British plan to buy Canadian timber salmon flour apples mutual talks
Trade Minister Howe announced a prospective 25 million dollar British order for Canadian timber canned salmon flour apples and fruit pulp. Purchases depend on price agreements and will aid Nova Scotia apple growers while expanding Canadian suppliers' ability to meet world competition. Northern purchases include 200k to 400k cases BC canned salmon and 400k tons of flour with portions for wood pulp and timber from BC and the US.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
UAWA
Howe
United Kingdom
British Columbia
Nova Scotia
B.C
United States
U.K
ministry of food
Canada
Tudor VITI Airliner Sets Flight Height Pace On Britain Routes
The Left Hand Corner notes Britain’s Tudor VITI four jet airliner in experimental stage claims fastest speed of 430 mph and aims for 44,000 feet. It contrasts with piston engines to 25,000 feet, arguing higher altitude offers smoother air, clearer skies, lower fuel use, and higher speeds as the future of long distance travel. The column also mentions a Windsor Star note about cows and horse teeth by Senator Horner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
United Kingdom
L. Clark
Windsor Star
Rock east
R. B. Horner
Chinese Civil War Now Rages 17 Miles From Big Metropolis
Soviet Marshal Wassily Sokolovsky in Pravda on Victory Day accuses Britain and the United States of creating artificial tensions and sabotaging Yalta and Potsdam. He says only a new type of Soviet army can win a modern war and notes no peace treaty with Germany to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EDDIE GILMORE
MOSCOW
Wassily Sokolovsky
Britain
United States
Sokolovsky
Germany
Yalta
Potsdam
Russia
Pravda
Stalin
Europe
Reds Press Twin Pronged Offensive Along 230 Mile Front
The report describes a wide Communist push from Hangchow to Lake Poyang, with advances up to 200 miles south of the Yangtze and a proximity to Shanghai. Units along the Shanghai Nanking highway threaten the city, while Shanghai authorities requisition 050 trucks and 300 jeeps for military use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reds
Kaiting
Shanghai
Hangchow
Lake Poyang
Yangtze
Nanking
Wildcat Strike Spreads Through Lancashire Mines
A Communist supported wildcat strike spread to 20 nationalized mines in Lancashire coal fields, leaving 5 pits idle and 36,000 miners idle. Lancashire normally produces 300,000 tons weekly, about one twelfth of Britain’s output. The walkout began in one pit with 260 men seeking free coal and spread after two foremen entered for maintenance. Only 15 mines, employing 14,000, remained working.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MANCHESTER
England
Lancashire
Britain
coalrich county
Enumerators Start Work
Hundreds of enumerators begin the June 27 federal election voter list task in 262 ridings across the Dominion. They will canvass door to door to compile eligible voters, finish enumeration by May 14 and hand lists to returning officers by May 16. Leaders George Drew and Louis St Laurent move campaigns east as May 16 looms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CYTAWA
Dominion
George Drew
Charlottetown
Canada
Louis St Laurent
M. a. Coldwell
Nurse Pilot Escape From Mountain Plane Crash
Nurse Sheila Cure and pilot Bill Grant survived a mountain crash on Mount Hozomeon in northern Washington state. Canadian and U.S. rescue teams conducted a multi leg operation, with three para rescue personnel guiding the evacuees from Lightning Creek to Hope and Abbotsford before arriving home aboard an RCAF Lancaster.
Parents Off To Vancouver to See Rescued Daughter
CARDSTON Alta May 9 Mr and Mrs B Cure parents of Sheila Cure who was rescued today from rugged Mount Hozomeen on British Columbia left their home here Sunday night for Vancouver to see their daughter Sheila a student nurse at Vancouver and Pilot Big Grant survived a plane crash on the Mountain last Tuesday and were picked up by the RCAP today Mr and Mrs Cure left yesterday after learning an RCAP para rescue team had reached the stranded fliers and were taking them to a point where they could be flown out It s wonderful Mrs Cure said commenting on the news But we never lost hope that Sheila was all right We can not tell you how relieved we are Miss Cure and the pilot were returning to Vancouver after spending a week at Cardston with her parents when the plane crashed into the mountain during a snowstorm
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CARDSTON
Alta
4. B. Cure
Sheila Cure
Mount Hozomeen
British Columbia
Vancouver
Sheila
Big Grant
RCAD
Cure
RCAP
fiers
GEORGE BRIMMELL
Bill Grant
Hozomeen
Cranbrook
B.C
at & am
Grant
Penticton
Coquihalla Pass
Big Bend
bat
Princeton
Miss Cure
Mount Hozomeen crash survivors recount mountain ordeal
Bill Grant and Sheila Cure, rescued after their Lancaster crashed in a snowstorm on Mount Hozomeen, described six days of bitter cold, minimal rations, and a trek down the mountain. They survived with five chocolate bars, water, and improvised fires, aided by RC AF and rescue crews who located them and air-dropped rations.
CPR Train Wreck Kills Three in Alberta Downhill Curve
A Winnipeg bound CPR passenger train careened off track near Gwynne Alberta six miles east of Wetaskiwin. Engineer Harry Williams and fireman E R Upper died in the wreck and trainman W R Maxwell died in hospital. Two crew members and two passengers were injured including Edward Dieno and T C Murphy severely burned. Maxwell was the most seriously hurt. Williams was formerly from Lethbridge.
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WETASKIWIN
Alta
Gwynne
here
Edmonton
Harry Williams
E. R. Upper
W. R Maxwell
Wilkie
Sask
Williams
Lethbridge
Edward E Dieno
T. C. Murphy
Saskatoon
William Kowal
Kerrobert
Sakk
Joseph Krempa
Ohaton
We~ Kaskiwin
Festival Winners and Blossom Sunday at Niagara Falls
Festival winners are listed for Monday morning and afternoon events at McNally school and local rural and city schools, with multiple verse speaking and choral classes and top placings noted. Blossom Sunday swept the Niagara peninsula with heavy traffic reported and no serious incidents as warm weather moved the bloom date earlier than mid May.
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McNally school
C.Flexhatg
McNally
Lavida
Larson
Raymond
Doreen Hughes
Lethbridge
Muriel Gentleman
Beth Antirus
Cardston
Southminster Church
June Frice
Fleetwood
versa
Leonard Smyth
Central
town school
Raymond public school
NIAGARA PENINSULA
NIAGARA FALLS
Ont
Twenty Die As Truck Plunges Into River Near Bingol
Twenty persons drowned when a truck failed brakes and plunged through a bridge railing into a river near Bingol in eastern Turkey yesterday. Rescue teams recovered bodies as the accident prompted investigations into roadway safety and vehicle maintenance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ISTANBUL
Turkey
Bingol
Distillate Found in Madison Oil Field Test
In Pincher Creek Alberta a second large wet gas discovery by Canadian Gulf Oil spurs plans for more test sites as a Madison pool is sought. A drill stem test yielded distillate recovery of five and a half barrels with gas at four and a half million cubic feet daily from depths around 12 250 to 12 338 feet. The No 2 well sits about 310 feet lower structurally and the oil gravity is 53 degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf
Madison ie
Alberta
No. 2
Noted dairyman dies at Port Atkinson Wisconsin
Arthur James Glover, 78, prominent dairyman of national note, died at his Port Atkinson home yesterday. In 1930 President Hoover cited him as the man who contributed most to national agriculture in the prior decade. He was a leader in the fight against bovine tuberculosis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PORT ATKINSON
Wis
Arthur James Glover
Glover
Hoover
Will Oppose Smallwood in Bonevista North Race
Wilson Humphries, 48, a former school teacher, will oppose interim Premier Smallwood in Bonevista North in the New Soundland provincial election. The announcement raises PC candidates to 23 for the May 27 vote as Liberals field a full slate for all 28 seats.
UAW Proposes Reopening Ford Strike Talks With Henry Ford
The United Automobile Workers proposed reopening negotiations for the Ford strike of 65,000 workers with Henry Ford to participate. Other items note British steel nationalization moves, Israel UN membership support, and Canadian election voting eligibility for certain ethnic descents.
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U.A.W
DETROIT
United Automobile Workers
C.SC
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Henry Ford
LORDS LONDON
House of Commons
House of Lords
Brahain
United Nations
general assembly
Israel
U.N
OITAWA
C.P
Jules Castenguay
tedey
WINNIPEG
Canadian Wheat Board today
jakehead
ie beard
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Dex
SARMIA
Ont
Jete
Mary Ange
Thormas
hospital hare
Ange
Port Lambton
isegal
Jedge Jewegh
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Quebec
eneree
minora
Big Metropolis
D.C
Hope
Abbotsford
Lancaster
Shelia Cure
Washington state
Mount Hozomeon’s peak
Alts
F. Lancaster
Lightning Creek bridge
CAF
U.S
Cees
Vancouver General hospital
Miss Care
mountain gorge
RCAF Dae kotag
gine
Maxwell
Madison
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