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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 15, 1942
Page
3
The wartime prices and trade board declares continued manufacture of low price staple goods mandatory from July 13 to prevent cost shocks. Manufacturers must keep producing similar goods at comparable quality and price ranges as 1941, while reductions in lower price goods require unavoidable justification.
Canadian air training plans announce shifts in capacity and location of many schools under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. EFTS and AOS relocations and expansions include Regina Pearce Portage la Prairie Chatham London Winnipeg Quebec Rivers Hamilton and other sites to accommodate expanded programs and improved facilities for air observers navigators and elementary training.
Ottawa imposes a blackout on external trade statistics to prevent value to the enemy. Under directorate of censorship head Col O M Biggas the Dominion Bureau of Statistics will stop monthly bulletins including summaries of Canadian external trade exports and imports by commodity and by principal countries. Spokesmen say Canada follows UK and US in the ban.
Ottawa reports Military District No. 2 in Toronto accounts for more than 19 percent of active army enlistments. Other districts follow with Montreal 12 percent Kingston 10 Victoria 0 Winnipeg 5 Calgary 8 Halifax 7 London 7 Regina 7 Saint John 5 Quebec 4.
A bright new monthly paper for naval ratings in Halifax is on the press and distributed to navy divisions nationwide. The eight page edition, titled The Crow's Nest, is published by HMCS Cornwallis sailors at Halifax and features news, information, pictures, and cartoons for the boys in blue.
Ottawa. Hon Cyrus MacMillan tables the fourth report of the land settlement committee with a redraft of bill 65. The plan seeks settlement for about 25 000 ex servicemen and adds four recommendations on payment adjustment, priority purchase of farm equipment, future amendments for ship service personnel, and a separate department to administer ex servicemen affairs.
Post officials announce a campaign urging Canadians to mail newspaper clippings instead of full newspapers to overseas destinations. The plan, presented to newspaper associations and backed by the Canadian Postmasters Association, aims to reduce shipping waste while preserving news content.
London officials disclose a new defense rocket system used to protect ships from aerial raiders. The device fires projectiles that deploy parachutes and lengthy wires, delaying attacking planes and steering them away from target engagement.
H. W. Love, an Edmonton honey processor and distributor, warns that honey could vanish from retail shelves unless the wartime prices board acts to regulate prices for industries replacing sugar with honey. He sent the letter to J. G. Taggart, the food administration coordinator with the board.
Censorship blocked details of a five year secret British anti air craft defense device after the Daily Mail protested the disclosure. Earlier official notice claimed new instructions and noted the weapon had already seen successful use against enemy raids.
Acting Lt Cmdr W E S Briggs of the Canadian Navy Reserve received the Distinguished Service Cross from the King at Buckingham Palace. He earned it as commander of HMCS Orillia last winter when the Canadian corvette aided the torpedoed tanker Tarheel, guiding the disabled ship into a British port and saving a 1,000,000 dollar oil cargo.
In London a group of boys in the air training corps now 200 strong helped load explosives and incendiaries for the 1,000 plane raid on Cologne. They camped at an airfield and assisted ground staff before bombers took off.
Ottawa Aero Timber Products Ltd, a new crown company with head office in Vancouver, was incorporated June 19 to develop and increase production of airplane spruce for Canada and Britain. Munitions Minister Howe announced the plan to convert logs into lumber for higher grade recovery for vital aircraft needs.
In Alexandria Egypt thirteen profiteers were sentenced to 30 lashes each and three months in prison for profiteering. The sentences reflect a harsh crackdown and demonstrate local authorities asserting control over price gouging during the period.
Dr R C Wallace told a House of Commons reconstruction committee that Canada will process more coal after the war to ease transport rather than build heavy plants near mines. Vancouver Island coal could fuel a coast iron and smelting plant with 75 000 tons yearly output at Texado island, using Comox for smelting to avoid centralizing Vancouver.
Egyptian Desert front reports the Allied air forces led by the RAF with British Australian South African and American support are in a stronger position. In 42 days 134 Axis planes were shot down in air combat over the western desert. over 100 destroyed on the ground and 50 by anti aircraft defenses. Thousands more likely shot down. Since November 18 1941 Allied losses include hundreds of missing pilots and Axis planes. Weather turns cooler in the Nile valley with daytime highs around 110 Fahrenheit and cool desert nights.
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