Allied and Axis Reactions to Madagascar Occupation Noted
The British move to occupy Madagascar drew varied Axis responses with Japan calling it an act of aggression and Italy describing it as banditry. Vichy France defended the Axis, while Germany gave little comment, and Admiral Darlan labeled the British as highway robbers. Wartime boards also ordered curbs on new furniture designs to cut costs and conserve materials.
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Madagascar
Japan
Germany
Vichy France
Vichy
France
Dartan
Hitler orders purge of Nazi production chiefs
London reports Adolf Hitler, enraged by U S armament pace, has ordered removal and punishment of Nazi production leaders. Heinrich Koppenberg of Junkers Dessau is arrested and sent to Dachau after claiming production limits due to worn out plants. The dispatch says Hitler demands increased output and will not tolerate defeatist explanations.
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Sydney Post-Record
London
Adolf Hitler
United States
Heinrich Koppenberg
Junkers Aircraft
Dessau
Dachau
London Dispatch
Koppenberg
Junkers
Fuehrer
Hitler
Ancient egg found in Ontario at Fort Ste. Marie site
An egg laid by an early hen in what is now Ontario was unearthed eight feet underground at the Fort Ste. Marie ruins in the Georgian Bay district. The egg, from the Jesuit mission residence built in 1639, was perfectly preserved but not usable for cooking. The fort was burned and abandoned in 1649 after Iroquois conquest of the Hurons.
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Ontario
Fort Ste. Marie
Georgian Bay District
Canada
Canadian Travel Bureau
Nazi Bomber Pilot Arrested in San Antonio
Lieut Hans Peter Krug, a Nazi bomber pilot, was arrested in San Antonio after escaping a Canadian prison camp. American officers said he was pretty cocky and noted his remark that everything we do is good. He hinted he may learn otherwise someday.
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Hans Peter Krug
San Antonio
Tex
OPD RULES On Access To Parliament Seats In England
In England the Sovereign may not enter the House of Commons while the House of Lords is never named and is instead called another place in formal usage.
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England
House of Commons
House of Lords
Hitler's War Strain Reflected in Bohemian Garrison Riot
Reports from Pardubice in Bohemia recount a March protest by German troops over rations and leaves. The S S suppressed the unrest with sixty soldiers arrested and four shot, as discipline shifts from courts to the SS.
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Adolf Hitler
Sle
Cleveland
Mat
Hull
Hitler
Reich
Russia
London
Pardubice
Protectorate
Bohemia
Germany
S. S
der Fuehrer
Remembering Britain’s World War II Resolve and Burden
The Toronto Telegram stresses Britain’s unique wartime role, bearing the war’s weight alone for over a year with limited allies. It notes Britain's population relative to the U S and Russia, its early declaration of war on Nazism, and Prime Minister Churchill’s noted intrepidity as the army longs to strike the foe.
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Britain
Balkan
Toronto Telegram
Removing chewing gum with alcohol rubs
The method advises using alcohol to clean chewing gum from any surface. It suggests applying rubbing alcohol to break down the gum and enable easier removal without damage to the underlying material.
Silk Shortage Forces Substitutes Across Industries
The Scientific American notes dwindling silk supplies push manufacturers to replace silk insulation and tape with rayon, nylon, cotton, or other fibers. General Electric plans to use substitutes for silk in wire insulation as supplies run low, signaling a broader shift as silk shortages reshape production within a year.
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General Electric
Scientific American
No Sugar For Dog Poodle Banned From Tea Sugar
A New York rationing board denied a war ration for a poodle ending its sugar tea habit. The owner argued the dog was accustomed to sugar and drank it three times daily. The board insisted the dog must do without.
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New York
Submarine Construction Authorized by Law Under Roosevelt
A bill signed by President Roosevelt authorizes construction of 200,000 tons of submarines. The exact number remains secret, but officials indicate it will provide for more than 1090 submarines as part of expanding the U.S. fleet.
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Roosevelt
United States
Gardens Grow Ships A War Time Propaganda Piece
A British publication urges growing food in gardens to aid the war effort. A seven yard square plot can yield 160 pounds yearly, and if every family added such a plot Britain could gain 850,000 tons of food, freeing 170 ships to carry aircraft, tanks, guns, and other stores from the U.S.
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Great Britain
U.S
World Wonder Beagle Channel spans 140 miles south of Tierra del Fuego
The Beagle Channel lies along the southern tip of South America from east to west and is about 140 miles long and rarely more than three miles wide. Its mountains plunge directly into the sea, appearing about 3,250 feet tall, with no foreshore. Alaska maintains a two chamber legislature of 24 members meeting biennially.
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Beagle Channel
Tierra del Fuego
South America
Air Weight Fact From Early Physics Text
The article notes air carries weight estimated at about one pound for every 12 cubic feet, illustrating early physics demonstrations of atmospheric weight and density.
Indians Enlistment Figures Reach Over One Thousand
Canadian Indians have enlisted in the armed forces with preliminary figures showing more than 1,200 already joining. Some have entered the American Air Force while others maintain that thousands served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the last war, totaling over 4,000 enlistees.
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Canada
Department of Mines and Resources
Department
Canadian Expeditionary Force
Ancient pigeon post used across empires and sieges
Ancient carriers served many peoples from Egypt to Modena. Pigeons carried dispatches during sieges and wars as Turkish crews relied on them and even Richard the Lionheart reportedly released large numbers of falcons and interceptors during Crusade era conflicts.
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Modena
Brutus
Hirtius
Richard
Research Council appoints Dr. Robert Newton to term
Dr. Robert Newton former director of the division of biology and agriculture at the national research council and acting president of the University of Alberta has been named to the national research council for two years. The fundamental structure of teeth and scales are the same.
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MacKinnon
Robert Newton
Division of Biology and Agriculture
National Research Council
University of Alberta
Canadian Fiction Prize Awarded to G Herbert Sallans for Littl Man
The Ryerson Press selects newspaperman G Herbert Sallans for the first annual five hundred dollar awani for Canadian fiction with Littl Man. The book appears in Canada and the United States on September 15. Judges praised Sallans for drawing on prairie childhood.
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G. Herbert Sallans
Ryerson Press
C. H. Dickinson
Publshing House
Canada
United States
S. Morgan-Powell
Montreal Star
Pelham Edgar
Toronto
Lorne Pierce
Tailors Busy as German Civilians Lose Weight
A London Daily Sketch report from Svenska Pressen quotes a Berlin correspondent noting heavy tailoring work in Germany and occupied territories due to severe food and fuel rationing this winter. Many men have shed up to 50 pounds, reducing waistlines by as much as eight inches.
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London Daily Sketch
Svenska Pressen
Berlin
Germany
British Seaman Refuses German Rescue During Drift
Ronald Sowerby, an 18 year old British merchant seaman, drifted 14 days in an open boat in the South Atlantic after surfacing Uboat offer of passage to Germany was refused. He told the Nazi commander he would rather be shot than fall into their hands. He was left to drift and rescued two days later by a British ship and returned to London.
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South Atlantic
Germany
Ronald Sowerby
London
London Sunday Chronicle
Puzzling Probate Case Reveals Complex Family Ties
Deputy Sheriff Dean Rogers uncovers a probate record in Topeka showing a riddle of kinship. The mother of three children died and the kids were adopted by their maternal grandmother. The grandfather died, and the father married the grandmother. The grandmother became their mother while the father became their stepfather.
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Dean Rogers
Topeka
Kas
Seeds that sparked a global cotton industry
In 1732 London curator Philip Miller sent cotton seeds to Georgia, launching a seed trade that grew into the foundation of today’s vast cotton industry. The seeds, carried across the Atlantic, became the progenitors of the plants yielding about three fourths of world cotton.
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Chelsea
London
England
Philip Miller
Georgia
Atlantic Ocean
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