Victoria Veterans Housing Prices Spark Outcry in Victoria
In Greater Victoria the first Veterans Act housing deal fell short of promises. The price quoted was 7 636.73 dollars, far above 4 500, with the sit room home lacking a stove and refrigerator. Councillor Robert Knight noted the final price rose to 7 656.70, with payments totaling about 4 415 over a year and a 1 400 government handout after 19 years, yielding a total cost near 10 415 before taxes.
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Vitoria
ICP
Vetersan
Greater Victoria
Focal
Victoria and District
Canadian Legion
Hove
Robert Knight
Transit officials consider fluorescent lighting on buses and streetcars
An official from the Toronto Transportation Commission states that installing fluorescent lighting in buses and streetcars is under consideration. The remark signals possible upgrades to onboard visibility and passenger comfort as part of modernization efforts.
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Toronto Transportation Commission
Labor Progressive Member Accused of Soviet Police Ties
The royal commission final report states Fred Hose, a labor progressive Montreal Cartier member, worked for the Soviet secret police at 17 and acted as an agent reporting to his masters. It identifies Rose and Sam Carr as main Canadian organizers of espionage with Carr likely sent as a professional Soviet agent in 1924 and active since.
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Otowa
Royal Commission
Fred Hose
Catumons
Montreal-Cartier
Kunstan Secret Police
Teta
Canada
Comminsion
Pamps
Rose
Sam Carr
Labor Progressive Party
Carr
Rose and Carr linked to wartime communist activities
The report notes Rose arrived in Canada in 1939 at age 13 and worked for the Russian secret police before 17. It states he trained in Moscow in 1930 and served months on the Young Commercial League executive committee. Rose and Sam Carr were interned in September 1942, released a month later after undertakings not to join the communist party. The document cites Rose as a key organizer of agents in the National Research Council where war materials were developed.
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Rose
Canada
Secret Police
Moscow
The
Young Commercial League
Carr
Communist Party
Sam Carr
Fred Rose
National Research Council
Operation Hunger aims to aid Europe at UBC
Vancouver researchers outline a two day campus drive at the University of British Columbia with the slogan You may be hungry others are starving. The plan calls for students to donate the price of a meal and meat coupons for a week while professors and committees assist with lectures stalls run by student wives collect coupons and cash raised goes to the International Red Cross for relief and coupons to the prices board to release extra meat for Europe.
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Vancouver
University of British Columbia
Food For
Europe
International Red Cross
Prices Board
Montgomery Enters Lords as New Peer
London. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein was introduced in the house of Lords after being created a viscount in birthday honors. He was sponsored by RAF marshals Lord Portal and Lord Trenchard as the crowded chamber applauded. Edmonton CP mining report details a tantalita find 44 miles east of Yellowknife, noted for high heat resistance in jet motor and rocket projectile manufacture. Chicago AP indictments charge William Heirens with the Suzanne Degnan kidnapping and the Francesa Brown “Hps tick killing,” with potential insanity defense.
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London
Reuters
Field Marshal
Viscount Montgomery of
Lord Montgomery
R.A.F
Lord Portal
Lord Trenchard
Edmonton
Yellowknife
Chicago
William Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
Francesa Brown
Americans Discount Our Money in Edmonton Journal
The Edmonton Journal notes a parochial American view of Canadian currency. It recalls a time when Canadian dollars traded at ten percent below American, making exchanges hard even in border states and provoking frequent claims of Canadian money being worthless.
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Edmonton Journal
What Good is an Expert
Victoria Colonist muses on experts and the limits of professional judgment. A survey begins with a routine inquiry but ends with mutual doubt as readers reject reports while awaiting decisive decisions that propel human affairs forward.
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Victoria Colonist
Vancouver Boy Found Murdered in Stanley Park
Police seek a soldier for questioning after the badly decomposed body of 11 year old Garry Killings, missing since July 5, was found near a beach in Stanley Park. A companion reported meeting a soldier in the park on July in. Garry planned a second meeting with the soldier for ice cream and peanuts.
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Vancouver
Stanley Park
Garry
Lady in White Receives King’s Certificate of Commendation
Durban durbar honors Perla Sledie Gibson known as the Lady in White for calming 3000 non European troops in Durban. Col Stubbs presented the certificate noting her singing soothed departing and arriving troops at the docks during the war.
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Durbar
Durban
Lady In White
Natal
Perla Sledie Gibson
BT. Stubbs
Middle East
Lady In
Durban Bay
South Africa
No Damage to Spruce In Northern Area
Two men from the laboratory were flown in to inspect the allegedly blighted region. Samples showed spruce needle rust chrynomyza and mistletoe common in the area. It is unlikely beeds caused defoliation and any damage may be due mainly to rust and mistletoe.
George McIvor Named Chairman of New International Food Council
Ottawa announced George Mc Ivor of Winnipeg chief of the Canadian wheat board and former cereals chair on the cereals committee of the new international emergency food council. Trade Minister MacKinnon said the council replaces the wartime combined food board formed last month.
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Ottawa
George McIvor
Winnipeg
Canadian Wheat Board
Combined Food Board
International Emergency Food Council
MacKinnon
Coventry Paper Resumes After Wartime Blitz
The Coventry Evening Telegram, forced to print from Nuneaton after the 1941 blitz, resumes publication in Coventry. Reporters and editors return to shared offices in prefabricated huts near the cathedral ruins and printing rooms, with a permanent building planned as soon as possible.
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Coventry
Eng
Coventry Evening Telegram
Nuneaton
Coventry Cathedral
Countess Edda Ciano Set Free From Domicile
Rome reports Countess Edda Ciano daughter of Massoliai and widow of Count Ciano former Fascist foreign minister was released from compulsory domicile on Lépera Tslené near the toe of Italy.
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Rome
Reuters
Edda Ciano
Massoliai
Count Ciao
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Manitoba Telephone
Joba
Wareham Brothers
Harold F. Stanley
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Luke
Wareham
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