De Valera Faces General Election After By-Election Defeats
Dublin reports indicate Prime Minister Eamon De Valera’s Fianna Fail could call a general election after two of three by elections shifted against the government. Sean McBride won in County Louth while Sean Hayes led for Fianna Fail in Dublin, and John Ormond won Waterford by a smaller margin than in 1944.
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Sean McBride
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McBride
Thomas Mullins
Fianna
TEST Berom ie
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Patrick Kinane
Irish Republican Army
Sean Hayes
Panna Pail
Fianna Frit
John Or
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Waterford
Fine Gael
London
Bram
Dal
gsid
Finance
Troops to Line Route for Princess Elizabeth Wedding
More than 2000 troops from Britain's finest regiments will line the route from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey on November 20 for Princess Elizabeth's state wedding to Lieut. Philip Mountbatten. Four military bands will be stationed along the way and troops will wear seal uniforms slicked up for the day. service chiefs consider an escort of the King's Household Cavalry in fancy dress.
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Westminster Abbey
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Five Inches Snow In Peace River in Alberta
In Peace River district five inches of snow fell last night while Edmonton had rain and a near freezing day. Temperature in Edmonton stayed above freezing with an overnight low of 33 and a daytime high around 46. Fog and cool conditions persisted with an expected high near 0.
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C C F Meet In Policy Making Convention
Halifax marked the Nova Scotia CCF policy making convention with delegates welcomed by Claire Gillis MP Cape Breton South who criticized Premier Angus MacDonald for calling the CCF undemocratic. Gillis argued Canada faces regimented economy under present control and the CCF would restore responsible elected leadership.
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Granny Wins First Bet in Insh Sweep Stakes Prize
New York reports a Buffalo disabled veteran and his wife, and grandmother Meta Heil of 52, each won $100,000 in the Insh Sweep stakes. Heil, who bet on Fairey Fulmar for her son, plans a college fund for grandchildren. Russell Diehl, 42, and Alfred Dunn, 50, are other winners. Diehl hopes to open a delicatessen after his wife’s surgery. Dunn was aboard the Dredge Atlantis at sea.
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Government Bill to Curb House of Lords Powers
London dispatch reports the government introducing in the house of commons a bill aimed at limiting the peers. The measure would shorten delays on laws passed by the commons from two years to one and would amend the Parliament Act of 1911. Conservatives called the move authoritarian while opposition denounced the plan.
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Protest Over Russian Seizure of Lobau Oil Fields
Britain and the United States lodged formal protests with the Soviet Union after Russia seized Austria Lobau oil fields and installations. A foreign office spokesman confirmed notes were sent after two prior oral protests in Vienna failed to halt the move. The fields, among the largest in Austria, were jointly owned by British and American capital via Austrian subsidiaries.
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Former President C W N A Dies at 76 Manitou Man
MANITOU Man Oct 31 Willam J Rowe 76 publisher of the Manitou Western Canadian died Thursday. A barrister and former clergyman he led the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Manitoba division. Born Consecon Ont he taught school in Ottawa BranDon Prince Albert Rat Portage and New Kenora before ordination. He studied at St Johns Winnipeg and became rector of the Church of England parish at Manitou retiring from ministry 1907 then bought the Manitou Western Canadian. He served as captain overseas in World War I with the 14th Battalion.
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Agitators Infiltrating Labor Unions in Montreal
Montreal report cites Labor Minister Antonio Barrite warning that agitators infiltrate unions. He advises workers to denounce troublemakers and uphold responsibility to strengthen bargaining power.
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Seek Formula To End Transit Strike
Mayors of British Columbia three major cities renew efforts to end a 12 day transit strike by 2,500 workers. BC Electric Railway President says fare hikes would fund “fair and reasonable” wages, while unions push for a 20 cent hourly raise and a 40 hour week. A day long conference yielded no progress as both sides remain firm.
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Victoria
New Westminster
Percy George
Charles Jones
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Merger talks between UFA and AFU reach impasse
Edmonton report says after six years of negotiations the United Farmers of Alberta and the Alberta Farmers' Union have failed to bridge major differences. Calgary says committees from both sides met here on Wednesday and resumed talks. An AFU committee report will be reviewed at an executive meeting on Monday.
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Alberta Farmers’ Union
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Chloromycetin Could Shield Against Serious Diseases
Washington reports two US army researchers have developed Chloromycetin from a soil organism as a potential drug weapon. In experiments with chick embryos and mice the substance showed remarkable activity against epidemic typhus scrub typhus Rocky Mountain spotted fever murine typhus Rickettsialpox and one parrot fever virus infection where streptomycin and penicillin showed limited power.
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Polish Opposition Leader Reported in London Since Sunday
The Daily Worker dispatch from Lake Success reports Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, former Polish opposition leader, in London since Sunday after fleeing Warsaw. The Communist newspaper claims Mikolajczyk arrived in Britain aboard a British military plane and cites informants at the United Nations.
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Warsaw
Mikolajesk
Britain
Maniu Action Against Romanian Govt Show Trial Details
In Bucharest on October 31 Mihalache, vice president of Dr Julius Maniu s Romanian peasant party, testifies that Dean Acheson advised last April against direct action. Maniu and alleged co conspirators go on trial, facing life imprisonment with forced labor if convicted.
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Juliu Maniu
Romanian peasant party
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Dean Acheson
United States
Mitlimbhe
Typhoon Destruction Hits Central Philippine Islands
A powerful typhoon drills across six central Philippine islands, sweeping Manila winds at five miles per hour and flooding Tacloban and Masbate. Two ships wrecked offshore, another sunk off Butuan Bay with all aboard feared safe. Masbate reports heavy damage but no casualties yet.
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Coldwell Rejects Coalition Offers in Liberals Case
In Vancouver on October 31 M J L Coldwell leader of the CCP said no coalition with other parties would occur while he headed his party. He denied being offered Liberal leadership and recalled Liberal members proposing an alliance before the 1945 election. He warned there would be no price wage spiral under a CCP government.
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M. JL Coldwell
CCP
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Trnce Rupert
B.C
Liberal party
Coleweil
C.CFP
Will Check Up On Communists Crossing Border
Washington October 31 Representative John McDowell of the House UN American Activities Committee says the committee may take two weeks to study possible entry of subversive persons from Canada on visitors permits. He notes many Canadians and former Nazis have used lenient border rules, with Detroit as a main entry, and Bavious busloads of delegates from Windsor to Pittsburgh, including communists. He warns Slav groups seek to organize behind the Communist party in the United States amid strong immigration pressures.
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Coldwell pledges price plan under CCF rule in Vancouver
M. J. Coldwell, national leader of the CCF, said in Vancouver there would be no price spiral under a CCF government. He argued everything would be planned and wartime controls on prices, foreign exchange, and imports should remain. He claimed only planned production could whip the dollar crisis.
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C.C.F
M. J. Coldwell
Good policy cited for western farmers in grain debate
The speaker praised a policy that would place 190 million dollars into western farmers during a poor year and highlighted the British wheat agreement which set five year minimum prices. He argued the arrangement provides stability for farmers and business interests, noting livestock sales were affected by a grain crop shortfall and decontrol of oats and barley.
Price hikes likely to reach consumers, says analyst
The analyst believes wholesale and tank wagon price increases will flow to retail levels. He doubts retailers can absorb higher costs. He notes the last fuel price rise announced on July 21 was passed through.
Royal Wedding Day Holiday Talk Circles Ontario
Oct 31 report from Toronto notes no steps yet in Ontario municipalities to declare a holiday for Princess Elizabeth and Lieut. Philip Mountbatten’s Westminster Abbey wedding on No 20. Meanwhile large food drives are organized to aid hungry Britons, with some communities advocating personal gifts for the royal couple.
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Philip Mountbatten
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King Receives Canadian Club Award Medal 1946
The Canadian Club of New York honors Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King with the Canadian Club Award Medal 1946 for his two decades as prime minister guiding Canada through peace and war. Also noted is Sir Gerald Campbell’s past service as British minister in Washington and Mackenzie King’s enduring role in US-Commonwealth relations.
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British Commonwealth
Polish dispute fuels Polish treasure theft rumors in Ottawa
Ottawa reports that a bitter feud between Warsaw and a Canadian Polish faction loyal to the exiled government has deepened suspicions about the disappearance of national treasures once held in Ottawa and Quebec City. An external affairs official said the government will soon disclose the full story of the missing Polish treasures and related developments.
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Reds in Hollywood probe adjourned in suspenseful finale
Washington October 31 The House Un American Activities Committee ended two weeks of public hearings amid suspense over promised disclosures of a link between Hollywood and Soviet atom bomb spying The committee will resume its probe later with the time and place not yet fixed Louis J Sussell a former FBI official testified about alleged Soviet attempts to obtain bomb secrets and described late night meetings and visits with Soviet consular officers Paul V McNutt disputed charges of pro Communist propaganda in films and said no proof was produced in the current hearings The inquiry will continue during recess with staffers studying the spy story for a future session
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Hollywood
alinst auwalt
Paul V. McNutt
Motion Picture Association
Thomas
Los Angeles
Louis J. Sussell
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Abbott Seeks Faster Exports to United States
Montreal October 31 Finance Minister Abbott urged action to overcome Canada's dollar shortage by boosting exports to the United States. He outlined aims to narrow the trade gap with dollar countries and diversify exports toward processed and manufactured goods while acknowledging tariff barriers as a major obstacle.
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MONTREAL
Abbott
Canada
United States
Canadian Exporters Association
U.S.A
Poland seeks RCMP handover of art dispute report
The Department previews a year-long squabble over priceless Polish works and plans a brief statement in the next days. A New York report quoted Dr. Tadeusz Zebrowski saying Canada is hesitating on Poland's request to refer the case to the RCMP.
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New York
Tadeuszzebrowski
Poland
R.C.M.P
D Day Secret Nearly Given Away by Naval Rescue
London reports that two destroyers and a Walrus aircraft turned back a large Normandy bound invasion group when D Day was postponed 24 hours in 1944. Admiral Ramsay noted force U-1A sailed 28 miles south toward Normandy before the signal. the quick turn saved the operation from early enemy radar detection and alert.
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LONDON
Eisenhower
Bertram H H. Ramsay
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Ramsay
Devonshire
Admiral Ramsay
Yellowknife to get first coast
Yellowknife receives approval for a new lounge and hotel near Great Slave Lake, marking the North's first cocesall lounge. Northwest Territories council, led by Dr. Hugh Keenleyside, confirmed the licence at a special meeting amid regional development.
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Yellowknife
N.W.T
Northwest Territories council
Hugh Keenleyside
Northwest Territories
Argentina grain sales policy attacked by El Lider
A pro government newspaper in Buenos Aires condemns a Washington Post editorial as false and malicious, defending Argentina's grain sales to Europe and echoing a government statement in response to the accusations.
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