World Happenings Briefly Told
The Free Belgian news agency reports 34.60 foreign Jews in Belgium conscripted for work in Germany. Australia develops a new butter purification method to reduce shipping space. Labor and shipping groups agree to higher war risk bonuses for Swedish Baltic voyages. Buddhists in Ceylon cancel Kandy Perahera to keep roads clear for military transport. A naturalized British man returns a bronze plaque to salvage authorities. Kandahar orders ear-pinning for profiteers charging high prices. US railroads salvage over 1.6 million tons of scrap metal in six months with year total near 3.5 million. Canada buys 25 miles of anchor chain for warcraft.
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Free Belgian
Belgium
Germany
Saskatchewan leads Canada in creamery butter production
Big Butter Producer Saskatchewan tops provincial output in the period June 29 to August 1 with 114,602 packages. First grade accounts for 88 percent, second 7 percent, third 3 percent and under 1 percent fourth grade. Alberta is second with 94,276 packages and Quebec third with 91,589. From Dec 1 1941 to Aug 1 1942 Saskatchewan led with 398,862 packages, 89 percent first grade.
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Saskatchewan
Canada
Dominion Department of Agriculture Marketing Service
Alberta
Dominion
Quebec
Anne Adams Pattern 4140 for Misses and Women
Anne Adams pattern 4140 offers a smooth trim look with front waist seam panel and back panel. It provides self fabric or ribbon straps with optional lace trim and is sized 16 to 42 with fabric yardage listed for size 16. Order by mail from the Anne Adams Pattern Eye in Winnipeg Manitoba for 20 cents.
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Anne Adams
Union
Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Empire Air Forces Feature Shaped by RAF in Major Magazine
The September issue of Flying dedicates 278 pages to the Royal Air Force and British air ministry, featuring 40 articles by RAF commanders on bomber, fighter, coastal, and support services. Sir Archibald Sinclair writes the foreword as Air Chief Marshal Portal and Harris offer assessments of air power, with Bowhill praising Canada’s role in Atlantic ferrying and Dorval’s airport construction.
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Flying
Royal Air Force
British Air Ministry
R.A F
United States
Archibald Sinclair
William B. Ziff
Aviation Authority
Germany
Ziff
London
R.A.F
Middle East
Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Charles Portal
England
Arthur Harris
Bomber Command
Italy
United Nations
Renault
Paris
Sholto Douglas
Fighter Command
Britain
Europe
Atlantic Ferry Service
Frederick W. Bowhill
Ferry Command
Frederick
Department of Transport
Dorval
Que
DOING HIS BIT A Dutch barge dog aids war effort
Jan the Dutch barge dog owned by Mrs Ida Burton helps wartime morale at Angersleigh Eng His owner weaves hair from the dog s light fluffy coat into mittens for soldiers in need of warm coverings.
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Jan
Ida Burton
Angersleigh
Eng
Segregation Ordered for Foreign Workers in Germany
Foreign workers in German factories will be segregated by nationality in the future, after findings that subversive elements of one nationality are infecting others. The measure targets mixed workforces and aims to curb subversive influence across national groups.
Medical authorities warn of epidemics in war time
Warnings cite the influenza outbreak of the final WWI year as a likely pattern for future epidemics. Experts argue that precautionary measures are hard to enforce in peacetime but may be more feasible during war. The text notes universal vaccination gaps for smallpox and typhoid and urges civilian defense groups to address these gaps, especially for smallpox typhoid and tuberculosis.
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Health League of Canada
Ancient Abraham and Lot Choose Land in Genesis Lesson
Sunday lesson revisits Abraham and Lot as their flocks grow beyond the land's capacity. Lot chooses the well watered Plain of the Jordan and moves near Sodom, despite its wicked reputation. Jehovah's judgment falls on Sodom and Gomorrah, with Lot escaping to Zoar before destruction by fire and brimstone.
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Sodom
Abraham
Lot
Jordan
Abram
Canaan
Jehovah
Zoar
Gomorrah
Brimstone
Dead Sea
Revelatory Population Reach Within 350 Miles Of New York
The Commerce and Industry Association of New York reports that one third of the U.S. population and half the nation’s wealth lie within a 350 mile radius of New York. In that zone, 432 cities exceed 10,000 residents, representing 39.3 percent of such municipalities, while the total area holds 40,359,34 people or about 30.7 percent of the national population.
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U.S
New York
St. Thomas Times-Journal
United States
Commerce and Industry Association of
One Way to Collect Debt From Taxi Owner
A Montreal resident sought superior court permission for a bailiff to ride in the taxi during working hours and seize from each passenger the legally collectible amount. The hearing of the application was postponed.
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Superior Court
Our Forefathers and Modern Sailors Under Pressures
A columnist notes long-ago limits on everyday luxuries from sugar to electricity and contrasts with today’s sailors. The piece cites over 43,000 lascars or East Indian sailors serving on British ships.
Home Newspaper Appeal for Local Submissions
The note urges residents to save items for the local paper rather than sending them to an out of town correspondent. It emphasizes keeping community news within the hometown paper.
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Baltic
Ceylon
Afghanistan
Kandahar
Munitions and Supply Department
Barman
Wilson
Hardware & Gererc
Story of
Empire
American Magazine
RCAF
Lac. A. Gettler
J. Morrison
Winnipeg Women’s Air Force Auxiliary
The
Women's Auxiliary
Pilots and Observers Association
Earth
Moon
T Service, Inc
BY William Ferguson
Trsipes
FISH
By Fred Neher
Israel
Reg'lar Fellers
Gene Byrnes
Broad Kait
Is Dowrf
Onden
Walter Ross
West
Wallace
Ross Ranch
Mickie
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