Labor Minister Announces Third Compulsory Transfer Order
Ottawa reports Labor Minister Mitchell announces a third compulsory employment transfer order to call thousands of men into essential work after July 15 1940. The order targets ages 16 to 18 and older men born 1902 to 1924 in wholesale sectors and various listed industries with exemptions for farm products fuel and several crafts. Mitchell notes the number covered is not yet determined but expects similar compliance as prior orders with voluntary cooperation previously observed.
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Ottawa
Mitchell
House of Commons
National Selective Service
Biny
Prices Board Grants Pin Price Increase
Ottawa reports the prices board approved a two thirds of a cent per dozen pin rise for manufacturers facing higher costs. East of the 90th meridian the retail price for three dozen pins is 12 cents, with prairie provinces at 15 cents and British Columbia at 16 cents.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
Fort William
Prairie Provinces
British Columbia
Britain nearly doubles aircraft output says Bevin
Labor Minister Ernest Bevin told the Women's Co operative Guild of Labour congress that Britain now produces almost twice his 1940 forecast for 1943. He credited more women workers and better production standards for the surge, noting Britain alone can outproduce Germany at present.
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Britain
London
Germany
Ernest Bevin
Congress of the Women's Co-operative Guild of Labor
Future Air Policy Aims for Commonwealth Unity
Mrs Mavis Tate, Conservative MP and Britain’s parliamentary delegation leader, urged a postwar air policy for the Commonwealth to bind nations together. At a civic luncheon, delegates from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Bermuda discussed a shared foreign policy, defence policy, and civil aviation framework.
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Commonwealth of Nations
Queen Mary to Run Victory Factory on Wartime Estate
London reports Queen Mary will operate a victory factory on her wartime estate. She will supervise assembling electrical parts in mixed workshops. The queen mother urged personal war work after factory visits, prompting volunteers from a nearby village and participation by members of her household.
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Queen Mary
London
Victory
Canada to ship surplus beef to United Kingdom during war
Ottawa reports that any Canadian beef surpluses beyond domestic needs will be exported to Britain as frozen meat under a wartime agreement with Great Britain and the United States. No date fixed, but the plan could last through the war, with price supports maintained for producers.
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Canada
United Kingdom
Ottawa
L. W. Pearsall
Canadian Meat Board
Commons Agricultural Committee
Great Britain
United States
Pearsall
R. S. Hamer
Agriculture Department
Meat Board
Hamer
Britain
North America
Liverpool seaman survives 18 days on one cabbage
Able Seaman Henry Heinson of London, awarded the BEM, endured eighteen days adrift in the Atlantic. He subsisted on a single cabbage during the ordeal in a lifeboat.
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Liverpool
Henry Heinson
London
Brazilian artillery captain jailed for espionage
Rio de Janeiro reports a Brazilian artillery captain and two defendants sentenced to 30 years for espionage. Ten others including the former German ambassador and a German naval attacker were tried in absentia and received 20 to 25 year terms.
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Rio de Janeirco
Empire Planes Take Heavy Toll Of Axis Shipping
RAF and RCAF attacks have sunk or damaged nearly a quarter million gross tons of Axis shipping in the past year, with total sinkings and damage approaching a million tons since June 1941. Coastal convoys along Norway and France face daily raids as Allied air power targets German supply lines and rail networks to ease Allied pressure on the invasion front.
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Empire
London
RAF
RCAF
Mediterranean
Britain
Norway
Low Countries
France
R.A.F
R.C.A.F
Indian Commander Roads Signal Air Threat To Nazi Shipping
Reports from the war period state that northern France routes support about 145 locomotives monthly disrupting German convoys. RAF communiques claim at least 40 German ships sunk in 12 months with estimated tonnage around 39 000 tons and about 150 damaged, threatening merchant capacity and diverting shipyards toward submarines.
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France
Germany
R.A.F
North Sea
English Channel
Churchill and Roosevelt Seek Giraud Retained in North Africa
In the House of Commons Churchill stated the British and American governments asked the de Gaulle Giraud committee on June 19 to retain Gen Giraud as commander of French armed forces in North Africa on military grounds. The move aimed to prevent changes in French command that could affect allied war efforts, and did not imply Eisenhower would gain political control. The issue stems from Franco leadership tensions in Algiers and the need for unity in operations across the Mediterranean.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
United States
de Gaulle-Giraud National Committee
Lperation
Herr Giraud
North Africa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gen
Eisenhower
Emanuel Shinwell
Labor
Charles de Gaulle
Mediterranean
Kirk Simpson
Associated Press
Washington
de Gaulle-Giraud
Simpson
Britain
Shinwell
Mr. Churchill
Africa
Giraud
de Gaulle
Algiers
France
Canadians bilingual share rises to 13 percent in 1941 census
Dominion bureau of statistics reports slightly under 13 percent of Canadians speak both English and French. About 1,474,009 people could speak both, with 7,735,486 English only and 2,181,746 French only. 115,414 spoke neither. Urban residents accounted for about 70 percent of bilinguals.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
British Submarine Torpedoes Supply Ship at Port Torres
A British submarine entered Porto Torres harbor in Sardinia and fired a torpedo through a breakwater opening, hitting a medium sized supply ship. The vessel was cut in two as the explosion struck, with the commander identified as Lieut. R. B. Lakin who previously led the submarine Ursula.
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London
Porto Torres
Sardinia
Admiralty
Lieut
R. B. Lakin
Ursula
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