Long term floor price set for Western wheat
Winnipeg reports Trade Minister MacKinnon announced a five year plan guaranteeing no less than $1 per bushel for No 1 Northern wheat stored at Port Arthur Fort William or Vancouver for each crop year ending July 31 1950. Manitoba Wheat Pool president W J Parker called it satisfactory and said it offers postwar price protection while the Wheat Board maintains marketing. growers gain via participation certificates if prices rise above the guaranteed level.
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Winnipeg
MacKinnon
Port Arthur
Fort William
Vancouver
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Wheat Board
Canada
United Kingdom
Europe
Great Britain
Nazi handbook lists British leaders and groups as resist threat
Allied officers recovered a Reich security police handbook from Berlin claiming churches trade unions and Freemasons were among Britain’s resistive forces. It names Archbishop of Canterbury Cardinal Hinsley Catholic Archbishop of Westminster and asserts the Boy Scout movement is a British spy network.
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Berlin
Gestapo
England
Reich Security Police
Canterbury
Cardinal Hinsley
Westminster
Germany
Methodist Church
World Council of Christian Churches
Attlee
Communist Party
International Boy Scout Movement
Secret Service
Britain
Crerar Honored With Order of Leopold Honor
Belgium bestows its highest order on Gen. H. D. G. Crerar in Ottawa. Ambassador A Paternette de La Vaille presents Crerar a grand officer rank and the Belgian War Cross after a ceremony at his residence. Crerar led the First Canadian Army on the continent.
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Ottawa
Belgium
H PD. G. Crerar
A. Paternette de la Vaillee
Gen. Crerar
Churchill to visit Australia per wartime pledge
The London Star reports that Winston Churchill will visit Australia soon, fulfilling a promise made during his prime ministership in Britain.
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London
The
London Star
Winston Churchill
Australia
Britain
Continuation Likely for Meat Rationing in U S
Agricultural Secretary Anderson said meat rationing depends on foreign food commitments. He noted no need for an Oct 1 end, promising a liberal continuation if needed, and sugar rationing likely to continue into 1946. President Truman emphasized measures to ensure food flowing to liberated Europe and possible set aside orders.
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Washington
United States
Anderson
Truman
U.S
Europe
Britain pursues federal India with consitution like US or Switzerland
London sources say Britain envisions a federal India under a US Swiss style constitution, an empire within an empire. They expect no new constitution now and a constituent assembly after elections, with a long transition before India can decide representation in London. Elections aim to test if India remains free and united or divided.
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London
India
Britain
United States
Switzerland
British United Press
India Office
Indian Congress
Congress
Congress Party
Pakistan
Moslem League
Flax Fibre Plant Visit Planned for Saskatoon
A representative for a flax fibre pulp plant project will visit Saskatoon this month to evaluate the economic viability. The plan envisions 100 jobs and about 500000 dollars in annual spending, with flax fibre collected from nearby Saskatchewan seed areas and shipped to Saskatoon for processing into pulp.
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Saskatoon
S. N. MacEachern
Board of Trade
Kind Act Restores Travel Funds For Winnipeg Visit
Toronto businessman G. H. Wood returned the misappropriated funds and gave Mrs. Frederick Herity one hundred dollars to cover a trip for her five year old daughter Sharon to travel to Winnipeg to reunite with her husband recently released from a Japanese prison camp.
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Toronto
Frederick Herity
Sharon
Winnipeg
G. H. Wood
Herity
Korea to be Free declares Japan rulers removed and Korea rising
President Truman said Japanese war lords are being removed from Korea and a great nation is being built there. He noted the United States China Great Britain and the Soviet Union are aiding the effort and that Korea shall become free and independent. Some leaders stay temporarily for technical qualifications.
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Washington
Truman
Korea
United States
China
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Alaska seal catch yields record crop valued at four million
The 1945 expedition to St Paul and St George in the Pribilofs reported a catch of 76,700 seals, the largest for a normal year since conservation began in 1911. Skins are valued at 50 to 55 dollars each, with 20 percent to Canada and 80 percent to the United States. Proceeds after costs go to both governments.
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United States
Canada
A New Way For Weighing Meat Gives Weight And Price
Calgary based inventor Mayhood has created a paper strip device fixed to butcher scales. It instantly shows weight, price, and coupon value for meat, replacing the old chart method. The system is adopted in Mayhood’s chain stores and being marketed nationwide in Canada.
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Calgary
E.S. Mayhe&j
Mayhood
Canada
Thousands visit Lenin’s tomb in Red Square
Tens of thousands of Muscovites braved cold rain to visit Nicolai Lenin's mausoleum in Red Square. The tomb of the revolutionary leader was opened to the public for the first time since 1941.
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Moscow
Nicolai Lenin
Red Square
Airline Distances Often 20 Percent Shorter Than Ground Routes
The article notes that air travel distances between cities tend to be about twenty percent shorter than those by highway or rail, highlighting efficiency differences among transport modes.
Vancouver to receive liberated British POWs after Pacific service
A British war office mission will set up in Vancouver to arrange reception for liberated British military and civilian prisoners of war arriving from the Pacific theatre. Arrivals may occur within two weeks, with personnel outfitted at Vancouver and other west coast ports before medical reconditioning en route to Halifax for final homeward travel.
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Ottawa
British War Office
Vancouver
Pacific Theatre
Navy
Air Force
Seattle
Wash
Halifax
Los Angeles
San Francisco
New York
Second Atomic Bomb Attack Kills Prisoners in Na gasaki
Radio Melbourne cited the bombing of a Na gasaki POW camp where 211 Allied prisoners, including 23 Australians, were held. Lance Cpl. John D. Armstrong described a massive blast and crushing collapse as the prison area four miles by one mile was hit, killing those unable to take cover.
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San Francisco
Japan
Nagasaki
Radio
Melbourne
Lance
John D. Armstrong
New South Wales
Seed grain certificates announced in Ottawa
The special products board will issue minimum participation certificates worth five cents per pound for alfalfa, alsike clover, and alsike white clover mixture seed and three cents per pound for red clover seed. The aim is to guarantee minimum seed values to encourage conservation of this year’s crops.
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Ottawa
Special Products Board
Shipload of Canadian eggs to Britain on 170 cars
An entire shipload of Canadian storage eggs totaling 100000 cases on 170 cars will be loaded on a ship at Vancouver for export to Britain via the Panama Canal. The agriculture department calls it the largest such shipment ever exported from any country in a marketing service report.
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Ottawa
Vancouver
Britain
Panama Canal
Agriculture Department
Ontario dairy researchers claim penicillin cheese разработки
Guelph Ontario researchers at the Ontario Agricultural College report creating a cheese containing penicillin. Professor W H Sproule, head of the dairy research department, disclosed the development to members of the Ontario legislature.
Big Five Reach Agreement on Italo Yugoslav Boundary
Foreign ministers of the Big Five report substantial progress on the Italo Yugoslav border dispute turning over boundary drawing to deputies. They propose Trieste as an international port and sovereignty over language groups, with an ethnic line as the main principle.
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London
Big Five Council
Trieste
Yugoslavia
Italy
Molotov
M. Molotov
Dalmatian
Russia
Eritrea
Tripolitania
Daily Telegraph
Great Britain
Outer Mongolia
Labor shortage eases but building trades remain strained
A Dominion-wide labor shortage may ease with more workers available as war plant and services releases boost job seekers. Yet building labor remains a serious problem with acute shortages in lumber and construction, as factories across the prairie and Pacific regions rush to hire skilled and unskilled workers for civilian production and postwar rebuilding.
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Ottawa
Labor Department
Canada
Prairie
Pacific
Australia sets plan for 70 thousand immigrants yearly
Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell told Parliament that 18 months would pass before adequate ships exist to bring migrants from Europe. The plan targets 70 000 arrivals per year, needing liners for 2 000 passengers and 35 trips annually, since existing British mail liners maxed at 1 000 passengers.
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Canberra
Arthur Calwell
Australian House of Representatives
Australia
Europe
Britain
British government to receive Bond estate funds from Winnipeg will
Principal beneficiary of Dr. John Bond estate is the British government which will obtain 24314 dollars to be used toward wartime costs. The will, filed for probate, notes the government receives the sum as the estate’s main beneficiary.
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Winnipeg
John Bond
Closing Navy Bases Ottawa
The Royal Canadian Navy will have closed all wartime operational bases except Halifax Sydney N S and Esquimalt B C by the start of next year the naval service headquarters announced.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Navy
Halifax
Sydney
N.S
Esquimalt
B.C
Naval Service Headquarters
Anzac Casualties Reported by Defence Ministry
The defence ministry announced war losses for Australians with 21 415 killed, 37 477 wounded, 6 519 missing, 19 202 prisoners of war in enemy hands, and 7 598 prisoners of war escaped or repatriated.
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Canberra
Defence Ministry
Canada’s Forests Among World’s Largest Areas
The forested region of Canada ranks second globally in size, surpassed only by the USSR and Brazil. This highlights the vast expanse of Canadian woodlands and their global significance for ecosystems and resources.
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Canada
Ussr
Brazil
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