Burnings Threaten BC Doukhobor Settlements Amid Sect War
In Nelson BC a fresh wave of arson threats by the Sons of Freedom looms as weather clears. Three members including a woman convicted of arson, while Judge Dawson convicts Bayoff Barisoff and Rosenoff. A royal commission may be appointed to probe the sect violence as barns burn in Kootenays and the Hilliers relocation alarm spreads to Vancouver Island boards.
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NELSON
B.C
British Columbia
West Kootenay
Farksville
Board of Trade
Vancouver Island
Grand Forks
E. P. Dawson
Mike Bayoff
George Barisoff
Tina Rosensof
British Columbia land settlement board
Barisoff
Bayoff
John Lebedoff
Krestova
Sons of Freedom
Tina Rosenoff
Gordon Wismer
Sullivan
Victoria
Kootenays
Gilpin
Asa G. Candler's Fortune Ties to Coca Cola Legacy
The Left Hand Corner gin acquired a large share of Asa G. Candler's fortune built on Coca Cola. Charles Howard Candler, Emory board president, donated Emory stock from the Asa G. Candler Corporation worth between five and seven million dollars. Emory University was Candler's main philanthropic focus, with gifts to the university and medical school totaling about seven million before his death in 1929 at ninety nine. Candler rose from a Villa Rica farm, worked in a drug store, then owned an Atlanta drug storefront, fueling Coca Cola's rise after J S Pemberton sold a stock.
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Asa Griggs Candler
Emory University
Asa G. Candler
Villa Rica
Asa Candler
Atlanta
J. S. Pemberton
Will Ratify Five Treaties In Paris And Moscow
London reports the foreign office announced the five former Axis satellite peace treaties will be formally ratified in Paris and Moscow on September 15. Russia France and the United States agreed to simultaneous deposit of instruments of ratification. Italian treaty ratification will be in Paris, while Finland Bulgaria Romania and Hungary depositions occur in the Kremlin. Ambassadors will attend. Troop removal within 90 days pertains to allied occupation forces, with Soviet troops to withdraw from Bulgaria while lines of communication troops stay in Romania and Hungary.
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LONDON
foreign office
Paris
Moscow
Russia
France
United States
Finland
Bulgaria
Romania
Hungary
Kremlin
Germany
Austria
Strike Settled Aboard Battleford in Great Lakes Pact
Vice President Dewar Ferguson of the Canadian Seamen's Union said the Battleford strike ending aboard the Canada Steamship Lines freighter was settled. CSL agreed to dismiss non union members and hire through OSSO hiring halls through a new agreement that averted the Great Lakes strike.
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TORONTO
Dewar Ferguson
Canadian Seamen's Union
Canada Steamship Lines
Battleford
Fort William
CSL
C.S.U
Great Lakes
Stassen Plans Wisconsin drive for delegates in 1948 race
Harold E. Stassen announced a Wisconsin drive for convention delegates starting with the April 6 presidential primary and a Milwaukee rally November 24. He aims to push a rapid campaign tempo through the June Philadelphia nominating convention while backing a 27 delegate slate in Wisconsin and claiming broad state support. He also tied future aid to Britain to the non socialization of British industry.
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WASHINGTON
Harold E. Stassen
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Douglas MacArthur
Dewey
Albany
Milwaukee
Philadelphia
Stassen
New Hampshire
Wendell Willkie
MacArthur
BRITAIN
Harold Stassen
Vancouver strike hits 1000 furniture workers
About a thousand British Columbia furniture workers walked out, demanding a 121 cent hourly wage rise after a deadlock in talks. Six hundred laborers work in Vancouver plants Hammond Furniture and Bestmore Manufacturing, with the rest at Victoria Pacific Furniture and New Westminster William Harvey Ltd. A government conciliator seeks a meeting between union and management.
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VANCOUVER
British Columbia
Victoria
New Westminster
International Woodworkers of America
Hammond Furniture Co., Ltd
Bestmore Manufacturing Co. Ltd
Pacific Purniture Manufacturing Company
William Harvey Ltd
sai Harold Pritchett
R. ¥. Stuart
No More Living Death Liberes Leave Penal Colony for France
Liberes who for nearly a century found refuge on these shores from France s harsh penal system at St Laurent Du Maroni are shrinking as groups of former prisoners depart weekly for Trinidad and Martinique to obtain passports and return home. France stopped sending offenders in 1938, and today about 101 such guests remain in Guiana while most live lawfully, learning crafts and selling goods to visitors and taking contract work.
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GEORGETOWN
British Guiana
Liberes
France
St. Laurent Du Maroni
Trinidad
Martinique
Guiana
Sam fhlow
Marshall Hints At Congress Session
Secretary of State Marshall indicates a late October or early November special session may be needed to fund a temporary aid for Europe while awaiting final Truman word. He notes data will be ready by late October and that Britain will exhaust dollars for Germany by year’s end, hindering civilian support.
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Marshall
state department
Europe
secretary of state
BIS VIWS
Truman
state
war departments
Britain
Germany
Truman Appeal Aims at Atomic Control and Reconstruction Aid
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, in a Canadian Press report from Washington, outlines a President Truman direct appeal to Premier Stalin for atomic energy control and U S reconstruction loans up to 50 billion dollars to Russia and satellites. Professor Edward A. Shils argues for a peace driven approach, proposing aid to boost Russian productive capacity without political conditions. He contends Soviet ignorance of atomic energy's true potential and urges the Kremlin to recognize that their security hinges on workable control.
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CLYDE BLACKBURN
WASHINGTON
Truman
Stalin
United States
Russia
bulletin of atomic scientists
Edward A. Shils
University of Chicago
London School of Economics
the
atomic scientists of Chicago
Shils
UN atomic energy commission
Kremlin
Japan
Soviet Union
Hurricanes busting plan by scientists and navy
Scientists and the U S navy hurricane hunters prepare to test seeding storms with dry ice and silver iodide to dissipate hurricanes. A B 17 weather plane at Schenectady awaits a forming storm as a Miami squadron monitors. The cautious effort aims to reduce storm energy, with Langmuir guiding the plan and staged attacks to gauge effects.
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MIAMI
Fla
United States navy
Atlantic
Caribbbean
Gulf of Mexico
Schenectady
Miami naval air station
weather science
navy
Irving Langmuir
Miners Back In Six Pits In Yorkshire
Four miners were killed and one seriously injured in an underground explosion at Thornhill pit in Yorkshire. Eight others remain missing as seventeen men worked nearby. four escaped. Across Yorkshire, six pits reported partial returns to work amid a large coal strike that has left about 45,000 miners firm behind the Grimethorpe action, with 500000 tons of coal lost so far. The government indicated no immediate action to end the stoppage, leaving resolution to the union and strikers.
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DEWSBURY
Yorkshire
England
Thornhill pit
Associated Press
London
Thornhill
BARNSLEY
National Union of Mineworkers
Yorkshire coalfields
Grimethorpe
national coal board
N.U.M
Whitehall
Grimethorpe primen
Shinwell
Duo Robs Hull Bank in Quebec Bandit HoldUp
A bank branch in Hull Quebec was robbed by two youths masked and armed with guns. They fled in a car after beating a customer, Romulus Bempariant, president of the Hull police commission, who suffered head injuries. Police say bank staff could not identify the suspects among three Kingston convicts treated earlier.
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HULL Que
Romulus Bempariant
Hull
Beauparlant
Kingston
Nick Minnike
Mickey McDonald
Ulysse Lauzon
couparlant
No Serious Effect IMPORT RESTRICTIONS BY BRITAIN STUDIED
Ottawa reports Britain plans to curb imports to preserve dollars. Canadian exports to the Old Country likely fall, but early assessments show no immediate harm to Canadian newsprint due to global demand. Agriculture Minister Gardiner to meet with Britain’s food ministry. estimates for 12 months include wheat 160 million bushels under contract, remaining meat and peas unspecified.
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OTTAWA
Britain
Agriculture
Gardiner
food ministry
Onai
Canada
5000 Men Are Now Idle In Canadian Packing Strike
The United Packinghouse Workers of America wage dispute grows as 420 Vancouver and 700 Edmonton workers join pickets at Canada Packers and Burns and Company plants. Montreal and Moncton plants see further walkouts, totaling about 5,000 striking nationwide with master contract aims and wage increases under negotiation.
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Canada
Vancouver
Edmonton
Canada Packers Limited
Burns and Company
United Packinghouse Workers of America
C.E
Montreal
Swift Canadian Company
Canada Packers
Burns
comepanies
Justice S. FE. Richards
Winc tpeg
Swift Canadian Conpeny
Moncton
N.B
Toronto
St. Boni+face
Man
Moose Jaw
Sask
New Westminser
B.C
Bwitt Canadian
Swift Canadian
Justice Richards
Abithi
Dominion
Hon Harmer Dies In East From Ottawa to Napanee
Senator William J. Harmer of Edmonton, 74, Liberal senator since 1918, died in hospital at Napanee Ontario after a long illness. Known as Silent Willem from Alberta, he never spoke in the senate. He served as deputy minister in Alberta railways and telephones, and earlier as superintendent of operators for the province's telephone system. His death increases senate vacancies to eight.
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W. J. HARMER
William J. Harmer
Edmonton
Napanee
Ont
Ottawa
Willem
Alberta
Harmer
Western Canada
Napanee public school
collegiate smalitute
McMurray
senate
C.PR
Prince Albert
Talks to end soon after Newfoundland talks end
Ottawa reports that the Newfoundland National convention urged halting oplon discussions and the delegation will return home at the earliest moment after completing its task. Quebec textile workers strike near Three Rivers after wage-scale talks fail with Associated Textiles of Canada and Empire Shirt Co. Edmonton appoints John Faring as recreation director, salary $9,500. Manitoba reports nine new polio cases, total 492, plus two sleeping sickness cases. Ontario political figure James Lyons dies at 52. Miss Canada Margaret Marshall returns home after Miss America showing. Easterners move to western harvest. 1,941 workers have left, near the 2,400 target.
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OTTAWA
IC.P
Newfoundland
oplon
QUEBEC
LOUISVILLE
Que
C.P
Three Rivers
Associated Textiles of Canada, Ltd
Empire Shirt Co
EDMONTON
John ©. Faring
United States
Ainlay
MANITOBA
WINNIPEG
ONTARIO
SAULT STE. MARIE
Ont
James Lyons
TORONTO
Margaret Marshall
North America
prairie provinces
Mitchell
west
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