Five Powers Fail To Agree On UN Secretary General Nominee
Big Five United Nations representatives fail again to concur on a candidate for UN secretary general. The London talks at a Mayfair hotel see friction over Russia Greece and Indonesia, with Pearson backed by the United States and Lie proposed by Russia. The pace of consensus remains stalled as the five powers face a potential deadlock before the general assembly vote.
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JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
LONDON
United Nations
United Nations Organization
Iran
Russia
Greece
Indonesa
Reut
cr Ramaswami Mudaliar
United Nations assembly
U.N.O.’s
economic and social council
United States
James F. Byrnes
Washington
general assembly
PEARSON
L B. Pearson
Trygve Lie
Norway
Mayfair
Andrei Vishinsky
U.N.O
Mgr. Byrnes
M. Vishinsky
Bevin
Britain
Paul Boncour
France
W K Wellington Koo
China
security council
Earl of Halifax Plans Retirement as British Ambassador
London reports and a Washington source confirm the Earl of Halifax will retire from his post this spring likely in May after five years as British ambassador to the United States. He may participate in Lords debates on foreign affairs while returning to Yorkshire.
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EARL OF HALIFAX
WASHINGTON
United States
probany
Tuday
Lord Halifax
London
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr
Moscow
Yorkshire
house of lords
Seek Second Arbitration
A Toronto conference between Cana dian meat packing chains and the United Packinghouse Workers of America resulted in an agreement to request Mr Justice E. Richards of Winnipeg to arbitrate differences over interpreting working hours. The union seeks a 54 day week with daily overtime, while a prior 45 hour week agreement exists.
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TORONTO
C.P
United Packinghouse Workers of America
8. E. Richards
Winnipeg
Canada Packers
Swift Canadian
Burns and Company
Maggie Teyte Charms Audiences In New York And On The Coast
The Left Hand Corner singer Magzite Maggie Teyte sold out venues in New York and heads for the Pacific coast after a string of acclaimed recitals. The St Thomas Times Journal notes she has not appeared in Canada recently, while Elsa Maxwell hails her as the greatest living song singer.
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Magzite
New York
Town Hall
Pacific coast
San Francisco
Maggie Teyte
Canada
St. Thomas Times-Journal
London
Sir Thomas Beecham
Edward VII
Beecham
Covert Garden
Opera Comique
MARGARET TEYTE
Harry Lauder
Nelle itchell
Melba
Elsa Maxwell
United States
Marshall Named Advisor in Chinese Army Restructuring
Gen Marshall accepted the post of advisor to the three member military committee overseeing reorganizing the Chinese army as K C Wu announced. Wu cited censorship lifts in recovered areas and new Chinese administration in Manchuria towns while noting gaps in government forces at Dairen Port Arthur and other locations. He also said Communist forces seized Yingkow and Panshan in violation of a truce and that Manchurian transportation delays might push Russian withdrawal beyond Feb 1. Conferees outlined blueprints for peacetime China including nationalizing the army and remodeling the government.
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CHUNGKING
Gen. Marshall
Truman
K. C. Wu
Changchun
Mukden
Harbin
Chinsien
Ssepingkal
eiher Dairen
Port Arthur
Yingkow
Panshan
Hulutao
Chisien
Kowpangtze
Manchuran
Liu Chieh
Manchuria
Jehol
China
Death Toll In Blasts Now 23
Ansa reports 23 dead from ammunition blasts at Torre Annunziata on Monday with Allied authorities in Naples listing 500 injured but no Allied fatalities. The explosion of 15 ammunition cars razed the shore line over a half mile by a quarter mile and caused about 1 billion lire in losses.
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ROME
A.P
Ansa
Torre Annunziata
Naples
Nantes
Giornale Della
Judge Fairbairn Dies After Saddle Fall in Alberta
Judge L E Fairbairn 48 died in Lethbridge hospital after a saddle horse reared and fell striking him on the head. Appointed last April to the district court of Southern Alberta, he had been injured last Sunday and never regained consciousness. The death brings grief to the province as he was active in professional and civic circles.
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district court
Southern Alberta
Clinton J. Ford
Calgary
Supreme Court of Alberta
L. E. Fairbairn
Lethbridge
M. &. Moscovich
K.C
Lethbridge Bar Association
BAR “T
Bar
Busy Time Ahead in British Parliament After Reassembly
London January 23 The House of Commons reassembled after Christmas recess facing a busy session. Lords gave second reading to a bill to nationalize the Bank of England with Lord Catto opposing party politics. Question time covered Japan occupation forces troop withdrawals Indian casualties in Indonesia and British casualties in the war. A rent control bill for furnished housing passed to the Lords.
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LONDON
house of commons
house of lords
bsk
Bank of England
Lord Catto
Attlee
Japan
George Isaacs
Jack Lawson
Indonesia
Government to seize strikebound meat plants Saturday
The White House said the Agriculture Department will seize and operate meat packing plants Saturday with War Department aid if necessary. President Truman halted a threatened railway strike affecting Chicago area stockyards and freight, creating an emergency board under the railway mediation law to delay action for 60 days. AFL unions indicated 70,000 workers might return to government service, while Chicago AFL officials demanded review of the seizure order before resuming work.
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Associated Press
White House
department of agriculture
Charles G. Ross
agriculture department
war department
TRUMAN
Mr Ross
Chicago area
tve
Chicago
Indiana Belt Raivroad
Chicago Junction Railroad
Brotherhood of Railway
brotherhood
eizure
ome
CTO
Labor department
AFL
DIVIDFH
Iabor
Chicadh
APL
Mauretania Arrives Halifax With 5188 Canadian Veterans
The 36 677-ton troopship Mauretania docked in Halifax after a 12 hour delay caused by storms. She carried 5,188 Canadian veterans including 4,541 army draftees and 509 RC AF personnel along with 68 naval staff, 66 merchant mariners, 3 nursing sisters, 11 auxiliary members, 237 wives, 88 children, and 70 civilians aboard for repatriation.
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HALIPAX
Mauretania
laye
RCAF
alsa
Vancouver Mayors Clash Over McGeer Bid
Vancouver figures weigh whether Senator G G McGeer will enter the 1946 mayoralty contest. Mayor J W Cornett says he will not retire and aims a fourth term to keep McGeer out of city hall, calling him ruthless. McGeer declines comment on timing but notes the race is too far off.
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G. G. McGEER
VANCOUVER
J. W. Cornett
Gerry McGeer
Cornett
McGeer
mum
Four Die in Ontario Fire at Arnstein Ontario
Four people including two children died when a two storey frame house burned in Arnstein near Parry Sound. The blaze began about 10 30 pm in the basement, trapping Mrs George Bolton Elmer Towns Fay Simpson seven and Larry Godby. Four lumbermen escaping suffered injuries. one man Ben Swalwell received serious burns.
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ARNSTEIN
C.P.j
Parry Sound
North Bay
George Bolten
Elmer Towns
Carr
Fay Simpson
Roger Simpson
Larry Godby
Dorothy Godby
Bolton
Ben Swalwell
yearsby
Port Loring
Tom Swalwell
Whiter Weller
Selma Parolin
Gouin elected interim president of France
Paris reports Felix Gouin, a socialist leader of the constituent assembly, elected interim president to succeed Gen. De Gaulle. In Ottawa Eugene Larment, 24, convicted of murdering a city detective, sentenced to hang March 27 as two companions are detained on other charges. In Cleveland a rail strike vote is to be taken among 215,000 Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen members. Winnipeg conference judge Richards reconvenes talks to avert a meat-packing strike. Chicago rail strike proceeds despite presidential efforts to avert it.
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GOUIN
DE GAULLE
PARIS
Felix Gouin
constituent assembly
France
Gen. De Gaulle
OTTAWA
C.P
Eugene Larment
F. H. Barlow
U.S
CLEVELAND
Brotherhood of Rails
A. F. Whitney
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
JUSTICE RICHARDS
WINNIPEG
Canada
S. E. Richards
Dominion department of labor
United Packinghouse Workers union
Toronto
CHICAGO
Truman
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J. D. G. Crerar
trans-Canada
Crerar
Lethbridge Herald Engraving hotel
Shackleford
CHL
C.B
First Canadian Army
Marquis hotel
L, E. FAIRBAIRN
Mrs. Crerar
War Dept
Dept. of Agriculture
Halifax
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