Improvements In Clothing For Our Airmen
Scientists and research workers in Canada advance aviation clothing for airmen through the RCAF aviation medical research committee. Toronto Montreal and Ottawa coordinate testing with operational stations nationwide. Developments include double pile wool interlining, tighter helmets, and headphones with improved isolation to withstand varied air temperatures and flight conditions.
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Jean Thompson
Tgs
Toronto
Montreal
Ottawa
Dominion
Sqdn
Lar
J R. Thompson
Canada
North Atlantic
Indian Ocean
Malaya
RCAF
Plan to Handover German Fleet Foiled by Allied Action
The British government learns Nazis plan to keep most of their merchant fleet by forming neutral country private shipping firms to own German vessels and repurchase within five years after hostilities end. Allied nations will void such camouflaged transfers and compel surrender of the property once investigations prove the scheme.
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Germany
United Nations
London Daily Sketch
Has Done Her Share Miss Hutchins Reaches One Million Dressings
A Bangor Maine woman Carrie Hutchins aged 83 believes she has set a record by making surgical dressings for the Red Cross. She started during World War I and recently completed her millionth dressing for use in the current conflict.
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Carrie Hutchins
Bangor
Maine
Red Cross
Soviet Women In Front Of War Effort Across Roles
The article credits Soviet women with major roles in the current offensive and total war effort. It notes women pilots downing Nazi aircraft during the Moscow siege, Anna Babushkina running the Leningrad blockade, Ludmila Pavlichenko's 309 Nazi kills, and others like Onilova with machine gun impact at Sevastopol. It also cites high female participation in medicine, farming, defense, mining, oil, merchant fleet, and railways, with a Women’s Day train fully manned by women arriving in Moscow from Omsk.
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Russia
Red Army
Moscow
Anna Babushkina
Leningrad
Ludmila Pavlichenko
United States
Miss Onilova
Omsk
British Soldiers to Mail Home Voice Records
Production cost drops to one cent per record for 300000 five inch records. A film technician invented compact recording machines the size of a portable phonograph with a hand telephone to ease microphone fright. Overseas centers will handle recordings. A wounded Italian hospital patient was saved by receiving his mother's voice by mail. Java relies on bicycles for transport.
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Italy
Fake Nazi film staged in Paris enrages crowds
London French Provisional Government reports expose a Nazi staged film showing British and American prisoners paraded through Paris as hostile crowds jeer. In a real turnout, Allied prisoners arrived via East station to cheers, while the staged scene aimed to intimidate and mislead observers.
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France
Paris
London
Faubourg Saint-Denis
Boulevard de Strasbourg
Great Britain
United States
Quebec
New Crown Company Turbo Research Ltd Formed in Canada
Hon. C. D. Howe announces a permanent Crown company Turbo Research Ltd to develop jet propulsion and gas turbines for aircraft. It will operate adjacent to Research Enterprises Ltd outside Toronto and link with a UK organization to strengthen Commonwealth ties and national defense.
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C. D. Howe
Turbo Research Ltd
Crown
Research Enterprises Ltd
Toronto
Canada
Crown Company
United Kingdom
Commonwealth
Great Britain
Ottawa Citizen
Cup Returned After Voyage and Bombardment
Marine Hammond hurried from a York services canteen with his tea cup. It was later returned with apologies for delay, explained as having traveled half the world on a voyage and surviving a bombardment.
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Marine Hammond
York
England
Hammond
Battle souvenir found beside Canadian tank in Ortona
Lieut. D M Disney of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry found a shrapnel torn photo of two Canadian tank corps soldiers beside a Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive among wreckage in Ortona Italy last December. Disney, later invalided home to Kelowna BC, recalls the moment and notes Engine 2364 runs between Moose Jaw and Broadview.
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Italy
Canadian Tank Corps
Canadian Pacific Railway
Lieut
D. M. Disney
Inset
Princess Patricia's
Canadian Light Infantry
Disney
Kelowna
C.P.R
Revelstoke
Calgary
Canadian Pacific
E. S Disney
Field Hill
Moose Jaw
Broadview
Regina
Conclusion Is Reached That British And American Papers Have Own Faults
R J Loy Maloney, Chicago Tribune editor, argues in Editor and Publisher that both British and American papers show control by wealthy owners. He notes bias, mixing fact and opinion, and the tendency to favor national achievements while downplaying opponents. The piece suggests Anglophobia and press ownership shape coverage in both nations.
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San Francisco
Italy
Mr. Maloney
London Press
London
Great Britain
Maloney
Mr. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
America
New York Troune
Horace Greeley
The Lady Pays Doctor With Enigmatic Gift
Ailing elderly woman, told by a top doctor she is cured, offers a hand embroidered purse as payment. The physician refuses, stating fees must be monetary. She finally leaves two $100 bills after offering a $500 purse, leaving a Saturday Review as a token.
Penicillin to Prisoners in German Camps
Penicillin is flown to German prison camps to aid wounded British soldiers captured in Normandy and elsewhere on the fronts.
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Normandy
Doctor Links Leg Crossing to Prolonged Paralysis
An eminent doctor warns that crossing the legs can induce a paralysis lasting several months. The caution highlights the need to avoid prolonged leg crossings to prevent nerve or blood flow disruption.
German Prisoners in France Show Low Morale and Hunger
Hundreds of German captives in the Canadian advance in France display fading fighting spirit. Russians and Polish troops pressed into service are among those captured. Many have not eaten hot meals for a week, with scarce rations. Prisoners question when they can go home, and some feel betrayed by officers.
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France
Berchtesgaden
Wartime Britain Savings Reach Record Levels for Small Investors
Britain’s wartime savings by the small investor totalled 12 billion dollars by end July, per the National Savings Committee. The sum comes from Savings Certificates Defence Bonds and higher Post Office and Trustee Savings Bank deposits. A third grew in 15 months, the first third in 22 months and the second in 18 months. In the last war savings were lower and facilities fewer, with 42,000 savings groups then versus over 300,000 now.
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Britain
National Savings Committee
Defence
Pst Office
Trustee Savings Banks
Towels Mexicana Cross-Stitch Pattern Offer
Mexican towel pattern 7159 features seven transfer motifs in 6% by 7 inches. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Avenue E, Winnipeg Manitoba, with name address and pattern number. Delays noted due to slow mail. Sweet corn remains fresh frozen within hours and retains taste months to a year.
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Winnipeg
Unio
McDermot Avenue
Winnipe Man
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