Navy launches major fall recruiting drive in Canada
Ottawa reports the Royal Canadian Navy aims to recruit 3,000 young Canadians for the permanent force to 10,000 and 16,000 for the reserve to 18,000 peak. Recruits will train in 19 divisions, with two weeks afloat in summer aboard over 50 ships. Pay and living conditions improved, and home port postings introduced to balance eastern and western bases.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Navy
Canada
Army
R.C.A.F
Navy
Royal Canadian Naval College
Pacific Coast
Allied Control Authority Bars German Criticism in Occupied Zones
In a Potsdam era directive, Allied Control Authority forbids German press and politicians in all four occupation zones from criticizing Allied decisions and future conferences. It bans spread of pan Germanic ideas and rumors aimed at disrupting unity, while allowing limited debate on German political problems and foreign news with military security restrictions.
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Berlin
Potsdam
Germany
Allied Control Authority
British Crop Yields Fell On Wet August September
The agriculture ministry forecasts 1946 yields show reductions due to abnormal wet weather. On 2,000,000 acres sown to wheat the estimated yield is 17.7 hundredweight per acre versus 19 last year.
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London
Agriculture Ministry
France Accepts Fourth Republic constitution with strong legislature
The people of continental France approved the new constitution by about 1,212,000 votes, despite Gen. de Gaulle's opposition. It creates a powerful legislature over the president and signals public support for the postwar framework.
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Paris
France
Bolivia Reports Majority Pure-Blooded Indigenous Population
A Bolivian census reveals that more than half of the population are pure-blooded Indians. The findings highlight the strong retention of indigenous identity across the country.
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Bolivia
Britain’s wartime aid to allies totals over two billion pounds
A white paper by Chancellor Hugh Dalton shows Britain’s mutual aid to 14 allies from 1941 to 1945 reached 2,078,500,000 pounds. About 60 percent went to the United States, 15 percent to Russia, with aid also going to France, Poland, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Turkey, Portugal and China. At the war’s peak, aid equaled roughly 4.5 million pounds annually in a scale similar to prewar world exports.
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London
Hugh Dalton
Britain
United States
Russia
France
Poland
Greece
Czechoslovakia
Norway
Belgium
Netherlands
Yugoslavia
Denmark
Turkey
Portugal
China
United Nations
Nations Prepare For World Trade Conference
Seventeen nations gather in London to form an international trade organization aimed at stabilizing and expanding global commerce. A 10 member Canadian delegation works on an annotated agenda for the main conference to outline proposals on full employment, tariff reduction, cartel control, and commodity protections. Tensions arise with non industrialized countries fearing loss of tariff protection and empire preferences.
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London
U.S
Australia
New Zealand
British Civil Service Ends Ban on Married Women
London reports that the government has abolished the prohibition on married women working in the home civil service. Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton announced the change in the House of Commons.
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London
Hugh Dalton
Exchequer
House of Commons
Alberta tops Dominion honey crop record this year
Alberta will produce about 6,200,000 pounds of honey to set a new all time Dominion record, according to provincial apiarist W. G. Le Maistre. Manitoba is expected to rank second with about 5,000,000 pounds.
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Edmonton
Dominion
Alberta
W. G. le Maistre
Manitoba
Retaining Controls Ottawa on Meat Prices
Top prices board officials in Donald Gordon's temporary absence assert that U S removal of meat price controls will not affect Canada's policy. They state there is no plan to lift meat price controls now or soon. They also downplay expected smuggling across Manitoba Alberta and Saskatchewan borders as a reaction to U S price changes.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
Donald Gordon
U.S
Gordon
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
O.P.A
Wyoming Hereford Sale Sets Top At 35000 For Prize Bull
A Hereford bull named WHR Roy Helmsman brought $35,000 at the Wyoming Hereford ranch annual sale. Buyers came from 40 states, led by W. E. Boeing of Seattle, Boeing Aircraft. Last year the top price was $27,500.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
W. E. Boeing
Seattle
Boeing Aircraft Company
Roy Helmsman
Temple Bar Heads Hideous Symbol Torn Down in 1878
Temple Bar, once marking the western edge of the City of London, was a stone house where traitors’ heads were displayed. It was torn down in 1878 ending a grim emblem of frontier justice and city lore.
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Temple Bar
City of
London
Delays in German Reparations Allocation Raise Alarm
Brussels reports growing concern in the inter allied reparations agency over slow allocation of German industrial plants from the western zones. Delays stem from Allied control council disagreements, risking passive German resistance unless payments speed up. only about 70 of 700 plants have been assigned to LA.R.A. for distribution among 18 member nations.
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Brussels
Inter-Allied
Canada
Germany
Allied Control Council
Berlin
Council
La.r.a
Russia
Poland
Control Council
Counscil
Europeans in Fear of Another War Across Europe
Ross Munro reports widespread European anxiety over a new European war between the Soviet bloc and Western powers. He notes dangerous talk at Paris, Berlin, and Brussels, a semi military eastern frontier, and officials fearing a ballooning crisis, while some optimists expect eventual stable settlements.
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Ross Munro
Paris
Berlin
Europe
Baltic
Adriatic
Brussels
Brooke Claxton
Rescue by telescope yields brothers in peril
In Birchington Kent, former Sub Lieutenant Tony Garner 21 used a telescope to spot two boys clinging to an overturned canoe in the channel. He swam to them and found his brothers Peter 10 and John 13 exhausted. He brought them to safety.
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Birchington
Kent
England
Tony Garner
Peter
John
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