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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 07, 1942
Page
7
Ottawa sources say U S price ceilings will aid Canadian producers dependent on raw imports. Officials note inflation risk undercuts and that retailers feel profits squeezed while sales hold, as Canadian industry benefits from U S policy aligned with their own price controls.
Saskatoon will host a machine operating course for women in the engineering shops at Saskatchewan University starting May. Regina and Moose Jaw will follow with courses, while Prince Albert opens its class in the war emergency training school the same month to meet wartime labor needs.
Ottawa reports that Australian high commissioner Sir William Glasgow will lead Australia's delegation to the air training conference opening May 18 in Ottawa. A Commons return shows old age pensions paid to 185,922 Canadians and blind pensions to 6,243.
Ottawa says army transfers should see soldiers move without dependents due to housing shortages near training centres. The Defence Department notes avoidable costs and social upheaval when families accompany troops and may be left behind on a second move.
Ottawa announced tighter controls on reclaim rubber production and use. Alan H. Wi Namson, controller of supplies, forbids reclaim rubber in non essential footwear components sports goods and many rubber products including car parts hoses mats and weather stripping.
London residents bolster air raid precautions as German raids hit Exeter Bath Norwich and York. Berlin threatens to bomb every Baedeker three star site. Civilian deaths and injuries are expected to crest this month with 43 822 killed and 50 482 injured.
Telegraph Creek in the Skeena riding did not vote in the manpower plebiscite after the chief returning officer ruled that delivering ballots would be prohibitively expensive. He canceled the poll citing airline price demands and limited annual service to seven months, affecting northern Skeena access.
Rome radio reports Mussolini told Italy's prefects of a serious internal situation caused by lack of discipline and fraud. He threatened inexorable punishment to the silty persona 2462.
TEACHES NAVIGATION Lieutenant Robert W. Southam RCNVR appointed an instructor in navigation at King's College Halifax. Son of Mr and Mrs Harry Southam Ottawa he has served since May 1940 including Ottawa posting and later as second in command of a corvette at sea. He assumed his new duties at King's College April 19.
Ottawa announces tea and coffee now require export permits for all destinations. Tea had been exempt when shipped within the British empire or to the United States, but that exemption is cancelled. The measure aims to conserve Canadian supplies.
Charles V. Wasserman son of the late Jacob Wasserman Austrian author wins Rotary club first prize gold medal as Montreal's leading high school public speaker. He was released from a Canadian internment camp in March 1941 after being interned in England during the 1940 invasion threat. his case was reviewed by the British government.
Ottawa Canada the agriculture department reported that heavy ship ments of Canadian beef cattle to the United States brought total exports to 35 400 head in the period from April 1 to April 27 inclusive. For the same period last year shipments were 3 050 head from April 1 to April 23.
Reports from London describe Rostock as an ash heap after heavy British bombing. Photographs show bright fires visible from bombers and the town engulfed in flames. Berlin correspondents say the Baltic port and aircraft works were virtually levelled and 90,000 must evacuate as services fail.
Washington reports that Canada has secured direct representation on the munitions assignment board, a top UN military body. The board, second to the combined chiefs of staff committee, currently includes American and British experts and will expand to Canadian participation, acknowledging Canada as the third largest producer of surplus military supplies among 16 United Nations members.
The fortress island Malta sent a message of gratitude to the King after a George Gros was bestowed upon the island. The broadcast report quoted the note praising His Majesty's solicitude for Malta, which gave residents added confidence and fortitude. In Canada, about 100 residents near Winnipeg petitioned to bar Japanese families from St. Andrews and Lockport districts.
An Ottawa order by Hon. Bloom, administrator of farm machinery, bans metal and most alloys in many farm implements. Wood or substitutes must replace metal in mowers, yokes, double trees, rake bars, hay loaders, two wheel trailers, grain binder reels, watering bowls, and hog troughs. Rubber and 14 metals including copper and aluminum are restricted, with limited exceptions for cream equipment, milking machines, and certain electrical components. Special permissions may allow use of on hand stock originally meant for banned parts.
London reports say Bishop Fिंivind Berggrav of Norway was released from a concentration camp and confined in a summer cottage guarded by twenty men and surrounded by barbed wire. The move, Reuters cited Stockholm’s Social Demokraten as a political concession amid unrest. The Dean of Trondheim, Dr. Fjelia, and his wife were also interned.
The Royal Canadian Navy will be dramatized in a motion picture called The Corvette. Richard Rosson, Hollywood director, is in Ottawa arranging production with leading film stars.
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