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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 18, 1945
Page
7
The article notes that demobilization will begin after the war and that discharged service members are increasing. It describes Canadian provisions to aid rehabilitation including schools and colleges offering special courses to help ex-service men resume interrupted studies or start new trades or professions.
The British War Office announced that all United Kingdom forces must study while in service. Recruits choose courses across any field, while veterans get refresher training. Training will be compulsory, six to eight hours weekly, with advanced students allowed university, civil service, or professional exams.
A detailed plan expands the Army Educational Corps with officers receiving special training and civil education authorities actively involved. Each study branch is supervised by an expert, over a million textbooks and numerous films and equipment ordered, and courses organized under Technology General Science Domestic Science Sociology Arts and Crafts Commerce and the Professions. Noting postwar veteran reintegration, widespread interest aims to improve conditions for veterans of the present war.
Reports from liberated areas of Slovakia say Germany plans large scale camouflage for war criminals. Individuals likely on the Allied list are reassigned with new identities and posts, while next of kin are informed they were killed in action.
A collage of light humorous exchanges includes a shipboard mishap with a woman overboard and a shark, a boastful husband, a nut shop inquiry, a titled fiancée’s sock plan, a witty line from Jiggs, and a poke at government ownership of defense industries. The bits read like a social gag column with quick quips and cartoons of everyday life.
The term Hallelujah is a common European name for the wood sorrel plant in the geranium family. The name stems from its flowering period between Easter and Whitsuntide.
A wartime guidance column covers ration card renewals by mail requiring both ecard stub and ration book 5, in person renewal needs ration book 5, and school cocoa ration requests via the Branch of the Ration Administration. It notes civilian ration books from Local Ration Boards, and explains sugar allocations will drop from 80 to 70 percent for industrial use in 1945. It invites readers to request Consumers' News or the Blue Book from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
FBI disclosed two German agents landed from a submarine were found with forged papers dated ahead to 1946 including draft cards and birth certificates. They posed as Connecticut natives Erich Gimpel and William Candwell while their home town Niantic, Connecticut appeared on records. They carried cash, a pistol and cameras, plus blank certificates to enable name changes.
Berlin dispatch notes strict limits on false teeth with special government permission required. Dentists may also need official approval for repairs as Germany faces wartime shortages after Allied bombing damaged porcelain factories in 1943. Applicants must prove imperative need and surrender old fillings.
Napoleon Bonaparte rose to command the Army of Italy at twenty seven and later crowned himself Emperor of France at age thirty six, marking rapid ascent in Revolutionary era power.
Soviet radio commentator Mikhail Mikhailov answered English speaking observers including Clifton Daniel of the New York Times London bureau. He defended the USSR as peaceful and determined to finish the war quickly, citing Stalin that the USSR will emerge stronger. He dismissed Daniels claim and warned against disrupting the Anglo Soviet United States alliance.
Letters from the front reveal a Massachusetts Audubon Society bird guide request for France and reports from the Mariana Islands and Gala pagos Islands detailing flocks of Pacific golden plover and flamingos seen by a Marine and an Army lieutenant. The notes emphasize how wartime duties coexist with simple natural observations.
Thousands of British women have undertaken unusual jobs since the war began. They include tanning, chimney sweeping, steeple jack work, park gardening and bricklaying. Women also serve in professional roles such as geographers at the Admiralty, meteorologists at the Air Ministry, botanists cultivating new crops, and chemists producing drugs for Allied forces.
In the Anglican church at Alton Hampshire a pew was extended to accommodate a family of fifteen who attend services regularly, reflecting strong parish attendance in the town.
A fully developed typhoon or hurricane can span about 900 miles across with a calm eye roughly 30 miles in diameter.
The Swiss led history by adopting nickel for coinage, marking a milestone in currency material. This early use reflected innovation in monetary minting and-set the stage for subsequent metal selections in European coinage.
An advertisement touts Hem-Roid as an internal cure for piles, claiming over 40 years of use and easy at home testing. It promises five days to judge effectiveness with a money back guarantee if not satisfied, offered by a Canadian firm.
About 900 tons of soap destined for liberated Europe will be stored in Winnipeg warehouses. The Canadian Export Board oversees the stock, with supplies arriving from factories in Vancouver and Edmonton for shipment overseas.
Dr Ruth Nason leads an apple pie freezing study at Syracuse College of Home Economics to assess defrosted pies baked and unbaked varieties. The program includes three phases with pies stored in a locker opening in April and preliminary results by December using official judging.
The Agricultural Supplies Board estimates 1945 honey output near 48.56 million pounds if Canada’s 506,000 bee colonies achieve average yields, about 12 million pounds more than 1944. Projections assume essential needs are met and production could be heavier than last year if yields improve.
The famed Black Stone of Mecca has been worn smooth by the kisses of millions of devotees since the Prophet Muhammad reportedly kissed it over 1,300 years ago.
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