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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 18, 1945
Page
2
The article notes demobilization as the main task after war ends, with many service personnel already discharged or to be. it highlights Canada provisions aiding ex servicemen with rehabilitation, trade training, and resuming or changing studies through schools offering special courses.
The British War Office announced a plan making study compulsory for all United Kingdom forces while in service. Personnel will receive courses aligned with their chosen career paths, with refresher options for long-time workers. Six to eight hours of weekly study are required, and advanced students may sit exams for university entry or civil service.
The army educational corps expands with trained officers and active civil education involvement. Six course groups include Technology General Science Domestic Science Sociology Arts and Crafts Commerce and the Professions. Over a million textbooks and many films and tools ordered to support teaching and rehabilitation for veterans.
Reports from liberated Slovak areas say German forces plan to disguise war criminals on a large scale. Soldiers likely on Allied lists are reassigned, given new identities and posts, while next of kin are told they were killed in action.
A string of light exchanges and one liners cover witty banter about boating engines and Czech visitors, a woman overboard and a shark, marriage promises, a nut counter, cheese origins, sock darnings, and jokes on government ownership of defense industries.
The name Hallelujah is used for the wood sorrel in Europe as its blooms appear during the period between Easter and Whitsuntide, reflecting a liturgical timing familiar to readers.
Questions about renewing evaporated milk ration cards by mail or in person, needing both ration book 5 and card stub, and applying for school cocoa rations. Also covers civilian ration books, sugar cuts for industrial use, and guidance to obtain pamphlets from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
FBI reports detail two German agents landed from a submarine on the Maine coast. They carried forged identification dated ahead to 1946 including draft cards, birth certificates, discharge papers, $60,000 in cash, a pistol and photographic gear. One posed as a Connecticut native. the other used an alias with Niantic, Connecticut as a hometown.
A Berlin dispatch reports that false teeth will be rationed strictly in Germany and may be obtained only with special permission from authorities. Official approvals needed for dental repairs, with applicants proving imperative need and surrendering old fillings.
Soviet radio commentator Mikhail Mikhailov rejects English speaking observers claims that the USSR seeks a slower end to the war. He cites Stalin’s vow that the USSR will emerge stronger and stresses the USSR's aim to finish the war quickly and live peacefully with other nations. He defends the Anglo Soviet United States alliance as essential and unbroken.
An infantryman in France asks the Massachusetts Audubon Society for a bird guide. A Marine recalls a flock of 40 Pacific golden plover on a Mariana Islands beach. An Army lieutenant in Gala pa gos Islands describes spotting 60 flamingos during a low pass over a marshy area. These quiet gestures show soldiers seeking small wonders despite combat.
Thousands of British women have undertaken unusual jobs since the war began. Women fill roles from chimney sweeping and brick laying to geographers at the Admiralty and meteorologists at the Air Ministry. Women botanists and chemists contribute to feeding Britain and supporting Allied forces abroad.
A Hampshire Alton church adds length to a pew to seat a regular 15 member family. In meteorology, a typhoon is described as potentially 900 miles across with a 30 mile calm center. The Swiss pioneered nickel coin usage.
An ad promotes Hem Roid as an internal remedy for piles, asserting lasting relief comes from addressing internal causes. It touts a 46 year track record, small concentrated tablets, and easy use, promising quick itch and soreness relief and better bowel movement with good blood circulation. A money back test offers a refund if not helped.
Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe acting commander of the 101st Airborne Division defies a surrender demand at Bastogne Belgium. He is credited with the famous reply Nuts and is described as one of the youngest U S generals at age 46.
About 900 tons of soap will be stored in Winnipeg warehouses by the Canadian Export Board awaiting shipment overseas. The soap comes from factories in Vancouver and Edmonton for liberation era distribution.
Dr Ruth Nason leads an apple pie freezing study at Syracuse University College of Home Economics. The program tests freezing varieties of apples unbaked pies and baked pies with plans to extend to pumpkin pies cakes and batters. Evaluations use official scoring as tests progress through terms and April will reveal results.
The Agricultural Supplies Board estimates 1945 honey production near 36.6 million lb, similar to 1944, with indications suggesting a heavier output if the 506000 bee colonies in all provinces yield averagely. If so the total out-turn could reach about 48.56 million lb.
The famed Black Stone in Mecca has been kissed by millions for over 1300 years since Muhammad reportedly kissed it, shaping its worn smoothness as a sacred relic in Islamic tradition.
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