Police crack down on Sons of Freedom violence in Doukhobor country
Special police squads from British Columbia government deployed with six more officers to the Kootenays and guards placed on trains and bridges after dynamite attacks near Nelson. Premier Byron Johnson cited security reasons for withholding details of the plan as authorities seek to curb a split Doukhobor conflict that has spurred threats and guard duties across the Doukhobor routes.
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ICTORIA
B.C
Doukhobor
Sons of Freedom
British Columbia
Kootenays
Nelson
Kootenay
Canada
Russia
Canadian Pacific Railway
Byron Johnson
Tarrys
Peter Swedlishkoff
sen
Theodore Johnson’s stamp saga at Savannah post office
Theodore Johnson walked from the courthouse to the post office with a fat letter. Not enough stamps, he added four more three cent stamps. He returned to the post office, and the clerk still said more postage was required. The letter’s weight rose, needing yet another three cents.
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SAVANNAH
Theodore Johnson
Johnson
Left Hand Corner on Jet Propelled Turkeys Case
The Aviation Law Reports review of a costly jet propelled turkey incident involving two Republic F-84 Thunderjets and 245 birds killed, noting a government cost of 2.20639 and no salvageable drumsticks. US Air Force officials are quoted as viewing the event as high priced entertainment, with the matter discussed on the back page.
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Thanksrville
Chicago Commerce Clearing House
AIR FORCE
Doctors Order 40 Year Old Twins Reunite In Hotel Plan
In Hertfordshire two twin sisters Edith Sutcliffe and Ethel Robinson aged 40 are to live together again. Doctors say separation worsened their health and ordered the couple to quit their jobs, with the four spouses planning to run a hotel in Skegness Lincolnshire starting February.
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OYSTON
Hertfordshire
England
Edith Sutcliffe
Ethel Robinson
Leonard Sutcliffe
Sidney Robinson
Robinson
Gainsborough
Sutcliffe
Royston
Skegness
Lincolnshire
National party to take office in New Zealand Friday
The National party, advocating private enterprise, won 46 of 80 seats in Parliament, defeating the 14 year Labor government. Labor will form the opposition with 34 seats after the Wednesday election.
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AUCKLAND
N.Z
Nationalist party
New Zealand
Labor
National party
First color photos taken from U S Acrobee rocket
Air force lofted an Acrobee rocket about 60 miles up from Alamogordo New Mexico on Friday. Maj. D M Brown of Holloman base said the craft stayed aloft for 15 minutes reaching 4200 miles per hour and sending back the earth color images.
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ALAMAGORDO, N.M
United States air force
Maj
D. M. Brown
Holloman air force base
Kai-Shek Almost Caught By Reds
Chinese forces barely missed capturing Chiang Kai-Shek at Chungking as Communists closed in. Chiang delayed leaving the city to prevent panic, then fled by jeep to Pelshiyi airfield after refugees clogged the highway. He boarded a Skymaster in darkness and lifted off at daybreak, while Communist troops cut one escape route from the Nationalist capital.
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SPENCER MOOSA
CHENGTU
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chungking
Chiang
Pelshiyi airfield
Skymaster
KAI-SHEK
Nightlong flood aids Bailey bridge plan at Capilano River
Giant searchlights illuminate West Vancouver as Army Engineers begin dredging to divert Capilano River and salvage a Bailey bridge. A new five acre rock and gravel area must be cleared and river foundations prepared before a lattice bridge arrives from Chilliwack. Flood protection talks may follow with M. E. Snowden.
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VANCOUVER
Capilano
West Vancouver
north shore
Capi Jano
Royal Canadian Army
Chilliwack
British Columbia
North Vancouver
M. E. Snowden
Red Shadow Spreads Into Last Haven in China
Nationalists face a hopeless task as Reds push into western China. Chengtu and Kumning highways are cut, Chungking falls, and Li Tsung Jen prepares to leave Hong Kong for the United States while Chiang Kai Shek resumes defense leadership amid civil war splits.
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CHENGTU
China
Kumning
here
Chungking
Suyung
Li Tsung-Jen
Hong Kong
Chiang Kai- Shek
Chiang
United States
Washington
Push New Drug Research Push New Drug Research
Canada will push development of two new drugs acid and cortisone with promising results for arthritis and other diseases. Health Minister Martin said no effort will be spared but stressed the work remains experimental and no final decisions on use or effects have been made.
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OTTAWA
Canada
Martin
commons
health department
Three Die As Car Skids Into Train At Okotoks Crossing
Three men from Claresholm were killed and a fourth injured when their car skidded on a snowy River Avenue crossing near Okotoks as CPR's Calgary Lethbridge train approached at 35 mph. The victims were Harry Paulson A E Tony Barry and R J Powers. Teo Pfefferle survived with minor injuries and was treated in High River hospital. An inquest was ordered.
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C.P.R
Calgary - Lethbridge
Okotoks
Claresholm
Calgary
Harry Paulson
A. E
Tony” Barry
River Avenue
J. Kirk
Powers
Pfefferle
High River hospital
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
C.P.R. oficials
W. Stokes
Lava Threatens Sicilian Town Maletto
Mount Etna erupts anew sending lava toward Maletto and Bronte in Sicily. Officials report the flow slowed but remains dangerous with lava issuing from at least ten openings. Flames towered from the main crater as a quake rattled the region, threatening fruit orchards on the mountain slopes.
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CATANIA
Sicily
Mount Etna
Maletto
Etna
wales
Bronte
Maletta
Europe
Gdam
Alberta-Montana Railway Survey Resolution Endorsed
Delegates from Lethbridge Calgary Edmonton and Great Falls pass a resolution urging the US to include a survey of the Eastern Rocky Mountain slope in planning a link railroad from Canada to Alaska via Alberta and Montana. The measure requests forwarding to Secretary Pearson and notes economic benefits and alignment with the Alaska Highway.
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United States
Alaska
Rocke Mountain
Alberta
Montana
Chambers of Commerce of
Lethbridge
Calgary
Edmonton
Great Falls
Canadian United States Arctic Maneuvers Directed by Chamberlin
Lieutenant General Stephen J. Chamberlin led joint U S and Canadian air and ground exercises along the Canada Alaska border during January and February. The operation tested cooperation and readiness across the Arctic frontier.
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Central Press
United States Army
Stephen J. Chamberlin
Canada- Alaskan
Three Students Die in Dormitory Fire at Oklahoma
Fire swept a wooden University of Oklahoma dormitory killing at least three students and injuring nineteen, two critically. More than three hundred escaped. bodies removed from ruins and as yet unidentified. One injured student named James Melnyk of Big Valley, Alta. Damage estimated at 500000. origin unknown.
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NORMAN
Okla
University of Oklahoma
navy
James Melnyk
Big Valley
Alta
George Cross
Calgary M P Praises John L Lewis In Commons
Ottawa December 3 6 A Progressive Conservative member A L Smith Calgary East spoke in the commons praising John L Lewis while discussing health department subsidies He noted Lewis did good for miners but warned against his ego saying Lewis now thinks he runs the world while others benefited from his leadership.
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OTTAWA
John L. Lewis
A. L. Smith
B.C
Calgary East
health department
United States
Canada
John L. Lewin
Canada aided by FAO may set up agency to manage surpluses
A FAO annual conference in Washington may decide next weekend to create an international body to monitor unmarketable food surpluses and help holding countries dispose of them. The plan includes a committee to assess the world food situation and broker sales, offering Canada assurance of a future outlet for surplus commodities while U.S. Marshall aid and domestic output pressures remain. The conference, now two weeks in, will wrap up by next Wednesday or Thursday after opening speeches from 62 member states and committee work.
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ASHINGTON
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Canada
F.A.O. council
United States
United Kingdom
Britain
U.S
F.A.O
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