NZ Delegate Jord andenounces Soviets at peace talks
At the Paris peace conference New Zealand delegate W J Jordan publicly denounces Soviet remarks calling the proceedings a blasted old rat He demands action and urges the chair to proceed amid a stormy session with Andrei Vishinsky defending the Soviet stance and Finland and Romania commissions being affected by war status votes. Canada may speak soon to back the US Italy draft and senior delegates regret not attending a King reception.
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PARIS
New Zealand
W. J. Jordan
Mr. Jorden
Andrei Vishinsky
VISHINSKY
Romania
France
commission
Finland
N. V. Novikov
United States
Italy
Bulgaria
Hungary
Jordan
Dmitri Manuilsky
Canada
Nawrajindia
India
J. A. Beasley
Australia
C.P. Cable
Ukraine
Russia
Dana Wileress
Mackenzie King
Pitcairn Island’s Bounty Descendants Face Modern Encroachment
The article traces Pitcairn Island mutineers who fled with Tahitian women in 1790 and established isolation. It notes population strain by 192, historic ties to Norfolk Island, and a radar installation on Norfolk’s summit. New Zealand forces left vehicles and planes as world attention grows on the Bounty descendants.
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Pitcairn Island
Montreal Gazette
H.M.S. Bounty
Otaheite
Pitcairn
Norfolk Island
Norfolk Islands
New Zealand
Deserter Write-Off Sparks Commons Debate in Ottawa
In Ottawa the Commons debated write-offs of deserters from service books. T. L. Church failed to move adjournment to press the issue and called it an insult to the glorious dead. Speaker Pauteux ruled the matter non urgent, slated for discussion with Defence Minister Abbott's estimates next week.
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OTTAWA
Ang. lé
T. L. Church
P.C
Toronto Broadview
commons
Gaspard Pauteux
Abbott
Edmon ton Grande Prairie Dawson Creek highway route debated
August 16 Paris reports none decision on route to connect Edmon ton with Grande Prairie Alta and Dawson Creek BC in proposed all weather highway. Fallon says direct Whitecourt Alta to Grande Prairie may be favored. TB would cut over 100 miles from present circuitous path. Government weighing sharing costs with Alberta. Delegation from province met Ottawa senate tourist trade committee last week.
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GRANDE PRAIRIE
DAWSON CREEK
EDMONTON
Alta
W. A. Fallon
Mexico
Whitehorse
Alaska
Alberta
senate tourist trade committee
Ottawa
Decree Death for 18 Jews in Haifa bombing verdict
Eighteen defiant Jewish youths were sentenced to death after bombing the Haifa railroad shops. Four Jewish women received life terms. The trials followed Irgun calls for revolt and Vaad Leumi urged a non cooperation strike Sunday. The country remained tense over deportations to Cyprus as 200 to 300 migrants landed unseen. The 22 Jews were tried in absentia after being ousted for singing in court.
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JERUSALEM
C.P
Haifa
Irgun Zvat Leumi
Vaad Leumi
national council for Palestine Jews
Cyprus
Palestine
Tel Aviv
Jewish agency
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Truman
United States
Veterans Affairs housing debates in Commons by Veterans Land Act
In Ottawa the Commons examined Veterans Affairs estimates focusing on small holdings under the Veterans Land Act. Veterans Minister Mackenzie faced charges over Calgary houses, with Inspector approvals questioned and a city engineer citing material shortages. Torrential exchanges followed as questions of construction quality and costs were raised amid broader debates on the wheat agreement and road tourism funding.
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OTTAWA
department of veterans affairs
Veterans Land Act
agriculture department
John Bracken
C.CP
Social Credit
commons
Canada
W. A. Buchanan
Alberta
senate
banking committee
veterans department
timates
SMALL HOLMINGS
Mackenzie
Bow River
V.SA
Calgary
Johnston
Walter Tucker
justice of peace
Beenseas
Johnson
British minister to visit Calgary in historic pensions tour
Wilfred Paling of the British government arrives in Calgary for a Canada United States tour. Joseph Button district official says the visit will inspect local department facilities and mark the first official British minister for pensions to visit Canada.
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CALGARY
Wilfred Paling
Brill Renneds
Joseph Button
department of vetormax affairs
department
Canada
United States
Pu-Yi defends puppet throne in Manchuria trial
Henry Pu-Yi testifies at the war crimes trial of Japan's leaders, recounting his 1932 33 enthronement under threat to his life and blaming Allied inaction for allowing Japanese conquest. He describes birth in 1906, early enthronement, and his movement from Peiping to Manchuria under Japanese control.
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HENRY PU
TOKYO
Henry Pu-Yi
Manchuria
Pu-Yi
Japan
Hideki Tojo
Tojo
China
Peiping
Direct Action day violence and protests in Calcutta
Eighty people were killed and 825 injured as Direct Action day clashes rocked Calcutta with moslem volunteers stopping transport and streets, while the Mostem Pracue called a country wide strike. Jinnah met Nehru but no progress toward an interim government was made.
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Reuters
ALCUTTA
Mostem Pracue
India
Calcutta
Moster League
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Congress party
Bombay
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Nehru
Bengal Provincial Congress Committee
All-India
Ford repair parts price rise disputed by minister
Ottawa August 16 Reconstruction Minister Howe said his department does not control prices and he is not aware of any increase in Ford repair parts in western Canada. He was replying to Solon Law who claimed parts prices recently rose by 20 percent.
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FORD
OTTAWA
h —Reconstruction
Howe
Canada
Solon Law
tal Credit leader
Millard
Prices Board
Steel talks fail in Ottawa strike settlement bid
Ottawa and steel officials announced that union and company negotiators failed to reach a settlement on the month‑old Canadian steel strike involving 15,000 workers. Brockington proposed a 10 cent wage increase with arbitration. the union pressed for 15 cents, amid government and company wage limits for Stelco, Dominion Steel and Coal, and Algoma.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Maurice Lalonde
L. Labelle
commons
L. W. Brockington
Tulonde
Brockington
Steel Company of Canada
Hamilton
United Steelworkers of America
C.I.0
Stelco
Dominion Steel and Coal Corp
Sydney
N.S
Algoma Steel Corp
Sault Ste. Marie
Cnt
Algoma
Brelco
Lalonde
Mr. Lalonde
three man arbitration board
Algoma and
Doscco
Premier King Has Special Session With Bevin
Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Foreign Secretary Bevin held a secret interview in Paris on current peace conference issues. The talks may influence Canada's planned stance before plenary sessions, as Canada weighs possible input to resolve the deadlock among Allies and powers. Calgary weighs town planning as a special civic department, with Alderman Brown and consultant B G Faludi discussion continuing.
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ROSS MUNRO
PARIS
P. Cabble
Mackenzie
King
Bevin
Britain
Canadian delegration
Claxton
Canada
United States
Alcite De Gasperi
Italy
Immed
CALGARY
town planing commission
B. G. Faludi
Toronto
G. M. Brown
beaity
Fuludi
Japan ese properties sold to veterans in Canada plan
Veterans Minister Mackenzie told Crarke Cruickshank in Ottawa that the former Japanese properties in British Columbia have been sold to war veterans and the remainder will be made available as quickly as possible. He cited that many applicants were men with little overseas service and expected within ten days a safe price for the small Fraser Valley holdings.
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WAR VETERANS
OTTAWA
Mackenzie
Crarke Cruickshank
Praser Valley
Hiitish Columbia
Cruickshank
Fraser Valley
Her Letter to Soldier Reveals Surprise Marriage
A Stars and Stripes letter from a private recounts a buddy facing five years hard labor and his fiancée responds with shocking news we learn she has married his father. The cousin mail ends with a warm sign off from a new stepmother.
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TOKYO
United States army
Stars and Stripes
Albert
moarher
Total Civil War Seen Near in China
Glenn Babb reports from Forugn News Analyst that China teeters toward total civil war with years of misery ahead. Chiang Kai-Shek vows reforms but Communists reject promises, as fighting spreads north of the Yangtze and Manchuria falls under Communist control, threatening 440 million people with famine and war.
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GLENN BABB
Associated Press Forugn
Dewid Mackenzie
China
Gen. Marshall
J. Leighton Stuart
Chiang Kai-Shek
national assembly
foith
Chiang
Yangtze river
Manchuria
Japan
Great Wail
South China Sea
Europe
Charge G.B. U.S. Troops Aiding Fascist Mobs
Belgrade on August 16 reported by UPI that Yugoslavia accused British and American troops of aiding fascist mobs in Venezia Giulia west of the region occupied by Allied forces. Belgrade said the protest is the sixth since March 12 and cites insults to the Yugoslav flag emblems portraits of Marshal Tito and attacks on Yugoslav armed members, with no reply from the United States or Britain.
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BELGRADE
uPi
Yugoslavia
Venezia Giula
Amer
jcan
foreign ministry
United States
Tite
Polar Blast Brings Snow In Alberta
Alberta reels under a polar air mass from the north bringing rain and snow. Calgary logged a near freezing 33. Whitecourt and Grande Prairie saw near frost while Edmonton and Penhold reported significant precipitation. Calgary and Medicine Hat endured early snow and frost risks lacing crops, with fears of crop damage across southern Alberta.
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EDMONTON
C.P
Pukom
British Columbia
Calgary
Whitecourt
Grande Prairie
perth
Dominion
Alaska
Fort Nelson
Alberta
PENHOLD
Peace River
atanton
Medicine Hat
Red Deer
Markersville
Sylvan Lake
Desperate bandit hunted by police in Ontario bush
In Embrun a wounded armed bandit exchanged gunfire with constables after an abortive Royal Bank branch robbery. He ditched a stereo taxi in Russell as police pursued him through nearby bush.
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EMBRUN
Ont
Russel
Royal Bank
CLAXTON
LEGAL COMMISSION
PARIS
Canada
Breeke Claxton
legal and drafting commission of
Stanfiee
CANYON
B.C
C.R
Lister
Huscroft
Arrow Creek
Nekon
herel te acheel
KING
BERLIN
NUERNBERG
C.P. Cabbe
BLC.A.F
Dakota
Mackenzie King
Nurenberg
Dieppe
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U.S
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