Dutch report new victories
Dutch military headquarters announced sweeping new successes in eastern Sumatra with captures near Palembang including Batoeradaja and Boekit Assam coal fields and the Shell and Standard Vacuum oil holdings. Dutch forces pressed toward Padang and Pengalengan while plans aimed to isolate east and west Java and secure oil regions.
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Associated Press
ATAVIA
Java
Sumatra
Palembang
Netherlands navy
Cheribon
Probolinggo
Banjoewangi
Batoeradaja
Boekit Assam
Batoeradaja a
Shell
Standard Vacuum
Jogjakarta
Lamadjang
Bandoeng
west
south
Pastor Niemeler Lose Nazi Victim Status Rations
Suspected Nazi Frankfurt July 28. Pastor Martin Niemoller, famed concentration camp chaplain, had his special ration benefits revoked and was refused classification as a Nazi victim by the German society for victims of the Nazi regime. A secret Rosenberg office file allegedly showed Niemoller active in pro Nazi activities.
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FRANKFURT
Reuters
Marlin Niemeler
Germany
German society for
Alfred Rosenberg
Niernberg
Niemoller
Farley recounts Roosevelt choosing Wallace in 1940 race
In a Collier's series finish Farley claims Roosevelt insisted on Henry Wallace as running mate, despite protests from Mrs Roosevelt and his sons. He notes Hull Jones and McNutt as possible nominees, with Hull unwilling, Jones withdrawing and McNutt acting on White House request. Farley aimed to oppose a third term and described the post nominating call from Roosevelt naming Wallace.
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AMES A. FARLEY
Roosevelt
Henry A. Wallace
Farley
Roosevelt, sons
Elliott
Franklin, Sr
Collier's
Cordell Hull
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Paul McNutt
Barry L. Hopkins
White House
Wallace
Naughty Quintet Damaged Army Jeeps in Park Dodgem
Five children aged eight to fourteen were to appear before juvenile officers after entering an armory and damaging twelve military vehicles by driving them as in a dodgem ride at an amusement park. Col. Elliott C. Goodwin said four jeeps were put out of commission and eight other vehicles damaged.
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PORTLAND
army
Elliott C. Goodwin
Coal Crisis Looms in G B
London reports government planners seek to avert a new Labour revolt during a July debate on UK economic conditions. Coal production may miss the 200 million ton target, threatening government prestige amid labor backlash and fuel shortages concerns. Prime Minister Attlee and ministers urge miners to maximize output as critics demand clear targets.
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JAMES McCOOK
LONDON
United Kingdom
Tabor
Attlee
Shinwell
Bevin
Sam Snead Joins Staff
Sam Snead joins the Herald sport staff to present a regular golf lesson titled Better Golf. Snead is described as one of the greatest shotsmiths, a three time Canadian Open champion and a former British Open winner.
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Herald
Samuel Jackson Snead
UN to Face Test on Its Peace Power
Lake Success July 28 delegates in consensus indicate a far reaching decision may be voted tomorrow on the Balkan problem and with it a test of the United Nations powers for peaceful settlement of disputes as the security council prepares to convene. The vote on an American plan to set up an international watch dog commission over the Balkans will climax weeks of debate with Russia and the United States at odds over the Balkan issue.
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LAKE SUCCESS
Balkan
United Nations
U.N. security council
Balkans
Russia
United States
Greece
U.N
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Albania
council
world organization
C C F Plant Has Strike
PRINCE ALBERT Sask July 28 Virtually all employees of the provincially owned Saskatchewan box factory were dismissed for taking part in a one day work stoppage the previous day The plant employs about 90 workers and is a unit of the crown corporation Saskatchewan Lake and Forests Products Corporation The men belong to the Woodworkers Union C I O and union leaders say management offered to rehire one worker but the other remained dismissed for alleged gross inefficiency and for improper use of sick leave benefits
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PRINCE ALBERT
Sask
Saskatchewan box
Saskatchewan Lake and Forests Products Corporation
Woodworkers Union
C.I.0
cusitissals
corporation
Crisis Warnings For British Govt Leaders Attlee On Spot
British leaders from all parties warned of crisis as Attlee faced a parliamentary account. Bevin Eden Beveridge Horner and others spoke of looming shortages and tighter belts. UK faces exhausted US loan, sluggish exports, and lower coal output as winter nears.
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Attlee
LONDON
Bevin
Anthony Eden
Lord Beveridge
Arthur Horner
National Union of Mineworkers
Britain
Burma
Greece
Labor M.P
Refugee ships halted by British Navy at Haifa harbor
British naval forces escorted two small refugee vessels with about 1200 Jewish immigrants into Haifa and soon transferred most to British ships for deportation to Cyprus. The ships, sponsored by Hagannah, carried 122 children and 71 women among 394 aboard the first vessel Return to Zion, while the Bruno of Rome, renamed 14 Heroes of Ez Zib, followed with its own group. About 300 were detained pending additional transports as naval forces boarded the ships.
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HAIFA
Cyprus
Hagansh
Holy Land
President Warfield
France
Zion
Lusiand
Bruno
Rome
Lebanon
Palestine
MARSEILLES
Reuters
Cardigan Bay
Falestine
theritish
Port Bouc
Aurene
Mountain Climber Killed By Ice on Mount Waddington
Mount Waddington in British Columbia claimed one life from a nine man U S expedition led by William L Putnam of Springfield Massachusetts. Charles Shiverick of Cleveland died July 22 from punctured lungs after an ice avalanche on the Scimitar glacier. Five climbers remained to continue the ascent while two returned to Tatla Lake to report. The Harvard Mountaineers included Bud King Francis Magoun Fred Beckey and others.
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VANCOUVER
C.P
Mount Waddington
British Columbia
United States
Charles Shiverick
Cleveland
Scimitar
B.C. coast
here
Willam L. Putnam
Springfield
Mass
David Michaels
Athens
Tatla Lake
HARVARD
Bud King
Cambridge
Graham Mathews
Seattle
Wash
Francis P. Magoun
Fred Beckey
W. Laurence Miner
Leonard J. Winchester
Mystery mountain
Former M LAdies Winnipeg Leader Dies at 65
G J D Ferley, 65, a Manitoba Liberal member from 1915 to 1920 and longtime Winnipeg alderman in 1933, died in hospital. A Ukraine native, he also led the Ukrainian Fraternal Society of Canada and represented Gimil in the legislature.
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WINNIPEG
J. D Ferley
Ukraine
Manitoba legisature
Gimil
Brassy Sun Beats Down No Rain Signs Perfect Wife
London July 24 Reuters Britain post office seeks six telephone operators and found the formula for the perfect wife. An official appealing for more operators commented that the girls marry easily because we require courtesy accuracy and efficiency.
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LONDON
Reuters
Britain
post office
Grain and Pastures Burning Southeast Alberta Hard Hit
A brassy sun scorches western Canada as July worsens drought in Alberta and Saskatchewan. No sustained rain, despite expected thunderstorms, leaves crops deteriorating amid heat in Medicine Hat and Moose Jaw. Officials report heat and dryness as the region struggles to revive grain.
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Canada
Alberta
Saskatchewan
MEDICINE HAT
Moose Jaw
Saskatoon
Britain Soviet trade talks break off over credit terms
London reports Moscow radio says British Soviet negotiations in Moscow failed due to Britain not guaranteeing delivery of heavy goods, rails and pipe, and disagreements over credit terms. The radio denied grain price as cause, noting Britain and Russia had agreed on price for starch, while Canada, Argentina, and wartime debt terms were cited in contrast.
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LONDON
Moscow Radio
Moscow
Britain
Soviet monitor
Russia
Canada
Argentina
Soviet Union
Great Britain
France
Ship Explodes In French Harbor
Paris reports a Liberty ship loaded with nitrate exploded in Brest harbor. The blast cut Paris Brittany communications as a fire caused snapped lines. France Soir identified the ship as Ocean Liberty from New York. no deaths but many families evacuated their homes amid fear of a disaster.
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PARIS
O.P
Brest
Jules Moch
Brittany pot
France Soir
New York
Texas City
Criticism of C P R Accounting At National Inquiry
Ottawa July 24 an accountant for Manitoba and Saskatchewan attacked Canadian Pacific Railway accounting methods at the freight-rate inquiry. Walter J MacDonald Winnipeg chartered accountant told the board CPR depreciation allowance system was out of line and should be rejected for 1947 rate making. CPR seeks a general 30 per cent increase in freight rates with other railways.
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OTTAWA
Canadian Pacific Railway
Manitou
Saskatchewan
Walter J. MacDonald
Winnipeg
board of transport commissioners
C.P.R
Prelude to India's Independence Initiated in 1947
New Delhi reports the start of a major Muslim exodus to Karachi as Britain transfers power on Aug 14, with Mountbatten set to transfer to Hindu India the following day. Indian leaders rush to draft a constitution while Mountbatten seeks a peaceful settlement for princely states and division of power between Hindu and Muslim dominions.
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NEW DELHI
India
Karachi
Pakistan
hinds
Viscount Mountbatten
wil
constituent assembly
Lord Mountbatten
transer
vceroy
Sullivan asks Ottawa probe into labor union communism
Ottawa receives request from Pat Sullivan's Canadian Lake Seamen's Union for an investigation into Communist influence in Canadian labor unions. The plea seeks inquiry and police protection for Sullivan, who claims Reds threaten him. justice department kept notice while police protection falls to provincial jurisdiction.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Sullivan
department of justice
Jack Harding
CLS.U
Communist party
Canadian Seamen's Union
Woman Passes License Exam After Backward Vision Test
Des Moines report recalls a humorous driving test incident where a woman protested failing the vision section only to realize she had read the test backwards and later passed with glasses she had recently received. The examiner commented on the tester's misread timing as the joke spread.
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DES MOINES
Claim Wife Is Murderer In Ontario Shooting
Parry Sound Ontario July 2 Mrs Clayton Cottrell 33 mother of eight children remanded on a murder charge in the shooting of her 39 year old lumber jack husband near South River. Police said she walked from her home reported the shooting after an all night drinking party. The couple’s oldest child 15 said the shooting followed attempts by the husband to molest a daughter. Neighbors described heavy drinking for four days and an empty wine case found in the room.
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PARRY SOUND
Ont
iCPJ
Clayton Cottrell
Cottrell
South River
Nora Bay
arother
Kenneth
Herbert
Strike Hits Buffalo Flour Mills In 3 Walkouts
About 400 grain processors walked out at three of Buffalo’s six principal flour mills. The strike, by Local 21921 of the Flour Mill Workers, reduces the city’s output to about one tenth of its 20 million pound daily capacity. The mills include Washburn Crosby division of General Mills and Pillsbury Flour Malt Buffalo plant, with 1.80 workers out. Wages demand is 35 percent above the current 14 5 per hour. Standard Milling, International Milling, and Russell Miller Milling are also involved. The strike threatens feed and flour by products, as Buffalo mills supply 16 percent of U S flour and are a major northeastern supplier. Union rejected a 12 cent hourly increase offer.
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BUFFALO
N.Y
Flour Mill Workers ‘AP
Washburn Crosby
General Mills
Pillsbury Fiour Malt
Tiny
Standard Milling Company
International Milling Company
Russell Miller Milling Company
Buffalo mills
United States
union
Cost of living rise feared as flour subsidies may end
Ottawa observers forecast a sharp rise in living costs with possible removal of flour subsidies this fall. Bread prices across Canada could rise several cents per loaf as the nation weighs supply and policy effects.
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Naughty Quintet
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Balkan Commission
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Europe
Canadian Press
French Harbor
Pat Sullivan
coutry
EDMONTON
W. E. Frame
SHINA
U.N. LAKE SUCCESS
China
Soviet Russia
United Nations Security Council
Outer Mongolia
Asia
Far East
SAN DIEGO
Calif
Palomar mountain
United States Forest Service
ath Unian
Regina
Lamia
Domokos
ministry of public order
WASHINGTON
A.P
commerce department
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