Ontario Premier Drew elected PC leader on first ballot
Ontario Premier Drew won the Progressive Conservative leadership on the first ballot with 827 votes of 1,242, defeating John Diefenbaker who had 811 and Donald Fleming with 104. He succeeds John Bracken who retired for age and health. Diefenbaker and Fleming praised Drew as the crowd applauded.
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Drew
Ontario
Progressive Conservative
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Lake Centre
Saskatchewan
Donald Fleming
Toronto Eglinton
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Fleming
BRACKEN
John Bracken
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Mr. Diefenbaker
Mr. Fleming
GEORGE DREW Cf Guzette
Progressive Conservative party
Ottawa
Jet pilot killed in Alaska crash near Big Delta
An F-80 Shooting Star pilot was killed when his aircraft crashed and burned near Big Delta on a Whitehorse Ladd Field flight. The four-plane formation had taken off from Whitehorse about an hour earlier. the other three landed safely at Big Delta.
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Alaska
Big Delta
Whitehorse-Ladd
Whitehorse
The Left Hand Corner Boxing Prowess Of Old Time Fights
The Ottawa Journal notes that Tommy Ryan and other early boxers fought extraordinarily long contests, sometimes 56 to 60 rounds, far beyond modern 10 to 15 round bouts. It recalls greats like Heeres Sayers Paddy Ryan and John L. Sullivan, illustrating how prize fighting once drew bare knuckles for a few hundred dollars or prestige. Continued on Page 18.
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Ottawa Journal
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Sayers
Paddy Ryan
body
Sullivan
Sullivans
Kilras
Charley Mitchells
Margarine Production Backed by PC Convention
The Progressive Conservative national convention endorsed producing and selling margarine in Canada. Delegates supported a motion urging that all healthful foods be permitted for production and sale, tying it to platform goals to ease food costs through increased output. The mover, L B Eckhardt of Powell River, argued the step would remove barriers and lower food prices.
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C.P
Progressive Conservative
Canada
Eckhardt
Powell River
B.C
Report on Sugar Price Confirmed
Ottawa reports the government is completing arrangements for guaranteed prices for Canada's 1948 sugar beet crop to give growers security in marketing. The plan sets a floor price varying by centre but applying to all provinces, while Ontario's Eugene King doubts Ontario benefits will match 1947 levels, noting a sliding pay scale in the 1948 contract and a recent rise toward 1949 prices.
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C.P
Canada
EASTERN VIEW
CHATHAM
Ont
Eugene King
Ontario sugar beet
marketing board
Ontario
Wheat Plank Hits Snag At Convention
A Progressive Conservative convention faces a heated debate over a farm policy plank. Delegates clash on returning to a prewar market framework that would permit marketing wheat by methods other than compulsory sale to the Wheat Board, risking the Winnipeg Grain Exchange reopening. Some fear open market trading and threaten resignation if the plan passes.
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LIEETS
Canadian Wheat Board
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Heferitey
A. Haarstad
Bently
Alta
Winnipeg exchange
Nine Drowned In Hudson River Boat Crash
New York oct 2 nine men believed drowned in Hudson River after a tugboat Anne Marie Tracy collided with the 12,000 ton freighter Eliza J Nicholson off Manhattan Waterfront. Six rescued from the sinking tug. the freighter forced into two barges. Survivors hospitalized. cause under investigation.
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NEW YORK
Hudson River
Anne Marie Tracy
United States
Eliza J. Nicholson
Manhattan
Nicholson
Two Montreal Desperadoes Unmasked By RCMP Here
RCMP identify and arrest Donald Gregoire Perreault and Douglas Perreault after a nationwide hunt for bank robbery and double slaying suspects. The men, previously in Lethbridge jail and using aliases, were captured at Taber with a Cadillac tied to the Montreal Banque Canadienne Nationale heist.
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RCMP
Donald Perreault
Douglas Perreault
Tabor
Lethbridge
S. Sergi
Buchanan
R.C.M.P
RCMP Captures Montreal Bank Robbery Suspects in Alberta
Photos show two Southern Alberta RCMP members who helped seize gas thieves at Seven Persons near Tabor and reveal the suspects were the Montreal pair sought for bank robbery and the killings of two Montreal radio constables. Constable Gordon Hacking arrested the men. Staff Sergeant Edward Buchanan exposed the fake names. Constables Nelson Paquin and Paul Duranteau, later killed in Montreal gunfight, are depicted at bottom.
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Lethbridge
Alberta
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Tabor
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RUMP
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Paul Duranteau
east end
Montreal police link two slay suspects to missing witness
Montreal police disclosed that Donald Perreault and Douglas Perreault, wanted for a bank holdup slay, could not have read recent police reports. A police source said their ally Louis Desrosiers had surrendered as a key material witness, while the Perreaults faced arrest in Taber Alberta on gasoline theft charges and a $104 fine from Medicine Hat. Donald Perreault used the name Louis Desrosiers during arrest and even telephoned the real Desrosiers in Montreal, who was in police custody.
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Lethbridge
Taher
R.C.M.P
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Donald Gregoire Perreault
Douglas Perreault
MONTREAL BANK
Canada
Banque Canadienne Nationale
Taber
R.C.MSP
Gordon H. Harkine
Donald Perreault
Louis Desrosiers
Alta
Louis Desrosters
Lows Besrosiers
Louis
Desrosiers
Platform Overlooks Nothing By Hugh P Buchanan
Ottawa October coverage shows a Progressive Conservative leadership convention with 1,300 delegates and 5,000 onlookers. Enthusiasm and confidence mark the event as the party readies to challenge Liberals and GCF with a renewed platform and resolve to win the next vote.
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HUGH P. BUCHANAN
Herald
OTTAWA
Vasilyada
G.c.F
UN Agency Criticized by Jewish Accusations
In Jerusalem on October 2 6 the United Nations consular truce commission accused Jews of discrediting it and other UN agencies in Palestine. The commission backed by US French and Belgian consuls said the charge was unfairly presented and noted a persistent friendly attitude.
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United Nations consular truce commission
OU.N
Palestine
security council Agturreh
truce commission
United States
France
Belgium
security courtedl
Germans to Appeal Rudesheim Over Dismantling Plan
West Germany leaders voted Friday to appeal to western allies for a temporary halt in dismantling German industry. They will make their first direct appeal since the war after Allied military governors claimed the issue was beyond their control.
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RUDESHEIM
Germany
West Germany
Investment Plan For Germany Soon
British financial officials say joint Anglo American announcements on German investment will come soon. An initial move may reinvest outstanding credits and unfreeze blocked accounts, followed by a policy on new investment. Delays blamed on the topic’s complexity.
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LONDON
Reuters
Germany
Third victim dies in Vancouver highway crash
News bulletins report John O Rourke of Bellingham Washington, 18, dies in hospital as the third victim of a suburban Burnaby highway collision. Earlier, two youths died and several injured in separate Burnaby accidents.
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VANCOUVER
C.P
John O'Rourke
Bellingham
Wash
Burnaby
James C. Darby
Gene F. Mossige
CANADA CLEARING HOUSE
NEW YORK
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World- Telegram
Washington
Canada
United States
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
B.C
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BERLIN
Germany
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Saxony
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Arab League
Palestine
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