Underground press defies Nazi rule across Europe
A vivid report details brave underground newspapers in Belgium, Holland, Norway, France, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, and Greece. Despite risk, editors and distributors endure, printing by candlelight in cellars and hiding in bread loaves or book bundles. Copies spread via hand to hand, often unsigned with scarce pay.
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la Libre Belgique
Hitler
Europe
London
Holland
Norway
Royal Post
Quisling
Czechoslovakia
Vo Job
Forward
Poland
Walka
France
Gestapo
Freedom
Rubber control tightens reclaim rubber use
Ottawa announced further tightening by the Munitions and Supply department. Alan Williamson, controller of supplies, advised manufacturers that reclaim rubber must not be used in non essential footwear and a wide range of items including soles and heels, sports goods, toys, rubberized fabrics, automobile parts and accessories, matting, garden hose, and non essential plumbing supplies.
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Ottawa
Munitions and Supply Department
Alan H. Willamson
Mussolini Warns of Acute Internal Crisis in Italy
London and Rome radio reported Mussolini admitted a serious internal situation in Italy caused by lack of discipline and fraud. He threatened inexorable punishment for those responsible, according to district prefects cited by the broadcasts.
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London
Rome Radio
Mussolini
Italy
Ash Heap Bombing Strikes Rostock and Britain
Reports from London describe Rostock as an ash heap after intense RAF raids with fires visible from bombers. Evacuation of about 90 000 residents, damage to public services, and food water shortages cited. Berlin correspondents note uninhabitable port and frame works, while Baedeker targets threaten British buildings. Civilian death toll is rising with 43 822 killed and 50 482 injured nationwide.
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London
Rostoch
Berlin
Britain
Hitler
Exeter
Bath
Norwich
York
Baedeker
Price Control in U S Will Be a Boon to Canada
Ottawa reports Canadian business sees price controls in the United States as beneficial. Wartime price and trade board notes ceilings curb inflation. manufacturers warn of losses from raw materials priced outside ceilings. Canadian producers expect relief from U S ceilings, given close economic ties and reliance on U.S. raw inputs. Retailers say sales unchanged but profits squeezed as prices aligned with ceilings, forcing absorption of costs among manufacturers and wholesalers.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
Prices Board
United States
Canada
Winnipeg area's Japanese families face local ban request
About 190 residents from St Andrews and Lockport market garden communities near Winnipeg petitioned C. E. Graham of the British Columbia security commission and Manitoba attorney-general James McLenaghan to keep Japanese families out of the districts.
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Winnipeg
St. Andrews
Lockport Market Garden
Red River
C. E. Graham
Manitoba
British Columbia Security Commission
James McLenaghan
Old Age and Blind Pensions Paid in Canada
In Canada 165,922 people receive old age pensions and 6,243 are paid blind pensions, according to a House of Commons return.
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Ottawa
Canada
House of Commons
Telegraph Creek Declines Plebiscite Vote Incurred Poll Cost
Telegraph Creek British Columbia in the Skeena riding did not vote in the manpower plebiscite. The chief returning officer canceled the poll due to prohibitive airline costs to deliver ballot boxes. The community relies on air service seven months annually for outside contact.
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Telegraph Creek
B.C
Skeena
Lieutenant Southam Appointed Navigation Instructor at King’s College
TEACHES NAVIGATION Lieutenant Robert W. Southam RCONV R who has been appointed an instructor in navigation at King's College Halifax Son of Mr and Mrs Harry Southam Ottawa Lieutenant Southam has been an officer in the RCNVR since May 1940 For several months he was stationed at Ottawa and later was on operational duty at sea as second in command of a corvette He assumed his new duties at King's College April 19.
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Robert W. Southam
Rconv.r
King’s College
Halifax
Harry Southam
Ottawa
Southam
R.C.N.V.R
Apri
Ripple Rock Removal Contract Awarded for Navigation Safety
Ottawa contracts British Columbia Bridge and Dredging Co. to clear Ripple Rock in Seymour Narrows between Vancouver Island and the mainland. The hazard has long troubled mariners with ships wrecked there in past years.
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Ottawa
British Columbia Bridge and Dredging Co
Seymour Narrows
Vancouver Island
Army transfers prompt shield of families from moves
Ottawa Defence says it will shelter dependents from relocations amid housing shortages near training centres. Moving soldiers without guaranteed tenure burdens families, causes uprooted social life, and increases avoidable expenses. The department notes repeat moves lead to dependent readjustment and loss of established friendships.
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Ottawa Re
National Defence Department
Dominion
Farm Machinery Stays In War Economy Restriction
Ottawa reports farm machinery and equipment fall under wartime prices and trade board economy and conservation rules. An order by H. H. Bloom of Toronto bans metal use in many items replacing with wood or substitutes, except wheels axles bearings and certain metal parts. Rubber copper aluminum restricted. some exemptions include cream separators pumps tin coatings and specific milk equipment. Manufacturers may apply for permission to reuse on hand supplies.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
H. H. Bloom
Toronto
Export Permits Require Tea And Coffee To Canada
Ottawa announces tea and coffee now require export permits for all destinations. Previously exempt when shipping within the British Empire or to the United States. The move aims to conserve Canadian supplies, the Department of Trade and Commerce states.
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Ottawa
Department of Trade and Commerce
British Empire
United States
Canada
Navy in Films Dramatizes Royal Canadian Navy with The Corvette
The Royal Canadian Navy will be dramatized in a motion picture titled The Corvette. Richard Rosson, Hollywood director, arrives in Ottawa to arrange production with reading roles for prominent film stars. The project is organized by the national film board.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Navy
National Film Board
Richard Rosson
Vichy Extends Anti Jewish Laws to Algeria
The Vichy regime broadens its anti Jewish decrees into Algeria, aiming to erase Jewish influence from business life. The interior minister asserts the laws permit seizure of any Jewish business deemed desirable by the government.
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Vichy
Hitler
Algeria
Stalin vows final defeat of German Fascists in May Day address
Stalin states Soviet aims are defense of homeland not conquest and praises Britain and the United States for military aid. He orders Red army to master weapons, urges guerrilla action, and declares 1942 must be the year of final defeat of the German invaders. Stalin calls for intensified resistance across occupied Europe.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Great Britain
United States
Stalin
Red Army
Britain
Soviet Union
Europe
Women to Train in Machine Operating in Saskatchewan
W A Ross Regina regional director of war emergency training says classes for women in machine operating will start this month in Saskatoon and Prince Albert, with later launches in Regina and Moose Jaw. The Saskatoon course begins May 4 in the engineering shops at Saskatchewan University.
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Saskatoon
W. A. Ross
Regina
Saskatchewan
Ross
Prince Albert
Moose Jaw
Saskatchewan University
Montreal teen wins Rotary first prize public speaker medal
Charles V. Wasserman son of the late Jacob Wasserman Austrian author won the Rotary club first prize gold medal as Montreal's leading high school public speaker. Wasserman was released from a Canadian internment camp in March 1941 after prior internment in England during the 1940 invasion threat and transfer to Canada. The British government investigated his case leading to his release.
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Cinp
Montreal
Charles V. Wasserman
Jacob Wasserman
Rotary Club
Wasserman
England
Canada
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Rostock
Germany
U.S
Skena
Louis Mountbatten
Mountbatten
Illustrious
Black Cat
Maple
Elizabeth
P. C. Pickard
Freddie
R.A.F
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