World Happenings Briefly Told 1938 End Summary
At year end 1938 Canada ran 57 mental institutions with 46 360 patients and 3 767 parolees. Manitoba Legion backs war veterans defence force to counter fifth column activities in Canada. A civil tribunal attached 160 shares of the Suez Canal Company to Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Police in Britain seized arms from gun shops to meet the threat of a supposed fifth column. Alberta election saw 47 candidates lose their $100 deposits as per official returns. Four Royal Canadian Air Force flyers were given full military honors after a crash near Cobourg Ontario during a cross-country night navigation flight. General Marie Louis Guillaumat, 76, former French war minister and Allied commander in 1917–18, died. Belgrade cabinet ordered foreigners to report to police every 10 days amid emergency measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Manitoba
Canadian Legion
War Veterans’ Defence Force
Suez Canal
Joseph Gorbbels
Germany
Oh Gunamitha
Britain
Arma
Aftic
Alberta
Robert Andison
Royal Canadian Air Force
Cobourg
Ont
Marie-Louis Guillaumat
France
Adolf Hitler a schoolyard bully now shaping world war
Anton Beletz, a former schoolmate in London Ontario, recalls Adolf Hitler as a weak but dangerous boy who later became a soldier in the Austrian army. He disputes claims that Hitler never rose above lance corporal and notes Hitler’s family moved from Austria to Linz in fourth grade.
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Adolf Hitler
Anton Beletz
Hitler
Anton
King and Waterloo Streets
London
Mutt
Gratz
Austria
Adolf
Linz
Maud Vesey Wins National Press Club Memorial Award
Maud Maxwell Vesey of St Stephen New Brunswick wins the 194 Members Memorial Award of the Canadian Women's Press Club for best reportorial piece on the King and Queen’s 1939 New Brunswick visit published in the St Croix Courier. Honorable mentions go to Evelyn Caldwell Norma Magder Louise Thirwell and Lillian Gibbons. Vesey remains noted Maritimes historian and Mount Allison speaker with a career across St Stephen Frederickton Gleaner and The Christian Science Monitor.
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Maud Maxwell Vesey
St Stephio
N.B
Canadian Women's Press Club
Miriiam Green Ellis
Winnipeg
Vetey
New Brunswick
St. Croix
St Stephen
Toronto Star
J. F. B. Livesay
Canadian Press
Bruce Hutchison
Victoria
B.C
Vesey
Sackville
St. Stephen
Women's Press Club
Dexter P. Cooper
Maritimes
Canada
United States
Mount Allison University
Home Beauty Tips and Booklet Offer for 15 Cents
A home service piece promotes transforming dull hair into a fluffy halo with weekly shampooing and tonic treatments for oily scalps and oils. It advertises a 32 page illustrated booklet How To Give Beauty Treatments for 15 cents, plus other 15 cent booklets from the Winnipeg newspaper union.
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Home Service Dept
Winnipeg
Nwspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Man
High Grade Iron Ore Found at Steep Rock Lake
Canada discovers rich orebody beneath Steep Rock Lake near Fort William with reserves over 200 million tons. American observers hail it as a potential shift from importer to exporter of iron ore as production begins this season at about 1,006,000 tons annually.
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Canada
Steep Rock Lake
Fort William
C.N.R
Steep Rock
Sweden
Doctor of Finance as a Career for Collectors
The Harvester World argues collectors should view their role as medical, calling on each delinquent account to be a patient needing diagnosis and a tailored plan. It urges collectors to combine friendliness with financial advice to restore a debtor to healthful finances.
Tomorrow's hotel glimpsed in Atlantic City exhibits
Delegates to the New Jersey State Hotel Association in Atlantic City viewed future hotel designs at the Hotel Ambassador exhibits. The display featured woven glass drapes cold light glass brick partitions neon decorations and chromium glass bars with no mahogany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey State Hotel Association
Atlantic City
Ambassador
France orders 12 hour days for air force production
The French air ministry ordered a 12 hour workday for factory workers producing for the air force. All industries directly or indirectly tied to aviation orders must also work Sundays and holidays under the current circumstances.
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Air Force
French
Air Ministry
Norse Settlement at Hagensville Near Bella Coola BC
The Toronto Star Weekly recalls a 19th century Norwegian farming and fishing settlement 12 miles from Bella Coola on the route to Tweedamuir Lodge. 42 years after the Yukon rush of 1898 Norwegians moved to Bella Coola to farm and fish using ox-teams and remain visible in the valley today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagensville
Bella Coola
B.C
Tweedamuir Lodge
Yukon
British Columbia
Alexander Mackenzie
Executed German Officers After Criticizing Hitler Plans
The Petit Parisien reports two Berlin garrison officers were shot on May 8 for criticizing Adolf Hitler's war plans two days before the Low Countries invasion. Colonel Etterlin and Colonel Betzler were executed in the morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petit Parisien
Etterlin
Betzler
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Low Countries
Mineral resources and public control shift noted
The article surveys the growing share of minerals held by democracies and pressures for shared access. It cites Dr. C K Leith urging collective guarantees, predicts rising public control, and notes universities expanding vocational guidance and job getting training for students. It also recalls Benjamin Franklin born 150 years ago and his sayings on diligence and caution.
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Great Britain
United States
C. K. Leith
Minerals and Metals
Leith
Hayes
Benjamin Franklin
Sunday School Lesson on Usefulness from the Vine
Sunday school text outlines Ezekiel 15 and Matthew 7 16 20 with focus on usefulness of a vine and bearing fruit. It contrasts forest wood value with uselessness and notes Jeru salem’s fruitless state while urging readers to judge by fruits not appearances.
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Ezekiel
God
Jeruzalem
Jesus
J. D. Jons
van Lennep
Western
Asia
Anne Adams Pattern 4445 for Misses and Women
Anne Adams pattern 4445 features a fitted frock with center front flattery curves and bloused side bodices. Includes shoulder and waist darts, curved sleeves, and ric rac edging. sizes 14 through 42 with a 16 requirement of fabric and ric rac. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Health League of Canada Credits Press for Health Education
An editorial in Health, the Health League of Canada’s official organ, credits the press for promoting health education and disease prevention. It notes the league’s weekly news service, wartime lectures and demonstrations on nutrition, and radio broadcasters aiding public health talks.
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Press of Canada
Health League of Canada
League
Health
Dominion
The
Canada
Hag
Complete set of Dr McCullough cancer articles offered
Readers may obtain the full series of Dr McCullough cancer articles by writing to The Health League of Canada at 103 Bond St Toronto Ont.
Gardening spread tricks for continuous harvest and weed control
Experts advise sowing across the season from May into July to spread harvests and keep produce fresh. Use partial sowing and starter plants to maintain production, and employ weed killers or salt in driveways carefully. Tools like cultivators and Dutch hoes speed weeding. gardening aids reduce drudgery while expanding the growing season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Fatent
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
London Tallor
Mickie
Wes
Bqness
Thea
Jars. Vesey
Home Service
Newsweek
Manning
Hotel of the Future
By John C. Kirkwood
Tech
Nizamiland
South Africa
J W. S. McCullough
Texas
Marco Polo
Cathay
Genoa
Italy
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