Truman backs Byrnes as Wallace is gagged amid Russia pledge
President Truman secured a joint denial from War Secretary Patterson and Navy Secretary Forrestal denying any plan of preemptive war on Russia. Wallace, in a published letter, had warned of a military think tank favoring such a strike. A gag order on Wallace was arranged for the Paris peace talks and likely much of the election season.
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Washington
Truman
Commerce
Wallace
United States
Russia
Publc
War
Patterson
Navy
Forrestal
Byrnes
Western coal wage rise reshapes western Canadian sector
Sources forecast a 50 cent per ton rise in domestic coal prices as a 1.40 a day wage increase for about 9 000 miners shifts costs. The settlement awaits ratification by the war labor board and locals with wider gains including a three cent a ton welfare fund, 40 hour weeks and holiday provisions.
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Calgary
Western Canada
War Labor Board
Estevan
Saskatchewan
Vancouver Island
Alberta
British Columbia
Big Smelting Company
Trail
Entitled to Bonus in Edmonton Crop Failure Areas
Federal move seeks declaration of 406 Alberta townships as crop failure areas under the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation act. Affairs Minister C E Gerhart says a region qualifies by an average wheat yield under five bushels per acre. The townships lie in eastern Alberta near the international border.
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Edmonton
Alberta
C. E. Gerhart
Level Maintained Ottawa Sugar Ration To Stay
The Canadian sugar ration will be kept at its present level despite sharp stock declines. Prices board officials said sugar prices will be maintained even with higher U S prices. Dominion bureau of statistics reports on Aug 10 stocks fell to 99,844,580 pounds from 106,722,723 the prior week and 165,073,298 a year ago.
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Ottawa
United States
Prices Board
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Insects Called Walking Sticks Aid Cancer Research
June Tait of the Red Cross oversees a swarm of walking sticks collected for cancer research. The Red Cross gathers the insects for Dr. W. R. Franks who is conducting cancer studies.
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June Tait
Red Cross
The
W. R. Franks
Atomic Bomb Spreads Havoc At Bikini Island
A Washington report notes the Bikini Atoll underwater explosion signals a new war dimension. It warns depth-charge style blasts could incapacitate harbors and coastal areas, spreading radioactivity and altering future military thinking.
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Bikini Island
Washington
Bikini
New York
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Communist led squatters evacuate luxury blocks in London
Dozens left the Ivanhoe hotel in Bloomsbury and the Duchess of Bedford House in Kensington as 300 squatters facing court-ordered evictions amid a government housing crackdown began an exodus. Labor unions backed their push for humane handling while authorities warned prosecutions for those who defy edicts.
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London
Britain
Ivanhoe Hotel
Bloomsbury
Duchess of Bedford House
Fashionable
Kensington
New Currency for Pacific Forces Goes to Dollar Basis
Allied headquarters announced that military currency in Japan Korea and the Ryukyus will switch to a dollars and cents basis on September 30. Denominations from five cents to ten dollars will replace the a yen occupation currency fixed at 15 cents to the dollar.
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Tokyo
Japan
Korea
The
Ryukyus
Allied Headquarters
Gambling ship Bunker Hill seized off Long Beach
The U S justice department seized the gambling ship Bunker Hill under admiralty law after 70 coast guard sailors boarded the vessel near Long Beach California. U S Attorney James M Carter said condemnation proceedings would allege the craft operated beyond its licensed coastwise trade.
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Long Beach
Calif
United States Justice Department
Tony Cornero Stralla
Bunker Hill
High Seas
Coast Guard
Lady Luck
United States
James M. Carter
Planned uprising in Peiping ends with executions
Harbin dispatches report three Nationalist generals executed after a failed attempt to seize Peiping. The plot, allegedly sponsored by Chiang Kai-Shek and Tu Li Ming, aimed to rise on August 28 but was foiled two days early. Mass arrests followed the discovery.
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Peiping
Harbin
Chiang Kai-Shek
Tu Li- Ming
Manchuria
Monkeys Named As Key Tool In Polio Research
Washington plans call for large scale importation of Macacus Cynomolgus monkeys, touted as the best chance to solve polio mysteries. Dr. H. M. Weaver of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis outlined a six month expedition to the Netherlands East Indies and the Philippine Islands to locate the animals, with an estimated need of about 5 000 monkeys annually to advance research.
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Washington
National Foundation For
H. M. Weaver
Foundation
Netherlands Fast Indies
Philippine Islands
Eskimos a happy, hardworking people, bishop says
Bishop Martin of Saskatchewan told the Winnipeg Kinsmen Club that Eskimos are a happy people in God's name leave them alone. He urged whites to avoid influencing northern native Canadians, noting the Eskimos live off the land and are independent from the outside world.
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Winnipeg
Martin
Saskatchewan
Nine year old Simeon II leaves Bulgaria for exile to Egypt
Nine year old Simeon II, deposed as king after a plebiscite that made Bulgaria a republic, travels by train to begin exile in Egypt.
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Sofia
Simeon II
Bulgaria
Egypt
Elevators in Moose Jaw urged for wheat storage use
Moose Jaw MP W. Ross Thatcher urged city council to ask the wheat board why government elevators in Moose Jaw are not storing wheat. He noted the 6,000,000 bushel capacity elevator has no current wheat storage or cleaning, staff reduced from 20 to 10, with peak 60. Council approved seeking details and to push for reopening the elevator.
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Moose Jaw
W. Ross Thatcher
Wheat Board
Thatcher
Fort William
Ald
E. J. Hemming
Dieppe raid remembered by Earl of Bessborough in France
The Earl of Bessborough former governor-general of Canada laid a wreath of poppies at the Canadian war memorial in Dieppe and spoke at a town hall reception calling the 1942 raid "the Prelude to Victory."
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Dieppe
France
Earl of Bessborough
Canada
Salmon fishing plan in Great Adams run split fails
The Vancouver Sun reports international efforts to regulate salmon fishing aim for a 50-50 division of the Great Adams river sockeye run are failing, affecting Canadian and American fishermen this year.
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Vancouver
The
Vancouver Sun
Great Adams River
Future of Agriculture Staked at FAO Conference
James Turne of the International Federation of Agriculture Producers warns the future of agriculture is at stake as FAO hosts talks on a world food board to stabilize farm prices. The LF.A.P. plans an executive meeting to choose a 1947 meeting site, with Canada among 13 provisional member nations awaiting a permanent ILF-A.P. establishment.
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Copenhagen
James Turne
International Federation of Agriculture Producers
National Farmers Union
England
Wales
Food and Agricultural Organization
World Food Board
If.a P
London
F.A.O
Herbert Hannam
Ottawa
Lf.a.p
Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Turner
Canada
John Boyd Orr
FAO
Ilf-A.p
Dutch Canadian student exchange planned for universities
Beerend Bangma from the University of Amsterdam tours Canada and the United States to arrange a Dutch Canadian university student exchange. Visiting students would stay in each other’s homes, with only travel costs to be covered. Toronto would host Canadian offices, and Bangma notes Holland faces textbook shortages, urging Canadian book donations.
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Edmonton
Canada
Holland
Beerend D. Bangma
University and Students’ Organization
Bangma
University of Amsterdam
United States
University of Toronto
Extent of Forest Fires Reaches Northern Canada
Ottawa official MacKay Meikle reports extensive forest fire damage across the far north from Fort Smith to Aklavik amid an extremely dry season. Carelessness by prospectors and Indigenous peoples blamed in many cases. Icing on the scene is the Eldorado mine air strip opening at Great Bear Lake enabling larger airfreight.
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Edmonton
MacKay Meikle
Ottawa
Northwest Territories
Meikle
Eldorado Mine
Great Bear Lake
Wheat Prices Jump as Canadian Durum Hits 26 Year High
The Canadian Wheat Board raised Durum prices by four cents over export levels, with No 1 CW amber Durum at 2.20 dollars and No 2 CW at 2.20, No 3 CW at 2.19 in store Fort William Port Arthur and Vancouver. Export prices to non UK markets rose for Northern grades, reflecting strong US Durum premiums.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Wheat Board
C.W
Fort William
Port Arthur
Vancouver
United Kingdom
United States
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Arab Higher Committee of Palestine
Amir Paisal
Saudi Arabia
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