Budget of Labor in Coming Year Necessary to Industry
Britain faces manpower shortages hampering national recovery says the Spectator. Total working population stands near 20 million as soldiers and ex‑servicemen occupy jobs, exporting manufacturing exceeds 1939 levels, civil service staff rise, and conscription continues. Future labor supply depends on peacetime policy and education reform to keep workers in essential industry.
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London
Britain
the Spectator
Doubtful investors in housing plans rise in Toronto
The Toronto Telegram notes government pleas to build houses and apartments have not spurred buyers. Mortgage money from the federal housing authorities at low rates has gone unused as people doubt real estate wisdom, citing property taxes and weak investment returns as reasons to save elsewhere.
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Toronto Telegram
May Grade Wheat On Protein Basis
The board of grain commissioners discusses grading wheat by protein content. Dr J A Maceibbon notes potential changes, with Professor McKenzie heading the investigating committee. Protein grading could discard or modify the present system, as northern Alberta wheat might be penalized under a protein focus.
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Removal of Price Controls Would Be Die Calamity
Toronto dispatch reports Mrs. R. J. Marshall president of the National Council of Women warned that removing price controls now would be a great calamity. She said she could not speak for the council until provincial council meets, and noted Brantford council favoring a buyers strike over price board rules.
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National Council of Women
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Council of Women
Brantford
Prices Board
Germans Discussed King and Queen assassination plan
The FBI says two Germans Fritz Wiedemann then German consul general at San Francisco and Herman Schwinn met in San Francisco in May 1939 to discuss an assassination of King George and Queen Elizabeth during their 1939 visit to the United States. No attempt was made to carry out the plot.
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API
Federal Bureau of Investigation
King George
Elizabeth
United States
Fritz Wiedemann
San Francisco
Herman Schwinn
New Occupational Centre at Kirkfield Park Winnipeg
A modern health and occupational centre for veterans convalescing from war wounds will be built at Kirkfield Park three miles west of Winnipeg. Dr L Gunn medical superintendent of Deer Lodge hospital said work is in progress. Opening is planned for 1947 pending materials. The facility will house about 200 patients.
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Kirkfield Park
L. Gunn
Deer Lodge Military Hospital
Gunn
Nurses’ Alumni Association
Winnipeg Hospital
Control of All Industry Sought By Government
London reports an industrial organization bill to give the government power to control British industries not yet nationalized. The bill, forecast from the throne speech, would enable action based on reports from working parties and seek parliamentary approval to apply their recommendations.
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London
CP Cable
Send for Elizabeth offers home help for busy people
London report details Auxiliary Household Services founded by three demobbed officers to ease housework for tired housewives, businesswomen, and bachelors. For 3s 6d an hour they provide non specialized tasks and refuse to queue for luxury services. Winnipeg council to revisit 1,000,000 memorial and recreation centre by-law after failing to secure 69 percent in November vote.
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British Women’s Services
Elizabeth
Annette
Mary Hirtwhistle
Mona Corbauld
Winnipeg
Memorial and Recreation Centre
Memorial Association
Lawmakers push for better design of Roosevelt memorial statue
London AP reports MPs criticize the proposed Grosvenor Square Roosevelt memorial statue as inadequate and unworthy. The motion, signed by fifty-one more members, raises questions about the late president’s commemorative sculpture.
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London
United States
Nrew
Grosvenor Square
London heir Wells leaves bulk of £59811 fortune
Probate records reveal H G Wells bequeathed most of a large fortune, totaling £59811, to his two sons and highlighted his wish for the “good and sane behavior of all my offspring towards me.” The details appear in the noglist’a will probate filing. Jerusalem reports British officers in Palestine hold long talks to assess anti Jewish sentiment among forces in the Holy Land. In Victoria warrants accuse 34 year old Elizabeth Yuen of murdering her two young daughters, both under two.
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H. G. Wells
Victoria
Elizabeth Yuen
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