CBC to launch national news service for Canada
Ottawa plans for a nationwide CBC news service edited by CBC staff approved by the board. Dan McArthur named chief editor with bulletins from Vancouver Winnipeg Toronto Montreal and Halifax, free of charge to participating private stations. The CBC will broadcast via nine CBC owned and 25 private stations from Jan 1 with no advertising.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Board of Governors
Gladstone Murray
CBC
Dan McArthur
Toronto
Vancouver
Winnipeg
Montreal
Halifax
MacArthur
Murray
CBC National News Service
Toronto Globe
MacLean Publishing Company
Ontario
Peter McArthur
Canada’s shift to wartime industrial production praised
Industrial production in Canada accelerates toward mass war manufacturing. Howe cites vast gains in September 1940 over 1939, including iron and steel up 148 percent and cars and trucks up 294 percent. Government contracts totalled 849.6 million and shipbuilding and tire output are expanding with thousands employed.
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Ottawa
British Columbia
Department of Munitions and Supply
British Empire
Canada
More Storage Space Ottawa in Wheat Year Plans
News sources report demand for extra storage as the 1941 wheat crop nears market. Prairie elevator companies negotiate to jointly erect temporary annexes at Fort William and Port Arthur, expanding storage without federal involvement.
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Ottawa
Prairies
Fort Willam
Port Arthur
Registration costs for national roll record in Commons
A Commons table shows a cost of just over 30 cents to record age occupation and ability for each of 7 863 472 people registered in the National Registration last August. The figure reflects the administrative expense of compiling the national demographic list.
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Ottawa
CBC Report Shows 1940 Revenue Surplus and Broadcast Depth
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports for the year ended March 31 1940 a net operating surplus of 253 990 with income 3 752 061 and expenditures 3 498 071 License fees yield 2 906 605 while other income includes commercial broadcasting 700 867 and a royal visit grant 47 449 Expenditures cover programs 1 150 658 station network 685 308 engineering 610 482 and depreciation 316 274 In the year CBC aired 29 889 broadcasts totaling 10 473 hours about 28 hours daily up from 19 in 1838 39.
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Ottawa
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
C.B.C
RAF officer returns to Cairo after Greek tour
Air Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore flew to Cairo following inspections of British air force work in Greece. He met Premier Metaxas and General Papagos and was welcomed by King George. He praised Greek airmen for adapting quickly to new conditions and noted thanks from Greek leaders.
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Cairo
Egypt
Sir Arthur Longmore
Greece
John Metaxas
Alexander Papagos
King George
RAF
Viscount Rothermere Buried Quietly in Bermuda Graveyard
Viscount Rothermere the 72 year old British publishing magnate was laid to rest in a Bermuda graveyard after a brief service at St Pauls Paget parish his funeral attended by only a few. His body was driven to St Pauls and the rector Archdeacon Henry Marriott read the service a grave decorated with flowers ordered by cable from many parts of the world.
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Bermuda
Rothermere
Britain
St. Paul's Church
Paget
Lord Rothermere
St. Paul's
Henry Marriott
Globe
Britain looks to Canada for arms supplies
In the Commons Arthur Creenwood said Britain’s war output is insufficient and Britain hopes Canada will become a second arsenal. He reported to the United States on Britain's troubles and urged mobilization as critics pressed for stronger policy.
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London
Arthur Creenwood
War Cabinet
The
Commons
Britain
North America
United States
Churchill
Greenwood
Canada
Leslie Horse-Belisha
Italy
Germany
Emanuel Shinwell
Labor
War cabinet debates unemployment and conscription notes
Chief of the Canadian Naval Staff warns against overstating Allied position while Mr Hore Belisha cites rising unemployment. Ernest Bevin argues compulsion would yield defeat and stresses the wartime shift from industrial chaos to sustained war production despite bombing.
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Hore-Belisha
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
British science ready for war says Dean Mackenzie
Dean Mackenzie, president of the Engineering Institute of Canada, told the Washington Society of Engineers that Britain mobilized scientists after the last war. He cited a research council uniting experts to tackle threats like magnetic mines and poisonous gas, arguing war thinking replaces defense planning.
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Washington
Britain
C. J. Mackenzie
Engineering Institute of Canada
Dean Mackenzie
Washington Society of Engineers
Canada
Prowler Shot by Windsor Constable in Ice Incident
In Windsor Ontario Roland Croson 19 died in hospital after being shot by Police Constable G Fitz gerald whose gun discharged when he slipped on icy pavement during a pursuit of Croson believed to be a prowler alarming residents on Langlois avenue.
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Windsor
Ont
Roland Croson
G. Fitzgerald
Croson
Langlois Avenue
Bulgaria Refuses Triple Alliance as Russia’s Influence Grows
Moscow reports highlight Bulgaria’s refusal to join the tri partite pact and a Soviet diplomatic mission in Sofia. The article credits Stalin’s stance as a Slav victory and notes Bulgarian blackouts ending amid relief at not entering war. Russia’s guidance on Sofia’s policy complicates German plans through Bulgaria toward Turkey and Suez.
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London
Russia
Middle East
Moscow
Bulgaria
Sofia
Stalin
Turkey
Suez
Move in Britain to speed tempo of war effort
In the Commons debate Britons demand immediate aggressive action against Germany and Italy. Officials signal a shift toward offense with calls for a larger fighting force by June and expanded U S aid, aiming to exploit the Greek success and Italian setbacks.
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Britain
London
House of Commons
J. Bull
Hitler
Mussolini
United States
Berlin
Atlantic
Great Britain
Home Guard
Mediterranean
Greece
East
Labor must make sacrifices to win the war in Canada
Ottawa reports the labor minister N A McLarty says lengthening the Standard 44 to 48 hours or more may be needed as war industry labor shortages grow. He cites Coventry and ship sinkings and urges cooperation over coercion while noting unions in Toronto and Regina have already extended hours or offered 60 hours weekly for war work.
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Ottawa
Canada
N. A. McLarty
House of Commons
Coventry
Birmingham
Bristol
Southampton
McLarty
Mr. McLarty
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Toronto
Regina Carpenters
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Labor's Responsibilities Adopted by AFL in New Orleans
The American Federation of Labor gathered in New Orleans to approve a resolution condemning racketeering in labor unions. It authorized the executive council to act if unions fail to meet their responsibilities.
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New Orleans
American Federation of Labor
Canadian Steel Furnaces Hit Record October Output
Canada’s steel plants operated at 922 percent capacity and produced 186,091 tons of ingots and castings in October, up from 164,515 in September and 149,890 in the same month last year, according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Alsace arrests sent to German camps
The Strasbourg Neustachrichten reports eighteen Alsatians have been sent to German concentration camps for irreverent words and gestures toward Nazi Germany. The German-censored Alsatian capital reports the action from Basel.
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Basel
Switzerland
Strasbourg Neustenachrichten
Car Plates For Scrap Metal in Hamilton Plan
Hamilton motorists are urged to contribute 1940 license plates to service stations and garages for pickup as scrap metal by patriotic organizations aiding the war effort. The simple act supports national defense.
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Hamilton
Ont
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