Arrest Alleged Slayer in Fisher Death Case
Vancouver police charged Fred Ducharne 27 with murder in the death of Ferne Blanche Fisher, a 45 year old religious theatregoer. Ducharne was arrested after a foot chase when spotted fleeing in a raincoat and running shoes. An open verdict was returned on Fisher's death with drowning and blunt trauma noted. $2,250 in rewards offered for information.
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MANITOBA
Ferne Blanche Fisher
Fred Ducharne
Elkhorn
Man
Ducharne
Miss Fisher
False Creek
Joyce Monasterski
Counter Petitions By M.P. Rejected
ST. JOSEPH DE BEAUCEQue Dec 21 Judge Leon Casgrain rejected in superior court here three counter petitions by Dr Raoul Poulin independent MP for Beauce in a suit contesting his June 27 election. Poulin challenged petitions by electors and by Ludger Dionne former Liberal MP alleging illegal practices and failure to report campaign expenses.
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ST. JOSEPH DE BEAUCE
Que
Leon Casgrain
Raoul Poulin
Beauce
wich
Poulin
Ludger Dionne
Dionne
Left Hand Corner Couple Divorced in Chicago After Forty Years
Mrs Jennie Bille Hughes was granted a divorce from Nashton Hughes, a truck driver, after 40 years of marriage and 15 children. Alleging cruelty, she said he beat her three times in two years. They married July 7 1909 in Glasgow Kentucky. Fifteen children are living. she waived alimony and custody of the two youngest children went to him.
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Chicago
Jennie Bille Hughes
Nashton Hughes
Glasgow
Hieven
Gable Weds Lady Sylvia Stanley in Surprise California Ranche Wedding
Hollywood reports Clark Gable, 48, married Lady Sylvia Stanley 39, widow of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. The ceremony occurred at a Santa Barbara area ranch with Rev. Aage Moller officiating. Attendees included Basil Bleck and his wife, Basil Bleck acting as witness, and Gable's business manager Jean Garceau. The couple plans a honeymoon and possible Honolulu junket before returning to Hollywood.
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HOLLYWOOD
Clark Gable
Sylvia Stanley
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr
Santa Barbara
Calif
Honolulu
Sylvia long
Gable
Lord Stanley
Alderley
Lord Ashley
Fairbanks
Josephine Dillon
Ria Langham
Carole Lombard
Miss Lombard
Las Vegas
Nev
Carole
Lynn Gilham
Aage Moller
Basil Bleck
Bleck
Howard Strickling
Jean Garceau
Mayor MacLean Remanded To December 29 In Murder Charge
Sydney Nova Scotia December 21 Mayor Dan Jack MacLean was arraigned on a murder charge over the Sunday night death of Joseph MacKinnon 63 city registrar of voters He was remanded to December 29 The mayor entered court with a bruised face in a sling and secured by RCMP He said he would be represented by Alexander Patterson who later did not appear The case follows the discovery of MacKinnons body in an alley and a vehicle owned by MacLean was seized Police indicated the preliminary hearing could begin December 29 The civic election Oct 6 saw MacLean reelected amid protests over voter list omissions
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SYDNEY
N.S
C.P
Dan Jack MacLean
Joseph MacKinnon
MacKinnon
MacEKmornn
Vernon
MacLean
Alexander Patterson
Malcolm Patterson
Patterson
Donald Finlayson
ARMIN
R.C.M.P
Scores
Sydney Post-Record
Donald Jack MacLean
registrar of voters
Sees No Major Economic Crisis In Egg Price Drop
Montreal December 21 Finance Minister Abbott said the egg price drop will not trigger a major Canadian economic disturbance. Speaking at Westmount Young Liberal Association he warned of fixed and inflexible expenditures totaling over 1.0 billion dollars for social welfare and national debt service. He noted difficulties in disposing surplus production and urged savings without cutting essential services.
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MONTREAL
Canada
Abbott
Westmount
Young Liberal Association
Bombed Chinese Vessel Reported With Heavy Losses
A British-registered, Chinese-owned coastal ship named Wiching, 563 tons, was reportedly bombed by Nationalist aircraft near Swabuc in Kwangtung about 150 miles northeast of Hong Kong. The unconfirmed report cited heavy casualties and unspecified damage.
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HONG KONG
Reuters
Swabuc
Kwangtung
Election Free Year in Canada to Follow Busy Electorate
Ottawa reports Canada will have a election free year in 1950 the 11th since Confederation in 1867. In 1948 and 1949 Canada held ten general elections federal and provincial the busiest two-year voting period in history. The 1949 federal vote plus four provincial elections produced 7,253,753 votes, second highest in a year. 1945 held seven elections and 7,990,348 votes.
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OTTAWA
Canada
confederation
Canausas
Diversion of Wheat Sales to U K Buy Lumber
Ottawa reports Anglo Canadian negotiators have agreed to divert 2.5 million dollars from Canadian wheat sales to the United Kingdom to fund 40 million board feet of eastern Canadian spruce. The plan is part of about 39 million dollars in diversions for 1950, delaying 15 million bushels of wheat to the U K in the 1949 50 crop year.
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OTTAWA
United Kingdom
U.K
Canada
Dynamiters Fail To Blow Up CIO Headquarters
DETROIT December 21 dynamiters attempted to blow up the United Automobile Workers headquarters but failed by a hair. A bundle of 39 sticks of dynamite wrapped in tape and Christmas gift paper was found on a side stairs. two fuses burned to within an inch of the charges before sputtering out. Night workers kept the building empty except for two. The blast risk extended to a neighboring General Motors plant, with authorities tackling a string of violent acts against the union and its leaders. In two years assassins had targeted Walter Reuther and Victor Reuther in shootings. both remain unsolved and linked to last night’s incident.
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DETROIT
United Automobile Workers
union
General Motors
auto union
U.A.W.s
Reuther brothers
Walter Reuther
U.A.W
Victor Reuther
Body of Ben Carter Buried Since Friday
Ben Carter, 67, one of two miners buried in a Greenhill mine cave in West Canadian Collieries at Lairmore, is found dead Tuesday after a four day rescue, 25 feet from the second victim Michael Kwiatkowski. A 75 man rescue party excavates the body among coal and rock in the mountain mine 1 mile from the entrance. Whistle blasts alert Crow's Nest Pass residents as the town mourns the fatal collapse.
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Crow's Nest Pass
LAIRMORE
Ben Carter
Greenhill
Michael Kwiatkowski
Carter
Crow’s Nest Pass
willthe
Await Yule Mail At Bleak Post
Mould Bay N W T December 21 Eight men at the lonely Arctic weather station await Christmas mail and a possible parachute gift plane. Only one plane has landed this year. a second was forced back by bad weather 40 minutes from Mould Bay. Temperatures have ranged 20 to 40 degrees below zero. darkness remains around the clock. Ray Keiges, radio ham at Stony Plain, Alberta, relays Christmas messages from the Arctic station.
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MOULD BAY
N.W.T
Prince Patrick Island
Biamonton
Ray Keiges
Stony Plain
Alta
Edmonton
Mould EBay
Arctic
North America Keeps Title as World Wheat Granary
Ottawa reports the continent produced 6.185 billion bushels of wheat this year. Canada yielded 367 million, down 25 million from last year but above the 1935–39 average. United States output topped 1.126 billion, sixth straight year above one billion, with exports and carryover estimated at about 319 million bushels for Canada and 330.3 million for the prior year.
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OTTAWA
Bureau of Statistics
Canada
United States
bureau
Blockade Of Shanghai Keeps Trade At Low Tide
PUSAN Korea April 21 Nationalist blockade of Communist south China ports trims tonnage to a trickle. Shanghai waterfront once among world’s busiest is nearly dead as occasional ships slip in. American ship Sir John Franklin shelled by nationalist destroyer escorts at the Yangtze mouth with limited damage.
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south-China
Shanghai
shen
Ameri
can
sir John Franklin
Isbrandtsen line
Yangtze river
Who Will Be New Chief Justice in Alberta
Ottawa correspondent reports the Alberta chief justice post is vacant with no announced date. Possible candidates include Justice Frank Ford and Justice G B OConnor. others mentioned are Geo H Steer H R Milner, Clinton Ford, N D MacLean, Egbert, N V Buchanan, W J F Mustard, M E Moscowvich and Neil Prim.
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R. K. CARNEGIE
Herald
Ottawa
Alberta
Garson
Frank Ford
court of appeal
G. B. O'Connor
Geo. H. Steer
K.C
H. R. Milner
Candia
Justice Ford
Justice O'Connor
Clinton Ford
N. D. MacLean
E.C
Edmonton
W. C
Egbert
Calgary
N. V. Buchanan
W. J. F. Mustard
M. E. Moscovich
Lethbridge
Neil Prim
Liberals Win Richmond County By Election in Nova Scotia
In St Peter's Nova Scotia Liberals hold the Richmond county seat in a provincial by election. Earl Urquhart 28 wins with 2295 votes to 1612 for Alfred Baccardax Progressive Conservative. By election follows Curie's elevation to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court bench.
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ST. PETER'S
N.S
Richmond
Nova Scotia
Earl Urquhart
AS.T
Mr. Urquhart
Alfred Baccardax
Progressive Conservative
L. D. Currie
Manitoba Mennonites Seek Bar U Ranch Purchase
Mennonites from southern Manitoba plan to buy about 20 000 acres of the Bar U ranch 25 miles west of High River adjoining the E P ranch on Pekisko creek. A 30 member Manitoba committee toured last fall reporting deep fertile soil suitable for grain. initial payments of five percent of the 500000 dollar price are to be made by interested farmers as Alberta land is scarce in Manitoba.
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Manitoba
Alberta
High River
E.P
Pekisko creek
No Negotiations Said Under Way For Ranch Sale
Calgary December 21 A Burns Ranches Ltd official stated no negotiations are underway for sale of the Bar U ranch near High River to Manitoba Mennonites. A committee reportedly inspected the ranch in September but no formal offer exists. The Bar U remains owned by the Burns estate and operated by Burns Ranches Ltd. no firm deal has emerged.
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CALGARY
P. Burns Ranches Ltd
Manitoba
tory
BURNS
Bar U
Pat Burns
Burns Ranches, Ltd
Alberta
Coaldale
CPR, land and colonization branch
Air talks end in Ottawa as scheduled meetings wrap
Ottawa reports that Canadian and American air agreement talks concluded today after starting last Friday to resolve implementation difficulties. The talks, tied to last June's air pact, were expected to finish in Ottawa. Represents a completion of the bargaining phase amid ongoing bilateral relations.
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John C. Knox
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CIO H.Q
Bleak Post
North America
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Fred Hampson
China
Red China
PUSAN
Korea
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Mennonites
UEBEC
Banque Canadienne Nationale
Rougemont
PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPIA
Abbotts Dairies, Incorporated
G E. Gerhart
Nec
London
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Frank Soenheim
Nancy
Gary
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