Indian Subedar Wins George Cross for Self Sacrifice at Mine
Subedar Subramanian of the Madras Sappers and Miners sacrificed himself to save six comrades near Milan Italy when a mine was triggered. Managing a mine detector he lunged onto the device, shielding others at the cost of his life. He had earned the Indian Distinguished Service Medal in 1943.
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Subedar Subramanian
Madras Sappers
Jamadar
Milan
Italy
Subramanian
Old Sheriff in Smoke Stone Faces a Pearl Gun Dilemma
Old Sheriff Heartly rages at a newspaper push to modernize his town into a dude ranch. A staged train arrival brings Spider Lopez back to settle scores, but Heartly foils the plan with a quick counterstrike and arrest, preserving his new pistols and old authority.
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Heartly
Panhandle
Amiles
Circle B Ranch
Smokestone
Spider Lopez
State Pen
Staf
Lopez
Gance
Beaver Club London Aids Overseas Canadian Soldiers
The Beaver club in London offers a home away from home for Canadian servicemen. It reports over 11,000 dollars in cables home before Mother’s Day and more than 13,000 dollars through Christmas, directed mostly to mothers. The club’s reading room features newspapers from 80 Canadian towns, fostering hometown ties while King and Queen honored its Feb 19 1940 founding.
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Beaver Club
London
Piccadilly
Y.M.C.A
Rear Admiral Gadow Says U Boats and Ships Sunk
The retired German naval officer claims U boats and heavy warships are at the bottom of the sea. He states Germany’s submarine arm was defeated in 1943 due to enemy technical defenses and implies surface forces mattered little. The Montreal Gazette notes calls for disclosure of Luftwaffe fate.
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Richard Gadow
Hitler
Germany
Hermann Goering
Luftwaffe
Montreal Gazette
Aleutian Islands Named From Bold Rock Word
The Aleutian archipelago derives its name from a Russian term meaning bold rock, reflecting the rugged geography and historical naming by explorers.
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Aleutian Islands
Gift from correspondents displayed in Eisenhower caravan
General Eisenhower ordered a framed color print as a gift from four correspondents. They bought it after ducking into a print shop to dodge a bomb, depicting the British Army using flying rockets in 1830, 114 years earlier.
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Eisenhower
Canada Pledges Massive Beef Shipments to Britain
Agriculture Minister Gardiner announced Canada will ship at least 100 million pounds of beef to the United Kingdom in 1944 and 1945 with additional surplus supplies. The program includes 53 million pounds already shipped under the new agreement and sets price floor protections for domestic cattle producers.
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United Kingdom
Gardiner
Canada
Dominion
Canadian Meat Board
Prices Board
United States
Penicillin Plant to Start Full Operation in Dominion
Officials in Montreal announced the first Dominion penicillin factory, government owned and run by Ayerst McKenna and Harrison, Ltd. It already produces the drug but will not reach peak capacity until a nearby laboratory complex is completed.
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Dominion
Montreal
Ayerst, McKenna and Harrison, Ltd
Bombers upgrade Typhoon with double load under wings
The air ministry disclosed that R A F Typhoon fighter-bombers now carry a 1,000 pound bomb under each wing doubling their load from the earlier era and exceeding the medium bombers used at the war's start. After release the Typhoon can dive in at about 400 miles per hour with heavy fire from four 20 millimetre cannon.
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Britain
Air Ministry
Maquis Name Tied to Corsican Bandits in Corsica History
The Maquis, the French underground resisting the Germans in southern France, took its name from Corsican bandits called maquis meaning undergrowth. The fighters include high officers of the French Army who rejected Vichy domination relayed through Petain.
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France
Corsica
Petain
New York Herald Tribune
Smiles and Snaps of Wartime Wits and Warnings
A collage of quips and vignettes from wartime life includes legal talk with a judge, knotted jokes about taxes and shortages, and humorous exchanges about kindness, disarmament, and everyday habits. It closes with a wartime appeal to buy War Savings Stamps.
Tragedy of Germany Reflected in Exiled Author’s View
Emil Ludwig, long an exile, argues that victory in Berlin would be led by a commander not a smiling figure. He notes German war culture as grim and "blood and iron" driven, where humor is seen as weakness. Churchill’s remark that Germans are at your throat or feet frames the critique.
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Emil Ludwig
Naziland
Berlin
Germany
Churchill
Hitler
Halifax Herald
Toddler Pattern 4834 For Sunfrock and Bonnet
Anne Adams Pattern Dept offers pattern 4834 for toddlers sizes 1 to 6 including sunfrock bonnet and panty. 1 yard of 35 inch material needed for size 6 and 20 cents payment by coin. mail to Winnipeg Pattern Dept with name address and style number. Delivery may take longer due to mail slowness.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avé
Man
No system can make a lazy man industrious says Victoria Colonist
The Victoria Colonist argues no public or private security scheme will create provident behavior in the lazy or spendthrift. It decries dependence and warns that such programs burden society with inactive driftwood as the Australian white ant consumes cellulose and damages infrastructure.
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Victoria Colonist
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England
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Harold
Naomi
Frank
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