Canada to Inventory Man Power for War Effort
Federal Labour Minister Humphrey Mitchell announced a national plan to take a manpower inventory of over 3,100,000 workers starting April 1. Registration will be required for insured and non insured workers through the unemployment insurance system, to identify skills and availability for war industry needs and selective placement.
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Vancouver
Humphrey Mitchell
Labor
Canada
Mitchell
Unemployment Insurance Commission
Berlin
Alaska Highway to Join Canadian System After War
Ottawa reports that the Alaska highway will become part of Canada's system after the war with no discriminatory traffic rules between citizens of both nations. Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced March 6 that the US would build the highway from Fort St. John B C to Alaska with US engineers conducting surveys and initial work. The US Public Roads Administration will contract and complete all work swiftly, with US maintaining the road through the war's end and six months after unless Canada takes over earlier.
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Ottawa
Alaska
Canada
United States
Otawa
Washington
Mackenzie King
Fort St. John
B.C
Dawson Creek
US Public Roads Administration
Japan Faces Transport Challenge After Territorial Gains
The Koeinische Zeitung questions Japan's ability to manage a vast transport problem from occupation of scattered territories. It warns safeguarding troops bases and resources, and building a merchant fleet to maintain links between the motherland and Pacific territories will determine how long Japan can sustain its gains.
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Berne
Koeinische Zeitung
Japan
Motherland
Pacific Territories
Commodity board buys all Canadian currants and raisins
The Commodity Prices Stabilization Corporation has purchased from the Australian government Canada’s entire requirements of currants and raisins. The arrangement was announced by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board.
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Ottawa
Commodity Prices Stabilization Corporation
Canada
Wartime Prices and Trade Board
Difficult Task Faces MacArthur In Australia
Washington warned that General MacArthur faces a formidable mission directing the Battle for Australia. Analysts cautioned against optimism, noting heavy odds and the risk of a fierce Japanese campaign to crush Australia, with UN forces bolstered by American troops and air power.
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Washington
MacArthur
Australia
United Nations
Batan
Singapore
Netherlands Indies
Canadian Sapper Wins Military Medal in England
Sapper Fraser Hutchinson of Dartmouth Nova Scotia has been awarded the Military Medal in Canadian army routine orders for a wartime act of persistent courage. He is the first Canadian to win the medal since the war began and has returned to his Royal Canadian Engineers field company. Details are classified for military reasons.
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England
Fraser Hutchinson
Dartmouth
N.S
Hutchinson
Royal Canadian Engineers
Defence Of Australia Prepared For Japanese Invasion
RP Bower former Australian defence official warns that large parts of Australia may fall to Japan before Allied forces halt the advance. He argues Australia can still be defended by concentrating troops in strong natural positions, which could delay invasion and enable eventual victory.
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Winnipeg
Australia
Bower
Tobruk
Libya
Government to Publish Casualty Lists and Production Communiques
The office of facts and figures released a policy statement detailing wartime news. It confirms that casualty lists will be made public and that the War Production Board will issue frequent production communiques for public appraisal of progress.
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Washington
Office of Facts and Figures
United States
War Production Board
Gasoline rationing plan limited to larger regions
Munitions Minister Howe announced that Ottawa the Yukon and the Northwest Territories will be exempt from gasoline rationing. He said total sales in those areas are too small to justify the costly administration required to apply the rationing system.
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Ottawa
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Howe
Ambassadors Attend Soviet Anniversary Gala in Washington
In Washington a gala marking the 24th anniversary of the Red Army drew army and navy officials to the Soviet embassy. British ambassador Lord Halifax and Lady Halifax joined Soviet Ambassador Litvinoff, while Litvinoff in New York urged a two front offensive to knockout Hitler this summer.
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Red Army
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Washington
Lord Halifax
Lady Halifax
Litvinoff
New York
Hitler
Philadelphia
Halifax
Britain
Canada defends war materials allocation to allies
Ottawa official say Canada meets UN demands as fast as production and shipping allow and that shipments are allocated by Britain to where needs are greatest. Statement counters Sydney Telegraph claims of skewed Australian access, noting diversions and en route changes prevent public export figures from telling the full story.
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Sydney Daily Telegraph
Australia
Daily Telegraph
Britain
Canada
External Affairs Department
United Kingdom
United States
The
British Commonwealth of Nations
Howe
Middle East
Canada United States agree on coarse grain surplus
In a House of Commons statement Agriculture Minister Gardiner announced Canada has an agreement with the United States to take Canadian surpluses of coarse grains if they develop in the coming year. The plan complements expanded U S soybean production to supply substitutes for vegetable oils cut off by war.
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Ottawa
United States
Gardiner
House of Commons
Canada
Dominion
Pacific
Farm Machinery Prices To Have Small Increase
Wartime prices and trade board permits Canadian farm machinery companies to raise prices modestly but limits increases to five per cent. US increases ranged up to 17 per cent. Adjustments aim to secure imports and stabilize local production amid higher labor and material costs, with no general uplift in margins.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
Canada
United States
H. H. Bloom
Washington
Duty Value Lowered on Apples in Ottawa
Customs Commissioner H D Scully said Revenue Minister Gibson ordered the cancellation of the 15 per cent duty on apples effective March 26. It is the first reduction in three years and will cut the duty by 50 cents a bushel due to the apple shortage for home consumption from higher export demand. Chungking. A Chinese high command communique said Japan used poison gas in an engagement with Chinese troops in western Suiyuan province on March 13, causing several Chinese casualties.
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Ottawa
H. D. Scully
Gibson
Chungking
Suiyuan
Ichang
Hupeh
Civilian toll reported in Kharkov by Russian front dispatch
Despatches from the southwestern front say German forces killed 16 100 civilians in Kharkov, raising total civilian deaths to 30 600 since occupation began.Kharkov reportedly lacks food heat and light with only areas occupied by Germans remaining habitable.
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Moscow
Nouthwestern Front
Kharkov
Ottawa bans dry cell battery production for portable radios
After March 21 the manufacture of dry cell batteries for portable radios will be prohibited by the department of munitions and supply. Retail sale of available stocks will not be affected.
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Ottawa
Department of Munitions and Supply
Dublin Plans Six Hundred More Ground Shelters
Dublin will build six hundred additional ground shelters to house about 230 000 people in the capital of Eire as part of civil defense preparations.
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Dublin
Eire
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