Britain approves large Canadian bacon deal with Britain for war needs
Agriculture Minister Gardiner announced a one year agreement with Britain's food ministry to deliver 600 million pounds of Canadian bacon at 22.15 per 112 pounds Wiltshire grade. The deal increases price and quantity, with weekly shipments of 11.5 million pounds and requires Canada to meet a minimum poundage.
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Winnipeg
Gardiner
Ministry of Food
Domintern
Wiltshire
Canada
British
Food Ministry
Mr. Gardiner
Agriculture
Bacon Board
Agricultural Supplies Board
Great Britain
Board
Freedom Was Short Lived Near Stanbridge Station
Italian seaman and internee Festa escaped from a camp near Montreal and was captured by Canadian customs officer E Campbell near Stanbridge Station, Quebec, while on leave from a farm assignment. RCMP took Festa to Montreal. Campbell’s wife described a brief struggle with no injuries.
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Stanbridge Station
Quz
Tulle Festa
United States
E. Campbell
Customs Service
Festa
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Montreal
Campbell
Goebbels Claims Widespread Camouflage Amid Air Attacks
Propaganda Minister Goebbels states in a Das Reich article that extensive camouflage of industrial and traffic facilities has been implemented in several cities in areas exposed to air attacks.
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Berlin
Goebbels
Das Reich
West Coast Canadian Port Ship Launch Honors BC Seaport
A grey warship slid down the ways at a Vancouver shipyard in honor of British Columbia’s seaport, marking a notable naval naming and launch event in the West Coast.
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Asmlc.s
Vancouver
British Columbia
New Wave-Length Crasher Clashes With Nazi Radio Voice
A London German radio station, Deutschlandsber, faced a mysterious wave length crasher during a night of chaotic broadcasts. The anti Nazi voice interrupted, taunting the news team as Nazi reporters struggled to maintain control. Deutschlander claimed Bolshevik jamming as a pretext, hinting at center measures against Russians.
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London
Germany
Deutschlander
Britain
Bader possibly shoots down a Messer under fire in France
London Wing Commander Doug Bader, legless former leader of the Canadian squadron, may have downed a Messerschmitt 109 before bailing out over northern France on August 3. A New Zealand sergeant-pilot in Bader’s section said Bader radioed he would attack several Messerschmitts below, and he may have followed one down. The squadron claimed four Messerschmitts in the engagement, and Bader broke his artificial limb during the parachute landing. a new limb was dropped to him during a RAF sweep over France. No German confirmation had arrived yet.
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London
Douglas Bader
France
Air Ministry
New Zealand
Bader
Royal Air Force
No Doubt About Campaign Against Opponents of Hitlerism
President Roosevelt held a press conference denying any cover for misuse of lease lend funds while charging that an organized campaign of sabotage spreads rumors distortions and falsehoods aimed at undermining aid to opponents of Hitlerism. He cited a Washington restaurant bill as an example he said was misattributed to lease lend.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Leager
Veterans urge ban on jurisdictional strikes for defense
The veterans of foreign wars urged President Roosevelts to outlaw jurisdictional strikes in United States defense industries and recommended that draft-age workers who participate in such strikes lose their deferment and be called into military service.
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Philadelphia
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Roosevelt
United States
War Prisoners Employed Outside Camps Considered
The Commonwealth government weighs a plan to employ enemy war prisoners outside interment camps in response to requests from farmers and private industry for labor.
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Melbourne
Commonwealth
Soviet Warn Japan Over Vladivostok Supply Routes
In a broad cast heard by the NHC the BSC reported that the Soviet Union warned Japan that any attempt to stop shipments to the Vladivostok port would be treated as an unfriendly act.
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New York
BSC
NHC
Soviet
Russia
Japan
Vladivostok
Court Starts Work Vichy Seizes Special Summary Court
A special summary court with power to sentence Communists and anarchists to death begins in the seven occupied departments. German authorities will handle Communist cases in the zone. Civilian watchmen conscripted to guard railways around Paris face death for sabotage.
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Paris
Winnipeg inventor offers oil saving carburetor to army
C Nelson Pogue of Winnipeg who claimed a carburetor would double mileage and a new oil reclaimer have been offered to Canadian Army officials in Ottawa. He said two inventions would save oil and gasoline, including an ordnance offer for a near doubling of mileage per gallon.
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Winnipeg
Nelson Pogue
Ottawa
Raids on Axis Shipping Cause Heavy Damage
British air force reports heavy raids on Axis shipping in the Mediterranean with one vessel sunk and another damaged by direct hits. RAF strikes hit Tripoli fort and power station, Bergasi, and rail sidings. Fleet Air Arm attacked Bardia, Malta fighters shot down, and Iran operations continued with pamphlets explaining the UK Soviet entry.
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Cairo
Tripoli
Libya
Mediterranean
Middle East
Royal Air Force
R.A.F
Bergasi
Fleet Air Arm
Bardia
Malta
Sicily
Famagusta
Cyprus
Iran
Exports Rise in Canadian Wheat and Flour Trade 1941
The board of grain commissioners reports Canada wheat and flour exports for the crop year ending July 31 1941 reached 230 416 886 bushels, up from 192 674 368 the prior year. Flour shipments hit 10 288 827 barrels, the largest since 1928-29, and May 1941 wheat exports totaled 36 805 411 bushels, the highest for the month in the commission’s records.
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Winnipeg
Board of Grain Commissioners
New War Savings Stamps With Eight Designs Launch
The war savings committee approved a new series of stamps featuring aviators soldiers tanks sailors destroyers anti-aircraft guns nurses and a Wellington bomber. The eight designs go on sale September 8.
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Ottawa
War Savings Committee
Canada
Regimental numbers assigned to Canadian Women’s Army Corps volunteers
Defence headquarters announced that volunteers in the Canadian Women’s Army Corps will receive regimental numbers beginning with the letter W on enrolment. The first figure denotes the military district of service and provisions allow for 1000 numbers per district.
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Canadian Women's Army Corps
Ottawa
Defence Headquarters
Parachute Troops Training Accelerated in Washington
An army announcement disclosed a speed up in parachute troop training. A third parachute battalion is being formed ahead of schedule, bringing the parachute force to more than 1,500 men, all volunteers.
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Washington
High Praise For Equipment From Dominion Forces
Lt Gen A G L McNaughton, commander of the Canadian corps, lauded Canadian equipment during Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s visit. He praised boots, battle dress with higher wool content, Bren guns, carriers, and other gear as the finest and most capable, and noted a new tank being tested abroad.
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Iven
McNaughton
England
A G L McNaughton
Dominion
Mackenzie King
Afentyeal
Memorial service for Rt. Hon. Arthur B. Purvis in Montreal
Representatives of three governments and business leaders attended a memorial service at Christ Church Cathedral for Arthur B. Purvis who was killed in an overseas airplane crash. A memorial message from Canadian Industries Limited, where Purvis once served as president, was read from offices nationwide. The cathedral was filled with a packed congregation including Mrs. Purvis and her son Blaikie among others.
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Montreal
Christ Church
Arthur B. Purvis
Canada
Canadian Industries Limited
Purvis
Washington tightens war orders regulation nationwide
The United States issues a broad revision of priority rules requiring American manufacturers to accept orders for war supplies for the United States Britain Canada Russia and China even if it delays civilian deliveries E R Stettinius a defence priorities director announced the change extending mandatory acceptance from pig iron to all manufacturers and warning persistent refusals could lead to cutoffs of supplies for other orders
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Washington
United States
Britain
Canada
Russia
China
E. R. Stettinius
Defence Priorities
Howver
Navy volunteers aid New Brunswick harvest effort
Men of the Royal Navy in Saint John volunteered to surrender all or part of two weeks of furlough to assist New Brunswick farmers. They offered freely in appreciation of Canadian troops in Britain and to ease a provincial labor shortage hampering harvest progress.
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Saint John, N.B
Royal Navy
Port
New Brunswick
Britain
Antonescu Decree Demands Mass Executions in Romania
Balkan correspondent reports a decree by Gen Ion Antonescu ordering the execution of 20 Jewish and five non Jewish Communists for every sabotage act attributed to Communists in Romania. The notice cites 2427 as a related reference.
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Berlin
Boersen Zeitung
Balkan
Ion Antonescu
Rumania
Ground crew growth powers Royal Air Force training surge
Ottawa reports the 20000th air force ground crew trainee has completed tech training at St Thomas Ontario. Group Capt. Hume notes the vast program covers aircraft servicing, repair, discipline, admin work and more across Canada and overseas. Despite reduced training in some plans, Canada forms 25 squadrons with allied aircrew, keeping ground crew schools at full speed.
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Ottawa
Royal Canada Air Force
Canada
C C. M. Hume
Air Force
St. Thomas
Ont
Hume
Royal Air Force
Air Training Plan
Cost Of Living Bonus To Be Paid From Aug 14
Ottawa announced a cost of living bonus effective August 14 for the majority of federal public service workers earning under 2100 dollars a year and all manual workers. About 85,000 Dominion government employees are expected to qualify nationwide. A labor department spokesman estimated 500,000 to 750,000 industrial employees may receive bonuses under order in council P C 7440. Officials have not compiled exact figures.
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Ottawa
Federal Public Service
Civil Service
Dominion
Labor Department
P.C
Department
Ottawa considers hostels to ease housing for women workers
Wartime Housing Limited has studied building government hosted hostels to relieve housing shortages in crowded Canadian cities. The plan would see the government owned company erect a hotel if social service agencies agree to take on housekeeper and catering duties.
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Ottawa
Wartime Housing Limited
Ready For Duty London Battleship Duke of York set to join fleet
Britain reports the Duke of York, sister ship to the King George V and Prince of Wales, ready for service. Shipyard workers completed arming the 25,000 ton battleship after round the clock shifts, with launch by the Queen last year marking its debut.
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London
Britain
Decision Favored Canada envoy to Argentina
The foreign minister approves Canada sending W. F. A. Turgeon, Saskatchewan chief justice, as the Dominion’s first minister to Argentina. A reply to Ottawa confirmed the decision and noted the acceptance.
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Buenos Aires
Canada
W. F. A. Turgeon
Saskatchewan
Argentina
Ottawa
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