Bread Prices Climb Across Canada After Wartime Controls End
Post war price changes spark rises in bread to five cents per loaf and five to eight cent increases in various staples. Edmontons barrel price up to 90 percent, Quebec faces bread up three cents, Vancouver lumber climbs to eight dollars per thousand, while bakers face higher flour costs. Officials warn against price fixing as unions demand wage relief and cities press government to restore controls.
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Edmonton
Toronto
Quebec
Vancouver
Hamilton
International Harvester Company of Canada, Limited
A. R. Mesher
Canadian Congress of Labor
Ottawa
F. A. McGregor
M. J. Coldwell
C.C.P
Albert Deschamps
Canal
Exercise Adios at Wainwright Navy? (adjusted headline)
Western command of the Canadian army announced two Alberta regiments, the Lord Strathcona Horse and Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, will train at Wainwright for two weeks. The event includes a full-scale tank and infantry assault to honor Maj. Gen. F F Worthington, retiring commander. About 500 officers and men join the camp.
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EDMONTON
Western command
Alberta
Lord
Britain’s first Labour government nation builds social reforms
The article notes Britain’s Labour government nationalized Bank of England coal mines railways transport water transport and electricity industry and land values under planning. It mentions a national health bill enabling free medicine drugs hospital care and dental care and spectacles, extended social insurance raised school leaving age and increased family allowances.
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Great Britain
Bank of England
AL iland
nationa
Britain
Single Road To Peace Opens UN General Assembly
Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, retiring president of the United Nations assembly, warned that the world faces a choice to organize peace or endure ten years of doubt and insecurity. He urged humane postwar policy and condemned war’s underlying ideologies, saying peace requires a universal, indivisible road starting in San Francisco and ending at New York.
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NEW YORK
Oswaldo Aranha
United Nations assembly
U.N. council
Aranha
general assembly
United Nations
San Francisco
North Ontarians Plead For Service To Fort Frances
The Fort Frances town council, angered by Rainy River district radio license prosecutions, sent a resolution to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation board of governors requesting immediate network service via the local radio station. The board will meet in Calgary starting Wednesday, and the council seeks consideration then.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NORTH
Discovery of Curium Heaviest Man Made Metal
A UC Berkeley physicist reports a sand grain amount of curium element 96, the heaviest known man made metal, described as seething and glowing softly. The tiny sample, the world supply, is enough to see with the naked eye and would be fatal if ingested. no practical uses are foreseen due to production limits.
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NEW YORK
American Chemical Society
Isadore Perlman
University of California
earth
Dr. Perlman
Noted British Writer Richard Le Gallienne Dies in France
Richard Le Gallienne 81 noted British poet essayist novelist and journalist died in his sleep Sunday night at his French villa. Survived by widow Irma Hinton Perry two daughters Eva Le Gallienne and Hesper Le Gallienne. Born in Liverpool 1866 he lived in Britain and the United States before settling in France. He wrote a Paris column for the New York Sun starting in 1929 and continued it from Monte Carlo during the 1940 occupation.
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MENTON
France
Richard Le Guilienne
Irma Hinton Perry
Eva Le Gallienne
Hesper Le Gallienne
Le Gallienne
Mildred Lee
Hesner
Julie Nedregaard
Eva
Liverpool
Britain
United States
Paris
New York Sun
Monte Carlo
American leaders debate path to recession and costs
Senator Claude Pepper faults Republicans for rising living costs and warns Americans to brace for another recession. Senator Owen Brewster blames high food prices on Truman era food shipments to Europe. Pepper argues for more production and Europe’s capitalism, while Brewster and Capehart cite foreign aid and price controls as factors.
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MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON
Claude Pepper
Dem
Fla
congress
Owen Brewster
Truman
Europe
Pepper
Jess
Homer Capehart
Rep
Ind
America
Brewster
Commonwealth Prime Ministers to Discuss Defence Plans
British Commonwealth leaders will meet in London in November for Princess Elizabeth’s wedding to Lieut. Philip Mountbatten and to discuss defence, customs union and financial ties. Postwar strategy urges wider regional defence roles, possibly easing Britain’s burden by about 22 percent, with talks touching on Singapore, Hong Kong and other Far East bases.
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LONDON
Reuters
Elizabeth
Philip Mountbatten
Britain
Singapore
Hong Kong
Far East
Canada Skips Commonwealth Roundtable on Dollar Crisis
London report says Canada will not attend next week's Commonwealth roundtable on the dollar crisis though Finance Minister Abbott is in London for IMF and World Bank meetings. Canada will be kept informed as other Commonwealth nations participate.
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LONDON
Canada
Pakistan
Abbott
international monetary fund
world bank for reconstruction and development
Polio Outbreak Surges in Victoria With 22 New BC Cases
British Columbia reports 22 new poliomyelitis cases in Victoria, pushing the year’s total to 234. The outbreak, which had shown signs of abating late last week, suddenly intensifies as the provincial health department records fresh infections.
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VICTORIA
C.P
British Columbia
Meat Pinch Weighs On Canada as Strike Spreads
Canadian meat workers strike action paralyses 21 plants in 16 cities affecting 75 percent of normal supply. Manitoba calls walkout illegal under wartime labor rules while Ontario plant managers lobby against provincial intervention. Wage demands rise to 92 cents an hour as talks continue without third-party mediation.
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United Packinghouse Workers of America
MANITOBA
C. R. Smith
Maratode
Canada
Swift Canadian company
Canada Packers Limited
Burns and Company
Ontario
Charles Daley
Toronto
Swift Canadian
A. E. Miller
Mr. Daley
U S Broadcasts Favor Private Canadian Stations
Joseph Sedgwick of Toronto told the National Association of Broadcasters that American networks should supply their programs to private Canadian stations rather than CBC outlets. He urged CBC to offer a national non commercial cultural service and compete for audiences.
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ATLANTIC CITY
Joseph Sedgwick
Toronto
Canadian Association of Broadcasters
Canada
CBC
National Association of Broadcasters
Sedgwick
Showdown Over Veto Use at U N Opening
The United Nations General Assembly convened its 1947 session amid warnings of a Russia Western powers split to be halted. Oswaldo Aranha chaired the opening as delegates eyed a possible clash over Soviet obstruction and the Balkan Greece dispute in the Security Council. Louis St Laurent expressed cautious optimism despite divisions.
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General Assembly of United Nations
Lake Success
YORK
C.P
United Nations general assembly
Russia
E.C.T
Oswaldo Aranha
Brazil
Palestine
Canada
Louis St. Laurent
security council
Andrei Gromyko
general assembly
United States
Brazilian Oswaldo Aranha Elected UN Assembly President
Dr Oswaldo Aranha former Brazilian foreign minister won the 1947 UN Assembly presidency on the second ballot after initial votes failed. Australian external affairs minister Dr Herbert V Byatt trailed with 22 votes while Masaryk's ballot switch aided Aranha's 28 votes. The decision follows hectic debate and sets the stage for immediate leadership election and future recommendations.
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NEW YORK
Oswaldo Aranha
Brazil
United Nations assembly
Aranha
Herbert V. Byatt
assembly
Jan Masaryk
Czechoslovakia
Seek Two Stranglers In Lovers Lane Case
Toronto police seek two stranglers linked to the Lovers Lane murders of George Vigus and Miss Scott. At the graveside burial, relatives assaulted newspapermen and damaged cameras while the committal service proceeded. Police found a second sash-card fragment and car keys. two watches and Vigus’s wallet remain missing.
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TORONTO
George Vigus
pretty Iis Scott
Vigus
Miss Scott
west-end High Park
Duties Of Employment Commission Kept Unemployment Down
Ottawa report quotes Judge W J Lindal of Winnipeg as national employment committee chair urging the unemployment insurance commission to be more than a glorified office. He calls for an efficient hub assisting government and labor, with benefits during strikes debated and a balance toward minimizing unemployment.
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OTTAWA
W. J. Lindal
Winnipeg
national employment committee
uniemployment insurance commission
Lindal
che department of labor
commission
department of labor
tum
inc
Trieste Frontline Incident amid Trieste Treaty Unfolds
Allied authorities report American troops at a provisional frontier post between Yugoslavia and Trieste fired two warning bursts to deter two Yugoslav attempts to cross the line. The clash followed riots at the Adriatic port as the Free Territory of Trieste took effect under UN administration, with Italians and Slavs clashing and a British couple attacked.
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TRIESTE
Yugoslavia
new Free State of
Adriatic
Paris
Free
United Nations
Romania
Bulgaria
Hinikad
Hungary
Kremelin
Moscow
free siste
Piazza Garibaldi
Dorothy K. Gane-Sale
Edward P. Thompson
San Giacomo
Great Hurricane Warnings Loom Off Florida Coast
Hurricane warnings were ordered for the Florida east coast from Fort Lauderdale to Vitusville as a great storm with up to 160 mph winds lurked offshore. The Weather Bureau warned the hurricane would approach Palm Beach late tonight or tomorrow unless it changes course.
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FLORIDA
MIAMI
Fla
Fort Lauderdale
Vitusville
weather bureau
Palm Beach
TORONO
C.P
George Visus
Iris Scott
west-end
High Park
lover's lane
ST. LOUIS
Stanley N. Jones
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Canada
Britain
OTTAWA
Trysse Lauzon
Donald
Mickey) McDonald
Nicholas
Nick) Minille
Kingston penitentiary
LONDON
Reuters
treasury
International Monetary Fund
MONTREAL
United Packinghouse Workers of America
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CCL
aetre
Margaret Rose
Roddie McLeod
Abourne
Scotland
U.S.A
SOUTHEND
Essex
England
Ernest Heaton
Heaton
asid
Commonwealth
Packers
U.S
Poland
DR. ARANHA
Stranglers
Lovers’ Lane
Duties Of Employment Commission
Onnase Tito
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