Allied Air Power Shrinks German War Industry Net
Supreme Headquarters reports American air strikes have hit 51 refineries, 13 synthetic plants, and 89 aircraft factories since January, destroying 6,100 German planes in the air and 1,544 on the ground. German air strength in France and Germany has fallen, with the Nazi force losing more planes monthly than it could replace.
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Reich
U.S
Britain
Italy
Russia
London
United States
Work of vandal targets Vancouver hotel cushions
Vancouver police seek four week suspect known as the slasher after three leather cushions were slashed in the lounge of the Vancouver hotel over two weeks. Merchants theatres reported slashed coats and ripped chairs as the pattern of attacks escalates citywide.
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Vancouver Hotel
Vancouver
Ottawa readies price board plan for postwar farming
Reports in Ottawa say a farm price board may be appointed in the future. A bill is being prepared by Hon. J. G. Gardiner to establish floor prices for agriculture to continue after the war, with details not yet released or discussed by cabinet.
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Ottawa
Commons
J. G. Gardiner
Alberta University to Offer Russian History Course
Dr. Robert Newton, president of the University of Alberta, announced a new course in Russian history taught by Prof. R. W. Collins in the next session. The syllabus will cover political and social development of Russia with focus on the period since 1861 and contemporary Russia.
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Edmonton
Robert Newton
University of Alberta
R. W. Collins
Russia
Rusaan
United States mulls selling surplus Liberty ships
Vice Admiral Em ory S. Land, chairman of the Maritime Commission, proposed that the United States sell some of its surplus Liberty ships to the United Nations at war's end while retaining about 1,000 vessels for a national defense pool.
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Baltimore
Emory S. Land
Maritime Commission
United States
United Nations
Butter Output Drops in Canada from Last Year
The Dominion bureau of Statistics reports that creamery butter production in Canada for the period totaled 45,531,104 pounds, down 22 percent from the same month last year, when output reached 46,550.68? pounds.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Wheat Needed For Starving People In Europe
Canadian Trade Minister James A. MacKinnon spoke in Lethbridge on Canada's wartime prosperity and future exports. He outlined how 80 percent of exports arose from wartime trade and 20 percent from permanent trade, totaling over 600 million dollars. He noted wheat from Canada is already aiding liberated European countries and discussed no immediate election in Ottawa.
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Lethbridge
Altar
James A. MacKinnon
Canada
Mr. MacKinnon
MacKinnon
Belgium
Netherlands
Norway
Ottawa
Nazi War Economy Warns Germany Faces Defeat Soon
The Allied analysis by the Foreign Economic Administration projects a nearly hopeless German war effort by year end 1944 or 1945. It states Germany’s wartime material consumption exceeds production, with full Allied bombing and blockades shrinking usable stock to less than a year’s output.
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Germany
Washington
Foreign Economic Administration
William T. Stone
F.E.A
Special Areas
CCF Gains Ground in Ontario Says Opposition Leader
E B Joliffe, opposition leader in Ontario legislature, told reporters in Fort Frances that the CCF movement was gaining ground despite contrary reports. He claimed CCF strength in Ontario now is about double what it was at last year's provincial election.
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Ont
E. B. Jolliffe
Ontario
CGF
C.C.F
Caen Caen: Nazi killings and civilian toll after liberation
UK civil affairs officer reports mass killings in Caen with 14 French civilians murdered in the town prison and 25,600 civilians remaining in a city of 50,000. An estimated 6,000 to 8,000 refugees shelter in Lyree Malherte and Saint Etienne church, with 1,306 wounded at Saint Sauveur hospital. Civil authorities begin managing local needs as 35,000 rations are called for by nightfall.
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Caen
Normandy
Lyree Malherte
Church of
Saint Etienne
Saint Sauveur
Miners Protest Lack Of Doctor At Cadomin
Colin Campbell of Cadomin Coal Company says over two months of efforts failed to secure a physician for Cadomin miners and their families. The miners respond with a work stoppage in protest of the missing medical practitioner.
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Cadomin
Edmonton
Colin Campbell
Cadomin Coal Company
Lost submarine with sixty men in Pacific training
The 2100 ton U.S. submarine was accidentally lost in the Pacific during training exercises. About sixty personnel were aboard and the depth makes salvage impossible. No survivors have been found and hopes for recovering the missing crew have been abandoned by the navy.
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U.S
Washington
Pacific
Navy
Canadi an Flak Regiment Claims 33 Planes Destroyed
A Canadian light anti aircraft unit reports shooting down 33 enemy aircraft with Bofors guns since D-Day in the Caen bridgehead area. The tally is among the highest for flak units there.
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Caen
German Troops Moveed Around West Front London Analysis
London assesses German strength with 60 to 65 divisions in France and the Low Countries including nine Panzer divisions in Normandy. About 50 divisions are in southern Europe with 26 to 27 held by the Allied main armies. Tito’s forces tie down 10 to 12 divisions in Yugoslavia and eight divisions may be in Finland after reinforcements.
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Normandy
Italy
Russia
France
Low Countries
Denmark
Norway
Germany
Austria
Europe
Hungary
Balkans
Greece
Aegean Islands
Holland
Belgium
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Finland
Poland
Romania
Reichswehr
Walker dies after heroic U boat hunt in Atlantic
Britain's famed U boat hunter Captain Frederick John Walker DSO three bars dies in Liverpool at 47 from exhaustion. He led the Royal Navy second escort group the deadliest Atlantic U boat hunter, often on patrol with barely two hours sleep, credited with sinking or damaging numerous German subs in patrols.
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Liverpool
England
Britain
Frederick John Walker
D.S.O
Walker
Royal Navy
Atlantic
North Atlantic
Germans Surrender Count Reaches Across Allied Fronts
The BBC broadcast reports nearly 200000 German troops have surrendered to Allied forces since the summer offensives began. Of these, over 35000 surrendered in Italy, more than 64000 in Normandy, and upwards of 110000 in Russia.
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New York
BBC
Italy
Normandy
Russia
Italian Prime Minister says no objection to armistice terms publication
Premier van V. Bonomi stated Italy would not object to the release of the armistice terms and left the issue to the Allies. He noted the Allies asked whether his new regime objected to publishing the voluminous provisions.
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Rome
Vanve Bonomi
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