Canada must play a part in air age, says CP Airlines head
CH Dickens of Canadian Pacific Airlines in Winnipeg urged that Canada expand air routes to keep pace as the fourth largest trading nation. He warned current lines reach only one third of Canadians and proposed feeder services to link smaller industries, noting rail freight vastly outpaces air cargo.
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Canada
Winnipeg
Canadian Airlines
CH. Dickens
Canadian Pacific Airlines
Montreal
Winnipeg Board of Trade
Canadian Railways
New Athlone Potato Named After British Governor General
A northeastern British Columbia farmer, W. Simpson, develops an early white oval potato named Athlone with permission from the governor general. The free, mealy cooker is suited to short summers and samples were requested by the governor general.
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Sweetwater
B.C
W.&. Simpson
British Columbia
Athlone
Canada
Simpson
Penicillin Proves Effective In Wound Infections
Allied theatre report states penicillin is successfully treating severe wounds and gangrene in forward areas. Supplies remain limited but are reserved for specially selected patients as treatment proves highly effective.
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Allied
Algiers
Germany Registers 59 Year Old Men for War Service
London report says Germany is enrolling 59-year-old men for military service marking a new stage in Hitler’s manpower effort. The spokesman notes these men will not be drafted now but the move signals the regime is scraping the bottom of its reserves.
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Germany
London
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Hitler
Diplomats at Vatican Burning Confident Papers
The Daily Mail says diplomats accredited to the Vatican are burning confidential papers to avoid German discovery as they leave Rome. It reports Luigi Cardinal Maglione, papal secretary of state, destroying documents revealing Germans who informed the Pope about Nazi actions against the church.
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London
Vatican
Papal
Rome
Daily Mail
Madrid
Luigi Cardinal Maglione
Germany
Roosevelt cites Japanese weakness in Solomons New Guinea area
President Roosevelt said signs of Japanese fragility appeared across the Solomons and New Guinea theater. He noted Japanese defeats and retreat, destruction of transport barges, and sunk escort vessels as evidence, urging greater focus on this factor in the campaign.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Solomons Islands-New Guinea
United States Forces
Solomons-New Guinea
Winter work for 125 prairie farmers at Lake Head elevators
Grain officials propose recruiting 125 farmers from prairie provinces to work at Lakehead elevators for the winter. They would stay until next spring, perform laboring tasks, and receive free federal transportation to the site. Elevator agents on the prairies would recruit the men if the plan is adopted.
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Fort William
Prairie Provinces
Lakehead
Prairies
General Klopper Escapes Through Enemy Territory to Allied Lines
Major General H. B. Klopper, South African commander at Tobruk, who was captured in Tobruk in 1942, has escaped a 150 mile trek through enemy territory and reached Allied lines. He fled from Sulmona, 75 miles east of Rome, according to Reuters from Cairo.
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London
H. B. Klopper
Tobruk
Reuters
Cairo
Klopper
Sulmona
Rome
Huge Demands For Food For The United Kingdom
Toronto reports Dr. L. B. Pett, director of the pensions department nutrition services, says Canada must use food carefully due to large overseas demands. He delivered remarks at the Health League of Canada meeting, urging no margin for error in food rules and stressing careful use amid international shortages.
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Toronto
United Kingdom
Europe
L. B. Pett
The
Pensions Department
Nutrition Services
Health League of Canada
Ottawa
Nutrition Division
Dr. Pett
Britain to divert grain to Bengal famine relief
Lord Woolton announced Britain will dip into grain stocks to aid Bengal India. He said arrangements are complete to divert foodstuffs to India and warned Britons to expect a shortage of fresh vegetables this winter.
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London
Britain
Bengal
India
Lord Woolton
Canadian Designer Louis Bourgeois Built Western Hemisphere Baha I Temple
French Canadian architect Louis Bourgeois designed the first Baha I Temple in the western hemisphere. After a 30 year build in Wilmette, it will host an international Baha i gathering on May 22, 1944. The temple’s nine sides symbolize the world’s nine major faiths.
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Louis Bourgeois
Hemisphere
Wilmette
Will Retaliate Says Japanese Will Be Made To Pay
The United States will pursue accountability after the war for the beheading of an Allied aviator. President Roosevelt called the act uncivilized. A note to Tokyo cited a Japanese diary and warned Japan that future crimes against American prisoners would be punished by the United States against the officers responsible.
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Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
State Department
Tokyo
French underground reports 200000 in illegality in Alps and Pyrenees
Interior Minister Andre Philip of the French Committee of National Liberation cited underground reports showing more than 200 000 Frenchmen living illegally in the Alps or Pyrenees to avoid deportation to forced labor in Germany. He added that forty thousand French men had been executed by the Germans up to March 1943.
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Algiers
Andre Philip
French Committee of National Liberation
Alps
Pyrenees
Germany
Praise for Canada Dominions war effort in Evening Standard
The Dominion’s contribution is hailed as a source of pride and emulation for all Allied powers in Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard editorial column.
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London
Canada
Lord Beaverbrook
Evening Standard
Dominion
Officers of 14th Canadian Army Tank Regiment photographed
A recently taken group image of the 14th Canadian Army Tank Regiment Calgary Division lists officers in front middle and back rows. Names include Capt S E Greenberg Winnipeg Major C A Richardson Red Deer Alto Major RR Taylor Calgary Major R L Purves Calgary commanding officer and several others from across Canada with ranks from captain to lieutenant. The caption notes locations such as Calgary Winnipeg Red Deer Vernon Oshawa Regina Toronto Edmonton Montreal and more.
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14Th
Canadian Army Tank Regiment
Calgary Regiment
S. E. Greenberg
Winnipeg
C. A. Richardson
Red Deer
Alto
RR Taylor
Calgary
R. L. Purves
Oufficer
D. H. McIndoe
Vernon
B.C
R. J. Donabie
Oshawa
Ont
de B
L. C. Love
A. H. Wallace
Westville
N.S
J. W. Singleton
Toronto
R. E. Hyde
Edmonton
E. Cooper
London
A. J. Charbonneau
Ottawa
R. D. Archibald
Saskatoon
G. G. Morrow
Peterborough
T. E. Nightingale
E. R. Watkin
Olds
Alta
H. A. Miller
Vancouver
W. G. James
Bowmanville
Balkans Seen as Meeting Ground For Allied Forces
London reports the Balkans may become a future meeting ground for Soviet British and American armies as Moscow three power talks loom. The American 7th Army under Lt Gen Patton is rumored in Italy for a Balkan invasion while US State Department and British Foreign Office officials prepare central European policy.
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London
Balkans
Moscow
Stockholm
George S. Patton
Italy
Balkan
Reuters
United States Department of State
Foreign Office
H. Freeman Matthews
State Department
William Strang
Hastings Ismay
War Cabinet
Churchill
United States
Canada
George C. Marshall
Cordell Hull
Russia
W. Averell Harriman
Kremlin
Hull
Washington
Harriman
Anthony Eden
Making Plans For The Empire Air Conference
London hosts preparations for the empire air conference with Lord Beaverbrook leading. Delegations from Britain Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa and India aim to craft a post war air policy for talks with the United States Russia and other United Nations. Prime Minister Smuts arrives for talks with the dominions office and war cabinet.
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London
Lord Beaverbrook
Privy Seal
Britain
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
India
United States
Russia
United Nations
Jan Christian Smuts
Dominions
War Cabinet
Evening Standard
Smuts
Churchill
Standard
Caplan Named CBC Supervisor of Production
Rupert Caplan of Montreal is appointed to the newly created post of supervisor of production for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The announcement was made recently.
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Toronto
Rupert Caplan
Montreal
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Anthony Eden Represents Warwick and Leamington Since 1923
Anthony Eden has served as British foreign secretary and as the member for Warwick and Leamington in the House of Commons since 1923. He is a longstanding figure in Parliament with a growing record in international affairs.
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Anthony Eden
Warwick
Leamington
House of Commons
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Winston Churchill
Quebec
Mark Clark
5Th Army
Sam Schulman
Will
14Th Canadian Army Tank Regiment
Empire Air Conference
CBC
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