Underground News Sheets Keep Europe Smuggled Alive
In Nazi occupied Europe underground papers survive by candlelight in cellars and loafs, led by La Libre Belgique in Belgium. Editors risk execution. copies reach thousands, with reports from British and American broadcasts and anti Nazi editorials.
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London
Belgium
Holland
Norway
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Yugoslavia
Greece
Hitler
Gestapo
Europe
la Libre Belgique
France
Rubber control tightened on reclaim rubber use
The Munitions and Supply department announced tighter control over reclaim rubber. Alan Williamson advised manufacturers that reclaim rubber must not be used in non essential footwear, soles, heels, toys, raincoat fabrics, auto upholstery, garden mats, tractor tires, car parts, and several other listed items.
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Ottawa
Munitions and Supply Department
Alan H. Williamson
Mussolini Reports Serious Internal Crisis In Italy
London and Rome radio reports quote Mussolini admitting a grave internal situation caused by lack of discipline and fraud. He warned district prefects of inexorable punishment for the guilty, signaling a severe Domestic crisis within the Fascist regime.
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London
Rome
Mussolini
Italy
Rome Radio
Ash Heap Roasts Rostock After Massive British Bombing
Reports from London describe Rostock as an ash heap with fires still raging after heavy RAF raids. Photographs show bright fires from bombers and the city engulfed in flames. Berlin correspondents say the Baltic port and plane factory center is virtually levelled and uninhabitable, with evacuation and collapse of services.
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London
Rostock
Berlin
Baltic
Britain
Price Control Ties U S to Canada Boost for Manufacturers
Canadian business leaders say U S price controls will ease inflation and aid Canadian manufacturers closely tied to U S raw materials. Retail sales hold steady but retailers see profits squeezed as prices stay frozen since last autumn.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
Prices Board
United States
Canada
Object to Japs Winnipeg Petition to bar Japanese families
About 1090 residents of St. Andrews and Lockport market gardens north of Winnipeg petitioned Manitoba officials to keep Japanese families out of these districts. They addressed C. E. Graham of the British Columbia security commission and Attorney General James McLenaghan seeking exclusion.
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Winnipeg
St. Andrews
Lockport Market Garden
Red River
C. E. Graham
Manitoba
British Columbia Security Commission
James McLenaghan
Old Age and Blind Pensions Reported in Canada
A House of Commons return shows 185 922 people receive old age pensions and 6 243 people receive blind pensions across Canada, with payments continuing.
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Ottawa
Canada
House of Commons
Bombing Britain Guides Target Historic British Buildings
German air force targets prominent spots using Baedeker guide stars as warnings threaten air raids. London and British towns tighten air raid precautions while Exeter Bath Norwich York suffer bombings. civilian toll likely to surpass last July with 43 822 killed and 50 482 injured.
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London
Britain
Hitler
Exeter
Bath
Norwich
York
Berlin
Baedeker
Telegraph Creek Skip Vote Over Plebiscite Costs
Telegraph Creek in northern Skeena riding did not vote in the manpower plebiscite as chief returning officer cancelled the poll citing prohibitive airline costs to deliver ballot boxes. The settlement relies on air service seven months yearly for contact with the outside.
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Telegraph Creek
B.C
Skeena
Navigation instructor appointed at King's College Halifax
Lieutenant Robert W. Southam RCNV R appointed navigation instructor at King's College Halifax. Son of Mr and Mrs Harry Southam Ottawa he has served as RCNVR officer since May 1940. After Ottawa posting he served at sea as second in command of a corvette before taking up duties at King's college April 19.
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Robert W. Southam
Rc.n.v.r
King’s College
Halifax
Harry Southam
Ottawa
Southam
Kine’s College
Ripple Rock removal contract awarded to BC firm
Ottawa reports that the British Columbia Bridge and Dredging Co. won the contract to remove Ripple Rock in Seymour Narrows between Vancouver Island and the mainland. The obstruction has endangered navigation and claimed several shipwrecks after years of campaigning by maritime interests.
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Ottawa
British Columbia Bridge and Dredging Co
Seymour Narrows
Vancouver Island
Army transfers urge soldiers to leave families behind
The national defence department said ranks should move without bringing families when transferred between stations. The reason cited is housing shortages near army training centres and the cost and social disruption of relocating dependents. The department notes soldiers often stop bringing dependents on a second move, causing further readjustment.
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Ottawa
National Defence Department
The
Farm Machinery Embraces Wartime Economy Measures
Ottawa reports that farm equipment now shifts to wood or substitutes under a wartime prices and trade board program. H H Bloom of Toronto issues a directive banning most metals except for wheels axles bearings and a few exceptions, with special permissions possible for on hand stock and specific uses in creamers pumps and milk contact parts.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
H. H. Bloom
Toronto
Export permits required for tea and coffee
Ottawa announces that tea and coffee now need export permits for all destinations. Tea had been exempt for shipments within the British empire or the United States, but the exemption is cancelled to conserve Canadian supplies.
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Ottawa
Department of Trade and Commerce
British Empire
United States
Navy In Films Delivers The Corvette Dramatization
The work of the Royal Canadian Navy will be dramatized in a motion picture titled The Corvette. Officials of the National Film Board announce Richard Rosson, Hollywood director, is in Ottawa to arrange production with leading film stars playing prominent roles.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Navy
National Film Board
Richard Rosson
Vichy Extends Anti Jewish Law to Algeria
The Vichy regime expands its anti Semitic statute to Algeria, aiming to erase Jewish influence from business life. The interior minister states the decrees authorize seizing any Jewish business deemed desirable by the government.
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Vichy
Hitler
Algeria
Stalin vows Soviet drive to crush German Fascists on May Day
Stalin in a May Day broadcast pledged Russia’s sole aim is to smash the German Fascist invaders and liberate Soviet lands. He praised Britain and the United States for growing aid, urged Red Army mastery of weapons, and said 1942 must be the year of final defeat. He called for guerrilla actions to strike at enemy rear staff and equipment.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Great Britain
United States
Stalin
Red Army
Britain
Soviet Union
Europe
Women encouraged to enter war industry training in Saskatchewan
Saskatoon will host a machine operating class for women starting May 4 in the Saskatchewan University engineering shops. Prince Albert will begin a similar program at the war emergency training school with dates set concurrently. Regina and Moose Jaw plan later sessions to boost wartime labor supply.
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Saskatoon
W. A. Ross
Regina
Saskatchewan
Ross
Prince Albert
Moose Jaw
Saskatchewan University
Montreal high school speaker wins Rotary prize
Charles V. Wasserman son of the late Jacob Wasserman Austrian author wins the Rotary club first prize gold medal as Montreal's leading high school public speaker. He was released from a Canadian internment camp in March 1941 after earlier internment in England during the 1940 invasion threat. His case was investigated by the British government.
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Montreal
Charles V. Wasserman
Jacob Wasserman
Rotary Club
Wasserman
England
Canada
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