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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
May 16, 1942
Page
4
Twillingate notices page outlines policy for notes of thanks memorials and announcements with a 25 cent charge per item. It specifies submission must arrive by Wednesday noon and disclaims responsibility for correspondents opinions. Publication from the North Side office dated May 16 1942.
The piece argues many teachers leave for higher pay elsewhere amid uncertain salary gains. It notes pensions tied to salaries, civil service issues, and wartime service pressures. It warns of impacts on education and raises questions about conscription, volunteer service, and defense plans amid fisheries industry shifts.
Fragmentary wartime note emphasizes food, agriculture, and land mobilization as essential to support troops and naval operations.
The article assesses 1942 Axis objectives to isolate India and strike China and Russia while warning of strengthened Allied preparations. It notes German advances in the Caucasus via Kerch and Russian counteroffensives near Kharkov led by Marshall Timoshenko. It reports RAF and naval efforts, submarine focus, and looming rationing in North America and Canada with Newfoundland fortified.
Major R. H. Tait accepted a four stretcher ambulance donated by the Canadian Women's Club of New York for Newfoundland Contingents of the Royal Navy. The vehicle, bearing inscriptions, marks a second such gift after Halifax and hints Newfoundland will lend its name to a new Royal Navy cruiser. The Guardian notes wartime unity among US, Canada, and Newfoundland fostering lasting ties.
Dr Norman B Stewart resigns as chair of Botwood Local Board of Health citing seven months of unanswered department communications and failures to enforce the Food and Drugs Act. He notes only toilet facility renewals in schools achieved, requests full cooperation from St John’s Public Health and Welfare, and sends copies to the public press to spur action.
During the week ending May 13 the hospital admitted William Wells Hazel Chaulk Mabel Collins Lindy Forward Violet Forward Mrs Burt Wm Lush Mercy plans etc. Discharges included James Wells Edward Sheppard Elmo Pelley Martin Gillett Baby Wilson Lambert Walter Easton Hazel Pardy and more. A daughter was born to Mrs Ray Croucher of Campbellton on Friday May 8 with both infant and mother progressing well.
Personal visits by W J M Pike of Mild Butter Co. and various residents mark a week of local activity. Mrs Leander Triscock from Grand Falls stayed with Mr and Mrs We fd Moore. Families from Botwood and St John’s joined for business and social visits, with staff changes at local banks and shipments from Buchans and Hotwood noted.
Norman Pardy, a war veteran from the town, spoke over the air on Monday night from Scotland where he is serving with the Forestry Unit.
Ashbournes Limited shifts into oil refinery activity to handle seal pelts gathered by northern seals at northern points. A schooner will transport shipments when ice permits, with Mr. Jonas Elliott operating plant machinery. Motor Spitfire arrived from Fogo with seals on Wednesday. The Golda from Nipper's Harbour ferried a patient on Uhureday night. Ships Schra Speed Queen Stanley Smith and Hattie A Heckman delivered firewood from the Bay, easing fuel shortages.
Herbert Spratt, a naval veteran who fought against the German battleship Bismarck, was denied mercy. The trial jury recommended mercy read down to manslaughter, but His Excellency the Governor did not accept the recommendation, and the Governor refused to alter the Supreme Court sentence.
The text argues that large coal deposits in Western Nild and oil at Parson's Pond should be exploited now to ease shortages. It questions whether the hage can be applied to these oil sources where wells could be used effectively, stressing coal and oil as essential outside supplies if other sources are cut off.
Capt Bennett Burton of the Arm Lads Brigade was presented last week by the brigade with a two dollar gold piece for special services during the past year.
In a consolidated wartime report spanning May 12 to 15, Allied and Axis actions unfold. Chinese forces repel Japanese advances in Burma and Yunnan, while Japanese efforts along Burma Road threaten Kunming. German offensives press on Kerch, Leningrad, and Malta with heavy losses reported on both sides. British and American ships brace for renewed Japanese counterattacks as the U S confirms bombings of Japanese cities. Martinique talks yield demobilization of three large warships.
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