Truman wraps up Canadian trip on presidential special
President Truman and Mrs Truman completed a three day visit to Ottawa with a swift return to Washington aboard a luxurious presidential special train. Crowds along the route cheered as the couple visited Government House, Met with officials including Prime Minister Mackenzie King, and discussed peace and friendship with nations worldwide. In Niagara Falls, crowds greeted the returning president and he expressed no desire to ride another train, smiling at supporters during a brief stop.
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WASHINGTON
C.P
Truman
White House
Margaret
Ottawa
NIAGARA
Trumans
Hiragara Falls
Ont
Viscount Alexander
Viscountess
Alexander
Government house
Mackenzie King
manythers
collrege
Mr. King
Mr. Truman
parlianent
clu
Montebello
Que
United States
avery
Union station
Ray Atherton
United
Otawa
Harry
Falls View
falls
Queen Victoria park
Co operatives warned against free enterprise perils
Winnipeg June 13 Fred Morris president of the Manitoba division of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association told editors at the division’s annual meeting that co operatives threaten free enterprise. He warned rural editors may be lulled by co op dreams and that unionism poses a growing danger. Only under free enterprise can editors function properly.
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WINNIPEG
Canada
Fred Morris
Manitoba
Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association
Elkhorn Merory
Centennial Exodus Pilgrims Set For Nauvoo to Salt Lake Trek
A 143 man party with three women and two boys will depart Nauvoo on July 15 retracing Brigham Young's pioneer flight to Salt Lake City. The 1947 journey, marking the Mormon exodus from Illinois begun February 4, 1846, travels in twenty two automobiles with wagon replicas, camping frontier style, and follows early diet including buffalo and deer. James Cannon, grandson of pioneer cote Q. Cannon, says the trek ends July 22 in Salt Lake City with a parade.
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Nauvoole
Salt Lake City
Utah
Nauvoo
alt Lake City
Brigam Young
Illinois
Young
pioneer lothes
D. James Cannon
secreity
Sons of Utah Floneers
Mr. Cannon
cote Q. Cannon
Territory of
Breham Young
Saltake
Railway forecast tight oats and barley transport to lakehead
A Winnipeg report warns eastern Canada will begin its 1947 export program with a deficit of about 1.5 million bushels of locally grown oats and barley. To meet demand railways must haul over three 80-car trains daily to the lakehead from August 11 to December 10, plus the current annual 141.5 million bushels of feed plains and millfeed, contingent on a normal or better western crop and favorable weather.
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WINNIPEG
Canada
lakehead
Ontario
Ouchee
New Brunswick
Desze Sulyok Demands International Supervision of Vote
In Budapest on June 13 Desze Sulyok a parliament member denounced the new regime as a police state and urged his Szabadsag party to demand international supervision of Hungary's September elections. He proposed Russian troops leave, free campaigning, and parliamentary immunity carried to the new parliament.
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BUDAPEST
Desze Sulyok
Sulyok
Szabadsag
freedom of
lberty
Hungary
Zoltan Tildy
Baron Vansittart
Great Britain
house of Lords
Ferenc Nery
Lord Vansittart
Russia
parlament
esterday
Freedom party
Traces Union Council
Communist party
Sulvok
U.S
GENEVA
Ferenc Nary
United State
Aladar Szegedy-Maszak
United States
Nagy
Washington
Naev
LACS
LONDON
house of common
Balkans
Western Rivers Running Higher
Melted snow and rain raised stream flow above normal in May across Canada and the United States. The joint Smoothly stream flow report by the Dominion meteor and power bureau and the US Geological Survey notes Western Canada rivers with percentages of normal flow. Manitoba and Saskatchewan show Astrabome 27 percent and Bow 15 percent. North Saskatchewan 117. British Columbia rivers Kootenay 168, Bridge 156, North Thompson 138, Camp Head 104.
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OTTAWA
Canada
United States
Dominion mater and power bureau
United States geological survey
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
France faces fresh 24 hour public employee strike
Paris June 13 Reuters public workers including street cleaners joined a 24 hour warning strike while rail services resume after a five day stoppage. The Federation of Public Employees urged wage increases though some cities like Calais Angers and Cannes stayed at work or ended early. Fire water services remained uninterrupted and transit was only lightly touched.
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PARIS
Reuters
France
Federation of Public Employees
Calais
Angers
Cannes
Rail Board Ends Sitting In Regina Amid Rate Debate
Regina Saskatchewan witnesses from agriculture commerce and labor oppose the proposed 30 percent freight rate increase by railways as the board of transport commissions hearings move to Vancouver. Submissions warn of higher living costs inflation and hardship for western farmers ranchers and working families while calling for reform of railway ownership and debt reduction.
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REGINA
C.P
board of transport commission
Vancover
British Columbia
Saskatchewan
Annie Cooper
Regine
Prince Albert
Saskatoon
Moose
Sasketchewan
Provincial Stock Growers’ Association
David M. Wylie
Maple Creek
Saskatchewan horney
Swedish aid official slain near Russian roadblock
Stockholm reports Arne Carlsson, head of Swedish aid to Austria, was killed while traveling a route Russian forces had closed to civilians. The Swedish legation in Vienna said Russian authorities apologized for the incident and a full report awaits in Stockholm. A separate El Salvador report cites La Prensa claiming a revolutionary attempt against the Honduran government was broadcast from Nicaragua.
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STOCKHOLM
Reutersl
Budapest
foreign office
save the children
Arne Carlsson
Vienna
aid to Austris
Carlson
Austsia
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Ame
Carlsson
legation
SAN SALVADOR
El Salvador
La Prensa
curar
Leon
Nicaragua
Heavy water plant built at Trail British Columbia
A June 13 London report says a hydro electric plant on the Columbia River at Trail BC will produce heavy water for British and empire atomic power. The Daily Express notes Trail’s plant breaks Norway’s pre war monopoly, with cheaper Canadian heavy water possible. Comment from officials in Montreal and London is cautious amid wartime secrecy. Dr Volkoff suggests practical harnessing of atomic power could come in five years, with broader use slower.
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LONDON
Daily Express
Chapman Pincher
Columbia river
Trail
Norway
London dispatch
Canada
Co. TK Bowe
commons
G. M. Volkom
J. R. Oppenheimer
United States
Sr. Volkoff
Brush Columbia
Crisis Complex Is Rapped By Bevin
Foreign Secretary Bevin criticizes the press for dramatic Moscow conference coverage and urges accuracy. He praises the press for India power transfer reporting, warns against dwelling on past imperial history, and endorses Marshall’s call for European recovery with U S backing. Britain plans a European conference to implement Marshall’s proposals.
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Crisis Complex
Bevin
Moscow
ONCON
G.P
Bevin Lu
foreign press association
United States
India
Harvard University
Marshall
Britain
United States Has Power To Forge Permanent Peace
Cambridge June 13 United States delegate Warren Austin warned that the United States with half the world’s productive power can influence the global move toward stability and democracy. He spoke at MIT about atomic control talks with Soviet opposition framed as fear of inflation in Russia.
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CAMBRIDGE
Mass
Warren Aust
United States
United Nations
Austin
Moesaehpaptis Institute of Technology
Lake Success
N.Y
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet Union
atomic ‘energy commission
Sovet Union
Poland
Russia
Progressive Conservatives of Quebec Convene to Rebuild Party
In Montreal on June 13 the Progressive Conservatives of Quebec held a convention aimed at revitalizing the party. National leader Johan Bracken and R. A. Bell spoke as leaders pledged a full organization drive across Quebec with integrated effort and broad provincial representation to win the next election.
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MONTREAL
Progressive Conservatives of Quebec provincs
Quebec
Johan Bracken
alll
tofhorros
Progressive Conservative
R. A. Bell
rou
tm Canata
Stacken
Bell
Queles
Mr. Bell
Investment Dealers' meeting to discuss consumer credit
The Investment Dealers' Association of Canada opens its annual meeting in Jasper Alta with about 400 delegates. Discussions will cover consumer credit tension, Canada's international credit position, and the future of the investment business. A S Torrey of Toronto will give the president's report, with C B Johnston of Winnipeg also addressing. Norman MacKenzie of UBC will speak at the banquet.
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Investment Dealers’ Association of Canada
Canada
A. S. Torrey
Toronto
C. B. Johnston
Winnipeg
wil
Norman MacKenzie
University of British Columbia
Vancouver
JASPER
Alta
Arms Cut Deadlock Ended by Report on UN Plan
June 13 Lake Success United Nations amid a 60 day deadlock between the United States and Russia over a world disarmament plan. Col W R Hodgson urged the UN commission to proceed despite major powers delaying work. Soviet deputy foreign minister Gromyko pressed for concrete items and joint consideration of US and Soviet atomic plans, opposing separate review.
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W. R. Hodgson
Ause
totay
United States
Russia
United Nations” commission on
ssajor
Canada
Aecree Gromsko
United Nations
Gromyko
Alberta Invites New Enterprise For Development
Alberta rejects dependence on the state and urges individual enterprise at a dinner for the Canadian Manufacturers Association in Edmonton. Premier Manning urged self-reliant businessmen from provinces to prove their worth and help a young province enter a new development phase before a special train carried visitors to Saskatoon and back.
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EDMONTON
Alberta
C. Manning
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
Saskatoon
Nurse Dies in Downtown Plunge as Veteran Hospitalized
A 45 year old nurse died after plunging from a downtown hotel window as a WWII veteran attempted two jumps from a hotel window. Police withheld the veteran’s name who was treated in a strait jacket. IMPERIAL TO RUN PIPELINE MAY BUILD REFINERY IN EDMONTON
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Jone
Nina McCloskey
ste
IMPERIAL
EDMONTON
C.P
Harry Ajintay
Imperial Oil Limited
Leduc oi]ield
Nixka
Aintay
Toronto
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Eyaptrer
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tra
RUSSIA
MOSCOW
China
inkiaox
TENTILNTIVRY
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sears
Gersid Eames
Wiliam Wentonis
Wionipes
Allan Moor
Kenora
Co uf
Alberta
Co-operative Union of Canada
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