Labor Minister Orders Third Compulsory Transfer to Essential Work
Ottawa reports Labor Minister Mitchell announces the third compulsory employment transfer order to mobilize thousands of men for essential work after July 15 1940. It covers ages 16 to 18 and older men born 1902 to 1924 in specified wholesale industries and other listed sectors. Officials expect broad compliance similar to prior orders.
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Ottawa
Mitchell
Ike
House of Commons
National Selective Service
Canada to ship surplus beef to the United Kingdom
Canada will export surplus beef as frozen meat to Britain for the war duration. The Canada meat board and government officials outlined pricing, storage, and potential reallocation if domestic shortages develop, with Britain as the primary foreign buyer and the United States move halted.
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Canada
United Kingdom
Ottawa
L. W. Pearsall
Canadian Meat Board
The
Commons Agricultural Committee
Great Britain
United States
Pearsall
Prices Board Grants Pin Increase Across Regions
The prices board approved a two thirds of a cent per dozen rise for clothes pins due to higher manufacturing costs. East of the 90th meridian pins will cost 12 cents for three dozen, the prairies 15 cents for three dozen, and British Columbia 16 cents for three dozen.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
Fort William
Prairie Provinces
British Columbia
Britain nearly doubles aircraft output says Bevin
Labour Minister Ernest Bevin told the Congress of the Women’s Co operative Guild that Britain now produces almost twice the aircraft he estimated in 1940 and far more than Germany. He credited more women workers and better production standards for the rise and predicted 1943 output would outpace previous forecasts.
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London
Britain
Germany
Ernest Bevin
Congress of the Women’s Co-operative Guild of Labor
Brazilian spies jailed in Rio for espionage
Rio De Janeiro reports a Brazilian artillery captain and two others were sentenced to 30 years in prison after espionage conviction. Ten more defendants including the former German ambassador and a German naval attacker were sentenced in absentia to 20 to 25 years.
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Rio de Janeiro
British MOP Urges Canada Lead Commonwealth Air Policy
Mrs Mavis Tate a Conservative MP and member of the British delegation to Canada urged Ottawa to lead in a postwar Commonwealth air policy. She said unity requires a commonwealth foreign policy defence policy and civil aviation policy and that the commonwealth should act as a single unit in shaping the postwar world.
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Ottawa
Mavis Tate
Canada
Tate
New Zealand
Bermuda
Commonwealth
Commonwealth Defence
Queen Mary to Direct Home Factory War Work
Queen Mary will personally supervise assembling electrical parts at a factory on her estate in London. She chose this after visiting many factories to contribute to the war effort. Women from a nearby village volunteered, and members of the queen mother's household plan to take part.
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Queen Mary
London
Victory
Queen Mother
Fac
Owen Asasya
Canada
House of Commons
House of Lords
Dominion
Britain
A. G. L. McNaughton
G.O.C
First Canadian Army
England
Able Seaman Henry Heinson Awarded BEM
London sailor Henry Heinson receives the British Empire Medal after surviving 18 days adrift in the Atlantic in a lifeboat. He lived on a single cabbage during the ordeal.
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Liverpool
Henry Heinson
London
Atlantic
Empire Planes Strike Axis Shipping Across European Coasts
RAF and RCAF attacks have sunk or damaged nearly a quarter million tons of Axis ships in the last 12 months, with total sinkings and damage approaching a million tons since June 1941. Coastal convoys along Norway, the Low Countries, and France face daily raids as Britain presses a broad campaign against German supply lines.
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London
RAF
RCAF
Mediterranean
Britain
Norway
Low Countries
France
Hitler
R.C.A F
R.A.F
R.C.A.F
Indian Commander Succeeds Wavell as Chief in India
An Indian commander is appointed to succeed Field Marshal Wavell as commander in chief of Indian forces in northern France. The piece notes bombardment and high loss of German locomotives and ships, with RAF claims of at least 40 German vessels sunk and a 39,000 ton estimate for total tonnage, highlighting strains on shipyards and submarine production.
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R. S. Hamer
Agriculture Department
Meat Board
Burma
Sir Archibald Wavell
India
Field Marshal Wavell
Germany
H.clasf
R.C.A.F. Canso
Cpl
H. Knelson
Bladworth
Sask
William Bedwell
Marchwell
J. D. Hooper
Peterboro
Ont
Charles Spence
Montreal
Lyndon Hunt
Fort William and
Sarnia
Barry Moffit
A.F.C
Toronto
Simcoe
E. N. Nicholl
Winnipeg
Churchill and Roosevelt Seek to Retain Giraud Command
In the House of Commons Churchill said on June 19 the British and American governments asked the de Gaulle Giraud committee to keep Gen. Henri Giraud in command for military grounds. The move, on behalf of Gen. Eisenhower, aimed to avoid changes in North Africa command. The decision followed reports of French leadership tensions and affirmed Giraud would retain his post alongside de Gaulle, with a view to collective responsibility within the French command.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
United States
de Gaulle-Giraud National Committee of Liberation
Henri Giraud
North Africa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gen
Eisenhower
Emanuel Shinwell
Labor
Charles de Gaulle
Mediterranean
Kirk Simpson
Associated Press
Washington
de Gaulle-Giraud
Simpson
Britain
Shinwell
Africa
Giraud
de Gaulle
Algiers
France
One in Eight Canadians Bilingual Says Census
Statistics from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics report that 1,474,009 Canadians could speak both official languages in 1941, about 12.8 percent of the population. Nearly 7,725,486 spoke English only and 2,181,746 spoke French only, with 115,414 able to speak neither language.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Bureau
Supply ship hit by British submarine near Sardinia
A British submarine entered Porto Torres harbor in Sardinia and fired a torpedo through a breakwater opening, striking a medium sized supply ship that was half loaded and split in two by the blast. The submarine commander was Lieut. R. B. Lakin, formerly in command of Ursula.
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London
Porto Torres
Sardinia
Admiralty
Lieut
R. B. Lakin
Ursula
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