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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 06, 1943
Page
3
Toronto Pensions Minister Mackenzie announced raised post discharge benefits for armed forces members pending re-establishment and treatment. The new scale tops at 20.20 weekly for single men and 14.40 for married men with added allowances for dependents and parents.
Thirty six sailors including Canadians Britons and Chinese are landed at an East Coast Canadian port after a ship sank off the Irish coast. Many had frozen feet awaiting rescue and more than 30 shipmates were lost.
A New Delhi despatch reports 18 Indian Nationalists freed from detention under the Defence of India Regulations after a federal court ruled a section invalid. The release follows the court decision and affects those held under the regulation.
The RCAF orders six helicopters from the United States to aid anti submarine operations off Canada's east coast and to rescue airmen in inaccessible areas. The aircraft can hover over submarines or convoys, descend vertically, land on water or rugged terrain, and deploy rope ladders for rescues, offering rapid response where traditional bombers cannot reach.
A 10,000 ton cargo vessel Fort Carillon was launched fully equipped with steam up and guns mounted. The ship slid down the ways with its whistle blowing and prepared for a test run, the first fully equipped vessel launched from a Canadian shipyard and possibly a British empire record.
London: Dingle M Foot, parliamentary secretary for the ministry of economic warfare, said U S heavy bombers in the Renault raid on April 4 damaged more than 40 shops and robbed Germany of at least 1 000 trucks and other war materials. He said Germany's truck production was insufficient for her needs and her pool of confiscated trucks was nearly exhausted in 1942.
Northward into northern British Columbia and Alaska a stampede of prospectors seeks wartime metals. Veterans and company-backed explorers push into the wilds aided by tax concessions and relaxed wartime controls. The Vancouver Chamber of Mines coordinates the drive as miners chase coal antimony tungsten and other strategic minerals.
Home Fleet Chief reports discovery of strategic metals including molybdenum mica mercury and quartz crystals with gold also present. Prospectors expect postwar rehabilitation, while ongoing storage of mineral data aids postwar planning. R K Odell urges continued on site reporting to the chamber of mines for map logging during North Pacific Planning Project studies.
The Department of National Defence in Regina urges owners of pistols and revolvers to donate or offer them for appraisal or sale for use by Canadian army officers. Wanted are Colt Smith and Wesson and Webley hammer type pistols and revolvers in .38 .45 and .455 calibres and Colt automatics in .45 calibre. Hammerless types not needed. The call targets the public and reserve and retired officers.
The Daily Mail reports an agreement to repatriate interned airmen from all belligerents held in Turkey since the war began. The group includes Americans, Britons, Russians, Germans and Italians who were forced down after raids on Romanian oil fields last summer.
Vancouver Canada now leads a record export era and is the third largest trading nation. Minister J A MacKinnon told the British Columbia Manufacturers Association that 1942 exports beat all records and postwar markets lie in China the Caribbean and Central and South America. He noted 38 000 merchant seamen serve Canada with 642 lost at sea and urged better postwar distribution of West Coast steel cargo ships for trade.
Valetta Malta hosts elite P R U pilots dubbed seeing eyes of the RAF. The hazardous role aims to avoid combat while gathering critical intelligence. Lt Malcom Brown 29, ex press photographer, logged 260 hours on P R U flights, including 100 in England and 75 in the Western Desert. Edwin Maloney of San Jose California, Edmonton native, has 230 hours on P R U duties.
A Berlin resident reports Germans in the capital selling valuables seized from Jewish owners to second hand dealers in recent weeks. He notes the Allied promise to return possessions after peace is restored as motivation for the widespread sales.
Ottawa's P. T. Coolican, general superintendent of postal services, said there is a possibility that trans Atlantic airmail service could be restored perhaps next month. The plan would use United States planes for flights from New York.
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