Berlin Blockade Lift Plans And Berlin Talks
Canadian Press reports from May 4 that Western allies plan to lift the Berlin blockade by May 12 and hold a foreign ministers meeting in Paris on May 28. In Vancouver, search efforts for a missing RCAF aircraft continued with pilots Grant and passenger Cure unlocated, while a yellow object sighting prompted renewed ground and aerial searches in the Similkameen region.
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Air force
British Columbia
Okanagan Valley
Similkameen Valley
RCAF
William D. Grant
Vancouver
ours
Sheila Cure
Cardston
Alta
Manning Park
Peiticton
cremees
Miss Cure
General hospital
Sea Island
army
Labor Bill Split as House Sends Back Wood Measure
The U S House defeated a push to recommit the Wood labor bill 212 to 209, leaving no labor bill before the chamber and stalling efforts to repeal Taft Hartley. Leaders plan to wait for Senate action, while Wood would retain key provisions and bans on closed shops under state action. Prime Minister Chifley says no royal tour of Australia in 1950 due to British elections.
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Associated Press
ASHINGTON
Truman Democrats
house of representatives
house
House Ieaders
senate
Truman
Jdhn Word
Dem
WOOD
Robert Taft
Fred Hartley
New Jersey
Brooks Hays
Dem. Ark
NG ROSSS
CANBERRA
Reuters
Chifley
Australia
Six Months For Disliking Haircut
Farnborough Hampshire May 4 A court martial heard Gunner Ronald Gray refuse a standard army cut and demand only thinning. He pleaded guilty to disobedience and insubordination and received six months detention, subject to confirmation.
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FARNBOROUGH
Hampshire
England
Ronald Gray
Gray
Television teaching aid planned for Guy's Hospital
A three lens remote controlled camera system will be suspended over the operating table at Guy's Hospital to televise surgical procedures for students in a lecture room. Tests will begin soon and the setup aims to make Guy's the first hospital worldwide with permanent television teaching and the first in Europe to televise operative procedures. Additional notes mention embassies in London using American cars to avoid purchase tax, except the Soviet Embassy.
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Guy's
Europe
GUY’S HOSPITAL
Lodon
Race Against Time Avert Auto Strike
Detroit May 4 Negotiators raced to avert a Ford strike by 60 000 workers at the River Rouge plant amid union charges of speed-up. UAW had approved a Rouge walkout and talks were held to resolve the dispute. A Lincoln Mercury plant strike of 3 500 workers was set for noon tomorrow on the same issue. Ford denied the union accusations.
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DETROIT
Ford
River Rouge
United Automobile Workers
CIQ
T.AW
UAW International
Rouge
United States
Idle Toronto construction workers threaten citywide tie up
More than 3,000 workers across 19 projects stayed idle after employers rejected a union demand for a modified closed shop. The strike, spreading to 18 buildings, was met with warnings from union spokesmen of a general citywide slowdown while contractors refused to sign union hiring terms citing lack of majority support. Skilled trades walked off at major sites including Bank of Nova Scotia, SickKids Hospital, and Bank of Montreal, with other workers blocked from job sites by picket lines.
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Toronto
International Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers’ Union
AFL
Toronto Builders’ Exchange
Builders’ Exchange
Bank of Nova Scotia
new Hospital for Sick Children
Bank of Montreal
Dunfermline Seeks Natives for 1000th Birthday Celebration
Dunfermline Scotland calls natives abroad to return home for week long events from June 18 to 25 marking the citys 1000th birthday. The celebration aims to attract a large influx of tourists and betters its historic status as Capital of Scotland 400 years before Edinburgh.
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DUNFERMLINE
Scotland
Edinburgh
Will Protest Cut In Library Grant
A protest will be lodged with Alberta government by public library board members over a provincial grant cut from 500 to 300. City council will be asked to act on the library protest. In five months the library entrance will feature a neon sign with seven inch red letters. The library reported March circulation at 17 739, up about 2 000 from February, with 3 437 readers in March.
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MEDICINE HAT
Alberta
public library board
library board
Marth
No Fighting as Hangchow Falls to Communists
China’s nationalist government confirmed Hangchow surrendered to the Communists without a fight. A Shanghai garrison communiqué said Hangchow’s defenders withdrew, and dispatches reported about 4,000 Communist troops occupying the port and rail city with Hangchow’s population around 400,000. The move traps Nationalist forces in the triangle with Shanghai and Nanking, and a Communist radio claim cited 86,000 Nationalists captured, though not independently confirmed. Sea lanes remained open.
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Associated Press
HANGHAI
China
Hangchow
Shanghai
south China
Nanking
Agree Lift Blockade No Date Given
The Big Four powers agreed to lift the Berlin blockade and counter blockade measures with no date given for the lifting. A state department statement said agreement on main questions has been reached and that all restrictions in Germany will be mutually lifted. A council of foreign ministers meeting will be held to address Germany and Berlin related issues including currency. Details remain to be worked out with a formal communique planned for 8 am E D T tomorrow.
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NEWORK
Russia
Berlin
council of foreign ministers
London
United States
United Nations
foreign ministers
Paris
Germany
Britain
France
Moscow
Philip) Jessip
Continus
WASHINGTON
state department
Endurable disease takes third brother in Pittsford
Pittsford Vermont May 4 WP Reginald Hooker 14 third of four brothers stricken with muscular dystrophy died yesterday. Two other brothers died earlier at ages 12 and 12 and a fourth brother Richard 16 is paralyzed from the disease described as an incurable progressive ailment of the muscles.
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PITTSFORD
Reginald Hooker
Richard
Cost-Of-Living Index For March Rises One-Tenth Point
The Bureau of Statistics reports the official cost-of-living index increased by one tenth in March, offsetting February’s decline. Gains in clothing, home furnishings, services, and rentals outpaced falls in foods, leaving the index 7.7 points above last year and 0.3 below the all-time peak of 159.6 reached in late 1930s.
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UAWA
C.P
Bureau of Statistics
War Seems Likely If U S Fails To Ratify Treaty
John Foster Dulles told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that war is highly probable if the United States does not ratify the North Atlantic treaty. He urged quick approval of the 12 power defense alliance, warning repudiation would alter U S stance and prompt other nations to change plans, possibly leading to war. He did not name any specific countries.
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WASHINGTON
John Foster Dulles
United States
Dulles
United Nations
senate foreign relations committee
eoth
senate
Export Natural Gas Likely in Alberta Policy Shift
Edmonton May 4 Premier Manning signaled Alberta may soon permit natural gas exports to neighboring provinces. He described Alberta’s right to export gas as uncertain and noted federal votes on imports and exports, while noting Alberta’s push for a common pipeline purchaser and provincial conservation controls. The government cited recent pipeline legislation changes, with Alberta seeking stronger concessions that were rejected.
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EDMONTON
C.P
Manning
Alberta
United States
St. Laurent
raiway comunittee
house of commons
Chevrier
Dominion
railway committee
gan
n department
Fatal dynamite blast near Del Bonita kills seismograph crew leader
A dynamite charge exploded near Del Bonita on the Montana border, killing Earl Waldorf of Cuthank Montana and seriously burning Arthur Weiss of Catbank. The Western Seismographic Company crew had tested across the border for Union Oil of California. An investigation has begun.
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DEL BONITA
Montana
Earl Waldorf
Cuthank
Arthur Weiss
Catbank
Western Seismographic Company
Tragedy as 30 Girls Die in Glasgow Department Store Fire
A devastating fire trapped thirty shopgirls on the Argyle Street store roof in Glasgow. Police report several leapt to escape dense smoke while others were found on upper floors. Firemen rescued some workers and bystanders, but the blaze claimed multiple lives in Scotland's worst fire in three decades.
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GLASGOW
Argyle street
Grafton’s Limited
28 KILLED IN ITALIAN PLANE CRASH NEAR TURIN
News flash from Rome reports 28 dead when an aircraft carrying Turin football figures and a British trainer crashed near Turin. Hopes fade for recovering missing passengers as investigations begin and officials confirm casualties.
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ROME
Reuters
Turin
harm
John Livesey
VANCOUVER
Kerimecos
TREASURY BRANCH
CALGARY
C.P
Bowden
E.C.LP
Allan Airey
Richard Brown
Vauxhall
Alta
James Symington
QUEBEC
Ashcates, Corporation
ONTARIO
WARKWORTH
Ont
U.P
beumese
Fee
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