Votes for overseas service members rejected in Alberta election bill
In Edmonton March 23 the Alberta legislature debated voting rights for armed forces abroad in the next provincial election. Attorney-General Lucien May said no practical method exists to enfranchise overseas servicemen. An amendment seeking acclamation for armed forces members was defeated by voice vote. The bill also lowers the voting age to 19, with automatic nomination for overseas service members, a proposal opposed as undemocratic. Continued on Page Three.
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EDMONTON
Lucien May
Alberta
Maynard
Hugh John Macdonald
L. Edmonton
armed services
bers
assembly
E. J. Martin
Ind
Peace River
Andrew Davison
Calgary
British Empire
Thomas Tremblay
L. Grouard
Gordon Taylor
S.C
Drum
S.C. Calgary
Mr. Martin
Capt. Tremblay
Blood Transfusion History and Bird Notes From War Era
The Brockville Recorder and Times cites early blood transfusion trials from 1667 and quotes a London Spectator remark by a North Africa RA M C officer about nesting birds near Medjez El Bab. A housewife jokes about painting the mangle, with a note that the piece continues on the back page.
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Brockville Recorder and Times
Pepys
London Spectator
R.A.M.C
North Africa
Tunisia
Medjez-El-Bab
Revision of Canadian divorce laws urged in senate
Ottawa reports show Senator John Haig backed by Senator W D Euler urged broadening grounds for divorce and moving hearings from parliament. Haig noted overburdened divorces and urged after Easter recess careful action to reform grounds, with emphasis on removing adultery as sole reason. Massey reappears in commons after two years to assist air force re recruitment and defence minister Ralston promised a Friday answer to Green on army officers’ status.
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OTTAWA
senate
John Haig
P.C
Manitoba
W. D. Euler
Ontario
Hairs
Haig
Canada
MASSEY
Denton Massey
Toronto
Greenwood
commons
Britain
Defence
Ralston
Howard Green
Vancouver South
Pacific Command
India Meets Jap Thrust
Japanese columns invading India threaten Imphal in Manipur as Allied headquarters report an 80 mile advance up the lower Manipur River valley from Tiddim. An eastern invasion is about 30 miles from Imphal with growing pressure along the Burma front. The air forces are expected to play a decisive role if open fighting begins.
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CHARLES XS
GRUMICH
Associated Press
NEW DELHI
India
Imphal
Manipur
Tiddim
China hills
Logtak Lake
Burma
Maungdaw
Arakan
Mayu mountain range
Zarubin Named Soviet Ambassador to Canada
G N Zarubin, chief of the American section of the Soviet foreign office, is appointed Soviet ambassador to Canada succeeding Fedor Gusev. The Moscow announcement notes Zarubin is in his early 40s and well regarded by Averell Harriman and the American embassy staff. The Canada post had been vacant since Gusev moved to Britain.
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OTTAWA
external affairs department
G. N. Zarubin
Canada
Fedor Gusev
Great Britain
Moscow
Zarubin
New York
Gusev
Ivan Maisky
Maisky
Georg Zarubin
Russia
Averell Harriman
United States
Churchill To Speak Sunday
London dispatch reports Prime Minister Churchill will broadcast to the nation at 3 p.m. local time on Sunday March 26 with CBC confirming national coverage starting at 2 p.m. MDT from Toronto. Officials note the speech will be carried across the CBC network.
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LONDON
C.P
Prime Minster
Churchill
Battle for Atlantic Air Routes Looms
Washington March 23 A proposed deal would let American Airlines buy a controlling stake in American Export Airlines for 3 090 000 dollars subject to civil aeronautics board approval. The move would give American Airlines Atlantic operating rights and challenge Pan American Airways across the Atlantic.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Atlantic
American Airlines, Inc
American Export Airlines, Inc
American Airlines
civil aeronautics board
American Export Lines, Inc
international airline
C.A.D
Canada
Mexico
Export Airlines
Pan American Airways, Inc
Blast Five Nazi Areas Blast Five Nazi Areas
Allied air forces bomb five German targets including Hamm railroad yards Achmer Handorf Münster and the Messerschmitt works at Brunswick in a second straight day of heavy operations. US bombers faced opposition but achieved good visual bombing weather at most targets with Brunswick hit by instrument bombing.
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GLADWIN HILL
Associated Press
LONDON
Germany
United States
Frankfurt
R.A.F
R.C.AF
R.AF
Berlin
United States air headquarters
Europe
Hamm
Achmer
Oldenburg
Handorf
Muenster
Messerschmitt
Brunswick
instrument
Rumania And Bulgaria Next
The report notes Germany’s tightening grip on southeastern Europe after Hungary's puppet regime. Bulgaria and Romania are seen as potential next occupations, with Slovakia also mentioned. Berlin claims countering Allied intriques, while Bulgarian railways and embassies reportedly see German actions. Antonescu rumored to seek Transylvania return as inducement for collaboration.
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ERNEST AGNEW
Associated Press
LONDON
Adolf Hitler
Hungary
Berlin
Budapest
Quisling
Bulgaria
Rumania
Hitler
Slovakia
Czecho- Slovakia
Daily Mail
Madrid
Sofia
Russia
Prut
Ankara
Ion Antonescu
Transylvania
Antonescu
Yanks Sink 3 Jap Ships In Pacific Action
Allied bombers sunk a Japanese destroyer and two small merchant vessels off Aitape New Guinea as raids continued in the area. An unopposed Raabul raid dropped 133 tons of explosives on the isolated New Britain outpost. Marines in the St Matthias Islands fortified Emirau with no Japanese resistance while Australians near Madang advanced toward Bogadjim.
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
Southwest Pacific
Aitape
New Guinea
Wewak
Rabaul
New Britain
St. Matthias Islands
Rabau
Alberta legislature backs Western irrigation district plan
Edmonton March 23 Twenty five bills were debated in a three hour session with progress on an election act amendment and a bill to validate an agreement between the Canadian Pacific Railway and landowners in the Western Section of the CPR irrigation block east of Calgary Approval was given to the deal while Calgary MLA C H Mahaffy urged protection for farmers still tied to CPR water contracts He proposed setting aside 140000 in a special trust fund to cover possible damage claims and urged a $20 per acre compensation from the company for water obligations. others supported the idea.
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EDMONTON
Alberta
western
Canadian Pacific Railway
C.PR
Calgary
assembly
C. Mahaffy
Ind
CPR
C.P.R
D. J. McKinnon
Gleichen
W. E. Cain
D.C
Bow Valley Empress
Lionel Tellier
St. Albert
Angus Morrison
Lab
Russians Drive Toward Nikolaev and Odessa Fronts
Soviet forces pressed toward Nikolaev and the Carpathians as Malinovsky’s units pushed southwest of Kremenets aiming for Lwow. Reports said over 1,000 Germans killed in the sector with many drowned in the Bug river during the two day engagement as Zhukov’s 1st Ukrainian Army advanced.
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ODESSA
Pervomaisk
Vosnesensk
Bug river
Odessa-Lwow
Slobadzeye
Yarishev
Kurilovtsky
cys
Terences
Fifth Army Repels Cassino Attacks
Fifth Army repelled German assaults on Cassino positions as Allied bombers hit supply lines in northern Italy. New Zealanders fought at close quarters in Cassino’s southern sector while artillery targeted a German tank in a wrecked building. Germans attacked Hill 198 and near Monte Castellone, but French troops and Allied artillery repulsed them. Canadian corps held on the British front as patrols moved forward.
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Richard G. Massodk
Associated Presa
NAPLES
Fifth Army
Cassino
Italy
New
wwil
Monastery Hill
Monte Castellone
iri
Douglas Amazon
Russians advance toward Tarnopol in Poland war update
Soviet communique reports a major advance of 25 to 37 miles toward Tarnopol in Poland with capture of Zalozhtze and Veliki Globechek signaling bypass of German defenses as forces move toward Lwow. Allied air losses mount with U.S. planes downing 26 German fighters and 27 bombers missing.
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POLAND
LONDON
C.P
Red army
Tarnopel
Lwow
U.S
A.P
United States
CONQUEST
WASHINGTON
L. Moore Cosgrave
Australia
Admiralty Islands
WINNIPEG
Canadian Wheat Board
FLORENCE
Reme
AMELIA BARNART MARSHALL ISLANDS
Elien
Marshall Islands
Ajima
Amelia Earhart
Pacific
fiier
Ajises
Japan
Eugene F. Bogan
Lexington
pertalesion
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BENGAL
HURAWNG VALLEY
MOUNTBATTEN
SUMATRA
ISTHMUS
INDIAN OCEAN
BURMA FRONT
Joseph Stilwell
Ledo road
Hukawng valley
Burma road
Louis
Kraisthmus
Sumatrabatten
Singapore
Chittagong
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munitions department
Lionel Chevrier
Mr. Chevrier
G.N. Zarubin Russ Envoy
YANES SINK
M.L.A
Reds
Vitebsk
Stalin
Bessarabia
ONDON
Kovel
Pripet marshes
Red
army
NIKOLAEV
EDDY GILMORE
Black Sea
Carpathian Mountains
IvanS. Konev
Prut river
Bessarabian
Byeltsi
Rodion Y. Malikovsky
Bograviensk
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