Airliner Crashes Near Oakland Killing Fifty On Hill
A United Air Lines DC-6B from Boston to Oakland crashed near a hilltop east of Decoto killing 50 people. All 44 passengers and 6 crew members perished as wreckage and debris spread over the hillside in heavy fog and smoke.
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Oakland
Calif
United Air Lines
Chicago
Boston
Hartford
Cleveland
Decoto
Marion W. Hedden
Weather Bureau
Paul Strong
Associated Press
San Francisco
No proxy voting allowed for power plant referendum
No provision exists for voting by proxy or advance poll absenteeism. W A Keith chief returning officer says residents away on holidays on election day September 5th cannot vote except via the advance polls on September 1st and September 4th.
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W. A. Keith
Keith
Exgypt Moves Suez Blockade Case to Hague Court
The ex-Egyptian blockade of the Suez is to be taken to the International Court of Justice in The Hague before a UN Security Council vote on Monday, according to well-informed sources. In Washington, Rep Overton Brooks urged use of atomic bombs in Korea if Kaesong talks fail. In Edmonton, John Baptiste Morin, an Indian, was found dying with undetermined injuries on a highway. In New York the Coast Guard reported SOS from the 3688-ton Spanish freighter Castillo Guadalest.
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Cairo
Reuters
Suez Canal
International Court of Justice
Hague
United Nations Security Council
Washington
Overton Brooks
Dem
Korea
Kaesong
Edmonton
John Baptiste
Morin
New York
Coast Guard
Defence to buy 20000 acres near Dundurn camp
The defence department plans to acquire nearly 20 000 acres of land just north of Dundurn military camp to be used mainly as a bombing range. Dundurn lies about 30 miles south of Saskatoon.
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Saskatoon
Defence Department
Dundurn
Rockline ice wagon crew told to return lacking clouds
In Vancouver the Rockline rainmaking team was ordered back by the weather man as there are no clouds for work. The report notes the mission cannot proceed without suitable atmospheric moisture for the aircraft and its operations.
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Vancouver
Calgary Police Chief Begins Three Weeks Leave
Calgary Canada police chief Reg Clements starts a three week leave today before retirement. He became head of the police department on August 25 1950.
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Calgary
Reg Clements
Van Fleet confident UN can beat Reds in new offensive
Gen. James A. Van Fleet declared UN forces could withstand a larger communist attack in Korea and would fight with renewed hate and eagerness if armistice talks fail. He said the Reds would use more air power artillery and tanks than ever and that a frontal assault would play into UN fire power.
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US 8Th Army
Korea
James A. van Fleet
United Nations
Kaesong
van Fleet
Tiny Hope Left Of Continuing Korea Truce Talks
Tokyo AP report says only a tiny ray of hope remains for resuming Korean truce discussions. Gen. James A. Van Fleet warned UN troops would fight with hate and eagerness if talks collapse. observers noted potential fresh UN moves from Paris to settle the impasse if breakdown continues.
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Korea
Tokyo
United Nations
James A. van Fleet
8Th Army
Kim
Peng
New York
United Nations Assembly
Paris
UN Command Headquarters
Light Frost Touches North-Central Crops
Light frost nip touched crops in north central Alberta marking the first widespread frost on the prairies this summer. Cold Arctic air will keep temperatures low across the region for several days. Whitecourt recorded minus 31 degrees, with Vermilion 33 and Edmonton 39, while Saskatchewan saw Prince Albert at 40.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Prairies
Weather Office
Arctic
Whitecourt
McCarran Letter Replies to Canada Over Two Officials
Ottawa awaits a McCarran letter replying to Canada’s request for the names of two unnamed Canadian officials cited before the US Senate Internal Security Committee. The letter, described as a political hot potato, is regarded unsatisfactory for not naming names. Canada protests the committee’s handling and defends Norman and Pearson amid the Japan treaty signing in San Francisco.
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Jonn Bird Southam
Ottawa Bureau
Ottawa
Pat McCarran
Nevada
Washington State Department
US Senate Internal Security Committee
McCarran
Washington
Department of External Affairs
US Senate
Canada
Pearson
State Department
Senate Committee
Lester B Pearson
Herbert Norman
Norman
United Nations
San Francisco
Japan
French Train Crash Kills at Least 12
Metz France eyewitnesses recount a Basel Calais express rear ending a Frankfurt Paris train near Metz. At least twelve dead including two Americans and about 40 injured, many U S soldiers. baggage and mail cars reportedly looted. two officers sent to investigate.
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Metz
France
U.S. Army
Orleans
Basel
Switzerland
Calais
Frankfurt
Germany
Paris
Gold coins found hidden on Wheeling jeweler’s estate
Mine detectors aided search at the suburban Parkerburg property of a deceased jeweler uncovering $21,000 in gold coins buried in fruit jars and an old milk crock. The coins were part of Henry Sheff’s $250,000 estate, the Wheeling jeweler and diamond importer.
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Parkersburg
W.va
Henry Sheff
Wheeling
Saskatchewan Completes 70 Million Acre Soil Survey in 30 Years
The Saskatchewan soil survey reports completion of a 30 year project mapping 70 million acres. Report No 13 covers agricultural areas north of Prince Albert with soils maps and geology chapter. University of Saskatchewan and Ottawa federal partners publish with Saskatchewan Agriculture Department support. Farmers may obtain reports from the extension department.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Prince Albert
University of Saskatchewan
Cooperatio
Soils Experimental Farm Service
Ottawa
Provincial
Agriculture Department
Saskatchewan Soil Survey
Roy Hansen
University Soils Department
Saskatchewan Agriculture Department
Dominion Department
University of Saskatchewan Extension Department
Fear Fifty Drowned By Bursting Dam
Mexico reports a dam collapse at Cardenas after heavy rains from a hurricane. Fifty feared drowned, 27 bodies recovered, 23 missing as searchers scour corn fields below the wrecked dam. The hurricane killed over 150 in Jamaica and caused one death in Tampico before striking Mexican mountains.
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Mexico City
Cardenas
Here
Jamaica
Gulf of Mexico
Tampico
Cool Weather Slows B C Forest Fires In Canada
Cool nights aided British Columbia fire crews suppressing several wildfires amid a long drought. In Nelson district fire conditions eased with rain and cooler air, though authorities blamed the Sons of Freedom Doukhobors for some blazes near Krestova. Yahk fire near Cranbrook remained a threat while Vancouver Island districts saw reduced danger and Oregon, Washington, and California flames continued.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Nelson
H. B. Forse
Sons of Freedom
Krestova
Forse
RCMP
Yahk
Cranbrook
East Sooke
Lake Cowichan
Vancouver Island
Washington
Oregon
California
Sylvan Lake Hotel Loses Liquor Licence
EDMONTON CP Chairman A. J. Mason of the Alberta liquor control board said the Sylvan Lake hotel licence is suspended indefinitely after the Red Deer police court convicted the hotel on two counts of selling beer to a minor. It is the board’s sixth suspension this year.
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Edmonton
A. J. Mason
Alberta Liquor Control Board
Sylvan Lake
Red Deer
Smilestones Lecturer Delivers Bold Parental Advice
An audience of parents hears a speaker tell them not to worry if their daughter is boy crazy. He notes she will outgrow it and later become man crazy as she matures. The talk emphasizes passing stereotypes and future changes in attraction.
Dunmore Man Dies After Hit by Car
Reinhold R. Lehr a 47 year old resident of the south Dunmore district died after being struck at 10 45 p m on No 1 highway four miles south of Medicine Hat. The driver Leonard Ma son Lehr a Walsh resident owned the car a 1950 Pontiac. An inquest is to be held and a coroner s jury will view the body at Pattison s funeral home. Lehr s surviving family includes a wife Olga three sons and a daughter.
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Reinhold R. Lehr
South Dunmore
Medicine Hat
Dunmore
E. G. F. Skinner
Leonard Mason Lehr
R.C.M.P
Walsh
Leonard
Edward Lehr
Lehr
Pattison
Olga
Five Wrong Diagnoses Doomed Two Year Old Girl
New York reports a two year old girl Celeste Felder died of lead poisoning after five doctors misdiagnosed her illness over several weeks. Her father William, a subway clerk, rushed her to two private clinicians and three hospitals before an autopsy confirmed the cause.
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New York
Celeste Felder
William
Missing Legislator Case Powers Livermore Town Out
In Concord New Hampshire the senate reports the town of Livermore no longer has residents and thus no longer has representation. The legislature votes Livermore out of existence following an investigation.
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Concord
N.H
New Hampshire Senate
Livermore
New Hampshire
Three Districts in Saskatchewan Under Quarantine
A quarantine covers Rosthern area including three Mennonite municipalities to halt a deadly tropical dysentery epidemic. No one may leave, public meetings are banned, and schools delayed. food and medical supplies are being shipped in as four babies have died and fifty others are ill. The disease traced to a Mexican group returning from Central America.
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Saskatoon
Mexico
Honduras
Central America
Hague
Mr. Burnham
Stokes Returns to London as Iranian Talks Break Down
Britain’s chief negotiator Richard Stokes blamed Iranian leaders for the breakdown of oil talks in Tehran while signaling possible future negotiation if Iran guarantees acceptable working conditions for British staff. He flew back to London as London pressed legal action and awaited a Hague ICJ ruling amid continued dispute over Abadan staff handling and nationalization plans.
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London
Richard Stokes
Britain
Tehran
Stokes
International Court of Justice
The
Hague
Iran
Abadan
Yoga Yearning Youth Sets Off to Seek Place in World
William Gill, 22, of Kettering Kent, begins a two year hitchhiking trip to learn Yoga. He plans to travel Europe Persia India Tibet Burma Siam Sumatra Australia New Zealand Japan and the Americas with £100, a rucksack and kit. He calls it an education.
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Wiliam Gill
Kingsley Avenue
Kettering
William
Europe
Persia
India
Tibet
Burma
Siam
Sumatra
Australia
New Zealand
Japan
Health Service
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Peter Glockner
Third St. N.W
Reds
A. T. Legge
West Point
U.S
Royal Air Force
B.C
Sylvan Lake Hotel
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