World Happenings Briefly Told Highlights
Major G R Benoit leaves Ottawa to become press attaché at the Canadian Legation in Paris. Nobel prize in medicine awarded to Sir Alexander Fleming for penicillin. In Britain 155 civilians blinded. 32 lost sight in flying bomb attacks. Sir Frank Alexander becomes lord Mayor of London. A RASC motorcyclist injured avoiding Bowes-Lyon. BC government buys site near Duncan for a 6.6 million tree per year forest nursery. Britain expects more fish this winter. trawlers released from Navy to join fleet. A C Bricault says postwar employment unlikely to fall as in past wars.
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G. R Benoit
Wartime
Information Board
Ottawa
Paris
Britain
No Respecter of Persons Lesson From Acts and Luke
The Sunday school lesson centers on Peter at Joppa and Cornelius in Caesarea to show that God ignores national or racial boundaries. Peter’s vision declares what God has cleansed not to call common, prompting him to preach to Gentiles and learn acceptance across peoples.
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Peter
Joppa
Jaffa
Palestine
Jerusalem
Simon the
Cornelius
Caesarea
Breendonck Fort Torture Museum Aims For Remembrance
The Breendonck fortress near Antwerp, once a site of mass imprisonment and torture under German occupation, is planned as a grisly postwar museum. Visitors would ascend to cells six feet square and view torture chambers with branding irons, pulleys, and gas vents.
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Breendonck
Antwerp
Newsweek
Reciprocal military tribunal rights extended between nations
A presidential order published in the Federal Gazette at Washington grants Reciprocal Rights Canada and the United Kingdom power to hold military tribunals in cases involving their armed forces in the United States. The United States has similar powers over its forces in Canada and the United Kingdom, with the order in effect for some time but only recently formally published.
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Canada
United Kingdom
United States
Federal
Washington
U.S
Canadian Activated Carbon Powers Soldiers Gas Masks
A Quebec chemical plant produces activated carbon from charred coconut shells used in respirator canisters for Canadian troops overseas. Shells are sourced from the West Indies, refined, activated, and mixed with chemicals to filter poisonous gases, enabling safe breathing during gas attacks. The plant’s output exceeds prewar US production and the material may later serve in postwar air conditioning.
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Quebec
West Indies
Dominion
Military Tribunals and Global Reach Reported
A brief note cites MILITARY TRIBUNALS in the U.S. Federal Gazette and mentions similar powers over forces in Canada and the United Kingdom, underscoring expanded jurisdiction across allied regions.
Peru the oldest nation in South America
Peru is described as the oldest nation in South America in the snippet, noting its historic status among regional countries.
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Peru
Rail Chief Urges Seventh Victory Loan Support
R C Vaughan chair man and president of Canadian National Railways appeals to officers and employees to back the Seventh Victory Loan campaign. He lauds past achievements and warns of tough battles ahead, urging a quick wholehearted response to raise funds for the war effort.
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Canadian National Railways
R. C. Vaughan
Europe
Canada
Trophies Of War Okay For Canadian Airmen
Hundreds of Canadian airmen plan to bring home trophies of war duty free as the Dominion government allows. items include German motorbikes swastika buckles sugar pistols mauser rifles Death Head badges and tin helmets. Some wonder if camouflaged enemy cars and amphibious ducks could qualify.
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S.S
Japan orders compulsory sale of family platinum
Tokyo radio reports Japan's munitions ministry has ordered the compulsory sale of all family platinum to offset a wartime shortage of this essential material. Officials urge citizens to buy War Savings Stamps to support the effort.
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Japan
Munitions Ministry
Tokyo Radio
Crossword Puzzle Clues Read Like Old Time Page
A mixed set of crossword entries lists across and down clues with numbers and partial words, including Moccasins, prefix against, deities, rivers, pronouns, and country terms, mirroring a vintage newspaper puzzle page style.
Unusual RAF Meteorological Flight Chases Bangla Cyclones
In India RAF personnel FO J D Hastings of London and FO Rawlinson of Quadring operate a long range aircraft as a flying meteorological station. They venture hundreds of miles over the Bay of Bengal to locate ominous cloud banks and track storms to provide up to three days warning of devastitating cyclones.
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R.A F
India
FO. J. D. Hastings
London
N.W
FO. Rawlinson
Quadring
Spalding
Lincs
Bay of Bengal
Britain
Alaska poised for 1 million population rise after war
Governor Ernest Gruening predicted Alaska will gain one million residents immediately after World War II. He noted thousands of service members drawn to Alaska while stationed there expect to return and settle, during a Washington visit for postwar planning conferences.
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Territory
Alaska
Ernest Gruening
North
Washington, D.C
Tasmanian aldermen in crash while inspecting dangerous Ho bart road
Seven Hobart aldermen investigated a bend reported as dangerous. Their car skidded off the road and crashed into blackberry bushes in a creek bed. They were uninjured and made a unanimous on-the-spot decision.
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Hobart
Tasmania
Favorite pianoforte piece of 1830 era the Snuff box Waltz
Around 1830 a popular pianoforte composition titled the Snuff box Waltz is noted as a favorite. The brief reference highlights regional taste for charming salon music rather than a formal work.
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Bern Radio
Frank Alexander
Baltic Exchange
Frank Newson-Smth
M. Bowes-Lyon
Duncan
A. C. Bricault
Montreal
National Selective Service
Combined Operations Headquarters
Sicily
Boskoop
Holland
Eindhoven
Rail Chief
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Zar
America
Iil
Reg
Gene Byrnes
Ance
Ireland
Dirk
R.A.F
Bay of Biscay
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