07 Jun 1947
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Newspaper
Lethbridge Herald
Location
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 07, 1947
Page
1
An Ohio pediatric case reports the brutal death of infant girls in a nursery, with officials and medical staff responding to the tragedy. The unsettling incident prompts discussions on child welfare and hospital procedures amid a tense community backdrop.
London Ottawa Journal notes debate on who introduced tobacco to Britain. Sir John Hawkins first brought the weed to 1563, not Sir Walter Raleigh, though Raleigh popularized smoking with Drake's tobacco gear. James First’s Counterblast condemns tobacco as vanity, yet Dalton received over £400,000,000 last year. A Chatham News item mocks abolishing motor cars in favor of a signaling device, and a drunken lanky attendee is described on the back page.
Two nine week old girls Rosemary Morton and Diane Brand were killed by an unidentified assailant in the pediatrics nursery of Massillon City Hospital. The coroner said injuries were blunt force. police seek suspect as hospital staff deny lax care.
Port Arthur June 7 Two men perished in a Water Street rooming house blaze last night. Identified tentatively as Leo LaFlieche from Quebec and Tom Mulhall a former farm boy with the Provincial Wager Company who worked in bush camps in Thunder Bay district. A third man Wilfrid Lentin, with a Quebec home, is in serious condition in hospital. The deceased had been employed in Terrac Bay and came to Port Arthur on holiday.
Regina reports a good market expected for the coming year for horse meat and by products. Saskatchewan Horse Co operative Marketing Association has 14500 members in Saskatchewan and Alberta with S F Shields, general secretary, noting markets abroad after a two month survey of United Kingdom and European demand.
Toronto delegates at a United Church meeting rejected a motion to strike a temperance sentence from the report. Rev Arthur Organ argued the line did not admit indulgence, only calling for a balanced stance toward the few in the church who drink. Dr R J Mutchnnot backed the push for caution, saying it is safer to say too little than too much.
Mrs Emma Bowert, farmer's wife from Dane County, saved a passenger train carrying 22 by holding her apron to clear a wash-cut on the track near Comiuder BOF Martz night. Railroad officials credited quick action and the apron shield for preventing a collision.
France moves to use truck lines to move food and passengers as a rail strike isolates Paris. Freight trains run on schedule outside a 60 mile red belt while passenger service is halted within it. Cabinet to meet and Ramadier pledges negotiations but refuses railroad requisition.
A Canadian Pacific passenger train was halted within yards of disaster when heavy rain washed out a 150 foot section of the rail bed near Indian Head Saskatchewan Friday night. Regina man G R Laird flagged the approach, diversions halted main line traffic, and officials hoped repairs would be completed Saturday. The washout followed near cloudburst rainfall with almost six inches of hail.
A Montreal French-Canadian daily approved a Montreal conference resolution condemning Premier Maurice Empressis for his stance on labor and the Witnesses of Jehovah. Rev C Demestral, secretary of the St Montreal Civil Liberties Association, said Catholics and Protestants unite against curtailment of civil liberties amid fears of fascism.
Bodies of an elderly couple, the Lareirr aged 68 and his wife, were found Friday in a cottage near Ore Lake about 15 miles northeast of Harr i Ont. Police were undecided if the deaths were suicide or attack.
A report from Vienna notes Communist maneuvers to seize Austria's government while Budapest presses Britain for information on Hungary. Stalin's answer to the Truman doctrine is linked to Romanian Premier Groza meeting Tito in Belgrade. In Budapest, Maj. Gen. Edgcumbe pressed Sviridovy for documents tying Nagy to a plot. Sviridov said the control commission handed over all such documents. A Vienna official said Russia would not sign a peace treaty with Austria's conservative cabinet and proposed a four year government, dropping Gruber and Helmer, with Communist support. SEEN STALIN continues on page two.
Ottawa reports the appointment of Maurice Roy as Archbishop of Quebec Province replacing Cardinal Villeneuve. Roy, 42, from Three Rivers, has served as a military chaplain and academic, earning theology and philosophy doctorates before teaching at Laval and taking multiple trips to Rome.
The Herald announces it will publish on Monday despite Canada observing a public holiday. The usual late edition schedule applies in cities where the holiday is observed.
Moscow radio said Andrei Vishinsky among 1946 Stalin Prize laureates for advances in science law and art. Vithinsky received 300000 rubles for his theory of court evidence in Soviet law, published 1936, with Konstantin Simonov winning 200000 rubles for The Russian Question drama.
A London Scotland Yard spokesman said precautions against murder by mail bombs are rising as attackers likely shift tactics to packages or other countries such as Italy. Bombs detected in letters had targeted Prime Minister Atlee and Churchill, with no casualties.
Four small tornadoes hit three southwest Champaign subdivisions at 430 PM local time on Friday causing eight houses to be demolished and 25 more damaged. No fatalities or injuries reported. Authorities confirm weather service data and investigate the scene.
Ottawa reports lawmakers debated U S military presence and UN immunities in Canada. External Affairs Minister St Laurent said no U S service posts will be set up under joint defence, noting American troops operate under Canadian command. Critics urged screening of United Nations personnel entering Canada. The session passed a UN immunities measure and moved on to railway and tax bills.
Ailsa Craig Ont June 7 A veteran bank guard Sydney Hall 46 was shot and died after robbers blasted into the Canadian Bank of Commerce. The village stirred as gunfire echoed. three men were questioned in Paris Ont and a separate hold up at Waterdown was foiled by two female tellers. A discovered Allied bomb in Arenshem prompted immediate disposal action.
Five persons drowned and thousands left homeless as Midwest floods peak in Iowa and neighboring states. Rail lines washed out and highways inundated, disrupting transport and farm lands under rising water levels.
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