28 Jan 1946
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Newspaper
Lethbridge Herald
Location
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 28, 1946
Page
1
A week after an RCAF Dakota crash west of Coleman seven crewmen were lost. A skiing party ascends the mountain as rescue teams traverse a perilous terrain to reach the wreck site.
Police said 14 former crew members of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee escaped from a camp at Villa De Guadalme where they were interned with 66 others. Several other interned men escaped two weeks earlier and are still at liberty after the Graf Spee was sunk at the Plata river mouth in December 1939.
The world mourns T Earle Hesketh a 79 year old violin maker from Oxford Road known as the aristocrat of his trade. His violins praised by Beecham Sandler and others were strict copies of Guarnierius and Stradivarius. He produced about 20 instruments yearly selling at around £25 later valued at £100 or more. In Manchester Halle Orchestra used up to 24 Hesketh violins. A separate notice discusses Attlee's ambassador choice seeking a socialist with no red tie and mentions A Y Alexander as a favored candidate with ties to the wartime cabinet.
The fragment indicates a continuation note for a story titled The Left Hand. The readable text is sparse, offering no clear event, names, places, or dates to summarize into a fuller card.
New York January 28 The U S army tested jet powered planes flying from Long Beach California to LaGuardia Field near New York at speeds near sound The three Lockheed P 80s included one piloted by Col William H Gouncill that completed the 2470 mile flight in four hours 13 minutes 26 seconds While two other pilots refueled at Topeka Kansas the three improved the prior record The pilots averaged 540 to 562 miles per hour and flew mostly at 25000 to 41000 feet
President Truman told congressional leaders he would send a message this week asking ratification of the 54.4 billion British loan and credit agreement. Senator Barkley said the weekly conference focused largely on the British loan and related lend-lease settlement credits totalling 83.75 billion dollars.
Ottawa reports readiness for the Naeminton provincial conference resuming discussions on a new division of taxation rights. Premier E C Manning of Alberta and Premier T C Douglas of Saskatchewan arrive as premiers express confidence in reaching a conclusion while negotiating assurances from the Dominion government on autonomy and preferred tax fields. Premier Maurice Duplessis of Quebec may speak this week as Ontario’s George Drew resists provincial ceding of personal income, corporate and inheritance tax powers.
The Canadian press notes servicemen arriving in Halifax from overseas and Boston with numbers listed. A Moscow radio broadcast claims Britain and the United States promised Russia the Kurile Islands under Yalta terms, while Tass disputes any definite commitments and says Russia would gain the Kuriles and nearby regions.
A fire at West Canadian Collieries Bellevue mine Saturday evening caused about $50,000 in damage to the wool section of the steel tipple. Origin unknown but suspected spontaneous combustion. Firemen fought the blaze four hours in cold, gale conditions. no injuries or mine work disruption. Nearby departments assisted. no casualties reported.
London January 28 Soviet vice foreign minister Andrei Vishinsky challenged Iran’s UN security council appeal arguing that Iranian accusations of Soviet meddling were raised by a government no longer in power and lacked sufficient grounds. Tehran new premier Ahmed Qavam took office, but the council delayed action and prepared to consider jurisdiction while awaiting direct Tehran-Moscow talks.
In Milan the countess Massimiliana Albert testifies as a principal witness for the prosecution in trials of four fifty five officers over the murder of five Americans and two British prisoners at Bolzano concentration camp. Albert, liberated from the camp, aided US airmen and later met her husband Major Richard Lewis of Boston, a member of the war crimes commission.
New York Jan 28 P The United States labor management picture brightened as a high government official predicted an end to the crippling steel strike within a week or 50 noting signs within the steel industry that settlement advocates are gaining ground The Ford and Chrysler wage agreements and ongoing ratifications bolster the outlook while GM faces a 10 week stoppage as long as steel production remains halted. the CIO UAW insists on 19 cents for GM before settling and railroads and unions prepare for possible action.
In the Nuremberg dispatch dated January 28, reports describe Jews marked for extermination at Osniecim Auschwitz arriving in such large numbers that German guards did not count them. They were sorted on railroad platforms and marched directly to gas chambers, with thousands subjected to this fate in a chilling display of the campaign against them.
Ottawa reports rising pressure on Canada’s wartime wage controls as an amended order looms. Free bargaining could lift wages up to five percent, with broader board powers and shifts back to provincial minimums. A Toronto Hamilton conference of major unions is planned to discuss a coordinated wage program. In separate testimony, Mme Mane-Claude Vaillant Couturier described Nazi camps with chilling detail of gas chambers, brutal guards, and experiments, recounting deaths and horrific abuses at Auschwitz.
Lt General Sir Phil Christison commander in chief of Allied forces in the Dutch East Indies resigns to take over the northern command in Britain. Lt General Sir Montague Stopford will succeed him in Java as clashes continue in Eastern Java with artillery duels near Semarang and Soerabaja.
Edmonton, June 28. Works Minister W A Fallon said the department cannot open Cochrane area sideroads due to limited snow clearing gear. He stressed main highways stay clear 24 hours a day while most sideroads remain blocked by snow drifts and cannot be prioritized for every municipality.
Ottawa reports government declined to comment on taking over the Vancouver hotel by houseless veterans. A national defence spokesman said the department turned back the lease to Canadian Pacific Railway and added it is the railway's baby. The hotel had served as an army headquarters.
An occupation by 34 veterans and six women from the New Veterans branch of the Canadian Legion seized the 560 room Vancouver Hotel to protest housing shortages and delays in opening it as a veterans hostel. About 140 men and 24 women spent Saturday night inside as organizers plan to press for federal action. The Vancouver mayor praised local efforts but urged federal responsibility to house returning soldiers amid an estimated 3,000 veterans seeking homes in the city.
Seven airmen killed when a RCAF Dakota crashed near Ptolemy Mountain southwest of Coleman are now lying in Blairmore mortuary. Two more bodies were recovered yesterday, bringing total recovered to seven as rescue teams endured heavy snow and rough terrain. Wing Commander W A Mitchell, in charge of the search, prepared to leave for the coast as officials continue the investigation.
GLACE BAY Nova Scotia January 23 1945 United Mine Workers District 26 president Freeman Jenkins says a contract agreement signed Saturday raises miners wages by 17 cents per day and adds two weeks of paid holiday. The deal covers 13 000 coal workers and runs February 1 1945 through January 31 1947 with Dominic Coal Company Old Sydney Colliery Acadia Coal Company and Cumberland Railway and Coal Company named as operators. Meanwhile Marine Industries Limited in Sorel Quebec reports a French government contract for four 7080 ton cargo ships and 15 workers worth about 12 million dollars with preliminary construction underway for the freighters.
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