Industry Has Ambitious Plan For This Year
Ottawa reports Canadian industry plans to spend 1.17 billion dollars in 1946 on new construction machinery and repairs. Manufacturing leads with 543 million, Ontario and British Columbia dominate regional totals, but shortages from postwar conversion and strikes may reduce actual spending. Vancouver and Winnipeg appear among top cities.
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Reconstruction Department
Ling
Ontario
British Columbia
Prairie Provinces
Vancouver
Winnipeg
Nehru demands immediate British troop withdrawal from India
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, premier of the new Indian government, called for the immediate withdrawal of British troops from India. He reaffirmed the policy of withdrawal at the earliest possible speed in a New Delhi telegraph dispatch during Earl Winterton's question at the Conservative party conference in Blackpool.
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London
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
India
Exchange Telegraph Agency
New Delhi
Nehru
Earl Winterton
Conservative Party
Black
Pandit Nehru
World wheat crop in 1946 seen near five billion bushels
The U S Department of Agriculture reports the 1946 world wheat harvest near 5 0 0 0 0 0 000 bushels the largest since 1940 and slightly below the 1935 39 average. Europe shows a major gain led by 1 36 0 0 0 0 000 bushels more than 1945 while Britain’s Isles weather worsens.
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Europe
Washington
United States Department of Agriculture
British Isles
NFU seeks approval for £1720000 rural electrification plan
The National Farmers Union in Britain seeks approval of a 1720000 pound program to electrify rural areas over five years. The union cites poor government training response and aims to keep workers on farms, attract new labor, and supply power where farms are currently unserved.
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National Farmers Union
Britaneck
London
National Farmer Union
NFU
NLU
Russia Seen Buying Canadian Ships For 50 Vessels Next Year
Vancouver shipping circles report Russia plans to buy an undisclosed number of Dominion government ships now under British charter. It is possible that 50 vessels may be sold to the Soviet next year.
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Russia
Canada
Vancouver
Dominion
Britain
Time Park
Winter traffic kept open on Saska Highway in perfect condition
New York report states the Alaska highway will stay open all winter for restricted civilian traffic. Royal Canadian Army engineers under Hamilton Wright Jr supervise 18 maintenance camps about 90 miles apart along the route, ensuring the highway remains in perfect condition after a recent Dominion photographic expedition.
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Saska
New York
Alaska
Hamilton Wright, Jr
Dominion
Wright
New Instrument Based On Radar Aids B C Mineral Fields
Vancouver reports that British Columbia prospectors test a radar based instrument to locate valuable ore bodies. Preliminary trials show good results, with potential peacetime mining applications. The B C Chamber of Mines notes local experimentation and optimism for future use.
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B.C
Vancouver
British Columbia
Flying Too Low Crashes Into Holland School
A single seat Firefly military plane flew low over the pilot's mother's home and crashed into a school hall in Apeldoorn Holland killing the pilot a boy and eight school boys and injuring at least ten others The pilot's mother died of a heart attack as a witness The crash occurred during gymnastics with about 25 boys present.
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Holland
Apeldoorn
Memorial tablet for Gurkha Rifles on Mandalay Hill
In Mandalay Burma the Holy Hermit Khanti places a memorial tablet in a pagoda atop Mandalay Hill to honor the 44th Gurkha Rifles fallen in the hill assault. In Swift Current a new staff will produce one December issue with collegiate student writers printers and marketers.
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Mandalay
Burma
44Th
Gurkha Rifles
Mandalay Hill
Khanti
Swipy Current
Swift Current Sun
Gift for Chief Scou t Prince Albert rally presents peace pipe
Indian hammer head and a peace pipe were presented to Lord Rowallan chief scout of the British commonwealth at a public rally in Prince Albert Saskatchewan attended by scouts and cubs keeping a ceremonial tone from a historic event.
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Prince Albert
Lord Rowallan
British Commonwealth and Empire
Obsolete ammo dumped from water transport vessel
Army authorities cleared the water transport vessel General Drury after unloading four box car loads of ammunition declared obsolete. The munitions were collected from across Canada and brought to this locale for disposal.
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General Drury
Army
Canada
Royal Mint Busy Producing Service Medals After War
Ottawa reports the Royal Mint is mass producing Canadian Volunteer Service medals at 2000 daily, with plans to exceed 1.9 million war medals for all forces and 745000 Army decorations. RCAF oversees metal supply, using vast materials like 158000 yards of ribbon and 25 miles of silver wire for CVSM suspensions. The program includes Star and Defence medals, with regional allocations across Army, Navy, and Air Force. Sarah Churchill returns to acting in an Italian movie, chosen over local actresses despite language limits.
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Royal Mint
RCAF
CVSM
CWAC
WRCNS
Army
Navy
Merchant Navy
Europe
France
Germany
Italy
Africa
Burma
Pacific
Canadians Cannot Expect More Or Better Bacon For Some Months
Ottawa reports from Agriculture Department sources indicate little prospect for months ahead of improved bacon quantity or quality for home consumption. Canada faces declining hog production hindering its ability to meet Britain's 350 million pounds bacon contract this year and likely for 1947 as well.
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Ottawa
Agriculture Department
Canada
Britain
Not Encouraging Cotton Garment Shortage Seen in Prices
Ottawa Canada’s supply prospects in cotton textiles including shirts shorts and pyjamas are worse than in early 1946. The prices board cites lower U S allocations and industrial disputes reducing Canadian output, forecasting growing shortages but hopes for improvement early in 1947 with potential higher imports from Britain.
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Ottawa
Canada
Prices Board
United State
Britain
Will Be Witness Colonel Crawford To Testify In Hong Kong
Lt-Col J. Crawford, 40, of Winnipeg and Ottawa, heads to Hong Kong for a second time to testify against Japanese officers for cruelties against Canadian and Allied POWs after the 1941 fall of Hong Kong. A senior medical officer with the doomed Canadian force, he was a wartime prisoner until the war’s end. His wife Maude Hopper Crawford, a Manitoba graduate, and their children reside in Ottawa.
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Crawford
Hong Kong
Ottawa
Winnipeg
Maude Hopper
Arcola, Sask
University of Manitoba
Progress on Ottawa housing plan aims for 60,000 units
Canada targets 60,000 housing units in 1946 47 but a reconstruction department survey warns the goal will still miss urgent needs. It cites an immediate spring deficit of 180,000 homes and notes costs rose 47 to 62 percent since 1938 45 with limited chance of quick relief. The report emphasizes coordinated management and labor to salvage postwar housing.
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Ottawa
Canada
Reconstruction Department
Zere
Howe
Shortage Delays Canada Health Plan For Indians Eskimos
Canada faces delays in expanding health services for 127000 Indians and 7700 Eskimos due to shortages of trained doctors nurses and materials. Dr. P E Moore notes limited personnel for northern reserves while expansion funds rose from 3 001 in 1879 to 4 103 390 in 1946 47.
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Canada
P. E Moore
Indian Health Services
Moore
The
Health Service
Saskatchewan
Health Department
Northwest Territories
Arctic
Hudson Bay Company
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