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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 04, 1944
Page
2
Ottawa reports Trade Minister MacKinnon says wheat marketing for 1944-45 will likely exceed 1943-44, with delivery quotas for prairie producers not yet announced. Initial quota started at 14, later 15 bushels per acre, and decisions will reflect exports, domestic use, and rail capacity.
Canadian shell production will be stepped up and about 10 000 additional workers will be required almost at once, Munitions Minister Howe said in Ottawa. The program covers central and eastern plants from Winnipeg to the Atlantic and may reopen the Defence Industries Ltd explosive plant at Nobel Ontario.
Allied front pages spotlight the Sixth Victory Loan as Canada seeks 1.2 billion dollars. Canadians are urged to buy bonds to fund the war effort and sustain forces abroad and at home, with victory framed as the path to complete defeat of the Axis.
A brief note outlines resin used in lifeboats to treat seawater for drinking. It states a pound of resin freshens water output to several pints. The garbled line ends with unclear numbers but implies resin-based purification capability for survival gear.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower told the American Newspaper Publishers Association that the press is an important fighting arm and would have a pivotal role in a United Nations victory. He said correspondents attached to headquarters form part of the team striving to conclude the war quickly.
Ottawa announced a about 40 percent increase in tea and coffee rations effective May 1. Coupons will be four ounces for tea and 16 ounces for coffee with two valid each month. One cup of coffee or tea remains limit per meal. R. T. Mohan noted the policy liberalizes rations as supplies justify, with tea from India and Ceylon and coffee from Central and South America and Jamaica.
Werner Best, Hitler’s deputy to Denmark, said German forces were moving swiftly against Danish saboteurs and underground elements harming German interests. He spoke before Danish press chiefs as Denmark remained virtually isolated from Sweden, marking the first concrete justification of the action.
London dispatch notes statistics from North Africa Sicily and Italy indicating 95 percent of field wounds are non fatal. The piece urges duty to buy Victory Bonds as wartime support.
Lord Brabezon, head of the postwar aviation committee, states British aircraft lead the world and will dominate great routes to India and South Africa after the war. He argues the United States has no need to run services past Europe to Africa, focusing on linking the two Americas and the Pacific.
Prices Board Food Administrator Kent Taylor described Canada's food situation as fairly good at a Montreal press conference. He said supplies were about the same as last year but warned that shipping difficulties could quickly swing the balance from surpluses to shortages and back.
Several thousand large scale maps of the entire Scandinavia region were confiscated by Swedish customs agents on a ferry from Lissnitz Germany. It marks the second seizure in a week as Swedish military authorities examine the materials.
In parliament Hon. Ernest Bertrand announced plans for a permanent fisheries research station on the prairies, likely near Winnipeg, as a center for whitefish industry. A Ottawa conference outlined lake surveys, a freshwater research program, and whitefish inspection, with a chief biologist to be appointed and surveys starting this summer.
The King toured Canadian army formations in England inspecting troops, equipment, and invasion preparations. He arrived by royal train, met Lt-Gen Crerar and officers, and walked lines of infantry artillery and tanks while asking about new gear and invasion readiness as anti-aircraft gunners and Spitfires were in operation.
Ottawa Canada’s second radio network should be privately owned with a control commission outside the CBC. Joseph Sedgwick for the Canadian Association of Broadcasters urged a major policy shift, arguing for a private secondary network with limited CBC powers and a fair split of station outlets and US affiliations while preserving CBC as a public service provider. Some committee members warned this could lower program quality, but Sedgwick said sponsors would not force content and listeners could reject unwanted programs.
Ottawa reports the Dominion Elections Act committee approved proxy voting for prisoners of war in the next election. Each active service prisoner recorded as a POW may receive a special proxy certificate from chief electoral officer Jules Castonguay, issued two weeks before polling to the POW’s next of kin who can vote in the prisoner’s electoral district.
The Province reports contracts for new type supply ships could total 31 million dollars and may go to Vancouver yards after a government survey. If materials and manpower hold, city yards would receive orders for 21 vessels, extending operations at all four yards into late 1944.
War Services Minister LaFleche told the commons that about 112 million dollars had been collected from the war’s start through March 31 by newspapers and allied groups funding comforts for servicemen and women, prisoners of war, bombed Britons, and British school children.
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