Jews graphic attack in Palestine stirs Arab Jewish clashes
Associated Press report from EL AVIV Aug 15 describes Hagana claims of killing four children and seven adults with a bomb and machine gun in an Arab grove near Ramat Gan. Arab deaths and stabbings rise in Tel Aviv Jaffa violence as casualties reach at least 28 Arabs and 13 Jews since Sunday. Property losses cited at over 2 million dollars.
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Palestine
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Ramat Gan
Hagana
Jed
Jaffa
Tel Aviv
Hejaz
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Karlsbady
Boheme
World Zionist Congress
Irgun Zvar Leumi
Irgun
Predicts Fall Of Babylon By Bernard Sayerce Faithful Shepherd
Paris reports that Bernard Sayerce a religious cult leader known as the Faithful Shepherd prophesied that modern society will collapse in an atomic war. He says only his followers the Sweethearts will survive and later see a new golden age dawn.
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Babylon
Bernard Sayerce
Sayerce
Aldermanic Pickpocket Namba Strikes Banquet Crowd
Police say Tomonsuke Namba newly elected member of Nu Mata town assembly stole 9 500 yen from attendees at a banquet celebrating his election victory. The incident occurred in Tokyo on August 15. Authorities described the act as a brazen theft amid political celebrations.
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TOKYO
Tomonsuke Namba
Numata
Palermo’s Sanitation Shocks Street Scavengers Strike
London furnished dispatch notes Palermo as a beautiful yet filthy Southern European city. Street scavengers protest for higher wages amid garbaged streets while goats roam nightly milk rounds and tenement rooms echo with milky parlor sounds as wealth and grime starkly contrast in the market square carts.
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London
Ottawa Journal
Europe
Continent
1939 Dollar Worth Half in U.S. Buying Power
An Associated Press survey across 13 leading American cities finds the 1939 dollar buys only about 50 cents in ordinary necessities today. Some cities show higher meat costs, notably Chicago, while Minneapolis shows lower overall prices. Butter and eggs have risen significantly, with much of the increase occurring in the last year.
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NEW YORK
United States
Associated Press
Minneapolis
Chicago
Meat rationing ends for public eateries in Canada
Ottawa announces removal of meatless days on Tuesdays and Fridays in public eating places effective today. Officials cite improved meat exports to Britain and large beef and mutton commitments, with bacon shipments already assured though beef volumes remain uncertain. The change ends a policy first started in 1943 to conserve meat for overseas needs.
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OTTAWA
tourist bureau
United States
Mest Board
Britain
Canada
meat board
United Kingdom
Rain of little benefit says crop report
Cooler weather and varying rainfall across the prairies in the last week will help only late sown crops. Southern Manitoba needs clear weather to aid late crops and harvest, while rains slowed losses in Saskatchewan. Crop damage ranges from fix to ninety percent, with Alberta and Saskatchewan facing localized head losses. Harvesting in southern areas of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba is delayed.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian National Railways
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Alberta
Worst mine disaster hits Whitehaven area near Irish Sea
A massive underground blast at the 136 year old William mine in Cumberland near Whitehaven threatens Britain’s worst mining toll in years. Rescue teams search seven miles of tunnels as 118 miners feared dead and families gather at the pithead. One survivor, Harry Allen, reports a brutal scene and panic grips the town of 20000 with memories of past disasters.
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Vigorous Note to U S on Coal Embargo Sparks Incident
The Canadian embassy envoy Thomas A. Stone handed a vigorous note to the U S State Department disputing the embargo on United States coal shipments via the Canadian National Railway. The action, effective at midnight, aims to force return of coal cars, with Ottawa seeking immediate department attention amid formal talks. Col Monroe Johnson said the embargo would end when the freight-car surplus in Canada falls to 7,999, currently well above that mark.
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United States
Canadian National Railway
Thomas A. Stone
state department
Q.D.T
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Mr Stone
John D Hickerson
Stone
Hickerson
Canada
Soviet Yugoslav Split With Greece Seen
Observers in Athens say both the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia may sever diplomatic ties with Greece. The Soviet protest accuses Greek authorities of molestion of Russian aides, while Yugoslav representatives seek consular assistance in Belgrade as their minister departed last fall leaving only a charge d affaires.
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ATHENS
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
Greece
Belgrade
Isadore Canear
Briggs Steamship to Run Special Food Cargo Trip to Seattle
Announcement from Juneau that the Briggs Steamship Company will make a special food cargo trip to Seattle in an effort to relieve strikebound Juneau. Ports at Juneau Seward and Ketchikan were tied up by the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen Union action, but Briggs and small Alaska coastal craft were exempt from the stoppage order.
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Alaska
Briggs Steamship Company frenhier Southeastern
Seattle
Seward
Ketchikan
International Longshoremen'’s and Warehousemens Union
CTO
Briggs company
Rio Ministers Move Toward Mutual Defence Pact
Foreign Ministers from 20 American republics meet at Rio de Janeiro to draft a mutual defence treaty and back mediation efforts in Paraguay's civil war. Brazil's Raul Fernandes elected president of the preparatory conference, with opening addresses by Dutra and Bodet.
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Paraguay
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Fernandes
League of Nations
Canada
Hurico Gaspar Dutra
Jaume Torres Bodet
Mexico
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Quitandinha
Rio De Janeiro
Three Killed In West Frankfort Mine Blast
In West Frankfort Illinois a night shift explosion at Orient mine No 2 of the Chicago Wilmington and Franklin Coal Company killed three drilling crew members Charles Clark Alter Clements Jr and George Filkins and left two men with burns and minor injuries. The blast likely a local gas explosion and drew about two thousand spectators for hours amid fears of a major disaster in southern Illinois.
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Mike Stinkiewicz
Blair
Harold Walker
Centralia
Oriel
Senator Harmer Reported Very Low in Ottawa Hospital
Ottawa August 15 Senator WI Harmer of Edmonton was reported very low today at Ottawa Civic hospital where he had been under treatment since July 3 for an unspecified ailment.
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WI. Harmer
Edmonton
Ottawa Civic hospital
Regina Hit by Localized Hailstorm and Floods
A sudden storm lashed Regina with an inch of rain in 15 minutes causing flooded sewers manhole covers blown off and water in streets and subways. Downtown hail drifted to two feet in places while a park received a thin hail cover. no crop damage reported in surrounding areas.
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Fishing Hamlet Doomed By Cape Breton Forest Fire
Four homes burned in Pleasant Bay Nova Scotia as a spreading forest fire menaced the fishing hamlet. Rev Pat Leblanc from Cheticamp called the village doomed as fire moved down Mackenzie Mountain. Showers forecast offered firefighters hope as about 250 residents were sheltered in Cheticamp after evacuations following Monday’s blaze that destroyed 28 of 40 buildings.
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SAULT STE MARIE
Algoma
End of Hostilities Hope Amid India Pakistan Split
New Delhi reports early calls for peaceful methods as Hindu Muslim violence eases in Punjab. Mountbatten transfers British authority to India with Gandhi staging fasting and prayers in Bengaluru for peace. Nehru and Rajendra Prasad sworn in amid mob hostility. Lahore endures fires as Pakistan forms.
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Weis
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Punjab
Bellaghatta
Calcutta
Gandhi
India
Karachi
Mohammed Al Jinnah
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NEHRU
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Thia
Rajendra Prasad
constituent assembly
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Mohandas K Gandhi
Non-Austerity Celebration Of Wedding Urged
London August 15 Reuters The Daily Express called for a non austerity celebration of Princess Elizabeth's wedding to Lieut Philip Mountbatten on November Those arguing against pageantry say the nation is split but Beaverbrook's peer countered that hard times do not justify banning joy on the queen's wedding day The Express urged the nation to rejoice with the princess and not reflect a loss of confidence in Britain.
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Daily Express
Princess Elizabeth
Lieut Philp Mountbatten
Noy
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Victoria
Prince Albert
Bank Aid to Europe Plan Faces World Fund and Bank
Washington officials expect the $8.8 billion monetary fund and the $9.1 billion international bank to back the Marshall plan to revive Europe’s war wrecked economy. Camille Gutt will travel to Paris to discuss the year’s recovery program with representatives from 16 countries. The two institutions would help finance reconstruction and could lessen U.S. funding needs as 16 powers outline Europe’s plan.
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monetary fund
Paris
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John J McCloy
international bank companion
Sud
United States
Marshall
Ready To Accept Thousands Of Europe's D P s
Calgary August 16. H C Cresswell of Montreal, chief commissioner of the CPR immigration and colonization department said in Calgary that the department is ready to accept thousands of displaced persons from Europe and place them on the land as soon as shipping facilities improve.
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Enope
H. C . Cresswell
Montreal
No Change In Pay Rates To Canada's Armed Forces
Ottawa Aug 15 Nefenca Minter Claxton said there was no plan for general pay increases for permanent armed forces members. He noted pay rates were fixed last year for three services, with allowances constantly under review to stay aligned with civilian salaries.
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Nefenca Minter
Claxton
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Communal clashes in Lahore claim fifty lives on freedom day
Reuters reports a riot in Lahore on the first day of independence for India and Pakistan. Troops fired in affected areas, killing about fifty as communal tensions erupted amid the new borders.
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