Bevin Amery MacDonald Named To Churchill Govt Posts
Lord Beaverbrook was named minister of aircraft production and Hugh Dalton became minister of economic warfare. Sir John Reith takes transport, Viscount Caldecote returns as Dominion secretary, Robert Hudson becomes agriculture minister, and Ronald Cross shifts to shipping. Churchill vows victory and blood toil tears and sweat.
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House of Commons
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Transport and General Workers’ Union
L. C. M.S. Amery
Diehard
India
Malcolm MacDonald
West Wall Under Heavy Bombardment By French
British and French bombardments target the Westwall and Maginot line to disrupt Nazi rail routes along the Rhine. Reports say fighting intensifies east of Brussels with German and Allied forces jockeying for position for a major engagement. Observers note German aims toward Belgium rather than a Maginot counteroffensive.
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Freiburg
Western Canadians to Train Under Air Plan at Brandon Depot
Ottawa reports preliminary training arrangements are being made under the British Commonwealth air training plan in western Canada at No 2 Manning depot Brandon Manitoba. Recruits from Toronto depots will now be distributed to western schools and to the Repina initial training school.
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National League and American League baseball results and updates
Baseball scores show Cincy loses 5 to 6 at Brooklyn while New York tops Pittsburgh 7 to 2 and Philadelphia defeats St Louis 4 to 9. American League Washington wins 4 to 11 over Detroit with 11 hits. Training notes mention air corps instruction paths at St Thomas Ontario and assignments to Manning depot No 2 under Wright-Lieut R M Smith in Brandon.
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J H Woods Honored by University of Alta
Rhodes scholar J H Woods of Calgary Alberta earns four law prizes at the University of Alberta convocation in Edmonton. He receives the Chief Justice's gold medal the Carswell prize the National Trust prize and the Stanley Woods Memorial prize in constitutional law.
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Calgary
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University of Alberta
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National Trust
Stanley Woods
Edmonton
J .i. Wands
Tories Accept Manion Resignation As Leader
Ottawa May 14 Conservative caucus accepted the resignation of Hon Dr R J Manion as national leader. Hon R B Hanson was named temporary house leader for the session opening Thursday after a field of five candidates. Manion said he wished to retire but offered to seek a seat and lead if caucus favored it.
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MacNicol
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Joseph Harris
Toronto- Danforth
Former Medicine Hat resident linked to Palm Springs murder
W R Pentland a former Medicine Hat council member and Corona Hotel operator is jailed in Palm Springs on suspicion of murdering Harry Warner 48 during a Sunday scuffle on Penland’s patio. A paring knife was found but Penland denies carrying a knife. Coroner's inquest date pending. Dutch government leaves The Hague for undisclosed destination announced by radio.
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Reed Hospital
Russell M. Gay
Hectic Selling In Wheat Market
Waves of hectic selling rocked the Winnipeg Grain Exchange as wheat futures fell more than five cents and rye prices stayed steady. Chicago trading and war-zone reports prompted broad liquidation with May wheat down 4 1 2 cents to 4 3 4, July off 6 4 7 8 to 85 7 8, and October at 86 8 1 8 cents.
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United States Protests German Invasions in Europe
The United States signaled willingness to join other American republics in a joint protest to Germany over invasions of Holland Belgium and Luxembourg.
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Canadian Press seen as key step for newspapers
W Rupert Davies editor of the Kingston Whig-Standard and CP president told the Ontario Quebec Circulation Managers Association in Kingston that the creation and growth of The Canadian Press as a cooperative news-gathering body marks the most important advance for Canadian newspapers since the century began.
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Canadian Press
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Emma Goldman Dies in Toronto At 70
Emma Goldman an internationally known anarchist died at her Toronto home after months of illness. She would have been 71 in June and spent time in hospital after a February stroke. Survived by her sister Lena Cummings and relatives in New York, she had lived in Toronto about a year and last spoke in Winnipeg last December. Born in Koyno Russia now Lithuania, she came to the United States at 15 and became known as Red Emma for her advocacy of social revolution.
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Ottawa men convicted in anti war pamphlet case prompt ban plea
In Ottawa charges of contravening wartime Defence of Canada Regulations led to the conviction of Harry Binder Louis Binder and Arthur Roy Saunders on all three counts. C L Snyder deputy attorney general asked for a court order declaring the Communist party of Canada illegal. Judge Edgar Chevrier postponed ruling and sentencing until tomorrow.
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Communist Party
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Louis Binder
Arthur Roy Saunders
Edgar Chevrier
International Bank Moves to Interior of Switzerland
Basel reports the Bank for International Settlements will move all records and its business office to Chateau d’Oex in the Bernese Alps as German troop concentrations rise near the Swiss frontier. Observers fear a German push toward the Rhone valley could draw Italy into the war, with Swiss mobilization following at roughly 550,000 to 600,000 troops in reinforced positions along the Rhine and toward Zurich.
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