Morocco Sees Plan to Oust Sultan and Seek Home Rule
A four point plan outlined by Premier Faure envisions Sultan Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa stepping down, Grandval leaving office, ex-sultan Ben Youssef moving to France, and a council of the throne forming an interim regency to negotiate limited home rule in the Moroccan protectorate. Meanwhile French forces hunt some 6,000 Berber fighters linked to the Oued Zem massacre as 325 Moroccans are detained.
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Ben Arafa
Faure
Istiqlal (Independence) Party
Fare
Morocco
Grandval
Ben Youssef
Madagascar
East Africa
France
Istiqlal
Council of
Hunt
Atlas
Oued Zem
Atlas Mountains
Northwest Chemicals to Employ 300 in Medicine Hat Plant
Spokesmen reiterate that at least 300 residents will be hired at the new Northwest Chemicals plant at start up with growth planned in 1957. The firm will serve the prairie provinces and eight U.S. states, with plentiful raw supplies and no planned layoffs. Northwest is the Canadian arm of Commercial Solvents Corp and New British Dominion Oil Co, built by Ford Bacon and Davis.
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Medicine Hat
Northwest Chemicals
Dominion Glass Company
Redcliff
Cific Railway
Hut
Dominion Glass
CPR
Ogilvies
Lake of the Woods
Maple Leaf
Prairie Provinces
U.S
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Montana
North
South Dakota
Wyoming
Minnesota
Commercial Solvents Corp
New York
New British Dominion Oil Co
Calgary
Ford, Bacon and Davis Inc
Canadian Kellog Co
Fluor Corp. of
Canada
Sinclair
Peiping
British Columbia
Hong Kong
Vladivostok
Siberia
Europe
Atlantic
Vancouver
China
Russia
West
Red China
Hees Attacks Campney Over Real Estate Deals
George Hees, national president of the Progressive Conservative Association, demanded a satisfactory explanation from Defence Minister Campney regarding a real estate deal. Hees stated the prime minister must supervise cabinet ministers more closely or face Campney’s resignation from the cabinet. Campney said he ended his involvement with Como Investments Ltd. of Vancouver in December 1952.
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Manitou
Man
George Hees
Defence
Campney
Progressive Conservative Association
Lisgar
Hees
Ottawa
Como Investments Ltd
Vancouver
Colonel orders burning but to copy before
A colonel, commanded to destroy stacks of aged documents, asks if he should burn them. Headquarters replies yes but instructs making copies first.
BC Teachers Win Homework for Grades 4 to 6
Vancouver reports indicate new BC Education Ministry rules allow homework for grades 4 to 6 and more for high school students. A spare-the-rod policy limits corporal punishment to last resort, prompting cautious welcome from teachers and officials.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Ray Williston
Charles Ovans
B.C
Teachers’ Federation
Robert F. Sharp
Berber Tribesmen Hand Over Firearms to French
In Casablanca reports say 50 000 to 60 000 Berber tribesmen who sacked Moroccan towns began surrendering firearms to French forces. The Zaian and Smaala tribes led the first units to submit as French troops advance with tanks and planes to quell the revolt amid massacres of Europeans and escalating Algerian clashes.
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Casablanca
Atlas Mountains
Khenifra
Here
Oued Zem
Smaala
Roger Miquel
Middle Atlas Range
Blonde wife fights intruding husband in Brooklyn rooming house
Kathrine Luther testified in court about finding her husband in another woman's room at 2 am a 65 year old grandmother. She struck the grandmother with a shoe and later found the husband with the woman again punching his wife in the eye. He was arrested on an assault charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn
Katherine Luther
Used Police Union As Whipping Boy
Detective Fred Dougherty, head of the City Policemen's Federal Labor Union Local 112, testifies at the Tupper royal commission in Vancouver. He accuses Chief Walter Mulligan of archaic control, meddling in officers' personal lives, and dominating the police commission. He says the union is blamed for administration faults and recalls threats to overturn working agreements.
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Bruce Levett
Vancouver
Fred Dougherty
City Policemen’s Federal Labor Union
TLC
Det
Dougherty
Walter Mulligan
Board of Police Commissioners
UNION
The
Police Commission
R. A. Sargent
County Court
Fred Hume
Oscar Orr
Sargent
Strike Shuts Ottawa AM Station CKOY Off Air
NABET workers walked out at Ottawa radio station CKOY causing the station to go off the air at 4 15 p m EDT. Vic Wertz of the Cleveland Indians has contracted infantile paralysis. Fist fights erupted between striking Vienna doctors and staff from non-striking clinics.
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National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians
Ottawa
CKOY
Vic Wertz
The
Cleveland Indians
Vienna
Crippling second day of fruit packing strike in Okanagan
The 3000 workers in 28 packinghouses across the Okanagan valley remain idle as the FFVWU AFL CIO presses for a 19 cent hourly wage raise. Some plants report production while union officials say most facilities are shut. Officials warn against moving hot fruit as talks fail in Victoria and galley centers.
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Kelowna
B. C
Okanagan Valley
Federation of Fruit and Vegetable Workers
Afl-Tlc
Lyle Wicks
Victoria
Bryan Cooney
FFVWU
Osoyoos
Oliver
L. R. Stephens
Federated Shippers Association
Sister nicknamed by illnesses leads to medical mix up
In San Diego a Navy recruit named Tonsillitis Jackson volunteered for a second six-year enlistment. Doctors found he had tonsillitis and sent him to a naval hospital for tonsil removal. The family tradition of illness names continues with siblings named Omeneingitis and Appendicitis among four girls Laryngitis Peritonitis and Jakeitis.
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San Diego
Calif
United States Navy
Jackson
San Diego Amphibious Base
Naval Hospital
Cooler air moving into Alberta and Saskatchewan
A cooler air mass from the northwest edges into Alberta and Saskatchewan with some shower activity. Temperatures are expected to range from 63 to 70 degrees, bringing cooler conditions to the region.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Alberta MLAs repay treasury loans in full says premier
Premier Manning told the legislature that Alberta MLAs who borrowed from provincial treasury branches have repaid all loans with no losses. A report lists 33 members who borrowed over seven years, the largest loan being 15 000 dollars to Lucien Maynard. The session also enacted amendments to the Legislative Assembly Act and approved farm marketing boards.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Manning
Social Credit
Lucien Maynard
Treasury Branch
Maynard
Hooke
R. Earl Ansley
Ind
Sc-Leduc
John Landeryou
Sc—Lethbridge
Roy Lee
Sc— Tather
House Public Accounts Committee
Legislative Assembly
Treasury
Strange Story of Two Great Loves
Vancouver readers glimpse a seven penguin colony from the Falkland Islands at Stanley Park. They occupy a $22,000 North American home and await an egg as Matilda guards it in a rear chamber amid public curiosity and local chatter.
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Vancouver
Falkland Islands
South America
North America
Stanley Park
Matilda
Three Eskimos Die After Drinking Party at Tuktoyaktuk
Three dead and three others in critical condition after a drinking party at Tuktoyaktuk near the Mackenzie delta. Victims include Roger Allen 31 Clare Mangalana 18 Maria Gordon 17. ill are Moses Albert 34 Jimmie Jacobson 32 Billy Jacobson 19. Dr. Ian Black flew from Aklavik. inquest to be adjourned awaiting analysis.
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Tuktoyaktuk
Mackenzie River
Edmonton
Roger Allen
Clare Mangalana
Maria Gordon
Moses Albert
Jimmie Jacobson
Billy Jacobson
Ian Black
Aklavik
Allen
Anglican Mission
Albert
Jacobsons
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Royal Bank
Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa
Mohammed Ben Youssef
Pasquale Dinardo
Toronto
Italy
Red
Pearson
Canadian Club
Petropavlovsk
Middle Atlas
Ait Amar
Algeria
Constantine
Hubby
Granny
Black Eye
Lee
Police Union
Bulletins
United States
Paris
Britain
England
Federal Health Department
West Berlin
East Germany
Red Cross
Grunewald
Gisella
Graham McMullin
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