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Newspaper

Lethbridge Herald

Location

Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Date

Jan 13, 1948

Page

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Demolition Squads To Lift Siege In Jerusalem

Jerusalem dispatch reports Jewish squads attacking sniper posts on the outskirts of the city. A Jewish spokesman hinted at a possible dynamite assault in the old city to lift an Arab siege of 1503 Jews. The fighting disrupts traffic between Jerusalem and Mount Scopus as Hagana and British forces defend Jewish outposts amid mortars and machine gun fire.

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Innisfail Hearing On Sale Of Land To Hutterites

An Alberta government hearing will be held in Innisfail on January 15 to examine the legal background of land sold by E. & Stephenson of Pine Hill to the Lakeside Hutterite colony in Southern Alberta. The inquiry is under the Commoner Properties Act enacted in the last legislative session.

INNISFAIL Alberta E. & Stephenson Pine Hy Alla

Left Hand Corner Divorce Rates Highlight Marital Strife

A fragment from the page notes mounting divorce filings, with quotations from couples about spats and grievances. The samples reference daily irritations from household chores to work-life tensions and salaries, illustrating widespread marital strain.

Majority Canadian Japanese Content Remain New Homes

Major Japanese in Canada favor staying in newly established homes across five provinces, with about 80 percent preferring to remain where they are and 40 percent hoping to move back to the coast. The Canada directed paper notes greater freedom and less discrimination in interior towns, though some limits on residence and business remained in British Columbia.

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Airliner Crashes in Rainstorm Near Washington Killing Five

A DC-3 twin engined airliner en route from Houston to Boston crashed on the Maryland side of the Potomac during a rainstorm near National Airport. Five were killed including three passengers and both pilots, four injured. Rescue hindered by slush and mud as authorities identified the victims.

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Yugoslav Returnees Stir Windsor At Home Struggle

John Sulentic, 41, who led a migration from Windsor to Yugoslavia seven months ago, returned with his family and faces ostracism from local Yugoslavs. A friend says leaders of the back-to-Yugoslavia movement seek emigrants from Canada and oppose returnees. Sulentic, with an English-born wife and children, is preparing a statement. He struggles to find accommodation and work, though a farm job in Leamington district is promised.

WINDSOR Cni John Sulentic Yugoslavia Sulentic safow John Canada Bos Wandsor Su- Jenric Yugo- Sovia Sulenik Leamington Tusiziend saz

Zionist Defiance Slogan Urges Offensive Stand

Ottawa reports a former Jewish Agency official now in Canada urged Zionists to shift from defensive to offensive postures. Dr Maurice Perlzweig of Toronto told the Zionist Organization of Canada that Jews must press for a homeland in Palestine and explain their case to world Christendom. He argued UN sanction supports a rebirth of a nation and warned against apologizing for the Zionist cause. Liberal MP Dand Croll called for a unified Canadian Zionist publicity campaign to counter misperceptions, while World Palestine Committee officials stressed unwavering support for Jewish objectives in Palestine. Ha ganah training for youths in Palestine was noted as part of the fund’s program.

OTTAWA Jewish agency Canada Maurice L. Perlzweig Toronto Organization of Canada Palestine Bir Perlzweig Canaad Palestre Holy Land Christendom United Nations parti uion Earher Dand Croll Toronto Spadina Su Ellsworth Flavelle World Palestine committee sud Canadian Palestine committee Herbert Mowat Isaac Frank Detroit American Fund for Palestinian Insitutions Hagana Jewish agency army

Clue in wreckage report may solve TCA plane disappearance

Vancouver January 13 to 17 Captain James Salome reported finding a winglike wreckage piece in Trimcomah channel near Salt Spring Island, about 30 miles southwest of Vancouver, suggesting new evidence in the Trans-Canada Air Lines plane disappearance with 15 aboard. The location is 19 miles from Porter Pass lighthouse on Galans Island, where reports of a plane were heard the night of the loss. The RCAF searescue force will investigate.

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Smuggling Of Aliens II Under Probe In Canada

Ottawa reports RCMP secret inquiry into a large scale alien smuggling plot using doctored British passports to move displaced Jews from European nations into Canada. Several hundred aliens, mainly German and other European Jews, are alleged to have been targeted, with a major roundup planned in Toronto as officers await guidance from Scotland Yard.

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Drumheller Names City Manager After Council Meeting

Drumheller, Alta, Jan 13. W. D. M. Robertson, an army veteran from Flin Flon Man, was appointed city manager at a special council meeting last night. Robertson served as a Canadian Army surveyor in World War II and later worked as an assistant engineer in Flin Flon before retiring.

DRUMHELLER Alta W.D. M. Robertson Fhn Flos Man otl council Robertson Flin Flon

Miners Stage Walkout Across District 18 After Wage Talks

United Mine Workers in Lethbridge and Crow's Nest Pass fields strike at midnight. About 4,200 pit workers idle as talks between L.A.S. and operators in Calgary fail to produce a contract. District 18 officers planned meetings in Calgary to push for wage hikes of 3 a day for inside and outside workers and 2 1 2 days for miners. Drumheller reports 2003 additional miners striking in an unauthorized action, with British Columbia miners promised to walk out after Wednesday. Robert Livett, District 18 president, offered no firm comment beyond newspaper reports.

U.M.W.A Calgary Drumheller OAL Lethbridge Crow's Nest Pass United Mine Workers of America L.A.S. c A ENION District 18 Letheridge tke DRUMBHELLER British Columbia Vancsuser Sun Robert Livett Distet 18 amy knowlecze

Confesses To Tot's Murder In Cleveland Case

Harold Beach, 23, a Baltimore station porter, confessed to killing eight year old Sheila Acn Tuley with a kitchen knife on New Year’s Day. He said she screamed and he lost his head. The body was found on a porch near her home. Beach, described as 140 pounds and six foot four, was arrested in Baltimore and to be extradited to Ohio. Cleveland detectives discussed the confession with police and reporters.

BALTIMORE Gling station Shiela Edward J. Tiley sail Beach Baltimort Cleveland Ohio Beach

Russia seeks oust of GB and US as Berlin occupiers

Russian sponsored press says a move to oust Britain and the United States from joint Berlin occupation may be raised at the next four power Allied Control Council session. It claims Frankfurt action creates a German pseudo government and Western Germany state. asserts Truman and Bevin plan puppet authorities and shifts officials to Frankfurt.

RUSSIA U.S BERLIN Britain United States Allied Control Counc Germany Taeg- Yche Rundschau Prankfort Entsch-Amercar zone USSR Lucie B. Clay Frankfure central council Brian Robertson Potsdam Clap ane Brian Marshall Bevis Munich neadhier American zone France

Gene Tunney elected president of Gold Uranium Exploration Ltd

Toronto Jan 13 Gene Tunney former world heavyweight boxing champion was elected president of Gold Uranium Exploration Ltd at a meeting of directors here. The company holds properties in the Northwest Territories and aims to develop uranium interests.

TORONTO Gene Tunney Monday Gold-Urantum Exploration Ltd wh properties Northwest Territories

Local miners in session amid Alberta strike action

Local miners in Alberta meet over a work stoppage tied to the union slogan no contract no work. District 18 covers Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia with about 8000 miners. Officials say the strike is self ordered by local groups and not district headquarters. The Alberta deputy minister notes the action is legal under labor act provisions and the cause remains unclear as to who ordered the stoppage. Mines in form and michel and the Crow's Nest Pass Coal and Coke Co operate with no strike indications reported.

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Opens Appeal Aid War Waits

GTAWA Jan 13 Alary Pickford, silent screen star, travels to Montiel to campaign for Canadian aid to rehabilitate children in war-torn Europe and Asia. The drive aims at 5 to 10 million dollars as she urges theatre audiences to help hungry minds and bodies overseas. The appeal, supported by Canada, seeks to avert a world without aid as she speaks amid a premiere event attended by notable figures.

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Oil finds at Imperial Wildcat Woodbend No 1 Edmonton

Jan 13 Imperial Oil announces naphtha strike at Woodbend No 1 wildcat well about 24 miles northwest of the Leduc-Calmar area in the Edmonton field. Also reports Greek offensive against guerrillas near Athens and settlement progress ending Italian bank strike. Royal Navy vessels search for Trans Canada Airlines plane wreckage near Vancouver Island. Ottawa election talk surfaces in Calgary. Syrup mines unaffected by Alberta strife though some crews idle.

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