Canadian Pacific Force Leaders Outline Volunteer Plan
Gen Hoffmeister details Canadian armored force setup with headquarters at Brockville and camps at Shilo Barriefield and Debert. units train in the US in September, using Sherman tanks and Garand rifles while preserving Canadian identity and uniforms. American liaison is planned to smooth Americanization without erasing Canada’s role.
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N.R.M.A
Maj
Genest Walford
N.R.M
Hoffmeister
Armany
Owever
New Charter To Enforce Peace Approved By UN Conference
In San Francisco a United Nations conference unanimously approved a charter provision creating a security council to enforce peace with armed backing. The 11 member body would include permanent seats for the United States Russia Britain France and China plus six rotating nations. The council could use military and economic sanctions and call on force to prevent war, with decisions requiring all Big Five assent.
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Security Council
United Nations Conference Commission
Opera House
United Nations
United States
Russia
Britain
France
China
Germany
Commission
L. B. Pearson
Yalta
Dumbarton Oaks
World Organization
Frisco
Lord Halifax
Ezequiel Padilla
Mark Hopkins
JAP Recruit Nisei Canadians Train in India
The New Canadian reports that Canadian born Japanese recruits called Nisei are undergoing advanced training in India for Asiatic war duties. Recruits, volunteered earlier, were stationed in England before sailing to India and praised British officers and civilians for support.
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Kaslo
B.C
India
Japan
Britain
England
Giant Holiday Centre Proposed for Hastings England
A half mile long national holiday complex is planned for Hastings, featuring the world’s largest single holiday building and costing £4,000,000 ($18,000,000). The seaside town would host a landmark leisure project.
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Hastings
England
Ottawa may hold August parliamentary session on tax cuts
Government sources say Prime Minister Mackenzie King will convene Parliament by mid August to enact campaign pledges for tax relief. Preparations have been underway since Finance Minister J L Sisley indicated wartime personal income and excess profit taxes would be eased at the earliest opportunity. A likely 25 percent overall tax reduction is discussed, with a 25 percent luxury tax on jewelry also reportedly set to be rescinded at the August session.
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Ottawa
Mackenzie King
J. L. Sisley
RAF to cut strength by one third in next year
London officials announced a plan to reduce the Royal Air Force to about one third of its wartime strength, from roughly 1,000,000 personnel. Readjustment for the war against Japan will release many groups, remuster others, and renew recruiting. Some personnel have already moved to the navy as the European conflict demanded most forces at home. In the Japanese war the home-based share will drop to sixty percent.
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London
R.A.F
Air Ministry
Japan
Navy
R.a.f.’S
Germany
Deport Nazis Face Deportation Suggestion
England. Maj. Gen. Sir Edward Spears proposes that Germans linked to Gestapo and Nazi groups who committed cruelty during the war be deported without trial to a desert island or remote African tract with few amenities.
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Carlisle
England
Edward Spears
Syria
Gestapo
Africa
Food Shortage In Europe Is Bio Problem
London reports show Europe faces severe shortages in livestock and poultry with recovery to pre war levels likely taking two to 12 years. Cattle, sheep, pigs, horses and poultry have been decimated in occupied areas, milk output down about 35 percent, and Europe must rebuild its agriculture to feed itself. The plan includes requisitioning post liberation harvests to seed future crops, but reviving livestock will take longer.
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France
Scandinavian Countries
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Agricultural Committee
inter-Allied
Navy creates air department led by Vice Admiral Boyd
The Admiralty announced the creation of a new flag department for the air. Vice Admiral Denis Boyd was appointed to head the post, with the aim of integrating naval aviation more closely with overall naval administration. The statement noted that more than one third of the fleet's personnel are involved in naval flying.
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Admiralty
Navy
Denis Bovd
Bal
Denis W. Boyd
General Naval Administration
Civilian Travel to Lose Rail Space in August
Transportation Director J. Joe Johnson says civilian Pullman space drops by fifty percent and 10 to 12 percent fewer railroad coaches will be available nationwide in August. The statement outlines reduced travel capacity for civilians in the United States.
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Washington
J. Joe Johnson
Big Three to Meet Soon to Set Polish Settlement
President Truman announced a planned early Big Three meeting with Stalin and Churchill to settle Polish issues. He cited satisfactory Hopkins and Davies reports and hinted at possible democratic Polish elections following a conference to reorganize the provisional government. Byrnes Stettinius Hopkins Davies Leahy and Ross will accompany.
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Harry Hopkins
Joseph FE. Davies
Marshal Stalin
Churchill
Hopkins
Davies
Russia
James F. Byrnes
Stettinius
William D. Leahy
Charles G. Ross
Atlantic
London
Ration coupon collection changes for Ottawa hotels
The prices board announced hotels boarding houses and summer tourist homes may collect ration coupons every four weeks instead of biweekly starting June 1. One sugar two preserve and three butter coupons per four week period will be required from residents. New or temporary residents wait four weeks and short stays under four weeks need no ration books.
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Ottawa
The
Prices Board
Air Admiral London Appointment Promises Aviation Integration
The admiralty announced Vice Admiral Denis W. Boyd will hold the new post of admiral for the air. The move aims to integrate naval aviation more closely with overall naval administration as more than a third of the navy’s personnel are in aviation duties.
Dickens Observed In Soviet Towns On Death Anniversary
The Soviet news agency reports exhibitions and lectures mark the 75th anniversary of Charles Dickens death on June 9 1870 with events in several Soviet towns and cities.
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Normandy
France
London
Charles Dickens
New Rubber Tapping Methods Prove Highly Successful
In Port of Spain Trinidad Mexican experts introduced tapping techniques last year that boosted rubber output. Over the past ten months trees yielded an unprecedented quantity of rubber, signaling a major improvement in production.
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Port OF Spain
Trinidad
Edmonton Colonel Elevated to Acting Brigadier
Ottawa announces Col. E. B. Wilson 41 of Edmonton has been promoted to acting brigadier by national defence headquarters.
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Ottawa
Col
E. B. Wilson
Edmonton
National Defence Headquarters
Ghost radio in Wiesbaden seeks revive of Hitler legend
Army authorities hunt a so called ghost radio operating in Wiesbaden Germany for over two weeks. The midnight broadcasts aim to revive the Hitler legend and spread propaganda. Investigators work to identify transmitters and sources behind the broadcasts.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
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