Finns Reject Peace Offer
The Finnish government announced it rejected Soviet Russia's armistice terms while stating a willingness to seek peace. The cabinet and parliament approved continued negotiations but deemed Moscow's demands harsh and unacceptable. The ruling came after the March 10 Soviet reply, with a 105 to 80 vote to pursue talks.
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EDWIN SHANKE
Associated Press
STOCKHOLM
Russia
Moscow
Finland
Juho Kosti Paasikivi
Helsinki
Rumanians Smashed In Bessarabia Battle Front Update
Soviet forces push toward the Romanian border in Bessarabia with gains on the Soroki highway and across the Dniester. Mogilev Podolski falls. Vinnitsa is captured as Zhukov’s army advances toward Lwow and Brody. Red Star notes bridges across the Dniester and a push to clear the Ukrainian south.
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Dniester
Red Star
Soroki
Bessarabian
Mogilev-Podolski
Red army
1st
Gregory Zhukov
Lwow
Poland
Brody
VINNITSA
Stalin
Bug
Moscow
UKRAINE
Mogilev- Podolski
Crimean peninsula
Black Sea
Crimean
Novo-Ukrainka
Odessa
Britain designates 700 miles of coast as protected area
London reports a coastal belt over 700 miles long from the Wash to Land's End will be sealed off April 1 for operational reasons. Entry is restricted to residents, with the Firth of Forth naval base included. The move clears lines of coast for military use and excludes spies from areas opposite enemy-held Netherlands, Belgium and France.
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LONDON
Europe
Britain
Firth of Forth
England
Land
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Blackmore Renews Fight Over Sugar
Blackmore questions government ties to the sugar industry in the house of commons and demands a clear answer on whether Liberal funds were ever received from the St. Lawrence Sugar Refinery or John W. McConnell. Howe says ministers do not handle campaign funds and Blackmore cites beet sugar interests in Alberta seeking to expand production.
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New Democracy
Blackmore
house of commons
St. Lawrence
Liberal party
sugar refining company
McConnell
UAWA
C.P
Howe
Alberta
Lethbridge
Dominion
London
Pea nut hull cork may replace traditional cork supplies
A National Geographic Society bulletin says discarded peanut hulls from factories processing hulls for market could be ground into meal and milled with a liquid to form a substitute cork. This “peanut hull cork” could aid bottle caps, linings, boards, and other cork uses while imports from Europe and Africa are constrained by war.
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bulletin
National Geographic Society
United States
Portugal
Spain
France
Italy
North Africa
Atlantic
Near-Beer Strength Reported After Prohibition Repeal
The New York Herald Tribune reports from brewing industry sources that civilian beer in the United States now averages 3.3 percent alcohol by volume, within a tenth of a point of the pre repeal 3.2 standard.
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NEW YORK
The
New York Herald-Tribune
United States
Parliamentary News Briefs From Ottawa March 21
Parliament in Ottawa heard Douglas Abbott state Alberta coal price increases set Dec 1 1943 will continue with 50 cents per ton for regular coal dropping to 40 cents on April 1. He clarified no flat subsidy for mines and addressed a Bow River inquiry. Also reported synthetic rubber progress at Polymer Corp Sarnia with Buna S and Butyl output and Germany praising Canadian trucks for desert use in North Africa.
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OTTAWA
Douglas Abbott
Isley
commons
Alberta
Abbott
C. E. Johnston
N.D
Bow River
Johnston
Howe
Polymer Corp
Sarnia
Ont
Private enterprise praised for future production growth
J. N. T. Bulman of Winnipeg, chairman of the prairie division of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, said in Calgary that private enterprise has created a great production era and can carry on into the future.
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CALGARY
J. N. T.Bulman
Winnipeg
prairie
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
Ford Takes Great Risk Prediction Sparks Ambassador Reply
Columbia March 21 British ambassador Lord Halifax dismissed Henry Ford's claim that the war would end in two months as a dangerous prophetic wager. He said any man who adopts the role of prophet is taking a great risk with his reputation amid wartime uncertainty.
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FORD
COLUMBIA
S.C
Lord Halifax
Henry Ford
Atlanta Constitution
Curb Air Transport Stirs British Industry Debate
John W. Booth, chairman of British American Air Lines and Booth Steamship Co, told the Liver pool Steamship Owners Association that the government is curbing efforts to advance air transport. He urged future shipbuilding planning while officials said the time is not ripe for change.
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LIVERPOOL
John W. Booth
British American Air Lines
Booth Steamship Company
Liverpool Steamship Owners’ Association
Booth
Fight in Hungary reveals first dead in struggle against invader
The Daily Mail quoted a Hungarian military broadcast declaring the nation has suffered its first dead in the fight against the invader, our former ally. The message urged continuation of the struggle though the broadcasting station was not identified.
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LONDON
C.P
The
Daily Mail
Hungary Occupied by German Troops Across Key Rail Points
Allied dispatches report German forces fanning out over Hungary seizing strategic rail hubs as Russian columns press toward Transylvania. Hungarian leaders including Horthy and foreign minister are said summoned to Berlin, with Bela Imredi named to form a government amid mounting Nazi pressure. Red troops approach from Poland and Bessarabia, signaling a widening conflict.
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ANKARA
Hungary
Bucharest
Andolu Ajans
WILLIAM SMITH WHITE
Associated Press
LONDON
Hitler
Nicholas Horthy
Nicholas Kallay
Germany
Bela Imredi
Horthy
Poland
Tarnopol
Transylvania
Rumania
Bessarabia
Balkans
Sextuplets Born Near Rivas Nicaragua Reported
Anagua Nicaragua March 21 six newborns four boys and two girls were reported today to have been born to Paula Esquivel in Potosi near Rivas confirmation pending.
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Associated Press
ANAGUA
Nicaragua
Paula Esquivel
Potosi
Rivas
Howe Report to Commons on Canada's war production peak
Munitions Minister Howe told the Commons that Canada’s war production has peaked, with total contracts reaching 9.45 billion dollars and 1943 44 output at 3.435 billion. He outlined ongoing expansion in some lines and reductions in others, plans for rapid conversion after the war, and that 800,000 of over 1,000,000 war workers are in manufacturing. Aircraft output rose in 1943 to 4,133 with shifts toward larger, more complex models.
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JACK WILLIAMS
OTTAWA
C.P
Canada
Howe
the
commons today
munitions department
department
Caneas
national selective service
Edmonton Trades Press Alberta Women Wage Brief
The Edmonton Trades and Labor executive will present a brief to the board of industrial relations urging higher wages for female workers in Alberta. Delegates are to gather minimum wage data for women and submit to a committee for a labor brief. The 1935 minimum wage for Alberta female workers is $12.50 per week.
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EDMONTON
Edmonton Trades and Labor executive
board of industrial relations
Alberta
Alberta House Debates Bank Bill and War Report Vote
The Alberta assembly advanced a Provincial Bank bill allowing Executive Council members to hold bank shares up to 500000 and serve as directors while repealing the Banking Powers Act. Third readings were given to two bills on natural gas utilities and fish trade, and ten other bills were read a second time. The Interim Post War Reconstruction Committee report was adopted by a 37 to 5 vote with several Independents aligned with Social Credit.
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natural gas utilities board
Reconstruction committee
Elmer Roper
C.C.F
Edmonton
Angus Morrison
Lab
J. C. Mahaffy
Ind
Calgary
J. J. Bowlen
Lib
Percy McKelvey
Ponoka
George MacLachlan
Pembina
Alberta provincial bank
Feeder Farmers Seek Export Route For Finished Cattle
Alberta farmer representatives told Agriculture Minister Gardiner that heavy losses loom unless export markets open for finished cattle. About 2000 Alberta feeders face shortages as U S shipments halt, with calls to export to the United States or send to the United Kingdom.
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OTTAWA
Alberta
Gardiner
United States
United Kingdom
Eugene Burton
Medicine Hat
Burton
R. Dahl
Raymond
A. B. Haarstad
Bentley, Alta
H. H. Hannam
Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Henwood Named Chairman of Western War Labor Board
Ottawa reports Labor Minister Mitchell announced in the commons the appointment of George B. Henwood Alberta deputy attorney general as chairman of the Western War Labor Board. He will succeed Justice G. B. O Connor of Edmonton, named last week as chairman of the Wartime Labor Relations Board.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Mitchell
commons
George B. Henwood
Alberta
Western War Labor Board
Henwood
Justice G. B. O'Connor
Edmonton
Wartime Labor Relations Board
Western Canadian athlete Syd Hamilton dies in Edmonton
Sydney Hamilton aged 41 a well known Western Canada athlete died in hospital after a brief illness in Edmonton He came to Edmonton as a child from Virden Manitoba where he was born He was unmarried.
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EDMONTON
Sydney Hamilton
Virden
Man
Jap Convoy Ravaged by Allied Air Attack
Allied headquarters report says over 100 Allied bombers and attack planes sank a five ship Japanese convoy off Wewak New Guinea on March 21. Two troop transports of 6,000 and 4,000 tons and three corvettes were destroyed in a low level assault 70 miles northwest of Wewak. The raiders lost three planes.
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ALLIED
Southwest Pacific
Wewak
New Guinea
Allied forces seize Sumprabum in Burma drive continues
Allied troops including Gurkha and Kachin units with Chinese American forces captured Sumprabum in northeast Burma and reoccupied Pinsanga as Japanese forces push toward India from the Chindwin. The clash near Myitkyina and Hunkawng valley indicates a broader double pronged offensive with tank action reported in the Kabaw valley.
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NEW DELHI
Sumprabum
Burma
India
Chindwin river
southeast Asia
Pinsanga
Mari Kha
China
Yunnan
Mali Kha
Myitkyina
Hunkawng valley
Jambu Bum
Mogaung river
Asis
Kabaw valley
Chirhills
Homalin
Russians Take Verba and Podkamen Districts
Red army advances report capture of Verba in Rovne region and Podkamen, about 55 miles east of Lwow, as mopping up operations continue. Other items include Chaplin going on trial in Los Angeles on Mann act charges and Lonergan murder case not signed statement. Vesuvius lava described as a terrible weapon on its slopes with a building collapse. Patton gets new command. Montreal calls for higher teachers salaries.
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LWOW
LONDON
C.P
Red army
Verba
Rovne
Rovno
Podkamen
Moscow
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
LOS ANGELES
A.P
Charles Spencer Chaplin
J. F. T. O'Connor
Joan Berry
New York
LONERGAN
Wayne Lonergan
B.C.A.F
Mount Vesuvius
San Sebastiano
PATTON
WASHINGTON
war department
George 5. Patton, Jr
United States 7th Army
Sicily
guether
MONTREAL
Canadian Chamber of Commerce Association
Dominion
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Sydney
RCHIE
U.S
Hon. Gardiner
Dahl
Canadian Meat Board
Geo. B. Henwood
West War Labor Board
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