CBC considers national radio technical board and broadcasts plan
Ottawa reports Dr Agustin Frigon acting CBC general manager outlined formation of a Canadian radio technical planning board with input from interested parties. The CBC also discussed free network time for Social Credit and urged support for a national orchestra and repertory company.
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Ottawa
Agustin Frigon
CBC
Pommens
Canadian Radi Technical Planning Board
Frigon
Social Credit Party
Rev E . Hansell
S.C. Macleod
Canada
Sackville NB
E L Fushnell
CRC
Security forces may be increased on Pacific coast
RCMP security forces on the Pacific coast may rise this year if war tempo demands. Justice Minister St Laurent said duplication of Atlantic coast forces is possible. In Parliament, Transport Minister Michaud noted 62 radio license applications last year with 6 granted, 43 denied, 13 pending. Decisions on Prince Albert and Gravelbourg, Sask, remain pending.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Pacific
St. Laurent
Atlantic
Mr. St. Laurent
Amswering
Stanley Knowles
C.F
Winnipeg North Centre
Michaud
House of Commons
John Diefenbaker
P.C. Lake Centre
Prince Albert
Gravelbourg
Sask
Postwar Commonwealth leaders vow united peace plan
Five prime ministers from Britain Canada South Africa Australia and New Zealand pledge to create a postwar world organization with power to prevent aggression and violence. They urge global cooperation to secure freedom for peoples in Europe and the Far East and invite all states to join efforts toward broader peaceful democracy. The declaration also lauds U S and Soviet efforts and mentions China’s resistance.
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London
British Commonwealth
Pott-Atcar
League of Nations
Commonwealth
Alles
China
United States
Rus
Europe
Far East
Germany
Japan
Britain
Canada
South Africa
Australia
New Zealand
Winston Churchill
Mackenzie King
Jan Smuts
John Curtin
Peter Fraser
Gen. Jan. Smuts
Pioneer vitamin doctor Julius H. Carson dies in Toronto
Dr Julius H Carson 49 a pioneer in Canadian vitamin concentrates died in hospital after a stroke while driving. He founded Canada’s first vitamin plant and ran several labs. Born in Brandon Manitoba he studied at the University of Manitoba and practiced medicine in Premier and Prince Rupert. Survived by widow two sons John in the Royal Canadian Navy and Patrick of Toronto and brother Sherman of Hythe Alberta.
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Toronto
Julius H. Carson
Carson
Canada
Brandon
Man
University of Manitoba
Premier
Prince Rupert
B.C
John
Royal Canadian Navy
Patrick
Sherman
Hythe
Alta
Canadians intern 430 Japanese including 268 British subjects
Justice Minister St Laurent told the commons that 430 Japanese are interned in Canada, 268 of them British subjects. Seventy two were interned for noncompliance with removal orders in protected British Columbia areas, with many later released.
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Canada
Ottawa
St Laurent
British Columbia
Canada Must Look Abroad For Wider Markets
The third foreign trade conference of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce endorses expanding trade arrangements and eliminating troubling trade wars. It urges a detailed tariff review, a coordinated schedule aligned with expansion goals, and reduction of wartime impediments. It calls for more Trade Department staff and well staffed legations with commercial attaches, plus new offices at key trade points and adequate shipping.
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Hamilton
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Dominion
Department of Trade and Commerce
Canadian Trade Policy Aims to Expand Markets
The statement calls for measures to ease movement of Canada’s foreign trade overseas and minimize competitive handicaps from shipping routes. It urges identifying domestic uses for farm products and vigorous effort to revive old markets abroad while developing new ones.
Britain plans selective rebuilding of churches after bombing
The war damage commission and church officials say only historic or specially important churches will be fully rebuilt among Britain's 14 000 bomb damaged houses of worship. May War Savings Stamps noted in transmission.
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London
Britain
War Damage Commission
Christian Churches
Rural and Urban Homes Emphasized by Canadian Conference
Winnipeg hearing heard Dr. H Prince urge joint action by state school and church to improve housing. Lionel Scott of Wartime Housing urged integrating local plans to build more than houses, while M Moore urged rural centers and planned communities. Kenneth H Rogers proposed a youth services department, and Brig Meakins called for a civilian life retention program for servicemen.
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Winnipeg
Dr. & H Prince of
Halifax
Canadian Conference On Social Work
Nova Scotia
Canada
Lionel Scott
Ottawa
M. Moore
Dauphin
Man
Kenneth H. Rogers
Toronto
Department of Youth Services
J.C Meakins
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Feed grain outlook for Canada trims western stockpile
Ottawa reports Canada’s feed grain reserve from the 1942 bumper harvest has been cut due to heavy domestic feeding and large U S exports. Eastern acreages rise but western oats and barley may not meet 1944 45 demand without draining reserves. Weather and moisture on the prairies will influence supplies for the next crop year.
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Ottawa
Canada
United States
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Prairies
Bureau
Ontario
Quebec
Canada exports rise 33 percent in first four months
Ottawa reports Canada's merchandise exports for January to April climbed 33 percent over the same period in 1943, according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Anglo-Soviet Youth Alliance Adopts Pravda Home for War Victims
The Anglo-Soviet Youth Friendship Alliance in London has adopted the Pravda home near Moscow to shelter Russian child victims of the war. The pledge represents British youth taking up responsibility for displaced children as the conflict continues.
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London
Anglo-Soviet Youth Friendship Alliance
Moscow
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Pacific Coast
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Sia
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B. M. Hoffmeister
Vancouver
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E. L . Burns
Westmount
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George VI
N.C.O
Dieppe
Hitler
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