World Happenings Briefly Told
Government concert scheme in Newcastle begins with a Seals threepence concert. Dominion orders increase rifle and shotgun registration penalties. Petsin at Vichy backs arming the public. Manchester aims to recover aluminum conductor from WWI underground. Morgan tours Doncaster during air raid and covers bomb with a tub. French ships Aurigny and Formose sailors join de Gaulle in England. Two chickens killed in raid raise funds for Red Cross. RAF diversions kept secret as “surprise packet” for Nazis. Knox says NY World’s Fair site not transferred for naval use.
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Newcastle
Dominion
Philippe Petsin
Vichy
France
Manchester Corporation
Doncaster
John Morgan
Labor
M.P
Aurigny
Formose
Buenos Aires
England
Charles de Gaulle
Red Cross
Canadian Red Cross Donates 22 Ambulances to Britain
Twenty two ambulances donated by the Canadian Red Cross are in use with the Canadian Active Service Force in the United Kingdom. The vehicles arrived and were handed over to the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps without ceremony. Col. R M Luton praised the units as very helpful and well equipped.
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Canadian Red Cross
United Kingdom
Britain
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Col
R. M. Luton
Canadian Medical Services
Justice Minister to report internment figures at session start
By an Order-in-Council the Minister of Justice will present a report to the House of Commons at the start of each session. It will show how many persons are detained and how many cases the minister refused to follow the Advisory Committee on internment guidance.
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Minister of Justice
House of Commons
Color change at Blackfriars Bridge linked to suicides drop
The paint industry claims painting Blackfriars Bridge black correlated with a noted suicide by jumping, while painting it green coincided with a 40 percent fall in deaths by self harm.
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Blackfriars Bridge
London
Propaganda claims from Madame Tabouis on Hitler's plans
Exiled French commentator Madame Genevieve Tabouis told the Canradan Institute on Economics that Hitler plans 230 new propaganda agents in the United States to portray him as a pacifist andEurope’s savior. She warned of a failed invasion scheme against eight English ports with 2,000 boats, saying the aims collapsed due to naval and colonial setbacks and a German Japanese dispute over French Indo-China.
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United States
Genevieve Tabouis
Canradan
Hitler
Uriter
Europe
Mme. Tabouls
English
Mussolini
British Africa
Nazia
Pensions Surrendered to Aid Canada in War Effort
Citizens nationwide donate to support the war effort with pension deductions and cash gifts. Donations from individuals total about sixty thousand dollars in ten days, while groups contribute around seventy five thousand dollars. An anonymous donor provides twenty five thousand dollars for airplanes, and B A Agassiz of Agassiz BC adds another twenty five thousand. Four eight year old Toronto children raise four dollars and twenty cents from lemonade sales, highlighting broad public support.
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Canada
United States
B. A. Agassiz
Agassiz
B.C
Toronto
Parrot Imitates Air Raid Siren Causes Town Alarm
A southeast coast English town reports a parrot that imitates an air raid siren followed by anti aircraft fire. Its owners run to shelters repeatedly, only to find the alarm is from the parrot. The piece notes the animal risks becoming a wartime casualty.
Britain’s Armada and Elizabeth in a humorous aside
The passage mocks early English impressions of Elizabeth’s reign and the Armada, noting England’s population then and comparing to modern times. It also remarks on animal behavior with a note about the rhea, a South American bird, described in a humorous way.
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Elizabeth
England
Hitler
Philip
Nazis loot France with token currency and forced sales
The St. Thomas Times-Journal reports Nazi occupation robs France of goods using kassanscheiner token money. French stores are emptied as soldiers buy items for Germany, with no real value backing the currency and shipments of French merchandise headed to Germany in weeks after surrender.
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Germany
France
Hjalmar Schacht
Bank of France
Hitler
Lyon
St.Thomas Times-Journal
Canadian Mills Run Full Blast For War Gear
Department of Munitions and Supply figures show mills and firms producing combat clothing and gear for the fighting forces. In two weeks 22 000 full battle dress uniforms were made along with 91 000 pairs of socks 90 000 shirts 40 000 underwear sets and 69 000 pairs of boots.
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Department of Munitions and Supply
Fightig
Sharp rise in razor blade output in Britain
There has been a 25 percent increase in razor blade manufacturing in Great Britain since general war mobilization began. The note highlights a sustained surge in production as wartime needs expand civilian and military uses.
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Great Britain
Bolero and Dress for Tots Pattern 4515 by Anne Adams
Anne Adams Pattern 4515 offers a double-panelled skirt with a prim collar and braid trim. The dress can be made in a vivid print and a bolero added later from remnants. Sizes 2 4 6 8 and 10. size 6 requires 1% yards of 96 inch fabric. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave E Winnipeg.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Canadians Employed In Aircraft Industry Surges 20 Percent
About 17 000 Canadians are now engaged in the aircraft industry with 8 400 in seven plants and the rest in factories producing parts and equipment. Excludes Canadian Associated Aircraft Ltd workers assembling planes for the British Government. The figures show a 20 percent four week increase.
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Canada
Canadian Associated Aircraft Ltd
Insects and Snaps From a Washington Museum Era
A long Washington Museum feature notes 60 years identifying insects with five million specimens and 360000 varieties. It highlights pests like the mosquito boll weevil and corn earworm, then shifts to photography trends and new hearing aid glasses by RCA, plus a poison ivy cream claim.
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National Museum At
Washington
Germany
Museum At
Washington Museum
Sunday School Lesson on Psalm Praise and Mission
The passage urges all nations to praise Jehovah and sing a new song. It cites Psalm 34 3 Psalm 96 and Isaiah 2 2 4 to show daily mercy and global worship. The lesson emphasizes God as Creator and the call to invite the world to acknowledge His kingship.
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Jehovah
F. B. Meyer
Anid
Moffatt
Jack Miner's Bird Sanctuary Faces Financial Crisis
The Dominion government and Ottawa cut grants to Jack Miner nets, despite his sanctuary attracting US tourists. Miner explains his costs 15 000 yearly and 400 acres donated, plus daily public access October to May, drawing tens of thousands of visitors from the United States with minimal government capital. He urges aid as Canada seeks tourism dollars.
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Jack Miner
Dominion
Ottawa
M.p.’S
United States
Canada
London dustbin brigade organizes waste collection by 250 women
In Walthamstow borough 250 women form a dustbin brigade to collect waste food and bones from streets. The salvage mothers receive no pay and use two labeled dustbins in front gardens to collect kitchen waste. Full operation could feed about 4000 pigs. Also mentions air chamber seats for a life saving raft built into small boats.
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London
Eric Bell
Walthamstow
Living Conditions in Germany under Nazi Rule
A London newsletter cited by Dr. Gordon Bates of the Health League of Canada describes worsening German living standards under Hitler. It notes pensioners examined and sent to work, millions of women in agriculture, long mine hours, rising disease, and shortages with rationed essentials. Prices soar while wages fall and taxes rise, with coffee and tea scarce and chocolate made from corn.
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Nazi Germany
W.cla
London
England
Gordon Bates
Geneva
Health League of Canada
Hitler
Nazii
Y.w.c.la
Germany
Y.W.G.A
Europe
Batea
Canada
Reader request for free cancer articles offered by Health League
An editorial note invites readers to obtain a free set of articles on the Cause and Control of Cancer by writing to The Health League of Canada in Toronto. It instructs to say please send me Dr. McCullough's articles on Cancer and to print name and address clearly.
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The
Health League of Canada
Dept. W.N.Y
Avenue Road
Toronto
Ont
Glass replaces steel in concrete reinforcement in wartime
John Abraham Lincoln and A W Soden, two British architects, have begun testing glass as reinforcement in concrete. Their early trials show glass is cheaper and may have technical advantages over steel, potentially used in the future for its own qualities. Glass reinforced concrete could bear four times the load required for air raid shelters.
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Abraham Lincoln
John Abraham Lincoln
A. W. Soden
A.rulb
Soden
Lincoln
Home Office
Canada Plans 360 Aircraft Monthly Early 1941
Prospecta notes Canada will produce about 360 airplanes per month in early 1941, totaling roughly 4 420 planes a year. Types listed include Fleet primary trainer Tiger Moth Fleet 60 Anson Lysander Hurricana Bolingbroke Hampden Strammer and a flying boat.
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Prospecta
Canada
Fleet
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London Daily Mail
Navy
Frank Knox
United States Navy Department
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Mickie
Mast
Cyril
South America
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Ann
John CG. Kirkwood
Eentione Pedians
Radio Corporation of America
R.C.A
Leiden
London Dustbin Brigade
DR. JW. S. McCullough
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