Conditions in German Capital Amid Barricades and Blackouts
Berlin endures extended power cuts as rich and poor women join street barricades. Moscow reports hunger marches at Stassfurt and Munich street battles with tanks. Frankfurt an der Oder braces as civil defense and police disarmament are noted amid rising tensions.
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Berlin
Transocean Brtaccast
Joseph Saal
Frankfurt
Oder
Deley
Moscow Radio
Germany
Stassfurt
Magdeburg
Guarda
Moscow
Munich
Dachau
Surplus Materials Plan Outlined by War Assets Corp
Mr Carswell outlined Ottawa based War Assets Corporation efforts to dispose of surplus war materials as Canada shifts from wartime to peacetime production. He warned up to 75 percent of war goods may be destroyed including obsolete training aircraft and 1000 horse power aircraft motors. Destruction would salvage metals, with ingots produced in open hearth furnaces and explosives dumped at sea, all after thorough testing.
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Ottawa
War Assets Corporation
Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association
Carswell
Canada
Oceana
WILL CARRY ON Canadian Red Cross War Work After War
Calgary reports C B E Montreal chair Jackson Dodds says the Canadian Red Cross will continue postwar work until troops demobilize and liberated nations recover. He notes hospital visiting, blood donor clinics, and peacetime projects must expand, with one sixth of Canadians involved, many women knitting, packing POW parcels, and making surgical dressings.
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Calgary
Canadian Red Cross
Jackson Dodds
C.B.E. Montreal
Canadian Red Cross Society
Dominion
Dodds
Children return to England from the United States
About 700 children have returned to England from the United States where they had gone during the time England was under attack, as wartime evacuation efforts resumed and families sought safety amid ongoing air raids.
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London
England
United States
Disturbances Reported Inside Germany After Clash in Frankfurt
CBS Stockholm correspondent cites a refugee account of Germanys first major antiwar demonstration since the war began in Frankfurt where SS troops fired on crowds, a prison siege followed, and several died. The unrest paralyzed Frankfurt industry for two days after the sailor and his wife were detained.
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New York
Germany
Frankfurt-on-Main
Berlin
Moscow
Charles Shaw
CBS
Stockholm
Frankfurt-on- Main
Sweden
Frankfurt
S.S
Sever
Gestapo
Westhafen
Shaw
Eschenehimstrasse
Troops Tied Down on Manchurian Frontier
London reports the Soviet government forced Japan to keep 24 infantry divisions three motorized brigades and seven armored brigades along the Soviet Japanese border in Manchuria. A third of Japan's mobilized land forces are thus tied down. Fighter strength is hoarded with priorities given to defending Japan proper, despite urgent needs elsewhere.
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London
Imperial ‘Commmand
Manchuria
Philippines
Imperial Command
Indian delegate urges dominion status for India at dinner
Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan urged a rapid move to dominion status for India at Claridge's hotel during a Commonwealth relations conference dinner. He proposed Britain announce a plan to implement any Indian consensus a year after the war or, failing agreement, create a provisional framework until Indians agree on their own scheme.
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London
India
Muhammad Zafrulla Khan
British Commonwealth Relations Conference
Claridge’s
Viscount Kemsley
United Kingdom
Britain
Wizard Robot Was War Secret Closely Guarded
London reports reveal the distant reading gyro magnetic compass, the wizard robot enabling Allied bomber accuracy, fitted to all long range RAF, dominions, and US Army Air Force aircraft. It powers auto pilot George and continuously corrects bomb sights, radar, and navigation for precise target release. Invented at Farnborough in 1930, the device’s secrecy was rigorously maintained.
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London
R.A.F
Dominions’ Air Force
United States Army Air Force
D.R.C
George
Farnborough Research Establishment
England
Grain crop marketing value set at 425 to 450 million
Edmonton Trade Minister James A. MacKinnon said in an interview that marketing of the 1944 45 grain crop in western Canada will yield a gross initial value to producers between 425 000 000 and 450 000 000 dollars. About two thirds of this amount has already been realized by farmers.
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Edmonton
James A. MacKinnon
Canada
Rates ease on canned rhubarb and crabapples Ottawa
The prices board announced canned rhubarb and canned crabapples are removed from rationed fruits and may be bought without surrender of preserve ration coupons. Three fourths of the average war plane's weight is aluminum.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
Canadians Reach Rhine Front With Heavy Equipment Costs
A British source estimates the Canadian First Army spent massive material and fuel on a 10 mile Rhine advance. Guns numbered 1,400 with two thirds superheavy, 350 ammunition types enough to stack five feet high and 30 miles long, 35,000 vehicles, 1.3 million gallons of gasoline, 100 miles of new road and 400 miles of old road rebuilt, 63,000 tons of gravel and stone, 36,000 logs, 1,088 tons of bridge materials, and 1,100 tons of chemicals for a smoke screen. The drive has yielded 7,000 German captives daily rising to 700 more.
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Washington
Rhine River
Osly
Rhine
Canada and U S ink wartime and civil air pacts
Prime Minister King announced two aviation agreements with the United States. Civil air routes include Halifax to Boston and Toronto to Cleveland and Chicago, among six Canadian entries, plus the Toronto New York route. U S routes cover New York to Quebec and Boston to Ottawa, Washington to Montreal and Ottawa, and Seattle to Whitehorse.
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Ottawa
Mackenzie King
United States
Canada
Toronto
Cleveland
Chicago
Port Arthur
Duluth
Victoria
Seattle
White Horse
Fairbanks
New York
Boston
Quebéc
Washington
Montreal
Whitehorse
World map reveals planned German occupation reach
Ottawa report describes a Nazi future map found in a Dutch school showing Germany conquering Canada and the United States, with vast North American territories labeled Germanen and Noordamerikanien, plus zones across Europe, Africa, Australia, and parts of Asia, outlining Axis ambition and division of regions.
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Ottawa
Dave Rosenes
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Canada
United States
St. Lawrence River
Great Lakes
British Columbia
South America
Hitler
Mussolini
British Isles
Norway
Sweden
Italy
Spain
France
Germany
Balkans
Africa
Australia
New Zealand
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China
Gasoline ration year begins with same allotment
Ottawa reports Canadian motorists will start the new ration year on April 1 with the same allowance as last year. Minister Howe says Allied petroleum demands remain heavy and the supply position is still critical, dependent on war tempo in Europe and the Pacific, with proportional relaxations only as essential demand warrants.
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Ottawa
Manitiona
Howe
Canada
Europe
Pacific
Public domain ruling bars Jeep name from Willys Overland
The industrial and commercial registration office denied Willys Overland Motors Inc of Toledo exclusive use of the name Jeep finding that the term has fallen into the public domain. The decision emphasizes that public use and generic status prevent private trademark protection.
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Dublin
Willys Overland Motors, Inc
Toledo
Jeep
Yugoslav Forces Attack German Columns Near Sarajevo
Marshal Tito said Yugoslav forces struck and cut off a German column southwest of Sarajevo and that a second column withdrew southward in disorder, signaling a sharp engagement on the march.
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London
Tito
Sarajevo
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