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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 10, 1941
Page
3
Ottawa officials report rising demands on Canadians to support the war drive with tighter controls. Plans include curtailing gasoline and metal use, boosting salvage, and ensuring Britain’s food supplies, while civilian auto output declines and shipyard labor surges.
British Labour party delegates approved a postwar reconstruction memorandum and backed a committee to draft blueprint for peace economics. Hugh Dalton warned there will be no return of Great War fortunes, while Arthur Greenwood urged trust in government efforts for common people. Edmonton announcement: United Air Service and Mackenzie Air Service coordinate operations under CPR subsidiary. W Leigh Brintwell to lead Mackenzie route operations.
Reliable sources report daily shipments of Japanese and Japanese-occupied Chinese goods to Germany through the trans-Siberian railway amounting to about 1,500 tons. They note 75,000 tons of Manchoukou soybean crop shipped, with other large consignments of oil, cotton, meat, and rice. Russia reportedly raised freight rates by about 500 percent, while Germany exports high value but small volume items such as chemicals and precision instruments in return.
The bottom half of the Mayo composite seaplane Maia was damaged and rendered unserviceable in a British harbor. The pick-a-back plane had been released to the air ministry at the outbreak of war for duty with the Royal Air Force coastal command but was rarely used. Before the war it flew the Atlantic to Canada.
Tass reports the Soviet department of internal affairs has ordered the deportation of John Scott, a foreign journalist, for publishing slanderous articles about the Soviet Union in the News Chronicle. The action follows a Soviet government directive.
Rear Admiral Frank Pegram, commander of Britain's South Atlantic squadron, said the 3,290-ton blockade-running German freighter Lech had been scuttled when intercepted by a British vessel near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Financial Times reports Britain and the United States have reached a pact to regulate all freight charges for voyages between their territories worldwide.
The U S labor department estimates 1 408 000 additional workers needed in key defense industries by April 1942.
Australian army minister Percy Spender said 2,887 of 6,486 AIF in Crete were evacuated to Egypt, leaving 3,599 unaccounted. New Zealand Acting Prime Minister Walter Nash reported 2,800 NZ troops unaccounted, with 786 wounded among those arriving in Egypt.
London’s Big Ben stopped for 12 hours when a workman left a hammer on the hour-hand bracket. The issue was found in time to strike the 10 15 a.m. quarter hour, according to the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Provincial Fire Marshal W A Walker states the Sea Island Boeing Aircraft of Canada Ltd administration offices fire was purely accidental due to faulty electrical equipment. The incident is attributed to an electrical fault with no human involvement implicated.
Gun nar Anderson, vice-president of the Swedish National Federation of Labor, declared at a labor celebration that Sweden would prefer war to enduring slavery under a foreign yoke.
Arthur Greenwood urged the Labour party conference to expect closer Britain United States relations after the war. He stressed shared planning for production and finance and noted dominion cooperation to lessen wartime losses and speed postwar recovery.
Australian troops now form part of the garrison on Cyprus, the British island in the eastern Mediterranean, strengthening defenses in the strategic east.
Joseph W. G. Clark of Toronto has been appointed director of public relations for both the army and the RCAF. The appointment was announced by Hon. J. L. Ralston, minister of national defence.
No 10 Downing Street announced Sir Gerald Campbell, serving as His Majesty's minister at Washington, will become director general of all British information services in the United States. His office will be in New York and he relinquishes his ministerial post to take the new role.
Health Minister Ernest Brown reported at a press conference that air raid damage to private London homes exceeds that in the rest of England. He noted over 80 percent of repairable houses have been windproofed and airtight. London repaired 32 000 houses last week, provinces 40 000.
Dr. C. C. Goldring announced at the Toronto board of education finance committee meeting that five Greenland children have been granted admission to Toronto schools next September. The proposal seeks mission for the students to study in Canada.
The New Jersey legislature passed a bill repealing the charter and incorporation of the German American Bund auxiliary. The measure would require the group to dispose of property and wind up its affairs in the state.
Reuters said Greek and German troops clashed at Levadia about 60 miles from Athens when locals seized a supply train. German police fired on unloading Greeks. many were killed or wounded. The German commander warned against approaching warehouses or trains. Athens imposed emergency measures with court martials and deaths for hundreds.
Agriculture Minister Gardiner told the House of Commons that food production is key to victory. He cited rising exports of pork and cheese to Britain, reduced wheat acreage to save war costs, and urged farmers to increase output next year as Britain will take surplus.
Washington warned France that any collaboration with Nazi powers would make Paris an instrument of aggression and could invite Pan American occupation of French possessions in the western hemisphere. Secretary Hull said preliminary reports indicate a policy of collaboration for aggression and oppression. He pledged to assemble facts to clarify the alleged course of the Vichy government.
Tass reports a 9.5 billion ruble four percent state loan to mobilize public savings for economic and cultural tasks, reserve growth, and defense of the Soviet Union. It notes ruble value outside Russia is irrelevant and states Russia set 5.3 gold rubles per dollar for exchange.
In Chicoutimi Quebec firefighters battled forest fires raging across nearly 5 000 square miles. Wind drove the flames as more timber burned and embers started new fires. Over 4000 firefighters fought the blazes as officials estimated damage in the millions of dollars. Prayers for rain were offered in churches though no villages faced immediate danger.
Britain published a few names of survivors from the battleship Bismarck to lure Germans into listening to foreign broadcasts despite Nazi bans. About 100 survivors exist and the radio in London airs 15 names daily in German language announcements.
Chinese saboteurs destroyed six miles of track on the Tungpu railroad in southern Shansi province, worsening shortages of arms and food faced by beleaguered Japanese troops, according to the Chinese Central News Agency.
A German military court in Bergen has sentenced Norwegian Erling Northinson to death for attempting to sail to Britain. Other defendants in similar cases received long prison terms.
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