comittee
University of Toronto
Banting
Best
Banting and
University
Ontario Mining Association
Editorial Note on Dr McCullough Cancer Articles
Readers may obtain the complete set of Dr McCullough cancer articles by writing to The Health League of Canada at 105 Bond St Toronto Ont. The notice invites interested readers to request the entire collection through the specified organization and address.
Local boy curates global wood collection in scrapbook
Ten year old Roland Williams of Kirkland Ohio gathers wood from around the world. His scrapbook includes 50 native species and more than 600 rare foreign woods such as lancewood Australia and snakewood Dutch Guiana. The piece notes beech and other trees rarely struck by lightning in England since 1930.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roland Williams
Kirkland
Ohio
Australia
Dutch Guiana
Hawaii
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Mary Ann Burns
Bird
Home Service
England
DR. J. W. S. McCullough
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