Lifting Berlin Blockade Set For May Twelfth
The four power accord ends the blockade of Berlin and the western counter blockade. A Paris May 23 meeting will assess Germany issues and Berlin currency, with U.N. secretary-general Lie to receive the communique. The move ends a tense postwar standoff and guides transport restoration between Berlin and western zones.
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Moscow
London
Paris
Washington
New York
Berlin
United Nations
Trygve’ Lie
Lie
U.N. security council
Russia
Germany
Waiters Turn Clergy Students at Club Lido Atlanta
The Club Lido in Atlanta employs Black waiters who are ministerial students using tips to fund studies at Gammon Theological Seminary. The head waiter position passes to the senior student upon graduation, and many waiters already serve churches in Georgia including Gainesville.
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Lido
Atlanta
Georgia
Hoke Bell
Gainesville
Surplus War Munitions Burn in London Warehouse Fire
A west end warehouse housing surplus war munitions worth £30,000 burned amid the sixth local fire in a week. Scotland Yard opened a probe for sabotage or incendiarism while rockets and flares lit the dawn sky and a fireman likened the scene to a wartime blitz.
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LONDON
Scotland Yard
Pledge Aid To Burma Reds Pledge Aid To Burma Reds
A Pawtucket teacher reported a 10 year old pupil to police after he was detected acting unusually joyful over a bottle labelled BRAND. The boy was hospitalized after fainting and later revived claiming he drank soda with lunch in his drink. School officer Peter Hughs questions how the boy emptied a full glass.
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PAWTUCKET
police
Peter Hughs
Chinese Communists Sign Pact With North Korea Reds
The Central News Agency reports a mutual aid pact signed with North Korean Reds in Moscow on March 17 and Burma on February 25. The pledge includes joint aid and a struggle against American and British imperialism, with details from Rangoon.
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North Korea
Moscow
Burma
Associated Press
HANGHAI
Central
Rangoon
Police Hurt In Gun Fight In Hamilton
Three city policemen were wounded in a dawn gun battle with three youths caught trying to break into a men s wear store at Main Street East and Huxley Street. Connolly was seriously hurt, and Campbell and Ellis were also struck as the suspects fled. One man was later detained for questioning.
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HAMILTON
Main Street East
Huxley Street
Arthur Ells
James Campbell
Herbert Connolly
Connolly
gimmen
Elis
Campbell
Herb
Ellis
65 000 Men Leave Ford Plant As Peace Talks Fail
A 65 000 worker strike at Ford Motor Co hits the Rouge plant at 1 p.m. ECT and ends after a late conference fails to secure a settlement. About 62 000 workers exit the Rouge plant and 3 000 depart at the Lincoln Mercury plant as peace talks collapse.
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Associated Press
ETROIT
Ford Motor Company
E.C.T
big Rouge
Lincoln-Mercury
Violence erupts as police clash with asbestos workers at Asbestos
In Asbestos Quebec May 5 deputy director Hilaire Beauregard reports 10 police injured and one detective kidnapped then released during road block clashes with striking asbestos workers. Cars burned and multiple roadblocks disrupted traffic as reinforcements were mobilized from Montreal and Quebec City.
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MONTREAL
C.P
Hilaire Beauregard
pollice
asbectos
Asbestos
Que
Beauregard
Quebec
Ubald Therrien
Quebec City
Plane crash in Turin kills Italy's champion soccer squad
A three engine plane crashed in a rainstorm near Turin killing Italy's championship soccer team and 28 to 31 others. British coach Leslie Lievesley and three sports writers were among the dead. the craft struck a hill near the basilica and burned in the courtyard.
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ROME
Turin
Italy
Lisbon
Leslie Lievesley
Civilian and Coast Guard Craft Join Vancouver Plane Search
A three day search for Vancouver pilot Bill Grant and nurse Sheila Cure resumed in the Similkameen Valley with RCAF, civilian planes, and U.S. Coast Guard aircraft from Port Angeles and Seattle. Ground and air teams scoured rugged canyons while civilian crews aided with smaller planes to reach inaccessible areas. An RCAF spokesman said there were no new leads and a radio truck would assist from the Fraser River canyon toward Prince George.
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VANCOUVER
itPi
Senger Way
R.C.AF
Similkameen
here
Bill Grant
Vancouver Aero Club
Shiela Cure
iat
Cardston
aka
RCAF
U.S
Trans-Canada Ahines
porrol
T.C.A
star sims
U.S. coastguard
Port Angeles
Wash
Seattle
U.S. .air force base
McChord Field
Fraser River canyon
Princeton
B.C
United States coast guard
Sugar beet growers to receive second 1948 cheque
About 1 400 Southern Alberta sugar beet growers will get a second 1948 payment of 85 cents per ton for 324 000 tons delivered. Total so far reaches 12 35 a ton after initial 10 and first subsequent 1 50 a ton. Rain aids growth and frost protection while seeding winds down.
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RAYMOND
Alberta
Canadian Sugar Factories Ltd
Disclosures Of 1946 Spy Probe Referred To
George Mellraith parliamentary assistant said the 1946 Royal Commission on Espionage found Communists in the civil service but warned ordinary civil servants not to panic. He spoke after civil servants complained of RCMP inquisitorial tactics and clarified misreported references to later disclosures.
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CTTAWA
George Mellraith
McTiraith
Calgary man fined for income tax evasion in 1943 45
Cecil I. Neff of Calgary was fined 15 090 in police court after pleading guilty to three charges under the income war tax act. He faced possible six years in jail and was ordered to pay 55 000 to 75 000 in tax arrears. Neff and associates ran Miss Snell's women's wear shop. he admitted taking 127 000 from a theater's account in 1945 and hiding it.
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CALGARY
Cecil I. Neff
Neff
Lillian May Snell
Miss Snell
Misa Snell
theatore
Britain to finance Canadian wheat with earned dollars
London May 5 Britain will continue to buy Canadian wheat using earned dollars rather than Marshall Plan funds. Food Minister Strachey said the move will bring administrative difficulties but keep Wheat purchases under the Britain Canada agreement. He noted Washington rulings restricting E C A funds for non US food.
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LONDON
Britain
Strachey
Canada
Washington
Economic Co-operation administration
United Nations
United States
congress
E.C.A
90 Eskimos Of Chesterfield Inlet Hit By Polio
Winnipeg report says about 90 Eskimos in the Chesterfield Inlet region have been stricken with poliomyelitis since the epidemic began earlier this year. Dr. B. D. Wood, regional superintendent of Indian health services, noted 14 deaths and recommended keeping the quarantine over 40 000 square miles, though the worst may be past.
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WINNIPEG
Chesterfield Inlet
B. d. Wood
Indian health services
inlet
Wood
Water Flood Closes Hopeinton School After Faucet Left On
Flooding forced Hopeinton School to close for an unscheduled holiday as 332 pupils face disruption. A water turn on culprit remains unidentified and flood damage across rooms and ceilings is beyond the superintendent’s estimate. One school will operate once repairs finish.
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HOPEINTON
Edward F. Wilcox
Howe Seeks Bigger British Flow to Canada
Canadian trade minister C D Howe urged Britain to expand exports of engineering plant land equipment and machine tools to Canada at the British Industries Fair. He said Canada relies on foreign suppliers for about 30 percent of machinery and six percent from Britain and called for concerted British effort with Canadian government and business backing.
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BIRMINGHAM
Eng
C. D. Howe
Canada
Dominion
Howe
Britain
china
autemornes
United States
Connadian
Convicted Mother in Second Degree Assault Case
New York jurors found Geraldine Vetter guilty of second degree assault for burning her nine year old son Philo with a flame from a gas stove. The all male jury delivered the verdict on a Wednesday. The sentence can reach up to five years in prison.
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NEW YORK
Geraldine Vetter
Philo
Multiple World News Bullets From May Fifth
Police report 12 officers beaten disarmed and restrained by strikers outside Asbestos Quebec. Steelworkers demand general wage rise with pensions and insurance. Four masked gunmen escape with about 25000 in Cleveland. Lisette, 34, sentenced to hang August 19 for murder. Calgary youth Kemus Petter dies in gravel pit accident. Russians free three Western reporters in Berlin. Council of Europe draft statute signed at St James's Palace. Six brothers and mother die in Louville fire.
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QUEBEC
Rerer Lisette
Gerard Benument
CALGARY
Kemas Petter
Edmonton
BERLIN
United States
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
France
Belgia
Netherlands
Lesembours
Beaks
Eire
Norway
Denmark
Sweden
LOUVILLE
N.X
fiamex soit
Mra
Marold Jackson
staf
James
Gerekd
Dougina
George
Alen
omm
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William Griesinger
Foote
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Aden
Alta
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Irving Berlin
J. D. Rockefeller
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Rose Heilbron
Liverpool
Nate Burstein
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Marcel Favreau
sone
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