Alberta legislature backs debt refunding plan in 65 minute session
In a swift 65 minute session the Alberta legislature approved the speech from the throne and first readings on four bills aimed at refunding the province debt of 113 million dollars. The measures authorize a debt reorganization program, enable exchange offers for securities, create new securities, and provide funding through new loans and securities. The Dominion will revise financial relations with Alberta, choosing the debt service option retroactive to May 1, 1945.
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Alberta
DMONTON
C.P
J. ©. Bowen
Ivan Casey
pee eee BEBT
dnack
menner
DOMINION
Isle of Man History Highlighted in Royal Opening
The article recalls KingGeorge opening the Tynwald Court in the Isle of Man for the first time since 1423, praising Manx loyalty and independence. It notes Manx per capita war enlistment, Viking heritage, and the three legged symbol as cultural symbolism, with government autonomy under a Crown appointee.
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George
Isle of Man
Vancouver
Irish Sea
Hall Caine
Empire
England
Scotland
Ireland
Sicily
island
Independent candidate to oppose King in Glengarry by election
Dr Richard Monahan of Sharbot Lake Ontario announced his intention to run as an Independent Liberal in the Glengarry by election on August 6. He frames the contest as a challenge to a foregone outcome and notes King has Liberal nomination. PC and CCF decline to oppose. J Shaw, defeated Social Credit candidate, hints at fielding against King.
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ALEXANDRIA
Ont
Richard Monahan
Sharbot Lake
Dominion
Glengarry
Mackenzie King
house of commons
Monahan
Progressive Conservative
C.C.F
King
J. Shaw
Social Credit
Nipissing
SUMMERTOWN
Glengarry county
Goering Questioned by Russians at Mondorf spa
Russian interrogators arrived at Mondorf Les Bains Luxembourg to question 52 high ranking Nazis interned in the former Palace Hotel. Herman Goering, watching from his fourth floor room, initially refused to meet them but finally spoke after two days of questioning.
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MONDORF LES BAINS
Luxemburg
Herman Goering
Goering
Churchill Flies Home To Hear Election Results
At Potsdam a four engine plane carried Prime Minister Churchill and party back to London after the Big Three meeting. Eden and Attlee traveled with him to attend results of Britain's July 5 election due Thursday.
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Churchill
POTSDAM
London
Eden
Clement R. Attlee
observer
Truman
Stalin
Foreign office
CADOGAN
Anthony Eden
Britain
Alexander Cadogan
United States
James P. Byrnes
Molotov
Labor party
con
Clement Attlee
Brush
Muroran Port Reduced to Pittiful Ruins by Bombardment
SAN FRANCISCO July 25 The northern Japanese city of Muroran was reduced to pitiful ruins by naval bombardment July 14. Tokyo radio said Tuesday in reporting progress, noting that residents, including workers at the iron mill, have dug tunnels into mountain sides immune against bombs and shells.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Muroran
Tokyo
federal communications commission
iron mill
Hokkaido Island
Packing Strike Threatens To Spread Across Canada
TORONTO July 25. Meat packing plants in Canada face possible shortages as Canada Packers closes five Toronto plants and sympathy walkouts loom in Peterborough Winnipeg Edmonton and Vancouver. Hull workers also rejected a company demand to kill hogs. Unions in Toronto and Hull differ with UFCW CIO and AFL affiliates over transfers and actions. Officials report no settlement progress and anticipate further sympathy strikes today or tomorrow.
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TORONTO
Canada Packers, Limited
Peterborough
Ont
Winnipeg
Edmonton
Vancouver
Hull
Que
Canada Packers
packing house butchers and allied food workers union of Canada
AFL
United Packinghouse Workers of America
C.I.0
Fred W. Dowling
U.PW.A
Dowling
Samuel Hughes
Japs In Europe Say Oshima To Urge Tokyo To Surrender
In Salzburg Austria July 25 AP United States infantry guarding 190 Japanese diplomatic personnel quoted their prisoners saying Lt Gen Hiashi Oshima the Japanese ambassador to Berlin would urge Tokyo to comply immediately with the Allied demand for unconditional surrender.
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SALZBURG
Austria
A.P
United States
Tursday
Hiashi Oshima
Berlin
Australians Free Choiseul Isle Liberated by War Broadcast
Australian troops report the liberation of Choiseul Island in the Solomons, with forces landing earlier and the island cleared of Nipponese. The broadcast notes American Marines previously landed on Choiseul October 28, 1943, then withdrew weeks later as part of Bougainville operations.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Choiseul
Splomeon Tsland
We federal communications commission
Bougainville
Bougainville Island
MANILA
Okinawa
Philippines
Jananes
Solomons
Snik river
Britian New Guinea
Australia
Japan
Bourainville
New Guinea
Why Surplus Jeeps Trucks Not Sold Delay in Dispersing War Equipment
Ottawa July 25 Complaints that surplus and obsolete war equipment in Alberta is wasted while veterans seek to buy jeeps and trucks. War Assets Corporation says it can act only after the defence department declares surplus items and turns them over. Jeeps: only one has reached War Assets, Labrador to Newfoundland. Disposal steps: inventory from closed air schools, national dept decides needs elsewhere, then branches of services, else War Assets. Delays likely in defence departments measuring requisites. Veterans' preference not offered due to volume and economy concerns.
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WILFRID EGGLESTON
The
Herald
OTTAWA
Alberta
War Assets Corporation
defence department
Department of National Defence
Air
Labrador
Newfoundland
ale department
armed services
the Herald
Petain Hitler Telegram Probed in Treason Trial
Paris July 25 Judge Paul Monteiheans read a telegram from Marshal Petain asking Hitler for permission for the Vichy regime to defend its territory with the Germans. Spectators and jurors protested as Petain refused to answer questions about the telegram. Daladier testified that traitors fled to Vichy after the armistice and that the Petain regime harmed the republic.
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PARIS
Paul Monteiheans
Warshal Petain
Hitler
Peta
Edouard Daladier
France
Vichy
Petain
republc
M. Daladier
Dog Rescued After Six Days Afloat in Tank Landing Craft
OTTAWA July 25. Skippy a Scotch terrier drifted for six days in a tank landing craft before rescue by Canadian frigate Glace Bay. A boarding party found the dog in the cabin near the ship’s fuel area alive but weak. The crew believes the craft was moved from Europe toward the Pacific, possibly during a storm, and Skippy followed a crew member. The frigate fired a practice round as Skippy scampered for cover, signaling the dog’s shell shock yet loyal to his shipmates.
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OTTAWA
Skippy
Glace Bay
Ireland
Luacniir
Fred Berardus
Vancouver
Pacific
Bogardus
Pricey Wilcox
Wilcox
Australian Advance Near Samarinda In Borneo
July reports state Australian troops moved two miles north along the East Borneo coast toward Samarinda, with support from RAF Liberators and American torpedo boats. A Japanese truck convoy was spotted as the push neared the next objective, while actions limited to Celebes involved naval strikes on watercraft and related targets.
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MANILA
Pasaing
Mt Batochimpur
East Borneo
Samarinda
Australan Spifkrys
RAAP
Celebes islands
takvhawks
Mandar Gulf
Celebes
British Commandos Tried To Sink Tirpitz
Censors reveal details of a year old covert raid as a small Norwegian fishing boat carried two submarine torpedoes toward the German battleship Tirpitz in a Norwegian fjord. A storm forced the two man “chariot” teams to abandon their craft and swim to safety with many captured, while the attack failed.
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RAE
Trondhem ford
Tirpita
Altenfjord
nor
Norway
Red Action Might Force Jap Collapse
Dewitt Mackenzie discusses a possible Soviet entry into the war against Japan as a potential catalyst for Nippon’s surrender. He notes speculation that Moscow’s move could provide Japan a face-saving exit, with AP reports from Potsdam suggesting President Truman has reached a substantial accord with the Russians on Japan war developments.
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DEWITT MACKENZIE
Russia
Japan
Moscow
Nippon
Victor Eubank
Associated Press
pus
bureau of
Tokyo
umedentaily
onic
Soviet Union
America
Pritam
Stalin
Potsdam
Truman
Fleets Shelling Coast Shows Allied Naval Blitz
Japanese home islands under threat as the US Sixth Fleet launches another carrier air strike. Admirals Nimitz and Halsey report major damage to Japanese ships, airfields, and installations across Honshu and Hokkaido. British carrier planes aid in the renewed offshore bombardment with a growing tally of ships and planes destroyed or damaged.
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GUAM
United States
Japan
Kure
Nimitz
yester-duy
Shikoku
Kushimoto
Horshy
Tokyo
London
Kanagawa prefecture
Honshu
Kanagawa
Nojima
Jay
HOKKATEO
Hokkaido
Jang
New York
American Broadcasting Company
Nim Mx
Admiral Halsey
Stalin carries Japanese surrender offer to Potsdam
Newsweek reports Stalin presented the Japanese peace proposal at Potsdam with a condition that the home islands remain free of American invasion. The offer included pulling from Manchuria to Russia, leaving the Philippines Indo China and Burma independent, withdrawing from China, and allowing U.S. occupation of Port Arthur and Formosa if home islands are untouched.
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POTSDAM
NEW YORK
Newsweek
heute islands
Manchurias
Russia
Philippines
Indo-China
Burma
China
Rorta
Formosa
COMMU S. CHINESE CLAS
NORTH CHINA
CHUNGRKING
Commmunist
Shensi
GUAM
P.i
Tokyo
Miishi
Hayama
Kawasaki
Tokyo Bay
Tokyo city
Nippon
EDMONTON
John Lenglet
United Packinghouse Workers union
Canada Packers Limited
Toronto
C.P
Toronto plaints
Ontario
John Walter Sova, Jr
Chin Tong
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