26 Mar 1949
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Mar 26, 1949
Page
1
On board H M C S Magnificent 32 aircraft handlers refused to muster for work in a sit down demonstration following earlier incidents on Athabaskan and Crescent. The action, brief and settled, reflects grievances aired through standard procedures.
Six USAF planes and one RCA ski Dakota search the Arctic Wasteland after a C B two crash lands 350 miles north of the magnetic pole near Barrow Strait. Resolute Bay sent air commander Martin Costello to oversee the hunt. The crew is reported in excellent condition.
Leicester City a second division club stunned First Division leaders Portsmouth 3 1 in a dramatic cup upset at Sheffield with over 62,000 in attendance. Manchester United and Wolverhampton tied 1 1 forcing a replay next Saturday on Everton's ground.
Defence Minister Claxton slated to hold a press conference Monday to address a new discipline incident aboard the aircraft carrier Magnificent following prior episodes on the destroyers Athabasca and Crescent. Naval headquarters confirms a full investigation into 32 aircraft control ratings failing to muster and clean mess areas during fleet maneuvers in the Caribbean.
The remark suggests a tougher reaction to the incident amid ongoing demonstrations on two destroyers, though the full impact may be overstated. The article notes continued coverage on Page Five.
Hatters will pay one cent more for a loaf of bread starting Monday morning as government wheat subsidies are removed. Retail prices climb from 10 to 13 cents per pound to 11 to 14 cents. Calgary and Edmonton bakeries also plan price hikes over the weekend.
Britain plans tighter export controls on items with possible military value to nations behind the iron curtain. A confidential schedule, sent to 19 European recovery program recipients, asks bans on arms munitions radar gear atom bomb materials jet engine parts and certain precision instruments to restrict Soviet orbit access.
Hubert Madden, a 15-year-old businessman and ally of city political leaders, was found dead on a downtown Philadelphia street. Police say he apparently was beaten to death.
Scientists at Chalk River probe the forces that bind the atom's nucleus. Dr. David Keys says solving this mystery is a key problem for physicists amid aims to use atomic energy for peace and fuel, with Canada, the UK, and the US backing the project since 1945.
Three Canadians from Toronto and Kinley Saskatchewan share $300 as winner on Russian Hero in the Irish hospital sweepstakes. W S Cowley of Kinley and George Greig of Toronto join Ralph Day former Toronto mayor in claiming a $100 900 prize each for owning the winning ticket. Day’s health improves after blood poisoning and his wife confirms his ticket.
Three Canadian nationals were seized by federal agents during a World Peace conference session at the Waldorf Astoria New York. Barker Fairley of Toronto his wife Margaret and John Goss of Vancouver were taken to immigration headquarters amid immigration and FBI inquiry into their entry status.
Two surgeons report a 16 year old boy survived 40 minutes after his heart stopped during a lung operation at Mt Sinai Hospital New York on January 16 1948. AMA Journal notes this may be the longest recorded stoppage followed by resuscitation with heart massage adrenaline oxygen and artificial respiration.
L A McGee of Calgary faces charges related to trying to obtain legislative approval for a fire insurance company bill. Attorney General Lucien Maynard announced the possible bribery count as the private bills committee rejected the Northlands insurance company incorporation. The bill’s sponsor Rose Wilkinson was told costs would be returned, with only printing costs kept by the government.
The Canadian Congress of Labor vows a militant purge of Communists within its ranks. The International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers faces permanent suspension, with subsequent expulsions likely for the United Electrical Workers and others on both coasts. A TL C rift over AFL aims fuels intra-Congress talks, but no settlement yet.
The Commons finished studying five emergency control bills and will resume afternoon and evening sessions. One bill extends the life of government boards requisitioning farm produce for UK contracts for one year. Other measures renew foreign exchange control, wartime rural delivery bonuses, and Crown Corporation life. Wheat Board to sell domestic wheat at $2 a bushel after subsidy withdrawal.
The King marked Newfoundland join to Canada conferring knighthood on Puisne Judge Brian Edward Spencer Dunfield of the Newfoundland Supreme Court. Eighteen other Newfoundlanders received appointments in the order of St Michael and St George and the British Empire.
New York dispatch reports John Farrar of Farrar, Straus and Company believes Canadian English language fiction is entering a golden age with vitality and realism akin to postwar American literature. He cites Robert Christie and Evelyn Eaton works and lists writers including Scott Young and Robertson Davies as leading figures shaping a modern Canadian voice.
In Edmonton CP reports the Alberta legislature will prorogue soon after Friday session, having given second reading to six bills and reported progress on four more. The key item was margarine control, banning butter-colored or yellow margarine sale and limiting restaurant use with signs required, plus seven days notice under the Right of Entry Arbitration Act for oil development on farms.
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