Bombshell Girdles Globe in Record 79 Hours
Milton Reynolds and crew on the Bombshell completed a around the world flight in 78 hours 55 minutes landing at LaGuardia at 12 06 am. The trio included pilot William Odom and flight engineer Carroll Sallee. They beat the prior mark by over 32 hours, averaging 254 mph overall and 318 mph in flight, with final legs including Edmonton Detroit New York. Howard Hughes sent congratulations as Reynolds praised the risky, exhausting trek.
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NEW YORK
Milton Reynolds
Chicago
William Odom
Carroll Sallee
La Guardia
REYNOLDS
Paris
Gander
Newfoundland
Howard Hughes
Edmonton
Minneapolis
Detroit
Hughes
Russia
Cairo
Karachi
Calcutta
India
Shanghai
Tokyo
Adak
Aleutians
Edemonton
Odom
Rochelle
Tex Sallee
Patricia Houlihan
Anchorage
Notable Cecil Burghley Line Highlighted in London Death
A London obituary notes the death of a senior Cecil Burghley lineage member linked to English political church and military life. The piece traces the family’s 500 year prominence from David Cecil, MP for Stamford, to Lord Burghley and Earl Balfour, with ties to Lord Halifax. It mentions no naval service and references the late Prime Minister as Lord Robert Cecil.
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London
David Cecil
Stamford
Henry III
Lord Burchley
Cecil and Burghley
Cecils
Earl Balfour
Cecil
Lord Halifax
Burghley
eas
che
House of Lords
Robert Cecil
Marquess of Salisbury
Amendments Thrown Out in Ottawa Debate
In Ottawa on April 16 the commons ruled out two motions aimed at halting the government’s omnibus bill during second reading. The first proposed opposing the sweeping powers of boards outside parliamentary control and was rejected 124 to 53. The second urged orderly democratic controls to lower basic living costs and was deemed substantially identical to earlier amendments.
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OTTAWA
commons
Donald Fleming
Toronto Eglinton
Fauteux
C.C.F
Stanley Knowles
CGF
Winnipeg North Centre
Coal price surge across Dominion hits households
The Canadian Press reports April 16 1947 as subsidies end and coal prices rise nationwide. In Toronto households face about 3 to 4.75 dollars more per ton for US mined coal, with Halifax shows a rise to 17.25 from 12.50. Western Canada dealers await announced increases as Regina Winnipeg and Alberta BC price talks proceed.
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Toronto
United States
Dominion
Halifax
WESTERN CANADA
Regina
Winnipeg
Alberta
British Columbia
Bennett urges common defence with U S and Britain
Viscount Bennett, former Canadian prime minister, told London's Women's Advertising Club Britain must form a common defence policy and rely on a senior partner, the United States. In Ottawa officials note Canada supports closest cooperation with Britain and the United States in defence matters.
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LONDON
Bennett
Canada
Women's Advertising Club of
Britain
Commonwealth of Nations
ape
dominions
Uncle Sam
dominion
United States
joint board on defence
OTTAWA
defence and external affairs Department
Viscount Bennett
Baby attacked by two children in Toronto veranda
Carry Arnett seven months old was attacked by two seven year olds while asleep in a carriage on the veranda. Betty Simpson 15, passing by, rescued the infant and helped stop bleeding as doctors report the eye and face swelling. Penicillin used to check infection. this is the second attack in about a month.
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TORONTO
Carry Arnett
Betty Simpson
Allan Arnett
Carry
Mr. Arnett
Indians Protest Religious Control Move at BC Convention
Indians of the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia pass a resolution urging all Indian day and residential schools to be free from religious denominational control and governed by the Dominion government. The action follows preaching by Rev. P R Kelly among Haida bands in Queen Charlotte Lands.
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MASSETT
British Columbia
Native Brotherhood of
British smokers face higher taxes in Dalton budget
Britain’s smokers confront new duties as Chancellor Hugh Dalton presents a balanced 1947-48 budget. Editorials call the tax rise unpopular though others praise the fiscal safeguards and surplus forecast, with varied views on tobacco levies and economic strategy.
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LONDON
C.P
Britain
Hugh Dalton
excheauer
Dalton
treasury
United States
The
Times
Manchester Guardian
Liberal
Daily Herald
Labor party
Daily Telegraph
Conservative
Financial Times
No More Hugging in Mexico City Travelers Blocked
Incoming foreign travelers and locals in Mexico City would face a ban on hugging under a civil aeronautics decree. The rule mirrors London's policy denying embraces before customs, claimed to be used to smuggle contraband and dodge duties by British authorities and others.
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MEXICO CITY
department of civil aeronautics
London
Trading with the Enemy Bill Referred to Committee
Ottawa reports State Secretary Gibson told the commons the government will refer its bill continuing regulations over trading with the enemy to the House Public Accounts Committee for review.
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OTTAWA
Gibson
commons
house public accounts committee
Nitrate Laden Ship Triggers Texas City Explosion Chronicle
The Grand Camp nitrate laden ship detonated sparking a chain of blasts across Texas City. Estimates put dead near 350 with 146 injured as fires raged, destroying Monsanto plants and injuring nearby towns. Emergency crews from Houston and Galveston aided in search and rescue as fear and debris filled the harbor.
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Finley
Pete Lipscomb
state highway department
Houston
Associated Press
TEXAS CITY
Texas
Texas Gulf coast
Texas department of police safety
National Guard
Galveston
Grand Camp
Monsanto Chemical Corporation
Galveston Tribune
Tribune
Monsanto
Fort Arthur
Orange
Felly
Palestine
Firat
W. H. Sanberg
Texas City Terminal Railway company
Monsanto chemical plant
Stone Oil company
Republic Oil company
Four Terrorists Executed in Palestine Uprising
In Jerusalem four Jewish militants from Irgun Zvai Leumi were hanged at dawn after trials that found them guilty of violent acts against British rule. A strict security curfew and house arrests for about 400,000 Jews followed the executions as reprisals fears rose.
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JERUSALEM
Alan Kam
Palestine
Cunningham
Dev Bela Gruner
Holy Land
Gruner
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Dov Ben Salman Rosenbaum
Elieser Ben Zion Kashani
Widow Fends Off Burglars In Vancouver Home
Mrs Marion Dale a frail 56 year old widow fought two burglars in her Vancouver hallway after returning home to find them looting a clothes closet She chased them and warned them not to pull a gun promising she would shoot if necessary The burglars escaped with a broken alarm clock as their only tool of threat.
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Vancouver
Apri
Marion Dale
War Criminal Convicted in Global Trial at Meenberg
The verdict found Field Marshal Evierd Milchote of the German air force guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity for recruiting slave labor to support aircraft plants. The court held Milchote responsible for the treatment of slaves and related crimes, while acquitting one count about human experiments._SENTENCE WILL BE IMPOSED TOMORROW. HOESS, Auschwitz Commandant, Died on Gallows in Poland.
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Milch
luftwaffe
HOESS
OSWIECIM
Poland
Rudolf Hoess
Auschwitz
Plane blast kills two in Texas City explosions report
Texas City logs indicate an airplane was shot down by the blasts with two crew members killed. Local coal prices rise next Monday with a 38 cent per ton increase for lamp ekg pes and stoker coal and 10 cents per ton for lump. The House Foreign Affairs Committee approves 3408, 99,000 Greek Turkish aid bill amid party lines. British Bevin to lead delegation home from Moscow by train Tuesday.
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YEXAS CITY
Tex
aP.1
Texas City
brown
Lethbridge Cellieries
HOUSE COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON
A.P
howe of representatives foreign affairs committee
MOSCOW
LONDON
Reutersi
Bevinana hin
Britain
Big Fear foreign ministres
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Lord Bennett
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Great Britain
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MITCH
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Nuernberg
CALGARY
stem
Morrigan
WAR CRIMINAL
QUEEN ELIZABETH
SOUTHAMPTON
Eng
South Imprem harbor
MEDICINE HAT
James J. C. MacDonald
Medicine Hatz
Del Belcher hospital
MacDonald
Medicine Hall
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