Air Training Plan Seen Surpassing Early Hopes
The SAITISN Commonwealth Air Training Plan enters its third year of operation with rapid progress. Begun in 1929 after Ottawa talks and Toronto training, it expanded across Canada. Prairies offer ideal airfields and Western towns see frequent aircraft activity as airmen from Canada and abroad train nationwide.
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Rapid Growth of RCAF Training Plan in Canada
The Air Training Plan is a joint Canadian effort run by the RC A F. Over 80 percent of trainees are Canadian, with Canada funding two thirds of maintenance. Since 1939 the force has grown from 28 percent officers and 3,400 men to about 125,000. The plan operates 150 establishments, including 93 training schools, with more than two thousand buildings in use and stations in every province. It is hailed as making Canada a first class air power and an “airdrome of Democracy” aiding Allied defense and the forthcoming offensive.
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Air Strength and Commonwealth Training Plan
Britain, Australia and New Zealand send their best to Commonwealth Air Training schools. Joined by Canadians, they patrol coasts and fight across many theatres. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore cited early RAF odds and stressed air power's decisive role.
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Finland War Debt Claim Rejected by U S Officials
The St Thomas Times Journal reports that Finland offered debt instalments to the United States, which the Washington Administration declined. The piece argues Finland lacked a proper wartime debt, notes Russia's past control, and compares Finland’s civil conflict to Franco’s Spain, framing the situation in stark political terms.
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Population figures for India and British India areas
The document states India covers 1,576,000 square miles with a population of 388,800,000. It notes one in five people worldwide are Indian, with 92,975,000 Indians and 285,827,000 Indians living in the 31 British Indian provinces.
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Patience Rewarded by Penny to Dollar Test
A Boston Back Bay hotel waitress endured weeks of a penny a meal from an eccentric elderly guest. After confirming the pennies were saved, the woman returned them and added a dollar bill for each penny, totaling 181 dollars. The guest said the test measured the waitress’s patience, which proved better than expected.
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Britain plans postwar Africa economic base for natives
Negley Farson reports that Britain is already shaping a future in which indigenous industry will be developed across Africa to build a strong economic base for locals and curb exploitation.
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Africa
Negley Farson
National Food Tasters Wooltons Try Wartime Dishes
Food Minister Lord Woolton and his wife serve as the nation's taste testers at home sharing glimpses of their table trials. He notes trying Britain’s new wartime loaf while Lady Woolton remains a practical, average eater with a keen kitchen interest and curiosity about culinary experiments.
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Five Newtown Marines Sail From Home to War
It Happens Sometimes tells of five buddies from A Newtown Pennsylvania who entered the Marines together in December. They shared school days from elementary through high school class of 1939. After Pearl Harbor they trained at Parma Island and New River NC and two of them went overseas to Guadalcanal. In November all five stood on a sandy beachhead watching a troop transport unload reinforcements, marching up the beach side by side.
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Guadalcanal
Seven Vautour brothers serve as war records rise
Seven Vautour brothers from Ste Anne de Kent N B enlist in wartime service. Three serve overseas while three more stay in Canada. The seventh son Eusebe joins after prior attempts. the family celebrates their patriotic contribution alongside nursing staff expansions and new Provost Centre training at Camp Borden.
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Donat
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Eloi
Canada
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Canadian Legion War Services
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Gasoline substitutes used in Europe a London survey finds
A London survey shows various gasoline substitutes in use across Europe. A French inventor is credited with a scalp vigor izor to power an auto. A Swedish baker collected alcohol from bakery fumes, grapes provided alcohol for autos, and gasogene burners fueled by briquettes are popular in South Africa.
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London
Bates
South Africa
Aid to Russia Fund Seeks One Million for Supplies
The Canadian Aid to Russia Fund appeals to all Canadians to raise one million dollars to send essential supplies to the Soviet front. It notes brutal 24 hour bombardment at Stalingrad and vast engagement of troops, with Soviet doctors and rear guerrilla fighting aiding in the war effort. Students, workers, physicians, nurses, and housewives are urged to contribute.
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Russia
Atlantic
Pacific
Canada
Thia Front
New British Flying Boat York In Production
Robert Perkins disclosed in the British House of Commons that Britain has a new large flying boat, the York, in production. He suggested releasing 20 Yorks and 10 Sunderlands could challenge Pan American Airways, noting the York remains on the secret list and may transport both passengers and freight.
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Gems on Redeeming Time by Famous Thinkers
A compact aphorism collection argues time should be filled with thought, feeling, and action. Quotes urge prudent company, present-focused living, and maximizing each day to secure future success and inner improvement.
Submarine draw: water in and out for dive rise
The Christian Science Monitor compares a submarine with a fish, noting both regulate internal gas or water to dive and rise. It highlights the swim bladder analogy as a mechanism for buoyancy control.
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