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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 04, 1943
Page
3
The speech from the throne in Parliament announced a comprehensive national social insurance plan for Canada. It proposes a select committee to report on practical measures and aims to ensure adequate incomes for primary producers and full employment after the war, with a national health insurance scheme and other reforms.
Ottawa urged immediate protection of key war industries from air attack. A sub-committee on ammunition chemicals explosives and tank production reports the current position is better than ever, but recommends greater protection at strategic sites and installation of smoke screen generators where needed.
A government owned Food Corporation took over 2576 cattle between June 30 and July 18, in Alberta Manitoba and Ontario. The purchases aim to secure beef for domestic consumption that might otherwise be exported, as stated in a House of Commons return by C R Evans.
Canberra air minister Drakeford rejected claims that manpower shortages would cut the Dominion aircrew contribution under the combined training plan. He affirmed the program will continue until 1945 as agreed by the involved nations.
The United Farmers of Alberta pass resolutions proposing bringing Italian prisoners of war from Africa to work on Canadian farms if the federal government approves. A second resolution urges federal reconsideration of the Dunning mortgage legislation, proposing farm debt be rooted at 60 percent of current value with interest capped at three percent.
Allied dispatch reports a British submarine torpedoed and sank a 6,400-ton Italian merchant ship carrying motor transport from Italy to Tunisia. The same sub also sank a schooner near Sardinia and a 2,000-ton trawler. Since November it has sunk eight enemy vessels including two destroyers, two schooners, a trawler, and three merchant ships. Other submarines torpedoed a 7,000-ton ship and a large merchant vessel in the Gulf of Genoa.
Ottawa authorities of the Wartime Price and Trade Board form a standard section within the supply division to guard against deterioration in store goods quality. Chairman Donald Gordon says manufacturers generally maintain standards, but wartime shortages cause unavoidable variations.
The Chinese high command charged Japan with using poison gas in the January 6 attack on positions northwest of Hungtung in southern Shansi. The communique claimed several hundred Japanese soldiers died when the wind shifted toward their own lines.
Calgary delegates heard F. S. Grisdale say Canada holds large butter stocks unrelated to other firms and government must move these supplies where needed. He reviewed wartime price board actions, noted rising costs, and discussed price ceilings and rationing as a last resort. He hoped butter rationing could end after April 30 and subsidy changes followed.
In New Delhi officials argued milk subsidy should continue through the war to hold living costs and protect workers health. Finance Minister Isley reportedly assured subsidy is not a producer price cut but a social measure. Dairy groups urged price control, dairy product subsidies, a federal food supply department with price fixing, and selective farm help for dairy operations.
Lord Woolton, Britain's food minister, says the key to wartime nutrition has been people rather than pay capacity. He notes health gains across classes with the affluent eating less and the poor more, aided by science including dehydrated carrot provisions used to feed eight per wad.
Prime Minister Churchill flew to North Africa with the same Liberator crew that carried him to Moscow last summer. Three Canadians served as Radio Officer Robert N. Holmes Toronto Senior Flight Engineer J. W. Affleck London Ontario and Second Flight Engineer Ronald R. Williams Woodstock New Brunswick. The two Americans were Co-pilot Jack Ruggles San Francisco and Captain William Vanderkloot of Florida. Ruggles and Vanderkloot now reside in Montreal.
Premier Hideki Tojo told a reconvened Japanese diet that Japan wages war to place each country and people in peace and security. He said Japan marches to crush the United States and Britain, and that a basis for victory has been completed with position for offense and defense established.
Melbourne bureau reports Tokyo radio warns Japanese forces in the South West Pacific to shun Australian broadcasts claiming they are infected with Western ideas.
Parliament may not expand the army further in 1943, but the navy and air force are set for continued growth. The throne speech calls for maintaining and reinforcing overseas corps and coastal defence while expanding air training and patrol duties. Canada will also take on more responsibilities for Canadian airmen abroad and continue integrating them into RAF structures.
At the Kremlin Stalin met with British chargé d affaires W Lacy Baggallay and Admiral William Standley as a note from Churchill and Roosevelt was handed to him. Standley said Stalin appeared placid and not easily excited though he seemed pleased by news from Stalingrad and Red Army successes. He declined to discuss Allied command plans and warned against sweeping general staffs coordinating worldwide war efforts.
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