Nazi fifth column myth mocked as invincible bluff
The article debunks Nazi claims of invincibility, highlighting the role of the fifth column in Poland Norway Denmark the Netherlands Belgium and France. It cites Runnymede's Legionary piece and argues morale and civilian resistance undermine German prowess, urging Canadians to defend liberty and fight to retain courage.
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Denmark
Norway
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Hitler
Doktor Goebbels
Germany
Runnymede
Legionary
Canadian Legion
British Empire Service League
Iles
Royal Navy
Goering
Knights of the Air
Dunkerque
Civition
Canada
Purge Talk in Vichy Targets Daladier Allies
Detroit Free Press reports plans in Vichy to try Daladier and allied high treason figures as France may purge and prescribe. Pierre Laval, the swarthy ex premier now vice chancellor under Petain, looms as a leading organizer in a feared crackdown with hints of a guillotine shadow.
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Higher
Trement
Francy
Pierre Laval
Auvergne
Washington
Hoover
Laval
Mitler
Mussolini
Marshal Petain
Whech
Hyesis
MM. Daladier
Robespierre
Arrasia
Detroit Free Press
Wizard At Camouflage
Richard Lonsdale-Hands is managing director of a firm that now employs 600 people to camouflage as war work. Once making gas fires and radios look like their function, his plants now hide objects from air targeting, with workers on 12 hour shifts seven days a week. He began work at 12, loves it, and once skipped a honeymoon, marrying in a lunch hour.
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Richard Lonsdale-Hands
Farry Grottos
Lonsdale-Hands
London Daily Sketch
Domesday Book Plans Three Farm Classes In Britain
A Domesday Book of British farms is being prepared listing farms in three classes well managed moderately used and badly used. Special focus will go to the worst class. If lack of capital hampers these farms the government may advance funds for stock or fertilizer. County committees will aid with labor and machinery.
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Britain
Learning The Language Canadian Troops Win Icelandic Good Will
Arni Eggertsson of Winnipeg said Canadian troops guard Iceland against invasion and have won local goodwill. He noted conversations aided by the booklet Icelandic for Soldiers issued by the Canadian Legion and claimed German scientists conducted survey trips from the war office in recent years.
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Arni Eggertsson
Winnipeg
Ottawa
Iceland
Canadian Legion
Eggertsson
War Office
Britain announces wartime purchase tax details
The finance bill reveals a broad levy on most goods with a main rate of one third, reduced to one sixth for essential clothing and footwear. Luxuries face one third at wholesaler level, aiming to raise about £110 million annually. The tax, effective in under two months, excludes food, drink, rent, tobacco, and petrol.
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Britain
Did Not Fool Children In Polish School Tale
The Fort William Times Journal reports a Poland tale about a Russian teacher who denied God to students and urged prayer for cakes. They prayed, no cakes appeared, then prayed to Stalin and a man with a tray arrived, exposing the supposed trick as a hoax.
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Fort William
Fertilizer production in Canada rises to 1939 total
Production of fertilizers and fertiliser liver material in Canada totalled 540 302 tons for the year ended June 30 1939 up from 516 459 tons in the previous 12 months. Figures exclude calcium cyanamide with publicationen data unavailable.
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Canada
What Total We Means To Canadian Worker In The Front Of Steel
National Film Show explains total war in Canada through the film The Front of Steel. It traces blitzkrieg origins in Germany, weaponized mechanization, and Britain and Canada's mobilization to convert industry for war, increasing production of engines tanks guns shells ships and planes.
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National Pim Board
Director of Public Informations
Canada
Britain
Germany
Gift Of A Train Provokes Editorial From New York Herald Tribune
The New York Herald Tribune mused on dictators gifts citing Hitler's armored train to Mussolini for Mussolini 57th birthday. It warned that armored might and anti aircraft guns echo ancient royal displays and asked what Benito's return might be a bullet proof screen or galoshes for wet feet in the English channel.
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The
New York Herald ‘Tribune
Hitler
Mussolini
Herald Tribune
Benito
Adolf
English Channel
Alberta Professor Extends Crow Migration Experiment
Dr William Rowan zoology professor at the University of Alberta plans a new crow migration study. He will capture 500 crows divide them into two groups apply a light treatment to one group while the other group remains untreated. After a summer of treatment the birds will be released likely in late November from crow traps set on fence posts in the Tofield district southeast of Edmonton using eggs as bait.
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Alberta University
William Rowan
University of Alberta
Rowan
Tofield
Edmonton
Selected Recipes Fresh Strawberry Cream Dessert
Fresh strawberry cream dessert combines mashed berries and corn starch with lemon juice folded into whipped cream then chilled in glasses. Optional ladyfingers surround the base, topped with whipped cream and berries for garnish. Also includes orange Jell-O prune pulp sherbet glasses, chilled firm and topped with whipped cream or custard.
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Durham
Box Cars Shortage Strands Western Grain Storage Plans
Western farmers flood Canadian Pacific Railway requests for obsolete cars at Winnipeg to store grain. Supply exhausted. rail officials regret public demand and say they cannot fill the flood of applications despite urging not to destroy the cars.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Westernines
Winnipeg
Hustanton Town Tops Eight-Year Clean Accident Record
Common Sense Hustanton England reports the town records an eight year stretch without accidents despite no traffic lights crossings or one way streets. Every Sunday at least 20000 people pass through en route to the coast.
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Hustanton
England
Forega Luxury Foods Demand Slumps in West End
A West End hotel catering manager laments no demand for luxury foods including caviar fresh asparagus and out of season strawberries. He notes a social divide with rich and poor but no effort to alleviate poverty while Peru's population surpasses 16 million.
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West End
Weather by Wood Owls Forecasts Beset by Wartime Limits
Lieut Col A Vicker of Ash Wells Essex sent a Time letter praising wood owls as rain prophets. He claimed three night calls by a wood owl predict rain within 24 hours while a single barn owl call means fine weather for the next day. He tested the method for years.
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A. Vickera
Ashwells
Terling
Essex
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