Delegates of Canadian Chamber Visit Medicine Hat for Tour
More than 200 convention delegates will arrive by two CPR specials at 8:00 and 8:30 am Friday. Local Chamber members should greet them at the depot by 9:00 and guide a motor tour of Medicine Hat. Alderman Gardner leads transportation. visitors stay until 11:30 am before continuing to Lethbridge and Calgary. The event marks the first Medina Hat stop for chamber delegates. Residents urged to dress in western garb and join the welcome. Schedule includes Crescent Heights Glass House greenhouses First Street SW industrial area and local factories.
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Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Banff
Medicine Hat
C.P.R
Ald
R. C. Gardner
Lethbridge
Calgary
Gardner
Ecaydicade
Crescent Heights
Glass House
First St
Power House
Third Streets
S.W
Division Ave
Sixth St. S.E
Extra Classroom Build at Connaught School
An extra classroom is being equipped in the basement of Connaught Public School to relieve overcrowding. Eleven students from the central hill sector will transfer to other schools for this term. A six room addition with an auditorium is planned for next year, costing about 200000 to 250000, with work starting next spring.
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Connaught
Hill
Elm
Montreal
Leone Flynn
Idea Connaught
RCAF Recruiting Office Reopens in Medicine Hat
The RCAF reactivated a recruiting depot at 627 Second St in Medicine Hat to serve Southern Alberta and part of Saskatchewan. Lt. W. J. Lehman will command a staff of airmen, with plans for a mobile unit to visit communities and immediate postings for air crew and ground crew of all categories. Recruits must be aged 17 to 30.
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RCAF
Medicine Hat
Second St
Air Force Depot
Aire
Fit
W. J. Lehman
Defence. Research
Suffield
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Swift Current
Crows Nest Pass
Mipe
Air Force
Hir
Big Hurricane Nears Bermuda Resort Island
A powerful hurricane with winds near 150 mph and outer winds extending 100 miles threatens Bermuda's resort island as the storm moves northward toward the Atlantic. Gale conditions forecast with possible stronger winds if the center shifts direction. Nearby Florida and Georgia feel the storm’s residual effects as it approaches Bermuda tonight.
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Bermuda Resort Island
Miami
Pla
Bermuda
Florida
Georgia
Huréau
Russia veto defeats U N aid ban on North Korea
The United Nations Security Council blocked a U S sponsored ban on aid to North Korea as Russia used its 44th veto. The move does not affect U N actions aiding South Korea. Maliks push to condemn U S air strikes faces unlikely success as meetings proceed and debates continue over Korea hostilities.
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Lake Success
N.Y
Russia
United Nations Security Council
U.S
U.N
Korea
Jakob A. Malik
Council
Malik
Kremlin
Warren Austin
Britain
Gladwyn Jebb
North Korea
India
Yugoslavia
Scientists Test Breathing Fluid For Humans
Chicago reporters describe a near year end plan to test oxygenated fluid breathing, starting with a monkey in a tank of fluid and potential human trials. Researchers at Illinois College of Medicine say lungs extract oxygen from the liquid as a possible deep sea and space adaptation.
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Chicago
Tllinois College of Medicine
S.N. Stein
Ject
Britain’s stance on Formosa and US policy divergence
A British view argues Formosa should not be permanently defended by UN members, urging Truman to resist political pressure. It notes Formosa’s ambiguous status postwar, having belonged to China, then Japan, with ownership unsettled by a forthcoming peace treaty and UN considerations.
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United States
Truman
Formosa
Korea
Asia
Chiang Bai- Shek
United Nations
Japan
Government of
China
U S Navy Confirms Soviet Plane Shot Down Off Korea
Washington reports that two U S Navy Corsairs from task force WT shot down a twin engined Soviet bomber off Korea after the bomber opened fire on UN forces. The Navy gave no support for Moscow claims of other planes in the vicinity or that any Americans participated beyond the two Corsairs. The bomber was said to be on a training flight and unarmed according to Moscow.
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Washington
United States Navy
Korea
United Nations
State Department
Navy
Moscow
Smilestones Night After Party Ends in Jail Night
Two friends meet on the street two days after a big party. One recounts that a policeman saw him and forced him to spend the night in jail, while the other notes the luck of getting home. The fragment hints at a late night incident and a corrective outcome.
Abbott to Announce Tax Reversal in Commons Tonight
Ottawa reports Finance Minister Abbott will unveil new taxes in a late evening budget speech to the Commons at 8 p.m. EDT. The plan aims to raise revenue for Korean War related costs and defence, with details kept secret until the speech.
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Ottawa
Commons
Finance
Abbott
Europe
North Korean Tanks Annihilated as Taegu Front Holds
United Nations forces repelled fresh Communist assaults north of Taegu. Allied air power knocked out 19 enemy tanks and damaged 22 more in 625 sorties. Two red thrusts toward Taegu were halted, one near Kumhwa highway and another east of Yongchon, as US troops stabilized the central front.
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Tokyo
Taegu
United Nations
Kumhwa
Yongchon
Pusan
Naktong
Yongsan
MacArthur
Red
Pohang
Masan
Jayan
Attao Aepinatt
Asth Division
Sions
Oward Taegu
Waegwan and
Kunwi
Truman Apology Over Marine Criticism Sparks Political Debate
President Truman apologized for harsh remarks labeling Marines as a propaganda machine akin to Stalin's system. He called the Navy's Clifton Cates to the White House and expressed regret, sending a letter to Marine leaders and prompting mixed reactions on Capitol Hill about his judgment.
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Washington
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Stalin
Gordon McDonough
Rep
Calif
Marina
Clifton
B. Cates
White House
Scould
Pemieniyer
House
Capitol Hill
Cates
Commons Defeats Secret Session Move in Ottawa
The Commons voted 156 to 64 against a Progressive Conservative push for a secret session to discuss defence matters. Liberals largely opposed the move, with ICCF and Social Credit joining the PCs. One Liberal, Jean Francois Pouliot, broke ranks to back the opposition, as did J.T. Gibson and Dr. B.B. Gagnon in unclear circumstances.
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Ottawa
Commons
ICCF
Social Credits
George ‘Drew
Jean, Francois, Pouliot
Temiscouata
J.T. Gibson
Ind
Comox-Alberni
BB Gagnon
Becaue
Paris at Sea Port project aims to reach 1955 completion
Paris aims to become an inland port by 1955 at Gennevilliers north of the city. Two full size docks already built will handle about 3 million tons a year, roughly half Havre’s prewar capacity. The site links to the northern rail network and sits in an industrial hub with gas and electric plants.
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Paris
Reuters
Gennevilliers
Havre
Genevilliers
Sea
Systeit
Manpower Urges Action In Ottawa War Speech
A fragmented dispatch notes Major E. D. Fulton urging immediate support for wartime legislation in Ottawa. The lines suggest a speaker pressing for swift passage and national mobilization amid a tense political moment.
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C. L. Clark
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Bessie
Peter Inglis
Southam London Bureau
U.S. Navy
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Gennévilliers
Jean Grandel
Emayor
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