Allied Seapower Joins Fight Against Sub Offensive
The United Nations high command mobilizes allied seapower to curb the Nazi U-boat threat. Canadian, British, and United States ships patrol the Atlantic with corvettes, destroyers, and anti submarine vessels. Convoy systems from Maine to Florida now protect transatlantic routes as subs mine the U S coast and merchant ship sinkings occur, though most losses rise in southern waters without convoy coverage.
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United Nations High Commanm
Hitler
Navy Department
United States
Atlantic
North American
United States Navy
Atlantic Seaboard
Maine
Florida
Caribbean
Saskatchewan Born Air Pilot Receives King’s Civil Commendation
Captain Donald M. McVicar of Edmonton, aged 27, ferry command pilot with the Royal Air Force, was awarded a civil commendation by King George for a hazardous survey of an unnamed route. McVicar, son of J. G. McVicar, has served six months ferrying bombers across the Atlantic for RAF and RCAF operations. Born in Saskatchewan, he trained in Edmonton and studied at St John’s College Winnipeg and the University of Alberta.
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Edmonton
Donald M. McVicar
Royal Air Force Ferry Command
Montreal
Ferry Command
Atlantic
R.C.A.F
R.A.F
Oxbow
Sask
St. John’s College
Winnipeg
University of Alberta
Vichy Aid Said to Help Rommel in Egypt
Soviet Tass reported the Vichy government aided German forces in North Africa by supplying war materials and transporting troops via French Tunisia for Rommel in Egypt. The Geneva dated account noted secret German concentrations on French sea routes preceding Rommel’s offensive. London disclosed bomb damage to St Paul’s Cathedral estimated at £150000.
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Moscow
Tass
Vichy
French
Tunisia
Erwin Rommel
Egypt
Geneva
Switzerland
North Africa
Rommel
London
St Paul's Cathedral
Arch- Geacon
E. N. Sharpe
Wartime Price Board Sets Maximums for Canned Goods in 1942
The wartime Prices and Trade Board issued an order fixing maximum sale prices for canned tomatoes tomato juice peas corn green and wax beans peaches pears plums and apricots. The move aims to let wholesalers and retailers keep consumer prices stable by subsidizing part of cost increases from 1941 while maintaining post basic period prices.
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Ottawa
Wartime Prices and Trade Board
Prairie provinces push farm debt tribunal plan
A Prairie Farm Debts conference backed creating a tribunal to adjust farm debts in Western Canada. Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta will seek federal authority with a Regina July 10 11 meeting to prepare Ottawa submission. The plan would write down principal reduce interest and stay proceedings after adjudication. Premier Aberhart praised the cooperation and urged Ottawa to act.
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Saskatoon
Western Canada
Prairie Provinces and Agrarian Organizations
Prairie Farm Debts Conference
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Regina
Ottawa
The
Prairies
Robert Gardiner
United Farmers of Alberta
William Aberhart
Praine
John Bracken
Cruewell Captured After Plane Crash Near British Camp
Gen Ludwig Cruewell commander of the Afrika Corps 21st and 15th Armored Divisions was captured when his plane crash landed near a British camp. He is shown passing through Cairo en route to internment.
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Ludwig Cruewell
21St
15Th Armored
Afrika Corps
Cairo
Air Lines Aids War Effort With Air Freighting
Ninety percent of Canadian Pacific Air Lines air freight moves men and materials for war projects. In the Yukon and Northwest Territories operations run 24 hours a day. The company ferries control parties and equipment for the Alaska highway survey. It aids plotting the pipeline route Fort Norman to Whitehorse and carries surveying teams for the Prince George to Alaska railway. It also provides northern mail and passenger services.
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L. B. Unwin
Canadian Pacific Air Lines
Montreal
Yukon
Northwest
Alaska Highway
Fort Norman
Whitehorse
Prince George
Alaska
Britain Soviet lease lend pact for military supplies
Moscow announced a wartime financing agreement between Great Britain and the Soviet Union. Signed June 27 by Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and A I Mikoyan, it provides for British military aid to the USSR on a lease lend basis retroactive to June 22, 1941, the invasion date of Germany.
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Moscow
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Russia
Moscow Radio
Archibald Clark Kerr
A. I. Mikoyan
Ottawa Tax Plan Sets Ceiling On High Incomes Says Officials
Finance Minister Ilsley's budget would cap net spending power for top earners, officials say. A $50 000 income yields $14,297 after tax, $100 000 yields $18,863, and $500 000 leaves only $26,896, suggesting a de facto ceiling on individual income.
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Ottawa
Ilsley
Dominion
Post War Wheat Export Plan Aims for Price Stability
Ottawa says the wheat agreement among Canada the United States Australia and Argentina sets Canada at 40 percent of postwar exports and aims to provide stability in wheat prices during the immediate postwar years. Britain joins on price terms and negotiations for postwar pricing will occur within six months after hostilities end.
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Ottawa
MacKinnon
Canada
United States
Australia
Argentina
Washington
United Kingdom
Dominion
Postwar Canada faces job creation for returning soldiers
J G Turgeon introduces a motion urging the House of Commons committee on reconstruction to study mobilizing national resources for postwar stabilization. The immediate challenge named is creating employment and settling returned soldiers and war workers. In Oshawa, Ontario, Attorney General Conant warns rationing of essential foods may occur within the year, possibly on a Britain-like basis.
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Ottawa
House of Commons Committee On
Canada
J. G. Turgeon
Lip. Cari
Oshawa, Ont
Conant
Britain
War materials reach Russia via Arctic convoys
Cmdr Samuel Frankel reports US merchant seamen delivering supplies to Murmansk face few losses despite German air attacks. Four month casualty figures up to 25 wounded and 25 missing or dead. fog season and ice retreat may reduce losses as convoys circle north of Norway. Each crew member receives a Soviet port bonus of about $3,000 per vessel in addition to other bonuses.
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Moscow
Soviet Russia
Arctic
Murmansk
Cmdr
Samuel Frankel
Stapleton
United States
Russia
Frankel Dis
Delflar
Cheap Jewelry Not Subject To Luxury Tax In Ottawa
An official summary explains that jewelry retailing for not more than 50 cents is excluded from the new 25 percent luxury tax in the 1942-43 budget. The wording had stated 50 cents or less and the tax does apply to commonly known jewelry items whether real or imitation. The measure covers diamonds and other stones and related gold or silver wares.
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Ottawa
Tisley
Deport Hostages as Nazis Seek Paris Sabotage Clamps Down
German authorities in occupied France order immediate deportation of 50 hostages after new anti Nazi attacks and sabotage. They threaten to deport 50 more if those behind the anti Nazi actions are not captured. Three men are arrested alleged to bomb the German headquarters at Tours January 12 and linked to the assassination attempt on Marcel Dent, a collaborator with the pro Nazi National Popular party.
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France
Vichy
Tours
Marcel Dent
National Popular Party
Gneisenau Damaged Widens Downtime Estimate
Photographs from reconnaissance planes show the German battleship Gneisenau so badly damaged that three 11 inch gun turrets must be dismantled and 20 feet of forecastle deck removed. British authorities fear the 26,000 ton ship may be out of service for the duration. The vessel has been moved from Kiel to Gdynia where large scale repairs are deemed impossible.
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London
Kiel
Gdynia
Air Ministry
Canadian Defence Minister Ralston Receives 20 Year Service
The national defence department announced a long list of Canadian army members for long service and good conduct medals. Defence Minister Ralston received the Canadian efficiency decoration for twenty years of reserve army service.
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Ralston
Ottawa
National Defence Department
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Louis Schurman
Long Island
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