Pension plan vast sum would be needed in 1948
Ottawa reports that ten hundred million Gothare in 1948 would be the cost to the house to fund old age pensions. Brooke Claxton argues expenditures must come from taxes, borrowings, or printed money. He says the plan is fair and workable and aligns with foreign systems. The federal proposal would pay 30 a month to all at 70, with a 50-50 share for costs and a means test for ages 65 to 69, estimated at 34 to 40 million.
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Ottawa
Brooke Claxton
Mr. Claxton
Claxton
Dominion
Canada Grants 242 Million Credit to France Postwar Aid
Ottawa announces a government backed loan to France totaling 242.5 million dollars under the Export Credits Insurance Act. The credit bears 3 percent interest and is repayable in 30 annual installments from 1947 to 1976. It aims to expand Canadian agricultural and industrial trade with France and follows a request from Leon Blum.
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Ottawa
AERIS
Ilsley
Canada
France
Leon Blum
Long Canoe Trip From Vancouver To New York
Vancouver fisher and prospector O P Smith, age 66, paddles the Fraser River toward New York over inland waterways. He left April 7 from English Bay, entered the Fraser near Point Grey, then ascends the river. Plans to follow fur trader routes east via the Winnipeg River to the Great Lakes.
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Vancouver
O. P. Smith
Fraser River
New York
Mr. Smith
English Bay
Point Grey
Fraser
Winnipeg River
Great Lakes
Easter candy shortage hits Canadian kids hard
Candy manufacturers in Ottawa warn this Easter will be the worst on record with a limited supply of novelties. They note a late sugar quota increase and prices board figures show supplies are well below last year and far under 1943 44 levels.
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Ottawa
Valuable Chart Sent To Canada For Safekeeping
A chart detailing wartime hiding places for the Stone of Scone is on display in Canada. Three Britons and three Canadians guarded the secret, with the chart kept in a Bank of Canada vault until after World War II. The display includes the 1939 note describing the stone’s removal from Westminster Abbey and its deposit in the Islip chapel vault.
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Ottawa
Canada
Britain
Islip
England
Scone
Kenneth
Scotland
Dunstaffnege
Loch Etive
Westminster Abbey
Bishop de Labilliere
Westminster
Charles Peers
Graham F. Towers
Bank of Canada
L. P. J. Roy
London
Islip Chapel
Honey price rise in Ottawa raises retail cost
Ottawa reports a wholesale ceiling price for honey increased by one per cent. The higher wholesale rate could lift retail honey prices by about one to one and a half cents per pound, affecting shoppers nationwide.
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Ottawa
Permits Issued for Refugees Entering Canada
Resources Minister Glen told the commons 950 temporary permits were issued for entry into Canada for refugees transferred from the United Kingdom. The figure reflects government actions on refugee relocation and border policy during the period.
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Ottawa
Glen
Commons
Canada
United Kingdom
Bank teller defies robber at Royal Bank branch
Miss Emily Schleifer, a Toronto teller at the Royal Bank downtown, refused a gunman’s demand after he passed a note saying he would kill her. She calmly handed the note back and told him she was too busy to alarm anyone.
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Toronto
Royal Bank
Richmond
Yonge
Emily Schleifer
Conference reports low veteran uptake on unemployment benefits
A three day Ottawa conference of supervisors from veterans department rehabilitation centres across Canada heard that only one in twenty veterans has applied for out of work benefits. The figure was presented by W. S. Woods deputy minister.
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Ottawa
Veterans Department
Canada
W. S. Woods
Hyde Park estate dedicated as national shrine
Franklin D Roosevelt’s Hyde Park estate is dedicated as a national shrine with President Truman, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, and Interior Secretary Krug attending the ceremony. The event marks one year since Roosevelt’s death and features a simple marble tombstone at his grave in the estate’s rose garden.
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Hyde Park
N.Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Truman
Eleanor Roosevelt
J. A. Krug
Mr. Roosevelt
France Accepts U S Proposal for April Foreign Ministers Meeting
Paris reports Foreign Minister Georges Pidani said France accepts a United States plan for a meeting of foreign ministers in April. Britain’s Bevin signaled readiness to negotiate an Anglo French alliance while France pursues talks with Britain, Russia, and the United States on the German issue. Paris also backs the Chungking accord enabling China to withdraw from Indo China.
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Paris
Georges Pidani
France
United States
Bevir
Britain
Foreign Affairs Commission of the
Constituent Assembly
Russia
Chungking
Indo-China
Work finished Ottawa board dissolved after wartime supply role
The inspection board of the United Kingdom and Canada, which approved more than 6.5 billion dollars in war supplies, has been dissolved. The abolition was announced in Ottawa and London, with Canada to form a purely Canadian successor. Formed in October 1940, the board once employed over 19,000 technicians, including about 500 British and U.S. members, the rest Canadians.
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Ottawa
Inspection Board
United Kingdom
Canada
United States
London
Supporters Of Tunnel Project Not Discouraged
London reports the Channel Tunnel Company Limited plans an annual meeting in June amid doubts about the feasibility of a cross channel railway and motor tunnel. Investors recall capital totals, historical delays, and prominent directors like Sir Herbert Walker and the Earl of Radnor while noting past pilot shafts near Dover and Calais.
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London
English Channel
Napoleon
Channel Tunnel Company Limited
Stock Exchange
Paris
Leo F. A. D’erlanger
Dover
Channel
Calais
Britain
Emile D’erlanger
Channel Tunnel Company
William Collard
Sussex
Sir Herbert Walker
Southern Railway
Earl of Radnor
Canada War Criminal Kurt Meyer Remains Imprisoned
London Canada says no decision made on transferring Maj Gen Kurt Meyer to Canada for his life sentence. A spokesman at Canadian military headquarters reported he remains jailed in the United Kingdom as talks continue.
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Canada
James McGuigan
Toronto
Ont
Rome
Italy
Halifax
N.S
St. Michael's Cathedral
London
Kurt Meyer
United Kingdom
Rocky Mountains Span From Desert to Arctic
A broad slice notes the Rocky Mountains extend from New Mexico and Colorado deserts to Arctic regions, outlining the vast north south reach across diverse climates, ecosystems, and landscapes.
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Rocky Mountains
New Mexico
Colorado
Arctic
Britain ready to lower food standards to save wheat
Britain will ration bread if the United States does the same or match U S measures to conserve wheat and flour as famine looms. A cabinet statement after special meetings cited UNRRA appeals for more supplies and said Britain is prepared to ration bread or take other effective steps to prevent starvation, aligning with U S policy. La Guardia urged Britain to ship wheat stocks to Europe, but Britain seeks assurances stocks would be replenished promptly before export.
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London
Britain
United States
UNRRA
Fiorello H. la Guardia
Exchange Telegraph
America
Washington
la Guardia
Government urged to simplify income tax and curb discretion
In brief to Ottawa's senate committee, the Canadian Bar Association pressed clarifying income tax legislation. It urged an appeal tribunal, reduced discretionary powers, exemptions review, and simplification of tax forms. The Standard Railway Brotherhoods backed tax relief via higher exemptions for low income workers in their submission to Prime Minister Mackenzie King.
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Ottawa
Canadian Bar Association
Senate Committee On
Standard Railway Brotherhoods
Mackenzie King
Arctic trek near completion hampered by spring break up
Lt. Col. P. D. Beird of Montreal, commander of Operation Muskox, has a hotel room reserved for May 4 but spring break up in the Canadian north is delaying the final lap of the 3000 mile Arctic trek. Snowmobiles push across Great Bear Lake with river crossings and many unmapped streams ahead.
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Edmonton
P. D. Beird
Montreal
Great Bear Lake
Bomb disposal squads in Britain eliminate 45000 delayed action bombs
Engineers have rendered harmless 45,000 delayed action bombs in Britain. Two more years of work lie ahead as about 2,000 men remain active in London Bristol Hull and towns along the southeast coast.
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London
Britain
Bristol
Hull
Japanese Kwantung Army commander dies in POW camp
A former commander of the Japanese 4th Kwantung Army reportedly killed himself in a prisoner of war camp on March 23, ending his personal crisis and marking a tragic wartime death.
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Kwantung Army
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