Non-operating rail workers vote strike to back demands
Montreal Canada non-operating rail employees across major lines voted to strike to press for fringe benefits including eight holidays three week vacation for 15 year men 18 sick days and higher pay on rest days. About 90 percent backed withdrawal from service pending new talks after a deadlock since June 22.
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Montreal
Canada
Frank Hall
C.P
C.N. Railways
Ontario Northland Railway
Toronto
Hamilton
Duke's Arctic Tour Highlights Royal Visit and Iceworm Honor
The Duke tells listeners he long sought to glimpse Canada's northwest and joins the 1951 royal tour. He becomes the first royal to cross the Arctic circle at Coppermine, receives an airborne iceworm degree, and views Yellowknife's bullion furnace with a 50-pound gold brick presented by Dan Pickett.
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Canada
Northwest
Great Slave Lake
Coppermine
Arctic
Arctic Circle
RCAF
Yellowknife
Dan Pickett
Crop Prospects Vary in Alberta
Crop prospects in Alberta range from good to poor according to the provincial agriculture department. Dry weather hurt yields in the south and east central regions during July but rains improved moisture elsewhere. Late crops advanced in dry regions while spring wheat cutting began in Lethbridge Medicine Hat area and is planned to start August 23 in Berwyn and Grande Prairie regions.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Agriculture Department
Peace River
Cowley
Lethbridge
Medicine Hatl
Berwyn
Grande Prairie
Guatemala Junta Dissolves Communist-Dominated Unions
The Guatemalan ruling junta moves to dissolve all communist dominated unions and Red front groups that supported the ousted president Jacobo Guzman. Officials from non-operating railway unions plan Ottawa talks with Prime Minister St Laurent and Labor Minister Gregg. A 48 hour salmon industry shutdown threatens British Columbia cannery workers after a five day tenderman walkout. workers at a U S atomic installation in Paducah Kentucky to strike Thursday for higher wages.
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Jacobo Guzman
Guatemala
Red Front
Ottawa
St. Laurent
Gregg
B.C
U.S
Paducah
Police Quarters Hidden Behind South Jersey Tavern
The state law enforcement council reported a small south Jersey town with over 3000 residents houses its police chief and two patrolmen in a back room of a tavern. The department avoids a sign to prevent scaring customers away.
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Newark No. J
State Law Enforcement Council
South New Jersey
Charles J. Tyne
Tyne
Third attempt planned to recover climber's body on Mount Rundle
Banff Alberta CP reports a third recovery party led by RCMP Corporal Morris and Banff warden Carlton will try to reach the body of 17 year old Jack Nelson from Winnipeg after two prior failed attempts. Nelson and Barry Nixon of Regina were descending Mount Rundle when he plunged 900 feet Sunday.
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Banff
Alta
Jack Nelson
Winnipeg
Mount Rundle
Nelson
Rundle
Barry Nixon
Regina
RCMP
R. C. Morris
Banff Park
Ed Carlton
University of Manitoba
Traveling buyer’s wife warns by telegram
A wife in a short playful traveling tale posts a telegram to her husband, “Better come home. I’m selling what you’re buying,” after months of him away buying, prompting a rethink on his trip.
John Declares Allies Tools of U S in Berlin Defection
Berlin dispatch reports Dr. Otto John declaring his July 20 desertion from West Germany to expose Nazi revival and warn against U S backed West German policy. He told 400 reporters the United States uses Britain France and Bonn as tools for another war, and urged German unity.
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Berlin
Otto John
West Germany
World Press
John
Reds
United States
Britain
France
Bonn
Germany
East
Konrad Adenauer
U.S. High Commission
Adenauer
Hitler
Goebbels
West
East Germany
Pentagon
Allen Duiles
Central Intelligence
Gehlen
Dulles
U.S
Wolfgang Hoefer
Hoefer
West Berlin
Weather Outlook for Alberta and Saskatchewan
Heavy low cloud covers Alberta and northern Saskatchewan today, breaking up slowly with clearing this evening. Thursday brings sunshine and warmer temperatures to most regions, with a few scattered afternoon showers and a risk of thunderstorms in southwestern Saskatchewan.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Hail Storm Causes Heavy Crop Damage Across Alberta Towns
The Alberta hail insurance board reports a Tuesday afternoon storm striking Carstairs Crossfield Didsbury Acme and Beiseker causing heavy crop damage. Golf ball sized hail damaged cars houses and crops as the storm moved eastward in a 10 mile wide path stopping 10 miles west of Acme with no precise area-wide crop estimate yet.
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Calgary
Alberta Hail Insurance Board
Carstairs
Crossfield
Didsbury
Acme
Beiseker
Violence Breaks Out in Fez and Rabat Morocco
In Fez native police killed two Moroccan nationalists and wounded twelve as riots erupted in the Medina at night. In Rabat a terrorist wounded a chauffeur of Morocco’s public health director amid crowds of Berbers rallying for Sultan Moulay Arafa.
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Rabat
French Morocco
Moulay Arafa
Istiqlal
Morocco
Tunisia
Detective Fabian to help unravel Toronto stenographer's disappearance
Robert Fabian former Scotland Yard murder squad chief and famed detective has accepted an invitation to Toronto to aid police in the eight month mystery of Marion McDowell a 17 year old stenographer who vanished after a date on December 6. Fabian will arrive in Toronto to pursue what the Telegram calls interesting possibilities. A large search followed Marion’s disappearance with no trace found to date.
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Toronto
Toronto Telegram
Robert Fabian
Scotland Yard
Marion McDowell
Fabian
London
Canada
Ross McDowell
Marion
Jimmy Wilson
Jimmy
Britain
Sherlock Holmes
Pleadilly Circus
Police
British Freighter Spanker to be Broken Up at Hook of Holland
The 1177 ton British freighter Spanker, stranded since Saturday near Hook of Holland, has been abandoned and will be broken up. Dutch experts, insurers, and the Newcastle owners agree salvage is impossible lest the vessel sink further and block Rotterdam's sea link. Captain Jim Clough, 64, and 17 crew members were en route from Holland to England by boat.
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Hook
Holland
Netherlands
Reuters
Newcastle
England
Rotterdam
Jim Clough
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