Play A Part in hir Age Ahead
Winnipeg hear C H Dickens of Canadian Pacific Airlines outline post war air plans. He argues for expanded routes and feeder lines to connect eastern and western Canada, stating air services would boost national unity and business transport while noting rail and air tonnage disparities.
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Winnipeg
Adeed Cantde
Canadian Airlines
C H. Dickens
Canadian Pacific Airlines
Montreal
Air Hnes
Canada
Canadian Railways
New Athlone potato named with governor general’s approval
In Sweetwater British Columbia near this town W. S. Rimpcon a farmer develops a new early white potato variety named Athlone. It is oval free mealy cooker. Mr Simpson created the strain to suit short local summers. The governor general asked for samples.
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Sweetwater
B.C
W. 8
Rimpcon
British Columbia
Athlone
Canada
Simpson
Penicillin Success Reported At Allied HQ Algiers
Penicillin is being used with great success to treat severe wound infections in this theatre of war. Limited in quantity, the drug is sent to forward areas for specially selected patients and has proven highly effective in coping with gangrene.
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Allied
Algiers
Germans register 49 year old men for military service
London reports the German ministry of economic warfare states that men of age 49 are being registered for military service a step never reached in the First Great War. A spokesman said they will not be called up at present but the move shows Hitler is scraping the bottom of his manpower reserve.
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London
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Hitler
Vatican diplomats burn confidential papers fears of German breach
London report says diplomats accredited to the Vatican are burning confidential papers in fear that Germany will violate papal territory as they abandon Rome, according to the Daily Mail.
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Vatican
London
Papal
Rome
The
Daily Mail
Roosevelt cites Japanese weakness in Solomons New Guinea area
President Roosevelt, commander-in-chief, told reporters the Japanese are being defeated and retreating in the Solomons New Guinea region. He noted heavy destruction of their transports, barges, and escort vessels by Allied air forces in the past 30 days, signaling weakness across the area.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Bohocmons Islands
New Guinea
United States Forces
Solomons-New Guinea
Praire Farmers Recruited for Winter Work at Lake Head Elevators
Grain officials outline a plan to hire 125 prairie province farmers for winter labor at Lake head elevators. Elevator agents would recruit the men who would stay until next spring and receive free federal transportation.
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Fort William
Prairie Provinces
Lakehead
Prairies
British General Klopper Escapes Through Enemy Territory
Maj Gen H B Klopper, South African Tobruk commander captured in Tobruk's fall, has escaped and reached Allied lines after a 150 mile trek through enemy territory. The Reuters Cairo dispatch notes he escaped from Sulmona, 75 miles east of Rome.
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London
H. B. Klopper
Tobruk
Reuters
Cairo
Klopper
Sulmona
Rome
Demands For Food For UK And Europe Pressure Canadians
Toronto reports Dr. L B Pett head of pensions nutrition services warned that huge demands for food in the United Kingdom, Europe and abroad require careful use of scarce supplies. He spoke at the Health League of Canada meeting noting no margin for error and publiced calls for unified nutrition efforts.
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Toronto
United Kingdom
Europe
L. B. Pett
The
Pensions Department
Nutrition Services
Mth
Health League of Canada
Ottawa
Nutrition Division
Dr. Pett
Woolton Applies Grain Relief to Bengal Famine
Lord Woolton announced Britain will divert grain to India to ease Bengal famine. He warned Britons to expect a shortage of fresh vegetables this winter as arrangements were completed.
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London
Britain
Bengal
India
Lora Woolton
Lord Woolton
WILL RETALIATE Says Japanese Will Be Made To Pay For Beheading Allied Aviator
The United States pledged postwar accountability for the beheading of an Allied aviator, calling the act uncivilized. Officials cited a captured Japanese diary and a note sent to Tokyo via Switzerland, warning that Japan would face punishment for such crimes against American prisoners.
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Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
State Department
Tokyo
French Minister cites 200000 French in illegality in Alps and Pyrenees
Interior Minister Andre Philip of the French Committee of National Liberation says reports from the underground indicate more than 200000 Frenchmen live illegally in the Alps or Pyrenees to avoid deportation to forced labor in Germany. He adds that up to March 1643, forty thousand French men have been executed by the Germans.
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Algiers
Andre Philip
French Committee of National Liberation
Alps
Pyrenees
Germany
Praise for Canada dominates Evening Standard editorial
The Evening Standard devotes its entire editorial column to Canada’s war effort. It hails the Dominion as a source of pride and emulation for all Allied powers, highlighting its great contribution to the war.
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London
Canada
Lord Beaverbrook
Evening Standard
Dominion
Allies to Hold Moscow Talks On Balkan Fronts And War Planes
London reports three power talks in Moscow will shape Balkan plans as Soviet British and American armies move toward joint strategy. The American 7th Army under Lt Gen Patton is said to prepare a Balkan invasion from Italy. Delegations include state and foreign office officials with Gen Hastings Simmay and W Averell Harriman, while Hull is expected to head the American side and Anthony Eden the British.
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London
Balkans
Moscow
Stockholm
George S. Pattonis
Italy
Balkan
Reuters
United States Department of State
Foreign Office
H. Freeman Matthews
State Department
William Strang
Hastings Samay
War Cabinet
Churchill
United States
Canada
George C. Marshall
Staf
Cordell Hull
Russia
W. Averell Harriman
Kremlin
Hull
Washington
Harriman
Anthony Eden
Empire Air Conference Plans in London
London arrangements for the empire air conference are led by Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Peel Seal with final plans near completion. Britain Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa and India will attend to shape a post war empire air policy for talks with the United States Russia and other nations. Prime Minister Smuts has arrived in London for consultations and will discuss with the war cabinet. The Dominion meeting is slated for early next year and may include a US visit.
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London
Lord Beaverbrook
Lard Peg Seal
Britain
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
India
United States
Russia
United Nations
Jan Christian Smuts
Dominions
War Cabinet
Evening Standard
Smuts
Churchill
Standard
Caplan Named CBC Supervisor of Production
Rupert Caplan of Montreal is appointed to the newly created post of supervisor of production for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The confirmation was announced recently.
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Toronto
Rupert Caplan
Montreal
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Eden serves Warwick and Leamington MP since 1923
British foreign secretary Anthony Eden has represented the Warwick and Leamington riding in the House of Commons since 1923. The long serving Conservative MP has held senior cabinet roles and influenced policy during the interwar and wartime years.
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Anthony Eden
Warwick
Leamington
House of Commons
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