Billings Crash Kills Fifteen Army Men and Two Pilots
A westbound C-47 crashed near Billings Montana in a snowstorm killing fifteen U S army personnel and two Northwest Airlines pilots. Eight hospitalized, six others escaped, two pilots died later. origin Seattle bound. Investigation to follow by Army ferrying division and Northwest Airlines officials. Separately naval airmen missing after a separate search in Florida marshlands with naval flares sightings and a carrier Panda aiding the pursuit.
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BILLINGS
Mont
United States army
Northwest Airlines
Seattle
army and
air corps
Cincinnati
army
C. V. Prossers
St. Paul
Minn
Howard Donaldson
The Left Hand Corner Bridge Invention Story
The Left Hand Corner recounts that auction bridge, created by four British civil servants in India with one hand as dummy, spread from Crockford's Club to the world. It notes contract bridge not appearing until 1925, and Harold Vanderpilt proposing penalties and vulnerability on ships.
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England
India
Crockford
Ontario Sees Twenty One Murder Trials This Year
The Brantford Expositor notes 21 murder trials in Ontario to date, calling it the largest number on record. Deputy Attorney-General Cecil Snyder highlights that many killings arose from brutal attacks rather than premeditation, with youth driving the surge as wartime generations mature.
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Brantford
Ontario
Cecil Snyder
Snyder
RCAF Liberator Sets Vancouver to Ottawa Record Flight
The RCAF announced a new transport plane record for a Liberator on a direct Vancouver Sea Island to Rockcliffe Ottawa run. No. 9 Transport Group achieved a 2,500 mile flight in 10 hours and 52 minutes, a record for transport aircraft on this stretch.
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OTTAWA
R.C.A.F
Vancouver
Sea Island
Rockcliffe air station
air force
No. 9 transport group
Extremists Are Blamed in Iran Clash Dispute
Washington reports Russia blames reactionary elements for northern Iran unrest while rejecting calls to speed troop withdrawal. Molotov reiterates adherence to Tehran declaration and notes time for Russian and British troop removal was settled at a London council two months prior.
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WASHINGTON
Russia
Iran
state department
United States
Britain
TEHRAN
Molotov
Soviet Union
council of foreign ministers
London
Admits sharp-object incident by new mother in Philadelphia
Police said 23 year old Anna May London admitted she hurt her newborn daughter with a nail file hours after birth on November 30 as the baby cried. She remains in critical condition in hospital and a sanity test is planned if she recovers. Foster mother Hannah London found the baby’s body in a bedroom closet.
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PHILADELPHIA
Anna May London
Hannah London
Prairie provinces form advisory water board
Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta sign a formal agreement to create a three member advisory water board to regulate and manage water resources shared by the provinces. The board will exchange information and oversee investigations on irrigation and power projects on the Saskatchewan river with their first meeting planned for January.
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INNIPEG
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
prairie provinces
J. S. McDiarmid
J. L. Phelps
D. B. MacMillan
Three Powers to Discuss Atomic Energy Control in Moscow
The Big Three will meet in Moscow on December 15 with officials from Britain the United States and Russia to discuss control of atomic energy and other current concerns. Secretary Byrnes will depart soon to join Bevin Molotov for talks as they seek understanding on postwar peace efforts and related issues.
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JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON
United States
Moscow
state department
Byrnes
Bevin
Molotov
Iran
China
Russia
Truman
Attlee
Mackenzie King
United Nations
More Troops Will Be Used In Java Crisis
Batavia Java December 8 British command plans to deploy large Dutch and British forces to restore order and re establish Dutch sovereignty in the Netherlands East Indies. The move follows Singapore talks among Mountbatten and allied commanders. New fighting reported as Indonesian platoons attacked Tandjong Priok.
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BATAVIA
Java
Netherlands East Indies
Singapore
Lord Louis Mountbatten
London
Ambarawa
Hubertus Van Mook
The
Hague
Tandjong Priok
Retirement announced by Dean of Canadian Senate on 92nd birthday
Winona Ontario December 8 Senator Ernest Disraeli Smith the dean of the Canadian senate and oldest member by age and service has announced his retirement from the red chamber on his 92nd birthday He cited declining health and reduced time for duties Smith was appointed in 1913 and previously served as Conservative MP for Wentworth from 1900 to 1908 His retirement reduces Liberal seats to 66 PC 27 with three vacancies and comes after fellow PC senator G H Barnard also left the chamber.
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WINONA
Ont
E. D. Smith
Canadian senate
red chamber
Smith
Ontario
Canada
Ernest Disraeli Smith
house of commons
Wentworth
senate
G H. Barnard
P.C
British Columbia
Arthur Meighen
York South
Sir Allen Aylesworth
James J. Donnelly
Parliamentarian News Bulletins Ottawa Bretton Woods Vote
Ottawa reports the commons voted 124 to 12 to send a resolution into committee on a bill ratifying Canada’s signature of Bretton Woods. The debate focused on funding, with $625,000,000 to the IMF and IBRD, and Social Credit opposition citing US interests and parliament access before prorogation.
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OTTAWA
C.P
commons
Bretton Woods
Finance
Isley
commons banking and commerce committee
international monetary fund
international bank of reconstruction
Ilsley
M. J. Coldwell
C.C.P
John Bracken
Progressive Conservative
Mr. Asleyv
Solon Low
Social Credit
house
Low
United States
Walter Tucker a
Rosthern
Roosevelt
banking and commerce committee
No Indigestion For Top Nazis This Christmas
Nuernberg December report says Hermann Goering Joachim Von Ribben, trop and 18 other top Nazis on trial will have an austerity Christmas. Jailer Col Andrus says no festivities no turkeys cigars or wine with a basic menu listed and meals likely to be plain. Special Christmas services by Roman Catholic and Protestant chaplains will be held for the accused.
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NUERNBERG
Dec
Reuters
Hermann Goering
Joachim Von Ribbentrop
Col
B. B. C. Andrus
Filibuster over divorce bills as Canada debates Bretton Woods
In Ottawa the commons, amid a wave of divorce bills, debated prorogation while clashes ran through sessions. Passes on emergency powers extended wartime controls for a year as Social Credit and others oppose Bretton Woods. Members grow weary after days of three sessions daily and beg to go home. Speaker reserved judgment on a point of order amid key budget and housing discussions.
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OTTAWA
Bretton Woods
Gaspard Fauteux
Progressive Conservative
Mackenzie King
BLAST BRETTON WOODS Social Credit
Costs Of Defeat Hit Japan On War Anniversary
Tokyo reports reveal heavy costs of loss four years after Japan declared war. Occupation costs exceed 2.2 million dollars daily, war-crime trials begin at Yokohama December 17 with up to 300 defendants. Some plotters may face Honolulu murder charges. Diet member demands return of looted Chinese property and Tojo is not among those charged. Allied demobilization and repatriation plans sought by commanders in China and the western Pacific.
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TOKYO
Japan
Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Diet
China
Masaharu Homma
Philippines
Manila
Bataan
Yokohama
Joseph B. Keenan
Hideki Tojo
Keeann
house of representatives
Takeo Kimura
Baron Kijuro Shidehara
United States army
Medicine Hat Man Found Dead at Clay Plant
Henry Herman, 44, of Medicine Hat, employed at Alberta Clay Products, was found dead beside his clay drier machine after an accident at work. An inquest will be held today. His body sustained severe injuries. believed caught in the driver belt. No witnesses. Herman's widow is in hospital expecting a fourth child.
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MEDICINE HAT
Henry Herman
Alberta Clay Products
Herman
Medicine Hall
Union rejects GM offer for 10 percent wage boost
Detroit December 8 The GM council of the UAW rejects GM Corp bid for a 10 percent wage increase to end the nationwide strike. Beet sugar refined price rises 5 cents per cwt aligning with cane sugar. Richards restored to CCF in Manitoba legislature. Johnson’s reinstatement refused. Capper says Eisenhower for 1948 nomination. France asks stand on breaking with Franco. Keats trains into Calgary with soldiers arrivals. Moscow hails ministers meeting as key diplomacy progress.
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G.M
DETROIT
General Motors council
C.SO
United Automobile Workers Union
General Motors Corporation
RICHARDS
C.C.F
WINNIPEG
C.P
Berry Richards
Pas
D. L. Johnson
Brandon
EISENHOWER
WASHINGTON
A.P
Arthur Capper
Kas
Dwight Eisenhower
army
FRANCE
PARIS
A.F
French constituent assembly
United States
Britain
Russia
Spain
CALGARY
South Alberta
Lethbridge
MOSCOW
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Bahamas
coast guard
Pandora
airsea rescue group
Orlando-Melbourne
Hydro Power ADVISORY WATER BOARD FOR
G.B. U.S
MONTGOMERY HERFORD
Germany
Bernard L. Montgomery
Belsen concentration camp
Josef Kramer
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Red
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