Nova Scotia woman wins 1948 Miss Canada title
Jean Ferguson of Halifax, 20, captured the Miss Canada crown in Hamilton before 9,000 spectators. She earned a $3,000 scholarship and prizes as the first Nova Scotian winner, with Phyllis Williams and Ethel Valgardson finishing second and third.
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Ethel Christie Watgardson
Taber
Hamilton
Herald Engravite
Lethbridge
Nova Scotia
Canada
Jean ‘Ferguson
Halifax
Atlantic City
Yorks
Barbara Joe Walker Hummel
Memphis
Tenn
R.A. Ferguson
Jean
Phyllis Willams
Toronto
Tina Bodden
Connie Laldiaw
Betty Jane Pike
Jean Rigby
Irene Ayers
Irene Phyllis Williams
Ethel Valgardson
Tabor
Alta
Miss Ferguson
Proposed federal mansion for vice president eyed in California
The St. Thomas Times-Journal notes California proposes a federal mansion near Washington to house the vice president, with Governor Earl Warren in mind. Secret meetings by the California Chamber of Commerce discuss a $100,000 plus home and possible future use, naming Evalyn Walsh McLean as a possibility.
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TOM DEWEY
United States
California
Washington
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Earl Warren
alk congress
California Chamber of commerce
Warrington horn
Une
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Georgetown
Prime Minister Mackenzie King Returns to Ottawa
Prime Minister Mackenzie King arrived in Ottawa after a seven day US holiday. The 73 year old leader traveled from his summer home in Quebec and spoke with staff about plans for Earl Mountbatten’s Ottawa dinner, saying he enjoyed the trip and would resume duties Monday.
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OTTAWA
Mackenzie King
United States
Gatineau hills
Hing
Seat Harbor
Earl Mountbatten
King
Aonday
Alberta reports 1947 8 surplus and income gains
Edmonton April 1 The Alberta government shows a sunplay of 87 388 726 on it with an overall surplus of 6 740 480 on income and capital accounts for 1947 8 Provincial Auditor Muckvale reported yesterday A 633 184 projected deficit for the year ending last March liquor profits 902 741 contributed toward the surplus compared with an estimate of 1 500 000
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EDMONTON
Alberta
Muckvale
Socialize Coal and Power Tops Canadian C C F Platform
Winnipeg reports the Canadian C C F convention moving toward socialization of coal and steel and fuel industries such as gas oil and electricity through state or cooperative ownership. Planks call for public ownership of banks and the Canadian Pacific Railway. Farm program drafts push long term farm credit socialized banking rural electrification and housing with security of tenure and flood control measures.
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WINNIPEG
CAE
Canadian Pacific Railway
C.C.F
conbrea
Canada
Harold Winch
British Columbia
PUP
winch
B.C
Dominion
wheat board
national council
Seek Expulsion of Smelter Union From Labor Council
The Globe and Mail reports the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees frames a demand to expel the International Mine Mill and Smelter Workers from the Canadian Congress of Labor. A council meeting on August 28 will consider the move following a July 19 publication note about wage negotiations and discontent among rank and file members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TORONTO
Globe and Mall
Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees
C.C.L
Canadian Congress of Labor
executive council
International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
C.I.0
brotherhood
wege
A. R. Mosher
CCL
State of Emergency Declared in Burma
Burmese President Sao Shwe Thaik declared a grave emergency and issued a martial law act to fight rebellion. The act allows martial law in any area with suspending civil administration and placing powers in the armed forces. Government warns it will bomb and machine-gun all rebel-held territory and Civilians are urged to evacuate. Communists are charged with leading the uprising.
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RANGOON
Sao Shwe Thaik
Burma
rovernment
Child fugitive holds off posse for hours in Arkansas siege
In Harrison Arkansas a six year old mountaineer fugitive held off a 30 man posse for hours near Hasty. He allegedly shot his alleged aunt or guardian injuring officers, set fire to a Dix house, and then disappeared. Police say Heywood Brown and his elderly sister died in the charred remains after three state police were wounded. Brown sheltered in a wooded area twenty miles south of Harrison as officers attempted to arrest him on an insanity warrant.
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HARRISON
Ark
Dix
J. R. Porter
Hasty
Heywood Brown
Arkansas
Brown
mies
here
Manitoba Opposes Rail Freight Rate Rise Move
Premier Garson announces Manitoba will file a formal opposition to a 20 percent freight rate increase sought by Canadian railways. He argues wages rising 17 cents an hour do not justify higher rates and cites traffic growth, depreciation costs, and railways' solid finances as factors. The province seeks a royal commission and plans to apply to the board to stay proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WINNIPEG
C.P
Garson
Manitoba
Canadian railways
board of transport commissioners
Rianitoba
Dominion
My. Garson
mhy
Tory Quebec To Be Well Represented
MONTREAL August 31 M- Ivan Sabourin Progressive Conservative leader in Quebec and vice president of the federal party says Quebec will send at least 322 delegates to the national convention in Ottawa opening September 30. Delegates include ex officio general and official delegates from seven ridings, representing workers farmers educators newspaper men business and professionals across the province.
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MONTREAL
Ivan Sabourin
Quebec
Ottawa
Quebee
John Bracken
Canada
representa~ve
Progressive Conservative
tach ring with & CoT
Russians vow to stay in Berlin as US MPs remain
Armed Russian troops will remain concentrated in central Berlin as long as United States military police are stationed there. Four western sector German policemen were kidnapped today, two with violence, amid a tense street conference near Potsdamer Platz. Lt Col HR Kelly said Americans will act without Soviet help if offenses occur, while patrols are reinforced by all sides. The talks aim at a truce in the ongoing police clash.
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ERLIN
Berlin
United States
Potsdamer Platz
HR. Kelly
ASK
Kelly
Danube Pact Keeps River Under Soviet Influence
Belgrade August 21. Western powers reject the Danube pact. Russia and satellites control river navigation from central Germany to the Black Sea. American shipper penetration is blocked by joint control in Hungary Romania and Yugoslavia. Sanitation and policing rest with respective states under the new arrangement.
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BELGRADE
Danube
Europe
Russia
Germany
Black Sea
Andre Vishinsky
Hungary
Romania
Yugoslavia
Austria
atellite
Mosley Denies Plans for U S Speaking Tour
Sir Oswald Mosley British fascist leader denies plans to visit the United States for a speaking engagement. A Wiltshire farm staffer releases his message stating no near term trip, contradicting reports of U S immigration barring him.
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LONDON
Sir Oswald Mosley
United States
Wiltshire farm
New Orleans Times-PicayUne
Mosley
Sip Oswald
Union movement
America
Soviet Consul General Lomakin to sail next Saturday
Soviet Consul General Jakob Lomakin, expelled by the U.S. State Department, has booked passage with his wife and two children on the Stockholm sailing liner. The ship will travel New York to Gothenburg. Official notes hint at possible retaliatory moves by the Soviet Union in the refugee teacher dispute.
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WASHINGTON
C.P
Jakob
B. Lomakin
U.S. state department
Stockholm
New York
steamship line
Gothenburg
Lomakin
Zot I. Chepurnykh
Soviet Union
U.S
ipleg
state department
Oksana S. Kasenkina
United States
Lomakin's
Truman
United
Margarine Debate Drives CCF Convention Split
At the Winnipeg CCF national convention delegates approved manufacture and sale of margarine after a long debate. They rejected freeing margarine from all restrictions and backed a crown company control plan. The dairy plank urged butter subsidies and New Zealand butter imports when needed.
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WINNIPEG
C.P
C.CF
New Zealand
Herbert Gargave
British Columbia
Mackenzie
Worst Jap Camp Leader Dies by Own Hand
Ottawa reports Lieut Masato Yoshida former camp commander at Niigata where 70 Canadians died hanged himself in his jail cell He was blamed for harsh treatment of prisoners and called the worst commandant among Japan’s wartime camp leaders tied to Hong Kong incidents.
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OTTAWA
Masato Yoshida
Yoshida
Niigata
Hong Kong
Pilots Escape Death in Pat Bay Hangar Fire
Two Trans-Canada Airlines pilots from Vancouver escaped death when a fire swept the end of a Patricia Bay hangar they slept in. Capt Vic Wells and First Officer Don McLean leapt through a window as flames and smoke filled the area causing at least $50,000 in damage.
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T.C.A
PAT BAY
VICTORIA
Trans-Canada Airlines
ohe
Patricia Bay
Vic Wells
Don McLean
Vancouver
SASKATOON
MINEURS
Alta
George Schwald
here
Edmonton
Schwald
FRANKFURT
Germany
radio
Canada
porthland
RLUAF
toda
remeve
HALIFAX
C.P
Newfoundland
Torbay
Sydney
N.S
United States
Water Weeds Limited
Polly
Montreal
als
St. Catharine Street
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TRE
Smelter Union
Posse
Tory
U.S. M.P
Reds
West
Lomakin Books
Passage Home
ZpAcATEEN
Crown Co
D.c.e
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