Heavy slate faces Alberta legislature anew
Edmonton dispatch notes a heavy slate for Alberta's 11th legislature with the throne speech to outline priorities. Budget plans to exceed last year's 53.3 million dollar ask, plus a bill to split lands and mines into two departments, loom large. Opposition targets royal commission reports on child welfare and provincial municipal tax relations as debates begin.
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EDMONTON
C.P
Alberta
J. C. Bowen
Red Deer
Manning
department of lands and mines
lands and forests
mines
lands, forests and
Lands and Mines
Tanner
royal commission
threeman
Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire
New Liberty magazine
Harold Dingman
New Liberty
Jack Kent
Cooke
C.C.F
Judge commission
Left Hand Corner Battle Against Prickly Pear Pest
The prickly pear pest devastated Queensland grazing across 670000 square miles, with farms abandoned west of Toowoomba and charville. Cattle replaced sheep as attempts by the government to control it through poison and fire failed until 1928 29 when cactoblastis moth was introduced from the United States to combat the cactus.
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Queensland
Australia
Toowoomba
Brisbane
Chareville
United States
Canadian attache to Turkey named for Lt Col Norman Cuthbert
Lt Col Norman 8 Cuthbert aged 33 acting administrator at Central Command Oakville Ontario has been named Canadian military attache to Turkey. He will hold acting colonel rank during service. Predecessor Col J F Bingham has returned to Canada for health reasons. Cuthbert sails this week from Halifax with Mrs Cuthbert. He was born in Coronation Alberta and educated there later living in Winnipeg Saskatoon and North Battleford before enlisting in the South Saskatchewan Regiment at outbreak of war.
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Central Press
Norman
Cuthbert
Headquarters Central Command
Oakville
Ont
Turkey
Ankara
J. F. Bingham
C.B.E
Canada
Halifax
Coronation
Alto
Winnipeg
Saskatoon
North Battleford
South Saskatchewan Regiment
Premier Duplessis criticizes newspapers for propaganda
In Montreal on February 15, Premier Maurice Duplessis told the Canadian Retailers conference that newspapers give excessive space to propagandists of disorder communism and sabotage. He urged retailers and others in business to press papers to stop acting as megaphones for subversive ideas and to report political activity more responsibly.
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MONTREAL
Duplessis
Quebec
friends of disorder
liberty
No Official Opposition Leader in Alberta Legislature
Edmonton Feb 15 There will be no official opposition leader in the Alberta legislature when the session opens Thursday government circles predicted. The presence of two Liberals and two CCF members occupying opposition desks complicates the appointment. Rev Peter Dawson named speaker will declare that he will recognize no one on his left as official leaders during the opening session.
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EDMONTON
Alberta tegislature
C.F
Peter Dawson
Want Parley Of Provinces On Newfoundland Union
Ottawa debate on Newfoundland joining Canada triggers a call by George Drew for provincial consultation before any constitutional changes. The plan to seek provincial veto and delay union faces expected defeat as leaders clash over federalist limits. The CCF backs the government while opponents warn against bypassing provincial consent.
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OTTAWA
Newfoundland
Canada
George Drew
Drew
fathers of confederation
C.C.F
Cabinet Shuffle Sparks Manitoba Horsetrading Debate
Winnipeg February political shuffle sparks criticism as Berry Richards calls the cabinet reshuffle political horsetrading and questions the deputy premier role. Eruck Willis named deputy premier amid coalition leadership changes, with Liberal Progressives dominant and coalition tensions rising in the Manitoba legislature.
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WINNIPEG
D. bh. Campbell
Berry Richards
C.C-F
Pag
Manitoba
Progressive Conservative party
house
Mr. Campbell
Stuart Garson
John Bracken
Garson
Campbell
Liberal Progressives
Social Credit
C.C.F
Richards
Mindszenty Trial Used to Seek Vatican Accord
Budapest reports quote Hungarian Communist chief ideologist Revai saying the government was forced to try Cardinal Mindszenty after seeking church state reconciliation with the Vatican. He claimed authorities informed the Vatican of charges in time and would have released Mindszenty for an accord, though the Vatican allegedly refused. Cardinal Mindszenty was arrested December 26 and sentenced to life imprisonment February 3.
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BUDAPEST
Lala
Joseph Cardinal Mindsenty
Vatican
Mindszenty
Joseph Revai
Reval
people's court
Hungary
Szabad Nep
Trans-Canada road cost eyed at 260 million
Ottawa resource minister MacKinnon said he hopes to start work this year on the Trans-Canada highway with an approximate cost of 260 million dollars. He met a Sault Ste. Marie delegation and said legislation will be introduced to discuss the project in the current session. The route will be left to provinces with the federal government offering at least 30 percent of the total cost.
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OTTAWA
Resources
MacKinnon
Sault Ste. Marie
Ont
R. L. Curran
Snowy River Diversion Tied to Major Defense Plan
Sydney February 15 The federal government plans to divert the Snowy River waters as part of a defense strategy costing about 600 million dollars. Ninety percent of power from twenty five hydro stations would support a production zone in the Australian Alps, with the site chosen for easier protection against atomic attacks.
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AUSSIE RIVER
SYDNEY
Australia
Snowy river
Australian Alps
Tennessee Valley Authority
United States
Canberra
Henry Tizard
Kenneth Crawford
imperial general staff
PACIFIC
Commonwealth
Blizzard shuts roads in Wyoming and Idaho
Fresh blizzards halt road travel across southern Wyoming and southern Idaho as flood risks rise in Nebraska. Washington passes blocked by new snow while storms affect the Cascades and dust drifts appear near Scottsbluff. The US Agriculture Dept reports 178,000 sheep and cattle deaths across four western states through Feb 1, with Wyoming livestock plight growing daily.
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CHICAGO
Wyoming
Idaho
Nebraska
plains
Washington state
Snoqualmie
Blewett
Cascade mountains
Cascades
Scottsbluff
Neb
Wyoming line
United States geological survey
United States agriculture department
Colorado
South
Dakota
Russell Thorp
emergency relief board
Diking Against Floods In BL
Ottawa reports Fraser river diking board says flood danger to British Columbia railways is being removed by a better dyke system. By mid 1948 the board spent 1,831,096 of 10,000,000. CP Railway divested from the diking system, seven miles of new dyke near Vancouver to prevent isolation.
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OTTAWA
Fraser river diking board
British Columbia river
Canadian Pacific Railway
Vancouver
United States
Dominion
B.C
federal treasury
Recess Ordered in Fritz Kuhn Nazi Conviction Appeal
In Munich on February 15 a recess until Friday was ordered in the appeal of Fritz Kuhn former German American Bund leader from a ten year sentence for being a major Nazi. Kuhn contends his organization had no political ties to Hitler's Reich.
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MUNICH
Germany
Fritz Kahn
Jeader
Kuhn
Hitler
third reich
Setback for Alliance Roils Europe as US Rejects Automatic War Clause
Western Europe reacts to the United States Senate rejection of an automatic war pledge in the Atlantic pact. Senators Connally and Van den Burg indicate the United States will not commit to war without provocation, signaling a potential setback for allied unity and fears among British diplomats over dilution of commitments. The debate centers on preserving constitutional authority to declare war while seeking a united defense against aggression.
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Associated Press
ONDON
United States
Europe
Senate
Berlin
Atlantic bloc
Zeithang
America
nurke ‘Hickenlooper
United: Star
lantic alliance
sydinastamet
Connally-Vandenberg
Rep
state
department
Britain
Hickenlooper
foreign ‘relations ’ committee
Arrest of US author Anna Louise Strong in Moscow
Moscow reported the arrest of American author and correspondent Anna Louise Strong on espionage charges. The 63 year old, noted for pro Soviet writings since 1921, was described by Soviet state security organs as involved in undermining activity and faced deportation within days. Her case leaves seven American correspondents in Moscow, including Allied Labor News representative.
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emma
samme
EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW
Anna Louise Strong
Miss Strong
Russia
Allied Labor News
A. L. Strong
U.S.S.R
Soviet Union
Amer
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