Whirlwinds Sink Two Ships Off Cherbourg Coast
Allied air operations report RAF Whirlwind fighters sank two enemy ships and damaged a third in a five ship convoy off Cherbourg. Mosquito intruders struck rail targets in northern France while Canadian bomber groups mined enemy waters. The US Eighth Air Force attacked Emden and Wilhelmshaven with heavy bombers, sustaining losses but claiming numerous enemy aircraft destroyed.
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Lees
C.P
R.A.F
Berlin
Reich
France
French
Wilhelmshaven
Emden
Hitler
Europe
Cherbourg
R.C.A F
fighter command
London
Nam
United States air force
Germany
North
United States
The Left Hand Corner The Left Hand Corner
In Yale Review Professor George R. Cowgill discusses energy costs in a soldier life noting mechanized warfare. A field ration for 3,726 calories is devised as a three meal package packed in a heat and cold proof box for rough handling. Breakfast includes biscuits graham crackers veal fruit bar malted milk and coffee. Dinner adds powdered bouillon but omits coffee and fruit bar. Supper offers biscuits cheese chocolate fruit juice powder sugar gum and cigarettes. Hairdressing a la mode in wartime Birmingham shop features two departments Ladies and Gents with staff changes and a newly assigned hairdresser in forces.
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George R. Cowgill
Yale Review
Birmingham
risic
Le firm
Susan
Food shortage prompts migratory bird foraging in Saguenay
Ottawa reports a “serious emergency shortage” of meat and staple foods in Saguenay County Quebec due to enemy action in 1942. Under War Measures Act residents may shoot migratory birds including black ducks old squaw ducks scoters and loons and take gulls to supplement food until June.
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OTTAWA
Saguenay County
Quebec
St. Lawrence river
Saguenay river
Strait of
Belle Isle
gulf
Grevar
Que
RAF offensive ties down 750000 German troops
London May 22. Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair said in a speech that the RAF offensive has tied down on the western front about 750000 German soldiers and sailors manning search lights and guns, with a similar number of men and women on full time air raid precaution service.
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LONDON
CP. Cable
Atr
Archibald Sinclair
RAF
western front
Red Groups To Dissolve Red Groups To Dissolve
The Communist International executive committee calls for dissolution of all centres worldwide as its forms and regulations become obsolete In wartime Moscow observers see it as a sign of broader cooperation to defeat Nazism The resolution notes no time for a wartime convention and urges cessation under existing rules, with the movement pursuing national efforts locally Continued on Page Three.
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EDDY GILMORE
Associated Press
MOSCOW
Russia
Communist International
Comintern
Germany
Hitler
Soviet monitor
London
New German Drive Looms on Front in May 1942
Moscow reports ominous silence along the Russian front as Germany piles ammunition and manpower for a summer offensive. Berlin and Moscow broadcasts dispute each other, noting Red Army antenna activity and a Kuban drive believed to coincide with Soviet action south of Moscow.
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MOSCOW
minter
London
Red army
Caucasus
Orel
Berlin
Associated Press
Telephone Teletype Line to Whitehorse connects world
The completion of the 1580 mile line from Edmonton to Whitehorse links the Alaska highway region by telephone and teletype. Messages of congratulations went to the Northwest Service Command and US Army officials in Washington as the longest line in the world goes live. The project faced extreme cold and blasting hazards, but success joins the war era network across miles of mountains and ice.
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WHITEHORSE
Edmonton
Northwest Service Command
United States army
K B. Bush
Quincy
W. D. Styer
fermy service corps
U.S anmy
Daeson Olmeead
signal corps
sas
Aberhart’s Critical Condition Reported By Fallow
Alberta Premier William Aberhart remains critically ill in Vancouver General Hospital. Doctors have not improved his liver ailment. provincial officials describe his status as very, very low and say they will inform the public on any changes.
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Aberhart
peony
C.P
Solon Low
Vancouver
William Aberhart
Edmonton
Alberta
W. A. Fallon
Social Credit administration
COAST
W. OC. Manning
W. A.Fallon
Low
condi
Fallon
Social Credit
Heister
Bombing Raids Hit Burmese Rail Yards and Airfields
May 22 report from New Delhi states Wellington bombers struck Mandalay railway marshalling yards last night and daylight raids by RAP forces targeted Japanese installations around Burma town. Indaw airfield and railway station were hit, fires started. RAF Hurricanes engaged Japanese fighters near Cox's Bazar, destroying one plane. Bridge to Akyab Island bombed. troops at Buthedaung strafed. Two RAF planes missing.
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NEW DELHI
Mandalay
Burma
Indaw
Cox's Bazar
Akyab Island
Buthedaung
upper Chindwin
Veterans Guard Featured Today in Victoria Day Parade
The Herald highlights the Veterans Guard of Canada on the Victoria Day anniversary observance in Lethbridge. A downtown parade and march past will open the events, with Sperix at the grounds in the afternoon and the Corrie military band from Calgary providing music.
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Lethbridge
Sperix
Corrie millary
Calgary
Herald
Maries
Veteran Guard of Canada
Debate on Farm Labor in Ottawa House Debates Recruitment
In Ottawa the house debated farm labor with calls for compulsory training and release of trained men to farm work during peak seasons. Agriculture Minister Gardiner cited 395000 workers leaving farms for military and industry between 1939 and 1943, highlighting acute farm labor needs. Lt. Col Ros warned selective service gaps risked farm output.
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OTTAWA
house of commons
Germany
Air
Power
RCAF
Gardiner
Gordon Graydon
J R. Ros
Souris
Fourth Victory Loan totals top 1.29 billion in Canada
Ottawa reports the Fourth Victory Loan has reached 1 291 051 150 with a 1 100 000 000 objective for the three week drive. Payroll and general canvass totals exceed 512 694 100 and 2 431 949 subscribers. The loan trails the third by about 309 000 and 400 000 more subscribers. Final results from overseas troops plants and distant points still pending may adjust today’s figures.
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OTTAWA
CPI
National war finance committee
RCAF Reaches Peak. Needs 52,000 in 1943
Ottawa May 22 Fighter one bomber and army cooperation units of the RCAF guard Canada and strike at enemy fields on both coasts while other Canadians press the war on air fronts. Air Minister Power says the home war establishment will average about 33,000 personnel this year with a need for 52,000 recruits. The force will expand anti submarine work and strengthen Gulf of St Lawrence bases.
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OTTAWA
RCAF
Canada
Howe
Power
Ur Maj. Power
Aleutians
Gulf of St Lawrence
Americans Sweep Italian Airfields
American bombers and fighters destroyed 86 enemy planes yesterday in sky sweeps and raids on Sardinia and Sicily. Three-day total rose to 272 enemy planes, with 70 shot down and 202 destroyed on the ground. Fires burned on Sciacca and Castelvetrano fields as bombers hit dispersal areas and buildings.
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tBy
Noland Norgaard
Associated Press
North Africa
A.P
Sardinia
Sicily
northwest African air force
Sciacca
Castelvetrano
MALTA
islanda
Pantelleria Island
Cap Ben
strategic air force
Vaillacidro
Decimomannu
otamunique
Serdinias
Middle East
Herald to publish Monday editions with altered hours
In accordance with Dominion Government requests Victoria Day May 24 is not observed as a holiday. The Herald will publish regular editions Monday with Saturday hours observed. The final edition will be on the streets early Monday afternoon.
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Victoria
Herald
W G Wile Dies In Winnipeg May 2
William Grant Yule age 64, longtime supervisor for the Royer Bank of Canada in Saskatchewan, died at his Winnipeg home Friday after a long career in banking.
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WINNIPEG
William Grant
Yule
Royer Bank of Canada
Saskatchewan
Beveridge to Speak in Toronto on CBC Broadcast
The nations network of the CBC will carry a talk by Sir William Beveridge Sunday May 23 from 6 45 to 7 p m M D T. The event is announced for Toronto and reflects CBC programming.
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TORONTO
The nations network
CBC
William Beveridge Sundsy
M.D.T
Thousands of rubber workers strike at Akron raid
Several thousand rubber workers walked off the job at the Firestone division of the Goodrich Co in Akron Saturday in protest of a reported war board decision limiting wage increases for four major rubber companies to three cents an hour. George Bass, local union president, said the walkout aimed to pressure wartime pay policy.
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AKRON
RA. F. Goodrich Co
George Bass
war Saber board
taajec
AWS
ATTU
OTTAWA
United States
Washington
Attaigand
Rabton
aki
BALKANS
LONDON
C.F
Pighling
navy
mhen ender way
arRICA
Mediterranean
El Abimein
Cap Ben
admiralty
ABERHART
VANCOUSER
C.P
Alberta
eaal
Vancouver
hespital
wes Yiver Dinter
MONTREAL
Ville Lasalle
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Communist League
spring woods
Van Buren
Arkansas
Veterans Guard
R.C.A.F
IItaly
W. G. WILE
BEVERIDGE
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