Universal Postal Union connects world mail and stamps
The Universal Postal Union, founded at Berne in 1874, unified rates and stamp recognition across 22 nations and soon drew 86 adherents within ten years. It created a global postal district, letting letters travel thousands of miles for the same low cost as a newspaper. Tibet remained outside the arrangement.
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Universal Postal Union
Berne
Switzerland
Germany
Tibet
Canada
Fatigue Study Urges Breaks After Three Hours of Driving
A组d researchers from the U S Public Health Service Harvard Yale Columbia and other institutions report fatigue in long car trips. After three hours the driver’s mind dulls vision fogs and reactions slow. A siesta then at most two additional hours of driving is advised to reduce danger.
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Benjamin F. Jones
Robert H. Flinn
E. Cuyler Hammond
U.S. Public Health Service
D. B. Dill
R. A. McFarland
Cameron Chief Shapes Tough Lochiel Sons
In old Scotland the Camerons of Lochiel are praised for harsh training. A night bivouac in snow shows the chief rebuking his son as he rolls a snowball toward him, then kicking it away with the command no effeminacy, boy.
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Old Scotland
Lochiel
Coventry as symbol of free will rising from destruction
The Kingston Whig Standard notes Coventry’s wartime destruction as a symbol of Nazidom’s cruelty and praises the city’s resolve. It recalls the cathedral bombed but vows Coventry Cathedral will rise again, finer and more serviceable, to prove good over evil and to inspire a rebuilt, better city.
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Kingston Whig-Standard
Coventry
Coventry Cathedral
Hitler
Two Front War Plea From M Litvinov Stirs British Aid Debate
The Buffalo Courier-Express notes Mikhail Litvinov’s plea for British help as a potential path to a two front war against Hitler. It recalls Russia’s missed opportunities in 1940 to ally with the Allies before France fell and the Balkans crisis that led to Bulgaria Yugoslavia Greece and Turkey moving toward German pacts.
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M. Litvinov
Russia
Hitler
Stalin
France
Germany
Low Countries
Balkans
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Greece
Turkey
Buffalo Courier-Express
Parachute Expert Teaches Britain’s Paratroops
Bruce Williams, once a circus jumper, now trains Britain’s paratroops in their first descent and in proper parachute folding and packing. He began in an air circus run by Pauline Gower and Dorothy Spicer who toured Britain giving joy rides to spark air-mindedness.
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Bruce Williams
Williams
Britain
Pauline Gower
Dorothy Spicer
Handbag Gift To Windsor Youth Club Girl Crashed
The King and Queen awarded a navy blue handbag to Mabel Knidds, 14, of Windsor, after she dropped her purse during a War Weapons Week parade at Windsor Castle. The Royal Family witnessed the mishap as a vehicle ran over the bag. a navy handbag with a note was later delivered to the girl via the Windsor Youth Club superintendent.
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Mabel Knidds
Windsor
London Times
Windsor Youth Club
Windsor Castle
Miss Knidds
Hair Singed By Bomb Near South Coast Woman
A South Coast woman escaped injury when an incendiary bomb fell on a pillow beside her. The heat caused her hair to curl and singe, but she was unhurt.
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England
Electricity Replaces Grenade Harpoon in Whale Hunting
A report notes a shift in whaling methods as electric devices displace the grenade harpoon. The change affects approach to capturing large whales, with potential implications for efficiency and safety in harpoon use.
Free French Leadership Aims for Unity Under Catroux
London reports describe General de Gaulle as supreme commander and General Catroux as his second in command. Catroux refuses any seniority clash, downgrades his rank to avoid friction, and insists on serving under de Gaulle. Catroux has fought in Africa and led Foreign Legion battalions and knows Syria well.
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de Gaulle
General Catroux
London
Ottawa Journal
Catroux
French Africa
French Foreign Legion
Syria
To Win Friends
The Minneapolis Star Journal recalls H. S. Phillips of the New York Sun who sent 25 friends identical one word telegrams saying Congratulations. Only one asked why. The rest accepted the praise, each having recently done something worthy of applause. Generosity with applause is praised as the real way to win friends and influence people.
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Minneapolis Star Journal
H. S. Phillips
New York Sun
Girl's wish in war raid: lemonade and straw fulfilled
A ten year old girl injured in a German air raid in London asked for lemonade through a straw as she lay dying. With no straw at the hospital, staff and townspeople rallied. The cinema manager provided a straw from the refreshment room and lemonade was found two hours later. The girl died at dawn.
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London
King's Messenger Spitfire Gift Fights for Britain
Canada’s first Wings for Britain Fund Spitfire credited with four enemy kills in 10 days of action. Gifted by Lady Davis of Montreal and named King's Messenger, it was piloted by Flying Officer Jack Charlies of Lashburn, Saskatchewan. Charlies reports the Canadian war memorial at Vimy Ridge intact amid the aerial battles.
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Canada
Britain
King’s Messenger
Lady Davis
Montreal
Jack Charlies
Lashburn, Sask
Charles
Vimy Ridge
Tuberculosis in Air Raid Shelters Raises Alarm
A Medical World report describes an 18 to 20 year old homeless girl with acute tuberculosis in a London tube shelter. She waited four weeks for a bed, living in confinement where contagion risk was high as doctors and nurses struggled to cope.
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Medical World
the Medical Practitioner’s Union
London
Workers lured to Germany face family promises and peril
The May 15 Faedrelander notes German propaganda offers high wages and steady work to men from German-held nations, claiming benefits for families. A Danish wife, starving and unable to pay rent, killed herself after waiting for money from her husband in Germany. Atlantic storms send fewer than 12 percent to Europe.
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Germany
Faedrelander
High Altitude Airmen Get Oxygen Supply Reforms
Canadian Air Force medical experts told a Commons sub committee that regulated oxygen for all crew at high altitude improves performance. Research with the National Research Council addressed oxygen delivery and altitude sickness. lighter diets cut air sickness by half at a cost of one cent per man per day.
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R W. Ryan
Royal Canadian Air Force Medical Services
House of Commons
Royal Air Force Medical Service
Ryan
G. E. Hall
National Research Council
Canada
Free French Voice Reflects on Year Under German Occupation
A Free French spokesman in Paris says the Nazi occupier, who raised the swastika over the Eiffel Tower, is now seen as a stranger who is ignored and unwelcome. He notes French resistance in spirit and reports continued German plunder of food, with meat shipments sent to Germany.
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France
Eiffel Tower
Paris
United States of Europe
Hitler
Germany
Halifax Port Seen as Key to Atlantic War Effort
Admiral Bonham Carter praises Halifax as the world’s most important port and notes its role as the western gateway for war supplies to England. The Liberty Magazine interview describes naval actions near Halifax and reveals plans for major expansions, with Canada’s navy projected at 27,000 men and 400 ships by April 1942.
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Halifax
Admiral Bonham Carter
Franzier Hunt
Liberty Magazine
Royal Navy
Zeebrugge
Atlantic
England
Hunt
North Carolina Professor Resigns After Allergy to Chickens
Freeman Waldo Cook, a nine year veteran professor in the poultry department at North Carolina State College, has resigned. A physician found that Cook is allergic to chickens, ending his research and teaching duties.
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Freeman Waldo Cook
North Carolina State College
State College
Cook
Four Anthropoid Ape Types Listed Gorilla Chimpanzee Orangutan Gibbon
The four types of anthropoid apes are identified as the gorilla, chimpanzee, orangutan and gibbon.
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Kemptville
Ont
General de Gaulle
Atlantic Coast
European Coast
Jim Walker
Portland
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