Refugee interned men in Canada face university plans
The displaced British friendly aliens held in Canadian camps, including doctors scientists and students, see 1 900 of 2 500 released to work or join the war effort. Fifty seven students may enter Montreal universities this autumn with approvals from British and Canadian authorities and sponsors required.
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Treneferred
Britain
Airee Canatian
Grace Fields
Canada
Quebec
R . W. Fortham
Catrine Wilson
R S&s W Fordham
Montreal
Toronto
McGill
Liberated British Sailors Reach Merca Tea Car
Two hundred British sailors freed from an Italian camp greet the YMLC A tea car at Merca East Africa. They receive tea cigarettes and hear London calling BBC overseas news for the first time in months, a dramatic return to the outside world.
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YMLC
Merca
East Africa
London
BBC
Expulsions Over Books In Berlin Echo Mutual Disdain
In 1933 Edgar Mower, former American correspondent in Berlin, was ordered to leave Germany after publishing Germany Puts the Clock Back. When asked the grounds the Foreign Office official cited Hitler’s displeasure with the book. Mower reportedly replied that he felt the same about Hitler’s.
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Edgar Mower
Berlin
Germany
Foreign Office
Retort Courteous Shows Sharp Schoolhouse Wit
An overseer at a boarding school disrupted a student for cleaning a knife on the tablecloth. The boy calmly deflects the rebuke, saying at home they use clean knives, prompting the master to pause and reflect on propriety.
Arundel Veteran Finishes Years Later as Home Guard Corporal
Fred Cranham of Arundel England was rejected for Boer War service in 1900 for being too old. Now at 79 he serves as a corporal in the Arundel home guard Platoon.
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Fred Cranham
Arundel
Eng
Wintering Cattle Care in Saskatchewan Barns and Feeding
Farmers in northeastern Saskatchewan keep cattle indoors at night and move them to straw stacks by day. Ensure draft‑free barns, moderate indoor warmth, ample water, and salt access. Prevent tongue sores from rough feed. treat with gentle tongue restraint and vaseline. Regular lice control with sulfur powder and grey hellebore mix.
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North
Saskatchewan
McPhail
Dominion Experimental Station
Melfort
Radio Section Develops Prototypes in Secret War Effort
The National Research Council reveals a staff of about 100 technicians and mechanics in its radio section are developing prototypes of significance. The council's 1940-41 report notes the physics and electrical engineering division helped the British Admiralty and Canadian Navy to select young Canadian university men for officer roles in a new secret war service.
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Canada
National Research Council
Dean Co. J. Mackenzie
Physics and Electrical Engineering Divison
Admiralty
Canadian Navy
England
New York
Ready To Fight Soviet Women Take Posts Along Front
Soviet women in the Red Army mix nursing and clerical duties with paramilitary readiness. Natalia, a 22 year old nurse and assistant, carries a pistol and says she will fight if needed while serving four miles from No Man's Land with 42 other women in the medical unit dressing wounds and aiding evacuations.
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Red Army
Natalia
No-Man’s-Land
War Savings In Britain Passes One Thousand Million
Sir Kingsley Wood the chancellor announced Britain's war savings campaign topped 1,000,000,000 pounds in under two years. He noted this equals about 20 pounds per person across the United Kingdom and urged aiming for the second thousand million even faster.
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Kingsley Wood
Britain
United Kingdom
Sir Kingsley
Gifts of tobacco free of duty for troops in Gibraltar
The Ottawa post office advised that gifts of tobacco and cigarettes sent to Canadian troops in Gibraltar will be admitted duty free under certain rules. Parcels must weigh no more than two pounds, bear an outside label naming contents, and be sent by individuals or one of four tobacco companies.
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Post Office Department
Ottawa
Gibraltar
RAF Chaplains Share Broad Duties With Airmen
RAF chaplains serve beyond sermons in air dromes acting as entertainment officers and advisers on marriage and divorce to airmen, reflecting a broader role in RAF life.
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Royal Air Force
Roof-Top Parking Built in Philadelphia
A new 1 500 000 building in Philadelphia houses roof top parking with storage space for hundreds of cars. The project aims to ease congestion in larger cities by providing elevated parking facilities for urban drivers.
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Dream of
Philadelphia
Tin Pan Alley Defined as Popular Music Publishing Hub
The term Tin Pan Alley shifts from a derisive label to denoting the music publishing and publicity industry central to popular tunes of the era. The notion highlights the area and business practices shaping contemporary song promotion.
Blind Belgium farmer's horse Bill donated to Red Cross salvage
A 60 year old market gardener near London Ontario and Belgium native gifts his blind horse Bill to the Red Cross salvage drive. Proceeds may fund the Conservation Committee. the horse must find a good home and cannot reveal the owner to avoid reprisals against relatives in Occupied Belgium.
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Red Cross
London
Ont
Belgium
Bill
Red Cross Conservation Committee
Warnings on Frenchwomen aiding RAF crews lead to deportations
Occupation authorities in Paris renew warnings that Frenchwomen aiding fallen Royal Air Force crews will be deported to German concentration camps. Men caught helping Britons are already subject to the death penalty.
Swedish Academy to Delay Nobel Prize Announcement
The Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize in literature, is not expected to name a winner this year, according to the well informed Dagens Nyheter.
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Swedish Academy
Dagens Nyheter
Bracken Chosen as New British Minister of Information
Brendan Bracken aged 40 has taken the demanding role of Minister of Information in Britain. The News of the World notes his precocious youth in Australia and public school travels, his early effort to pay fees, and predicts he will excel due to his knowledge drive and organizing ability.
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Brendan Bracken
England
Australia
Sedberg
Yorkshire
Iitect
News of the World
Prisoners of War Labor Plans for Australian Reforestation
Labor manpower experts submitted plans to the federal government to employ thousands of prisoners of war in Australia for reforestation and irrigation works after consulting E. S. Spooner, minister of war organization of industry. Safeguards were provided to prevent prejudice to Australian workers’ employment or wage standards.
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Australia
E. S. Spooner
War Organization of Industry
Viennese ration clerk executed for coupon theft
Heinrich Goetzelmann, an employee at the Vienna food rationing office, was executed after being accused of stealing meat coupons worth 42,000 pounds and fat coupons totaling 1,200 pounds and selling them at inflated prices.
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Heinrich Goetzelmann
Vienna Food Rationing Office
Aid For Russia: Canadian Red Cross Sends Medical Supplies
The Canadian Red Cross plans to rush one hundred thousand dollars worth of medical aid to Russia. Dr. F. W. Routley announces supplies include one million doses of sulphathasole and one hundred thousand doses of anti tetanus serum plus anaesthetics. England reports Canada and its overseas warehouses shipping socks caps helmets sweaters scarves and mitts valued at sixty five thousand dollars.
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Canadian Red Cross
Russian Red Cross
F. W. Routley
The
Society
Routley
Russia
England
Canarian Red Cross
Helped Found Nazi Party Figure Gottfried Feder Dies in Bavaria
Gottfried Feder, who drafted the original 25 point program that formed the Nazi party, died at Murnau in Upper Bavaria after a long illness at age 538. Hitler praised Feder in Mein Kampf as laying the fundamental preconditions for the party and Feder walked with Hitler in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Feder served as State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy in 1933 but was removed 18 months later due to disagreements with Hjalmar Schacht, retiring on half pay and fading from politics.
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Gottfried Feder
Murnau
Upper Bavaria
Hitler
Munich
Feder
Ministry of Economy
Hjalmar Schacht
Mark Feder
China’s Vast Army Under Chiang Kai-shek Weighs Against Russia
London dispatch to the Ottawa Journal notes that Chiang Kai-shek commands perhaps five million trained troops, with over two hundred divisions and additional provincial forces. The Chinese leader is a Methodist, closely linked to his wife Soong, and he avoids gambling games and dancing.
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London
Ottawa Journal
Tokyo
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Japan
Soong
Russia
Far East
Made A Difference Love In English Village
In a small English village a soldier engaged to the policeman's daughter wins the villagers over after earlier protests when soldiers were billeted in the village hall. The community showered the troops with hospitality giving entertainments, a radio, and a farewell party when the unit was moved to another zone.
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Home Office
Col Fordham
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Baer
Radio Search
R.A.F. Chaplains
R.A.F
Government of Australia
Moore
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