Boost Sugar Beet Price Boost Sugar Beet Price
Ottawa reports the excise tax on beet sugar will drop by a half cent per pound starting September 1, 1943 to boost beet production. The net grower price rises about 150 per ton, lifting 1943 beets to roughly 10.50 to 10.75 per ton and expanding Southern Alberta planting by about 3,000 acres to 30,000 acres.
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OTTAWA
C.P
E. G. Hansell
N.D
Macleod
Hansell
Herald
Phil Baker
Alberta, Sugar Beet Growers’ Association
T. George Wood
Canadian Sugar Factories, Ltd
Alberta
Canadian Wheat Goes To Mexico
Canadian wheat destined for Mexico began moving through Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, a first such consignment via Texas. About 3,000,000 bushels required 4,500 railroad cars and marked a new transport route, officials said Monday.
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DALLAS
Tex
Mexico
Texas
Fort Worth
Hickenlooper the Iowa governor elect uses name antics
The Iowa governor elect Hickenlooper turns name tricks into a political asset. A Holland Dutch heritage four syllables draws laughs as he jokes about mispronunciations and a doughnut tale from a dedication event. The back page teaser hints the story continues.
38 Tars Lost As Bombs Sink Ship
The Canadian corvette Louisburg was sunk by enemy air attacks while on convoy duty in the Mediterranean with 38 lives lost. Lt Cmdr William Franklin Campbell of Saskatoon is among the missing. Navy Minister Macdonald announced the first Canadian naval loss in the Mediterranean and the first destroyed by air attack.
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John Dauphinee
UAWA
U.P
Louisburg
Mediterranean
Navy
Macdonald
Cmdr
William Franklin Campbell
Saskatoon
Royal Navy
North Africa
Port Arthur
Ville de Quebec
Premier Aberhart Attacks Beveridge Plan in Speech
Edmonton February 16 Premier Aberhart denounced postwar schemes like the Beveridge plan and compulsory state insurance as a path to mass unemployment, poverty, and autocratic control. He warned centralized bureaucracy would dominate citizens, reduce purchasing power, and hurt middle class savers as these schemes spread from Canada to Britain and the U.S.
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EDMONTON
Aberhart
Beveridge
Canara
Great Britain
U.S.A
Parliamentary News Bulletins Ottawa War Bill Sets Stage
In Ottawa the senate passed an 858 million dollar supplementary war appropriation bill after three readings. Sir Lyman Duff to grant royal assent. senate adjourns to March 2. Government moves on postwar reconstruction and national health insurance. Hanson resumes throne speech debate urging wartime victory clarity.
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OTTAWA
senate
house of commons
Thomas Vien
Lyman Duff
King
HANSON
KR. B. Hanson
York-Sunbury
house
house of com
Mackenzie King
North Africa
United Nations
Tunisia
Europe
Yanks Quit Gafsa Base in North Africa Battle
Allied forces in Northwest Africa drove Rommel’s veterans back six miles in the Faid area as a major tank clash unfolded. American and French troops abandoned Gafsa 75 miles west of the Gulf of Gabes after Rommel’s Sunday push threatened to flank them. The northern fighting around Sidi Bouzid raised the stakes as Rommel, cornered, threw his best armor into the effort.
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WES GALLAGHER
Associated Press
NORTH AFRICA
Erwin Rommel
Faid
Tunisia
Africa
Faid Pass
Gafsa
Gulf of Gabes
Rommel
Sidi Bouzid
Sfax
Ronmimel
Germany
YANKS
Big War Bill Advances in Ottawa
Ottawa February 16 Parliament expected final approval of an 858 million dollar supplementary war appropriation bill. The measure fills the gap in the 1942 43 war funding after last session’s 2 billion appropriation. Finance Minister Isley led the push with opposition leaders aiding passage. Critic Hanson warned the size would surprise the country given prior assurances.
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OTTAWA
house of commons
Tisley
R. B. Hanson
Con
York-Sunbury
Isley
Canada
Bonspiel results and draws flash across the rink
A dense curling card lists 1:30 AM and 9:30 AM draws with teams such as Read McDonald Gas Co Kerr Wolfe and Anderson Mortem Chalmers Greenway Boulter Haimes McKay Ellisons and more. The schedule covers 1:30 PM draws and 11:30 AM administrations with numerous Gas Co entries and a parenthetical note on McKitrick scoring five on the 10th end. A separate item warns of a civil war risk if SAPS back to the coast as James Mowat lib coalition voices a protest in Victoria.
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McDonald
Gas Co
Kerr & J. Wolfe
Herald
Boulter
Dickson
Anderson
Mortem
Gas
Connor
Gas Co. Crow
Sauter
T. Anderson
Meyers
VICTORIA
James Mowat
Coaltion
Aloerni
British Columbia
Nazis crumble as Reds engulf Kharkov city
A Soviet monitor report says Kharkov, Ukraine's industrial center, fell to Red Army forces after fierce street fighting. Russian advances extend 400 miles from Orel to Taganrog, with claims of routing elite German units and pushing into the Donets basin as Berlin reports suburbs fighting and tank losses.
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ONDON
C.P
monitor
Kharkov
Ukraine
OSCOW
Hitler
Orel
Bolshie Saly
Taganrog
Donets
Kiev
Berlin
London
Associated Press
Cnuguev
Lozovaya
Kramatorsk
N. F. Vatutin
Edmonton Miners to Seek Pay Boost
Edmonton area union miners plan to apply to the national war labor board in Ottawa for wage increases. District 18 of the United Mine Workers of America at Calgary rejected a compromise and voted to push for pay from 4.41 to 5.78 dollars daily, excluding a 0.71 daily cost of living bonus.
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EDMONTON
national war later board
Ottawa
District 18
United Mine Workers of America
Calgary
Nations we labor board
Edmonton union seeks wage boosts for Alaska Highway workers
The Edmonton Trades and Labor Council unanimously passed a resolution demanding a 10 percent wage rise for Canadian workers on the Dawson Creek Fort Smith segment of the Alaska Highway and a 25 percent rise on the Fort Nelson to Lower Post section. The resolution also calls for free room and board for the workers.
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EDMONTON
Alaska
Dawson Creek
Fort Smith
Fort Nelson
Lower Post
Edmonton Trades and Labor Council
Fifteen Japanese ships sunk or damaged in Solomon Islands action
Washington reports in a seven day sea air battle near Guadalcanal that fifteen Japanese ships including twelve destroyers were sunk or damaged while two American ships were lost, the heavy cruiser Chicago and another destroyer, with thirty one enemy planes shot down and American losses of twenty two planes. Captain Ralph Otis Davis survived, with casualties described as not large. The action spanned January 28 to 29 as Allied forces sought to reinforce and secure Guadalcanal.
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WASHINGTON
Chicago
Solomon Islands
navy department
Guadalcanal
navy
Ralph Otis Davis
Baltimore
Jap field bombed in Burma raid after patrols and attack
New Delhi reports Japanese occupied air field at Hetto in Burma bombed overnight after a day of offensive patrols over multiple Burma areas and a bombing of Yegyanh yin off Akyab island per British communiqué.
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NEW DELHI
RAP
Hetto
Burma
Yegyanhyin
Akyab island
Gandhi Doctors Hold Parley During Fast In Poona
Five doctors examined Mohandas K Gandhi as he began the seventh day of his 21 day fast and conferred at the Aga Khan palace where he is detained. A New Delhi communique said Gandhi's condition has further deteriorated in the past 24 hours. His grand nephew, Ciflu Gandhi, Mrs Mahadev Desai, Desai's widow and Desai's 18 year old son are with him.
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POONA
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Aga Khan
Gandhi
New Delhi
Ciflu Gandhi
Mahadev Desai
Desai
Axis Offense in Tunisia Temporarily Ended
News briefs report Axis forces halting offensive in southern Tunisia with German troops mopping up between Faid and Gafsa. Heavy fighting continues in central and southern China with Japanese losses and supplies reported. Alberta forecasts a short session, a beef black market warning, US bombers sink two Japanese destroyers, and a springlike warm spell reaches Lethbridge.
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TUNISIA
LONDON
C.P
Reuters
Berlin
Faid
Gafsa
CHINA
CHUNGKING
A.P
Nanchang
Kiangsi
ALBERTA
EDMONTON
Aberthart
Social Credit
WASHINGTON
Claude Wickard
United
Etrald
Kenyon Field
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Charlottetown
Fraser
Margaree
Raccoon
Otter
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WM. ABERHART
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BIG WAR BILL
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Greenway
Gas Co. Bakery
Chalmers
DRAW T. Anderson
McConachie
Gas Co. Armstrong
Gunning
Gow
R. Paterson
Stewart
Cook
Cas Co
McIntyre
T. Paterson
Steel City
Dreskovo
Livni
Voronezh
Rostov
Shakhty
Likhaya
Voroshilovsk
Debaltseva
Red army
Red Star
IRS
wRKOV
Slack Sea
Coron
Russi
ASTRAKHA
Stalingrad
Hiller
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