Alberta throne speech outlines wartime legislation plans
The speech from the throne in Alberta's fifth wartime legislature forecast new laws creating a department of public welfare and power commission. It proposes free hospital care for maternity patients, gas and oil regulation to curb wastage and prevent monopolies, a soldiers welfare and advisory committee, an apprenticeship act, and expanded treasury, highway, and agricultural services. Continued on page three.
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EDMONTON
C.P
department of public welfare and power commission
Alberta
J. C. Bowen
Turner Valley
public welfare department
treasury
committee on child welfare
German assault drives on Anzio and Cassino front in fierce combat
Allied headquarters reported six break through attempts along the Anzio perimeter while main Cassino front saw seven days of heavy fighting. German artillery pounded lines as American, British, and Italian troops countered with tank clashes and infantry assaults in ruined town streets. Allies claim to recapture some ground west of Cisterna and slowly approach Cassino’s Mount Cassino crest.
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Edward Kennedy
Associated Press
Anzio
Cassino
Carroceto
Aprilia
MARK CASSINO
Mount Cassino
Planing Mill Fire in Zurich Destroys mill and jobs
Fire at the Kalbfleisch and Sons planing mill in Zurich caused damages of 50 000 to 70 000 dollars. Officials said 50 workers on war orders will lose their jobs. The blaze occurred Wednesday night near London Ontario.
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LONDON
New Zealand Minister Nash Arrives in London for Talks
New Zealand external affairs minister and minister to the United States Walter Nash has reached London for financial discussions with the British government.
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LONDON
C.P. Cable
Walter Nash
New Zealand
United States
Dentists hail low tooth decay in Ripley Ontario area
The Ontario health department reported Ripley district near Kincardine has exceptionally low tooth decay. Deputy Health Minister B T McGhie said fluorine and phosphorus in local water and home foods correlate with good dental health and investigators shift to the Madoc district north of Belleville to study similar factors.
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Ontario health department
Ripley
Kincardine
B. T. McGhie
McGhie
Madoc
Belleville
Ont
Fenelon Falls’ Most Famous Son Dies in New York
William T. Dewart, president and publisher of the New York Sun, died in New York on Thursday. Born in Fenelon Falls Ontario, he was reputed as the village’s wealthiest son and heir to a lineage noted for literary achievement. His father, also William Dewart, was a Canadian railroad builder from Ireland with ancestral ties to Scotland. He combined railway work with writing, producing works such as Whang the Miller.
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FENELON FALLS
Toronto Star
William T. Dewart
New York Sun
New York
Ontario
William Dewart
Ireland
Duart Castle
Mull
Scotland
Whang the Miller
Front Crumbles as Red Army Presses in Ukraine
Soviet forces encircle and rout large German groups in Ukraine as seven Russian armies drive from Cherkasy to Apostolovo and Krivoi Rog. Forty towns fall, including Radushnoye, while the Dnieper line tightens and strongholds near Shpola and Godorodische fall to the Red Army.
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EDDY GILMORE
Associated Press
MOSCOW
Germany
Ukraine
Cherkasy
Nikopol
Apostolovo
Krivoi Rog
Kiev-Nikolaev
Radushnoye
Dnieper death circle
Shpola
Svenigorodka
Leningrad-Warsaw
Luka
Ordezh
Bolshoye
Zamochye
Baltic states
Batetskaya
Poland
Russia
Rumania
Dnieper
Japs Desert Madang Port as Allied Push Advances
In New Guinea Madang, Japan's main port on the northeast coast, appears deserted after a bombing run. Americans report little anti aircraft fire and hint at sabotage after heavy bombardment as patrols push toward the area from Saidor and Bogadjira with Australian forces advancing in the Ramu Valley south of Bogadjima.
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NEW GUINEA
Madang
Japan
Alexishafen
Saidor
Bogadjira
Ramu
Bogadjima
RABAUL
Southwest Pacific
New
Dominion provincial conference delayed until Easter
Prime Minister Mackenzie King told the House that the planned Dominion provincial social security and finance conference cannot be held before the Easter season. He said provinces wish to meet but no exact date could be given.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Mackenzie King
commons
H. A. Bruce
P.C
Toronto-Parkdale
King
James Sinclair
L. Vancouver North
United States
British Columbia
Gibson
Sinclair
Col. Gibson
Bombers Hit Brunswick and Gilze Rijen in Allied Raid
U S heavy bombers struck Brunswick in central Germany targeting aircraft plants near the city while additional formations attacked the Gilze Rijen base in Holland and sites in northern France. Allied losses were not yet known though previous missions include Jan 11 when 60 bombers were lost and 182 fighters downed.
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W. W. HERCHER
Associated Press
LONDON
U. S
Brunswick
Germany
army
Berlin
Gilze-Rijen
Holland
U.S
France
Oschersleben
Halberstadt
Hanover
Brunswick-Waggum Metlo
avealy
Finns discuss quitting war amid U S appeal
Stockholm reports say the Finnish cabinet held a regular session with a note that preliminary decisions may have been taken after the United States urged Finland to quit the war or face consequences. Helsinki officials and editors weigh the impact, while a prior dispatch notes Helsinki denied any pledge not to surrender if a bombing ensued.
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STOCKHOLM
United States
Finland
Helsinki
Dagens Nyheter
Henrik Ramsay
foreign policy committee
Cordell Hull
U.S
Ramsay
Helsingin Sanomat
Farlier
Washington
The Day In Parliament Debates Continue In Commons
The House of Commons will continue the throne speech debate while the Senate adjourns to March 7. Yesterday a bitter Liberal CCF exchange saw T C Douglas accuse Liberals of failing farmers and promised changes, countered by Agriculture Minister Gardiner. The Senate did not sit.
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house of commons
senate
house
Liberal
C.C.F
T. C. Douglas
C.C.F.Weyburn
Gardiner
Douglas
Saskatchewan
C.C.P
Maj
George Williams
Sharp Debate in Commons in Ottawa on War Funds and Saskatchewan Bill
In Ottawa the Commons debated a sub-amendment to the address in reply to the throne speech. J S Roy moved to delay the main PC amend ment to clear the way for war appropriation. T C Douglas criticized Liberal noncommitment on social security and Saskatchewan's provincial act.
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OTTAWA
J.S. Roy
ind
Gaspe
pill
Defence
Halston
A. G. L.McNaughton
CCF
Pope's Home Is Bombed Near Castel Gandolfo
Vatican radio quoted Osservatore Romano that Castel Gandolfo the Pope's summer residence near the Anzio bridgehead in Italy was bombed for the third time with other Vatican property damaged. The latest bombing occurred today about 15 miles from Vatican City and 25 miles inland from Anzio.
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LONDON
Vatican radio
Castel Gandolfo
Anzio
Italy
Vatican
Osservatore Romano
Associated Press
Vatican City
Massacre of Jews Reported in Pinsk
The Polish Telegraph Agency said the entire Jewish population of Pinsk and surrounding towns has been massacred by the Germans. Pinsk, a manufacturing town in eastern Poland, had about 32 000 residents before the conflict, most of them Jewish.
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LONDON
Polish Telegraph Agency
Pinsk
Poland
Britons Join Tito’s Partisans on Hvar Island
Marshal Tito announced a broadcast from his Yugoslav headquarters that British units have joined Partisans on the island of Hvar forming a bridgehead into the Balkans. London naval and military quarters reported no landing yet and suggested any operation would be directed from Algiers.
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LONDON
C.P
Josip Broz
Tite
Hvar
Balkans
Algiers
Tito
Germans defend Cassino hill as Allies shell passes
Allied artillery and bomb strikes pounded the German held Cassino hill at the town foot as Germans poured supplies into pillboxes and confronted renewed counter attacks north and south. The monastery served as an observation point while civilians sheltered in old towers nearby amid reports of shelling without confirmation of monastery damage.
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Cassino
Casesino
Albaneta
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Marshail
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Zvenigordka
Shpela
monitor
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A.P
China
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Yunnan
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chai
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