Edmonton Police Shake-Up After Unannounced Gambling Raid
Eight frustrated uniform officers staged an unauthorized raid prompting the resignation of Edmonton Chief Constable Teg Jennings. A city commissioners inquiry and a separate RCMP expert survey call for rapid leadership changes, morale reforms, and transferring morality work to the criminal investigation division.
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Edmonton (Cp
Teg Jennings
Edmonton Police Department
RCMP
Criminal Investigation Division
Edmonton
William Hawrelak
Frank B. Baxter
Calgary
Dismissal Threat and Raid Prompt Police Inquiries
The inquiry revealed raid motives rooted in dissatisfaction and frustration over mounting circumstances and inaction on gambling concerns. Critics alleged payoffs to protect gambling joints and questioned the morality squad’s leadership as officers urged doubled call-boxes and new leadership, with Chief Constable Jennings urged to resign.
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Morality Squad
L. W. Hudson
William Smith
South Side
Calgary
Council
Jennings
Alex Riddell
Red Rebels Fight To Break Dien Bien Phu Siege
French Union forces defend the Dien ien Phu fortress as Vietminh troops press the siege. The battle, in its tenth day, is seen as decisive with Geneva talks looming. Rain slows air attacks while both sides brace for a close range assault in the fortress complex.
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Hanoi
Geneva
Ho Chi Minh
Smilestones Tax Woes Spark Wealth Warning
A quip about a man ruined by untold wealth contrasts with advice to report wealth in tax returns. The exchange hints at financial misfortune tied to tax matters and the irony of wealth.
Air Pollution Implicated in Lung Cancer Says Expert
Dr Kingsley Kay head of the federal health department occupational health lab argues air pollution may cause lung cancer and should be studied in Canada. He cites English data showing urban deaths higher than rural and notes Windsor Ontario as a Canadian study site with IJC involvement.
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Toronto
Kingsley Kay
Occupational Health Laboratory
Federal Health Department
Royal Canadian Institute
Canada
England
Windsor
Ont
International Joint Commission
Wichita tragedy ends in murder suicide
A seven year old girl told police how her father John K Leidy 38 killed her mother Rosemary 35 and wounded her two children Linda Sue 7 and John Scott 24 in a bathtub shooting before turning the gun on himself in Wichita Kansas. Linda Sue later called police saying Daddy shot mother and hurt himself. Doctors described multiple gunshot wounds to Linda Sue and John Scott with the weapon a .45 caliber automatic pistol.
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Wichita
Kas
John K. Leidy
Linda Sue Leidy
John Scott
Rosemary
Linda Sue
Lethbridge Reports Three New Polio Cases
The district's first polio cases in over a month were reported by hospital authorities. An 11-year-old New Dayton girl and a nine-year-old Lethbridge girl admitted to hospital recently bring the 1954 polio total to eight, with four fatalities and another death en route.
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Lethbridge
New Dayton
June brides lead in United States marriages study
The United Nations bulletin shows 13.6 marriages per 1000 people in June, with August September next at 10.8 and March slowest at 7.8. Canada Puerto Rico and Sweden also report high June weddings while various countries prefer other months.
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United Nations, N
Venezuela
Japan
Netherlands
West Germany
Spain
Italy
Irrigation plan shaping up from Irvine Alberta to Cypress Hills
Plans for an irrigation program to stabilize livestock by using Cypress Hills watershed moisture center on Walsh Alberta with a 25000 acre foot storage reservoir started last October by PFRA. Dr L B Thomson will outline policy matters and confirm commitment at Walsh Flats meeting on April 6.
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Irvine
Alberta
Maple Creek
Saskatchewan
Cypress Hills
Walsh
P.F.R.A
L. B. Thomson
Refina
Walsh Flats
Thomson
Vauxhall
McCarthy Faces Pressure to Step Aside in Army Inquiry
Rising Republican sentiment urged Senator McCarthy to resign from the subcommittee amid the army hearings. McCarthy insisted on cross examination rights for witnesses and Army lawyers, and sought to have Roy Cohn also gain cross examination access. He plans to testify and consider lie detector use if witnesses agree.
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Washington
McCarthy
Army
Roy Cohn
William Knowland
California
Knowland
Charles Potter
Rep. Mich
Wisconsin
Potter
Michigan
Homer Ferguson
Karl Mundt
Rep. S. D
Stuart Symington Dem
Canada weighs vertical takeoff fighter for RCAF
Ottawa reports defence planners study a vertical takeoff interceptor for home defence and Arctic operations while Europe’s 12 squadrons may shift from Sabre jets. The CF 100 and Avro implications loom as officials weigh keeping European units intact.
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Ottawa
Canada
RCAF
Europe
North Atlantic
Norway
Turkey
United States Navy
Sir Roy Dobson
A. V. Roe Aircraft Company
Avro
Malton
Ont
U S Economy in Good Shape and Ready Remedies
Sinclair Weeks says the United States economy is in excellent shape but could need help if emergencies arise. He cites plus factors and hints at possible monetary policy, tax revisions, incentives, and large scale public works, without detailing specific plans.
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Toronto
Sinclair Weeks
U.S
United States
Weeks
Seattle Dealers Cut Gas Price Four Cents A Gallon
More than 30 Seattle area stations trimmed regular gas prices by three to four cents a gallon to meet irregular market prices. A gasoline dealers' rep said oil companies subsidized the cut, while major oil firm spokesmen denied it. the new price across a 20 station chain was 26.5 cents per U.S. gallon.
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Seattle
Washington Gasoline Dealers’ Association
Canada
Man Killed as Car Hits Freight Train Near Tofield
Melvin Fosa jik, 37, of Tofield Alberta, was instantly killed when his car collided with a CNR freight train at a level crossing about half a mile east of Tofield. Mrs Sutton, a passenger, escaped injury. Tofield lies about 40 miles east of Edmonton.
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Edmonton
Melvin Fosajik
Tofield
Alta
CNR
L. Sutton
Edmonton Weather Update: Sunshine Gives Way to Clouds
Sunny skies in central and southern districts give way to clouding this afternoon as snow flurries are expected across all regions. Temperatures reach 40 in many areas today but will dip to 30 to 35 Tuesday as cooler northwest air arrives.
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Edmonton
Power outage shuts Calgary services across province
A short circuit at a Calgary Power Ltd sub station cut power from 2 51 pm to 3 10 pm Sunday, affecting Red Deer to the U S border and Brooks to Banff. A cable was damaged and replaced. Trolleys halted, clocks lagged about 20 minutes, and all electric services were disrupted.
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Red Deer
Brooks
Banff
Calgary
Calgary Power Ltd
U.S
Brooks and Banff
Churchill Rumors Persist on Retirement and Election
Reuters reports ongoing talk that Sir Winston Churchill may retire but supporters say he has made no definite plans. Cabine t reshuffles and a potential election loom as Queen Elizabeth’s Commonwealth tour ends, with Churchill’s health and unpredictability cited by friends as reasons he may delay any decision.
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Fraser Wighton
London
Reuters
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Elizabeth
Anthony Eden
Winnie J
Atomic Plant May Use Fuel Natural Gas
The AEC said natural gas could fuel Hanford in Richland only if price and other factors align. Gas must run about 30 cents per thousand cubic feet, with supply reliability pipeline security and firm long term contracts under review. Hearings, open since June 1952, edge toward closure as three firms seek rights to pipe gas to the Pacific Northwest.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Hanford
Richland
Wash
Power Commission
Pacific Northwest
AEC
Westcoast Transmission Co
Trans- Northwest Gas Co
Pacific Northwest Pipeline Co
Trans- Northwest
Westcoast
Oregon
Tito's Recipe Eat Little Drink Little Keep Fit
Marshal Tito, Yugoslavia's 61-year-old president, stays fit by hunting and light living. He disappears monthly for hunting at lodges, shot two ibex in Slovenian mountains, keeps coffee and small meals, and reduces smoking from 60 to 25 cigarettes daily. He keeps trophies at his villa in Belgrade suburbs.
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Belgrade
Reuters
Marshal Tito
Josip Broz Tito
Yugoslavia
Slovenia
Oil well blaze rages near Edmonton. several days to control
Western briefs report a gas fed fire at an oil well 33 miles north of Edmonton. Imperial Oil projects several days to bring the blaze under control after it broke out Friday. Nearby, a boy from Fort St. John BC is seriously hurt after a horse kick and is flown to Edmonton for treatment. The missing RCAF Dakota expedition from Edmonton to Fort St. John remains unfound after five days of search.
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Legal
Alta
Edmonton
Imperial Oil
Donald Gardiner
Fort St. John
B.c
RCAF
Alberta
Grande Prairie
Here
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