Polish government to execute Kielce pogrom instigators
July 12 report cites nine men sentenced to death for inciting the Kielce pogrom that killed 41, plus prison terms for a woman and two men. The report notes ongoing anti semitic violence, mass flight by Jews, and fears of further attacks amid damaged public trust.
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WARSAW
Poland
Kielce
Hiend
Lodz
Wroclaw
Breslau
Russia
Antonia Bafkupseha
Tadeuse Beczesniak
Stanislaw Burarz
Josef Sliwa
Antoni Pruszkowski
Kasmimerz Nowakowski
Stefan Mzur
Edward Jurkowski
Josef Pokrzywinski
Julian Chorazak
Wia
lysia Blachut
Josef Kuklinski
Jurkowski
Georgie Liner Georgie White Star First Peace Time Run
Cunard White Star liner Georgie will begin peacetime service to Halifax in mid July carrying more than 3 066 service personnel and 406 dependents of Canadian servicemen. Military authorities announced today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HALIFA
C.P
Cunard
Georgie
Malifax
Tries Persuade Date With Gun In Yorkton
In Yorkton Saskatchewan on July 12 Joseph White Hat 25 a treaty Indian from Manouarby Crooked Lake district was jailed eighty days by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police court after aiming a .22 rifle at a prospective date Dora Peepeech 18 and attempting to persuade her to join a duck hunt instead of going on the date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YORKTON
Sask
Joseph White Hat
nuarby Crooked Lake district
Royal Canadian Monted
Dora Peepeech
Union leader calls arrest a bid to disrupt talks
Harry Davis vice-president of the Canadian Seamen's Union claimed his arrest yesterday for robbery with violence at Port Colborne on June 30 was a calculated move to disrupt negotiations. He said the arrest sought to discredit the union amid wage hours dispute talks before Justice S E Richards federally appointed conciliator.
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UNION TORONTO
Harry Davis
Canadian Seamen's Union
Port Colborne
Great Lakes
Justice S E Richards
London Suburban Rail Traffic Feats Astounding Totals
A London cor respondent notes startling suburban rail statistics from Ottawa Journal. Tickets sold yearly would stretch 131000 miles if laid end to end. 2138000 tickets issued and 1169 tons of paper used. Printing consumes about 1 ton of ink. Automatic machines number 1280 and issue 390 million tickets annually. The piece praises railway robots for speed and precision.
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London
Ottawa Journal
Left Hand continues on page four in Arghve s
Fragmentary newspaper note shows continued item titled The Left Hand with continuation instruction indicating page four. No clear names, places, or dates readable.
Giant Planes Grounded By U S After Constellation Crash
United States arms suspend Constellation service after Reading Pa crash that killed five crew. CAB orders 30 day grounding while Lockheed and CAB inspect fuel system and supercharger shaft. London reports assume trans Atlantic routes halted. few airlines allowed to operate using Skymasters and other aircraft.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Alm! today
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Lockheed Aircraft Company
Reading
American Overseas Airlines
Transcontinental and
Western Air, Inc
Pan-American World Airways
Burbank
Calif
Lockheed
aircraft
London
British Overseas Airways Corporation
CAA
B.O.A.C
New York
FEVER ATLANTIC
Reuters
United States Civil Aeronautics Administration
United States airlines
CAA action
Atlantic
Canada
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Britain
KLM
Netherlands Air Lines
Air France
Controller's Order Surprises CSL in Montreal
Canada Steamship Lines publicity director P Campbell Carrot called Captain E Brand's move to order an investigation of the company records a complete surprise. Capt Braid in Toronto announced the probe, with Capt J E Matheson to carry it out, while CSL says they have followed all directives since Brand's appointment and worked through national selective service and the Canadian Seamen's Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MONTREAL
Campbell Carrot
Canada Steamship Lines
E. Brand
lake shipping
Braid
Toronto
J . E. Matheson
Carroll
Brand
Canadian Sealmen's Union
Labor MPs Seek Probe of British Press Ownership
Labor members of parliament circulate a motion demanding a sweeping investigation of the British press. It targets monopoly in chain ownership and financial and advertising influence on news presentation. Over 100 signatories pledge support, led by Hayden Davies and Michael Foot.
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LONDON
C.P
Labor
Rewn
metlon
Hayden Davies
Michael Foot
Davies
London Star
Foot
Daily Herald
Labor party
Herbert Morrison
dewnpaper
Co-operative Society
Kemsley Gramophone
Viscount Kemsley
London Daily Graphic
Sunday Times
Sunday Chronicle
Morrison
Lord Kemsley
Morison
Entomologists Confer On Northland Fests In The Pas
Entomologists and forestry officials met with Charles Dunn a York Factory district trapper to discuss a advancing swarm of strange insects moving south and west from Hudson Bay. Thomas of the federal agriculture department said samples must be obtained for definite identification before any action to protect forests.
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NORTHLAND
PAS
Man
Charles Dunn
York
Hudson Bay
P.O Thomas
division of entomology
federal agriculture department
Dunn
Truman backs Mead committee in munition profits probe
President Truman told a press conference that the Mead committee has full administration support in its current inquiry. He recounted meeting with committee members who outlined plans to probe unconscious war profits and said he would provide full cooperation.
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TRUMAN
MEAD
WASHINGTON
senate
Mead committee
Hughes Pins Cause Of Beverly Hills Plane Crash
Howard Hughes, 41, whispered to his doctor that the accident was caused by the rear belt of the right propeller in his experimental twin engine plane. He urged the army to study the wreckage and determine what went wrong while his condition remained critical with a severely injured left lung and broken ribs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LOS ANGELES
Howard Hughes
Beverly Mills
Verne
Mason
Ife
Premier King Names Paris Peace Delegation
Ottawa reports Prime Minister Mackenzie King naming Norman Robertson Dana Wilgress Melene Georges Vanier and Arnold Heney to a Paris peace delegation with no opposition MPs. He may add others if needed and plans to sail next Friday on the SS Georgic. He stressed the Paris talks focus on peaceful atmosphere and guiding principles rather than treaties with Germany or Japan. Canadian aims are lasting peace and fair equitable solutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OTTAWA
C.P
Mackenzie King
Norman Robertson
Dana Wilgress
am lor
Moscow
Melene Georges Vanier
France
commons
Arnold Heney
privy council
King
Paris
Germany
Bing
Europe
Japan
Ming
Canada
Issley to Represent Canada at U.N.R.R.A. Meet in Geneva
Ottawa reports Finance Minister Issley will attend the U.N.R.R.A. general conference in Geneva on August 5. He will be joined by L. B. Pearson, Canada’s ambassador to Washington, who brings extensive UNRRA experience. A letter from Fiorello LaGuardia invited Canada, outlining the agency’s future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ISSLEY
CANADA
U.N.R.R.A
GENEVA
OTTAWA
C.P
Mackenzie King
commons
Tisley
U.N. RRA
Isley
L. B. Pearson
Washington
U.N.A.RLA
King
Fiorello LaGuardia
UNRAA
dsiy
Fing
Britain
Criticizes Move To Bar Canada From UN Council
New York July 12 The New York Times editorial criticizes Russia's attempt to bar Canada from the United Nations Security Council seat over atomic energy control plans. It argues Canada would be a valuable participant in studying the issue and cautions against overemphasizing veto power in seeking solutions. In other news Evelyn vandon, 21, dies in Brooks hospital from burns suffered May 13 when her mother's name was destroyed by fire.
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NEW YORK
The
New York Times
Andrei
Gromyko
United Nations Security Council
Canada
council
Russia
Security council
The Times
BROOKS
Alta
Evelyn vandon
Taft Effort Smashed By U S Senate In Price Control Fight
The U S Senate rejected Senator Tafts bid to strip OPA of discretion and force higher price ceilings by a 40 to 40 vote, preserving a Barkley backed compromise to restore price controls for one year. Rent ceiling amendments were approved and Truman warned inflation remains a threat without effective controls.
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WASHINGTON
A. P
senate
Robert Taft
Rep
Ohio
O.P.A
Alben Barkley
Kentucky
Taft
chamber
United States
TRUMAN
Canada To Get Three Nazi Ships
Brussels reports Canada receives three ships as part of German reparations share totaling 10,797 gross registered tons. Canada also gains 14 percent of capital equipment and external assets, ranking sixth in external assets and eleventh in equipment. The ships will pass to the Canadian government for disposal.
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BRUSSELS
United Kingdom
United States
France
Yugoslavia
Netherlands
Streamlined Services Aims To Recruit 100000 Each Force
London reports three armed services pursue 100000 new personnel each while offering improved pay, uniforms, and housing. The RAF sketches the strongest pay scale and re enlistment bonus, the army emphasizes dress reforms with walking and work uniforms, and the navy hints at changes to working dress and gear.
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LONDON
Britains
étiong
RAF
army
navy
Canadian union strike to press wage demands
Four hundred United Automobile Workers members strike at Brunner Mond Canada plant in Amherstburg Ont to demand a 1 dollar daily wage raise a 46 hour week two weeks paid vacation and union security. The walkout targets Algoma Steel Sault Ste Marie and The Steel Company of Canada along with Dominion Coal to force a 19 4 cent hourly increase with production halted by next Monday as government considers a new controller plan.
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AMHERSTBURG
Ont
C.P
United Automobile Workers
C.I.0
eday
Brunner Mond Canada, Ltd
Windsor
HOPE
Dominion
Millard
national advisory committee
F .D. Kilbourn
thaa
Mc Sault and Hamilton
Sydney
Flag Design Is Decided for Canada Ensign
Ottawa reports the parliamentary committee approved a red ensign flag with a maple leaf centered by a bordered white field. It would place the maple leaf in relation to the Union Jack to signal Canada, while placating Quebec with a white background and cautious heraldry guidance. A Quebec protest reached Montreal as La Societe St Jean Baptiste demanded no subjugation in the final design.
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OTTAWA
Cay
Canada
anms ie
QUEBEC
Britain
Wilida Lacroix iL
Quebec-Montmorency
Col
A. F. Duguid
army
L. R. Beaudoin
British Commonwealth
MONTREAL
Mackenzie King
La Societe St Jean. Baptiste
Roger Nast
societys
Jewish Leader Freed From Latrun Detention
JERUSALEM July 12 Rabti I Li Fishman head of the Jewish agency executive was released from Latrun detention camp and returned to Jerusalem. An official note said the Palestine high commissioner ordered his release on medical advice due to age and delicate health unrelated to detention. Mishman faced controversy after claims of assault by captors, which the British government denied. Other agency leaders Shertok Joseph Gruenbaum remained detained. British authorities ordered troops in Palestine to stay inside barracks except with four or more guards and to carry arms. MISSION REACHES LONDON London July 12 President Truman's three man mission on Palestine arrived by air to discuss implementing the inquiry commission's recommendations, with talks set to begin tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
JERUSALEM
Rapti I LI Fisham
Jewish agency
Latrun
Palestine high commissioner
Fishman
Mishman
seaders
London
Mosts Shertok
Bernard Joseph
Issac Gruenbaum
agency
Palestine
labout
Truman
Britain
British‘American inquiry commission
Four power ministers end Paris talks early
In Paris on July 12 the four power foreign ministers council concluded its pension session as Senator Arthur M. L. Wardenberg reported. The session stressed steps to boost subsidies. UK ministers announced a government subsidy rise to 11 million pounds to aid farmers after August 1, while Evatt urged a multilateral atom treaty and rejected the Russian plan. Sea-air search mounted for missing four on Vancouver Island with U.S. Coast Guard aid. Canada faces inland cargo shortages forcing shifts to lake ports.
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SIG
PARIS
Arthur ML Wardenberg
LONDON
C.P
Wiliane
Wiliams
EVATT
NEW YORK
A.P
Herbert ¥. Evatt
Amstralia
atomic energy commission
United States
VICTORIA
B.C.AF
lower
Vancouver Island
Taylor Beach
Metcheain
aimce Wedneniay
latte
islands
U.S
MONTREAL
Canede
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British Press
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Alexander
Stampede
Viscount Alexander
Calgary
U.S. Senate
thal
OPA
Air Force
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C. H. Millard
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