Three Countries Plan to Pool Atomic Data Again
Washington reports that Canada Britain and the United States may resume war time style data sharing on atomic energy for military and industrial aims. Talks begun September 20 pause for recess with plans to have UK abandon bomb programs and allow joint U S UK Canada work while aligning with Atlantic treaty terms. Congress would need new legislation to permit such collaboration amid the 1943 atomic energy act restrictions.
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Plans for large winter exercises in Canadian north
Ottawa reports a joint Canadian American Yukon exercise for 17 days with about 5 000 troops including 2 000 Canadians. A smaller February exercise near Churchill Manitoba will involve 250 soldiers for a month building a company group around Royal Canadian Regiment with Princess Patricia's and Royal 22nd. The polar drills test Arctic readiness and logistics as the airborne brigade matures by 1951.
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Wallace Escapes From Spider Web Murder Case
Wallace, a 42 year old former Vancouver electrician, was linked to the slaying of 24 year old waitress Yvonne Levesque in August at cast Celary but the murder charge was dropped by the Alberta Attorney General for lack of evidence. He had been arrested in Detroit on an immigration violation and confessed to the August murder before being returned to Canada.
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Detroit
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Yvonne Levesque
Canada
Donald W. Hender
New Fire Truck Demonstrated In City Show
About 500 residents watched the new $32 000 aerial ladder truck in a morning demonstration in the Second Street block. The three section rust resistant steel ladder reached 68 feet as Fire Chief Bob Allan and city officials accepted the unit from Bickle Seagrave representatives.
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St. Theresa Academy
Government De-Control Policy May Extend To Sugar Industry
Ottawa signals a rise in de-control policy with plans to scrap the crown sugar corporation early next year. The wartime creation regulates prices and purchases for Canadian refiners, protecting the industry from price shocks. The 1937 entity expires March 31. domestic sugar use is about one eighth of total consumption.
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Smilestones ladder joke about hiring a ladder
Two nuts paint a dining room in a comic scene. One climbs a ladder on the ceiling as the other asks for a strong grip on the brush and for a moment to borrow the ladder, creating a humorous misunderstanding.
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Ontario Hotel Fire Claims Two In Sioux Lookout
A two storey twenty room Ontario hotel burned early today in Sioux Lookout. Night clerk Harry Jones and a guest named Young are missing. Proprietor A T Spence praises Jones as a hero for waking guests before the blaze cut through the wooden building. The fire began about 4 50 a m and Spence and his family escaped minutes before collapse.
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12 Hurt in C N R Train Collision Near Toronto
A head on collision between a Vancouver to Toronto CN Rail passenger train and a Winnipeg freight train eight miles east of Toronto injured 12 passengers and six railway workers. Engineer Pat Herington and Alfred Touden among the seriously hurt, with a Vancouver baby among the injured. Fourteen cars derailed across both trains. Cause under investigation.
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Pat) Herington
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Armed Man Detained After Forcing Train Transport
Allan Jas. Goodbrand, of Hamilton, armed with a .32 pistol, forced a conductor to carry him from Roytal to Medicine Hat aboard an eastbound CPR passenger train. He appeared in police court and was remanded to December 14 on a concealed weapon charge, with police probing possible charges in eastern Canada.
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Orchard Memorial for Former Alderman in Wokingham
In Wokingham Berkshire England an orchard has been donated to the village as a memorial to a former alderman.
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Christmas Decoration Contest Slated by Jay Cees and News
The Junior Chamber of Commerce and The News launch 1949 Christmas decoration contest. A $15 prize will go to the best yard and $10 to the finest store frontage design. Past winners are ineligible this year. judging ends Dec 22 with results announced next day.
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Russians Crowned at UN Name-Calling Championship 1949
AP reports the Soviet Union dominates the UN assembly name calling contest of 1949. Dmitri Manuilsky leads with biting wit, while others like Hector McNeil and Alex Bebler provoke sharp retorts. The piece notes entomology etymology riffs and labeling debates amid Cold War tensions.
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Ukraine
Dmitri Z. Manuilsky
Britain
Hector McNeil
Cabinet ministers attacked in kitchen as nationalization fights rage
In London, Tate and Lyle sugar and meat firms wage campaigns against nationalization. Cartoonist Mr Cube mocks state control while meat propaganda cites bulk buying. Herbert Morrison condemns the ads and warns expenditures could be charged to Conservative election expenses.
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Herbert Morrison
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Australians Prepare for Momentous Election Clash
Australian voters head to the polls in a national election pitting the Labor government led by J. B. Chiefley against the Liberal and Country party coalition led by Robert G. Menzies and Arthur W. Fadden. Voting is compulsory as the House expands from 74 to 121 seats and polls close in three time zones tonight.
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Australia
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Liberal
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J. B. Chiefley
New Zealand
Robert G. Menzies
Country Party
Arthur W. Fadden
Menzies
House of Representatives
Cancer cure rate cited in Regina clinic talk
Dr. T. A. Watson of the Allin Blair memorial clinic said at Regina a meeting that at least half of all cancer cases in Saskatchewan are being cured. He noted skin cancer is nearly always cured and lip cancer about 94 percent, expressing guarded optimism despite acknowledged limits of current treatments.
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T. A. Watson
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Britain coal mines profit rise offsets prior deficit
Britain's nationalized coal mines earned a profit of £6,382,? for the July to September quarter, up from £3,417,057 a year earlier, offsetting a deficit from the previous year. The third quarter profit increase totaled £3,009,000, or about $9.3 million, according to Coal Board figures released last night.
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