Wartime farm price plan to curb postwar declines
Ottawa details a wartime style plan to stabilize farm prices after the war by a three member board under Agriculture Department guidance. The board will influence markets by buying and selling rather than direct control, with Wheat Board and meat boards cited as precedents. Provisions to buy and sell would take effect by proclamation later.
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Ottawa
Wrill
Rowse
J. G. Gardiner
Canadian Wheat Board
Bacon Board
Meat Board
Wheat Board
Australian Ambassador at Washington Urged by Newsman
Don Whitington, prominent Australian journalist, urges sweeping reforms in Australia's representation in North America. He calls for elevating the Washington minister to ambassador status as Canada has done and for efficient Australian news and information bureaux in Canada and the United States modeled on Canada’s offices.
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Washington
Sydney
Australia
Don Whitington
Canada
Sydney Daily Telegraph
Whitington
United States
U.S
De Gaulle Hopes for Practical Accords With Britain and America
In Algiers Gen Charles de Gaulle urged early practical accords with Britain and America on coordinating the French administration and Allied armies on liberated territories. He stressed a bond of common interest with England and praised the United States, Russia's role, and talks with Canadian and refugee governments. In the Pacific, American forces pushed inland on Tinian, capturing the western third of the main airfield, while Guam invasion efforts isolated another airstrip and pressed toward Agana. London reports 63 MPs serving in the British armed forces aside from the Home Guard.
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Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
Britain
America
de Gaulle
United States
France
England
Russia
London
Pearl Harbor
Tinian
Marianas
Guam
Agana
Man who raised WWI company dies in Saskatchewan
Archibald John Falconer of Duval Saskatchewan, 61, raised a Canadian army company at his own expense in 1916, trained as an officer, and became a major. He later opened a general store and insurance agency, served 20 years as secretary-treasurer, and worked 12 years for the Saskatchewan Farm Labor Board. His wife died earlier.
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Saskatchewan
Duval
Sask
Archibald John Falconer
Saskatchewan Farm Labor Board
Canadian battalions from Dieppe at Normandy action
Four Canadian battalions that fought at Dieppe on August 19 1942 are now in action in Normandy. War correspondent Ross Munro names the 2nd Division units as The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Winnipeg The Essex Scottish Regiment of Windsor Ontario The South Saskatchewan Regiment and Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal.
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London
Dieppe
Normandy
Ross Munro
Queen's Own
Cameron Highlanders
Winnipeg
Essex Scottish Regiment
Windsor
Ont
South Saskatchewan Regiment
Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal
Cheap Meals Reach Five Gambia Schools
In Bathurst Gambia the school lunch experiment is proving satisfactory with five schools now serving meals at a charge of five cents per head.
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Bathurst
Gambia
British wartime comic Anna Russell to perform at Prince Albert Exposition
Britain's wartime comedy star Anna Russell flies to Western Canada to appear at the Prince Albert Saskatchewan Exhibition on August 10 11 and 12. She swapped a successful early war career to entertain troops in Britain after an emergency. Her favorite music is grand opera because its humor suits her act.
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Britain
Anna Russell
Western Canada
Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
Made in Canada: Royal Navy gunnery devices made in Montreal
Canada’s Angus shops of the Canadian Pacific Railway on a million dollar contract produced naval gunnery rangefinders director control towers and range transmission units for warships and fast aircraft. The order total was 1.192 million for 120 units with deliveries through August.
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Montreal
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Angus
Vancouver floats mile long sunken business highway plan
The Vancouver city engineer's department discussed a mile and a half sunken business highway to ease postwar traffic. Conceived by City Engineer Charles Brakenridge, the project might cost between four and five million dollars.
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Vancouver
Charles Brakenridge
Losses for Germans Mount in Russian Front Campaign
Moscow reports during the first month of summer fighting against four Russian fronts the Germans suffered 539,890 killed or captured. From June 23 to July 23 the four armies tallied 381,410 killed and 158,480 captured, with vast equipment losses including 631 aircraft 2,635 tanks and self propelled guns 5,695 mortars and 23,071 machine guns. Also 85 locomotives 6,389 railway freight cars 31,440 horses 11,999 carts 712 tractors and 505 radio transmitters seized.
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London
Moscow
Germany
Wheat stocks fall in four nations amid drop in 1943 harvests
The agriculture department places July 1 stocks for four exporting countries at 1.17 billion bushels, down 578 million from a year earlier as smaller 1943 harvests and nonfood demand shrink inventories. United States, Canada, Argentina, and Australia show year comparisons. US stocks 350 million vs 620 million last year, with Canada and others similarly reduced. The review notes heavy US use of Canadian stocks and forecasts Canada stock disappearance to a record about 191 million bushels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Foreigngricultural Relations Division
Department
United States
Canada
Argentina
Australia
Narrow escape for Nazi leaders near Arromanches
The London Evening Standard reports Adolf Hitler Heinrich Himmler Hermann Goering and Erwin Rommel narrowly escaped death when a Spitfire squadron dropped 12 500-pound bombs on their Paris area headquarters near Arromanches France a few minutes after the leaders had departed awaiting invasion.
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London
London Evening Standard
Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himamier
Hermann Goering
Erwin Rommel
Arromanches
France
Northwest service command moves to Whitehorse Yukon
The Northwest Service Command will relocate its headquarters from Edmonton to Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory within 60 days. Colonel F S Strong Jr announced the move at Edmonton. A rear echelon office will stay in Edmonton for liaison with Canadian authorities and the Alaskan wing of the American army air transport command. The overall strength of NWSC will be substantially reduced.
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Ter
Whitehorse
Edmonton
Northwest Service Command
Whithorse
Yukon Territory
F. S. Strong, Jr
NWSC
Air Transport Command
Strong
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