Canada moves to cut living costs with food price relief
Finance Minister Asler announces a plan to reduce prices on key foods including coffee milk tea oranges and beef while limiting retail margins. Subsidies and duty cuts target consumers with producers and distributors spared. The program aims to curb inflation and restore purchasing power with a modest per person daily saving.
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QTIAWA
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Asler
netice
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Hiley
Canada
Asley
fovestment
Hat fashions and wartime shortages prompt new designs
The article notes a shift in millinery due to wartime constraints with clothing coupons and limited felt hats. It reports high prices for old Grandmother hats, a rush for fresh autumn styles, and says fashion remains active despite material limits. It also includes a grim dispatch about Japanese atrocities in China from Chinese Information Service.
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Foreign Commerce Weekly
flahr
Mayfair milimers
Chinese Information Service
Yongan
China
Liu Chienhau
Fukien
Liu
Enemy Armada Blunders Into American Trap
American forces report destroying nine more Japanese vessels as the Guadalcanal fighting continues. A night action sinks four destroyers and two other ships, with heavy losses among Nipponese troops. The Solomons tally rises to 51 sunken or damaged enemy vessels, with 25 ships sunk since August.
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John H. Wiggins
Associated Press
ASHINGTON
Guadalcanal
U TALES
Solomon islands
Solomons
United States
WIGL
AUSTRALIA
PFAAt
Germans Dumped Into Sea After North Africa Naval Battle
Allied reports describe a night clash between Sicily and Tunisia in which three Axis destroyers and four merchantmen were sunk by Royal Navy forces. Troopships were among the vessels, many men were seen in the water, and the destroyer Quentin was later sunk by air action. no Allied casualties were reported.
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WES GALLAGHER
Associated Press
North Africa
Delared
A.P
Sicily
Tunisia
Royal Navy
admiralty
Quentin
SANE
Frantic Nazi Effort Made To Halt Reds
Moscow dispatches describe German attempts to slow a Red Army offensive on the central front east of Velikie Luki and west of Rzhev. German forces, including technicians and trainees, are said to be forming hastily to counterattack as Soviet troops advance, with large German losses and several thousand soldiers said killed or captured. In Stalingrad area Russian reports claim repeated Soviet breakthroughs and heavy German casualties as fighting continues in the city outskirts and surrounding districts.
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MOSCOW
Velikie Luki
Rahev
dormation bureau
Red army
Sielungrat
Rei Star
army orgen
Donelbow
Stalingrad
Soviet information bureau
jefe
Dorn noichwess
Wesaver
dukeiin
700 Italians Aboard British Prison Ship Sunk
Reuters dispatch from Laurenco Marques reports a British steamer torpedoed off Mozambique with more than 700 Italian prisoners of war aboard. Nineteen two survivors were landed at Lagreaca Marques.
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LONDON
C.F
Reuters
Laurenco
Arrests ripple through Vichy regime involving French leaders
Reuters reports Rome radio broadcasts that Edouard Berrios and Jean Borotra were arrested by Vichy authorities. Herriot, Lyon mayor and Socialist leader, placed under house arrest after protesting anti democratic actions. Leon Jouhaux and Francois De Tesson also reported arrested.
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JEAN BOROTRA
LONDON
Reuters
Rome
Vichy
Edouard Berrios
French Republic
Herriot
Lyon
Marghal Petain
Stefani
Leon Jouhaux
Subsidies Are Costly in Canada Policy Push
Ottawa reports total subsidies paid through the Pras S2ab iby Corporation since December 1 1941 reach about 20 million dollars. Hector McKinnon chair announces a press conference detailing the cost of the program and its expected annual impact. He notes domestic subsidies for items including butter garments footwear and fertilizer with additional push to support butterfat and gasoline subsidies driven by higher shipping costs.
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Pras S2abiby Corporation
merpion
Canada
Hector McKinnon
corporation
McKinnon
TEPETIers ax l
office of Finance
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mciuane
Drevigius sunsik
SOO fe OG
Myr McKinnon
Subids
Allied Forces Hold Key Defence In Tunisia Battles
British and American troops fight to recap Bizerte as heavy losses mount on both sides. Allied forces defend Tebourba and Mateur amid German counterattacks near Tebourba and Djedeida with tanks and air strikes. Allied air power damages Tunis and Bizerte airfields as supply lines stretch under heavy rams.
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Bizerte-Tunis
MGN
C. P
Bizerte
Djedeida
Mazeur
Tunis
Tebourba
Soviet Snipers Claim 14060 German Kills in War Effort
Moscow reports 300 Soviet rifle experts led by Omine Halmingron killed 14 060 Germans. The top sniper is named Yesakov with 3 4 casualties. Timeframe and confirmation details are unclear from the piece.
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MOSCOW
Omine
Halmingron
Tgeant Yesakov
artic
Secret War Vessels Reported Joining Britain Med Fleet
London dispatch says new warships still on the secret list have joined Britain's Mediterranean fo rces. Allied air and sea actions reportedly sank six Tunisia bound supply ships, three destroyers, and a torpedo boat in a 24 hour span, while only one British destroyer is officially listed as lost. Navy sources caution Axis attempts to resupply Tunisia continue.
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LONDON
Britain
Mediterranean
Sicvian
cYantic Asis
North Africa
Sicily
London Express
admiralty
Ams
Welder Fined for War Production Obstruction
Sudbury Ont December report finds J V Batagelii of Schumacher guilty of obstructing essential wartime production by not performing welding work. He is fined 50 dollars and costs and faces two months in jail.
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Ont
C.P
J. V. Batagelii
Schumacher, Ont
Vhersdar
Italy to care for up to two million raid refugees
Berlin radio reports Rome expects to provide for as many as two million refugees from areas under heavy attack. Officials say 800,000 rooms will be created and landlords urged to accommodate evacuees, with non essential housing to be repurposed across Milan and Genoa among industrial areas.
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LOSDON
Italy
Berlin
Rome
Franco Celebrates 30th Birthday in Madrid
The Madrid morning edition marks General Franco's 30th birthday with an editorial declaring him the clear ruler who designates and directs Spain through its most difficult era.
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MADRID
Franco
Godranco
Axis tanks wiped out in Tepeyrba sector battle
British and Allied reports via radio say more than half of the Axis tanks in the Tepeyrba sector were destroyed or damaged with parachutists in the rear neutralized. U S Coast Guard losses and other war updates follow with multiple theatres noted.
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LONDON
Worceca radio
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couratee-sttuck
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GUADALCANAL
SNES
TUNISIA
LOS BON
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AIRES
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Jude Miguel Jante
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Argentina
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Reuters
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Switzerland
Baron Mannerheim
Red Cross
WASHINGTON
Navy
Frank Krex
Solomons
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