Underground News Papers Shrug Off German Rule Across Europe
The piece chronicles the peril faced by editors and distributors of underground newspapers in occupied Europe. It highlights La Libre Belgique as the flagship, printed in cellars by candlelight and hidden in loaves, with editors paid in danger and readers numbering in the thousands. Other titles cited include Royal Post in Norway and Vybod or V Job in Czechoslovakia, all resisting Nazi censorship despite dire risks.
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Linden
Belgium
Holland
Norway
France
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Yugoslavia
Greece
la Libre Belgique
Hitler
Europe
London
Helland
Parool
Royal Post
Quisling
Walka
Rubber control tightens reclaim rubber use
The Munitions and Supply department announced tighter use of reclaim rubber. Alan H. Williamson advised manufacturers that reclaim rubber must not be used in non essential footwear, soles, heels, sports goods, toys, fabrics for raincoats, auto upholstery, mats, tires and tubes, car parts, weather stripping, heater hoses, and battery boxes for cars and trucks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Munitions and Supply Department
Alan H. Wil Hamson
Price Controls in U S Beneficial to Canada
Canadian business leaders view six months of retail price control as effective in preventing inflation. U S price ceilings mirror Canada's policy since Dec 1, with manufacturers noting relief from inflation risk and retailers reporting squeezed profits but stable sales. They anticipate U S controls will aid Canadian producers heavily dependent on American raw materials.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
United States
Canada
Mussolini Admits Internal Crisis in Italy
London reports via Rome radio that Mussolini told Italy’s district prefects a severe internal situation due to lack of discipline and fraud. He warned of inexorable punishment for the guilty.
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London
Rome
Mussolini
Italy
Rome Radio
Ashen Rostock Evacuated After Intensive RAF Bombing
London reports say Rostock in Germany’s Baltic port area is a blazing ash heap with fires still smouldering after a major RAF attack. The city has been evacuated except for firemen and a few troops as 90,000 residents fled due to collapsed services and dire food and water shortages. Fire and smoke blot the skyline as photographs show the town largely levelled and uninhabitable.
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London
Rostock
Berlin
Britain
Winnipeg residents seek to bar Japanese families from districts
About 100 residents of St. Andrews and Lockport petition Manitoba officials to keep Japanese families out of their market garden communities located 20 miles north of Winnipeg along the Red River. They address C. E. Graham of the British Columbia Security Commission and Attorney General James McLenaghan with their request.
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Winnipeg
St. Andrews
Lockport
Red River
C. E. Graham
Manitoba
British Columbia Security Commission
James McLenaghan
Pensions Paid in Canada to 185922 Old Age Recipients
A Commons return shows 185 922 old age pension recipients and 6 243 blind pension recipients in Canada. The report details ongoing weekly pension disbursements to qualified individuals across the country.
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Ottawa
Canada
House of Commons
Bombing Britain Threats Target Baedeker Guide
Germany uses the Baedeker guide book to plan strikes on prominent British buildings. Exeter Bath Norwich York have suffered in air raids, with Berlin warning of targeting three star sites. Civilian deaths and injuries rise with the air war, as 43,822 killed and 50,482 injured by the end of last month.
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London
Britain
Hitler
Exeter
Bath
Norwich
York
Berlin
Bardeker
Baedeker
Telegraph Creek Skipping Plebiscite Ballot Vote
In Skeena riding Telegraph Creek did not vote in the manpower plebiscite because the chief returning officer deemed the cost prohibitive. He cancelled the poll due to high airline charges for delivering ballot boxes, noting Telegraph Creek relies on air service for seven months each year to contact the outside.
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Telegraph Creek
B.C
Skeena
Navy officer to teach navigation at King’s College Halifax
Lieutenant Robert W. Southam RCNVR has been named navigation instructor at King's College Halifax. Son of Mr and Mrs Harry Southam Ottawa he served in the RCNR since May 1940 and commanded a corvette on sea duty before taking the post on April 19 in Halifax. Ottawa reports a contract to British Columbia Bridge and Dredging Co to remove Ripple Rock in Seymour Narrows a long campaign to eliminate a navigation hazard that has wrecked many ships.
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Robert W. Southam
RCNVR
King’s College
Halifax
Harry Southam Ottawa
Southam
Rc.n.v.r
Ottawa
British Columbia Bridge and Dredging Co
Seymour Narrows
Vancouver Island
Army transfers urge soldiers to leave families behind
The national defence department says it is advising all army ranks that when transferred to a new station they should leave their families and dependents behind. The reason is housing shortages near training centres across the Dominion and the belief the move may be wasted if the soldier does not stay long enough. The department warns avoidable expense and social uprooting, noting second moves often lead to further separation and readjustment.
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Ottawa
National Defence Department
Dominion
Farm Machinery Comes In Range Of War Economy
Ottawa reports farm machinery and equipment now fall under wartime price and conservation rules. An order by H H Bloom of Toronto bans most metals in many items such as neck yokes double trees rake bars and other gear, allowing only rubber and limited metals for specific parts. Exemptions cover certain uses like cream separators pumps and tin coatings, with allowances for special permission to use on hand stock and joined metal hardware.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
HH. Bloom
Toronto
Export permits required on tea and coffee
Ottawa announces tea and coffee now require export permits for all destinations to conserve Canadian supplies. The previous exemption for shipments to the British empire or United States is cancelled, placing these commodities under export control.
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Ottawa
Department of Trade and Commerce
British Empire
United States
Canada
Navy in Films Work Of Royal Canadian Navy To Be Dramatized
Officials of the national film board announce a motion picture titled The Corvette will dramatize Royal Canadian Navy work in Ottawa. Richard Rossen, Hollywood director, is in Ottawa arranging to make the picture with leading film stars. Vichy extends anti Semitic law to Algeria, aiming to eliminate Jewish influence in business life and allowing seizure of Jewish businesses.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Navy
National Film Board
Richard Rossen
Vichy
Hitler
Algeria
Stalin declares sole aim to liberate lands from German invaders
Stalin in a May Day address pledged no territorial ambitions beyond defending the Soviet Union. He urged Red Army mastery of weapons to make 1942 the year of final defeat of the German Fascists, praised Britain and the United States for growing aid, and called for guerilla action to wipe out enemy staff and equipment in the rear. He noted Allied support and Soviet gains as the war shifts from defense to advance.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Great Britain
United States
Stalin
Red Army
Britain
Soviet Union
Europe
Women train for war work in Saskatoon classes
W A Ross Regina regional director of war emergency training says machine operating courses for women will start this month in Saskatoon at Saskatchewan University May 4 and in Prince Albert at the war emergency training school. Similar programs will follow in Regina and Moose Jaw.
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Saskatoon
W. A. Ross
Regina
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan University
Prince Albert
Montreal teen wins Rotary prize at public speaking event
Iles V. Wasserman, son of the late Austrian author Jacob Wasserman, won the Rotary Club first prize gold medal as Montreal's leading high school public speaker. Wasserman, released from a Canadian internment camp in March 1941, was interned in England in 1940 and later transferred to Canada before British authorities released him.
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Prom
Montreal
Chason
Jacob Wasserman
Rotary Club
Montreals
Iles Vo Wasserman
Wasserman
England
Canada
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Freddie
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NAVY
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