Contempt Ruling Ties Vancouver Police Probe to Tabloid
Vancouver CP report cites Ray Munro publisher Louis Ruby and editor Howard Somerville declared in contempt by Royal Commission after July 23 Flash editorial. Reginald H. Tupper found a serious contempt, rejecting police attempts to enforce orders and noting testimony by Det. Sgt. Len Cuthbert.
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Vancouver
Ray Munro
Toronto
Flash
Royal Commission
Munro
Louis Ruby
Howard Somerville
Peter Dunsmuir
Reginald H. Tupper
Len Cuthbert
Tupper
T. G. Norris
G. S. Cummings
Walter Mulligan
Ruby
Somervile
Norris
Cummings
Willis Chitty
Still Dickering on Assessment Plan With Northwest
City council's tonight meeting hinges on City Solicitor J G Kidd returning from Calgary to finish a tax assessment agreement with Northwest Nitro Chemicals Ltd If not completed this afternoon the session will be postponed to early next week The council aims for an early settlement and a ratepayers vote though hospital trustees worry about conflict with a separate hospital nurses home debenture vote
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J. G. Kidd
Calgary
Northwest Nitro-Chemicals Ltd
Weather Outlook for Edmonton and Prairie Provinces
Cloudy conditions dominate northern and central areas with scattered afternoon thunderstorms. Saskatchewan remains cloudy through Saturday while Alberta clears tonight. Southern regions of both provinces continue to enjoy sunny conditions.
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Edmonton
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Television Entertainers On Strike In Hollywood
Hollywood AP The Screen Actors Guild strike halts work on filmed TV shows. Residual payments debate centers on second run and beyond with proposed raises to day and weekly rates and staged percentages for multiple reruns. Three studios Lewister Enterprises Lewman Ltd Spectrum Film Productions signed with the guild.
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Hollywood
Screen Actors Guild
Guild
Alliance of Television Film Producers
Association of Motion Picture Producers
Actors’ Group
Lewister Enterprises, Inc
Loretta Young
Lewman, Ltd
Jane Wyman
Spectrum Film Productions
Expanding Economy of Deep Concern to Ottawa
Canadian policy makers fear potential inflation as the economy grows rapidly after 1954. Government ease on credit and tax cuts spurred loans, with GNP projected to exceed 25.0 billion dollars and capital investment near 5.95 billion in 1955. Bank rates hold, but lending rises draw scrutiny.
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Ottawa
Harold Morrison
Britain
United States
Canada
West Germany
Belgium
Bank of Canada
Toronto pilot nearly sets Canadian soaring record in Regina
Frank Brame, Toronto, nearly breaks the Canadian goal with a 230 mile cross country glide from Regina to near Minot North Dakota. Brame, CSA vice president, launched at 2000 feet, used thermals to climb to 5000 feet, then glided between thermals to extend distance. Pow of London holds the 256 mile record from Swift Current to Ray. The western Canadian soaring meet finals are set for next week in the Southern Saskatchewan area.
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Regina
Toronto
Frank Brame
Minot
N. D
Brame
Estevan
Sask
Breslau
Ont
Fort Erie
Albie Pow
London
Swift Current
Ray
Stoughton
Canadian Soaring Association
Max O'Connell
Saskatchewan
Prairie States
Might Licence And TV Sets Could Fund CBC
Revenue equal to a 15 annual licence on television receivers is suggested in CBC circles to solve CBC funding. Critics doubt any government would impose a fee on TV viewers who currently pay none. The $2.50 radio licence, dropped two years ago, was unpopular. Government and CBC note those who receive the national service should pay for it, a principle tied to the 15 percent excise on radio and TV sets and parts.
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Ottawa
CBC
Soap Box Derby Set for Calgary Sept 5
Calgary hosts the 16th annual soap box derby organized by the active club with Alberta honors to follow. Edmonton previously hosted provincial contests. Entries have arrived from many Alberta towns and some from British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
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Calgary
Active Club
Alberta
Edmonton
British Columbia
Saskatchewan
Ex Mountie Defends Chief as Not Bribed
Former RCMP officer Terry Parsloe told the Tupper royal commission that in 1950 he prepared a secret Vancouver police commission report clearing chief Walter Mulligan of accepting bribes. Mayor Charles Thompson said he received the undercover report after appeals to investigate were refused. Parsloe cited $500 advance and $1,273 in expenses.
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Vancouver (Cp
Terry Parsloe
RCMF
Vancouver Police Commission
Walter Mulligan
Tupper Royal Commission
Charles Thompson
RCMP
Underworld
Parsloe
Mulligan
Commission
J.” G. “A. Hutcheson
Wheat acreage hits 12 year low in Canada
Canada’s wheat area falls to 21,504,000 acres in the latest bureau of statistics report, dropping from 24,266,800 the previous year and well below the 10 year average. Prairie wheat acres total about 20,812,000, down from 23,437,000 last year and the regional norm. The estimate comes from a farm survey conducted last June.
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Ottawa
Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Bureau
Brooklyn Defeats Chicago 8-10 in NL Baseball Clash
National League game summaries show Brooklyn 8 Chicago 10 with Roebuck Craig Meyer and Campanella among relievers for Brooklyn and Hac ker Jeffcoat Chiti for Chicago. Jeffcoat earned the win while Craig took the loss as both teams combined for 29 hits and several innings of scoring.
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Brooklyn
Chicago
Padres
Roebuck
Craig
Meyer
Campanella
Hacker
Jeffcoat
Chiti
L Craig
Atomic planes may spray deadly radiation if crash warns Oli
Australian physicist Marcus Oli phant says future atomic powered planes could release lethal radiation over communities in a crash. Manitoba forest fire outlook improves but hazard remains high across the province and travellers face warnings against carelessness. Britain protests to Nationalist China over alleged air attack on the Inchwells near Foochow. Police hunt three gunmen after they held up a Fort Langley bank messenger and fled with 3600 dollars.
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Marcus Oliphant
Manitoba
Great Britain
China
Chiang Kaishek
Inchwells
Foochow
New exploration eyed for selling surplus farm products
U S government officials said developments raise the prospect of a new exploration of selling surplus American farm products to Russia and other Iron Curtain nations. Prince Charles and Princess Anne began a royal yacht voyage to Scotland for the royal family's summer vacation. Sweden complains over repeated unknown submarine visits to its Baltic coast. Michael Kuzmack of Windsor Ontario, twice-convicted killer, again receives a reprieve of his death sentence.
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U.S
Russia
Prince Charles
Princess Anne
Britannia
Britain
Scotland
Michael Kuzmack
Windsor
Ont
Minnie Engle
Lethbridge
Soviet official eyes Canadian farm delegation visit to Russia
Vladimir Matskevich acting Soviet agriculture minister said he would welcome a Canadian farm delegation to the Soviet Union. He heads a 12 member Soviet farm group touring the United States and plans a Canadian visit later this month, possibly including Quebec Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan and the Maritimes. He noted Russians want to study large scale wheat and corn harvesting and dairy and vegetable farming in Canada.
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George Kitchen
Washington
Vladimir Matskevich
Soviet Union
Matskevich
United States
Canada
Ottawa
New York
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Maritimes
Ers
Russia
Moscow
Soviet to Study Ike's Proposal on Military Information Exchange
Premier Bulganin said the Soviet Union is studying Eisenhower's proposal for exchanging military information and aerial inspection. He noted the plan would be ineffective due to the vast areas both nations occupy, but the door to discussion remains open. Eisenhower indicated he would consider Russian proposals if they are fair to both sides.
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Moscow
Bulganin
Eisenhower
Supreme Soviet
Soviet Union
United States
Geneva
Russia
West
Supreme’ Soviet
Smiletones Dialogue Between Characters
A brief dialogue exchange features two speakers, a character expert and a dentist. The expert offers advice about pushing as a social trait while the dentist replies with a simple identification. The text centers on quick, playful character interaction.
Russ Ambassador To Speak to Group in Saskatoon
Dimitri S. Chuvakin Russia's ambassador to Canada arrived in Saskatoon for a public affairs event. He refused to discuss policy stating I am not a policy maker. He told reporters he would visit Ottawa as my special guests.
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Saskatoon
Dimitri S. Chuvakin
Russia
Canada
Eue
Chuvahin
Ottawa
Planes scour wilderness for missing B C plane
Fifteen planes launched from Vancouver to search the British Columbia coast wilds for an amphibian Grumman Mallard missing since Wednesday night with five men aboard. The search follows cloud obstructions on Thursday. five RCAF craft join ten planes from Kitimat as ground crews fan out across a 50 mile area of inlets valleys and 6000 foot peaks. The missing aircraft carries prominent Vancouver figures including David Owen Lt Col Macgregor Macintosh Albert Gorman Edward Bell and Kendall King.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
RCAF
Kemano
Kitimat
Vancouver School Board
Defence
Campney
Macgregor Macintosh
B.C
Albert Gorman
Saguenay- Kitimat Co
The
Aluminum Company of Canada
Edward Bell
Pilot
Kendall King
North Vancouver
PVA
Milder Polio Serum Effort Under Way
Dr. Leonard Scheele reports laboratories seek a safer anti polio vaccine. The Salk vaccine uses Mahoney Type 1 virus but may be too invasive. Researchers aim for a less invasive strain that still elicits antibodies, adding safety while the virus remains killed in the vaccine.
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Chicago
Leonard Scheele
United States
Journal of the American Medical Association
Calgary nurses home school near complete
Calgary General Hospital moves toward completion of an $1.8 million ten storey nurses residence and school addition. Hospital authorities expect part of the building ready for a fall class starting August 29 with the top arm housing a two storey school auditorium in the F shaped structure.
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Calgary
Calgary General Hospital
Vancouver police official Whelan shoots self amid graft inquiry
Police Superintendent Harry Whelan, a key royal commission figure in graft allegations against Vancouver police, died from a heart wound at his home. His wife found him, a service revolver beside the body. He was 45, a former deputy chief, and had been demoted to patrol chief. The death follows Det. Sgt. Len Cuthbert's earlier self-inflicted chest wound in the inquiry.
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Vancouver
Harry Whelan
Royal Commission
Whelan
Department
Royal‘ Commission
Len Cuthbert
Cuthbert
Sgt
Walter Mulligan
Churches Back Eisenhower Idea at World Council
The World Council of Churches 90 member central committee unanimously backed a manifesto calling for an exchange of military blueprints as a step toward worldwide arms reductions and bans on weapons of mass destruction. The plan mirrors Eisenhower’s proposal rejected by Soviet Premier Bulganin. The manifesto targets 165 Protestant Anglican and Eastern Orthodox churches and reaches about 170 million members.
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Davos
Central Committee
World Council of Churches
Eisenhower
Russia
Bulgania
World Council
Council
Canada’s NRU Reactor Five Times NRX Power At Chalk River
Canada’s new NRU reactor at Chalk River Ontario will deliver about 200 000 kilowatts, five times NRX’s 40 000 kilowatts, and enter service in June 1956. The $40 million NRU is designed as a research tool for atomic power tests and is touted as the finest nuclear engineering test facility. Trade Minister Howe noted Canada will conduct new type experiments for the United Kingdom and United States using the NRU reactor.
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Ottawa
Canada
Chalk River
Ont
NRX
NRU
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd
Geneva
Howe
The
Commons
United Kingdom
United States
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