By-Elections In Spotlight In Toronto Parkdale race
The Toronto Parkdale federal by election shapes as a major contest with five candidates after the resignation of Dr. Herbert A. Bruce. Parkdale and Portage la Prairie in Manitoba draw attention as Liberal seats hang in the balance with the party’s overall majority at stake. Nomination day passed. voting in Parkdale is set for Oct. 21. Candidates include Alderman Harold Timmins for the Progressive Conservative side and Lt.-Col. John William Gordon Hunter for the Liberals, among others. Milk price rises become campaign fodder with CCF leader M. J. Coldwell backing a national health program and an injunction affecting milk control board actions. Len Palmer represents Socialist-Labor, though he did not attend the nomination meeting.
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TORONTO
C.P
Parkdale
Herbert A. Bruct
Manitoba
Portage la Prairie
Pontiac
Bruce
Social Credit
Parkdele
H.M. Mowat
Spence
Harold Timmins
John William
M. J. Coldwell
national C.CF
C.C.F
Ford Brand
Elizabeth Morton
Ontario milk control board
Len Palmer
Socialist-Labor
Dr. Bruce
Purébred Values Picks Out a Communist Electric Farms
United States Public Health Service official Joan J Bloomfield explains hatters mercury poisoning linked to hat making and the decline of mercury use. She notes eight percent of cutters and 12.5 percent of hat makers affected.
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New York
Joan J. Bloomfield
United States Public Health Service
Dreamboat off again on record hop across Atlantic
Paris Oct 16 The Pacusan Dreamboat left Orly at 6 38 a.m. to attempt a nonstop flight record across the Atlantic. The Superfortress had left yesterday for a Paris New York attempt but returned hours later due to engine trouble.
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PARIS
A.P
Orly field
C.S.T
Atlantic
Four POWs face fate as Alberta appeals court weighs murder case
Four German prisoners of war convicted of murder in the Medicine Hat camp await the Alberta appellate division decision in Calgary. Their execution, originally set for October 16 and postponed to November 13, hinges on the appeals. G. E. A. Rice, K.C., defends them, arguing trial should have been before military authorities. He notes lack of protective power in civil court postwar.
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Leth~bridge
supreme court of Alberta
Calgary
Karl Lehmann
Medicine Hat
G. E. A. Rice
K.C
Lethbridge
minister of justice
Rice
The Nazis on the Nuernberg gallows and the law of equity
The article reflects on the execution of Nazi leaders in Nuernberg and the suicide of Goering. It contrasts their crimes with Napoleon and Genghis Khan, critiques the idea of future impunity, and notes how the international court applied equity to judge these actions. It argues the executions offer no glory but a warning that the world rejects aggression.
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Washington
United States
Nuernberg
Robert Ingersoll
Napoleon
Hermann Goering
international court
Eyewitness account of Nuremberg hangings
A London Daily Express report recounts the Nuremberg executions of ten Nazi leaders, noting the impersonal, humane deaths and Goering’s poisoning. It covers the procession to the gallows, last words, body viewing, and reactions of Allied observers amid the courtroom and prison setting.
Canadian govt to take over Marconi Co. end
Ottawa reports Reconstruction Minister Howe said Canada will nationalize the Canadian Marconi Company in line with Britain's Cable and Wireless nationalization. A crown company may or may not be created to run Canadian operations, with fair price talks ahead. No transfer date set.
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OTTAWA
Cable and Wireless Ltd
Canadian
Marconi Co
Howe
London dispatch
House of rds
Marconi Company
Cable and Wireless
Mr. Howe
Marconi
Truck Crash Ends POWs Adventure
A prisoner of war attempting to drive a truck east of the city on Fifth Avenue near 20th Street crashed after losing operation of the vehicle. General Farm Supplies mechanic William Calhoun witnessed the truck jackknife and overturn three times, throwing the POW from the seat. He carried the injured man to the POW camp for care.
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20th Street
Fifth Avenue
William Calhoun
General Farm
Roger Lund
Mr. Calhoun al
Mr. Calhoun
tor
Discount Rumor: Early Saskatchewan Election Denied
Premier T. C. Douglas discounted rumors of an early Saskatchewan election. Walter Tucker, Liberal leader, claimed a session suggests an election after the legislature's next session. Douglas said talk of a 1949 election was an old party trick, noting the life of the legislature ends in June 1949 and an election will occur before then.
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SASKATOON
C.C.F
Saskatchewan
T. C. Douglas
Walter Tucker
Douglas
UNRRA Supplies Well Distributed To Yugoslavs
Belgrade October report by a three man investigating commission appointed by UNRRA Director General Fiorello La Guardia finds that the great bulk of 2,000,000 tons of UNRRA supplies sent to Yugoslavia has been effectively distributed among the people. The commission says the supplies undoubtedly saved millions of lives and that the Yugoslav government and UNRRA agreement has been carried out satisfactorily after conferences with Premier Marshal Tito and diplomatic representatives.
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BELGRADE
speclal
U.N.RH.A
F. H. La Guardia
U.N. RH.A
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
U.N.R.R. A
U.N.R.R.A
U.N.R.B.A
Goering and Heath hangings mark grim day in Europe
In London and Wernberg, Nazi leaders and a British killer face execution. Heath, a former RAF pilot, is hanged for the Margery Gardner murder after a sensational trial. Goering dies by cyanide in a prison cell as ten others follow on the gallows, ending their war crimes.
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LONDON
C.P
Neville George Clevely Heath
RAF
grim Pentonville
Margery Gardner
Britain
Violet Van Der Elst
hearby
Van Der Elst
Broadmoor
Heath
Madame Tussaud
WERNBERG
Hermann Goering
Goering
Adolf Hitler
army
international military tribunal
God save
Germany
reichsmarshal
Goeting
Drunkenness In Schools Studied By Vancouver Officers
Vancouver police reviewed information on alleged drunkenness among Kitstinno and Lord Byng high school students. Teens claimed Lord Byng students shared drink culture with Kitsilano youths during weekend private parties. The lapse followed prior reports of bootleg booze sales to students and police orders to investigate. Ottawa brief notes Marian Eisenhardt resigns as national physical fitness director to join United Nations in New York. successor not named.
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VANCOUVER
Kitstinno
Lord Byng
Bert Emery
parks Yoard
Las week
police commission
Alec MacNeill
OTTAWA
The
health department
Marian Eisenhardt
United Nations
New York
How Goering Concealed Poison Vial Remains Mystery
The article reports on the mystery of how Hermann Goering concealed a vial of poison while in custody. It notes cyanide capsules among top Nazis, details guards and surveillance, and mentions a renewed focus on smuggling methods during the long postwar surveillance and trial period.
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Goering
G. K. HODENFIELD MERNBERG
Hermann Goering
allike
Heinrich Himmler
Dawson Creek rockers killed in freight train collision
Two Dawson Creek rockers died and a third later succumbed to injuries after their wagon was struck by a freight train near Dawson Creek BC. Victims were Lyman Haugher 24 Philip Ehresman 45 and Jasper Fraser 38 all from Dawson Creek.
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TUREE
DAWSON CREEK TACKERS
DAWSON CREEK
B.C
C.P
Lyman Haugher
Philip Ehresman
Jasper Fraser
DREAMBOAT
MASSACHUSETTS
WESTOVER FIELD
Mass
United States army
Pacusan
Parks
m. C.S.T
teny
onis
Atlantic
HAMILTON
Evelyn- MacLean Dick
John Dick
Ontario supreme court
MAZERALL APPEAL AGAS
TORONTO
Onesse court of appeal
Edward Wilfred Mazerall
Soviet Union
CALGARY
C.F
Karl Lehwan
Medicine Hat
G. B. Amies
K.C
Lethbridge
supreme court
hencing
BYRNES
A.P
United States
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