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Newspaper
Lethbridge Herald
Location
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Date
Sep 11, 1945
Page
1
Premier King answers Bracken as Ilsley comments that proposals for tax cuts will be disappointing. Lawmakers discuss gravity of postwar issues both domestic and external and weigh party leadership positions.
A Toronto Star dispatch from Ottawa predicts income tax reductions of at least seven percent of taxable incomes, likely by abolishing the normal tax and merging it into total taxes. The cut, if any, may apply only to 1945 earnings and to taxes payable this year. The article also reports on throne speech debates, party leaders’ speeches, and proposed wartime tax cuts, with commentary from Prime Minister Mackenzie King and others.
Solon E Low of the Social Credit party, in his maiden Commons speech, urged $50 monthly old age pensions starting at age 60, saying the need will grow as unemployment rises under the current financial system. He argued the cost seems modest next to wartime gifts to enemies and domestic prosperity. He noted his Peace River riding in northern Alberta as he spoke.
A book by Guy Burch and Elmer Pendell argues world population doubles roughly every 70 years. From 1.6 billion early this century to 2.2 billion now, future totals could reach 3.2 billion by century end. The authors warn current shortages of life basics and stress the need for resources, reclamation, and tech progress to support growing numbers.
Hong Kong’s formal surrender of Japanese forces is scheduled today near Victoria jail amid war scars. Signatories include Rear Admiral Geof Harcourt for Britain, Capt Wallace Creery for Canada, and Lt General Lo Cho Yin for China. The Empress of Australia will repatriate liberated Allied nationals, with over 300 Canadians aboard bound for home within weeks.
In Ottawa today State Secretary Martin said Canada will revert to standard time with date to be announced shortly. He noted desire to synchronize Canadian timetables with the United States where revision probably occurs Sept 30 and promised a forthcoming announcement.
Archdeacon J. W. Tims, pioneer Anglican missionary among the Indians, died at his Calgary home at age 89. He arrived from England in 1833 to work with the Blackfoot and Sarcee, translating scriptures and hymns and adapting a syllabic writing for their language. His career spanned church work in southern Alberta, with late-life activity after his January 143 retirement.
Western Construction Company of Edmonton received the contract for Pot Hole Coulee dam at Magrath. The bid total was $390,865 with seven bids. total completed project cost expected over $400,900. Work to start within a week.
Tokyo dispatch reports Hideki Tojo, former premier who ordered the Pearl Harbor attack, shot himself in the chest with a .32 pistol as American officers moved to take him to headquarters. He bled heavily and was in critical condition despite a transfusion. doctors debated heart involvement and his chance of survival.
Domei quotes former Premier Hideki Tojo after a suicide attempt. He says he bears all responsibility for the Greater East Asia war and hopes others understand the situation. He claims the war was just and notes his wish to avoid trial as a vanquished victor.
Canadian press dispatch from Manila lists western Canadians and others among more than 300 freed from the Hong Kong area. The released include members of the Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Royal Rifles of Canada, with ranks and hometowns such as Fort Frances Ontario Swift Current Regina Calgary and Taber. The 1941 defense of Hong Kong ended with Japanese surrender on Christmas Day.
A Sunburst Montana refinery fire killed Wen Cunningham a Texaco operating foreman and caused extensive damage with another worker sustaining minor burns. The plant, operating at full blast before 9 pm, is temporarily shut for repairs as investigators seek the cause.
Fusako Mitsui a 23 year old Tokyo bookseller from Ocean Falls B C is lonely as her husband is serving in Manchukuo and drafted three years ago. She loves English books and says American troops seek publications on Japanese art. Her brother Toshiaki Muraoka is linked to an evacuee boy in Raymond.
Canadian Royal Public Safety men Hiflerien Don Dalnard and Bob Durdle were in Stanley Village Hospital when Japanese troops raided on Christmas Day 1941. They described officers searched patients as 42 Japanese soldiers threatened to shoot and loot. Durdle bears a bullet scar, Daldnard recalls screams from the hospital as chaos continued overnight.
News reports detail Allied prisoners of war located in four remote Hokkeido camps with 1 556 men, 2 000 seriously ill internees in Batavia camps, and air-dropped supplies. In Canada police uncover bonds worth up to 300000, linked to bank heritage thefts in Omiara.
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