19 Feb 1946
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Newspaper
Lethbridge Herald
Location
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Date
Feb 19, 1946
Page
1
Canadian press recounts the postwar nylon hose scramble as women race to purchase scant stock. Clerks face crowds from Maritimes to Pacific coast cities, with stores using wait lists and mail order to manage shortages.
In Germany near Essen outside the Krupp armament works a grand baronial palace named Villa Hugel stands as a monument to wealth built on war. The article links Krupp profits to German aggression from 1870 through World War II, noting Gustav and Bertha Krupp and Alfred Krupp, and claims the firm underwrote militarism and war.
The St Thomas Times Journal notes Fiorillo LaGuardia’s long mayoral tenure ends as William O’Dwyer assumes office after a ceremonial City Hall exit. The Times highlights O’Dwyer’s Horatio Alger story from immigrant roots to city leader, and compares London’s Dick Whittington episodes with New York’s two mayors, while acknowledging the distinct paths and challenges ahead.
A fire swept through a Chilean national lunatic asylum in Santiago killing nine people and injuring about fifty others. Officials fear more bodies may be found amid the debris.
Vatican reports Pope Pius asked senior cardinals to approve four causes of sanctification. A public consistory will hear the petitions Thursday. Among them is Blessed Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart who died in Chicago in 1917.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police reveal a large waterfront theft network moving expensive British textiles from Halifax docks to inland Canada. Valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars, the ring spanned Halifax Montreal and Toronto with cargoes landed in Halifax and shipped by night to trucks bound for Montreal, involving unnamed firms and suspected stevedores.
Britain and Canada have moved beyond formal meetings in loan discussions. No definite amount yet.双方 to calculate what Britain owes Canada for mutual aid ending last September. Canada’s claim for services and supplies to troops overseas also to be set. British food contracts with Canada enter the picture. Sir Wilfrid Eady notes Britain will likely keep heavy food imports to stabilize foreign exchange during the transition.
Governor Sir John Huggins declared a state of emergency in Kingston after a week of labor unrest and a deadly fire at the Kingston mental hospital where 15 inmates died. The government also banned public possession of firearms except for constables and permit holders as tensions remained high.
In Port Alberni British Columbia on February 19 a cook confronted a logger over hotcakes. After a heated exchange the cook retrieved batter and poured it over the logger. Provincial police investigated but no charges were laid.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the FBI jointly investigate atomic bomb espionage. Norman Robertson under secretary for external affairs, Mr. Justice Roy Kellock royal commissioner, Mr. Justice Taschereai royal commissioner, J. Mackenzie president of the National Research Council, and E. K. Williams royal commission counsel assist in the probe.
Ottawa reports Prime Minister Mackenzie King named a three member Royal Commission to examine scales of salary classifications and conditions of employment of senior civil servants. Commissioners include Walter J. Gordon Maj Gen Edouard de Panet and Sir Horace Hanchton with secretaries J J Deutsch and Paul M Pelletier. The panel will review remuneration relations promotion appointments and manpower needs.
Canadian press reports link the Ottawa inquiry into a spy ring with uranium from Eldorado Gas Mines. Montreal Gazette says Soviet agents tried to buy 500000 worth of pitchblende but failed to extract it from Canada. Officials refused comment while Howe was away. Glassco’s probe has long linked radium and uranium to wartime safeguards.
A mob of Indians including Royal Indian Navy uniforms tore down the U S flag at the U S Information Service office in Bombay and burned it in the street. Walter D Shackleton reported the incident to the American consulate and said authorities were awaiting instructions for an official protest.
The severed arms of Suzanne Degnan, six, believed kidnapped and killed January 7, were found today in a manhole three blocks from the Degnan home. Police recovered the remaining body parts in sewer catch basins near her parents residence on the night of the abduction. Workmen, while inspecting an underground power conduit for leakage, uncovered the arm discovery.
A Philadelphia long distance operator strike was settled, removing the immediate threat of a nationwide sympathy tieup though a wage rise push may trigger further walkouts. Agreement covers promotions and 1,000 operators return to work. broader union action depends on wage demands. The steel strike also nears settlement as talks with USW progress.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King discussed leaking secret Ottawa information with Prime Minister Attlee. Attlee would not issue a public statement, citing the matter as in Canadian hands. Eden asked about contact, Attlee confirmed contact but remained noncommittal on further remarks.
The supreme court of Canada will deliver judgment on the validity of orders in council authorizing the deportation of some of the 24 000 Japanese in Canada. Arguments were heard January 24 and 25 with the cooperative committee on Japanese Canadians and the attorney general of Saskatchewan contesting the orders.
Ottawa reports life attempts on the royal commission witness Igor Gesenko amid guards at Rockcliffe barracks. Canadian spies who worked for a foreign mission linked to the Russian ring face possible charges beyond entrapment. Byrnes says atom knowledge remains US exclusive and no arrests anticipated.
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