RAF Bombers Attack Kiel and Berlin Area
Royal Air Force bomber squadrons struck Kiel last night and targeted Berlin Hamburg and Emden areas as part of intensified Allied air raids. Additional raids hit shipping off the Netherlands and a Norwegian coast wireless station. one RAF plane was lost.
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London
Royal Air Force
Kiel
Air Ministry
Berlin
Hamburg
Emden
Netherlands
Great Britain
Germany
Britain
G B Insists on Troop Removal In Iraq Crisis
London reports an authoritative source says Britain demanded removal of a concentration of Iraqi troops that threatened a British air base. Britain had recently landed fresh contingents at Basra to reinforce Middle East positions and guard Mosul oil fields.
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London
Britain
Iraq
Basra
Persian Gulf
Middle East
Mosul
Well Known Lecturer W Speaks Here Monday
Members of the Canadian Club urged to reserve for a dinner meeting at the Cosmopolitan hotel next Monday evening. The speaker is Henry Peterson author lecturer and journalist known from CBC broadcasts and articles in Saturday Night and Maclean's.
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Cosmopolitan Hotel
Henry Peterson
Peterson
CBC
Saturday Night
Macleans Magazine
Empire Club
Toronto
Wartime Butter Price Cap Revoked by Board
The wartime prices and trade board revoked the December 27 1940 order fixing maximum wholesale butter prices. The prior limit used the December 12 price, about 34.4 cents per pound for first grade creamery solids in Montreal.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
Montreal
Building permits surge in April 1941 in Round Town JU
April 1941 permits total 18335, topping all ten year period highs. Highlights include Thom son Truck Terminal, Roxy theatre, Cecil hotel renovations, and many $100 to $200 projects. year-to-date is 34855 with four months best ever. Births, marriages rise at Medicine Hat courthouse. deaths decline.
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City Hall
Thomson Truck Terminal
Roxy Theatre
Cecil Hotel
Medicine Hat Court House
U.S. Tankers to Serve Britain Under Aid Plan
The Maritime Commission plans to place 50 American tankers in service of Britain within days in response to Roosevelt’s request for all-out aid to the democracies. Tankers over 5,000 tons will be called to participate, with oil shipped from South American ports to British tankers outside the war zone.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States Maritime Commission
Britain
South America
U.S. North Atlantic
J. F Sanderson
Rensevelt
Emory S. Land
Commission
Atlantic
Gas Stations Freeze in Canada Under New Oil Order
An order from Ottawa authorizes no new gasoline stations in Canada and prohibits reopening closed stations without permission. The rule, issued by oil controller George Cottrelle of Toronto, appears in the Canada Gazette. The provision excludes seasonal closures during winter months.
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Ottawa
Canada
George Cottrelle
Toronto
Canada Gazette
Lack Of Storage Space Looms In U S
Washington May 11 The prospect of a wheat storage shortage looms as the government plans to move hundreds of millions of bushels from midwest grain points to eastern gulf terminals Buffalo Baltimore Galveston New Orleans and Chicago may receive significant shipments Interior points like Oklahoma Kansas Nebraska North and South Dakota Minnesota Montana Wisconsin and Wyoming are involved in the contemplated transfers to manage spring wheat stocks.
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Washington
United States Age Cture Department
Midwest
Gulf
Buffalo
Baltimore
Galveston
New Orlean
Tes Oslahma
Kansas
Nebrasks
North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
Chicago
Recruiting Increases In Melbourne AAP Report
Army Minister Percy Spender said recruiting has risen recently in Melbourne. He attributed the uptick to Australians rallying to aid their country in times of adversity more than in other periods.
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Melbourne
Percy Spender
Red Army Marches With Mammoth New Armored Display
Moscow May Day parade showcased massive mechanized forces with truck borne infantry and motorized artillery in Red Square. Defence Commissar S. K. Timoshenko warned imperialists of an annihilating rebuff while pledging a peaceful policy amid a tense international situation.
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Moscow
Red Army
Red Square
Defence
S. K. Timoshenko
Russia
British Columbia Accepts Ilsley War Tax Proposal
British Columbia becomes the first province to accept a federal plan to leave personal and corporate income taxes in place for wartime funding. Premier Pattullo and Finance Minister Hart announced BC will drop the tax and await compensation details from Ottawa. The move aims to ease wartime financial burdens without a general conference.
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Ottawa
British Columbia
Ilsley
Isley
John Hart
House of Commons
Hart
Coneddian
Tron
Fes
Pattullo
French Troops Drive Germans Back at Verdun Fort Douaumont
The report notes French forces push Germans from Fort Douaumont in Verdun as World War I operations continue. It also mentions Russian forces repulsed by Turks near Dilarbekr in the Caucasus and the Dublin uprising ending with the surrender of remaining rebels.
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Qoanadian
Fort Douaumont
Verdun
Caucasus
Dilarbekr
Dublin
Grand scale German attack on Egypt eyed within days
London reports a grand scale assault by the Axis on Egypt and the Suez route via Syria and Palestine within ten days. Observers foresee a northern thrust from Romanian bases across the Black Sea to Batum and a southern push from eastern Mediterranean islands toward Syria, with air borne troops likely.
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William. W. White
London
Egypt
Suez Canal
Syria
Palestine
Hitler
Mediterranean
Black Sea
Turkey
Axis
Asia Minor
Port Said
Alexandria
Lindbergh Leans Toward Germany Question Asked in Commons
In London on May 1, R A Butler answered yes in the House of Commons to a Conservative MP Vyvyan Adams who asked if Charles Lindbergh had consistently used his influence to prevent effective action against Germany.
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London
R. A. Butler
Foreign Affairs
House of Commons
Charles Lindbergh
Germany
Vyvyan Adams
City Glances and Spring Notes From May Day
The column mixes seasonal chatter about May Day, meadowlarks, and spring fever with a brief note on R A F breaks and a cinema trip. It also reports weekly clearings at Medicine Hat Greenhouses totaling 282 872 this week, 300 030 last week, and 213 961 last year.
Expropriation Board to Set Up in Alberta
Edmonton May 1 A three member expropriation board will be formed to handle property in a 700000 acre block in the Tilley Hast area southeastern Alberta being transferred to the defence department One member will be named by the province another by the property owners and the third by the two appointees The setup is provided under recent Alberta legislation.
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Edmonton
W. A. Fallon
Alberta
Public Works
Tilley Hast
Department of National Defence
Fallon
N. E. Turner
Pleads Guilty To Burglary Charge
Frank Bickler of Coalhurst pleaded guilty to taking part in the Warner store burglary. He received six months hard labor after being arrested in Calgary while on a youth training course. The loot valued at 350 dollars was found cached in the Bickler lime.
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Lethbridge
C.P
Frank Bickler
Coalhurst
John Glynn
Warner
Bickler
Calgary
Fred Zmarchyk
George Arsene
Australian Workers Back Empire Says Trade Union Leader
Charles Crofts of the Australasian Council of Trade Unions cabled Sir Walter Citrine asserting Australian workers are as determined as British workers to preserve the Commonwealth and defeat oppression. He rejects reports of internal disturbances as misleading libels.
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Melbourne
Yugoslav Warships Arrive Safe in British Port
London May 1 A Yugoslav submarine and two Yugoslav motor torpedo boats have arrived at a British port the Admiralty announced. The statement also said Italian reports claimed the three vessels were sunk.
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London
C.P
Admiralty
Sympathetic strikes deemed illegal by government
Ottawa May 1 The government holds sympathetic strikes in war plant work illegal. Labor Minister McLarty said such a walkout before a arbitration board would be unlawful, with officials considering an order in council to remove doubt. Ottawa May 1 Silby Barrett directs union locals to cancel plans for Friday walkout over 300 workers at Peck Rolling Mills Montreal.
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Ottawa
C.P
McLarty
Silby Barrett
C.I.0. Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Peck Rolling Mills
Montreal
Flying Boat Aided Rescue Over Atlantic Survivors Found
A flying boat en route to Britain from the United States detected a patch of light and nine life boats in the Atlantic. Commander Flt Lt. R. W. Gautrey steered to the scene 1,000 miles from Britain and guided a destroyer to evacuate all survivors of a torpedoed merchantman.
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London
Britain
United States
Atlantic
R. W. Gautrey
Gautrey
Admiralty
Budget Tax on Tickets Seen Quiet Travel Impact
C P R officials in Toronto say the 10 percent tax on railway and airline passenger tickets announced in the federal budget would have little effect on travel.
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C.P.R
Toronto
Light British Casualties in Greece Boost War Confidence
Story credits staff skill for a low casualty count as 60 000 Imperial troops evade a Nazi trap in Greece. Some 12 000 unaccounted for, but Britain claims only 3 000 battle casualties. Evacuation aids reinforcements for Crete and Nile operations as Gen Wavell expands North Africa defenses. Prime Minister Churchill set to renew leadership commissions.
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Kirke L. Simpson
Associated Press
Greece
Empire
Churchill War Ministry
London
Churchill
Crete
Ing
Wavell
Middle East
Evacuations Near Completion In Greece War Move
News from Cairo and Rome report Greece evacuation nearing end as British forces withdraw by sea under Nazi air attack. About 48 000 of 60 000 BEF evacuated, with beaches likened to Dunkirk. Australian dispatches note heavy German losses and smaller British casualties. Italian claims say Cephalonia Zante and San Mauro occupied by Fascist forces.
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Ontario
Sergt. Helmuth Ackenhauser
America
Germany
England
Cairo
Greece
The
Royal
Middle East
Dunkirk
Rome
C.P
Cephalonia
Zante
San Mauro
Socialist Europe Proposed in House of Commons
A motion tabled in the House of Commons by a small Independent Labour group from Clydeside urged replacing Church ill government with a regime that would appeal to Europeans under Nazi rule to support peace on the basis of a socialist Europe.
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London
Europe
House of Commons
Clydeside
Independent
Axis Press Tobruk Breakthrough Fails at Dawn
Cairo dispatch reports Axis troops penetrated defenses at Tobruk but fighting continues as British forces hold Aldayan port. RAF announces updated combat status.
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Cairo
Tobruk
Altyan Port
Catrick
Dom
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