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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 30, 1947
Page
3
Rear Admiral Richard Byrd docks in Washington with an emperor penguin from Antarctica following a four and a half month south pole expedition. Several penguins escape cages on the ship triggering a chaotic crew search. Byrd says Antarctica holds little military value.
Rev. Josef Tiso, former president of the German controlled Republic of Slovakia, was convicted by a Czechoslovak court of aiding the Nazis and was sentenced to death by hanging. He had been retired by the Roman Catholic church for political activity.
The article notes that pongee is a plain weave fabric made entirely from tussah or wild silk and originated with the Chinese in ancient times.
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