Long Term Floor Price Set For Western Wheat
Trade Minister MacKinnon announced a five year plan guaranteeing producers at least 1 dollar per bushel of No 1 Northern wheat stored at Port Arthur Fort William or Vancouver for each crop year through July 31 1956. Manitoba Wheat Pool president Parker called the move factory planned to shield farmers from falling prices while the Wheat Board continues marketing. Growers gain via participation certificates when prices rise above the guaranteed level and exports to the United Kingdom and allies remain high with Great Britain taking over 15 million bushels.
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Winnipeg—Praire
MacKinnon
Port Arthur
Fort William
Vancouver
WJ. Parker
Manitoba Wheat Pool
Gatla
Canadian Wheat Board
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Wheat Board
Canada
United Kingdom
Europe
Great Britain
Handbooks allege British churches and leaders as Nazi resistance
Allied officers recovered a Reich security police handbook in Berlin listing the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Hinsley, and other religious and labor leaders as anti German haters. It claims the Boy Scouts and international youth leaders served as British intelligence conduits and that Freemasons and Jews were among expected troublemakers if an invasion occurred.
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Berlin
Gestapo
England
Reich
Canterbury
Cardinal Hinsley
Westminster
Germany
Methodist Church
World Council of Christian Churches
Attlee
Communist Party
International Boy Scout Movement
Secret Service
Reich Security Police
Britain
Crerar Receives Order of Leopold From Belgian Ambassador
Gen. H D G Crerar was made a grand officer of the Order of Leopold and given the Belgian War Cross by Ambassador A Paternette de La Vaille at Crerar’s Ottawa residence. Crerar headed the First Canadian Army on the continent.
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Ottawa
Belgium
H PD. G. Crerar
A. Paternette de la Vaillee
Churchill to Visit Australia Under Wartime Promise
The London Star reports that Winston Churchill plans a forthcoming trip to Australia, fulfilling a pledge he made during his tenure as Britain’s prime minister. The visit would reinforce wartime alliances and public morale.
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London
The
London Star
Winston Churchill
Australia
Britain
Continuation of Meat Rationing Possible in U S
Washington reports say meat rationing could continue beyond October if foreign food commitments require it. Agricultural Secretary Anderson and President Truman noted US meat stocks can meet normal domestic demand without a full ration. Sugar rationing may continue into 1946 and set aside orders could be issued to ensure supplies for liberated Europe.
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Washington
United States
Anderson
Truman
U.S
Europe
Britain eyes federal India with united empire within
London semi official sources say Britain plans a federal India under a US or Swiss style constitution, a transition to independence over four to five years, with a constituent assembly after elections. They expect the Congress and Moslem league to decide on power transfer, and oppose vivisection of India.
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London
India
Britain
United States
Switzerland
British United Press
India Office
Indian Congress
Congress
Congress Party
Pakistan
Flax Fibre Plant Plan Discussed For Saskatoon
A firm seeking to set up a flax fibre pulp plant in Saskatoon will send a representative this month to study economics. Commissioner S N MacEachern says the plant could employ 190 and spend about 500000 annually. Fiber would be collected from nearby Saskatchewan fields and processed in Saskatoon or decorticated locally with bales sent for final processing.
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Saskatoon
S. N. MacEachern
Board of Trade
Kind Act in Toronto Aids Mother and Daughter
G. H. Wood, a Toronto businessman, repaid a purse snatch theft by providing Mrs. Frederick Herity with 100 dollars. The money helps Mrs. Herity and her five year old daughter Sharon travel to Winnipeg to reunite with her husband recently freed from a Japanese prison camp.
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Toronto
Frederick Herity
Sharon
Winnipeg
G. H. Wood
Herity
Truman Says Korea Heads Toward Freedom With Allied Aid
President Truman announced that Japanese war lords are being removed from Korea and a major nation is being built there. He said the United States, China, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union will help lift Korea, and all agreed the country shall become free and independent. Some leaders are kept briefly for technical qualifications.
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Washington
Truman
Korea
United States
China
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Record Sealing Harvest From Alaska Expedition
The 1945 Alaska sealing expedition yielded 76 700 seals on St Paul and St George in the Pribilofs the largest for a normal year since conservation began in 1911 The Fouke fur company finances the effort for U S and Canadian governments with skins valued at 350 to 55 each before tailoring Until auctions begin Oct 8 the skins remain govt property with Canada owning 20 percent and the United States 80 percent Proceeds after costs will be shared by the two governments.
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United States
Canada
Tens of thousands visit Lenin's tomb in Moscow
Tens of thousands of Muscovites braved cold rain to visit Nicolai Lenin's mausoleum in Red Square. The tomb of the revolutionary leader reopened to the public for the first time since 1941.
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Moscow
Nicolai Lenin
Red Square
Airline distances lag highway and rail routes by about twenty percent
Airline distances between cities are typically about 20 percent shorter than highway or rail routes. This pattern highlights the efficiency of air travel in reducing travel times compared with road and rail options.
New Weighing Device Lets Butchers Get Price Instantly
Calgary accountant E S Mayhood has invented a paper strip device mounted on meat scales that shows immediately the exact weight and coupon value of cut meat. The five column strip aligns with meat groups and provides weight price and coupon value after the drum stops. The system replaces the old method of weighing then consulting a government coupon chart. Mayhood plans to market the device nationally as Calgary stores adopt the indicator.
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Calgary
E. S. Mayhood
Mayhood
Canada
Vancouver to Handle Liberated British Troops From Pacific
Ottawa reports a British War Office mission will set up in Vancouver to receive liberated British personnel arriving from the Pacific. No arrival date yet, but likely within two weeks. Troops, civilians, and merchant seamen will be outfitted and paid, then reconditioned before sailing from Halifax or routed via New York for those landing at other West Coast ports.
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Ottawa
British War Office
Vancouver
Pacific Theatre
Navy
Air Force
Seattle
Wash
Halifax
Los Angeles
San Francisco
New York
Bombed Prison Deaths Reported at Nagasaki
Melbourne radio said the second atomic bomb killed 31 Allied prisoners in a Nagasaki prison compound, with 211 POWs in the area when it exploded half a mile away. Lance Corporal John D. Armstrong of New South Wales described a blast and debris, noting a wall collapse and scorched foliage.
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San Francisco
Japan
Nagasaki
Radio
Melbourne
Lance
John D. Armstrong
New South Wales
Seed grain certificates aid seed conservation in Ottawa
The special products board unveils minimum participation certificates worth five cents per pound for alfalfa alsike clover and alsike white clover mix seed and three cents per pound for red clover seed. The program aims to encourage conserving seed from this year’s crops.
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Ottawa
Special Products Board
Shipload of Eggs to Britain from Vancouver
An entire shipload of Canadian storage eggs totaling 100000 cases on 170 cars will be loaded onto a vessel at Vancouver for export to Britain via the Panama Canal. The agriculture department calls it the largest such shipment ever exported from any country.
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Ottawa
Vancouver
Britain
Panama Canal
Agriculture Department
Ontario college researchers develop penicillin cheese
Guelph Ontario researchers at the Ontario Agricultural College report creating a cheese containing penicillin. Professor W H Sproule head of dairy research disclosed the development to members of the Ontario legislature.
Big Five Reach Agreement on Italo Yugoslav Boundary
Foreign ministers of the Big Five say they agreed on a boundary plan for the Italo Yugoslav dispute. Trieste to become an international port with language based sovereignty for each nation among Croats Slovenes and Italians. Boundary to follow ethnic lines with spot investigations before final delimitation.
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London
Big Five Council
Trieste
Yugoslavia
Italy
Molotov
M. Molotov
Dalmatian
Russia
Eritrea
Tripolitania
Daily Telegraph
Great Britain
Outer Mongolia
Canada faces easing labor shortage but building trades remain tight
Ottawa reports a Dominion wide labor shortage easing with more workers entering the job market as war plant and services releases rise. Yet construction labor remains a serious problem with the lumber industry described as acute and demand for skilled and unskilled building labor mounting across prairie and Pacific regions.
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Ottawa
Labor Department
Canada
Prairie
Pacific
British ship capacity needed to move Australian migrants
Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell told the Australian House that 18 months will pass before enough ships exist to bring migrants from Europe. The plan targets 70,000 arrivals annually, requiring liners for 2,000 passengers and 35 trips a year. Big ships once carrying 1,000 per sail would need to be replaced with ships about 80 percent larger.
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Canberra
Arthur Calwell
Australian House of Representatives
Australia
Europe
Britain
Loyal bequest to Britain from Winnipeg doctor estate
Principal beneficiary of Dr. John Bond's estate, who died August 22 1945, is the British government. Probate filing shows a $24,314 bequest to support war costs.
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Winnipeg
John Bond
Closing Navy Bases Ottawa
Royal Canadian Navy will close all wartime operation bases except Halifax Sydney N S and Esquimalt B C by the start of next year according to naval service headquarters
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Navy
Halifax
Sydney
N.S
Esquimalt
B.C
Naval Service Headquarters
ANZAC Casualties Listed by Defence Ministry
Canberra reports total war losses: 21,415 Australians killed and 37,477 wounded. Other figures show 6,519 missing, 19,202 prisoners of war, with 7,598 prisoners either escaped or repatriated.
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Canberra
Defence Ministry
Forested Canada ranks third largest globally
The forested area of Canada is exceeded in size only by the forests of the U S S R and Brazil.
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Canada
U.S.S.R
Brazil
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