Subsidies Criticized In Commons
In Ottawa April 22 opposition benches in the commons pressed the government over anti-inflation subsidies. Progressive Conservative members failed to win relief for veterans seeking homes bought before March 31, 1947, or to end eviction controls for new shared tenancies. Finance Minister Abbott argued changes would harm the housing market. Isley warned subsidies shield prices but warned they may become a transfer of purchasing power and may eventually end. The debate covered the future of subsidy payments with no firm forecast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OTTAWA
commons
Progressive Conservative
Donald Fleming
P.C
Toronto Eglinton
Abbott
Commodity Stabilization Corporation
C.C.F
Social Credit
Justice
Isley
Nine Die In Crash At Columbus Airport
A Delta Airlines plane carrying eight employees collided with a civilian training plane carrying a lone pilot at Columbus airport. Both aircraft burned for over an hour, trapping and killing all aboard. Delta manager T. J. Peddy said the training plane reportedly struck the tail of the Delta craft as it neared the runway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
COLUMBWS
Delta airlines
T. J. Peddy
Eastern Air Lines
Delta
Bureaucratic Quest for Vacuum Flask Ends in Odd Help
A Lincolnshire mother, Mrs X, seeks a vacuum flask via a medical board and wartime bureaucrats. Four certificates fail to satisfy officials until the doctor proclaims the system moved, enabling her to obtain the flask from another worker. The piece notes the strange, satirical tone of the exchange and hints at broader wartime shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Board of Trade
Stafford Cripps
British Medical Journal
Mrs. X
Offer Made For Court House Site Here
Large mercantile firm seeks to establish a store in Lethbridge and the province plans to sell the current court house property to reinvest in a new building. Aldermen considered three possible provincial site options within the civic centre and awaited further details from government officials before deciding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
LETHBRIDGE
Canada
mercante
Alberta
civic centre
H. J. Stacey
Edmonton
department of public works
Alex Snowdon
Mr. Stacey
Snowdon
council
Mr. Snowdon
Eckstorm Park
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Watson
AVR. and
7th St
2nd and
Srd Aves
Ald
Virtue
Fire at Texas City Warehouse Sparks New Blast
Texas City reports a fresh fire at the Texas City Terminal Railway warehouse storing ammonium nitrate seven days after the Grandcamp disaster. Deputy Mayor warns an explosion could occur any time as survivors prepare to testify. Authorities note 575 dead as final tally.
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TEXAS CITY
Tex
A.P
Texas City Terminal Railway
John Hill
Houston Chronicle
Grandcamp
Grandecamp
coast guard
Roy Wade
department, of public safety
Monsanto Chemical Corporation
Ben Lapham, Jr
Mission
Texas
High Flyer
Lapham
Wilson
Keene
Galveston
sald
Income Tax Cut Seen Likely In 1947 48 Budget
Ottawa April 22 The Canadian Press reports a possible immediate 10 percent tax cut across all brackets in the coming budget. Exemptions for single persons may rise from 750 to 1 000 dollars and married exemptions from 1 500 to 1 150 dollars. Measures could take effect Jan 2 1948 and aim to ease living costs and wage pressures. The government may also end the war excess profits tax on business and unveil the budget May 1 if emergency legislation passes.
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OTTAWA
C.P
commons
Quiz Kid gunfire ends in fatal shooting in Chicago apartment kitchen
Kelly, famed quiz show quizzmaster, shot at two intruders in his kitchen last night. One burglar, Harold C. Fransen, 25, was killed after leaping a fence and receiving four bullets, with evidence of a wounded companion. Police identify the dead man from fingerprints. Kelly and family were in their living room when the noise occurred. he fired four shots after the intruders refused orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold C. Fransen
United States army
Kelly
Mary
Joseph, Jr
Subsidies Costly in 1846, Stabilization Board Reports
Ottawa April 22 The Commodity Prices Stabilization Corporation paid total subsidies of 69 million dollars for the 1846 calendar year. Justice Minister Isley told the commons last night that trading losses added 17 million, making a total outlay of 86 million.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Commodity Prices Stabilization Corporation
Isley
commons
22 Injured on Aquitania in North Atlantic Crossing
The Aquitania docked in Southampton after a gale bound for Britain from Halifax and Bermuda left 22 injured. One passenger, Judith Fraser of Vancouver, required hospital care for rib and facial injuries. The ship remained undamaged, while Mauretania faced docking delays at Liverpool due to 80 mph gusts. Warspite was adrift off Land’s End en route to be scrapped. Capt. Cove reported a westerly gale and reduced speed to limit rolling.
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SOUTHAMPTON
Eng
U.P
Atlantic
Cunard - White Star
Britain
Halifax
Bermuda
Judith Fraser
Vancouver
Liverpool
Warspire
Land's End
England
Concerted drive takes welfare control from government
In Toronto on April 22 7 the restaurant sector faces new pressures as welfare control shifts amid rising costs. Nat Bailey of Vancouver told the Canadian Restaurant Association that higher meat prices have been absorbed, squeezing operators further. In Calgary on April 22 4 officials approved 1947 civic estimates and set a tax rate of 505 mills, down from last year's 46.
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TORONTO
Nat Bailey
Vancouver
Canadian Restaurant Association
CALGARY
Danger Seen From Uncontrolled Displaced Persons
London reports warn that bands of displaced persons with gunmen traitors and terrorists could threaten Europe unless the United Nations International Refugee Organization becomes a workable body with 15 supporting nations. Britain notes 20,000 displaced under British care and 12,090 in Anglo American camps in Italy while 23 to 30 million Germans were displaced postwar. The LRRO aims to repatriate about 3 million claimants, voluntary return urged. Britain will not force returns.
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LONDON
Europe
United Nations International refugee organization
strast
Italy
shri
Germany
LR.O
Britain
LR O
U.N
IR.C
Russia
tastern
international refugee organization
Officials Claim Welfare Campaign Drive By Private Agencies
Edmonton officials rebut Dr. Charlotte Whitton as Canada s welfare system comes under fire. They say private interests seek to assume control by government grants, citing Ottawa and Vancouver as precedents. Detail concerns include 76 adoptions to American couples from 1,716 Alberta births, with visas checked by the U S consulate before export of babies.
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EDMONTON
C.P
Alberta
Charlotte Whitton
Calgary
Whitton
Dr. Whitton
Vancouver
United States
Edmonton group buys Birks building downtown
Edmonton news reports a four story Birks building purchase by local business and professional leaders. The 21 000 square foot downtown office space cost not disclosed with partial figures noted. The item reflects a major local real estate transaction.
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EDMONTON
Birks
Two condemned Jews die by own action before gallows
Terrorists attacked a British troop train southeast of Tel Aviv, killing at least eight and injuring many. Hours earlier in Jerusalem prison two condemned Jews, Meyer Feinstein and Moshe Barazini, detonated explosives on their bodies to end their sentences. The blast damaged the Egypt Express, derailing four coaches and triggering a massive rescue and manhunt.
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CARTER L. DAVIDSON
ERUSALEM
Tel Aviv
Egypt Express
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Probaly
Rehovot
Holy Land
Jerusalem
Meyer Feinstein
Moshe Barazini
Feidstein
Barazini
Feinstein
Dov Bela Griner
Jewish underground
Acre
Palestine
STERN
Irgun Zval Leumi
Reach Truce On Picketing In Minneapolis
Striking telephone workers agreed to a truce until 8 am Wednesday after a 16 hour meeting with Mayor Hubert Humphrey. The pact followed a promise from Northwestern Bell to begin bargaining on a five state regional basis at 8 am. Mass picketing would be reduced to eight in front of each entry, yet toll service remained shut down in Minneapolis.
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MINNEAPOLIS
Apri
Hubert Humphrey
John Kremers
Northwestern Bell Telephone
Omaha
Towa
Nebraska
Minnesota
Dakotas
Matt Weir
North Western Union of Telephone Workers
K. W. Emanuelson
C.S.T
Nazi Hoarded Hungarian Assets Return To Budapest
The United States shipped 25 million dollars in Nazi hoarded Hungarian assets back to Budapest including 120 tons of silver from the Hungarian National Bank and 3.7 hundred priceless cultural objects. The cargo traveled by heavily armed US Army train via Vienna and Germany, destined for Budapest, to restore Hungary's economy after wartime Nazi looting.
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FRANKFURT
United States
Budapest
Hungary
britt
United States state department
Hungaran
United States army
Vienna
Germany
Aussia
tomyit
Seek Break Stalemate in Austrian Peace Talks
Moscow dispatch reports a second secret session of the council of foreign ministers in an effort to break the stalemate on the Austrian peace treaty. Western powers oppose Russia on key territorial claims, with potential for one more session before a final decision. US favors a New York session in September. France seeks late summer or fall, with deputy ministers pressed on German proposals in the interim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
MOSCOW
council of foreign
ters
lneupon
Russia
Molotov
United States
New York
London
May Day Budget Set for May 1 Release
Ottawa reports indicate the budget will be unveiled on May 1 pending approval of emergency control legislation. Government progress suggests the measure will pass in time for May presentation and the budget to follow.
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OTTAWA
Texas City blaze extinguished after two hours
A fire erupted in Texas City involving a 2 warehemst containing 1,060 tons of ammonium nitrate. Firemen battled the blaze for two hours and ext in guished it by 11:25 a.m. No injuries are reported.
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TEXAS CITY
Tex
MEDICINE HAT
WINNIPEG
Ronald Cayenne
Alta
Harry Sinclair
excape
U.S. SENATE
WASHINGTON
United States senate
Greece
Darkity rest
senate
house of representatives
NEGRO
NEW ORLEANS
Louisiana pardon board
Willie’ Frances
nexro
Franck
Andrew Thomas
Martinville
Francis
HENRY WALLACE
FARIS FARIS
Newry
Wallace
Copenhagen
CALGARY
BRITAIN
LONDON
Reuters
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indaha
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Ford
Edsel Ford
Henry Ford
TOKYO
U. S
Austria
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