Unity At Food Parley Signals Postwar Cooperation
The United Nations food conference in Hot Springs, Virginia, closed with pledges of unity among Allied nations. Richard K. Law praised harmony and the Atlantic Charter, while Judge Marvin Jones stressed lasting significance for world peace. Warren Kelchner summarized interdependence of consumers and producers and urged action to secure more and better food, including education and price stability measures.
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Canada to Be Fourth Strongest World Military Power
London Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair told the House of Commons Canada would emerge as the fourth strongest military power after the war. He said Britain would discuss civil aviation plans with the dominions and recognised the leading powers as Britain the United States and Russia, with a possible postwar world centered on air routes.
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Soviet Union
Guarded German General Von Arnim Said Beside Estate
British report places Nazi General Jurgen von Arnim under tight guard in England yet notes a charming estate setting. A dachshund guard, unlocked gates, and a mile of passable perimeter precede a continuous barbed wire fence patrolled by armed sentries.
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Tunisia
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Ottawa reports February crude oil and natural gasoline output
Ottawa's Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports February crude petroleum and natural gasoline production at 779 998 barrels. This compares with 860 790 barrels in January and 846 026 barrels in February last year.
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Coleman Tours CPR Heartland Rail Network Expansion
D C Coleman, chairman and president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, visits Fort William to Victoria and Alberta's belt on his first country tour since adding the CPR chair duties. He travels with director C A Dunning and is greeted in Regina by old friends at the station. His tour will also review Canadian Pacific Airlines expansion from Edmonton northward.
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Canada must boost wheat exports in postwar period says deputy minister
G S Barton, deputy minister of agriculture and Canadian delegation chair, says Canada must increase food production after the war to meet anticipated shortages and to support a growing export economy. He notes Canada will join with others for cooperative production and orderly marketing, with a new permanent food conference to be formed in Washington and merged into a future league of nations focused on peace and economic progress.
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Birthday Wishes From Roosevelt To King George
President Roosevelt sent birthday congratulations to King George praising wartime unity between Britain and America. He noted Allied North Africa victory as proof of joint effort and urged postwar cooperation toward lasting peace.
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Canada UK talks on postwar aviation not initiated
Ottawa Prime Minister Mackenzie King told the House of Commons that no conversations have started between Canada and the United Kingdom on an Empire postwar civil aviation plan. He also said Canada has not been approached about representation on the British Overseas Airways Corporation board or a similar body. He pledged to outline policy in due course. Royal Navy ships at sea number about six hundred, with at least 2,200 British ships overall, including 1,800 belonging to the United Kingdom.
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Naval Quarters Warn Nazis May Seek Major Sea Battle
Naval quarters in London warn Hitler may unleash his surface fleet for a last large scale clash to thwart Allied invasion plans. They say Tirpitz remains a central threat, with both sides avoiding direct Channel assaults and focusing battles near Norway and the Dutch coast.
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Bomber Leaders and Naval Strategy in War Analysis
Bomber Leeder Air Commodore McEwen directs a section of three RAF bomber stations in Britain and has held commands in Canada and overseas. Grand Admiral Doenitz weighs submarine warfare and the impact of a northern invasion on Allied naval strategy depends on landing sites and ship dispositions. Edmonton geological party travels to Waterways to survey minerals for war needs.
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Black Mike” McEwen
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North Country
Bacon Beard Receives Wicer Power Over Meat Distribution
Ottawa announces reconstituting the bacon beard as a meat beard with authority to centralize meat distribution and export contracts. The meat board will manage all government export contracts and align operations with domestic price and supply policies. The existing bacon board personnel transfer, led by J. G. Taggart with new appointees from agriculture and packaging sectors.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
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Packers Council
Toronto
Adrien Morin
Quebec
L. W. Pearsall
Dominion Agriculture Department
Sabotage Cuts Nazi Output Across Occupied Europe
Allied sources estimate patriotic saboteurs in occupied countries reduced German war production by at least 22 percent. Reports claim up to 500 million dollars worth of Nazi machinery destroyed and 2 million supervisors deployed to guard plants such as Skoda. Deserters flee toward Sweden amid morale declines and increased repression.
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World Famous Dionne Quintuplets Doctor Dafoe Dies
Dr Allan Roy Dafoe 59 longtime physician to the Dionne quintuplets died in a North Bay hospital on June 2 after returning from Toronto. He earned global renown as The Country Doctor for caring for the quintuplets from May 28, 1934, until last year when he resigned amid parental friction with the Dionnes.
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Ammunition Missing From Ville de Quebec During Port Visit
Quebec naval authorities report souvenir hunters removed live ammunition from the corvette Ville de Quebec while she rested in port after a Mediterranean tour where she encountered a U boat.
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