Agricultural outlook notes cereal surplus shrinking and beef stability
The agricultural department reports meat, Gairy and poultry supplies will be taxed by 1944 needs while cereal grain surpluses begin to ease. Wheat demand remains strong with Australia and Argentina expecting smaller crops. beef and veal deficits not expected to disrupt civilian needs, and cattle marketings show a resurgence. Canada’s hog exports under the new bacon agreement pose little surplus risk.
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Ottaway
Agricultural Department
Agriculture Department
Australia
Meat Board
Canada
Spanish Blue division sent to Germany for absorption
Reports state the bulk of Spain's 14 000 strong Blue division, withdrawn from the Soviet front, is being folded into the German army. About 400 members, mainly incapacitated, have returned to Spain. The unit had been near Koenigsberg East Prussia. Each man allegedly swore personal allegiance to Hitler.
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London
Blue
Soviet Union
Francisco Franco
Spain
Koenigsberg
East Prussia
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Franco
Grmany
Food aid to Bengal doubles as army aids deliveries
In New Delhi Gen Sir Claude Auchinleck said several thousand Indian soldiers will assist in Bengal to speed food distribution in bottleneck districts. Daily rations rise from 900–1,000 tons to about 2,000 tons with some medical aid. Calcutta hospitals report 70 to 90 deaths daily from starvation and disease.
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New Delhi
Bengal
Claude Auchinleck
Calcutta
Fees for Music Ottawa Licence Fees Planned
The Canadian Performing Rights Society, which collects fees for performances of copyrighted music, proposed collecting licence fees from industrial establishments that use loud speaker systems.
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Ottawa
Canadian Performing Rights Society
Secretary of State Department
Allies Sink Five U-Boats A Week In Last 3 Months
London reports that Allied forces destroyed about 60 U boats in August September and October, totaling over 150 in six months. The record shows fewer merchant ships sunk by U boats than in prior periods and the tonnage loss was the second lowest for any month. The statement credits air and sea forces for coping with new U boat weapons and tactics.
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London
United States
Churchill
Roosevelt
Naples Visit Report on King Victor Emmanuel Asking a New Govt
An unimpeachable source says King Victor Emmanuel in Naples asked Count Carlo Sforza then foreign minister to form a new government, but Sforza refused. This recounts a pre Fascist period political maneuver linked to Italian leadership.
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Naples
Victor Emmanuel
Carlo Sforza
Liquor Tax Hike Proposed by House Committee
The Ways and Means Committee in Washington moved to raise the liquor tax from six dollars to ten dollars per gallon. The action reflects a strategy to boost government revenue amid ongoing fiscal debates.
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Washington
House of Representatives Ways and Means
Assurance of steady fruit and vegetable supplies in Canada
Ottawa announces a program to assure a reasonable winter supply of staple fresh fruits and vegetables for Canadians. The Prices Board, working with the trade, aims for adequate supply, fair distribution, and stable prices for domestic and imported items. An import permit order covers all imports while the Wartime Food Corporation reorganizes to handle government purchases and distribution.
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Ottawa
Food Corporation
United States
Canada
Kassel Bombed Out. Heavy Destruction Reported
Air ministry says Kassel has ceased as a Nazi war industry center after new reconnaissance of ruined 315 acre city. Five heavy raids in six months destroyed 50 factories including three Henschel plants, vital for locomotives and military vehicles, with fires burning for a week after Oct 22 raid.
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London
Kassel
Air Ministry
Ruhr
Henschel and Sohn
Germany
Krupp
Essen
Destruction of German Radio Base Off Greenland Reported
Secretary Knox reports the destruction of a compact German radio and weather base on a Greenland coast island. The facility included a radio station power house emergency generator transmitter defensive emplacements and food supplies indicating an intent to hold the base permanently.
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Washington
Greenland
Frank Knox
United States Navy
Knox
Vast Reconstruction Ministry Set Under Lord Woolton
Britain forms a new reconstruction ministry led by Lord Woolton who will direct postwar rebuilding with War Cabinet status. The cabinet reshuffle moves Col J J Liewellin to replace Woolton as food minister and elevates others including Henry A Willink and Lieut A T Lennox Boyd. Woolton’s record includes wartime rationing schemes and promoting home grown produce as he assumes broad control of rebuilding efforts.
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London
Church
Britain
Lord Woolton
Food Ministry
Col J. J. Liewellin
Washington
Liewellin
Ben Smith
Ministry of Aircraft Production
Ernest Brown
Henry A. Willink
Duchy of Lancaster
Lieut
A. T. Lennox-Boyd
Smith
Churchill
Fred Marquis
Commons
Sir William Jowitt
Manchester
Midlands
Footwear Output In Canada Rises In 1942
The Dominion bureau of statistics reports Canada produced 33,066,389 pairs of leather footwear in 1942 valued at 67,166,456 dollars. The average factory price per pair was 2.03 dollars, up from 1.80 in 1941, with production 5 percent higher than the previous year. Most output comes from Quebec and Ontario.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Quebec
Ontario
Building subsidy Ottawa aids farmers with lumber costs
Farmers needing new storage or livestock buildings gain a 19 percent consumer subsidy from the prices stability corporation, effective in August. The Prices Board allows any civilian buying lumber for essential food production to receive the subsidy, which also covers fishermen, cooperatives, unincorporated associations and incorporated farms.
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Ottawa
Prices Stability Corporation
The
Prices Board
Five men chosen to succeed Hitler in Germany
A Stockholm despatch reports a quadrumvirate formed to succeed Hitler if he falls. Reichsmarschall Goering Himmler Goebbels and Bormann allegedly named as leaders with Goering set as chair at Hitler's headquarters after a Gauleiter meeting.
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Stockholm
Berne
Dagens Nyheter
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Heinrich Himmler
Joseph Goebbels
Martin Bormann
Hitler
Germany
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Detroit
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Saskatoon
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