Strachey Sees Possible Wheat Rally by Autumn 1937
London June 26. Food Minister John Strachey said a rapid cereal position improvement could come by autumn if there are two good world harvests. He noted progress toward a long term Canada Britain wheat agreement, though no signing yet. Strachey emphasized no bread rationing unless necessary and expected cabinet briefing tomorrow.
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LONDON
C.P. Cable
John Stracher
Canada
United States
Strachey
Britain
Mackenzie King
Gardiner
trachey
tomerray
Attlee
Mr. Strachey
WINNIPEG
Cholera Epidemic Rages in Shanghai
In Shanghai on June 26 the cholera epidemic continues unabated with 520 cases reported and 48 deaths confirmed by official tally. The outbreak dominates the day’s news as health authorities monitor spread and casualties.
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SHANGHAI
Nine Killed in Train Truck Crash Near Harlingen
Nine people died and 15 injured when a Missouri Pacific locomotive hit a truck carrying Latin American agricultural workers three miles west of Harlingen Texas. The wreckage and victims lay along the tracks for about 150 feet. three injuries were critical. Ambulances from Harlingen and Mercedes arrived after 39 minutes. Captain Marvin Gordon cited a string of freight cars blocking the crossing, making the crossing blind for both driver and engineer.
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HARLINGEN
Tex
here
Missouri Pacific
Mercedes
Marvin Gordon
state highway patrol
Quebec Bank In Trouble In Ottawa Crown Action On Coupons
Ottawa June 25. Parliamentary assistant Robert Hew announced that at least four employees of La Banque Provinciale Du Canada have been arrested for aiding black market coupon operations. Three of the four admitted guilt. Prosecutions against staff are pending as the bank failed to observe safe banking regulations amid discontinued ration coupon services. Authorities indicate more details will follow.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Robert
hew
i Finance
Risley
La Banque Provinciale Du Canada
Markew
John Diefenbaker
Prices Board
La Banque Protineale
Mayhew
La Banque Pro- Vinciale Du Canada
Valuables Found in Grave at Wesel Burial Site
In Wesel Germany on June 26 art treasures valued in the millions of marks were found in a grave opened after local Nazi officials attended a burial for a purported unknown soldier in November 1944. The coffin yielded trinkets jewels money and vases.
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WESEL
Germany
Punishment for Treachery Hardens Soviet Regions
Moscow reports Crimean and Chechen Ingush republics liquidated and folded into Russian provinces as punishment for treachery during the German invasion. Tartars and Chechens displaced to other areas with new land and aid. rest of populations largely untouched. Also reports on state control ministry punishing funds misappropriation and Manitoba Co operator unions noting 1945 business volume and new cooperatives.
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MOSCOW
A.P
Grozny and
Miosdok
northern
Caucasus
Russia
U.S
Russian federation
North Caucasus
republic of Georgia
Gromy
Mosdok
Stalingrad
Supreme Soviet
Soviet federation
Red army
Soviet Union
Left Hand Corner Endorses Woman's Emancipation Debate
BBC feature broadcasts profile three women devoted to women's emancipation, noting Queen Victoria's opposition. The Queen denounces Women's Rights as wicked folly, claiming unsexing women would brutalize society. The piece frames Victoria's fury as a barrier to reform. Continued on Page Four.
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London
BBC buletin
Queen Victoria
jea
QUEBEC
Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph
VICTORIA
Molotov Awaiting Moscow Message on Trieste Issue
Paris reports say Molotov expected a Moscow telephonic development that could shift Trieste from Italy to Yugoslavia. Byrnes, amid private talks, urged progress while Tito insisted on a Yugoslav solution. A Mediterranean naval precaution was moved to back occupiers near Trieste as talks continued.
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Molotov
Moscow
PARIS
V. M. Molotov
Trieste
Byrnes
United States
ena
Georges Bidaun
esicens
courceu
WASHINGTON
Russia
navy department
army of occupation
navy
Fargo
Cilematic
Stat
Victim of Assassin The King Ananda’s Death Questioned
Bangkok reports that a medical board of 18 physicians supports the theory that youthful King Ananda Mahidol was assassinated. The 20 year old monarch died June 9. official lines say accidental selfinflicted bullet through the forehead. Rumors of suicide or assassination fuel inquiry and X rays are part of the ongoing investigation. Government allocates funds for Buddhist rites cremation robes.
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BANGKOK
Ananda Mahidol
special inquiry commission
Nazi POW Schwalb Hanged In Canadian Prison
German prisoner of war Sgt Werner Schwalb, 31, executed at Lethbridge jail for the murder of Pte August Plaszek at Medicine Hat camp on July 22, 1945. He proclaimed loyalty to Hitler before death. Kratz’s death sentence commuted to life. Wittinger acquitted. Funeral held on prison grounds with few officials present.
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Werner Schwalb
Lethbridge
August Plaszek
Medicine Hat
Schwalb
K. J. Murrey
Plaszek
Prince Albert
Sask
KRATZ
Johannes Wittinger
Father John Duplanis
Hitler
Temporary Caretaker Government in India
June 26. New Delhi reports say Reuter’s dispatches indicate a temporary caretaker government of officials to bridge the election period for India. The cabinet mission plans to adjourn institutions during the constituent assembly elections and leave for home to report to Britain.
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NEW DELBYI
Reuters
Fiscount Warell
rieerer
India
Britain
thas
congress party
central legislative assembly
Virtual famine in fresh meat spares few states
Across the United States, fresh meat became scarce as price controls lingered. Senate action looms amid OPA retention of meat price ceilings, prompting packing plants and retailers from New York to Los Angeles to fear further shortages and possible shutdowns.
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U.S
CHICAGO
United States
senate
house of representatives
Office of Price Administration
DOE
New York city
Los Angeles
Kidnaps His Son In Car Trunk In Front Of Firemen
A garage mechanic attempted a kidnapping of his 11 year old son by placing him in the car trunk and driving away in view of two firemen. Harold Scott later confessed to police saying I guess I am your kidnapper. The incident occurred Tuesday in Nashua on a routine repair case and drew police inquiry.
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NASHUA
NUH
Harold Scott
Kansas Elevators Struggle As Harvest Peaks In Rail Car Shortage
In late June 1946 the national bread belt faced a box car shortage that choked nearly 360 grain elevators across Kansas Oklahoma and Texas. Wheat piled on the ground at elevators and farms as rails bottlenecks halted shipments. Harvests surged after rain delays with bumper yields reported in all three states.
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GREAT BEND
Kas
United States
bread belt
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Glennine
Had Secret Radios in Medicine Hat Prison Camp
Testimony on the second day of the Szgt Maj Bruno Perzenowski murder trial in Medicine Hat recounts a former German Luftwaffe member witness saying prisoners in the internment camp had secret radios and received nightly German news. The witness described orders to shoot traitors, the killing of Corporal Karl Lehmann, and details of the disturbance leading to a corporal’s execution as the hearing continues.
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MEDICINE HAT
Szgt
Bruno Perzenowski
Cpl
Karl Lehmann
Luftwaffe
G. E. A. Rice
Germany
Hitler
infe
ings
Willi Minerles
hut “DZ
Mueller
Perzenowski
Busch
Camp Neys
Ontario
tns
Nazi POW to face gallows for 1943 Medicine Hat murder
A prisoner at the Medicine Hat camp will be executed for the killing of a fellow inmate on July 22, 1943. The condemned is an inmate connected to the Lethbridge provincial jail, who was incarcerated after the crime. Officials confirm the date and legal proceedings proceed.
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Lethbridge
Medicine Hat
31 Terrorists Found Guilty in Palestine Trial
In Jerusalem on June 26, 31 alleged members of Irgun Zvai Leumi were found guilty of carrying explosives and liable for the death penalty after a mass trial of 231 defendants aged 17 to 28. The session saw protests as defendants challenged court jurisdiction. A British destroyer reportedly ferried 1,300 illegal Jewish immigrants from Genoa. Earlier sentences included six years for Peter Martosh and seven to nine years for Guelah Cotten for related offenses.
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JERUSALEM
IC. P.J—AH
Irzun Zvai Leumi
tria
Palestine
Irsur Zva
Leumi
CY COUGRE
Panamenian
Gulf of Genoa
porto
eerlier
Guelah Cotten
Freedom of Israel
Peter Martosh
Nang
inigo Palestine
Jury Chosen To Try Russian Espionage Case
SEATTLE June 26 A jury of seven men and five women was selected to try Nicholas G Redin a Russian navy lieutenant in the espionage case brought by the United States government The jurors were told to keep personal beliefs from influencing their judgment The 20 year old Russian assigned to Seattle with the Soviet purchasing commission during the war has confessed guilt and expressed confidence in acquittal
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SEATTLE
Nicholas G. Redin
United States
iis
Fred Rose Bail Request In Montreal Conspiracy Case
Montreal June 28 Justice Gregor Barclay considers defence plea for 25000 bail for Fred Rose M P awaiting judgment on appeal from conviction for conspiring to communicate information to Russia. Rose, Labor Progressive MP for Montreal Cartier, was sentenced to six years in penitentiary. Special prosecutor opposed bail. Rose remains in Montreal jail.
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MONTREAL
Gregor Barclay
appeals court
ook
Fred Rose
Rose
Bontreal-Cartier
Hing’s Bench
Russia
Wilfrid Lazure
Joseph Cohen
ze Philippe Brais
Trans Atlantic air mail service to six weekly flights
The Ottawa post office department announced last night that trans Atlantic air mail flights will be increased to six weekly flights for two weeks starting July 1. Six flights weekly over the Atlantic will be resumed, expanding mail service from the Ottawa area.
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OTTAWA
post office department
War criminals hanged in Singapore jail
Mataichi, former chief administrator at Port Blair, and five other Japanese war criminals were hanged at Changi jail. All six were convicted of torturing Indians and other civilians suspected of spying on the Andaman Islands.
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SINGAPORE
Mistubsashi “Mataichi
Port Blair
Chansi jail
Andaman islan
U N UNREA funding eyed by US House panel
U S House Appropriations Committee recommended a 3455 million cash appropriation for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Other items include Edmonton pressmen ordered back to work, a fatal train crash toll at ten with twelve injured, UN Security Council keeping the Spanish case on the agenda, a Medicine Hat hotel opens a beverage room, BC miner strike avert talk, and Edmonton pioneer Grace Lane dies.
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U.S. HOUSE
WASHINGTON
A.P3
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
house of representatives appropriations committee
ELMONTON
EDMONTON
IC.P
Edmonton Journal- Edmonton Bulletin
George L. Berry
HARLINGEN
Tex
Jane
La Feria
NEW YORK
United Nations Security Council
general assembly
Russia
Poland
B.C
VANCOUVER
Jaune
tC.P
British Columbia
Ottawa
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelters Workers
C.S.O
C.P
Grace Julia Lane
Walter Scott Robertson
Harriet Robertson
John Napier Lane
D.S.O
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Great Lakes
SIAMEN ADIAN Sentan
G.B
Manitoba Wheat Pool
Grea Britain
W. J. Parker
Manitoba Pool Elevators Association
Manitoba Federation of Agriculture and Co-operation
itv
England
ministry of state control
ALFLA.C
BIG BUSINESS
John Friesen
M.FLA.C
Manitoba
Nipwepaper SAEHIYY
Italy
Voorsingovi
Marshal Tito
Tito
parliament
KING ANANDA
Sgt. Schwalb Nazi
Lehmann
SGT
WLAINER SCHWALBE
Fred Rose Counsel
M.P
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