Happenings Briefly From Across The World
A laboratory costing 30000 to study forest pests will be erected at Sault Ste. Marie. Wheat in the Prairie Provinces fell from 60 600000 to 46500000 bushels in 1842 44. Thomas Barlow died at 99 after serving royalty. French Airways now covers 47000 miles of regular routes between France and territories. Canada’s canning output rose in 1844 versus 1943. Over 10500000 British troops moved by Royal Navy during the war with few casualties. A dress sword found on a Cardiff railway train was among 100000 items sent to London for disposal. Japan offers sugar and tobacco in exchange for diamonds in the Netherlands Indies. Sir John Anderson said Britain borrowed 43975000000 pounds by end of 1944.
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Royal Navy
Cardiff
Railways
London
Helpful Hints for Apple Sauce from Consumer Section
Apple sauce tips note salt enhances flavor and reduces sugar. Use leftover syrup from canned fruit to replace water and sugar. Apples are mainly water so little liquid is needed. Add sugar later if at all and avoid spices like nutmeg unless sauce will be used the same day.
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Agriculture Department
Belgian Allied ties praised by Canadian envoy in Brussels
Canadian ambassador to Belgium W F A Turgeon called relations between Belgians and Allied soldiers the very happiest at a reception in Brussels for Canadian, British, American, and Allied correspondents.
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Belgium
W. F. A. Turgeon
Brussels
No Room Thirteen At Congress Hotel Reopening
Chicago Congress Hotel to reopen May 1 with a 13th floor but no room carrying the number 13. The change defies superstition while preserving traditional layout for guests.
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Congress
Chicago
Jesus Heals and Forgives in Capernaum Sunday School Lesson
Read in Matthew with devotional links on miracles and forgiveness. The lesson traces Jesus healing a paralytic and forgiving sins, the faith of bearers, and the crowd’s reaction in Capernaum. It notes Jesus’ authority to forgive sins and to command healing, confirming his divine power.
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Jesus
Peter
Gedara
Sea of Galilee
Nazareth
Matthew
Capernaum
Luke
Jeana
Zigabenus
Niagara Falls Tunnel Opens To Tourists At Queen Victoria Park
The Table Rock rock formation at Niagara Falls long barricaded since the war will reopen to visitors this year. A new 460 foot concrete lined tunnel under the falls, cost 45 949 dollars, will parallel the old tunnel and withstand erosion for a century.
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Table Rock
Queen Victoria Park
Niagara Falls
Niagara Parks Commission
Iron Mine Chief Forecast Expansion of Canadian Steel Industry
Iron Mine Watkin Samuel, chief engineer at Steep Rock Iron works in north western Ontario, told the Royal Canadian Institute that a coming generation could see substantial growth in Canada's steel and heavy industries aided by cheap electric power. He cited exploration of two ore bodies at Steep Rock with about 1,000,000 tons of high grade ore suitable for open hearth use, and noted a third ore body remains unestimated.
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Watkin Samuel
Steep Rock
Ontario
Royal Canadian Institute
Dominion
Canadian Health Official Tours Britain Highlights Postwar Plans
Dr. George F. Buchan, Willesden medical officer, completed a Canada coast to coast tour under the Health League of Canada. He praised Canadian health services, noted radio work from Montreal, and predicted Britain would push a National Health Service bill. The tour, arranged by wartime information boards, stressed health, housing, and social security amid postwar recovery. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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England
George F. Buchan
Willesden
London
Health League of Canada
Buchan
Dominion
Ott
Montreal
Britain
Medical Officers of Health and
Vancouver
Charlottetown
CBC
Canadian Wartime Information Board
British Ministry of Information
Crossword puzzle No 4922 hits and hints
The puzzle lists horizontal and vertical clues with a mix of themed terms and misspelled or garbled entries. Readers must fill in with common crossword answers like global geography terms, objects, and actions, resolving distorted spellings and broken phrases.
Lumsden Killed in Japanese Air Attack at Pacific War Site
Lieut-Gen. Sir Herbert Lumsden, appointed by Churchill in November 1943 as special representative at Gen. MacArthur's headquarters, was killed January 6 by a Japanese air attack aboard a U.S. warship in the Pacific. He likely died during the Luzon invasion in the Philippines.
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Sir Herbert Lumsden
U.S
Pacific
Lumsden
Churchill
Gen. MacArthur
Luzon
Philippines
Not Yet Settled Canada Postwar Immigration Policy
Ottawa officials say postwar immigration policy remains unsettled and unlikely to be considered before a general election. Practical prospects show little movement of immigrants for some time after hostilities end. The return of veterans and families of servicemen will take considerable time.
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Canada
Ottawa
Relics from Iron Age Wales donated to National Museum
Evan R. Hughes of Caergeiliog presented iron age relics dating from 200 B.C. to 50 A.D. to the National Museum of Wales. Governors said the deposit touches life and art in Celtic antiquity at more points than any prior Welsh find. Swifts and swallows are noted as acro bats of the bird world.
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National Museum of Wales
Evan R. Hughes
Caergeiliog
Wales
Trinity House Pilots Keep Thames Safe Through War
Gravesend born pilots of Trinity House, known as Mester Mariners, faced German mines air raids and E-boats while guiding merchant ships along Britain's coasts. About 200 pilots at Gravesend staffed the world’s largest station, many wounded or with hairbreadth escapes, seeking a return to the Thames next year as London Evening Standard notes.
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Trinity Land
St. Clement's
Deptford
Gravesend
Thames
London Evening Standard
Ancient Burial Ground Discovered on Farouk Estate
A belated Cairo report describes a discovery on King Farouk’s lower Nile estate of an ancient burial ground. Zaaki Yusit Bey, sent by Cairo’s Directorate of Antiquities, notes tomb contents suggest a civilization predating the First Dynasty. Hieroglyphics on a perfume bottle stopper bear a king not linked to early dynasties. The find could illuminate Egypt’s earliest civilization according to the London Spectator.
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Cairo
Farouk
Lower
Nile
Zaaki Yusit Bey
Directorate of Antiquities
London Spectator
Judge questions robber's sole involvement in crime
The judge asks the prisoner if anyone else aided the robbery and whether it was committed alone. The prisoner asserts he acted alone, adding that partnerships in such crimes create uncertainty about a partner's honesty.
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Tlord
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Prairie Provinces
Thomas Barlow
France
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John Anderson
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Commons
By Fred Neher
Monty
Field Marshal Montgomery
Royal Engineers
Bailey Bridge
Aguide
Niagara
League
By William Ferguson
Arizona
White Russias
Russia
Mgo
Swooth
Ator
Tha
Gene Byrnes
Asia
Nevada
Lis
Jis
Mester Mariners
Egypt
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