Parliament to Probe British Press Ownership and Finance
London reports the House of Commons voted 270 to 157 to create a royal commission to investigate all aspects of newspaper operation including monopolistic tendencies, finance, management, and advertising influence. Six to seven member body may exclude current MPs and working journalists.
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LONDON
C.P
house of commons
Daily Mail
British Press Association
KEMSLEY
Herbert Morrison
Viscount Kemsey
Daily Worker
Times
Nervous Commons Debates Press Case Reference
Labor MP Haydn Davies opened a House of Commons debate on the press noting nerves ahead of Sir David Maxwell Fyfe’s Conservative case. He recalled a past Nuremberg trial remark about executions and a suicide, drawing a sharp quip on the stakes of the discussion.
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LONDON
Reuters
Haydn Davies
house of commons
David Maxwell Fyfe
Nuernberg
Davies
Chinese To Avoid Reds In Darien Siege
Government sources in Nanking report Gen Tu Li Ming will keep Liaotung operations inside a safety zone far from the Russian occupied area around Darien. The Sino Soviet treaty limits militarization of Dairen and joint occupation exists while Chefoo area sees heavy fighting in Shantung as amphibious landings unfold to sever Communist lines to Manchuria. Red Harbin plans to raze the city if Tu’s northern force advances.
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NANKING
Tu Li-Ming
Liaotung
Darien
Ta Kang Paa panied
Chefoo
Shantung
Associated Press
Tom Masterson
Peiping
Chelwoo
Dairen
Manchuria
Red
Harbin
Dutch ship saga nets £26,000 sale profit
In 1998 a Dutch owner fought a 1,200 ton vessel, earning £3,600 with refitting costs near £2,000. The British government used the ship for six years at £372 monthly, then returned it with £13,000 to re-equip, of which £8,000 was spent. The ship sold for £26,000.
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London
Canadian Officer Prosecuted Japs
Ottawa reports Captain John D. C Boland acted as chief prosecutor in Tokyo trials of three Japanese charged with brutal mistreatment of Canadian and U S soldiers in Camp 5 B Niigata. Accused are Takeo Takahashi Masato Yoshida and Katsuyasu Sato. Ninety one Canadian soldiers were among the charges with 32 deaths. Sentences not announced. He traveled from the Far East to Seattle en route to Winnipeg.
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OTTAWA
John D. C
Boland
Tokyo
United States
Gereike department
Takeo Takahashi
Niigata
Masato Yoshida
Katsuyasu Sato
Seattle
Far East
Winnipeg
Army Pay Delayed for Ottawa Soldiers
Ottawa defence headquarters said regular monthly pay for permanent army members, due today, will be delayed by three to four days because congestion from a switch to new rates on Oct 1. The pay corps is working day and night to close the gap.
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OTTAWA
defence headquarters
Public price talks aim to curb Canadian inflation threat
Ottawa reports price board chief Donald Gordon will host five nationwide CBC broadcasts starting Nov 1 to explain current controls and future decontrol plans. Officials cite U.S. decontrol, public anxiety, and differing group pressures as key factors shaping policy and subsidy needs.
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OTTAWA
Donald Gordon
Dominion
Gordon
United States
sipec
CBC west
Winnipeg
C.S.T
U.S
Witnesses Sought After New Orleans Mother Is Murdered
A 10 year old girl was forced at gunpoint to witness the fatal shooting of her mother Mrs Oliver Harvarth 49 by a rejected suitor Andrew Novak 49 who was wounded in a street gun battle with police Novak was booked on a murder charge and held at hospital Motioned by Mrs May Adams a roomer in the Horsworth home for the police account Dorothy Mae Harvarth Mane Wallett and Mrs Harvarth’s daughter were in the room at the time of the shooting.
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NEW ORLEANS
Oliver Harvarth
Andrew Novak
Novak
OOMER
May Adams
Horsworth
General Keller recalls Caen battle in Calgary talk
Maj. General R F L Keller, who led the Canadian Third Division in Normandy, told Calgary Military Institute how he entered Caen during its capture and overheard a soldier ask if he was the general. The general answered yes and joked about wishing to leave the hellish scene.
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CALGARY
R. F. L. Keller
C.B.E
Kelowna
Calgary Military Institute
Carpiquet
Caen
Altered Testimony In Murder Case In Winnipeg
The trial of 31-year-old Lawrence Deaton for the Marchal slaying of taxi driver Johann Johnson moves into a third day amid charges and countercharges. Witness Helen Berard, 28, declared hostile after conflicting statements to police, with both sides alleging pressure and fear influenced her testimony. Crown prosecutors say 15 of 34 witnesses have testified, detailing Johnson’s body found near his taxi in Tuxedo and the alleged use of a railway bolt in the death.
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WINNIPEG
Lawrence Deaton
Marchal
Johann Johnson
Helen Berard
Deacon
A. A. Moffat
Deacel
Byrtrd
defence courte
David Nicholson
Helen
Lorne
Doreen
crown
Mr. Moffat
Johnson
bush
lwarby
China envoy speaks in accented English at UN assembly
In New York on October 30 the Chinese chief delegate Ambassador V. K. Wellington Kore spoke in broken Downing Street English during a UN assembly session. Delegates whispered that he had been expected to use Chinese as at the San Francisco conference.
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NEW YORK
United Nations assembly
China
V. K. Wellington Kore
Downing Street
San Francisco
Veterans Versus Gamblers Clash In Montreal Squatter Row
In Montreal a squatter leadership led by Henri Gagnon demanded justice over veterans versus gamblers for residency rights as Premier Maurice Duplessis warned the province would act to curb further seizures. He tied the movement to a broader Communist campaign and said police would enforce peace and order.
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MONTREAL
Maurice Duplessig
Henri Gagnon
Labor-Progressive party
Montreal Star
Jerusalem Bomb Attacks and Curfew Extend in October Violence
Three devices exploded in Jerusalem near Wal railway station as police described attackers as Jewish youths. A road mine hit a military convoy injuring soldiers and halting traffic. Police found a cache of public safety items in Givat Shaul and extended Jerusalem curfew from 6 P.M. to 7 A.M. The unrest spread to Tel Aviv with a robbery and casualties among British troops.
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JERUSALEM
Ort
cen Wal
Givat Shaul
Shimon
Tel Aviv
Polish refugee committee
Palestine
Sheikh Jarrah
Reuters
Inner Zionist council
Cotton Futures Trading Suspended Across Major Exchanges
The Chicago Board of Trade halted cotton futures today, mirroring suspensions in New York and New Orleans. In recent weeks prices have fallen sharply, with a retreat totaling well under prior highs, and the move aims to give clerks time to process a heavy backlog and to study liquidation of a single long interest.
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CHICAGO
Chicago board of trade
New York
New Orleans
Houston
New York exchange
Bulgarian Premier Defeated in National Elections
Bulgarian opposition papers report Premier Kimon Georgiev and eight cabinet ministers failed to win seats in the last national elections. Official returns show Fatherland Front with 364 of 468 seats, Communist bloc capturing 277 seats. 95 percent of voters cast ballots.
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SOFTA
Bulgaria
Kimon Georgiev
general assembly
Fatherland Pronto
front
Three Way Fight Over Montreal Publisher Estate
The third wife, a niece by marriage, and a personal friend contest the late Eugene Berthiaume’s will at age 68. Berthiaume, who died Aug. 31 from a heart attack in Spring Lake NY, chaired La Presse. The niece seeks probate of a holograph will drafted 10 days before death and asks to revoke a Sept. probate of a March 14 1935 will favoring Luc Dansereau.
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MONTREAL
Eugene Berthiaume
Berthiaume
Spring Lake
La Presse
Canada
Pierre Casgrain
George Ketterer
Ketterer
Bertjaume
Luc den Dansereau
Bertntaime yrome
Dansereau
Mt Dansereat
Fanny Colin
J. P. Charbonneau
K.C
Last Strike Ends at Dominion Rubber Plant in Kitchener
The 128 day strike by United Rubber Workers at Dominion Rubber Company Merc hants plant in Kitchener Ontario ended with ratification of settlement terms. About 1206 workers were affected in the Ontario rubber plant strike wave settled by negotiation.
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KITCHENER, Ont
United Rubber Workers of America
C.SO
Merchants
Dominion Rubber Company
union
Ontario
UN Faces Major Drafting Task On Global Disarmament
In New York Oct, Molotov’s universal disarmament proposal could place the UN military staff committee, led by chiefs of staff from the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China, in charge of drafting a global peace force. The panel, part of the Security Council, has yet to produce a concrete plan for an international army to regulate armaments and enforce peace.
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United States
Britain
United Nations general assembly
Yead
Canada
Louis St. Laurent
security council
Mr. Molotov
Russia
U.N
Rasia
United Nations
Winston Churchill
North America
LARRY HAUCK
NEW YORK
Molotov
United Natons military staff committee
lsecurity council
France
China
council
Earter
fig
assembly
lind
tming
Two Ontario men arrested face armed robbery charge in Regina
Laurie Laundrie, 29, of Espanola, and Gerald Kingvens, 21, of Niagara Falls, Ontario, were arrested here after fleeing with a stolen car and are to be tried in Regina for armed robbery. They are also sought in Niagara Falls for auto theft.
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PATR
REGINA
seeung Ontario
Lethbridge
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Laurie Laundrie
Enpanola
Gerald Kingvens
Niagara Falls
Ont
Niagara Fallin
CUNNINGHAM
ARMY LONDON
C.P. Cable
Sir Alan Cunningham
3rh Army
Palestine
colonial office
armay
NEW YORK
Western Union Telegraph company
aneerssful
PORT ARTHUR
Lamttr and Sawmill Workers Union
AFL
Thunder May
BARGER
GLASGOW
C.F
Europe
Jacke Fateren
Seethnand
Mevina
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William Seymour
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AFT
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Maye fair Club
George Pal- Hitto
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Australia
CLYDE BLACKBURN
Canadien Press
NEW ORK
C.P5
Norman J. O. Makin
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