Budget row fuses with CCF attack in Ottawa
In the Commons Earl Rowe assails the 1947 48 budget saying tax cuts will be about seven percent and margins eroded by indirect levies. He blames the government for inefficiency and extravagance while charging the CCF with stoking recession fears. Thatcher notes a 352 million surplus tied to War Assets sales and subsidy cuts. Melver presses luxury tax repeal.
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OTTAWA
C.P
C.C.F
Earl Rowe
P.C. Dufferin-Simcoe
Rowe
CCF
mminister
Ross Thatcher
Moose -Jaw
Mitchell
Canada
senate
Canadian wheat board
United Kingdom
Abbott
Gardiner
Thatcher
War Assets Corporation
Melver
Prison narcotics probe ordered after disturbance
Ottawa May 8 Maj Gen R H Gibson commissioner of penitentiaries said he asked the warden of Stony Mountain to investigate reports narcotics were involved in a Manitoba Institution disturbance. He would not confirm or deny a Winnipeg Tribune report quoting a released prisoner that two attackers were black with dope. A later statement may follow.
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OTTAWA
R. H. Gibson
penitentiaries
Stony Mountain penitentiary
Manitoba
Winnipeg Tribune
Donald Ross
Maple Syrup Production in Canada Highlighted
An article notes maple syrup production is concentrated in Quebec with smaller shares from the Maritimes and Ontario. It cites about 30 million pounds of sap collected yearly, describes maple varieties and a traditional tapping method using a drilled hole, a spout, and a bucket to collect sap.
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Family Herald
Weekly Star
Canada
Quebec
Ontario
Scene of Palestine Prison Break
Officials evacuated Tel Aviv public information building after a mined warning. Gangsters fired four Tel Aviv textile stores amid claims Irgun Zvai Leumi involvement. Lt Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham traveled to Acre to investigate the prison breakout, with 216 prisoners freed last Sunday and 29 Jewish and 168 Arab escapees still at large.
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SERUSALEM
Tel Aviv
Irgun Zval Leumi
Alan G. Cunningham
Pales
tine
Acre
Palestine
Haifa
Dov Bela Gruner
Robert Nicolai
Midlothian
U.S
Gall- Jee
Jews Urge UN to Remove Barriers to Holy Land Home
The Jewish Agency for Palestine urged the United Nations to remove barriers to establishing a home for Jews in the Holy Land. The appeal was made from Lake Success New York.
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U.N
Holy Land
LAKE SUCCESS
N.Y
Jewish Agency for Palestine
United Nations
Abba Hillel
Silver
Cleveland
America
Jewish Agency executive
general assembly
Palestine
Arab higher committee
Cairo
Canada Ranks Second to US in Atomic Research Output
Gen. A G L McNaughton, chairing Canada's atomic energy board, said Canada has moved to second place behind the United States in wartime atomic development and announced grants totaling 150000 for three universities McGill University gets 87500 for a new laboratory and a 10000000 eV cyclotron, UBC 32500 for a Van de Graaf generator, and Saskatchewan 30000 for a 70000000 eV beratron. The funds aim to enable peacetime research and practical atomic energy applications while guardrails remain on dual use substances.
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TORONTO
A. GL. McNaughton
Canada
atomic energy control board
Dominion
United States
Engineering Institute of Canada
McGill University
University of British Columbia
University of Saskatchewan
atomic energy inlet
Chalk River
Ont
National Research Council
Ottawa
Latest Clue To Airliner Fizzle Sparks Search Shift
Vancouver May 8 A ragged piece of metal from Burrard Inlet does not belong to the Trans Canada Airlines Lodestar. Navy divers resume seven more descents in Georgia Straits with no trace of the missing airliner or its 15 occupants.
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VANCOUVER
Trans Canada Airlines
R.C.AF
Burrard Inlet
Gordon Wilson
air force
Georgia Straits
Vancouver Island
lower mainland
Flasher Light
Gabriola Island
Kert
Norton
Glenburn
Howard McLaugh
Regina
George Brebber
Shauraver
Sask
Archie McMillan
Victoria
Ruas McDowell
Trail
B.C
Robert Wigmore
Edmonton
London strike leaves city streets polluted and dead unburied
May 8 London reports show city workers from street cleaners to grave diggers on strike over a promotion at the fish market. Officials say 25 to 30 bodies await burial as garbage piles up in the mile square financial district causing public health concerns and odd scenes at the courts.
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LONDON
city of London
financial district
law courts
Billinggate
serge cant
Billingsgate
London strike leaves city in foul delay and unburied dead
London faced a citywide disruption as about a thousand workers struck over a market promotion dispute delaying burials and street cleaning. Health Minister Aneurin Bevan said the dead lie unburied and streets unclean while sailors were used to raise and lower Tower Bridge.
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ministry of health
house of commons
Tower Bridge
Aneurin Bevan
London
Jocelyn Lucas
Bevan
War Ended Two Years Ago Today
Two years after Europe’s war ended, nations celebrate a global peace. The piece recalls the 1939 Sept 1 invasion that began World War II and notes the final German surrender in northwest Europe on May 5. Canadians participated from the start, with Halifax departures in 1939 marking early involvement.
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LLOYD McDONALD
Europe
Rnal
Halifax
Selfridge of London Founder Dies at 90
H Gordon Selfridge, Wisconsin born founder of Selfridge's in London, died at his Putney home aged 90 after bronchial pneumonia. He built Europe’s first major department store on Oxford Street in 1909 and was likened to the Marshall Field of England. His early drive stemmed from a dream to join the U S Naval Academy thwarted by height.
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H. GORDON SELFRIDGE
Europe
London
Selfridge's of
Selfridge
jtune
Selfridge’s
Oxford street
Marshall Field
England
Putney
Beliridge
United States naval academy
naval
Labor Wins By election in Jarrow with reduced majority
In Jarrow England Labor retained its seat in the by election caused by Ellen Wilkinson's death. Expert Fernyhough won 20 694 votes against Conservative William Scott 13 078 and Independent Socialist Wilfred Moody. Labor majority 6 16. Voter turnout about 75 percent.
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JARROW
England
Labor
Ellen Wilkinson
Miss Wilkinson
Fernyhough
William Scott
Wilfred Moody
sais
Liberal National
S. Holmes
Britain
tty
Ellen
London
Hospital Costs In Canada Rising
Ottawa report shows rising hospital expenditures in 1945 at 74,039,491 dollars. Costs per patient day averaged 4.45 in Canada with regional variations, highest in British Columbia and Alberta. Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia listed per-day figures.
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OTTAWA
Canada
A. M. Nicholson
C.C.F. Mackenziey
genecal public
Gibron
Prince Edward IIand
British Columbia
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Erith Columbia
Government weighs wheat price floor at parity 2.03 a bushel
Washington officials debate methods to stabilize wheat prices as 1947 crop nears market. Parity stands at 2.03 per bushel, with proposals ranging from flat price below market to small parity shares, amid concerns over export demand and hunger abroad.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Long Lines Strike Ends With Wage Increase Pact
The U S labor department announced a settlement to end the long distance telephone workers strike with an average weekly raise of 4.40 dollars and fringe benefits. The deal requires ratification by the union's executive board and members and could spur settlement of 28 other Bell system disputes.
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WASHINGTON
United States labor department
Bell system
John A. Moran
American Union of Telephone Workers
National Federation of Telephone Workers
vacalon improvement
beneh
Gibson
Moran
New York
Secession Talk Grows in Manitoba North
Four northern Manitoba boards meet at The Pas to study secession from Manitoba and reunion with the Northwest Territories if a highway to Flin Flon is not promised. The plan foresees forming a joint committee from Flin Flon Sheridan Cranberry Portage and The Pas to probe the issue and report back with a possible second meeting.
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Manitoba
Northwest ‘Territories
Lomet
Flin- Fion
Sheridan
Pas
Flin Pton
boards of trade
Consid Mebachien
labor council
Hudson Bay
Saskatchewan
Northwest Territories
McEachren
Fiin Fion
Noted Indian Socialist Jayaprakash Narain Arrested in Hyderabad
Hyderabad state police arrested Jayaprakash Narayan, prominent Indian socialist leader and Congress Socialist party head, after he refused to leave state territory. He faced deportation as he campaigned against the division of India and princely autocracy while touring the country.
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HYDERABAD
India
Jayaprakash Narain
Narain
Congress Socialist party
Inter
UN membership conditions push ICAO toward acceptance
Montreal May 8 The ICAO commission votes 18 to 3 to urge CAO assembly to accept UN conditions for UN membership including Spain’s ouster. Motion moved by the United States and supported by the United Kingdom, opposed by Spain, Eritrea and Switzerland. The vote on Spain’s status proceeds later.
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LCA
SPAIN
MONTREAL
C.P
International Civil Aviation Organisation
commission on
1.C.A.0
United Nations
U.N
United States
United Kingdom
Erie
Switzerland
Spankhauc
ensembly
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Probe Prison
Calvin Coolidge
Emerson
sishil
U. C. yhile sanoonene poumnt
Palestine Communist party central ‘committee
assembly
Meir Wilner
Jewish Agency
Agudath Israel World Organization
Agudath
rati
s + World Booke
Japan
sill
Selfridge Of
WILLIAM JACK MCHELL
Australia
Canberra
shortery
Man
United States supreme court
Wille francis
TITO
G.B
Marshal Jove
Great Britain
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