Allies Deploy Vast Seapower In Battle Against U-Boat War
United States, Canada, and Britain deploy convoys and warships along the Atlantic coast to counter Nazi submarines. Navy reports mine threats off the eastern seaboard, daily merchant ship sinkings persist, and production of specialized anti-submarine craft accelerates.
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Washington
United Nations High Command
Hitler
Navy Department
United States
Britain
Atlantic
North American
United States Navy
Atlantic Seaboard
Maine
Florida
Caribbean
Edmonton Captain Receives King Civil Commendation
Captain Donald M. McVicar of Edmonton, 27, RAF ferry command pilot, earned a civil commendation for a hazardous route survey. Former Canadian Airways trainee, he has flown bombers across the Atlantic for six months. Born in Oxbow and educated at St. John's Winnipeg and the University of Alberta.
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Edmonton
Donald M. McVicar
Royal Air Force Ferry Command
Canadian Airways Training, Ltd
No. 2
McVicar
J. G. McVicar
Montreal
Ferry Command
Atlantic
R.C.A.F
RAF
Oxbow
Sask
St. John's College
Winnipeg
University of Alberta
Aid From Vichy to Rommel Reported in North Africa
The Tass reports that the Vichy government aided Nazi commander Erwin Rommel in Egypt by supplying war materials and transporting troops through French Tunisia. Geneva dated dispatch cites French sea routes used to secretly concentrate German forces ahead of Rommel’s offensive.
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Moscow
Tans
French
Tunisia
Erwin Rommel
Egypt
Tass
Geneva
Switzerland
North Africa
Rommel
Bomb damage at St. Penis cathedral disclosed
Leondos reported bomb damage to St. Penis cathedral amounting to £150 6d, about 3060 000, as disclosed by Archacon EN Sharpe.
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Leondos
St.Penis Cathedral
Amouunting
Arch“acon EN. Sharpe
Wartime price order set for canned fruits and vegetables
The wartime prices and trade board issued an order fixing maximum prices for 1942 peck canning goods including tomatoes juice peas corn beans peaches pears plums and apricots. The scheme covers subsidies to canners to offset cost increases so consumers pay near the Sept 15 to Oct 11, 1941 basic period prices.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
Prairie provinces seek farm debt tribunal plan
A Prairie Farm Debts conference in Saskatoon backed creating a tribunal under appropriate legislative authority to ease Western Canada farm debts. Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta will meet in Regina July 10 11 to prepare submission for Ottawa, with a delegation to follow. The plan would empower debt adjustment tribunals to write down principal reduce interest and revise terms for secured and unsecured farm debts. Premier Aberhart praised the cooperative effort and expected Ottawa to recognize the West’s aim to remove barriers to better national service.
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Saskatoon
Western Canada
Prairie Provinces
Agrarian Organizations
Prairie Farm Debts Conference
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Regina
Ottawa
The
Prairies
Robert Gardiner
United Farmers of Alberta
William Aberhart
John Bracken
Olttewe
War projects tie CP Air Lines to Arctic survey work
L B Unwin, president of Canadian Pacific Air Lines in Montreal, says ninety percent of the company’s air fleet is now flying men and materials for war projects. Current 24 hour operations in the Yukon and Northwest Territories support the Alaska highway pipeline survey from Fort Norman to Whitehorse, ferrying survey parties for a planned railway from Prince George northward to Alaska, and maintaining northern mail and passenger services.
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Montreal
L. B. Unwin
Canadian Pacific Air Lines
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Alaska Highway
Fort Norman
Whitehorse
Prince George
Alaska
Britain and Soviet sign lease lend military aid pact
Moscow radio reports a June 27 1941 agreement between British Ambassador Archibald Clark Kerr and Soviet foreign trade commissar A I Mikoyan to finance and deliver British military supplies to the USSR on a lease lend basis. The pact is retroactive to June 22 1941 the day Germany invaded Russia.
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Moscow
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Russia
Moscow Radio
Archibald Clark Kerr
A. I. Mikoyan
Ottawa tax plan would curb high incomes says officials
Finance Minister Ilsley's budget will limit net take home pay in high brackets, officials say. A single man earning $50,000 would keep $14,297 after tax, $100,000 would net $18,863, and $500,000 would leave $26,896, implying a ceiling on Canadian income beyond rare top earners.
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Beneft Tanpayer
Ottawa
Ilsley
Dominion
Post War Wheat Export Plan Aims at Price Stability
Trade Minister MacKinnon announced Canada United States Australia and Argentina agreed on a wartime wheat export deal. Canada holds 40 percent of postwar exports and aims to provide stability in prices. UK joins for price considerations. postwar price ranges to be negotiated within six months after hostilities end. Canada emphasizes production limits to avoid falling export prices and ensure market sharing after peace.
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Ottawa
MacKinnon
Canada
United States
Australia
Argentina
Washington
United Kingdom
Dominion
Post War Employment Motion Introduced in Ottawa
J. G. Turgeon introduces a motion before the House of Commons committee on reconstruction urging study of how Canada’s national resources can aid postwar reconstruction. The action focuses on immediate needs to create jobs for returned soldiers and war workers.
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Ottawa
House of Commons Committee On
Canada
J. G. Turgeon
Lib
Cariboo
Canadians face rationing of essential foods within year
Oshawa Ontario Attorney General Conant says Canadians will likely see rationing of essential foodstuffs within the next year or so. He expects a system similar to Britain's current rationing structure.
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Oshawa, Ont
Conant
Britain
War Materials Reach Russia Through Arctic Convoys
Cmdr. Samuel Frankel reports US merchant seamen continue delivering war materials to Murmansk despite German air attacks. Over four months American casualties total around 25 wounded and similar missing or dead. Fog and sea ice retreat expected to reduce losses as convoys gain protection. Each crew member receives a Soviet port bonus about 3000 dollars per vessel.
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Moscow
Soviet Russia
Arctic
Murmansk
Cmdr
Samuel Frankel
Stapleton, NY
United States
Russia
Frankel
Ottawa Budget Exempts Cheap Jewelry From New Luxury Tax
Ottawa details show retail jewelry priced at 50 cents or less not subject to the 25 percent luxury tax in the 1942 43 budget summary. The tax covers items commonly known as jewelry including real and imitation stones, as well as gold and silver wares and plated war and pewter items.
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Ottawa
Alsley
Deport Hostages as Nazi Sabotage Targets France
German authorities in occupied France ordered immediate deportation of 50 hostages after a wave of anti Nazi attacks and sabotage. They warned another 50 would be sent away if those responsible were not caught. Three men were arrested, accused of bombing German headquarters at Tours on January 12 and suspected in the Dent assassination attempt.
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France
Vichy
Tours
Marcel Dent
National Popular Party
German battleship Gneisenau damaged beyond quick repair
London reports photographs show the Gneisenau so badly damaged that three 11 inch gun turrets must be dismantled and 30 feet of forecastle deck removed. The 26,000 ton ship has been moved from Kiel to Gdynia where air ministry says large scale repairs cannot be made to return her to service.
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London
Kiel
Gdynia
Air Ministry
Defence Minister Ralston Receives Canadian Efficiency Decoration
The Defence Minister Ralston is awarded the Canadian efficiency decoration for twenty years in the reserve army. The award is part of a long list of long service and good conduct medals released by the national defence department in Ottawa.
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Ralston
Ottawa
Defence
National Defence Department
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