Canadians Will Be Overseas By This Year's End
Air Minister Power announced at a press conference that a Canadian bomber group of 10 to 20 squadrons would be formed in the United Kingdom by year’s end. A Canadian fighter group would follow, with about 40 squadrons eventualy operating in the UK in cooperation with the Royal Air Force.
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Britain
Air Minister
C.P
Power
United Kingdom
Royal Air Force
Maj. Power
G. E. Brooks
R.C.A.F
bomber command
MIDDLE EAST
Canada
Empire
Buchanan To Contest Vote In Edmonton By-Election
Maj Nelle V Buchanan M C barrister and First World War veteran was chosen Liberal candidate for the September 22 provincial by election in Edmonton at a nominating convention. Only two names were placed in nomination Maj Buchanan and H Grant K C secretary of the Edmonton Liberal association. Grant moved for a unanimous selection which was carried.
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EDMONTON
Maj
Nelle V. Buchanan
M.C
Maj. Buchanan
H. Grant
K.C
Liberal association
Grant
Left Hand Corner Nature Tale From Winnipeg Reader
A Winnipeg Free Press reader Mr Garden in Sask Garden Wolse dey shares a House Wren story. The bird adopted his family as protectors and rewards trust with calm approach. The male is tame, perching on a hand and feeding young, drawing their close notice.
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John
Garden
Wolsedey
Mr. Garden
Winnipeg Free Press
wren
Pethans
CBC Must Pay 25000 for Covenant Breach in Lease Termination
Mr Justice Greene at Osgoode Hall awarded Gooderham and Worts Ltd 25000 plus costs for breach of covenant by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation over the termination of the lease for Radio Station CKGW at Bowmanville. The 1933 lease required 12000 annual rent. the CBC’s successor claimed the lease was void.
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TORONTO
Ainslee W. Greene
Osgoode Hall
Gooderham and Worts Ltd
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CKGW
Bowmanville
Gooderham and Worts
Lone Rider Of The Rockies Dead Major G H Schoof
Our Own Correspondent reports Major Gustave H Schoof known as the Lone Rider of the Rockies is dead at Spokane aged over 76. He was a hunter traveler and soldier of fortune who lectured across the western United States and explored Western Canada and Africa including service in the Matabele and Boer wars.
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ePeRESHOLSS
Rockies
Arctic
California
Gustave H. Schoof
Spokane
Corea northwest
Claresholm
Peace River country
Canada
United States
west
Germany
United Stas
plains
Wyoming
Wartime Board Seizes Beef Cattle Trade Control
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board announced Canada will have the Wartime Food Corporation as sole exporter of beef cattle. It ordered priority for military needs and said the board may buy cattle domestically to meet shortages, noting past unmet military requirements.
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Wartime Food Corporation
Canada
Food Corporation
st fe
Canadian ARMY
C.P
Wartime Prices and Trade Board
Ack Acks At Dieppe Andys Boots In Air Battle
Canadian anti aircraft unit near England claims a bold Dieppe day defense. Cooks clerks and mechanics formed makeshift gun crews and, with motorbike riders, shot at Ju 88 bombers, claiming three Nazis killed and three more hit. Andy, nicknamed, tossed up everything but his old boots amid the action.
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Dieppe
Andy
Jerries
WILLIAM STEWART
ENGLAND
O.P
Tidery
Jena
RSM
DJ! Richards
Victoria
Andy Anderson
Vancouver
BSM
Russ Reanie
Edmonton
Calgary
sars Anderson
London
British Guns Take Heavy Toll Of Axis Forces
British forces pressed Axis mechanized units in the Himeimat Ruweisat sector with the Axis withdrawing slightly westward. Allied warplanes bombarded the retreating forces, no Allied bombers were lost, and six enemy planes were shot down according to a British communique.
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CAIRO
Himeimat-Ruweisat
United States
Will James Dies At 50
Will James, 50, born near Great Falls Montana, died Thursday at Hollywood Presbyterian hospital. A writer and painter, he left the Montana rangelands years ago and rose to fame with Smoky the Cowhorse and more than 40 self illustrated books. Orphaned at four, he was raised by trapper Jean Beaupre in western Canada before returning to Montana as a young man.
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HOLLYWOOD
Will’ James
Montana
Hollywood Presbyterian hospital
James
Great Falls
Mont
Jean Beaupre
Canada
Red River
Alberta
Wfe
Wedges Driven Into Defences At Heavy Cost
Field Marshal Von Bock led a large German assault on Stalingrad with 25 divisions but Soviet counter attacks north west of the city regained ground. German forces gained a small advance at great cost while Red Army forces fought in Don bend Kretskaya and occupied another village. In Black Sea sector Novorossisk remains threatened as Soviets report destroying tanks and repelling several attacks. The Mozdok area saw German grip severed at a river line as battles rage across the Caucasus.
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Henry
Cassidy
Associated Press
OSCOW
Fedor Von Bock
Stalingrad
Red army
Tass
Red Star
Egypt
France
Volga
Caspian
Don
Kretskaya
NOVOROSSISK
Black Sea
Mozdok
central Caucasus
owr
Terek
Grozny
Caspian Sea
War correspondent in North Africa faces desert life
A weary war correspondent covers the scrap in North Africa from a slit trench. He lacks city editors and teletypes, but endures shells, dive bombers, and strafing planes. Heat by day, cold at night, and water famine punctuate his desk in the desert.
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North Africa
Allied Fliers Give Japs No Respite
U S bombers blasted Japanese bases in China as Allied forces tightened grip on the Solomon Islands. Five ships and eight airplanes were destroyed with invasion supplies, while Allied communiques and Washington reports indicated waning Japanese air resistance in New Guinea and only periodic small attacks.
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JOHN H. WIGGINS
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
United States
Solomon Islands
southwest Pacific
Australia
United States navy department
New Guinea
Dieppe Raid Death Toll At 170 In Canada
Ottawa reports Gen. AH F G Letson adjutant general says 170 Canadian soldiers killed in Dieppe raid with 626 wounded and many missing. Next of kin advised while missing names await censorship guidance to aid possible escape from occupied France.
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OTTAWA
AH. F. G. Letson
Dieppe
Letson
national defence headquarters
nations
defence headquarters
United Nations
lange
Nazi planes bomb English towns and execute Czech churchmen
Night raids by eight German planes bombed two southwest English towns with no casualties reported. German radio announced the execution of four Czech church figures, while raids in Newark seized a firearms arsenal. A Danish cellulose factory was destroyed by sabotage with casualties reported. An earthquake near New York was recorded, and Flight Sgt Thomas Terris was reportedly killed in action over Emdem.
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LONDON
C.P
charce
Reinhard Beydrich
NEWARK
Federal Bureau of Investigation
sail
New Jersey
NEW YORK
BBC
Stockholm
Danish cribulyse producta
Valbng
Copenhagen
THOMAS TERRIS
EMDEN
James Terris
Thomas Meldram Terris
Canadian Air Force
B.CLS.F
Terrs
Terris
Britain
Emdch
setarn
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Liberals
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CBC
VICHY
Jerusalem
G. H. Schoof
South Africa
Africa
LONE RIDER
MAJOR G. BH. SCHOOF
W.P.T.B
Rommel
RAF
U.S
Will James
Trapper
EAGLE
C.P. Cable
Mediterranean
admiralty
Reuters
Foca
Drina river
Sarajeug
Siberia
MONGOLIA
ERIA
PDALBO
Japan
Shigenori Togo
Hideki Tojo
Tokyo
Rossa
Sekhalin island
Kamchatka peninsula
Siberian
Vladivostok
Solomons
Nanchang
CHINA
NEW YORK, Scot
API
Fordham University
TSE
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