Gandhi shot dead at prayer meeting in Delhi
News from New Delhi reports Mohandas K Gandhi was killed at his prayer meeting by Nathuram Vinayak Godse, a 36-year-old Hindu. The assailant shot Gandhi at close range and then turned the weapon on himself, dying later from a self-inflicted wound. Tens of thousands gathered at Birla residence to mourn.
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New Delhi
Mohandas
K Gandhi
Birla mansion
Gandhi
Nathuram Vinayak Gode
asassin
Gandhishier
G. D. Birla
whita phats
ida whith
Parliament urged to tighten Canada libel law to curb evasion
Ottawa faced a demand to strengthen the criminal code to prevent circumvention of libel laws after Alberta extradited two Ontario men for conspiracy to libel. John G Dieffenbaker urged Parliament to close the gap that lets editors be charged across provinces, sparked by the New Liberty magazine case now before an Edmonton court.
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LOSNE BRUCE
DMONTON
Alberta
OTTAWA
C.PI
Canada
Ontario
Liberty magazine
John G. Dieffenbaker
P.C. Lake Centre
fae
Edmorton
Jack Kent Cooke
Toronto
The Left Hand Corner Bulb Still Burns After 22 Years
A 93 watt electric bulb installed in the Hilborn home in New Dundee Ontario dates back to 1917. It has burned about 15 000 hours across multiple relocations and stages of use, remaining bright as a local curiosity and a long serving relic.
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LM. Hilborn, Bt
New Dundee
Ont
Mrr. Hilborn
Mr. Hilborn
Dundee
hydro
10 Yearrrrs Is Nae Enough
In Vancouver Magistrate Mackenzie Matheson reports at the British Columbia Magistrates convention that two men attempting to blow a safe used nitroglycerine and padding to disguise the blast. The failed plot was interrupted and the pair were sentenced to two years less a day amid Scotsmen and yeartrims jokes.
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VANCOUVER
British Columbia
Mackenzie Matheson
Nuernberg
End Throne Speech Talk Ends Nine Day Debate
Members concluded a nine day debate on the Throne speech and prepared to return to discuss the American dollar measures. Suggestions included libel reforms, price controls, a free vote on price controls, a committee on the St Lawrence waterways, Mackenzie King as governor general, tax abolition for low incomes, and changes to unemployment insurance and loan powers. Louis St Laurent said the door to union with Newfoundland had not been closed.
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MANE
doxam
commons
St. Lawrence waterways
Mackenzie Kig
Canada
Louis St. Laurent
Newfoundland
G B Airliner Missing En Route To Bermuda
Sir Arthur Coningham, famed WWII air hero, is believed lost in a Bermuda bound British Tudor II with at least 93 passengers and six crew after eight hours overdue. Weather delayed departure from London with Lisbon and the Azores stops. Seven search planes scanned the Atlantic 440 miles northeast of Bermuda amid speculation of a crash.
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LONDON
Arthur Coningham
Bermuda
Seth American Airways
Lisbon
Azores
Sir Arthur
Coningham
toeet
North Africa
Gandhi's life marked by hardships and freedom struggle
The life of Mahatma Gandhi is recounted as frail yet puissant, guiding 400 million Indians toward independence through nonviolence and civil disobedience. Despite praise as architect of freedom, he faced detractors, communal strife, and political fracture as India split into Pakistan and India in 1947.
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Associated Press
Mohhandas Karamchand Gandhi
India
Sikh
Bindu
Gandhi
Burma
Winston Churchill
Communists wage campaign among displaced persons
Berlin dispatch reports Russians and German Communists use the displaced persons in western Germany to sow anti American and anti British sentiment among Germans and DPS. DP camps face attempts to create distrust and arrests. propaganda labels DPS as pests and criminals while urging forcible repatriation to the Soviet zone.
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BERLIN
Germany
United States
Zeperis
McGill Professor Raymond Hoyer Sentenced to Two Years
Montreal January 20 Dr Raymond Hoyer former McGill University professor and wartime explosive expert was sentenced to two years in penitentiary for conspiring to violate the Official Secrets Act Justice Wilfrid Lazure delivered the sentence in the same courtroom where he was convicted. The defendant remained calm.
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MONTREAL
C.P
Raymond Hoyer
McGill University
Wilfrid Lazure
Boyer
Police expert exposes palm print ruse in winders glass
Waukegan police fingerprint expert Louis Yeoman concluded a suspect named Harrison Cunningham, 27, of North Chicago, acted alone in a burglary at Waukegan Motor Sales. Cunningham admitted breaking in and stealing 115 dollars in merchandise. Yeoman continued testing the palm print on the glass and finally confirmed it belonged to Cunningham.
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WAUKEGAN
Til
Jan
Louis Yeoman
Harrison Cunningham
Chicago
Yeoman
winders
Waukegan P Motor Sales Company
Cunningham
Third Death Closes Case in Rural Slayings
In a Saskatchewan district 100 miles southwest of Winnipeg, three family members the 15 year old Garnet Sims 28 year old Harvey Sims and 32 year old Clifford Sims were killed by bullets through a kitchen window and a riverbank body found later. Clifford apparently killed himself with a 22 calibre rifle. police labeled the event a grudge affair and the coroner H F McPhail investigated the deaths as family killings with a possible motive and linked the two earlier murders to a grudge.
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Royal” reg
Winnipts
Garnet Sims
Harvey Sims
SecUrrec
Sims
Clifford Sims
B.CALF
iid
Clifford
antarent
Helan
polict
Harvey
H. F. McPhail
Russia charges U S with pact violation over Italian ports
Moscow radio reports Russia formally protested to the United States over alleged violations of the Italian peace treaty by sending American warships to Italian ports. Ambassador Panyushkin reportedly delivered the note to Secretary of State Marshall, with another copy to France. The broadcast noted recent protests over Mellaha base, arguing withdrawal deadlines and troop movements breach the treaty. The Midway carrier and a task force have been anchored off Naples and Taranto as part of the Mediterranean fleet.
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LONDON
LPI
Moscow radio
Russia
United States
Alexander S. Panyushkin
Washington
Marshall
Soviet Union
Italy
Britain
Melluha
North Africa
Alcide De Gasperi
Midway
Naples
Taranto
Mediterranean
England reacts to Gandhi death with broadcast tribute
Prime Minister Attlee plans a late night broadcast to urge India and Pakistan to bury their differences after the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Officials warn the crisis could trigger rapid moves in India as Britons and Indians react with shock and mourning.
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LONDON
Jand
Attlee
pineal
India
Pakistan
Afa
Bandas E. Gandhi
Attlee wal
Gandhi
Ishaif
England
Ground Search Reaches Wreckage of Two American Planes
Reports say a ground search near the French Alps may reach the wreckage of two American planes with 29 aboard. In other wires, fuel export cuts are ordered in the US, Gandhi is slain for political reasons, US citizens in Palestine face passport restrictions, Manitoba judges shuffled, and Alberta university mock parliament withdraws amid student disenfranchisement.
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DIGNE
France
P.J
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French Alps
S.C
EDMONTON
Social Credit
University of Alberta
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G.B
MOHANDAS K. GANDHI
J. S. Amery
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Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Dominion
GANDHIS
D.P.’S
U.S
Poland
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
RAFMOND BOYER
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Cliziford
Habib
Ibrahim Rahimtolla
Landori
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JERUSALEM
United
Ams
MANITOBA
Evans Adamson
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Winnipes
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