CCF Urges Socialist Policy At Canadian Convention
Winnipeg dispatch reports the CCF national convention endorsing a socialist program. Public ownership would include banks, railways, and key industries, with social ownership extending to agriculture, meat packing, and fertilizer. They seek wartime tax renewal, price controls, grain-market steps, and broader national planning.
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WINNIPEG
C.P
Ottawa
C.C
C.C.F
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
COP
Maritimes
Newfoundland
senate
privy council
Dominion
Berlin Tensions Rise as Russians Release Americans
A Russian-led move frees U S officials Thomas P Headen and two other Americans after overnight detention in Berlin. A Russian seizure of a German photographer near Potsdamer Platz sparks fresh tension in the divided city amid ongoing civil war between east and west police forces.
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BERLIN
Thomas P. Headen
U.S
No-Man's Land
Potsdamer Platz
Frankfurt
Soviet zone
Sherman Turner
Roland Myers
Henden
Information services
Potsdatmer Platz
Headen
Franz Erdmann
Olympic stadium
Erdmann
Potsdamer Plitz
Koethener Street
Landmark Nose Trace Solves Weekend Missing Woman Case
In Sermont New York Over weekend search for Mrs Margaret Guzma ended when a dog named Spotter from Little Brook tracked the scent from her clothing to confirm her location The dog took twelve minutes to work and investigators note the trail was about thirty eight hours old The story underscores the effectiveness of bloodhounds in tracking missing persons The Left Hand Corner continues on the back page.
12 Year Old Big Game Hunter Arrives From Safari
Elaine Monesmith, 12, from Dayton, arrives after a Belgian Congo safari just in time to return to junior high. She reports bagging two elephants seven buffalo a lion five leopards three hippos two rhinos four crocodiles and many antelope. Her father J T Monesmith, 43, a machine tool manufacturer, also hunted an elephant a leopard a hippopotamus and some antelope.
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NEW YORK
Dayton
Belgian Congo
Elaine Monesmith
J.T. Monesmith
Ben Gurion Aims for Peace With Arabs Amid War
In Jerusalem on August 23 Premier David Ben Gurion urged peace with the Arabs addressing 19 Zionist delegates. He warned Palestine’s truce may fail if immigration limits and foreign control persist and expressed confidence in victory if fighting resumes. UN mediator Falke Bernadette plans to present peace proposals next month.
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JERUSALEM
Tsratlc
David Ben Gurion
inner
Zionist council
Ben Gurion
Palestine
Stockholm
Falke Bernadette
United Nations
United Nations general assembly
Moshe Shertck
council
Israel
Shertek
Marshall
United States
Bernadotte
Truman
Ange Lundstroem
U.N
Alberta weekly editors elect Huckell president at convention
The Alberta division of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association approved a government hire of a weekly newspaperman as printing instructor and backed a yearly one month course for mechanical staff. John Huckell of Innisfail was elected president, with a slate of officers and directors. Awards crowned Red Deer Advocate as top all round weekly. Camrose Canadian runner-up. Hanna Herald front page winner. Lacombe Globe best editorial page. Stavely Advertiser best weekly in 750 and under circulation. Herb McCrea trophy awarded to Lacombe Globe for editorial page.
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CALGARY
Alberta
Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association
John Huckell
Innisfail
Willam Draager
Wetaskivin
Bernard Pretecher
Edmonton
Ray King
Ken Partridge
Hanna Herald
Lacombe Globe
Stavely Advertiser
Harry Ford
Herb McCrea
Charles Clark
High River Times
Potsdamer Platz Tense Border Scene in Berlin
Soviet troops patrol Potsdamer Platz near the Russian sector border as Western onlookers gather. British military police stand by. past riots and raids loom over the crowd while a U S photographer recalls a tense arrest attempt.
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RICHARD EK
O'MALLEYBERLIN
Berlin
Potsdamer Platz
Potzdamer Platz
Prominent Republicans Die in Plane Crash in Oregon
Four Oregon GOP leaders and state legislators perished when a plane plunged into Lake of the Woods in Klamath County. Passengers included John Snellstrom Earle Johnson and H H Evans. William Henry Fluhrer piloted the craft. Frank Van Dyke said the group had been ferried to the lake for a gathering when the plane rose and dove, sinking in about 10 feet of water.
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KLAMATH FALLS
Ore
Oregon
Lake of the Woods
Klamath County
John Snellstrom
Earle Johnson
H. H. Evans
William Henry Fluhrer
senate
Frank Van Dyke
Van Dyke
City Worker Struck Down on North Side
Elderly city laborer Nick Pentilachuk died in St. Michael's hospital about ten hours after being struck by a hit-and-run auto near his 910 10th St. N. home. Oliver Berglund, a 50 year old local carpenter and veteran, was charged with failing to remain at the scene and arraigned on manslaughter charges. Police said no inquest will be held.
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Nick Pentilachuk
10th St. N
St. Michael’s hospital
Oliver Berglund
North Lethbridge
Pentilachuk
Berglund
attorney general's department
ED. Fryett
J. A. Livingstone
Ball
Veterans’ Guard of Canada
Lethbridge
fire department
Fentilachuk
S. M. Schmaltz
D. Roy
Pentiachuk
Sth Ave
Woman Killed When Car Plunges From Highway Near Nelson
A Trail woman, Mrs Alfred Harvey, was killed when the automobile carrying her husband and son veered off a highway near Nelson BC and crashed over a 150 foot embankment to railway tracks below. Alfred Harvey and son William were hospitalized. The family had been returning from a coast holiday. Witnesses George Milligan and son Charles reported the car bounced after impact and rested on the Slocan river bank.
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NELSON
B.C
Alfred Harvey
Trail
Willam
George Milligan
Charles
Slocan river
Ranching deal seals Mayland Estate holdings transfer
$500 000 purchase announced for the May land Estate beef ranches in southwastern Alberta. Alex Gillespie and partners acquire about 8 700 acres of deeded land 225 000 acres of lease land plus ranch buildings hay crops 5 000 cattle including 1 000 calves and horses. The Gilchrist Brothers holdings previously ran the ranches and the new owners plan to take over at the start of next month following embargo lift.
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Herald
Mayland
southwattern Alberts
Alex Gillespie
Calgary
xaki
United States
GILCHRIST
The
Gilchhrist Brothers
A. H. Mayland
Gilbriet
cs Le
Gillespie
Red Dean Denied U S Visa for Speaking Tour
The Dean of Canterbury Dr Hewlett Johnson was refused a U S visa in London by the American consulate. He was invited by the American Soviet Friendship Society to speak but authorities disapproved the inviting organization citing his sympathy with Russian communism.
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HEWLETT JOHNSON
LONDON
Canterbury
United States
Reuters
Vancouver Bank Robbed in Daylight Heist at Broadway Branch
Two masked gunmen stole an estimated 7000 from the Broadway Canadian Bank of Commerce in Vancouver in daylight. They used a red Mercury getaway car, roped in ten employees and five customers without any shots fired. The crime follows a pattern of red sedan robberies. police pursued leads on stolen cars and masked suspects.
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VANCOUVER
Broadway
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Royal Bank of Canada
red-secan
Walter Mulligan
fiorce
Sydney S Petrie
Walter Pavlukoff
Pavlukoff
Claresholm Man Dies by Suicide at Workplace
A Claresholm man in his 60s, employed at the Fairbairn Brow hardware store, died Monday morning from a self inflicted gunshot wound with a 22 rifle. RCMP and coroner officials conducted an inquiry. no inquest will be held.
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Dixon
Fairbairn Brow
Claresholm
RCMP
G. My Caryon
ROMS
Re Marry After 37 Years Apart in Nashville
In Nashville on August 23, Mr. and Mrs. Frank White both 72 remarried after 37 years apart. Their first marriage began in 1804, followed by constant arguing and a 17 year separation ending in divorce. A second ceremony at the courthouse marked their renewed vows, with Mrs. White declaring this time it’s for keeps.
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NASHVILLE
Prank White
courty court clerk
Stalin to Meet Envoys in Moscow and Paris Talks
Moscow dispatch reports Premier Stalin will receive three western envoys at the Kremlin tonight with sources close to the French foreign office. Western power diplomats held a three power conference in Moscow and Molotov may meet the foreign ministers in a late session. Observers in Moscow expect a final four power meeting with Molotov, Chataignery, Smith, and Roberts to determine Germany crisis talks.
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PARIS
Stalin
Kremlin
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Russia
Molotov
Chataignery
Walter 3
Reuters
Germany
Second Calgary Triplet Dies in Hospital
Alan Ross Foster, the second of Calgary triplets born to Mr and Mrs Jack Poster Co Mary, died in hospital Saturday afternoon. One of the triplets died in August.
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CALGARY
Alan Ross Foster
Jack Poster
Western envoys enter Kremlin to meet Stalin Molotov
News dispatch notes three Western envoys arriving at the Kremlin at 9 pm to confer with Molotov and Stalin. Other brief items include miners escaping a Montana cave-in, fourteen new polio cases in Alberta, a woman leaping from a speeding train near Battle Creek, and retirement plans for Alberta Telecoms deputy minister Bruce. Plus stranded party reaches Norman Wells and double murder charges in Kentucky.
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KREMLIN
STALIN
MOLOTOV
MOSCOW
Reuters
MONTANA
MARYSVILLE
Mont
Dromiummon
F. D. Black
Montonan Rainbow Mining company
ALBERTA
EDMONTON
BATTLE CREEK
Mich
Sarnia
Ont
here
May Walch McDonald
Chicago
BRUCE
Aux
W. C. Bruce
D. B. MacMilan
W. B. Ferguson
NORMAN WELLS
North West Territories
Norman Wok
NWT
Xsan Wella
Imperial
reacnd
Keele river
BOWLING GREENS
Dire
Kate Gand
Katherine Lee
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Gilchrist Ranches
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