Drastic steps may be taken to stabilize prices
The wartime prices and trade board announced that existing laws may be insufficient to keep prices fair. Hector McKennon will lead a new commodity prices stabilization corporation, while Donald Gordon becomes board chair. The board may advise tariff reductions and subsidies to protect Canadians, with price ceilings to begin December 1 and large scale government-funded transactions anticipated.
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Prices and Trade Board
Hector McKennon
Wilth
Donald Gordon
Bank of Canada
McKinnon
Prices Board
Canada
Toard
Dominion
United States
Haa
Commodity Prices Stabilization Corporation
Price Board
Gas Conservation Program Starts in Toronto Area
More than 1,000 trucks run by 241 coal distributor groups in greater Toronto began a gasoline and oil conservation plan. No delivery below a ton. shipments await enough orders to reach full load except in urgent cases, Oil Controller G R Cettreile stated.
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Toronto
G. R. Cettreile
Berlin Nazi spokesperson vows Netherlands under German rule
A Nazi spokesman stated that a victorious Germany would never grant the Netherlands independence. He warned that Germany would not be crowded off the North Sea again and that Holland could never again be a buffer state.
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Berlin
Germany
Netherlands
North Sea
Holland
British Freighter Sunk After Night Torpedo Attack
Survivors report they drifted three days in a convoy off the Canadian Atlantic coast before their British freighter was torpedoed and sank in 40 seconds. Five sailors from the crew of 43 were rescued by a Canadian corvette after the ship went down.
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Atlantic
Sun
Supplies For Russia Arrive From Many Nations
A BBC broadcast heard by CBS reported that American ships bring arms to Russia every 48 hours in the Persian Gulf. The broadcast said a special transport organization moves supplies north to the war front. Supplies reach Basra Abbas Bushire and Bandar Shapur from America Britain India and Australia on ships of many flags.
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Persian Gulf
New York
BBC
CBS
Russia
Basra
Abbas
Bushire
Bandar Shapur
America
Great Britain
India
Australia
Hostage terror sweeps Axis occupied areas in Europe
A 4,500 word inter allied information committee report says hostage terror spans Britain Russia and nine Axis occupied countries. It details thousands killed and missing across Greece Poland Yugoslavia and Croatia with German collective punishment and mass executions including 15,000 in Bulgaria led actions and village burnings.
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London
Europe
Inter-Alled Information Committee
Britain
Russia
Albania
Greece
Crete
Poland
Igo Sym
Gestapo
Yugoslavia
Alain Croat
Vancouver Lawyer Named Deputy Controller of Supplies
Vancouver man J. R. Nicholson was appointed deputy controller of supplies by Munitions Minister Howe. A trial lawyer since 1924, Nicholson focuses on insurer and corporate law and has served as general counsel in various capacities.
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Ottawa
J. R. Nicholson
Vancouver
Howe
Nicholson
Trapped in Tunnel Fire Kills Five in Van Nuys Calif
Five men died when a Southern Pacific locomotive burst into flames after a coupling snap on the Star freight train. Four escaped, hospitalized, while a long process cooled the blaze and freed the tunnel. The accident stemmed from a broken coupling knuckle and severed air brakes.
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van Nuys
Calif
Southern Pacific
British urged to evacuate Japanese occupied China
The British embassy reports 1175 British men women and children across Japanese controlled China have expressed a wish to leave in the last three weeks. Registration began Oct 30 as Britain advised those who could to depart the territory.
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Shanghai
Victoria man named chief of vital statistics branch
Ottawa reports John T. Marshall of Victoria British Columbia has been appointed chief of the vital statistics branch at the Dominion bureau of statistics, the bureau announced.
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Ottawa
John T. Marshall
Victoria
B.C
Vital Statistics
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Bureau
Low Accident Average in Air Training Plan
Ottawa veteran airmen cited Air Minister Power figures showing the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan crews maintain a strong safety record. The plan logged 1,429,851 miles per fatal accident, versus 1,269,231 miles for U.S. civilian flying in 1940.
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Ottawa
Power
British Commonwealth Air Training Flan
Maj
United States
United States Airlines
Training Plan
Maj. Power
British Plan to Drive Axis From Africa
London reports Britain's Libyan offensive aims to push Axis forces out of Africa rather than seize towns or relieve Tobruk. The operation spans over 100 miles inland, heavily backed by air and sea power, with Churchill's message announced to troops. Britain, with latest American tanks and aircraft, expects to match Axis forces, leveraging Malta isotated supply routes for advantage as the drive begins and evolves.
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London
Libya
Tobruk
Afric
Churchill
Britain
Hitler
Flanders
Italy
Malta
Sicily
North
Africa
Britain Faces Milk Shortfall as War Demands Rise
Agriculture Minister R. H. Hudson told the House that Britons have consumed 200,000,000 gallons more milk this year than in the last full year of peace. He reviewed the agricultural situation noting the UK is near arable land limits but is optimistic about future crop production including potatoes, with supplies nearly double those of peace time.
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London
R. 8. Hudson
House of Commons
United Kingdom
Wages for Farm Workers Up in England and Wales
The central agricultural wages board raised minimum weekly wages for farm workers in England and Wales from 48 to 60 shillings, effective December 28. Farm workers' groups pressed for the increase for six months while many counties already raised rates. 11 counties remained at 48 shillings.
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England
Wales
London
Central Agricultural Wages Board
England and
Bonus Plan Approved For Arvida Aluminum Workers
Labor Minister McLarty announced a conciliation board report for the Aluminum Company of Canada plant at Arvida Quebec recommending a new weekly bonus system at the rate of 2.79 dollars per worker.
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Arvida
Quebec
Ottawa
McLarty
Board of Conciliation
Arvida, Que
Aluminum Company of Canada
Manion Delivers Candid Winnipeg Voice on Politics
Col. R. J. Manion Dominion Conservative leader and current auxiliary services director for the Canadian army spoke in Calgary saying he has nothing to say about politics. The interview touched on his new role and public statements.
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Calgary
Col
R. J. Manion
Dominion Conservative
Canadian Army
General Gamelin in Nervous Condition at Oloron Service
General Gamelin commander in chief of the Allied British and French armies in the early months of the war is reported in a bad nervous condition at a service in Oloron south of Pau where doctors are attending him.
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Til Vichy
Gamelin
Aervice
Oloron
Pau
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Italo Balbo
Raymond Collishaw
Halifax
Filer
Collishaw
Balbo
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