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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 02, 1942
Page
6
Ottawa government signals immediate curtailment of civilian output to free manpower for war needs. Three ministers urge tightening belts and shifting about 2,000,000 civilian workers, with 500,000 redirected to war work. Howe cites a 38,000 rise in wholesale and retail trades as a target.
Leslie Kirch, back in London from Russia, recalls farm folk choosing to join guerrilla raids on Germans by a dice game. Three winners armed with axes and clubs crawled through lines, killed six sentries, returning with guns and ammo strapped to their bodies. They aided broader farm raids, and during his stay they killed 18 Nazis and captured 17 prisoners.
The first contingent of Canadian volunteer fire fighters landed in Britain. War Services Minister Thorson received a cable from British Secretary of State Herbert Morrison expressing thanks and noting the men join soldiers sailors and airmen already in Britain to aid their British comrades.
Ten Canadian women declared returning to the Dominion under an exchange with Germany are aboard the Drottningholm steamship sailing from Lisbon and due in New York this week. Seven were Zamzam passengers seized by a German raider in the South Atlantic and interned in Germany until September last year, while three others were interned by German authorities and released after Canadian representations. Olga Gottormson of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America in Minneapolis is listed as next of kin for Mrs Blale Gottormson of Nai Cam Sask.
Canadian leaders from Premier John Hart to Premier Hepburn and Premier Aberhart back the austerity budget as essential for wartime finance and victory. McGill economist F Cyril James hails enforced savings as constructive, noting reduced spending now enables postwar industrial recovery and consumer purchasing power.
Work on a Persian Gulf port to deliver aid to Russia advances on a sandy, swampy site in Basra. The plan uses bombers, trucks, and a vast network moving materiel to Soviet armies. Rail links expand from Tehran to Tabriz forming an all-rail route to Moscow via Batum and Tiflis.
A spokesman for Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada states federal budget tobacco tax increases will not raise tobacco prices. He says retailers will absorb the tax change and keep prices steady for consumers across Montreal and Canada.
New York PM publisher Marshal Field postponed the induction of Ralph Ingersoll, editor aged 41, for a final physical at Fort Jay Governors Island. Field, speaking from Chicago, argued the newspaper's wartime value and Ingersoll's leadership warrant keeping him in publication.
Ottawa announces Greece will receive 15,000 tons of Canadian wheat monthly about 500,000 bushels. Some shipments already reached Greece and more will sail monthly from a Canadian port in Swedish ships under Red Cross supervision with safe passage via the British blockade and approvals from Germany and Italy.
London. Minister Oliver Lyttelton told the House of Commons that British and United States troops in the same theatre will have equal priority for UK supplies. He described a new combined production and resources board that is integrating total resources and aligning war production to maximize shipping efficiency.
Melbourne reports Brig. Gen. Hugh Casey announces at general headquarters that at least 100 new air dromes have been built for Allied air forces in Australia during the last three months. He notes the Allied works council has 1500 large projects and 10000 smaller jobs planned, with more to come.
Finance Minister Ilsley said Canada’s war funding outlook via the Hyde Park agreement improves for the current year, yet travel restrictions to the United States stay in place. He credited non war savings of over 100 million dollars as safeguards, urging continued prudence in non war transactions while munitions support remains essential to the Allied effort.
A high source says naval and air forces are probing reports of an Axis submarine base in Maranhao state along the Gurupy delta on the Brazil coast. Investigators maintain secrecy while noting possible refueling and hidden traffic at river inlets. Attacks along the Brazilian coast have declined since Allied patrols sank subs in late May, with continued shipping losses in June.
Wil lott McComb of Hayfield Man was re elected president of the Canadian Red Poll Association at the annual meeting here. Other officers elected were Vice president John R Atkinson St Albert Alta secretary treasurer P J Hoffman Annaheim Sask honorary president H E Wabey Enderby B C honorary vice president Eugene Hursh Macoun Sask directors A D Pocock Moose Jaw Sask J H Reeve Dafoe Sask It was decided to continue grants to feed steers for fall and spring stock shows and grants to fairs at Brandon Man Weyburn Sask and Armstrong B C
Washington reports navy silence on Attu and Kiska. Aleutians seen as target for sea and air battle. Japanese submarine bases feared as planes en route to Russia are harassed. Canadians may assist. Russians anticipate a Siberian campaign tied to German pushes toward Sevastopol and the Caucasus. Hitler aims to seize Caucasus and Mosul oil fields by summer.
Victoria Colonist reports lighthouse keeper Robert Mitchell Laily climbed a 50 foot tower to extinguish the Estevan Point beacon as shells rained down. The action likely saved the remote settlement while two radio operators and families sheltered in the woods. News of the attack was relayed to military authorities during the bombardment.
An unidentified bomber dropped a bomb into a cluster of concentration camps at Royallieu near Compiegne, killing two internees and wounding several others. The attack targeted a facility holding prisoners in Vichy France during the occupation.
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