World Happenings Briefly Told Across Nations
Yugoslavia will release all German and Austrian prisoners of war by year end per Interior Minister Rankovic. Crown Princess Juliana’s coronation expected September 6 in Amsterdam. Mita Hayakawa elected first woman mayor of a Chiba village in Japan. A 1945 book of stamps sold in London for £105 with inscribed extra sheet. Brooke Claxton said 16 Japanese mines destroyed by navy tugs in two years. Mrs Anne Reiis, 83, among first residents of Methodist Home for the Aged in Bognor Regis. Britain plans cinema education for 30,000 schools. Air Commodore Frank Whittle awarded $400,000 for aeronautics achievements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yugoslavia
Alexander Rankovic
Brooke Claxton
Methodist Home For the
Bognor Regis
England
Anne Reiis
Charles Wesley
Advance Report Shows Tuberculosis Death Decline in Canada
Ottawa reports a remarkable advance in tuberculosis control. Dr. G J Wherrett notes national death rates fell from 200 per 100 000 in 1900 to 48.2 in 1946 with provincial values ranging from 17.5 in Saskatchewan to 70.4 in Quebec. Indian rates were 680.1 in 1937 and 564.4 in 1946 for the same population.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Canada
G. J. Wherrett
Canadian Tuberculosis Association
Saskatchewan
Quebec
Colorful towels with easy embroidery patterns
A pattern note promotes six motifs 6x7 inches for towels with a child friendly theme. It advertises an improved pattern-visual featuring charts photos and complete directions. Send twenty five cents coin to Household Arts Depart ment Winnipeg Newspaper Union for Pattern 7365 with name address and pattern number.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Romanian government strips King Michael of citizenship and seizes royal properties
The government in Bucharest announced the deprivation of Romanian citizenship for former King Michael and four family members. It also confiscated vast holdings including 143 castles with 3,060 rooms, marking a dramatic royal property seizure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucharest
Michael
Farmer Makes Own Rain Covers 120 Acres At Once
Elsa Texas based Evergreen Farms run by W A Harding sprinkles two and half inches of rain daily across a 120 acre block, rotating to cover another 120 acres the next day. The process dehydrates alfalfa and oats into green flour in under three minutes, shipped to Kansas City for poultry feed and human vitamin pills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsa
Tex
W. A. Harding
Evergreen
Harding
Rio Grande Valley
Kansas City
The Spoiler Poem Critiques Thoughtless Hunters
A poem by M. V. Gillard in Sylva denounces a careless hunter who leaves camp fires burning and trashing the woods. It laments poaching, overtrapping, and neglecting forests and wildlife for today’s pleasure, warning of heritage loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cates
PREDICTS HEAVY TRAFFIC THROUGH PORT CHURCHILL
Yorkton predictions from P Dalgleish of an English shipping firm say the Hudson Bay route will become a main transportation corridor and Churchill will gain parity with the St Lawrence and Vancouver routes. He spoke at a Yorkton board of trade meeting noting westbound cargo will fill more than one ship this year, with his firm hoping for two ships. Last year 15 vessels voyaged to Churchill and only one carried cargo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yorkton, Sask
P. Dalgleish
Hudson Bay
Churchill
St. Lawrence
Vancouver
Kitchen Meditations Captives
A poem in verse describes nature and spring imagery. The speaker observes a cloud in a poplar, a stream freed by a boy, a crocus growing, and a baby dreaming, expressing wonder and joy without restraint. The tone is reflective and hopeful about renewal.
Human milk best for babies say researchers
A National Research Council subcommittee reports in The Journal of the American Medical Association that human milk remains the best milk for infants. Dr. C Anderson Aldrich notes breast milk is prophylactic, preventing many gastro intestinal disturbances and constipation, especially among less affluent groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On Maternal and Child Feeding
National Research Council
Journal of
The
American Medical Association
C. Anderson Aldrich
M-D
Rochester
Aldrich
Outdoors Too Roomy for House Hunter
A man seeks a home but a naturalist jokes about living under the open sky. The exchange turns humorous as the man clarifies he wants something smaller than a house.
Lightened age breastfeeding not always necessary or burdensome
The text argues that extended breastfeeding may be unnecessary and burdensome for mothers when medical supervision is available, but for many babies raised without adequate medical advice this may not apply.
Weeds Between Cement Walks Controlled by Salt Water
Salt added to boiling water effectively kills grass or weeds growing between sections of a cement walk or patio. The tip notes a simple home remedy to remove unwanted growth in masonry paths and patios.
Much-About Nothing Across and Land Measure
Crossword puzzle clues list across and down items including planetary, musical, language, and mythic terms. It presents hints like punishment, sun god, and various everyday words arranged as horizontal and vertical entries.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Juliana
Netherlands
Amsterdam
Mita Hayakawa
Japan
Chiba Prefecture
London
Education Ministry
Britain
Frank Whittle
Ispark
B.C
Agassiz
Fraser Valley
Fraser
Sudan
M. V. Gillard
Sylva
Port Churchill
Little Reggie
Margarita
Reginald
Ats
Priscilla
Hazel
al Vérmeer
BY William Ferguson
Lolly
O “Yap
Jane Dale
W. J Bill” Dunne
Calgary
Gallinger and McCollister-Cammaert
Edmonton
Sun God
Actinium
Vincent Lopez
Odin
Hebrew Kingdom
Moiten
Adam
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