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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 12, 1944
Page
2
Captain assigns Stacy to reach Shin Lee with food and medical aid through a besieged province. In disguise as a tourist at a seedy teahouse, Stacy awaits Mr. Mu while guarded by spies and a sinister watcher. Pass word checkmate signals the covert rendezvous.
Stacy endures a bamboo rack and burning soles in a grim underground cell. A gaunt, parchment faced interrogator reveals damp ice burn tricks and pledges secrecy while denying further harm. The scene shifts to tentative alliance as Stacy asks who they are and where they go from here.
Sir Humphrey Rolleston, 82, former physician to King George V and a leading British medical figure, died at his Surrey home after a yearlong illness. His accolades included DM.G.C., Officer of the Legion of Honor, and roles with the Army Medical Library, British X-ray and Radium Protection Committee, and Royal College of Physicians. He served WWI as consultant physician to the Royal Navy and advised the Medical Administrative Committee and Royal Air Force.
A scientific note states insects do not possess breathing organs in their heads. Instead air enters tracheal systems distributed through the body. The observation has implications for understanding insect physiology and respiration.
A period piece on using cereals in children's diets and a cookie recipe. Honey Krisp Cookies blend shortening honey eggs sour cream flour baking powder salt soda chopped nut meats dates nutmeg or vanilla and crisp rice cereal. Drop spoonfuls on a sheet and bake about 20 minutes for two dozen cookies.
Sweden presses neutral stance with a strong editorial predicting Germany’s fall. It argues Allied forces advance through Balkans and frontiers and German occupation will end in prison camps. The piece asserts Germany’s defeat is clear and others will share Sweden’s view.
Sir Edward Hale Tindal Atkinson, public prosecutor for 11 years, plans retirement at 66 amid wartime work. He notes radio traitors may be handled by a successor and wonders what machinery will track war criminals. He regrets leaving before war criminals are brought to book. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
Military authority approves ENSA concert and theatrical parties to move with advancing troops. Twenty ENSA units in twelve mobile columns now entertain resting soldiers with up to four performances daily. Women in vans, men in tents, army rations. later garrison cinemas open and films shown for troops and civilians. Authority to double ENSA forces in the Far East and potential Christmas in Burma.
The Saskatchewan Co-operative Wholesale Society has purchased the Cushing Mill at Tenth Avenue and Duchess Street in Saskatoon. Part of the wood‑working mill will become a feed manufacturing plant while the rest will be used for storage as the company pursues future expansion plans. The Cushing plant has been closed for ten years.
England and Wales now host 1500 wartime day nurseries where babies are cared for while mothers engage in war work. The Minister of Health has ruled that no additional nurseries are required.
The New York Herald Tribune reports all of France’s top art treasures remain safe in the Louvre and chateaux. Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer of the American Army’s art and monuments division says no painting or sculpture of national importance is missing after the German retreat.
Pattern 4744 for misses and women's sizes from 12 to 44 features a slip with embroidery. Size 16 requires 244 yards of 39 inch fabric. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for this pattern, with name address and style number. Mail delays may occur.
The War Department disclosed that a new armor piercing incendiary bullet designed to penetrate enemy planes self sealing fuel tanks is in use on all battle fronts.
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