Timber Fire Warns Canadians Against Ally to Hitler
A late summer warning urges Canadians to prevent forest fires harming Amber timber across Canada including the prairies. It links waste to the war effort and calls citizens to act responsibly in timbered areas to avoid aiding the Nazi war machine. The Canadian Forestry Association notes most fires are started by campers and smokers and are quickly contained, but dry periods test protection services. Citizens are urged to follow posted precautions and treat forest protection as a patriotic duty during wartime.
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Canada
Prairie Provinces
Covantry
Canadian Forestry Association
Association
Forestry Association
Dominion
Campera
Samokers
Dominion Forestry Association
The
Hitler
Confusing York Nebraska License Court For Sutton Couple
Judge Edgar Thompson faced confusion issuing a marriage license for Martin J. Griess 22 and Eather Griess 23 of Sutton Nebraska. Griess family details appear through multiple generations with witnesses Taletha and Jacob Griess. A second note recalls Rudolph Diesel’s 1898 diesel motor debut in St Louis.
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Sutton
Edgar Thompson
York
Martin J. Griess
J. J. Griess, Jr
Lydia Griess
Eather | Griess
P. J. G. Griess
Christine Griess
Rudolph Diesel
St. Louis
Man from Cornwall Starts March of Dimes Drive
Rupert Moncrieff of Cornwall Ontario began Canada’s March of Dimes after being rejected for active service by an army medical board. Six months in, more than 47,000 dimes have been handed to Finance Minister Itsley in Ottawa. His aim is 11,000,000 dimes to buy 50 Hurricane fighter planes. The note adds a separate science fact about Earth’s distance to the Sun and early cannon projectiles.
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Army Medical Board
Rupert Moncrieff
Cornwall
Ont
Canada
Itsley
Ottawa
Bravery of Two Belgian Girls Aboard Lifeboat Story
Two Belgian sisters Charlotte and Jeannette Bialogora aged seven and eleven endured eight days in an open lifeboat after the Belgian freighter Mercier was torpedoed in the Atlantic. Surviving crew described rationed food and water, sharks circling, freezing conditions, and constant bailing before a rescuing ship finally arrived. The family, including A Bialogora, was among survivors brought to Canada.
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Charlotte
Jeannette Bialogora
A. Bialogora
Canada
Facts and figures on the B-19 heavy bomber
Facts and figures detail the B-19 after its first air test in California. Wingspread 212 feet, fuselage 132 feet, height 42 feet, weight 82 tons full, 41 tons empty, bomb bay 18 tons. Top speed 210 mph, cruise 186 mph, landing 69 mph, range 7500 miles, ceiling 22,000 feet. Power from four 2000 hp Wright Duplex Cyclone engines. Fuel 11,000 gallons. Normal crew ten, sleeps eight. Coal cost 3.5 million dollars, insurance 1 million. Premiums 82 thousand first minute, 3 thousand each succeeding hour.
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California
Brooma Brooms Used by Hopi For Food Straining
Hopi used broomarom as a strainer placing the broom across the pot to hold solids while broth poured through into a separate vessel. The same broom served to comb hair and sweep floors, illustrating multi use of tools.
Manganete plant in Oriente Cuba tops world capacity
Manganete, a manganese ore concentration plant in Oriente province Cuba, produces about 360 tons daily of 50 percent manganese. Believed to be the largest such enterprise globally, its scale underscores Cuba's mineral ambitions.
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Manganete
Oriente Province
Cuba
Father and son reunite aboard ship after Canada forces
Cpl William Pert of Woodstock New Brunswick and his 21 year old son William Jr both joined Canadian Forestry Corps and Royal Canadian Artillery respectively. They met unexpectedly on the first night at sea as the latent contingent of Canadian forces landed in the United Kingdom, delivering a poignant reunion.
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Britain
William Pert
Woodstock
N.B
Canadian Forestry Corps
William Jr
Royal Canadian Artillery
United Kingdom
Cpl
Pert
New Contraprop Air Screw Aims To Boost Aircraft Efficiency
British engineers Capt. A. G. Forsyth and G. J. Smith-Bert unveil a contraprop air screw system for RAF planes. Two counter-rotating, steerable blades allow smaller diameter while improving takeoff stability and maneuverability. Flight tests began in 1940, with secrecy around key details.
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Royal Air Force
A. G. Forsyth
G. J. Smith-Bert
Army forms Catering Corps to raise Army cook standards
The London Gazette announces the creation of the Army Catering Corps to elevate troop feeding alongside equipment and training. Three Royal Artillery officers lead the new body, with recruiting from civilian catering and commissions for selected men. Sir Isadore Salmon says the aim is higher cooking standards, while private Atkins would approve of a cook-general brevet rank.
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Army Catering Corps
London Gazette
A.C.C
R.A.S.C
Royal Artillery
Isadore Salmon
Army
Army Council
Atkins
Canada weighs power alcohol from wheat in wartime plan
Official circles show renewed interest in making industrial alcohol from wheat or sugar beets to expand the farm market and reduce foreign exchange spent on aviation fuel. A Polish technician meets with officials on a possible power alcohol industry, though the chemurgic committee cautions subsidies would be needed and grain requirements are substantial.
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Canada
National
Chemurgic Committee
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
National Chemurgic Committee
United States
Canadian pilot sees Vimy Memorial undamaged from 10000 feet
Flying Officer Jack Charles of Lashburn Saskatchewan reports from a RAF sweep over northern France that the Canadian memorial at Vimy Ridge remains standing and undamaged at an altitude of 10,000 feet. He recalls seeing the two pylons clearly white and shadows cast by the sun, noting the memorial looked as it did in wartime. He recalls prior damage during the German invasion, though details were not confirmed.
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Air Ministry
Jack Charles
Lashburn
Sask
Royal Air Force
France
Vimy Ridge
Royal Flying Corps
Canada Boosts Crude Oil Output in Early 1941
In the first quarter of 1941 Canada produced 2,289,671 barrels of crude petroleum and natural gasoline, up from 1,712,576 barrels in the same period of 1940, indicating progress toward greater self sufficiency.
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Canada
Maps Seized From Luggage of German Women and Children
Netherlanda colonial officials seized a range of maps from the luggage of about 700 German women and children who sailed from Batavia to Kobe aboard the Japanese liner Asmara Maru. No timing or location of bell invention is known. An optimist eats apples in the dark, a pessimist does not.
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Netherlanda
Batavia
Netherlanda East Indies
Kobe
Hoover plan on Belgian relief challenged by Moen claims
American chemist Lars Moen contends in his book that no Hoover led contract could be exercised in occupied Belgium. He cites Belgians who say most rations sent from America to Belgium 1914 18 were diverted to feed the German army, and doubts relief workers would be allowed to operate without aiding subversion.
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Mr. Hoover
Lars Moen
Belgium
French Canadian Regiment Demonstrates Home Guard Defense Tactics
During a three day training maneuver Capt Guy Gauvreau leading 300 Canuck volunteers demonstrated platoon weapons, small arms, mortars and grenades for Britain’s home guards. They test fired live ammunition, supplied their own rations, and operated self contained defences at each stop including Windsor Castle.
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Britain
Home Guards
Canucks
Guy Gauvreau
Montreal
Windsor Castle
Early German Gatherers of Bath Area First North Carolina Settlers
Palentines from Germany who settled near Bath became the first permanent settlers of North Carolina. The wartime term for lice is noted as "Mechanized Dandruff" in reference to cooties.
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Germany
Bath
North Carolina
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