Wheat Quota Set To Rise For Next Crop Year In Canada
Ottawa reports Trade Minister Mac Kinnon said wheat marketing in 1944-45 is likely to exceed 1943-44 levels. Delivery quotas for prairie wheat producers will be announced later with initial 14 to 18 bushels per acre, factoring exports, domestic use, and rail capacity. Dry April spurs talk of higher wheat acreage as farmers plant more hardier grain.
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Ottawa
MacKinnon
Wheat Board
Canada
Mr. MacKinnon
Winnipeg
Canada to Step Up Shell Production Across Regions
Munitions Minister Howe announced a rapid expansion of shell production in central and eastern Canada. About 10,000 additional workers will be needed, with plants from Winnipeg to the Atlantic expected to return to full output. The program may involve re opening the Defence Industries Ltd explosive plant at Nobel Ontario, though no decision has been made.
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Ottawa
Howe
Canada
Defence Industries Ltd
Nobel
Ont
Winnipeg
Atlantic
Mr Howe
Sixth Victory Loan Rally Aims To Top One Point Two Billion
Canada urges broader public support for the Sixth Victory Loan as Allied gains dominate front pages. The campaign calls for a minimum objective of 1.2 billion dollars to fund the war effort, stressing danger for servicemen and urging home front financial commitment to push Allied victory forward.
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United Nations
Axis
Canada
Resin adds freshness to lifeboat water supply
Synthetic resins are now used to treat seawater for lifeboat drinking. One pound of resin freshens four to six pints of water, expanding safe water supplies at sea.
Eisenhower Calls Press Key to World War II Victory
General Dwight D Eisenhower told the 58th annual American Newspaper Publishers Association convention that a free press is a fighting arm in modern warfare. He praised accredited correspondents as quasi staff officers at his headquarters and part of the team pushing for a swift Allied victory.
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New York
United Nations
United States
Dwight
D Eisenhower Eisenhower
Western Front
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Tea And Coffee Rations Will Be Increased
Ottawa reports a roughly 40 percent rise in tea and coffee coupons effective May 1. Values jump to four ounces for tea and 16 ounces for coffee with two coupons monthly, while consumption limits stay one cup or serving in restaurants.
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Ottawa
The
Prices Board
R. T. Mohan
Mehan
Canada
Ceylon
India
Central
South America
Jamaica
Mohan
Germans Move Swiftly Against Danish Saboteurs Detected
Werner Best, Hitler’s special deputy and Danish minister, said Germany is moving swiftly against Danish saboteurs and underground elements harming German interests. He spoke before Danish press chiefs as Denmark remains largely isolated from Sweden.
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Stockholm
Hitler
Denmark
Werner Best
Sweden
Best
Wounds Not Fatal In War Fight Statistics
London reports statistics from North Africa Sicily and Italy showing 95 percent of wounds in the field are not fatal. The message urges readers to support the war effort by buying Victory Bonds.
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London
Sicily
Britain maps postwar air routes to India and Africa
Lord Brabazon, head of the postwar aviation study committee, says British civil planes will rival any in the world after the war. He argues the great routes to India and South Africa will belong to Britain, with no incentive for the United States to run eastward services.
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Britain
India
South Africa
London
United States
Lord Brabazon
London Publicity Club
Europe
Africa
Americas
Pacific
America
Prairie fishery station eyed near Winnipeg
In the House of Commons minister Ernest Bertrand announced plans to establish a permanent prairie fisheries research station similar to Pacific and Atlantic coast facilities. Winnipeg is seen as the likely site with provincial surveys of whitefish waters and a program of fresh water research and inspection machinery to be set up. A chief biologist will be appointed, and lake surveys will begin this summer.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
Ernest Bertrand
The
Prairies
Pacific
Atlantic
Winnipeg
Prairie Provinces
Canada Food Supply Described as Fairly Good in Montreal
Prices Board Food Administrator Kent Taylor said Canada now has a fairly good general food supply and that Canadians can expect roughly the same availability as last year. He warned the situation can swing from surplus to shortage due to shipping difficulties.
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Montreal
Canada
Prices Board
Kent Taylor
Taylor
German maps seized by Swedish customs in Stockholm
Several thousand large scale maps covering Scandinavia were confiscated by Swedish customs as a ferry arrived from Sassnitz Germany. It marks the second such seizure in a week and the maps are under examination by Swedish military authorities.
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Stockholm
Scandinavia
Sassnitz
Germany
King George Visits Canadian Camps Ahead of D-Day
The King toured English invasion camps meeting Canadian army units bound for Europe. He inspected infantry, artillery, tanks, and service corps, spoke with officers, and asked about new equipment as ack ack gunners stood ready and Spitfire patrols passed overhead. Hundreds of locals welcomed the royal party at a station before the countryside visit.
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England
Europe
H. D. G.crerar
Leutenants
Want Private Control For Radio Network
Ottawa debates privatizing a second Canadian radio network with a separate control commission outside the CBC. CAB counsel Joseph Sedgwick argues a private network would replace CBC dominance, while CBC keeps its own network with possible educational roles. Critics warn commercialism could erode program quality.
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Ottawa
Canada
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Joseph Sedgwick
Canadian Association of Broadcasters
Commons Radio Committee
CAB
Sedgwick
Aird
CBC
Australia
Commission
Dominion
Prisoners of War Vote by Proxy Approved
Ottawa. The commons committee on the Dominion Elections Act approved a plan to let Canadian prisoners of war vote by proxy in the next Dominion election. Certificates issued by chief electoral officer Jules Castonguay would reach a prisoner of war's next of kin two weeks before polling day if the kin is qualified in the prisoner’s usual electoral district.
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Ottawa
Commons
Jules Castonguay
Vancouver to Build New Supply Ships to 1944
The Province reports contracts for new type supply ships possibly totaling 31 million dollars will be awarded to Vancouver yards after a government survey. If materials and manpower are available, city yards may receive orders for 21 vessels extending operations through at least the end of 1944.
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Vancouver
Vancouver Yards
Ottawa reports $112 million raised for war comforts
War Services Minister LaFleche told the commons that newspapers and organizations had collected about 112 million dollars from the war start to March 31 to fund comforts for servicemen and women prisoners of war bombed Britons and British school children and others.
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Ottawa
War Services
LaFleche
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