World Happenings Briefly Told From Across the Globe
Fienile Vaillancourt arrives in Havana as Canada's first ambassador to Cuba. Cardiff plans to award the freedom of the city to Prime Minister Churchill. Overseas League Tobacco Fund ships 225 million cigarettes to Canadian forces. Chen Cheng cites 3.1 million Chinese casualties since 1937. Gardener Joseph Mailender dies in Retford days before his 100th birthday. Belgian mine disposal crews clear 8000 mines with no casualties. Wendell Stanley unveils a new influenza vaccine far more effective. A 40 year old deed transfers Long Island land to a Portland man via Liverpool records.
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Joseph Mailender
Retford
Eng
U.S
Liverpool
England
Portland Me
Long Island
Portland
Canadian Wheat Stocks Fall as Farm Belts Shift to Markets
The March 31 1945 survey shows total Canadian wheat stocks in North America at 502,977,991 bushels with 24,076,406 in U S bond, down 42.6 million from 1944. Farm stocks total 154 million bushels, 82 percent on farms, while 38 percent lie in country elevators. Prairie provinces hold 149 of the farm stock, with Manitoba 14, Saskatchewan 90, and Alberta 45 million bushels. seed, feed, and carryover plans will determine remaining availability through July 31.
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United States
Prairie Provinces
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Memory Selection and Prophetic Narratives for May 13
The lesson surveys Old Testament themes from First Kings and Elijah’s flight, Jeroboam’s idolatry, Ahab and Jezebel’s reign, and Elijah’s plea in the wilderness. It links to Galatians 6 7 on sowing and reaping, and Amos 5 6 15 for devotional reading.
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Jeroboam
Jehovah
Jerusalem
Rehoboam
Judah
Israel
Egypt
Beth-el
Dan
Ahab
Omri
Nebat
Jezebel
Ethbaal
Sidonians
Baal
Samaria
Elijah
Beersheba
Damascus
Hazael
Syria
Jehu
Nimshi
Elisha
Shaphat
Abel-meholah
Unique ashtray from pear tree gifted to Churchill
Prominent Malmesbury residents in South Africa presented a historic ashtray crafted from a pear tree Smuts climbed as a boy. The item accompanied Field Marshal Smuts to London for the British Commonwealth talks, intended as a distinctive gift for Premier Churchill.
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Field Marshal Smuts
London
Premier Churchill
Field Marshal
Malmesbury
South Africa
How to restore hardened honey jam and jelly
Honey jam and jelly become hard from storage but can be fixed easily. Place the jar in a warm not hot oven and keep until the sugar melts and the product becomes smooth again.
Notary in Nijmegen Finds Nazi Loot Hidden in Safe
A Nijmegen notary returned home to a safe stuffed with 985000 Dutch guilders left by retreating Germans. Fearful of booby traps, he enlisted Canadian engineers to open it. They confirmed the sum and turned the money to Dutch authorities, with a possible percentage reward for the finder.
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Nijmegen
Holland
Delicacy From Siberia Swans Arrive in London
Swans migrate from Siberia to Ireland escape winter then are shot and sold to Britain for West End restaurants. Birds reach turkey size when plucked. Separately, forty eight percent of U S patent applications in a dozen years were rejected by the patent office.
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Siberia
London
Ireland
Britain
West End
U.S. Patent Office
What is the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Canada
The Junior Chamber of Commerce is a nation wide organization of young Canadian men with branches across over a hundred cities from Halifax to Vancouver. It aims to weld together young men through self development and public affairs involvement to improve communities and the country.
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Junior Chamber of Commerce
Halifax
Vancouver
Canada
Jaycees
Victory Loan
Community Chest
Red Cross
Saskatchewan
Chamber of Commerce
Regina
Our Crossword Puzzle No 4936
Crossword puzzle fill with horizontal and vertical clues covering a range of words from worry to article. Includes various language, numbers, and terms. readers fill entries such as Latvian capital and Japanese measure, plus a wide set of cross-reference hints.
Eisenhower Receives Large Flow of Gifts and Letters
The New York Herald Tribune notes that General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, has received a flood of letters and gifts from around the world. Senders request autographs, pictures, and various items, while some gifts are donated to hospitals or kept as curiosities.
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Allied Expeditionary Force
Eisenhower
New York Herald Tribune
Four Classes Describe Conquered Germans Says Correspondent
One correspondent partitions conquered Germans into four classes snarlers ignorers smilers and wavers with snipers mixed in He portrays snarlers as diehard Nazis who deny any end to occupation ignorers who treat Americans British and Canadians as non existent smilers mostly elderly who welcome the war’s end and wavers who flash V signs to Allied troops.
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Emmerich
Vancouver Sun
Prowler Cooks Meal, Dishes Cleaned, Then Leaves Dallas Home
A prowler entered Mrs J P Woodward’s Dallas residence before dawn, cooked a meal in the kitchen, consumed it, washed dishes, stacked them on the drain board, and departed while the resident slept. Alaska’s coastline is about 35 000 miles long, roughly 10 000 miles more than Earth's circumference.
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J. P. Woodward
Dallas
Texas
Alaska
Cost of killing through history and sugar imports
Life Magazine traces the rising cost of war from ancient Rome to World War II with figures from 75 cents to $50 000 per enemy killed. It notes sugar consumption in the United States totaling over 6 million tons annually, with about 4.6 million tons imported.
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Your Life Magazine
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Havana
Ottawa
St Thomas Hospital
Cardiff
Wales
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Overseas League Tobacco Fund
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Chen Cheng
Japan
Belgium
Wendell M. Stanley
Rockefeller Institute
Princeton University
By Fred Neher
Weser
Mrs. Burns
Archie
Josef Kramer
Storm Group
Belsen
Kramer
Holland Town
The
Junior Chamber of Commerce Nation-Wide
Beulah Walton
By William Ferguson
Coogal Sega
Ibsen
Ocean
Berlin
Tempelhof
General Eisenhower
Reg'lar Fellers
Gene Byrnes
Pinhead Duffy
Grogan
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