Cosmo Lang is Stricken
Lord Lang former Archbishop of Canterbury 81 died suddenly in London after collapsing near a railway station. He crowned King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1937 and helped remove Edward VIII with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Brother of Dr Marshall Lang, he served in the Lords since resigning church leadership in 1942.
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LONDON
Lord Lang
Canterbury
Edward VIII
House of Lords
Church of England
Cosmo Gordon Lang
George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Westminster Abbey
Stanley Baldwin
Duke of Windsor
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Marshall Lang
general assembly of
Church of Scotland
Left Hand Corner Report on War Shore Homeless in France
Ottawa Journal interview with Count Jean de Hauteclocque, French ambassador, describing homelessness in France this winter for thousands made homeless by war. He notes shacks of lumber and tarpaulin, shortages of children's clothing, and aid arriving from Canada and the United States. He recounts a Paris anecdote about a secretary who altered a German general’s uniform into a dress.
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France
Canada
United States
Count Jean de Hauteslocque
Ottawa Journal
grandchhild
Roza Brown Pursues Royalty in Ottawa and Québec
For 92 years Mrs. Roza Brown of Kirkland Lake Ontario chased royal moments. She wore velvet robes and greeted visiting royalty in Ottawa and Québec City. She even sent a live antelope to the British princesses during a 1939 royal visit. The article continues on Page Three.
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tOZA
ROYALTY
Time Magazine
Roza Brown
Kirkana Lake
Ont
Ottawa
Quebec City
Canada lifts wartime construction controls
The Canadian press reports Canada abolishes construction control, ending the wartime rule by the munitions ministry. Howe says builders no longer need federal licenses but warns materials remain scarce and local licenses are still required. Veterans housing priorities stay intact as remaining munitions controls are phased out.
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UAWA
Canada
Dominion
Howe
munitions department
Russians decline Iran troops for Azerbaijan crisis
Tehran reports Moscow refuses a second note allowing Iranian forces to move into Azerbaijan province amid a dispute with the Iranian government. Premier Hakim threatens resignation if direct negotiations fail. Soviet troops remain in Sharifabad as a 1941 lend-lease guard. The Nov. 26 note cited potential bloodshed as the reason.
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TEHRAN
Azerbaijan
Hakima
Moscow
Sharifabed
Iran
Senate backs full U N participation in United Nations
Washington December 5 Senate approves by 65 to 7 a bill to give full U N participation to the United States in the United Nations Organization. It also rejects a provision demanding congress consent each time American troops are supplied to the Security Council for aggression cases the president would gain approval only on numbers and types of armed forces.
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WASHINGTON
senate
house of representatives
United States
Nations Organization
congress
U.N.C. security council
security council
War Plant Buildings Demolished in Explosive Blaze
A historic war plant complex was razed after walls and floors were found heavily impregnated with high explosives. The TNT building erupted in smoke as demolitions proceeded, with officials noting safety concerns and controlled implosion methods.
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T.N.T
Sugar and Preserve Rationing to Be Simplified
Ottawa announces a simplified sugar and preserve rationing plan starting January 1. A single plan combines sugar and preserves with new coupon values, expanding choices from jam to maple syrup and honey-butter. Unused pink and P coupons retain 1945 values until expiry January 1946. Home canning sugar allotment remains ten pounds per person with Q coupons.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Prices Board
Alberta Wheat Pool to seek authority to buy more reserves
Alberta Wheat Pool delegates passed a resolution directing the board to apply to the provincial government for power to purchase additional reserves from pool members and to set up periodic cut-offs. The first cut-off would include reserve deductions through 1928, and if the Wheat Pool Act is amended, the board would buy 15 percent of the original reserves including those issued for the 1928 final payment.
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CALGARY
Alberta Wheat Pool
board of directors
British police arrest Nazi advisor Dr Hans Von Helms
In Herford Germany British security police announced the arrest of Dr Hans Von Helms aged 46 a leading government advisor and long time Nazi party member since 1922.
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HERFORD
Germany
Hans Von Helms
Hitler
Germans to move from Canada to Britain as farm workers
London reports German prisoners in Canada will be sent to Britain to replace Italian workers as farm labor. Ottawa said no change in plan to repatriate 32,000 Germans when shipping is available, with movement not expected before next fall at the earliest.
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LONDON
C.P
Canada
Britain
T. Williams
agriculture and fisheries
Tom Williams
Minburn votes for beer parlor in wartime local option
In Minburn Alta on December 5 residents approved a local option beer parlor by 56 to 4 in the first wartime vote. A separate report from Edmonton notes Dell Waugh a 73 year old stock breeder from Fairview died from injuries after falling from a tram last night.
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MINBURN
Alta
EDMONTON
Dell Waugh
Fairview
Peace River
Parliamentary News Bullets Ottawa Dec 5 194? Emergency powers bill debate
In Ottawa on December 5, Frederic Dorion urged a six month hoist to the government emergency powers bill, arguing it was ultra vires as it would extend powers under the War Measures Act for a year. The same day a munitions official outlined priorities for veterans housing, while Social Credit backed some measures and PC and an Independent opposed.
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OTTAWA
C.P
commons
Frederic Dorion
Ind
Charlevoix-Saguenay
Dorion
munitions and supply department
department
department of reconstruction and supply
Canada
United States
S.C
Social Credit
Victor Quelch
Acadia
E. G. Hansell
Macleod
Maj
EB. D. Pulton
Kamliops
Mackenzie
Hansell
Negotiations Break Off in GM UAW Chrysler Talks
Detroit dispatch reports a deadlock in the General Motors strike while C IO UAW and Chrysler Corp broke off wage talks and rejected a one year extension. Chrysler labor director Conder said the union declined a six week extension and a six week extension was also refused. Talks to resume between CIO unionists and GM on alleged illegal picketing were postponed at the union’s request. Walter Reuther urged collective bargaining over new laws as Ford plans a motorized picket column at GM plants this Saturday.
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DETROIT
General Motors
C.LO
United Automobile Workers
Chrysler Corporation
Robert W. Conder
Chrysler
U.A.W
C.I.O. automobile
ilegal
Walter P. Reuther
C.I O
Ford Tocal
U.A.W.C
Truman
Law
Philip Murray
Pittsburgh
Reuther
Emergency Powers Bill debated in Ottawa Commons
The Commons hear debate on extending wartime emergency powers for a postwar period. Government and CCF back the measure against Progressive Conservative and Independent critics. Gardiner and Coldwell argue for controls to ease transition from war to peace while Hackett warns of turbulence without tapering off.
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OTTAWA
The
commons
C.C.F
Gardiner
M. J. Coldwell
John Hackett
P.C
Stanstead
Canada
Mr. Gardiner
Agreement Near on Anglo American Loan Deal
London reports predict Washington negotiations may close soon with a signed loan pact. Prime Minister Attlee could announce in the Commons tomorrow as two remaining details are addressed, outlining a largely reconstruc tion loan with settlement of past shipments and limited interest.
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LONDON
Reuters
Washington
Attlee
house of commons
Britain
Lord Halifax
Edward Bridges
Cabinet
treasury
Lord Keynes
Downing Street
World air speed record confirmed at 606 mph
London reports the Federation Aeronautique Internationale confirmed Group Captain H J Wilson’s average speed of 606 miles per hour at Herne Bay Kent on November 7, recognizing it as the world record.
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LONDON
Reuters
Federation Aeronautique Internationale
Herne Bay
Kent
H. J. Wilson
Six Plane Losses in 10 Days Three Dead in Wild Gate
Authorities search the storm battered Pacific northwest and Alaska for 20 missing fliers including a civilian mail pilot and 19 U S service members. Wreckage reached of a plane that crashed near Mount St Helens. four airmen missing and one survivor. Bodies of four airmen recovered from a bomber missing since Nov 1. Navy and coast guard aircraft scour 1000 miles of rugged coast. Nome search teams reach a hill where a malt-loaded plane piloted by Don George crashed. A wild gale rages with at least three dead in Oregon Washington as ships face Puget Sound.
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Associated Press
yORTS LAND Ore
Pacific northwest
Alaska
United States
Mount St. Helens
Red Bluff
Calif
Hamilton Field
TUREF
SEATTLE
Oregon
Washington
Puget
Jail And Lashes For Bank Robbers
SIMCOE Ont December 5 Four men pleaded guilty to armed robbery of about 33000 from the Imperial Bank Langton Ont September 12 Sentences range from two years less one day to 12 years and 20 lashes Gail Hastings Windsor Ont is sentenced to 12 years and 20 lashes Dominic Minnie Ottawa and Gerald Slackburn Windsor each receive 10 years and 2 lashes William Vance Windsor gets two years less one day and two years less one day The plea change followed a police statement by Vance describing the robbery scheme
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SIMCOE
Ont
Imperial Bank
Langton
Gail Hastings
Windsor
Dominic Minnie
Ottawa
Gerald Slackburn
William Vance
Vance
Fate of Yamashita Decided by Military Commission
Manila reports a military commission recessed to study final summations in Yamashita case as prosecution seeks death and defense pleads for justice acquittal. Verdict expected Friday amid tense war trials.
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YAMASHITA
MANILA
A.P
Tomoyuki Yamashita
VANCOUVER
C.P
Vancouver Island
Victoria
BANDOENG
BATAVIA
CUBA
LONDON
United Nations peace organization
San Francisco
Britain
United States
Russia
France
China
U.S
LUEBECK
HERFORD
Germany
Baltic
United States war crimes investigation section
Kiel
BEVIN
TRUMAN
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