Two Labor MPs Expelled by Party and Shanghai Battles
In Shanghai the Communists pushed toward the Whangpoo river as Reds encircled the city from the southwest. Nearby advances report to Foochow as Nationalists rush reinforcements and combat continues with heavy fighting along the Pootung area.
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Associated Press
HANGHAI
Shanghai
Whangpoo
south China
Foochow
Fukien
Candou
central
Tungkow
Chwansha
Pootiung
China sea
San Lintang
Lungwha international AIFpo
Shanghai Tuesey
Canton
Hankow
Wun thang
Hanyang
Yangtze
China
Hong Kong
Parliament Purge Expels Rebels from Labor Party Posts
The Labour Party expelled two MPs for Gateshead and Thurrock and relieved five parliamentary secretaries from their posts for defying the Ireland bill vote. The expelled members are Kennt Zillisens and Leslie Solley. Secretaries disciplined include Beswick Blyton Melith Rogers Mallalieu. The move shocks observers as the party enforces discipline ahead of conference.
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Bu Labor party
house of commons
Kennt - Zillisens
Gateshead
Leslie Solley
Thurrock
Frank Beswick
air ministry
William B. Blyton
civil aviation
Robert J. Meliith
admiralty
George H. Rogers
ministry of supply
Joseph C. W. Mallalieu
food ministry
Ireland
Labor
Erre
commonwealth
Allee
felb
yeb
EWOO
Sodey
Ziliacus
national
zillacas
Labor party
Oil Found in Second Leduc Well by Three Alberta Firms
Calgary May 18 Three pioneer Alberta oil companies Mc Dougall Segar A P Consolidated and Sunset have struck oil in their second well in the Leduc field south of Edmonton The McDouset Leduc No 2 reported last night to have a good drillstem test from the oil bearing zone The well sits on a quarter acre lease arranged with Imperial Oil and slightly extends the south end of the field.
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CALGARY
Alberta
McDougall-Segar
A.P. Consolidated
Sunset
Leduc field
Edmonton
McDouset
Leduc No. 2
Imperial Ol Gompany
Left Hand Corner Quiz Show and Cowin Kitchen Tale
The article blends a Commerce panel quiz on national affairs with a BBC animal tale about Daisy the cow. It references a weekly local quiz show, a tuberculosis sanatorium, and a humorous incident of a cow entering a Somerset kitchen through the scullery roof.
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ber of Commerce
Senate
Canada
isdy
Aimee Semple McPherson
ae T ™ Hamilton
BBC
Somerset
Daisy
Texas Flood Devastates Fort Worth and Surrounding Areas
In Fort Worth and parts of west and north Texas and Oklahoma a three day flood and tornado spree left at least 13,200 people homeless in shelters or with relatives. Two dozen killed or injured across the region as waters closed streets and schools and warned residents to boil drinking water. Police patrolled flood zones while Dallas braced for Trinity River flood crest.
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Amarillo
Oklahoma
Dallas
Trinity River
Memphis
Southland
Rochester
Silverton
Daugherty
Floyd county
south plains
Canada Land and Irrigation Company sale planned near Medicine Hat
Government officials and irrigation engineers will open a full inquiry into Canada Land and Irrigation Company holdings to prepare a sale agreement for federal consideration. The plan, potentially worth about 2.25 million dollars plus 3.5 million for extending irrigation from Vauxhall to Medicine Hat, would make 240000 acres irrigable with Alberta sharing development costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MEDICINE HAT
Asia
C.P
Canada Land and Irrigation Company holdings
Dominion
Gardiner
Dave W.Hays
Vauxhall
Alberta
Hays
Bow River
Canada Land Irrigation scheme
Regina
De wert
Harry Weiner
Two RCAF Officers Die In Plane Crash Near Trenton
Two Royal Canadian Air Force officers were killed when a training plane crashed into a pond near the Trenton station after engine failure. Sqdn Ldr H G Keillor and Sdn Lar J B McLurg died, with Keillor a DSO and DFC recipient.
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TRENTON
R.C.A.F
air force
H. G. Kelliar
Central air Command
J. B. Mc- Lurg
R.C.A.P. Central Flying School
Keillor
Mc- Turg
Sydn
fdr
Two Leaders Debate Rail Policy in Maritime Tour
Canadian Press reports during the federal election campaign that George Drew of the Progressive Conservatives and M J Coldwell of the C C F presented rival railway plans in the Maritimes. Drew urged amalgamation of Canada’s two main lines while Coldwell promised early national transport policy if his party wins. Prime Minister St Laurent campaigned in Summerside praising Liberal governance and prosperity under Liberal policy. Gordon Graydon assailed Liberal taxation at a Lindsay convention.
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eastern seaboard
George Drew
M.J., Coldwell
C.C.P. chieftain
Maritimes
Mr. Drew
Truro
Caldwel
Moncton
N.B
Drew
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Canadian National Railways
Canada
Coldwell
CCF
SUMMERSIDE
St. Laurent
Prince Edward Island
Gordon - Graydon
Lindsay
Ont
Roosevelt Jr Wins 20th District Race Against Tammany
Franklin D Roosevelt Jr won the 20th district special election as a Liberal and Four Freedoms candidate after Tammany denied him the Democratic nomination. He secured 41,136 votes in 179 districts, defeating Benjamin H. Shalleck who had the Tammany line with 24,352 votes. Republican William H. McIntyre trailed.
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NEW? YORK
Franklin
Roosevelt
United States Congress
Tammany Hall
Four Freedoms
Tammany
Benjamin H. Shalleck
William H. McIntyre
Arthur Godfrey Tops CBS Salaries With $44053,514
Arthur Godfrey, radio and TV star, was paid 440,514 last year by CBS, the highest salary among network performers. News commentator Lowell Thomas earned 420,300, while CBS president Frank Stanton received 109,798. ABC top earner Don McNeill got 180,229. NBC and MBS had not filed reports.
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WASHINGTON
Arthur Godfrey
radio and television
j star
Columbia Broadcasting System
United States securities and exchange commission
Godfrey
Lowell Thomas
CBS
Frank Stanton
American Broadcasting Company
Inquest Opens Into Bludgeoned Bride's Death
Open inquest investigates the death of Mary Mathula a 35 year old bride of two months found murdered in her Smoking Tent shack on April 14 RCMP conducted a wide search across north Saskatchewan and Manitoba before an Indian found Mathula's body hanging from a tree on April 30 authorities seek to question her husband Metro Mathula in the case.
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HUDSON BAY
Sask
Mary Machula
RCMP
north Saskatchewan
Manitoba wilds
Metro Mathula
Mathula
Latin Revolt Beats Plan of G B Italy in UN vote
In a dramatic UN General Assembly defeat, Latin American delegates helped reject a British Italian plan to split Haly pre war colonies. The 14 to 37 vote ends Britain’s control of Mussolini's African empire, with heavy opposition to the trusteeship scheme and the path toward Libyan independence within ten years.
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NEW YORK
C.P
Haly
United Nations general assembly
Mediterranean
Mussolin
Louid
Italy
Tripolitania
U.N
London
ett Bevin
Baltain
Carlo Sforza
assembly
Chenalaz
Britain
Peaan
France
Eritrea
Ethiopis
Libia
Two Brothers Drown At Lac Ste. Anne Narrows
Two brothers, John and Leo Letendre aged 32 and 25, drowned when their open boat overturned in stormy waters at the narrows of Lac Ste. Anne. Police have yet to locate the bodies amid rough seas.
Vancouver's memory honored on 151st death anniversary
In Petersham Surrey England May 18 British Columbia paid tribute to Captain George Vancouver. Lt Col H F E Smith, BC's representative in the UK, laid a wreath on the explorer's grave who first circumnavigated Vancouver Island in 1782.
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GEORGE VANCOUVER
PETERSHAM
Surrey
England
British Columbia
H. F. E. Smith
United Kingdom
Vancouver Island
Missing Nordegg firefighters wander into town search continues
In Nordegg Alberta two firefighters Bill Chawron and Andrew Bunno who were separated from 12 colleagues during a blaze trek 24 hours through snow and bush before reappearing in town. A larger 140 man crew had been fighting a fire spotted northeast of Nordegg. A second missing man near Great Slave Lake is reported as Paul Robert of Morinville with an ongoing ground air search coordinated from Hay River.
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NORDEGG
Alta
Edmonton
Bunto
Chawnin
Western Command
Great Slave Lake
here
sunite
Hay River
Paul Robert
Morinvile
Robert
Candidates Nominated Ahead of Canadian Federal Election
A Canadian Press tally shows 512 candidates nominated across Canada for the forthcoming general election. The Liberals lead with 174 nominations, followed by the Progressive Conservatives at 143, with CCF 17, Social Credit 38, Labor-Progressive 17, six Independents, one Independent Social Credit and one Labor. Newfoundland gains seven seats, and redistribution adds ten seats for new ridings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
plese
Halifax
Queens
Prince Edward Island
Social Credit
Labor
Neapolitan Dancer Sets 43 Day Continuous Dance Record
Guido Damato claimed a world record by dancing non stop for 43 days in a Bologna club. He reportedly danced for hours and minutes each day, extending his routine beyond normal limits.
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BOLOGNA
Guido Damato
UN refuses to take up Eisler case in Assembly dispute
The United Nations Assembly voted 43 to 1 to uphold a ruling that Poland was out of order in pressing the case of fugitive Communist Gerhart Eisler. Poland demanded action, but the majority declined and dismissed the move as improper.
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GERHART EISLER
NEW YORK
AFI
United Nations
Poland
assembly
Norway
Herbert V. Evatt
Eisler
C.P
United Nations assembly
EDMONTON
Hay River
Great Slave Lake
Western Army Command
Buffalo River
Paul Robert
Morinville
Alta
RIO DE JANEIRO
Reuters
east
Labor party
Ireland
Parliamentary
Labor
PALACE’ GARDEN
LONDON
Buckingham Palace
COOK
VICTORIA
B.C
Glendea
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turhert
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P.C
C.C.F
William Kensit
Herald Engraving
University of Alberta
W. A. Buchanan
Lethbridge
J. C. Bowen
Buchanan
G. Fred McNally
F.D.R. Jr
Wiss
Congress
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, JR
Annette Rubinstein
American Labor
Arthur
Phont
G.B
Lac Ste. Anne
Leighton McCarthy
United States
Red Cross
McCarthy
Toronto
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