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Prague radio repts Oatis testified at spy trial of 12 alleged accomplices; chief defendant in absentia was alleged CIC agent V Komarek, charged with organizing spy ring under J Pavelka and K Hajek; Pavelka sentenced to death, Hajek to life term; other sentences; Oatis reptdly confessed again
EDMONTON, Alberta, March 15 (Canadian Press) -- N. E. Tanner, Minister of Mines, annonuced last night that the first large-scale exploratory work toward extracting oil from the Athabasca tar sands in north-eastern Alberta will start this summer.
TORONTO, March 15 -- The Toronto Maple Leafs, getting a three-goal performance from Sid Smith, kept in the fight for second place tonight by defeating the New York Rangers, 5 -- 2, in a sluggish National Hockey League game before 13,314 fans.
Agenda item 4 (POW exch); subcom meets; Communists seen willing to settle some disputed points; read Nam Il protest against Koje Is rioting; apparently bar breaking off talks
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]