Survey Parties Start On New Air Route To Alaska
Ottawa reports a new air route development from Edmonton to Alaska via the Mackenzie river valley with surveys by the RCAF and transport department. Fields will be built at Good Hope Arctic Red River McPherson and other Yukon sites to connect with the Mackenzie river airport chain from Fort McMurray to Norman Wells. The route serves as an alternative when western weather is poor and may be US undertaken with construction by US personnel.
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Ottawa
Alaska
Northwest
Edmonton
Whitehorse
Yukon Territory
Mackenzie River
McPherson
Yukon
Rcaf and
Transport Department
Wartime Information Board
Fort McMurray
Alta
Norman Wells
N.W.T
Good Hope
Arctic Red River
Eill
Edmonton-Whitehorse
United States Army
United States
Canada
Mackenzie
Fort Norman
Embarras
Fort Smith
Fort Resolution
Hay River
Fort Providence
Mills Lake
Fort Simpson
Wrigley
Camp Canal
Peace River
Alberta
Northwest Territories
Ottawa extends coal miner military training ban to August 1944
Labor Minister Mitchell announced a blanket postponement of military training for men employed in coal mining is extended to August 1, 1944. The ban on voluntary enlistment in any armed forces is also extended, stemming from a May 17, 1943 order in council effective to February 1, 1944.
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Ottawa
Mitchell
Dutch Patriots Executed By German Occupation
The Netherlands underground paper Het Parool estimates at least 20 000 Dutch patriots were executed by German authorities from the invasion of Holland to last December. A copy received here says 640 patriots were sentenced to death in Holland in October alone.
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London
Holland
Netherlands
Het Parool
Dominion Construction to Build 200 Landing Barges
John Tucker of Dominion Construction Company says the firm expects to begin work soon on an order for 200 self-propelling landing barges in Vancouver.
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Vancouver
John Tucker
Dominion Construction Company
British Empire Medal Awarded To CWAC Seaman Quinlan
Pte Mary Li Yan Quinlan 22 of the CWAC now at Red Deer army training centre receives the British Empire Medal for courage in a July accident near Sydney, US. She aided four others, called a doctor and priest, and saved two lives after the truck wreck, despite a sprained ankle. Her home is Holyrood, Conception Bay. she enlisted in Halifax in 1942. Churchill says Britain is well supplied with tanks and armored equipment from the United States as he and Eisenhower meet.
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Red Deer
Alta
Mary Li Yan Quinlan
CWAC
Sydney
Quinlan
Pte Quinlan
Holyrood
Conception Bay
C.w.ac
Halifax
Britain Plans Postwar Civil Aviation Expansion
Lord Beaverbrook told the House of Lords Britain will lead postwar civil aviation with a 50 passenger plane at 250 mph crossing the Atlantic in 15 hours. He urged Empire bases for world air routes and supported Roosevelt’s principle of free passage and refueling rights for all nations. Britain seeks international talks with the United States once its survey is complete.
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London
Atlantic
Britain
Lord Beaverbrook
House of Lords
Lord Privy Seal
Churchill
Roosevelt
Western Canada Fairs Association elects officers
Frank E. Clark of Carman Manitoba was elected president at the Western Canada Fairs Association closing meeting. D. F. Lacroix of Prince Albert Saskatchewan was named first vice president and A. W. Shaw of Vegreville Alberta was named second vice president. Victor Bjorkland of Red Deer Alberta was named chairman of the executive.
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Winnipeg
Frank E. Clark
Carman
Men
Western Canada Fairs Association
D. F. Lacroix
Prince Albert
Sask
A. W. Shaw
Vegreville
Alta
Victor Bjorkland
Red Deer
Sabotage Wave Tied to Gestapo Invasion Report
Free Danish Press reports 6000 Gestapo agents entered Copenhagen by boat and train from Czecho Slovakia and Belgium. Danish Stockholm sources claim a new sabotage wave spurred the mass importation of Gestapo and Nazi authorities accuse Danish police of non cooperation in fighting repeated sabotage outbreaks.
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Stockholm
Free Danish Press Service
Gestapo
Copenhagen
Czecho- Slovakia
Belgium
Loss of Hunt class destroyer Tynedale announced
London reports the loss of the Hunt class destroyer Tynedale, a 904 ton vessel completed in 1940. Armed with four 4 inch anti aircraft guns and eight smaller guns, no further details were released.
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London
Admiralty
Naval aviation expansion bill sent to White House
Washington. The House approved a bill authorizing spending of 281.06 million dollars to expand U S naval aviation facilities on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts and sent it to the White House for action.
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Washington
House of Representatives
White House
United States
Pacific
Atlantic
Health uncertain as McNaughton father in ill health
Squadron Leader Andrew R L McNaughton arrives in Ottawa after five months overseas on temporary duty. He says his father, General A G L McNaughton, former overseas commander of the Canadian army, is in uncertain health and cannot confirm if he will return to Canada soon.
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Ottawa
Andrew R. L. McNaughton
Rc.a.f
A. G. L. McNaughton
McNaughton
Canada
China
Longue Pointe
Montreal
Inspection Board
United Kingdom
Liu Suih Shun
G. B. Howard
T. S. Ho
Yui Ming
C.B.E
Military District No. 4
New Type Canadian Freighter To Be Built In BC
Shipping officials announced a new type freighter under the 1944 program to be constructed in British Columbia shipyards. Details are scarce but the vessel will combine features from prior Canada built ships since the war began. Keels are planned for mid August as old contracts expire.
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British Columbia
Vancouver
Canada
Canada’s 1943 Primary Products Reach New Peak
F S Grisdale deputy coordinator of primary products wartime prices and trade board told delegates to the United Farmers of Alberta convention in Calgary that Canada produced about 1.2 billion dollars of primary products in 1943 the greatest in history. He noted a 25 percent drop in farm labor since 1939 yet production rose one third and monetary returns doubled. He called the feat phenomenal given limited farm equipment.
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Calgary
Canada
F. S. Grisdale
Prices and Trade Board
United Farmers of Alberta
Mr. Grisdale
Unprecedented Drought Grips Plains Centered in Nebraska
The U S weather bureau reports unprecedented winter drought across a wide plains area centered in Nebraska. Winter wheat, key for wartime needs, suffers as government asks producers to respond. Dry conditions extend to the Rocky Mountain and western states with reduced mountain snowfall foretelling weaker irrigation water.
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Washington
United States
Weather Bureau
Great Plains
Nebraska
Rocky Mountain
Navy Praised For Major Role In Battle of the Atlantic
London report notes the Royal Canadian Navy now provides more than two-fifths of north Atlantic ocean-going escorts. A V Alexander states Canadian forces have expanded rapidly, with about 42 fold rise since 1939, and that RCAF aircraft account for roughly a quarter of air attacks on U boats.
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London
Royal Canadian Navy
North Atlantic
A. V. Alexander
Admiralty
House of Commons
Alexander
Royal Canadian Air Force
Percy Hurd
Royal Navy
Sir William Mulock Celebrates 100th Birthday In Toronto
Sir William Mulock, Canada’s elder statesman, marks his centenary with a visit to Osgoode Hall to receive tributes from the judiciary and bar and a home reception attended by friends including Prime Minister King. He remains active, presiding over a University of Toronto convocation as chancellor and conferring an honorary Doctor of Laws on Crown Prince Olaf of Norway.
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Toronto
William Mulock
Canada
Osgoode Hall
Bar
King
William
University of Toronto
Olaf
Norway
Extra Returns To Hog Raisers Is Authorized
Ottawa authorizes expenditures of 75 000 to equalize returns to western hog producers pushed east for slaughter since Oct 1 due to prairie plant congestion. Agriculture Minister Gardiner cites war driven doubling of prairie hog production and excess western marketings. eastern gains small and plants underutilized. Payment to producers via the Canadian Meat Board to offset freight rate differences and handling shrinkage.
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Ottawa
Treasury Board
Agriculture
Gardiner
West
Western
Canada
East
Canadian Meat Board
Casualties Heavy in Italian Campaign Report
Unofficial Canadian army casualty tabulation, covering the Moro valley and Ortona battles in December, shows a sharp rise in losses. In the four weeks to December 21 casualties were 284, rising to 695 for the four weeks to January 18, indicating a higher tempo in the campaign begun September 3.
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Ottawa
London
Ross Munro
Moro Valley
Ortona
Heligoland Evacuated by Civilians in RAF Threat Era
The Berlin radio reports that all civilians have left Heligoland the German fortress island. Once a key outpost guarding Hamburg Bremen and the Kiel canal its population is about 2500. It has faced at least one daylight RAF raid since the war began.
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London
Berlin
Heligoland
North Sea
Weser
Elbe
Hamburg
Bremen
Cuxhaven
Kiel Canal
R.A.F
Treasure Tale Raised Over Savoy Coin Hoard
Reports from Turin describe conflicting claims over the Savoy treasure believed to hold King Victor Emmanuel’s coin collection. German forces reportedly seized the hoard and handed it to a puppet Fascist regime, with value cited above 1,000,000,000 lire, though authenticity remains uncertain.
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House of Savoy
Victor Emmanuel
Turin
Savoy
Italian King Victor Emmanuel to Abdicate When Moment Ripe
Signor Vito Reale, acting interior minister, says King Victor Emmanuel of Italy will abdicate at the proper moment. He expresses confidence the king will act with the wisdom needed when conditions arise and the country expects the gesture.
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Interior
Victor
Bari
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
Signor
Vito Reale
Pietro Badoglio
Dionne Quints See First Movie Lassie Come Home
The five quints, who turn ten in May, visited North Bay to view Lassie Come Home with their parents.
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North Bay
Dionne Quints
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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England
Harold Franklyn
Bernard Paget
Paget
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J. Cush
King’s Own Royal Regiment
Barrow-on-Furness
Eng
Tobruk
Harry Rostance
Birmingham
Tunisia
Drouth
Sir William Mulock
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