Preparations Under Way to Make Canada Air Centre of the Empire
Canada is poised to serve as the Empire’s air training hub for World War II. The Royal Canadian Air Force plans expanded programs stretching from elementary to advanced training, with Britain Australia and New Zealand pilots to be trained in Canada. An expansion aims to produce up to 6000 pilots annually, potentially 20000 to 25000 for Empire air forces, as 22 flying schools and bases at Camp Borden and Trenton scale up. Decisions on new bases across Western Ontario the Prairies and the Maritimes await final government talks and cost sharing.
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Canada
Germany
Rayal Canadian Air Force
National Defence Department
Department
RCAF
Great Britain
Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Empire
R.C.A F
Air Force
Camp Borden
Ont
Trenton
R.C.A.F
Dominion
Ontario
Prairies
Quebec
New Brunswick
Veterans to staff auxiliary services for Canadian forces
Brigadier W. W. Foster says local organizations including the Y M C A and Salvation Army will give veterans preference for paid posts in the auxiliary services. Phase one covers camp recreation, city refreshments, and hostess services for families. thousands of veterans are already employed as guards, with RCMP authority guiding future hires.
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Young People’s Christian Association
Salvation Army
Veterans’ Organizations
W. W. Foster
Auxiliary Services
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Coinage in New York public telephones dominated by nickels
Nickels account for about 91 percent of coins used in New York City public telephones over eight years, with dimes around eight percent and quarters about one. The New York Telephone Company uses mechanical tellers to sort and count coins, enabling quick daily receipts tallies without handling coins.
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New York City
New York Telephone Company
Growing Saskatchewan Honey Farm Expands Output
Mr. Dunn George Grant of Regina and Robert Hamilton of Aylsham run a leading honey farm near Aylsham Saskatchewan. They expect to ship 100000 pounds this year as prices rise with wartime demand. The province has about 4500 producers shipping three to three and a half million pounds annually. The Aylsham district alone plans to ship around 120000 pounds this fall. A carload of 33000 pounds was recently sent. A Yorkton processing plant is noted for its high quality honey, producing liquid or solid forms that are pasteurized before sale.
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Mr. Dunn George Grant
Regina
Robert Hamilton
Aylsham
Sask
Dunn
Mr. Dunn
Yorkton
Canada
Canadian Red Cross to Build Overseas Hospital at Cliveden Estate
The Canadian Red Cross Society accepts Lord and Lady Astor's Cliveden estate in Buckinghamshire England as site for a 300 bed temporary overseas military hospital. Work starts immediately with government approval. Nursing and staff residences will use several estate buildings while the mansion remains excluded.
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Canadian Red Cross
Astor Estate
England
Canadian Red Cross Society
Toronto
Cliveden
Lord and Lady Astor
Buckinghamshire
British Medical Services
Norman Sommerville
Coffee Without Colonies and 1938 Wooster Marriage
A humorous note about Gretchen’s trip from Switzerland contrasts a sister’s longing for better coffee with colonial history. The record also notes the Rev. Aid marrying Mr. John Lemon to Miss Mary Sugar in Wooster Ohio in 1938.
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Gretchen
Germany
Switzerland
Aid
John Lemon
Mary Sugar
Wooster, O
Psychologists Offer Testing for Air Force Recruitment
The Canadian Psychological Association argues for general psychological testing of recruits, especially Royal Canadian Air Force pilots, to supplement medical exams. Tests would assess mental alertness, sensory abilities, balance, judgment, and motor control, with sensory motor adaptability and emotional stability as key factors.
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Defence Department
Royal Canadian Air Force
United States Army
R.c.af
Canadian Psychological Association
Mama of the Canadians Mme. Eugene Urbain Gaucquier Dies
Mme Eugene Urbain Gaucquier known as The Mama of the Canadians dies in Brussels at age 88. During the 1918 offensive she buried seventeen Canadian soldiers with her own hands in the Mons region, earning this wartime tribute.
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Mme
Eugene Urbain Gaucquier
Mons
Brussels
Urbain Gaucquier
Dr George Washington Carver Wins Theodore Roosevelt Medal
Dr George Washington Carver, a son of enslaved people who as a boy was traded for a racehorse, has received the Theodore Roosevelt memorial medal for distinguished service in agricultural chemistry.
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George Washington Carver
Theodore Roosevelt
Not Neutral In Thought In the War
Ottawa Journal notes that while Americans may be neutral in law during World War II they are not neutral in thought. Editorials across the country condemn Hitler as a global gunman who clings to loot. The piece cites U S racial makeup and political divisions as reasons Americans do not act, while affirming moral support for the Allies.
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Germany
United States
Hitler
Maine
California
Michigan
Texas
Republic
Ottawa Journal
New stainless steel processes from MIT scientists
The Chemical Foundation announces five new ways to produce stainless steel impervious to corrosion. The techniques alter both surface and depth, with one method yielding a lustrous metal suitable for jewelry. Discovered at MIT by Uhlig, Wulff, Kaye, and Williams, the patents go to the non profit foundation.
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Chemical Foundation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Herbert Henry Uhlig
John C. Wulff
Albert L. Kaye
Robert S Williams
The
Pattern 6424 kittens in single stitch
Pattern 6424 offers four transfer patterns showing a kitten motif 15 by 20 inches. Includes color chart and stitch illustrations with materials. Send 20 cents in coins to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave E Winnipeg for pattern. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Soviet Russia resumes forward march to regain territory
The article argues Soviet Russia shows signs of expanding influence and territory amid Polish gains and Baltic maneuvers. It recounts Russia’s historical reach from the Baltic to Alaska, notes losses after 1904 to 1905 and 1917 upheavals, and highlights recent moves in Estonia Latvia Lithuania and Chinese Turkestan.
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Soviet
Russia
Poland
Baltic
Darnanelles
Ukrainia
Sweden
Lithuania
Peter the Great
India
Turkestan
Alaska
United States
Great Russia
Pacific
Japan
Great Britain
Middle East
Sakhalin
Siberian
Port Arthur
Manchuria
St. Petersburg
Roumania
Us.s.r
Europe
Estonia
Latvia
Mongolian Republic
Chinese
Footwear fitting proposal debated by defence department
The Dominion council of health heard a plan to footprint all troops to tailor shoe needs and detect foot faults. Mrs Helen D Smith urged new lasts for army footwear noting ill fitting boots and the need for suitable insignia for those deferred from enlistment due to essential home work.
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Defence Department
Dominion Council of Health
Canada
Helen D. Smith
M.L.A
Vancouver
Taller Children Grow Bigger Across Centuries
The piece notes that modern children are larger and heavier than past generations. It recounts a Tower of London armor display where attendants compared current men to historic suits, finding today’s men are bigger yet armor would not fit. It comments on population and school age figures in Quebec versus Ontario.
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Tower of London
Quebec
Ontario
Peterborough
Telegraph Worker Bets Birthday Song Rule Keeps Tone
Mrs Betty Irwin of Detroit sings Happy Birthday by telephone as part of her telegraph job. She averages about 30 performances daily, sometimes adds Happy Anniversary and For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow, but she will not sing any other songs under any circumstances.
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Betty Irwin
Detroit
Racialism as Myth Opposed by Huxley
Julian Huxley argues that racialism is a dangerous myth and not scientifically grounded. He says science relies on fact and that modern Europe shows no basis for distinct human races.
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Europe
Julian Huxley
Weakfish Named For Tender Mouth Toughness
The weakfish earns its name not from lack of gameness but from its mouth anatomy. The bone-like mouth processes are soft, leading to tears when a hook is jerked abruptly by anglers.
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U.S
Dominion Grain Research Laboratory
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