Explosion Extinguishes Fire at Alberta Oil Well
In the Excelsior oil field 12 miles north of Edmonton Pacific Petroleums Ltd faced a blazing No. 2 well after a 24 hour gas fire. Oil well shooter Casey Ball of Lloydminster and tool pusher Gar net Edwards placed a 30 pound dynamite charge near the well head and detonated it from 100 yards away, cutting off oxygen and halting the blaze. Gas flow was estimated at 16 million cubic feet daily as crews aimed to cap the well later today.
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Edmonton
Pacific Petroleums Ltd
Excelsior
Here
Casey Ball
Lloydminster
Sask
Ball
Garnet Edwards
Commonwealth Drilling Company
De Havilland and Crawford Win 1949 Academy Awards
Hollywood reports the 1949 Academy Awards with All the King’s Men named best picture. Olivia de Havilland and Broderick Crawford win top acting honors while Mercedes McCambridge earns supporting actress. Dean Jagger wins supporting actor. José Manciewicz wins directing. Marsha Mason wins writing.
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Hollywood
Olivia ‘de Havilland
Broderick Crawford
Mercedes McCambridge
Miss de Cambridge
Fletcher
Markle
CBC
Dean Jagger
Hollywood Boulevard
Crawford
Jane Wyman
Wigmer
Pine “God
de Havilland
James Stewart
Bette Davis
Spencer Tracy
Frederic March
Luise Rainer
Joséph L. Manciewicz
Tree
Famine in Red China Reported At 50 Million
AP dispatches from Hong Kong say famine in communist China may involve up to 50 million people with one fifth facing desperate conditions. Reports describe spread from eastern provinces to the west and south with plagues, animal die offs, and March floods hurting spring plantings.
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Hong Kong
China
Nnde
Reds
Peiping Radio
Anhwei
Shantung
Kiangsu
Canton
East River
Russia
West
Snow Signal Clue In C-54 Missing Plane Search
An RCAF search plane was to depart Fort St. John B C at dawn to chase a distress signal seen in the snow about 20 miles south of the Peace River. The message IF signals serious injuries and requests aid while investigators pursue the American C 54 transport missing with 44 aboard since January 26 en route from Anchorage to Great Falls.
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Edmonton
RCAF
Fort St. John B.C
Peace River
United States’ Air Force
Anchorage
Alaska
Great
Falls
Mont
Air Force
Arctic Fort
St. John
British Columbia
Ed- Pop
Tomp Nelson
B.C
Calgary bread price fixing case heard in preliminary session
The court hears that large Calgary bakeries submitted the same bid price for institutional contracts. Col. George Weir testifies the Alberta Master Bakers Association awarded work in rotation. He recalls protesting Edmonton bread deliveries to Calgary relief soup kitchen in 1937. The case involves the Bakery Employers Association of Alberta and six Western Canada bakeries charged with price fixing.
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Calgary
George Weir
Edmonton
Alberta Master Bakers’ Association
Col. Weir
W. D. King
Eisenhower Urges Disarmament With Guarded U.S. Defense
In New York the former general and Columbia president outlined a fourfold peace formula. He said the United States has reduced armaments below safety but cannot safely trim defenses until all nations act similarly. He warned that showing weakness invites war and stressed universal justice and freedom as prerequisites.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
Europe
Eisenhower
Columbia
University
City to take no further action for Hargreaves quads
Mayor Smale said Sault Ste. Marie would do nothing more to assist C C Hargreaves and their 14 month old quadruplets, while Toronto officials and radio stations mobilized aid efforts. A Hamilton station launched clothing drives and CKEY started a fund drive to aid the family.
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Smale
Toronto
Sault Ste. Marie
David Balfour
Allan Lamport
Toronto Board of Central
Lamport
Sault
Herbert Smale
C. C. Hargreaves
CHML
Hermilton
A. Toronto Radio
CKEY
Nine Year Romance to Grow Aboard Empress of Canada
A Halifax bound romance tale follows Miss Freda Cooling a 9 year romance rekindling in the Arctic. She travels aboard the Empress of Canada from England via train to Edmonton then air to Alaska to meet Canadian radio operator John Live sly at a remote trading post. Also aboard are Janet McGregor 26 of Glasgow who will wed farmer Edgar Seward and Canadian Press figures Senator W Roberts Davies Norman Cribdens L V Nassey.
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Halifax
Cheshire
England
Beaver
Creek
Yukon
Freda Cooling
Arctic Circle
Seamen’s’ Institute
John Live‘sly
Vancouver
John
Frada
Freda
Canada
Edmonton
Janet McGregor
Glasgow
Edgar ‘Seward
Granum
Alta
W. Robert Davies
Kingston
Canadian
Press
Avho
London
Press Union
Norman
Cribdens
Canadian * Press
Ottawa
L. V. Nassey
Toronto
Riots End Bid to Form Belgian Government
Former Belgian premier Count Henri Carton de Wiart abandoned efforts to form a government after 24 hour warning strike by 300000 workers in Brussels. Rioters clashed with police as 200 streetcars were wrecked, protesters at Socialist led rally urged abdication of King Leopold III amid a national referendum showing 57.6 percent for the king's return.
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Brussels
Henri Carton de Wiart
Leopold III
Walloon
General Federation of Labor
Spring jitters in Congress as scare season opens
Washington reports that lawmakers face a spring scare season with debates over budget deficits, tax cuts, unemployment above four million, and protectionist pressures. Officials warn foreign policy and Marshal Plan anxieties loom as Congress weighs retrenchment and farm price supports amid large government stockpiles.
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Washington
Congressional Hallowe’en
State Department
Economic Co-Operation Administration
Congress
Mother Drowns 2 Then Loses Nerve
In Winston Salem, Mrs. E R DeBusk told police she led three of her six children to a wreck and drowned two of them before losing nerve to kill the third and herself. Iva Lee DeBusk six months and Charles Franklin DeBusk two were found holding hands on the creek bank, Ruby Lee DeBusk five survived.
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Winston-Salem
N.C
E.R. DeBusk
Iva Lee Debuisk
Charles Franklin DeBusk
Cerek Bank
Ruby Lee DeBusk
Smilestones Saint Peter Disjointed Note Emerges
A fragmented OCR item shows garbled dialogue about ascent and arrival occurrences with unclear speakers and dates. The readable phrase mentions Saint Peter and a new arrival phrase Py.
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Smilestones
Saint’ Peter
Cross Argues for S a Day Hospital Scheme for Cities
Edmonton debate centers on a proposed city council run hospital plan costing $1 per day. Health Minister Cross defends subsidies to urban hospitals arguing city councils face deficits without the scheme. Opposition leader Prowse warns such care would rise in cost as doctors send more patients to hospital. He urges a province wide scheme without municipal discrimination.
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Edmonton
D. W. W. Cross
CCF
Cross
J. Harper Prowse
Eskimo Book of Wisdom Second Edition
The Department of Resources and Development issues a revised Eskimo handbook in English Eskimo syllabics and Roman scripts detailing daily life health and safety tips. It stresses cleanliness preventing sickness frostbite treatment and managing family allowances with practical steps for common Eskimo concerns.
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Ottawa
Debater Enlists Lewis Washington for Help
An eighth grade debater from Restville Connecticut asks John L. Lewis for assistance in forming the negative stance on whether coal miners should be allowed to strike. Lewis is away. his office plans to draft a reply after the lengthy Mine Workers strike.
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Washington
Beryl Pearce
Forrestville
Conn
John L. Lewis
Beryl
Lewis
United ‘Mine “Workers Union
CN Sets New Finance Mark Yet Ends in Red
Ottawa reports Canada's public railway system earned a record 500 million dollars in 1949 while posting a 42 million dollar deficit. The CN board cites fixed charges near 46 million and a five percent traffic drop as key factors. Despite red ink, expansion and payroll reach 311 million, with 33 thousand miles of trackage and continued growth abroad.
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Ottawa
National Railways
Bross
Canada
Chevrier
Newfoundland
America
National
India
Stamships’ ‘Limited
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France
Arctic
Socialist Party
Paul-Henri'‘ Spaak
Leopold
Max
Ias
U. S
U.S
New England
Charles Nichols
Southam
Washington Bureau
Fenella
Sandra Bowler
Eskimos
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