Canada to Import 15 Million Pounds Butter this Winter
Trade Minister Howe announced Canada will import 15 million pounds of butter for the winter, including 11 million from Denmark and 2 million each from Australia and New Zealand. The butter will sell at price ceilings, with first shipment in October and deliveries by end of January. The Canadian Commercial Corporation will handle wholesale sales under price director guidance.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Howe
Denmark
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
Canadian Commercial Corporation
Embargo on Livestock Lifted Across Manitoba and Regina
Winnipeg and Regina stockyards ended the embargo on rail and truck shipments of livestock after congestion eased. Union stockyard officials cited reduced deliveries and a swollen market as the reason for lifting the embargo, with Regina reporting limited movement and a severe car shortage still constraining trade.
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WINNIPEG
C.P
St. Boniface
Union
Regina
Saskatoon to Sell Horsemeat This Week
Saskatoon officials announce horsemeat will be sold locally this week in one pound tins at about 23 cents. Meat comes from Edmonton and Swift Current processing plants via the Saskatchewan Federated Co Operative Association.
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SASKATOON
Saskatchewan Federated Co-Operative Association
Edmonton
Swift Current
Sask
Margam steel complex to cost 60 million pounds
The Left Hand Corner reports a vast new Margam Port Talbot steel works project costing 60 million pounds, planned to be Europe’s most modern. It will produce about 16 000 tons of iron and 29 000 tons of steel weekly, expanding Port Talbot Margam, Trostre, and Llanelly plants, with output rising Britain’s steel totals toward a 1948 target of 14 500 000 ingot tons in four months.
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Margam
Port Talbot
Wales
Europe
Steel Company of
Margam Abbey
Trostre
Llanelly
Britain
Raymond sugar campaign kicks off as harvests rise
The Raymond sugar factory begins its fall campaign at 8 am Friday with full staff and prolonged operations into January. Picture Butte plant has begun slicing earlier, with heavy deliveries of sugar beets and a growing stockpile. Frost reaches 26 degrees, raising beet sugar content while garden produce ends. Potato digging awaits peak harvest in a couple of weeks.
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Raymond
Canadian Sugar Factories Ltd
Alberta
HNS
Raymond sugar factory
Picture Butte
Duty To Give G B All Aid
Shawinigan Falls Quebec September 24 An Australian diplomat says it is the duty of all Commonwealth countries to give maximum assistance to the United Kingdom during the current financial and industrial crisis. Francis M Forde Australian high commissioner to Canada cites Britain's costly war financing and urges support. He notes Canada is a key customer after the UK and US and compares nations as mature partners in growth and aid. The speech was prepared for delivery to the Canadian Club.
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SHAWINIGAN FALLS
Que
United Kingdom
Francis M. Forde
Canada
Great Britain
Germany
Australia
Commonwealth
Britain
Forde
United States
Mr. Fords
Bumper Crop Harvest Forecast Across Canada Faces Labor Shortage
Canadian farmers report near record harvests with higher yields than 1947 in most provinces aside from British Columbia and Nova Scotia. Despite late planting due to weather, crops show strength. farm labor remains scarce though wages rise. Ontario and Quebec expect strong values, while prairie yields and apple crops vary. Grain moving to lakehead in millions of bushels, with over 40 million already stored as shipments peak next month.
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British Columbia
Nova Scotia
Dominion
prairies
New Brunswick
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Okanagan
FORT WILLIAM
Canada
nto
Seskatchewan
Mystery of sealed mail bag from wrecked plane
Edmonton report says a sealed mail bag removed from a five year old crash of a C47 transport may hold gold or currency. U S air force and FBI agents pursue details while Edmonton awaits a crash party report. conflicting accounts swirl about treasure aboard the plane and the bag’s contents.
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EDMONTON
British Columbia
air
force
Air fore
Washrington
F. T. Brady
staison
United States Military transport service
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
soutie
Dusa
Elmonton
matt bag
C. L. Fadhart
Portland
Ore
George Bahane
Lake Tuchod
Toronto Cleric Elected General Church Moderator
Rev Dr Willard EF Brewing of Toronto was elected mediator of the United Church of Canada at the general assembly meeting in Vancouver. He will serve two years, according to Rev T W Jones of Montreal.
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Willard EF. Brewing
Toronto
United Church of Canada
general assembly of the church
Vancouver
T. W. Jones
Montreal
Charges Big Powers Have Broken Faith
South Africa charged that the great powers broke faith with small nations at the United Nations. E H W Louw told the Palais De Chaillot that national interests may clash with continued UN membership. He warned failure to fulfill obligations would betray small states.
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ARIS
United Nations
South Africa
E. H W. Louw
general assembly
Palais De Chaillot
organization of the United Nation
organization
San Francisco
Alcoa Suit Aims to Trim Size and Reach
The U S justice department filed in New York seeking to reduce Alcoa’s power and size to foster competition. It asks either Alcoa or the court to devise a plan of divestiture, not a dissolution, to limit the firm’s plants and properties. Also: a federal grand jury will probe Dupont Industrial Empire with subpoenas to five large corporations including General Motors and Ethyl Corp.
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WASHINGTON
United States justice department
Aluminum Company of America
Tom Clark
United States district court
New York
City
Alcoa
DUPONT CHICAGO
United States
farflung Dupont
General Motors Corporation
Detroit
United States Rubber Company
Ethyl] Corporation
North American Aviation, Incorporated
Inglewood
Calif
Kinetic Chemicals, Incorporated
Wilmington
Del
Arabs And Israelis Battle Near Lydda
Paris dispatch reports fighting between Arabs and Israelis near Lydda as Premier Mackenzie King arrives in Paris to lead Canada’s UN General Assembly delegation. King, suffering a slight chest cold, remains at work on his speech and plans to attend a dinner at the Palais d Elysees.
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Paris
Mackenzie King
United Nations General Assembly
general assembly
Palais d'Elysees
au France
Arabs Seize Heights Then Israeli Counterattack Recaptures
Reuters reports Israeli forces retook Jewish-held heights east of Lydda after Arab Legion attacked this morning. Shelling hit the Burma Road area near Latrun. sporadic fighting continued as both sides exchanged fire along key supply routes to Jerusalem and Ramallah. A probe into the air crash that killed two British correspondents is underway.
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Reuters
L AVIV
Arab Legion
Lydda
heishts
Midya
Burma
Latrun
Latron
Ramallah
Tel Aviv-Jerusalem
Burma Road
Holy City
Galileé
Israel
Trans-Jordan
Jerusalem
Walkouts Grip France
Paris reports a half hearted general strike lasting two hours over high living costs and low pay. Communists and non-communists joined, affecting 7 million workers. 4 million Paris residents faced a 24 hour subway and bus strike starting at 4 am, crippling city activity and isolating United Nations visitors. Official UN vehicles were unable to transport many attendees.
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PARIS
France
United Nations
Ouvriere
Christian Unions
Confederation Generale du Travail
afcot
United Nations general assembly
U.N
Reports Of Attempt On Tito Life Circulated In Rome
Rome dispatches report unconfirmed claims of an attempted assassination on Marshal Tito two weeks earlier. Trieste news agency circulated versions saying a mine was laid on a Dalmatian coast bridge during Tito’s journey, but accounts could not be confirmed.
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ROME
Marshal Tito
Trieste
Dalmatian
Tito
Irieste
One Killed and Five Injured in Lethbridge Highway Crash
One man is dead and five others were injured in a highway No. 5 crash three miles west of Lethbridge shortly after 9 p.m. Thursday. Victim William BR. Shutiak of Calgary died. injured drivers include Arthur Gray Mackie of Calgary and Edward Wittig of Trail, B C. Car overturned several times. probable steering gear failure. Coroner ED Fryett and RCMP are investigating at Lethbridge.
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Galt hospital
Lethbridge
William BR. Shutiak
Calgary
Arthur Gray Mackie
Edward Wittig
Trail
B.C
Mackie
Wittigrem
RCMP
Engineer Hicks Killed In Tampa Train Collision
Engine L. E. Hicks of Tampa was killed when his locomotive overturned in a collision between the Havana Special from Tampa to New York and a southbound freight near Mango, ten miles east of here. Five cars of the passenger train derailed. no passengers were reported hurt. Cause of the wreck was not known.
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TAMPA
Fla
L. E. Hicks
Atlantic Coast
Havana Spreial
New York
Mango
here
R. M Beach
Bloodiest clash in Philippines leaves eighty three dead
Manila Bulletin reports a 10 hour battle near Munoz in Nueva Ecija province between constabulary and Hukbalahap forces killing 83 people, including five Amazon detachment women and two special police. In Toledo Henry Wallace blasts railroads for defrauding the government of two billion dollars during wartime.
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A.P
constabulary
Manila Bulletins
Munoz
Nueva Ecija
gi Hoke
WALLACE
TOLEDO. O
Henry A. Wallace
United States railroads
Truman adminnistraton
End of Daylight Time Across Canada This Weekend
Canadians will gain an extra hour as clocks roll back this weekend with daylight saving time ending nationwide. Alberta bans DST, Renfrew Ont will keep daylight saving until Feb 26 to conserve power, and Fredericton is also expected to continue test time.
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Alberta
Fredericton
Plot to Slay Peron Arrests Stir Argentina Drama
Buenos Aires government says 11 suspects including three priests were arrested in a plot led by John Griffith, former U S embassy official, aiming to assassinate President Juan Peron and Eva Peron outside the Colon theatre on October 12. Police seized meeting records and jailed suspects after days of raids in Buenos Aires.
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Sept
Juan J. Peron
Eva
John Griffith
cultural atta
United States
Arturo Bertollo
Uruguay
Argentina
Montevideo
El Pals
Griffith
Cypriano Reyes
Peron
Buenos Ares
Colon theatre
national penitentiary
Oscar Palma Beltran
civil aeronautics board
Jews Break From Prison Camp in Tel Aviv
Twenty six Jews suspected of terrorism escaped a Tel Aviv area prison camp late today. Police captured all but one during a one hour manhunt. One fugitive reportedly belonged to the Fatherland Front, an underground wing of the Stern gang, which has boasted of killing United Nations Palestine mediator Count Folke Bernadotte and US officials.
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Alton
Fatherland Front
Stern gang
Folke Mernadocte
United Nations
Palestine
ROCHESTER
NIL
United States army
Rochester fairgrounds
E.C.YLP
Lethbridge
Arthur Gray Mackie
Highwas No
William B. Shotak
Caleary
Galt hospital
ALBERLA
EDMONTON
C.P
Alberta
TSINAN
SAN FRANCISCO
taddo
Isinan
proad east
Associated Press
Shantung
SASK REGINA
J. H. Brockeibank
Saskatchewan
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