Must Secure A Market For Our Farm Products Must Secure A Market For Our Farm Products
J G Taggart, chairman of the agricultural prices support board, told the Saskatchewan Livestock Association that Canada must maintain external trade to support price stability. He urged keeping Canada’s price level aligned with international markets to avoid retaliation and embargoes. He argued stable, moderate prices over time suit farmers better than brief spikes.
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Saskatoon
Canada
Ward J. G Taggart
Agricultural Prices Support Board
Saskatchewan Livestock Association
Dominion
Secret Meeting Of The Allied Leaders Plan
President Roosevelt announced a secret forthcoming meeting with Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin. The exact time and place remain undisclosed, with only an unknown time stated as anon. He indicated discussion may cover Senator Connally's interim Allied council proposal.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Anon
Tom Conally
Dem
Tex
Allied Council
Anow
Marsha
RCAF Crewmembers to Receive French Croix de Guerre
Air force headquarters announced seven members of the Royal Canadian Air Force may accept the French Croix de Guerre for distinguished services during special operations aiding France's liberation. Recipients include Squadron Leader W. M. Fairey and DFC Lloydminster, Sask, among others.
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Ottawa
Air Force Headquarters
R.ca.f
France
Sqdn
Lar
W. M. Fairey
Lloydmineter
iSask
Secret Weapons We Fall With Surprise On The Enemy
London report on a Commons exchange about British secret weapons and inventions. The prime minister cites a preference for letting such innovations surprise the foe and counters German boasts of forthcoming terrors, saying Britain will not resort to desperate measures.
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London
House of Commons
Homeless Germans in Stockholm Reach 13,000 Losses
Werner Taesler Jedish architect and international adviser on post reconstruction estimates at least 13,000 Germans have lost their homes in Stockholm. The figure reflects widespread displacement amid upheaval and housing shortages affecting foreign residents.
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Stockholm
Werner Taesler Jedish
Victoria Cross Hero Receives Christmas Kiss From Stewardess
Ernest A Smoky Smith known for the Victoria Cross for bravery in Italy last October 21 stands on a 10 000 mile air trip home to New Westminster B C. In Toronto a TC A stewardess Elizabeth Free kisses him on the cheek and wishes him God speed after a brief stopover. Smith single handedly held a Savio River bridgehead staving off three German tanks and about 30 infantry.
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Ernest A
Smoky” Smith
New Westminster
B.C
Trans- Canada Air Lines
Elizabeth Free
T.C.A
Smith
Savio River
Italy
Japanese Worry Over Pacific Moves Prompted by Pacific Pact
A Japanese commentator in a broadcast to unoccupied China warned Stalin must reveal his Pacific strategy by April, ahead of a Churchill Roosevelt Stalin meeting and the April deadline to terminate the 1941 Japanese Russian non aggression pact. The pact runs five years with one year notice to end.
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San Francisco
China
Stalin
Domei Agency
Czechs expected to regain Teschen district
London reports that the Lublin provisional government of Poland is ready to assure the Czechoslovakian government that the coal rich Teschen district, seized during the Munich territorial seizure, will be restored to Czechoslovakia.
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London
Lublin
Poland
Teschen
Munich
Czechoslovakia
Civilian Boats Train Resumes London to Paris
The first civilian boats train in four years and nine months left London January 15 for Paris. Limited to three traveller classes: businessmen with government certification, relatives of wounded soldiers, and service members. Passengers were secretly notified of assembly and must arrange billeting and meals in Paris.
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London
Paris
Ministry of War Transport
Winnipeg GoldEyes Prices Set by Board for Fresh Water Fish
The prices board announced ceiling prices for Winnipeg goldeyes. Processors may sell to wholesalers at 30 cents per pound and to retailers at 35 cents, F.O.B Winnipeg. The levels are about the same as last year.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
Winnipeg
F.o.binnipeg
No Problems Of Minorities Will Bother Poland
In liberated Poland, leaders vow a future free of minority tensions. Polish citizens describe a nationalistic, racially homogeneous state targeted to expel German Russian Ukrainian White Russian Lithuanian minorities. Population transfers along the Curzon line advance, with ten thousand families moved into former western Ukrainian estates as Polish peasants travel eastward.
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Lublin
Poland
Versailles
Curzon Line
National Committee of Liberation
Ukraine
Lwow
Bug River
Advance Booking Winnipeg for Trans Atlantic Service
Trans-Canada Air Lines reports 54 people on a waiting list for the first peacetime commercial Atlantic crossing as of November 30. In November 12 east bound and 13 west bound flights completed Montreal to the United Kingdom, moving 129,616 pounds of mail 9,750 pounds of freight and 100 passengers.
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Winnipeg
Trans-Canada Airlines
TCA
Montreal
United Kingdom
Alberta Farmers to Receive PFAA Payments Totaling up to 3 Million
Edmonton Alberta officer Arnold Johnson in charge for the Prairie Farm Assistance Act says Alberta farmers will get federal cheques totaling between 2 500 000 and 3 000 000 dollars. Payments on 1944 claims began weeks ago and are to be finished by month end February.
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Edmonton
Arnold Johnson
Alberta
Prairie Farm Assistance Act
P.F.A.A
Montreal Major Leads SE Asia Command Offensive
Major Donald Johns of 4006 Beaconsfield Avenue Montreal plays a key role in the Southeast Asia Command against Japan. An ex McGill student and Kobe English professor, he has reported from Singapore Batavia Delhi and Kandy and hopes to broadcast from Japan.
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Ottawa
Japan
Lord Louis Mountbatten
South East Asia Command
Donald Johns
Beaconsfield Avenue
Montreal
McGill
Ambassadors Hotel
Sherbrooke St
Prairie Farms
Far East
University of Kobe
Imperial University
Kyoto
Hong Kong
Singapore
Batavia
Delhi
Kandy
Ceylon
National fuel policy under Carroll commission inquiry
Sydney Nova Scotia report notes the Carroll coal commission begins hearings to study the whole Canadian coal industry for a potential national fuel policy. It compares wartime air power, stating 13 aircraft carriers and 600 planes in 1939 versus about 150 carriers and 5,000 planes today.
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Sydney
N.S
Carroll Coal Commission
U.S
England
Liberation of Warsaw After Reign of Terror
London reports Warsaw fallen to Russians nearly six months after Rokossovsky approached from the east. Sept 1939 saw German bombing starting Sept 1, with city wrecked and mayor Starzyński missing. The Nazi occupation unleashed a reign of terror on Jews, with ghetto destruction and mass extermination in death camps. Survivors aided by Polish underground later mutinied in a doomed defense.
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London
Warsaw
Konstanntin Rokossovsky
Vitebsk
Stefan Starzynski
Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Europe
Empire Casualties To December In Second War Exceed Previous War
Britain reports Empire casualty totals from September 1939 to November 30. Churchill cites 1 043 554 total casualties with 635 107 UK losses and Dominion figures for Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa. India and colonies add to the toll.
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London
British Empire
Churchill
House of Commons
United Kingdom
Mr. Churchill
Dominion
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
India
Basic Industries Key To West Canada Prosperity
Premier Stuart S. Garson addressed the Manitoba Liberal Progressive Association urging that farmers margins must stay healthy and basic industries be prosperous to sustain post war employment. He noted government action to secure jobs for all and social security for the unemployed as essential to prevent mass unemployment.
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Winnipeg
Stuart S. Garson
Manitoba
Manitoba Liberal-Progressive Association
Canada
Japan Premier Koiso Faces Resignation Push
Domei agency reported factions among national leaders urging a bold political renovation and a second reform. The issue was expected to be raised before the diet on January 21 amid dissension within the Imperial Rule Assistance Political Society.
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San Francisco
Japan
Domei Agency
Kuniaki Koiso
Domei
Imperial Rule Assistance Political Society
SS General Lingner Captured by U.S. Army Front
General Hans Lingner commander of the 17th SS panzer grenadier division has been captured by the U.S. 7th Army. He is believed to be the first SS division commander taken on the western front.
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Hans Lingner
S.S. Panzer Grenadier
U.S. 7Th Army
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