World Happenings Briefly Told
The British government pays 127 million pounds yearly for food subsidies including freight and war risk insurance. Germany's prewar food reserves are dwindling and the Reich faces serious food troubles. Alaska sourdoughs organize as guerrillas to defend homeland. Gov. Ernest Gruening calls it a fighting outfit. Lt Col Beckles Willson 73, author and journalist, dies in occupied France. he served with the Canadian corps in the last war. Japanese rail lines are being double tracked to aid military transport between Tientsin and Peiping. To satisfy German occupation, 2200 miles of French railway will be ripped and shipped to occupied Russian territory. China plans to nationalize silk production for export in 1943, joining wood, oil, tea, bristles and minerals as controlled goods. Desert sand harms airplane mechanisms in North Africa, hindering Allied air forces.
New Shocking Technique Aims to Replace Anesthesia
Surgeons describe chilling a limb in a portable refrigerator to perform amputation without general anesthesia. The method, tested on soldiers, uses cold nerves to block pain and transmission, reducing infection and blood loss and enabling lower level amputations with lower mortality in gangrene cases.
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New York
Pittsburgh
American Congress of Physical Therapy
Congress
Lyman Weeks Crossman
New York City Hospital
Frederick M. Alien
New York Polyclinic Medical Hospital
Crossman
City Hospital
Panelled Housefrock Pattern 4206 by Anne Adams
Anne Adams announces pattern 4206 for a panelled housefrock with front and back panels and ric rac accents. Available in women’s sizes 34 through 48. size 36 uses 3 1/2 yards of 35 inch fabric. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave E Winnipeg Man.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Cebu City History Cited From Magellan Landing
The Cebu entry notes the city’s origin as a village when Magellan landed in 1521, reflecting on its long history since the early 16th century.
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Cebu
Philippine
Magellan
Russian War Hero Sniper Reacts to Uniform Criticism
Lieutenant Liudmila Pavlichenko, a Soviet sniper credited with 309 Nazi kills, says American women care about silk underwear under uniforms. She notes the uniform represents more than fashion and says hers, bearing the Order of Lenin, has been stained by battle.
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Liudmila Pavlichenko
America
Four Australian cooks Court-Martialled for Unauthorized Firefight
Four Australian soldiers who were cooks in New Guinea were court-martialed for firing at enemy forces without permission after joining frontline troops in Port Moresby. The verdict urged them not to repeat the action.
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New Guinea
Port Moresby
Eleven Canadian social workers arrive for evacuation welfare training
Eleven social workers from Canada arrive under the Ministry of Health evacuation scheme to study English welfare conditions. They will attend lectures and visits in London settlements, then work with welfare teams in reception areas before taking up posts with local authorities. London Times.
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Ministry of Health
London
London Times
First European Convert Lydia Hears Paul in Philippi
A Sunday School lesson outlines Paul’s journey to Philippi from Troas, meeting Lydia at a river prayer gathering. It notes Lydia’s faith, hospitality, and role as Europe’s first Christian convert, then explains Romans 5 1 5 and the call to faith producing peace with God.
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Europe
Paul
Macedonia
Troas
Samothrace
Neapolis
Philippi
Thyatira
Lydia
Christ
Halford E. Luccock
Jaydia
Jesus Christ
Corn Growing In Windsor Great Park For War Needs
Windsor Great Park in England now serves wartime needs with 330 acres of wheat 147 acres of oats and barley and root crops. King’s command shifts the historic park toward arable farming as G H Elsbury recalls 52 years on the royal estates and the castle kitchens aid the dairy farm.
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Crown Lands
Castle Tower
G. H. Elsbury
Norfolk
George III
Elsbury
Great Park
Windsor
London Daily Sketch
Selected Recipes for Corn Flake Muffin Cakes
Blend butter with sugar. Beat eggs and mix well. Soak coconut in milk and add to first mixture with lemon flavor. Sift flour with baking powder and mix until smooth. Roll spoonfuls in crushed corn flakes and place in greased muffin pans or on a sheet. Bake 375 degrees for 25 minutes. Yield forty one dozen small cakes.
Corned Beef Loaf Bake Delivers Six Servings
Combine ground cooked corned beef, corn flakes, evaporated milk, catsup, pepper, and salt. Mix well, place in a greased loaf pan, bake at 350 degrees F for about 45 minutes. Yield six servings.
Pigeons Unique Drinking Method Among Birds
The text states pigeons alone can swallow liquids by suction while other birds must tilt their heads back to drink. It highlights a physiological distinction in avian drinking mechanisms.
Grew Foresees Japanese Resolve in World War II Speech
Former U S ambassador Joseph C Grew told a Syracuse luncheon that Japan would not crack morally or economically even if faced with defeat. He contrasted German morale and Japanese spirit, noting Japan’s fanatical stance and willingness to pursue the impossible in war.
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Japan
Germany
Joseph C. Grew
Syracuse
N.Y
Grew
Berlin
Tokyo
United States
Milk in Shell Cases Ships From Canada to Britain
A Canadian plan exploits shell cases to export milk to Great Britain, with a single firm shipping 180000 cases from a total order of 650000. Developed at a Canadian brass cartridge plant, the method places two milk cans in one case, yielding 2000 quarts monthly for British children and saving shipping space. A blue M marks the shells containing milk.
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Canada
Great Britain
News
Toronto
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Reich
Alaska
Ernest Gruening
Beckles Willson
France
Willson
Canadien Corps
Central Daily News
Tientsin
Peiping
Mickie
BY William Ferguson
Hawa
Johnnie
Christian Science Monitor
Manitoba
R.C.A.F
No. 5 Air Observer School
M. Geisel
Polson Ave
C. M. Hay
Manitoba Ave
R. Rawsthorne
Roseberry St
St. James
P. R. Galan
Wisla
V. R. Folkersen
Dauphin
Alice Hughes
Britain
Lord Jesus Christ
Suez
England
Royal Park
Windsor Great Park
By Fred Neher
U.S
Toki
Nese
China
Reg
Wash
Riley
Gene Byrnes
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