Tank Regiment For Europe Considered For Dispatch
Canada weighs sending one of its two tank regiments to Europe as armored support for a brigade group to Germany in spring or early summer. The plan envisions 5 000 to 6 000 troops. armored units from Lord Strathcona's Horse or The Royal Canadian Dragoons. A second brigade would follow in about a year, with 3 000 to 4 000 more recruits.
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UAWA
Europe
Canada
Germany
Lord Strathcona’s Horse
Royal Canadian Dragoons
Fort Lewis
Wash
Skirmishing reported along defence line in Korea front
Massed Communist manpower drove UN forces back up to 10 miles in the eastern sector. Ridgway voiced complete confidence in ultimate success. MacArthur reported Red regiments seized high ground northwest of Oron and a thrust north of Yongpo, with 5,000 to 6,000 Reds west of the Imjin River and another concentration south of Yonchon. UN warplanes attacked along the front and supply lines as Chinese and North Korean forces massed.
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OKYO
United Nations
Matthew R. Ridgway
United States
eighth army
Korea
MacArthur
Oron
Sea of Japan
Yongpo
Imjin
Yonchon
Manchuria
Die-back Threatens Eastern Canadian Birch Trees
At a Montreal luncheon F A Harrison of Montreal warns that slender birch, once picturesque, is vanishing from the Maritimes and declining in Quebec. He cites a mysterious die-back blamed on an unknown cause, with experts unable to define or control it, noting it tends to attack mature trees.
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F. A. Harrison
Montreal
Maritimes
Quebec
Harrison
woodlands
International Paper Company
380000 Bonus Spreads Among H. R. MacMillan Workers
Vancouver Dec 29 CP The 5,500 workers of the H R MacMillan Export Co Ltd will share a New Year bonus pool of 380000 dollars authorized at the annual shareholders meeting. The timber firm reported a net profit of 7412381 dollars.
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VANCOUVER
H. R. MacMillan Export Co. Ltd
French healers hear of magnetized brassiere invention
Paris report says Prof Pierre Ragory of Bucharest proposes a brassiere treated with a secret formula to “magnetize” the wearer and promote well being and prolong life. The conference of 350 healers heard about the device, which appeared like an ordinary bra.
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PARIS
Reuters
Pierre Ragory
Bucharest
Romania
Five Children Die In London Ont Fire Blast
Fire at a two bedroom frame house on London Ontario outskirts killed five children ages two to twelve. The blaze, blamed on an oil burner explosion, overwhelmed the home before hydrants could be used as firefighters lacked water. Parents and three other children were injured and rushed to hospital as neighbors carried water to fight the flames.
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LONDON
Ont
Wes -Bezeau
Russell
Lorene
Betty
David
Audrey
Bezeau
Shirley
Madeleine Bezeau
Jacqueline
Judy May
RCN Units Still On Patrol Off Korean Coast
Tokyo December 29 Canadian Navy units continued patrols and UN support along Korea's west coast. The UN fleet includes American British French Dutch Canadian Australian New Zealand Siamese and South Korean vessels. Three Canadian destroyers Sioux Cayuga and Athabaskan serve with the UN fleet in the theatre.
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TOKYO
Royal Canadian Navy
United Nations
Korea
U.N
OUMN
U S Government Cracks Down on Private Loans and Rubber
The government froze 2 billion dollars of bank lending to curb expansion in the loan market as part of a broader defence drive. The Economic Stabilization Agency will open 13 regional offices to handle price and wage problems, signaling stricter controls to come. The U S production authority decreed the United States will act as sole importer and distributor of natural rubber.
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WASHINGTON
federal reserve board
The
Economic Stabilization Agency
national production authority
U.S
Government Plan Aids Migrants With Travel Costs
Immigration Minister Harris announces a government plan to advance part of migrants travel costs to Canada. Available to UK and western Europe applicants, advances are recoverable, with a minimum $30 contribution and a one year to 24 month wage deduction period.
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OTTAWA
Harris
Canada
United Kingdom
Europe
Young Claresholm Farmer Wins Nuffield Award
Two young Canadian farmers John McLean of Eureka Nova Scotia and Orrin Hart of Claresholm Alberta earned Nuffield Foundation scholarships to study British agriculture in the United Kingdom for six months next spring. Hart, a Claresholm native, leads a 1300 acre mixed farm and has held senior roles in Alberta farm groups.
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OTTAWA
Nova Scotia
Alberta
Nuffield Foundation of England
United Kingdom
Canadian Federation of Agriculture
John McLean
Eureka
Pictou county
N.S
Orrin Hart
Claresholm
Alta
U.K
Nuffield Foundation
Canada
west
Prince Edward Island
Ontario
British Columbia
McLean
Stellarton
Nova Scotia Agricultural College
Macdonald College of
Ste. Anne de Bellevue
Que
Guernsey Breeders’ Club
Hart
United Farmers’ movement
Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ Association
Western Canada
Lord Nuffield Foundation of
Britain
Object In Lake May Be Stone In London
Scotland Yard detectives probing Hyde Park lake found an object same size and shape as Britains missing coronation stone. They raised it with special tackle but darkness halted further efforts. Earlier crowds groaned when another object proved a rusty old pipe. A wrist watch tied to a PX sale in Rome linked to the 458-pound stone theft. Police chased more leads on a Swiss watch and a British army post exchange trail.
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LONDON
Scotland Yard
Hyde Park
Britain
tor
Westminster Abbey
Rome
Arthur Morris
Ross-On-Wye
Morris
Hendon
Year End Messages Call Canada to Defeat Communism
Ottawa December 29. Leaders of Canada's two largest labor unions urge defeat of Communism by expanding overseas obligations and raising domestic living standards. They push price and rent controls to curb costs while stressing three-front effort: stronger military, faster aid to underdeveloped regions, and a more effective democracy at home.
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OTTAWA
Canada
Percy R. Bengough
Trades and Labor Congress of Canada
A. R. Mosher
Canadian Congress of Labor
Bengough
Crash Victim Quinton Moore Died In Cascade Crash
Canadian Pacific airliner crashed in good weather high in the Cascade mountains of British Columbia. Pilot Quinton Moore, shown above, died in the wreck after switching planes and delaying takeoff twice from his Penticton base due to adverse conditions. A coroner's jury returned an open verdict on the crash cause.
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Cascade mountains
British Columbia
Quinton Moore
Penticton
Plan Cut Output New Cars Plan Cut Output New Cars
DETROIT Dec 799 The American automobile industry will cut output of new cars at the start of the new year due to national emergency demands. Production cutbacks will cause layoffs of many auto workers though unemployment is expected to be temporary as the industry converts to defence production. Government restrictions on critical materials make cutbacks necessary with cutbacks ranging from 20 to 30 percent. Four companies General Motors Packard Ford and Studebaker announced plans for cutbacks.
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DETROIT
Automotive News
Coronation Stone of Scone stolen, letters disclose
A Scottish newspaper received letters admitting theft of Britain's Stone of Scone and offering to return it if kept in Scotland. Other briefs: French budget approval 749 billion francs. Venezuela orders AP chief to leave Caracas. BC legislature to open Feb 26. Calgary coal prices to rise. two men detained as witnesses in Sarnia slaying. CPR fireman arrested in Edmonton.
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LONDON
Reuters
Britain
PARIS
national assembly
VENEZUELA
AP SUREAU
NEW YORK
Robert Borrelies
Associated Fresa
Caracas
B.C
VICTORIA
Herbert Anscomb
minera
SARNIA
Ont
David Edward Heale
Sudbery
Kirksaed Lake
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Moety Quenten Megesll
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OSS
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