Allied Seapower Gathers Teams To Break Sub Offensive
Washington reports the Allied command has mobilized seapower including Canadian British and United States ships to hunt Nazi U boats in the Atlantic. Convoys plus new anti submarine craft and private vessels speed up coast patrol as merchant losses rise in some regions and mines appear along the coast.
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Washington
United Nations High Command
Hitler
Navy Department
United States
Ras
Britains
Atlantic
North American
United States Navy
Atlantic Seaboard
Maine
Florida
Caribbean
Edmonton Captain McVicar Receives King’s Civil Commendation
Captain Donald M. McVicar 27 of Edmonton, RAF ferry command pilot, earns civil commendations from His Majesty for a hazardous route survey. Former Canadian Airways Training pilot, son of J G McVicar, with six months in the ferry command, he flew bombers across the Atlantic for RCAF and RAF raids. Born in Oxbow Sask, he trained in Edmonton, Winnipeg, and at the University of Alberta.
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Montreal
Edmonton
Ferry Command
Atlantic
RCAF
R.A.F
Oxbow
Sask
St. John's College
Winnipeg
University of Alberta
Vichy Aid to Axis Route via Tunisia Reported
Moscow–Tass reports the Vichy government actively supplied war materials and transported troops through French Tunisia for Nazi commander Erwin Rommel in Egypt. The Geneva-dated account says French sea routes concealed German forces in North Africa ahead of Rommel’s offensive.
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Moscow
Tass
Vichy
French
Tunisia
Erwin Rommel
Egypt
Geneva
Switzerland
North Africa
Rommel
London Bomb Damage at St Pauls Cathedral Named
Archdeacon E N Sharpe disclosed bomb damage to St Pauls Cathedral in London totaling £150,000 or about $650,000. The figure reflects war damage and financial impact announced by church officials.
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London
St Paul's Cathedral
Arch@eacorn
E. N. Sharpe
Wartime board sets maximum prices for canned fruits and vegetables
The wartime Prices and Trade Board issued an order fixing price tiers for canned tomatoes juice peas corn and several beans and fruits for 1942. The aim is to let wholesalers and retailers keep consumer prices stable by subsidizing part of the higher production costs from 1941 while maintaining the Sept 15 to Oct 11 1941 price level for main items.
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Wartime Prices and Trade Board
Prairie provinces push for farm debt tribunal plan
At the Prairie Farm Debts conference in Saskatoon the Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta governments and agrarian groups agreed to seek federal authority to create tribunals. The plan would write down debt principal reduce interest and adjust repayment terms for farm debts nationwide. Delegations will meet in Regina July 10 11 to prepare Ottawa submission and then travel to Ottawa.
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Saskatoon
Western Canada
Prairie Provinces
Prairie Farm Debts Conference
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Regina
Ottawa
The
Prairies
Robert Gardiner
United Farmers of Alberta
William Aberhart
John Bracken
Captured Afrika Corps General Cruewell Passes Cairo En Route to Internment
General Ludwig Cruewell commanding the 21st and 15th Armored Divisions of the Afrika Corps was captured when his plane went down near a British camp. He is shown passing through Cairo on his way to internment.
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Ludwig Cruewell
21St
15Th Armored
Afrika Corps
Cairo
Air Lines Dispatch War Effort From Canada
Canadian Pacific Air Lines says ninety percent of its air fleet is devoted to war projects. In the Yukon and Northwest Territories operations run 24 hours a day, with freighting of control parties and equipment for the Alaska highway. The company assists in plotting the Fort Norman to Whitehorse pipeline route and supports surveying parties for a proposed Prince George to Alaska railway, along with northern mail and passenger services.
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Montreal
L. Bo Unwin
Canadian Pacific Air Lines
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Alaska Highway
Fort Norman
Whitehorse
Prince George
Alaska
Britain Soviet Financing Pact Retroactive To June 1941
Moscow reports a lease lend financing pact between Great Britain and the Soviet Union for British military supplies to the USSR. Signed June 27 by Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and A. I. Mikoyan, the accord retroactive to June 22, 1941, the start of the German invasion.
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Moscow
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Russia
Moscow Radio
Archibald Clark Kerr
A. I. Mikoyan
Ottawa plan caps high incomes with tax bite
Finance Minister Ilsley’s budget aims to curb earnings with a high tax on top brackets. Officials say even large gains yield small net increases, citing a $50,000 to $100,000 rise and a $500,000 ceiling of about $26,896 in take after taxes.
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Ottawa
Ilsley
Dominion
Post War Wheat Export Agreement Sets Stabilized Prices
Trade Minister MacKinnon described a Canada United States Australia Argentina pact that allocates Canada 40 percent of postwar wheat exports and aims for stability in prices. The UK joined for price considerations, with six months after hostilities ends to agree a fair price range. Canada will not exceed domestic and export needs plus a war reserve, ensuring growers face no sharp export price drops.
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Ottawa
MacKinnon
Canada
United States
Australia
Argentina
Washington
United Kingdom
Dominion
Post-War Employment urged for returned soldiers in Canada
A motion before the House of Commons committee on reconstruction urges studying ways to mobilize national resources to address post war reconstruction. J G Turgeon led the inquiry noting immediate tasks include creating employment for returned soldiers and war industry workers.
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Ottawa
House of Commons Committee On
Canada
J. G. Turgeon Lid
Cari
Canadian rationing likely for essential foods next year
Oshawa Ontario Attorney General Conant warns Canadians may face rationing of essential foodstuffs within the next year or so. He says the plan will probably resemble Britain’s current rationing system.
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Oshawa, Ont
Conant
Britain
War Materials Reach Russia via Murmansk Convoys
Cmdr Samuel Frankel reports US merchant seamen sustain supply routes to Murmansk with low casualties despite German attacks. Over four months casualties total about 25 wounded and 25 missing or dead. Fog season and ice retreat to north Atlantic reduce risk. crews receive a Soviet port bonus of about 3000 dollars per vessel.
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Moscow
Soviet Russia
Arctic
Murmansk
Cmdr
Samuel Frankel
Stapleton
United States
Russia
Frankel
Cheap Jewelry Exemption From Luxury Tax Update
Ottawa reports that jewelry selling at retail for not more than 50 cents is not subject to the new 25 percent luxury tax in the 1942 43 budget. An official summary notes the tax should be applied to items selling for 50 cents or less. The tax covers articles known as jewelry including real or imitation stones and related metal wares.
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Ottawa
Ilsley
Deport Hostages as France Sabotage Surges
German authorities in occupied France order immediate deportation of 50 hostages after a wave of anti Nazi attacks and sabotage in Vichy. They threaten to exile 50 more if those behind the activities are not captured. Three men are arrested, suspected of bombing the German headquarters at Tours on January 12 and of involvement in a failed assassination attempt on Marcel Deat a pro Nazi figure.
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France
Vichy
Tours
Marcel Deat
National Popular Party
Gneisenau Likely Out Of Service For Duration
Photographs from reconnaissance planes show the German battleship Gneisenau badly damaged with three 11 inch gun turrets dismantled and 30 feet of forecastle deck removed. The 26,000 ton vessel has been moved from Kiel to Gdynia where air ministry says large scale repairs are impossible, implying a prolonged layup.
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London
Kiel
Gdynia
Air Ministry
Defence Minister Ralston Receives Canadian Efficiency Decoration
The national defence department announced a long list of long service and good conduct medals. Defence Minister Ralston is awarded the Canadian efficiency decoration for twenty years in the reserve army.
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Ralston
Ottawa
Defence
National Defence Department
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