Policy Defines Grain Shipping Rules In Canada
Ottawa reports the Canadian Wheat Board will not hold old elevator stocks despite urgent overseas needs. Present Churchill stocks total 1,877,737 bushels, to be shipped after navigation opens. Environment remains uncertain for new crop shipments via the Hudson Bay Route as officials await clearer information.
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Ottawa
Canadian Wheat Board
Old Martin
Ada
Churchill
Hudson Bay
Martin
Ross Thatcher
C.C.F
Moose Jaw
Thatcher
Canada
Europe
German POWs to Work on Canadian Sugar Beets
Four hundred more German prisoners of war are assigned to sugar beet work in Manitoba and Ontario, bringing totals to 1,116 in Manitoba and 1,222 in Ontario, with Alberta contributing 1,449 for a national total of 4,000. The distribution is set by provincial and federal agricultural officials, not the labor department. Negotiations continue for bringing in Polish soldiers, likely not before summer.
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Ottawa
Manitoba
Ontario
Humphrey Mitchell
House of Commons
Alberta
Canada
Labor Department
Mitchell
J. G. Gardiner
Baby-sitting agency born of necessity in Winnipeg
Mrs. Betty Latcher started a Winnipeg baby-sitting service after struggling to find care for her own two children. She attracted over 200 replies, interviewed many applicants, and quickly served a demanding client, an Idaho visitor with four sick children, delivering help within 30 minutes.
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Winnipeg
Betty Latcher
Idaho
Indians urged adult education in The Pas briefing
Chief Cornelius Bignell and Councillor J. W. Harris presented to the Manitoba royal commission on adult education urging northern Manitoba Indians be taught to earn livelihoods in line with changing life. The brief asked for cooperation between Dominion and provincial governments to educate Indian and half breed children.
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Manitoba
Britain’s new ambassador predicts allied unity with Russia
Washington reports Lord Inverchapel told the National Press Club that the Allies will resolve their differences and move toward world peace and prosperity with full and complete co operation of Russia.
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Washington
Britain
United States
Russia
Lord Inverchapel
National Press Club
Brides Crossing To Canada Safe Voyage Record
London reports 31,000 brides of Canadian service men and 8,000 children traveled to Canada with no fatalities from illness or accident. Col. V. N. Gill notes precautions and ship selections to protect infants, with ships Letitia Queen Mary Aquitania Lady Nelson equipped for babies. Some complaints arose from wives without children being sent ahead, despite priority handling.
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London
Canada
Col. V. N. Gill
Canadian Wives Bureau
Col. Gill
Red Cross
Wives Bureau
Awarded Medal for Hong Kong to Charlie Clark
Staff Sergeant Charlie Clark, 43, a First Great War veteran, receives the Distinguished Conduct Medal after helping start a 1 million dollar fire that devastated a Tokyo shipyard area. He rescued a mortally wounded colonel during the Hong Kong battle while post office duties preceded this act. Cmdr Edward V. Dockweiler of the U S Navy recommended him for the honor.
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Toronto
Charlie Clark
Hong Kong
Cook
Far East
Charlie
Army
Sergt
Clark
Sgt
Tokyo
Pat Hennessy
D.S.C. MC
C” Force
Edward V. Dockweiler
United States Navy
D.C.M
Cmdr. Dockweiler
Trade With South America Ottawa
Chilean Agriculture Minister Humberto Mendoza predicts expanding Canada South American trade and co operation. Chile could adopt Canadian development methods for natural resources and would seek Canadian technical skill and machinery rather than financial aid.
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Ottawa
Canada
Humberto Mendoza
Chile
German Prisoners Help Clean London Parks and Approaches
German prisoners of war were drafted to clear debris and repair damage in London during the victory celebrations. They aided royal parks and approaches to Buckingham Palace as part of the large cleanup effort.
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London
Royal Parks
Buckingham Palace
Army Deserters in Canada Convictions 1945 46
Defence Minister Abbots tabled figures show 4 964 army court martial convictions for desertion in Canada from January 1 1945 to May 1 1946 and 3 756 convictions for being absent without leave. Detention sentences totaled 7 710 and hard labor 686. Three imprisonments without hard labor, 34 reductions to ranks, 500 discharges with ignominy, and three officers cashiered or dismissed.
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Ottawa
Canada
Defence
Abbott
Canadian Flour Is A Problem For U.S. Bakers
Senator Owen Brewster reports a Maine firm says Canadian flour remains high grade and freely enters the U S. Canadian production is subsidized while U S bakers receive only 75 percent of last year’s deliveries. Byrnes says Canada’s nine point grain export plan eases relief needs and cooperation should curb cross border competition.
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Washington
Owen Brewster
Maine
New England Bakers
United States
Mack Baking Company of
Sen. Brewster
State Department of
Byrnes
Canada
Appeal to recover £40,000 wartime treasure cache
The Daily Telegraph reports British authorities have appealed to art dealers and collectors worldwide to help trace a wartime storage cache missing from a London refuge. Valued at about £40,000, the collection included Persian carpets silverware and rare china. The theft surfaced after the owner's death during estate settlement.
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London
Daily Telegraph
Telegraph
King's Birthday Honors List Tops for Mountbatten
London notes crown honors for Lord Louis Mountbatten who becomes viscount. The list also elevates Canada’s recon struction minister Hon. C. D. Howe to the Privy Council. Other new peers include Sir William Beveridge and Sir Walter Citrine. The Labor leadership and union figures gain recognition in this renewal.
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London
Louis Mountbatten
C. D. Howe
Canada
Privy Council
Southeast Asia
William Beveridge
Walter Citrine
British Trades Union Congress
British Coal Board
Mr. Howe
Alexander Cadogan
Britain
United Nations Security Council
Saskatchewan wheat officials urge global food push in 1946 47
J. H. Wesson president and G. W. Robertson secretary of the Saskatchewan wheat pool return from London after attending the international farm conference. They urge all-out production to avert mass European starvation and seek government quotas and price ranges to help western producers. The plan would tie Europe and Canada with price ceilings around 1.55 dollars per bushel. Wesson calls the conference a huge success.
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Ottawa
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
England
Europe
J. H. Wesson
Pool
G. W. Robertson
London
Canada
Wesson
Dutch Ships Idle at Sydney Ports Amid Java Crisis
Six Dutch ships idle in Australian ports since September remain unable to sail due to the Java political crisis. Wharf workers barred loading, accusing the ships of carrying munitions and materials to aid suppressing the Indonesian republican government.
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Sydney
Australia
Java
Japan Return for 18 Thousand Refugees From Korea
Eighteen thousand Japanese civilians held in refugee camps at Seoul and coastal towns will be shipped back to Japan. They travel footsore and hungry with small children and scant possessions, awaiting transport on Japanese liberty ships and landing vessels.
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Seoul
South Korea
Manchuria
North Korea
Japan
Veterans help drive forest industry upturn in Canada
Canada's forest industry, the country's largest employer, has absorbed more returning servicemen than any other sector. Maj. Gen. C. B. Price of Montreal, president of the Canadian Legion, said veterans seek permanent jobs and support public policies ensuring full employment.
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Montreal
Canada
C. B. Price
The
Canadian Legion
Rice Shortage Drives Far East To Import Large Rice Supply
A UN food and agriculture committee warns Far Eastern nations must import 5.6 million tons of rice over the next two years to keep per capita supplies at prewar levels.
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Hong Kong
United Nations Food and Agriculture Department
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