Regional price offices to open across Canada
Wartime price and trade board officials announce plan for 13 regional offices with local representatives to aid price stabilization from Vancouver to the Atlantic coast. Ottawa hosts new officials aiding administration of price ceilings across commodities, with industry and retail input. Staff include F. W. Prendergast in charge, Ken Wilson, Fred Griffin, and Carl Reimke as initial appointees.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
Vancouver
Atlantic
Price and Trade Board
Canada
Imperial Oil Company
Ken Wilson
Financial Post
Fred Griffin
Toronto Star
Carl Reimke
Prisoners Recaptured After Escape and Theft
An official inquiry will investigate the escape of two German airmen from a British prison camp and their recapture after they stole an airplane. The ministry confirmed the escape and recapture but did not mention the aircraft. Reports say the Germans may have commandeered a small trainer craft. prior coverage claimed a Royal Air Force bomber, with the men posing as Netherlanders on recapture.
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London
Germany
Ministry of Information
Daily Express
Royal Air Force
The
Free French Receive U S Military Supplies
United States military supplies have been going to the Free French forces in North Africa for about three months under an informal arrangement with Britain. The extension of lend-lease assistance to Gen Charles de Gaulle's armies was announced, with supplies re transferred to the Free French after delivery to British authorities in the Middle East. Tanks, trucks and ordnance are among the items.
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Washington
United States
North Africa
Britain
Charles de Gaulle
Middle East
Prisoner of War London Escapes Hero Pilot Ryder
Wing Commander E. N. Ryder D F C and bar, famed for an escape after a Hurricane was trapped 30 feet beneath the water, is now a prisoner of war in Germany. Ryder escaped the sea by his parachute, which floated to the surface and hauled him from the cockpit.
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London
E. N. Ryder
D.F.C
Bar
Germany
Ryder
Russian Reserves in the Far East Reported by Geneva Paper
The Journal de Geneve claims German reports on Red Army destruction are unfounded and Russia maintains vast reserves in the Far East. It cites 20 infantry divisions and six motorized divisions under Marshal Wassily Bluecher, plus heavy bombers, with production and munition stocks substantial.
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Geneva
Journal
de Geneve
Red Army
Far East
Wassily K. Bluecher
Siberia
Marshal Bluecher
Far Eastern Command
Volga
Russia
Post Office Hires 44,000 Women to Replace Enlistees
In London during wartime, one in every three post office workers has joined the navy, army, air force, civil defence or home guard. A total of 113 vacancies are created and 44,000 extra women have been employed to fill them, bringing the workforce to 96,000 the largest in history.
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London
Navy
Army
Air Force
Civil Defence Services
Home Guard
Canada Eyes Two Army Corps For 1942 Strength Shift
Ottawa reports plans for 1942 foresee two army corps under Lieutenant General A G L McNaughton with Major General Crerar as a senior corps commander. Britain-based strength includes three infantry divisions an armored division and support units totaling about 125 000 men as Ottawa notes.
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Ottawa
Canada
Britain
King
H. D. G. Crerar
Toronto Star
A. G. L. McNaughton
Toronto
McNaughton
Crerar
Airman Decorated at Buckingham Palace for DFC award
A flying officer who piloted the aircraft dropping British parachute troops into Italy this year was decorated by the King at Buckingham Palace. The officer's name and the award type were not disclosed. The decoration was unrelated to the Italy mission. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross for daylight raids on Brest and La Pallice in Occupied France.
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London
Italy
Buckingham Palace
Brest
la Pallice
France
TEACHER HAROLD PLOWMAN RECEIVES TWO WINGS IN RC AF
Harold H E Plowman of Toronto earned two sets of wings in the Royal Canadian Air Force, a rare distinction for pilots and observers. He was chosen for special ability along with 15 other lads and is now in New Brunswick taking a navigation course.
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Harold H- E. Plowman
Toronto
R.C.A.F
Harold
New Brunswick
Ottawa wartime aide resigns to return to law practice
L. W. Brockington KC resigned after two years as a special wartime assistant to Prime Minister Mackenzie King. He will tour Britain and address audiences in the United States on Canada at war before resuming his legal practice. He will join the Ottawa firm Herridge Gowling MacTavish and Watt as counsel.
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Ottawa
L. W. Brockington, KC
Mackenzie King
Britain
United States
Canada
Brockington
King
Herridge Gowling, MacTavish and Watt
Mussolini May Visit Libyan Front to Encourage Troops
A Rome radio broadcast picked up by NBC claims Mussolini could travel from Rome to the Libyan front to boost morale of Italian soldiers. The report frames the trip as a show of leadership and support during wartime.
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New York
Rome
Mussolini
NBC
RCAF Conducts First Operational sortie over Occupied France
Royal Canadian Air Force reports its first operational sortie with new aircraft aboard an army co operation mission. Wing Commander H. W. Kerby of Toronto led the flight with PO G. C. H. Jackson of Edmonton on reconnaissance over the coast of occupied France.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Air Force
R.C.A.F
H. W. Kerby
Toronto
PO. G. C. H. Jackson
Edmonton
France
Atlantic Ferry Job Pushes US Air Corps Plans for Transatlantic Boots
Military authorities foresee the United States Army Air Corps ferry command beginning to fly military planes to Britain. The RAF ferry command and Allied efforts already move bombers and fighters. American crews may later join, complementing but not replacing allied efforts. A War Department release notes the ferry command moves planes to take-off points while the future is being anticipated. Congress loosened neutrality act limits on belligerent ports, fueling talk of crossing planes, not just ships.
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Washington
United States Army Air Corps Ferry Command
Atlantic
Britain
Royal Air Force Ferry Command
Alfero
RAF Ferry Command
Ferry Command
War Department
Air Corps Ferry Command
Congress
United States
Chocolate flavored bill poster fined for misleading malted milk ad
An analyst described a chocolate flavored paste as malted milk and a company was fined about 150 dollars for advertising and offering the product for sale. The analyst found the mix to be 10 percent cocoa and 90 percent weakened flour.
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London
Farm products exempt from price ceiling in wartime order
Ottawa reports the wartime prices and trade board exempt a broad range of farm products and fish from the general ceiling effective December 1 in sales between primary producers and dealers or processors. Retail prices remain bound to the base period limits.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
Anti Nazi Violence Surges in Occupied Paris and France
Reports describe new anti Nazi violence in occupied France with Paris authorities imposing a 1,000,000 franc fine and a 5 p.m. curfew for four days in districts hit by explosions. Sabotage near Abbeville and Noyelle damaged rail lines, though no casualties occurred. In Paris a restaurant near Montparnasse Station was attacked. 17 Germans present were unharmed.
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Vichy
France
Paris
Ernst von Schaumburg
Abbeville
Noyelle
Montparnasse
Latin Quarter
Boulevard Saint Michel
Boulevard Montparnasse
Joint Convoys Aims to Tie US and Britain in War Navy
Washington naval sources say the North Atlantic convoy system will be reorganized soon to foster greater U S and British naval cooperation. Plans may formalize joint action, resembling the successful late war method where British and American cargo ships traveled in mixed convoys escorted by vessels from both nations. The current informal setup shields U S flag merchant ships to Iceland and extends protection to British ships about halfway across the Atlantic.
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Washington
United States
Britain
U.S
Iceland
Farmers urge direct sale of scrap to government
The United Farmers of Alberta central co operative board endorses a resolution asking the federal government to buy scrap metal directly from farmers using war savings certificates. Farmers oppose selling to junk dealers so they can profit by passing metal to the government.
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Calgary
United Farmers of Alberta Central Co-Operative
Justice T C Davis Named Chairman Of Travel and Tourist Panel
Ottawa announced by War Services Minister Thorson that Hon. Mr. Justice T. C. Davis, associate deputy minister of national war services, is appointed chairman of the reorganized advisory committee on travel and the tourist industry.
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Ottawa
Justice T. C. Davis
National War Services
War Services
Thorson
Australia to produce Beaufort aircraft daily in 1942
Australian minister of aircraft production told the BBC that Australia will build a Beaufort every day in 1942. He described the Beaufort as the latest version of the craft, signaling expanded wartime output and aerial capability.
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London
British Broadcasting Corporation
Australia
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