Benefit scale for ex soldiers raised in Ottawa plan
Post discharge benefits for veterans rise with new orders in council announced by Pensions Minister Mackenzie. Single veterans may receive 4.20 monthly during training, married men up to 120.40 monthly with dependents, plus child and parent allowances. Reforms remove pension deductions from vocational grants and adjust pension interaction with training benefits.
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Toronto
Mackenzie
Toronto Business Men's
Canadian Legion
Seventy Six Survive Ship Sinking Off Irish Coast
Thirty six survivors including Canadians Britons and Chinese are landed at an East Coast Canadian port after a merchant ship sank off the Irish coast. Many men suffered frozen feet awaiting rescue and more than 30 shipmates were lost.
Indians Freed After Court Ruling Invalidates Regulation
In New Delhi 18 Indian Nationalists held under defence of India regulations were released following a federal court decision that a section of the regulations was invalid. The action reflects a legal setback to government powers in wartime policy.
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London
New Delhi
Defence of India
Helicopter to Aid U-boat War and Rescue Missions
The RCAF orders six helicopters to support anti submarine efforts off Canada's east coast and to rescue airmen in inaccessible areas. The craft hover like a shadow over subs, land vertically, or hover while lowering rope ladders for fast rescues in storms, water, ice, or snow.
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Royal Canadian Air Force
United States
Canada
Fort Carillon Launches Under Steam Up at Canadian Yard
A 10,000 ton cargo vessel Fort Carillon was launched fully equipped with steam up and guns mounted. The ship slid down the ways with its whistle blowing and readiness for a test run, marking the first fully equipped launch from a Canadian yard and possibly setting a British empire record.
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Fort Carillon
Renault Raid Strips Germany of Trucks and War Materials
London reports Dingle M Foot told Scottish factory workers that U S heavy bombers raid on Renault works outside Paris on April 4 damaged more than 40 shops and robbed Germany of at least 1000 trucks and other war materials. He said Germany’s truck production was insufficient and its pool of confiscated trucks nearly exhausted in 1942.
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London
Dingle M. Foot
Ministry of Economic Warfare
U.S
Renault
Paris
Germany
Wartime metals hunt sweeps far north in Canada
Northland becomes a mining rush as spring opens waterways and veterans and majors flock north. The BEC chamber of mines in Vancouver coordinates prospectors toward scarce war metals including coal antimony tungsten chrome manganese and tin with tax concessions and wartime travel relaxations.
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Vancouver
Northland
BEC Chamber of Mines
North West Mining Information
Alaska
B.C
Yukon Territory
Chamber of Mines
Prospector Seeks Strategic Metals Across War Effort
Home Fleet chief notes discovery of molybdenum mica mercury and quartz crystals among strategic metals found in quantity. Gold appears, though secondary to war needs, as prospectors prepare for postwar rehabilitation and share mineral occurrences with the chamber of mines for mapping and study by federal official R K Odell during the North Pacific Planning Project.
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Chamber of Mines
R. K. Odell
Federal Deparment of Mines and Resources
Odell
North Pacific
Chamber
Regina Call for Pistols to Equip Army Officers
The Department of National Defence urges owners to donate or offer for sale Colt, Smith and Wesson and Webley pistols and revolvers hammer type in .38, .45 and .455 calibres and Colt 45 automatics. Hammerless guns not needed. Targeting public and reserve officers including retired personnel who will be issued weapons when entitled.
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Regina
Department of National Defence
Colt
Smith and Wesson and Webley
Interned airmen repatriation agreed in Turkey
The Daily Mail reports a reaching agreement to repatriate all belligerent interned airmen held in Turkey. The group includes Americans Britons Russians Germans and Italians who were forced down since the war began. American airmen were captured last summer after raiding Romanian oil fields.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Turkey
Canada poised as third largest trading nation in world
Canada is now the world’s third largest trading nation with 1942 exports breaking all records and postwar welfare tied to access to world markets. Minister J A MacKinnon notes potential markets in China and the Caribbean and urges prompt trade with South America while praising Canada’s wartime merchant marine and BC industries.
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Vancouver
Canada
Dominion
J. A. MacKinnon
Trade and Commerce
British Columbia
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
MacKinnon
Britain
China
Caribbean
Central
South America
Dangerous Job Valetta Pru Pilots Keep Eyes Safe
A select group of empire pilots in Malta serves in photographic reconnaissance units. These PRU crews fly to avoid engagements and provide crucial intel for the RAF. Lt Malcolm Brown, formerly a Toronto photographer, has logged 260 hours in PRU missions across England, the Western Desert, and Malta. His RCAf ally Edwin Maloney from Edmonton, a 230 hour PRU specialist, is also noted.
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Malcom Brown
Toronto
Montreal
England
Western Desert
Malta
Germans Sell Seized Artworks in Berlin Antiques Market
A Berlin resident reports rapid sales of valuables including antiques and paintings by Germans in the capital to second hand dealers. He cites fear that Allied plans to return possessions seized from foreign or Jewish owners after the war will reduce prices.
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Europe
Berlin
Reaso
Postal chief hints at return of trans Atlantic airmail
Ottawa P.T. Coolican general superintendent of postal services said a restoration of trans Atlantic airmail service is possible next month. He noted the service would run from New York and be carried in United States planes.
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Ottawa
P. T. Coolican
Postal Services
New York
United States
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British Home Fleet
W. M. Neal
Canadian Pacific Railway
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Canadian Pacific
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