Union Men To Congress Hear Attlee In Ottawa Talks
Ford Motor Company of Canada renewed its offer to settle the 63 day old strike by arbitration. Union demands for a union shop and check-off system remain unresolved as U A W and CCL leaders planned to fly to Ottawa for talks with Labor Minister Mitchell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
JACK WILLIAMS
WINDSOR
Ont
C.P
Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd
Mitchell
United Automobile Workers
C.I.O
Ford
Leslie Blackwell
Ontario
U.A.W
Canadian Congress of Labor unions
Ottawa
George Addes
U A.W. international
Pat Conroy
C.C.L
Geo. Burt
Baker Appeals For Yeast Despite Small Mercy Shipment
Baker G N MacInnis of Terrace British Columbia says he wired the defence department to cancel his bread supply contract after using all yeast for service and civilian loaves. He sought a yeast flown in by an RCAF aircraft, but Terrace remains without train service due to slides. The mercy shipment arrived with only two ounces of yeast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TERRACE
B.C
G. N. MacInnis
defence department
air force
R.C.A.F
British Columbia
Canadian National Railways
Left Hand Corner Nabbed US Nazi Leader Kuhn in Detention
Delos W. Lovelace recounts Fritz Kuhn, once a German extremist, now confined near Bremerhaven after U S Army action. Convicted in 1939, released 1943, stripped of citizenship, he was returned from a concentration camp. Kuhn’s Munich larceny and emigration pressure framed his path to America and back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fritz Kuhn
United States
Dannemora
Delos W. Lovelace
New York Sun
Kuhn
Waldergrub
Bremerhaven
Germany
FBT
Munich
Mexico
King to make annual Christmas Day broadcast
The King will deliver his traditional Christmas Day broadcast at 3 p.m. this year, Buckingham Palace announced. The annual message is expected to reach listeners across the realm via radio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KING
LONDON
Reuters
Buckingham Palace
Atom Talks Confidential and the Atomic Pact Plans
Washington dispatch reports Prime Minister Attlee President Truman and Prime Minister Mackenzie King insisting on secrecy about atom bomb talks until a joint statement after the current conference. A three power plan to pool scientific secrets and place control under a UN organization is under consideration with leaders keeping positions noncommittal as discussions continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. R. BLACKBURN
WASHINGTON
C.P
Attlee
Truman
Mackenzie King
United Nations organization
Russia
Messrs. Attlee
KING
Mr. Attlee
White House
Canada
William Mackenzie King
International
Hat Camp Murder Hearing Reveals 1941 Riot At Prison
At Medicine Hat a July 22 1941 disturbance at the German POW camp was raised in a preliminary murder hearing for three Germans Johannes Wittinger Adolf Kratz and Werner Schwalb charged with killing August Plaszek inside the barbed wire enclosure. Witnesses described guards and protective custody rescues while Canadian soldiers detained angry prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Plaszek
Johannes Wittinger
Adolf Kratz
Werner Schwalb
Schultz
Kratz
W. H. Ellis
Schwalb
Wittinger
John E. Simpson
Reginald Herbert Back
Medicine Hat
Veterans Guard of Canada
tower No. 7
Ninth Victory Loan Oversubscribed By 2.3 Billion
Ottawa reports final figures for Canadas Ninth Victory Loan show it oversubscribed by more than 2.3 billion with the drive exceeding the 1.5 billion objective. Finance Minister Isley thanked Canadians as the total reached 1.8086 billion at close of business Saturday and predicted a final count near 2.0 billion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OTTAWA
C.P
Canada
Asley
Isley
Bracken attacks interim supply in Commons debate
In Ottawa on November 13 Progressive Conservative leader John Bracken criticized the government's request for another month of interim supply as unprecedented. He argued the plan asks to finish work in three months that should take six, and notes the doubled legislative program. Bracken questioned the lack of committee review amid labor unrest at Ford Windsor and tariff tensions. He quoted a Winnipeg Free Press line as unparliamentary, refused to withdraw the claim, and pressed for more time and clarity on Crown authority before Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OTTAWA
John Bracken
commons
Isley
Bracken
committee of supply
Ford Motor Company
Windsor
Ont
Asley
Gaspard Fauteux
Dr. Fauteux
Winnipeg Free Press
Mr. Bracken
house of commons
Canada
Mr. Isley
Liberal party
Mackenzie King
Washington
POW Murder Trial Opens At Medicine Hat
Canada's first preliminary hearing for German POWs charged with murder opened in Medicine Hat courthouse. Johannes Wittinger Adolf Kratz and Werner Schwalb face charges over the July 22 1945 murder of August Plaszek an Afrika Korps prisoner found dead in a recreation hall. Plaszek from Nordlinen Germany was not an active Nazi. Gestapo activity in local POW camps is noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MEDICINE HAT
Canada
DoMinion
court house
W. H. Ellis
Johannes Wittinger
Adolf Kratz
Werner Schwalb
August Plaszek
Afrika Korps
Tobruk
Plaszek
Nordlinen
Germany
Gestapo
Attlee Seeks Prosperity as Basis for Peace
Prime Minister Attlee told Congress that world prosperity and good neighborliness form the peace basis and that economic rivalry with the United States is unwarranted. He urged cooperation with the United Nations and outlined postwar aims while deflecting fears about British Labor policy and wartime debt talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WASHINGTON
Attlee
congress
Great Britain
United States
house of representatives
Britain
Labor party
PARLEY
Truman
United Nations Organization
Lord Keynes
De Gaulle Elected Interim French President by Assembly
In Paris on November 13 Gen. de Gaulle wartime leader was elected interim president of the French government by the constituent assembly to steer the fourth republic. The vote stood 555 for de Gaulle with one abstention and no votes against. The Communists shifted to support him after Deputy Declos said they would not block national unity. His first task is to present a program to the assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PARIS
de Gaulle
France
constituent assembly
Gen. de Gaulle
Jacques Declos
Permit Meat Dishes Over Festive Season
Canadians dining in public eating places will be allowed to serve Christmas or New Year dinners with any meat dish despite meatless Tuesdays. Meat rationing regulations banning non poultry sales in restaurants on Tuesdays and Fridays will be relaxed for Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, enabling meat dishes on those holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OTTAWA
Canada
Troops On The Move Repatriation Lists Released
The Canadian Press reports homeward bound repatriations arriving Tuesday. Montreal's Empire McDermott notes 61 personnel repatriated from Great Britain while the U S S Mexico is due in San Francisco with 11 repatriates from the Far East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Empire McDermott
Great Britain
San Francisco
U.S.S
Mexico
Far East
McGill Plans Atom Smasher Project At University
Montreal November 13 construction of an atom smashing building and installation of a 275 ton cyclotron will begin at McGill University once Ottawa issues the necessary permit, authorities at the university said.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MONTREAL
McGill University
Ottawa
university
Victoria Cross awarded to Lieut Robert Gray posthumously
London dispatch reports Lieut Robert Hampton Gray D.S.C. RCNVR of Nelson British Columbia was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for a daring attack on a Japanese destroyer off Onagawa Wan near Honshu. He led his aircraft within 50 feet of the target under heavy fire, sinking the ship before dying. The award, announced by the Ministry of Information, marks Canada's 13th VC in the Second World War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LONDON
C.P. Cable
Robert Hampton Gray
D.S.C
B.C.N.V.R
Nelson
G.C
Royal Navy
fleet air arm
ministry of information
Onagaw Wan
Honshu
Gray
Altenfjord
Norway
V.C
OTTAWA
Robert Hampton
Hammy) Gray
R.C.N.V.R
B.C
Canada
Philip Vian
Dominion
Vian
Tokyo
Formidable
Onogawa Wan
Premier Sjahrir Leads Indonesian Cabinet In Java Crisis
Sjahrir named premier of the unrecognized Indonesian republic as British forces press Indonesian Nationalists in Soerabaja. He vows cooperation with British authorities, widening minister powers, and plans elections before January 31. Dutch refuse to deal with Soekarno. fighting intensifies with casualties on both sides and Japanese involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LEIF ERICKSON
BATAVIA
Java
Sutan Sjahrir
Soerabaja
Sjahrir
Soekarno
Pottsdam
R.A.F
Pacific War Hero Kiefer Dies in Navy Plane Crash
Commodore Dixie Kiefer, 48, famed Pacific War hero known as Captain Dixie, was killed in a U S Navy plane crash on Mount Beacon near Beacon New York. The crash Sunday killed five others. wreckage found Monday. Kiefer survived ten major wounds across two world wars.
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BEACON
N.Y
Dixie Kiefer
Pacific
United States navy
Mount Beacon
here
Commodore Kiefer
Dixie
Jim
Edmonton Brewery Story Denied As Speculation
Edmonton premier E C Manning dismissed a Monday Edmonton Journal report of a 1 million dollar Alberta brewery as speculation with no official government statement. The item mentions no confirmed plan and remains unverified.
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Clement Attlee
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P.O.W
McGILL
ATOM SMASHER
V.C.Awarde
Nelson Man
G.B
EDMONTON
E. C. Manning
Edmonton Journal
Alberta
EDUCATION
University of Alberta
MELVILLE, Sask
Vincente Manasterski
Goodeve, Sask
Regina
John Manasterski
P. M. Anderson
HALIFAX
HLM
C.S. Puncher
Earl of Athlone
Princess Alice
WINNIPEG
Free Press and Tribune
TABER
Calgary Power Company
Fdmonton
HONOLULU
Damon
Pearl Harbor naval air station
navy
WSPAL
sap
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