World Happenings Briefly Told
Nearly 25 000 evacuees from the Channel Islands returned home since June. John D Rockefeller Jr funds 1 million dollars for European rehabilitation education and reconstruction. The 14 600 ton carrier Warrior to be commissioned at Belfast. Refugee diamond workers donate a diamond worth £800 to Lord Mayor’s regalia. Honey demand outstrips supply despite rationing, per Ottawa conference report. King George Jubilee Trust has spent about £500 000 on youth grants. The oldest Battle of Britain pilot Ernest Mayne demobilized after 28 years service. Overnight coach sleeping surfaces to be added to railroad cars. Vienna University closed mid-term for fuel need. reopen hoped mid January.
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Warrior
Belfast Navy Yard
London
King George's Jubilee Trust
Lord Portal
Battle of Britain
Ernest
Tubby) Mayne
A.F.C
Royal Flying Corps
R.A F
Kent
Thousand-room cave factory found in Japanese mountains
Army patrols in southern Japan uncovered a vast 1000-room cave used as an arms factory near Otsu. It contained ventilating systems and a camouflaged entrance, with signs picric acid stored inside. Cavenee reports matériel moved to civilian use. Allies have destroyed or dumped vast ammo stocks across the area.
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136Th
U.S. Infantry
Raymond Cavenee
Cavenee
Otsu
Japan
6Th Army
Navy Reveals Bat Guided Missile Used In Pacific War
The U S Navy disclosed use of a deadly self guided missile called The Bat against Japanese ships and land targets in late Pacific warfare. Launched from a mother aircraft, it used radar guidance to home on targets and could alter course if the target dodged. Rear Admiral George F Hussey Jr said it was the first fully automatic guided missile to see combat and that new developments have rendered it obsolete.
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United States Navy
George F. Hussey, Jr
Navy Bureau of Ordnance
Where Milk Goes Statistics Show 17 Billion Pounds Used
Latest statistics reveal that half of 17.0 billion pounds of annual milk production goes to butter and 20 percent to fluid milk sales. Cheese uses 10 percent, concentrated milk products 30 percent, ice cream 17 percent, and 15 percent is fed or used on farms. Canada’s production rose from 15.8 to 17.6 billion pounds.
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Canada
Titles That Shape Powers And The German Transfer
The Ottawa Journal notes how titles reflect power and history while reporting on the Allied plan to relocate 6,500,000 Germans from Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland into Germany’s four occupation zones. It contrasts living conditions in Manito ba, Saskatchewan and Alberta with crowded refugee zones.
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Berlin
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland
Germany
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Europe
Earth
Heaven
Ottawa Journal
First Japanese Balloon Found East of Canada Near Oxford House
The December Beaver reports a bomb carrying balloon landed near Oxford House about 350 miles northeast of Winnipeg last April. It was the most easterly balloon found in Canada. Hudson’s Bay Co post manager acted quickly, isolating the device with Indian guards and sending a code message to Winnipeg. Authorities then took over the balloon and its bomb after radio coordination with head office.
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Oxford House
Winnipeg
Canada
Beaver
Hudson's Bay Co
Hudson's Bay Company
Australian social services chief to visit Canada
Frances H. Rowe, Australian director general of social services, will visit Canada at the Dominion government's invitation to discuss divided federal and state control of health services. She will outline Australian services and administrative methods and their proposed expansion, then travel to New Zealand and the United States.
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Frances H. Rowe
Canada
Dominion
Australia
Rowe
New Zealand
United States
Canadian Wool Unshrinkable Socks Soon For Shops
A Toronto manufacturer announced that by late spring or early summer Canadians can buy socks permanently unshrinkable and by September baby clothes sweaters fabrics and hand knitting yarns made from unshrinkable wool will be available.
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Toronto
Artificial light boosts egg production in confined poultry
W T Scott of the Dominion Experimental Station Harrow Ontario explains artificial lighting helps hens during six months indoors by stimulating glands increasing egg yield appetite and disease resistance. For 400 sq ft require two 60 watt lamps and a timing clock to regulate roosting and feeding with 14 hour daily light in fall winter and early spring.
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W. T. Scott
Dominion Experimental Station
Harrow
Ont
Canada
Russian couple who used their own tank demobilized
A Russian married pair who bought a tank and used it to kill 160 enemy soldiers have been demobilized from the Red Army. Lieut. Ivan Fyodorovokh Boiko and Senior Lieut. Alexandra Boiko served together, with Alexandra commanding the tank and Ivan driving. They funded the tank with 50 000 rubles and fought across Poland Germany Romania and Czecho Slovakia.
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Red Army
Ivan Fyodorovokh Boiko
Alexandra Boiko
Soviet Union
Poland
Germany
Romania
Czecho-Slovakia
The Atomic Bomb Question Echoes Through Philosophers
The Philadelphia Record asks if the atomic bomb is here to stay with a grimly facetious query. Leading philosophers scientists and H G Wells are cited as sharing a solemn concern echoed by Brantford Expositor.
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Philadelphia Record
H. G. Wells
Brantford
Two Token Week Dinner Plan with Lamb and More
The note outlines a weekly meal plan using two tokens for a small roast and three pounds of lamb shoulder to cover three dinners including a guest. It suggests accompaniments like savory dressing and brown gravy and lists Monday cold slices, a lamb and vegetable pie, a Tuesday egg and noodle casserole, Wednesday remakes, Thursday hamburger patties, Friday fish, Saturday unrationed options, and a pickled tongue with cranberry sauce for a hearty Sunday meal.
Fruit Affects Vision Doubled Value of Bond Tales
The Liverpool service club heard Charles D. Torrell warn 27 British servicemen blind after eating finger cherry fruit in New Guinea. A separate tale recalls a Lethbridge worker discovering a $1,000 First Great War Victory Bond, once misfiled as a donation, now worth over $2,000. Also notes Vermeer paintings sold under rival names for two centuries.
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Charles D. Torrell
Far East Forces
New Guinea
Liverpool
Torrell
Lethbridge
Lethbridge Herald
Jan Vermeer
Milk In Disguise And Imitation Koumiss Across Regions
An article explains Ghi or clarified butter used in India and nearby regions. It notes Koumiss fermented mare milk popular among central Asian nomads and regarded as tuberculosis remedy. It also mentions imitation koumiss made from asses’ or cows’ milk in other countries.
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India
Central Asia
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Dominion Provincial Agriculture Conference
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Hadrian
England
Duke of
Cornwall
Edward II
Henry
Walter
Pip
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Lor
America
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Gene Byrnes
Mom
Big Willie
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