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Newspaper
Lethbridge Herald
Location
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 06, 1945
Page
1
Delegates at the Ottawa session discuss a bold three year trial to reform federal provincial relations. The Dominion advances a comprehensive 35 000 word brief detailing new health old age pensions and unemployment proposals and seeks provinces input.
Five provincial premiers express readiness to work with the Dominion on reconstruction as the conference opens. Ontario’s George Drew raises procedure concerns delaying the planned Dominion program while Quebec’s Maurice Duplessis and others affirm cooperation. Leaders speak as lunch adjourns with Saskatchewan Alberta and Prince Edward Island slated to follow.
The Dominion government proposes stable financing to nine provinces and asks them to withdraw from personal income, corporate and estate taxes. It plans to boost health service aid and cover full cost of old age pensions of 30 dollars monthly for residents aged 60 and over, regardless of income, as the reconstruction conference opens in Ottawa.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King urged a united policy of reconstruction in Canada at the Dominion provincial conference. He warned discord would hinder efforts to aid world economic stabilization and security and emphasized the need for Dominion provincial cooperation for future prosperity. He also paid tribute to General Crerar, returning as first Canadian army commander.
A reminiscence by W Orton Newson recalls Jerome HK, a Fleet Street journalist and author of Three Men and a Beat, who regularly covered the Sunday sermons of Rev C H Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. He recalls Spurgeon sweating yet clear, and a village clergyman’s farewell sermon about leaving for prison chaplaincy.
Ottawa proposals call for inter government cooperation and reallocation of powers by agreement. Dominion to pay higher subsidies to provinces, at least 12 dollars per head based on the 1941 census. Provinces to withdraw from imposing personal income, corporate, and estate taxes. Minimum Dominion subsidies set at 138 million dollars.
President Truman announced the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, describing it as a powerful, revolutionary weapon equal to vast destructive force. He said $2 billion was spent on the project, calling it the greatest scientific gamble in history and vowing further strikes to cripple Japan's war industry.
In Glengarry riding Alexandria Ontario polls opened at 7 am and weak turnout was noted in the morning with higher turnout expected afternoon due to civic holiday. Prime Minister Mackenzie King faces Independent Liberal Dr Richard Monahan as voters react to the vacancy created when W B McDiarmid resigned to let King seek a seat.
President Truman links the atomic bomb to the sun’s power source, explaining that solar heat drives the explosive. The piece outlines how the sun’s energy arises from molecule and atom separation, with atom disintegration releasing far greater energies than ordinary combustion.
About 16,000 Canadian service members reached Halifax aboard the Ile de France led by Gen H D G Crerar the 1st Canadian army commander. They received a loud port welcome after long overseas service with 2000 RCAF veterans aboard. Crerar toured the city then left for Ottawa to meet Prime Minister King as a final farewell to his troops.
Canadian troops form the vanguard of 30 000 in the Pacific theater. The force includes Royal Canadian Navy ships and RCAF squadrons with two aircraft carriers. Units named include the Seaforth Highlanders, Royal 22e Regiment, Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry. Col Malone says they will fight with American troops using American weapons and tactics. The main Canadian army contingent will train in Kentucky before deployment.
The government announced the repeal of wartime liquor sale restrictions as hostilities in Europe end. The move removes measures in advertising and sale limits, retaining some provincial controls on beer and wine imports. The 1942 order aimed to curb consumption by cutting volumes and fortification.
SEN. HIRAM JOHNSON OF CALIFORNIA DIES AT 79 IN NAVAL HOSPITAL AFTER 24 WEEKS OF confinement. THE LONGTIME REPUBLICAN, A BULWARK AGAINST WILSONS LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND SAN FRANCISCO CHARTER FOR THE U N O, HAD SHAPED NATIONAL POLITICS FOR OVER A THIRD OF A CENTURY. THE NATION MOURNS A FORCEFUL FIGURE IN THE SENATE.
United States air forces struck Japan with 689 B 29 bombers and fighters spreading fire across six war centers from Tokyo to Kaksho, dropping 3 850 tons of incendiaries. Tokyo area faced daylight raids with 150 fighters, while targets including Nushinomya Imabari Maenazhi and Baga were described as burned out. Toyama described as totally destroyed in early August results.
Premier Manning presents Alberta government submission at the Dominion provincial conference advocating a monetary policy to address current national problems. Alberta brief appears on pages 2 and 3. Hudson Bay route opened but shipping delayed as the British transport ministry withholds ships for wheat movement. Fort Churchill and Frank Elason of the Hudson Bay Route Association comment on the delay and Canadian Wheat Board representations seek release.
Saskatchewan Premier T C Douglas told the Dominion provincial conference the province would back constitutional changes only if proven to improve human needs and economic well being. He noted he spoke only if changes are beneficial.
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