World happenings briefly told in wartime notes
Government supported scheme to provide concerts for the public with Sears costing threepence to begin with a Newcastle concert. Dominion order raises penalties for non registration of rifles and shotguns. Petain declares sympathy with American arms policy. Manchester to recover 2600 yards of aluminum underground cable from the first War. Morgan tours Doncaster during an air raid and shelters in a tub. Seventeen officers from Aurigny and Formose sail to England to join de Gaulle forces. Two chickens killed by Nazi fire in a raid are raffled for Red Cross. RAF’s newest dive bomber to be kept in reserve as a surprise for the Nazis. Knox says US Navy won’t take over the New York world’s fair site for a training station.
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Manchester Corporation
Doncaster
John Morgan
Labor
Aurigny
Formose
Buenos Aires
England
Charles de Gaulle
Ambulances Donated by Canadian Red Cross Aid Britain
Twenty two ambulances donated by the Canadian Red Cross are in use by the Canadian Active Service Force in the United Kingdom. They arrived and were handed to the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps without ceremony. Col. R. M. Luton praised the vehicles as greatly needed and well equipped.
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Canadian Red Cross
United Kingdom
Britain
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Col
R. M. Luton
Canadian Medical Services
Justice Minister to report internment figures to Commons
By order in council the Minister of Justice will report at the start of each session the number of persons detained in internment. The report will also show cases where the minister did not follow the advisory committee on internment.
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Minister of Justice
House of Commons
Color change linked to suicide toll at London bridge
The paint industry notes that Blackfriars Bridge in London painted black correlated with a spike in self inflicted deaths, while painting it green appeared to halve the toll. No definitive causal link is claimed.
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Blackfriars Bridge
London
Hitler Plans 250 New Propaganda Agents and Invasion Aims
Madame Genevieve Tabouis told the Canadian Institute on Economics Hitler is sending 250 new propaganda agents to the United States to promote his pacifist and European writer image. She cited a proposed eight port invasion with 2,000 boats, planes, and parachute troops, dated between July 25 and August 10, as part of a mocked “great plan” that is failing due to French navy losses Mussolini's promises and a Franco- German-Japanese dispute over Indo China. She predicted continued Allied victory and urged few weeks of strenuous effort.
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Genevieve Tabouls
Canadian Institute On Economics
Hitler
United States
Europe
Mme. Tabouis
Institute
Mussolini
British Africa
Canadians Rally For War Savings Amid Air Power Drive
The nation-wide effort for war saving stamps grows as individuals and groups donate to sustain Canada’s war needs. Pensioners offer to deduct portions of pensions, while donations reach tens of thousands from private citizens and organizations. Totals include 25000 dollars US from a sympathizer, 15000 dollars from L A Agassiz, and about 60000 dollars in ten days from individuals plus 75000 from groups. Even four eight-year-olds in Toronto raise 4.20 selling lemonade to aid the cause.
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Canada
United States
L. A. Agassiz
Agassiz
B.C
Toronto
Parrot Triggers Air Raid Drills In Coastal Town
A southeast coast town reports a parrot that imitates an air raid siren and anti aircraft fire. The bird’s cries send residents rushing to shelters, only to find a feathery false alarm. Neighbors fear the parrot may become a casualty of wartime mischief.
Elizabethan Population Compared to Armada Era
The article notes England's population then was about three and a half million, and contrasts that with modern times when air armies are much more impressive than King Philip's sea fleet, suggesting Hitler should recognize the growth.
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Elizabeth
England
Hitler
Philip
Birds exhibit humanlike resting poses
Report notes that rheas, large ostrich relatives from South America, sleep lying down with legs stretched straight out behind, a behavior paralleling human posture. The observation adds a curious example of animal behavior near the realm of anthropomorphic traits.
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South America
Germanys Reichsmarks and French goods swindle blasted
The St Thomas Times Journal accuses Nazi Germany of exploiting occupied France with token Reichsmarks, looting stores, and shipping French merchandise to Germany. It notes the Bank of France flooding France with worthless money and trains carrying loot, claiming a vast fraud by Hitler amid wartime devastation.
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Germany
France
Hjalmar Schacht
Kassanscheiner
Bank of France
Hitler
Lyon
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Canadian Mills Drive War Production Output Soars
Department of Munitions and Supply figures show mills and firms producing for the fighting forces at full blast. In two weeks 22,000 full battle dress uniforms, 91,000 socks, 90,000 shirts, 40,000 underwear sets, and 69,000 boots were completed. Razor blade manufacturing in Great Britain rose 25 percent since general war mobilization began.
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Department of Munitions and Supply
Fightig
Great Britain
Bolero and Dress for Tots Pattern 4515
Anne Adams presents a children's dress pattern 4515 with a double-panel skirt and novel front waist seam. A prim collar, tie, buttons and braid trim the outfit. a bolero can be added later in wool challs. Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. pattern price 20 cents.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Canadians in Aircraft Industry Rise 20 Percent
About 17,000 Canadians are now in the aircraft industry with 8,400 in seven plants and the rest making parts and equipment. The figures exclude Canadian Associated Aircraft Ltd workers assembling planes for the British Government and show a 20 percent rise in four weeks.
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Canada
Canadian Associated Aircraft Ltd
Insects at Washington Museum and Snapping Boom
The Washington National Museum houses about five million specimens across 300000 varieties and investigates insects for 60 years. It notes pests like mosquitoes costing $125 million annually and boll weevils near $100 million in crop damage. It also discusses the rise of amateur and professional photography and new hearing aid glasses from RCA. It adds a vanishing cream to counter poison ivy with a sodium perborate mix.
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National Museum At
Washington
Germany
Museum At
Washington Museum
Inviting Others to Praise God in Sunday Lessons
A devotional on praising Jehovah from Psalms 96 and 34 urges all nations to sing and exalt God daily. It cites Abingdon and Meyer, notes threefold calls to ascribe and sing, and links the hymn Tell it out among the nations to the verses.
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Abingdon
Jehovah
F. B. Meyer
Moffatt
Worthy Cause at Miner Bird Sanctuary Spares Taxpayers
The Dominion allocates 35 million to National Parks yet Jack Miner’s bird sanctuary receives no capital grant. Miner spends 15 thousand annually and donates 400 acres of corn land while demanding aid equal to five dollars for every one dollar raised. He notes 400 acres valued at a hundred dollars an acre and that tens of thousands visit daily October through May.
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Dominion
Jack Miner
Ottawa
M.P
United States
Canada
London Dustbin Brigade Aids Waste Collection Drive
London borough officials organize a 250 strong group of women called salvage mothers to collect waste food and bones from neighbors in Walthamstow. Their bins are placed in front gardens and only the containers are emptied. The plan aims to feed thousands of pigs as the scheme expands. A separate note mentions air chamber seats on a raft frame for use in rowboats or canoes.
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London
Eric Bell
Walthamstow
Conditions in Nazi Germany Revealed by YWCA Report
A London based YWCA monthly newsletter summarized by Dr. Gordon Bates warns of deteriorating living conditions in Germany under Hitler. It cites elderly workers forced into industry, widespread farm labor by women, rising diseases, shortages, and punitive taxes while wages fall. It notes even harsher conditions in occupied nations and urges Canada to strengthen living standards.
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Nazi Germany
Y.W.C.A
London
England
Gordon Bates
Health League of Canada
Hitler
Germany
Y.W.C
Europe
Bates
Canada
Readers sought cancer articles from Health League of Canada
Readers may obtain a free set of articles on the Cause and Control of Cancer by writing to The Health League of Canada Dept. W.N.Y. at 111 Avenue Road Toronto Ontario. Include the request phrase and print name and address clearly.
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The
Health League of Canada
Dept. W.N.Y
111 Avenue Road
Toronto
Ont
Glass reinforced concrete eyed as future substitute for steel
Abraham Lincoln grandson of the former president and British architect A W Soden form a new research duo. They test glass as concrete reinforcement finding it cheaper and potentially superior to steel. Their work suggests glass reinforced concrete could bear four times the load required for air raid shelters.
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Abraham Lincoln
John Abraham Lincoln
A. W. Soden
ARIEA
Soden
Lincoln
Home Office
Canada to produce hundreds of airplanes monthly in 1941 plan
Prospects show Canada aiming to manufacture 360 aircraft each month early in 1941, totaling about 4 320 planes a year. Planned types include Fleet primary trainers, Tiger Moth trainers, Fleet 60 and Anson trainers, plus fighting planes Lysander Hurricane Bolingbroke Hampden and Stranraer flying boat.
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Canada Wai
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Sears
Newcastle
Philippe Petain
Vichy
Red Cross
Royal Air Force
London Daily Mail
Navy
Frank Knox
United States Navy Department
Ambulances For
Mickie
Canadian Mills
By John C. Kirkwood
Radio Corporation of America
R.C.A
London Dustbin Brigade
Health League
DR. J.W. S. M.cullough
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