Air Force to Expand and Relocate Several Training Schools
West Areas Ottawa-Royal Canadian Air Force HQ announces changes to the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. EFTS at Regina Pearce Portage in Prairie DeWinton London Winnipeg Quebec Rivers Hamilton to expand or move. AOS at multiple sites to be enlarged or shifted to new locations for better training flow. Maj Power cites agreement aims to boost air observer and navigator output.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Air Force
Power
British Commonwealth Air Training Plas
Regina
Pearce
Alta
Prince Albert
Sask
AOS
EFTS
Portage
Prairie
Man
RAF
Assiniboia
Bask
Chatham
Davidson
EFT
Neepawa
Maj. Power
Air Training Conference
Malton
Ont
Air Observer School
Royal Air Force Efts
de Winton
Edmonton
Bowden
London
A.C.8
Winnipeg
Ban on External Trade Statistics Implemented
Ottawa imposes a blackout on external trade statistics after a directive from Col O M Biggar and the directorate of censorship. Monthly bulletins including summaries of Canadian external trade and imports by commodities are no longer issued to prevent aiding the enemy.
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Ottawa
Directorate of Censorship
Col O. M. Biggar
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Britain halts reveal of secret anti aircraft device
A last minute censorship blocked disclosure of a five year research secret in Britain’s antiaircraft defense after Daily Mail protests. The weapon, not the wire-guided rocket earlier announced, had been used against raids and was kept secret under new instructions.
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Ertain
London
Britain
London Daily Mail
Daily Mail
Airplane Spruce Firm Forms to Boost Canada Britain Output
Ottawa based Aero Timber Products Ltd, with head office in Vancouver, is incorporated June 19 to develop and increase production of airplane spruce for Canada and Britain. Munitions Minister Howe announced the crown company will control conversion of logs into lumber to improve recovery of grades and specifications for vital airplane use.
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Ottawa Aero Timber Products, Ltd
Vancouver
Canada
Britain
Howe
Distinguished Service Cross for Canadian Corvette Commander
Acting Lt Cmdr W E S Briggs RCNR was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by the King at Buckingham Palace for commanding HMCS Orillia last winter. His ship aided the torpedoed tanker Tarheel into a British port, saving a 1,000,000 dollar cargo from Vancouver. Residents of Laval Road Vancouver win changing street name to McMaster Road after Hamilton university.
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London
W. E. S. Briggs
R.cn.r
Buckingham Palace
CS. Orillia
Vancouver
Laval Road
University District of
McMaster
University At
Explosion in Gelnhausen Leaves 56 Dead and 7 Missing
BBC reported a German explosion in Gelnhausen on June 27. The Essener National Zeitung cited fifty six deaths with seven missing and the cause unknown. The incident prompted immediate emergency response and investigations.
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London
BBC
Gelnhausen
Essener National Zeitung
Recruiting figures show district enlistment shares
In Ottawa a House of Commons tabled reply notes Military District No. 2 Toronto supplied more than 19 percent of active service enlistments for the Canadian army. Other districts include No. 4 Montreal 12 percent No. 3 Kingston 10 No. 11 Victoria and No. 10 Winnipeg each 8 No. 13 Calgary 8 No. 6 Halifax 8 No. 1 London 7 No. 12 Regina 7 No. 7 Saint John 5 and No. 5 Quebec 4.
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Ottawa
Toronto
House of Commons
FE. H. Corman
Lib
Wentworth
Montreal
Kingston
Ont
Victoria
Winnipeg
Calgary
Halifax
London
Regina
Saint John
Quebec
Land settlement bill tied to postwar aid to ex servicemen
Ottawa official, Cyrus MacMillan, tables fourth report from the land settlement committee. The draft bill targets settlement after the war with an estimated 25 000. Recommendations include flexible farmer payments, first option on military surplus farm equipment, later extensions for seafarers with service and no disability pension, and a proposed new department for ex servicemen affairs.
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Ottawa
Cyrus MacMillan
House of Commons
The Crow s Nest Promises Halifax Naval News
A new monthly newspaper The Crow s Nest issued for naval ratings in Halifax by H M C S Corvallis reports naval life and activities with eight pages of news and cartoons. Sheila Baillie Montreal wins architecture scholarship at McGill the first for a McGill undergraduate woman. Air training corps group 200 000 strong aided the Cologne raid by loading explosives and incendiaries at the airfield assisting the bomber crews.
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Naval Barracks
Halifax
Bright
Navy
H.m.cs. Corvallis
Naval
Montreal
Sheila Baillie
McGill University
McGill
London
Air Training Corps
Cologne
Fear honey shortages loom as wartime price board urged to act
H W Love Edmonton honey processor warns sugar substitutes risk drying up if price controls fail. He sent a letter to J G Taggart, food administration coordinator, urging steps to regulate industry prices now using honey in place of sugar. A "Sixth Column" is described by George Gibson as citizens who might cooperate if the Nazi regime falls.
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Soan
H. W. Love
Edmonton
J . G. Taggart
Food Administration
York
Eng
George Gibson
Trades Union Congress
Germany
Churchill clubs organized in Denmark resist Nazis
Danish sources in Britain report that Churchill clubs have been formed in Denmark to carry out sabotage against the Nazi occupation. The effort aims to support resistance activities and undermine German control.
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London
Britain
Denmark
Profiteers in Alexandria face lashes and prison term
In Alexandria Egypt thirteen convicted profiteers received thirty lashes and three months imprisonment as punishment for profiteering.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Allied Forces In Egypt Grow Stronger In Desert War
The Allied air forces including British Australian South African and American crews report stronger positions in Egypt six weeks into the campaign. RAF says 134 Axis planes shot down in air combat and more than 100 destroyed on the ground with 50 by anti air defenses.
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Australia
RAF
Herodotus
Egypt
el Alamein
Malta
Canadians Urged to Send Clippings Overseas
Ottawa officials promote a plan to send newspaper clippings instead of full papers to save international shipping space. The idea, presented to newspaper associations, is sponsored by the Canadian Postmasters Association.
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Ottawa
Post Office
Canadian Postmasters’ Association
Britain reveals wire trailing rockets as defense weapon
Britain officially disclosed the use of wire trailing rockets to deter aerial raiders. The device, already deployed to protect merchant ships for over a year, fires a projectile that opens a parachute with long wires dangling to snag or guide attacking aircraft away from engagement.
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Britain
London
Radio Commentator Lowell Thomas Earned 1941 News Pay
The oil sponsor paid radio commentator Lowell Thomas ninety five thousand six hundred forty five dollars in 1941 for a fifteen minute nightly news broadcast. The figure came from the sponsor firm’s annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Philadelphia
Lowell Thomas
Securities and Exchange Commission
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