Red Troops Cut Rail Line In Manchuria
Ten to twenty thousand Communist troops reportedly cut the Tientsin Mukden railway lifeline outside the Great Wall northeast of Shanghaikwan. Rail bridges between Chiensuo and Kaoling were blown, rail service disrupted, and forces advanced toward Shanghaikwan and Suichang. Soviet troops reportedly withdrew from Manchuria save for Port Arthur under treaty terms.
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Mukden
Tientsin-Muk- Gen
Manchuria
Great Wall
Shanghaikwan
Port Arthur
Chiensuo
Kaoling
Suichang
Tangshan
Tientsin
Byrnes Proposes July Meeting for Four Power Peace Talks
State Secretary Byrnes proposes adjournment of the four power foreign ministers conference until June 15 and convocation of the 21 power peace conference by July 1 or July 15. He seeks immediate signing of a revised armistice with Italy. Britain and France agree. the Soviet side asks for time to study the plan. A draft Austrian treaty would be on the June 15 agenda if adjournment is accepted.
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Paris
Byrnes
United States
Italy
Austria
Store Wrecked by Doukhobor Sect in Krestova
In Nelson B C Doukhobor protestors seized a co operative store in Krestova claiming the operation violates their religion. They pitched a sit down strike amid wreckage while a group from the community warned against defiance of Canadian laws. Elders had recently urged more cooperative conduct.
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Nelson
B.C
Krestova
Confidential film box ships to Tokyo for atomic data
A large metal box marked confidential was loaded onto a Washington bound plane at Atsugi airfield. It contained captured Japanese film showing the immediate after effects of atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki last August. The film will aid atomic experts before the July Bikini Atoll tests.
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Tokyo
Atsugi
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Bikini Atoll
Dover housing boom as Belgian workers relieve shortage
Dover England sees 50 Belgian workmen in a vanguard of 250 skilled laborers building up residential sections along the seacoast. They relieve the town's housing shortage caused by German V bomb and long range gun attacks from the French coast.
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Dover
Eng
Debt Paid by Savoy Band Leader Carroll Gibbons
Four years after promising to settle, Carroll Gibbons of the Savoy Hotel band received a cheque from two airmen covering a dinner bill for two men who had run out of leave funds plus interest.
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London
Carroll Gibbons
Savoy Hotel
Heavy Problems Faced By Our Metal Industry
Ottawa reports on the wartime expansion of Canada’s mining and metals sector and the Bureau of Mines Resources Department program. It notes the agency’s $5 million facilities, wartime problem solving for aircraft, vehicles, tanks, ships, ammunition, and guns, and breakthroughs in armor, cables, and minerals amid postwar trade concerns. A separate item mentions Gen. Arthur MacArthur’s assassination plot uncovered with Hideo Takayama among others.
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Ottawa
Bureau of Mines of the
Resources Department
Canada
Munitions Department
Inspection Board
United Kingdom
British Admiralty Technical Mission
British Air Mission
Bureau
North America
Pensions Expanded for Disability or Death in Service
Ottawa Veterans Minister Mackenzie announced in the commons veterans committee that pensions may be granted for disability or death incurred on service at home or abroad. The insurance principle, previously limited to overseas service, was endorsed for order-in-council approval to speed payments to about 14 000 cases.
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Ottawa
Mackenzie
The
Commons
Veterans’ Committee
Canada
David Croll
Toronto Spadina
Coventry Cathedral Drive Gets Royal Backing
The King and Queen donated 500 pounds to launch a multi-nation drive aiming to raise 1,250,000 pounds to rebuild Coventry Cathedral ruined by a German air attack on Navy 14 1940.
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Coventry
Warwickshire
Eng
King and Queen
Coventry Cathedral
British Minesweepers Open Irish Sea Entrance
British minesweepers began clearing the south entrance to the Irish Sea to reopen the route to overseas and coastal shipping after six wartime years. The operation aims to restore safe passage and resume trade and movement through the area.
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London
Irish Sea
Fish Filleting Plant Planned for Meadow Lake
A port table quick freezing and filleting plant will be built at Meadow Lake this summer, announced James Gray, secretary of the Saskatchewan fish board. The plant will fillet and freeze whitefish, handling 1,000 pounds daily for local consumption and export.
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Prince Albert, Sask
Meadow Lake
James Gray
Saskatchewan Fish Board
U.S. Wheat Program Lets Bread and Meat Fall Short
The U.S. government outlined a wheat program that will keep bread dark and smaller and cut domestic supplies for bread meat beer and whisky for 13 months starting July 1946. Exports to famine areas will drop from about 400 million to 250 million bushels, with less wheat fed to livestock and no beer or whisky production.
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Washington
United States
Anderson
Canadian officials to tour northern Indians for treaty payments
Edmonton reports Indian affairs officials will fly May 27 on a northern tour to issue treaty payments. M. McCrimmon of Ottawa and Dr. E. L. Stone will visit Peace River Fort Vermilion and Yellowknife regions, gathering Indians at designated points to receive payments through mid July.
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Edmonton
Indian Affairs
Canada
M. McCrimmon
Department of Indian Affairs
Ottawa
E. L. Stone
Indian Hospital
Peace River
Fort Vermilion
Yellowknife
Toscanini Returns To La Scala In Glowing Homecoming
Arturo Toscanini, aged 79, welcomed by Milan as he returns after 17 years of exile to conduct an all Italian program at La Scala. His white hair shone as a brilliant crowd packed the 168 year old theatre, roaring approval after each bow.
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Milan
Italy
Arturo Toscanini
la Scala Opera House
Toscanini
A Lucky Escape in Vancouver Electric Shock
Fred Ferand, 26, a veteran, was struck by a 34 000 volt charge while repairing an aerial on his roof. The current hurled him across the roof, tore a shoe off, and started a fire in a nearby house. Firemen treated him. he was hospitalized with burns but reported as fairly good. Doctors credit the grounded aerial for saving his life.
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Vancouver
Fred Ferand
Ferand
Budget Delay Pushes Canada Finance Plan to June
Finance Minister delays budget in Ottawa awaiting Prime Minister Mackenzie King. The budget is not expected to be introduced until mid June after King returns from overseas, likely around June 12 to 15. The move aligns with the Prime Minister’s return to the house.
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Ottawa
Mackenzie King
Air Sea Rescue Service Saves Thousands in War Effort
London reports the Air Sea rescue service saved 5 721 aircrew in waters around the United Kingdom 32 000 in overseas waters and 4 665 sailors soldiers and civilians in areas other than the seas around Britain during the European war.
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London
Air Sea Rescue Service
United Kingdom
Britain
Allied Powers Adjourn Parleys For A Month
Paris reports say the four foreign ministers agreed to a month long adjournment and will meet again June 15. Byrnes proposed drafting terms for a German peace conference, but no action was taken as Molotov Bidault Bevin and others study the plan amid disputes over the Ruhr Rhineland Saar and Austrian treaty inclusion.
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Paris
Byrnes
United States
Russia
Molotov
Reuters
Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Mediterranean
Germany
Bidault
France
Bevin
Britain
Mr. Byrnes
Rhur
Rhineland
Saar
Mr. Molotov
Ruhr
Britain Rejects Immediate Pacific Base Cessions
British foreign secretary Bevin told Secretary Byrnes in Paris that Britain will not cede bases now. London argues US access should come under a regional South Pacific defense plan with the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, prioritizing defense over sovereignty. Washington and London reportedly near agreement on control of disputed Pacific islands as part of a wider postwar base strategy.
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London
United States
Pacific Islands
England
Bevin
State Byrnes
Great Britain
Byrnes
Paris
United Kingdom
Australia
New Zealand
Washington
Britain
Pacific
Dean Acheson
Atlantic
Mayor Appeals to Residents to Cut Wheat at Evenings
Mayor William O Dwyer issues a proclamation urging New Yorkers to avoid bread cakes pies pastries and other wheat products during evening meals on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday each week. The appeal targets restaurants hotels and public eateries as well as home dining.
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New York
William O'Dwyer
City Hall
Byrnes Proposes Four-Power Commission for Germany
State Secretary James F. Byrnes ordered American officials in Germany to propose to the Allied control council a four power commission. The panel would visit all four occupation zones to study the scope of German disarmament.
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Paris
James F. Byrnes
United States
Germany
Allied Control Council
Narcotics worth 75000 found abandoned near Amherstburg
Windsor RCMP reported a quantity of narcotics with a black market value of 75000 abandoned on the roadside two miles east of Amherstburg.
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Windsor
Ont
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Amherstburg
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Kurt Meyer
Col
Goad
Ulrich
Spud
Arsenault
Prince Edward Island
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