Lifting Ceiling Price On Gas And Distillate
The prices board announced that effective April 1 the price ceiling on gasoline and tractor distillates will be removed and the Dominion excise tax of three cents a gallon on gasoline cancelled, returning taxation to the provinces. Ontario and British Columbia plan to raise their own gasoline taxes accordingly. Saskatchewan will add two cents. The move follows wartime policy begun in 1941 and aligns with subsidies ending on crude oil imports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Dominion
Canada
Ontario
British Columbia
Saskatchewan
Queen's Park
Prices Board
Finance
Abbott
Prairie Provinces
Post Office Studies Air Mail for Distant Canada Routes
Postmaster General Bertrand told the commons the department is studying sending all first class mail between distant points in Canada by air mail. He also said consider reducing air mail rates is under review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Bertrand
Commons
Post Office
Canada
Chief White Horse resigns from Wampanoag after 17 years
MASHPEE Mass. Wampanoag leader Clinton M Hayes known as Chief White Horse says he resigns after years of feeling unappreciated. He declares he is finished and packing away his feathers and skins. The remark follows his long tenure as tribal head and hints at strained relations with fellow tribesmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mashpee
Mass
White Horse
Clinton M. Hayes
Australia Needs Larger Population To Prevent Asian Migration
Canberra notes rising concern over filling empty spaces as Australia’s 7.5 million people span 3 million square miles. Density averages 2.5 per square mile, far below Asia and Canada, with officials urging immigration to bolster growth and curb Asiatic influence in two generations.
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Canberra
Australia
Canada
Asia
Java
H. V. Evatt
Arthur Calwell
Brier Tankard Record Listed
Complete list of Macdonalds Brier Tankard winners, Canadian curling championship, since 1927. Includes names, clubs, and cities such as Murray MacNeill Halifax 1927, Gordon Hudson Winnipeg 1928 1929, Howard Wood Winnipeg 1930 1940, Cliff R Manahan Edmonton 1932 1937, J K Watson Strathcona 1936 1942, and others through 1947 Billy Rose Sedgwick 1946 and Jimmy Welsh Deer Lodge 1947.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray MacNeill
Halifax Curling Club
Halifax
Gordon Hudson
Strathcona Club
Winnipeg
Strathcona
Howard Wood
Granite Club
Robert G. Gourley
James Congalton
Granite
Cliff R. Manahan
Royal Club
Edmonton
Leo Johnson
Gordon Campbell
Thistle Club
Hamilton
Ont
J. K. Watson
Albert Gowanlock
Glenboro
Man
Herbert C. Hall
Kitchener
Howard Palmer
Calgary
Billy Rose
Sedgwick
Alta
Jimmy Welsh
Deer Lodge
McKell Sworn In as New Governor General of Australia
William John McKell former New South Wales premier and second Australian born governor general was sworn in during a 13 minute ceremony in the federal senate chamber. He took the oath before foreign diplomats and Australian leaders as opposition members boycotted the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canberra
William John McKell
Labor
New South Wales
Senate
McKell
Duke of Gloucester
Parliamentary
Labor Party
House of Representatives
R. G. Menzies
Country Party
Arthur Fadden
Sydney Sun
Commonwealth
Master of the Kings Music to Tour Canada
Edgar Stanley Roper master of the King s Music and organist composer and choirmaster will tour Canada for three months. He will be joined by Cornelius Fisher and Michael Head to attend festivals in Toronto Ottawa Stratford Sudbury Winnipeg Saskatoon Regina Edmonton Vernon Vancouver where they will judge the British Columbia event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Stanley Roper
CVC
His Majesty's Chapel Royal
Canada
Dominion
C.N.R
Cornelius Fisher
Guildhall School of Music
Michael Head
Toronto
Ottawa
Stratford
Sudbury
Winnipeg
Saskatoon
Regina
Edmonton
Vernon
Vancouver
British Columbia
Floods in Britain Disrupt Traffic and Threaten Crops
Britain faces floods from thaw and rain with trains halted and roads flooded. The Thames rising again signals a second major flood in four months, while fuel and meat rationing plans loom. Gas and electricity use may be restricted and industrial hours staggered. Farmers fear wheat losses as sheep perish in Derbyshire snow drifts.
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London
Britain
Thames
Air Ministry
Isles
Stafford Cripps
Board of Trade
House of Commons
J. R. W. Alexander
British Gas Council
Commons
Stafford
Derbyshire
Dominions Seek Representation At The Big Four Conference
During the Big Four meeting in Moscow the Dominions will push for fuller say for middle and small powers in the German peace settlement. Canada Australia and New Zealand will lobby for 18 states that fought in Europe to participate in drafting the treaty through committees once the Moscow talks end. South Africa currently lacks a diplomatic mission. Britain’s Bevin may press Stalin to broaden Russian policy to allow greater Dominion influence in the process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Council of Foreign Ministers
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Europe
South Africa
London
Bevin
Stalin
Germany
United States
Amputees Placed in Employment Across Canada
Ottawa reports 1490 amputees from the Second Great War placed in work, nine of 11 double arm amputees among them. Veterans Affairs prosthetic service offers free artificial limbs from 12 centres from Halifax to Victoria. About 3,500 First War and 2,000 Second War veterans have been fitted. metal legs sourced through contracts with Britain’s ministry of pensions. The department maintains international contact and domestic research to aid veterans.
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Ottawa
Walter Tucker
Veterans’ Affairs
Veterans’ Affairs Department
Canada
Halifax
Victoria
Tucker
Ministry of Pensions
Brother's Keeper helps victim after Vancouver holdup
An older brother calms Fred Bedenoss after a robbery in Vancouver. Two youths robbed him of $15 and a wrist watch. A stranger then gives him three five dollar bills and a watch, saying the suspect pair were his brother and another man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
Fred Bedenoss
United States Firm to Open Stores in Canada
Sears Roebuck and Co. plans its first Canadian branch office in Vancouver after incorporation in Canada. Seattle officials said the U S firm will open stores and offices in the Dominion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Canada
Vancouver
Sears-Roebuck and Co
The
Dominion
Seattle
New Idea Sparks at Central School Fight for Identity
Sammy Yates, an eighth grade student at Central School, carried a cigar box of all day stickers and distributed them with the message I am a brother. The incident reflects a moment of identity expression within the school community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Menlo Park
Sammy Yates
Central School
Sailors Rescue Girls From Blaze In Trowbridge Window
In Trowbridge England two young girls were carried to a window as flames engulfed an apartment. Four unknown sailors formed a living ladder and handed the girls to safety.
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Trowbridge
England
Churchill invited to address Canadian Merchants meeting
Winston Churchill has been invited to address the Retail Merchants' Association of Canada annual meeting at Waskesia Sask June 16 17 a spokesman said He will be in North America in June and is expected to address the Chemical Institute of Canada convention June 8 11 at Banff Alta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatoon
Winston Churchill
Retail Merchants’ Association of Canada
Waskesia
Sask
Churchill
North America
Chemical Institute of Canada
Banff
Alta
Tanes to Stay Washington
President Truman signed legislation extending wartime excise tax rates indefinitely. The act keeps high wartime levies on liquor furs jewelry cosmetics and on transportation and telephone services.
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Washington
Truman
Edmonton Journalist Named Canadian YMCA Delegate to Oslo Conference
Les D. Wedman of Edmonton will be one of six Canadian YMCA delegates to the world youth conference in Oslo Norway. He will represent Alberta and British Columbia at the event.
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Edmonton
Les D. Wedman
Edmonton Newspaperman (Journal
Y.M.C.A
Oslo
Norway
Alberta
British Columbia
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Kings of, Curling
Siender
Manitoba
St. Andrews Curling Club
Saint John
N.B
Welsh
Winnipeg Deer Lodge
Jimmy
Alex Welsh
Jock Reid
Harry Monk
U.S
Mexico
Harry Truman
Miguel Aleman
Mexico City
Aleman
Brier
Dominions
Big Four
Wales
Scotland
Ireland
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
Tanes
Y.mlcla
Honey Harbor
Herb Cousineau
B. E. Lavalley
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