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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 17, 1943
Page
5
Queen Mary, turning an observed T6th birthday, resides on a 600 acre estate near a West England village. She tours factories and service camps, screens films for soldiers, trims forestry with a personal saw, and collects salvage items during war drives. She longs for London and its institutions but travels rarely now.
The article notes Germany has looted occupied European countries and stripped them of food and resources while collecting large indemnities to enrich itself. It recalls Goering’s pledge that hunger would not affect the German people and calls the Allied blockade essential, though it harms innocent nations, with Britain and the United States promising supplies to liberated peoples.
The North African Economic Board, formed by British and American advisors and supply officials, assessed needs and tasked shipments from the United Nations. London decisions guided material shipments, with eighteen days post landings marking the first aid from the British Food Ministry. Initial relief included 300 tons sugar, 200 tons canned milk, 200 tons soap, and 10 tons coffee.
Supplies sent to North Africa and to Europe aim not at temporary relief but at laying a foundation for a sound economic structure. The United Nations intend to bring essential food and supplies to nations harmed by Goering's policy, with North Africa developments showing these promises will be fulfilled without delay.
The Washington Merry-Go-Round notes a quip about a planned or hoped conference among Churchill Roosevelt Stalin and Chiang Kai shek. When asked where the meeting would be, the Prime Minister joked he did not know or care, saying he would go anywhere and that the roll would be called up yonder.
The lute, a stringed instrument, gained its form and name through Arabic influence. This note links the instrument's origins to Arab traditions shaping early musical culture.
Firestone senior Harvey 8. Firestone Jr. observed the first grain based tire at the Firestone plant. The historic tire used about 600 pounds of shelled corn to make butadiene for the first set. The process converts grain alcohol to the base chemical and yields a tire with performance matching petroleum based synthetics.
Canadian poultrymen may rely on high calcium limestone to replace scarce oyster shell in chick diets. While many Canadian deposits are suitable, some limestones are low in calcium or high in magnesium. Start pullets on limestone early to avoid reduced consumption and potential egg-production drop during transition.
The poultry industry is described as facing the greatest demand in 12 months. Export needs alone exceed 100,000,000 dozen eggs to multiple countries. Military dietary requirements have doubled since the war began, and civilian demand remains high, driving continued increase in eggs and poultry consumption.
Report notes a colony of tiny white ants in Australia constructing mounds reaching about three times the height of a man. Researchers observe colony growth and prairie habitat effects on mound elevation. Local observers compare colony size to known large nests in the region.
Nine Canadians led by Group Captain W. A. Murray were winged as air bombers at No. 1 Central Navigation School Rivers Manitoba. The class included seven prairie entrants with one from British Columbia and another from Ontario. Graduates from Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and Ontario joined Australians and Britons in receiving their wings.
A US nutrition authority links riboflavin intake to better health and longer life. Riboflavin, part of Vitamin B2, appears in milk eggs meat and greens. higher intake boosts well being while deficiencies cause ariboflavinosis with eye and skin issues.
A collage of light anecdotes from a school setting and everyday encounters. Jokes about paratroops, a cook’s vitamin bee, a minister’s collection, travelers and vendors, a nurse’s humor, and a mistress interrogating a soldier reveal simple human foibles with charm. The tone resembles a slowed daily laugh page.
The speaker praises Churchill for a clear logic: defeat Germany first, then Japan. He quotes Churchill saying Japan's defeat would not weaken Germany, but Germany's defeat would ensure Japan's downfall, emphasizing prioritizing the main foe.
Mrs F J Kitson showed guests a clock in Leeds claimed to be the first electric clock there. It sat on a chimney piece and was powered by a Voltaic pile using copper and zinc plates in a rose bed. It kept time until watering the rose bed or manure restored its function.
Collier's Weekly notes a modern range finder for a large battleship with 160 lenses prisms and other optical elements plus 1 500 mechanical parts. It weighs five tons and costs 35 000 dollars. Construction takes a year and a half, or half the vessel's total build time.
Red Star, the official Russian Army newspaper, mocked rumors from Swedish and other foreign sources that Russia sought peace with Germany. It asserted that only a total German defeat and unconditional surrender could bring peace to Europe.
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