Alberta hits Victory Loan quota as bonds surge nationwide
Alberta reports 76 percent of general canvas and 68.6 percent of overall Victory Loan quotas with 24 units over top. New civilian bond applications total 6,165 for 1 858 450 dollars, boosting Alberta’s sales to 26 477 800 dollars since opening. Across Canada overall bonds reach 32 453 450 dollars with 103 536 applications. Western visit planned for the Mosquito bomber For Freddie. In Europe Allied forces announce broad capitulations with Germany’s army groups surrendering and V E Day nearing.
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Calgary
Alberta
National War Finance Committee
Alix
Brooks
Freddie
Edmonton
Lethbridge
Europe
P. Ge’ Ten
Czechs Revolt Rumors Rise From Prague Uprising
London reports Czech broadcasts claim Prague rising against Germans with fighting in the city. Paris transmissions quote officials saying confusion and riots threaten. Bohemia’s gauleiter captured by American troops. Doenitz allegedly offered Prague as hospital city. Czech leaders seek Allied withdrawal of Germans.
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London
Prague
Paris
Czechoslovakia
Bohemia
Karl Doenitz
Son
658 Candidates So Far Named for Federal Election
A Canadian Press survey nine days before nomination day, May 14, shows 658 candidates named for the June 11 federal election. Across 245 seats, Quebec is lagging. totals exceed the 1940 election. The CCF has 175 nominees, Conservatives 163, Liberals 159, Labor Progressives 69, Social Credit 56, with 12 Bloc Populaire in Quebec and 24 miscellaneous stamp Ridings entries. Six seats in Winnipeg North and New Westminster and seven in Montreal Verdun and Vancouver Centre list candidates.
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Quebec
Dominion
C.C.F
Progressive Conservatives
Liberals
Labor- Progressives
Social Credit
Bloc Populaire
Winnipeg North
New Westminster
Montreal
Verdun
Vancouver
Vente
British Pursue Japanese Toward Moulmein From Rangoon
Calcutta dispatch says British 14th Army troops, after clearing Pegu, are pursuing retreating Japanese forces eastward toward Moulmein across the Martaban Gulf. The Japanese are said to be moving along the rail line north of Rangoon toward Moulmein as the Allied command reports.
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Calcutta
Pegu
Moulmein
Gulf of Martaban
Rangoon
Southeast Asia Command
Moulméin
Calls on Germans To Fight Soviet
London May 5 AP reports the German high command announced the Denmark Holland and northwest Germany capitulation was agreed by Doenitz as the war against the Western powers became senseless. A Doenitz proclamation urged the Wermacht to fight on against Russia to save Germans from Bolshevism and enslavement. The radio read the proclamation hourly, suggesting Doenitz was out of touch with troops.
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Paris
Eisenhower
Jacob L. Devers
6Th Army Group
Supreme Headquarters
7Th Army
Schultz
Chemnitz
Germany
Linz
Austria
Innsbruck
France
Devers
Denmark
Holland
Europe
London
High Command
Doenitz
Flensburg
Hitler
Wermacht
Russia
Red Army Liberates Slovakia and Presses toward Vienna
Soviet forces completed the liberation of Slovakia and moved to widen a drive west of Vienna toward a junction with American troops. German reports claimed a major tank battle near Olomouc while Russians pushed 85 miles along the Morava valley and captured 1,000 Germans at Vitkov.
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London
Red Army
Slovakia
Vienna
Czechoslovakia
Olmuetz
Olomouc
Moravian
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Andrei
I. Yeremenko
Moravia
Szechoslovak
Morava River
4Th Ukrainian Army
Vitkow
Prague
Krenovice
Ivan S. Koney
Elbe
Meissen
Dresden
Berlin
Stettin
Baltic Islands
Stet‘tin Bay
Germans and Danes clash in Copenhagen city fighting
In Copenhagen on May 5 German warships opened fire as Danish patriots tried to disarm sailors aboard Prinz Eugen and Nuernberg. Clashes killed and wounded many. nightly raids killed at least 20 more. German offices threatened to blow up buildings. Danish personnel walked out to disrupt service. Allies awaited to quiet the city as Orla Buhl prepared to form a new government.
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Copenhagen
Prinz Eugen
Nuernberg
Christian
Orla Buhl
Dagens ‘Nyheter
Sweden
Clement Attlee
Britain
Denmark
Buhl
Drilling Twenty Seven Wells In Alta
Calgary May 5 Twenty seven wells are now drilling in the province per the petroleum and natural gas conservation board report. Ten are in Turner Valley while six licenses were issued last week three in the valley. Mid Continent East Crest No1 shows initial 208 barrels a day with later 250 bpd steady production for disposal at Imperial refinery Regina. Ten wells are standing with final answers unknown.
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Calgary
Petroleum and Natural Gas Conservation Board
Turner Valley
Imperial Oil
Regina
Monty Rejects East Surrender Proposals
Field Marshal Montgomery rejected a Nazi surrender offer from German armies facing the Russians. The unconditional surrender of German forces on the British Canadian front was signed yesterday in a tent near Montgomery's headquarters.
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Supreme Headquarters
Army Group
Eisenhower
Norway
Berchtesgaden
Berlin
Italy
Austria
Monty
East
Charles Chamberlain
Montgomery
21St Army Group
Germany
Holland
Denmark
Guenther Blumentritt
Baltic
Weser
Africa
France
Reich
Osmena Orders Arrest of Five Sons in Treachery Case
President Sergio Osmena ordered the arrest of five of his own sons on charges of collaborating with the Japanese. Nicasio Osmena and Sergio Jr. were held at Bilibid prison in Manila for trial, with two other sons, Emilio and Jose, reported shot by Japanese for guerrilla activity.
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Washington
Sergio Osmena
Serapio Canceran
Osmena
Nicasio
Sergio, Jr
Bilibid
Manila
Emelio Osmena
Jose Osmena
Jabanese
Alberta claims ability to fund postwar reconstruction without tax rise
Premier E. C. Manning told a Calgary audience that the province could implement its entire postwar reconstruction program within six months and without increasing public taxation by leveraging effective control of money and credit. Speakers at the first federal campaign meeting in Calgary included Maj. A. H. Jukes, D.S.O., O.B.E., and candidates C. M. Willmott and C. E. Johnston.
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Calgary
Alberta
E. C. Manning
Maj. A. H. Jukes
D.S.O
O.B.E
Social Credit
West Calgary
C. M
Willmott
East Calgary
C. E. Johnston
Bow River
Reach Agreement on Most Charter Changes
The United Nations conference reported progress with amendments to the Dumbarton Oaks plan. Canada urged two thirds voting on the security council and prior consultation on armaments, while Britain, Russia, the United States and China neared accord on most points despite disputes over regional treaties.
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C. R. Blackburn
San Francisco
P.D.T
Dumbarton Oaks
Canada
Security Council
Britain
Russia
United States
China
Molotov
Stalin
World Security Council
World Briefs from Europe and Asia May Newsnotes
Reports from Stockholm and London state German capitulation in Norway is premature while Oslo is home to figures like Karl Doenitz and Hermann Goering. Moscow radio cites Polish leaders arrested for security reasons, and Quisling calls Norwegians to support his government amid civil conflict. British officials say the arrest disrupts Warsaw government talks at the world conference.
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Stockholm
Aftonbladet
Karl Doenitz
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Oslo
London
Reuters
Norway
Lillehamme
Moscow Radio
Vidkun Quisling
Oslo Radio Tonight
Moscow
House of Commons
Abie Vcki
San Francisco
Russia
Warsaw
Australians Press Tarakan Fight as Japanese Holdouts Resist
Australian veterans gain a toehold at Tarakan while Japanese troops survive a brutal artillery barrage. U S forces supported by the 7th Fleet and air units seize Tarakan city barracks. Mindanao in the Philippines sees US forces encountering snipers as house-to-house combat unfolds. Baguio area mopped up on Luzon as three small towns released. Aerial strikes target Kobe's Hiro naval aircraft factory on Honshu.
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Manila
Tarakan
Borneo
U.S. 7Th Fleet
U.S. 13Th Air Forces
Australian Air Force
U.S. 24Th Division
Davao
Mindanao
Philippines
Luzon
Baguio
Okinawa
Japan
War Industries
Kobe
Honshu
Hiro Naval Aircraft Factory
Calgary Trades and Labor Council Defeats Political Action Plan
Calgary May 5 A Trades and Labor Congress of Canada recommendation to form a political action committee to steer voters toward pro-Labor lines was defeated at a Calgary council meeting last night.
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Calgary
Trades and Labor Congress of Canada
Calgary Trades and Labor Council
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