Newfie Vote Today Faces Confederation Decision
Newfoundland voters go to 1,300 polling stations to decide whether to join Canada or return to responsible government in the pivotal referendum ending a two year campaign. Eligible voters exceed 176,000 with results uncertain as Ottawa weighs possible union terms.
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T. JOHN'S
Nild
Newfoundland
Canada
N.D.T
C.D.T
Confederation
United States
U.S
Economic Union Party
comic union
commission
OTTAWA
Caribou on Island Lake NIPIGON Face Logging Threat
A herd of about 25 woodland caribou on Island Lake Nipeg .on, Ont. faces extinction as a logging lease to a local company is challenged by conservationists. They warn loss of the herd could push the species closer to vanishing. May wage data show 1948 Canada farm worker pay rose to a record high since 1940. With board, average daily wage across Canada on May 15 was 3.93 dollars, up from 3.59 in 1941.
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N Kelum
Lake Nipigon
Ont
Brandon Sung
Canada
bureau
Woman Taken For A Ride In Oklahoma City
Margaret Coles' car stalled yesterday while driving home. She waved down a passing car where a man and woman rode along. The man checked the engine and then swapped into her car as the other woman drove off in their vehicle. Both cars left and the pair did not return, police were told.
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OKLAHOMA CITY
Margaret Coles
Miss Cole
Wage Boost Ends Threat at Ford Motor Company
Detroit reports a 13 cent per hour wage rise for 116,000 Ford production workers, ending a countrywide strike threat after 21 hours of talks with the UAW CIO. The contract includes higher premium pay, vacation improvements, and a revised group insurance plan, with an estimated annual cost to Ford of 22 million dollars. The deal follows wage offers and fringe gains, settling a key auto-industry labor dispute. In a separate note, Litopolis Ohio, population 288, receives a legacy gift of over 2.5 million dollars for education, art, science, and music from the late Mrs. Mabel Wagnalls Jones.
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DETROIT
Ford Motor Company
United Automobile Workers
C.I.0
U.AW.C.LO
Ford
union
UAW-C.SO
United States
John S. Bugas
Ford company
veca- ACTIS
LITTLE VILLAGE
NEW YORK
Litopolis
Ohio
Mabel Wagnalls Jones
Funk and Wagnalls publishing firm
Liberals Planning Alberta Reforms Rally in Vauxhall
A Liberal rally in Vauxhall heard MLA J. Harper Prowse and Liberal candidate R. J. Higgins outline party aims. Prowse, formerly an Army representative, explained leaving Veterans groups to seek broader Liberal reform, criticizing Social Credit and CC.F. plans while praising Liberal and UFA achievements in Alberta.
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VAUXHALL
J. Harper Prowse
R. J. Higgins
Retlaw
T. Birek
Prowse
Liberal party
CC.F
C.C.P
Canada
Alberta
Liberal
UFA
LIBERALS
British Columbia tuna fishers set to mine marine gold
Vancouver reports a new tuna fishery along BC waters as deep sea crews from Vancouver and Victoria pursue roaming schools of albacore tuna known as the chicken of the sea. An expected season of three to four weeks could yield about 500 tons valued near 600 dollars per ton, with 20 boats currently active and a Fisheries boat scouting tuna schools.
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Pacific
Victoria
Sauuday
United States
mam fisheries department
KGL
Want Ads Parade of Services and Surprises
A Herald want ad page describes the wide range of services offered including finding dogs for people locating buyers reaching sellers and dealing in real estate merchandise and livestock The ad notes the section is read daily for surprises and invites readers to phone the Want Ad Department at 3202.
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the Herald
Ad Department
Fall World Wheat Price Expected Fall
London July 22 The Food Minister Strachey said world wheat prices are likely to fall farther and faster over the next six months while the Canada price increase remains in effect from Aug 1 He said no negotiations have begun to maintain the 155 a bushel price and that negotiations for 1949 50 must occur before year end He noted rationing ends Sunday and Britain will not boost wheat imports or purchases beyond necessity due to cost and justification.
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LONDON
Strachey
Canada
United Kingdom
United States
Nin
Britain
Wholesale Sales Decline in May Signals Wary Consumers
Ottawa reports wholesalers posted a three percent drop in May sales from 1947 levels and four percent from April, reflecting strained consumer pockets. Retailers have rebuilt stocks since the war but hesitate to carry large inventories at current prices while retailers purchase less.
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OTTAWA
bureau of statistics
Bevin backs Berlin talks with blockade pressure kept
British Foreign Secretary Bevin insisted Britain will demand lifting the Russian blockade of Berlin before four power talks resume. He said discussions with the Soviet government would begin as soon as technical access to Berlin is restored, with Attlee and Churchill pressed for a clear military perspective to accompany diplomacy.
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ONDON
Bevin
Britain
Berlin
Germany
house of commons
United States
Attlee
Winston Churchill
William Gallacher
Churchill
Phil Pimtin
Wallace Party Writes Songs Ridicule Campaign Music
Philadelphia July 22 1947 the Wallace New party convention debates naming a presidential candidate. The report notes the party will use songs in campaigning and cites a song ridiculing Republicans and Democrats. Lyrics mock both major parties with lines about the donkey and elephant.
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PHILADELPHIA
Henry A. Wallace
Six Crown In Que. Rapids
Six men drowned when an army bridge collapsed over the Ottawa River at Des JoachimsDesroaches site 40 miles NW of Pembroke Ontario. Victims Eli Bertrand Aldamore Hertrand Edward Picotte Romeo Chaput Roy McDonald Almerette. Rescue efforts failed to locate bodies as crews worked through the night. The accident followed a prior deadly catwalk collapse last November 22 at the same construction project.
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DESJOACHIMS
Que
Meath
Ottawa River
tric Power Commission
Ontario
HLEP.C
Pembroke
Ont
Eli Bertrand
St. Joseph’s parish
Allumette Island
Aldamore Hertrand
Edward Picotte
Romeo Chaput
Chapleay
Roy McDonald
Sheenbaro
Almerette
Visible Wheat Supplies Decline in Canada
In Winnipeg on July 22 the board of grain commissioners reported Canada's visible wheat stocks at 41,600,000 bushels, down 94,400,000 bushels from the previous year and 17,800,000 bushels below last year’s totals.
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WINNIPEG
Canada
board of grain commissioners
AD A group attacks Wallace New Party as Communist tool
Philadelphia July 22 The American for Democratic Action DFA assails Henry Wallace s New Party as a Communist tool while Wallace denounces New York Communist indictments The platform plan may be named Progress ive or People s party It condemns the Marshall Plan favors repeal of the draft and Taft Hartley act and calls for a $1 minimum wage and price cuts to 1946 levels It also questions public ownership of banks railroads and utilities
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PHILADELPHIA
American for Democratic Action group
Henry Wallace
New Party
Wallace
New York
AD.A
James Loeb
Berlin
congress
Progressive
People’s” party
Tugwell
America
Russia
Soviet Union
Mosquitos Still Unconquered
Washington reports entomologists tested 56 clothing materials to stop mosquito bites. Mosquitoes scored five hits in 1,000 dives on a man in an army jacket but broke through 690 times against light navy pylon opposition. Textile choice cannot be skeeter-proof, officials say.
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WASHINGTON
agriculture departments
Bidault To Be Ousted Bidault To Be Ousted
Socialist leader Leon Blum emerged as a possible successor to Foreign Minister Georges Bidault as Andre Marie pursued a new cabinet. Paul Reynaud was also named as finance minister if the plan proceeds, with votes from various factions to be aligned. Marie sought Socialist and Popular Republican backing, while President Auriol handed him the task of forming a government after Schuman’s cabinet resignation over the defence budget.
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Leon Blum
Georges Bidault
Andre Marie
Blum
Paul Reynaud
Marie
Reynaud
Maine
foreign ministry
Mouvement Republican Populaire
Vincent Auriol
Robert Schuman
Bidault
Schuman
Mouvement Republicain Populaire
Paris
Hague
Liberal platform slated for August Alberta vote
Edmonton reports Liberal party spokesmen say the platform for the August 17 Alberta general election will be released Saturday. Drafting is underway with about 15 candidates and the party policy committee in conference.
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ALTA
EDMONTON
U.S
Liveral
Alberta
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Caribou
air force
Caribbean
Sicily
Scotland
R. W. Ovspring
Royal Air Force
St. Hubert Air station
Montreal
C. We Bush
B.C
VANCOUVER
Juan De Fuca Straits
British Columbia
TRUMAN
Wallace Party
FINNISIL
HELSINKI
Magno Pekkala
Finland
Juho Jasseklvi
Itela
K. A. Faoby
Pekiale
Social Union party
LAKE SUCCESS
C.U
United Nations
U.N
Ahmed Al-Farsi
Beendad
Iraq
security council
RCAF
ATLANTIC
G.B. OX
C.P
R.GAF
Defence Minter Claxton
hts Air Transport Command
Dorva
TORONTO
International Nickel Company of Canada
F.C.B
Port Colborne
io.A.C
SOUTH AFRICA
A.P.J—Klich Overseas Airway Corporation
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