Calgary MP leaves House to cheer Stampeders in Toronto
Calgary West MP Arthur Smith announced he would expel himself from the commons for one day to join constituents at the Dominion final in Toronto. Prime Minister St Laurent agreed to cut one scheduled Saturday sitting as Coldwell urged a lighter prorogation plan. Smith will be absent during the game while a quorum likely gathers at Varsity Stadium for the Stampeders versus Alouettes showdown.
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TAWA
Arthur Smith
Calgary West
Calgary Stampeders
Toronto
St. Laurent
M. J. Coldwell
CC.F
Ottawa
commons
Stampeders
Montreal Alouettes
Mr Smith
Varsity stadium
Alberta Spends 15 Million On Mental Patients
Calgary November 25 Alberta government spends 15 000 000 in caring for mental patients Health Minister W W Cross told the Alberta Social Credit League yesterday He said one dollar a day was charged for patients in mental hospitals with the government paying the balance If mental care were free he said only half the present number of patients would get hospitalization Cross heads a panel discussion on hospitalization and said the provincial government has about 1 200 000 to spend in the next three years under the Dominion Provincial hospital aid plan.
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CALGARY
Alberta
W. W. Cross
Alberta Social Credit League
Cross
Dominion
Worker Dies After Fall Into Lye Vat At CP Rail Shops
Winnipeg report: Josef Kardasz, 41, fell from a ladder into a 12,000 gallon vat of scalding lye at the Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive shops in Weston. The accident occurred midday Wednesday. workers heard nothing and his body remained in the vat for about six hours before discovery.
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WINNIPEG
Canadian Pacific Railway
Weston
Josef Kardasz
Early needles traced from Palaeolithic aids to modern tools
The piece surveys ancient sewing implements from bone needles to sinew attachments and skin clothing. It notes Paleolithic awls and bone needles in France from the Stone Age, with drilled, polished forms. It mentions later bone and wire needles evolving into modern needles, while a fragment cites a Wall Street Journal column.
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France
Britain
Canada Seeks Air Agreement With New Zealand
Ottawa reports negotiations with New Zealand ahead of a Canadian air service to the south Pacific. H. Moran of the external affairs department told a house committee that no great obstacles remain and that talks focus on flying aids and facilities responsibilities.
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OTTAWA
New Zealand
commonwealth
south Pacific
H. ©. Moran
external air fairs department
house
Howard Green
P.C
Vancouver-Quadra
Moran
G COP blasts Ward case handling by State Dept leaders
Five Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee demand immediate firings over the Ward case. They condemn the State Department for a spineless performance in freeing U S consul general Angus Ward from a Chinese jail in Mukden. They urge military action and denounce years of botched China policy as causing a loss of face.
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WASHINGTON
state department
Angus Ward
United
United States
house
Walter Judd
Minnesota
department
China
Acheson
Edmonton Seeks Uniform Alberta City Act for Elections
Edmonton officials received a revised draft of Alberta’s City Act proposing annual civic elections in late November to standardize election procedures. The act sets election day as the fourth Wednesday after the last Monday in October and nomin ation day on the final Monday in October, while promising no loss of existing city powers and allowing discretionary council action.
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EDMONTON
Alberta
C. ©. Gerhart
Thomas Garside
glhics
dsi
department of municipal affairs
New Look For Those Salt Mines
London dispatch reports the south Ural salt mines have completed their five year plan ahead of schedule. Heavy manual labor has been eliminated and mining transportation grinding and loading are now fully mechanized according to Moscow radio.
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LONDON
Moscow radio
Ural
Bevin Benign on Depression Policy and Alberta Act Rights
Solon Low alleges Ernest Bevin claimed depressions are deliberate schemes by individuals and cited Bevin’s Ottawa banquet remark on unemployment. The Alberta Social Crean League urged retainment of British North America Act rights, and to protect property and civil rights while aiding drought farmers with work programs and land reclamation.
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CALGARY
Solon Low
Social Credit party
Britain
Ernest Bevin
Alberta Social Crean League
Low
Bevin
Canada
Ottawa
Russia
caren
Urge Filling of Vacancy on Joint Commission
Ottawa reports Howard Green of Vancouver Quadra urged Canada to fill its vacant seat on the Canadian United States international joint commission. He noted Canada has one of three places open and no engineers on the body, which handles mutual border issues like Windsor Detroit water pollution. Undersecretary A D P Heeney said the subject is under active consideration and an appointment is hoped.
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OTTAWA
Howard Green
P.C. Vancouver-Quadra
Canada
Exchange Of Correspondence Tabled in House
In a Saskatchewan page of the federal Saskatchewan exchange of letters Finance Minister Abbott agreed not to enforce December 15 rental increases in Saskatchewan, pending provincial takeover of controls next April. The accord ties to Saskatchewan taking over rentals when federal controls expire March 31, 1950, and makes 20 and 25 per cent increases inoperative there. The letters also address Abbott's claim that he had offered to hand over controls previously.
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UAWA
Abbott
Saskatchewan
SASK
Quebec
Dunless s
T. C. Douglas
prices board
Approve Vote For Defence Approve Vote For Defence
In Ottawa November 25 the defence department 1949 50 expense account exceeding 333000000, the highest peacetime total in Canada’s history, was approved by the Commons. George Drew, PC leader, criticized the procedure and said his party would push for a defence committee next year to obtain full information for informed appraisal of operations and expenditures.
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OTVAWA
defence department
Canada
commos
George Drew
commons
Montreal police killers hanged after trial at dawn
The last of three Montreal murderers was executed by hanging last night. Douglas Perreault and Noel Cloutier had been executed earlier for their crimes, completing the trio’s sentence.
Third Man Pays For Slayings
Donald Perreault known as the Rat, the last of three Montreal police killers to be hanged for the slaying of two city constables during a bank robbery in September 1948. He was executed at Bordeaux jail in Montreal after mounting the scaffold at 12 30 am EST and dying at 12 50 am. Accomplices Douglas Perreault and Noel Cloutier had earlier been hanged for their roles in the crime.
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MONTREAL
Donald
Perreault
Bordeaux jar
Nelson Paquin
Paul Emile Duranleau
Paquin
Duranleau
Donald Perreault
Douglas Perreault
Noel Cloutier
Cloutier
Perreaults
Taber
Alta
Drew Labelled Howe Cabinet Poo-Bah in Commons
Opposition Leader George Drew called Trade Minister Howe the poo bah of the cabinet during a Commons debate on estimates. Howe accepted the remark, noting he had spoken for both Justice Minister Garson and Defence Minister Claxton when interjecting.
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OTTAWA
George Drew
Howe
Mr. Drew
Gilbert and Sullivan
Justice
Garson
Defence
Claxton
Annual Roundup in Southern Alberta Honors Old Timers
CALGARY Nov 25 650 guests attended the 20th annual round-up of the Pioneers and Oldtimers Association. Notables like Mrs Lucy Nichol Norman Lavion of Banff and Eddie Lucas of Vancouver reminisced about Alberta’s early days. Dean Grant MacEwan of Manitoba praised the old west and historic figures while speakers recalled frontier hardships and railcar homes.
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CALGARY
Lucy Nichol
Red River Valley
Norman Lavion
Banff
Australia
A. E
Eddie) Lucas
Vancouver
Eddie
E. C. Eckersley
Midnapore
Alta
Eckersley
Alberta
oldtimers
the
Pioneers and Oldtimers Association
neck of the woods
Bill Wilce
Red Deer
Charles Grayson
Ban
New Brunswick
OLD WEST
Grant MacExan
Manitoba
Gall
Pete
Harper brothers
inter
British Columbia
San
Dean MacEan
Tornadoes Kill 14 in East Alabama and Hurt Dozens
Severe storm cells roared through four East Alabama counties causing 14 deaths and 44 injuries. Homes were wrecked across Hackneyville Oneonta and Valley Head with two white and two black families among the affected. Fire and debris hampered rescue as officials reported multiple missing and heavy property loss.
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Associated Press
WIRMINGHAM
Ala
Alabama
Hackneyville
Birmingham
Oneonta
Sand Mountain
Valley Head
here
W. F. Maynor
Car crash kills three Halifax men on Nova Scotia highway
A patch of ice caused a fatal collision on the Truro Amherst road near Bass River Nova Scotia killing Albert J Ross 31 a Halifax Chronicle Herald photographer Robert A Smith 40 and Wilfred Bowman all from Halifax Their car collided with a tractor laden truck driven by Lloyd Webster unhurt The men were returning from a weekend hunting trip Ross a Saskatoon native served in the RCAF during the war Meanwhile Bil Robinson 71 a famed dancer in New York was reported considerably weaker from a heart ailment.
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BASS RIVER
N.S
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Albert J
Al) Ross
Halifax Chronicle- Herald
Robert A. Smith
Wilfred Bowman
Truro - Amherst
Lloyd Webster
Ross
Saskatoon
RCAF
BILL ROBINSON
NEW YORK
Bil Robinson
Monty Inspects U.S. Drugstore in Pentagon Visit
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery toured the Pentagon drugstore in Washington on Wednesday and told reporters that American stores sell everything but drugs. He bought a bag of peanuts calling them monkey nuts and commented they were folly good.
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WASHINGTON
Viscount Montgomery
Lord Montgomery
Pentagon
United States defence headquarters
Labor To Form Red Free Body
London reports anti Communist labor leaders from 48,000,000 union workers in 45 countries plan a new world labor confederation. The British Trade Unions Congress announced invites to Australia, Brazil, and others, with Russia and satellites not invited. AFL head William Green and UAW leader Walter Reuther will lead delegations. UMWA also sends representatives.
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LONDON
world labor confederation
labor international
British Trade Unions Congress
international union
Australia
Brazil
Russia
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
T.U.C
World Federation of Trade Unions
C.SO
W.F.T.U
APL
William Green
AFL
Walter Reuther
United Automobile Workers of America
CLO
United Mine Workers of America
Snowstorm Toll Rises in Ontario and Quebec
Ottawa screens report six to seven deaths from the snow sleet storm sweeping across Getsia and into Quebec with Toronto logging over seven inches of snow the heaviest November fall since 1574. Other items note political moves in Russia and British Columbia and Alberta on housing and resources.
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Siony Bears
feet tribe
Central Press
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SELF
Wall Street Journal
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West Province
Canadian Press
Drew
S. “Alberta Oldtimers
DETROIT
city
Central Press Canadian
Ontario
Monty
U.S
Santa Claus
Getsia
LAKE SUCCESS
N.Y
Sov
Andrei
VERNON
B.C
South Vernon
Mah Sing
Lee On
Gordon Wisner
sankier
SN. E. Tanner
shell
G.B
Pacific northwest
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