Canada to cover full costs of overseas airmen under new plan
Air Minister Power announced in the House of Commons an agreement with the United Kingdom adding 341 million dollars for this fisc al year. Canada will fund 35 squadrons and pay for pay allowances clothing and pensions of RCAF personnel attached to the RAF with new pay offices opened in London Cairo and Bombay and liaison in Freetown and Algiers.
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Canada
House of Commons
Power
United Kingdom
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Bombay
Freetown
Sierra Leone
Algiers
Vincent Massey
Iceland
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Australia
New Zealand
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Aden
Traq
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Rhodesia
India
Ceylon
Burma
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Canada spends over three million on Soviet relief medical supplies
Tass News Agency report from Ottawa says the Canadian fund for relief in the Soviet Union spent 2 646 000 on Russian medical supplies, bringing total Canadian contributions to 3 022 000, with newspapers magazines and radio backing the campaign. A separate note records a trans Atlantic air flight by a transport command plane from Canada in 12 hours 57 minutes, besting the prior record by four minutes.
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Moscow
Tass
Ottawa
Canadian Fund For Relief
Soviet Union
Russia
Canada
Dominion
London
Transport Command
Quisling Meets Hitler in Berchtesgaden Conference
Reports say Norwegian puppet leader Quisling conferred with Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden as part of a series of German satellite talks.
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Europe
Viuxun Quisling
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Germany
New Air Cadets Aim For 18000 This Year
Canada’s Air Cadet League aims to enrol about 18 000 new senior air crew fit cadets this year, a target equal to 1941 and 1942 combined. Arthur L. Melling of Montreal stresses the need to build air power as Canada’s future flyers and logical builders for postwar peace. Cadets completing 50 percent or more of their training may enlist in the RCAF as aircrew and avoid a six month ground duties obligation.
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Ottawa
Canada
Air Cadet League
Enir Force
Arthur L. Melling
Montreal
Bells to ring on Sundays as Britain braces for war
Prime Minister Church announced in the House of Commons that the ban on Sunday morning bell ringing is lifted. Bells may sound again on Sundays and special days to summon worshippers, signaling resilience as invasion fears loom. The practice had been halted since 1940 with only one prior ringing on November 15 to celebrate Allied advances in North Africa.
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London
Britain
Church
House of Commons
France
Eighth Army
el Alamein
Egypt
North Africa
First Army
Victory Loan urged by Montreal Finance Minister Isley
Montreal finance minister Isley told the Montreal Canadian Club that three million Canadians in lower income brackets must subscribe to the Fourth Victory Loan to ensure success. He cited a $1.1 billion objective with $500 million from those earning $2,500 yearly or less and $600 million from corporations and wealthy subscribers. He noted about 2 million subscribed to the Third Victory Loan and urged doubling those subscriptions plus adding a million more.
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Montreal
Isley
Tisley
London Lisbon airliner attacked in daylight raid
A daylight attack by German Heinkels on a British passenger airliner flying between London and Lisbon was reported from Lisbon, the first such attack in the war.
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London
Heinkels
Lisbon
Canberra Named for Australian City In New U S Navy Cruiser
The heavy cruiser Canberra is launched in Quincy Massachusetts becoming the first U S vessel to bear a foreign city name. Sponsor Lady Dixon, wife of Australian minister Sir Owen Dixon, christens the ship named for Australia’s capital and the Australian cruiser lost near Savo Island in naval combat.
Gasoline Use in Canada Rises Slightly in 1942
A 1942 return tabled in the House of Commons by the munitions department shows Canada consumed 26,780,573 barrels of gasoline including aviation fuel. The 1941 total was 27,860,917 and 1940 was 25,208,022 barrels. The department said disclosing motor gasoline alone would reveal aviation fuel figures.
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Ottawa
Canada
House of Commons
Munitions Department
G. Diefenbaker
Con
Lake Centre
Irish Officers Will Not Be Retired Because Of Age
London reports the war office will not retire British officers from the army due to age in the future. The policy reverses the February 1942 rule that automatically retired officers over 55.
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London
War Office
Britain Boosts Aircraft Output 55 Percent Overall
London reports that aircraft production has risen by 55 percent in structure and weight for all planes and by three and a half times for bombers, according to Aircraft Production Minister Sir Stafford Cripps.
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London
Great Britain
Stafford Cripps
Payments To Be Sent Out Soon On Wheat Acreage Reduction
Regina wheat acreage reduction payments to about 2,000 Prairie farmers were delayed by a technicality in the Wheat Acreage Reduction Act. Federal Agriculture Minister James G. Gardiner said payments would be issued, clarifying the 1942 basis and covering 1943 acreage reductions. The amendment fixes rye wording removed in 1942 and explains 1941 rye payments. Gardiner noted the $2 per acre rate applies to land taken out of wheat in 1943, regardless of future use, with conditions on abandoning land. He discussed farm labor use for prisoners of war as impractical in Saskatchewan.
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Regina
James G. Gardiner
Hotel Saskatchewan
Gardiner
Saskatchewan
Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act projects avoid major washouts
Regina notes the PFRA built 20 000 dams dugouts and dikes in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta since 1935 with spring runoff highest since 1927 yet no significant washouts occurred. George Spence praises PFRA engineers and staff for the efficiency of the program.
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Regina
Prairie Provinces
Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act
George Spence
Pf.ra
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
P.F.R.A
Spence
Still A Possibility Caution At Civil Defence Exhibit
London. Herbert Morrison, minister of home security, warned an audience at a civil defence exhibition that the enemy could still use gas. He urged constant vigilance over anti gas masks and equipment.
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London
Herbert Morrison
Minster of
Home Security
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