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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 29, 1943
Page
6
Regina reports water development projects completed in Saskatchewan Manitoba and Alberta from 1935 to 1942 total 19457 with Saskatchewan 12167 Manitoba 5675 and Alberta 2102. In 1942 alone 1342 projects were finished and plans foresee more in three provinces.
Dr G M Weir outlined Canada's proposed postwar rehabilitation plan to a Vancouver service club. He estimated costs could be about half of essential war operations, suggesting taxation and borrowing near current levels. More than 600,000 discharged persons could be helped through provincial ventures, Veterans' Land Act, construction, training, and job return programs. He noted civilian workers in essential war industry complicate demobilization and that many may attend vocational schools. In Halifax Lawrence Tibbett said servicemen show interest in music, citing requests for Pagliacci prologues.
Laborite Emanuel Shinwell told the House of Commons that the United States will become the world’s foremost naval power after the war. He argued Britain’s merchant marine will shrink from about 20 million tons at start to around 9 million, while the United States could rise from 7 million to 15 to 30 million tons.
The House of Commons social security committee approved a draft measure to promote physical fitness in Canada. Administered by Pensions Minister Mackenzie, it creates a national council on physical fitness with the national director as the only salaried member. other members are reimbursed for expenses, and a $225,000 fund will grant provinces for fitness promotion.
The central terminal of Canadian National Railways in Montreal was formally opened by Transport Minister Michaud in a brief ceremony. Mayor Adhemar Raynault unlocked a central door as Michaud and CNR officials spoke. Work began in 1929 and paused during depression before wartime demands sped completion of the modified terminal.
London reports 201 civilians killed or missing and believed killed in June air raids. May fatalities reached 584. The Ministry of Home Security released the figures, detailing civilian losses across Britain during the wartime air raids.
In Moscow crowds line up to read minimal Sicily battle reports from Tass. The Soviet agency provides terse dispatches from London, stoking public interest in war developments amid scarce information.
Allied reports describe British Commandos storming the southeast Sicilian coast ahead of Canadian troops. Naval wind and surf challenged boats, but commandos secured east and west flanks, silenced shore batteries, and linked with Canadians near Punta Castellazzo as tanks and amphibious vehicles moved inland.
London announces a donation of ten million pounds toward a twelve million dollar clothing shipment to the Soviet Union for civilian relief. The effort aims to ease shortages in Russia’s civilian population during a time of need.
Windsor Ont.—The first all steel welded auxiliary tanker built by the Canadian Bridge Engineering Company H M C S Dundalk slid down the ways at Ojibway shipyard amid cheers from hundreds of workmen and guests.
Ottawa's Pensions Minister Mackenzie warned in the commons that compulsory mobilization of medical staff might be needed to move doctors to underserved rural areas. He cited Australia and Britain using such measures and noted the United States planned similar action, unless Canada can find another remedy.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King stated in the House of Commons that a ship will undertake a second exchange voyage to Japan this summer to repatriate nationals from Canada the United States and one Latin American country, continuing postwar conveyance plans.
Defence Minister Ralston announced plans to allocate in Canadian military hospitals those servicemen whose religious beliefs oppose hearing arms. The appeal urged citizens to buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
In a House of Commons general debate on wartime and postwar merchant shipping, Sir Arthur Salter praised Canada's shipbuilding effort as one of the most remarkable in Commonwealth history. He noted Canada builds similar merchant tonnage to Britain, plus corvettes and naval craft, second only to the United States. Emanuel Shinwell warned of American big business dominance after the war, while Philip Noel-Baker urged international collaboration to manage world shipping and expand trade under the Atlantic Charter.
In San Francisco the 12th naval district reports a new inhaled anti-serum promising to prevent influenza by delivering a fine mist into the lungs. Commander Albert Krueger notes 99 percent protection in preventive use and about 50 percent effectiveness in treating existing cases, with animal tests deemed sufficiently promising for human trials.
London. Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee told the House of Commons that the Atlantic Charter cannot stop the United Nations from permanently taking key Axis strategic strongholds. This reflects wartime aims and postwar planning as Allied powers seek security influence.
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