Canadians Undergo 12 Day En Durance March Drill
A Canadian corps conducted its largest and hardest exercise in England, marching 250 to 300 miles over 12 days with minimal transport. The test, overseen by Lt Gen Crerar and Lt Gen Montgomery, featured sham battles and stealth patrols as officers and men demonstrated endurance and leadership under simulated continental assault conditions.
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England
Europe
H. D. G. Crerar
B. L. Montgomery
Britain
Montgomery
Air Training Plan signing postponed indefinitely
Ottawa reports a last minute postponement of the signing of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. The dates had called for June 3 but further details remain unsettled, though the broad framework is agreed.
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Ottawa
Barrymore Estate Bequeaths Meager Cash to Heirs
Los Angeles reports John Barrymore left his property to his three children Gordon Leroy, his attorney, disclosed. The veteran actor who earned about 1 million dollars during his career left perhaps 10 thousand dollars in cash plus an automobile house hold furniture and bric a brac.
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Los Angeles
John Barrymore
Gordon Leroy
Vinson drafts massive 300 billion naval expansion plan
Chairman Vinson proposes a monumental naval build to nearly double the fleet. The bill would authorize 500000 tons of aircraft carriers and cruisers, 900000 tons of destroyers, plus 800 patrol and support vessels, adding to existing orders. The defense package also includes $654.9 million in direct funding and $1.0375 billion in contracts.
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U.S
Vinson
House of Representatives Naval Committee
Navy
House Appropriations Committee
Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard
Bakers Allowed Icing Under 70 Percent Sugar Quota
Ottawa wartime board officials say revised sugar rules permit icing on baked goods if total sugar use stays within the 70 percent 1941 baseline. Earlier, 80 percent of 1940 sugar could be used and Easter restrictions banned icing. Now icing must come from the 70 percent quota.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
Donald Gordon
Prices Board
Milk and Cream Collection Zoning Plan Stated
W H Musgrove, chairman of Manitoba Dairy Association advisory board, announces a plan to zone milk and cream collection in Manitoba and Saskatchewan to cut gas, oil, and rubber use by more than 60 percent.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
W. H. Musgrove
Manitoba Dairy Association
Wartime board orders salvage of collapsible metal tubes
The wartime prices and trade board of Ottawa requires used collapsible metal tubes to be delivered to drug cigar or department stores. No one may possess a used tube longer than necessary for delivery. Destroying empty tubes is a breach. About 250 used tubes would supply tin solder for a Bolingbroke bomber.
Displays Banned at Fairs and Plowing Match
Ottawa bans displays of farm machinery at fairs and the inter provincial plowing match this year under wartime prices and trade board rules. Exhibitions including repair parts attachments are prohibited at all fairs.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
Praise Farm Women For Aid Given In War Work
Ottawa launches a 30000 campaign to thank Canadian farm women for war effort contributions. The agriculture department notes women on farms keep families fed and also take on extra farm tasks to ease labor shortages. They knit and participate in Red Cross work as urban women do.
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Agriculture Department
Red Cross
Brockington to Advise Bracken in Britain on Empire Affairs
Leonard W. Brockington of Ottawa has agreed to serve as adviser on Empire affairs to Brendan Bracken in Britain. He will also speak write and broadcast from the U K and plans to depart soon. He previously visited the U K after resigning his wartime post with Prime Minister Mackenzie King.
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Ottawa
Leonard W. Brockington
K.C
United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken
Brockington
Britain
Mackenzie King
Noted Chemist Predicts Synthetic Rubber Delays Civilian Use
Dr. H. S. Cramer of Philadelphia told the Canadian Chemical Association that no new rubber for civilian use is likely before 1945. He warned another two years of war will entrench the synthetic rubber industry, citing an 800000 ton stockpile and Allied production around 170000 tons annually.
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Hamilton
H. S. Cramer
Philadelphia
Canadian Chemical Association
United Nations
Audacious British Volunteers Run Behind Libyan Lines
A band of audacious British volunteers operated hundreds of miles behind Axis lines in Libya since 1940. Wearing regular uniforms they relied on speed and surprise to strike Axis posts, capture prisoners, and withdraw unscathed after a 25 minute gunfight that left the enemy stunned and damaged trucks.
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Libya
Italy
Jerry
May Ration Coal Expected in Canada and U S
J McG Stewart Canada coal administrator told the Canadian Retail Coal Association that coal may be rationed in Canada and the United States this winter. He warned rationing would reflect U S patterns if transportation constraints appear and urged early purchase to avoid sudden shortages. He cited heavier winter rail demand and set a deadline of September 1 or 15 for coal transport planning due to wheat harvest and war materials.
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Toronto
Canada
United States
J. McG. Stewart
Canadian Retail Coal Association
Stewart
Attack on Alaska Signals Possible Nippon Invasion Plan
British analyst Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr. warns that Japanese strikes on Dutch Harbor could precede a full invasion of the Soviet Far East, signaling expanding threat to Allied theater.
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Alaska
New York
United Press
Yates Stirling
Dutch Harbor
Soviet Far East
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Home Forces
A. G. L. McNaughton
B. W. Browne
U.S. Bil Aske
Washington
War Department
James H. Doolittle
U.S. Army
Tokyo
Gen. Doolittle
Shangrila
Ifegal
Say
Ing
The
Farm Women of Canada
Leonard Brockington
C.P.R
Canadian Pacific
Ogden
Calgary
R. Alderman
F. M. W. Harvey
V.C
Military District No. 13
J. L. Gubbins
W. A. Mather
Western Lines
Canadian Pacific Railway
H. B. Bowen
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