Europa Sinks In French Harbor Be Refloated
The former German liner Europa, renamed Liberte, sank in Le Havre harbor after breaking moorings in a storm. All aboard were ashore by 8 am, with firefighting teams alerted in Cherbourg. The incident followed discoveries of another sunken vessel linked by ownership to the same operators.
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Europa
French Harbor
LE HAVRE
Le Havve
Agence France-Presse
Paris
Liberte
Cherbourg
Touton
Hamburg
Lloyd line
war reparations commission
France
New York harbor
Cockington Village Auction Draws 110 Acres for Sale
The Left Hand Corner notes Cockington near Torquay, England, to be auctioned as 110 acres of village land with 48 items including a 12th century blacksmith shop. The site features the weavers cottage pumpty red barn and sawmill with 500000 annual visitors. Ownership traces from Sir Roger de Cockington to Cary to Maletock and finally Cockington Trust.
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Torquay
Cockington
England
St. Thomas
Roger de Cockington
Robert Cary
Cockington Trust
Corporation of
Dumm
Electric Wiring Triggers Major Fire at Toronto Hydro Shop
A fire at the Toronto Hydro-Electric Commission workshops gutted the main maintenance building on the harbor front. Fire crews from six stations battled two alarms, with damages estimated at 250000 dollars or more. Building damage pegged between 75000 and 160000 dollars, with storage losses over 200000 dollars. The blaze, likely from defective wiring in rear machine shops, was controlled after about two hours.
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TORONTO
Toronto Hydro-Electric Commission
Govt Asking New Pledge To Avoid Strikes Across Industries
The United States government seeks an iron clad no strike pledge from key industries after its coal strike victory. Officials plan voluntary arbitration and peace meetings in gas power light and municipal transportation sectors to deter disruptions in essential economy sectors.
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WASHINGTON
United States
John L. Lewis
Nc utility
labor department
Mr. Lewis
congress
Calgary Man Faces Hanging Aide Promotes Brain Operation
The Calgary Albertan reports Dr W R Read a psychiatrist who recommended frontal lobotomy for Donald Sherman Staley sentenced to hang December 18. Read calls the operation worthwhile though experimental and cites a Detroit case of a similar procedure on a morally degenerate woman producing a new outlook. He suggests therapy and possible shock treatment as alternatives.
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CALGARY
Calgary Albertan
W. R. Read
Donald Sherman Staley
Lethbridge
Staley
Read
Detroit
Detroit dispatch
Dr. Read
Hotel Fires Dominate UK Papers With Grim Fatalities
London papers lead with sensational hotel fires. Daily Express reports a banner line “Another hotel burns guests reap but 1 are lost” while Daily Mirror notes “21 die in second hotel blaze in 24 hours.” Sunday coverage highlights Atlanta blaze killing 120.
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LONDON
C.P
Saskatoon
Daily Express
Daily Mirror
Atlanta, Ga
France’s Upper Chamber Split Narrowly After Sunday Vote
In Paris the centrist MRP leads the Council of the Republic with 62 seats against 6 for Communists after 214 of 315 seats filled. Socialists win 37 seats, Radical Socialists 38, PRL 20, plus several small groups. No party holds a majority. Bidault’s coalition lacks a premier and awaits a permanent government next month.
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PARIS
Mouvement Republican Populaire
MLR
Communist party
France
special election commission
council of the republic
M.R.P
remainis
national assembly
M.R.P.’s
Radical Socialists
Republican Party of Liberty
PRL
Franco-Misulman Union
Interior ministry
MRP
P.R
Georges Bidault
Bidault
Maurice Thorez
Gale lashes at British coast as storm disrupts lands
A fierce gale battered Britain with snow hail rain and landslides. Dartmoor received three inches of rain while rivers burst banks near Exe and Bungay flood warnings mounted. Coast roads flooded and ships faced difficulties as cross channel services halted. The air ministry warned the gale would continue for days.
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LONDON
C.P. Cable
Britain
Devon
Cornwall
Dartmoor
Exeter
Newton Abbot
Torquay
Paignton
Wavney
Bungay
air ministry
Six Youths Die In BC Auto Crash
In Victoria BC six Sooke high school athletes from the Snake Athletic Club died when their 1936 sedan plunged 20 miles west of the city over Jacobs Creek bridge. Three teammates survived missing the same fate after staying at Jordan River. Names include Gerry Pimlott and Warren Shields among the dead. investigators plan an inquest into the tragedy as loggers aided in recovery.
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VICTORIA
C.PJ
Sooke
Jordan River
Gerry Shafer
Gerald Pimlott
Robert Hansen
Fred Smith
Gordon Duncan
Warren Shields
Nanaimo
Sooké
Gerry Pimlott
Jacobs Creek
Relief Drops For Shipwrecked Jews On Mediterranean Island
Five tons of food and supplies were dropped by RAF planes to 800 Jews stranded on a wrecked ship near the Dodecanese island Syrtvia, 90 miles northwest of Rhodes. The operation, led by Fit Lt Alten Ross, used fuel from the Jewish Agency amid a Mediterranean storm.
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JERUSALEM
RAP
Sytvia island
Dodecanese
Palestine
Chevron
Mediterranean
lonely island
Rhodes
Halifax
Alten Ross
Jewish agency
Cyprus
Royal Navy
Arabs wake up the man in the moon during Palestine eclipse
Reuter reports Arab villagers beat empty tins to rouse the sleeping man in the moon as the earth's shadow darkened the moon during an 68 minute total eclipse over Palestine last night.
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JERUSALEM
Dec
Palestine
Canadian hotel fires recall deadly past list
The Canadian Press recounts historic hotel and large fire disasters across Canada with dated incidents from 1914 to 1938. Notable events include the Woodbine Hotel Toronto fire of 1922 and the Laurier Palace theatre tragedy in Montreal in 1927, among many others marking the era’s deadly fire toll.
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Sastato
Woodhine Hotel
Torento
Aur
Wawa
Hantsville
Medway Court
Winnipeg
Albert's Hotel
Rouyn
Que
Queen Hotel
Halifax
Red Lake
Grey Nuns
Montreal
St. Jovite
Shawbridge
St. Boniface
Man
Laurier Palace theatre
St. Charles
Ger
Sacred Heart College
St. Myacindhe
Knights of Columbus
St. John's
East Coal Miners Seek Higher Pay or Strike Demand
The 12,000 Maritime coal miners plan a January 31 strike if no satisfactory wage agreement is reached. They seek a basic wage rise to about $1 per hour, $2.50 more per day, a 40 hour week, union security, and a 15 cent a ton welfare fund royalty, with talks framed by a district conference and a living-wage study showing a family of four needs about $41 weekly.
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OTTAWA
Maritimes
a Jenkins
District 28
United Mine Workers of America
Jenkins
MEL SUFRIN
GLACE BAY
N.S
United Mine Workers
C.C.S
District 36
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Maritime
com
U.M W
Freeman Jenkins
lke
Pit blast traps miners at Lowes coal mine
An explosion at United Steel company Lowes coal mine near Whitehaven Cumberland traps twelve men. The blast shook the colliery tearing roof sections. Over 200 workers were underground. 39 were near the blast, four severely burned and injured while 23 escaped unhurt.
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WHITEHAVEN
Cumberland
Eng
United Steel company
Lowes
Unusual 1946 Accidents Include Dog That Shot Woman
Nationwide roundup notes odd incidents from 1946 with a dog firing a gun at its owner in Baltimore, an Australian hunter shot by a kangaroo, a rabbit wounding a hunter near Louisville, and a buck deer rescuing a comrade near Buckburn Station. A salmon allegedly caused a car scare in Oregon.
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CHICAGO
national safety council
Ruth Patterson
Baltimore
Toby
Louisville
William Humphrey
Del Halstead
Buckburn Station
Calif
Halstead
James Mantakes
La Grande
Ore
Mantakes
Winzcoff Hotel Fire Death Toll Rises to 126
Atlanta reports the Winzcoff hotel blaze has 126 dead with three more names added. City, county and federal probes were ordered as calls for stricter fire safeguards grow. Solicitor-General E. E. Andrews said a grand jury will review possible criminal negligence.
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ATLANTA
Winzcoff hotel
United States
E. E. Andrews
Fire Makes Fatal Blaze in Saskatoon Hotel
Coroner probes deaths after a hotel fire at a Saskatoon establishment killed several people and injured 38, as fire crews struggled to control flames that swept a three story brick building. Names of the dead and seriously injured were reported with ongoing investigation.
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SASKATOON
W. Oliver
Seshen teen today
Barry hetal
Snemite
Albert Scheider
Suse
Atlanta
BE. Clark
William Munro
Mary Agnita Wi ‘Wels Peterson
Mr. Larson
R. McNeil
belleved
Hamilton
Charles Robert Lyons
Tisdale
Sask
Ronalt Proctor
Sovereign
Stampley Currie
Yellowsknife
N.W
Fred Fries
Lewis Reverses Course Amid Calls to End Coal Strike
Washington reports this is the second time in three years that John L. Lewis halted a clash with the White House. In 1943 during wartime, Roosevelt urged miners to return to work as Lewis appeared unmoved, then ceased his plan moments before the president spoke. This weekend Lewis again directed miners back to work ahead of a nationwide broadcast by President Truman.
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WASHINGTON
John L. Lewis
United States
Lewis
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
nisit
Tramar
George Bilton to be hanged after murder conviction
George Bilton, convicted in Oshawa Ontario last September of murdering Theresa Laurie and her four year old daughter in Am, California, faces execution. The death sentence schedule was announced by the state secretary’s department with no arson evidence cited.
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GEORGE BILTON
OTTAWA
Oshawa
teday
St Boniles
UTTAW
C.P
board of transport
Great
U.S
United States
BEC
MOSCOW
LONDON
Soviet Union
BMC
Longman
agtivelvers
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PREHN
PITTSBURGH
United Mine
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
digger
Carnegie-Tlinall Steel Corporation
Ford Motor Company
GOVT
G.B
British
Siv
John H. Rupnick
B.C
R.AF
Pat
Uren
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