Must Secure A Market For Our Farm Products Must Secure A Market For Our Farm Products
J G Taggart chair of the agricultural prices support board told the Saskatchewan Livestock Association that Canada cannot rely on domestic production alone. He urged maintaining external trade and aligned price supports to prevent price collapse and avoid retaliation through embargoes or tariffs. He noted current prices were stable and that farmers prefer steady prices over brief shortages.
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Saskatoon
Canada
Dominion
J. G. Taggart
Agricultural Prices Support Board
Saskatchewan Livestock Association
Secret Meeting Of The Three Allied Leaders
President Roosevelt announced a secrecy shield for a forthcoming meeting with Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin. He confirmed plans to meet the two Allied leaders but gave no exact time, saying only anon. The session may discuss Senator Tom Connallys interim Allied council proposal and includes Stalin for the first time.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Marshal Stalin
Anon
Tom Conally
Dem
Tex
Anow
Athens
Anthony Eden
Damaskinos
Harold Alexander
Air force members win French Croix de Guerre honor
Air force headquarters says seven members of the Royal Canadian Air Force are awarded the French Croix de Guerre for distinguished services on special operations during the liberation of France. Recipients include Squadron Leader W. M. Fairey DFC of Lloydminster Saskatchewan.
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Ottawa
Air Force Headquarters
R.C.A.F
France
W. M. Fairey
D.F.C
Lloydminster
Sask
Secret weapons to strike with surprise on the enemy
London reports a Commons debate on British secret weapons. The prime minister says Britain will let its new weapons fall with surprise on the foe. He notes the Germans fear forthcoming terrors to buoy their own people and cites no need for desperate measures.
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London
House of Commons
Stockholm architect estimates lengthy Germany postwar housing rebuild
Swedish architect Werner Taesler, part of an international postwar reconstruction group, says Germany will need 25 to 30 years to rebuild destroyed housing. He estimates at least 13,000,000 Germans have lost their homes.
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Stockholm
Werner Taesler
Germany
V C Winner Receives Christmas Kiss After VC Honor
Ernest A Smoky Smith homeward bound from overseas to New Westminster B C on a 10000 mile 36 hour journey with Trans Canada Air Lines. A stewardess Elizabeth Free wished him God speed and kissed his cheek during a layover. Smith earned the Victoria Cross for a bridgehead across the Savio River in Italy on October 21 single handedly fending off three German tanks and about 30 infantry.
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Trans- Canada Air Lines
Elizabeth Free
T.C.A
Smith
Savio River
Italy
Japanese fear Russian moves in Pacific war
A Japanese commentator in a broadcast to unoccupied China warned Stalin must show his hand in the Pacific war before April. He cited the Churchill Roosevelt Stalin meeting and the April deadline for a declaration under the 1941 Japanese Russian non aggression pact.
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San Francisco
China
Stalin
Domei Agency
Czechs Regain Teschen District, London Reports Assurance
London sources say the Lublin provisional government of Poland is near promising Czechoslovakia the return of Teschen, a rich coal region seized during the Munich changes. The move would restore Czechoslovak control over the disputed territory.
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London
Lublin
Poland
Teschen
Munich
Czechoslovakia
Civilian Boats Train Reopens London to Paris Service
The first civilian boats train in four years and nine months departed London on January 15 for Paris. Sponsored by the ministry of war transport and French authorities, the service allows three traveler classes: government certified businessmen, relatives of wounded soldiers, and service personnel. All passengers are vetted by French and British officials and must arrange billeting and meals in Paris.
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London
Paris
Ministry of War Transport
Prices set for Winnipeg goldeyes by board
The prices board announced ceiling prices for Winnipeg goldeyes marking the first time it has set such ceilings for a freshwater fish. Prices are 30 cents per pound to wholesalers and 35 cents to retailers FOB Winnipeg, about last year's levels.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
Winnipeg
No Problems Of Minorities Will Bother Poland
A reporter in liberated Poland describes a push toward a racially homogeneous state free of various minorities. The Curzon line exchanges have moved about ten thousand Polish families onto former estates in western Ukraine, with many Poles seen relocating eastward toward the Bug river.
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Poland
Lublin
Versailles
Curzon Line
National Committee of Liberation
Ukraine
Lwow
Bug River
Record interest in first peace-time trans Atlantic crossing
The traffic department of Trans-Canada Air Lines reports 54 people requested to be recorded on a waiting list for the first peace-time commercial Atlantic crossing as of November 30. In November 12 east bound and 13 west bound flights were completed between Montreal and the United Kingdom carrying mail freight and 100 passengers.
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Winnipeg
Trans-Canada Airlines
TCA
Montreal
United Kingdom
Alberta Farmers Expected PFAA Cheques Total 2.5 to 3 Million
Edmonton report says Arnold Johnson estimates Prairie Farm Assistance Act cheques for Alberta farmers will total between 2,500,600 and 3,000,000 dollars. Payments for 1944 claims began weeks ago and aim to finish by the end of February.
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Edmonton
Arnold Johnson
Alberta
Prairie Farm Assistance Act
P.F.A.A
Montreal Major Donald Johns Aids SEA Command Offensive
Major Donald Johns of 4006 Beaconsfield Avenue Montreal plays a key role in Lord Mountbatten's South East Asia Command against Japan. A former McGill English professor who taught in Kobe and Kyoto he broadcast from Singapore Batavia Delhi and Ceylon and now hopes to broadcast from Japan.
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Ottawa
Japan
Lord Louis Mountbatten
South East Asia Command
Donald Johns
Beaconsfield Avenue
Montreal
McGill
Ambassadors Hotel
Sherbrooke St
Prairie Farms
Far East
University of
Kobe
Imperial University
Kyoto
Hong Kong
Singapore
Batavia
Delhi
Kandy
Ceylon
Carroll coal inquiry to open hearings on national fuel policy
Sydney Nova Scotia report notes the Carroll coal commission will begin hearings probing the Canadian coal industry to form a possible national fuel policy. Separately, a 1939 context recalls the US and England held 13 carriers with 600 planes, now about 150 carriers and 5,000 planes.
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Sydney
N.S
Carroll Coal Commission
U.S
England
Liberation of Warsaw After Reign Of Terror
London reports Warsaw fallen to Soviet forces after months of fighting. German bombing and shelling devastated the city beginning September 1 1939. Mayor Stefan Starzynski vanished. the Nazi occupation brought terror and the destruction of the Jewish ghetto with mass exterminations in death camps.
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London
Warsaw
Konstanntin Rokossovsky
Vitebsk
Stefan Starzynski
Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Old City
Europe
Empire casualties tally from 1939 to 1944 in House record
Churchill told the House of Commons total British Empire casualties since September 1939 reached 1,043,554. The UK suffered 635,107 deaths with Canada 78,985 Australia 84,861 New Zealand 34,115 and South Africa 28,943. India faced 152,597 losses and colonies 28,946. Of the total 282,162 killed and 386,374 wounded. 294,438 prisoners and 80,580 missing.
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United Kingdom
Churchill
Dominion
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
India
Colonies
Basic Industries Key To Prosperity In Western Canada
Manitoba Premier Garson tells Liberal Progressive meeting that farmer margins are essential to western prosperity. He urges postwar basic industries to stay prosperous to ensure high employment and social security. He cautions that without thriving core sectors mass unemployment could loom.
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Winnipeg
Stuart S. Garson
Manitoba
Manitoba Liberal-Progressive Association
Canada
Japan Premier Koiso Face Resignation Push Amid Factional Clash
Domei reports new factions urging bold political reform and a second reformation as Koiso’s resignation is considered. The crisis centers on the Imperial Rule Assistance Political Society with a Diet session expected January 21.
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San Francisco
Japan
Domei Agency
Kuniaki Koiso
Domei
Imperial Rule Assistance Political Society
SS Division Commander Captured By U S Seventh Army
Gen Hans Lingner, commander of the 17th SS panzer grenadier division, has been captured by the U S 7th Army. He is believed to be the first SS division commander captured on the western front.
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7Th Army
Hans Lingner
S.S. Panzer Grenadier
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Smoky” Smith
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