Trans Canada Airlines plans routes and expansion
Trans-Canada Airlines proposes trans oceanic flying and a shorter transcontinental route via Lakes Huron and Superior. Aimed at expanding to Vancouver Island and eastern provinces, the plan includes improved air mail and passenger service with airports ready. Revenue passengers rose 23 percent, mail 66 percent, and air express 109 percent. the carrier operated 24 Lockheed aircraft with 1,662 staff.
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Canada
Symingtom
Air World
North America
Europe
Symington
Trans-Canada
Lakes Huron
Superior
Yukon
Atx
Post Office
Vancouver
Vancouver Island
Board of Transport Commissioners
Victoria
Air Express
Lockheed
Iust
Ottawa imposes rationing on small arms ammunition
The prices board ordered rationing of small arms ammunition to ensure supplies for essential users. Eligible buyers include those who hunt for food, trappers, prospectors, RCMP members, police guarding property or livestock, and certain rifle or gun clubs under defined conditions.
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Mall Arms Am
Ottawa
Prices Board
RCALP
Memorial Service for Sir Edward Beatty Held in London
A memorial service for Sir Edward Beatty late chairman of Canadian Pacific Railway was held March 30 at St Martin in the Fields London announced by CPR officials He died in hospital after a two year illness and was buried at St Catharines Ontario near Thorold where Beatty family members are buried Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church of St Andrew and St Paul in Thorold
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St. Andrew and St. Paul
Population strain warned for Sydney Canada limits
Hon. T. C. Davis, Canadian high commissioner to Australia, told a Rotary club luncheon that Sydney-Canada cannot care for more than 20 to 40 million people. The remarks appeared in an ad zeas addressed to the event.
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Sydney
Canada
Hon
T. C. Davis
Australia
Zeas
Rotary Club
Prisons Crowded Force German Shootings in Poland
The Polish Telegraph Agency reports German guards executed the entire Rowno prison camp population after a failed break attempt and two guards killed. A raid at Pinsk freed 54 prisoners, followed by the killing of 30 more prisoners after German surroundment. No total for Rowno execution was given.
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London
Polish Telegraph Agency
Rowno
Poland
Pinsk
Rowns
Report on Camp Conditions in Hong Kong Improve
The International Red Cross reports steady improvement at Stanley Camp Hong Kong as of January 25 per Foreign Under- secretary Richard Law in the House of Commons. Further details to come from Red Cross visits. More than 1,500 Canadian soldiers, mainly Winnipeg Grenadiers and Royal Rifles of Canada, are officially listed as Japanese prisoners of war.
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International Red Cross
Hong Kong
London
Stanley Camp
Richard Law
House of Commons
Red Cross
Winnipeg Grenadiers
Royal Rifles of Canada
Quebec
Archbishop urges open doors for Jews with consular visas
London. The Archbishop of Canterbury urged the government to open doors to Jewish refugees and proposed issuing visas through consuls in Spain Portugal and perhaps Turkey to allow all who can to come. He called for humanitarian action amid mounting wartime displacements.
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London
Archbishop of Canterbury
Spain
Portugal
Turkey
McGill principal heads Dominion reconstruction committee
Dr Cyril James of McGill University serves as chairman of the Dominion government's advisory committee on reconstruction. Dr Leonard C. March, draughtsman of Canada’s Beveridge plan, is a research adviser to the committee. The report was prepared at the request of Hon Ian Mackenzie.
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Cyril James
McGill University
Leonard C. March
Canada
Honlan Mackenzie
United States Canadian Agricultural Committee Meeting
Ottawa hosted the first Canadian session of the standing United States Canadian agricultural committee. Members discussed programs and problems of various food products. Dr G B H Barton deputy minister of agriculture chaired the Canadian section and noted ongoing discussions to keep agriculture and food production under study for mutual developments. Five US agriculture authorities met with Canadian committeemen.
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G. 8. H. Barton
Minster of Agriculture
Canada
United States
United States Agriculture and
Sweden Defiance and Pro-Axis Charge in Commons
London MPs debated Sweden's wartime stance with Sir Alfred Knox asserting a definite pro Axis attitude since the war began. He claimed UN power to pressure Stockholm by halting U S food shipments. Orman Bower pressed Britain to warn Sweden that neutrality breaches would harm its interests as officials said evidence must be proven.
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Tam Slp
Sweden
London
Alfred Knox
House of Commons
United Nations
Orman Bower
Britain
Gandhi, Congress blamed for Indian uprisings by British paper
A British white paper assigns full responsibility to Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian Congress party for recent nationalist uprisings in India. It argues Gandhi doubted nonviolence's defense value and notes a Congress resolution backing Allied troops in India as protection. The document explains Gandhi's Poona imprisonment context after a three week fast aimed at securing release.
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Itish
Gandhi
London
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Indian Congress Party
India
Japan
Congress
Poona
Greek Guerillas Await Day They Can Aid United Nations
Greek guerrillas living on Axis supplies look to aid the United Nations in driving the Axis from Greece. Epaminondas Tsellos, minister of public welfare, says the underground is cellular and coordinated with the Greek government with offices in London and Cairo. He warns of dangers to national health from malnutrition.
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United Nations
Cairo
Greece
Epaminondas Tsellos
Tsellos
London
Wartime Information Board Expenses Reported in Commons
Ottawa reports the wartime information board has spent 579162 since inception. Salaries, honoraria and living allowances total 119209, while board members themselves have not drawn pay. The board distributes speeches by the prime minister and ministers when judged nationally significant, five times so far.
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Ottawa
Wartime Information Board
House of Commons
Princister
Half of American food now under coupon rationing
The Office of Price Administration announced a nationwide meat butter cheese fats oils and canned fish ration program. Each person gets 16 points weekly from red stamps to buy items from pork ears to dried beef, with point values set by supply and demand and likely to change month to month.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Australia and New Zealand Ready for Japanese Assault
Australia and New Zealand brace for a potential Pacific attack. Prime Minister Jenna Curtin orders the return of the veteran 9th Australian Division from Africa. Aircraft production chief predicts total forces may reach 1,000,000 this year while New Zealand Prime Minister Peter Fraser notes air strength has grown a hundredfold since the war began.
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Australia
New Zealand
Japan
Canberra
South Pacific
Jenna Curtin
Africa
Peter Fraser
Toronto Suggested Slogan For Victory Loan Back The Attack
R. J. Dunlevy, adviser to the national war finance committee, recommended the slogan Back the Attack for Canada's next Victory Loan. He spoke at a meeting of personnel managers and editors, linking the phrase to anticipated opening of a second front.
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Toronto
Canada
R. J. Dunlevy
National War Finance Committee
Dunlevy
Bombers to flood Europe with heavier planes says general
General Ira C. Baker, commander of American forces in Britain, states new London based bombers will be faster and carry three to four times the bomb load of present Flying Fortresses. The aircraft are to be deployed in a round the clock bombardment of Europe.
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London
Europe
Ira C. Baker
Britain
Man and wife knit blankets for Red Cross drives
In San Diego Walter L. Skelley, 70, and his wife turn donated woolen clothing into practical blankets. Through their effort they have completed twenty blankets so far, helping the home front during wartime.
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San Diego
Thuough
Walter L. Skelley
Red Cross
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Margaret Rose
Baden-Powell
King
Great Britain
C. V. W. Vickers
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J. H. Roberts
Vincent Massey
A. G. L. McNaughton
First Canadian Army
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