32 Bodies Pulled From Ruins Of Ill Fated Tenement
New York December report says rescue workers have removed 32 bodies from the collapsed Manhattan tenement and expect only four more remain buried. Fire from an adjoining ice house caused the roof to cave in, killing 22 families. Two boys, ages 13 and 10, were held on arson charges but were not proven to cause the disaster.
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Hospital growth and capacity in postwar America
A long passage notes rising hospital use with 16 250 000 patients yearly, 2 600 000 births, and 5 000 000 000 dollars in capital invested. It cites 78 percent of beds government run, 1 405 247 Americans in hospitals in 1945, and broad industry impact. Also mentions Royal Train travel context from the Manchester Guardian.
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Mystery Man Threatens to Blow Up Scotland Yard
A London Scotland Yard spokesman said a deep voice caller threatened to blast Scotland Yard and the Marble Arch entrance to Hyde Park. Police strengthened guards and dispatched extra units after two midnight calls and a morning warning as a string of threats continued.
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Cohen Appeals After Haileybury Assault Conviction
J L Cohen Toronto labor lawyer filed an appeal at Osgoode Hall on Friday after his Haileybury conviction for assault causing bodily harm to his secretary Elizabeth Gwenard. He received six months imprisonment with Ball set at 1000 dollars and a further 1000 dollars bail by security. The appeal argues the trial judge erred in admitting statements attributed to the complainant.
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Train wreck toll climbs to nineteen in Pennsylvania collision
The Pennsylvania Railroad three train crash near Mansfield, 12 miles southeast, raises deaths to twelve with Edwin Gene Kraytblatt of Chicago among the dead. About fifty injured, four in critical condition, as the Golden Triangle flyer plowed into two eastbound freights in the pre Christmas period.
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Body Found in Hollywood Garage Apartment
The battered body of John J. Darby, 53, was discovered amid wreckage in a Hollywood garage apartment. The back of his head appeared bashed in and walls were splattered with blood as broken furniture lay scattered. Detectives investigate the homicide scene.
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Smuggling Ring Hub In Europe Heavily Feared In Aachen
In Aachen Germany a sprawling smuggling operation moves more than a million dollars worth of illicit goods monthly across the German Belgian Netherlands frontier. British border guards, German police, and Belgian soldiers struggle to curb the flow as jewels furs radios and cars enter Belgium while coffee food and cigarettes leave. The hub of the network is the battered city of Aachen with ties to Ardennes Haertgen Forest and the historic battlefields. Continued details teased for Page Two.
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Arms Policy Is Approved By United Nations
The United Nations assembly unanimously approved a basic plan for world wide arms reduction and rejected an immediate troop census by 36 to 6. The Security Council will decide what troop data to report, while plans for an international inspection system aim to prevent mass destruction weapons. Key speeches by Byrnes Molotov and Bevin accompanied the vote as delegates eyed adjournment.
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Curious Case of the Overshoe Theft
Pred Hackman aged 58 admitted stealing an overshoe after police saw the boot protruding from his coat pocket. He received a three month sentence in court on December 14.
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Threat of Saskatchewan farm delivery strike looms
Regina reports the 46th annual United Farmers of Canada Saskatchewan convention closed with an instruction to appoint an emergency strike committee. Delegates authorized the executive to issue strike ballots if parity price demands and changes to the Agricultural Prices Support Act are not met, linking action to core price and act reforms.
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Blum Hopes For Success In New French Cabinet
Paris December 14 Socialist Premier Leon Blum entering day three of talks voiced ardent hope to form a new cabinet by tonight. He favored Mottet as colonial minister in the recently resigned Bidault government. Communists refuse to back a cross party coalition. Assembly approved council of the republic seats with Communists 12 and MRPs 12, boosting MRP to 74 and Communists to 73 as the main strength fromSunday ballot results.
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Peasants Kidnapped and Killed in Nueva Ecija
Interior secretary Zulueta reports Huks abducted 41 peasants harvesting rice in Nueva Ecija this week. At least four were killed and the others are missing.
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Wheat Pact Defended By Gardiner In Canada Talks
Montreal December 14 Hon James G Gardiner federal agriculture minister defended the Canada United Kingdom wheat agreement of July 1946 as a stabilizing influence in world trade and an encouragement to expansion of world trade and employment He said talks among Ottawa London and Washington officials showed principles in this contract match those in other food pacts and in deals with Britain or the United States and other countries The floor price proposal by the Winnipeg grain exchange was rejected as returning to 1930s subsidies to the rich at taxpayers expense
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End 3 Cent Levy and Italian Penicillin Shipment
The U N R R A plans to ship an entire penicillin factory from the United States to Italy. Italians have studied penicillin production in Canada the United States and England. Finance Minister Abbett announced the government will withdraw the three cent tax across the Dominion starting April. He cited wartime gasoil tax purpose and peacetime removal, noting provinces urged the change.
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Spain condemns UN move on Franco regime
Spain’s cabinet denounces the United Nations General Assembly recommendation to withdraw ambassadors from Francisco Franco’s government as unjust and a dangerous precedent. It calls the action foreign interference, urges no full diplomatic break, and notes popular Madrid Barcelona demonstrations as the public mood. Britain and Netherlands reportedly recall diplomats, other states potentially affected.
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Seagull Mischief and Picket Action Reported
In Victoria last week a seagull pilfered from a fifth floor window at a Central building and dropped a waterlogged item near Mrs. W Martin at Fort and Douglas streets. In Las Vegas pickets were withdrawn from a local plant amid a closed shop dispute at the Las Vegas Evening Review Journal and Sunday Age.
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Germans May Stay In Canada After War
Ottawa reports the federal cabinet approved allowing some German prisoners of war to remain in Canada. About 200 prisoners are expected to stay, mainly farm laborers chosen under a screening process. The move follows negotiations with the United Kingdom and petitions from prisoners and Canadian farmers.
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Men Become Birds Flight Dream From Soviet Research
Moscow reports Maj Gen V V Dolubev and associates claim to have precise theory for wing propulsion and hover. They see future aircraft with flapping wings existing alongside conventional planes for local travel with low fuel use. Researchers struggle to solve long hover duration.
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