Manpower Inventory Plan Aims For Canada War Effort
Vancouver report quotes federal Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell outlining a nationwide manpower inventory. The plan, starting April 16, targets over 3.4 million workers including women, to map availability, skills, and essential industries. Registration will consolidate Unemployment Insurance Act workers with non insured employees under the same employers to avoid duplication.
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Vancouver
Humphrey Mitchell
Federal
Minnister of Labor
Canaiizas
Canada
Mart
Woman Power
Mitchell
Berlin
Japan's Hurdle: Merchant Fleet to Link Pacific Holds
The Koelnische Zeitung asks if Japan can cope with vast overseas possessions by building a sufficient merchant fleet to sustain communications between the homeland and Pacific territories, a key transport problem in wartime. In Ottawa, the wartime board reports Canada sells currants and raisins to the commodity prices stabilization corporation for all government needs.
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Berne
Koelnische Zeitung
Japan
Pacific
Ottawa
Commodity Prices Stabilization Corporation
Canada
Prices and Trade Board
Alaska Highway to Join Canadian System After War
Ottawa announces Canada will integrate the Alaska highway into its system after the war. An American project will build and survey the route from Fort St. John, BC to Alaska with US engineers at work in Dawson Creek. US contractors will be chosen on shortest time, regardless of nationality. maintenance terms extend to war end plus six months unless Canada assumes earlier.
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Ottawa
Alaska
Canada
United States
Otawa
Washington
Mackenzie King
Fort St. John
Dawson Creek
B.C
U.S
TS. Public Roads Administration
Difficult Task Faces McArthur In Australia
General MacArthur faces a formidable campaign to direct the Battle for Australia as experts warn against undue optimism. Even with new US troops and his shift to United Nations command, analysts say Japan may risk a bold invasion while Australia remains the southern launching point for a broader push. Australian airstrikes and Allied resistance set the tone as MacArthur weighs strategic defensive counterstrokes and long costly battles ahead.
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Washington
MacArthur
Australia
United Nations
Batan
Singapore
Netherlands Indies
Philippines
Transfer of 3000 Japanese Nationals to Ontario Forest Work
Vancouver Labor Minister Mitchell announced ready arrangements to move 3,000 male Japanese nationals from British Columbia to northern Ontario for work in pulp mills and logging camps far from any city. The plan targets remote forestry sites requiring labor for ongoing operations.
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Ontario
Vancouver
Mitchell
British Columbia
Sabotage Suspected In German Mauser Armaments Plant
Reports from the German frontier describe a large explosion last month at the Mauser arms works in Rottweil southwestern Germany. Sabotage is suspected and an eye witness says damage was considerable.
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Germany
London
Mauser
Rottweil
Canadian sapper wins Military Medal in England
Sapper Fraser Hutchinson of Dartmouth Nova Scotia has been awarded the Military Medal by Canadian army routine orders becoming the first Canadian to win the honor since the war began. The act occurred months ago while serving with the Royal Canadian Engineers in England and Hutchinson is back with his unit wearing the distinctive ribbon. no further details can be released for military reasons.
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Nova Scotia
England
Fraser Hutchinson
Dartmouth
N.S
Hutchinsons
Royal Canadian Engineers
Defence Of Australia Coarse Grain Surplus Thinks Japanese Will Be Able To United States Agrees
R P Bower, former Canadian assistant trade commissioner to Australia, predicts large areas of Australia will be overrun by Japan before Allied defenders drive the invader out. He says Australia can be defended with success at key positions, even claiming some sites are natural defence points superior to Tobruk for delaying invasion.
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United States
Canada
Winper
Australia
R. P. Bower
Bower
Tobruk
Libya
Canada US agree on coarse grains surplus exchange
Agriculture Minister Gardiner told the House of Commons that Ottawa and Washington have an accord on coarse grains under a joint program to boost vegetable oil production. Canada would ship surplus coarse grains to the United States as soybean output expands to substitute oils cut off by Pacific war disruptions.
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Ottawa
United States
Gardiner
House of Commons
Canada
Dominion
Pacific
Government Policy Announces Casualty Lists Public
The office of facts and figures releases a policy statement detailing war news handling. It states casualty lists will be made public and that the War Production Board will publish frequent production communiques to help the public judge program progress.
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U.S
Washington
Office of Facts and Figures
United States
War Production Board
Yukon and Northwest Exempt From Gas Rationing
The Yukon and the Northwest Territories will be exempt from gasoline rationing as total sales in those regions are too small to justify the costly administration. The exemption was announced by Munitions Minister Howe.
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Yukon
Ottawa
Northwest Territories
Howe
War supplies from Canada fairly allocated says Ottawa
The external affairs department defended Canada's delivery of war materiel to allied nations, noting shipments go to orders and diversions happen en route. It cited Britain and the United States directing allocations and warned published figures mislead on actual deliveries to theatres of operation. The statement follows Sydney Daily Telegraph criticism over Australia allocations.
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Sydney Daily Telegraph
Australia
Daily Telegraph
Britain
Canada
External Affairs Department
United Kingdom
United States
Howe
British Commonwealth of Nations
Middle East
Farm Machinery Prices To Have Small Increase
Wartime price controls permit Canadian farm machinery firms to raise prices modestly. No increases beyond five percent are allowed, even as U S prices rose more sharply. Adjustments aim to ensure supply and stabilize local producers amid higher labor and material costs.
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Ottawa
Canada
United States
H. H. Bloom
Arm Machinery
Washington
U.S
Duty Value Lowered on Apples in Canada
Customs Commissioner H. D. Scully said Revenue Minister Gibson ordered the cancellation of the 1 percent duty on apples effective March 26. It is the first reduction in three years due to apple shortages for home consumption amid higher export demand, cutting duty by 50 cents per bushel.
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Ottawa
Customs
H. D. Scully
Gibson
Poison gas accused in Japanese attack near Sulyuan
A Chinese high command communique says Japan used poison gas in a March 13 engagement with Chinese troops in western Sulyuan province, causing several Chinese casualties. The Chinese claim previously alleged gas use during heavy attacks in Ichang region, western Hupeh Province last October.
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Chungking
Sulyuan
Ichang
Hupeh
Massacre Report in Kharkov Civilians Hit Hard by Germans
Russian dispatches from the southwestern front say German forces killed 16 600 civilians in Kharkov, raising the total civilian deaths in the city to 30 600 since the occupation began. Despatches note Kharkov lacks food heat and light with only habitable areas occupied by Germans.
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Moscow
Kharkov
Dry cell battery ban in Ottawa after March 31
The Department of Munitions and Supply announced a prohibition on the manufacture of dry cell batteries for portable radios after March 31. Retail sale of existing stocks will not be affected.
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Ottawa
Department of Munitions and Supply
Digging In Dublin Shelters To House 30000 People
Six hundred more ground shelters to accommodate 30 000 people are to be constructed in Dublin the capital of Eire.
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Dublin
Eire
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New York
Hitler
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Toronto
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