Canadian Lumberjacks Cut Large Pine Stands in Scottish Highlands
Canadian Forestry Corps units operate across northern Scottish shires turning out 290,000 board feet of timber daily to aid Empire war needs. Brigadier General J. B. White commands, with crews from British Columbia to New Brunswick, using Canadian mills, stoves, and rations to drive a transatlantic timber program.
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British Isles
Highlands
Scotland
Canadian Poventry Corps
Atlantic
Canadian Forestry Corps
Lord Lovett
British Forestry Corps
France
J. B. White
Montreal
Head of-the-Lakes
Royal
British Columbia
Maritime Provinces
Ontario
Vancouver Woman Becomes London Flying Club Chief Instructor
Miss Helen Harrison of Vancouver arrives in London Ontario to assume duties as chief instructor of the London Flying club. With 2400 flying hours she is Canada’s only transport pilot licensed holder and also holds a British license. She has taught abroad in England, South Africa and Canada and says women prove as capable as men in aviation and are ready for routine ferrying duties. Indifference and prejudice hinder broader wartime aviation roles for women.
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Canada
Helen Harrison
Vancouver
London
Ont
London Flying Club
Harrison
England
South Africa
Sweden mandates weeklong military preparedness course for youth
All Swedish students from college to high school age must complete a one week course in military preparedness. The program covers air-defence first aid and messenger service. boys also study marksmanship.
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Sweden
Soldier Poet Wins Prize In Arabic Verse Contest
Emil Fakhouri of Safad won the first prize in a BBC coordinated Arabic poetry contest held in Cairo Jerusalem Baghdad Kartoum Aden and Singapore. The 20 year old Trans Jordan Frontier Force soldier wrote on Shakespeare with his win earned alongside brothers serving with the Allies in Syria. Born in Nazareth and educated at Safad Government Secondary School he has written Arabic poetry since age 15.
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Jerusalem
Baghdad
Kartoum
Aden
Singapore
British Broadcasting Corporation
London
Spain
Emil Fakhouri
Safad
Shakespeare
Trans. Jordan Frontier Force
Syria
Nazareth
Australian prisoner of war escapes German camp to reach Palestine
Lieut Milton Boulton the first Australian POW to escape a German camp reappears in Palestine after a long overland journey. He fled from Athens, bought a cheap atlas, stole a small boat to Turkey then hiked through Syria to rejoin Australian troops in Palestine.
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Milton Boulton
Palestine
Athens
Boulton
Turkey
Syria
Staple Afghan Diet Often Centered On Fruit
A brief note indicates fruit forms a main staple of many Afghans diets. The mention highlights fruit as a foundational food in Afghan households amid broader dietary contexts.
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Afghanstan
Frightful Machines and Human Caution On Innovation
The Minneapolis Star Journal laments a paradox of progress at the national archives in Washington. It argues humans fear and curb their own creations from electric heaters to cars and machines that would serve us fully, warning against a culture of limiter instincts.
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National Archives
Washington
Edison
Ford
Adam Smith
Minneapolis Star Journal
Paroled mackerel wrapped in Nazi paper shocks Norway
In Western Norway a man bought four mackerel at a fish market, wrapped in a copy of Free People, and left with the fish without comment. The pro Nazi paper prints reportedly 20 000 copies but is read by few Norwegians, though valued by patriots for wrapping parcels.
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Quisling
Norway
News of
Desert Trap in Libya Lures Axis for Tobruk Attacks
The Port Arthur News Chronicle reports British forces lured Axis troops into Libya to draw them into Tobruk. The strikes caused heavy enemy losses in men and materiel and ended the prospect of a western assault on Egypt and Suez.
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Port Arthur
Libya
Tobruk
Egypt
Suez
Global Telephone Wire Network Reaches Vast Milestone
The world now has about 168,573,000 miles of telephone wires in use. This massive network underpins international communication, with extensive infrastructure spanning continents and supporting rising data traffic and connectivity.
Bride welcomes stranger as she offers all she can carry
In a curious scene a bride invites a bill collector into her home with a wry line. The remark unfolds amid a note about green right headlights in Argentina.
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Argentina
Exclusive Alice Brooks Design for Cross Stitch Pattern
A pattern titled Exclusive Alice Brooks Design offers a 15 inch square motif plus eight 2½ by 3 inch and eight 1 by 2 inch motifs with stitch illustrations and materials. To obtain the transfer pattern, send 20 cents in coins to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 Mc Dermot Avenue E Winnipeg, Man. No Alice Brooks pattern book exists.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg
Union
McDermot Avenue
W Man
Alice Brooks
Scorched Earth Policy Bolsters Soviet Winter Stand
Allied and Soviet analyses warn Germany faces severe disruption this winter as scorched earth policies and disrupted supply lines cut food and war materials. Britain reveals new acoustic mine antidotes while Germany loses access to essential imports from Russia and occupied regions, signaling strategic hurdles for the Reich.
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Germany
Commerce Department
Russia
Balkan
Middle Eastern
Manchuria
Tran
Afghanistan
Siberia
Aviator Surprised by Caribou Herd in Northlands
Pilot George Gilmour of United Air Services slept in his plane at Point Lake about 200 miles north of Yellowknife. He awoke to see a moving forest of caribou surrounding his aircraft as the autumn migration passed eastward, leaving him as a small island in a vast herd. Canadian Pacific Bulletin.
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George Gilmour
United Air Services
Gilmour
Point Lake
Yelowknife
Little Sticks
Gome
Incendiary in the Scullery Alarm Raises Fire Crew
A Merseyside fire station received a morning call from a man claiming to have an incendiary device in his scullery. He described it as eight feet long and said it could be high explosive. The officer pressed the caller to discard it from the window, while the man claimed someone else slept nearby.
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Merseyside
Scott
Leeds Yorkshire Post
New Nazi Regulations and Global Constraints
Paris imposes a cigarette ration dropping monthly allowance from 180 to 120 per person while another rule fixes Jewish doctors and lawyers at two percent of practitioners in the city. Eskimos mainly trade with white fox pelts, and New Brunswick earns the title of the best watered country due to its many rivers.
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Paris
New Brunswick
King and Queen Visit Bombed Hull in War Invasion Era Tour
King George and Queen visited Hull after a string of air raids. Regional Commissioner Lt General Sir William Bartholomew reported local suffering was being neglected, prompting a three hour royal stopover. The royal party traveled 40 miles by royal train and canceled three engagements.
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Coventry
George
Britain
William Bartholomew
Hull
Bartholomew
Whitehall
Prince Bernhard Praises Canada After Atlantic Flight
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who has renounced his German ties for democracy, spoke by London radio about his recent Canada visit. He said he piloted the bomber crossing the Atlantic and called the experience great, praising Canadian hospitality and kindness shown by people from all walks of life.
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Prince Bernhard
Netherlands
London
Canada
Ame
Atlantic
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No. 1 Training Command
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Norman Rogers
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Picton
Quisling Newspaper
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