New Laws For Japan Approved By The Cabinet
Tokyo reports that Gen Douglas MacArthur announced Japan drafted a new constitution abolishing war and making the emperor a symbol of the state. The cabinet and Emperor Hirohito approved. the diet is to convene by May 10 to consider the document.
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Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Hirohito
Kijuro Shidehara
Wataru Narahashi
Diet
MacArthur
House of Representatives
No Decision Yet on Kurt Meyer Prison Quarters
Ottawa reports no new talks between defence headquarters and British officials on permanent prison quarters for Maj Gen Kurt Meyer the German SS commander sentenced to life for shooting Canadian prisoners. Meyer will remain under Canadian military guard until Allied withdrawal from Britain prompting a possible transfer to Canada if Britain refuses or no German civilian system is ready.
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Ottawa
Defence
Kurt Meyer
Britain
Meyer
England
Canada
Riot in India riot deaths in Bihar and Arcot district
Fifteen people died in election violence near Ranchi Bihar province as police fired on crowds. Nine deaths were from police actions against an Indian mob and six from clashes between Congress supporters and Aborigine party workers. At Cheyyar North Arcot district one person died when police fired on a crowd of four thousand attacking a food supply centre after stock was unavailable.
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Bombay
Ranchi
Bihar
Congress
Cheyyar
Arcot
Canada Suggested as Training Ground for British Troops
In a Commons defence debate Maj. J. G. Morrison urged conscription and proposed Canada as a training site similar to wartime air training. He argued Britain cannot spare land for training while also needing food, saying Canada could supplement the effort.
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London
J. G. Morrison
Salisbury
House of Commons
Britain
Canada
Nassau War Material Committee Plans Free Canned Goods to Britain
The Nassau War Material Committee announced plans to send 2000 cases of canned fruits vegetables and honey as a free gift to Britain aboard the first ship.
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Britain
Nassau War Material Committee
Occupation of Germany May Extend a Decade says Clay
Lt Gen Lucius Clay head of the American military government in Germany says the United States may stay at least ten years to enforce denazification. He notes the new law targets 2 000 000 Nazis and plans a 25 page German statute for liberation from Nazism to guide trials and punishments. The measure applies across the American zone except Berlin and Bremen.
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Berlin
Lucius Clay
Germany
United States
U.S
Clay
Hitler
Munich
Bremen
VISIT DECIDED Field Marshal Montgomery to Canada in September
Vancouver barrister D S Montgomery says Field Marshal Lord Montgomery expects to visit Canada next September as a guest of the Dominion government. The letter from Viscount Montgomery of Alamein notes he will assume duties as chief of the Imperial General Staff in June and anticipates a demanding assignment.
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Vancouver
D. S. Montgomery
Lord Montgomery
Canada
Dominion
Aurich
Germany
Imperial General Staff
Sir Bernard Montgomery
Viscount Montgomery of
Alamein
London Free Press Buys Five Passenger News Aircraft
The London Free Press has purchased a five passenger aircraft for use in news gathering by its editorial staff. Official pilot is W. E. Corfield a reporter whose flying experience dates from 1937 when he joined the St Catharines Ont flying club.
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London
Ont
London Free Press
W. E. Corfield
St. Catharines, Ont
Carnival circuit eyed for western Canada
A winter carnival circuit similar to class A summer fairs may be established in western Canada after a meeting of representatives from prairie and western coast cities.
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Edmonton
Canada
Prairie
Kimberley High Lab Explosion Kills Student
A Kimberley British Columbia high school chemistry lab explosion killed 17 year old Dorothy Callaghan. Teacher Silao Muraro and two pupils Richard Sculli and Arthur Christenson were injured by flying glass and shock. Officials believe an experiment caused the incident with minimal classroom damage and no fire.
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Kimberley, B.C
Dorothy Callaghan
Kimberley High School
Silao Muraro
Richard Sculli
Chapman Camp
Arthur Christenson
Madrid notes shift in Spanish resistance after tripartite missive
Madrid reports a tripartite note from the United States Britain and France with no direct delivery to Spain. Government supporters say they can quash resistance while the opposition calls the note mostly moral leverage. Some observers link the note to Franco and French frontier actions rallying previously apolitical Spaniards.
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Madrid
Spain
United States
Britain
France
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Victor Mallet
London
Francisco Franco
Record of 1945 U.S. crime surge cited by Attorney General
Attorney General Tom Clark reported the 1945 total for serious crimes rose 12.3 percent from 1944, marking the largest annual increase in 15 years in the United States.
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Washington
Tom Clark
United States
Two Views On Churchill Talk Sharply Opposed
In London observers reacted to Winston Churchill's Westminster College address at Fulton Missouri with two starkly different readings. Some saw it as urging an Anglo American anti Comintern bloc, others as pressing Britain and the United States to work with the Soviet Union on limits to post war expansion. Churchill is seen as an elder statesman aiming to avert a new war. Paris analysts expect a cool reception from the French left but hope for support for a Western showdown with Russia and approval for his international air force plan.
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London
Winston Churchill
Westminster College
Fulton
Missouri
Mr. Churchill
House of Commons
Churchill
Soviet Russia
Europe
Far East
Paris
France
Russia
Modern touch trapper plans aviation powered expansion
22 year old Zane Palmer of Meadow Lake western Saskatchewan runs a mink ranch 30 miles north of Meadow Lake and a winter trapline 70 miles northwest. He bought a cabin aircraft to support spring muskrat trapping in an Alberta area east of Athabaska and will seek private pilot then commercial licences. His Waterhen Lake fur ranching father supports his venture.
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Edmonton
Saskatchewan
Zane Palmer
Meadow Lake
Alberta
Athabaska
Palmer
Waterhen Lake
Trapline
Gandhi denounces political fasts in Harijan
Mohandas K. Gandhi, writing in Harijan, condemns fasts used for political ends in India. He warns such fasting would destroy decency and reason and asserts his right to hold his opinion despite global opposition.
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Bombay
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Harijan
India
British Farmers Confront Crops Push Amid War Time Rally
London reports a wide dig against famine as British farmers, allotment holders, and gardeners rise to grow more food. The National Allotments Society aims to add about 10.6 million pounds worth of food, while facing manpower shortages and the reallocation of crops. German POWs and demobilized workers help fill labor gaps as wartime crop plans adjust from wheat acreage to expand production and meet urgent government appeals.
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London
National
United States
Canada
Women's Land Army
Doenitz Seeks US and British Submarine Orders Evidence
Grand Admiral Doenitz demands from the international tribunal that Admiral Nimitz submit sworn testimony to prove US submarines attacked ships without warning and that British admiralty files reveal combat orders to merchant ships. He also seeks interrogation of the US naval commander to show comparable German strategic decisions and orders.
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United States
Deenitz
Otto Kranzbuehler
Nimitz
Canada’s canned goods stocks fall from last year
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports lower holdings across canned fruits vegetables jams juices and soups. Canned fruit 1 861 422 dozen cans versus 2 286 514 last year. canned vegetables 653 160 dozen versus 10 691 113. Field Marshal Viscount Alexander to sail March 29 arrive April 4. Earl of Athlone to leave after March 14 session.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Viscount Alexander
Canada
Earl of Athlone
Weathermen Define Snow to Water Ratio at Ten Inches Per Inch
Weather experts state that ten inches of snowfall generally yield one inch of water. The figure guides precipitation measurements and flood forecasting.
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Justice Kerwin
Supreme Court of Canada
Field Marshal Montgomery
Jacob Souritz
Brazil
Catherine Campbell
Moscom
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Walter Bedell Smith
Gen. Eisenhower
Western
W. Averell Harriman
Moscow
Young Saskatchewan Trapper
Gandhi
Doenitz
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