Flag debate resumes in Commons next week
Ottawa reports expect the House to reopen the flag debate early next week as Liberals and three opposition groups brace for a lengthy contest over rules and possible amendments. Conservative hopes to stall voting while pressing for pension plan links. Prime Minister Pearson urges a decision and national unity.
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Social Credit
Creditistes
Pearson
Canada
Commons turns to bill on personal income tax
In Ottawa the Commons approved an interim supply of 1.037 billion dollars to cover August through October while awaiting 1964 65 spending estimates and then turned to a bill increasing provinces share of personal income tax. The debate featured clashes over CBC funding and control with opposition leaders urging reforms or liquidation.
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Ottawa
The
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Diefenbaker
Senate
CBC
Ralph Cowan
L York Humber
Gordon
Robert Prittie
NDP
Brunaby
Klanners charged in Negro slaying
Four white men identified as Ku Klux Klan members were charged with murder in the slaying of Lemuel Penn, a Washington D C Negro educationist. The arrests followed an FBI led hunt, with one suspect admitting complicity. All four are held on bonds of 25000 each under the Civil Rights Act.
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Washington, D.C
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Lemuel Penn
Georgia
U.S
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James S. Lackey
Herbert Guest
Cecil William Myers
Joseph Howard Sims
Athens
Penn
Washington
Charles BE. Brown
John D. Howard
Lackey
Hoover
Sims
United Nations to discuss Viet Nam invitation in crisis
The United Nations Security Council prepared to meet at 3 p.m. EDT to approve inviting North Viet Nam and South Viet Nam to debate the new Southeast Asia crisis. Diplomatic sources said wording disagreements were settled with Russia urging Democratic Republic of Viet Nam and the US pushing Republic of Viet Nam. The talks followed tensions from North Vietnamese torpedo boats striking U S ships in the Gulf of Tonkin and US air strikes on North Viet Nam targets. Dr Nielsen to convene the council after protocol reached.
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Southeast Asia
Sivert A. Nielsen
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Republic of Viet Nam
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Gulf of Tonkin
North Viet Nam
Nielsen
Medicine Hat to Empress Canoe Race Feature
Weekend Magazine presents a three page color and black and white feature by Pat rick Nagle on the Medicine Hat to Empress 150 mile canoe race run May 24 along the South Saskatchewan River. The piece ties the race to Empress 50th anniversary celebrations.
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Patrick Nagle
The
Weekend Magazine
Bandits rob Bank of Montreal in Calumet heist
Five bandits wearing sunglasses entered the Calumet branch of the Bank of Montreal shortly after opening and forced staff to lie on the floor while they removed cash and securities from tellers’ cages and the vault. They escaped in a car reported stolen earlier, in a robbery worth about 57000 dollars. Calumet lies about 60 miles west of Montreal along the Ottawa River.
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Bank of Montreal
Montreal
Ottawa River
Picket injunction bars mass protests at Toronto papers
Publishers in Toronto won a temporary injunction limiting strikers to three pickets per entrance and barring use of placards or distributed notices. The Ontario Supreme Court order also bars the union from labeling the dispute a lockout. Talks have stalled with no restart in sight as unions report some printers returning to work at The Star and The Telegram.
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Ontario Supreme Court
International Typographical Union
CLC
Globe and Mail
The
Star and the Telegram
Telegram
Star
Manning says clique threatens Alberta ministers
Premier Manning said an unidentified Edmonton clique has pressured a cabinet minister to divulge damaging information under threat to his reputation. He urged the public to know of the tactics used, noting a July incident involving a private detective and threats to destroy the government’s integrity.
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Manning
Alberta
Canada
Invasion warning from South Viet Nam premier Khanh
Premier Major General Nguyen Khanh declared a nationwide state of emergency in South Viet Nam and warned of possible invasion or attack at any time. Martial law imposed with military courts and death penalties for terrorists and profiteers, curfew in Saigon, and press censorship anticipated. Khanh planned to travel to the 17th parallel as forces remained on alert on the frontier. The move drew mixed reaction from American officials while U.S. advisers questioned an imminent North Vietnamese attack.
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Saigon
Nguyen Khanh
Viet Nam
Khanh
Maxwell D. Taylor
U. Alexis Johnson
U.S
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Five Britons Criticize Unqualified U.S. Air Action Endorsement
London report states five prominent Britons led by Canon L John Collins Kingsley Martin and Prof Victor Purcell criticize the unqualified endorsement of American air action in North Vietnam by Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home Foreign Secretary Robert Butler and the British UN Security Council representative.
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Reuters
North
Viet Nam
Alec Douglas - Home
Robert A. Butler
United Nations Security Council
Canon L. John Collins
St. Paul's Cathedral
Kingsley Martin
New Statesman
Victor Purcell
Cambridge University
Robbery at MacKenzie Drugs in Crestwood
About $200 in cash was stolen from a cash box at MacKenzie Drugs Crestwood. A patrolman on rounds found a smashed rear window at 4:05 a.m. The police are investigating the theft.
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Crestwood
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