Unanimous Approval of No-Raid Pact by TLC Delegates
The Trades and Labour Congress of Canada, with 650 delegates at Regina, endorsed a no raid pact between Canada’s two largest labor bodies. The agreement aims to stop membership raids, create conciliation steps for jurisdictional disputes, and appoint an umpire if needed. The Canadian Congress of Labour will discuss the pact in Toronto later this year.
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Regina
Canada
Trades Or Labor Congress of Canada
TLC
Ft Canadian Congress of Labor
Cépenters Union
Congress
American Federation Labor and
Congress of Industr
United
CCL
Lal
Toronto
Septeber
TLC Carpenters Union
Uni
Andy Cooper
Cadian
Carpenters
George Redwood
Fabian Investigates Fabian Investigates From The Toronto Telegram
Robert H. Fabian, former Scotland Yard superintendent, details his timetable method for the Toronto probe into Marion McDowell's disappearance. The diary spans three volumes with extensive notes, maps, and wire-file correspondence guiding the investigation. The timetable for Dec 6, 1953, places Marion’s waking, calls, and events from noon to late evening, including sightings, car movements, and a dramatic field incident, as Fabian outlines potential leads and timing discrepancies.
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Toronto Telegram
Robert H. Fabian
Scotland Yard
Fabian
Marion McDowell
Marion
Jimmy Wilson
Wilson
Danforth
Car
Clergyman
Loretta
No Western Wheat Farm Marketings During Last Week
Canadian wheat supplies for the week ending Aug 18 stood at 375.1 million bushels, down 5.6 million from the prior week due to shipments. Western wheat farm marketings for 1954-55 were zero, overseas and domestic moves were down, and country elevator stocks fell to 204.9 million bushels with Lakehead storage at 55.4 million.
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Winnipeg
Board of Grain Commissioners
United States
Montreal
Churchill
Vancouver- New Westminster
Quebec
Lakehead
Seaboard
Strip Teases Car As Police Watch For Four Hours
Police watched as Martin A. Binkle stripped his car of earrings dolls and other gadgets worth 471 dollars. It took two hours and twenty minutes, the car looked like a Christmas tree. Police seized the car and later returned it with a warning not to repeat the display. Binkle had bought the items across the United States and Canada and affixed them with pins needles and tape.
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Kitchener
Martin A. Binkle
Wilfred Hendrick
Binkle
Hendrick
U.S
Canada
Comic Book Czar May Get $40 000
Daytona Beach reports top comic publishers plan to appoint a czar to censor publications. Leo Holland of National Comics says they seek a prominent jurist to serve as judge of what should be censored, likely at a $40 000 annual salary to avoid bribery suspicions.
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Daytona Beach
Leo Holland
National Comics
Raith Woodlands Laboratory opens near Raith Ontario
A 2 square mile laboratory near Raith 60 miles northwest of Fort William Ontario opens on Abitibi Power and Paper land to study restocking forests by artificial and natural means. Attendees from government industry and academia plant a red pine seedling to inaugurate the project led by Ontario minister C E Mapledoram and Fort William officials.
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Raith
Fort William
Ont
Abitibi Power and Paper Company
Ontario
Raith Woodlands Laboratory
H. H. Stuffe
Port Arthur
J. G.somers
Winnipeg
C. E. Mapledoram
C. R. Mills
Ontario Forest Industries Association
J. W. B. Sisam
University of Toronto
W. A. E. Pepler
Canada Pulp and Paper Woodlands
Fred Smith
Rioting follows Vargas burial amid Brazilian chaos
Riots erupted in Rio de Janeiro after Getulio Vargas’s burial flight to Sao Borja. More than 30 injured, several killed, as crowds attacked U.S. firms and the embassy while army and air force tried to restore order.
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Jimmie Payns
Rio DE Janeiro
Getulio Vargas
Brazil
Rio
Vargas
Standard Oil Company
U.S
Air Ministry
Air Force
Vacation Closures Cut Into Employment Rolls
Canada’s employment rolls fell to 4 891 000 by July 24 from a high of 5 191 000 on June 19 due to vacation closures. Unemployment eased by 13 000 in July to 172 000 seeking work, while non manufacturing and construction hiring rose modestly and manufacturing stayed weak.
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Ottawa
Canada
Labor Department
Bureau of Statistics
Bureau
National Employment Service
Baseball in Brief AMERICAN LEAGUE Recap of 13-5 Baltimore win
American League scores show Baltimore 13 New York 5 with Young homering for Baltimore and Berra Bauer Noren homering for New York. Chicago defeated Washington 7 to 2 as Pierce Batts and Stewart drove runs. Detroit beat Boston 9 to 7 with Gromek Miller Gray and House contributing on the mound and at bat.
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Baltimore
New York
Coleman
Blyzka
Murray
Lopat
Berra
Young
Bauer, Noren
Chicago
Washington
Pierce
Batts
Stewart
Pascual
Fitzgerald
Detroit
Boston
Gromek
Miller
Gray
House
Nixon
Sullivan
White
New Quota Basis Units Set For Wheat Delivery
The Canadian Wheat Board announces a 1954 55 unit system for grain quotas with 10 prairie delivery points to begin August 28. Seven Saskatchewan and three Alberta stations will accept unit deliveries, replacing the old quota of 100 units per producer per year. one unit equals three bushels of wheat or five bushels of barley or rye.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Wheat Board
Prairie
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Cranbrook Sees Snowy Peaks Amid Early Winter Mood
Fresh snow covers Cranbrook morning mountains as residents remark on an earlier than usual snowfall. Alberta reports total cash and investments at 116 million dollars with a funded debt of 88.9 million. Downtown Vancouver braces for the P N E parade with carnival atmosphere. First polio death of 1954 recorded in Edmonton as Nova Scotia reports four deaths this year. Walter Storoschuk charged with murder in Emerson Manitoba for the killing of wife and two young children.
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Alberta
Edmonton
Nova Scotia
Walter Storoschuk
Emerson, Man
Legal Challenge to City Bylaw on Fourth Street Traffic
City Solicitor J G Kidd argued the August 18 1952 bylaw only restricted use of the Fourth Street curve near Modern Motors not closed the street. Opponents Karl and Fred Kraemer contended lack of notice and that the measure privatized the street. Judge Feir reserved judgment and will issue a memorandum to the parties within weeks.
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J. G. Kidd
Fourth St
Kidd
Mr. Kidd
Division Ave
Hugh A. R. MacMillan
Karl
Fred Kraemer
Modern Motors
Kraemers
North Star Oil
MacMillan
Court House
Harry Weiner
Ed McCombs
J. W
Webster's lists Vancouver as B C capital again
Victoria officials protest after Webster's dictionary edition mislabels Vancouver as the capital of British Columbia. The error drew sharp letters from publicity chief George S. Warren and a U S railway employee who fired an ad alleging Vancouver as the capital.
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Victoria
Webster’s
Vancouver
British Columbia
George S. Warren
United States Railway
Calgary Sees Two Inch Rainfall In Eight Hours
Calgary recorded nearly two inches of rain in under nine hours on Tuesday. The month totals reached 7.08 inches, ranking August as the third wettest on record with 9.40 inches set in 1899.
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Calgary
Weather Outlook Promises Better Conditions Thursday
Weather summary from Edmonton suggests signs of a changing pattern with conditions expected to improve on Thursday. Forecast hints at eased winds and milder temperatures ahead.
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Edmonton
Heavy Rainfall Delays Harvest in Medicine Hat Area
Extreme August downpour drenched Medicine Hat and surrounding districts with eight inches of rain overnight. The deluge halted harvesting and swathing as storms persisted from 9 p.m. to early morning, with heavier rain from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Record-keeping showed monthly totals varying by year, spanning 1948 to 1954.
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Medicine Hat
Meo Aagage
Britain faces worst harvest year as rain hammers crops
London reports heavy summer rains have crushed Britain’s harvest with fields of green wheat lying flat across Kent Berkshire Sussex and Herefordshire. Farms face mass unemployment as crops rot and workers lose jobs with little chance of recovery.
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London
Britain
Kent
Berkshire
Sussex
Herefordshire
Smiles and social note hints at cabinet posting
A social note from a Mr. T mentions a possible cabinet post and invites the recipient to dinner next Tuesday with a coffee afterward. The message shows informal chatter about upcoming highlights and social plans.
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Social Climber
Mr. T
Cabinet Post
Teens on trial over murder in Christchurch case
Two 16 and 15 year old girls stand accused of battering to death Pauline Parker's mother Honora Parker with a brick. Psychiatrist testifies the teens were insane, citing a diary entry about writing out the ten commandments to break them and a self created religion as signs of sway by evil.
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Christchurch
N.Z
Reuters
R. V. Medlicott
Pauline Parker
Juliet Hulme
Pauline
Juliet
Honora Parker
Medlicott
God
Alan Brown
John Divine
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