Revealing Britain's Hidden History Beneath Bombed Ruins
Antiquaries uncover Roman walls in Cripplegate and medieval stones in Exeter and Southampton as bombed cities reveal centuries of past. Experts urge a joint government and private effort to preserve and study these buried records before rebuilding buries them again.
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London
Exeter
Cambridge
Southampton
Cripplegate
Londinium
London Tower
Church of All Hallows
All Hallows
Church of St. George
O'Neill
British Commonwealth
R. E. M. Walker
Grandma Refuses Brandy From Rescue Team After Bomb Blast
An elderly woman survived a bombing shockingly intact. Rescuers found her among debris, laid her on a stretcher, and she asked for a purse lock. A friend searched the kitchenless scene and returned with a purse, a pay envelope, and half a bottle of brandy offered for emergency use. She declined, preferring to save it for an emergency.
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Grandma
L. A
Bendix unveils new flying aid instrument for pilots
The Bendix Aviation Corporation announced a new instrument that calculates longitude and latitude mile by mile as a plane flies and displays them on the pilot s instrument board. Super fortresses have used these instruments on flights to Japan.
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Bendix Aviation Corporation
Japan
Peacetime ships in war told as Britain’s queenly escorts
Canada’s Frank Lowe recalls how peacetime liners like Montrose and Rawal Pindi served as armed merchant cruisers in wartime. They escorted convoys in dangerous seas, many were sunk, and a formal honor roll lists ships such as the Duchess of Atholl and Orma among others with tales of courage and loss.
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Frank Lowe
Britain
Elizabeth
Mary
Montrose
St. Lawrence
Europe
Forrar
Atlantic
Halifax
Orma
Germany
Admiral Hipper
Calendonia
Carinthia
Anxious To Serve First airwoman joins CWAC in Regina
Irene Pearl Langmo of Congress Saskatchewan becomes Pte Langmo CWAC after discharge from the RCAF due to end of the Commonwealth Air Training Plan. She trained at Rockcliffe and served in Newfoundland before transfer. Major Mary L. McIlvena welcomed her at No. 112 Depot Company Regina.
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Canadian Women's Army Corps
Saskatchewan
R.C.A.F
Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Irene Pearl Langmo
Congress
Sask
Pte
Langmo
CWAC
Air Force Blue
Regina
Pte. Langmo
Air Force
Rockcliffe
Newfoundland
Mary L. McIlvena
C.W.A.C
McIilvena
No. 112
C.w.ac
Army
C W.A.C. Pte
Apadian Army
Hota
W.A.C
Mary Scholey
Ryerson
Dutch relief program deploys mobile laundries in Holland
Sixteen bathing vehicles ten mobile laundries and two repair trucks will operate for six months in liberated Dutch areas to fight disease from soap hot water and laundry shortages. Premier Gerbrandy thanked Lever Bros British Red Cross and St John Ambulance for funding and noted the machines have served British towns since 1940 washing millions of garments and bathing over a million people.
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Holland
Netherlands
Pieter S. Gerbrandy
London
Lever Bros
British Red Cross
St. John Ambulance Service
A Queer Belief About Lightning Prevention
Central European villagers hold that lightning spares a house if vegetables grow on the roof. The thunder cabbage, known as donnerkraut, is widely cited as the key protective plant.
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Central
Europe
Canadians and Climate Devotion Across Seasons
The Ottawa Citizen notes Canadians cherish their climate and landscape, praising all seasons. It observes a regional bias among Californians and British Columbians while acknowledging a subset who claim their climate is the best purely from affection.
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Canada
Ottawa Citizen
Automobile shock lifts cars in air after impact
An automobile moving at 60 miles per hour hits an object and stops within three feet, exerting force sufficient to lift 40 cars three feet into the air.
Estimated 25 000 Barn Owls in England and Wales
A conservation estimate puts the barn owl population of England and Wales at around 25 000 birds. The figure reflects regional trends and supports breeding and habitat programs. The estimate underscores ongoing monitoring by wildlife agencies and partners.
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England
Wales
Estim
Radar hailed as crucial in Battle of Britain role
Dr J D Cockcroft told Ottawa observers radar was one of the war’s most effective secret weapons and credited with aiding night bombing defence and Allied night fighting. He noted radar’s development began circa 1935 and involved Canada’s important contribution and close Allied cooperation since 1938.
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Britain
Canada
J. D. Cockcroft
Ottawa
Canadian Association of Scientific Workers
National Research Council
Cockcroft
Ottawa Journal
Hospital Ship Captain Armit Named Master of Lady Nelson
Captain William Barclay Armit, RD RNR RCNR, commodore of the Canadian National fleet, appointed master of His Majesty's Canadian hospital ship Lady Nelson. Born 1885 at St Andrews Scotland he began seafaring at 16 and led convoys in 1914 39 served in wars including the surrender of the German High Fleet.
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William Barclay Armit
R.C.N.R
Canadian National Steamships Fleet
West Indies
Canada
C.N
St. Andrews
Scotland
Captain Armit
13Th Battalion, Royal Highlanders of
Montreal
Government
Merchant Marine Service
C.N.S
Yo-Yo Champion Aids War Casualties Therapy
Canadian American Yo-Yo champion Al Gallo is praised for therapeutic use of the toy. He visits Christie Street Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, demonstrating exercises and distributing about 300 Yo-Yos to help strengthen injured muscles.
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Margaret Aitken
Toronto Evening Telegram
al Gallo
Philippines
Gallo
Padre Lambert
Christie Street
Not What He Meant at Boxing Writers Dinner
Quentin Reynolds attended a boxing writers dinner in Moscow where a penknife he received years earlier was shown. An inscription led an army officer to arrange a meeting with the Russian heavyweight champ, which turned into a fight. Reynolds toasted Stalin and Roosevelt with vodka as the champ drank, then the meet was canceled.
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Quentin Reynolds
Boxing Writers
Reynolds
Moscow
Russia
Stalin
Roosevelt
New York Post
Jiffy Hat And Bag Crochet Pattern 7416
Crochet a lively hat and bag set from three medallions. Pattern 7416 provides hat and purse directions, with options to vary using corde or string. Send twenty cents in coins to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 75 McDermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man with name address and pattern number. mail may be delayed.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Edinburgh Woman Wins £100 Novel Contest
Elizabeth Whitehead of Edinburgh, blind since age three and now 34, wins £100 for a novel by a new writer. She produced 60,000 words in ten weeks using a Braille typewriter then a standard machine. The piece notes the year's longest day at about 15 hours and the shortest at nine and a half hours.
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Elizabeth Whitehead
Edinburgh
Canadian Forces Staff Count Surpasses Three Thousand Seven Hundred
The Canadian armed forces report a nurse population exceeding 3,707 personnel. The figure highlights expanding medical support within the military system and reflects ongoing recruitment and staffing efforts across national defense facilities.
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