Manpower Budget Aims To Map Britain’s Postwar Labour
The piece discusses the wartime idea of a manpower budget as a planning tool led by Ernest Bevin and later cited by Prime Minister Attlee. It notes forecasts for December 31 1946, with 20 million in the working population, 1.1 million in the forces, 500 thousand supplying the forces, and detailed allocations across construction and home needs. It recalls peak force totals in June 1945 and the broader aim of postwar efficiency.
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Ernest Bevin
Minster of Labor and National Service
Bevin
Britain
Ministry of Labor
Eas
Attlee
Dember
Fram
Weekly Newspapers Raise Subscription Rates Across Canada
Canadian weekly newspapers raise prices due to higher paper and supply costs. Some rise from 1 to 1.50, 1.50 to 2, while one British Columbia weekly increases from 2.50 to 3 per year.
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Canada
B.C
Granite memorials arrive for showroom selection
We received a carload of moderately priced granite memorials on April 8. All colors shapes sizes and finishes are available. An early showroom visit or mail order offers wider selection. Stock orders will be lettered and ready for your plot in 30 days. Our modern showroom offers helpful advice to help you choose.
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THE
Christian. Science. Monitor
Kiss display at American university sparks science talk
At American University a science display showed a day-old kiss on agar to reveal germs. Margaret Long notes bacillus subtilis and common bacteria appear, while Pat Lanzillotti says the display informs rather than scares. She adds baldness tendency runs in women, not men.
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Washington
American University
Margaret Long
Pat Lanzillotti
Kiss
Shaw proposes Swedish plan to pay doctors for keeping families well
London April reports George Bernard Shaw argues in a Times letter that private medicine in Britain should adopt Sweden’s approach. Doctors would receive an agreed annual fee for maintaining a family's health, eliminating per-visit payments and reducing the conflict of interests between physicians and patients.
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London
George Bernard Shaw
Britain
London Times
Sweden
Europe
Plague Rages in Cawnpore In Northern India
A plague outbreak in Cawnpore, a major industrial city in northern India, reports 107 cases and 40 deaths in the last week despite rat control and mass inoculation efforts, according to the city health officer.
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New Delhi
India
Cawnpore
Four German POWs charged with murder at Medicine Hat camp
On a Saturday four German prisoners of war Bruno Perzenowski Walter Wolf Wille Mueller and Heinrich Buch faced Magistrate W H Ellis in Medicine Hat charged with the murder of fellow prisoner Karl Lehmann at the Medicine Hat internment camp on September 10 1944. They will appear for a preliminary hearing on May 1.
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Bruno Perzenowski
Walter Wolf
Wille Mueller
Heinrich Buch
W. H. Ellis
Medicine Hat
Karl Lehmann
Commons vote defeats six month delay on Canada Day bill
The Commons rejected an amendment by 132 to 60 that would have delayed a bill for six months while changing Dominion Day observed on July 1 to Canada Day. The result clears the path for the government proposal.
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Commons
Barber claims hay fever cure. hearing to determine legitimacy
Washington AP reports barber Frank X. Cormier touts a self styled cure and compares himself to Pasteur while the post office opens a hearing over possible mail fraud. Witness Dr Fred Norris says no basis to claims as Cormier asserts planned scientific revelations. Also notes a Canadian railway death and Ottawa delaying summer adjournment.
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Washington
April
Pasteur
Post Office Department
Cormier
London Guild Pageantry Returns Amid War Scarred Traditions
London businessmen in scarlet gowns walk in a renewed Ash Wednesday procession, a custom dating to 1612 and tied to a 1556 incorporation. Some pageantry survives damaged by the Blitz, with cakes and ale transported by delegates where attendance falters.
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City of London
John Morton
The
Stationers’ Company
Possibility of Delayed Espionage Report in Canada
In Ottawa, it was suggested that the royal commission on espionage may withhold its fourth and possibly final report until the court cases against 14 Canadians charged in the espionage matter are finished.
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Ottawa
Royal Commission On
Canada
BC divorce law to be modernized this Tuesday
A motion will be moved in the legislature by Charles W. Morrow of North Okanagan advocating immediate amendment of British Columbia divorce law to modernize the entire statute in harmony with current conditions and trends of thought.
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British Columbia
Charles W. Morrow
Coalition North Okanagan
Newspaper spending by Americans and Canadians in 1945
Americans and Canadians spent 803,593,000 dollars on daily and Sunday newspapers in 1945, rising 5.2 percent from 1944 and 16 percent from 1943, according to the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association in New York.
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Bureau of Advertising
American Newspaper Publishers Association
New York
Roosevelts Hyde Park Shrine to Be Dedicated Friday
The Hyde Park estate in New York, birthplace and burial site of Franklin D Roosevelt, will be designated a national shrine in a Friday ceremony with President Truman attending the formal dedication and participating in events.
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Hyde Park
N.Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Truman
Churchill pressed Roosevelt for warning to Japan in 1941
Washington news reports that Winston Churchill urged Franklin D. Roosevelt as early as February 1941 to warn Japan that a move toward Singapore would trigger war with the United States. The disclosure comes as a Senate committee probes Japan's Pearl Harbor attack and reviews new state department and White House documents.
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Washington
Winston Churchill
Roosevelt
Japan
Singapore
United States
Senate House
Pearl Harbor
State Department
White House
Baby Burned in Crib While Mother Shopping
Portage la Prairie Man Apri reports a tragedy as 13 month old Diana Lavalee, daughter of Mr and Mrs Clifford Lavalee, died in a crib fire that destroyed their St Ambroise home while the mother shop-ping. Neighbors failed to rescue the infant as four other children aged up to six played outside. An overheated stove is blamed for the blaze.
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Portage la Prairie
Man
Apri (Cp
Diana Lavalee
Clifford Lavalee
St. Ambroise
Here
Lancaster farmer Martin Denlinger drowns in trough
At Lancaster Pennsylvania Martin H Denlinger a 52 year old farmer drowned himself in a milk cooling trough containing two feet of water official report by deputy coroner Dr G W H Frew confirms the cause of death as suicide and notes the location as a dairy farm in Lancaster County
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Lancaster
Martin H. Denlinger
G. W. H. Frew
BC adults wept over liquor permits in 1945 figures
Figures from Victoria show that perhaps not more than 150000 British Columbia adults, and possibly fewer, wept without liquor permits in 1945. The data came from the attorney-general and the division of vital statistics in Victoria.
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British Columbia
Division of Vital Statistics
Victoria
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