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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 10, 1942
Page
4
The article details the hidden roles of RCAF air engineers and motorboat crewmen. It explains their duties aboard bombers and coastal patrol craft, including engine checks, weapon handling, meteorology, knots, and seamanship, plus training in first aid navigation and fire fighting.
Divers completed a historic salvage of 2.4 million pounds in bullion from the Niagara wreck, sunk June 19 1940 north of Auckland. The operation, lasting a year, involved Italian recovery efforts on a mine infested sea bed. The divers face personal financial risk and will receive a share of the proceeds.
An elderly Weston-super-Mare woman who knitted tough gloves for minesweepers and sent five pairs of gloves and pocket Testaments to a Weston depot before Christmas is remembered in a Bristo! Post item. The piece praises the octogenarian donor’s labor of love despite advancing age.
A fragment from the Chatham News questions how Hitler could evade a heart failure illness through recent events. The note hints at confusion over the dictator's fate and suggests uncertainty about his survival.
The Woodstair Sentinel-Bevin notes airlines will replace nursing requirements with education in English and social sciences as nurses are diverted to war needs. Some carriers employ hundreds of hostesses with varied academic prerequisites while pilots and passengers await improved in-flight wit and knowledge.
The Ministry of Health launches mobile laundry vans to serve districts hit by raids or shortages. Fifteen vans will operate with four trained girls each, handling up to 80 f amilies a day on a bag wash system. Vans also test use in communal centers and evacuee areas under regional health officers in Edinburgh.
Archaeological work reveals that populous Indian cities thrived around five thousand years ago. The findings suggest advanced urban development and planning in early Indus Valley or contemporaneous settlements.
Easter lilies, symbol of sacrifice and purity, will be absent from Canadian homes as orders from Japan are canceled. Japanese Barbu earby lilies dominate production, with substitutes like Regal and Lilium Harrisi from Bermuda and Trinidad. Bermudian and Trinidad varieties shift from wreaths to potted flowers as Japan limits exports.
The 14 by 16 by eight foot 104 below zero cold chamber at Douglas Aircraft Santa Monica simulates 40,000 foot air. Workers wear diving bell like helmets and heavy leather suits as they test metals, lubrication and engine performance in this extreme cryogenic facility. An orange shattered into sand grain sized pieces after 15 minutes in the chamber.
Herve Alphand, former Vichy embassy attache now in London, outlines how the Darlan government at Vichy fits Hitler's plan to subjugate France. He says Germany wanted a puppet regime to end the empire, neutralize the navy, and sow discord while minimizing occupation needs.
Britain seeks larger flax cultivation and a much bigger soy bean crop in Canada due to oil content. Canadians may meet the target if weather cooperates and labor remains. The piece ends with a quip about tropics and a joke about a wife in a car.
The will of Meinheer von Kole of Holland reveals his habit of smoking as he directs his coffin be lined with cigar boxes and his favorite meerschaum pipe enclosed. He also mandates that all funeral attendees be supplied with pipes and tobacco.
Edison avoided fine clothes to fund books and apparatus. The text also notes that mines poisons and hand grenades emerged from earlier war implements. It mentions a China in Maine and another town of that name in Texas.
The Macassar Strait between Borneo and Celebes measures about 400 miles long and 60 to 150 miles wide, averaging 100 miles. Its area exceeds 40,000 square miles, larger than Lake Superior's 31,800 square miles, underscoring its ongoing strategic naval importance.
Veterinarians report a new method to identify horses by unique palate patterns. They use a stencil pad pressed on the front hard palate with the tongue held aside, leaving an imprint on mimeograph paper as a distinctive mark.
Ruth Herman, nine, arrived in Canada from Czechoslovakia unable to speak English. She recently won an oratorical contest at Aldershot against students from Oxford, Brant, Lincoln, Welland, Haldimand and Wentworth counties with no foreign accent. The piece praises foreigners learning English rapidly and contrasts it with native reluctance, citing examples from Warsaw and broader European experiences.
The clumsy looking flying boats of the RCAF patrol convoys and coastlines to protect Canada from enemy actions. crews of scrappy youths guided by trained officers ensure merchant ships reach harbor safely and submarines are detected.
In a late account Leonard Lyonstella recalls Cripps at a government mission in India where Gandhi, Nehru, and Cripps sit cross legged while the British statesman shares a humorous remark. The narrative shifts to Burma and China where W aide Donald vanishes after an assassination plot is revealed to Cripps.
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