Meet Growing Russian Power Congress Told
Secretary Acheson told Congress that Russia’s growing power requires balanced collective forces from all 12 Atlantic treaty powers. He urged strengthening NATO and Western European ties to avoid failure, noting no immediate war threat but a need to prepare defences and boost air power alongside economy.
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Armed Forces Will Drop Flood Control Work On Thursday
Winnipeg May 31 The armed forces will end flood fighting in the Greater Winnipeg area at 8 am tomorrow with Brig F E Morton moving from the legislative building to Fort Osborne barracks. Authorities will resume normal duties as civilian control returns. The relief force will stay briefly for emergencies. Morris area naval oper ations continue. Government praises troops for their work and urges property owners to begin rehabilitation to protect claims.
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Royal Canadian Horse Artillery
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Mackenzie King Retort on Doukhobor Quandary
In Toronto on a Saturday night in 1928 Mackenzie King offered a wry reply to a Doukhobor scare raised in Parliament. When Brig Esling asked what King would do if six naked Doukhobor women appeared in his garden, King deadpanned he would summon his two fellow party leaders the Opposition Leader and the Progressive Party Leader.
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Paris
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Progressive Party
Retain Wheat Board debate in Canadian Parliament
Parliament last night gave first reading to four bills to continue the life of the Canadian wheat board. Trade minister C D Howe said it was nonsense to claim the government resisted inquiries into the board and its accounts. He stressed no wrong in the board and discussed optimistic hopes for Canada’s 1959 wheat crop pricing and Britain’s substantial purchase under the international agreement.
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Middlesex
Jailed And Beaten in Mexican Immigration Custody
Montreal couple Mr and Mrs Vern Tremenen were reported to be in Brownsville Texas recovering from maltreatment in Matamoros during detention by Mexican immigration authorities. Ottawa confirmed the basic facts but had no further details. friends in Montreal raised funds for a ransom and to secure release.
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German U S Counts 547 Deaths On Holiday
US toll from violent deaths during the Memorial Day weekend soars beyond 500 with 447 violent deaths nationwide and 730 traffic fatalities. Drowning, fires, crashes, and various accidents add to the four day total, while New Hampshire reports no violent deaths and California records traffic deaths across all its states.
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West Minister New President East University Victoria University
Rev A B B Moore 44 principal of St Andrew's College Saskatoon a leading United Church preacher was named president and vice chancellor of Victoria University Toronto May 31 He succeeds Dr Waller Brown who resigned for health reasons Moore has led St Andrew's since 1946 and is Saskatchewan United Church conference president A native of Keswick Ridge New Brunswick Moore graduated from McGill 1927 and United Theological College Montreal 1930.
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Victoria
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Saskatchewan conference of the United Church
Tractor Accident Claims Medcine Hat Man
Jacob Schacher, 61, of Medcine Hat, was killed when the tractor he operated overturned while cutting lots in Elkwater Park, about 40 miles south of Medicine Hat. No inquest will be held.
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Violence Flare at West German Border Youth Rally
Berlin protesters and thousands of East Youths return home amid tense border scenes. Police clash lightly at Helmstedt and Luebeck as Communist led groups defy inspections and distribute pamphlets. West Germans bar and strip some blue shirts while others cross borders under tight guard.
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Transport Board Ends Inquiries After Year-Long Study
The royal commission on transportation in Canada wrapped up its inquiry after hearings spanning a year. The three member panel led by Hon. W. F. A. Turgeon adjourned to draft its report, finishing final arguments from Alberta Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Alberta resisted federal freight subsidies while suggesting a possible rate hike could trigger subsidies to offset western costs.
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Canada
W. F. A. Turgeon
Winnipeg
Alberta
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
J. J. Frawley
Poisoned wedding guests in Box Island hospital stay
Three guests remain in hospital after a wedding supper poisoning in Box Island on Monday. Eighteen others discharged yesterday and over 50 of about 180 guests were treated. Authorities suspect a can of beans as the source while RCMP investigate.
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Blackboy evacuation plan for Winnipeg revealed
Fortytwo thousand daily evacuations were proposed if the Red River slope hit crisis levels, with 200000 to move in five days and 359000 residents at risk. Army commander Morton testified at a press conference that voluntary departures had already begun and downtown Winnipeg could be flooded up to St Boniface. The plan, shelved by Bre RS Dick, dates to 1940 emergency preparations and was outlined as a deterrent against German invasion.
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Locomotive Dumped On Side After Cement Truck Crash
Five men escaped serious injuries after a collision between a freight train and a loaded cement truck in North Winnipeg. The cement truck was dragged 200 feet, track was ripped up at a Canadian Pacific level crossing, and the locomotive was dumped on its side. Driver Louis Albert Eflison, 45, escaped with an abdominal cut. brakeman John Wol wzyn, 33, was seriously injured. three other railcarmen were uninjured.
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Churchill Sends His Sympathy To Flood Victims
WINNIPEG May 31 P A message of sympathy for southern Manitoba flood victims has been received from Winston Churchill by Maurice Thorburn who met the former prime minister here 13 years ago. Mr Thorburn said Churchill expressed distress at the tragic suffering and hoped aid and money raised worldwide will soon help those who have lost and suffered.
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Winston Churchil
Maurice Thorburn
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Parliament To Control Money Bags
OTTAWA May 31 The commons voted 140 to 31 that parliament not a royal commission should propose cost cuts and end overlapping services The Liberals with the CCF and Social Credit rejected a PC motion to appoint a royal commission to reduce expenditures and curb duplication The house also defeated a Social Credit amendment to “control” expenditures and Finance Minister Abbott said no income tax changes to relief flood victims in Manitoba kept charitable deduction limits unchanged
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Calgary debentures sold to Toronto syndicate
A new site of 1,300,000 pounds sterling Calgary serial debentures sold by tender to a syndicate headed by Wood Gundy and Co Ltd including the Royal Bank of Canada Nesbitt Thomson and Co Ltd and Carlie and McCarthy Ltd. The sale was reported from Calgary on May 31.
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Carlie and McCarthy. Ltd
Fat stock price record broken at Hays and Earl sale
Swift Canadian firm paid 28.50 for a stanch of steers at the Hays and Earl Ltd auction in Lethbridge. Other items include BC fisheries minister potential lieutenant governor, nudism arrests near Nelson, flood relief shipments leaving London, Bishop of QuAppelle election in Regin, cattle rustling arrests in Calgary, Canada candidacy for ICAO seat, and counterfeit crackdown in Winnipeg and Toronto.
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