Surplus Decline in Cereal Grains Faces Postwar Shift
Ottawa reports that meat, dairy and poultry demand will keep supplies tight in 1944 while cereal grain surpluses shrink. Output is limited by manpower and inputs, with wheat demand strong as Australia and Argentina expect smaller crops. Beef and veal may miss targets but won’t disrupt civilian needs. cattle marketing rose 100 percent in late August, aiding beef stocks. A British bacon agreement aims for 900 million pounds in two years, with no hog surplus anticipated and exports likely to sell quickly.
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Ottawa
Agricultural Department
Agriculture Department
Australia
Meat Board
Canada
Spanish Blue division absorbed into German army in East Prussia
Reliable sources report that about 14 000 volunteers of Spain's Blue division were withdrawn from the Soviet front and absorbed into the German army near Koenigsberg. Most of the men reportedly received word from Franco they could return home or join Germany, while about 400, many incapacitated, returned to Spain. The unit was said to have taken a personal oath to Adolf Hitler.
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London
Blue
Soviet Union
Blue Division
Francisco Franco
Spain
Koenigsberg
East Prussia
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Franco
Grmany
Food deliveries doubled to Bengal starvation districts
In New Delhi General Sir Claude Auchinleck said army assistance will double food deliveries into Bengal outlying districts. Several thousand soldiers will distribute food as bottlenecks ease, raising up-country daily from 900–1000 tons to about 2000 tons and adding limited medical aid. Calcutta hospitals report 70 to 90 daily deaths.
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New Delhi
Bengal
Sir Claude Auchinleck
Fees for Music Ottawa
The Canadian Performing Rights Society proposes collecting licence fees from industrial establishments that use loud speaker systems to play musical works it holds copyright to, according to the secretary of state department.
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Ottawa
Canadian Performing Rights Society
Secretary of State Department
Allies Sink Five U Boats a Week in War Update
London reports Allied forces destroyed about 60 U boats in August through October, lifting total U boat losses to more than 150 in six months. The release claims fewer merchant ships were sunk, second lowest monthly tonnage losses, and that Allied air and sea forces are coping with new U boat weapons and tactics.
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London
United States
Churchill
Roosevelt
Liquor Tax Hike Move Approved by Ways and Means
The U S House Ways and Means Committee votes to raise the liquor tax from six to ten dollars per gallon. This action aims to increase revenue and influence pricing across states.
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Washington
House of Representatives Ways and Means
King Victor Emmanuel Asked Sforza to Form New Government
An unimpeachable source says during his Naples visit King Victor Emmanuel requested Count Carlo Sforza, the Italian foreign minister before Fascism, to form a new government but Sforza refused.
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Naples
Victor Emmanuel
Carlo Sforza
Assurance of steady winter supply of fresh produce
Ottawa reports a prices board program to assure Canadians of a reasonable supply of staple fruits and vegetables this winter. The plan, in cooperation with the trade, aims for adequate supply, fair distribution, and stable prices for domestic and imported produce. An import control order covers all fresh fruits and vegetables. permits are broadly issued for now.
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Ottawa
the Prices Board
Food Corporation
United States
Canada
Wiped out Kassel shows major destruction from raids
Air ministry studies new reconnaissance photos of Kassel after Allied raids on Oct 4 and Oct 22. The heavily bombed Ruhr city of about 200000 people is 315 acres built up, with 300 plus acres destroyed and 50 factories damaged or destroyed including three Henschel plants producing locomotives and vehicles.
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London
Kassel
Air Ministry
Ruhr
Massel
Henschel and Sohn
Germany
Krupp
Essen
German radio base destroyed off Greenland
Navy secretary Frank Knox reported the destruction of a German radio and weather base on a Greenland island. The base was described as small but well constructed and intended for permanent operation, including a radio station, power house, generator, transmitter, defensive mountings, and food supplies.
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Washington
Greenland
Frank Knox
United States Navy
Knox
Canada Leather Footwear Output Rises in 1942
The Dominion bureau of statistics reports Canada produced 33,066,389 pairs of leather footwear in 1942, valued at 67,166,456 dollars. The average factory price per pair was 2.03 dollars, up from 1.80 in 1941. Output rose five percent from 1941, with most production in Quebec and Ontario.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Quebec
Ontario
Vast Program Of Reconstruction Set For Britain
Prime Minister Churchill creates a reconstruction ministry with Lord Woolton in charge to direct postwar rebuilding. Cot J J Lowellin becomes food minister, Henry M Willink heads the duchy post, and A T Lennox Boyd takes aircraft production. Woolton will chair the War Cabinet on the vast program.
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London
Churchi
Britain
Lord Woalton
Food Ministry
Lord Woolton
Cot J. J. Liewellin
Washington
Liewellin
Ben Smith
Ministry of Aircraft Production
Ernest Brown
Henry M. Willink
Duchy of Lancaster
A. T. Lennox-Boyd
Smith
Will
Churchill
Fred Marquis
Commons
Sir William Jowitt
Manchester
Midlands
Building Subsidy Ottawa Aids Grain Farms
Farmers needing new buildings for grain storage or livestock housing receive an 10 percent consumer subsidy effective in August from the prices stability corporation, a branch of the prices board. The subsidy applies to civilian lumber purchases aiding primary production of essential foods and covers fishermen, cooperatives, unincorporated associations and incorporated farms.
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Ottawa
Prices Stability Corporation
The
Prices Board
Five Men Named to Succeed Hitler in German Leadership
A Stockholm dispatch in Dagens Nyheter reports a quadrumvirate chosen to succeed Hitler if needed. Goering is named chairman. the group includes Himmler Goebbels and Bormann. The decision followed a gathering of Germanys gauleiters at Hitler's headquarters.
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Stockholm
Berne
Dagens Nyheter
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Heinrich Himmler
Joseph Goebbels
Martin Bormann
Hitler
Germany
Goering
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Calcutta
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Kipling
Combined Operations
Lord Louis Mountbattan
Greet Mountbatten
Louis Mountbatten
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India
Claude Auchinleck
B. M. Hoffmeister
Vancouver
Italy
B. F. Smythe
Detroit
Mich
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