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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 23, 1942
Page
5
Experts describe the KV tank as shell and fireproof, offering superior flame resistance and crew safety. Observers note its diesel engine and heavy armor, contrasting with British and American tanks plagued by fire risk. officials say fire resistance will guide Allied future tank design.
War Services Minister Thorson explains section 15 allows selective boards to list industries essential to war effort. Newspaper personnel including editors reporters technical staff and others may be deemed war industry workers but post ponement of service is not automatic. Each case is reviewed on its merits by the relevant board.
A terse rule claims the proper engaging method in air dogfighting is to shake fists at an opponent to signal a challenge. If accepted, the rival returns the gesture promptly, signaling readiness to duel.
The Montreal Gazette reports President Roosevelt and The New York Times stressing advertising as essential to wartime journalism. It argues restrictions on ads would cripple newspapers, curb war efforts, and threaten the free press's role in democracy and wartime cooperation.
George Imrie known as the laziest man in England served 28 days for refusing a job under an essential works order at a war factory. He argued he was fit only for light tasks and cited fatigue from long unemployment, ending his sentence in Walto jail with discharge and support from the Discharged Prisoners Aid Society.
Captain William Thomas urged Annapolis midshipmen to pursue individual integrity as the cornerstone of wartime courage. He warned against lying, cheating, greed, and jungle tactics, calling for a world remade by character and conscience speaking boldly. He defended enduring platitudes as truth proved by history. The piece also notes famous colored diamonds: the Hope, Tiffany, and Dresden diamonds.
Dorothy Mackay of Buffalo is the world’s sole woman Link trainer operator at United Air Lines in Cheyenne. A 29 year old pilot with five years’ flying experience, she uses the Link trainer to simulate cockpit instruments and radio beam signals for student pilots who climb to set altitudes while Mackay manages the control panels and charts. She’s a Ninety-Nines member and part of the National Aeronautics Association.
A German prominent woman and a famed palmist visited Adolf Hitler to read palms. To keep it fair another person stood behind a curtain, and the reader analyzed both hands without knowing which belonged to whom. After a lengthy look, she predicted the owner would one day cause global talk. The curtain opened to reveal Rudolf Hess.
A. V. Mitchener, dean of agriculture at the University of Manitoba, says entomologists study the alfalfa plant bug that damaged seed production last fall. The greenish brown pest, about one third of an inch long, was first noted in Minnesota in 1940 and is thought to have migrated from Europe.
Pattern 7243 shows a transfer of a cat and family motif surrounded by flowers. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man to obtain. include name address and pattern number.
The Embroidery Association urges lifting the wartime ban on embroidery on utility garments to protect Buckinghamshire cottage workers and morale. Chequers hosts historic political moments from 1917 unity on the eastern front to Churchill debates, with figures like Baldwin Halifax and Bray figure in its storied history.
Nazi assets are being moved to Swiss banks as Britain raids Germany and transfers totaling about £5,000,000 are requested by Ley Goebbels Dietrich and industrialists. Mussolini has deposited large sums, reinforcing Switzerland’s belief that neutrality will endure the war. The Axis hope Switzerland will remain a safe retreat after Germany’s defeat. The note ends with an unrelated line on hair growth.
Louis Daoust of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board issues a simplification order cutting leather footwear colors to seven for women five for men two for work boots and limiting steel shanks and metal trim to essential items to save leather and metal.
Between 1930 and 1940 Brazil produced vast coffee surpluses. The government spent about 10 million dollars to destroy roughly 7 million sacks valued at 225 million, using burial, sea dumping, and kerosene burning before abandoning those methods. Today much of the surplus stock is being processed into a plastic material.
The statement claims in 1942 more military planes will be built than were produced from 1909 to the start of the current year. It also notes the mockingbird scientific name mimus polygiottos and quips that a nickel is not as good as a dima yet attends church more often.
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