Canada orders drastic steps to stabilize prices
Ottawa moves to use federal agencies to hold price levels steady for consumers. Hector McKinnon will head a new commodity price stabilization company, with Donald Gordon as board chair. Tariffs subsidies and wage controls are aimed at avoiding an inflationary spiral as price ceilings take effect December 1.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
Hector McKinnon
Commodity Prices Stabilization Corporation
Donald Gordon
Bank of Canada
McKinnon
Prices Board
Canada
Dominion
United States
Price Board
British Freighter Sunk by Torpedo Off Canadian Coast
Survivors recount a convoy torpedoed a few hundred miles beyond Belle Isle. Five seamen from a 43 crew survived after their freighter sank in 40 seconds at midnight. another ship in the convoy also fell to a torpedo. Depth charges by escorts failed to stop the attack.
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Belle Isle
Atlantic
Strait of Belle
Gasoline Conservation Program In Toronto Coal Deliveries
More than 1,000 trucks run by 241 coal distributors in greater Toronto began a gasoline and oil conservation program on November 24. No delivery will be less than a ton and no delivery until orders are sufficient for a full load except in urgent cases, as stated by Oil Controller G. R. Cottrelle.
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Toronto
Greater
G. R. Cottrelle
Nazi spokesman says Germany will keep Netherlands as buffer
Berlin notes a Nazi spokesman declares a victorious Germany would never grant the Netherlands independence. He adds Germany will not be crowded off the North Sea again and Holland would not be a buffer state.
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Berlin
Germany
Netherlands
North Sea
Holland
Supplies for Russia Reported by BBC in CBS Broadcast
A BBC broadcast heard by CBS claimed American ships deliver arms to Russia every 48 hours. It said Russia has a special transport organization moving supplies from Basra Abbas Bushire and Bandar Shapur to the front, with imports from America Great Britain India and Australia aboard ships of many flags.
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New York
BBC
CBS
Persian Gulf
Russia
Basra
Abbas
Bushire
Bandar Shapur
America
Great Britain
India
Australia
Held Person Terror Sweeps Axis Occupied Areas
The Inter Allied Information Committee reports a sweeping held person terror across nine Axis occupied states. It tallies over 100000 passed, thousands missing or imprisoned, with Greece Poland Yugoslavia and others suffering mass executions and village burnings under collective responsibility policies. It notes worst abuses in Bulgaria Greece Crete and Polish executions including Igo Sym.
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London
Europe
Inter-Allied Information Committee
Britain
Russia
Albania
Greece
Crete
Poland
Igo Sym
Gestapo
Yugoslavia
Vancouver Lawyer Named Ottawa Deputy Controller of Supplies
Vancouver man J. R. Nicholson has been appointed deputy controller of supplies by Munitions Minister Howe. Nicholson, a practicing trial lawyer since 1924, specializes in insurance company law and has performed general counsel work.
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Ottawa
J. R. Nicholson
Vancouver
Howe
Nicholson
Trapped in Tunnel Five Die as Tank Locomotive Burns
Five men perished in a 7000 foot railroad tunnel near Van Nuys California when a Southern Pacific locomotive erupted in flames after a coupling failed on a 96 car freight train. Four others were hospitalized while rescuers battled oil fed flames and smoke for hours before the train was moved out of the tunnel.
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van Nuys
Calif
Southern Pacific
British seek exit from Japanese China embassy reports
The British embassy says 1,175 British men women and children in Japanese occupied China have expressed a desire to leave in the last three weeks. Registration has been under way since October 30 when Britain urged those who could to depart from the area.
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Shanghai
China
Britain
Raiders Take Refuge In Kobe Port Japan Amid War Strain
A businessman returning to Britain from Japan reports ten enemy raiders and supply ships sheltered at Kobe for months including the Scharnhorst and Kulmrland with five other German ships and three Italian craft. He says Yokohama also hosts ships and notes Tokyo holds about 3,000 Germans on economic missions as rationing and shortages bite.
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Japan
Kobe
Auckland N.Z
Britain
Scharnhorst
Kulmrland
Yokohama
Tokyo
Victoria man named chief of Dominion statistics branch
Ottawa reports John T. Marshall of Victoria British Columbia has been appointed chief of the Vital Statistics Branch at the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
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Ottawa
John T. Marshall
Victoria
B.C
Vital Statistics
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Bureau
Low accident average in air training plan
Ottawa veterans remark on Air Minister Power figures for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Trainers accumulate safe hours with 1,429,851 miles flown per fatal accident, compared with 1,269,231 miles in US civilian flying in 1940. Through Sept 30 miles and hours show 157 fatalities in 224,486,625 miles, era trend noted with winter risk and projected 2,250,000 flying hours for the year.
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Ottawa
Power
Maj
United States
United States Airlines
Maj. Power
British plan to drive Axis from Africa outlined
London says the Libyan drive aims to expel Axis forces from Africa not to seize towns or relieve Tobruk. The offensive extends 100 miles south from the coast, backed by air and sea, using latest American tanks and aircraft. Churchill inspired troops as Britain seeks a decisive test of mechanized warfare.
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London
Libya
Tobruk
Axia
Africa
Churchill
Britain
Britain’s Food Problem Milk Consumption Rises in War Time
Agriculture Minister R S Hudson told the House of Commons that Britons have drunk about 200 million gallons more milk this year than the last full year of peace. He said arable land is near maximum use but预计 prospects for all crops look up, with potato supplies nearly double peacetime levels.
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London
R. S. Hudson
House of Commons
United Kingdom
Wages For Farm Workers In England And Wales Raised
The central agricultural wages board set minimum weekly wages for English and Welsh farm workers at 48 to 69 shillings, effective December 28. Workers’ groups pressed for the raise for six months as many counties already increased rates, while 11 counties held at 48 shillings.
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London
Central Agricultural Wages Board
England
Wales
Bonus Suggested For Arvida Aluminum Plant Workers
Labor Minister McLarty announced a board of conciliation report on the Arvida Quebec Aluminum Company of Canada labor dispute recommends a new weekly bonus system of 2.70 dollars per worker.
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Ottawa
McLarty
Board of Conciliation
Arvida, Que
Aluminum Company of Canada
Manion Says No Politics After War Service Move
Col. R. J. Manion Dominion Conservative leader in the last federal election and now auxiliary services director for the Canadian army speaks in Calgary stating he has nothing to say about politics.
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Calgary
R. J. Manion
Dominion Conservative
Canadian Army
French General Gamelin in Nervous Condition at Oloron
General Gamelin commander in chief of Allied British and French armies is in a bad nervous condition at a clinic in Oloron south of Pau doctors attending him reported.
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Vichy
Gamelin
Oloron
Pau
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Odlum
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