British food subsidies loom large in wartime spending
The British government allocates 177.9 million pounds annually for food subsidies including freight and war risk insurance. Reports say Germany’s prewar food reserves are dwindling and the Reich faces serious food troubles. Alaska's sourdoughs mobilize as guerrillas under Gov. Ernest Gruening who calls the outfit fighting. Col. Beckles Willson, 73, author and journalist, dies in occupied France. he served with the Canadian corps in the last war. The Japanese double-track the Tientsin Peiping railway to aid military transport. Germany plans to strip 2200 miles of railway from French routes for transfer to occupied Russian territory. China to nationalize silk production and export controls in 1943. Desert sand threatens Allied aircraft in North Africa.
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Beckles Willson
France
Willson
Panelled Housefrock pattern 4206 by Anne Adams
Anne Adams pattern 4206 showcases front and back panels for slim lines and smooth hips with alcove tabs aquare neckline and ric rac accents. Available in sizes 34 to 48. size 36 uses 3 1/2 yards of 35 inch fabric. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man with name address and size number.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
New Surgical Cooling Method Spreads in War Care
Dr Lyman Weeks Crossman and Dr Frederick Alien describe a sharkless amputation using limb chilling with a portable refrigeration unit. The technique aims to reduce infection and bleeding, allow lower level amputation, and requires no tissue freezing, proven in army and navy hospitals.
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Congress
Lyman Weeks Crossman
New York City Hospital
Frederick M. Alien
New York Polyclinic Medical Hospital
Crossman
City Hospital
New York
Cebu's Magellan Landing Touched City's Early History
A fragment notes Cebu, oldest Philippine city, was a village when Magellan landed there in 1521, underscoring the city’s long past. It also mentions Johnnie's remark about avoiding sympathy for a teacher over a shortage affecting rubber heels.
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Cebu
Philippine
Magellan
Russian Woman Sniper Fumes At Uniform Critique
Lieutenant Liudmila Pavlichenko, a Soviet woman sniper credited with 308 Nazi kills, vented anger at American critics of her uniform. She said American women focus on silk underwear and skirts, while she wears the Order of Lenin and battles with honor, noting her uniform has blood from combat. The remarks came in an interview with Alice Hughes at the Soviet consulate in New York.
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Liudmila Pavlichenko
Alice Hughes
New York
Leutenant
America
Cooks court-martialled for firing at enemy in New Guinea
Four Australian soldiers who were cooks in Port Moresby faced a court martial for firing on Japanese forces during action. They had joined the troops without leave when their battalion went into combat. Verdict by the court: Do not do it again.
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New Guinea
Port Moresby
Canadian social workers join evacuation welfare scheme
Eleven Canadian social workers arrive under the Ministry of Health evacuation scheme to study English welfare conditions. They will stay in London settlements, attend lectures and visits, then undertake several months of practical work with local welfare workers before taking positions as evacuation welfare workers.
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Ministry of Health
London
London Times
First Christian Convert in Europe Lydia in Philippi
Sunday school lesson notes recount Paul’s mission to Philippi after sailing from Troas and landing at Neapolis. He meets Lydia, a Thyatira merchant, whose heart opens to Paul’s message, making her Europe’s first Christian convert who offers hospitality to the missionaries. The piece emphasizes faith over works and explains Romans 5:1 5.
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Europe
Paul
Macedonia
Troas
Samothrace
Neapolis
Philippi
Thyatira
Lydia
Christ
Halford E. Luccock
Jesus Christ
Lord Jesus Christ
Corn Growing in Windsor Great Park War Effort Story
Windsor Great Park in England has been turned into a cornfield by royal command to support wartime needs. The park now hosts 330 acres of wheat 147 acres of oats and barley and other crops with kitchen scraps feeding remaining livestock and the deer herd reduced to breeding stock. G H Elsbury a long time laborer recalls no prior arable cropping in the area and notes the shift marks a historic farming effort.
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England
Royal Park
Windsor Great Park
Commissioners of Crown Lands
Castle Tower
G. H. Elsbury
Norfolk
George III
Elsbury
Great Park
Castle
Windsor
London Daily Sketch
Selected recipes corn flakes tea cakes
Butter and sugar are creamed, eggs beat well, coconut soaks in milk then added with lemon extract. Flour and baking powder folded in, batter becomes smooth. Form tea spoonfuls, coat with crushed corn flakes, bake 375F for 25 minutes yielding 414 dozen small cakes.
Ground Corned Beef Loaf With Corn Flakes
Recipe steps combine 2 cups ground cooked corned beef 3 cups corn flakes cup evaporated milk tablespoons pepper salt and bake in a greased loaf pan at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes yield six servings. A quip notes pigeons swallow liquids by suction while other birds must throw back their heads.
Will Fight Until Crushed Former U S Ambassador Says Japan
Former U S ambassador Joseph C Grew told a Syracuse luncheon that Japan will never crack morally or economically and would be defeated only by utter destruction or exhaustion. He contrasted Japanese resolve with German morale and cited a Chinese note about a Japanese prisoner deemed officially dead by Tokyo to illustrate the regime’s harsh stance.
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U.S
Tokyo
Japan
Germany
Joseph C. Grew
Syracuse
N.Y
Grew
Berlin
United States
China
Milk Shipped to Britain in Empty Shell Cases
Canada exports milk to Great Britain in empty shell cases. A single firm moved 180,000 cases from a 650,000 case Canadian order. Originated in a Canadian brain-cartridge plant where two cans fit in one shell. The plant sends 2,000 quarts monthly abroad for British children, saving shipping space. A large blue M marks the shell boxes.
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Britain
Canada
Great Britain
News
Toronto
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Rc.a.f
No. 5 Air Observer School
R.C.A.F
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Polson Ave
C.M. Hay
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