Organized Censorship Of Mail Matter Guards War Secrets
The Ottawa and Vancouver censor bureaus lead Canada’s wartime mail control with strict cutting, ink techniques, and X ray methods. About 250,000 letters monthly pass through Ottawa, read for careless disclosures rather than deliberate leaks. Letters from many countries are scrutinized. open letters bear labels and, when money is enclosed, special notes apply. Canadians largely accept censorship as a wartime necessity.
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Canada
Ocavea
Vancouver
England
F. E Jolliffe
Ottawa
Atlantic
Mr. Jolliffe
Food Myths About Acids and Diet Debunked by Experts
Nutritionists from the Federal Bureau of Home Economics say fears about acid forming foods are unfounded. A well rounded diet with milk eggs fruits vegetables and cereals suffices to counteract acidity and there is no harm in combining different fruits or eating acid fruits with milk.
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Federal Bureau of Home Economics
U.S
Departent of Agriculture
Germans Use Brandy as Gasoline Substitute in Charente
A Bordeaux native arriving in London says Germanys war effort relies on a 60 year old brandy repurposed as aviation fuel in Charente. He notes French food shortages since July, with women queuing for rations while Germans requisition supplies. He claims Germans slow production and many wagons southbound arrive empty, as civilian agents monitor towns.
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Charente
London
Bordeaux
France
Children in Norway Resist Quisling Youth Movement
The New York Times reports a growing anti Nazi student push in Norway as youths confront the Unghirden youth movement backed by occupiers. Pupils confront uniforms and scare tactics, with school protests spreading nationwide amid the tense struggle against invasion.
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Norway
Lillehammer
New York Times
Clever Young Inventor Designs Light Guided Bomb
Allan Ramsden a 14 year old from Nelson B C has devised a directional aerial bomb using a photo electric cell to guide a dropped device by light. The idea was presented to Canada’s inventions board in Ottawa with letters from O J Waters and 8S Cook confirming consideration.
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Allan Ramsden
Nelson
B.C
Inventions Board
Ottawa
Young Ramsden
O. J. Waters
J. L. Ralston
Defence
Public the People Are News in Canada’s Challenge to the Press
A 1940s sentiment urges Canadians to shape national destiny through daily conduct. The press frames the reader as the source of news and responsibility, warning against becoming Public Enemy No 1 and urging Nation Builder No 1 behavior, honesty in business, and neighborly acts.
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Canada
You
Population growth in France from 1840 to 1949
The French population rose from 34 million in 1840 to 42 million by 1949, showing substantial growth across the century.
Greek Ships Available for War Effort in Eastern Med
The Greek government authorized the Greek shipping committee in London to requisition all Greek shipping in the eastern Mediterranean to support the allied war effort. Full control powers cover Greek ships above 4,000 tons, with the committee acting in close consultation with Britain's Ministry of Shipping. Greece’s merchant fleet totaled 607 ships of 1,780,666 tons at the war’s start, with 56 ships lost to date and replacements underway.
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Greek Shipping Committee
London
Mediterranean
Ministry of Shipping
Athens
T.o
Canadian airmen meet Queen at Windsor Castle
The first trainees of the Empire Air Training plan who arrived in London were hosted by the Queen at Windsor. One airman recalled meeting Her Majesty on tour and praised her as grand after sharing tea in the castle.
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London
Windsor Castle
Bulls React to Motion More Than Color Says Research
Scientists find bulls are provoked by moving objects rather than color. The study indicates agitation occurs with movement, not red hues, challenging common belief about bulls and color vision.
Crochet patterns 6833 for AD ans and AC PATTERN
Crochet pattern 6833 offers easy sections for making two accessories to brighten a girl's wardrobe. Includes illustration, stitches, and materials. mail 20 cents to Household Arts, Winne New Union, 175 Mee lee eee ees ore for pattern. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Ment
Winni New R Union
Alice Brooks
Trinidad Gifts and Loans Boost War Effort Totals
Trinidad has donated 250000 plus dollars in Britain, raising the island’s empire war support to 2750000. It also extended a 2500000 loan to the British government interest free. Canada remains a top exporter in paper and newsprint, accounting for about 9.2 percent. Venezuela’s current coffee crop is projected to reach about three fifths of last year’s output.
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Trinidad
Britain
Island
Venezuela
Motion Pictures Playing Part In The Training Of Canada's Armed Forces
Motion pictures aid training as Canada arms forces with 37 new films from the British war office. Libersating accounts describe Lt. Nicholson’s Victoria Cross flight and the role of film slides in instructing troops at Petawawa Camp Borden and Connaught Ranges.
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Canada
Defence Department
British War Office
London
Britain
London Daily Mail
Defence Headquarters
Canadian
Petawa
Camp Borden
Connaugh
Hospital care unchanged amid London air raids praises nurses
The London Daily Telegraph notes bombs on hospitals as a German target yet reports hospital care continues. It commends nurses and doctors for saving patients and lauds the emergency plan that provides immediate treatment and reserve beds in safer areas, calling it a war miracle of organization.
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London Daily Telegraph
London
Luftwaffe
Canada’s Postwar Growth and Population Shifts
The analysis argues that Canada will gain population from skilled labor transfers and refugees from Britain, plus postwar immigration. Its economy will diversify beyond farm exports, reducing reliance on foreign capital and strengthening economic structure as wartime growth accelerates, paralleling U.S. development decades earlier.
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Canada
Great Britain
United States
National City Bank of New York
Woman asks for column width to bake a cake
A caller uses the Atlanta Constitution as a measuring guide asking how wide a newspaper column is to calculate a cake pan diameter. She notes she has the paper handy and can figure measurements from it.
King gifts four ambulances and eight mobile canteens to London
The King has donated four motor ambulances and eight mobile canteens to London after being impressed by the operators of such vehicles during tours of the city.
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London
Limburger Cheese Origin and Superstitions Discussed
Limburger cheese originated in Limbourg Belgium giving the cheese its name. A superstition among actors holds that whistling in a dressing room invites bad luck.
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Limbourg
Belgium
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