World Happenings Briefly Told
Proposal for a five year plan to British youths in motor repair and servicing. Chinese Ambassador Wei Tao Ming left Washington for Chungking. London police age 423 and over to be released for factory work. Bramfield windmill dismantled for war scrap. British railways run 150000 troop trains since the war began. Workers specials to factories daily. Anglo Soviet Youth Alliance adopts Pravda home near Moscow for Russian war orphans. A 20 year old Partisan fighter arrives in Cairo. Seed production in British Columbia valued at 910000 in 1943 up from 48420. Four hundred thirty of 1100 Canadian forestry corps returned to western Canada placed in logging camps.
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Wei Tao Ming
Washington
Chungking
Bramfield
Suffolk
England
British Railways
Pravda
Moscow
Cairo
British Columbia
Department of Agriculture
Canadian Forestry Corps
Western
Canada
Selective Service
Sunbeam Cheer Pattern 4589 for Misses and Women
This pattern 4589 offers a cheerful frock in light hearted style with contrast trim. It covers misses and women sizes 12 through 42 with fabric yardage listed for size 16 and 35 inch width. Order by mail with name address size and pattern number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Union.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Good Advice for Handling Criticism and Failure
If criticized you may have done something worthwhile and if called a fool stay silent. When mocked laugh back, yet if you tried and failed you are better off than if you had never tried and succeeded.
Aircraft Ambulance Flying Pexpita at Rivers
No 2 Training Command announces a Norseman aircraft converted at No 8 Repair Depot Winnipeg into a flying ambulance based at No 1 Central Navigation School Rivers Man. The hospital ship transports two stretchers with medical staff aboard and links isolated stations to Winnipeg Deer Lodge Hospital for urgent care. A six month survey shows 77 aircraft transports. 50 emergency cases, 30 acute surgical, many needing air transfer. The service follows the battlefront model already used by other RC
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Mercy
No. 8
Winnipeg
No 2 Training Command
RCAF
No 1 Central Navigation School
Rivers
Man
Deer Lodge Hospital
No. 2 Training Command
R.C.A.F
Back to Civilian Life at Regina Depot Lectures
Soldiers at the District Depot in Regina Sask await discharge while receiving a series of lectures on postwar life and reintegration. The program aims to prepare personnel for civilian employment and adjust to peacetime duties.
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Regina
Sask
Canada Sets 1944 Egg Output Goal
Canada aims to produce 367.5 million dozen eggs in 1944, a 10 percent rise from 1943. Basic army dog training requires about two months.
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Canada
Bravery Honored in Sea War Through Maple Leaf Flags
Canadian National Steamships officers Edwin Griffith John Paul MacDonald and Henry Hubert Jenkins and seaman Claude Freeman receive the King's New Year Honors for action under urgency. Griffith aided on a Penang ship after fifty holes and on a torpedoed vessel in a Caribbean harbor. MacDonald kept engine service aboard a torpedoed West Indies ship and survived another torpedoing. Jenkins faced an engine room fire and made emergency repairs at Barbados. Freeman remained aboard to help repair a damaged ship. Captain Peter Kromann Blark also named Officer of the British Empire for faithful duties at sea.
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Maple Leaf House
Canadian National Steamships
Canadian National Fleet
Edwin Griffith
John Paul MacDonald
Henry Hubert Jenkins
Order of the British Empire
Claude Freeman
Mr. Griffith
Penang
Caribbean
Griffith
Carnarvon
Wales
C.n.ss
Montreal
MacDonald
British West Indies
Canada
Inverness
Scotland
Halifax
Jenkins
Barbados
C.N.S.S
New York
Cardiff
Mr. Freeman
Mr. Jenkins
Freeman
Ottawa
Peter Kromann Blark
Denmark
Military Tire Recapping Program Restores Army Vehicle Parts
Canada adopts a tire recap program for military vehicles replacing disposal of worn treads and pads. The process restores bogie wheels and tank pads to service quickly and cost effectively, reducing delays.
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Canada
Army
Crossword puzzle clues list in mixed directions
A crossword puzzle grid of horizontal and vertical clues with numerous entries. It lists heavy weight ancient club pastry and many other clues including weathered terms and Asian and European references. The puzzle features hundreds of entries such as war god rodent and butterfly alongside linguistics and mathematical terms.
Protein rich alfalfa boosts feed quality says Sask. expert
A. G. Kusch of the Dominion Experimental Station at Scott Saskatchewan notes alfalfa rivals wheat bran in protein content and provides vitamins for growing livestock. He adds alfalfa thrives on well drained soils and does particularly well on light loams and sandy soils in north central Saskatchewan. Buy War Savings Stamps Regularly.
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A. G. Kusch
Dominion Experimental Station
Scott
Sask
Saskatchewan
Bread of Life Sunday School Lesson
The lesson centers on Jesus feeding 5,000 with five loaves and two fishes then 4,000 with seven loaves and a few fishes. It notes the miracle occurring in desert settings, the disciples’ questions, and Jesus blessing, distributing, and the crowds’ fullness with baskets left over.
British psychiatrist links cold to emotional state
A health ministry consultant states that a common cold is predetermined by a person’s emotional condition. The claim ties mood to susceptibility, suggesting mental state influences illness onset.
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Ministry of Health
Teheran Conference Proposes Split of Germany Among Allies
The U.S. Army and Navy Journal reports a Teheran conference proposal that Russia Great Britain and the United States would each garrison one third of Germany during the postwar military control period following the Reich’s defeat.
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U.S. Army and Navy Journal
Russia
Great Britain
United States
Germany
Dogs used in First World War by both sides
The article notes canine use in the First Great War with the French reporting 3,500 killed and 1,500 missing. It summarizes the toll among war dogs and references involvement by multiple nations.
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Rivers Navigation School
H. H. Jenkins
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J. P. MacDonald
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Ancient Club
War God
Rodent
Ireland
Chasm
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Jesus
BY William Ferguson
Uy X
Rivate Oliver Lundgren
Saye Jae Apowe
Iui Moderns
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