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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 23, 1942
Page
3
Ottawa announces a new gasoline rationing category for personal car use effective Oct 1. Munitions Minister Howe cites wartime tanker losses and reduced supplies, outlining AA and A categories with monthly and six month allotments and urging drivers to lay up cars to preserve fuel for next summer.
London reports air experts urge immediate concentration of thousands of Allied bombers for a sustained air blitz on Hitler. Weather limits and Germany's coastal defense hinder operations, while Bremen joins cities hit 100 times or more. Generals say 1000 bombers per raid could fatally weaken Nazi war capability this winter.
President Vargas orders full mobilization across Brazil as war with Germany and Italy is declared. Brazilian sea and air forces join Allied efforts against the Axis sea menace. The mobilization could field about 250,000 trained infantrymen.
Reuters dispatch from a German frontier point reports Nazi forces starting deportations in Luxembourg to curb anti German activity. Nazi commissions Compile black lists of loyal Luxembourgeois, with the first batch already rounded up. The invaders say they are prepared to deport the entire population and bring in German workers to keep iron mines operating.
The Canadian fur industry boosts war effort by earning foreign exchange through U S sales. C D Lang of Winnipeg editor of Fur of Canada spoke at a Dominion Council of Fur Breeders meeting with government on labor military service and food issues. He noted markets for mink improving and lower grades used in army clothing and maps. J E Crawford of Fort William was re elected council president Archibald Campbell of Saskatoon named third vice president and secretary.
Freligshburg, about 40 miles south of Montreal, will rename to Lidice to honor the Czech village razed by Nazis last July. Lidice near Prague was destroyed with many killed and deported. A new Lidice opened in Illinois two weeks after. A Mexican town also adopted the name Lidice.
Edouard Herriot president of the chamber of deputies and Jules Jeanneney Senate president sign a letter written for the French parliament accusing Marshal Petain of seeking unlimited power and warning him not to drag France into war against the Allies. The message says France faces its greatest crisis since the June 1940 fall.
BBC reports Belgian patriots blew up a power station at Jumet causing iron works and rolling mills nearby to close and coal production in the district to fall. Tokyo-Masayuki Tani was named Japanese foreign minister after Shigenori Togo resigned on September 1.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will end broadcasts at 11:30 p.m. local time in all regions from next Sunday to spare equipment wear. General manager Gladstone Murray says the policy will extend equipment life and apply to most CBC stations, with only one exception. Some nights will require CBA in Sackville to operate until midnight.
Ottawa reports the wartime prices and trade board says meatless days may be introduced to offset a beef short age. The board had denied rumors but now says such a measure is under consideration with no definite steps taken yet.
Montreal headquarters of M D No. 4 states Canadian active army personnel in Canada may soon don overalls for normal training and other duties to conserve serge stocks.
London reports Admiral Sir Max Horton says British submarines have sunk 300 enemy supply ships and damaged 87 German and Italian warships since the war began. The figure underscores the submarine force's impact in naval warfare.
Col. D. P. Savitch seeks fit Yugoslav citizens in Canada to recruit and train for service with Yugoslav air force squadrons in the RAF Middle East and Mihailovic’s army. The plan aims at Windsor Ontario for training and includes potential parachute duties, with focus on language and infiltration to aid Yugoslav resistance. A US survey is noted plus needs for weapons and supplies to support assignments abroad.
Donald Gordon chair of the wartime prices and trade board warns against relaxing price controls as Canada nears a year of enforcement. He stresses inflation remains a real threat and that adjustments for hardship or seasonal factors will be resisted. The policy, effective since Dec 1, bases ceilings on costs from Sept 14 to Oct 11 1941, with general adherence but some exceptions for supply needs. Londoners still leave gas masks in public conveyances at 490 weekly.
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