25 Jan 1946
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Newspaper
Lethbridge Herald
Location
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 25, 1946
Page
1
Two workers were injured today when a fight broke out between pickets from rival unions involved in a strike at the Dominion Rubber Company plant in Joliette Quebec.
Chicago January 25 union president Leis J Clark says the union’s wage policy committee voted unanimously not to return to work when government seizes struck packing plants tomorrow The CIO United Packing House Workers is the larger of more than a week has cut U S supplies The CIO group has 192000 members The AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen with 35080 members on strike has ordered its membership to go back To fight it out Details of one altercation were not available but reports say members of the Synthetic Rubber Workers Union and the St Jerome local of the AFL International Rubber Workers planned to picket the plant Spokesmen for both sides said they would fight it out The strike began Wednesday when five wartime workers who had been doing wartime work and were transferred to other jobs expressed dissatisfaction and walked out The union action continues as government intervention looms
Regina dispatch reports Dr. W. R. Wets, director of training for the department of veterans affairs, noting Canadian veterans have settled seriously into schooling and vocational training. He toured the west to check policy application and found university principals praising how veterans have raised campus tone and shown younger students what it means to go to school.
The Edmonton Journal notes Western Canadian city names derive from Indigenous terms and historic figures. Medicine Hat recalls a hill shaped like a medicine man’s hat while Moose Jaw and Lethbridge trace to Indigenous words and colonist influences. Calgary links to Gaelic names via Col. Macleod and the Mackenzies. Edmonton simply echoes a London suburb. Saskatchewan’s Cree for rapid river highlights a regional naming pattern.
French prosecutors at the Nuremberg war crimes trial described Nazi torture refinements including oil-soaked cloth fires, soldering lamps, and police-dog bites in French prisons. Documents allegedly show orders from Keitel and other defendants. Defendants appeared shocked. Doenitz remained still. Streicher showed heart issues. Kaltenbrunner’s health slowly improved after a cranial hemorrhage.
In Coleman eight inches of fresh snow hamper the search for a Royal Canadian Air Force Dakota training plane that crashed near York Creek Valley with seven aboard. Ground crews are expected to report findings today as bodies are recovered and moved by toboggan through rough terrain. No survivors are expected. three bodies were reportedly charred in the wreckage.
Police used rifles and tear gas on anti-British demonstrations in Bombay continuing for the third day. Curfew from 4 p.m. to 6 a.m. aims to halt looting arson and stoning in the Hindu center. Attacks targeted Parsees shops Persians properties grain shops post offices and a railway ticket office. Kalbadevi Road became a riot hotspot with pedestrians robbed of neckties and hats as protests escalated.
Winnipeg dispatch reports that all restrictions on former KCAL bombing practice areas in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta have been removed. No. 2 air command announced the sites are now safe for public use.
The State Department is reported to have approved the British government's selection of Sir Archibald Clark Kerr as its next ambassador to the United States.
In Ottawa the Supreme Court of Canada concluded hearings on orders in council to deport over 10 000 of the 24 000 Japanese origin residents. Chief Justice Rinfreti said judgment would not be public until Feb 5 or after, as the court resumes its next term. Government counsel Aime Geoffrion said the decision is awaited before any deportation actions.
A F of L President William Green announced the reaffiliation of John L. Lewis and his 500000 United Mine Workers with the American Federation of Labor. Lewis elected to the executive council vacancy after Harvey W. Brown’s withdrawal. Green called the move a solidarity gesture and a step toward unified labor.
H J Wilson of Edmonton deputy attorney general will lead the crown against three German prisoners of war charged with murdering a fellow captive at Medicine Hat. Crown Prosecutor Walter D Gow of Medicine Hat will assist after guiding the November preliminary hearing. The defendants Werner Schwalb Johannes Wittinger and Adolf Kratz aged 30 30 and 24 respectively face trial February 25 before Chief Justice Howson with a six man jury.
Life Magazine reports Winston Churchill in a secret April 1942 Commons speech stated the Allies hoped the United States would enter the war and noted the Axis damaged or sunk over one third of Britain's capital ships in seven weeks. He commented on Singapore's fall to Japan and said Roosevelt told him he felt better about the war.
Luftwaffe Gen Nicolaus Von Below, survivor of the July 20 1944 assassination bid, testified to British interrogators that Hitler showed shock after the explosion and later deteriorated mentally. Von Below, once Hitler’s adjutant, was questioned after escaping the Reich Chancellery bunker.
Russia France and The Netherlands join the international tribunal to try Japan's top war crimes suspects including Hideki Tojo. United States, China and four British Empire countries already participated. Canada will be represented by Justice E Stuart McDougall and Brig H G Nolan.
President Truman ordered a 60 day postponement in returning contract prisoners of war to Germany due to a U.S. agricultural labor shortage. No contract prisoners will be returned before April 2, with sugars beets cotton and pulpwood production cited. Canada holds about 15,000 POWs in similar work, while 9,300 work in lumber camps and farms. Civilian labor will end prisoner work when available, and 35,000 Canadian POWs await repatriation.
Five thousand Chinese students gathered outside government headquarters in Chungking calling for the return of Hong Kong and Macao and the recall of the French consul general. Police and servicemen guarded embassies as demonstrators shouted for Kowloon and Macao to be back, and for the French envoy to be dismissed. Two Chinese foreign office officials joined the protest.
The United Nations Security Council agreed to discuss Iran Greece and Indonesia at its next meeting despite Soviet opposition to Iran criticisms. Edward R Stettinius Jr urged full discussion as Britain’s Bevin pressed for early action. The council also ordered military talks to start by Feb 1 to set up agreements for enforcing security council orders.
Ottawa reports unofficial circles speculate Canadian civilian honors suspended in wartime may reappear in the King’s birthday honors list next June. Prime Minister Mackenzie King said permission would be sought in the coming months for a special Canadian honors list honoring those who served the country with distinction in civilian life.
Premier Manning announced the throne speech reply will be moved by Michael Ponich with Leonard Halmrast as seconder. The two Social Credit lawmakers represent Vegreville and Warner and will sit for the first time to open the Feb 14 session. The throne reply debate will feature east of Edmonton and southern Alberta participants.
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