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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Apr 20, 1940
Page
4
The Twillingate Sun announces its status as a registered Department Home Affairs paper published on Saturdays from Twillingate Md. It notes charges for Notes of Thanks Memoriam Notes and Announcements and reserves the right to limit late submissions.
Winston Churchill is named to direct all Britain’s armed services and chairs the Services Ministers’ Committee. Sir Kingsley Wood becomes Lord Privy Seal. Sir Samuel Hoare heads the Air Ministry. Sir Kingsley Wood heads the Home Policy Committee. Sir John Simon leads the Economic Policy Committee. Churchill remains First Lord of the Admiralty with jurisdiction over the Ministry of Supply. Robert Hudson becomes Minister of Shipping and W M Morrison the Postmaster General.
The report notes Byrd's view that the South Magnetic Pole shifted westward. It mocks Hitler's rise and jokes about Pole mischief in Europe. It mentions German pocket battleships torpedoed and Russians using parachutes in Finland, with speculation on future military improvisations and tiny pole shifts affecting democracies.
On February 20 1940 a majority of Summerford women met in the School Hall at the pastor Mr Nicholl s request to organize a W P A branch. Officers chosen were President Mrs Frank Wheeler Vice President Mrs Walter Watkins Secretary Mr Edmund Boyd and Treasurer Mrs Frank Boyd Jr. A collecting committee was named and a house to house drive raised 4365 sent to W P A St Johns with a further 1160 later including 10 from Diamond Jubilee Lodge and other helpers donations. Wool was sent and the women are now holding awaters for soldiers overseas. secretary W P A Branch Summerford.
A reader recalls twenty years of rheumatic pain ending in 1930 after using Kruschen Salts. The ad asserts Kruschen dissolves uric acid crystals with sodium and potassium, unlike Glauber or Epsom salts, and aids natural expulsion of dissolved crystals.
A note of thanks appears in this paper thanking everyone who helped during the illness of Daniel Young husband and father. Gratitude goes to family friends neighbors doctors staff at N. D. B. Memorial Hospital and those who sent sympathy letters wreaths and sprays for the casket.
The article explains that a fathom of pitwood equals 216 cubic feet and defines a standard cord of wood used in forests. It notes adjustments for bark, crooked wood, and rot, with 4x4s used to build up. Wood shipments by steamer are measured by ship carrying capacity, not by the cord, termed a fathom of wood cubic measure.
St George’s Day plans include a radio broadcast by Winston Churchill to England. If reception is clear, Heteners in will hear a pointed talk on the war, with Churchill choosing a subject of world wide interest, including the Nazi threat.
Members of the N.F.L.A. affiliated with Confederation Life in Twillingate are urged to attend a Local Council meeting on Monday night April 22. Business important. By order of the Chairman.
Rev T J Pitt surveys women hymn writers headed by Frances Ridley Havergal born 1836. He notes her father Rev W H Havergal composed tunes including Baca and Evan and aided church music. Havergal wrote many hymns despite ill health, died at 43, with last words from her hymn Jesus I will trust Thee. The piece highlights Take my life and let it be and Lord speak to me as worker’s prayers, plus Havergal tunes Hermasia and others. Correction: Wesley wrote more than 6000 hymns.
On Sunday night the east side dam at Hospital Pond burst releasing water toward the Arm and flooding surrounding land. Three sheep of Obadiah Dalley drowned. water carried sods and gravel down the ravine and damaged nearby grassland near Minty’s property. The 1920s reservoir, built to supply water to the hospital, discharged about 6 feet of water from the pond covering three acres. a prior offshoot dam provided drinking water.
Twillingate April 18 1940 editor of the Twillingate Sun asked space to publish amounts collected by various donors for Mrs W G Roberts of Bluit Head Cove to rebuild after a 1938 fire. Donors listed include Taylor Call'd Adey Lewis Roberts Watkins Barnes award Pond Jona Watkins Ang Roberts Cecil Roberts and anonymous sums with a noted hospital contribution of 37.50.
Reports from North East St John's and the Hague describe dykes opened in the Netherlands to deter invasion plus air drills and troop dispatches. Belgium braces as Balkan tensions rise and Danube cargo cuts button up German Romanian trade. In Norway fierce fighting intensifies around Oslo with British naval and air support. Narvik remains contested after battleships and destroyers engage German forces. The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is torpedoed by the British submarine Spearfish.
The Romanian government bans exports of wheat petroleum coal and wood. Balkan states plan to police the Danube rejecting Nazi river policing. Allied forces push into Norway with land sea and air operations. Himmler wounded in Copenhagen attack raises tensions. Britain and Allies mobilize massive manpower while the UK reports growing merchant shipping losses.
George Young wed Dorie Pens Thursday night at the UC Parsonage in a ceremony conducted by Rev T J Pitt.
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