Vast Sum Would Be Needed For Pension Plan
Ottawa reports that a 1948 cost of 200 million dollars is projected for a national pension plan. Brooke Claxton outlined funding to the Dominion provincial conference, noting tax or borrowing or printed money as possible financing. He described a 70 year old universal pension and a 65 to 69 means tested tier at 50 50 Government share, with annual costs estimated between 34 and 40 million dollars.
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Dominion
Brooke Claxton
Angus MacInnis
C.C.F
Vancouver East
MacInnis
Claxton
Ottawa extends 242.5 million loan to France for postwar trade
Canada will provide France a 242.5 million dollar credit to buy Canadian goods, with 3 percent interest and 30 annual payments from 1947 to 1976. The agreement, announced by J L Ilsley, supports France's rehabilitation and expands Western farm and Eastern industry markets.
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Ottawa
France
J. L. Isley
Ilsley
Canada
Leon Blum
Long Canoe Trip From Vancouver Up Fraser River
O P Smith, 66 year old fisherman and prospector, begins a paddle from Vancouver to New York. He left English Bay April 7 and travels upriver into the Fraser then plans to follow fur trade routes eastward, reaching Lake Winnipeg and the Winnipeg river toward the Great Lakes.
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New York
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Saskatchewan
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Candy makers struggle with Easter supply in Ottawa
Ottawa candy merchants warn that this Easter season will be the worst on record for candy shortages. Despite a 10 percent sugar quota increase arriving April 1, shortages persist, with supplies still below last year and well under 1943 44 levels, per the prices board.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
Chart Showing Stone of Scone Hideout Goes On Display
A wartime chart detailing the Islip vault hideout for the Stone of Scone has been placed on public display. The document records the 1939 concealment of the coronation stone and notes that Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Graham Towers, and L. P. J. Roy held the only known copies until wartime secrecy ended.
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Canada
Britain
Islip
England
Scone
Kenneth
Scotland
Dunstaffnege
Loch Etive
Westminster Abbey
Jacob
Bishop de Labilliere
Westminster
Charles Peers
William Bishop
Gerald Campbell
United Kingdom
Mackenzie King
Bank of Canada
Graham F. Towers
L. P. J. Roy
London
Islip Chapel
Honey price hike set by prices board
Ottawa reports a one per cent rise in wholesale ceiling honey price effective immediately. Retail prices could increase by one to one and a half cents per pound under the new adjustment.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
Govt Grants 950 Temporary Refugee Permits
In Ottawa the Resources Minister said 950 temporary permits were issued for refugees transferred from the United Kingdom. The report appears in the Commons with 2668 as a related figure.
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Ottawa
Glen
Commons
Canada
United Kingdom
Demand Refused Girl Teller In Toronto Bank Not Intimidated By Bandit
In Toronto the Royal Bank downtown branch at Richmond and Yonge streets saw a young gunman threaten to kill a teller. Miss Emily Schleifer read the note through the cage and calmly declined to surrender cash, replying she had no time for threats.
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Royal Bank
Richmond and
Yonge
Emily Schleifer
Teller
Veterans rely on rehab centers on training note
A three day national conference of supervisors from veterans department rehabilitation centers across Canada reported only one in twenty veterans has applied for unemployment benefits. The figure was given by deputy minister W. S. Woods.
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Ottawa
Veterans Department
Canada
W. S. Woods
France Accepts US Proposal for Foreign Ministers Meeting
Paris reports Foreign Minister Georges Bidault confirmed France accepts a United States plan for a Paris meeting of foreign ministers on April 25. The communique noted unanimous vote to continue Anglo French talks to prepare for a possible alliance. Bevin signaled Britain’s willingness to negotiate such an alliance. France also backs discussion of Germany and Chinese withdrawal from Indo China per Chungking accord.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
France
United States
Bevin
Britain
Foreign Affairs Commission of the
Constituent Assembly
Russia
Chungking
Indo-China
War Inspection Board Dissolved in Canada and Britain
The United Kingdom-Canada War Inspection Board, which approved upwards of 6.5 billion dollars in war supplies from Canada and the United States, has been dissolved. The abolition was announced in Ottawa and London, with Canadian operations to be taken over by a solely Canadian body. Organized in 1940, it employed over 19,000 technicians at its peak, including British and U S members among a Canadian majority.
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United Kingdom-Canadian War Inspection Board
Ottawa
Inspection Board of
United Kingdom
Canada
United States
London
Hyde Park estate becomes national shrine
Franklin D Roosevelt’s Hyde Park home and burial site is dedicated as a national shrine with President Truman, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, and Interior Secretary Krug attending the ceremony marking the first anniversary of FDR’s death. A simple marble tombstone marks his grave in the rose garden.
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N.Y
Franklin D Roosevelt
President Truman
Eleanor Roosevelt
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J. A. Krug
Mr. Roosevelt
Supporters Of Tunnel Project Still Hopeful In June Meeting
London observers note a June hotel meeting of the Channel Tunnel Company Limited as supporters, led by Sir Herbert Walker and the Earl of Radnor, revisit a dream of an undersea railway and motor tunnel across the English Channel despite history of cancelled work and rising costs.
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English Channel
Napoleon
Channel Tunnel Company Limited
Stock Exchange
Paris
Leo F. A. D’erlanger
Dover
Channel
Calais
Britain
Baron Emile D'Erlanger
William Collard
Sussex
Sir Herbert Walker
Southern Railway
Earl of Radnor
London War Criminal Meyer Remains in UK Custody
Canada’s first convicted war criminal Maj. Gen. Kurt Meyer remains jailed in the United Kingdom with no decision yet on transferring him to Canada to serve his life sentence, a spokesman at Canadian military headquarters said.
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London
Canada
Kurt Meyer
United Kingdom
Rocky Mountains Span From Desert South to Arctic North
The Rocky mountains stretch from New Mexico and Colorado deserts to the Arctic region, tracing a rugged spine across the western United States. This geographic sweep highlights how dramatic climate and terrain shift along the range from arid basins to icy reaches.
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The
Rocky Mountains
New Mexico
Colorado
Arctic
Britain Ready To Lower Her Food Standards
Britain-moved to ration bread if the United States adopts the same policy to conserve wheat and flour amid famine fears. A cabinet statement said UNRRA needs are great and noted US export shortfalls. the UK would match US measures or take similar administrative steps to prevent starvation. La Guardia urged more supplies. Britain warned against stock export without immediate replacement guarantees.
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London
Britain
United States
UNRRA
Iorello H. la Guardia
Mr. la Guaracia
Combined Food Board
United Kingdom
America
Washington
la Guardia
Simplify Tax Forms Urged by Canadian Bar Association
The Canadian Bar Association told a senate committee that income tax laws create confusing calculations and urged government action. It called for an appeal tribunal, reduced discretionary powers for the revenue minister, a review of exemptions, and simplified tax forms. The Standard Railway Brotherhoods also urged lower income taxes through higher exemptions in their briefing to Prime Minister Mackenzie King.
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Canadian Bar Association
Senate Committee On
Income Tax Administration
Standard Railway Brotherhoods
Mackenzie King
May Day delay for Opération Muskox trek
Lt. Col. P. D. Baird of Montreal has booked a hotel room for May 4 in Edmonton, two days before the Arctic trek’s finish. Spring breakup slows the expedition as snowmobiles push across Great Bear Lake toward river crossings and uncharted streams on the final leg.
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Edmonton
P. D. Baird
Montreal
Great Bear Lake
Bomb Disposal Squads Clear 45000 Delayed-Action Bombs in Britain
Royal Engineers have rendered harmless 45,000 delayed action bombs in Britain. Two more years of work lie ahead with 2,000 men still active in London, Bristol, Hull, and southeast coast towns.
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London
Britain
Royal Engineers
Bristol
Hull
Japanese General Iemura Dies in POW Camp
The Moscow radio reports Lt Gen Minao Iemura former commander of the Japanese 4th Kwantung Army died by own action on March 23 in a prisoner of war camp.
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London
Moscow Radio
Minao Iemura
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