Canada to draft industry workers for war service
Ottawa reports Labor Minister Mitchell said exams show draftees already taken from industry and future calls would come from men reaching 14% years. He noted about 160,000 young men reach military age yearly, estimating 60,000 could join under the National Resources Mobilization Act. Mitchell defended policy as flexible amid wartime needs.
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Ottawa
Labor
Mitchell
Commons
Minator
Sgates
Canada
Cn Cld
Howard Green
Vancouver South
Green
United States
Minster
United Nations
Mr. Green
Army rookie answers guard with wordplay at Fort Knox
Fort Knox story says 20-year-old Alex Cooley from Lewis county, newly inducted, was sent on an errand. When challenged with who goes there he joked that they asked for the pass word, writing home that the army is a funny business after leaving the guard house.
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Fort Knox
Alex Cooley
Lewis County
Plc. Cooley
Pte
Cooley
Edmonton police pact renewed for five years
An order in council from the Alberta government extends the 1996 policing agreement between Dominion and provincial authorities for five years. The current agreement, dated June 1, 1996, is set to expire May 31.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Dominion
R.c.xlp
New German Plane Described By Canadian Observer
Reports from Canadian observer Sirmen describe a novel German aircraft used in a heavy raid on railway yards at St Ghislain and Bergtzm. FO Mastin of Mirror Alta California calls it a peculiar rocket like craft that rose then shot horizontally.
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London
St. Ghislain
Bergtzm
FO. Mastin Albera
Mirror
Alta
Lion Squadron
Possibility Of No Quota For Wheat This Year
Ottawa authorities consider the chance that western Marketings in 1944 45 may be allowed without quotas. The present crop year ends July 31 and a 14 to 18 bushel per acre quota has influenced deliveries. MacKinnon said the 1944 45 volume is under study amid high demand for Canadian grains and improving storage. Carryover wheat is projected around 330 million bushels, well below last year, with oats and barley in strong demand and equalization payments aiding producers. Delivery quotas for oats and barley remain open.
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Ottawa
United States
MacKinnon
The
Commons
Air Training Calgary Plans Reuse of Closed Centres
Air Marshal Robert Leckie, chief of air staff, R.C.A.F., says schools in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan slated for closure as aircrew training centres will definitely be utilized. Plans are in hand to use them, reflecting a shift from quantity to quality in aircrew training as the wartime objective is reached.
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Calgary
Robert Leckie
C.B
R.C.A.F
Farm Machinery Ottawa Plans 1945 Output
H H Bloom announces total farm machinery tonnage for 1945 will be about half of 1940 levels and no spare parts restrictions. Production focuses on essentials for food output and veterans land needs. Rationing continues. 1945 quotas start July 1 1944 but most machines arrive after January 1945.
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Ottawa
H. H Bloom
The
Prices Board
Bloom
Canada
Aero nautical Institute of Canada budgets 400 airports plan
At the institute's second annual convention President C Roy Patterson outlined a Canada wide aviation development plan costing about twenty million dollars. He urged shared funding by municipalities provinces and the federal government for the projects.
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Toronto
Aeronautical Institute of Canada
Dominion
Institute
C. Roy Patterson
Patterson
Victory Loan canvasser and two DFC pilots in training
A Winnipeg photograph shows a Victory Loan canvasser with two repatriated Flight Lieutenants, both Distinguished Flying Cross holders, now training as pilots for Trans-Canada Airlines. Lt John Higham and Frt Lt Allan Watts share war experience while Mrs. Christie, wife of a RCAF officer, works in TC A offices. The image captures the TC A Link Trainer room where ex airmen receive commercial pilot instruction.
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Trans-Canada Air Lines
John B. Higham
D.F.C
Assiniboia
Susk
R.C.A.F
Allan J. Watts
D-F.c
Calgary
Athabaska
Alta
Europe
Middle East
Canvaasser
D. H. Christie
Britain Eyes Postwar Trade Revival at Charleston Dinner
Viscount Halifax told the Charleston chamber of commerce annual dinner that Britain must revive shipping and overseas trade after the war. He said a strong partner nation is essential and stressed the aim is not luxury but survival for Britain and its allies.
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Britain
Great Britain
Viscount Halifax
Charleston Chamber of Commerce
Canadian Navy Patrolling Labradors North Patrol Proudly
A flotilla of six Royal Canadian Navy sub chasing motor launches patrolled the Labrador coast for three months. Led by Lieut Jack Sharp the team aboard H M C S Preserver faced 25 to 30 foot seas and iceberg hazards. They saw no U boats and returned to port noting high morale despite harsh food and bitter cold.
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Royal Canadian Navy
Labrador
North Atlantic
M.L
Jack Sharp
R.C.N.V.R
Duncan
B.C
Britain
English Channel
H.M.C.S. “Preserver
Navy
Haa
Ih.m.c.s
M.l's
Lieut
Ross McDiarmid
Winnipeg
Gavin
Toronto
Clark
Nazi Paratroops Transferred To Danger Zones
London reports German paratroops moved from Italy to danger zones on the west front. Berlin says these units are fanatical close-quarters fighters, previously opposed by Canadian 1st Division at Ortona. Neutral Sweden cites heavy coastal defenses, air power, and planned invasion bottlenecks for the Allied assault.
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London
Europe
Hu‘ler
Ortona
Berlin
Italy
Atlanta Wall
Stalingrad
Sweden
France
Low Countries
Denmark
Norway
Hitler
German General Captured in Crete Raid by British Forces
Maj-Gen Heinrich Kreipe commander of the 22nd Panzer Grenadiers was seized during a British raid on Crete. The capture was announced in Cairo and reportedly left about 20 000 Nazi troops under his command. Kreipe held the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross.
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Crete
London
Heinrich Kreipe
Kreipe
22Nd Panzer Grenadiers
Sevastopol
Iron Cross
Cairo
Britain to Lend China 50 Million Pounds and Equip It
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced agreements under which Britain will loan China up to 50,000,000 pounds and supply military equipment on a lend-lease basis. Eden said the move shows Britain's desire to help China in every way possible.
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Britain
London
Anthony Eden
China
Eden
First W A A F women sail for Middle East service
The first Overseas Service contingent of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force departed from a British port aboard a luxury liner. The group includes clerks wireless operators teleprinters nursing orderlies and hairdressers. Their destination was not announced but is known to be the Middle East.
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Middle East
London
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Tribute to Women Week Set in Canada May 23 27
The prices board designates May 23 to 27 as tribute to Canadian women for their role in economic stabilization. Anti inflation exhibits will appear across the Dominion and tributes will honor the Canadian housewife personified as Mrs Consumer.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
Canada
Dominion
Maps seized as third consignment found in Sweden
Stockholm reports Swedish authorities seized two thousand maps in transit from Oslo to Finland. The bundles cover areas along the Swedish Norwegian border and are described as a third consignment of German manufacture uncovered in Sweden in recent weeks.
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Stockholm
Oslo
Finland
Sweden
Luftwaffe Fighter Strength Estimate by Expert
Victor Lewis of the Daily Express estimates the Nazi air force has about 1590 fighters left. He notes reluctance to engage Allied bombers and discusses implications for the air war over Europe.
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London
Victor Lewis
Daily Express
Germany
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