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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 15, 1944
Page
4
The article notes that scientific progress, while secretive, plays a crucial role in speeding Allied victory. It highlights Ohio research support and Britain's emphasis on scientific and industrial work, citing budget needs and the 1943 claim that 35 percent of British production produced weapons previously only imagined by inventors.
British scientists have advanced weapons for defense and offense including radar used in the Battle of Britain. Innovations cover naval and aircraft detection, the Z rocket gun, and jet propulsion by RAF officer Group Captain Whittle. The wartime work promises lasting value beyond conflict.
Hon James A MacKinnon outlined before the House of Commons that Canada’s war research has grown dramatically. The National Research Council now staffs four times peacetime levels with nine extra stations plus the Ottawa central lab. Research covers medical topics like night vision fatigue and diet as well as secret devices for combat. The push is seen as vital and hoped to continue in postwar years.
Dr Theodore Goldschmidt who came to England from Frankfurt in 1933 faced a police provocation attempt in Clapton to obtain medical certificates. The magistrate ruled the certificates were given in good faith and condemned the provocateurs as incompatible with English law. The case was dismissed with costs awarded.
The Montreal Star recalls Alcock and Brown in 16 hours 12 minutes and notes a medium bomber completing the Atlantic in under seven hours. It suggests Britain to Montreal possible in a day, with time differences allowing meals on arrival.
A compact meditation on pride and vanity through quotations from Ruskin Pope Halifax Cotton and Mary Baker Eddy. It contrasts worldly pride with spiritual humility and ends with a note on the Red Cross flag being a reversed Swiss emblem.
Readers are advised of wartime price rules. Clothing retailers must display price tags with license or trademark and stock size information. Questions cover ration books, dress length restrictions, and rental notice rights under Wartime Prices and Trade Board regulations.
A British wartime review credits scientists with radar, anti air guns, the Z rocket gun, and larger bombs as pivotal in air and sea warfare. The degaussing girdle neutralizes magnetic mines, marking a turn in naval safety. A stray line about Peachy Lemon in Medford, Oregon appears.
Lt. Tom Watson describes Allied airmen's heroic retreat from Malay jungle to Singapore and warns that medical supply shortages threaten to eliminate Japanese fighters. He cites a recent Japanese bomber crew crash near his station, noting nine men were medically unsound from venereal disease to malaria. Watson criticizes British Far East efforts and calls for a broader view of the war.
A Canadian veteran reports on Chinese geese prized for their feathers. A Chengtu woman rejects 400000 for a single goose that lays daily eggs. Hatchlings fetch 10 per egg. demand overwhelms her, with eggs warmed by the women's bodies in clan pockets.
The New York Times reports Dr. Michael M. Miller told the American Psychiatric Association that eleven of twelve patients slept after reducing salt. Six were marines with sleep issues and six were morphine addicts. all benefited.
A pendulum that keeps one second per swing must be longer by one fifth of an inch at Spitzbergen than at the equator. This reflects how gravity and rotation affect period, with higher latitude requiring a longer pendulum to achieve the same beat.
Cupid keeps busy with the Canadian Army Overseas as CWAC weddings rise since 1942. Pte Eileen Uren and Tpr Ronnie Mace wed in Hamilton Ontario, Capt Cynthia Gough of Montreal presides, and officers praise the social demand while wartime duty comes first. Princess of beauty culture and a goldfish mascot charm Army barracks, with jokes about Ma Purkis and a dancing florist box marking camaraderie.
In Cransley England a memorial window is planned for a 13th century church commemorating the Churchill Roosevelt meetings. The pane depicts the president and prime minister seated on a warship deck as American soldiers from Northampshire contribute to the tribute.
A collage of humor and snippets shows everyday scenes and wit. Jokes about neighbors buying guns, marriages, hot-headed motorists, and noisy cinema patrons mix with a cartoonish exchange about a man in California mistaken for a bandit. A child’s quip about ducks and eggs plus a springtime note on children’s growth wrap the light column.
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