Occupation Troops to Study Courses in Germany
Army education authorities in the occupation force plan six hours of compulsory study weekly for troops in Germany and Belgium. They will receive general courses across technical, science, home and health, commerce, arts and drama with libraries and mobile units. By 1946 they aim to form colleges and intensively train selected men abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Belgium
Army Bureau of Current Affairs
Naafi
Ensa
Army of Occupation
Barbers Debate Reading in the Chair at Michigan Convention
At the State Barbers Association of Michigan annual meeting members overwhelmingly supported a resolution discouraging reading in the barber chair. Delegates argued reading distracts patrons during procedures, noting readings could stiffen the neck and interfere with the barber’s work. The piece humorously contrasts barber chairs with dentists and jokes about readers aloud in the chair.
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State
Barbers’ Association of
Michigan
Barbers
Buffalo Gourier. Express
Aged Man Injured Not So Aged in Fact
The Peterborough Examiner argues against labeling older workers as aged. It notes life expectancy rising and retirement ages shrinking, urging society to redefine aging. It calls for meaningful activities for seniors and warns against aging stereotypes.
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The
Ottawa Journal
Peterborough Examiner
Shopping in Britain reveals shop shortages and queues
A Manchester Guardian correspondent notes scarce goods in Britain last week with long shop-to-shop searches. She records items unavailable such as child sandals, straw hats, ladies shoes, a bicycle bell, batteries, glucose, parsley, grape fruit allocations, and chocolate peppermint creams. only a clay pipe for blowing bubbles was found by chance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester Guardian
Board of Trade
Underground fortress uncovered at Swiss German legation
A Swiss official said police found a vast underground fortress beneath the closed German legation in Berne. The underground complex was prepared to withstand siege or air attack with modern radio gear for direct Cominication to Bertin. Flies take off in reverse and spring into the air backwards briefly before moving forward.
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Berne
Bertin
Haughty Salmon Linked to Washingtonian Express Car
A 24 pound salmon caught by H F MacLean at New Richmond Gaspe was shipped in the Washingtonian express car of the Canadian National Railways. The fish was consigned to Harry S Truman in Washington D C. Ants have brought to surface some of the finest garnets in New Mexico.
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Canadian National Railways
Washingtonian
H. F. MacLean
New Richmond
Gaspe
Harry S. Truman
United States
Washington, D.C
New Mexico
Before War Atrocities Revealed In Nazi Death Camps
The Montreal Star notes readers ignored prewar reports from Moscow on Nazi massacres and warns that discoveries at Belsen and other camps showed the Nazis committed extreme horrors. Eye witness accounts by emaciated survivors reveal the true nature of the regime and its claimed supremacy.
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Europe
Germany
Moscow
East
Belsen
Montreal Star
Salary secrecy prompts worker quip in old remark
Western retailer quotes a summer hiring note about salary as a confidential matter. A new recruit adds a witty line claiming he will not disclose it, saying he is equally ashamed as others. The note and quip reflect early attitudes toward wage privacy. Also mentions Semites settling in Palestine around 2500 B.C.
Manitoba Muskrat Harvest Surpasses One Million Pelts
The Manitoba Department of Mines and Resources reports a government backed muskrat harvesting program yielding 372000 pelts valued at over 967000 dollars. The Pas area contributed 243000 pelts worth more than 725000 dollars, with 971 trappers in The Pas and about 1800 statewide. The plan aims at regular incomes for Indian, half breed, and white trappers through monthly pelt credits, insurance against market shifts, and continued marshland development begun in 1936 to provide employment and sustain yields.
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J. A. Glen
Mines and Resources
Manitoba Department of Mines and Natural Resources
Manitoba
Pas
D. J. Allan
Mines and Resources Department
Summerberry
Island
Connolly Lake
Dominion
Department of Mines and Resources
Skin banks enable stored grafts for wound repair
The Lancet reports Squadron Leader Mathews of the RAF proving that stored skin can be used later to repair burns. A single anaesthetic procedure may replace multiple operations as thrombin glue seals grafts after bedside application. In five cases grafts took after four days storage, with skin kept up to 21 days usable.
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Lancet
Mathews
R.A.F
Empire Kinsfolk Leave Glorious Memory in England
London Daily Express editorial praises Canadian troops for leaving a splendid memory in England. It notes thousands take English brides home and thanks Canadians for volunteering and enduring long trials and tough battles during the war.
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Britain
London Express
London Daily Express
England
Express
Canada
Empire
White Cliffs of Dover Bring Returnee Prisoners to Joy
Macdonald Hastings on the BBC recalls WWII prisoners of Germany returning home aboard a transport. After hours in flight exhausted, one man spots a land strip and repeats The White Cliffs of Dover like a prayer. The sight sparks emotion as troops realize they have reached England.
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Macdonald Hastings
BBC
Dover
England
Remembrance Amid Rubble at Hitler's Chancellery
In the ruined city, Captain Kollyar, a commandant, searches the rubble yard for a keepsake of his airman son who bombed Berlin and died when his plane crashed near the Chancellery. The father reflects on loss as his own post places him in the same district.
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I. Lerov
Ussr
Bulletin
Hitler
Kollyar
Berlin
Radar box to guide blind in future walking
The London News Chronicle reports a radar assisted device for the blind. Sir Ian Fraser of St Dunstan's says the first experiment was a success. A 10 pound acoustics setup with earphones warns of obstacles by buzzing at distance. A pocket size model weighing about a pound is hoped.
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London News Chronicle
Ian Fraser
St. Dunstan's
London
H. G. Round
Ian
Britain’s wartime losses and home damage summarized
The article reports that during the war with Germany Britain suffered 60 585 civilian deaths or missing persons and 86 175 hospitalizations from bombing. It notes 200 900 houses destroyed and 250 000 uninhabitable, with 4 000 000 damaged.
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Britain
Germany
United Kingdom
World Food Shortage Blamed on Four Factors
Great Britain’s Food Minister Liewellin cites four causes for the world food shortage: farm labor shortages, shipping space for fertilizers, drought across Australia New Zealand South Africa South America and the Caribbean, and rising demand from military forces and liberated countries.
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Liewellin
Great Britain
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
South America
Caribbean
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