Bombers Hit Ruhr in Heavy Allied Raid Amid Losses
London reports RAF resumed western Europe offensive last night with a heavy raid on the Ruhr. Calgary and Wellington squadrons took part. four Canadian planes are missing and two British bombers are unaccounted for. Weather hindered observation. targets not disclosed.
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Essen
Duisburg
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Russian Front Quiet With Sharp Local Attacks Reported
The Moscow front line was generally quiet though local clashes occurred. South of Balakleya German forces tried to press Red Army positions at the Donets river between Chuguev and Izium but failed to advance. South of Izyum minor Soviet repulses followed German assaults with losses cited.
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Parliament calendar signals tax and wheat policy talks
The House of Commons prepares to consider legislation clarifying the wheat acreage reduction act and related measures while the Senate adjourns until April 13. Yesterday Finance Minister Temind urged urgency on income tax resolutions. Revenue Minister Gibson touted a new simplified farmer tax form. MP Robert Fair urged full farm tax exemption. The Senate did not sit.
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Nazis Claim Allied Paratroops Aiding Slavs
German radio claimed that Allied paratroops dropped by planes from Alexandria or Moscow are aiding guerrillas in Bosnia and assisting in forming a Balkan vanguard for an Allied invasion. The Associated Press recorded broadcast reports from London dated April 9.
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Associated Press
Alexandria
Moscow
Bosnia
Balkan
Big Inch Pipeline Furthers U S Oil Supply Across Nation
The Big Inch pipeline project completed from Longview Texas to Norris City and extended toward Philadelphia with a future Norris City to New Jersey leg. The line, a vast 24 inch pipe, will carry hundreds of thousands of tons of steel and up to 300 000 barrels of oil daily to the Atlantic seaboard, easing shortages and linking distant oil sources in wartime.
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Labor Board Opens Inquiry in Canada War Economy
The national war labor board announced an immediate public inquiry into labor relations and wage conditions in Canada. Preliminary sessions will be held in Ottawa on April 15 and 16 to canvass methods for the inquiry, with four topics including a review of wage stabilization policy.
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Ottawa
Weather Changeable Across Dover Straits This Week
London reports a highly variable spell with the Straits of Dover recording 80 degrees Monday a 60 mile per hour gale Wednesday and record rainfall or sunshine exposure into Thursday. This pattern showcases unusual British weather shifts over several days.
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Bootleg Tea Circulating at 1.25 Per Pound in Calgary
Wartime Prices and Trade Board reports Calgary’s tea bootlegging, with strict customer vetting and no source hints. The black market operates cautiously, selling at 1.25 dollars per pound to trusted buyers, often housewives, through a middleman. The investigation notes the severe penalties and unknown overall scale of the trade.
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Prices and Trade Board investigation department
Wheat acreage reduction plan seeks $2 per acre bonus
Ottawa April 9 Agriculture Minister Gardiner asked the house to approve a resolution to extend the wheat acreage reduction bonus to cover 4943 with a flat $2 per acre payment for each acre reduced from 1940 levels. The plan aims to support prairie wheat farmers who switch land to other uses rather than leaving fallow, with debates over scope, costs, and administrative clarity.
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C.P
Gardiner
house of commons
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Canada
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J. A. RossiProg
Con
Souriss
treasury board
Col. Rows
Income Tax Debate Delays Resolving Canadian Proposals
Ottawa April 9 Canadian Press By James Isley says finance minister Isley faced delays as income tax resolutions lingered in the house of commons. An amendment shifts filing deadlines to April 30, with June 30 for pay-as-you-go years. Another change adjusts treatment of investment income taxes due at death, awaiting further debate.
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Isley
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Asley
Toungoo Raids Highlight Burma Air Campaign
United States heavy bombers hit Toungoo headquarters in Burma dropping 13 tons of bombs and starting fires visible for miles while fighters destroyed an enemy supply dump at Ningam. The communique called the attack successful and noted a serious setback for enemy ground operations in northwestern Burma. In Calgary, Dr James Horning was fined 320 and costs after a magistrate court found him guilty of assault, striking his landlady Mrs P M Wilson with a hammer during a violent eviction from his suite.
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Toungos
Surma
Ningam
Army Air Force
Toungoo
Burma
CALGARY
Jamee FE Horning
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Horning
P.M. Wilson
Red Deer Floods Second This Week After Creek Burst
Red Deer Alberta suffered another flood as Waskasoo Creek overflowed at the southeast edge, submerging basements and Gaetz Ave along the Calgary Edmonton highway. Damage was limited as businesses moved goods in time. A previous flood from the Red Deer River iced jam four miles away drowned cattle and sheep. The Red Deer Penhold highway remained passable despite water.
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Waskasoo
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Penhold
Alberta Water Projects Spend $560,144 Total
Ottawa reports government expenditures on irrigation drainage and water storage in Alberta totaling $560,144. In a Commons return Thursday P C Black Prog Con Cumberland was informed. Indian affairs of mines department spent $27,050 and agriculture $333,094.
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Alberta
P. C. Black
Cumberland
house of commons
Indian affairs branch
mines department
agriculture department
Munitions Workmen End Strike Near Montreal
The 7000 workers at the Cherrier munitions plant near St. Paul L'Érmité returned to work after a one day walkout. Workers voted by a substantial margin to resume duties, following warnings from union officials that wage and classification demands would be considered by the national war labor board. Many employees had already returned by the time the vote occurred, and the walk-out was not authorized by the union.
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Cherrier
St. Paul
Chevrier munitions workers union
AFL
national war labor board
Wheat Deal With Belgium Announced In Commons
Ottawa April 9 Trade Minister MacKinnon announced a Canada Belgium wheat contract covering 7 million bushels at zero cents per bushel. Belgium will receive 200000 tons on demand with first 50000 tons shipped within 10 days of demand and the rest over two to three months. The tonnage equals about one seventh of Belgium yearly needs.
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OTTAWA
C.P
MacHinnop
Canadian wheat board
ministry of economic affairs
house of commons
MacKinnon
BELGIUM
Bel-gian
Lehman Arrives in London as Relief Official
United States embassy reports former Governor Herbert Lehman of New York has arrived in London to take up duties as director of foreign relief and rehabilitation. Lehman arrived Thursday night and will operate from London.
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Herbert
Lehman
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Mission Accomplished in Quebec Airfield Rescue
US Air Transport Command ends a hair-raising two month ordeal as 20 men survive frozen north. A four engine C 87 cargo plane ran low on fuel and force landed on a Quebec lake. The crew built shelter cooked with a wood fire and survived until rescue on February 10.
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Axis forces retreat amid Allied pursuit in North Africa
A.P. report says Axis troops abandon Mahares and Mezzouna as British 8th Army pursues toward Sfax. US forces seize Djebel Mazaila with 9,500 prisoners since the El Akarit attack. 1,360 more captured in El Guetar. British 1st Army takes 400. Allies destroy 130 vehicles and damage 200 in two days while Rommel strains transport. Naval motorcraft sink a supply ship off Blacke as Axis abandons positions.
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8th Army
Erwin Rommel
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Prisoner Exchange Planned at Smyrna in War Weighs Heavy
Anecara Turkey April 9 17 The largest wounded prisoner exchange of the war is planned for Wednesday at Smyrna with 1200 British wounded to be handed over by the Axis in return for 1200 of their wounded men.
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Axis Using Old Guns In Tunisia War
Moscow radio reported that Axis forces in Tunisia are using old guns and tanks that Germans reportedly avoid deploying on the Soviet front. An Algerian dispatch cited a 1917 Skoda weapon found worn and worn.
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Air offensives and ships hit in global war action
Allied air raids in Moriberen France target rail and ships while German trains and supply lines suffer disruption. French troops report prisoners taken in Tunisia with captured artillery. An American destroyer and three ships are sunk near Guadalcanal as Japanese air attacks disrupt shipping. ships’ nationalities remain unspecified though most Solomons vessels are American.
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