World Happenings Briefly Told
Field Marshal Alexander will have British aides when he assumes his post as governor general of Canada. Colonels and officials face penalties for minor infractions as news services expand distribution. The U S may send up to one million bales of cotton to Japan under a liberal occupation policy approved by General MacArthur. The Arethusa training ship returns to Medway awaiting full complement of 240 boys. Restrictions on former bombing ranges in Canada are lifted as safe for public use. Germany’s U boats destruction is complete with 30 remaining. British Navy notes decline of wolf packs.
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Alexander
Canada
United States
Japan
General MacArthur
Medway
Chatham
England
R.C.A F
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Germany
Bottles Adrift Show Wide Ocean Drift Across Decades
A report traces sea bottle voyages from Dorset to New Zealand and Australia, noting drift times from seven months to thirty two years. It cites Captain Simpson’s experiments with about 10,000 bottles and an estimated average drift rate under half a mile per hour as currents vary.
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South Australia
Aylesbury
Studland Bay
Dorset
Christchurch
New Zealand
Capetown
Port Philip
Australia
South Africa
Shetlands
Stewart's Island
Simpson
Manchester Guardian
Fruit Motifs Cross Stitch Pattern For Kitchen Linen
Embroider seven fruit motifs with a bright color note for kitchen linens. Easy simple stitchery suitable for children, Pattern 7301 offers a transfer of seven motifs averaging 4'2x8'7 inches respectively. Send twenty Man to obtain pattern 2658. Include name and address.
A New Year Healthful Eating Plan With Weekly Ration
A guide for single diners to make the weekly meat ration stretch with simple, balanced meals. It suggests minute steaks with rice and creamed celery for Sunday, sausage jacket potatoes and cabbage for Monday, broiled fish and baked potatoes for Tuesday, lamb chops and kidney stew for Wednesday, dairy rich eggs Florentine for Friday, and a beef burger with vegetables for Saturday. The plan ends noting remaining ration tokens.
Daylight saving ideas born from Vil
English article recalls Sir William Willett born 1856 in Farnham and living in Chislehurst who first proposed daylight saving. His 1908 bill led to 1916 wartime adoption after his pamphlets and death a year earlier. National Trust memorials mark Willett with Willett Way and Daylight Inn.
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British
Kent County Journal
Sir William Willett
Farnham
Surrey
Willett
Chislehurst
Kent
Chislehurst Common
Robert Pearse
St. Nicholas
National Trust
War brides in Canada prove content with new lives
Reports from Canada counter rumors that British war brides dislike the country. About 9,000 British women married Canadian soldiers in three years. only 29 sought return passages to Britain. Most brides remain fond of their husbands and their new home as Vancouver Sun notes.
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Canada
Britain
Vancouver Sun
War cost to treasuries tops 680 billion in BIS report
The Bank for International Settlements released a report noting the war’s global bill at 680 billion dollars excluding property damage production losses and relief costs. It says the current conflict surpassed four times the 1914 15 war’s cost and warns future wars could be even more expensive. Also notes the world’s oldest book in China is a 100 B.C. wooden-leaf tome.
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Treasuries
Bank of International Settlement
Winnipeg Tribune
China
The Hong Kong Icicle Folly Melted on The Hill
A single icicle was seen by a coolie in Hong Kong years ago near a hotel at the top of the funicular. He ran downhill to share the gem but the ice melted in his warm hands, leaving only dripping memories and laughter. British weather lore says this was the colony’s only icy rarity in sunny times.
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Hong Kong
Postwar Britain sees craze for antique art and furniture
Antiques boom spreads to the United States within years as postwar Britain markets at Sothebys and Christies show ordinary pieces selling for two to five times prewar values. Des Graz notes US buying remains healthy while Christie's cites strong demand for small, serviceable items and rising prices across china silver and furniture.
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Britain
United States
London
Sotheby's
Christie's
Charles Des Graz
Des Graz
Alec Martin
Lost Treasure Hidden by Oxford Museum Officials
The London Daily Mail reports two museum staff, Dr. R. T. Gunther and Albert Joyce, hid ten ancient astrolabes, Cardinal Wolsey's clock face, and watches at the start of the war. Both men died in 1940, taking the secret to their graves, leaving the hiding place unknown.
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Oxford Museum of History and Science
Cardinal Wolsey
Gunther
Mr. Joyce
London Daily Mail
Diamonds for Aga Khan Jubilee Carried in Crash-Proof Chests
Britain makes secure containers to transport thousands of diamonds to India for the Aga Khan’s diamond jubilee ceremony at Bradbourne Stadium Bombay attended by about 40 000. Diamonds to Africa later, with 20 000 000 followers overall. India holdings surpass 1.8 million dollars.
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Britain
India
London
Bradbourne Stadium
Bombay
Dar-es-Salaam
East Africa
Africa
Asia
Europe
Aga Khan
Honey Swarm Invades Olean Home Beekeeper Theft
In Olean New York a paperhanger ripped ceiling paper revealing a honey comb eight feet by fourteen inches by eight inches. The discovery led to the loss of over 125 pounds of honey from the combs after bees were killed with a blowtorch.
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Olean
N.Y
Tetanus resistant to penicillin says Cincinnati doctor
Dr W A Altemeier of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati General Hospital reports penicillin ineffective against tetanus based on 16 generalized tetanus cases. He notes tetanus is caused by Clostridium tetani and that toxins are not neutralized by penicillin.
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W. A. Altemeier
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati General Hospital
Journal of the American Medical Association
Altemeier
Nelies Silverthorne
Toronto
The
Health League of Canada
Health
Plastic bodies may replace steel in cars within two years
Aviation engineer William B. Stout predicts major manufacturers will build cars with plastic bodies twice as economical and half the weight of steel. He says these cars will enhance driver vision reducing accidents, as rear engines allow better clearance sight.
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William B. Stout
Mr. Stout
Buffalo Courier-Express
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Norfolk
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Nigeria
Montreal Daily Advertiser
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Beetlburger
R. T. Gunther
Albert Joyce
By Fred Neher
Hawaiian Islands
BY William Ferguson
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J. M. Reg US
San Francisco
Rosamond M. Paley
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U.S
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gene Byrnes
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