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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 20, 1945
Page
5
Canada prioritizes military travel as 800 sleepers and diners on regular runs fell to 300 as troop specials shift nearly two thirds of sleeping and dining equipment from civilian trains. The program, begun before Allied victory, aims to ease veterans home with first class sleepers and renovated armed forces cars.
London reports that 19 Royal Winnipeg Rifles prisoners were killed by 12th SS Hitler Youth near Pavie Normandy in June 1944. A Canadian military court of inquiry announced by Gen Crerar links the atrocity to potential indictment at an International War Crimes tribunal.
Simon Lake, pioneer of modern submarines and father of the submarine design, died in a Bridgeport hospital after a brief illness. The article credits him with developing an operational submarine and notes earlier experimental vessels in the Revolutionary and Civil wars.
Brig Gen Earl Hoag describes a covert U S run air line moving over 3 000 important passengers from neutral Sweden to Allied areas during the war. Civilians disguised crews faced Gestapo surveillance in Stockholm while Norwegian, Dutch, French, Russian, and other officials and interned airmen traveled.
Hon. J. C. Dryden announces two appointments to fill vacancies on the University of Manitoba board of governors. Paul G. Duval a Winnipeg barrister and Harold S. Fry associate editor of The Country Guide are named for three year terms.
New Zealand meat exporters reply to the Meat Board appeal by proposing to slaughter horses and goats for Europe. If confirmed, this would be the first time such meats are shipped by the country with Western Europe named as the likely destination.
Argentines face a hard winter with a historic cold spell as temperatures reach 24.1°F on June 1 23rd the coldest in 21 years. Inland sites report readings near 14°F and fuel shortages strain heating efforts.
The Vancouver Sun reports the largest grain shipments from Vancouver in four years are slated for July, totaling about 1.5 million bushels mainly destined for Europe. If higher priority produce requires space, lumber and ore shipments may delay grain, but a lull in those exports could free capacity.
In northern Italy anti-Fascists broke into prisons and a gunfight killed thirty-five Fascists, with twenty-eight more wounded. Ferrara and Modena jails held many detainees as crowds hissed at fascists near Milan's Sesto San Giovanni, where Allied tanks intervened.
Five hundred German minor war criminals are in French hands in Paris. Evidence against 64 is ready while other cases are in various stages of investigation.
In the Pacific theater the Allied medical effort treats psychoneurotic casualties. Frontline nerves recover through crafts, gardening, heavy work to harden the body, and ample recreation at Mandaluyong near Manila. Brig Gen Guy B. Denit calls psychoneurosis a temporary adjustment, distinct from insanity, likely to improve with therapy.
Prague reports President Benes ordered confiscation of all farms and corporations belonging to Germans Hungarians and Nazi collaborators in Czecho Slovakia. About 270000 small farms mainly in Sudeten areas would be seized along with owners families totaling around 1500000 people.
Five thousand attendees at an Albert Hall gathering marking the Anglo Soviet alliance urged Marshal Stalin to visit London. Rev W A Dyler Waterhouse, chair of the British Soviet council, said tens of thousands would greet him in London. In Washington, the House appropriations committee approved a 35 500 256 951 dollar war department supply bill to aid plans to devastate Japan at the earliest possible date.
The Royal Commission on Veterans' Qualifications meets in Toronto to begin a series of sittings across provinces to study how military service skills translate to civilian employment. Labor Minister Mitcnell attends the session.
Rome broadcasts Feruccio Parri, new premier of Italy, urging northern Italians to halt arbitrary acts of justice. He warns such killings undermine justice and compromise Italy with the Allies.
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