Canada aims price stability with four point plan
Finance Minister Isley told the Canadian Chamber of Commerce that Ottawa will curb rising prices with a four point program. He urged business to oppose defeatism, support savings, cut costs, and assist direct controls while warning of a lean wartime economy and urging continued civilian sacrifice. He noted tax and loan funding for wartime needs and higher revenue projections for 1941–42.
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Seigniory Club
Que
Sisley Nasured
Dominion
Canadian Chamber of Commerce Convention
Lissey
Mr. Isley
Canada
Britain
Soldiers Return to Montreal in Good Spirits
Scores of Canadian soldiers returned home aboard five trains from the east coast port where they landed recently from the United Kingdom. Some bear air raid wounds or injuries, others were handicapped by illness, while many plan to go back overseas.
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Canada
Montreal
United Kingdom
Canadian workers gain unemployment insurance protection
Ottawa reports that about 2,600,000 Canadian workers are now covered by unemployment insurance. Employers registered 131,903 under the latest figures from the unemployment insurance commission.
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Ottawa
Unemployment Insurance Commission
First Class of Radio Location Trains in Canada
The first class of young Canadians trained for radio location duties to find enemy aircraft has completed 16 weeks of study at Canadian universities. About 2,500 men finished exams and take two weeks leave. many will go overseas for final training or join training schools in Canada.
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Ottawa
Canada
Trenton
Air Force
May Bomb Rome London
The Press Association reports Britain may honor a spring warning to bomb Rome after an Axis attack on Cairo killing 39. Rome is not a major target now as RAF focuses on aiding Russia and hitting German industry. It notes Italians possess British bombs to threaten Vatican City to frame Britain for any church damage.
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London
Press Association
Britain
Rome
Cairo
Royal Air Force
Russia
Vatican City
Ottawa implements licensing for grain elevator work
The controller of construction now requires licenses for all grain elevator work in Ottawa. Extensions repairs and new constructions must be licensed under an order-in-council on Munitions Minister Howe's recommendation. Previously only high value or certain activities needed licenses.
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Ottawa
Howe
Typhoon Grounds Ships Hong Kong
A typhoon that skirted Hong Kong drove a 14 000 ton steamship and three smaller vessels aground causing damage around the city. Ferry street car and bus services were suspended mid morning. No casualties were reported.
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Hong Kong
Return of Viscount Halifax to Washington promised
British ambassador to the United States Viscount Halifax says in a radio interview he will return to Washington soon and when he goes back he will carry a good report of what he has seen in London.
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London
Viscount Halifax
United States
Washington
America
Canadian Flyers Held by Nazis List Prisoners
A Nazi originated list of Royal Air Force members captured includes seven Canadian airmen. The named officers include Flight Lieutenant Edwin Charles Capel of Victoria, signaling dispersion of POWs among Allied air forces.
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London
Royal Air Force
Edwin Charles Capel
Victoria
Paris Hostage Policy Expanded to All Classes
German authorities announce reprisal shootings in Paris will extend beyond Communists to all classes of the Paris population. The move follows a non-commissioned officer’s death from an unidentified gunman and marks the second fatal attack on soldiers in Paris in a few weeks.
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Paris
Eas A
Army of Occupa
Convoys Used by U S to Deliver Goods in War Effort
Navy Secretary Knox outlined that the United States employs all methods to safeguard lend lease shipments to Great Britain. He noted Atlantic fleet ships and planes escort cargoes on the North Atlantic and declined to detail any trans Atlantic handoffs near Iceland. He signaled ongoing hunt for an Axis raider rumored in the South Pacific near the Galapagos and stated ships have not confirmed its presence.
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Washington
Navy
Knox
United States
Great Britain
North Atlantic
High Seas
Iceland
American Legion
Milwaukee
South Pacific
Galapagos
Study Wheat Milling London
Former wheat farmers in the Canadian corps study British milling methods to aid their return to prairie farms after the war. J. H. Sturdy of Saskatoon, the Legion educational officer, arranged the course with British milling interests. Soldiers will later work in mills to learn grinding blending and mill feeds.
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London
J. H. Sturdy
Saskatoon
Canadian Legion
Sturdy
Prairies
Four New Branches Ottawa Formed for Munitions output
The munitions and supply department announces four new branches in Ottawa to oversee gun and tank production, ammunition production, munitions contracts, and industrial planning and engineering. The first three branches consolidate under Munitions Production, while the Industrial Planning and Engineering branch coordinates the former Army Engineering Design Division with a new Industrial Planning Division.
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Ottawa
Munitions and Supply Department
Army Engineering Design Division
Hero Dies Of Wounds After Military Cross Award
Maj. Noel Christopher Fellows of the British Army died of wounds two months after receiving the Military Cross for gallantry and leadership in action.
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London
Noel Christopher Fellows
Soviet Mission to Canada for War Supplies Talks
A Soviet delegation of trade and military experts will travel to Canada to discuss Russian war material purchases and seek additional orders, while Jesse Jones announced a $100 million aid contract with Amtorg for minerals. The arrangement is framed as a purchase contract rather than a loan, requested by President Roosevelt.
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Washington
United States
Canada
Cansia
Russia
Jesse Jones
Jones
Roosevelt
Defence Supplies Corporation
Amtorg Corporation
Duke of Kent Praises Commonwealth Air Training Plan
The Duke of Kent, returning from Canada, lauded the Commonwealth Air Training plan. He praised its growth from a plan two years ago to a vital war industry combining mass production with expert individual training and said Britain underestimates its scale.
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London
Duke of Kent
Canada
Dominion
Britain
Red Army cripples German panzer forces near Bryansk
Soviet communique reports massive losses for Col Gen Heinz Guderian's panzer troops in a Bryansk battle. Red Army claims 20 000 German dead and up to 80 000 total losses in two days, with German forces sustaining 500 tanks and 195 aircraft among other equipment. Russians say the central front runs from Yartsevo to Bryansk as counterattacks ease pressure on Leningrad and Odessa.
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Moscow
Red Army
Heinz Guderian
Bryansk
Guderian
Yartsevo
Smolensk
Yelnya
Brvyansk
Lakz Ilmen
Kimen
Semeon Tim
Canadian War Speaker Urges Global Peace Effort
Leonard W. Brockington, wartime special assistant to Prime Minister King, tells 1,200 at the National Industrial Advertisers' banquet that free nations must mobilize world conscience and act, not rely on others, to defend principles. He predicts Allied victory, praises Commonwealth unity, and urges Canada and the United States to stand with the free peoples.
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King
Brockington
National Industrial Advertisers’ Association
United States
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canada
National Broadcasting Company
Germany
Russia
Britain
British Commonwealth
United States of America
Free Countries
Pacific
Canadian minister cites bacon and cheese aid to retain markets
Dr. G S H Barton deputy minister of agriculture told the Canadian Chamber of Commerce that the quality bacon and cheese shipped by Canadian farmers to Britain will help hold markets after the war. He said the country will be in a better position to retain them than before.
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H. R Sutton
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Edmonton
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Department of Munitions and Supply
George Bernard Shaw
Nancy Astor
Shaw
Astor
Cliveden
Panzer
Oshenko
Cotral
Leningrad
Odessa
Toronto
Leonard W. Brockington
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Marquess of Queensbury
North America
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