Farmers Prefer Wheat over Pigs In Western Canada
Ottawa reports Prairie farmers favor wheat over hogs, with western provinces expanding wheat acreage in 1945 while hog production declines. Alberta and Saskatchewan show higher wheat and oats, while Manitoba trims wheat and boosts oats. Officials warn against dropping grain production, noting Europe’s hunger and the value of wheat, despite stock carryovers and high hog prices.
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Ottawa
Canada
Prairie
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Prairies
Western Farme
Counterfeit Lookalike Tokens For Canadian Meat Ration
Ottawa reports that blue plastic tokens, designed to resemble meat ration coupons, will circulate in Canada. Each token, stamped Canada ration and Viande with a maple leaf, is issued as change by merchants after a meat purchase and coupon presentation. Tokens cannot be exchanged between merchants and coupons remain valid weekly under new safeguards.
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Ottawa
Donald Gordon
Canada
United States
Gordon
German Prisoners in Canada Assert Firm Justice
An internal official in Ottawa defends Canada’s handling of about 39,000 German POWs. He cites international conventions and notes a Edmonton Journal despatch claiming Wainwright Alberta camp prisoners had good meals, beer, and facilities yet remained arrogant.
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Ottawa
Canada
Edmonton Journal
Wainwright
Alta
Trial date set for Butcher of Lidice in Prague
In Luxembourg Mondorf Karl Hermann Frank the butcher of Lidice will face trial around September 1 in Prague. He may be sent to the United Nations war crimes commission for retrial at Nurnberg with other war criminals, per Dr Bohuslav Beer the Czecho Slovak representative.
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Luxembourg
Karl Hermann Frank
Lidice
Prague
United Nations War Crimes Commission
Juernberg
Bohuslav Beer
Vancouver boy set 61 minute model flight record
Les Westlake of Vancouver established a North American record for gas powered model aircraft by staying aloft 61 minutes at the Bellingham Washington meet. He tripled his own Canadian mark of 22 minutes and is awaiting confirmation from Washington DC as officials consider new US records.
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Vancouv
Les Westlake
Vancouver
Bellingham
Wash International
Westlake
Washington, DC
Morgenthau Buys First War Bond In New Role
Henry Morgenthau Jr has bought his first war bond marking his return to public life. He previously sold bonds totaling over 200 billion dollars while serving as secretary of the treasury, though law barred him from buying while treasurer. He purchased a $1000 bond from his successor Fred M. Vinon who sold the remaining bonds after taking office.
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Washington
Henry Morgenthau
Morgenthau
American Treasury
Sam
Fred M. Vimon
Defence maximum set at forty pounds in Joyce treason trial
The Public Prosecution Director Theobald Matthew stated the maximum allowed for defence in the treason trial of William Joyce known as Lord Haw Haw is forty pounds about 180 dollars. The figure appears amid prosecutorial remarks during the proceedings.
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Serene Eee
Wiliam
Lord Haw Haw
Joyce
Theobald Matthew
Public Prosecutions
Chifley Named Australia Prime Minister After Curti n’s Death
Joseph Benedict Chifley a former locomotive driver and Labor Treasurer is chosen to succeed the late John Curtin as prime minister. The 60 year old pipe smoking leader has dedicated his life to improving workers’ conditions while Crerar, the Canadian army chief, is honored by King George VI. Polish courts sentence 300 German war criminals as trials continue and 6,000 cases are under investigation.
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Joseph Benedict Chifley
Australia
John Curtin
Moscow
Polpress
Warsaw
Ottawa to Sell Victory Aircraft Plant to Hawker Siddeley
The government announces the sale of Malton Ontario's Victory aircraft plant to Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company of London England. No price is given and sale depends on conditions. A Canadian company will run the plant and production will continue. The plant built Lancaster bombers and recently contracted for the four engined Lincoln bomber for the war against Japan. One purchase condition requires a Canadian design and development organization for aircraft turbines and related equipment.
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Ottawa
Victory Aircraft
Malton
Ont
Hawker Sideley Aircraft Company
London
Eng
Howe
Germany
Japan
Graduate Flight Stewards Train for Canada National Airline
Twenty one graduates from Air Lines Stewardess School in Winnipeg complete the largest class to date, selected from across seven provinces. Under Edith Hemingson, chief stewardess, the program covered flight safety, procedures, and ticketing as Canada’s national airline prepares for expanded transit and inter city service beyond the war.
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Canada
Ia Air Lines
Winnipeg
Steenth
TCA
Dominion
Edith Hemingson
T.C.A
Miss Hemingson
Leone Barry
Western
Verna Jeffery
Wanda Kenny
Vancouver
B.C
Dorothy Dann
Edmonton
Alta
Geraldine Connolly
Calgary
Doreen Blackwell
Saskatoon
Anne Switzer
Regina
Sask
Lorina Bouchard
Kerrobert
Louisa Anderson
Wynyard
Mary Adams
Mary Haimes
Man
Doreen Wison
Justice Man
Barbara Roy
Anita Germaine
Toronto
Mary Richardson
Peterborough
Ont
Zetta Dunlop
Seaforth
Dora Colquelin
Windsor
Marie Tolm
E Lindsay
Kathleen Bannon
Proton
Government suspends evictions over housing shortage in Canada
Ottawa announces an indefinite postponement of evictions from self contained rentals for owner occupation or family needs. Notices to vacate and all related legal actions are suspended as Wartime Housing Limited plans to build 10,000 low rent dwellings to ease a critical winter housing crisis amid labor and material shortages.
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Ottawa Finance Atinister
Isley
The
Prices Board
Canada plans meat rations only for animals
Ottawa reports Canada will institute a new meat rationing system with no meat allocated for humans. Dogs, including seeing-eye dogs, may be the only exception as the prices board considers a meat ration for animals similar to the prior period.
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Ottawa
Canada
United States to surrender five Greenland weather stations
The Danish legation reports that the United States will give up five of the 16 Greenland weather stations to Denmark. American officials request that Danish radio personnel and mechanics go to Greenland before August to operate the stations. Calgary approves six scholarships of 300 dollars each for high-ability students with limited funds. awards split evenly between boys and girls and payable October 1 each year.
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United States
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Greenland
Legation
Calgary
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