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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 30, 1944
Page
2
The article highlights the Royal Navy’s role in Allied offensives and amphibious operations. It notes Admiral Alexander’s figures that in late 1943 less than one ship in a thousand in Allied convoys was sunk by the enemy, compared with 181 per thousand in 1941 and 233 per thousand in 1942.
Mr. Alexander warned that Germany now has at least as many submarines as in early 1943 with increased fire power including a new acoustic torpedo. Submarine range extends to Indian Ocean, while the Mediterranean route to the East is freely used by Allied ships, delivering about one million gross tons and boosting North Africa and Italy shipping.
The First Lord declares that the Navy will extend its reach to Japan, with maritime forces as the strategic cornerstone. He notes Britain's commanding naval position since 1940 and praises Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy performances in submarine and surface actions.
The New York Times praises Churchill as a shockmaker in politics, an unlikely blend of conservatism and liberal impulse. It argues his Prime Ministership arises from a crafted image of Britain’s wartime courage, faith, cheerfulness, and loyalty beyond friends and foes.
Mrs Spencer mentions their tenth wedding anniversary and asks how to celebrate. Mr Spencer replies to bow heads and observe three minutes of silence. Separate note recalls the first Canadian bees factory started in Oxford County in 1864 and a fact about global thunderstorm frequency.
A dated comic strip style montage presents quick quips among soldiers shoppers nurses farmers and a judge. Jokes cover love at first sight marital control floor notions motherly complexion and mudship humor with light punchlines.
A public Q and A outlines ration eligibility for temporary and permanent cards, requirements for service members, extra rations for diabetics with medical proof, ceiling prices on used cars, bone versus boneless meat pricing, and how to obtain the Consumers News pamphlet or Blue Book from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
A quote contrasts double standards in behavior and judgment. It notes that criticism or kindness is viewed differently depending on who acts, labeling the opposite actions as nerves prejudice cranks toadying or tact.
Planned oil bearing seed crops for 1944 include flaxseed with 2,800,000 acres down five percent from 1943, soybeans at 90,000 acres up 78 percent, rape seed up 147 percent, and sunflower seed at 50,000 acres up 72 percent from last year.
Canadian breeders developed semi dwarf early maturing sunflower varieties for grain. The Sunrise and Mennonite types yielded about 18 percent seed with potential for 42 million pounds of edible oil and 2,250 tons meal. Prairie acres reached 30,000 in 1943 with a 50,000 acre target for 1944 as part of the war effort.
A New York area hostess invited several Anzacs to dinner and asked their activity choices. The soldiers admitted money is tight and costly New York laundries. She then led them to the laundry room and turned on the washing machine for a humorous casual gathering.
A brief Kreolite News item mocks a slogan urging readers to buy War Savings Stamps. The piece quotes a quip about dimming lights and war effort, reflecting wartime propaganda style and civic duty messaging.
Regular dental care helps all ages but diet raises tooth enamel quality. Dr. L. B. Pett of Ottawa says vitamin D is essential to use calcium from milk for enamel and bones. Mothers need it before birth and while nursing. children from infancy through adolescence. Sunshine in summer and fish liver oils in winter supply vitamin D if sun is weak. If this winter lack persists, start a daily dose of bottled sunshine now.
Ed Otter reports high activity for the Beaver clubs in London and Harrogate used by Canadian servicemen. The Y War Services program saw 471,000 participants with varied services on over 3 million occasions, totaling 3,003,205 Beaver club uses in the year.
A collection of quotes on integrity duty and conscience from Junius C Simmons Mary Baker Eddy John Foster Robert Burns notes on virtue and a remark about tobacco as currency in colonial Virginia. The prose blends moral maxims with varied authorial attributions and a historical aside on tobacco.
A lengthy roster lists service flying training schools across Canada with names and home towns of pilots observers wireless gunners and navigators. Entries cover No 11 at Yorkton No 7 at Portage la Prairie No 3 at Macdonald No 5 at Dafoe and others including locations in Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta Quebec and New Brunswick.
Since January 1 1943 ships of the Royal Navy and RAF aircraft have sunk more than half of the German underseas fleet. The Franco-Prussian war saw Parisians move 85 people and more than four million letters out of Paris by balloon.
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