Progressive Conservatives win Manitoba majority in 1959 election
Premier Duff Roblin's Progressive Conservatives secure 34 of 55 seats, defeating Liberal-Progressives and CCF. Liberal-Progressives drop to 11, CCF to 10, while turnout hits 64 percent. Roblin aims to open session June 9 to tackle unfinished business.
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Winnipeg
Duff Roblin
Manitoba
CCF
Churchill
Rupertsland
Roblin
Mr. Roblin
Diefenbaker
Lloyd Stinson
Donovan Swailes
Progressive Conservatives
Liberal - Progressives
Social Credit Party
Campbell
Portage la Prairie
Stinson
Bank manager shot dead during attempted robbery in Timiskaming
Bank of Montreal in Timiskaming Quebec saw manager A W Heron, 48, fatally shot while grappling with a robber. Two men were later arrested near North Bay after a car chase. Teller Jacques Tremblay was forced to unlock the vault as a gunman entered the bank.
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Timiskaming
Que
A. W. Heron
Bank of Montreal
Quebec
North Bay
Ont
North Baejiz
Vanagee
Feronia
Here
Jaques Trembley
Tremblay
Mr. Heron
Heron
Canal Jam Shaping Up at Port Weller Entrance
Twenty foreign ships lined up in Lake Ontario Thursday to pass through the Welland Canal toward Lake Erie as nine waited Wednesday night. Canada gave limited priority to North American ships to ease the tieup, with lake traffic moving about one vessel per hour. A Liberian freighter named George S. had steering trouble at lock one but was freed within 30 minutes and resumed movement.
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Lake Ontario
Lake Erie
Port Weller
Port Weller Canal
George S
West Plan Brushed Aside In German Peace Talks
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko reaffirmed a plan to postpone a German peace treaty until a freely elected all German government is formed and to convert West Berlin into a demilitarized free city. The United States voiced disappointment, accusing the USSR of seeking to deepen Germany's division. A Soviet spokesman dismissed the Western package plan as a tangled obstacle that would force deadlock.
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Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
West Berlin
United States
Soviet Union
Germany
U. S
West Germany
U.S
Andrew Berding
Nikita Khrushchev
Russia
Moscow Radio
Selwyn Lloyd
Berlin
Lloyd
Gyomyko
ADN
Geneva
Khrushchev
Khrushchev Pushes Division of Germany Amid Talks
Soviet Premier Khrushchev pressed for Germany to remain divided in a Russia speech, opposing the Western plan for a unified Germany. Gromyko signaled talks for separate peace treaties and a possible split of the Western package during the Big Four meetings with Lloyd and Herter.
Britain Expects Gromyko Push for Immediate German Talks
Britain notes Soviet Premier Khrushchev may back separate peace with East Germany if West Germany refuses to join. Khrushchev insists Berlin must be a free city and urges a joint peace treaty between East and West Germany, while Soviet and East German press reject the Western plan as obsolete and dangerous.
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Gromyko
Geneva
Hree
Khrushchev
Russia
West Berlin
East
West Germany
East Germany
Tass
Pravda
Communist Party
Restrictions In Effect As Medicine Hat Prohibits Night Watering
Summer like weather and high demand for domestic water lead Medicine Hat to invoke annual restrictions effective immediately. Odd numbered homes may water on odd days and even numbered homes on even days. Outside watering is banned from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily.
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Medicine Hat
Clear weekend forecast for Alberta and Saskatchewan
Alberta sees cooler air spreading eastward with Alberta temperatures 10 to 15 degrees lower on Saturday. Saskatchewan remains warm with sunny to partly cloudy skies. Medicine Hat stays sunny with occasional cloud. Tonight low of 40, Saturday high around 65.
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Alberta
Saskatchewan
Medicine Hat
Cuba Seens Halt to Executions Amid Silence
In Havana AP reports nine days without an announced execution fueling belief Fidel Castro’s government halted war crime executions. The last public execution was May 5, with at least five death sentences handed down recently, though press speculation points to possible commutations to 30 years. Castro stated the tribunals have completed their job.
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Havana
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Fulgercio Batista
Castro
Fulton denies war declaration over Newfoundland dispute
Ottawa Justice Minister Fulton rejected Premier Smallwood’s claim that his St John’s speech declared war on Newfoundland. Fulton said there was no basis for such an interpretation and faced parliamentary questions on timing and figures amid strained federal Newfoundland relations.
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Ottawa
Fulton
Newfoundland
Smallwood
St. John’s
Commons
Douglas’ Fisher
CCF
Port Arthur
Diefenbaker
Sidney Smith
Fleming
External Affairs Post
Newfoundland Board of Trade
Roland Michener
Frank Howard
Skeena
Arthur Godfrey Survives Dangerous Lung Operation
New York AP report says Arthur Godfrey leaving hospital after a perilous lung cancer surgery. The 55 year old entertainer spoke emotionally about his fear before the procedure and thanked doctors for removing the malignant growth wrapped around the aorta. He vowed to use this second chance to entertain and help others.
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NEW York (Ap
Arthur Godfrey
Ship Blast Victim Dies in Vancouver Harbor Fire
Chief engineer Per Stadlund of the Norwegian freighter Ferngulf died from burns two weeks after an explosion and fire in Vancouver harbor. He died in a Vancouver hospital after transfer from North Vancouver. Magnus Larsen previously died, four other men were injured with two released. Firefighters from Canadian Navy vessels and an American submarine quelled the blaze after nine minutes.
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Vancouver
Per Stadlund
Stadlund
Haugesund
Norway
Magnus Larsen
Maine businessman ends five hour gun battle with suicide
In Limerick Maine a brooding businessman shot his wife Rose Hamlin police chief Pierre Harnois and wounded two state troopers before shooting himself in a cellar during a five hour siege. Westbrook Chief Harnois and Trooper Regina died. Trooper Parker was wounded. Hamlin died by suicide as officers closed in near an old mill pond. Despondency followed business failure.
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Limerick
Maine
Hamlin
Rose
Westbrook
Pierre Harnois
Stephen A. Regina
Willard Parker
Portland
Jessie Mitchell
Ane
Harnois
FBI
Regina
Montreal business man dubbed Al Capone of Canada linked to Ontario trust robberies
The Telegram reports a Montreal businessman police call the Al Capone of Canada as the mastermind behind recent Ontario trust company robberies. He allegedly organized schemes across Ontario and Quebec netting about 20 million in bonds and cash, with major profits from trust robberies in Brockville St Catharines and Montreal amid fear to testify.
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Montreal
al Capone
Canada
Ontario
Quebec
Brockville
St .Catharines
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