Steps Toward Veterans Housing in Ottawa
Ottawa officials unveil a joint plan to accelerate wartime housing for veterans. Finance Minister Ilsley Reconstruction Minister Howe and Labor Minister Mitchell outline government and Wartime Housing Ltd actions to provide low rent and affordable sale homes, plus materials and labor strategies.
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Ottawa
Finance
Ilsley
Howe
Labor
Mitchell
Japan
Wartime Housing Ltd
Labor Department
Canada
Prices Board
Alexander Is To Succeed The Earl Of Athlone
Ottawa reports Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander will become governor general of Canada succeeding the Earl of Athlone next spring. At 53, he led Canadian troops in Italy as Allied commander in the Mediterranean and will be the 17th governor general since Confederation.
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Ottawa
Harold Alexander
Canada
Earl of
Italy
Alexander
Mediterranean
Baron Byng of
Vimy
London
Mackenzie King
Vincent Massey
United Kingdom
Gen. Crerar
Viscount Cranborne
Dominions
Marshal Montgomery
Lord Burleigh
Bermuda
Winston Churchill
Harold
England
Earl of Athlone
Tibeaudeau Rinfret
Government of
High Commissioner
Sir Harold Alexander
Norway Expands Air Lines Ties to UK and Scotland
Norway now operates eight air lines including routes to London and Edinburgh. Services are run under the air ministry with military planes and personnel, reflecting a military controlled transport program.
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Oslo
Norway
London
Edinburgh
Norwegian Air Ministry
Bristol Ports Handle 150 Million Tons in Past 50 Years
Bristol ports have moved 150 million tons of commodities over half a century. Hugh Roberts, regional port director for the southwest, cited the extensive range from guns to butter.
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Bristol
England
Hugh Roberts
Missing D F C son Hugh Fielding Johnson feared dead
Flt. Lt. Hugh Fielding Johnson reported missing from air operations over Germany. He is believed to be the only D F C son of a D F C father, who won the decoration aged 50 as an air gunner earlier in the war. Hugh received the D F C a year after his father.
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London
D.F.C
Hugh Fielding- Johnson
Germany
Hugh
Traffic Death Toll Drops Slightly in First Half 1945
Chicago report shows US traffic fatalities for January to June 1945 at 11,160, down one percent from 1944 but ten percent higher than 1943, reflecting ongoing road danger.
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Chicago
United States
Goering Will Stand Trial Despite Collapse In Storm
Hermann Goering, the Luxembourg Reichmarshal, collapsed from a heart attack during an electrical storm but will face trial when possible. The informant said the policy covers all former Nazi officials and Wehrmacht members listed as war criminals. Goering remains nervous but not in real danger.
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Mondorf - Les - Bains
Luxembourg
Reichmarshal
Hermann Goering
Wehrmacht
Goering
Sugar Ration Likely To Extend Into 1947 Says Broker
O H Lamborn president of Lamborn and Company told the New York war food advisory committee that the U S sugar supply will remain desperate for the next nine months and rationing may continue into 1947. A War Food Administration spokesman cited civilian per capita sugar at 73 pounds this year versus 100 pounds prewar.
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New York
O. H. Lamborn
Lamborn and Company
United States
New York City
War Food Advisory Committee
War Food Administration
Back to Blackout in Carshalton for쳐 Months
Carshalton Surrey resumes blackout from July 15 until September 1 as full street lighting cannot be funded by village estimates. Existing modified lighting cannot continue because street lamps have already been altered in anticipation of normal lighting. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Carshalton
Eng
Britain
Surrey
Labor Plan for Socialization of Major Industries
Prof. Harold Laski said the Labour government will socialize key industries stage by stage with the Bank of England first, outlining a parliamentary path to reform. He noted the Lords' limited power under the Parliament Act and called the election a mandate to nationalize iron and steel, transport, mining, and energy alongside science and technology.
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London
Harold Laski
Labor Party
House of Lords
Labor
United States
House of Commons
Lords
Commons
Prof. Laski
Bank of England
Germany's War Casualties Reported From Berlin Files
German war losses through November 30 total 4,064,438 across army navy and air force per documents seized in Gen. Hermann Reinecke's Berlin home. The tally includes killed missing prisoners and permanent discharges but excludes hundreds of thousands wounded who returned to service and lists 1,911,300 killed or fatally wounded across services.
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Berlin
Germany
Hermann Reinecke
Reinecke
Flensburgre
California Standard adds two oil wells in Alberta fields
The California Standard Co. reports two new wells in Alberta. Conrad No. 315A near Conrad field yields muddy oil at about 60 barrels per day with a 420 foot rise in one hour. Princess well C P R 78 22A reaches 3,984 feet and produces 34 gravity crude at 166 to 256 barrels daily on a three hour test. The Conrad field lies 45 miles southeast of Lethbridge and the Princess field 125 miles southeast of Calgary.
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Calgary
California Standard Co
Conrad
Princess
C.P.R
Conrad Area
Conrad Field
Lethbridge
Princess Field
Wheat Exports Reach Record Levels in Canada
Ottawa reports Canadian wheat shipments in the twelve months to August 1 reached about 485 million bushels, the heaviest since 1928, with total exports of wheat and flour around 300 million bushels. Strong European demand boosts prospects, while carryover stocks dip to the lowest since 1939 amid tighter acreage and wary crop prospects in western Canada.
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Ottawa
Europe
Lakehead
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
United States
Spain
Portugal
North Africa
Canada
Four Year Career Ends as British Fourteenth Army Disbands
The famous British Fourteenth Army is disbanded after a four year career that moved from El Alamein to Austria. The British 5th Corps becomes British forces in Austria under Lt. Gen. Sir Richard L. McCreery, commander since January 10. The 13th Corps, which defeated Marshal Graziani’s Italian forces in Libya in 1941, joins Allied field headquarters under Field Marshal Alexander.
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Rome
Britain
el- Alamein
Austria
Richard L. McCreery
13Th
Rodolfo Graniani
Libya
8Th
Allied
Alexander
British seize secret German plan for Britain’s occupation
A red bound 23 page Nazi plan details deportation of males 17 to 45 and occupation of the United Kingdom. It envisages completing control before September 9 1940 and turning Britain into Germanys main war workshop with industry producing weapons for the battle of Russia. Only 195 copies were printed with 78 circulated to top Nazi authorities.
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Hamburg
High Command
Britain
Hitler
United Kingdom
Germany
Russia
Montgomery outlines postwar world security in Brentford speech
Field Marshal Montgomery, honored with freedom of Brentford and Chiswick, urged a strong British Empire built on war understanding and spiritual postwar civilization. He warned against weakness, saying peace requires readiness and that tyranny must fear the lion of a powerful empire. He cautioned against relying solely on material foundations for the postwar world.
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London
Montgomery
Brentford
Chiswick
Floating airfields tested at sea during the war
The Sunday Observer reports successful experiments with floating airfields in the ocean. The location remains secret, but the landing field, up to 2,000 feet long, consists of linked but flexible pontoons that move with the waves.
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London
Sunday Observer
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