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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 01, 1945
Page
3
Ottawa discusses an enlarged postwar program for forest conservation and orderly exploitation. Key aims include fire protection, reforestation, and new wood uses to boost employment, with improved aviation and funding after the war and Dominion-province cooperation urged to insure forests as insurable assets.
Modest blue plastic tokens will appear in Canadian purses to provide change for meat ration purchases. Each token is worth eight under the brown M coupon and will be issued weekly. Tokens are stamped with Canada ration meat Viande and feature a maple leaf and center hole. They are to be used only as change by merchants at time of purchase and cannot be exchanged between merchants.
Mahmud Issawy a 26 year old Egyptian lawyer pleaded guilty to shooting and killing Premier Ahmed Pasha last February after Egypt declared war on the Axis. A military court sentenced him to death.
General H. D. G. Crerar, retiring commander in chief of the Canadian army overseas, was received by King George at Buckingham Palace and invested with the insignia of a Companion of Honor.
Ottawa reports that about 35,000 German prisoners of war in Canada are treated with firm justice. An internal official rejects claims that postwar treaties can be ignored and notes they still receive humane care and recreation while remaining under international obligations.
Finance Minister Isley announced an indefinite postponement of evictions for tenants in self contained dwellings and suspended notices to vacate and related court actions. He cited demobilization of service personnel boosting demand and said the goal is to speed up low rent housing with Wartime Housing Limited authorized to build 10,000 units this year and next.
Ottawa reports under Canada's new meat rationing system no rationed meats will be allotted for animal feeding. Seeing-eye dogs may be the lone exception as officials consider a meat ration similar to the previous period due to their very small numbers.
Les Westlake aged 21 of Vancouver established what is believed to be a North American record for sustained model aircraft flight his gas model stayed aloft 61 minutes at the Bellingham Washington international meet He tripled his own Canadian record of 22 minutes and pending confirmation from Washington DC is understood to have smashed US records.
Karl Hermann Frank known as the butcher of Lidice will face trial around September 1 in Frague according to a Luxembourg dispatch. If convicted or not, he will be handed to the United Nations War Crimes Commission for retrial at Nuremberg alongside other war criminals. Dr Bohuslav Ecer, Czechoslovak representative on the commission, participates in the proceedings.
Calgary council approves six annual university scholarships of 300 dollars each for “first-rate” students lacking funds. Scholarships split evenly between boys and girls and payable October 1 each year.
The Malton Ontario Victory aircraft plant will be sold to Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company of London England. No price is given and sale depends on conditions. The plant produced Lancaster bombers and will build a larger four engined Lincoln for Japan war. A Canadian operating company will be formed and production should not be interrupted. The purchase requires a Canadian design research and development unit for aircraft and related equipment.
The Danish legation states the United States will relinquish five of Greenland's 16 weather reporting stations. American officials request Danish radio personnel and mechanics be sent to Greenland before August to assume operation of the stations.
London. The maximum costs allowed the defense in the treason trial of William Joyce known as Lord Haw Haw is 40 pounds. Theobald Matthew, director of public prosecutions, announced the limit in court.
Twenty one new stewardesses, all registered nurses, finish the thirteenth class at Trans-Canada Air Lines Stewardess School in Winnipeg. The graduation marks an expansion of Canada’s national airline service as trainees from seven provinces prepare for transcontinental and intercity routes. Led by Edith Hemingson, chief stewardess, the program covered flight control, regulations, ticketing, and airplane procedures.
Henry Morgenthau junior purchases his first war bond, tying to a career where as former secretary of the treasury he helped place over 200 billion dollars in public bonds. He could not buy as treasurer, so his successor Fred M. Vinson bought and later sold his bond upon taking office.
Ottawa reports show Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta wheat acreage rising or steady in 1945 while hog production falls. Officials cite grain security for Europe and long experience with drought risk as reasons prairie farmers stay with wheat despite high hog prices.
Defence headquarters released a list of 14 gallantry citations for Western Europe service including two Distinguished Service Orders three Military Crosses one Distinguished Conduct Medal and eight Military Medals. Notable acts include Maj Bruce F MacDonald’s escape and successful attack after being wounded and Sgt Joseph E Bernard’s leadership after his commander was wounded.
Air Minister Gibson said after training in the Dominion airmen will go to Great Britain to join RAF units. Some are already in Pacific training at Brandon and Centralia. Pacific squadrons will train in the Maritimes while reinforcements prepare at Rivers, Portage la Prairie, Abbotsford and Comox in BC.
Soviet interrogators arrived at Mondorf Les Bains Luxembourg to question 52 high ranking Nazis interned in the Palace Hotel. Hermann Goering, upon seeing the Russians, cried I won t talk to them yet he was questioned for two days.
The first 15 tons of supplies for International Red Cross representatives to handle prisoner-of-war packages for Allied soldiers in Japanese-occupied territory are en route from Vladivostok on the Manchurian-Russian frontier.
The Dutch central bureau for statistics with the finance ministry estimates total German wartime damage and losses at 15,000,000,000 guilders about 8,000,000,000 dollars. The figure appeared in a report issued in London.
The phrase ward private, the lowest Army grade, refers to soldiers hired by feudal barons for private conflicts. The note mentions the historical origin of the term within feudal private wars.
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