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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Oct 24, 1942
Page
4
Registered department note from Twillingate Newfoundland allows notes of thanks memoriam and announcements with a 25 cent charge per item. The policy states late submissions after Wednesday noon may not be inserted and opinions of correspondents are not guaranteed.
Report from Stalingrad shows defenders under General Rodentsy vow to fight to the death as Von Bock’s assaults weaken. Enemy thrusts breaking into small pockets as resistance holds.
Molotoff demands Hess be tried as a criminal and warns England against leniency. Eden says Hess is a prisoner of war but may still face Nazi crime charges. Smuts in London, Morganthau meets the King, and war reports note limited German gains, Soviet resilience, and naval actions in the Solomons with harsh German/Japanese casualties.
Moscow notes a twenty four hour lull in the battle for Stalingrad as German reinforcements are feared to be arriving from about 200 miles away to bolster the defenses.
Mrs Roosevelt flew to London yesterday as a guest of King George and Queen Elizabeth.
During the week ending October 21, numerous patients were admitted across multiple towns including Lush's Bight, Change Islands, Gander Bay, Lewisporte, Fogo, Victoria Cove, Grand Falls and more. Names include Miss Etlie Parsons and Mrs Garfield Burt among admissions. discharges list Richard Taylor and Mrs Robert White among others. On October 8 two daughters were born to Mrs Anguatis Jefferies Exploits and Mrs Gordon Potter Brown's Arm. both mothers and infants are doing well.
Mrs George Jewer, recently in town, returns to Lewisport on Thursday. Miss Martha Hill came back from Wesleyville last week. Miss Hester Vizzard left for St John’s last week. C J Ludlow, Fish Inspector, is in town reviewing mercantile stocks. Paul Moores, Operator, on holiday to visit his second son Donald working in the City. Ranger Penney transferred to St John’s. Ranger Mews arrived from the City to be stationed there.
Regulations under the 1934 Act dated May 19 1942 prohibit hunting certain game without a license. Resident season fee is 50 cents, nonresident fee 3 dollars. Licenses available at the Rangers' office Court House.
Ranger R Manuel investigated a Port Anson house fire on October 7 that killed Mrs Smith and six children aged from one to sixteen. The one story pine slab home had a stove in poor condition and the fire spread quickly after a bed time blaze. The report cites fire from the stove as the likely cause.
The Labrador season’s catch is about 200000 gtla while stations report around 70000. Shore catches fall behind last year as fewer men worked due to base employment impacts.
The NTA executive sponsors Education Week renaming it Education for Post War Conditions. Activities run Oct 26 to Oct 31. A full article on the new education form for the postwar period is expected in the next issue.
Able seaman Allan Boyd on 14 days leave in Detroit met his uncle Phillip and old Twillingaters at Bedford Gordon Roberts home. Forty attended including Ray and Ned Brett Arthur and George Bulgin and wives Alma Parsons Holmes Mrs Schlang Maud Keefe’s husband German, Wm Young from Boriipgion and Wmn Boott from Chance.
Sidney Harbour and wife of Burlington along with Roland Mouland and others from Nild presented Hioy with money and a tie as gifts Allan also visited Mr Bond Young in Windsor Ontario
Names of buried officers Capt Benjamin Taverner and his sons plus Chief Officer Stanley and Third Officer Harold at Port aux Basques. Other victims include Second Steward Maxwell Irench in Bay Robertson and Royal Navy and RCAF personnel. A tragic list spans families and sailors with multiple missing, including Nuree Wilkie and Bride Fitzpatrick.
The Department of Posts informs of lost mail on SS Caribou to Newfoundland. Total 1145 bags include 891 newspapers and prints 170 parcels 58 UK and other country mails for forces. Postings and dates unavailable. inquiries should be made at posting points to avoid delays.
Sir Archibald Wavell has returned to New Delhi after a four day tour to the Indo-Chinese border area. He visited detachments on Burmese soil as Australian forces push the Japanese toward Kokoda in New Guinea.
Herelunder publishes a Bill to amend the Weights and Measures Act with Objects and Reasons. Comments should be addressed to the Secretary for Finance and reach him not later than Monday 9 November 1942.
A new clause enacts the existing salt measure and prescribes a standard sand barrel of 24 gallons. It proposes Governor in Council approval for future weights and measures fees, extends inspection duties, and makes nonpayment or failure to present scales an offence with potential detention. It re enacts timber measuring rules granting the Surveyor a lien for due fees.
The act repeals sections 27 and 44 of Chapter 188 and substitutes new rules for salt and sand measures. Salt sold by weight must be 2240 pounds per ton. by measure 18 gallons per tub and three tubs per bogshead. Sand measure standard becomes the barrel at 24 Imperial gallons. Fees for weights and measures inspections may be prescribed by regulations. Inspectors may require owners to produce weights and measures for verification and marking.
The text outlines inspection fees for weights and measures, transporter or owner duties to pay fees and expenses, and potential detention of measures until payment. It also details fee transmission to the Board of Customs, and timber and lumber fees charged by a surveyor, with penalties for nonpayment and liens on timber and lumber until settled.
Reported Russian withdrawals from settlements near Stalingrad continue under numerically superior German shock troops with tank and air support. The Caribou disaster lists 25 civilian and 15 crew survivors, 48 civilian and 3 crew missing after the torpedoing in Cabot Strait. Big Allied air raids targeted enemy airports and land positions around Cairo with limited ground activity.
Health authorities close St Peter's and St Andrew's Churches and suspend Sunday services as a precaution against diphtheria. Regular services are expected to resume next Sunday, Nov 1, with St Peter's Day School restarting Monday, Nov 2, per incumbent J Goopranz.
The United Church states there will be services and Sunday School tomorrow with possible resumption of church services next Sunday. It notes plans for day schools and lists T. J. Farr as a referenced contact.
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