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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 23, 1944
Page
7
Postwar trade carries considerable interest as nations, including Canada, anticipate rebuilding normal markets. Reports reflect plans for expanding merchant fleets and developing foreign trade links while world security talks emphasize a new approach to avoid past errors.
Canada enjoys record export volumes driven by wartime demand with eighty percent of trade tied to war materials. To maintain levels after the war, emphasis on quality, new uses, and research is urged, including a Western laboratory for farm-product utilization to spur postwar prosperity.
Laminated glass forming two sheets of plate glass with a plastic interlayer now protects aircraft windshields enclosures and gun turrets. Advances in installation yield flexible strong panels, scientists claim the material acts like a transparent steel in flight.
In New York last week sixty dishes from the Amy Air Force School of Applied Tactics offered military surgeons a taste of jungle life. The menu included rattlesnake steak, filet of shark, baked nettle roots, cattail roots, wild coffee and palm cabbage salad. All diners reportedly survived.
Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine, disappeared from a mail steamer crossing the English Channel in 1913. His fate remains unknown and the death mystery unsolved to this day.
The world famous constellations known as the Southern Cross were reportedly seen near the horizon of Jerusalem around the time of the Crucifixion. Due to the equinox effects they are no longer visible from Europe.
A historical census figure estimates China's population at 474,787,000. The figure appears in a period publication noting demographic size and national reach. The estimate reflects population scale during the era and provides context for economic and policy considerations.
UNRRA warns epidemic diseases will rise as displaced populations move home. Malaria remains Greece's main killer with up to two million cases yearly and thousands of deaths. In Norway typhoid risk rises from German exposure. Typhus was allegedly spread by Germans in the Soviet Union. A special UNRRA health division is formed to combat these diseases with Canadian medical manufacturers urged to contribute equipment and supplies.
A battle front dispatch describes a German general complaining at surrender to an Allied army officer of tower rank. The general cites arrogance while a mentally unbalanced corporal is suggested as the source of misrule.
J L Rumbie of General Motors Canada argues a land link between North America and Europe via a tunnel under the Bering Strait gains feasibility with the Alaska highway completed. He spoke in Hamilton about reviving the 1870 idea and its potential implications for transport and trade.
A fragment notes the frigate bird eats fish but cannot swim and touches the sea only with its feet. The obscure text hints at the bird’s paradoxical behavior and water contact.
Canadian Vocational Training expands from the War Youth Programme to a broad scheme aiding civilian and military personnel. By May 30 this year total enrolments reached 346,329, including 222,642 in industry and 114,786 in armed forces trades training, with 3,528 in rehabilitation and 53,373 university students.
After fourteen years of research a British spun-glass fabric is demonstrated in a London hotel lounge. John Boyd, managing director, says postwar production for household fabrics is planned and the material is praised as outstanding for curtaining. The fabric’s surface resists dirt and it is fireproof mildewproof rot proof and sunproof.
The Chicago Sun argues that U S leadership in postwar air transport requires reciprocity in foreign routes and active participation by others in developing new air travel. It urges applying these principles to current route allocations and future international aviation governance, aligned with trade and monetary cooperation like Bretton Woods.
A report by Earl Winterton's select committee outlines a new House of Commons to rise in Whitehall after the war. It would cost more than £780,000 and replace the blitzed chamber with improved acoustics seating, ventilation, and a heating system aiming to resemble a warm spring day outdoors. Dimensions would match the old chamber while preserving the intimate, controversial debating feel.
A wartime Q and A explains eviction limits when housing for farm workers is needed. If rented for agricultural use, rentals rules may not apply. notice to vacate is allowed only if you intend to occupy or use by close family. Other questions cover new ration book validity and Jersey milk fat rules. contact Wartime Prices and Trade Board for pamphlets and price ceiling tracking materials.
Scientists and factory workers in the Dominion have developed lifeboat devices that provide fresh drinking water via a portable sea still. The apparatus includes a grill for fish, a pressure cooker for dehydrated foods, and uses a non explosive solid fuel that burns without equi fying, reducing fire risk in a rocking lifeboat.
Postmaster General W P Mulock said Canada's overseas Christmas mail will more than double last year and fill a train over six miles long ensuring timely parcels for the troops. Also note that many Brazilians drink 10 to 20 cups of coffee daily.
A collage of light humor and domestic quips from a 20th century page. Jokes range from baby gifts for Christmas a money box and electric iron to witty exchanges about birthdays heat and family characters. The chatter includes a firebrand speaker a spider a wireless bug and a shareholder exchange with a sharp retort.
Statistics show Northern Ireland tillage area up 78 percent from 1938 to 1944. England and Wales up 69 percent and Scotland up 46 percent. Cattle numbers reach record highs while other livestock decline.
Army announces that soldiers will wear the General Service badge on both coat sleeves and tunics this winter, expanding past practice of badges only on tunics. Source notes Military District No 6 headquarters. 2595
Estimates indicate 1944 sugar beet production will exceed 1943 with a new Quebec growing area yielding about 55 000 tons. Ontario may reach 125 000 tons, Alberta higher at 338 000 tons, Manitoba and Red River Valley hit by September floods. Total 1944 crop about 608 000 tons, up 28 percent from 1943. Processing plants in Ontario at Chatham and Wallaceburg, only Wallaceburg operating this year.
British deputy prime minister Clement Attlee told the Commons that Great Britain will support the Netherlands in seeking territorial compensation from Germany for damages in Holland. He said the Netherlands reserve the right to claim a suitable part of adjoining Prussian territory to be ceded or brought within the Dutch economic orbit, on either a provisional or permanent basis.
The B C Security Commission reports sixty seven Japanese residents left British Columbia during October. They headed to permanent employment east of the Rockies. Provincial totals: Alberta six Saskatchewan two Manitoba fifteen Ontario forty Quebec four.
The tower of Babel in Chal Dean city of Ur, located in lower Mesopotamia, has completely disappeared.
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