Farmers Asked To Reduce Their Wheat Acreage
Ottawa reports the Dominion bureau of statistics warns that acreage cuts are not a guaranteed path to smaller yields but expect 1943 44 wheat statistics to improve if reductions are carried out next spring. Canada aims for the lowest wheat land since 1918 with a potential 39 percent drop from 1940 peak, while U S Argentina and Australia face varied programs and weather influences.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Dominion
Bureau
Canada
United States
Argentina
Australia
North America
United Kingdom
Terboven Warns Norway of Bolshevik Expansion After Allied Victory
London reports Joseph Terboven, Hitler’s envoy in Norway, warned in a speech to Norwegian manufacturers that an Allied victory would unleash Russian political and economic expansion. He suggested Sweden could not resist Bolshevik influence, and the remarks appeared in an official publication about ten days after delivery.
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London
Hitler
Norway
Joseph Terboven
Terboven
Sweden
Boy Attempts Enlistment Smuggling Age Claim in Winnipeg
Major C. E. Otton, recruiting officer, notes a 15-year-old boy came to his office in Winnipeg trying to enlist in the Canadian active army. The youth smoked a cigar and believed cigar smoking would fool officers into thinking he was 18, but showed evident signs of underage status.
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Winnipeg
C. E. Otton
Reginan
RCAF Ace Bombs Japanese Sub Off Alaskan Coast
An RCAF plane piloted by PO W E Thomas of Toronto dropped a 300 pound bomb on a Japanese submarine off the Pacific coast as it attempted a dive. The submarine wreckage was left behind after the craft was too damaged to escape. Sgt. Robert Kenning of Pembroke signalled the kill to naval units. RCAF crews patrol the Pacific coast with US forces including over Kiska in the Aleutians.
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RCAF
Pacific
Alaskan
W E. Thomas
Toronto
Robert Kenning
Pembroke
Ont
Prospects for Allied Victory Warned by Admiral Stirling
Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr outlines a future in which Allied air superiority pressures Rommel in North Africa and threatens Tunis and Bizerte. He predicts Crete Sicily or Sardinia invasion possibilities and a weakened Axis as Italy loses moral resolve.
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Yates Stirling, Jr
Hitler
North Africa
Marshal Rommel
Libya
Tunis
Bizerte
Crete
Sicily
Sardinia
Spain
Italy
Greece
Balkans
Europe
Royal Navy
Dodecanese
Aegean Sea
Poultry Shipments From Edmonton For Christmas Markets
A survey shows 75 carloads of dressed poultry totaling 1 50000 pounds left Alberta for Christmas markets. The 10 day shipping season was brief with lighter than expected supplies. About 90 percent of the loadings were turkeys with geese ducks and some chickens making up the rest. Producers received 375 000 dollars, mostly from central Alberta.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Awarded Trans-Canada Trophy for Canadian aviation
Ottawa’s A. D. McLean controller of civil aviation received the Trans-Canada Trophy for outstanding service in 1941. The citation praised his supervision of airport site selection and development for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and for RCAF operational bases.
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A. D. McLean
Ottawa
Department of Transport
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
R.C.A.F
Jas. D. McKee
Pittsburgh
Famous General Led British Column Against Rommel
The article identifies Maj Gen Sir Bernard Freyberg VC as the famed general who commanded the British column that split Rommel's Africa Corps at Wadi Matratin. The operation was executed by a New Zealand division under General Bernard Montgomery's Eighth Army with allied support across arms.
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Romie
Cairo
Middle East
Rommels
Africa Corps
Wadi Matratin
Bernard Freyberg
V.C
New Zealand
Sir Bernard Montgomery
Eighth Army
Underground Cable Connects Washington to West Coast
New all underground transcontinental telephone cable linking Washington to the west coast was opened recently. Begun in 1946 to ensure Pacific coast communications in case of war with Japan, the system replaces four older pole lines vulnerable to weather disruption and sabotage.
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New York
Washington
West Coast
Pacific Coast
Japan
Rockies
Official Films From Desert Battle To Be Shown
Forty thousand feet of film taken under fire documents the British 8th Army drive from El Alamein to Bengali. The footage, shot by non combatant sergeants, will be edited into a public picture story with a Feb 1 release.
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London
8Th Army
el Alamein
Field Marshal
Tommel
Africa Corps
Egypt
Tobruk
End of the War Rumors Among Allied Readers
Allied Headquarters notes a belief among some French observers that history repeats with a 129 year pattern linking revolutions and empires. They cite 1789, 1804, 1812 and compare Napoleonic events to Nazi rise and a supposed 1943 end, a theory without official basis.
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Allied
North
Laval’s French Axis Ties Spreading Across Europe
Reports claim Pierre Laval promised Hitler a French army to police Poland and solidify Axis lines. Laval, returning to Vichy from Paris after meeting Hitler and Count Ciano, described the talks as a new phase of co operation with the Axis. Swiss sources note German troops to be withdrawn from Haute Savoie with Italians taking over, while French police fear anti collaborationists use night air raids to plant incendiaries in Rouen Le Havre.
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London
Pierre Laval
Hitler
Poland
Russia
Laval
Vichy
Paris
Count Ciano
France
Madrid
Rouen
le Havre
Eisenhower Commands Gibraltar Fortress During North Africa Drive
In North Africa Allied Headquarters at Gibraltar, Lt Gen Dwight D Eisenhower, as Allied commander in chief, oversees British fortress operations from a rock carved into offices, working around the clock under tight security and through a tunnel entrance to reach his rockbound HQ.
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Allied
North Africa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gibraltar
British Empire
United States
West Point
Eisenhower
The
Rock
Gen
Mason MacFarlane
Cienerals
Shortage of Men Production In Alberta Edmonton
Alberta Farmers' Union secretary H E Nichols warns skilled farm labor shortages threaten hog production and warns agriculture must be treated as an essential war industry to avert possible food shortages. He cites circularized farmers and only one could increase hog output. Oil refining capacity note included.
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Alberta
Edmonton
H. E. Nichols
Alberta Farmers’ Union
Prices Board
Nichols
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Itebourba
Mejez Elibas
Drerrovide
Maateuur
Protville
Djedeida
Cheylus
Korbous
Soliman
Tebourba
Tunisia
Central Press
Napoleon
Flyers Bay
Royal Canadian Air Force
Gulf of St. Lawrence
R. C. Keetley
Moose Jaw
Saskatchewan
P. G
Pete) Hughes
Courtney
R. S. Keatley
Dave Bow
South River
Dauphin
R. A. C. MacNeil
R.C.M P
Haakon
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