Prices Board to Stabilize Ottawa War Prices
Ottawa reports drastic steps may be taken to stabilize prices as a wartime board organizes a commodity prices stabilization corporation. Hector McKinnon will chair and Donald Gordon will head the new body. subsidies and tariff changes may follow to ensure consumer protection.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
Hector McKinnon
Commodity Prices Stabilization Corporation
Donald Gordon
Bank of Canada
McKinnon
Prices Board
Canada
Dominion
United States
Price Board
Gasoline Conservation Plan Initiated in Toronto Area
More than 1,000 trucks run by 241 coal distributors began a gasoline and oil conservation program on November 24. Oil Controller G. R. Cottrelle announced no deliveries of less than half a ton and no delivery until orders accumulate for a full load, except in urgent cases.
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Toronto
Greater
G. R. Cottrelle
Germany vows no independence for the Netherlands
A Nazi spokesman stated that a victorious Germany would never grant the Netherlands independence and warned that Germany would not be forced off the North Sea again. The remark reflects wartime aims and the threat to Dutch sovereignty.
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Berlin
Germany
Netherlands
North Sea
British Freighter Sunk by Sub 30 Miles Off Canadian Coast
Survivors said enemy submarines trailed a convoy for three days before a midnight torpedoing sank the freighter. Five crewmen, rescued by a Canadian corvette, were the sole survivors of 43. A second freighter in the same convoy was also torpedoed and sunk beyond Belle Isle.
Supplies For Russia Reported By BBC Broadcast
A BBC broadcast relayed by CBS claimed American ships deliver arms to Russia every 48 hours. It said a special Russian transport group moves supplies to the war front via Basra Abbas Bushire and Bandar Shapur, with goods arriving from the United States Great Britain India and Australia aboard ships of many flags.
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New York
BBC
CBS
Persian Gulf
Russia
Basra
Abbas
Bushire
Bandar Shapur
America
Great Britain
India
Australia
Held person terror sweeps Axis occupied areas report
The Inter Allied Information Committee says the held person terror has claimed over 100000 lives across nine Axis occupied countries in Europe, with thousands more missing or imprisoned. It attributes the practice to Italians, Germans, and Bulgarian actions in Greece Poland and Yugoslavia, including mass executions and village burnings.
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London
Europe
Inter-Allied Information Committee
Britain
Russia
Albania
Greece
Crete
Poland
Igo Sym
Gestapo
Yugoslavia
Vancouver Lawyer Named Deputy Controller of Supplies
Vancouver man J. R. Nicholson was appointed deputy controller of supplies, announced by Munitions Minister Howe. Nicholson, a practicing trial lawyer since 1924, specialized in insurance company law and has served in general counsel work.
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Ottawa
J. R. Nicholson
Vancouver
Howe
Nicholson
Trapped In Tunnel Five Die As Fire Engulfs Train
Five men died and four were injured when a Southern Pacific locomotive burst into flames in a 7000 foot Van Nuys tunnel. A broken coupling knuckle caused the derailment and oil sprayed the tunnel as the 96 car freight stalled at 1 am. The last unit, a 33 ton locomotive, burned until the train could be moved into the open in the afternoon.
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van Nuys
Calif
Southern Pacific
British urged to evacuate as Shanghai exits rise
The British embassy reports 1,175 British men women and children in Japanese occupied China expressed desire to leave in the last three weeks. Registration began Oct 30 after Britain urged all who could to depart from Japanese controlled territory.
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Shanghai
China
Britain
Businessman reports 10 enemy raiders sheltering in Kobe
An Auckland businessman returning from Japan told reporters that ten German raiders and supply ships have sheltered for months in Kobe including the Scharnhorst armed merchant cruiser and the Kulmrand. He said others may be at Yokohama and estimated about 3,000 Germans in Tokyo. Japan’s war weariness, rationing, and shop closures were noted.
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Auckland
N.Z
Britain
Japan
Kobe
Scharnhorst
Kulmrand
Yokohama
Tokyo
Victoria man named head of Dominion vital statistics branch
John T. Marshall of Victoria British Columbia has been appointed chief of the vital statistics branch of the Dominion bureau of statistics, the bureau announced.
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Ottawa
John T. Marshall
Victoria
B.C
Vital Statistics
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Bureau
Low Accident Average in Air Training Plan Ottawa Propaganda
Veteran airmen cite Air Minister Power figures showing the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan students maintaining an accident record rivaling first class civilian airlines. Power notes 1,429,851 miles per fatal accident in training vs 1,269,231 miles for US civilian flying in 1940.
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Ottawa
Power
Maj
United States
United States Airlines
Training Plan
Maj. Power
British plan aims to drive Axis from Africa
London states the Libyan offensive is designed to eject Axis forces from Africa not to seize towns or relieve Tobruk. The operation spans 100 miles inland with strong air and sea support and follows five months of prep using new American tanks, planes, and motorized gear.
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London
Libya
Tobruk
Africa
Churchill
Britain
Hitler
Flanders
Italy
Malta
Sicily
North Africa
Britain’s Food Problem Milk Consumption Surges
Agriculture Minister R S Hudson told the House of Commons that Britons have consumed about 200 million gallons more milk this year than in the last full year of peace. He noted the UK has nearly reached arable land expansion but remained optimistic about future crop production, including potatoes whose supplies are nearly doubled.
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London
R. S. Hudson
House of Commons
United Kingdom
Wages Boost Ordered for England and Wales Farm Workers
The central agricultural wages board set minimum weekly wages for farm workers from 48 to 69 shillings, effective December 28. Campaigning by farm workers’ groups spanned six months, with many counties already raising pay while 11 counties kept the old 48 shillings rate.
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London
Central Agricultural Wages Board
England
Wales
Bonus Proposed For Arvida Aluminum Plant Workers
Labor Minister McLarty announced a board of conciliation report on the Aluminum Company of Canada Arvida plant recommends a new bonus system paying workers 2.70 dollars per week.
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Ottawa
McLarty
Board of Conciliation
Arvida, Que
Aluminum Company of Canada
Manion Refuses Politics Comment From Army Post
Col. R J Manion former Dominion Conservative leader in the last federal election now serves as auxiliary services director for the Canadian army he tells reporters in Calgary that he has nothing to say about politics.
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Calgary
King's Service
R. J. Manion
Dominion Conservative
Canadian Army
French General Gamelin in nervous condition at clinic
General Gamelin commander of Allied British and French armies in the early war is reported in a bad nervous condition at a clinic in Oloron south of Pau. Doctors attending him said he is under care for mental strain and fatigue amid the ongoing campaign.
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Vichy
Gamelin
Oloron
Pau
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Italo Balbos
Balbo
A.A
Mrs. Churchill
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