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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 02, 1940
Page
2
Officials forecast a busy Western Canada summer with more American visitors and locals alike. Focus areas include highway upkeep, courteous driving, and marketing that dollar advantage against wartime travel restrictions.
In a London despatch appearing in the Christian Science Monitor, Mallory Browne questions whether Winston Churchill is the right man on the bridge in wartime. Browne credits him with fertile ideas initiative and success in speeding up building fighting ships.
British railways report about 9 million passengers annually with 250000 pieces of crockery broken in trains and stations, highlighting a high rate of wear and domestic damage within the system.
A Vancouver Sun quote contrasts commercial aviation’s year without deaths with motorists lagging in safety. It argues flying set standards while auto design lags, urging motorists to embrace safety advances amid notes on fish consumption and Icelandic cod as currency.
Lady Guggisberg greets Canadian soldiers at the Leave Club in Paris, recalling her WWII work. The venue, styled with British ambiance, offers letters home writing rooms, Saturday dances, and a nurse-dressed entry rule to ease all ranks, with officers and troops mixing freely.
Detroit sponsor organizes regional rounds toward a grand championship a week later. Marbles date to ancient China and India with red clay for rings and agate knucklers. Old players in their eighties attend a yearly world championship at a rural English village.
A letter from Dr. F Ledziak of the Polish national relief and defence committee in Canada encloses a 600 cheque from Montreal to support Polish labor and social welfare minister Jan Stanczyk in Angers France. The Red Cross receives the funds via Dr. Robert Fletcher.
Selected recipes describe a butter sugar cream sauce cooked in a double boiler, yielding three cups and serving well with puddings or ice cream. It also covers dissolving Jell O, folding in strawberries, and chilling in tart shells, plus flavor pairings with orange and raspberry Jell O.
Harold Nicholson, a member of parliament, recounted a radio broadcast story from London about Adolf Hitler. The tale described Hitler promising to give Britain Europe in exchange for the rest of the world, then angrily vowing to force Britain to accept it if necessary.
A vast fleet of over 4,000 Norwegian and Danish ships totaling about 6 million gross tons was driven from active commerce as war shifted to Scandinavia. Orders were issued directing vessels to seek safety in natural harbors worldwide.
A fragmentary note states meteoric iron fell from the sky and was once used to forge weapons before humans learned to smelt iron themselves. The passage hints at early metalworking practices and toolmaking origins.
Australia reports a new wool treatment from McMaster Laboratory in New South Wales that renders wool unshrinkable. The process costs about six cents per pound, is simple, low in plant costs, and has no odors. It could expand wool markets and is said to outperform two English methods.
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