German Prisoners of War in B C Logging Sparks Town Uproar
Vancouver Labor Council heard Mike Sekora of the International Woodworkers of America recounts 139 German POWs at a Clearwater logging operation displaying Nazi like conduct and open drunkenness. He claimed local workers fear for safety and accuse the prisoners of wielding control in the camp, with promises to remove them unmet by authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ANCOUVER
C.P
Mike Sekora
International Woodworkers of America
C.I.C
C.C.L
Vancouver Labor Council
Clearwater
B.C
Boone
Clearwater Tesidente
FUEHRER
Sekora
Jeader
Wered Potchetts auseld
the
I.W.A
Veto Invoked Against Canada In Atomic Energy Talks
In New York on July 10 Soviet Russia used its veto for the sixth time in UN Security Council history to block Canada’s full participation in atomic energy council discussions. Canada was invited to sit only during rules discussions for the commission. the veto was ruled a procedural matter, not a substantive one, and McNaughton, Canada’s AEC representative, was asked to sit at the table.
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NEW YORK
Soviet
Russia
security council
Canada
council
commission
Herbert Y. Evatt
Australia
atomic energy
GROMYKO
Andrei A. Gromyko
Poland
Francisco Castilla Najera
Mexico
Gen
A. G. L. McNaughton
atomic energy 1 commission
Dam Construction Project Starts Next Week Near Spring Coulee
E Walden of Bennett and White Construction Co says work on the St Mary River dam will start mid to late next week with 150 men employed. Camp buildings will be erected nearby and the contract is worth 754000. Walden plans year round operation and aims to beat the 600 day completion estimate.
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Calgaay
Vancouver
St. Mary River
E. Walden
Bennett and White Construction Co
the
Herald
Calgary
Walden
Spring Coulee
Reward Offered for Missing Meteor Pilot in Royal Air Force
Mrs J Taylor mother in law of Fit Lt W H McKenzie of Royal Canadian Air Force says a $500 reward is offered for any civilian who locates the missing pilot. A week long search covering 350000 square miles with 24 aircraft and 11 hours of flight failed to find any trace of him after he disappeared June 29 while flying a Greater Meteor propelled craft from Kapuskasing to Toronto.
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WINNIPEG
J. Taylor
W. H. McKenzie
Vital
Royal Canadian Air Force
Kapuskasing
Ont
Toronto
McKenzie
Hundred Mothers Have Ten Children Or More In Quebec Parish
Celebration of Mothers Day in Notre Dame Hebertville revealed that 100 local mothers have borne at least ten children each, with some up to twenty one. The 100 Lac St. Jean residents parented 1,262 children, an average of 12 per family, of which about 1,035 are still alive.
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Quebec
Notre Dame @Hebertville
Lac St. dean
38k SEPT HAND, Continued on Page Four
A fragment from the newspaper page hints at a continuing item titled 38k SEPT HAND with note of continuation on page four. Details are sparse but imply a multi page section or column carried across pages. The readable segment emphasizes continuation and page reference rather than substantive content.
Acker Govt Falls By Single Ballot
Brussels reports that the three month old coalition government of Socialist Prime Minister Achille Van Acker fell by a single ballot after a stormy debate over the justice minister stance toward Belgian economic collaborators. The resignation was described as not triggering a crisis. The vote followed weeks of contention over government policies and criticisms of meddling in pending cases against Belgian industrialists in military courts for wartime collaboration. Industrialists face the death sentence under a century old penal code for supplying the enemy with war materiel during occupation.
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BRUSSELS
Achille Van Acker
senare deate
Van Acker
Wage raise offer to B C hardrock miners withdrawn
Vancouver July 10 spokesman for British Columbia hardrock mine operators said late last night the offer of a wage raise of 614 cents to striking miners has been withdrawn. The union had rejected the offer and mediation is delayed pending documents confirming Chief Justice Gordon Sloan as special federal commissioner for the dispute. Miners seek 29 cents an hour, a 40 hour week, and union security.
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VANCOUVER
C. H. Locke
British Columbia
Harvey Murphy
Locke
Gordon Sloan
25 Killed As Plane Hits US Mountain
Holyoke Massachusetts reports the loss of 25 military personnel and seven passengers when a B 17 crash on Mount Tom near Westover Field. Salvage teams recovered about 20 bodies by morning with several still in wreckage. The crash sparked extensive fires and forest damage as troops investigated terrain likely misjudged by the pilot.
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HOLYOKE
Mass
United States army
avy
coast guard
Gander
Newfoundland
Mount
oin
New England
Connecticut Valley
Westover Field
Chicopee
new woods
arca
amy Buarda
tre
Westover
Allison Named Editor of Tribune in Winnipeg
Carlyle Allison is named managing editor of the Winnipeg Tribune succeeding John Bird who retires on medical advice. John M. Gordon becomes managing editor, H. C. Manning is appointed news editor, and John B. Robertson is named city editor after Allison joined as a carrier salesman and previously worked at Saskatoon State-Phoenix and the Montreal Gazette.
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WINNIPEG
ith
W. McCurdy
Winnipeg Tribune
today
Carlyle Allison
John Bird
Bird
the
Tribune
Southam
John M. Gordon
Mr. Allison
H. C. Manning
John B. Robertson
Allison
Saskatoon State-Phoenix
Montreal Gazette
Moslems to Meet in Bombay on India Plan
The All-India Moslem League council will meet July 28 and 29 in Bombay to examine the British cabinet mission's plan for India's future, officials announced Tuesday.
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NEW DELHI
Reuters
council of the
All-India Moslem League
Bombay
India
Soviets Claim Hunger Tour Was Anti Soviet Propaganda
The Soviet press condemned Hoover’s famine tour as Western efforts to pressure allied nations via UNRRA funds. Izvestia argued U.S. and British circles sought political blackmail by tying relief to anti-Soviet aims. The piece cited U.S. House actions on UNRRA funding and censorship provisions as evidence of pressure tactics and warned of interference with aid to White Russia and Ukraine.
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MOSCOW
Investia teday
United States
Britain
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Werbdert Hoover
S. Gorodetsky
U.N.A.R.A
U.N. A.R.A
Izveatia
House of Representatives
senate
U.NALR.A
U.N A. R.A
Yevestia
UN.RR.A
Russia
CHINA
WASHINGTON
Tyrareek
John Leighton Stuart
Pre
George C. Marshall
Truman
Stuart
Chiang Kai Shek
U.N. ER. A
Fiorillo H. LaGua
Cheng Pao Nan
Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
state department
Peking
OPA War Brings Chrysler Warning
Detroit July 10 state that the Chrysler department of the United Auto Workers warned of seeking additional wage increases if price controls lapse. Delegates at a conference representing about 80 Chrysler workers said OPA price controls already erased the recent 183 cent wage rise from earlier in the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DETROIT
Chrysler department of the
United Auto Workers
Congress
office of price administration
UWAW
Chrysler
O.P.A
Aid To Beet Sugar Budget Debate Highlights
Ottawa July 10 Speakers pressed the government to cancel plans to tax cooperatives, boost production incentives, and aid mining agriculture education and the sugar beet industry. Independent and CCF members urged dropping cooperative taxation while Liberal benches sought broader ag support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DARCY O'DONNELL
OTTAWA
C.P
C.C.F
Prom
Social Credit
John Blackmore
8.C
Lethbridge
Rodney Adamson
P.C
York West
Eugene Marquis
Kamouraska
Liguort Lacombe
Ind
Laval
Mr. Lacombe
Mr. Blackmere
Canada
Adamson
United States
Russian dictator claim shocks Sydney audience
Former Australian minister to Russia J Malone told listeners in Sydney on July 10 that Russia maintains the most ruthless dictatorship the world has seen. He added that aside from anti Jewish persecution the Soviet regime shows all the distasteful traits of Nazism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SYDNEY
Australia
Reuters
J. Malone
Russia
Democratic primaries heat up in Minnesota race action
In St Paul on July 1 the Democratic Farmer Labor primary features Minneapolis lawyer Frank Ryan challenging St Olaf professor Theodore Jorgenson for the senate. Harold Barker leads John J McDonough in the race for governor nomination.
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ST. PAUL
Minnesota
Frank Ryan
Minneapolis
St. Olaf college
Theodore Jorgenson
Harold Barker
John J McDonough
Municipalities Urge Dominion Provincial Conference Reconvened
Winnipeg mayor Gar net Coulter, president of the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities, released a Vancouver meeting resolution urging a new Dominion provincial conference. The document calls for full municipal cost coverage of unemployment relief, tax and grant support on crown lands, a national rent housing law, and early financial aid policy statements for public works. It also advocates federation representation at future talks and ongoing coordination with provincial municipal groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WINNIPEG
Garnet Coulter
Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities
Vancouver
Howe
Nacal
CIO Leader Sidney Hillman Dies at 59 in New York
Sidney Hillman, 59, labor leader and national chairman of the CIO political action committee, died at 6 46 a.m. in Lookout, N Y He was president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and vice president of the CIO Hillman, born in Zagate Lithuania, came to the United States in 1907 and moved into garment industry leadership after early work as a cutter His death follows being found unconscious in bed by his wife and treated for a heart condition by Dr John Cahill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SIDNEY HILLMAN
POINT LOOKOUT
N.Y
C.I.Q
Hillman
John Cahill
Cahill
Bessie
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
C.I.C
Zagate
Lithuania
United States
Big Four Move Toward Adjournment in Paris Talks
In Paris the Big Four foreign ministers pressed for adjournment by week’s end while deputies prepared final drafts of peace treaties with Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria and Finland. Bevin urged federalization for Germany amid US support as Molotov clashed with Byrnes over a disarmament pact. No immediate decision was made.
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PARIS
A.P
Germany
Italy
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Finland
Britsh
Bevin
United States
BYRNES-MOLOTOV
Messrs
Byrnes
Molotov
Russia
General Rains In Southern Sask and Manitoba
Winnipeg reports a thunderstorm easing electrical disturbances with wires broken and brief power interruptions. General rains reached southern Saskatchewan and most of Manitoba, with up to 12 inches last night. Climax Sask endured five hours of continuous rain, aiding a better crop outlook this season. Trans-Canada Airlines delayed a passenger flight due to weather.
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WINNIPEG
Sonthern
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Dominion Meteorological Bureau
Trans-Canada
Third Group Japanese Repats Leave Soon
Ottawa July 10 The third group of Japanese repats to Japan under the Dominion government plans to depart from Vancouver toward the end of July. Deputy Labour Minister Arthur Mack Namara said the movement would include 700 to 1,030 people, depending on transport accommodation.
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OTTAWA
Japan
Dominion
fom
Vancouver
Arthur Mack Namara
labor
Senate Vote Wrecks Bill
The Senate voted 42 to 34 to bar price ceilings on meat poultry and their by products under an OPA extender bill. They added dairy items to the exempt list amid warnings of a possible presidential veto and debates over extending price controls. Top officials warned the move could fuel a veto while others pressed for broader exemptions including cottonseed and tobacco.
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WASHINGTON
senate
Office of Price Administration
chamber
Alben Barkley
Kentucky
congress
Barkley
Truman
hales
O.F.A
Kenneth 5. Wherry
Rep
Neb
Elmer Thomas
Okla
Lee
Pappy) O'Daniel
Dem
Tex
O.P A
Sen. O'Daniel
Robert Taft
Ohio
OP.A
io department of justice
Paul Porter
Chester Bowles
Porter
OPA
Bowles
Russia Opposes Dismemberment of Germany in Talks
Soviet Foreign Minister said Russia opposes dismemberment or federation of Germany and backs central administrative agencies with plebiscite support for Rhine and Ruhr areas. US urges extending disarmament treaty beyond 25 years to satisfy Russia.
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RUSSIA
GERMANY
Minkgler
Melesey
Meicy
Russig
Rehr
Rhineland
United States
OTTAWA
C.P
Mitchell
Dominion Sige
and Coat Corp
Sydney
N.S
Steel Co
Canada
Mamilien
Algoma Steel Corp
Sault Ste. Marie
F. B. Kilkeurm
Montreal
Munitions department
steel comtretier
JERUSALEM
Reglers
teepe Knight
Jewish Agency
Jerualem
Falentime Acad Wigher Committee
Alan Cunningham
Palestine
PALMER Mass
PATERSON
GLASGOW
Scotland
Jackie Paterna
devicion
Joe Curran
Liverpool
Pulerven
peumd
Curren
RACHAYP
Government Acts End London Strike
The Labor ministry intervened to end a strike that halted weekly meat rations for about 5,000,000 Londoners. Many butcher shops closed as drivers at Smithfield wholesale meat market protested the hiring of three nonunion men. Suspension of the three nonunion workers is proposed pending negotiations.
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LONDON
Labor ministry
Smithfield
Paris Parley Depressing Says Belman Morin
Paris July 10 news dispatch from Belman Morin reports that most correspondents find the foreign ministers conference profoundly depressing. He notes a widening gap between the Paris debate and continental realities, with Europe facing hunger, economic strain, and political stagnation. The piece suggests little hope of a quick peace settlement and describes border disputes as longstanding.
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BELMAN MORIN
PARIS
Europe
thorison
Trieste
ponte
Advised Plumbers to Oppose High Charges in Canada
VANCOUVER July 10. £. H. McCaffery secretary manager of the British Columbia Branch of the National Association of Master Plumbers and Heating contractors said national headquarters notified him to advise members against excessive increases in charges. The notice followed the cancellation Monday of ceiling prices on all plumbing and heating services while ceiling prices on materials stay in effect.
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VANCOUVER
H. McCaffery
British Columbia
National Association of Master Plumbers and Heating contractors
toray national headquarters
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