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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 02, 1942
Page
3
Canada’s price control rules are credited with saving residents over eight million dollars in the past year. The plan, in effect for ten months, kept cost rises to two points versus sixteen in the 1914-18 war, and observers deem it a successful war effort despite about 600 firms closing under the regime.
Calgary delegates heard Wheat Board chairman George McIvor review wheat and coarse grain handling for quota setting and future policy. He cited two billion bushels produced since the war, with about 900 million exported to the United Kingdom and the rest stored or consumed locally. He warned no end to large Canadian stocks while the war lasts and urged protection for producers. McIvor said coarse grain marketing would be light in Alberta and that delivery quotas would be raised to ease storage, with grain moved from high quota points to meet demand. More than 6 million bushels of flax had shipped to mills in Canada and the U.S. He urged patience for 1943-44 policy.
Ottawa announced a blanket war risk insurance provision for grain in storage and in transit starting December 1 1942. A levy of 1.50 dollars per 1 000 bushels on wheat and proportionate charges on other grains will be collected by the grain commissioners from stocks in store elevators and during movement through terminal elevators. Coverage applies to owners of grain in licensed elevators flour mills and transit amid wartime damage.
Norfolk reporter notes Lord Halifax saying Italy would like to quit the war but Germany won’t let her. He warns Italy is not free and will become more German-occupied, creating strain on Hitler’s war machine. London coverage cites a Buckingham Palace Thanksgiving event hosted by the King and Queen for 200 U S army and navy officers.
Edmonton officials report growing U. S. interest in northern Alberta as the Alaska highway opens new frontiers. Since June the provincial publicity office has logged 800 to 1,000 inquiries, many seeking farming lands and information materials in the Peace River district.
Munitions Minister Howe announced Canada will boost Allied war equipment for Libya and Egypt with a $1 billion increase next year. Canada now produces guns every minute, eight artillery types, four small arms, aircraft guns and rifles. Weekly output runs 40,000 rounds. Plans include three Mosquito planes daily and substantial Lancaster production next spring, plus Hell-diver dive bombers. Shipbuilding targets include corvettes, mine sweepers, destroyer components. output in vehicles up tenfold with 2,400 motorized units in 1942.
An appeal for 500 pairs of skis is being made for troops in training under Lt Col E S Forbes at the machine gun training centre in Three Rivers.
Reliable sources say former French premier Paul Reynaud and minister Georges Mandel, both prisoners since France fell, have been moved from a Pyrenees fortress to Bordeaux as a step toward Nazi transfer. Also named are Gen. Maurice Gamelin and ex premiers Edouard Daladier and Leon Blum among others. Nazis reportedly seek Reynaud for his 1940 plan to move government to North Africa and Mandel for Africa governance after the armistice.
The Norwegian Telegraph Agency said mutiny was reported among German troops in Norway with officers and men in chains seen on ships. German firing squads refused to shoot mutineers, including at Narvik, where a second squad also refused to fire before all were sent south for punishment. The report notes the incident in a broader wartime context.
The ceremony marked the opening of the Canada Alaska highway near the Alaska Yukon boundary built by 10 000 soldiers and 2 000 civilian workers and completed ahead of schedule. Brig Gen J A O Connor commanded the Northwest Service Command and Dr Charles Camsell and E L Bartlett attended the event with Pensions Minister Mackenzie representing Canada and Alaska officials officiating.
Donald Gordon chairing the wartime prices and trade board told a retail trade delegation that small retailers will have an equal chance to obtain their share of available goods. He denied plans to eliminate thousands of retail outlets.
The admiralty announced Britain escorted over 2000 freighters in convoy through the 20 mile wide Strait of Dover in the past two years despite German bombers fighters and coastal guns. A channel mobile balloon barrage flotilla traveled 227000 miles protecting ships from air attack.
Ottawa timber controller Alan H Williamson said Canadian lumber exports to the United States will reach about 1.3 billion board feet this year, over double the 1932–1940 levels. He noted strict permit controls and a joint WP and Canadian program to prioritize war needs while denying non essential Canadian use.
National selective service officials report only 60 of 400 applicants for labor exit permits approved since October 20. Refusals include doctors nurses and other professionals needed for war work. Approved cases cover family unification outside Canada and essential workers for war materials. Some exempt or undeclared workers are not counted. Some travelers were stopped at the border for lacking permits.
Daily passenger service will begin on the Northern Alberta railways line from Edmonton to Davison Creek British Columbia to handle traffic from the Alcan highway opening. The line currently runs two or three trains weekly.
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