Justice on the Arctic Frontier in Victoria Island Trials
Magistrate F J C Cunningham returns from Coppermine where Anangiak is sentenced to 21 months for helping her husband die in an Eskimo suicide ritual. The case, heard by A H Gibson, used a C A F crew as jurors. Anayiak’s husband chose to kill himself with his rifle after years of ill health.
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Yellowknife
Nwt
Tarcahnganuk
Arctic
Victoria Island
Anangiak
F. J. C. Cunningham
Coppermine
Here
Cunningham
A. H. Gibson
Fort Smith
Northwest Territories
C.A.F
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Mafa
Ayalik
RCMP
Haogak
Kopana
Arctic Triangle
Australian and British Commandos Raid Singapore Harbor 1943
Ten Australian and four British commandos carried out a 1943 raid on Japanese shipping in Singapore harbor. They sank and burned seven tanker ships totaling 37 000 tons, fled 2000 miles aboard a former Japanese fishing boat, and returned after 40 days with six of fourteen men later killed in subsequent operations. Army Minister Francis Forde called the action a pivotal Pacific war shortening victory.
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Army Department
Singapore
Malaya
Manila
Army
Francis Forde
Pacific
North
Australia
Nursing a Delusion Built Up a Myth To Justify Her Actions
An essay reflects on postwar misunderstandings fueling conflict. It argues propaganda created myths of foe encirclement, hindering reconciliation with Germany and Russia. It notes leaders shape public perception, and that genuine goodwill requires bridging barriers of distance and censorship. The piece closes with a trivia line on eyeball size.
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Scott Fitzgerald
Germany
Versailles
Locarno
Russia
Kremlin
Liberty Magazine
Young Toronto Composer Patsy Parr Gains Fame
Patsy Parr a Toronto girl still in school is a pianist and composer whose March for the Brownies was performed by the Governor General's Horse Guards band in Ottawa for Lady Baden-Powell.
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Patsy Parr
Toronto
Govenor-General’s Horse Guards
Ottawa
Baden-Powell
Britain converts little ships into houseboats for ex servicemen
Britain's wartime small craft are being converted to peacetime homes for homeless ex servicemen and families. Over 7,000 readers want to buy motor torpedo boats and landing craft released from service. By year end up to 20,000 families may live aboard converted vessels. Demobilized sailors and soldiers lead bids, conversion and furnishing costs are high. A firm has bought 80 landing craft for full homes and one engineer bought a motor torpedo boat for traveling work homes.
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Britain
United Kingdom
Standard Dominion News
Admiralty
Cobham
Surrey
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Black Market Arrests Reported in Japan
Supreme Headquarters price control unit said about 58,000 people were arrested in Japan for black market activity in the five months to June 30. It also noted 777,000,000 yen in goods valued at 51.8 million dollars were seized and redirected into legitimate trade.
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Tokyo
Supreme Headquarters’ Price Control and Ration Division
Hundred Years Ago Discovery Of Nitro-Glycerine Began High Explosives
A 1846 discovery of nitro glycerine by Ascano Sobrero at Turin triggered the age of high explosives. Nobel later began experiments near Stockholm, while guncotton by Christian Schoenbein sparked bans and safety concerns across Europe. Explosives gained general use about two decades later according to North American Newspaper Alliance.
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Ascano Sobrero
University of
Turin
Soprero
Alfred Nobel
Stockholm
Nobel
Christian F. Schoenbein
Schoenbein
England
Radar aided RAF drops deliver newspapers and mail in Europe
The Empire Digest reports radar aided airborne operations have enabled the RAF to deliver twenty one million newspapers and nearly fifteen hundred tons of mail and freight to British forces in Europe in six months. In fog or low visibility, bundles are dropped with radar accuracy.
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Empire Digest
RAF
Europe
Britain to build new modern towns under Attlee plan
London reports that the Labour government will fund new satellite towns to absorb urban overflow. Estimates place each town’s cost between 27 and 36 million pounds, with London alone potentially needing 250 million over 15 to 20 years. The plan favors government led public corporations, no private land ownership, and dense, balanced communities with 12 houses per acre and a central ring road system.
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London
Clement Attlee
Lord Reith
New Towns Committee
Stevenage
Hertfordshire
Keitel Opposed Bacteriological Warfare, Records Show
International Military Tribunal records reveal Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel opposed all bacteriological warfare plans after a 1943 Sept meeting with Col. Buerker. Keitel allegedly stated that such warfare had long been prohibited and could not be pursued.
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Tere
Gondola Trade in Venice Slump Amid War and Weather
A Venice gondolier laments a sharp drop in business after years of steady work. Virgilio Scarpa notes fewer licensed gondoliers, elderly pensioned, young men sent to war, and thinning tourist crowds though American visitors still spend. He explains it all as the war’s impact on demand.
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Venice
Canale Della Grazia
Canale Orfanella
Hoagy Carmichael
Virgilio Scarpa
Signore
Virgilio
Venezia Giulia
Cooling Thought Sparks Snow Suit Sale in Heat Wave
A Nacogdoches merchant offered children’s snow suits amid one of Texas’s worst heat waves. The ad highlights a counterintuitive sale tactic during extreme summer temperatures.
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Nacogdoches
Texas
Vila Ruiva Named Village of Long Life Near Lisbon
Near Lisbon Portugal Vila Ruiva earned the title village of long life after recording only three deaths in the year. The deceased aged 101 104 and 115 were centenarians living in the community.
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Vila Ruiva
Lisbon
Portugal
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