Plans For Post War Work Reserve Of Public Projects
Ottawa officials outline a national development program to secure post war employment. Key proposals include expanding highways and waterways, advancing telecommunication networks, conserving natural resources, urban rural improvements such as slum clearance and community centers, rural electrification, and boosting tourist facilities with technical input from architects engineers and planners.
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Ottawa
House of Commons Committee of Reconstruction
K. M. Cameroun
Department of Public Works
Cameron
Ammunition Rationing Affects Essential Users in Ottawa
The prices board placed small arms ammunition under rationing to ensure supplies for essential users. Eligible include hunters for food, trappers, prospectors, R C M P members, other police, and property guards. Rifle and gun club members may buy ammunition under certain conditions.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
R.C.M.P
Memorial Service Held in London for Sir Edward Beatty
A memorial service for Sir Edward Beatty, late chairman of the Canadian Pacific Railway, was held at St Martin in the Fields London. He died after a two year illness and was buried at St Catharines Ontario near Thorold. Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church of St Andrew and St Paul.
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London
Sir Edward Beatty
Montreal
Edward Beatty
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Church of
St. Martin-in-the-Fields
C.P.R
Sir Edward
St. Catharines
Ont
Beatty
Thorold
St. Andrew and St. Paul
REPORT ON CAMP International Red Cross Says Conditions In Hong Kong
International Red Cross reports improving conditions at Stanley Camp Hong Kong Foreign Under-Secretary Rich ard Law told the House of Commons dated January 25 with further details to follow from Red Cross visits. Over 1,500 Canadian soldiers mainly Winnipeg Grenadiers and Royal Rifles of Canada listed as Japanese prisoners of war. San Diego resident Walter L. Skeley and his wife knit blankets from donated wool for the Red Cross amid wartime shortages.
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International Red Cross
Hong Kong
London
Stanley Camp
Richard Law
House of Commons
Red Cross
Winnipeg Grenadiers
Royal Rifles of Canada
Quebec
Germans Shoot Prisoners in Polish Camps as Prisons Fill
The Polish Telegraph Agency reports wholesale executions of prisoners in eastern Poland camps after attempted break ins. At Rowno camp the entire population was said to be killed, while at Pinsk a group of armed Poles freed 44 prisoners before Germans shot 30 more. No total for Rowno was announced.
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London
Rowno
Poland
Pinsk
British M P Says Sweden Pro Axis Attitude
Sir Alfred Knox told the House of Commons that Sweden had been definitely pro Axis since the war began and urged the UN to threaten foodstuff cuts to push Sweden into line. He pressed for Britain to warn Stockholm that neutrality breaches would hurt Sweden, while officials said German transports had flown over Sweden and facts must be established.
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M.P
Sweden
London
Alfred Knox
House of Commons
United Nations
Hig
Norman Bower
Britain
Richard Law
Trans-Canada Airlines plans for future routes and growth
Trans-Canada Airlines outlined plans for trans oceanic service and a shorter Canadian transcontinental route via Lakes Huron and Superior. An accord with Canada and the U.S. on international air services may be reopened after six months’ notice. Expansion includes Vancouver Island mail and passenger air service, with growth in revenue passengers, mail, and air express. The carrier operated 24 Lockheed planes with 1,662 staff, and a year end balance sheet showing net working capital of about 1.95 million dollars.
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Ottawa
Trans-Canada Airlines
H. J. Symington
House of Commons
C. D. Howe
Canada
Mr. Symington
North America
Europe
Asia
Symington
Trans-Canada
Huron
Superior
Yukon
U.S
Post Office
Vancouver
Vancouver Island
Board of Transport Commissioners
Victoria
Island
Air Express
Lockheed
Archbishop urges open doors for Jews in London plea
London report cites Archbishop of Canterbury urging the government to open doors to Jewish immigrants. The plea emphasizes humanitarian duty and national welcome amid wartime and refugee pressures.
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London
Archbishop of Canterbury
Gandhi blamed for uprisings and nonviolence shift
A British white paper holds Mohandas K. Gandhi and the Indian Congress responsible for recent nationalist uprisings. It contends Gandhi doubted nonviolence as India’s defense and notes a Congress resolution backing Allied troops in India. The report also mentions Gandhi’s three week fast and his imprisonment. It adds that new American bombers will soon join Europe bombardment per General Ira C. Baker.
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Mame Gandhi
Fils
London
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Indian Congress Party
Gandhi
India
Japan
Congress
Poons
Europe
Ira C. Baker
Britain
First Canada US food study group ends discussion
Five United States agriculture and food authorities met with the Canadian section as the standing committee concluded talks on programs and problems affecting various food products. Dr G B Barton outlined ongoing discussions to keep agriculture and food production under study for beneficial developments.
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United States
Ottawa
New Slogan Suggested for Canada's Victory Loan
R J Dunlevy public relations adviser to the national war finance committee said at a meeting of personnel managers and editors that the next victory loan slogan likely to be Back the Attack. He noted the slogan fits with the probability of a second front opening soon.
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Canada
R. J. Dunlevy
National War Finance Committee
Dunlevy
Half of food for Americans now rationed nationwide
Washington reports a nationwide coupon rationing plan for meat butter cheese fats cooking oils and canned fish. Each person gets 16 points weekly from red stamps with points assigned per item, initially meat from one to twelve points per pound. Consumers may distribute points among items, with shortages likely delaying full meat variety in some locales while aiming to improve supplies in war industry centers.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
New York
Boston
Los Angeles
San Francisco
San Diego
Japan Soviet fishing pact extends access in Far East
London reports that Japan and the Soviet Union extended fishing privileges in Soviet Far Eastern waters. Japanese payments rise four to five percent in gold over last year, under a 1943 protocol signed by Naotake Sato and S. A. Lozovsky in Kulbyshey. Renewal seen as a routine yet essential link amid wartime alignments.
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London
Japan
Russia
Moscow
S. A. Lozovsky
Naotake Sato
Kulbyshey
Germany
United Nations Group
United States
Kamchatka Peninsula
Wartime BoardExpenses Totaled 579162 in Canada House Return
The wartime information board has spent 579162 since it began, a House of Commons return shows. Salaries and living allowances total 119209, while board members themselves received no pay. Government speeches have been distributed five times for national significance.
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Ottawa
Wartime Information Board
House of Commons
Greek Guerillas Ready to Help UN in Greece
Epaminondas Tesellos, Greek minister of public welfare, says Greek guerillas living on Axis supplies will aid the United Nations in driving the Axis from Greece. Underground groups are organized in cells and coordinate with the government with offices in London and Cairo, warning of grave malnutrition risks to the country.
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United Nations
Cairo
Greece
Epaminondas Tesellos
Tsellos
London
Australia and New Zealand Brace for Possible Japanese Assault
Australia announces the return of the South Australian Division from Africa as Curtin predicts military strength reaching 3,000,000 this year. New Zealand Prime Minister Fraser says air power has increased 100 fold since the war began.
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Australia
New Zealand
Japan
Canberra
South Pacific
John Curtin
Africa
Sth
Peter Fraser
Prairie debt problem prompts federal debt adjustment talks
Ottawa reports the departments of finance and justice are consulting on the western debt adjustment issue following prairie submissions seeking federal action to establish adjustment facilities. Officials are weighing remedies to meet the situation. Buy War Savings Stamps Regularly.
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Ottawa
Finance and Justice
Prairie Provinces
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