Low Demands Ottawa Adopt Social Credit Reforms
Ottawa July 9 Solon Low Social Credit leader urged the Commons budget debate to adopt monetary reforms to cut the rising debt. He criticized income tax exemptions for lower earners, proposed higher exemptions financed by tax bonds, and warned against continued wartime spending and high taxes. He cited waste in public spending and urged peacetime fiscal shifts, including reforms to aid farmers and fishermen and simplify the income tax act. He also warned of increasing state control over wealth and called for provincial conference on federal proposals and enhanced provincial payments for old age pensions.
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Canadian Author Niven Honored in Nelson Memorial Ceremony
Canadian author Frederick Niven, born 1878 in Valparaiso and longtime BC resident, is to be honored in Nelson. A memorial stone donated by Glasgow will be unveiled with a bronze tablet from the Canadian Authors Association, followed by services and remarks from Archdeacon F H Graham, Mrs. Niven, and Murray Gibbon.
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Frederick Wiven
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Murray Gibbon
E. P. Dawson
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Valparaiso
Chile
Vancouver
Kootenay
British Columbia
Glasgow School of Art
Ceiling price controls removed on plumbing and heating services
News notes describe removal of ceiling prices on certain plumbing and heating services and goods. Other items cover a planned strike by 67 workers at McGavin Bakers Limited in Regina, a Prince Albert storm outage, a fatal electrocution near Dresden Ontario, and various national and international economic and wartime updates including census figures for Edmonton, Canadian coal output, and military movements.
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No compensation for G B civilian airlines
London July. Civil aviation firms forced to close when the war began and unable to resume due to rationalization and the civil aviation bill provisions will not receive compensation. Tyers Thomas, parliamentary secretary, said the government acts fairly. Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross cited assets paid when firms were taken over in 1939.
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Agreement Renewed Ottawa BC and Federal Government
Ottawa reports July 9 that Health Minister Claxton announced renewal of the National Physical Fitness Act agreement for the third consecutive year between British Columbia and the federal government.
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Claxton
British Columbia
Polish premier cites church failure to condemn Kielce pogrom
Warsaw July 9 Premier Edward Osubka Morawski said at a press briefing that senior Catholic Church dignitaries in Poland refused to condemn those responsible for the Kielce anti Jewish pogrom. The riot left 41 dead.
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Lords Sidestep Crisis In Feud With Commons
Dewitt MacKenzie notes the Lords avoided a confrontation with the Socialist government over the government favored social insurance reforms. The Commons could override Lords, and a showdown could trigger royal patronage of new Socialist peers to pack the upper house, a tactic used in 1911.
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MacKENZIE
Picket Fined In New Toronto Strike
Union organizer Ben Doherty, hailed as champion of New Toronto, was fined 25 dollars and costs for obstructing police. Ten days earlier he faced a 15 dollar fine for assault linked to a seven week strike at the Anaconda American Brass Company plant. A test case on lawful picketing was adjourned to July 15, directed by Attorney General Leslie Blackwell, with Jack Stewart and J L Cohen among those involved.
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International Union of Mime, Mill and Smelter Warkers
Leslie Blackwell
Plea for Mihailovic at Belgrade treason trial
Belgrade July 9 defense counsel urged mercy for General Mihailovic. They argued he should not bear responsibility for all actions of his commanders, calling Mihailovic’s tragedy the result of failure to reach an agreement with Marshal Tito and describing the Chetniks as a military disorganization.
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Guatemala Threatens Break With Britain Over British Honduras
Guatemala, on July 9, announced that President Juan Jose Arevalo would break relations with Britain unless a satisfactory settlement is reached on Guatemala's claim to British Honduras. The remark frames a tense stance amid long standing border disputes between the two nations, with no immediate agreement reported.
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Juan Jose Arevalo
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Morrison Blasts Tory Press In Britain
London July 9 Herbert Morison deputy prime minister denounced what he called suppressions misrepresentations and inventions by a great Tory newspaper combine. He condemned the Kemsley gramophone chain of over 20 papers as a disgrace to journalism. Viscount Kemsley, publisher of Daily Graphic and The Sunday Times, said he may publish a reply.
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Farmers to Debate Wheat Export Price in Ottawa Meeting
EDMONTON July 9. President C. Stimptie and Secretary J. Boutilier of the Alberta Farmers Union leading 20 000 farmers to Gargaly for a meeting of farm groups to press for continued maintenance of the Wheat Board's export price of 1 55 and oppose moves toward an open market. Delegates from United Farmers of Alberta Alberta Wheat Pool United Grain Growers and Alberta Federation of Agriculture also attend to discuss Canada’s future wheat price in relation to Britain and Ottawa talks.
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Economic Warfare in Middle East
In Mashad Iran on July 9 1971 United States ambassador George Allen condemned Russian Intourist for operating planes delivered to the Red Army. The clash with Iranian Airways centers on control of a lucrative Tehran Mecca traffic and access to Afghanistan markets, with Russians and a US tied firm competing for online rights.
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AP appoints John Lloyd London bureau chief
John Lloyd is named chief of the London bureau of the Associated Press by Executive Director Kent Cowper. Lloyd joins AP after 21 years in foreign service with the company, previously leading the Paris bureau when World War II began and heading offices in Moscow Madrid and Mexico City. He was born in Dayton in 1900 and joined AP in 1925.
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Senate panel hears offer of political job in bribery probe
Washington reports that during a wartime graft inquiry Rep Andrew J May of Kentucky denied benefiting from a contract while the Senate War Investigating Committee heard testimony that a $1000 political job was offered to its chief investigator to sway the Bribery trial.
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Flea Changed Not Guilty Plea in Montreal Case
Montreal July 9 A 21 year old Famile Peloquin pleaded guilty earlier Monday to selling saccharine tablets. Judge Fontaine allowed him to change plea to not guilty. Trial set for July 16. Bail granted $1,000.
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T. A. Fontaine
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British Tommies In Trieste Riot
In Trieste on Monday night about 1,000 British soldiers clashed with Italian civilians in the Piazza Goldoni area. British military police restored order after windows were smashed and civilians fled, while American MPs dispersed a separate crowd singing Communist songs.
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Evacuations Begin as Red Army Moves Germans from Austria
Vienna reports hundreds of families herded into trucks and boxcars as the Red Army begins a systematic evacuation from the Soviet zone of Austria involving about 54 000 Germans and other non-Austrians. London dispatch cites Moscow radio criticizing Western occupation policies in Austria and accusing the Austrian government of tolerating fascists and neglecting economic recovery.
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Keitel Denied Guilt as Nazi Front Man Plea
Keitel was paraded before European leaders as a front man to intimidate them, but his counsel argued he was innocent of wrongdoing. The former chief of the German high command was described as a faithful follower of Hitler, yet not culpable under German or international law.
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Trans-Jordan seeks United Nations membership
Trans-Jordan applied for UN membership after gaining independence by treaty with Britain on March 21. The Security Council will consider the application and make recommendations to the General Assembly meeting in September.
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Soviet Ukrainians to Visit Edmonton Folk Festival
Winnipeg July 9 P M Sha tulsky editor of the Ukrainian Word said a delegation of Ukrainian singers artists and writers from Soviet Ukraine have accepted an invitation to attend a folk festival in Edmonton on July 24. The event will be sponsored by the Association of Ukrainian Canadians.
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Regulations Lifted Ottawa War Trading Ban Ended
Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced the revocation of the list of individuals and firms Canadians were forbidden to trade with during the war. The action was announced in Ottawa and Washington.
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Chinese Communist spokesman warns of nationwide fires in deadlocked talks
A Chinese Communist spokesman said peace negotiations were in deadlock and fighting was breaking out across China like a series of small fires. He warned that unless action is taken quickly, these fires could spread into a major conflagration threatening the country.
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Body Found Ends Five Day Search For Missing Miss Marshall
London reports a woman's body found in a wooded area ends a five day search for 21 year old Miss Doreen Margaret Marshall of Middlesex. Police say identification pending. She is counted as the seventh female victim in a four week wave of killings across Britain, with most victims described as young and attractive.
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Bournemouth
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Empire Press Men Learn Problems Facing Germans
Empire press union delegates touring Berlin heard an off the record briefing by Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas on Germany’s coal to politics problems. They viewed bomb damaged sites including the Tiergarten Reichstag and Branden burg Gate before a luncheon with Douglas and a later briefing on the German press radio books and films.
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Run-Around from Russia Delays Release of Missing Americans
U S officials say they are getting the run-around from the Russians in efforts to secure the release of four Americans who disappeared into the Soviet zone last week and are believed held. A warrant officer and wife missing since July 1 and a captain and lieutenant since July 4 were not named by the army.
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Lords Commons Clash Is Averted
London July 9. A major clash between the Labor Government and the Conservative dominated House of Lords was averted as peers defeated Lord Beveridge’s motion to include friendly societies in the new social security system. The Commons had already voted to exclude private non profit insurers. Friendly societies with over 8 million members sought government agent status in the national insurance program providing medical, unemployment, old age, and related benefits.
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Sanitation Dispute Over Rooming House Leads to Court
In Vancouver on July 9 a court heard a landlord H. B. Dewolfe defend his cleanliness ideas at a rooming house. An inspector cited dirty sheets and questionable water pitchers. Dewolfe described a novel hallway shower, noting no drain and water seeping to the floor.
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