Trial By Actedron
London report claims Hungary to drug Cardinal Mindszenty with actedron before treason trial. Publication cites visits to Catholic pulpits and describes actedron as a stimulant that paralyzes nerve centers, creating false confessions. Budapest rejects the claim as utterly ridiculous, noting actedron is benzadrine with no such effects.
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LONDON
Tab
Hungary
actedron
Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty
Shrews
Birmingham
BUDAPEST
foreign office
Joseph Cardinal Mindscenty
United States
Train hits car at crossing kills two in Tilbury
Windsor Ontario January 25 two Tilbury men die when a Canadian Pacific Michigan Express train crashes into an automobile on an east side crossing. The victims are Robert L. McLean 38 and Gerald Markle 34. The car is demolished and police identify the men after work. The crossing has witnessed four incidents in a year involving the same train No. 635.
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WINDSOR
Ont
Tilbury
Canadian Pacific Railway
Robert L. McLean
Gerald Markle
Michigan Express
Israel votes in wartime election to form assembly
Israel held its first wartime election with about 400 000 eligible voters choosing 12 members of a constituent assembly to draft a constitution and establish a permanent government. Returns were not expected until Friday as outposts sent ballots and international events included France recognizing the state and Rhodes talks stalling over Negev issues.
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oy Associated Press
AVIV
Israel
France
Rhodes
Negev desert
Airlift Plane Crashes Near Berlin Killing Seven
In Berlin on January 25 a British air lift Dakota crashed in the Soviet zone while evacuating children and the sick from blockaded Berlin. Seven dead and 18 injured, with 24 passengers and 3 crew aboard. Russians report crash in wooded area east of Lubeck and are sending medical aid to the scene.
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BERLIN
Germany
RAF
Gatow sirport
Luebeck
zane
Hamburg
air force
Echoenberg
Schoenberg
Seattle barber's vacuum hair patrol invention saves necks
An obscure Seattle barber, after toying with his wife's vacuum, installed a back shop unit and copper hose to capture loose hairs behind collars. For two decades customers endured teased days until this invention halted the frantic reach for hidden tresses.
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dack Halbakken
Halbakken
Seattle
Blaze Destroys Massey Harris Warehouse In Alberta
In Athabasca Alberta volunteers fought a blaze for over three hours to contain a warehouse fire estimated at twenty thousand dollars. The fire, believed started by an overheated chimney, gutted the Massey Harris warehouse on January 25 outside Edmonton. Local fire crews from the municipality 95 miles north helped suppress the flames.
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ATHABASKA
Alta
volunteer fire department of Municipality
Edmonton
Massey Harris
Coldwell Outlines CCF Middle Way in Montreal Speech
CCF leader M J Coldwell outlined a middle path between totalitarian communism and monopolistic capitalism in a speech read for him at a Montreal Board of Trade dinner. He argued critics of the current order are not necessarily atheists or communists, and urged dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MONTREAL
M. J. Coldwell
C.C.F
Montreal Board of Trade
F. R. Scott
C.C
Chiang Kai-shek resigns duties to clear way for peace
No. 1 Man Central Press reports Chiang Kai-shek relinquishes presidential powers and leaves Nanking. He states he has not resigned but is surrendering duties amid crisis, with powers delegated to Vice President Tsung Jen to pursue a Communist-dictated peace in China.
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Central Press
China
Chiang Kai- Shek
Nanking
J4 Tsung-Jen
Chiang
Deaths in brief from Canadian press list several figures
Yesterday a series of obituaries from The Canadian Press note Donald McEachern former mayor of Cobalt Ontario at age 60. Wilton I Marks 62 president of the Ontario Amateur Basketball Association. Captain Daniel Clinton 65 retired shipping pilot. Major A W Davis 70 mining engineer. Ernest James Liffiton 43 player with lacrosse and hockey champions. John Walters 76 retired Canadian horseman. Location at Nelson Windsor Lexington listed.
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TORONTO
Donald McEachern
Cobalt
Ont
Wilton I. Marks
Ontario Amateur Basketball Association
VICTORIA
Daniel Clinton
NELSON
B.C
A. W. Davis
WINDSOR
Ernest James Liffiton
LEXINGTON
John Walters
CBC Tweaks FM Policy Grants Montreal Station One Year Trials
Ottawa January 25 CBC board chairman A D Danton said policy on FM broadcasting by standard stations is changed to some extent. The board granted CFCF Montreal permission to program separately over its FM outlet on an experimental basis for one year before review.
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OTTAWA
A. D.Danton
CBC board of governors
CBC
CFCF
Montreal
Blizzards Prompt Federal Aid for Plains Cattle Plight
Emergency funds moved through Congress as planes drop hay to starving livestock across the snowbound western plains. President Truman authorized 100000 for immediate aid to North and South Dakota Nebraska Utah and Nevada where tens of thousands of cattle and about a million sheep are stranded. Airlift from Fallon Nevada to Ely Nevada used 17 C-82s delivering five tons of hay per flight with high praise from stockmen for the operation.
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Associated Press
United States congress
Truman
Dekotas
Nebraska
Utah
Nevada
Fallon
Ely
Nev
B.C
air force
Completion Of Sugar Factory At Tabor Scheduled For 1950
A 1950 completion date is set for the sugar factory at Tabor as a new trade organization backed by Russia aims to counter US influence. The article notes the EMCA council headed by A I Mikoyan, seen as a sharp, capable trader.
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Tabor
New Trade Organization
BEN BASSETT
Associated Press
Russia
Europe
Soviet Union
economic council
Byevciat
United States
westerlie
Poland
Bulgaria
Hungary
Romania
Czechoslovakia
Council of Economics Mutual Assistance
A. I. Mikoyan
Politiburo
Delayed Taber beet sugar factory to finish in 1950
Southern Alberta's Taber sugar factory, budgeted for about 5 million, cannot be completed in time for the 1949 beet crop due to delays in delivering building materials and machinery. Officials from Canadian Sugar Factories Ltd and Dominion Construction cite funding material and supply shortages, with final completion now set for summer 1950.
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OUTHERN
Alberta
Taber
Herald
T. George Wood
Canadian Sugar Factories, Ltd
Raymond
Picture Butte
ROGERS
Mr. Wood
Albita
F. W. Ballou
Vancouver
sugar
Charles Bentall
Dominion Construction Company
Naval Pilots To Study Tactics At Big U S Bases
Canada ships 12 Firefly aircrew to the United States for a five week course at San Diego Naval Air Station. The program trains anti submarine specialists for the RCNR Firefly Mark V and runs from yesterday. Emperor Hirohito adviser Nobuaki Makino dies in Tokyo at 86 after pneumonia.
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U.S
CTTAWA
Naval headquarters
Canada
United States
U.S. naval air station
San Diego
Calif
IR.C.N
TOKYO
Nobuaki Makino
Hirohito
Makino
Japan
Two More Arrested In Textile Walkout
Paris Ontario January 2 Two persons were arrested to raise the total detained since the textile walkout began a week ago Mrs Helen Muller of Brantford 32 year old organizer for United Textile Workers of America and Arthur Gignac of Paris picket captain in the strike against Penman textile mills were taken into custody by provincial police Charges against Muller and Gignac were not immediately disclosed
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PARIS
Ont
Helen Muller
Brantford
United Textile Workers of America
APL
Arthur Gignac
Penman
Muller
Gignac
Move censured Detroit police press card policy
The Newspaper Guild of Detroit denounces Police Commissioner Harry B Toy for requiring non Communist affidavits of newspaper staff before granting police press cards. The guild adopted a resolution at a general meeting denouncing Toy's order.
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DETROIT
Newspaper Guild of Detroit
Harry 8
Toy
Detroit guild
American Newspaper Guild
Heavy Construction Activity By Canada Ready To Upend Public Works
Canadian Reconstruction Minister Winters told the Canadian Construction Association that federal, provincial, and municipal governments should prepare to mobilize up to $1 billion in public works if activity slackens, with plans for 1949 remaining high and 1950 uncertainty. He noted over $10 million projects, a $300 million shelf of federal projects, and shifts toward utilities hydro development and institutional buildings, while private investment may dip after 1949.
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FORBES RHODE
Canadian Press
TORONTO
Winters
Canadian Construction Association
Canede
Eden Lashes Communism in CBC Address in Toronto
TORONTO Jan 27 4 P Rt Hon Anthony Eden deputy leader of Britain's Conservative party called Communism a fanatical Moscow driven ideology threatening freedom. Speaking to 1300 Board of Trade members over CBC Dominion network he urged united Western action and strength to prevail, with plans to meet Soviet leaders from a position of negotiating from strength. Eden tours Canada from Montreal to Winnipeg and Vancouver before continuing to Australia on a world trip. Judgment reserved in Calgary over Home Assurance liquidations as company collapses due to insufficient capital.
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TORONTO
Anthony Eden
Conservative party
Moscow
free nations
Atlantic
Board of Trade
CBC
Eden
Britain
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Montreal
Australia
CALGARY
supreme court
pasets
Home Assurance Company of Canada
Alberta Insurance act
Justice Macdonald
Embassies Notified as Government Moves South to Canton
An official Chinese foreign office spokesman announced that the government seat is moving southward presumably to Canton. The message arrived after a Communist radio offer to meet Nazi peace envoys in Peiping and followed failed embassy moves on January 15. Evacuation of Nanking accelerates as streets clog and rail hubs fill with fleeing officials and civilians amid continued shelling and troop movements.
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Associated Press
ANKING
foreign office
Canton
Rede
Peiping
Red
fie
Yangtze River
north China
Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
Cold air masses invade Ontario prompting frigid Ontario temps
Ontario braces for a sharp cold snap as a Nerih Pole air mass pushes in, forecasting a high near four degrees above zero and dropping 24 degrees from yesterday’s low. Ottawa reports civil service pay raises for 4 308 workers, with varying monthly increases. Harold Daan the Ottawa radio operator is expected to be flown to Winnipeg for medical treatment after a rescue. A Dominion provincial dairy conference is sought to discuss outlooks for the industry amid margarine rulings. Alberta regulator opposes a flood of oil stock literature flooding the province, noting unregistered efforts and unregistered leases in Redwater area.
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ONTARIO
TORONTO
C.C
OTTAWA
WINNIPEG
C.P
All force
Harold Daan
Badetn Bay
tomerrow Churchill
Man
DOMINION-PROVINCIAL
U.F
National Dairy Council today
Dominion
conteis
supreme court
EDMONTON
U.D
G. M. Binckvtesk
Board of
Public Utilities for
Alberta
Ontario Securities Commission
Redwater
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B. G. Dunn
Kootenay
New York
BATTLE
F.M
Eden Lashes
Canton—Reds
Chen Kiang province
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