Relief Planned for Landlords Suffering Grievous Hardship
Ottawa reports the Prices Board will grant relief to landlords of tenanted dwellings up to December 31, 1946 who cannot occupy their own homes due to rental regulations. Commissions will hear petitions from both landlord and tenant, weighing hardship while considering morality and sanitation impacts. Affected cases may lead to vacating orders and one year rent or sale prohibitions.
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OLTAWA
U.P
Prices Board
Canada
Tia
special Prices Board
Longest Word in the Dictionary Sparks Debate in Derbyshire
The article notes two rival longest words, honorificabilitudinitatibus and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, highlighting Webster’s latest edition and a Halifax Herald aside advocating a law against smoking for women. The piece quotes Bennett Cerf and Merriam’s Robert Fuller on why those terms gained fame.
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Bennett Cerf
Saturday Review of Literature
Robert Fuller
Merriam's
Webster dictionaries
Mr. Fuller
Halifax Herald
70 Year Old Medicine Hat Woman Saves Sister From Flaming Auto
A 70-year-old Medicine Hat woman, Mrs Marty Westwood, and her sister Mrs EB Speating of St Mary's Ont were rescued after a car plunged 100 feet down an embankment and caught fire. Westwood pulled Speating from the wreckage despite a broken leg. Both survivors were in fair condition in hospital in Nelson B C.
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NELSON
B.C
C.P
Marty Westwood
Medicine Hat
Alta
EB. Speating
St. Mary’s
Ont
Moose Jaw Japs May Go Hungry
The federal government will today stop feeding about 100 Japanese described as hold outs from 1945 relocation camps. A group of 35 employables and their families refuse relocation grants and jobs elsewhere in Canada. The camp near Moose Jaw will close its mess hall, occupants will not be evicted but will be fed no more, and they will be treated as ordinary citizens seeking work. Approximately one third are Japanese nationals seeking unresolved property claims, with some having already found work or volunteered for repatriation.
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MOOSE JAW
Sask
labor department
British Columbia
W. W. Dawson
Canada
RCAF, flying school
Dawson
Japan
Senator Harmer’s Health Deteriorates in Hospital
Ottawa Aug 13 Senator William J Harmer of Edmonton remains in serious condition in civic hospital. Doctors report his state is a little weaker than yesterday after admission Aug 3 for an unspecified ailment.
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OTTAWA
C.P
William J. Harmer
Edmonton
civic hospital
seater
Threaten Jail For Monopolists in Price Probe
Attorney General Clark ordered a government inquiry into possible conspiracies behind high prices for food clothing and shelter with jail threats for monopolists. Industry spokesmen denied conspiracies and blamed costs labor and shortages. The Labor Statistics bureau reported June consumer prices 18 percent higher than June 1946 and 59 percent above August 1939.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Clark
New York
Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics
Helicopter Delivers Mail To Monarch at Balmoral Castle
The King at Balmoral received his mail by helicopter yesterday and launched Britain’s first hovercraft postal service. Two helicopters departed from Dyce Airport near Aberdeen and delivered mail to the castle, with service continuing through the royal stay.
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BALMORAL CASTLE
Scotland
Reuters
heliccopter
Britain
Dyce
Aberdeen
Marshall Leaves For Brazil Meet
Washington August 13 State Secretary Marshall and top advisers depart for Rio de Janeiro to firm up western hemisphere defenses. Attending flight aboard the Sacred Cow are Arthur W. Vandenberg Warren R. Austin and other officials. Truman will join later this month to address the conference preparing a formal defense treaty. Trygve Lie arrives as UN observer for the meeting the first foreign ministers gathering since 1942 to show hemispheric unity against the Axis.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
Marshall
Rio De Janeiro
Brazil
White House
Arthur W. Vandenberg
Rep
Mich
senate foreign relations committee
Warren R. Austin
United States
United Nations security council
Vermont
Trygve Lie
United Nations
New York
LaGuardia Field
Pan American World Airways
inam
Stoneman
Lie
Bue
Flames Race On Unabated
A bearded man claiming to be John Smith with ties to Schuylkill Haven walked a dim tunnel dodging five trains then exited safely but was fined 25 dollars for trespassing. In Nova Scotia flames advance toward Pleasant Bay and Cape North, forcing evacuations of 200 residents as a sea evacuation threat looms. Ontario firefighting teams battle 15 fires north of Lake Superior with 36 townships closed to travel. Chapleau area worst, 26 firefighters equipped, over 300 fighting fires. Cabot Trail travel banned by RB.C.M.P. due to Cape Breton Highlands fire.
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BALTIMORE
John Smith
Schuylkill Haven
Lady Luck
Smith
Preston A. Paire
HETICA
N.S
Cape Breton
Pleasant Bay
Wreck Cove
Meat Cove
Bay St. Margaret's
Cape North
R.CM.P. cutter
Cape Breton Highlands National Park
ONTARIO
SAULT ‘STE MARIE
Ont
Ontario forestry department
Lake Superior
Cochrane
Chapleau
tere
Wawa
Mississagi
Arthur W. Leman
SYDNEY
RB.C. M.P
Nova Scotia
Cabot trail
Cape Breton Highland
Cabinet Shake-up Rumors Rise as Attlee Faces Pressure
London reports say sweeping cabinet changes could begin during the six week recess if new measures fail to curb Britain’s economic crisis. Labor faces pressure from inside and outside the cabinet, with Bevan seen as potential leader if the government moves left. Young ministers urged for recasting roles to fit the era.
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LONDON
Reuters
Sayle iwicéu
Labor
Attlee
Attlea
Labor party
Aneurin Bevan
Canada’s 1947 Wheat Crop Estimated At 358 Million Bushels
Canada’s Dominion Bureau of Statistics places the 1947 wheat crop at 358,796,000 bushels, about 62,000,000 less than 1946. Prairie spring wheat totals 336,000,000 bushels with fall wheat 19,090,000, plus oats at 291,620,000 and barley at 154,554,000. Flaxseed rises to 10,900,000 bushels. rye totals show strong gains in fall and spring varieties.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
prairie provinces
Ontario
British Parliament adjourns after momentous session
London Aug 13 Parliament adjourned until Oct 20 as government officials meet with trade union leaders to plan for economic recovery. The crisis bill granting power to guide labor and industry received royal assent amid opposition moves to cut the recess. Morrison lambasted Conservatives as Salisbury defended opposition rights.
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LONDON
C.P
house of Lords
Rebels Flee Positions Around Asuncion in Paraguayan War
Buenos Aires Aug 15 An official Paraguayan source said rebel forces were fleeing from positions around Asuncion after a sharp defeat by loyal troops in the 15th Paraguayan rebellion. Loyalists追 in pursuit toward Piquete Cue and Villeta as Conception, rebel capital, had fallen July 31.
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BUENOS AIRES
Asmuelon
Piquete Cue
Villeta
Conception
Asuncion
Formosa
British Withdraw 150 Million From U S Credit
Washington reports Britain has drawn another 150 million dollars from the United States loan, leaving 850 million of an initial 3.75 billion. Officials warn the entire facility may be exhausted by October 1 if withdrawals continue. A separate British delegation heads to Washington for informal talks on revising the Anglo American loan.
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WASHINGTON
Britain
United States
treasury
Hugh Dalton
Attlee
LONDON
Diamond Knot sinks after collision in foggy Juan de Fuca Strait
The 5525-ton Seattle motorship Diamond Knot sank in fog off Tongue Point near Victoria after colliding with the freighter Fenn Victory. No casualties reported. 36 crew members rescued by towships and taken to Seattle or Port Angeles. Fenn Victory proceeds under its own power to Esquimalt as coast guard and tugs stand by.
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ICTORIA
Seattle
Diamond Knot
Fenn Victory
Strait
Juan de Fuca
Royal Canadian Navy
Alaska Steamship company
Thomas
Salvage Chieftain
United States coastguard
coast guard
Tongue Point
Victoria
United States coast guard
Fort Angeles
Wash
Séittle Tate
Portland
Gaidsick
N. Goodwin
Goodwin
Esquimalt
Alaska
atos Angeles
Consolidated Steel Corp
Pacific
Canada
strait of Juan De Fucas
Windsor Kiddies Swim Across Detroit River Feat
Windsor Ontario August 13 three children two boys and a girl swam nearly a mile across the Detroit River in an inflatable inner tube. They landed at Detroit’s Third Street docks near the Ambassador badge area and were retrieved by a U S mail boat. The boy George Taylor age 13 and Kenneth Fox age 11 faced a Canadian coast guard’s return, while 15 year old Joanne Beamer turned back and was surrounded by two Detroit police squads to halt the adventure.
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WINDSOR
Detroit
Deetroit
Third Street
George Taylor
Kenneth Fox
United States mail
Ambassecor
Joanne Beamer
Stabbings Shock Palestine as Deaths Rise Across Cities
Reports from Jaffa and Tel Aviv describe three melees leaving ten dead and twenty five wounded in a wave of Jewish Arab violence. British troops patrol the area as curfew considerations emerge while officials tally a month of heavy casualties including many British police and soldiers.
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1st infantry division
Jeruslem
Tel Aviv
Jaffa
Palestine
Holy Land
sonliers
McCurdy Named Lieut Gov of N S
Ottawa announces John Alexander Douglas McCurdy of Baddeck Nova Scotia as lieutenant governor succeeding Ban Kendall. McCurdy, 81, famed as Canada’s first flyer, flew in 1909 at Baddeck and has long led aircraft industry roles including wartime director of aircraft production and procurement. He is president of Montreal Aircraft Industries Ltd.
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OTTAWA
Mackenzie King
John Alexander Douglas McCurdy
Badiderk
N.S
Nova Scotia
Ban T. Kendall
McCurdy
Canada
empire
Baddeck
pene apal
department of municions and supply
Montreal Aircraft Indusries, Ltd
Montreal
Talks Open Monday on Easing Loan Terms
Treasury Secretary Snyder announced talks begin Monday with British officials to ease terms of the American loan to Britain totaling 3.755 billion dollars. The move signals diplomatic efforts to adjust wartime financing and global aid amid ongoing financial strains.
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WASHINGTON
A.P
Treasury
Snyder
Britain
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