Five RAF Planes Shot Down by Israel
Five RAF reconnaissance planes were shot down yesterday over Egyptian territory near the Palestine border. Britain dispatched troops to Aqaba on a request from Trans-Jordan and Bevin stayed in London to monitor developments. A RAF officer Timothy John McElhan was reported as captured. The clash over Rafa near the coast sparked dispute over whether Rafa is inside Egypt or Palestine, with sources differing on the boundary.
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Eire’s Minister Dillon Headlines United States Visit
James Dillon, Ireland’s agriculture minister, arrives in the United States amid media interest. Described as a fiery, Irish blond, Dillon comes from a line of Nationalists with family ties to the British House of Commons. Known for aggressive rhetoric, he supported revolutionary farming policies and clashed with former leaders during his tenure.
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Margarine Day in Toronto Sparks Sharp Storefront Battle
In Toronto on M Day buyers swarmed stores in a margarine rush described as tougher than wartime shortages. Housewives staged a broad offensive for the butter substitute, with margarine selling at 45 cents a pound as grocers reported swift, repeated demand and dwindling supplies.
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Republicans Cool To Dean Acheson Senate Approval Forecast
Senator Tom Connally forecast Senate approval of Dean Acheson as secretary of state despite Republican coolness. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will set a date for Acheson and James Webb to appear. President Truman named Acheson and moved Webb to undersecretary of state after Marshall Lovett resignations.
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Plan Vote On Settlement In Es tevan-Bienfait Coal Field
The Es tevan-Bienfait coal field miners will vote on a settlement after month long negotiations ending a strike by United Mine Workers. Premier T C Douglas announced a royal commission to study welfare fund and pension plans while wage and hour terms are set. The agreement calls for an 18 cent raise to $1.10 per hour and a 44 hour week with a three cent per ton fund contribution.
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Long Way To Go In Writing Pact
Washington Jan. 8 Robert A Lovett undersecretary of state said progress toward a north Atlantic defence alliance has been faster than he planned but there is a long way to go. He warned it is impossible to guess when the draft pact will be ready for submission to the senate. His press conference followed the resignation of Lovett and State Secretary Marshall announced by President Truman.
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Beaverbrook quits Conservative party after long tenure
Lord Beaverbrook a Canadian born publisher and longtime Conservative supporter has reportedly resigned from the party and will not renew his donations. The move, hinted in The London Evening Standard, follows opposition to Conservative reliance on U S aid. Born Max Aitken in Maple Ontario 1879 he built a vast career in Britain before serving in Churchill’s wartime cabinet and in allied war resource pooling.
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New Secretary of State Has Canadian Relatives
QRONTO Jan 3 The new United States secretary of State could easily have been a Canadian Dean Acheson successor to Gen George C Marshall was announced yesterday He missed being a Canuck because his Canadian trained clergyman father and his Canadian mother left the Dominion before he was born to go to Middlebury Conn Acheson closely attached to Canada by blood and friendship He is the son of Eleanor Gooderham daughter of the late George Gooderham and Harriet Dear of Toronto His father Edward Campion Acheson educated for the Episcopal ministry in Toronto and was bishop of the sixth diocese of Connecticut when he died Acheson spent much of his time as a youth in Canada and has many relatives in Toronto and vicinity Malcolm Gooderham of Toronto is an uncle and Mrs Charles Beatty also of Toronto is his aunt.
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World Wheat Crop Outlook Faces Dry Spring Risk
The U S Bureau of Statistics forecast a large 1949 world wheat crop but warned weather could alter the outlook. Argentina suffers frosts and drought reducing its crop, Australia reports smaller but healthy yields, and Western Canada may boost spring plantings amid lower prices for flaxseed and rye. The United States projects a record winter wheat area and a 1949 harvest above 1.25 billion bushels, with Europe and other regions showing generally optimistic sowings.
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Heavy Snow Covers Farm and Ranch Areas
A severe storm blanketed southern Alberta with heavy snow and subzero temperatures. Transportation slowed as rail and road traffic reduced to drifted streets. Trains ran several hours behind schedule while conditions worsened through the day and into the morning.
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48 Hour Work Week At Ontario Farmers Seek Overtime
Toronto January delegates at the Ontario Federation of Agriculture annual meeting urged a 48 hour week and one half for overtime. They supported classifying farm produce with labor under the Canadian Bank Act to secure priority payments when buyers fail.
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Mediation Sought by Britain U S France in Chinese Civil War
A Beijing source said China asked Britain the United States and France to mediate in the civil war. Ambassadors were summoned to relay the plea, with officials declining comment. Soviet participation questioned as Tientsin reports of a cease in fighting and a mid day curfew emerged amid talks of a possible surrender to the Reds. News noted Dean Acheson as a hopeful sign for broader U S aid in countering communism.
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Six Die In U S Army Plane Crash In England
Six men died in Britain’s first Berlin airlift era crash involving a United States Army four engine Skymaster. The crash occurred in swampy northwest Lancashire near Warrington while en route from Rhein-Main to Burtonwood air base for inspection. A US Air Force medical team reached the scene from Burtonwood as police and fire crews endured poor conditions to reach the wreckage.
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Ford of Canada output nears peacetime record in 1927
Windsor Ontario dispatch reports Ford Motor Company of Canada produced 97 015 passenger cars and trucks in peacetime year 1927, second highest since 1926 and within 4 170 of the 101 189 record set earlier.
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Western Stock Growers Association backs retroactive basic herd tax
Calgary January 8 cattlemen from Alberta British Columbia and other western provinces pressed for a retroactive basic herd income tax standard to January 1 1940 at the convention closing session. The plan would tax only natural increases while exempting breeding stock and capital tied to herds. Alberta minister David A Ure cited livestock returns of 135 million in 1947 and urged soil conservation as a key provincial issue.
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Fearful Fourth Policeman Wounded. Mercy Flight Planned
Kingston dispatch reports a berserk gunman wounded two officers, one critically, as police fought for seven minutes. later Arctic mercy flight planned to resupply Father Ostran after a mad dog attack. fire fatalities in Mount Forest claim a father and daughter. Communist gas accusation in Nanking. Edmonton Liberal candidate MacKinnon unlikely. Britain to protest UN over Israeli downing of ILAS planes.
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