Cripps outlines austerity and selective tax relief
Sir Stafford Cripps announced a minor income tax cut for lower brackets while keeping wartime tax policy and wage freezes. He boosted gasoline prices and rationing, pledging stronger beer but higher costs, as unions demand wage increases and the house adjourned after a two hour budget speech.
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ONDON
Stafford Cripps
house of commons
CRIPPS
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
HOUSE
Eden
Warning Averts Tragedy on Plane Plot in Angeles
Police blamed John Henry Grant for a planned bombing on a United Airlines DC-3 traveling with 16 passengers to San Diego. Detectives said the plan aimed to marry a redhead, Miss Betty Suomela, and included a suicide attempt. Grant confessed after an accidental gasoline-timb-bomb detonation, foiling the attack during a birthday trip for his son Bobby.
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ANGELES
John Henry Grant
Quebec
Grant
Jack Goldstone
C. E. Reams
Betty Suomela
United Air Lines
San Diego
Bobby
J. Albert Guay
Guay
Marguerite Pitre
pikne
Rita
Marie-Ange Robitaille
United
Ream
London City replanning schemes feature new roads and vistas
London’s City planning plan aims to revamp the area with open spaces new office blocks and restored vistas around St Pauls including possible Temple Bar moves while abandoning undergrounding Cannon Street Blackfriars and Holborn stations at a cost of about 40 million pounds. The City’s plan blends private enterprise with municipal work and has produced over twenty schemes valued at roughly 12 million pounds, with licensing for about 3 million. It is expected to take 29 years to complete.
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City of London
St. Paul's
Temple Bar
Strand
Lucgate Hill
Temple
Cannon Street
Blackfriars
Holborn
London
Ottawa Journal
City corporation
U S Now Accuses Russia In Baltic Sea Incident
The United States charges Russia with shooting down a missing U S Navy Privateer over open Baltic waters. It demands punishment and indemnity for 16 lives, rejects Moscow’s claim of American overflight, and calls for strict Soviet air force instructions to prevent future incidents.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Baltic Sea
Russia
puy
Latvia
Moscow
Alan G. Kirk
TS. navy
Wiesbaden
Germany
Copenhagen
Denmark
U.S
Baltic
Opposition MLA seeks end to compulsory grain marketing act
An Manitoba legislature member urged repeal of the coarse grains marketing control act. John McDowell moved second reading of a private bill to abolish compulsory marketing and restore free market conditions. The motion followed debate over the 1549 act and its ongoing effects on grain trade.
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WINNIPEG
Manitoba
John McDowell
Ind.P.C
Therville
Votes Wrong Way In Canadian Parliament Filibuster Edges On
The Canadian Commons clears a pipe line filibuster for a brief lull as 18 of 258 members attend. George Cruickshank is red faced after voting the Wrong War once. a Progressive Conservative mover seeks adjournment for lack of quorum. Two private bills to form Alberta Natural Gas Company and Prairie Transmission Lines Limited face committee review. allies clash with Liberals and Social Credit. The bills aim to build a gas pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia with debates likely to resume.
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UAWA
commons
George Cruickshank
Fraser Valley
Cruickshank
committee on
Alberta Natural Gas Company
Praire Transmission Lines Limited
Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
United States
Progressive Conservative
CCF
motens
Liberal ad Social Credit
Knife attacker hunted after double assault at Calgary auto camp
CALGARY April 18 A knife-wielding assailant attacked a man and woman at a southwest Calgary auto camp. Taken to hospital in a wild battle were August Grandquillet about 50 and Isabel Bjor about 35. Grandquillet suffered stab wounds to head face and arms and received blood transfusions. both victims reported in fair to satisfactory condition.
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CALGARY
August Grandquillet
Isabel Bjor
Too Many Deserters in Britain Says Defense Minister
London April 18 defense minister Emmanuel Shinwell pledged a personal inquiry into desertions from Britain's armed forces, about 200 a month. He noted 19,477 deserters nominally at large, with breakdowns from navy army and RAF, and suggested numbers may be inflated by multiple absences and Irish Republic origins. The plan follows a conference at The Hague on Western Union.
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LONDON
CPI
Emanuel Shinwell
Britain
house of commons
Shinwell
western union
The
Hague
navy
army
RAF
Irish Republic
oas
montana
Uranium price up to six dollars a pound urged
Mr Bennett spoke at the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy outlining increases to the annual price formula for uranium concentrates. The calculation shows a $6 per pound price for 30 to 40 per cent uranium ore after milling allowances, with other scenarios giving substantial final values. The period for a guaranteed price extension was announced to March 31, 1958. Eldorado Mining will apply the new formula f.o.b. rai. The Geological Survey notes only about 1 in 100 finds have real economic potential.
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Bennett
Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Eldorado Mining and Refining
f.o.b. rai
Howe
Ottawa
A. H. Lang
Geological Survey of Canada
Pilot Vic Barber in Winnipeg jet crash conditions serious
RCAF officials say Flying Officer Vic Barber, who crashed Sunday in west Winnipeg, remains in serious condition and has not lost his right leg despite earlier reports. His severely shattered leg was salvaged by doctors, with a nurse and eyewitnesses noting severed or lost portions of the foot.
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WINNIPEG
RCAF
Vic Barber
FO. Barber
Whitehorse Moves Toward Municipal Status in Yukon
Whitehorse prepares to establish its first municipal government under a Yukon Territorial Council framework. The town will elect a mayor and four councilors, take over street, lighting, and fire protection duties, and begin collecting its own taxes while schools and hospitals remain under territorial control.
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Yukon Territorial Council
Dawson City
Whitehorse
Yukon council
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Klondike
Yokor
Mayo
Dawson
Gillis Fights Communist in Downtown Hotel Alley
Clare Gillis a Cape Breton South MP candidate who is 55 describes a Saturday night alley brawl with a Communist sympathizer in a downtown hotel tavern. Gillis, a former coal digger and wartime welterweight champion, says he intervened when the man attacked an elderly patron and later challenged him outside, landing blows to the nose before the fight ended.
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UAWA
Clare Gillis
Cape Breton South
Gillis
Gills
Vancouver Followers Plan Flight to Philadelphia for Father Divine Marriage Anniversary
About 50 of Father Divine's Vancouver followers intend to charter a plane to Philadelphia for the fourth anniversary wedding to Edna Rose Ritchie. Mrs Anne Harvie says as many as 50 will go, cost not exceeding 150 dollars each, with stays at Father Divine's hotels for strict followers at low meals. The bride has not spoken to followers since her 1946 marriage.
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Anne C. Harvie
Harvie
heaven
Mrs. Divine
Father Divine
Mrs. Harvie
Thousands homeless by floods in North Dakota
North Dakota and Western Minnesota faced major floods April 18 as rivers creeks and ditches overflowed, leaving 1,288 families homeless according to the American Red Cross. Bridges were swept away isolating communities and delaying relief as rain and lingering snow bound areas.
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North Dakota
BISMARCK
N.D
Minnesota
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Gladstone
Climax
Minn
Grand Forks
Homes Collapse in Isogawa Village Amid Rats Blamed
In Isogawa village Tokyo residents report the village reservoir collapsed along with two houses and a bridge. Water reached thirty houses as rats reportedly dug burrows into the reservoir banks. Five hundred engineers are studying the problem.
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TOKYO
Isogawa
Case Lost Tot Proves Baffling
In Canterbury England on April 18 police probe the disappearance of three year old Pamela Poirier. The mother was living in Vancouver when last heard from and Pamela vanished from her foster home three days ago. Police and 100 soldiers search woods within five miles. Chief Inspector Cory calls it the stickiest case. The mother left for Canada after the birth and was living in Vancouver a year ago. Pamela’s father is believed in Britain.
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CANTERBURY
England
CPr
Pamela Poirier
Vancouver
Pamela
P. W. Cory
East Kent police
Canada
Gravesend
Kent
Britain
Public works awards three Alberta road contracts
Edmonton April 18 CP three contracts totaling over 500000 were approved by the provincial public works department. Largest went to W C Wells Co Edmonton for asphalt surfacing Pincher Creek Lundbreck Drywood Creek at 325690. A 99828 contract for Swalwell Huxley near Trochu also to Wells. Gibbs Co Medicine Hat to grade Beisecker Kinley scheel for 145988.
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PINCHER-LUNDBRECK
EDMONTON
public works department
W. C. Wells Co
Pincher Creek
Lundbreck
Drywood Creek
Swalwell
Huxley
Trochu
F. KR. Gibbs Co
Medicine Hat
Beisecker
Kinley scheel
MONTREAL
Neilh
Joseph Lucas
Ster
St. Lawrence River
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