Ottawa wartime price board orders continue staple goods lines
The wartime prices and trade board requires continued manufacture and sale of staple goods at same price ranges as last year. Manufacturers and other sellers must maintain output and pricing, avoid new or modified products to dodge ceilings, and set prices for substantially different lines via an administrator. Cost increases must be absorbed along the chain or subsidized.
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Ottawa
Wartime
Prices and Trade Board
Reading Clippings to Men Overseas Saves Shipping Space
Ottawa officials unveil a campaign encouraging Canadians to send news clippings instead of full newspapers to overseas readers. Sponsored by the Canadian Postmasters Association, the plan aims to curb waste in ship space while preserving the news.
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Ottawa
Post Office
Canadian Postmasters’ Association
Britain Hardens Air Defenses With Wire-Trailing Rockets
Britain discloses use of wire trailing rockets as a new aerial defense. The system, deployed aboard merchant ships for over a year, fires a projectile that deploys a parachute and drags a long wire to disrupt approaching planes.
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Britain
London
Recruiting figures show district enlistment shares in Canada
A House of Commons table reports Military District No. 2 Toronto contributing over 19 percent of active army enlistments. Other districts range from Montreal No. 4 at 12 percent to Quebec No. 5 at 4 percent, with Kingston No. 3 at 10, Victoria No. 11 at 8, Winnipeg No. 10 at 8, Calgary No. 13 at ?, Halifax No. 6 at 8, London No. 1 at 7, Regina No. 12 at 7, Saint John No. 7 at 5, and Quebec No. 5 at 4.
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Ouuwa
Toronto
House of Commons
E. H. Corman
Wentworth
Montreal
Kingston
Ont
The Crow's Nest Debuts At Halifax Naval Barracks
A bright monthly paper published by naval ratings at Halifax's H.M.C.8 Cornwallis barracks is now on sale. Eight pages feature news and information for sailors with pictures and cartoons, distributed to navy divisions nationwide.
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Naval Barracks
Halifax
Bright
Boys In Blue
H.M.C
Cornwallis
Redraft of bill on land settlement for ex servicemen Ottawa
Ottawa reports Cyrus MacMilan tabled the fourth report of the land settlement committee with a redraft of bill 65. The four recommendations urge feasibility of price based payment adjustments, first option on tractors and equipment, future amendment for seafaring service personnel without disability pensions, and creating a dedicated ex servicemen department to administer the act.
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Ottawa
Cyrus MacMilan
House of Commons
Changes In Air Schools In West Areas
Royal Canadian Air Force announces broad changes to British Commonwealth Air Training Plan schools across western Canada and Ontario. E.F.T.S. expansions occur at Regina, Portage la Prairie, Neepawa, Bowden, Bowden?. A.O.S. moves and E.F.T.S. deltas shift at Pearce, London, Winnipeg, Quebec. Rivers becomes Central Navigation School. Hamilton site relocation for RAF ANS support. overall aims to boost observers and navigators amid reorganization of training facilities.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Air Force
Power
Regina
Ef.t.s
A.O.S
Pearce
Alta
Prince Albert
Sask
E.F.T.S
Portage la Prairie
Man
E.F.T S
R.A.F. E.F.T.S
Assiniboia
Chatham
N.B
Davidson
Neepawa
Mai. Power
Falton
Ont
Air Observer School
Royal Air Force
de Winton
Edmonton
Bowden
Alto
Rja.f. E.F.T.S
London
Eft.s
Winnipeg
Quebec
Rivers
Air Navigation School
Central Navigation School
Hamilton
RAF
ANS
Rcaf. Efts
Fendicton
Ban on External Trade Bulletins in Canada
Ottawa imposes a blackout on external trade statistics after a directive from Col. O M Biggar and the censorship directorate. Monthly bulletins canceled include Summary of Canadian external trade and exports and imports by commodities and by principal countries. Canada follows the UK and US in restricting these figures.
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Ottawa
Col
O. M. Biggar
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
United Kingdom
United States
Edmonton honey fears rise over wartime price rules
H W Love a Edmonton honey producer and distributor warns that stores may run out of honey as industries shift to use honey in place of sugar. He urges the wartime prices board to regulate prices paid by producers to prevent shortages.
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Edmonton
H. W. Love
J. G. Taggart
Food Administration
Air Training Corps Aids Cologne Raid With Bomb Load Help
A group of boys in the air training corps now 200000 strong helped in the Cologne raid by camping at an airfield and assisting ground staff to load explosives and incendiaries into bombers. Their participation supported the 1000-plane operation.
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London
Air Training Corps
Cologne
First profiteers whipped in Alexandria for profiteering
In Alexandria Egypt thirteen convicts were punished for profiteering with 30 lashes and three months imprisonment marking the first heavy penalties under the new measure.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Secret Weapon Censorship Halts France London Disclosure
Britain announces a five year secret anti aircraft device used against raids. The Daily Mail protested the reveal and censorship was imposed with new instructions after the front page criticism. Details of the weapon were released briefly before censorship and then blocked.
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London
Britain
London Daily Mail
Daily Mail
Good Seamanship Wins Distinguished Service Cross for Commander
Acting Lt Cmdr W E S Briggs R C N R was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by the King at Buckingham Palace. He earned the honor while in command of HMCS Orillia last winter when the Canadian corvette aided the torpedoed tanker Tarheel and guided the disabled vessel to a British port with a $1,000,000 oil cargo saved.
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London
W. E. S. Briggs
R.C.N.R
Tarheel
Buckingham Palace
H.M.C.S. Orillia
Airplane spruce firm formed to boost Canada Britain supply
Aero Timber Products Ltd, a new crown company based in Vancouver, was incorporated June 19 to develop and expand production of airplane spruce for Canada and Britain. Munitions Minister Howe announced the venture, stating the company will convert logs into lumber to improve grades and specifications for vital airplane requirements.
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Ottawa
Aero Timber Products, Ltd
Vancouver
Canada
Britain
Howe
Canada to Process Coal Output After War Says Expert
Dr. R C Wallace, principal of Queen's University, told a House of Commons reconstruction committee that Canada should process coal output after the war to ease transport and avoid new inland heavy industries. He urged coastal heavy industry, more hydro power, rural electrification, and decentralization, with Vancouver Island coal used for a coast iron and smelting plant.
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Ottawa
R. C. Wallace
Queen's University
House of Commons Committee On
Canada
Vancouver Island
Prairies
Wallace
Committee On Conservation and Development of
Dr. Wallace
British Columbia
Texado Island
Comox
Vancouver
Allied Forces In Egypt Grow Stronger Amid Air Campaign
The RAF and Allied air forces led by Britain Australia South Africa and the United States report a stronger position after six weeks of fighting. In 42 days 134 Axis planes were shot down in air combat over the western desert and 100 plus destroyed on the ground with 50 by anti aircraft defenses. Thousands more likely shot down are listed as probably destroyed. Over the period 110 Allied pilots were listed as missing. Since November 18 1941 more than 483 Axis aircraft have been shot down for certain in the western desert with probable destructions in the thousands. Weather in the Nile valley turns cooler with daytime highs 90 to 110 Fahrenheit and dusty desert conditions persist. The wind often brings dry dust clouds for long periods.
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Cairo
R.A.F
Western Desert
Malta
Nile Valley
Aaso
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