Air Training Plan welcomes first contingents to Canada
Australia and New Zealand air crews begin arrival for British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Canada. J W Fairbairn announces 270 Australian pilots and 1800 observers and gunners will be called up by year end with first crews arriving around August. No. 4 Training Command to oversee 23 units in Regina and western Canada under Group Captain Forbes Stevenson. Wing Commander How-samy M C named Senior Air Staff Officer. Canadian Flying Clubs Association to recruit civilian pilots as instructors with special charters to operate 26 elementary schools.
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Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Air Minimer
J.W. Fairbairn
J. 8
Duncan
National Defence
Leigh Forbes Stevenson
No. 4 Training Command
Regina
Sask
Forbes
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Capitan Forbes
Toronto
No. 1 Training Command
England
A. A. L. Cuffe
RCAF
Camp Borden
Department of National Defence
George Roberts Howsamy M.C
No. 4
Howsam
Royal Air Force
France
R.C.A F
West
High River
Winnipeg
How- San
Air Force Headquarters
No. 2 Army
No. 110
Canadian Flying Clubs Association
Transport Department
The
Dominion
Swiss chemist Carl Albin attacked in Los Angeles lab
Carl Albin a Swiss chemist hired by an oil company to perfect a readless high test gasoline said two German speaking men attacked him in his laboratory. He reported smashing a light bulb but the assailants overpowered him and tried to flee with his documents. He hurled sulfuric acid as he chased them and one man cried I am blinded. One shooter fired at Albin as the men escaped in a gray coupe. He said his home and lab had been entered before and some correspondence stolen.
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Carl Albin
Los Angeles
Lieut. R. L. Berry
Albin
Inventor William Murdock Builds First Wrought Pipe System
London inventor William Murdock screws musket barrels to create the world’s first wrought pipes. His improvised pipes powered a gas lighting system for the city, using calcium, carbon, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and other elements.
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William Murdock
London
Churchill's government seen as restraining Nazi aggression
The St Thomas Times Journal notes Berlin fears Britain under Churchill will counter Nazi crimes without mirroring them. An authorized Berlin source says Churchill will strike back hard yet refuse brutal retaliation, promising intensified resistance to Nazi aims.
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Churchill
Germany
Chuarchull
Berlin
Nazi@om
Britain
Hitler
St. Thomas
Homes For British Children In British Columbia Plan
Mrs G M Murray wife of the Liberal member for Lillooet in the British Columbia legislature telegrams Senator Cairine Wilson supporting a plan to bring 10 000 refugee children from England to Canada for wartime. She proposes ages eight to fourteen and urges Women’s Institutes of Canada to lead volunteer work under government backing as part of a national program to aid the Empire.
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G. M. Murray
British Columbia
Lillooet
Cairine Wilson
England
Wilson
Canadian National Committee On Refugees
Murray
Women's Institutes of Canada
Empire
Mrs. Murray
Expelled as Nazi Nuisances From German Liner Women
South Africa expelled as Nazi nuisances twenty women ashore from the German liner Wait out of Cape Town after subversive acts. The women are to be sent to the Netherlands frontier and handed to German authorities, while male survivors were interned.
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South Africa
Hitler
Waitussi
Cape
Cape Town
Lord Mayor's National Fund
Union
Holland
Illiterate Note Leads to Doctor’s Bottle Purchase
An invitation to dinner to a new physician yields an illegible reply. The husband suggests a druggist can read doctors’ handwriting. The druggist deciphers the note and provides a bottle for 75 cents, handed over at the counter.
Slide fastener inventor timeline note
The slide fastener was invented by Whitcomb Judson in 1893 and later improved by Gideon Sundback who patented advances in the early 20th century, refining the mechanism into a practical zipper. Sundback’s work, including key patent filings, helped establish the modern fastening device widely used today.
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Whitcomb Judson
Gideon Sundback
World order and empire broaden into global federation
The London Times argues that imperialism has progressed humanity and still has a role in civilizational defense. It notes Britain and France binding diverse peoples into larger unions as a foundation for a future Parliament of Man and world federation.
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Great Britain
France
Parliament of Man
London Times
Safer To Wait and the Soldier’s Early Promotion
A patriotic recruit rises quickly in the Army, becoming a lance-corporal after three months. He tells his wife to delay moving and to keep neighborly calm. Separately a mid ocean tide note explains the moon’s gravity pulls water two to three feet from Earth’s surface.
Great Englishman Neville Chamberlain Valedictory Praise
Ottawa Journal hails Neville Chamberlain praising his valedictory speech as showing selfless leadership. It argues he could not be blamed for Norway failures and credits him with averting total war by delaying conflict at Munich, saving the British Empire.
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Mr. Chamberlain
England
Neville Chamberlain
Norway
Chamberlain
Munich
British
Hitler
Britain
Ottawa Journal
Patriotic Siamese Patriots Hold No-Car Day in Bangkok
A group of Siamese patriots in Bangkok and Sam held a no car day walking to and from offices. They stated gasoline savings would be donated to the army. Tobacco samplers among them are teetotalers who guard their diets to protect taste and use clay pipes for sampling tobacco.
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Bangkok
Sam
Old Montreal Gazette 1772 finds Dutch border crisis
An ancient Montreal Gazette copy from 1772 is unearthed by J R Miller. Front page quotes Van Doorn governor of the Netherlands urging calm as Prussian forces surround borders and French troops rush to aid Belgium Holland.
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Netherlands
Holland
Montreal Gazette
J. R. Miller
Gerrard Street
Toronto
Miller
van Doorn
Belgium
France
Montreal
Quebec
Liverpool
Arabia
Fishermen's meeting features surprise arrivals from Glasgow and Belfast
The four men entered late as the preacher began with a question about identity. A sergeant introduced two visitors, Jock McTavish of Glasgow and Willie Hope of Belfast, revealing their origins amid a light moment. The text notes an estimate that about half of the world’s fishermen are Japanese.
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Paul
Cephas
Jock McTavish
Glasgow
Willie Hope
Belfast
Service Badges for Retired Canadian Forces Announced
An order in council tabled in parliament introduces white metal service badges for retired members of Canada’s fighting forces. Navy air and army personnel with three continuous months service and retirement due to disability may wear the badge. Unauthorized use carries a 500 dollar fine or six months in prison. Captain’s pay and allowances may be granted to certain auxiliary personnel, with dependents’ allowances limited. An appropriation of 1,706,000 under the War Measures Act funds vessels for protecting Canadian shipping.
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Canada
Navy
Air Force
Army
National Defence Department
Canadian Legion War Services
Young Men's Christian Association
Salvation Army
Knights of Columbus
Preserving Wild Flowers Across Canada
The article warns that Canada's wild flowers are vanishing due to land development and neglect. It urges careful picking, noting some species like white trillium should be left untouched, while violets and hepaticas may be picked if the plant is left intact. Horticultural societies appeal for responsible behavior to protect the landscape.
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Canada
Dominion
Canadians surrender WWI pensions to support war effort
Ten Canadian veterans of the First World War surrender all or part of their pensions. A London Ontario pensioner gives up $21 monthly from March 1940, a Killam Alberta veteran deducts $11.25, and eight others including a former major general in Italy and a private in Greece contribute from their monthly pensions.
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Canada
London
Ontario
Killam
Alberta
Italy
Greece
Opposition to new measure required armed guards in England
The proposal faced strong resistance on its first English introduction with armed guards at its sites. The discussion notes Rhode Island once penalized refusing public office in elections. It claims a half acre of garden could yield $150 yearly in food.
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England
Rhode Island
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Africa
Wall Street Journal
Liege
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U.S
Royal Canadian Air Force
United States Army Air Corps
Ottawa
United States
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