Dominion agrees to UNRRA fund for 1943
Canada will contribute one per cent of its national income for the year ending June 30 1943 to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics estimated national income at 7 615 million dollars, yielding a Canada share of 77 million dollars. The U S contribution is calculated similarly.
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Canada
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
J. L. Isley
Domanian Bureau of Statistics
United States
Great Service To Humanity by UN Relief Effort
United Nations agencies and specialists in rehabilitation organized to aid liberated areas as forces advance. Officials prioritized food clothing and medical care for liberated people with agricultural implements seeds and household goods next. The administration has built a long term relief structure providing essential aid now and for years ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Organization of Relief Unity
United Nations
U.N.A.R.A
Need For Food to Many Lands Need For Food to Many Lands
The article outlines Europe's agriculture crisis after German occupation and Nazi devastation. It notes measures to rehabilitate farms, train refugees, and deploy Allied agricultural science, with Britain’s Seeds for Europe Fund funding seeds and implements. A large Canadian harvest could aid many distressed countries.
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Europe
Britain
Seeds For
Canada
Newspaper Boys Learn Business Via Peddling Papers
A Kitchener Record feature cites Major General James Ulio saying army officers often come from ex newspaper boys. The piece argues early training in selling papers builds self reliance, initiative, and the ability to earn money, qualities valued in military leadership and business careers.
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James Ulio
Italy
Peddies
Kitchener Record
Opium spreads among Japanese troops in war report
A Pacific report suggests opium use has spread to Japanese soldiers, alarming Tokyo. The piece cites prior claims that Japanese forces distributed opium to Chinese civilians to break resistance, now feared to rebound as retribution within their own ranks amid brutal conduct noted in Ottawa Journal summaries.
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Pacific
Tokyo
Ottawa Journal
Rosthern remote net aids sea rescue across vessels
Canada’s corvettes and destroyers are fitted with the Rosthern remote rescue net that scoops exhausted wreck survivors from icy seas. Men adrift in cold water unable to help themselves are lifted by the device and hoisted onto rescue boats.
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Canada
Canada to Resume Flow of British Dependents
Ottawa Red Cross official General Browne told Winnipeg reporters that the influx of British dependents of Canadian soldiers to Canada, paused before the invasion, will soon restart with about 20,000 more wives and children expected. He noted equipment details as curious curios.
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B. W. Browne
Ottawa
Canadian Red Cross
Winnipeg
United Kingdom
Canada
Wartime Price and Rationing Guidance for Consumers
Instructions on tea and coffee coupons for 12 year olds, sugar coupons in No 3 books, beef price displays in markets, train refreshment prices, and obtaining wartime booklets. Advises preserving No 3 book, dates for coupon validity, and where to request Consumers News and Re-Make Wrinkles pamphlets from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wartime Prices and Trade Board
Consumers' News
Prices and Trade Board
Winnipeg aircraft worker imitates Hitler veteran of wars
Maurice Thorburn aged 39, of MacDonald Brothers Winnipeg, an aircraft worker, is noted for an impersonation of Hitler that passes under scrutiny. He joined the Royal Canadian Engineers in 1939, impressed senior officers, entertained troops overseas in 1940, and served with the Royal Navy in the last war before returning to Canada in 1942 as procurement supervisor at MacDonald Brothers Aircraft Ltd.
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Maurice Thorburn
MacDonald Brothers
Winnipeg
Man
Hitler
Royal Canadian Engineers
Aldershot
Canada
MacDonald Brothers’ Aircraft Ltd
Royal Navy
Flax acreage and processing plants reported in Commons
A tabled return shows about 2,069,000 acres of flax planned for Canada this year for linseed and cake use. It lists 17,900,000 bushels of flaxseed and oil cake output and notes eight new processing plants built in 1943 at Montreal Winnipeg Toronto Vancouver Medicine Hat Hamilton and St Boniface. The Amazon River is cited as delivering 5,000,000 cubic feet of water into the Atlantic each second.
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Canada
A. H. Bence
P.C
Saskatoon
Montreal
Winnipeg
Toronto
Vancouver
Medicine Hat
Alta
Hamilton
Ont
St. Boniface
Man
War Savings Recognized by Vancouver Area Schools
Vancouver area schools raised over 155000 dollars in war savings stamps during the year. Seven schools received official recognition as seven fighter planes christened by students at Sea Island in a ceremony where Squadron Leader D L Ramsay awarded plaques bearing the RC A F crest. The planes then flew over Greater Vancouver allowing children to see the impact of their savings.
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Vancouver
Sea Island
Brush Columbia
D. L. Ramsay
R.C.A.F
Ramsay
Europe
Russia
Greater
German generals captured at Cherbourg and humor at barber shop
Three top German officers General Schlieben General Stattler and Admiral Hennecke were captured at Cherbourg and sent to England. Schlieben joked about paying for a haircut by American soldier-barber signing his autograph book with a note of thanks. Hennecke quipped about being a prisoner of the Americans after two years as a British prisoner and wondered who would hold him next, perhaps the Japanese.
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Fhanked Barber
Cherbourg
Schlieben
Stattler
Admiral Hennecke
England
von Schlieben
Not Small Affairs in Air War Missions
General H. H. Arnold insists that air campaigns are large scale, not raids. He notes 700 bombers imply about 7,000 men, 606 medium bombers over 3,000, and 1,000 fighters push totals beyond 10,000. Such missions carry war deep into Germany, hundreds of miles from bases and represent major military operations.
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H. H. Arnold
U.S. Army Air Forces
Germany
Seaman Converts Sea Water Into Fresh Drink With Bags
A stranded seaman stranded in a lifeboat uses four plastic bags and two chemical compounds the size of four bars of cocoa to desalinate sea water. He dissolves one compound in the first bag to remove unpotable elements then filters with a second bag to remove salt and a third bag with a second compound removes alkali, while a fourth bag’s filter renders the water palatable.
Right Answer unit earns aid for hospital women
A Glasgow Herald report describes a military hospital unit where the in charge sought help for months due to mounting work. Two brass-data inspectors praised the unit before leaving. The exchange about the word unit, meaning one, proved persuasive and led to an assistant arriving. In context, Turkey’s air forces designate women as Flying Blue Amazons.
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Misa
James
Glasgow Herald
Turkey
Pamela Chalmers Journey to Enlist in CWAC Story
Travel from Hartford England to Quebec City via South Carolina leads Pte Pamela Chalmers to join the Canadian Women's Army Corps. Her Sunderland tale includes meeting CWAC recruiting officer Lieut C Kernan and her sister Ziligh serving with WAAF in England. Royal appointment crowns Sgt Christina Crowell CWAC Queen of Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival. Carole and Helen Bileski in Saskatoon pursue multiple courses, including chemistry, algebra, sewing, dramatics, and an Army Administration Course.
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Hartford
England
Quebec City
South Carolina
Canadian Women's Army Corps
Pte
Pamela Chalmers
Pamela
United States
Lieut. C. Kernan
C.W.A C
Pte. Chalmers
Ziligh
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Christina Crowell
C.W.A.C
Windsor
N.B
Annapolis Valley
Queen Christina
L. F. Page
Atlantic Command
Halifax
CWAC
Pres
Marie Captel
Wolfville
N.S
Mary Perry
Peterborough
Ont
Canada
Carole
Helen Bileski
Saskatoon
Sask
National Defence Headquarters
Ottawa
Canadian Legion Educational Services
Directorate of Education
Brockville
Smile a While humor captions from a wartime party
A collage of brief jokes and witticisms from a hotel party scene. One line mentions a ten dollar cheque and a bank identification by an owed debt bird. Other quips reference sergeants, sailors laundry by washing ashore, and a doctor patient exchange about tongue control.
First Woman Photographer in Army PR Office Honored
Cpl Margaret Hermeston of Englehart Ontario stands as the only woman photographer in the Army Directorate of Public Relations in Ottawa. A founding member of the CWAC in October 1941 she earned special permission to attend an RCA F photographic course at Rockliffe, Ontario. A graduate of the Ontario College of Arts she hopes to become a fashion photographer after the war. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Melvin Hermeston of Englehart.
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CWAC
Margaret Hermeston
Englehart
Ont
Hermeston
Directorate of Public Relations
Army
Ottawa
C.W.A.C
R.C.A.F
Rockliffe
Ontario College of Arts
Cpl
Melvin Hermeston
OSE Reclaimed Rubber Aims for 1944 Shoe Production
With the release of reclaimed rubber supplies, India plans to produce six million pairs of canvas shoes with rubber soles and one million pairs with leather uppers for public sale in 1944. Telegraph plateau describes the shallow seabed between Newsminiland and Ireland where a scary of cables crosses.
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India
Newsmimiland
Ireland
Egypt's Nile Valley Yields Rich Histories
Egypt's valley of the Nile has yielded more of the world's history than any other site with ancient remains. Centuries from now historians may uncover more remnants from ancient Mazi regions beneath shifting sands.
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Egypt
Valley of the Nile
Earth
Unusual Month Names Quintilis and Sexting Recalled
July once called Quintilis and August called Sexting. The note recalls they were the fifth and sixth months in the old Roman calendar, highlighting the shift to modern names and order.
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