Farm Labor Gets Attention at Canadian Horticultural Meet
Delegates at Ottawa’s 21st annual Canadian Horticultural Council meeting urged that farmers be officially recognized as essential to the war effort with permanent deferments. They urged a food board to secure abundant supplies and streamlined processing and distribution, backed by ministerial oversight.
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Ottawa
The
Canadian Horticultural Council
T. H. Robinson
National Selective Service
Canadian Army Praised By British Officer In Canada
Lt Col Cyril Lloyd, a British officer seconded to the Canadian overseas army staff, praises Canadian troops as finest material in the world. He received the O.B.E. in New Year honors for services to the force and hopes to visit Canada after the war. He admires the Canadian method, direct problem solving, and staff efficiency gained from months in Britain.
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England
Cyril Lloyd
France
Canadian Overseas Army
Lloyd
O.bf
Canada
Col. Lloyd
Britain
Beurling Plans Canada Tour For RCAF After Hospital
Montreal report says George Beurling, wounded and discharged from Royal Victoria hospital, will meet a biographer to write his life story and then begin a Canada tour on behalf of the RCAF. Beurling has shot down 29 enemy aircraft.
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Beurling
RCAF
Montreal
George Beurling
Royal Victoria Hospital
Canada
Malta Defence 915: Enemy Planes Destroyed Over Malta
Air Vice Marshal RK Park announced Malta defense figures for 1942. Fighter squadrons and anti aircraft guns on Malta claimed 016 enemy planes destroyed, against 199 British planes and 108 pilots. Enemies dropped 32 300 tons of bombs on Malta during 192.
Eskimos Back War Bonds Plan with Full Investment
Major Marston of the Alaska defence command praised Eskimos for their pledge to invest 10 percent of income in war bonds. An old chief replied that they would put it all in bonds and offered $15,000 worth, saying they needed a road and would volunteer labor to finish it, while uniting behind the United States during a threat of starvation.
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Beattie
Ti Iiskan
Eakimos
Marston
Alaska Defence Command
Eskimos
United States
Alexander cites heartening success against U boats in war
London reports that A. V. Alexander chairing the Admiralty told the House of Commons of periods of heartening success in the battle against Axis submarines. He cautioned that confirmation of all attacks against enemy U boats is difficult, so it is not possible to state whether subs are sunk faster than they are built.
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London
A. V. Alexander
Admiralty
House of Commons
Grim humor from Stalingrad battle delights Red Army
The Russian news agency reports odd incidents in Stalingrad where German pilots dropped bombs on their own troops and then war supplies such as sausages, tinned goods and chocolates. In another episode Soviet forces reportedly wiped out a squad of German officers before lunch as a Nazi dinner wagon arrived, greeted by waiting Red Army troops.
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Red Army
London
Stalingrad
Volga City
Rubber shortage warned until 1945 by McGill professor
Dr. R. V. V. Nichols of McGill University says synthetic rubber production will not meet military and essential civilian needs in Canada and the U S for two years. Until then supplies must come from stockpiles and reclaimed rubber.
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Montreal
Canada
U.S
R. V. V. Nichols
McGill University
Two ships launched to guard sealanes in quick succession
A West Coast Canadian port launched the 10,000-ton freighter Fort Wrige ley and a trim naval corvette Prince Rupert within an hour of each other to help guard the sealanes.
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Fort Wrigeley
Prince Rupert
Cost of living index falls in December Canada
Ottawa The Dominion bureau of statistics reports the cost-of-living index declined from 1188 to 1171 in December largely due to government price reductions on staple foods. The January drop, 1328 to 1273 for food, is tied to a two-cent milk price cut and lower prices for eggs butter tea coffee and oranges. The wartime cost of living rose 16.2 percent since the war began. Government action is blamed for the December decrease and for offsetting prior price rises. Cigarette and tobacco prices are excluded from the January index per order-in-council PC 6219.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistica
Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Pri
Anly
Isley
Tisley
Serbs Slaughtered in Yugoslavia War Update
London reports the Jugoslovian government in exile says Axis troops and Gestapo have killed about 823,000 Serbs since occupation. At least 27,000 Belgrade residents were shot in 1942 amid renewed German terror and threats to annihilate populations unless resistance ends.
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London
Jugomay
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Ottawa road rush to aid Fort Norman oil pipeline link
Construction of a new highway from Notikewin to Fort Norman in the Northwest Territories is being rushed to completion to facilitate supplies for a pipeline linking Fort Norman oil fields with the Alaska highway at White Horse.
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Ottawa
Notikewin
Fort Norman
Northwest Territories
Alaska
White Horse
An Estimate Of On All Fronts
The New York Times dispatch from London cites intelligence that over 4 million German soldiers have been killed captured or crippled so far in the war. The report estimates total Nazi casualties near 8 million, with many wounded or temporarily unable to fight, based on figures through mid 1942 and projections for 1943, and notes about 6 million under arms in the German army representing about 13 percent of the population.
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New York
New York Times
London
United Nations General Staff
Germany
Invasion Strike Point Discussed by Churchill and Roosevelt
Walter Nash, New Zealand minister, said Roosevelt and Churchill debated at Casablanca whether to attack Germany via the Mediterranean or the Atlantic coast or both. He said the time and place could not be published in advance and that the Casablanca meeting considered all options and which was best to strike first. Nash described the Atlantic coast as from Norway to the Bay of Biscay.
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Churchill
Roosevelt
Washington
Walter Nash
New Zealand
Churchil
Casablanca
Germany
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Europe
Nash
Norway
Bay of Biscay
Lean Days Ahead Says Some Stores Going To Be Out Of Canned Goods Vancouver
Vancouver officials predict shortages of canned goods for civilians as early as 1943 with stores facing near total depletion before spring. W. B. Robinson of the prices board says civilians lose ability to demand luxuries while workers in war industries and armed forces receive priority.
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Vancouver
W. B. Robinson
The
Prices Board
Women's Regional Advisory Committee
Veteran nurse Phoebe Howard served during Northwest Rebellion dies
Mrs. Phoebe Howard born Parsons and later Howard, the lone surviving nurse who cared for soldiers on Saskatchewan battlefields, died in Winnipeg hospital in April 1885. Gazetted as one of three nurses, she accompanied troops to Saskatoon where with two other nurses four dressers and two doctors cared for wounded from Batoche and Fish Creek engagements before returning to Winnipeg by river boat.
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Northwes
Winnipeg
Phoebe Howardd
Saskatchewan Battle Fields
Howard
Phoebe Parsons
Democrat
Saskatoon
Batoche
Pish Creek
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New York City Council
Newbold Morris
Irene Arnnould
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Irene Baird
Canadian National Film Board
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