Canadian women to wear Kings uniform as corps expansion grows
Ottawa reports rapid growth of women's services with CWAC aiming for 15 000 by end of 1943 and RCAF and WRNS plans to increase recruitment overseas. CWAC strength stands near 4 000 with 1 000 recruits monthly. WRNS eyeing 7 000 eventual. Roles include clerical, driving, laundry, and general service to free men for combat.
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Ottawa
Kings
Royal Canadian Air Force
Cortgeas
Canadian Women's Army Corps
CWAC
Womens Royal Naval Service
RCAF
Canada
CWA
War Savings Certs Available Over The Counter In Canada
Ottawa announces over the counter issuance of War Savings certificates in $5 $10 and $25 at chartered banks and post offices. Purchasers receive registered certificates immediately without mailing money or stamps. The plan complements existing bank pledges and payroll savings as Canada funds its war costs. Also noted are Canada’s oldest motorist Edmond Brosseau near St Luc and a national day of prayer to mark the wartime anniversary.
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Ottawa
Chartered Bank
National War Finance Committee
Canada
Montreal
Quebec
Edmond Brosseau
St. Luc
London
Spies in Russia report German espionage tactics
In Leningrad Pravda P K Kubatkin says Germans use espionage and Trojan methods to break Russian defenses. A wounded man in Russian uniform sought supply details and was court martialed. Germans also used peasant disguise, parachutists, and targeted counter-revolutionary youths in Lenin grad. Sir Wilfred Grenfell memorial noted. London House of Commons approves summer recess pending recall if needed.
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Moscow
P. Kubatkin
Leningrad
Russia
Pravda
Kubatkin
Red Army
London
House of Commons
Stafford Cripps
Air travel and mail rise for Trans-Canada Airlines in June
Winnipeg passengers on the Trans-Canada Airlines climbed in June with war business driving totals. Passengers reached 10,317, up 768 from May and 1,668 from June last year. Mail averaged about 6060 pounds per day. June total 174,104 pounds, up from May and higher than June 1940. Express volume also rose from 22,184 pounds in May to 27,406 pounds in June, up 16,831 pounds from the previous year.
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Winnipeg
Trans-Canada Airlines
Labor Exchange Creates Canada US Harvest Worker Flow
Canada and United States reach a reciprocal harvest labor agreement. Calgary unemployment and insurance manager W. Harry Ross says crews may cross with harvesting units, stay 29 days, and travel with equipment but cannot move between jobs. Only workers on units cross, not general labor.
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Calgary
Canada
W. Harry Ross
Calgary Unemployment and Insurance Commission
Italia
Ross
Relief Packages Arrive for Allied Prisoners in Western Pacific
A large shipment of 69 freight cars carrying food clothing drugs and tobacco from Canada arrived in San Francisco for Allied prisoners in the western Pacific. The Canadian Red Cross donated the relief and the Kanangoora will carry it aboard with safe passage granted by the Japanese. The San Francisco Press Club reported an extra 12450 from Salinas for its Bataan fund, derived from auctioning a carload of Salinas lettuce in Chicago where two firms paid 1100 each for two crates of lettuce valued at 5.60 per crate.
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Arge
War Privone
Western Pacific
San Francisco
Canada
Canadian
Red Cross
American Red Cross
San Francisco Press Club
Salinas
Bataan
Watsville
Chicago
British arms factories boost output amid House debate
Sir Andrew Duncan told MPs that 42 government ordnance plants now produce four times as many guns as a year ago and twice as much as planned. About 60 percent of the 30,000 workers are women, with output per worker up 40 percent. The defence ministry noted improvements beyond expectations as a parliamentary debate opened on a committee report. The CBC announced a new military history series titled Men of War.
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London
Britain
Andrew Duncan
House of Commons
Suppy
Prairie lumber plans to storage grain in West Winnipeg
Allot lumber for grain storage in the West. Prairie farmers aim to receive about 60,000,000 feet from BC coastal mills and 10,000,000 from northern spruce, with total needs rising from 200,000,000 to possibly 300,000,000 feet as crop forecasts grow from 900,000,000 to 1,300,000,000 bushels. Trade officials push to ensure supplies for war effort and farm storage.
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Winnipeg
Ottawa
Mal
Rosenberry
Steinthorson
Prairies
Canada
Britain
Retail Lumbermen's Association
Sugar Beets Produc ers in Southern Alberta to Get Large Payment
Payment of 297 273 dollars, the largest beet payment in southern Alberta history, is being mailed to 1200 growers. Based on 1 dollar per ton for the 1941 crop, the sum is the third subsequent beet payment since December and brings total beet payments for last year to 7.95 dollars per ton. Two more payments are planned, one in fall and another in late December. 1940 sugar beet payments averaged 7.11 dollars per ton.
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Alberta
Raymond
Alta
Ban Tightened On Manufacture Of Electric Toasters Irons Fans
The department ofmunitions and supply announced a ban on producing electric toasters irons and fans after August 15. The order rescinds a previous limit of 50 percent of 1940 output and bans other electrical appliances including grills percolators stoves and boilers. Australia’s first prisoners of war food and medical supply shipment totals 1200 tons valued at £10000 with 5000 tons from allies to be transferred at a neutral port. Port Arthur Ontario two HMCS ships Kenora and Milltown were christened as they near joining Canada’s navy.
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Urder
Ottawa
Department of Munitions and Supply
Australia
Syaney
Dominion
Neutral
Port Arthur
Canada
Navy
HMCS
Kenora
Milltown
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Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador
Wilfred
Luigi Remanet
Murray Bay
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Airlines Business
Labor Exchange
United States
Wii
Queen
New York
David Bowes-Lyon
Hizabeth
England
Canadia
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Defence Department
West
Oxford
Oxford University
Christ Church College, Oxford
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