BBC Monitoring Service Faces World Propaganda
The BBC monitors daily propaganda from Axis nations, distilling 50 000 words of significance from over 1 000 000 words. A diverse team of 100 plus experts works around the clock across England to analyze broadcasts in 34 languages, broadcasting 78 bulletins and 85 hours of air time each day.
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Europe
British Broadcasting Corporation
Britain
England
BBC
North America
France
India
Burma
Thai
Ceylon
Ordinary Jimson Weed and Atropine Cited in Bulletin
A Cleveland Plain Dealer bulletin notes that popular weeds like jimson weed belladonna and deadly nightshade contain atropine. It recalls how workers handling jimson weed could absorb the drug, and explains belladonna’s name came from women dilating pupils for beauty.
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Germany
Bulletin
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Wartime Youth Service Corps trains teen teachers for Home Guard
The Youth Service Corps has grown to about 250000, with many 14 to 15 year olds teaching Home Guard members. They pass on stalk ing and woodcraft skills learned in Boy Scout days, reflecting active wartime schooling and defense efforts.
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British Board of Education
Youth Service Corps
Home Guard
Button use in collection plate prompts parishioner reminder
A Scotch church bulletin urges worshippers to stop inserting cushion buttons in the collection plate. Those who have done so are asked to place their own buttons instead. The note preserves decorum and public finances in a lighthearted tone.
Land Girls Drafted for Timber Work in Yorkshire Forestation
Many land girls have been drafted into wartime forestry operations in Yorkshire England to measure timber and support timber production for the war effort. The move reflects national mobilization of agricultural workers into forestry as timber demand rises.
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Yorkshire
England
Mushrooms May Lower Blood Pressure Says Rockefeller Doctor
Dr. H A Schroeder reports a natural mushroom extract reduced high blood pressure in 95 percent of patients tested but must be given intravenously. The World Telegram notes spinach extract would be preferable and jokes about mushrooms on steak.
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H. A. Schroeder
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
New York World-Telegram
Hinged Car Designed for Turning Corners In Australia
An Australian inventor Cornelius Murnane claims a hinged midsection allows a car to bend when turning. The forepart of the chassis turns with the steering wheel, potentially enabling 60 miles per gallon gas efficiency.
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Australia
Cornelius Murnane
Coffee Ration Strains Norwegians as German Soldiers Trade
Norwegian residents face a 10 gram weekly coffee limit under rationing while German soldiers are observed engaging in a brisk civilian trade. Reports indicate prices as high as 25 crowns per pound, about six dollars in American currency.
Hoover Says U.S. Not Ready for War
Herbert Hoover warns the United States is unprepared for war. He recalls Britain’s 1939 invasion while urging readiness and national resolve amid growing global tensions.
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Herbert Hoover
United States
Britain
Carrier pigeons and ancient plows in British farming history
The article notes Britain registered homing pigeons for secure wartime messaging and recalls pigeons delivering reports in WW I era journalism. It then surveys agricultural implements sent from Britain to colonies, highlighting plows and disc plows in use for centuries, with Britain introducing early steel-shared plows to various regions.
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United Kingdom
London
Britain
United States
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Turkey
Great Britain
South Africa
Rhodesia
Burma
India
Egypt
Convict William Shutter Paroled to Open Laporte Safe
A life prisoner in Indiana was granted temporary parole to open a Laporte safe, baffling locksmiths. The convict previously helped a sheriff by drilling open a safe, then removed the Laporte lock with a drill.
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Indianapolis
Laporte
William Shutter
Maori Officer Heroism Honored in Cairo Hospital Account
A British officer wounded in Cairo praised a Maori officer who, with his right hand blown off and four other wounds, led a small force of New Zealanders in a counter attack that repelled an entire German company. He noted youths among the invaders, including groups of Nazi boys aged 16 to 18.
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Cairo
French farming under scrutiny by German economist
Despatches from Paris quote German economist Dr. Schneek criticizing French farming. He says the French concept must be revised as the countryside shifted from production for exchange to prioritizing production itself.
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Paris
Dr. Schneek
Alunite Deposits Could Meet Australia Aluminum Needs
Western Australia reports find alunite deposits in the Lake Campion area may supply all of Australia's aluminum requirements after laboratory testing of samples.
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Western Australia
Lake Campion
First Chamber of Commerce Formed in Marseilles in the 15th Century
The historical note records the creation of the first chamber of commerce at Marseilles during the 15th century, marking an early development in organized trade representation.
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First Chamber of Commerce
Marseilles
Compliment Passes For More Than It Appears
A brief observation notes that compliments often carry deeper meaning or social leverage beyond their obvious praise, shaping perception and responses in social interactions.
Bright Accents For a Smart You Necklace and Lapel Pin
A crochet jewelry pattern 6968 offers a leaf necklace a lapel pin a pom-pom bracelet in wool with step by step illustrations and stitch directions. Send 20 cents in coins to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union to obtain the pattern at 175 Mc Dermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man. There is no Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Alice Brooks
Salvage Effort Appeals to Canadians for War Aid
University of Saskatchewan president Dr James S Thomson tells the Canadian Association for Adult Education that salvage drives let every citizen aid the war effort. He cites radio and cinema as educative tools and urges public groups to fund equipment and receive progress reports on purchases like bombers ambulances and mobile kitchens.
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James S. Thomson
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Canadian Association For Adult Education
Thomson
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Messerchmidts
Berlin
Britain
London Dock
Ad Democracy
Sallum
Liverpool
Department of Finance
Canada
Department of National Defence
Cartoon satire in daily papers mocks food limits
A French artist shows a painting to a friend with a feast depicted on canvas. The friend asks if all that was made from memory. A second cartoon line has children asking grandpa to recall his indigestion five years ago.
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Cc.p
Novel System at RAF Station Fines Airmen for Privileges
At a Royal Air Force station in southern England a fines system funds treats or loans for airmen with damaged homes. Growing a moustache earns a 35 cent fine, and incomplete growth by month end adds 50 cents. Earning a decoration or mention in dispatches costs 2.50 dollars, and newspaper name mentions 0.60 with a 1.25 dollar photo fine.
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Royal Air Force
England
Dispatches
British diplomat Sir Robert Clive visits Hamilton officers
Sir Robert Clive, the British diplomat, toured Hamilton and attended a luncheon with the Lorne Scots officers mess. He watched the regiment move out on their afternoon route march and praised their troops, saying Canadians produce a fine fighting force.
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Sir Robert Clive
Hamilton
Lorne
Sir Robert
Australia Population Limit Denied by Acting Prime Minister
Acting Prime Minister Fadden counters German propaganda by stating Australia can sustain up to 30 million people with present living standards, far short of the 100 million figure claimed. He notes the current population stands at about 7 million.
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Australia
Fadden
The Age Of Wisdom Footwear Insight
A quotation notes that true wisdom comes when a woman fits a No 5 foot into a No 6 shoe, contrasting with the foolish idea of forcing a No 6 foot into a No 3 shoe. The line humorously criticizes impractical vanity.
His Only Objection Daniel Webster and the Butcher
Daniel Webster was sued by a butcher over a bill. In public, he confronted the storekeeper asking why his helper was not sent for the Webster order. The butcher replied that he avoided Webster after the suit. Webster replied not to starve him.
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Daniel Webster
Webster
Cattle Sales Higher in Early 1941 at Onanadan Yards
Cattle sales in the first four months of 1941 at Onanadan yards and plants run slightly above the same period in 1940, with calves selling at lower volumes as breeders hold back stock to grow herds. Wichita girls plant red bud trees in citywide effort aided by a nursery owner.
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Onanadan
Wichita
Kasa
Girl Scouts
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