Ex-Gambler Denies Mulligan Payoff For Police Protection
Vancouver CP dispatch reports former city gambler Pete Wallace testifying at a royal commission that he paid no Mulligan bribe to Police Chief Walter Mulligan for bookmaking protection. Wallace had been tied to $500 payoff claims to Det. Sgt. Len Cuthbert amid graft probes into the 750-man force.
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Vancouver
Walter Mulligan
Pete Wallace
Reginald H. Tupper
Wallace
Len Cuthbert
Cuthbert
Mulligan
Commission
J. G. A. Hutcheson
Mr. Hutcheson
Tupper denies protective custody for key witness in Vancouver graft case
Vancouver hearings into police graft resume as commissioner K H Tupper denies a request to place witness Terry Parsloe in protective custody. The session reviews a 1950 exoneration report by Parsloe, while Cuthbert testifies of past payoffs involving Chief Mulligan and Wallace.
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Vancouver
K. H. Tupper
Royal Commission
Terry Parsloe
Powell Rivers
RCMP
Neil Fleishman
Ray Munro
Toronto
Flash
Fleishman
Tupper
T. G. Norris
Walter Mulligan
Mr. Fleishman
Mulligan
Charles Thompson
Canadian economist predicts up to ten 100000 kilowatt atomic plants
Geneva AP report cites Dr. John Davis of Canada's trade department stating as many as 10 nuclear plants of 100 MW each may be needed in late 1960s or 1970s, mainly in southern Ontario with additional sites in the Maritimes and possibly northern Manitoba.
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Geneva
Canada
John Davis
Canadian Trade Department
Ontario
Maritimes
Manitoba
Davis
Maritime Provinces
St. John River
New Brunswick
Smile stones rumor cites comic classroom debate
A humorous exchange in a school setting has two children debating ethics. The line references the Eighth Commandment about stealing an apple and a witty reply invoking the Tenth Commandment about coveting. The dialogue showcases a light moral discussion.
Dust Storm Strikes Medicine Hat With 60mph Gusts
A heavy wind storm hit Medicine Hat just before 3pm with gusts over 60 mph. Great prairie dust clouds were carried over the city, creating apocalyptic conditions.
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Medicine Hat
Imperial Discovers New Oil Field Near Edmonton
Imperial Oil Ltd reports a new oil well 10 miles west of Edmonton that may mark a field between the Leduc Woodbend and Acheson districts. The well Imperial Acheson 13-3-52-26 reached 5062 feet in the Devonian D3 zone and is described as an interesting discovery with further tests planned. No production figures released as edges of existing fields remained dry.
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Edmonton
Imperial Oil Ltd
Here
Leduc-Woodbend
Acheson
Keith Huff
Imperial
Girl Stowaway On HMCS Athabaskan Captured In Long Beach
A 16 year old girl from Hilo Joycelin Pilapil hid aboard the Canadian destroyer Athabaskan during a Hawaii to Long Beach cruise. FBI agents escorted her ashore after a eight day voyage aboard the ship. She spoke of wanting a legal honeymoon and declined to discuss pregnancy or Bill.
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Patrick McNulty
Long Beach
Calif
FBI
Joycelin
Joan Pilapil
Athabaskan
Hawaii
Hilo
Bill
U. S. Coast Guard
Fremin Pilapil
Coast Guard
Vancouver police officer involved in shooting dies at home
The second officer in the Vancouver investigation, Superintendent Harry Whelan, was found dead in his residence with his service revolver beside him. Earlier the other officer, Det. Agt. Cuthbert, who was cited at a police commission hearing, shot himself but survived.
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Vancouver
Harry Whelan
Whelan
Police Commission
Det
Agt
Cuthbert
Old Red Patch Back In Exercise Rising Star
At Camp Gagetown New Brunswick the 1st Canadian Infantry Division resumes the Somme patch during peacetime Exercise Rising Star. More than 12 000 troops slog through rain and mud defending a five mile wide front against a three-division attack in two fictional nations Philistia and Blueland with Saint John as a distant objective.
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Somme
J.M. Rockingham
Grebbe
Netherlands
the Black Watch
Royal Canadian Dragoons
Gagetown
Philistia
Blueland
Upheaval in Pakistan as Awami League Chief Agrees to Form Government
In Karachi 64 year old Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy accepted an invitation to form a government after Prime Minister Mohammed Ali resigned. The move follows the replacement of Governor-General Ghulam Mohammed and the ousting of Ali, with coalition talks under pressure from Moslem League and United Front factions.
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Karachi
Reuters
Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy
Pakistan
Awami League
Mohammed Ali
Ghulam Mohammed
Ishadder Mirza
Ali
Moslem League
Chaudhri Mohammed Ali
Suhrawardy
Caudhri
Mohammed
United Front
Constituent Assembly
Ali Marriage Sparks Controversy in Pakistan
Mohammed Ali faced strong backlash after marrying 24 year old Ali Saddy of Edmonton. Women groups protested the prime minister taking a Canadian wife while his first wife remained at home. Ali Saddy, who later became his personal secretary, is from Edmonton where her family still lives.
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Mohammed Ali
Pakistan
Ali
Ali Saddy
Edmonton
Canada
Prairie Weather Shifts With Cooler Air Sears Southward
Cooler air sweeps across the prairies as Saskatchewan hot spell ends tonight with thunder storms. Sunny skies return in the west with afternoon temperatures near 70.
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Edmonton
Prairies
Saskatchewan
Baseball Results Brooklyn vs Chicago Match Summary
Brooklyn and Chicago played a low scoring game with Chicago winning 6 to 1. Newcombe and Campanella, Jones and Chiti contributed to the Brooklyn offense, while Chicago's Baker hit a home run.
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Brooklyn
Chicago
Newcombe
Campanella
Jones
Chiti
Baker
Port Coquitlam Post Office Robbery Nets Over 100000
RCMP launched a wide manhunt after thieves broke into the Port Coquitlam Post Office at 3 am and fled with a safe containing about 100000 in notched money orders and 14500 in other money orders plus 1556 in cash. Some losses were recovered nearby. investigators believe a truck carried the safe after entry through a rear window.
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Port Coquitlam
B. C
RCMP
Canada
Fraser River
Vancouver
Ford brothers fund one million for atomic peace awards
Henry Ford VI and his brothers Benson and William Clay Ford create a million-dollar fund to award annual atomic peace prizes amid a string of international notes.
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Henry Ford VI
Benson and
William Clay Ford
Moscow hosts unusual 54 hour party with noted guests
Molotov soaked a guest’s wife during a boat scramble while Bohlen beat Mikoyan in a race. Krushchev and Zhukov picked raspberries as Bulganin hosted 150 guests at his country estate near Moscow. The event featured singing, fishing, a Spartak win, and a proposal to repeat the hospitality with annual dinners.
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Moscow
Molotov
Charles Bohlen
A. I. Mikoyan
Nikita Krushchev
Georgi Zhukov
Ivan Konev
Bulganin
Bohren
Bolshoi Theatre
Deer Park
Maung Ohn
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
United States
Seven Bathers Drowned by Wasaga Beach Undertow
Seven bathers die off Wasaga Beach as winds churn Wasaga Bay into a dangerous sea. A girl survivor is reported. five men and two youths are exhausted and pulled from the bay. It is the first large drowning incident in the area with further missing persons feared. Local resident Jeeve Wilbur Nash provides comments.
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Wasaga Beach
Ont
Nottawasaga Bay
Nottawasaga
Toronto
Jeeve Wilbur Nash
Drownings at Grand Beach as seven saved from heavy surf
Seven people floundered in Lake Winnipeg at Grand Beach as high waves and undertow overwhelmed swimmers off Clipper Rock. Police said one woman was revived after fishing ashore and the rest were recovered along a one mile stretch. several did not survive the four hour span of tragedy.
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Grand Beach
Man
Lake Winnipeg
Clipper Rock
Frank Rogoski
Grand Marais
Three Children Burned to Death in Farm House Fire
In Portage la Prairie Manitoba three children Leona 8 Clarence 6 and Dora 4 died in a South Ridge district home fire. Mrs Walter McLennan lit a kitchen wood fire at 8 30 am and later found the house ablaze unable to reenter as flames spread rapidly.
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Portage LA Prairie
Man
South Ridge
Here
Walter McLennan
Leona
Clarence
Dora
Italian opens first atomic energy parley in Geneva
Indian scientist Homi J. Bhabha opened an international atomic energy conference in Geneva predicting that hydrogen bomb power could yield peaceful uses within 20 years. He warned the world will face energy abundance if such progress continues. The event marks 10 years since Hiroshima with Eisenhower and Hammarskjold sending messages urging peaceful, beneficial use of atomic power.
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Geneva
Homi J. Bhabha
Bhabha
Hiroshima
Palace of Nations
Ike
Eisenhower
United Nations General Assembly
International Organization
Lewis L. Strauss
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Dag Hammarskjold
India
U.S
Postmaster General Alcide Cote Dies in Canada
Alcide Cote, 52, Postmaster General and Liberal MP for St Jean Iberville Napierville, died of a heart ailment at his Ottawa home after a protracted illness. Prime Minister St Laurent mourned his loss and a state funeral was anticipated in St Johns. Cote had served in Parliament since 1945 and became postmaster general in 1952. Survivors include three brothers and three sisters.
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Charac
Ter
W.L. ‘Mackenzie’ King
Cote
Treffle
Jean’ Cote
New France
University Ofs Real
Vecenpiua
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