Packers Sign New Terms to Avert Canadian Strike
Canada Packers and Burns and Company reach a wage agreement with the United Packinghouse Workers of America halting a strike across plants in Canada. A 10 cent per hour increase is approved, boosting gains to about 18 cents hourly since last fall. Negotiations with Swift Canadian Limited continue as joint applications to regional war labor boards are planned.
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ihacat
eitine
btrihe
Canad
sloyres
Ganace Packers
Burns and Company
Swift Canadian Limited
Justice S. &. Richards
Winnipeg
Hamlton
Int
Justice Richards
Fred Dowling
United Packinghouse Workers of America
Mr. Dowling
Sam Hughes
Adam Sporsk
John Langler
Norman Riches
Saskatchewan
Explosion Detonates Old U S Munitions at Pocatello Facility
At Pocatello Idaho on October 2 17 a huge blast detonated 500000 pounds of high explosive stored by the U S Navy. Another 1500000 pounds of munitions within 500 feet failed to explode in the thundering blast. Capt Walter E Brown said the event tested storage safety as smoke rose and clouds drifted over the Arco Idaho proving grounds.
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POCATELLO
Idaho
United States Navy
Walter E. Brown
Pocatello naval ordnance plant
desert
here
Arco, Inaho, naval proving grounds
Senator Green In Critical Condition After Stroke
Victoria B C Oct 2 Senator R F Green 84 remained in critical condition after a stroke yesterday. Doctors said he had a fairly restful night and noted his long service since his 1921 appointment from the Kootenay district as a Conservative senator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
VICTORIA
B.C
C.P
R. F. Green
senate
Kootenay
The Left Hand Corner and a Lone Listener
A Communist on a soapbox advocates equal wealth share to a solitary listener who agrees with every word. The exchange ends with the speaker muttering and leaving. A separate note recalls a Commons moment when coats were paused on a hot day, mentioning Mr Geo G Conte, M.P.
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stind
COMMONS
iFrom
Geo
G. Conte
M.P
House of Commons
Speaker
Former Reich official Schacht offers autograph for candy bar
Ay James Schacht former Reich finance minister who handled billions for Hitler and who was acquitted by the international military tribunal offered to sell his autograph for a candy bar for my children after a press conference. He expressed a longing to disappear with his family to a place where the press will never find him again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NUERNBERG
Ay James Schacht
Hitler
international military tribunal
chacht
Yugoslav Leader Attacks Trieste Statute At Peace Talks
Yugoslav delegate Pijade charged the Big Four with betraying the Trieste accord to back an Anglo American military base on the Adriatic. He condemned proposals for a colonial style regime under a military stronghold and urged regional economic ties with Yugoslavia while deferring drafting of the city’s statute to the foreign ministers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
JOSEPH DYNAN
PARIS
Yugoslavia
United States
Great Britain
Free State of
Trieste
Adriatic
ial commission
delesste Pijade
Pijade
commission
daft
ersemnel
Free State
foreign ministers’ council
Slow Movement Grain For Export
Winnipeg reports a grain export slowdown due to rail capacity limits and canal transfers. Shortages at Montreal and St Lawrence points slow shipments east and to Georgian Bay. Ocean freighters await in Kingston and Prescott while Labour and car shortages reduce lakehead unloading ahead of a possible 100 million bushel early arrival.
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WINNIPEG
Montreal
St. Lawrence river
Canada
lakehead
Fort William
Port Arthur
bay
Lake Huron
upper St. Leverence
Kingston
Prescott
Georgian Bay
lower St. Lawrence
Europe
Lachine canal
lower river
prairies
Georgian Bay Le Montreal
praim
Montréy
Gerry Gets His Robes of Office
VANCOUVER Oct 2 7 The robes of office along with cocked hat worn by Senator G G McGeer when mayor of Vancouver in 1936 were returned to him from city hall Tuesday They are escorted by Sergeant at arms A McKay and transported in Mayor J W Cornett's official car Senator McGeer announced last week he had watched out of my own pocket for the robes worn by Vancouver mayors for 10 years Mayor Cornett termed the remark com aging to civic pride and vowed he would never wear them again until ownership was established Search of civic records disclosed that Senator McGeer still owned them Hon E W Hamber former lieutenant governor has offered to donate a new set of robes and hat
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
VANCOUVER
G. G (Gerry) McGeer
city hall
A. ©. McKay
J. W. Cornett
MrGeer
Cornett
McGeer
E W. Hamber
Hanging of Nazi leaders won’t set gallows record
Washington reports no new gallows record for Nazi leaders as about 231 Nazis have been sentenced to death by military courts, with at least 55 executed. Four-power control may oversee Goering and co actors, while the U S army could handle the Nuernberg case in the American zone.
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WASHINGTON
Goering
Martin Bormann
United States
ceremany
international court
Dachau
Battle of the Bulge
United States army
Mankato
Minn
control council
Britain
Russia
France
Nuernberg
ARMY
End Of Strike Raises Hopes For Early Settlement
Washington moved toward settlement as the maritime commission signaled a policy shift at a session last night. AFL CIO leaders said the commission pledged to enforce new working conditions on government vessels across private ships. Union security remains the major hurdle, with talks continuing at the labor department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MAX HALL
WASHINGTON
United States
commission
AFL
CI0
labor department
C.I.0
marine engineers
maritime commission
maine
News blackout at Nuernberg courthouse halts press access
US army imposes a courthouse and jail news blackout in Nuernberg as Col. B C Andrus refuses to meet reporters. German lawyers circulate rumors about last minute actions involving condemned Nazis and potential custody petitions for Hjalmar Echacht Franz Von Papen and Hans Fritsche for denazification boards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NUERNBERG
United States army
B. C. Andrus
Col. Andrus
Hjalmar Echacht
Franz Von Papen
Hans Fritsche
Cement output higher at Ottawa in July
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported a July cement output of 1,062,671 barrels, the highest for the year, as builders still face shortages. Output for seven months reached 5,904,87% barrels, up from 4,668,268 in the prior period, with June at 47,368 and July last year at 649,522.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OTTAWA
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Fate of Nazis under Nuremberg verdict discussed in London
London Oct 2 Reuters Aftermath of the Nuremberg trial prompts Allied talks on the fate of tens of thousands detained for security, with many released or kept. The verdict defines criminal organizations and leaves two major groups outside international jurisdiction requiring new German law or wider regulation.
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LONDON
Reuters
Nuernberg
Geremany
Alles
Gestapo
3.D
security service
S.S
London Has Had It Haunts War Wounds in Postwar View
London, seven years into the war’s aftermath, reveals scars of destruction and scarcity. A visiting fireman finds a city masking wreckage behind routine sights while facing shortages in food, soaps, cigarettes, and laundry. Amid shortages, Britons crave items available now as shops display delayed promises.
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London
Rush Of Coal Halts Rail Wheat Movement Across Lakes
Canadian presses report a coal rush to secure winter supply diverting inland shipping from grain trade. Grain elevators in Montreal and St Lawrence ports sit nearly empty as ships wait for cargoes to Europe. Railroads face boxcar shortages after war service, hindering eastward grain movement while lake vessels focus on coal and grain to Europe.
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DON GILBERT
MONTREAL
C.P
Great Lakes
Europe
St. Lawrence
iule
lakehead
prairies
Ottawa
Brugning
Fort William
Winnipeg
Western Canada
lakehnead
Fort Willam
Port Arthur
bay
Lake Huron
upper St. Lawrence
lower St. Lawrence
Trial Within A Trial Conducted In Alberta Court
CALGARY Oct 2 The Trial within a trial for Donald Sherman Staley tested admissibility of an alleged confession claimed to have been made to Vancouver and Calgary police. The hearing paused with Justice Howson ordering suppression of reports on evidence from the trial within a trial unless the confession is ruled admissible and further testimony will be heard when the hearing resumes, to decide if statements tying Staley to killings in Vancouver on July 94 and Calgary on July 94 are admissible.
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CALGARY
Donald Sherman Staley
Vancouver
Lethbridge
Thomas Campbell
Joseph Hardy
W. J. Howson
italey
Alberta supreme criminal court
Staley
Carty Billings
Donald Goss
Iron Horse Finds Resting Place in Vancouver Park
Old 374 known as the Tron Horse Bloch made its last trip in May 1887 leading the tarpscontinental pas gener tran. The famed engine will be exhibited as a curiosity in Kitstiano Park, ending a storied run through a bustling boomtown.
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VANCOUVER
Bloch
Canada
yrarhaga
Kitstiano Park
Japs Accused Of Canadian Deaths
Lt Masato Yoshida former commandant of Tokyo prisoner of war camp five B and three assistants pleaded innocent before the Eighth Army military tribunal in Yokohama. Accused are Katauyasu Sato Takeo Takahashi and Hyoichi Okuci. They allegedly caused many Canadian POW deaths by allowing unsanitary camp conditions and denying clothing shelter heat bathing and medical care.
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EIGHTH ARMY
Yokohama
Masato Yoshida
Tokyo
Katauyasu Sato
Takeo Takahashi
Hyoichi Okuci
Yoshida
Prepare For Executions Prepare For Executions
Sydney reports that Army Minister Francis Forde conceded loss of his long held Australian seat after belated post election returns. C I Frost lagged in unofficial results as the Labor government faced setbacks in the general election.
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SYDNEY
Australia
Army
Francis Forde
Lawyers Press For Shooting In Place of Hanging
Lawyers for 11 condemned war criminals planned appeals to Allied leaders to switch death sentences from hanging to shooting if clemency failed. The four Allied generals formed the execution authority in Berlin to carry out sentences on Goering Ribbentrop and others. Twelve were sentenced. one in absentia. Security was tightened as appeals were prepared and four-power jails prepared for the others.
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THOMAS A. REEDY MERNBERG
Allied cagtres council
Hermann Goering
Joachim Von Ribbentrop
Berlin
Germany
Martin Lermann
Hjalmar Schacht
Britain
France
Russia
United States
Allied control council
United States constabulary
internacional military tribunal arg
Adolf Hitler
fwehres
Joachim Van Ribbentrop
Wilhelm Kei
fife
United Nations watchdogs debate atom control and peace use
At Lake Success on October 2 the United Nations atomic energy commission opens session with a report from 11 nation scientific group. It urges safeguards from mine to factory and strict inspections, while U S and USSR differ on control methods. The economic and social council nears end its meeting aiming to approve an international refugee organization and aid Europe's reconstruction.
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LAKE SUCCESS
N.Y
United Nations atomic energy commission
United States
Russia
security council
Canada
United Nations
economic and social council noves
international refugee organization
Europe
Search Plane To Aid Soldiers In Western China Rescue
A search plane departs from Shanghai to Sichang to join United States troops as ground parties push through western China seeking missing airmen believed held by the Lolo tribesmen. The mission aims to confirm if a downed WWII era plane and Americans are among the captors and to negotiate potential ransom for freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CHENGTU
United States
west China
Shanghai
Sichang
here
Lolos
Mine Contract Signed by UMWA District 18 Officials
Officials of District 18 United Mine Workers and the Western Canada coal operators signed a final contract for a new western Canada coal industry accord. The union will submit the agreement to members for ratification next Monday, then both sides will seek Ottawa government approval if ratified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ALGARY
C.P
District 18
United Mine Workers of America
western Canada
Angus Morrison
Ottawa
Seazer Farmer Injured In Cardston Accident
Cardston Oct 2 Golden Piterson a lesser farmer and stockman is hospitalized in serious condition after an on horse accident while rounding cattle Details unknown as he was alone at the time he fell unconscious from concussion and hemorrhage.
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SEAZER
CARDSTON
Golden Piterson
ield
Kathleen
ATHENS
A.P
Macedonia
LAKE SUCCESS
N.Y
Get
United Nations ecanomic and social council today
TORONTO
Kenneth Russet
LONDON
Reuters
Nermnbtre
Allied Control Council
International war crimes tribunal
HOSPITAL
heapiial Agthoritie
ALEXANDRIA
Minkler Inman Sidku Pasha
Farouk
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