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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 13, 1943
Page
2
The article notes the Merchant Navy known as The Soest Service for secrecy and outlines its vital wartime contributions. It highlights the fleet's support to Allied efforts and tea and material transport, praising gallant merchant sailors and recent British statistics shedding light on this sea service.
The article states Britain’s Merchant Navy ships move twenty to thirty million tons of materials annually and transport troops to fronts. In 1942, one million tons of stores and 500,000 men were sent around the Cape and over one million tons of stores and 500,000 men to North Africa before November 1942. It notes about 2,000 British Merchant ships are at sea with only about 0.5 percent convoys failing and survival rates around 87 percent for damaged ships, with life raft losses under two percent.
The Merchant Navy aided Britain by transporting troops and supplies to theatres of war and delivering large consignments to the Commonwealth and to Russia. Between June 1941 and December 1942, Britain shipped 2974 tanks and 3080 airplanes to Russia, with 19 convoys reaching Russia via the northern route. Seven hundred officers and 2551 other ranks earned honours, including gallantry decorations, for their service. A British writer stated that without the Merchant Navy Britain would face near starvation and lose key supplies.
The Huron Expositor notes Britons have endured wartime strain yet preserve leisure. It cites 105000 fans at the England Scotland football match in Glasgow as proof of the national habit of playful living despite total war demands.
The Royal Ontario Museum expert T B Kurata notes two cobweb forming spiders indoors. The common Domestic Spider is harmless and may help control flies and clothes moths while others see webs as a nuisance.
Charles Co. Price of the University of Illinois described extracted chemicals from shoe polish and photographic developers to the American Chemical Society that may enable new plastics methods including synthetic rubber production.
A study notes rheumatic heart disease occurs more often in fair haired individuals than in dark haired people, suggesting hair color may correlate with disease prevalence.
A historical note explains that in horse racing a distance of ten feet is considered a length. The item frames the unit as a measurement of horse speed or distance in a race context.
A list of graduates from No. 12 Brando Service Flying Training School includes pilots and airmen from Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta with names such as J R B Cox S N E Cure W Mck Winkler W J Gramson Gulevich Mundare LAC H Late and many others. The article also notes the commissioning of several airmen in Canada by Royal Canadian Air Force Headquarters with names including N F Beatty W K Parsons T B Hodgson W A Marjerris and E A Burton among others.
A Sheffield man, Corporal George Simpson of the RAF, visited a Cairo cafe and offered to show how to make pancakes if paid. The suggestion sparked a busy pancake trade for British troops, according to the Shield Telegraph.
National Safety Council studies indicate vehicles require nine times as much distance to stop on ice as on dry concrete, highlighting severe braking hazards in winter driving conditions.
The passage argues that prairie-born youths feel an innate affinity for the sea, shaped by winds on the plains. It claims prairies produce sailors who prefer home waters over those from eastern Ontario valleys, noting a natural link between the prairies and the ocean that shapes many young mariners.
Wing commander Paddy Finucane, holder of the D S C and triple D F C, was killed last July when his Spitfire was shot down. Reports note his pilots watched in air drome cinemas as he chased and shot down enemy planes, filming the combat with cameras fitted to his wings.
Eric Stangroom, Ottawa chief insurance officer, said the unemployment insurance fund total reached $120,000,000 and was rising by $5,000,000 each month. Benefits paid totaled $500,000 while earnings from bonds and investments amounted to $1,000,000.
Suburban electric trains on the Euston to Watford routes coast down grades to cut energy use. Signals advise where to cut power, with authorities estimating about nine tons of coal saved daily.
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