World Happenings Briefly Told
A Trans-Canada Air Lines service to Newfoundland is expected to begin April 1. Mussolini ordered public officials and employees to sign for service in the armed forces. Alice Hogan Rice of Mrs Wiggs fame died in Louisville Kentucky. About 45 000 men have been discharged from Canadian forces since the war began. Mackenzie briefed the House on pensions. Soviet War News reports 960 typhus deaths in January at Hamburg. Eire to add 600 air raid shelters for 30 000 people. 22 900 shelters already finished. Netherlands East Indies official calls Japan a gangster grown from regional conflicts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackenzie
House of Commons
London
Hamburg
Eire
Netherlands East Indies
Japan
Figure Camouflage for Matrons Pattern 4909
Anne Adams offers pattern 4909 to slim waist and hip silhouettes with front and back princess panels and a low waist seam. Choose posy print cotton with options in short or long sleeves and optional contrast panels. Sizes 34 to 50, yardage 4 yards for size 36. send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg
Union
McDermot Ave. E
Man
Synthetic Rubber Pioneer Clark Prophesies Superior Substitutes
Professor G L Clark of the University of Illinois, a chemist credited with advancing synthetic rubber, predicted substitutes would outperform natural rubber in America. Beginning in 1925, he built a lab to X-ray rubber and study its molecular structure, finding that stretched rubber aligns into crystals and that partial crystallization ends when the stretch is released. He showed normal rubber stretches differently than it returns, mapped elongation to crystallization, and, in 1935, concluded a rubber molecule weighs about 500000 times hydrogen, far above prior estimates of 68000. His work spurred the pursuit of molecules reaching that weight, enabling feasible synthetic rubber.
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G. L. Clark
University of Illinois
America
British Empire Medal for San Casimiro deck sign
Thomas Hugget a steward aboard the German captured tanker San Casimiro earned the British Empire Medal for secretly painting a three foot high SOS sign on an unoccupied deck. The sign helped British patrols locate and retake the ship as Renown and air cover arrived, despite a prize crew trying to scuttle her.
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Thomas Hugget
Atlantic
Otto Grenz
England
Ark Royal
Huggett
Lieut
Grenz
Renown
War Boosts Geography Study Says Dr Murphy
Dr Raymond E Murphy of Pennsylvania State College says war fuels geography as a field and awakens public interest. He notes geography boomed during World War I but stagnated in the years after, reflected in student disengagement.
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Raymond E. Murphy
Pennsylvania State College
Dr. Murphy
Murphy
Venus Flytrap Responds to Repeated Stimuli
The Venus flytrap in Carolina closes on unwanted stimuli and reopens quickly. After being cheated two or three times in a row it stops responding for a period before reopening.
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Carolina
Spice Islands and Orient produce trade routes described
Exported Orient spices come mainly from the Netherlands East Indies India China Japan the Malay Peninsula and island groups off Africa. The Molucca or Spice Islands sit in the East Indies with pepper laden patimars boats and sail ships carrying cinnamon and cloves to export hubs amid inland plantations and seaports.
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Orient
Netherlands East Indies
India
China
Japan
Malay Peninsula
Africa
Madagascar
Pemba
Zanzibar
Molucca Islands
Spice Islands
Xerxes Led Persian Army of 2.6 Million in Fifth Century BC
Herodotus notes a colossal Persian army under Xerxes in the fifth century BC, reported at 2 600 000 fighters. The figure reflects ancient estimates of the famous invasion forces assembled by the conqueror from Achaemenid realms.
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Herodotus
Xerxes
Roberts urges more sacrifice for democracy after Pearl Harbor
In Philadelphia, Chief Justice Roberts told a United Charities Workers luncheon that the Pearl Harbor report reveals Americas smug superiority. He warned Americans must endure sacrifice to preserve democracy, linking present actions to ancestral past and future security.
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United Charities Workers
Philadelphia
Justice Roberts
Pearl Harbor
United States
America
Chicago Sun
Power From Earth Drives Tides Not The Moon
Explains that tidal power arises from the earth’s rotation, not the moon, and without earth rotation the tides would be a fixed, stationary water bulge offering no energy. The text emphasizes the earth’s motion as the source of tidal energy.
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Earth
Moon
Sunday School Lesson Golden Text and ScripturalRefs
Sunday School lesson centers on Matthew 5.16 about letting light shine through good works. References include Mark 3.13-19 and Luke 6.12-49, with devotional reading I Timothy 1 3 14. The item presents a devotional outline rather than narrative events.
Jesus Chooses Twelve Apostles From His Followers
In these days Jesus prayed overnight on a mountain and at dawn selected twelve disciples to be apostles. Luke notes the significance of choosing twelve as symbolic of a new Israel and a fulfillment of prophecy, with the twelve guiding and supporting his mission. The group includes fishermen and a tax collector, grouped by roles: action leaders, contemplatives, and practical politicians. Early in his Galilean work he called them for constant companionship and training.
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Jesus
Luke
Israel
J. D. Jones
F. B. Meyer
Peter
John
James
Andrew
Philip
Bartholomew
Matthew
Thomas
Thadeus
Simon
Judas
Air Force Graduates From No 2 Wireless School
Western Canadian homes are listed for graduates of No 2 Wireless School RCA F Calgary Alberta on January 29 1942. Badges were presented by Group Captain E R Owen CO of the school to cadets from British Columbia Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba and beyond with names and towns including Salmon Arm New Westminster Banff Gleichen Prince Albert Unity Fort Hope Melita Carman and more.
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Canada
No. 2 Wireless School
R.C.A.F
Calgary
Alta
E. R. Owen
British Columbia
J. A. Lindsay
Armstrong
A. W. McComb
Steveston
L. E. McDonald
Salmon Arm
W. N. Nelson
New Westminster
Alberta
H. C. Austen
Owen
W. G. King
Jeepee Creek
J. A. Lineham
Turner Valley
D. F. MacDonald
Banff
J. P. Boueche
Gleichen
I. D. Tenove
Rimbey
J. W. Unilewski
Kinsella
R. J. West
Forestburg
Saskatchewan
W. P. Bethune
Kelfield
G. H. Dancer
Unity
C. P. Gossard
Shackleton
Grey
Stoughton
G. G. Harvey
Duval
E. R. Kraeling
Prince Albert
Pee Martin
Nut Mountain
G. M. Pederson
Big Beaver
J. A. Reynolds
Bryant
C. M. Rutherford
C. A. Walsh
Lindaw
R. Ss. Whidden
Beechy
N. Zamolsky
Vonda
R. S. MacKay
LaFleche
D . McMillan
Kennedy
Manitoba
H. Bryson
Mahiton
W K. Hamilton
Vista
R. A. Livingston
Rosebank
F. W. Skinner
Morris
R. T. Sterling
Melita
Stewart
Franklin
O. K. Jensen
Carman
Cheese Shipments To Great Britain Exceed Quota
The Dairy Products Board follows a fixed shipment schedule to Great Britain and holds enough cheese to surpass the 112 million pound quota by March 31, 1942, marking roughly a 14 million pound rise over the prior fiscal year.
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Dairy Products Board
Great Britain
Wartime British Health Labs Helped Prevent Epidemics
Sir Wilson Jameson reports that Britain built a network of over thirty emergency public health laboratories during wartime, ensuring a first class lab within 30 miles of every Medical Officer of Health. Disinfection of damaged mains with chlorine prevented typhoid outbreaks. however paratyphoid linked to bakery premises occurred in some epidemics.
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Sir Wilson Jameson
Ministry of Health
Britain
Health League of Canada
England
Sir Wilson
Medical Research Council
London
Canadian Soybean Production Boost Ties to Livestock Ration Gains
Increased soybean output in Canada stems from stockmen recognizing soybean protein can balance coarse grains like oats barley corn in rations for growing fattening livestock and for egg and milk production.
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Canada
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Medcoten
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Newfoundland
Rome Radio
Mussolini
Alice Hogan Rice
Mrs. Wiggs of the
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Steward
the Flytrap
William
Ferguson
Cdenver
San
Denver
Cray
NEA Service, Inc
By Fred Neher
Chicago
Air Force
Mickie
MR. Man
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