Ford Plant Shut Down After Picket Lines Halt Work
Windsor CP Ford Canada plant closes as 200 strikers block access and 7,000 workers refuse to cross lines. About 12,000 idle, traffic jams form outside gates. Local 240 of United Auto Workers says strikers will picket while talks with Ontario Labour Minister Daley aim to end a five day dispute. Ford offers 26 dollars plus small raises. union seeks 43.30 monthly. The plant’s shutdown deeply affects local economy in a city where Ford employment supports one in three incomes.
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Ford Company of Canada
E.S.T
United Auto Workers
C.C.L
Daley
Ontario
Toronto
Ford
Army demotes two generals over Kose prison camp
Washington reports Brig. Gen. Francis Dodd and Brig. Gen. Charles Colson were demoted to colonel after the Kose prison camp incident. In Tokyo Gen. Mark Clark said he ordered the 187th air borne regiment to Koje island to gain uncontested control of UN POW camps and warned rebels that force could be used if needed.
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United States Army
Kose
Senate Armed Services Committee
Francis Dodd
Charles Colson
Tokyo
Mark Clark
8Th Army
United Nations
Pusan
Koje Island
Matthew B. Ridgway
Clark
187Th Airborne Regiment
Koje ‘Island
Koje
Francis T. Dodd
Clarke
James A. van Fleet
Tax Discussion May Stir at Farm Meet in Medicine Hat
At the Bow Valley District Farmers Union of Alberta convention in Medicine Hat on May 31, a proposal to replace income tax with a production tax on farm produce is set for presentation. A. H. Anderson argues the current tax is cumbersome and unfair to farmers. Carl Anderson, Henry Young, Mrs. G Parker, and Ben Plumer are among speakers.
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Bow Valley
Farmers’ Union of Alberta
Medicine Hat
A. H. Anderson
Pashley
Carl Anderson
Brooks
Henry’ Young
Mill
Elkwater Lake Opens Season for Holiday Weekend
Elkwater Lake welcomes hundreds of residents for an opening May 25 with a 2 PM Cactus Food Bar versus Cantalini CPR fastball game, followed by a 3 PM horseshoe tourney. Activities include fishing boating swimming and night dancing as authorities note record high levels and raised entrance road.
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Elkwater Lake
Cactus Food Bar
CPR
Navy reserves to start accelerated summer training
Ottawa CP reports the Royal Canadian Navy announces two week summer courses to help new reserve sailors catch up with experienced members. Beginning June 2 at H.M.CS. Star in Hamilton and running to August 30, the program targets those with under six months reserve service or not yet completed entry training. Read more from naval headquarters.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Navy
Naval Headquarters
Navy
H.m.cs. Star
Naval Division
Hamilton
Ont
Canada
Land Title Error Grants Farmer Million Dollar Rights
Justice W G Egbert rules Anton Turta owns mineral rights worth well over 1 million dollars in the Leduc district after a 1908 land titles error. The case against Canadian Pacific Railway and Imperial Oil Ltd went to Alberta Supreme Court in Edmonton last January. The Torrens title system factored into the dispute and its implications for land ownership.
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Calgary
Anton Turta
Leduc
Land Titles Office
W. G. Egbert
Turta
Canadian Pacific Railway
Imperial Oil Ltd
Alberta Supreme Court
Edmonton
Mike Podgorny
CPR
Tarta
Registrar of Land Titles
Egbert
Australia
Alberta
Canada
Canadian Casualties in Korea Reach 796 to Date
Ottawa dispatch reports the Army’s 110th Korean war casualty list: 1 killed in action 1 officer and 4 men wounded. Since the May 17 list the total casualties to Canadian troops stand at 144 dead 574 wounded 61 injured six missing and one captured.
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Ottawa
Army Today
Lifeboat Rescue Record of Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Since its founding in 1824 the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has rescued nearly 80 000 lives at sea highlighting two centuries of bravery by British lifeboats and crews.
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Royal National Lifeboat Institution
British Lifeboats
Manitoba Lifts Embargo On Cattle From West
Manitoba will end its embargo on cattle from Saskatchewan and Alberta on June 7 if no new foot and mouth outbreaks occur. Agriculture Minister F C Bell announced after caucus approval noting lifting depends on federal floor price program and that western cattle may access eastern markets. Dr Thomas Childs, federal veterinary director general, confirmed no new outbreaks this month.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Agriculture
F. C. Bell
Toay
Bell
Thomas Childs
Childs
Mr. Bell
Communists Agree To Three Day Recess In Talks
In Korea at Panmunjom the Communists agreed to a three day recess in armistice negotiations after the allied chief delegate said no further concessions would be made. North Korean Gen Nam Il agreed to the pause and set the return date later, while Vice Admiral Joy departed to assume duties at Annapolis.
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Munsan
Korea
Nam Il
Panmunjom
William’k. Harrisons Jr
OLN
Harrisons
C. . Turner Joy
United Nations Command
Joy
U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
U.N
Eisenhower bids farewell at NATO Central Sector HQ
General Eisenhower ends command at the NATO Central Sector HQ in Fontainebleau France addressing about 300 officers and 700 enlisted men from six nations. He urges truthful expression of national viewpoints and emotions to troops before returning to the United States to pursue the GOP nomination. General Matthew Ridgway will succeed him.
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France
Dwight D. Eisenhower
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Europe
Eisenhower
Alphonse Juin
Allied Land Forces
Central
North — Atlantic Treaty Organization
U.S
Matthew Ridgway
East German peace pact eyed after Strasbourg talks
Bonn faces ratification hurdles as four nations’ parliaments debate a 350 page peace contract. Eden Schuman and Acheson travel to Berlin to confer with Adenauer after EU discussions. Key open items include effective date the pact name and Belgian troops in Germany.
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German Republic
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Eden
Eson
U.S
Robert Schu
Acheson
Washington
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Schuman
Will
Council: of
Europe
Strasbourg
Conferant Hi
Adenauer
Germany
Armgfence
By-Elections in Three Provinces Face Six Seats
Canadian Press notes six federal by elections Monday across Ontario Quebec and New Brunswick. Liberals contest five seats with two contests Liberal versus Progressive Conservative in Ontario Waterloo North and another Ontario riding. Quebec elects Roberval and Brome Missisquoi with Liberal and Conservative lines and New Brunswick fields Liberal Hedard Robichaud against Progressive Conservative Albany Robichaud for Gloucester and Victoria Carleton.
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Canadian Press
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Ontario
Quebec
New Brunswick
Waterloo North
Louis” ‘Breithaupt
Norman C. Schneider
Elizabeth
Janzen
Leonard
Walter
Thomson
Liberal
John
L. Lay
Mackenzie
King
Herbert Roy Scott
CCF
Michael Starr
Oshawa
Progressive Conservative
Roberval
Brome-Missisquoi
J. A. Dion
Paul Spence
Progressive Conservatives
Cyrille Potvin
Boulanger
Henri Gosselin
Brome Missisquoi
Joseph L
Dessieres
Henri Demers
Philip Borgan
Gloucester
Victoria-Carleton
Hedard
Robichaud
Albany
C.T. Richard
H. J. ‘Hatfield
Victoria- Carleton
Hugh Tait
Gage
Wy ‘Montgomery
Legion Convention Favors Life Term for Kurt Meyer
At the Canadian Legion convention in Montreal the resolution urging life imprisonment for Kurt Meyer was approved. An Ontario bid to repatriate Meyer to a Canadian prison was narrowly defeated as delegates weighed defence and immigration issues alongside wartime accountability.
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Legion Convention
Kurt Meyer
Montreal
Veterans Parliament
National
The
Canadian Legion
Ontario
Canada
Meyer
Frank Mather
Estevan, Sask
Editor’s sharp reply on poem submission
A writer sent a poem to an editor asking for confirmation. The editor responded plainly to replace a metaphorical line with the poem itself, insisting the poem be inserted instead of keeping “irons in the fire.”
Street Cars Dwindle as Trolleys Replace Runners in Four Cities
In 1951 Edmonton Calgary Saskatoon and Hamilton begin replacing streetcars with trolley buses diminishing streetcar networks. The change reflects transit modernization and broader automobile growth altering urban transport. Transit officials project smoother service and lower operating costs despite some worker concerns.
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Edmonton
Calgary
Saskatoon
Hamilton
Planes Saturate Huge North Korea Industrial Centre
United Nations aircraft pounded a large industrial complex southwest of Pyongyang in what US air force called the greatest saturation bombing of the Korean War. The attack involved nearly 800 fighter bomber sorties, supported by B 26s and allied jets, with F 84 Thunderjets leading the assault.
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Seoul
Korea
United Nations
Pyongyang
United States Air Force
Taedong River
Chinnanpo
Manchuria
Fifth Air Force
Lynwood
Clark
United’ Nations
Canadian destroyer Athabaskan in Korean action
A UN communique says the Canadian destroyer Athabaskan and the Royal Navy destroyer Camus bombarded troop and gun positions on the southern tip of the Ongjin peninsula west of Haejin in Korea.
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Seoul
Athabaskan
Korea
United Nations
Camus
Ongjin Peninsula
Haejmn
Good Rains Are Needed Across Prairie Provinces
Winnipeg dispatch reports rain is needed across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta as soil moisture dries. Germination is uneven and pastures and hay crops in southern Manitoba look poor. Wheat seeding nears completion with 99 percent in Manitoba 93 in Saskatchewan and 79 in Alberta. Last year at this time Manitoba 78 Saskatchewan 57 Alberta 42.
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Manitoba
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Al’berta
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