Sugar allotment reduced on equal basis for 1945
World sugar stocks fall to 3 million tons by year end as consumption outpaces production. United States United Kingdom and Canada set equal per capita allowances for the last nine months of 1945 while liberated areas receive about half of the 1,956,000 tons remaining for distribution among Russia European neutrals Middle East Persian Gulf Ceylon New Zealand and other importers.
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United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Russia
Middle East
Persian Gulf
Ceylon
New Zealand
Freezers could rival washing machines in postwar homes
Experts in the frozen food field predict the household freezer will become as essential as an electric washing machine. Quick freezing could alter canning needs, but both preservation methods will co exist. Nutrition will gain prominence as rural electrification expands, giving farm families access to better food.
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Lethbridge Herald
Structure of plant cellulose and its by products
The text explains cellulose as the plant framework forming a porous tubular fiber system that transports starches essential to plant life. It notes how capillary action moves substances into fibers, forming pectose and lignose, with lignose being cellulose in formation and removable by physical or chemical means. Unsized bleached paper is described as nearly pure cellulose.
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Aachen
Horst Wessel
Soviet Films Return as Berlin Reopens Theaters
In Berlin twenty five cinemas have opened in the Pringlau district with ten blitzed venues rebuilt. Seven cinemas have reopened in that district and two or three more operate in other areas. Films shown are mainly Soviet with interpreters describing content and translating dialogue before performances.
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Berlin
Pringlauberg
Netherlands seen as postwar immigrant source for Canada
John de Grippe formerly recruiting officer for the Netherlands army in Canada says the Netherlands should be an excellent postwar source of immigrants. He notes Dutch farmers view Canada as a country with a great future and are ready to become real citizens when conditions permit.
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John de Grippe
Canada
Netherlands
Ghosts Haunt Naval Laundry in Sandbank Scotland
A London Daily Sketch report details bizarre poltergeist activity at a Sandbank Scotland naval laundry by Holy Loch. Teacups smash, towels fly, a teapot and kettle rise, a notebook flies from a table, and linen moves along a line as workers witness escalating strange events in the facility. Locals and Londoners react with cautious belief amid Loch Ness monster comparisons.
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Sandbank
Holy Loch
London Daily Sketch
Scotland
Japanese in Canada Likely To Seek Return Home
Ottawa dispatch quotes Arthur McNamara director of selective service saying a very considerable number of Japanese in Canada have asked to be returned to Japan after the Pacific war. He notes high affirmative responses among those not born in Canada in a survey of Japanese males and family heads across the country.
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Victoria Daily Colonist
Ottawa
Arthur McNamara
Selective Service
Canada
Japan
Mr. MacNamara
Pacific
British Columbia
New Brick From Mine Ashes Aims to Change Construction
Lieut Col Aeneas Bell-Lrving former O C of the 2nd Canadian Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment describes a new brick made from pulverized coal ash from mines and power plants. British scientists say the composition is fireproof vermin proof plasterable paintable and sawable to any shape and gains strength with age. Building interests in the United States and Australia show interest in this useful repurposed waste product.
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Aeneas Bell-Lrving
O.C
United States
Australia
Vancouver Province
Made Fast Flight London to Karachi by RAF Sky Master
A four engine Skymaster aircraft of the Royal Air Force Transport Command completed a 9,120 mile round trip from Britain to Karachi in two days eight hours eleven minutes, with actual flying time 42 hours 23 minutes to 26 hours eight minutes by day and 16 hours 15 minutes by night. The average speed was 215 miles an hour.
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London
R.A.F. Transport Command
Britain
Karachi
India
Air Ministry
Diphtheria Toll Surpasses War Losses in England and Wales
The Ministry of Health reports nine thousand children under sixteen died of diphtheria in England and Wales during the war, a thousand more than enemy bomb fatalities. The ministry announces a new summer immunization campaign.
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England
Wales
Ministry of Health
Writing For A Living In Canada 1941 Writers Census
Dominion Bureau of Statistics notes only one writer per 2500 Canadians. Census 1941 tallies 4 579 writers, 3 866 men and 713 women, suggesting a gender gap in written work. The Brantford Expositor calls for scientific study of this discrepancy and notes ongoing opportunities for skilled wordsmiths.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Dominion
Brantford Expositor
Holland's Bulbs Exports Seen To France And U S
The Holland bulb industry once valued at over 20 million dollars yearly plans to resume exports to France and the United States within months. Sufficient stocks remain to send part of the 87 million pounds typically shipped to the U S this autumn. The main hurdle is fertilizer shortages as soil was neglected during the Nazi occupation.
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Holland
France
United States
Rhine
Germany
Reich
Netherlands
Cargo Saved by Belleville Escort in Atlantic Run
The Canadian corvette H.M.C.S. Belleville saved the cargo of a torpedoed merchant vessel during a late Atlantic escort mission. With radar and sonar gear failed, she used naked eye navigation and binoculars to track danger. After a false periscope sighting, depth charges were dropped. a dip chick almost mistaken for a periscope nearly caused a misfire before the freighter was guided to harbor and safely beached.
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H.mc.s. Belleville
Europe
Navy
Belleville
Atlantic
Irish Sea
J. E. Korning
Halifax
Floating repair shops speed repairs on new Pacific bases
Col John Slezak, chief of the Chicago Ordnance District, reports that floating repair shops 269 feet long are being used in the Pacific to speed repairs of damaged automotive equipment on newly won islands bases and on small islands in rear areas.
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Pacific
John Slezak
Chicago Ordnance District
Seafaring Whistle Rule Bans Crew Whistling On Deck
A maritime notice prohibits seamen aboard the vessel from whistling to avoid confusion with the boat's whistle. The rule applies to all crew on deck and seeks clear signaling.
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Swain
Calculating Wizard Herschel Reilley’s Mental Math Feats
Prof Herschel E Reilley, famed for a child born number form and rapid mental arithmetic, astonished peers by solving three and four figure problems in seconds. He multiplied and divided numbers silently, unaware others could not match his speed until later life.
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Herschel E. Reilley
Reilley
Prof
A. Norman Shaw
McGill News
Apples For Soldiers Aboard Lady Nelson
Chief Stewart Robert Buckles describes how returning Canadian service members are greeted aboard the hospital ship Lady Nelson with a shiny Canadian apple and ice cream as a first touch of home before heading home from overseas. The vessel, formerly part of the West Indies fleet, stands as a symbol of welcome.
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Stewart Robert Buckles
Halifax
N.S
Mr Buckles
Lady Nelson
Queen
Canadian National Steamships
West Indies
Hitler Youths Still Have Nazi Spirit
Eddie Gilmore reports from Berlin that Nazism remains brazenly active with propaganda on the streets. Houses are burned by Hitler youths and snipers have killed at least two Russian officers, while German civilians question Allied bomb damage and cling to Nazi indoctrination.
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Eddie Gilmore
Berlin
Hitler
Kant St
Wehrmacht
Britain’s wartime gold move and salvage feats during WWII
A Bank of England spokesman described the massive wartime transfer of Britain’s gold from the island to secureHideaways around the world as German invasion threatened. Movements, including from South Africa, totaled about 1 billion pounds with minimal losses. Some treasure was later recovered, notably Australian divers retrieving 80 200 pounds of gold from the Niagara wreck.
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Britain
Bank of England
South Africa
Pacific
Interdepartmental Commission Probes Study of World Languages
The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs appoints a strong interdepartmental panel to review facilities in Britain universities and institutions for studying languages histories and cultures of Near and Far East Eastern Europe and Africa.
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Secretary of State For Foreign Affairs
Britain
Near and
Far East
Europe
Africa
Victory Museum to honor 1945 surrender in Reims
Paris radio reports the Reims school where German officials signed the surrender on May 7 will become a national victory museum. The instruments of capitulation bearing German signatures were presented to the city and will be exhibited in the surrender ceremony room.
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Reims
Paris
Radio
Two Books Carried by Field Marshal Montgomery
Lady Montgomery notes her son Sir Bernard Montgomery always carries a Bible and Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. The remark underscores the general's religious and literary influences during his military career.
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Lady Montgomery
Sir Bernard Montogmery
Bunyan
Nylon compound coats wire at over 1000 feet per minute
A nylon compound coat process can apply a coating to wire at a rate exceeding 1000 feet per minute. The claim notes high speed production capabilities for continuous wire coating applications.
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