Red army claims large WWII winter victory and map reveal
Moscow reports end of a winter offensive with claimed 850,000 German deaths and gains near Velizh and White Russia. Maps published in Moscow show fronts advancing toward Novorossiysk and Staraya Russa while Berlin counters with its own claims and prisoner tallies.
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MOSCOW
Red army
Nas
Velizh
Smolensk
White Russia
old Poland
Kuban
Caucasus
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Staraya Russa
Ulmenarea
Taganrog
sea of Azov
Rostov
Associated Press
Berlin
Lake Timen
Swiss Send British Prisoners Watches On Credit Till Peace
A letter from a Royal Navy lieutenant in a prison camp reports 20 British officers captured at St Nazaire received wrist watches from a Swiss company. The watches, valued at about 800 dollars, were sent with the promise to pay after the war, and the officers wrote to confirm they could pay postwar.
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LONDON
S. P. Haighton
Royal Navy
St. Nazaire
Arabs and Jews fight side by side in Palestine war effort
A wartime snapshot describes Arabs and Jews in Palestine joining forces against a common cause. It notes Palestinian pioneers later becoming a fighting unit attached to a British regiment, the Bulls, and later formed into a permanent overseas regiment. It also mentions the Malta Artery, the Transjordan Frontier Force with the Arab Legion, and the King's African Rifles in East Africa. The piece references a clergyman who served four years as a prisoner and now manages a shipyard in Pictou, ending with a note that the left hand corner continues on the back page.
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Dr. Goebbels
Palestine
France
Bulls
orereas
Malta
un- Sakahie
Transjordan
Arab Legion
Syria
King's African Rifles
Ve om MS TORN
BrockwDe Recorder and Times
Pictou
Russian Relentless Drive Liberates Vast Areas From Stalingrad
Soviet communique reports massive German losses between last Navy date and March 31 with 5 090 planes 9 190 tanks 90 360 guns captured or destroyed. It chronicles 30 703 machine guns 9235 mortars and other matériel as Red Army advances from Stalingrad toward Volga and Don rivers, lifting siege of Leningrad and recapturing key railways and waterways.
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Sta-lingred
Volga
Don River
Caucasus
LENINGRAD
Red army
Stalingrad
Russia
Meatless Tuesdays planned for fair meat rationing
Wartime Prices and Trade Board officials in Ottawa said Meatless Tuesdays would be set as one meatless day per week for public restaurants and hotels when meat rationing begins in March. The plan aims to balance home and dining-out meals with a 2-pound weekly beef ration, equity goals, and exemptions for offals and poultry.
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Herald
OTTAWA
Packers Continue Work After Sit-Down Strike
Winnipeg April workers of Canada Packers Limited staged a five hour sit down strike with about 900 employees. They agreed to continue work pending a ballot of employees for recognition of the Winnipeg Packinghouse Workers Union of America. Adam Borsk, CIO Organizer, announced early.
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WINNIPEG
Canada Packers, Limited
Weinitey Packinghouse
Union of America
Adam Borsk
C.I.0
Orgener
imay
Messina and San Giovanni Ferry Terminals Bombed
Allied air forces attacked Messina and the San Giovanni ferry terminals in Sicily and mainland Italy, claiming direct hits and heavy damage on buildings and a ferry boat. US planes led the raid with heavy bomb loads, while other targets in southern Italy and Sicily were also struck.
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CAIRO
Messina
Sicily
Italy
Middle East command
San Giovanni
United States
America
Tunisia
Tisly
Tez
Calgary sale nets 281 491 dollars in cattle auction
Calgarys spring stock show drew buyers from across the region as cattle sold for a total of 281491.13 dollars. The Hereford herd sale grossed 13385, baby beef and related lots 9051.13, and the Calgary bull sale 259055.09, with the last bull sold by Friday afternoon. Directors praised the strong returns amid favorable beef markets and feed conditions, noting it as the greatest sale in Calgary history.
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CALGARY
Charles J. Yule
Alberta Cattle Breeders’ association
Air Observers School graduation honors Alberta crew
Albertans graduate at No 5 Air Observers School in Winnipeg with flying badges. Graduates include B Heyworth and W R Mason from Edmonton J C Whills from Calgary and J W Meyers from Strathmore. The ceremony marked completion of air observer training during April 3 7.
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WINNIPEG
No. 5 Air Observers School
RCAF
B. ©. Heyworth
W. R. Mason
Edmonton
J. C. WHlls
Calgary
J. W. Meyers
Strathmore
Ottawa pilot earns two decorations for DFC act
Squadron Leader Ken Boomer of Ottawa became the first RCAF pilot to shoot down a Japanese plane in defense of North America. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Canada and the United States Army Air Medal from the U S government. He had fought in Britain before joining the Japanese front.
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Ken Boomer
Ottawa
Royal Canadian Air Force
North America
Canada
United Siates
Britain
High Briton Is Fined 2000 Dollars for Ration Book Use
London April 3 Sir Percy Robert Laurie Provost marshal of Great Britain was fined £585 about $2000 for using a civilian ration book alongside military ration cards issued to him as a soldier. The former assistant commissioner of the London Metropolitan police allegedly obtained an extra ration book by claiming retirement.
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LONDON
Icri
Percy Robert Laurie
Great Britain
Percy
London Metropolitan police
Estimates Are Held Up In Ottawa Parliament Sit In Friday Night
In Ottawa on April 4 the house of commons held a Friday evening session to pass supplementary estimates for the last fiscal year totaling 2,694,000. Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Finance Minister Osler pressed for expedited business while debate focused on farm policy, old age pensions, and age eligibility. Osler said no changes to age limits would occur during the war, despite requests from six provinces. The discussion spilled over three days as leaders warned that main estimates often rush through near session end. (Continues on page three.)
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OTTAWA
Mackenzie King
Tisley
house of commons
senate
Osley
C.C
Gordon Graydon
Progressive Conservativn
house
The Day In Parliament and Laval Cabinet Call
Monday the house will consider budget resolutions while the senate reviews government business. Yesterday the house passed supplementary estimates and heard policy on international aviation, dairy price stabilization, and old age pensions war-time considerations. In the senate Senator J W Parr is deadline for divorce courts to decree marriage dissolution for a person presumed dead. Laval calls cabinet meeting as Vichy radio reports Petain to address at eight.
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house of commons
senate
house
Mackenzie King
Gardiner
Isley
J. W. Parris Lide
British Columbia
High River Faces Flood Threat Sparks Citizens Meeting
In High River on April 3 a Citizens' Meeting urged urgent federal and provincial aid as an ice jam blocked the river. The jam broke around 11 pm and water rose to midnight, prompting alarms and a push to form a committee to draft a resolution requesting protective works from governments.
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HIGH RIVER
Canadian Seamen Losses Prompt Casualty Release Policy
Ottawa reports 62 merchant seamen killed in the war and 117 held by the enemy in prison camps. Transport Minister Michaud announces casualty lists naming dead or missing mariners and notes many foreign-born Canadian seamen have next of kin still in enemy territory. lists exceed 500 names but are incomplete. Names of foreign-born seamen are not disclosed.
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OTTAWA
Michaud
marine services of
transport department
British House Now Sits In Lords' Chamber
London reports Anthony Eden told Canadians a 46 percent wartime withholding from the British public. Parliament had met in a more august setting since the 1941 destruction of the Commons chamber. The Lords has reportedly been converted into the Commons with the King's robing room serving as a temporary throne area and a wool sack for the session.
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LONDON
Anthony Eden
commons
scofie
house of lords
house of commons
Proposed Wheat Acreage Reduction Act Amendments
During a Commons adjournment on Friday, Agriculture Minister outlined government policy on prices and subsidy plans for dairy products for the 1982 44 season. He presented a resolution for amendments to the wheat acreage reduction act, including payments for reductions in 1942 from grass or rye seeding prior to 1942 and a 2 dollar per acre payment in 1943 for each acre reduced to 1903 20 compared with 194.
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TAWA
cnse of commons
Agriculture
Gacdiner
Allies Regroup In Central Drive Near Tunis Front
Allied forces press advance in northern Tunisia with Lt Gen Kenneth Anderson reporting continued patrol activity and casualties inflicted around Sedjenane near Bizerte. Air operations target La Fauconnerie air field as Montgomery massed the 8th Army north of Gabes for a new push toward Rommel.
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North Africa
Kenneth Anderson
Tunisia
Sedjenane
Bizerte
Jurgen Von Arnim
La Fauconnerie
Sfax
Bernard Montgomery
8th Army
Gabes
Rommel
Gafsa
Algiers
Allied troops praised as Mareth front advances persist
North Africa report from April 3 notes Eisenhower touring Mareth lines after conferences with Montgomer y and Alexander. He commends American air support and army morale while outlining Alexander s 18th Army Group composition including British First Army under Anderson, a French corps, and Patton s American force. Continued on Page Three.
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EDWARD KENNEDY
Associated Press
North Africa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bernard L. Montgomery
Harold Alexander
Alexander
Africa
ipchief
Mareth front
Hemmel
Esenhower
amd oo fonger
1st
amy
British &th army
Montgomery
World War II Briefs From Chungking To London
News bulletins report Japanese Zeks shot down while raiding Kiangsi air base in China. Dutch patriots burn Amsterdam statistics bureau. British trawler claims downed enemy plane off Tunisia. Serbs executed in reprisal for not joining Nazi labor enlistment. Churchill talks with De Gaulle in London. Manning fears Calgary will resent proposed private insurance shift. Belgium reports 12 more executions by Nazis.
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YANSS
CHENESE
CHENGKING
strampling
Kiangsi
NAZE
LONDON
Ihe Netherlands
Aarts
Saterday
patricla
Amsterdam
bureau of statistics
facborten
TUNISIA
admiralty
transfer Flyellen
Tunisa
BERNE
Switzerland
Pr—-Yugoslev
Perrevac
CHURCHILL
GEN
DE GAULIE
C.P
iGen
Charica De Gaulle
Rose Massigh
MANNING
CALGARY
EDMONTON
CP.1
E. C. Manning
trade and industry
Calgary biscete insurance
Alberta rovernment insurance
peard
seriowas
Luxembeurs
Verviers
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CENTRAL DRIVE
Klondyke Town
Eighth Army
Erwin Rommel
Afrika Korps
Mareth Line
Bernard Cyril Freyberg
New Zealand
Freyberg
El- Hamma
Equitable
ALBERTANS
LAVAL
Vichy radio
Pierre Laval
Marshal Petain
suges
Loree
Lords’ Chamber
El Guetar
Vichy
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Rome
Naples
Tunisian
Fondouk
Eisenhower
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