Liberals In Lead Fail To Gain Majority In BC Vote
In British Columbia the Liberals lead as the party with the most seats but fail to secure a majority in the 90th legislature. By 11:30 am Pacific, 19 Liberals were reported elected, with Conservatives at 11, CCF at 14, and one Labor member. A Liberal Conservative coalition was discussed as a possible outcome amid a fragmented opposition.
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Conservatives
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Fernie
ANCOUVER
C.P
British Columbia
P.S.T
MS.T
T. D. Patiullo
C.CF
Prince Rupert
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armed services
Pattullo
R. L. Maitland
K.C
G. E. Braden
Peace River
James Mowat
Alberni
T. A. Love
Grand Forks
British Columbia Conservative Association
E. ©. Henninger
Grand Parks-Greenwood
UPHILL
Tom Uphill
T. D. Pattullo
G. W. Weaver
C.C
New Hampshire Legislature Shapes War Era Labor Pages
The item combines notes on wartime women’s part time shop work in England and a New Hampshire political scene. England readies thousands of wives for two day weekly shifts to aid war efforts. In New Hampshire the 1940 census boosted House seats from 423 to 443, making 1943 a large parliamentary body.
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England
Birmingham
Sne
Time Magazine
New Hampshire
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Torpedoing labeled piracy by Hull amid Atlantic menace
Secretary Cordell Hull called the torpedoing of the freighter Lehigh off Africa an act of piracy and assassination, part of a Nazi plan to terrorize seas. He cited the AZ high seas lawlessness and urged a revised neutrality act for full defense, noting 39 Americans were rescued and landed at Bathurst and Freetown.
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WASHINGTON
Cordell Hull
United States
Lehigh
Africa
Bilbao
Spain
gold coast
Way
Hull
Atlantic
maritime commission
Bathurst
Freetown
Macintosh defeated in Saanich BC seat
Lieut Col Macgregor F Macintosh former commandant of the Canadian Small Arms Training Centre Lethbridge and former BC legislator for the Islands constituency was defeated in Tuesday's provincial election. He ran as a Conservative in a three cornered race for Saanich and was beaten by N W Whittaker Liberal by 96 majority. Martin Neilson C O was the third candidate.
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Macgregor F. Macintosh
Lethbridge
British Columbia
Islands
Macintosh
Saanich
N. W. Whittaker
Martin Neilson
C.O
Fifty More Frenchmen Executed in Occupied France
Marshal Petain announced that 50 Frenchmen were executed this morning by German authorities in retaliation for the assassination of occupying officers. Admiral Darlan appealed to the public as another 50 hostages were promised if those responsible for Lt-Col Holz’s death in Nantes are not captured by midnight tomorrow. The second officer’s killing in Bordeaux was attributed to two youths on the Boulevard St Georges.
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VICHY
France
Phillipe Fetain
Nantes
Paul Friederich Holz
Petain
army of occupation
Boulevard St. Georges
Bordeaux
No Coalition For C C F Victory Urged In British Columbia
Harvard Winch of the C C F declares in Vancouver that Liberal and Conservative coalescence is imperative to form a BC government after the provincial election. He says war crisis makes new elections unhelpful and that no party will likely win a clear majority.
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VANCOUVER
C.P
Harvard Winch
C.C.F
British Columbia
O.C.P
Winch
Unrest Flaring in Captured Balkans Amid Atrocities
British and Canadian reports describe Nazi actions pushing Yugoslavs toward civil war as Bulgarians burn Greek villages in Thrace to Bulgarize names and seize tobacco lands. London sources note Slovak deserters and Nazi officers in Slovak battalions as anti German sentiment grows.
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HAROLD FAIR
LONDON
CP. Cable
Balkans
Thrace
Hitler
Senate Considers 325 Million For Convoy Escorts
The $5.985 billion lend-lease bill includes a 325 million allocation for 50 convoy escort ships. Admiral Stark testified the plan aims to bolster North Atlantic escort capacity, with most ships likely to be sent to Britain. Details were partly withheld due to confidentiality.
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United States
senate
appropriations committee
tomorew
Harold R. Stark
naval operations
Britain
North Atlantic
Stark
Iceland
Yeeland
Wickard
Dog Teams Rescue Eskimo Party Reaches Tuktoyatuk
Edmonton reports a schooner trapped by ice near Baillie Island with Bishop Trotellier ten priests and five Eskimo children rescued by dog teams along the Arctic shore. They arrived safely at Tuktoyatuk aboard the ship Lady of Our Lourdes, which reached Aklavik from Burnside Harbor before ice blocked it.
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EDMONTON
Baillie Island
Trotellier
Arctic
Tuktoyatuk
Delalde
Pranche
Josset
Billy Trasher
Lady of Our
Pure Bred Cattle Fetch Over Two Hundred Thousand
More than 22 009 cash changed hands Tuesday afternoon at Frank Collicutt's livestock sale at Willow Springs ranch west of Crossfield. One hundred pure bred Herefords found new homes in California British Columbia Manitoba Saskatchewan and on assorted ranges and farms throughout Alberta.
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Frank Collicutt
Willow Springs ranch
Crossfield
California
British, Columbia
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Russians acknowledge evacuation near Rostov
New York Oct 22 The BBC via CBS reports Russians acknowledged the evacuation of Taganrog about 30 miles from Rostov, countering German claims last Sunday that the city had fallen to their forces.
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BBC
CBS
Taganrog
Rostov
LONDON
Moscow
Hosteg
Don river
Moscow Will Fall as German High Command Claims
Berlin reports the German high command stating the Donets industrial area was extended under occupation, with 5000 Soviet prisoners captured near Moscow and 58 guns seized. They claim Baltic region control after island Dago seizure, with 3,000 prisoners in 30 days since Oct 12. Boats and Finnish forces aided a Bathe Islands landing. Moscow bombings continued.
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Donets river
Bryans ures
Moscow
Baltic
wand fur
dafanery
drileun sid
Bathe Islands
Nagi
Hiller
Four Canadians Among Bold Venture Sinking Crew
The United States maritime commission released the names of four Canadian crew members aboard the freighter Bold Venture torpedoed off Iceland on October 16. Albert Pearson, Henry Clancey, Slegitled Wess, and William Castle are among the 32 aboard. 17 have landed at Iceland, with no confirmation on the Canadians’ fate. The Bold Venture, previously Alssund, was the second American merchant ship torpedoed, following the Lehigh off the west coast of Africa.
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J F. SANDERSON
WASHINGTON
Iceland
United States maritime commission
Albert Pearson
Toronto
Henry Clancey
Chatham
N.B. Slegitled Wess
messhoy
Kirkland Lake
Ont
Wiliam Castle
messboy
Stowell
Ontario
Listowel
Alssund
Lehigh
Africa
High ranking observer questions German push on Moscow
A London based neutral military observer reported from Russia that the German attack on Moscow and the northern front was halted. He said Hitler may launch new assaults but cannot muster prior strength. Exhaustion on both sides, a Donets basin push failing, and snow blocking roads near Moscow are cited as slowing the German advance.
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LONDON
ORI
Russia
Moscow
Hitler
Red army
Donets
Kulbyshev
Stalin Holds Fort Within the Kremlin
Premier Stalin and aides maintain control in the Kremlin as Moscow faces grave threat. Decrees organize defense and state of siege while railways and air capacity adapt to wartime demands and continued German pressure nears Moscow.
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KREMLIN
KUIBYSHEV
Russia
Moscow
Germany
Red army
Premer Stalin
Maozha
giner
Montreal wife slayer sentenced to hang
Arthur Simoncau convicted of the scissors murder of his wife in Montreal and sentenced by Justice Wilfrid Laure to be hanged on January 23.
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MONTREAL
Arthur Simoncau
Wilfrid Laure
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