Britain to Close British Holdings in Communist China
Britain announced in Peiping that remaining British business interests in China will be wound up or sold totaling about 300 million pounds. An estimated 120 Britons will seek exit visas as firms quit, with properties in Shanghai, Tientsin, Hankow, Canton and smaller cities to be handed to Chinese authorities.
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London
Britain
China
Peiping
Foreign Office
United States
Asiatic Petroleum Co
Hong Kong
Reds
Shanghai
Tientsin
Hankow
Canton
Far East
British-American Tobacco Co
Shell Oil Co
Butterfield and Swire
Jardine, Matheson and Co
Red
Korea
Six Die In East and West Coast Plane Crashes
A Halifax cargo plane wreck off Cartwright harbor in Labrador killed three crew members. The crew included pilot G. J. Edwards and co-pilot John Dutchak. In Vancouver area a light plane crashed into Lions Bay, killing two and leaving one missing, with diver efforts to recover bodies from waters up to 150 feet deep.
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Halifax
Maritime Central Airways
Labrador
Cartwright Harbor
G. J. Edwards
Lakeburn
N.B
John Dutchak
Charlottetown
Clifford MacQuarrie
Victoria
Pell
Dutchak
Edmonton
Quebec
Islanders
Halifax St. Mary’s
Vancouver
Powell River
B.C
Lions Bay
Jack Campbell
Navy
George Williams
North Vancouver
Anthony Gagnon
Horeshoe Bay
Margaret Demmis
Gardiner Hopes Worst Over In Saskatchewan Foot and Mouth
Agriculture Minister Gardiner expressed cautious optimism that the worst of the foot and mouth outbreak in Saskatchewan is over after three weeks with no new cases. He warned a new case in the next two to three weeks could prove him wrong and emphasized ongoing measures reduced spread more effectively than elsewhere. The minister noted about 20 Canadians and Germans were involved in the epidemic and the department tracks such figures.
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Regina
Gardiner
Saskatchewan
Agriculture Department
Airplane Probers Held Prisoners In Brazil Jungle
A US aviation safety adviser and a Brazilian air force major were taken hostage by an armed parachutist group near a Pan Am crash site in Brazil. The incident created a split between official and volunteer teams as efforts to secure release continue amid a fatal crash scene burial.
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Miami
Fla
United States
Gordon Bennett
Miami International
CAA
Scott A. Magness
Maj
Miranda Correa
eeHe
Pan American World Airways
US Air Force
Panama Canal Zone
Magness
Bennett
Lino de Mattos
Sao Paulo
Adhemar de Barros
Brazil
de Barros
Belem
Rio de Janeiro
Smilestones Proposes with Kitty and Father’s Sign Off
A playful dialogue shows Smilestones eager to marry Kitty while she nudges him to win over her father. Kitty suggests George should handle the proposal and arrange a meeting with her father to seal the match.
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Kitty
George
Father
Pope condemns Communists for omitting God in education
In Vatican City the Pope accused Communists and other materialists of a bloodless but frightful assassination by removing God from children's schooling. He addressed 2,000 Italian defense ministry workers about peace of mind, family, and work as foundations of world peace through faith.
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Vatican City
Reuters
Defence Ministry
Weather Forecast Promises Warm Spring Days
No break expected in the current spell of warm spring weather. Afternoons will be sunny with 70s to 75 quickly rising, then clouds increasing tomorrow morning in Medicine Hat with widely scattered showers Tuesday afternoon. Temperatures hold near 50 tonight and 75 tomorrow.
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Medicine Hat
Young UW student trapped in Mt. St. Helens crevasse
A 20 year old University of Washington student Art Jessett remained at the bottom of a 90 foot crevasse on Mt. St. Helens after slipping from a party descent. Mountaineers from Seattle and Portland, state patrol and Mt. St. Helens ski patrol tried to reach him but failed by nightfall. His companion Ford Oliphant said an ice ledge 60 feet below the rim melted as he attempted to reach him and heard two groans before silence.
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Spirit Lake
Wash
University of Washington
Mt. St. Helens
Art Jessett
Jessett
Seattle
Portland
Mt. St
Oliphant
Banks to Relax Ottawa Credit Restrictions Today
A joint Bank of Canada and chartered banks plan to lift or ease the credit limits imposed on February 22, 1951. Governor Graham Towers discussed with bank general managers and an official announcement was expected around 3 p.m. MST. The measures started to curb term loans and require 50 percent margins on certain stock loans to cool inflation.
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Ottawa
Bank of Canada
Canada
Graham Towers
Chartered Bank
Bank of Canada-chartered Bank
Finance Department
Ford Office Workers Strike Hit Ford Windsor Plants
Ford of Canada faces its third major stoppage in six months as 900 UAW CIO-CCL office workers strike to press for automatic wage progression, Rand formula dues checkoff, pay raises, overtime pay, holidays, and revised seniority. production lines risk shutdown. 12,000 workers could be idled.
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Windsor
Ford Motor Co
Canada
Ford
United Auto Workers
Cio-Ccl
55 Acres
George Burt
UAW
Mr. Burt
Rand
Burt
Ontario
Ford Company
Canada and U N Council Split Over Development Fund
United Nations delegates begin the 10 week session as Canada and the United States brace for a likely defeat on a proposed International Development Fund aimed at grants for roads schools and factories. Undeveloped nations push the plan, while Britain Argentina Belgium China Cuba Czechoslovakia Egypt France Iran Mexico Pakistan Philippines Poland Sweden Russia and Uruguay sit on the council. The United States seeks to favor its own aid program and may back an investment corporation with the World Bank to attract private capital, provided guarantees are offered. Canada will participate in discussions with Jean Lesage heading the Canadian delegation.
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United Nations
N.Y. CP
Canada
United States
United Nations Economic, and Social, Council
Jean Lesage
Montmagny-s'Islet
U.N
U.S
International Bank
Britain
Argentina
Belgium
China
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
Egypt
France
Iran
Mexico
Pakistan
Philippines
Poland
Sweden
Russia
Uruguay
Korea
Berliners Fear New Soviet Blockade After Border Closure
Berliners grow anxious as East German authorities close the Gut en furst Hof passenger line linking the Soviet zone with West Germany. Freight service on that route continues while six other inter zonal crossings remain operational. West German officials report normal traffic on the remaining lines amid rising fears as Bonn approaches a peace treaty.
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Frankfurt
Germany
West Germany
Gutenfuerst
Thuringina
Hof
Bavaria
Berlin
Gutenferst-Hof
Bonn
UN truce negotiator calls North Korean denial a lie
In Munsan Korea the UN truce negotiator described a Communist denial of agreed screening of captured prisoners as an out and out lie. Nam Il denied any agreement to screening while Gen Clark announced Maj Gen Harrison would replace Joy as senior UN delegate. Truce talks to resume next day at 11 am.
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Munsan
Korea
United Nations
Reds
Allie
C. Turrier
Joy
Nam‘ Il
Tokyo
Mark Clark
U.N
William K. Harrison, Jr
United States Naval Acadmy
Othe
Namil
Eer
Fourteen Tourists Trapped in Parliament Elevator in Ottawa
Fourteen people including eight men four women and a seven year old boy were trapped for four hours in a Peace Tower elevator in Ottawa. The cage jammed after overloading and fast descent, operators freed them gradually and no one was in danger. Immigrant visitors from Germany the United States and England were in the group. the child Guy Albert from Hull cried at first but soon helped keep spirits up.
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Ottawa
Parliaments Peace Tower
Memorial Chamber
Charles Michaud
Peace Tower
Gatineau Hills
Germany
United States
England
Guy
Albert
Hull
Que
Canadians and Germans clash near Hannover site watch by soldiers
In Hannover German police report a weekend clash near a city site in which about 70 Canadian soldiers observed fighting outside several restaurants. Three German officers sustained minor injuries and several Germans were reported with minor wounds while a Canadian vehicle was overturned by locals.
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Stirton
Hannover
Germany
Frend
a.Germa
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British Close Red Holdings
God
Bergen Op Zoom
Holland
Netherlands
Colombo Plan
Economic and Social Council
General Assembly
Assembly
Paris
Jure
Ben Motor
Dole
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