Canadian Heroes Honored With Dieppe Medals And Distinctions
A grateful Empire marks Canadian bravery at Dieppe with 178 awards including one Victoria Cross for Lieut-Col. Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt of Vancouver and Belleville. Twelve officers gain DSOs, sixteen MCs, 24 Mentioned in Despatches, with many noncommissioned ranks also cited for conspicuous conduct amid violent shelling and close combat.
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Eticode Melas Pema
Dieppe
Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt
Vancouver
Belleville
Vypes
3. H. Roberta
Kingston
Onl
Hollywood
C. C
Merritt
V.C. Winner
South Saskatchewan Regiment
Dollard Menard
D.S
Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal
James Porter Browne
Canadian Chaplain Service
W. A. Ewener
O.C
R.C.E
Paul P. Loninger
L.C.T
Herrest R. Thirgood
Royal Regiment of Canada
Thirgood
George A. Alfred
Rhli
John H. Mizon
M.M
Eauex Srottiah
Pte
Mizoa
C. C. J. Merritt
Seaforth Highlanders
Canada
Courage Under Fire: Canadian Raiders Earned Medals
Excerpts from citations praise V. C. Winser platoon and soldiers like Pte Fenner L-Cpt Berthelot CSM Gouk and Sgts McH show bold actions at a hill assault. Berthelot pressed up open ground firing from the hip while Gouk held line and Hickson guided retirement and blasted through fortifications to destroy guns. The piece hails all Dominion troops as heroic faces of the raid on August 19.
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Pte
Fenner
Guy Bernard Berthelot
1D.C.M
South Saskatchewan Regiment
Berthelot
C.S.M
George Gouk
D.C.M
Cameron Highland
George A. Hickson
RCE
N.C.O
Hickson
Dominion
Women Leader Annie Loughlin Heads Britain’s Union Congress
Anne Loughlin of Leeds is elected president of Britain's Trades Union Congress. She advocates equal pay for equal work and says women should have a voice in reconstruction, warning against withdrawing women from industry. She has fought for workers as a long-time organizer with the National Tailors and Garment Workers' Union and led strikes for threepence an hour.
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Briteie
Trades Union Congress
Champles
Mies Anne Loughe
Britain
Leeds
T.usc
National Tailors and Garment Workers’ Union
Annie
Miss Loughlin
Has He Got a Lot of Chairs in God’s House
A Leeds Yorkshire Post item recalls a six year old boy at Sunday school who mused on the size of God’s house. He asks if God has many chairs, prompting a motherly confirmation and a child’s humorous reflection on sacred spaces.
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Leeds Yorkshire Post
Bible Carried Through Wars Tells Family History
Wayne Fellow owns a 100 year old Bible that traveled through the Civil War with his grandfather and later with an uncle in the First World War. The Bible rests with Wayne in an army camp on the west coast today.
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Wayne
Cotten wager cereals and fruits in limited quantity
A clipped OCR fragment notes Cotten involved with cereals and fruits in a quantity restricted or wager related context. Names and precise details are unclear, but reference to commodities suggests a market or trade item brief from the period.
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Cotten
Prophecy Ties Tsaritsyn to Stalin's City Name
In a London Times letter Ernest Oldmeadow argues the historic link between Tsaritsyn and Stalin's new city name Stalingrad. He recalls Peter the Great's 1722 prophecy, claiming the stick symbol and cap phrase foretell no one daring to expel Tsaritsyn from its historic identity.
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Kassinas
Tseritaya
Stalingrad
Ernest Oldmeadow
Temple Fortune Lane
London Times
Stalin
Tsaritsyn
Peter the Great
Negro Pleads Case in Chicken Theft Trial
A defendant in a chicken theft matter argued for self representation, calling Joshua as chief witness to place the accused at the scene by asking where he was when the theft occurred. The scene highlights a legal contest over counsel and evidence in a local court.
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Joshua
New Zealand Sergeant Captures 130 Germans near Ruweisat
Sgt Keith Elliott of New Zealand earned the Victoria Cross after a bold defense breakout at the Alamein line in Egypt. His unit, B company, faced a three-sided tank assault leaving 19 men. Elliott led a charge seizing an anti tank gun five machine guns four more machine gun posts an anti tank gun two German nests and prisoners with only one man wounded.
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Alvin York
Keith Elliott
New Zealand
Ruweisat
Alamein
Egypt
Elliott
Rush
Favorite Pineapple Crochet Doilies Pattern 7389
Simple 18 12 and 6 inch pineapple crochet doilies pattern 7389 promises easy rows of forming pineapple shapes. Includes stitch diagrams and materials. send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union for pattern 7389 with name and address.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Tremendous Rise in Britains Home Grown Food Promoted
British agriculture leader Capt. Cleveland Fyfe says home food production has climbed from wartime levels to about 70 percent, achieved despite obstacles like skilled labor shortages. The effort, backed by the Women’s Land Army, Canadian imports, and government guidance, aims to save shipping and boost crops across 18 million arable acres and expanding grassland in 1943.
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Great Britain
Cleveland Fyfe
National Farmers’ Union
International Farm Radio Forum
London
CBK
Watrous
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Capt. Fyfe
Britain
Women's Land Army
Canada
Canadian Farm Radio Forum
Anthony Hurd
Ministry of Agriculture
Hurd
British Isles
Mr.Hurd
Farmers’ Organization
The
Beefs by air lift Bolivian capital beef
In Bolivia the Andes country relies on air freight to move beef from the beef heartland of Beni to La Paz. Rail is scarce, so planes transport hides and now meat, aided by government backing to deliver beef quickly to the capital, a city with about 195,000 residents.
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Bolivia
Beni
la Paz
Sernia Canadian Observer
Victory For Corvette U Boat After Battle Three Hour Fight
A. V. Alexander recalls a North Atlantic clash where a corvette hunted a U-boat for nearly three hours amid rain and darkness. Depth charges forced a dive, four ramming attacks tore the U-boat apart, its bow lifting onto the corvette before sinking. All guns fired. sailors used rifles and revolvers at the conning tower.
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A. V. Alexander
The
Admiralty
North Atlantic
Japs Promote Three A Campaign in Asia
The Netherlands news agency reports Japan has launched a three A campaign in the East Indies to offset Allied morale. The three aims are Nippon as the light of Asia Nippon as the mother of Asia and Nippon as the leader of Asia.
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United Nations
Netherlands
Netherlands ‘East Indies
Nippon
Asia
Nip‘pon
StandSits in Washington Transit Seek More Space
Washington buses and street cars test new stand sit seats to raise capacity by 25 to 70 percent. Benches replace rows, spaced 14 inches apart with a forward hand rail and footrest, allowing passengers to half stand and half sit for steadier riding on curves.
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Washington
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Grateful Empire
H. G. MacLean
Ypres
Hind
Pessethen
Eske
Somme
Comstel
Pie Bente Det Lee
V.C. Winser
Women In Industry
York
Alice Brooks
Solivia
Latin America
Central
South America
Corvette
U.S
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