Government Wins In Commons 109 To 91 After Non-Confidence Votes
The government defeated CCF and Progressive Conservative non confidence motions in a pair of votes in the commons, halting the budget debate. The 109 to 91 outcome was followed by a second vote of 109 to 90 against a PC motion. John Bracken attacked Communists urging cleanup of Soviet influence in Canada.
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C.C.F
Progressive Conservative
Social Credit
John Bracken
Canada
Hitler
Mussolini
Europe
Moscow
Remarkable Ontario Child Prodigy Reading Piano at Four
Wayne McCracken a three year old from Sarnia Ontario showed extraordinary abilities with an IQ of 143 on a Simon Binet test. He reads writes sings and plays piano and has begun grade three work at home under his mother’s guidance. His father is an Indian agent for Sarnia and Kettle Point reservations. He studies music since January and tutors note his early piano testing at Toronto Conservatory of Music.
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M. W. McCracken
Sarnia
Ont
Wayne
Ontario Department of Education
Simon Binet
Simon Linet
Waynes
Kettle Point
mer Thelma Marjory Hyland
Windsor
Marlborough
Dougall
Wasne
Othilig
St. Joseph's
Toronto Conservatory of Music
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Fails To Sing Promised Songs Before Gallows
In Landsberg Germany May 23 Will Frey 23 a guard at the Mauthausen concentration camp was marched to the gallows after vowing to sing Give me Five Minutes More and Open the Door Richard. He faltered as the trap sprung and uttered a halting prayer asking forgiveness.
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LANDSBERG
Germany
Will Frey
Mathausen
Jallers
Richard
Jesus
Executions Complete at Mauthausen Camps Largest Allied War Crimes Hangings
United States army hanged 48 guards and foremen from the Mauthausen camp for war crimes, including 22 yesterday and 26 today, amid grim final statements. One stay allowed for Otto Striegel, while Maj. Victor Zoller, the commandant, was the last to die.
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LANDSBERG
Germany
United States army
Mauthausen
Otto Striegel
Wilhelm Henkel
Sharp quake rattles Humboldt coast area with no damage
A sharp earthquake jolted the Humboldt area for several seconds near Steam, PST Tuesday with an east-west motion. No damage was reported. Seismograph readings at Caltech captured a distant tremor. Another report notes tremor recording near Pasadena from May 28. Wheat supplies in Canada show a modest weekly decline from 87.8 to 84.3 million bushels.
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EUREKA
Calif
Humboldt
PASADENA
California santa of Technology
Tutsay
WINNIPEG
board of train commissioners for Canada
Britain still faces substandard housing for millions
Britain remains plagued by housing shortages two years after Nazi Germany's collapse. Health Minister Bevan cited missing targets for 240,000 homes, with estimates it could take five more years to provide a dwelling for every family and years more to complete long term rehousing and slum demolition plans. By March a total of about 220,000 permanent and 60,000 temporary new homes were under construction, with 170,000 families aided by repairs and 150,000 moved into new homes since 1946.
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LONDON
Reuters
Germany
Britain
Bevan
Atomic bomb rain feared in storm cloud attack plan
Washington reports scientists weighing a plan to explode a nuclear device in storm clouds to drench inland targets with radioactive rain. Experts debate feasibility as radar guides aircraft while some warn the cloud might be blown away or the moisture dispersed.
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WASHINGTON
Bikini
King awards royal title to Canadian Infantry Corps
Ottawa May 22 Defense Minister Claxton announced the King conferred the title Royal Canadian Infantry Corps in recognition of its distinguished service in World War II. The change applies to the corps as a whole, while existing regiments retain their own royal designations.
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OTTAWA
Canada
Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Claxton
Canadian Infantry Corps
Chinese Reds Invited to Peace Talks in Nanking
Chinese Communists banned from Nanking in March were invited to return for unofficial peace talks. The Peoples Political Council, a government advisory body, asked the Communists to send delegates to consult on ending the civil war. All radio stations in nationalist territory broadcast the invitation.
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NANKING
peoples political council
Kenora Lawyer Named for Ontario Murder Defendent
J Donley of Kenora has been appointed by the Ontario attorney general to represent Charles Martin 35 at a Friday preliminary hearing in magistrates court here. Martin is charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of Joseph Grant and Marcel Ducheannay whose bullet ridden bodies were found in the snow at a Schelber mining property last March.
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PORT ARTHUR
J. Donley
Kenora
Ontario attorney general's department
Charles Martin
Counse
Martin
Joseph Grant
Marcel Ducheannay
Schelber
Ont
Bevin Wins Confidence Vote At Meet
Bevin wins a Labour Party confidence vote at the annual conference in Margate by more than two to one. Delegates approved government proposals on economic planning and manpower distribution and discussed a Russian British trade pact. Morrison and Dalton warned against overseas debt while noting no new US loans are sought.
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MARGATE
Kent
England
C.P
Bevin
Britain
Labor party
United States
Herbert Morrison
Hugh Dalton
Morrison
Moscow
Start On Seaway Urges Defense and Food Aid
State Secretary Marshall testified that completing the St. Lawrence Seaway would aid defense of the North American continent. Herbert Hoover argued the seaway would allow moving surplus food to starving peoples abroad, noting current limits of about 1,500,000 tons monthly and strained transportation facilities.
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WASHINGTON
Marshall
St. Lawrence
aime
Atlantic
Bomb attack near Haifa port during May 28 incident
Two Jews tossed explosives in the Haifa port area near Iraq Petroleum Company oil barrels injuring a British constable who tried to defuse one device. A second bomb opened a hole in a fence, and assailants fled. Separately, Jerusalem court delays trials of five Jews linked to the Acre prison breakout.
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JERUSALEM
Haifa
Iraq Petroleum company
Acre
Amon Ben Mikhailov
Reuben Zilerbaum
Ford Offers 15 Cent W age Increase Rejected by UAW
Detroit May 28 The United Auto Workers rejected Ford Motor Company s proposal for a 15 cent wage hike for 130 000 production workers while a 10 percent raise for 20 000 salaried employees earning under 1 000 monthly takes effect June 1 Mot ordains foremen remain excluded absent a contract.
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DETROIT
A.P
United Auto Workers
C.I.0
Ford Motor Company
United Anto Workers
general Motors Corp
Chrysler Corp
Saskatchewan ends liquor permit system June 2
Regina announces no permits will be required for liquor purchases in Saskatchewan after June 2. Permits for Scotch and Irish whiskey will be discontinued at that date. no permits have been required for other liquors since last July.
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REGINA
Saskatchewan
lquor board
Uquors
Howe Answers Questions About T C A Crash
Ottawa May 28 Recon struction Minister Howe told the commons the T C A plane crash inquiry in British Columbia April 29 had been completed but he offered no findings. He said no claims for damages had been filed against T C A and the investigation involved three senior civil aviation officials. The RCAF had ended survivor searches while T C A pursued clues.
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OTTAWA
Howe
commons
T.C.A
British Columbia
E. B. MacKay
CCF
civil aviation division
department of transport
RCAF
Ashcroft and Lytton
B.C
Canada's First Munitions Factory Found at Fort Franks
London Ontario May 23 Evidence of Canada's first munitions factory run by a neutral Indian tribe has been uncovered at Fort Franks by Wilfred Jury and an AB team from the University of Western Ontario. They found open air workshops along Lake Huron where arrow heads war points and spear heads were crafted for tribes and distant markets.
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LONDON
Ont
Canada
Fort Franks
Wilfred Jury
University of Western Ontario museum
Mgr. Jury
Lake Huron
Garden Plants Nipped and Field Crops May Have Suffered
Rost struck Leth bridge and southern Alberta Tuesday night and Wednesday morning with damaging effect. The mercury registered nine degrees frost at Kenyon Field and eight degrees at the Dominion Experimental station. Half an inch of ice lay on standing water near Magrath. Experimental station officials say flax and very young sugar beets must be protected.
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ROST
Lethbridge
Alberta
The
mercury
Kenyon Field
Dominion
Magrath
Frost Inflicts Notable Beet Loss in Region
Frank B. Taylor of Canadian Sugar Factories Ltd reports frost damage to beets after Tuesday night freezing. Early estimates show 15 to 35 percent of thinned beets damaged while intact crops may escape. a fuller tally will follow. Temperatures fell to 24 in Haymond with colder readings at Picture Butte and Lethbridge.
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Herald orly
Frank BR. Taylor
Canadian Sugar Factories, Ltd
Raymond
Mr. Yarlor
mercury
Haymond
Picture Butte
Lethbridge
Taylor
Independent Group Not Disbanded in Alberta
EDMONTON May 20 J Percy Page a member of the Alberta legislature and president of the Independent Citizens Association said on a radio address he did not issue any order disbanding the Independent movement. He noted a letter to executive members declaring coalition possibilities with Liberals Progressive Conservatives and non partisans unlikely. Page cited the protest origins of the movement and that many Liberals and Conservatives were returning to their parties. A Calgary June 16 convention was canceled after a poll of provincial executives and 100 kes men showed no support for a convention at present.
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EDMONTON
J. Percy Page
Alberts
Independent Citizens’ Association of Alberta
Independent movement
Page
Social Credit
Calgary
Ile de France Refit Aims for New York Return
Saint Nazaire France May 2 Reuters The 44000 ton liner Ile de France is being refitted to sail for New York next year after wartime service as an Allied troopship. Built in 1928 at a cost of 240 million francs it was the world’s largest liner and earned the Military Cross for its war service with Canadian troops. Requisitioned early in the war it was in Singapore when France armisticed with Germany but continued fighting with Britain.
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SAINT NAZAIRE
France
Reuters
Ile De France
New York
Singapore
Germany
Bri
Western grain producers to share in Wheat Board profits
Ottawa May 28 The Canadian Wheat Board has disbursed 138,081,969 since 1940 for producer participation payments. Of this amount 127,794.71 has been paid. about 10,287,251 remains claimable. More than 60,000,000 will be distributed as final payment on the 1944 wheat crop this summer. Trade Minister MacKinnon defended wartime board costs as a small fraction of a cent per bushel and noted the 1938 deficit from a 30c initial price, justified to stabilize western Canada during drought and low world markets.
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OTTAWA
west
opera
Canadian Wheat Board
MacKinnon
A. I. Smith
P.C
Calegary West
wheat board
Mr. MacKinnon
western
Canada
Landslide Devastates Nobutan Village in Tokyo Area
A massive slide in Nobutan village swallows 100 acres of farm fields and 83 homes, leaving about 500 people homeless. Allied headquarters reports the Nobutan ce river is boxed by the slide after rising over ten days, flooding banks and displacing residents.
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TOKYO
Nobutan
Allied
Snow blankets western Nebraska with up to 12 inches
Snowstorms dropped up to 12 inches across western Nebraska with two to five inch pockets elsewhere. Roads were blocked and snow removal equipment activated as crews battled heavy winterlike snowfall unseen this season.
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