Inventory Will Be Taken Of Man Power In Canada
Vancouver reports Hon. Humphrey Mitchell federal labor minister outlined a plan to create a man power inventory of more than 3,000,000 workers. Registration will be required for insured and certain non insured workers starting April 1, with aim to locate skilled personnel for war industries and enable selective placement to aid the war effort.
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Man Power
Canada
Vancouver
Humphrey Mitchell
Plas
Mitchell
Unemployment Insurance Commission
Register
Berlin
Japan's War Strain Seen From German Paper
The Koelnische Zeitung questions Japan's ability to handle vast transport needs after occupying scattered territories. It notes safeguarding troops bases and resource exploitation across islands hinges on building a merchant fleet to sustain communications with the motherland and Pacific territories.
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Berne
Koelnische Zeitung
Japan
Pacific
Canadian purchase of currants and raisins announced
Ottawa reports the Commodity Prices Stabilization Corporation has purchased from the Australian government Canada’s entire requirements of currants and raisins, a wartime Prices and Trade Board announcement states.
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Ottawa
Commodity Prices Stabilization Corporation
Canada
Prices and Trade Board
Alaska Highway to Join Canadian System After War
Ottawa and Washington announce that the Alaska highway in Canada will join the Canadian highway system with no discrimination between Canadian and U S civilian traffic. Prime Minister Mackenzie King says the United States will build and survey the route from Fort St John to Alaska using Army engineers and will maintain the road during the war and six months after, unless Canada takes over earlier.
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Ottawa
Alaska
Canada
United States
Otawa
Washington
Mackenzie King
Fort St. John
Dawson Creek
B.C
Public Roads Administration
Difficult Task Faces McArthur In Australia
General MacArthur faces a formidable campaign to defend Australia as the Battle for the continent intensifies. Analysts warn the Japanese may risk a major push, while UN forces Brace for costly reverses and rely on a dynamic defence–strike approach already echoed by Australian air attacks and massed Allied units in theater.
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Washington
MacArthur
Australia
United Nations
Batan
Singapore
Netherlands Indies
Vancouver Labor Minister announces 3000 Japanese workers to Ontario
Labor Minister Mitchell says arrangements are complete to move 3,000 male Japanese nationals from British Columbia to Northern Ontario for work in pulp mills and logging camps. They will be sent to areas far from any city.
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Vancouver
Mitchell
British Columbia
Ontario
Explosion Reported at Mauser Arms Works in Rottweil
German frontier reports say a large explosion occurred last month at the Mauser arms factory in Rottweil southwestern Germany. Sabotage is suspected and an eye witness described considerable damage.
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London
Mauser
Rottweil
Germany
Canadian Sapper Hutchinson Wins Military Medal
Sapper Fraser Hutchinson of Dartmouth Nova Scotia is awarded the Military Medal for a persistent courage feat in England. He is the first Canadian to win the medal since the war began and has returned to his Royal Canadian Engineers unit with the red, white and blue ribbon on his battledress. Details remain restricted for military reasons.
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England
Sapper
Fraser Hutchinson
Dartmouth
N.S
Hutchinson
Royal Canadian Engineers
Defence Of Australia Winnipeg
R P Bower, former Canadian assistant trade commissioner to Australia, predicts large areas of Australia will be overrun by Japan before Allied defenders can push them back. He says Australia can be defended with success at many points, arguing concentrated defence in natural positions can hold until Japan is defeated.
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Winnipeg
Australia
R. P. Bower
Bower
Tobruk
Libya
Government to Publish Casualty Lists and Production Communiques
The Office of Facts and Figures released a government policy on war news stating casualty lists will be made public. It also announced that the War Production Board will issue production communiques at frequent intervals to help the public assess progress of the production program.
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Washington
Office of Facts and Figures
United States
War Production Board
Yukon and Northwest Gas Rationing Declared Unnecessary
Ottawa announces Yukon and Northwest Territories exempt from gasoline rationing due to small total sales. Munitions Minister Howe says the region’s sales do not justify the costly administration required to enforce rationing.
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Ottawa
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Howe
Canada US agree on coarse grain surplus program
Agriculture Minister Gardiner told the House of Commons that Canada and the United States have an agreement to produce and absorb coarse grain surpluses next year. The plan aims to boost vegetable oil substitutes by expanding soybean production as Pacific-area supplies are disrupted.
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Ottawa
United States
Gardiner
House of Commons
Canada
Dominion
Pacific
Canada allocates war supplies to allies per Britain
External affairs says Canada meets UN import needs as fast as production and shipping allow. Supplies go to destinations Britain designates, with diversions unpublicized, as war needs shift. Howe confirms Canada’s output is allocated by Britain to theatres like the Middle East or Australia.
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Ottawa
External Affairs Department
Canada
United Nations
Parlier
Howe
Bri
The
Daily Telegraph
British Commonwealth of Nations
Britain
Farm Machinery Prices To Have Small Increase
The wartime prices and trade board authorized Canadian farm machinery firms to raise prices modestly, but only up to five percent. US increases topped 2 to 17 percent, yet Canada limited gains to five percent. Adjustments aim to keep imports flowing and aid small local producers amid higher labor and material costs.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
Canada
United States
H. H. Bloom
Washington
U.S
Duty Value Lowered on Apples by Government Order
Customs Commissioner H. D. Scully said Revenue Minister Gibson ordered the 15 percent duty on apples canceled effective March 26. It is the first time in three years the duty value has dropped, due to apple shortages for home consumption caused by higher export demand, cutting 50 cents per bushel.
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Ottawa
H. D. Scully
Gibson
Japan Uses Poison Gas in Western Suiyuan Encounter
A Chinese high command communique states Japan used poison gas in a March 13 clash with Chinese troops in western Suiyuan, causing Chinese casualties. It recalls a prior accusation of gas use during October in the Ichang region of western Hupeh.
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Chungking
Suiyuan
Ichang
Hupeh
Kharkov civilians suffer as German advances claim 16000 killed
Russian despatches from the southwestern front report that 16 000 civilians were killed in Kharkov recently, raising total civilian deaths to 30,000 since the German occupation began. Despatches say the city lacks food heat and light with only pockets habitable under German control.
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Moscow
Kharkov
Dry Cell Battery Manufacture Ban Post March 21
The department of munitions and supply announced a prohibition on the manufacture of dry cell batteries for portable radios after March 21. Retail sale of existing stocks will not be affected.
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Ottawa
Department of Munitions and Supply
Six Hundred New Ground Shelters Planned in Dublin
Dublin to build six hundred additional ground shelters to shelter about 30 000 people in the capital. The project aims to expand air raid protection amid wartime concerns.
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Dublin
Eire
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Litvinoff
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