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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 13, 1943
Page
2
The article praises the Merchant Navy for its crucial wartime role in transporting personnel and materials. It notes their gallantry and the service’s vital part in defending the Allied cause, with recent English figures shedding light on their wartime work.
The article highlights Britain's Merchant Navy transporting 20 to 30 million tons of raw materials yearly and moving troops to front lines. In 1942, one million tons of stores and 500,000 men were sent around the Cape. By November 1942, over one million tons of stores and 500,000 men aided the North Africa campaign. About two thousand British Merchant ships sail at all times with convoy loss under 0.5 percent. Survival rates are high with 87 of 100 saved from damaged ships and lifeboat deaths under 2 percent.
The Merchant Navy carried vast war materials and personnel for Britain and its allies. From June 1941 to December 1942, 2974 tanks and 3080 airplanes were shipped to Russia, with nineteen large convoys using the northern route. Seven hundred officers gained OBE and 2551 decorations were awarded for gallantry. among honorees are 200 foreign nationals serving with the Merchant Navy.
Royal Ontario Museum spider expert T B Kurata identifies two indoor cobweb spiders. The domestic spider is common indoors and helps control flies and clothes moths. Many people view its webs as a nuisance, making it a potential pet or pest.
Charles C. Price of the University of Illinois has extracted chemicals from shoe polish and photographic developers that promise to aid scientific work. The steps involve repurposing common materials to create useful compounds for research and testing. Further experiments are planned to assess practicality and potential applications.
A brief racing note states that ten feet counts as a length in measuring horse race margins, with the figure appearing in a 2515 edition.
The Huron Expositor notes wartime Britain still values leisure as 105000 fans flocked to the England Scotland football clash in Glasgow on Saturday. The piece highlights how Britons balance duty with recreation amid war.
A historical note claims rheumatic heart disease occurs more frequently among fair haired people than among those with dark hair. The statement reflects a dated assumption without modern medical evidence.
The report names graduates from No 12 and No 10 Service Flying Training Schools in Brandon and Dauphin Manitoba and other locales. It lists Pilots and airmen commissioned in Canada by Royal Canadian Air Force Headquarters with names and home towns including Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and Ontario.
A Sheffield man Corporal George Simpson of the RAF entered a Cairo cafe and proposed teaching pancake making in exchange for orders, starting a busy trade for British troops. Simpson offered to show the recipe if the proprietor allowed the lesson, according to the Sheffield Telegraph.
National Safety Council studies show drivers need nine times more stopping distance on ice than on dry concrete, highlighting severe danger of icy roads for motorists.
Prairie born youths feel an affinity with the sea due to wide vision and instinctive winds from vast plains. Sailors from the prairies are likelier to feel at home on waters than those from eastern Ontario valleys, where hills shrink horizons. A natural link unites plainsmen with mariners.
The air ace Paddy Finucane, holder of the D.S.C. and triple D.F.C., was shot down over the English Channel last July. Pilots still study his battles as films show his actual fighting, captured by cameras fitted into the wings of his Spitfire.
Ottawa official Eric Stangroom, chief insurance officer, reports the federal unemployment insurance fund totals $120,000,000 and rises by $5,000,000 monthly. Benefits paid amount to $500,000 while earnings from bonds and investments reach $1,000,000.
Suburban electric trains on the Euston to Watford route coast downhill to cut power use. Signals guide drivers to switch off power at grades and officials estimate about nine tons of coal saved daily.
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