Heavy Subsidies Preserve Price Ceiling in Canada
Ottawa reports subsidies to sustain the wartime price ceiling for essential commodities cost 2,128,951 in five months. Finance Minister Ilsley said total annual sums remain uncertain and withheld names of recipient organizations. Subventions help shield consumers while beef shortages and producer costs draw scrutiny from opposition leaders.
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Ottawa
Tisley
House of Commons
Canada
John Blackmore
New Democracy
Ilsley
Commodity Prices Stabilization Corporation
Prices and Trade Board
Ranger units form new Pacific coast force at Yahk
A new volunteer force of miners ranchers lumber workers and businessmen has been formed at Yahk and Kingsgate on the Canadian border. The meeting at Yahk included former Royal Flying Corps officers Swedish navy veterans Canadian Army and Navy members a World War I French army veteran and a former Royal Scots private. W R Baskerville was selected to be recommended to the Pacific command as officer in charge of the unit.
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Cranbrook
B.C
Yahk
Here
Kingsgate
Royal Flying Corps
Royal Scots
W. R. Baskerville
Pacific Command
Halifax man touts child operated fire extinguisher
J. Daniel Pride, former British naval engineer now with Nova Scotia Light and Power, claims a simple to use unit can douse an incendiary bomb in 60 seconds. Patents are pending in Ottawa and Washington and production is hoped to start soon.
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Halifax
J. Daniel Pride
British Admiralty
Nova Scotia Light and Power Co
Ottawa
Washington
Pride
New Zealand Gratitude For Canada War Supplies
New Zealand expresses gratitude to Canada for war supplies and hopes for increased flow. Frank Langstone, newly appointed New Zealand high commissioner to Canada, says Ottawa will become crucial for NZ during the Pacific war and stresses strengthened contact with Canada. Madagascar under Vichy reports describe a reign of terror against Free French sympathizers as Laval’s orders enable arrests and anti Allied broadcasts from Port Louis Mauritius add to tension.
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Washington
New Zealand
Canada
Frank Langetone
Ottawa
Langstone
Pacific
Vichy
Japan
Germany
Great Island
Madagascar
Reuters
Port Louis
Mauritius
Indian Ocean
Armand Annet
Dahomey
Africa
A New Plan For Problem Of India Is Still Possible
Sir Stafford Cripps said a new plan for India's problems could be devised before war’s end but must come from India. He called the outlook encouraging yet not as hopeful as hoped, noting India would need months or years to alter the constitution for a wartime government. He praised Louis Johnson as a key personal intermediary and said Chiang Kai-shek did not interfere.
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London
Stafford Cripps
India
New Delhi
Stafford
All- India Congress Party
Louis Johnson
United States
Sir Stafford
Johnson
Britain
Chiang Kai-shek
Spain would aid the Nazis with one million troops
Foreign Minister Ramon Serrano Suner quoted Gen. Franco as saying Spain would not send 15,000 but 1,000,000 troops to assist Germany should Germany fail to hold the Russian threat. He also noted lives of many Spanish comrades frozen in Russia and praised Pierre Laval as a good Frenchman in Vichy.
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Madrid
Ramon Serrano Suner
Franco
Germany
Spain
Russia
Pierre Laval
Vichy
King Christian of Denmark Advised to Rest Amid Heart Trouble
London reports via Berlin radio that King Christian the 10th of Denmark, aged 71, is suffering heart trouble and has been advised to take a rest. The monarch’s health status prompted this precautionary pause.
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London
Berlin
Christian
Denmark
Portuguese troops reinforce Cape Verde garrison
A contingent of Portuguese troops departed for the Cape Verde islands to bolster the already increased garrison forces guarding the strategic colonies. The move signals heightened military readiness in the Atlantic group amid regional tension.
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Lisbon
Cape Verde Islands
Planes to Be Built by Air Cadets for Training Schools
George B. Foster, president of the Air Cadet League, said Canada’s air cadets have been asked to produce hundreds of scale model warplanes for RC A F training. The wooden fighters and bombers will aid gunnery and aircraft recognition instruction.
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Ottawa
George B. Foster
Air Cadet League
Canada
Air Cadets
Rc.a.f
Foster
German parachute troops reinforce occupied France report
London reports a division of German paratroopers sent to reinforce the garrison in occupied France. Unconfirmed claims state 10 to 15 more divisions for von Runstedt’s forces could raise strength to about 1,000,000. Airborne troops seen, troop movements westward noted. rumors deemed possibly enemy-influenced. In India a Punjab prime minister calls for holy war against Japan and anti Axis protests burn Hitler and Tojo pictures in Bombay per BBC.
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France
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Morely
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Low Countries
von Runstedt
Germany
New York
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India
Japan
Adolf Hitler
Tojo
Bombay
BBC
CBS
Canadian Women's Army Corps Join Gotham Parade
Staff Sergeants Margaret Jeal Barbara Crosby and Alexa Swann of the C W A C march in Manhattan during a sunny New York parade after attending church service at St Bartholomew s.
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New York
Canadian Women’s Army Corps
Manhattan
Margaret Jeal
Barbara Crosby
Alexa Swann
St. Bartholomew's Church
Axis lost supplies feed United Nations war effort
The Axis has few raw materials left with Latin America now supplying United Nations needs. A steady flow of strategic minerals and agricultural products flows to allied arsenals as the United States and allies, via sea control and wartime trade, dominate rubber tin manganese mica chrome tungsten copper diamonds and lead. These supplies, including items from former Axis territories, bolster war potential and may help overturn losses in Malaya and the Philippines.
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Foo de Janet
Tin Ameria
United Nations
European Food Situation Said To Be Serious
The U S agriculture department reports European food difficulties with Germany and occupied territories facing shortages. Unoccupied France may endure six breadless weeks before the wheat harvest due to black markets ration diversions and failed deliveries. DenMark and Ukraine face production and supply challenges amid shortages of fertilizer seed labor and machinery. Ottawa announces US Army Navy air officers will study the BCATP in preparation for an Allied air conference in May.
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Washington
United States Agriculture Department
Germany
France
Department
Europe
Denmark
Russia
Ukraine
Ottawa
Royal Canadian Air Force
United States Army and
Navy Air Services
Canada
Granting Leave For Farm Work To Be Restricted
Defence Minister Ralston told the House of Commons that wholesale farm leave cannot be granted. He noted the army must keep training intact and only limited farm leaves are allowed from depots and listed units. Enlistments total 35,746 in the army to date, with farming workers exempt only if essential.
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Defence
Ralston
House of Commons
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CCF
Yorkton
Col. Ralston
War Services Boards
National Defence
Ing
Navy
Air Force
George White
Hastings- Peterborough
Mackenzie King
King
Col Ralston
Col. Ralsteen
Ottawa post office losses show low enemy action figures
Assistant Deputy Postmaster General P. T. Coolican released wartime mail loss data for the Atlantic route. Since the war began only 14 bags were lost to enemy action, totaling 26,230 bags out of 750,000 sent. Breakdowns show 1939 three bags, 1940 10,345, 1941 12,947, and 1943 so far 2,935. A Sofia report noted Japan agreed to supply Bulgaria with 5,000 motor cars on an unspecified date.
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Ottawa
P. T. Coolican
Atlantic
Coolican
Berlin
Sofia
Japan
Bulgaria
Vichy General Prioux Freed by Germans for Health
General Rene Prioux, captured during the Dunkirk withdrawal while leading a rearguard, has been released by German authorities for health reasons. He has been held prisoner since his capture.
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Vichy
Rene Prioux
Dunkerque
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